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HUGE! Dirty McCabe Interrogated Mike Flynn For Russia
Hoax At Same Time Flynn Was Witness Against
McCabe In Sex Discrimination Case
By Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018, 2:02 Pm
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter this week to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstien who is currently in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the
leading the Department of Justice. As we have previously bureau’s leadership ranks.
reported numerous times Jeff Sessions is still hiding under
his desk. The FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for the agent,
asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to
keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
case, memos obtained by Circa show. Two years later, the
FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn.
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Following the Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting, a July 1, This is well before 17 witnesses were interviewed,
2016 email sent from an FBI official warns his colleagues including Hillary Clinton and we’re supposed to believe
(with emphasis) the fix wasn’t in?
“Our job is to protect the boss [Comey] President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton had this to say
from harm and embarrassment.” about the new FBI docs released:
Strzok’s email confirms previously released documents “These emails are astonishing, no wonder
showing James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before the FBI hid them from Judicial Watch and
the investigation into her email conduct had concluded. the court. They show anti-Trump, pro-
Clinton FBI Agent Peter Strzok admitting
“According to the unredacted portions of the decision not to prosecute the Clinton
the transcripts [released by Senate email issue was made back in April 2016 –
Judiciary in October], it appears that in long before even Hillary Clinton was
April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had interviewed. And the new emails show that
already decided he would issue a the FBI security had the political objective
statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. of protecting then-Director Comey from
That was long before FBI agents finished ‘embarrassment’—which is, frankly,
their work. disturbing.”
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GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel Says
Trump Agenda Has Destroyed Any Hopes Of A Blue Wave
This November [VIDEO]
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
4:14 PM 06/07/2018
WATCH:
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SARA CARTER: DOJ Reneges On
Commitment To Give Trump-Russia Docs To Congress
By Cristina Laila
June 7, 2018, 4:46 Pm
The Department of Justice reneged on its On May 24th, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
commitment to provide Congress with and Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy headed into a
pertinent Trump-Russia docs on Thursday. meeting with senior Justice Department, FBI and
intelligence officials to view classified documents and
The American people have had it with the discuss Spygate.
stonewalling from Rosenstein and Wray.
Nunes demanded the Justice Department hand over the
unredacted memo outlining the scope of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s authority and the name of the FBI secret
informant inside Trump’s campaign in 2016.
The Department of Justice reneged on a In last night’s press release, however, the DOJ
commitment to provide access to documents admitted to having the documents. A senior
they promised to congressional lawmakers by Justice Department official accused the
Thursday morning. Instead, DOJ issued a press committee members of not reviewing the
release after midnight suggesting they will only documents provided at the May meeting stating,
meet with a group of select lawmakers to “The Department and FBI will also provide the
discuss the matter on the same day the North documents that were available for review but
Korea summit opens in Singapore, according to not inspected by the members at the previous
numerous sources and a DOJ statement. briefing along with some additional material.”
Moreover, the Justice Department also issued The DOJ official said with regard to not
new stipulations for briefing congressional providing the documents on Thursday,
members and limited the meeting with only the “Although the Department and FBI would have
Gang of Eight, which is comprised of eight liked to provide this information as early as this
leaders within Congress who are briefed week, officials have taken a little additional time
on classified intelligence matters. to provide the most fulsome answers to the
members’ questions as possible. The
Department and FBI take congressional
These sources claim that briefing Gang of Eight
inquiries seriously and believes that the
lawmakers restricts the dissemination and
documents provided next week will be valuable
discussion of the documents that will be taken to the Gang of Eight.”
for review. Although the DOJ contends that the
documents are highly sensitive material, in
reality, these documents are not considered to President Trump should declassify the documents and put
contain high-level national security information. an end to this farce once and for all.
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GOP Lawmaker: Impeach Rod Rosenstein If DOJ
Continues To Slow-Walk Trump Spying Documents To
Congress (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018, 5:14 Pm
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A Failing Report Card For Donald Trump
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer Waking Times
June 7, 2018
For the record, here is a list of Trump’s accomplishments, Now, this list is only a partial summary of broken
or non-accomplishments, as they relate to a number of his promises. Adding to this, we can include the following:
campaign promises. This list was compiled anonymously
and sent to us here at Waking Times, and it serves as a Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Terrorism
reminder that the American political system is terminally And 9/11: No
broken and that by voting and participating in it, the Outing Neocon Actors From Government
American people are effectively expressing the depths of Positions: No
their cognitive dissonance and unwillingness to demand Improving Relations With Russia: No
true representation. Improve The Situation In Syria: No
Ditching Nato: No
Take a look: Addressing The Fraud And Criminality In The
Financial System: No
Big Swamp Creature Arrests: 0 Stopping The Drone Killings Of Innocent
Big Swamp Creature Prosecutions: 0 Bystanders In Other Countries: No
Big Swamp Creatures Imprisoned: 0
Big Swamp Creatures Executed: 0 This list really could go on and one, but we’ll conclude
Swamp Level: Critical with the big ambiguous promise of MAKING
State Of The Swamp: Rising AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN. What do you think about
Wall On Southern Border: No this one? Is America on the road to becoming great again
Mass Deportations Of Criminal Invaders: No under the leadership of Donald Trump?
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Ryan Remarks On Trump
‘Spygate’ Leave Conservatives Fuming
By Katie Bo Williams And Olivia Beavers
06/07/18 05:22 Pm Edt
A vocal bloc of House conservatives are fuming at Paul Gowdy — who, like Ryan, is retiring — has supported
Ryan (R-Wis.) behind the scenes, after the lame-duck some of those efforts while carefully distancing himself
speaker publicly sided with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) in from some of the more outlandish allegations.
the debate over the FBI’s tactics in its investigation into
the Trump campaign. Ryan has largely stayed out of the fray, at least publicly,
but he has leant his weight to efforts by GOP lawmakers to
Gowdy shot down allegations last week that the FBI wrest access to documents related to the ongoing
improperly used a confidential informant to “spy” on the investigation.
campaign, saying that the bureau “did exactly what my
fellow citizens would want them to do.” His remarks on Wednesday were the most direct
repudiation he has offered of Trump allies’ efforts to
Ryan on Wednesday called Gowdy’s assessment investigate the Justice Department.
“accurate,” dealing another blow to the claims dubbed
“spygate” by President Trump. Other House Republicans have largely stayed silent on the
dispute over the informant. One other retiring member,
But Trump allies on Capitol Hill say Gowdy, a former Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), on Wednesday ripped the
prosecutor, defended the FBI before reviewing key notion that the use of the informant was a conspiracy
underlying documents — and they are furious that Ryan against the president, suggesting that its champions only
has backed him. want to “create more chaos.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a freshman who has emerged as Justice Department and intelligence community
one of the most vocal critics of the FBI, blasted Ryan for representatives briefed Gowdy and Ryan along with other
the statement on Thursday, calling his support of the top lawmakers about the bureau’s use of the informant late
bureau “shameful.” last month. But the lawmakers’ request to view the
underlying documents related to the source remains unmet.
House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
called Ryan’s decision “frustrating.” Critics of the Justice Department say the law enforcement
agency has dragged its feet on congressional requests for
“I don’t know how you can reach that information on a host of issues — requests that Democrats
conclusion based on the history of the FBI,” have slammed as politically motivated and the DOJ has
he told The Hill. said could expose sensitive sources and methods.
Another House Republican familiar with the concerns also Speaking to reporters Thursday, Ryan was not asked —
fumed about Ryan’s statement. and did not volunteer any comments — about the
criticism. But the Speaker suggested congressional
Republicans were making more progress in obtaining
“It is very frustrating when leadership
indicates that they are supportive of a answers from the DOJ because of his personal
involvement.
statement that the FBI didn’t do anything
wrong,” the lawmaker told The Hill.
“Honestly, it's our job to conduct oversight
Gaetz, Jordan and a handful of other conservative over every department in the executive
lawmakers on Capitol Hill have gone to war with the branch but especially departments like the
Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent months, accusing Department of Justice that affect our civil
the law enforcement agency of corruption and anti-Trump liberties,” Ryan said at his weekly press
bias during the 2016 presidential campaign. briefing.
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“So that is why you've seen frustration. inserted into his 2016 campaign, saying he has “never
Frustration that the foot dragging by the heard the term ‘spy' used” in the criminal justice system.
Department of Justice should not be
tolerated. And so it's funny: Because I've A third Republican present in the briefings, Senate
gotten involved as Speaker of the House is Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
why we’ve gotten as far as we’ve gotten,” has also backed Gowdy’s assessment.
he said.
Gaetz, Jordan and several other House conservatives
The same senior lawmakers who attended the briefing on acutely critical of the DOJ were not present.
the informant will be given access to some documents in a
follow-on briefing next week, a Justice Department official
There is no public evidence that the FBI’s use of a
revealed this week.
confidential informant — common in counterintelligence
and criminal investigations — was improper.
Jordan on Wednesday evening pointed to Ryan’s support
for their efforts to obtain documents, if not their use of the
Several Republican lawmakers involved in the dispute said
term “spy” to describe the informant’s role.
Gowdy’s remarks have been overblown to suggest a
complete exoneration of the FBI’s conduct during the 2016
“I do think the speaker in his statement said campaign.
that he wants the documents produced,”
Jordan said, stating that Ryan “needs to
“I think Trey was talking about something
give a deadline” for documents.
very specific that has been interpreted as
something much more broad,” one of the
Gowdy turned heads during multiple television lawmakers said. “I think he was talking
appearances last week, after the briefing, where he stated about a particular point of time with a
unequivocally that the FBI acted properly in its use of the particular piece of information that the FBI
informant. had and under the umbrella of a criminal
investigation.”
“I am even more convinced that the FBI did
exactly what my fellow citizens would want But, Jordan said Tuesday, Gowdy and others are mistaken
them to do when they got the information to
they got, and that it has nothing to do with
Donald Trump,” Gowdy said on Fox News.
“take the FBI’s word for it in a briefing that
they are doing everything right.”
Gowdy then told CBS News he had seen no evidence to
support Trump’s claims that a “spy” was improperly “I just don’t buy it,” he said.
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BREAKING: Horowitz Reveals Release Date Of Much-
Anticipated IG Report — ON TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY!
June 7, 2018, 5:48 Pm By Cristina Laila
“Additionally, prior to the June 18 hearing, the Sources are saying the report on the FBI’s
OIG intends to release our report publicly and to 7th floor under Comey’s Directorship is
provide the report’s classified appendix to our absolutely damning and “worse than
oversight committees. We will release the report expected.”
as soon as we complete the OIG’s ordinary
processes for the review and classification of Screenshot of letter:
such reports, which we have been following and
which we described to you in our letter on May
16, 2018.” Horowitz continued.
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DISGUSTING NEW LOW:
CNN Claims Donald Trump Was Soft Porn Star
By Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018, 7:01 Pm
Unreal.
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Lou Dobbs: We Have To Get Rid Of Paul Ryan –
Republicans Are At Risk In November If They Stick With
This Failed Lameduck (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018, 7:40 Pm
Lou Dobbs:
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Battle Over ‘Spygate’
Documents Will Soon Come To A Head
8:23 PM 06/07/2018
The Justice Department has offered to brief the so-called DOJ officials also asked lawmakers not to publicize that
Gang of Eight regarding documents about the FBI’s use of documents were taken into the meeting, the source said.
an informant to maintain contact with members of the Despite that request, the DOJ revealed in its statement on
Trump campaign. Wednesday that officials took the records into the meeting
but did not turn them over to lawmakers.
The DOJ said it would provide access on Monday or
Tuesday — with a possible delay — to documents related The Justice Department and FBI now say that officials
to a subpoena issued in May by House Intelligence
Committee chairman Devin Nunes in a late-night “are prepared to brief members on certain
statement issued on Wednesday. questions specifically raised by the
Speaker and other members.”
The documents, which deal with an FBI informant who “The Department and FBI will also provide
has been identified as Stefan Halper, are at the center of a the documents that were available for
tense battle involving congressional Republicans, the review but not inspected by the members
Justice Department and the White House. at the previous briefing along with some
additional material,” reads the statement.
The Justice Department has resisted requests for
documents related to Halper, who was revealed as a Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of
longtime CIA and FBI informant weeks after Nunes’s the Gang of Eight, criticized the DOJ’s offer for a briefing.
initial request.
“The further disclosure of investigative
Halper, 73, was in contact with three Trump campaign materials is inexplicable,” said Schiff, who
advisers — Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George has fought against the release of various
Papadopoulos — in the lead-up to the 2016 election. documents related to the Russia
He first made contact with Page on July 11, 2016 at a investigation, including information about
symposium at Cambridge University. That was nearly the infamous Steele dossier.
three weeks before the FBI opened “Crossfire Hurricane,”
the counterintelligence investigation into possible “The DOJ is now reinforcing a precedent it
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian will have to live with, whether the Congress
government. is in Republican or Democratic hands, of
providing materials in pending or closed
cases to the legislative branch upon
Halper and Page remained in contact for 14 months, request,” Schiff added.
through September 2017.
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President Donald Trump has dubbed the FBI’s use of an Gowdy’s comments drew some pushback, with critics
informant “Spygate,” claiming the FBI planted a spy in his noting that he had not seen DOJ and FBI documents that
campaign. Democrats and many media outlets have pushed would shed light on the informant’s activities.
back on the claim and quibbled with Halper being labeled
a spy. Speaker Paul Ryan also appeared to back Gowdy up on
Wednesday, saying he had
Some Republicans have also bucked Trump.
“seen no evidence to the contrary of the
“I am even more convinced that the FBI did initial assessment that Chairman Gowdy
exactly what my fellow citizens would want has made.”
them to do,” Republican Rep. Trey
Gowdy of South Carolina said in a Fox Ryan clarified those comments on Thursday, saying he
News interview on May 30. wants to see “the corroborating documents that back up”
“It looks to me like the FBI was doing what what DOJ and FBI officials told the Gang of Eight in the
President Trump said I want you to do — May 24 briefing.
find it out,” said Gowdy, who added that
Trump himself is not a target of the He also added he has seen “no
collusion probe. evidence that there’s any collusion
between the Trump campaign, and
President Trump and Russia.”
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Jeff Sessions Delivers: DOJ Nails Senate
Intel Committee’s Security Chief As Deep State Leaker
By Ian Mason
7 Jun 2018
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French President Macron Turns
On Trump – President Trump Responds
By Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018, 8:49 Pm
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CBS, NBC Skip News Of DOJ
Watchdog Finding Comey ‘Insubordinate’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 7, 2018 9:53 PM EDT
All that before getting to what the report found. “ It's called ‘use immunity’ and it means
McCabe’s testimony cannot be used
“[A] senior Justice Department official against him in a criminal prosecution,”
had urged Comey not to reveal he was she said. “The Inspector General found
reopening the Clinton probe so close to that McCabe lied under oath and made a
the election. That doing so would violate criminal referral to the U.S. attorney
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here in D.C. for lying to federal violate long-standing department policy. But those sources also
investigators.” say the report concludes Comey defied authority more than once.
One source telling ABC News the report describes Comey's
According to Herridge, “[t]his morning a senior Senate behavior as insubordinate.
Republican on the Judiciary Committee recommended
against a deal to secure McCabe’s testimony.” Comey has defended his actions, saying they were to protect the
integrity of the FBI.
To show what they considered a greater priority, these
broadcast networks chose to report on more frivolous JAMES COMEY: Given what I knew at the time, these were the
topics like Starbucks raising their prices a few cents and decisions that were best calculated to preserve the values of the
road rage somewhere. NBC thought it was worth the institutions.
airtime to report on a baseball fan who caught a foul ball
with her beer and then finished it off with the ball still in it. [Cuts back to live]
Nothing but the most important of news, clearly.
THOMAS: The draft report also criticizes former Attorney General
The transcripts are below: Loretta Lynch for not clearly recusing herself after she met
President Clinton on her plane during that campaign, David.
ABC
World News Tonight MUIR: Pierre Thomas live at the Justice Department. Pierre,
June 6, 2018 thank you.
6:42:52 PM Eastern [1 minute 58 seconds]
Fox News Channel
DAVID MUIR: Next tonight, what ABC News has learned about a Special Report
new report coming on James Comey. The blistering criticism in June 6, 2018
this new draft report. What he was warned not to do just 11 days 6:04:40 PM Eastern
before the election involving Hillary Clinton, and what he did
anyway. Here's ABC's chief Justice correspondent Pierre SHANNON BREAM: Normally it's the FBI on the side of
Thomas tonight. prosecutors offering deals to potential criminal witnesses.
Tonight, the former number two man at the FBI is seeking
[Cuts to video] immunity for himself. Andrew McCabe wants a protection in
exchange for telling Congress what he knows about Hillary
PIERRE THOMAS: Hillary Clinton was on a flight to Iowa when it Clinton's emails. Also tonight, a new report taking issue with the
happened. FBI Director James Comey revealing he had former head man at the bureau and how he did his job. Chief
reopened the investigation into her e-mails, a stunning October intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has details on
surprise just 11 days before the election. these astounding developments.
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DOJ Seizes NY Times Reporter’s Phone And Email
Records In Leak Investigation – Former
Senate Intel Aide Arrested
By Cristina Laila
June 7, 2018, 10:14 Pm
Former Senate Intel Committee aide, work. They did not say whether it was
James A. Wolfe, 57, was arrested on classified.
Thursday after the DOJ conducted an Mr. Wolfe was slated to appear before a
investigation into classified information
federal judge on Friday in Washington.
leaks to reporters.
Reached Thursday evening before his
Wolfe repeatedly lied to investigators arrest, Mr. Wolfe declined to comment.
about his contacts with reporters and
Mr. Wolfe’s case led to the first known
made false statements to the FBI. instance of the Justice Department going
The Justice Department also seized New after a reporter’s data under President
York Times reporter, Ali Watkins years’ Trump.
worth of phone and email records.
Watkins previously worked for Buzzfeed According to the NY Times, Ali Watkins was having a
and Politico as a national security romantic relationship with the Senate Intel aide, Wolfe.
reporter. Some of their communication back and forth took place
before she was employed by The New York Times.
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DOJ Expected To Indict
Ex-Senate Intel Staffer In Leak Probe
Chuck Ross | Reporter
12:47 AM 06/08/2018
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Sara Carter: DOJ RENEGES On Pledge To Give Trump-
Russia Documents To Congress: WHERE Is Jeff Sessions?
Posted On June 8, 2018
Carter writes:
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Carter notes that in the May 24 meeting between House fail to keep their commitment. Now they are
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., waiting until the opening of the North Korea
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Rep. Adam Schiff, D- summit in an attempt to bury it from the
Calif., and FBI Director Christopher Wray — along with public.”
other DoJ officials — the congressional members
were implored not to tell anyone that Justice had the Here we have — again — the Sessions Justice Department
documents they were seeking. deciding what it will and will not allow members of
Congress (who have constitutional oversight) see
However, she writes, in the late-night statement, DoJ noted documents they are not only cleared to see but entitled to
that it had the sought-after documents. see.
“The Department and FBI will also provide And where the hell is Jeff Sessions? Why do we keep
the documents that were available for having to ask that question?
review but not inspected by the members
at the previous briefing along with some For that matter, where is Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein?
additional material,” the department said. He’s the one now responsible for all things Russia.
“This request for documents is not at the
Gang of Eight level,” a source familiar with POTUS Trump could end this today. He could pick up the
the matter told Carter. phone and order these documents released and, if
necessary, declassified.
“This is yet another line of obfuscation,
stonewalling and delay tactics by the DOJ.
They were supposed to deliver the And then he could fire these quislings for thwarting a
documents to Congress Thursday and then legitimate investigation into the Deep State operation
at the last second did what they always do: aimed at him.
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New FBI Emails Wreck Official Clinton Timeline
Judicial Watch POSTED 16 PAGES OF NEWLY RELEASED Justice Department
DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE INFAMOUS Lynch/Clinton TARMAC MEETING
BY Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 08 Jun 2018 AT 6:20 Am
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made back in April 2016 — long before "What issues are currently being reported
even Hillary Clinton was interviewed." in the media? And what actions/
interactions /situations that the Director
"And the new emails show that the FBI
may be in could impact them," the official
security had the political objective of
wrote, noting that the bureau should focus
protecting then-Director Comey from
on these issues.
'embarrassment' — which is, frankly,
disturbing," Fitton added. "The official then cites an example of a
public relations disaster near-miss when
The documents Judicial Watch obtained included an email Comey's plane 'literally just missed
from an unidentified FBI official sent after the tarmac Clinton's plane' when they flew into the
meeting with the subject line, White Plains, New York, airport (HPN) a
few months earlier, and saying, 'Imagine
the optics and the awkward situation we
"Media Reports Not for Dissemination."
would have put the director in [had] we ...
been at the FBO at the same time as
The official emphasized, Secretary Clinton,'" Judicial Watch noted.
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Issa Contends Comey’s
‘Insubordination’ Justified His Firing
Congressman Says The Former FBI Head's Behavior Was 'More Than
Sufficient To Show He Should Have Been Terminated'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 08 Jun 2018 At 6:36 AM
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KEY EVIDENCE GOES MISSING: Server Belonging To
Wasserman Shultz IT Worker Imran Awan Is Physically
Stolen From Congress
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 7:38 Am
Now this…
Imran Awan was married to two women at once, including The investigation had uncovered Dropbox accounts
his first cousin, as is his country’s custom. installed on at least two Democratic Caucus computers
used by the IT workers, against House IT policy.
Imran had his court case rescheduled recently until next
month. The two accounts associated with the Dropbox accounts on
the computers each contained thousands of files.
Imran Awan and his wife Alvi reportedly
“We have not been permitted to view
struck a plea deal this week.
content of the files on these workstations.
However, based on the file names, some of
Daily Caller investigative journalist Luke Rosiak joined the information is likely sensitive,” the
Lou Dobbs on Wednesday to discuss the latest in the presentation says.
Imran Awan Pakistani hacking scandal.
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The inspector general also warned House leadership that It was not until months later, on Feb. 2, 2017, that the
the accounts could have been used to exfiltrate House sergeant at arms banned the IT workers from the
information. House network.
“While file-sharing sites, such as Dropbox, The Democratic Caucus server, which
have legitimate business purposes, use of had been identified by the inspector
such sites is also a classic method for general as ground zero of the
insiders to exfiltrate data from an suspicious activity, had disappeared at
organization.” that time.
Server Goes Missing Three senior government officials with
knowledge of the situation told the Daily
Following a second briefing in late September 2016, in Caller News Foundation last year that it
which the House inspector warned the House leadership of had been physically stolen.
“continuing unauthorized access,” the investigation was
moved to the Capitol Police in October.
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HUGE: Fired FBI Deputy Director McCabe
Believed To Have CHANGED 302 Forms
To Entrap FLYNN
Posted On June 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Busted: In recent days reports surfaced In a May letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and
that fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who has Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Grassley noted,
been criminally referred to the U.S. attorney in
Washington by DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz “According to that agent’s
for allegedly lying to investigators, is seeking use contemporaneous notes, [fired FBI]
immunity before providing testimony to Congress. Director Comey specifically told us during
that briefing that the FBI agents who
The reasons are clear: interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn, ‘saw
nothing that led them to believe [he was]
McCabe has information that will lying.’ Our own Committee staff’s notes
incriminate him if he talks without first being indicate that Mr. Comey said the ‘agents
granted immunity from prosecution. saw no change in his demeanor or tone
that would say he was being untruthful.’”
If he doesn’t get it, his lawyer Michael Bromwich said in a
letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley was demanding that the officials send him and his
Grassley, R-Iowa, that McCabe will simply plead the Fifth committee unredacted Flynn-related documents including
Amendment. the form 302 — summary notes from Flynn’s interview —
that agents customarily submit as part of their report when
interviewing witnesses and/or suspects.
Now, new information has surfaced that sheds further light
on why McCabe may be looking for a ‘get out of jail free’
card. So, by Comey’s own admission, the agents never believed
that Flynn lied to them. That would have been reflected in
their 302s, right?
First, a little backstory.
Flynn was later indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller “Senate investigators suspect Gen. Flynn’s
for lying to FBI investigators who came to speak to him in 302s were edited by McCabe, referred
January 2017 before Trump was inaugurated. Flynn did matter to IG Horowitz.”
not know at the time that the interview was part of a
counterintelligence probe (all tied to “Spygate” we would
later learn) so he had no legal counsel present.
Boom.
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But it gets even worse — and more corrupt. Why did Flynn plead guilty if he was innocent? How do
dispute a forged FBI document in court without
Just days ago reports surfaced that McCabe and Comey corroborating witnesses?
cleared former acting Attorney General Sally Yates —
who was fired by Trump for refusing to defend his first No wonder McCabe wants to make a deal with the Senate
travel ban — to use the altered 302 when she briefed Judiciary Committee.
White House Counsel on why Flynn ought to be fired.
Grassley has been attempting to get a lot of this
It was a set up the entire time. And it now appears, if information for a long time. He should pass on this ‘offer’
Sperry’s sources are right, that McCabe legally altered the and force McCabe to testify under oath — in a court of
302 report to ensnare the very first in what was no doubt law.
hoped to be a long line of Trump officials.
A version of this story also appears at NewsTarget.
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MSNBC Hack Nicolle Wallace Questions If
Melania And Ivanka Trump Are
‘Dead Inside’ Or ‘Paid Off’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 8, 2018, 8:51 Am
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked whether or not Ivanka Wallace recently raised eyebrows when she advocated for
Trump or First Lady Melania Trump are “dead inside” or the strangling of Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
“paid off” during a segment on Thursday.
The fake concern about respecting our First Lady did not
last long, however.
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NYT Reporter Blamed ‘Trumpster
Lawyers’ For Leaks. Turns Out It Was Her Boyfriend.
Federal Investigators Subpoenaed Records From The New York Times' Ali Watkins
And Charged Senate Intelligence Committee Staffer James Wolfe
With Crimes Related To Leaking.
By NTK Staff
06.08.2018 @9:00am
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The indictment also details extensive contact between notified the reporter of upcoming SSCI appearances by
Watkins and Wolfe that immediately preceded the Trump associates, including Carter Page.
publication of classified materials. Wolfe allegedly
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It’s interesting, then, that Watkins essentially blamed
“Trumpster lawyers” for leaks in September, tweeting that
they were revealing their own appearances.
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Liberal Media Claims Senate Staffer Who Leaked
Anti-Trump Info To His NY Times Lover Is “Bipartisan”
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 9:09 Am
But here are the leaked reports Wolfe gave to his lover Ali
Watkins.
The New York Times insisted James Wolfe was bipartisan. Senate panel expects to receive Clinton
campaign documents this week
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Carter Page says he won’t testify before
Senate Intelligence panel in Russia
probe
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PAYDIRT: Senate Intelligence Committee Aide BUSTED
For Leaking To NY Times Reporter
Posted On June 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Justice: Last fall Attorney General Jeff The Times noted:
Sessions warned that the Justice Department would be
cracking down on leakers. Mr. Wolfe, the Intelligence Committee’s
director of security, was slated to appear
President Donald Trump repeated that threat in May after before a federal judge on Friday in
someone leaked disparaging comments a now-fired White Washington. Reached on Thursday
House staffer made about ailing Sen. John McCain of evening before his arrest, Mr. Wolfe
Arizona. declined to comment.
Mr. Wolfe’s case led to the first known
“The so-called leaks coming out of the instance of the Justice Department going
White House are a massive over after a reporter’s data under President
exaggeration put out by the Fake News Trump. The seizure was disclosed in a
Media in order to make us look as bad as letter to the Times reporter, Ali Watkins,
possible. With that being said, leakers are who had been in a three-year relationship
traitors and cowards, and we will find out with Mr. Wolfe. The seizure suggested that
who they are!” the president tweeted. prosecutors under the Trump
administration will continue the aggressive
tactics employed under President Barack
Obama.
In his role with the committee, Mr. Wolfe
was responsible for safeguarding classified
and other sensitive information shared with
lawmakers. He stopped performing
committee work in December and retired in
May.
Court documents describe Mr. Wolfe’s
These are no longer merely threats. communications with four reporters —
including Ms. Watkins — using encrypted
As reported by The New York Times, former Senate Intel messaging applications. It appeared that
Committee aide, James A. Wolfe, 57, was arrested the F.B.I. was investigating how Ms.
Thursday after the DoJ conducted an investigation into Watkins learned that Russian spies in 2013
classified information leaks to reporters. had tried to recruit Carter Page, a former
Trump foreign policy adviser.
Wolfe, reports said, lied repeatedly to FBI investigators She published an article for BuzzFeed
and others about his contact with reporters. He also made News on April 3, 2017, about the attempted
false statements. recruitment of Mr. Page in which he
confirmed the contacts.
In addition, the Justice Department seized years’ worth of
phone records from one Times reporter, Ali Watkins, with Watkins is a former national security reporter for Buzzfeed
whom Wolfe was having a romantic relationship. and Politico.
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Evidence Of General Flynn Lying
To Investigators Was Reportedly Destroyed
By Andrew McCabe
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 10:05 Am
Some on the free Internet (i.e. not the MSM) also point out
that one of Mueller’s gang, Andrew Weissmann, did the
same thing years ago in the government’s case against
Enron.
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General Flynn’s innocence cannot be
Corrupt and fired former DOJ AG Sally Yates destroyed declared soon enough. He and his
evidence in the past as well. She is the one who went to the family have gone through so much due
White House and complained that General Flynn had lied.
to these horrible corrupt human beings.
These goons who set him up need to be
brought to justice. Drain the Swamp!
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Trump’s Saving Grace
By Andrew Levine
June 8, 2018
Trump’s idea of good taste is a parody of a fifties Playboy Remember too that her father deserves verbal abuse ten
reader’s. W’s tastes are more refined. He is even able to times more and, with him, that is just the least of it.
appreciate Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys.
That what he says and does is reported on respectfully and
Trump doesn’t have enough humanity for that. The only that purportedly serious journalists report on his tweets and
Friedman he can appreciate is David – his bankruptcy on the nonsense that spews out of his mouth as if there
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might be a thought worth considering in any of it is campaign revived and legitimated Cold War mindsets and
nauseating too. assumptions.
The office he occupies is the reason to care about what he Trump seemed to be, and for the most part has been, less
says or does; the only reason. On the merits, there is no bad. Unlike leading Democrats and their media flunkies at
reason at all. CNN and MSNBC, Cold War revivalism has never been
his passion.
Even so, and despite the fact that Roseanne is a vile nut
job, that ridiculous woman is not entirely off base in No doubt, the reasons why are as sleazy as the man
thinking that Ivanka’s father might have been a better himself. Even so, the country and the world should be
choice for working class non-heroes than the alternative he grateful that they move him.
ran against.
Common sense is on Trump’s side – why needlessly stir
There are, after all, matters of very great importance on up animosities directed at an adversary with nuclear
which Hillary Clinton and Democrats like her could weapons and the means to deliver them? But common
arguably be deemed worse. sense does not move the Donald; he has none. He has no
principled convictions either. What he has are vile instincts
*** and TV shows that he likes.
Does this mean that the Donald has some redeeming Trump’s business dealings have always been dodgy; and,
features, notwithstanding his obvious moral and despite his boasting, his deal making is about as artful as
intellectual shortcomings and his buffoonish demeanor? any garden-variety mob boss’s. Meanwhile, in the art of
The short answer is No. blackmail, Russia’s intelligence services are superb. Thus
it is possible, even likely, that Russia has something on
him.
However, in view of the very un-democratic institutions
that our “founding fathers” bequeathed us, and the
durability of the duopoly party system that afflicts our Or, since, venality trumps prudence in Trumpland, there
political culture, the issue is a little bit more complicated may be something he wants Russia to do for him that he is
than that. too foolhardy or too stupid entirely to conceal.
Favoring Trump over Clinton was wrong-headed but not Whatever the reason, to the extent that Trump has been
entirely unreasonable two years ago, given the parameters keeping the Doomsday Clock from edging closer to
within which the choice had to be made. midnight, then hooray for him. If Clintonites and other
Cold War enthusiasts don’t like it, too bad for them.
In light of what has now been proven beyond a reasonable
doubt about what a Trump presidency entails, Trump There is something else that Trump has been doing that the
supporters are on even shakier ground than they used to be. foreign policy establishment along with the entire political
But with the mainstream Democratic Party still basically class, the ruling class, respectable media, and, the general
unchanged, their position is not insane. public don’t care for in the least, and that, were he more
lucid, Trump would oppose as well: he is overturning the
American dominated world order established in the
Clinton’s flirtations with World War III were more
troubling than Trump’s – at least in the sense that her aftermath of the Second World War.
choice of enemies was more reckless. Now she is more or
less out of the picture, but her legacy lives on; getting a “Not,” as the saying goes, “that there is anything wrong
new Cold War up and running has become a top with that,” quite to the contrary. But there are bad, indeed
Democratic Party priority. dangerous, ways of going about it. Count on Trump to find
them.
Needless to say, Democrats aren’t the only problem;
Republicans are inveterate Cold Warriors too. For more than seven decades, the United States has been
Communism is gone, but habits of mind associated with an economic and military hegemon. Since the demise of
Cold War anti-Communism have somehow survived. the Soviet Union, its position has been essentially
Lately, they have begun again to thrive. unchallenged. Now, to the dismay of nearly all concerned
parties, at home and abroad, Trump is undoing the
framework upon which American world domination rests.
For that, give blame where blame is due. In much the way
that the Trump campaign legitimized “America first”
jingoism and white supremacist attitudes, the Clinton
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The result is turbulence at a global level; not only, as in the again” – not understanding that, in the jingoistic sense that
past, in the hinterlands and in hard to manage regions, but is all he knows, he has been doing just the opposite.
within the empire’s core.
This is what happens when a septuagenarian with an
This was bound to happen eventually; empires rise and adolescent’s mind is elected president, and proceeds to act
fall. But the American empire was still hanging in there out.
when Trump came on the scene, and there was, and still is,
no replacement waiting in the wings. There is no stable ***
system of alliances capable of imposing order in world
affairs, and there is no alternative global hegemon.
Whatever Trump may say or think, the main beneficiary of
the world order now in place is the United States.
There is, of course, the United Nations and, along with it,
many more international organizations than a century ago. American capitalists, especially those involved with
But they all kowtow to the United States, and are therefore
finance, have been making out like the bandits they are.
useless for doing anything that the empire’s stewards
oppose. Anything even remotely resembling a world
government is as out of the question now as it ever was. Unless Trump’s machinations set off a major economic
slump, many of them will likely continue to prosper, at
least for a while. It is not impossible too that some workers
When Madeleine Albright and Barack Obama and others
will be better off in the short run from, say, Trump’s tariffs
would blabber on about America being “the indispensable
on aluminum and steel. But most Americans will be worse
nation,” what they had in mind was hypocritical nonsense;
off, as will most people in other countries. The world’s
America was hardly a moral exemplar for the world.
economies are closely intertwined; being run over by a bull
in a china shop is the last thing they need.
There is a sense, however, in which their words were
literally true. For better or worse (generally worse),
Mindlessly tearing the existing system apart, without clear
American power has kept uncontrollable instability at bay.
alternatives in mind and without giving any thought to
changing the fundamentals of the underlying economic
In principle, of course, there are more effective and just structure, makes no sense. It is a recipe for disaster.
ways to assure world order. In practice, however, they lie
beyond reach.
Trump’s trade policies, like his economic policies
generally, are political theater. They exist so that Trump, a
This is a tragedy even for the United States. Led wisely, serial promise-breaker and conman, can tell his marks that
the hegemon could be brought down gently. But when has he keeps his campaign promises. If the gods are kind, as
the United States been wisely led? they almost never are, his machinations will backfire, as
they inevitably will eventually, in time to cause him harm.
Wise leadership would make it easier for Americans to
address pressing problems inside “the homeland;” it would It is the same with the geopolitical aspects of Trump’s
also free up energy and resources for experiments in assault on the American empire.
governance and in living that could help move humanity
forward.
America’s days as a global hegemon are numbered, but
that number is not yet up. The hegemon is in peril now
The United States has not done much of that lately; the only because America has a president who is ignorant,
Cold War put the kybosh on the very idea. arrogant, and inept.
How ironic, therefore, that by “making America great Republicans don’t like this any more than Democrats do.
again,” Trump, the least wise leader America has ever Serving more or less the same masters, why would they?
known, is bringing the empire down. But, they go along. Fearing the wrath of the most
intractable of Hillary’s “deplorables,” they seek safety by
This would be to his credit, but for the fact that his hiding under Trump’s tiny thumb.
stupidity and ineptitude are bound to exact a toll. The
chances that anything good will come of Trump’s bull in a Trump’s attacks on American dominance of the world
china shop approach are nil. economy are unintended; he knows not what he does.
Needless to say, bringing the empire down is not His attacks on America’s political domination of the world
something Trump has chosen to do; he probably does not are different; he knows precisely what he is doing – he is
even realize that he is doing anything of the kind. He may tapping into his bases’ and his own small-minded
even sincerely believe that he is “making America great jingoism. The disingenuous “America first” jibber-jabber
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that enshrouds his machinations only serve to demonstrate Republicans now follow Trump and Trump believes in his
what a conman he is. heart of hearts that, on any and all matters of national
import, the Donald knows best.
A genuine left opposition would also be working to bring
the era of American world domination to an end. But, If the coal industry cannot withstand market forces, Trump
again, everything depends on how it comes to pass. will see to it that the government keeps it alive. The steel
Laudable internationalist ways are one thing, Trump’s industry too; if it cannot compete with foreign producers,
national chauvinist way is something else altogether. Any then bring the tariffs on!
resemblance between what passes for foreign policy under
him and what American foreign policy ought to be is, as The pundits don’t care for this at all, but their explanations
they say, “purely coincidental.” ring hollow. Their line is that Trump is keeping promises
he made during his presidential campaign. At Fox, they
*** think this is as it should be; the centrists at CNN and
MSNBC disagree.
Trump has not quite destroyed the Republican Party,
though there is still a fighting chance that he will. However, as is par for the course, they are both wrong: the
However, he has dealt a severe blow to the GOP’s free very idea of promise keeping, when inconvenient, is
market theology, to the idea that, for every earthly beyond Trump’s ken.
problem, there is a market-based cure.
An impartial observer could hardly fail to notice that a
That belief is deeply entrenched in Republican minds. common theme of many of the policies that emanate out of
Even those who care more about making the country more the blooming buzzing confusion that engulfs the Trump
godly or about law and order (repressing minorities and the White House is opposition to efforts to protect against
poor, not the TV show), or balanced budgets, or old environmental degradation. It is as if Trump wants to
fashioned Country Club values, are still, with varying accelerate global warming and to hasten the onset of
degrees of commitment, free marketeers. environmental catastrophes. His repudiation early on of the
Paris Climate Accord was emblematic, and a taste of
Without quite making such a show of it, Democrats are on things to come.
board with that too.
In the White House now, the mark of energy sector
Of course, they don’t really believe in it – not capitalists is everywhere. It would give Trump too much
wholeheartedly. If nothing else, they are all “military credit to say that he agrees with, or even cares about, their
Keynesians,” they all use military spending to boost arguments, such as they are. What he cares about is their
effective demand. And the Pentagon budget, which they all money. And so he acts against market “logic.”
consider sacrosanct, functions as a back door, dangerously
skewed and deeply flawed, industrial policy This is bad news, of course, because his policies are even
more harmful than those that market logic would dictate,
But the faith in markets that they all evince to some extent but, in at least one respect, there is a silver lining. Trump’s
does have consequences. They are especially evident in the whims are dealing free market theology a blow – not a
policy prescriptions of such Republican stars as Rand Paul, mortal blow, the doctrine is resilient — but a serious defeat
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz (of whom it has been said that nevertheless.
the word “loathsome” is joined to his name in the way that
“fleet-footed” is joined to Achilles’). And they were rife in To the extent that this makes Republicans like Ted Cruz
the pre-Trump GOP. apoplectic — and disquiets Mike Pence, the next
catastrophe in line — then bravo Trump. This may not be
No longer; in the Republican mind, the invisible hand of much of a saving grace, but it is better than nothing at all.
the almighty market has given way to the visible hand of
Donald Trump.
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IRANIAN REGIME Parades Giant Effigy Of President
Trump With Noose Around His Neck On Al Quds Day
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 10:47 Am
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They REALLY hate President Trump.
.
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Breaking: TRUMP Likely To
Support Ending Ban On Marijuana (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 11:08 Am
Far out.
President Trump spoke with reporters
on Friday before departing to the much
anticipated G7 meetings in Canada this
weekend.
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This is “Bullshit – Fake News” included for balance.
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Trump also knows that once his sham is finally debunked episode, but by Monday, if not sooner, the story will be
that most people will have already forgotten about the “old news” and there will be no great ratings rise to
original charge and/or won’t even hear about the truth warrant continuing to cover it. Once again, Trump knows
because the news media is now far too fragmented and this, and it is why he never gets badly beaten in this type of
eager to chase after the next big story before their ever- battle.
shrinking audiences tune out. Now that Trump is president,
his banking on the media’s inability to focus on any one Last night, in an exception which proves the rule, Tucker
subject long enough for it to reach critical mass is a Carlson somehow allowed the truth of “Spygate” to
foolproof gambit which cannot lose. accidently briefly leak out to the surely horrified and
confused “Cult 45” audience of Fox News. Don’t be
After all, now all he has to do in order to distract from a surprised if there is soon a new opening for a booking
story he doesn’t like is to tweet something crazy, meet producer on that show.
with Kim Kardashian, pardon a right-wing pundit, float
the pardon of Muhammad Ali, brag about how he is going You see, on Fox News in primetime, crazy conspiracy
to bring peace to Korea, or put Rudy Giuliani on theories are a lot like toilet paper. They use them to clean
television. Like cats mesmerized by a spotlight, the media up their mess, and then immediately toss out the refuse the
immediately drops everything else and Trump avoids instant it is no longer useful.
defeat.
Only the stench remains, but their audience has now been
CNN’s Erin Burnett and a few others have tried to bring well trained to believe that scent is actually roses.
some semblance of accountability for this shameful
.
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Trump Glad DOJ Caught A Leaker, Looking
Forward To Catching Comey’s ‘Band Of Thieves’
"I'm A Big Believer In The Freedom Of The Press, But I'm Also A
Believer In Classified Information," The President Said.
By NTK Staff
06.08.2018 @11:31am
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Trump Sums Up Giuliani’s Time
As His Lawyer in Seven Excruciating Words
by Matt Naham
12:01 pm, June 8th, 2018
If you ever want to endorse someone, maybe even Giuliani also defended his remarks Thursday, telling CNN
someone who works for you, and come off as sincere
maybe try not to say, “You’re great except for the fact you “If you’re a [feminist] and you support the
are you.” President Donald Trump said something porn industry, you should turn in your
Friday about Rudy Giuliani that seemed like it was credentials.”
supposed to be praiseworthy; instead, it reads as an
excruciating assessment of Giuliani’s job performance as Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti responded by calling
Trump’s attorney up to now. Giuliani a “misogynist.”
Both CBS and NBC led their reports on the story by noting CBS’ Jeff Pegues also noted that Trump was not the first
the White House was “cracking down” on leakers. CBS’s president to do this:
Jeff Pegues reported that Wolfe had been in contact with at
least three journalists while he was head of the Senate Now this is the first known incident that the Department of
Intelligence Committee: Justice has seized a reporter’s data. It is a tactic that the
Obama administration used in the past.
Prosecutors say that Wolfe falsely claimed to FBI agents in
an interview in 2017 that that he did not have contact with Despite ABC’s shock and horror reaction to any harsh
reporters. But according to an indictment unsealed late word said against the intelligence community by President
Thursday, investigators say that he had repeated contact Trump, they had no interest in a member of the Senate
with at least three reporters between 2015 and 2017. outright lying to the FBI about leaking potentially
classified information to the media.
Both networks noted that the Justice Department had
confirmed that Wolfe was giving information to Times’ Read the transcripts below:
reporter Ali Watkins, after seizing her phone and e-mail
records. The Justice Department’s investigation NBC Today
established a connection between certain stories being 06/08/18
leaked and the dates where Wolfe and Watkins had 7:00 AM TEASE
exchanged a large number of messages and/or phone calls.
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SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Breaking overnight, leak crackdown. of its reporters. Jeff Pegues is outside the Justice Department.
A long-time Senate staffer indicted on charges of lying to the Jeff, good morning.
FBI and accused of sharing classified information with the
media. Investigators seizing the phone of a New York Times JEFF PEGUES: Good morning. James Wolfe’s arrest comes as
reporter. the White House is cracking down on leakers. Prosecutors say
that Wolf falsely claimed to FBI agents in an interview in 2017
(...) that that he did not have contact with reporters. But according to
an indictment unsealed late Thursday, investigators say that he
7:05 AM SEGMENT [7:05:16 - 7:06:16, 1 min] had repeated contact with at least three reporters between 2015
and 2017.
GUTHRIE: And, Kristen, there’s another big story making waves
this morning, having to do with a leak and a top official on the Wolfe’s job as the Director of Security for the Senate Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Tell us about that. Committee gave him access to classified information. The New
York Times reported Thursday that investigators secretly seized
KRISTEN WELKER: That’s right. That staffer on the Senate years' worth of phone and e-mail records from reporter
Intel Committee, James Wolfe, has been arrested on charges Ali Watkins. The Times reports investigators did not obtain the
of lying to the FBI about intentionally leaking classified content of those messages. The Times says Watkins had a
information. Now, investigators have also seized the records three-year personal relationship with Wolf before she began
of a New York Time reporter, Allie Watkins. And The New working for the paper in 2017. Now, Watkins denies Wolfe gave
York Times is reporting the two were having a romantic her classified information and her attorney says the seizure of her
relationship. No comment from either side on that allegation. data was, in their words, “disconcerting.” Now this is the first
But I can tell you, Savannah, The New York Times firing back known incident that the Department of Justice has seized a
this morning, writing, “This decision by the Justice reporter’s data. It is a tactic that the Obama administration
Department will endanger reporters’ ability to promise used in the past. We reached out to James Wolfe for a
confidentiality to their sources.” Journalism advocacy comment. We still haven't heard back. If he is convicted in this
groups have been accusing the government of overreach, case, he could get up to 15 years behind bars. John?
going all the way back to the Obama administration. So this
will undoubtedly get a lot of attention today, Savannah. JOHN DICKERSON: Jeff Pegues for us in Washington.
Thanks, Jeff. There’s going to be a lot more coming out of
GUTHRIE: Alright, Kristen, with that breaking news, thank you. that story.
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BREAKING: Mueller Hits Paul Manafort With
ANOTHER Indictment For ‘Witness Tampering’ After
Raiding His Icloud Account
By Cristina Laila
June 8, 2018, 1:21 Pm
Breaking news.
Manafort and Kilimnik were both hit with new charges
Trump’s former campaign chairman accusing them of using intimidation or force against a
Paul Manafort was hit with another witness to obstruct justice, and also with tampering with a
indictment by Robert Mueller Friday for witness, victim or informant.
‘witness tampering.’
The Special Counsel accused Trump’s
former campaign chairman Paul
Manafort of attempting to tamper with
potential witnesses, in a court filing
Monday.
Dirty Cop Mueller raided Manafort’s
iCloud account to obtain phone records
and other documents.
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AP Goes ‘Melania Conspiracy’ Over
Pres. Trump’s Update On First Lady’s Health
By Kristinn Taylor
June 8, 2018, 1:40 Pm
Excerpt:
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Breaking: Feinstein’s Former Intel Staffer
Daniel Jones Is Also Connected To NY Times
Reporter In Leak Investigation
By Cristina Laila
June 8, 2018, 2:36 Pm
Former Senate Intel Committee aide, In a letter sent to the Minority last week accusing Fusion
James A. Wolfe, 57, was arrested on GPS founder Glenn Simpson of giving “extremely
Thursday after the DOJ conducted an misleading” statements during a 2017 Senate testimony,
investigation into classified information Grassley put an interesting footnote at the bottom of his
leaks to reporters. letter implying Daniel Jones may have fed Fusion’s
information to the Minority [Ranking member Dianne
Wolfe repeatedly lied to investigators Feinstein and other Minority Democrat members] as part
about his contacts with reporters and of his ongoing campaign.
made false statements to the FBI.
Daniel Jones is also connected to New York Times reporter,
The Justice Department also seized New Ali Watkins AND worked closely with Wolfe, the senate
York Times reporter, Ali Watkins years’ intel staffer who was arrested Thursday evening.
worth of phone and email records.
Follow this thread by National Security
Watkins previously worked for Buzzfeed reporter, Jordan Schachtel:
and Politico as a national security
reporter.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said back in November,
“We intend to get to the bottom of these leaks.”
“We will find out who they are,” said the President after
referring to leakers as “traitors and cowards.”
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FAIL: Nancy Pelosi Rips President Trump
For Consumer Confidence — Doesn’t Realize It’s
At An 18-Year High! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 3:19 Pm
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BREAKING: Aaron Rich Attorneys Subpoena Twitter To
Turn Over All Direct Messages From: Wikileaks, Julian
Assange, Kimdotcom, Cassandra Fairbanks,
Gateway Pundit, Etc
By Jim Hoft
June 8, 2018, 4:02 Pm
Twitter sent out notices to several investigative reporters United States District Court, District of Colombia
and media outlets on Friday including:
The attorney(s) representing subpoenaing party is:
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Kim DotCom,
Cassandra Fairbanks and The Gateway Michael J. Gottlieb
Pundit.
Twitter has not disclosed any information regarding your account
The liberal and Democrat-connected attorneys for Aaron at this time. However, we wanted to bring this matter to your
Rich are demanding Twitter turn over all direct messages attention. Please be advised that Twitter may be obligated to
from these accounts to Aarron Rich’s attorneys. produce basic subscriber information related to your account in
the future. Accordingly, please advise within 14 days from the
date of this notice, from the email address associated with your
Twitter account, @gatewaypundit, if you intend to appear in this
matter or file a motion to quash. Please also provide us with
copies of any papers you file with the Court. If you plan to have
your attorney contact us, please first respond to this email from
the email address associated with your Twitter account,
@gatewaypundit, letting us know that your attorney will be
contacting us and providing us with your attorney’s name and
contact information.
While we cannot give you any legal advice, we suggest that you
seek your own counsel in this matter. If you need assistance
seeking counsel, you may consider contacting the Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Aaron is the brother of Seth Rich, the DNC operative who
was murdered mysteriously in the summer of 2016. There (https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance[eff.org],info@eff.org,
have been no leads to the murder of Seth Rich. Aaron Rich +1 415-436-****) or the ACLU
is suing conservative activists and media outlets for
allegedly spreading conspiracy theories about the slain (http://www.aclu.org/affiliates[aclu.org], +1 212-549-****).
staffer.
For more general information on legal requests, please refer to
On Friday Twitter sent out letters to several conservatives the following Help Center article: https://t.co/*****.
and media outlets including Wikileaks informing the
account owners that the attorneys for Aaron Rich are Sincerely,
seeking information from the private accounts.
Twitter Legal
Here is a copy of the letter sent to The Gateway Pundit —
(sections and phone numbers deleted).
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Congress Votes To Audit Mueller’s
Multi-Million Dollar Russia Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
June 8, 2018, 4:29 Pm
‘oversight’ which is utterly pathetic given the Deputy
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark AG’s many conflicts of interest.
Meadows (R-NC) introduced an
amendment Friday to audit Mueller’s Chairman Meadows has been hammering Rosenstein to get
out-of-control multi-million dollar witch pertinent documents such as his memo on Mueller’s scope.
hunt.
Meadows’ move to audit Mueller will help put pressure on
The House voted 207-201 to attach the
the Special Counsel to turn over the memo.
language to a veterans, military
construction, and energy and water
spending bill that was headed to pass Meadows tweeted: I’ve introduced an amendment to
Friday, reported the Examiner. require a semi-annual financial audit of special counsels by
the GAO. A special counsel’s work is important, but they
should not be able to spend taxpayer dollars without
accountability. Americans need to know where their
money is going.
Taxpayers are being punished and forced to pay liberal Chairman Meadows celebrated.
hack lawyers millions of dollars for the crime of electing
Donald Trump to be their Commander-in-Chief.
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MUST SEE=> Wasserman Schultz Refuses To Answer
Reporter’s Questions About Imran Awan (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 8, 2018, 5:54 Pm
Imran and his two Pakistani brothers managed the IT Nice job Kerry!
affairs for several Democratic government officials. They
were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion A House official previously told Circa News that Imran
that they accessed specific computer networks without Awan was uploading terabits of information to dropbox
permission, also known as hacking. and may have sold the uploaded info. Everyone is talking
about Russia but Awan could have been the one to have
Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were sold the DNC emails. The DNC refuses to hand over their
barred from computer networks at the servers to be investigated. If they really were the victim of
House of Representatives in February a ‘hack’ like they claim, they wouldn’t be protecting their
2017. servers from authorities.
Imran Awan was married to two women at once, including According to investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak, Imran
his first cousin, as is his country’s custom. Awan was also remotely accessing the House server
FROM Pakistan.
The Pakistani IT staffers made millions of dollars over the
years providing ‘IT work’ for House Democrats; zero Imran Awan and his wife Alvi reportedly struck a plea
background checks were conducted on Awan and his deal this week.
family members.
This is one of the biggest scandals in US political history,
On Friday, Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to answer yet AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions refuses to bring
The Daily Caller’s Kerry Picket‘s questions about charges against this Pakistani spy ring.
accusations she attempted to shut down the investigation
into her Pakistani IT aide, Imran Awan.
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Ex-Obama Security Adviser Ben Rhodes: ‘Worries Me’
That Government Can’t Edit People’s
Facebook Feeds (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 8, 2018, 6:09 Pm
The emergence of social media has shattered the left’s While discussing the alleged hacking of the Democratic
media dominance. National Committee server during the 2016 election and
the leaking of DNC and Clinton campaign emails, Rhodes,
Conservative leaning news sites like the Gateway Pundit, Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor,
Breitbart and The Daily Caller were able to use social warned that the accessibility of “fake news” on social
media to eclipse the mainstream media’s coverage of the media and Russian propaganda is more concerning than
2016 presidential election, according to a report from data breaches.
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
“The government didn’t have a lot of
President Trump mastered social media to get his message capacity to deal with this – I mean we can’t
directly to the American people. edit people’s Facebook feeds and say
As a result, the left is desperate to censor people’s ‘that’s fake news, and that’s not’” he said.
Facebook news feed. “And what worries me today, Andrea, is
that we still don’t have a lot of capacity, and
Facebook launched new algorithms that prevents Gateway frankly our government’s probably not
Pundit posts from appearing in people’s Facebook news doing anything to prevent this.”
feeds. The algorithms have even caused President Trump’s
engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping As a result of the government not controlling Facebook
45%. feeds, Rhodes continued, the “likelihood” of Russia
spreading fake news on Facebook in future elections “is
Last month, scandal-plagued Hillary Clinton admitted she very high.”
wanted to become the CEO of Facebook to control the
flow of information. A new HBO documentary called “The Final Year,”which
examines the last days of the Obama administration, shows
Now, former top Obama aide Ben a devastated Rhodes trying to process the fact that Trump
Rhodes is warning about the had won the 2016 election, seemingly holding back tears.
government’s inability to access the
Facebook feeds of private citizens and
“edit” what they determine to be “fake
news” will jeopardize the electoral
process.
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If Seth Rich Had Nothing To Do With Wikileaks Why Did
Rich Attorneys Just Subpoena Julian Assange And
Wikileaks Twitter Messages?
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June 8, 2018, 7:11 Pm
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Joe Digenova: IG Report Is Being
Scrubbed By Rosenstein (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 8, 2018, 9:40 Pm
Lawyers for the subjects included in the report were given Horowitz is also set to testify in a Congressional hearing
a draft copy to prepare rebuttals for their clients which is about his findings on June 18th.
what partially led to delays in releasing the report to the
public.
VIDEO:
DiGenova says the other reason for the delay is that Rod
Rosenstein is scrubbing and redacting in order to protect
the department employees.
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Aussie Alexander Downer From Spygate Involved In Sale
Of Australian Uranium To Same Russian Company
That Purchased Uranium One
By Jim Hoft
June 9, 2018, 7:58 Am
Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s The sale of Russian uranium to the Russians and the
role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help payment of money to the Clinton Foundation at around the
the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in same time sound familiar to Americans, because this also
decade-old government memos archived on the Australian happened in the US in what many believe is the real
foreign ministry’s website.
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Russian collusion scandal. The far left New York Times At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the
surprisingly was the first to report this story – Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to
the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton
and his family. Members of that group built, financed and
eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would
become known as Uranium One.
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TRUMP APPROVAL RATING Better
Than Obama And Reagan At Same Point
In Their Presidencies
By Jim Hoft
June 9, 2018, 8:46 Am
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BOOM! President Trump Stomps
On “Fake News” CNN At Quebec G7 Presser (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 9, 2018, 9:55 Am
CNN reporter:
CNN.
President Trump:
CNN reporter:
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President Trump Proposes ZERO Tariffs,
ZERO Barriers, And ZERO Subsidies
At G7 Summit (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 9, 2018, 11:17 Am
Leadership.
This ought to push the globalists back
on their heels.
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Gohmert SLAMS Mueller: ‘He’s Covering Up His
Involvement In Uranium One While Trying To Have A
Coup Against The President’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 9, 2018, 1:21 Pm
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Not to mention the lives devastated and destroyed by
Meadows (R-NC) introduced an Mueller
amendment Friday to audit Mueller’s
Just like Tom Fitton always says, “Shut it down!”
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Bill Maher Hopes For Bottom To
Drop Out On Economy To “Get Rid Of Trump” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 9, 2018, 1:39 Pm
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Past Tweets Come Back To Haunt
NY Times Reporter In Leak Investigation
By Cristina Laila
June 9, 2018, 3:03 Pm
It gets better…
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Trump Reminds Everyone Exactly
Who’s Responsible For Russian Aggression — Obama
Justin Caruso | Senior Media Reporter
5:14 Pm 06/09/2018
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John McCain Undercuts President Trump With Foreign
Leaders As He Leaves G7 And Heads
For North Korea Meeting
By Kristinn Taylor
June 9, 2018, 8:41 Pm
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Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol: G7 Leaders Should Have
Called For Mueller Investigation To Continue Unimpeded
By Alicia Powe
June 9, 2018, 10:40 Pm
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Ohio governor John Kasich, Kristol explained, would be
the most formidable challenger,
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James Comey Attacks President Trump
Over G7 Dispute With Trudeau
By Kristinn Taylor
June 9, 2018, 10:52 Pm
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saying the world is less secure, the other
G7 leaders could not trust Trump and that
long-standing relations don’t matter to
Trump because, “It’s all about him.”
“Fired FBI Director James Comey trashed Trump left the G7 summit early Saturday and is on his way
President Donald Trump in front of a to Singapore for a historic meeting with North Korea over
Canadian audience days before Trump will nuclear weapons.
be attending the G7 summit in Quebec,
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Trudeau Gives Trump Photo Of His Grandfather’s
Canadian Hotel — Or Was It A Brothel?
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 12:10 Am
The effeminate Trudeau thought he was The President preceded the above tweet with a tweet about
getting away with a good one. the PM’s statements being false at his news conference –
Unfortunately for him, he was dealing
with the greatest and strongest alpha
male to hold the White House in a very
long time.
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The meek, mild, and weak Trudeau
should know not to mess with President
Trump.
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NYT's Krugman Claims Journalists
Are ‘Afraid’ To Call Trump ‘Crazy’
By Kristine Marsh
June 11, 2018 7:45 AM EDT
Sometimes you just have to wonder what planet Paul Krugman went on to call journalists too timid to call out
Krugman, the radical, left-wing columnist and economist the president for being crazy. After all, they’d be accused
for the New York Times, is living on. On Sunday morning, of being “unbalanced” if they did that, he wrote. Clearly
the journalist went on a tweet storm complaining that the giving the media too much credit, he added, “Too often,
media wasn’t presenting Trump accurately...because they they pretend that he’s talking about something real. This
were presenting him as sane. amounts, in practice, to huge pro-Trump bias.”
Apparently Krugman has been living under a rock, because As if he hadn’t been clear enough already, Krugman came
Trump’s alleged psychosis is the media’s second favorite straight out and called Trump and his voters, crazy: “One
talking point, after his alleged collusion with Russia to win side isn’t even wrong, just completely insane,” he
the election in 2016. Regardless, the NYT columnist spent reiterated
five tweets ranting about how the media was aiding
Trump’s agenda by “pretending” he was sane and rational.
Furthermore, Krugman wrote, Trump’s policies were
derived entirely from problems Trump had made up in his
mind.
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Interesting Development: The Trump Campaign Foreign
Policy Experts Now Under Investigation Were Brought In
Under AG Jeff Sessions
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 7:54 Am
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The House Intel Report states that – The individuals under Sessions are also the individuals that
had dealings with UK spies. Papadopoulos met with
There is no evidence that anyone on the Mifsud, Halper and Aussie Downer. Carter Page also had
Trump campaign was aware of Page’s past dealings with some or all of these British spies. There are
ties to Russian intelligence services-or many questions concerning these individuals.
Papadopoulos’ more recent contacts with a
Russian-connected professor-when these The House Intel report states that there is no evidence that
two individuals were included among the the Trump campaign was aware of the team’s connections
advisors that were publicly announced on with Russians. The question must be asked, did the House
March 21. In fact, as [President Trump’s ask Sessions? Did Sessions recuse himself because he
son in law Jared] Kushner candidly put it, knowingly set up the Trump campaign with British spies
“we put together that list because we were and Russians?
getting a lot of pressure from the media to
put out a list of foreign policy advisers.” It’s curious that the only person on the
Trump team that recused himself from
The Daily Caller reported that both Carter Page and the Russia farce (Sessions) is also the
George Papadopoulos were hired by Sam Clovis, the person who was the Chairman of
Trump campaign’s co-chairman, but the source of this candidate Trump’s National Security
information remains anonymous. It is more likely that Jeff Advisory Counsel which includes the
Sessions was responsible for hiring both Page and most notorious individuals on the
Papadopoulos for the Trump campaign because they Trump campaign team. Does Sessions
reported to him. know more than he has let on?
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Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan
Hits President Trump Again After G7 Meetings
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 8:26 Am
On Sunday morning, former CIA Director John Brennan Brennan reassured our globalist allies
hammered President Trump after the G7 meetings in that Trump will be gone soon.
Canada.
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Dennis Rodman Brought Kim Jong-Un A Present:
‘The Art Of The Deal’ By Donald J. Trump
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 10:11 Am
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MSNBC Panelists Become Unhinged
Over Trump's Saturday Morning Press Conference
By Tom Blumer
June 10, 2018 10:23 AM EDT
A highly-informed friend called me early Saturday TRUMP: I figured. Thank you, CNN.
afternoon and told me how impressed he was with Donald
It works. But, y'know,
Trump's knowledge, temperament, and poise at the
Saturday morning's press conference held just before the I could tell by the question, I had no idea
President was to leave for Singapore. who you were with CNN. After the
question, I was just curious as to who
Over at MSNBC, the guests on Saturday's AM Joy show you're with. You're with CNN.
certainly didn't view Trump's performance similarly. They
relentlessly attacked Trump's mental health, physical Trump saw through the reporter's slanted, presumptive
health, and intelligence with a level of viciousness question, based only on a "sense" that relations with U.S.
justifying questions about their mental health, physical allies are fractured and an implicit assumption that Trump
health, and intelligence. would rather talk to communist dictators than other leaders
in the relatively free world. Trump figured the question
Here is the segment involving the CNN reporter (full press was coming from a congenitally hostile news outlet, and it
conference is here): indeed was.
Transcript:
Transcript:
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and he can't believe he was getting away I mean, I'm really shocked at the way that
with so much trade stuff." he speaks because it is all Donald Trump
centric. He came off like Mad King
I don't think those things are true, and there
Donald not President of the United
was something about his affect which was
States.
oddly kind of languid from him. I don't know
what it means, but he did not look well to
me. Commenting on the bolded items:
JOY REID: Yeah, and you know, Malcolm,
you have Donald Trump saying North I don't know that John Harwood betrayed a particularly
Korea will be a tremendous place in a very healthy "state of mind." As a tweeter cited at
short period of time. That's an odd thing to Twitchy.com noted in recalling a Harwood statement in
say about North Korea, which is a May which was covered at the time by Scott Whitlock
completely closed dictatorship. He seems at NewsBusters: "Odd, I’ve been worried about John’s
very eager to go and talk to Kim Jong-un. state of mind ever since he insisted we can’t refer to
To John Harwood's point, very little of rapists and murderers as 'animals.'"
what he was saying made a lot of sense. So the name-calling escalation continues, with no end
in sight.
MALCOLM NANCE: Well, John has hit the There is no evidence that Trump "does not
nail on the head. fundamentally appear to believe in the processes and
And you know, I think Steve Schmidt systems that put him in the office." That accusation is
said this the other day, that Donald better directed towards the so-called "Resistance,"
Trump comes off like a moron. Well you which hasn't accepted the results of the 2016
know, I don't think that does justice to presidential election.
the Skinner-Benet test. I think he came off If Trump didn't "believe in the alliances that bind us
like an idiot today. together," he wouldn't be wasting time with meetings
like the G-7, would he?
I was almost shocked at the way that he
spoke with utter contempt of every Macolm Nance is right — but only because Trump is
president that preceded him. He does not older than 62. He has no other basis for claiming that
fundamentally appear to believe in the Trump "wouldn't qualify for the nuclear weapons control
system."
processes and systems that put him in
the office. He doesn't appear to believe As to alleged "narcissism," Malcolm Nance seems to
in the alliances that bind us together, forget how many times Trump's predecessor so
that make us stronger as a nation. It is all frequently used the word "I" in so many of his public
about his narcissism. statements and speeches that it became a running
national joke.
And the view from a national security
perspective, this man wouldn't qualify for One reaction to the exhibition of blind fury seen above is
the nuclear weapons control system, to that those still subscribing to using the 25th Amendment as
allow him to be anywhere near the nuclear a way to remove Trump from office — which even the far-
control -- the nuclear control keys, or even left Think Progress acknowledges is a "fantasy" — were in
guarding them. apparent need of their periodic feeding.
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Cryin’ Chuck Schumer And Liberal Media OUTRAGED
That Trump Would Not Sign G7 Globalist
‘Communique’ To Weaken America
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 10:46 Am
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Flashback: China Nicknames
Justin Trudeau “Little Potato”
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 12:46 Pm
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Trump may have been on to something …Trudeau, well-known around the world
when he accused Prime Minister for his use of social media, has been given
Trudeau being meek and mild. the nickname “xiao tudou,” or “little potato,”
as the name Trudeau sounds similar to the
Mandarin word for potato.
The Chinese nickname for Justin
Trudeau is “little potato.”
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LITTLE MACRON Leaves Print
On President Trump’s Hand After Tense Handshake…
WTH Frenchie?
By Cristina Laila
June 10, 2018, 1:10 Pm
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Sweet Justice=> Rudy Giuliani: Comey Could Be
Prosecuted Based On IG Report
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 2:59 Pm
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David Frum: Trump Is Our ‘Punishment’
For Terrible Citizens Not Liking The News
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 10, 2018 4:10 PM EDT
That’s right, Trump wasn’t elected because he spoke to “Um. I don't even understand that
Americans who felt forgotten and disenfranchised, it was question,”
because of those irresponsible Americans who didn’t want
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Frum blurted out. “And I don’t either,” mumbled Steven STELTER: You wrote to a very bruising piece earlier today for
Brill, journalist, author, and creator of media outlet rater The Atlantic about what happened at the G7 meeting. What I’m
NewsGuard. wondering, David, is whether you thought about keeping your
powder dry at this moment in time when Trump is heading into
It takes a specially advanced case of Trump Derangement this key meeting with the North Korean dictator. Is it appropriate
Syndrome for someone to rail against the public for not right now to be so aggressive, to be so critical of Trump ahead of
liking to watch the news and suggesting they were this summit?
“punished” for it. With this kind of analysis, is it any
wonder people hate watching the liberal media? FRUM: Um. I don't even understand that question.
CNN FRUM: Um. I-I-I-I had a chance to get inside the meeting a little
Reliable Sources bit and to tell people what had happened.
June 10, 2018
11:08:10 AM Eastern STELTER: Right.
(…) FRUM: Um. The Trump people want to, I think, suggest that just
as the Canadians, although they didn't, burn down the White
BRIAN STELTER: David, how unusual is it for an American House, it will be Justin Trudeau fault if Trump's summit in
president to make fun of the press or criticize the press not just Singapore isn't something Trump can package as a success.
when he's home but also when he’s abroad. And I think of the things—and I've also written about this –
people need to understand the difference between actual
DAVID FRUM: Um. When the President does these things he success that secures the security of the world and the peace of
empowers every thug, every dictator around the planet. the world, and what Trump is going to pass off, which will actually
be a tremendous, which is actually a series of concessions to the
North Koreans that will make the United States less safe just for
You know, to your very first question about news fatigue. If your
the photo-op.
child is feverishly ill, it can be very fatiguing to sit by her bedside
and take care of her but it's what you do because that's your duty
and, I think, your responsibility and it's also a source of STELTER: So you’re saying, don’t be fooled by the photo-op. But
satisfaction to you. If your country is ill, you have the same I think the broader issue is the idea of journalism and patriotism.
responsibility. Um, you know, there may be things that news Steven Brill, you've talked about this for many years. Journalists,
rooms can do differently or better to help people keep better track American journalists, they still have a sense of patriotism. And
of the stories, but it's also your responsibility as a citizen. I've heard people on TV saying we're all rooting for this to go
well. That's what I mean when I say is it appropriate at this
moment.
And you can't put your responsibilities on the press and say,
“why didn't you make this easier for me, or more entertaining.
Why didn't you make the news less frightening than it is? I would BRILL: There’s a difference between rooting for it to go well and
like—I would like a different truth, please.” The job of the press is saying it’s gone well when it hasn’t gone well. It’s like saying let’s
to tell you the truth as it is whether it's good news or not. And root for victory in Vietnam as opposed to reporting “we’re
then it's your responsibility as a patriot and a citizen to accept it winning, we’re winning, we’re winning in Vietnam” when we’re
and to internalize it and to act on it. not. That’s hardly patriotic.
In many ways, we got Donald Trump in the first place as a STELTER: Must tell the truth about what's actually happening.
punishment for not being good enough citizens. And our ability to
mitigate the harm he's going to do to institutions, to alliances, to BRILL: Yeah.
the security of the world will depend on our -- as individuals,
willingness to do be better citizens in the future and that means (…)
being informed citizens. And that's on us, not on the press.
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Candace Owens Goes Off On Ellen Show Bullies:
“Don’t Ever Forget That Liberals Are Frauds”
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 5:13 Pm
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State Democrat Parties Accused Of Illegally
Funneling $84 Million Into Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
By Cristina Laila
June 10, 2018, 5:40 Pm
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interim DNC Chairwoman alleges Hillary took complete The FBI raided Trump’s personal attorney over $130,000
control over the DNC. ‘hush payment’ to Stormy Daniels alleging the payment to
be a possible violation of campaign finance laws.
Hillary Clinton is an expert at money laundering. Just look
to the Clinton Foundation to see where she got the idea. Where’s the FBI raid into Hillary’s cronies over the
alleged $84 million campaign finance violation?
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Navarro Goes Scorched Earth
Attacking Trudeau Over Comments On Trump
— ‘Special Place In Hell’
Henry Rodgers | Political Reporter
6:30 PM 06/10/2018
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro blasted Canadian Navarro called Trudeau’s decision “one of the worst
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Sunday interview for political miscalculations” in modern Canadian history,
his negative comments towards President Donald Trump. saying all Trudeau had to do was “take the win.”
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Susan Rice: Trump’s Calls To Readmit
Russia To G7 ‘Disgraceful,’ ‘Outrageous’ (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 10, 2018, 8:22 Pm
Russia was expelled from the group then known as G8 “Rather than understand Russia is our
(Group of Eight) in 2014, after the majority of member adversary, Russia had taken on behavior
countries allied against its annexation of Crimea — the that is absolutely reprehensible. For the
first violation of a European country’s borders since World president of the United States to suggest
War II. all is forgotten, that that doesn’t matter, that
we are fine with one country annexing
Trump first expressed support for Russia’s readmission another country’s sovereign territory and
into the G-7 on the White House lawn Friday before we should just welcome them with open
departing for the G7 summit in Canada. arms into a community of democracies is
outrageous,” she said.”It’s a disgraceful
“Whether you like it or not, and it may not statement. The fact of the matter is Russia
be politically correct, but we have a world had invaded Georgia. It then had invaded
to run,” he said. “And in the G-7, which Ukraine. We rallied the entire European
used be the G-8, they threw Russia out. Union and many other partners to impose
They should let Russia come back in tough sanctions on Russia for its
because we should have Russia at the annexation. We supported the Ukrainian
negotiating table.” government to build up its defensive
The president doubled down on Saturday upon his military capacity, and along with our G7
departure from the summit for Singapore, blasting the partners, we agreed that Russia should no
Obama administration for allowing Russia to annex longer be part of this community of the G8.”
Crimea. “That’s outrageous,” she continued. “The
Obama, United States has long upheld international
law. It was the most brazen violation of
“was the one that let Crimea get away. He another country’s sovereignty that’s
allowed Russia to take Crimea. I may have occurred in recent years. For the president
had a much different attitude,” Trump said. of the United States to blame his
“I think it would be an asset to have Russia predecessor rather than to understand that
back in. I think it would be good for the Russia is our adversary — Russia has
world. I think it would be good for Russia. I taken on behavior that is absolutely
think it would be good for the United reprehensible, including being responsible
States. I think it would be good for all of the for shooting civilian aircraft out of the sky
countries of the current G7. I think the G8 and killing hundreds of people.
would be better.”
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Democratic Congressman Does The Unthinkable —
Backs Trump In Trade Dispute With Trudeau
Henry Rodgers | Political Reporter
8:51 PM 06/10/2018
The Democratic congressman said Trudeau is Trump called Trudeau “Very dishonest &
“sabotaging” world leaders instead of coming to a weak” in a tweet Saturday and accused
consensus on trade. Krishnamoorthi’s comments come as him of making “false statements at his
Trudeau criticized Trump after he left the G7 summit, news conference.”
.
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Trump Continues To Defend American Workers:
Blasts Canada, Justin Trudeau, EU And Germany For
Unfair Trade Policies With US
By Jim Hoft
June 10, 2018, 9:18 Pm
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‘F*** Trump!’ Robert DeNiro Curses President
At Tony Awards As Trump Tries To
Prevent Nuclear War
By Kristinn Taylor
June 10, 2018, 11:10 Pm
Actor Robert DeNiro cursed President Donald Trump live from the Tonys audience.) It’s no longer
on stage at the internationally broadcast Tony awards ‘down with Trump’, it’s ‘f*** Trump!'”
Sunday night, saying twice,
“F*** Trump!”
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‘Con-Artist Son Of A Bitch’ – UNHINGED ROBERT
Deniro Blasts Trump In Profane-Laced Speech
To High School Students
By Alicia Powe
June 10, 2018, 11:25 Pm
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Ken Starr: Trump ‘Clearly
Has The Authority’ To Fire Mueller
Julia Nista | General Assignment Reporter
12:54 AM 06/11/2018
Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor for former President On CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Starr said Trump “clearly
Bill Clinton, said President Trump “clearly has the has the authority to direct the firing, if not a direct firing
authority” to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller in an himself” of Mueller, but that he has not heard of any clear
interview Sunday. intention from the administration to do so. Starr added that
it is not a question of legitimacy of power but rather it is a
WATCH: political question about facing the consequences of firing
the special counsel.
“It would be, I think, but it’s a political
question,” Starr said. “I don’t think it’s
obstruction of justice, and I disagree with
those who seem to find obstruction of
justice and almost anything that the
president has done.”
“But it certainly would be, I think, a political
firefight of the highest order because you
have people in both parties saying that this
is an authorized investigation, let it run its
course,” Starr continued.
.
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House Intel Chairman Nunes Gives DOJ Until Tuesday To
Hand Over Documents On FBI’s Trump Campaign Spy
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 7:37 Am
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Top Democrat Who Rigged Dem Primary
Calls President Trump A “Vile Wack Job”
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 8:08 Am
Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down as DNC Attorney General Jeff Sessions is refusing to bring up
Chairwoman after Wikileaks revealed her actions to rig the charges against Wasserman Shultz’s IT expert Imran
primary. Awan.
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DONALD TRUMP FLASHBACK VIDEO=>
Businessman Trump Prepared For North Korea
Summit In 1999
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 8:20 Am
But there is also proof that the President has been thinking
about how to deal with North Korea for years.
Donald Trump:
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The famous Dilbert cartoon writer Scott Adams notes for
The President was also on CNN in 1999 where he again Americans not to worry –
shared his ideas about North Korea –
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Dinesh D’Souza To Compare President Trump To Abe
Lincoln In Upcoming Film:
“Death Of A Nation”
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 9:37 Am
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accept the outcome of a presidential
election.”
D’Souza acknowledges that the optics of a
pro-Trump documentary will be deemed
suspicious in some circles, given the
president pardoned him May 31 for
violating campaign finance laws.
“We’ve been working on the film for more
than a year and commissioned the artwork
two months ago. Trump had no inkling of
the art or the theme of the movie when he
pardoned me,” says D’Souza.
Can Trump save America a second
time?
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Senator Feinstein Admits To Ignoring ‘Mistreatment’ Of
Illegal Immigrants Under Obama (VIDEO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 11, 2018, 10:42 Am
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Trump-Kim Meeting Times Moved Up: President To Meet
With North Korean Leader At 9 PM ET On Monday Night
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 11:16 Am
CNBC reported:
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Here is video of President Trump’s Thank you Prime Minister Lee Hsien
meeting with Singapore leader Lee Loong!
Hssien Loong this morning.
pic.twitter.com/8MMYGuOj8Q
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
June 11, 2018
“>President Trump’s schedule for the next
36 hours.
Trump’s meeting with Kim begins at 9 PM
on Monday night.
The President’s staff will join him for
meetings after the private meeting with Kim
Jong Un.
Here is
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Crooked Hillary Attacks President Trump
As He Tries To Prevent Nuclear War With North Korea
By Cristina Laila
June 11, 2018, 11:51 Am
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The world awaits the Trump-Kim
meetings while Crooked Hillary goes on
the offense against the President. Let
that sink in.
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MSNBC Hack On Deniro’s “F**K Trump” Speech:
“I Shout Some Of Those Words In The Shower” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 12:08 Pm
Actor Robert DeNiro cursed President Donald Trump live The Tony Awards audience gave DeNiro a standing
on stage at the internationally broadcast Tony awards ovation.
Sunday night, saying twice,
And they wonder why Middle America tunes them out?
“F*** Trump!”
On Monday morning MSNBC hack
The 72nd annual Tony Awards honoring stage Stephanie Ruhle responded to actor
performances was held at Radio City Music Hall in New Robert De Niro’s “F*ck Trump”
York City and broadcast by CBS, which bleeped DeNiro’s comments.
profanity while some other outlets around the world did
She screams F-Trump too.
not.
Via Breitbart:
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MSNBC Fears Trump Will Get
‘Winning News Cycle’ From North Korea Summit
By Kyle Drennen
June 11, 2018 1:21 PM EDT
“So while he will say that and proclaim that “Lastly, there’s also a history of world
this is a great success, he might not have leaders who themselves in trouble, meeting
that much to show for it, but he is going with weakened U.S. presidents. Brezhnev
to have this to use as an ongoing kissed Nixon, China met with Nixon. And
talking point throughout the 2018 so, this is just history repeating itself.”
midterm season.”
Ruhle marveled in response:
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“You are such the historian. Every time you Also, to claim that Democrats are victims of media bias is
come, I'm more impressed.” laughable. MSNBC devoted hours of fawning air time to
President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and visiting with
Wrapping up the discussion minutes later, Ruhle asked her Cuban dictator Raul Castro. Where was the skepticism
guests: then?
“Okay, then quick, there will be a grand Here is a transcript of portions of the June 11 panel
headline. Will there be a substantive deal discussion:
this time tomorrow?” Former Obama State
Department Ambassador Wendy Sherman 9:12 AM ET
dismissed the idea: “I don’t think there will
be a substantive deal, of course not.” (...)
Jordan agreed: “I don’t see how it's
possible.” Thompson predictably joined the
STEPHANIE RUHLE: If this is going to be a brilliant PR stunt that
consensus: “No, absolutely not.”
doesn’t get us anywhere, does this end up being a strong talking
point for President Trump? Where he says, “You gave President
Ruhle then worried: Obama a Nobel Peace Prize, what did he do? I got this meeting,
and maybe a follow-up.”
“But will it be a winning news cycle for
the president?” Sherman and Jordan
promptly agreed that it would be, while
Thompson sounded the alarm: “If those of
us in journalism allow it to be. We need
to absolutely scrutinize it in the same
way every Democratic president was
scrutinized going to North Korea. Can’t
be this double standard.”
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Remember, there’s one other prism. Respectfully, Ambassador election, he didn’t know he was going to be president. So how’s
[Wendy Sherman]. And that is his obsession with Obama. he going to know what to touch and feel from North Korea?
Obama said to him in their only White House meeting, “North
Korea needs to be a priority.” So he got that. So he has to go out RUHLE: And to that point, did he know about Mike Flynn, George
of his way to try to prove Obama differently. And he gets his Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, the list goes on of people who the
advice from his de facto chief of staff Sean Hannity. Who, when president, who’s “the best judge,” people he aligned himself with,
Obama was in office, ridiculed and shamed Obama for even who’ve been indicted.
thinking about meeting with the Kim regime. So there is a double
standard.
THOMPSON: In the history of diplomacy and sit-downs between
a president and a leader, this is the one that gives me the most
Lastly, there’s also a history of world leaders who themselves in trepidation. He is the least-qualified president to sit alone in a
trouble, meeting with weakened U.S. presidents. Brezhnev room with Kim Jung-un and a translator. It’s either going to be of
kissed Nixon, China met with Nixon. And so, this is just history absolutely no substance or he is going to do something to mess it
repeating itself. up in the same way he’s messed up our relationship with our
allies. He wants us to have two allies, I guess, North Korea and
RUHLE: You are such the historian. Every time you come, I'm Russia.
more impressed.
RUHLE: Amazing. While he’s pushing our democratic allies
(...) away, alright.
JORDAN: Well, President Trump does not enjoy foreign trips and RUHLE: Okay, then quick, there will be a grand headline. Will
he’s made very clear that he wants to – there be a substantive deal this time tomorrow?
RUHLE: He seemed to loved Saudi Arabia. SHERMAN: I don’t think there will be a substantive deal, of
course not.
JORDAN: Well, exactly –
JORDAN: I don’t see how it's possible.
RUHLE: He talked about that sword dance.
THOMPSON: No, absolutely not.
JORDAN: If his face is on the side of a massive museum, then
yes, he might enjoy it a little bit more. But he usually just tries to RUHLE: But will it be a winning news cycle for the president?
go in and out. I mean, look at what happened this past weekend
in Quebec City with his – with our closest allies at the G-7. So he SHERMAN: Absolutely.
is not going to linger and he doesn’t really necessarily care to sit
around and hammer out the arcane details and the nuance of JORDAN: Of course, as always.
what the actual agreement would be. That’s for somebody else.
But he’s taking the limelight. He is showing himself running the
THOMPSON: If those of us in journalism allow it to be. We need
show, and with Kim Jong-un.
to absolutely scrutinize it in the same way every Democratic
president was scrutinized going to North Korea.
RUHLE: Mark?
SHERMAN: Indeed.
THOMPSON: Well, you know, it remains to be seen what his
team is going to do. I’m – peculiar statements that [Secretary of
THOMPSON: Can’t be this double standard. Every other
State Mike] Pompeo was making this morning about touching
president was seriously scrutinized on this issue, Trump needs to
and feeling. Is he going to touch and feel him? He says he’s
– the least experienced one needs to be scrutinized as well.
going to know in the first minute. He didn’t even know in the first
minute election night that Putin had propped him up to win the
RUHLE: You know this first hand.
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SHERMAN: When Secretary Albright and I went to Pyongyang RUHLE: He also may be saying that just to butter him up to get
and went into this extraordinary stadium event that Kim Jong-il him to the table.
took us to with thousands of people on the floor doing
gymnastics, thousands in the stands with flip cards showing us SHERMAN: Absolutely, absolutely. He is buttering him up. But
missiles going off, we sat there with tight smiles on our face nonetheless, if a Democratic president, to Mark’s point, if a
because you are diplomats and you can’t be scowling or walk out Democratic president said such things, they would have the
of the stadium. But we got so much criticism. Secretary Albright administration up on Capitol Hill tomorrow castigating them for
was castigated right and left for smiling, for having a toast, for doing so.
anything that we did in Pyongyang.
THOMPSON: If Hillary Clinton had won and set up a meeting
And she indeed, as soon as she left, said, “I grew up under with Kim Jong-un, they’d have articles of impeachment this
communism, I’m not somebody who sits there with rose-colored afternoon. I’m telling you, that’s exactly what they would do.
glasses. I know exactly who this real dictator is.” I don’t think we’ll
hear similar words from the president. We’ve heard him say,
RUHLE: President Trump may have some aggressive and
“He’s a nice guy, I like him, I’m honored to meet with him.” Truly.
negative words to say about Kim Jung-un, we just won’t hear any
of them until about 12 hours, when he’s on a plane, leaving.
Because he’s not going to say it face-to-face, that’s not his lane.
.
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In Huge Defeat To Leftists,
Supreme Court Rules
In Favor Of Ohio’s Voting Roll Purge
By Cristina Laila
June 11, 2018, 1:27 Pm
Ohio has been purging its voter rolls for over 20 years.
The state removes voters from the rolls after the election
board sends a notice and if the individual hasn’t voted in 4
Fox News reported:
years.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that
Justice Alito cited a shocking statistic
Ohio is allowed to purge eligible voters
that 24 million voter registrations—about
from the state’s registration records if they
one in eight—are “either invalid or
have not cast ballots in a while.
significantly inaccurate,” and that about
In a 5-4 ruling issued by Justice Samuel 2.75 million people “are said to be
Alito, the high court ruled that Ohio’s law to registered to vote on more than one state,”
trigger the removal of inactive voters from Fox News reported.
the state’s registry can be enforced.
State officials argued that the process used
by Ohio for more than 20 years is
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His opinion was supported by Chief Justice John Roberts
and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Neil
Gorsuch.
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LIBERAL INSANITY: Democrats
Leery If Russia Is Behind Superdelegate Reform
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 2:03 Pm
Woods hit two birds with one stone and took down Obama
and Ben Rhodes at the same time in a viral tweet.
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James Woods broke the internet after OUCH! This is why we love James
he dropped a MOAB on Obama and Woods!
Rhodes.
Woods tweeted:
Your old boss would bow to a fire hydrant.
Don’t talk about surrendering global
leadership. In fact don’t talk at all.
.
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AG Sessions: Domestic Violence And Gang Violence No
Longer Qualify As Sufficient Reason To Grant
Asylum To Immigrants
By Cristina Laila
June 11, 2018, 3:28 Pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions “Let’s be clear: We have a goal. And that
announced Monday domestic violence goal is to end the lawlessness that now
and gang violence no longer qualify as exists in our immigration system. The
sufficient reasons to grant asylum to American people have spoken. They have
immigrants. spoken in our laws and they have spoken
in our elections. They want a safe, secure
border and a lawful system of immigration
that actually works and serves the national
interest. Thank you for what you do, let’s
deliver this for the American people.”
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He’s Ready! President Trump Fires Off Early Morning
Tweets From Singapore – Zings “Haters & Losers”
By Cristina Laila
June 11, 2018, 4:57 Pm
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#Nevertrump Republican SPOOKED – Suddenly Spending
Money On Ads To Smear Pro-Trump Primary Opponent
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 5:26 Pm
Politico reported:
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Breaking: Judge Ellis May Side With Manafort Against
Dirty Cop Robert Mueller And Special Counsel
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 7:01 Pm
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Rand Paul: Lindsey Graham Is A
‘Danger To The Country’
By Diana Stancy Correll
June 11, 2018 07:04 PM - Updated Jun 11, 2018, 09:15 PM
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US North Korea Peace Talks Made Possible
By USAF Secret Space Program
Written By Dr. Michael Salla
June 11, 2018
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The U.S. would have to achieve its strategic goals in a I would expect a number of EMP detonations over NK
matter of minutes, rather than weeks in order to prevent [North Korea] while at the same time “Rods from God”
retaliatory nuclear strikes that could kill millions. To do so, [RFG] projectiles would be released from orbit. It should
Trump was ready to authorize the use of highly classified be noted that North Korea has taken extreme measures to
space based weapons against North Korea. harden their bunkers and systems against EMP attacks.
At the official level, space based weapons are non-existent Each RFG Platform releases 12 projectiles the size of
and are merely being planned for the future. However, telephone poles. These projectiles are made of Tungsten
whistleblowers/insiders have revealed the existence of and are coated with ceramic and have a guidance system
operational space weapons such as “Rods of God”, which similar to the JDAM conventional bombs.
drops large rod-like projectiles from space with pinpoint
accuracy and devastating results.
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So what happened during the Hawaii ballistic missile alert second article pointed to a rogue Deep State/CIA faction
that made Kim seek cooperation with South Korea as a that used a boomer submarine to create a false flag attack,
prelude to offering genuine denuclearization negotiations which was intended start a war with North Korea.
with the Trump administration?
My third article on the incident described a U.S. Air Force
On Saturday morning January 13, residents of the run secret space program that had used its deep space
Hawaiian Islands received an emergency alert that warned platforms to shoot down the ballistic missile that had been
of an incoming ballistic missile and instructed everyone to launched. In my fourth article, I pointed out how the
take cover. This is what appeared on peoples’ cell phones whistleblower group QAnon, which is closely tied to the
at 8:07 am local Hawaii time: White House, had confirmed that the Hawaii missile alert
had been a real false flag attack, and that the goal was to
frame North Korea as the culprit.
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Kim Jong-Un Arrives At Summit Meeting
With President Trump – Carrying Briefcase (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 7:59 Pm
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Reminder: NY Times Nearly Wrecked Summit
With False Report Of ‘Impossible’ To Keep June 12 Date
By Kristinn Taylor
June 11, 2018, 8:08 Pm
As President Donald Trump and North Korea’s communist Excerpt from the Times, May 25.
dictator Kim Jong Un, meet in Singapore Tuesday
morning, June 12 (local time), it should be remembered As with so many issues involving this
how the New York Times nearly wrecked negotiations on president, the views of his aides often have
the summit by deliberately lying that a senior White House little effect on what he actually says. On
official said it would be “impossible” to keep the June 12 Thursday, for example, a senior White
summit in Singapore after Trump called it off in a bid to House official told reporters that even if the
get Kim to recognize the seriousness of the moment. The meeting were reinstated, holding it on June
two nations were in the midst of talks to keep the summit 12 would be impossible, given the lack of
on schedule when the Times made their report, casting time and the amount of planning needed.
doubt on the sincerity of the U.S. and prompting Trump to
call out the Times on Twitter. On Friday, Mr. Trump said, “It could even
be the 12th.”
Later on Friday, the president reinforced
that possibility, saying on Twitter that if the
meeting were rescheduled, it would “likely
remain” on that day, “and, if necessary, will
be extended beyond that date.”
“We are having very productive talks with
North Korea,” he said.”
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Trump had even tweeted the evening of the Trump did get one thing wrong about the Times’
25th talks were ongoing to keep the June mendacity. He thought they had made up a source for a
12 summit date, “We are having very false quote. They actually did worse by making up a false
productive talks with North Korea about quote and sourcing it to a real White House official.
reinstating the Summit which, if it does
happen, will likely remain in Singapore on Incensed reporters broke the briefing rules to name the
the same date, June 12th., and, if White House official and posted audio of the briefing,
necessary, will be extended beyond that
date.”
“4. I’ve obtained audio of the WH press
briefing. You can hear Raj Shah, Deputy
Press Secretary, introduce Pottinger (along
with the terms – which are standard) and
then (Matthew) Pottinger makes the
statement that POTUS says was never
made. Lots of reporters in briefing room
and on phone.”
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House Dems Buck Schumer On
North Korea, Send Trump Letter Of Support
Kristina Wong
11 Jun 2018
Khanna and 14 Democratic colleagues on Monday sent a The House lawmakers said they instead “emphasize the
letter to Trump — ahead of his historic meeting with North tremendous value of incremental progress” that advances
Korean leader Kim Jong-un — saying they were the potential for future agreements.
“encouraged” by his efforts to resolve the Korean War and
achieve denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. They said some positive steps they would endorse,
combined with commensurate actions by North Korea,
“We are encouraged by your efforts to pursue direct include:
diplomacy with North Korea with the dual goals of
resolving the nearly seven-decade-long conflict and pledges or agreements to formally end the 68-year war,
achieving the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” ending the practice of U.S.-ROK “decapitation” military
they wrote. exercises,
support for important cooperative efforts such as vital
They also said they were concerned that some, from both humanitarian assistance; parliamentarian dialogue and
parties and inside and outside of his administration, seek to exchanges; reunions between Koreans and Korean
“scuttle progress by attempting to place conditions on the American families; and the repatriation of US
talks, including the insisting on full and immediate servicemember remains.
denuclearization or other unrealistic commitments by
North Korea at an early date.” “Such steps, combined with commensurate
actions by North Korea, could help facilitate
“Requiring unreasonable concessions before talking, or the phased denuclearization of the Korean
early in the negotiations process, is precisely why this peninsula,” they wrote.
conflict remains unresolved,” they wrote.
They also warned that in the event of a collapse in talks,
they would oppose any effort to wage war against North
Korea, except in response to a sudden attack.
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“Accordingly, we stand ready to provide of illegal and unacceptable military action,”
support for potentially historic progress they wrote.
made through diplomacy, but will continue
to stand with our ally South Korea in A recent poll said a vast majority of Americans — 70
vehemently opposing any return to threats percent — support Trump meeting with North Korea.
.
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HISTORY! President Donald Trump
Meets Kim Jong Un At Singapore Summit (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 8:08 Pm
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‘Hardball’ Panel: ‘Wannabe Despot’ Trump
Likes Kim More Than Allies; Wants
To ‘Fulfill His Fantasy’
By Curtis Houck
June 11, 2018 8:20 PM EDT
Less than two hours before the Trump-Kim summit in Ghosh interjected that Trump is indeed “a
Singapore, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews and wanna-be despot” and while Congress
panelists Elise Jordan and Bobby Ghosh declared that should stop him from doing so (read:
President Trump is a “wannabe despot” who wants to remove him from office), they haven’t and
“fulfill his fantasy” by ruling the country with an iron fist instead “are tolerating it, encouraging it,
while having more affection for dictators like North enabling it.”
Korea’s Kim Jong-un than U.S. allies. “They’re behaving in a way people
behave in a monarchy or a despotism,”
Matthews first observed to Jordan that Trump Matthews stated.
“sits four or five feet from our ally in the The liberal pundit then proceeded by taking note of the
north, that’s, of course, Canada and North Korean regime’s brutal human rights record as a
Trudeau, who causes us no trouble and way to (in order to borrow a favorite phrase of the media
then you see him huddling in these to describe Mueller probe criticism) undermine the
pictures of huddling with the other guy, summit, which is actually okay.
with Putin.” Jordan replied that “[h]e can
relate.” The problem is that perhaps Matthews’s colleagues at
NBC shouldn’t have been so glowing in their praise for
North Korea during the Pyeongchang Olympic games (see
examples here, here, and here).
MSNBC’s Hardball
June 11, 2018
7:20 p.m. Eastern
“Donald Trump can relate to CHRIS MATTHEWS: Elise, again, we're focusing on how Trump
authoritarians. He, as a former has been able to define the Republican Party, 180 from its roots.
businessman, he likes absolute control It's now a protectionist party. It's not an alliance building party. It's
and we’ve seen,” she added. not a deficit reduction party. I don’t know where it squares.
Matthews followed up and asked if Trump’s
a “wannabe despot,” and the anti-Trump ELISE JORDAN: Well, you’re seeing Republicans — they're
Republican agreed and “conceded that going to stay silent certainly through the midterm elections and
for years now and we're going on Donald Trump has actually gained in approval and is at about 44
years.” percent with his strongest supporters. And so Republicans are
literally petrified —
She elaborated that her belief was due to
“[a]ll of his behavior, his attacks on the MATTHEWS: He is at 86 percent.
free press, his attacks on alliances that
are designed to strengthen our security,
this is not — he has — he feels more — JORDAN: — and they cower. They are going to cower from
he calls Kim Jong-un honorable, yet Donald Trump. What we saw on display at the G7 was classic
Justin Trudeau of Canada” is ridiculed. Donald Trump. He does not like our allies who are about —
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MATTHEWS: Using geography to make your point, Elise, he sits MATTHEWS: Elise was saying they’re staying silent.
four or five feet from our ally in the north, that’s, of course,
Canada and Trudeau, who causes us no trouble and then you GHOSH: That's the more — that’s the more surprising thing to
see him huddling in these pictures of huddling with the other guy, me. It's not that Donald Trump wants to behave like a despot. It's
with Putin. You know, it's really, a statement. that all of these other people who ought to know better are
tolerating it, encouraging it —
JORDAN: He can relate.
MATTHEWS: They’re behaving in a way —
MATTHEWS: He likes Putin.
GHOSH: — enabling it.
JORDAN: Donald Trump can relate to authoritarians. He, as a
former businessman, he likes absolute control and we’ve seen MATTHEWS: — people behave in a monarchy or a despotism.
JORDAN: I've conceded that for years now and we're going on MATTHEWS: You know, North Korea is known to be one of the
years. All of his behavior, his attacks on the free press, his most repressive and brutal regimes in history. As NBC News
attacks on alliances that are designed to strengthen our security, noted today, the regime” has committed unspeakable atrocities in
this is not — he has — he feels more — he calls Kim Jong-un a vast scale reminiscent of Nazi journey, according to a 2014
honorable, yet Justin Trudeau of Canada — [GHOSH united nations investigation.” However, we’re learning today that
MUMBLES] President Trump does not intend to address the issue of human
rights. According to two administration officials, “the U.S. has
MATTHEWS: Should go to hell. decided not to bring up human rights at the summit.” I was told,
Elise, you're not allowed to have a radio there. You're not allowed
BOBBY GHOSH: Is weak. He’s weak. He can be — he can be a to even hear news.
wanna-be despot. He wouldn't be the first person to reach the top
of a democratic country with that ambition. The Senate and JORDAN: Well, I mean, comparing the regime to atrocities in
Congress can't allow it, so all those other people that we just Nazi Germany, that is horrific, it's sickening and we're just going
saw, the Paul Ryans and so on, they can't — they can’t sit by to sit down with him without a mention of that and, you know,
and watch him sort of fulfill his fantasy of wanting to be a despot. look at all of the criticism of the Iran nuclear deal and the
negotiations surrounding that. And the Republican Parties — the
MATTHEWS: They can't? Republican party was so upset about just keeping the they're —
the narrow confines of the deal to the nuclear agreement. What
about this, though?
GHOSH: Well, they oughtn't to be.
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VIDEO=> Dennis Rodman Wears Trump
‘Make America Great Again’ Hat During CNN Singapore
Summit Interview
By Kristinn Taylor
June 11, 2018, 8:52 Pm
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UPDATE: Complete interview posted to YouTube by CNN
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CBS: Trump Going Into Summit As
More Of A ‘Deal-Breaker’ Than Deal-Maker
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 11, 2018 8:57 PM EDT
While she began her CBS Evening News report talking While she was calling him a “deal-breaker,” CBS had the
about how Trump and others viewed and talked about his on-screen graphics flip through deals Trump had pulled the
ability to negotiate in positive terms, Golodryga ultimately U.S. out of or failed to get passed (including the Trans-
declared Pacific Partnership, the Paris climate accord, Iran nuclear
deal, DACA, and health care reform). Of course, there was
no mention of how some of those deals were bad for
“the self-proclaimed dealmaker-in-chief America or how the lack of a deal was because of another
has so far proven to be more of a deal- party.
breaker.”
GOLODRYGA: The summit, reportedly a one-on-one meeting, is GOLODRYGA: While millions of people will be watching for that
exactly where Trump feels most comfortable. photo op, billions of lives have a stake in the outcome. This is
where the substance and deals of any deal, arguably Trump's
GWENDA BLAIR: He hates multilateral meetings. most important yet, play a crucial role. Jeff?
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Sean Hannity: Kim Jong Un Can Stay With Me In My
Hotel Room, I’ll Stay On The Couch (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 11, 2018, 9:12 Pm
Sean Hannity broadcast his number one country. Because the North Korean
FOX News cable news show from economy is so distressed. Even Kim Jong
Singapore on Monday night. Un reportedly needed financial assistance
to get a hotel room here in Singapore.
During his opening monologue Hannity said Kim Jong Un I’ll let him stay with me if he wants. I’ll
could share a hotel room with him. sleep on the couch.
Via Hannity:
Sean Hannity:
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Chris Hayes: Trump Not ‘Burdened
By Caring’ About Outcome Of Summit
By Bill D'Agostino
June 11, 2018 9:18 PM EDT
“That assumes our President is Hayes’s fellow panelists agreed, and Kristof rejoined to
manipulatable [sic] somehow.” continue his dry diatribe.
“I sometimes can’t tell if his super power is
that everyone thinks that they’re not going
.
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White House Photos And Videos Of Trump-Kim
#Singaporesummit
By Kristinn Taylor
June 12, 2018, 12:09 Am
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President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un, shake hands as they meet for the first time,
Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at the Capella Hotel in Singapore.
(Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Assistant to the President Dan Scavino,Jr.:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders:
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Vidoes by the State Department:
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UPDATE: Fox Business video of Trump speaking to press,
alongside Kim, announcing imminent signing by the
leaders.
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Boot Discards Trump-Kim Summit As
Something ‘Any Previous President Could Have’ Done
By Curtis Houck
June 12, 2018 12:10 AM EDT
CNN global affairs analyst and anti-Trump Republican achieving all of that. This is a tremendous propaganda
Max Boot has had a rough day with this Trump-Kim victory for him.
summit. So, it was natural for him to repeatedly dismiss
the Singapore gathering on Monday’s CNN Tonight as He then took issue with comments raised by conservative
something that “any previous president could have political commentator Scott Jennings that this was a
done” and it was only Donald Trump who foolishly victory for Trump and United States.
decided to make North Korea’s dreams come true and
legitimize them on the world stage.
Why? Because “any previous president
could have easily had a summit with any
Connecting the Singapore summit to previously leader of North Korea
Trump’s previous stop at the G7, Boot because they've been very eager to be
surmised that Trump’s “war of words” with legitimated by the President of the
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau United States, and Donald Trump is the
was “a calamitous development” that first one to agree to do that.”
could destroy “the underpinning of
American peace and prosperity since Jennings responded that if any of Trump’s predecessors
1945.” Yeesh. could have gotten Kim to the negotiating table, they would
have done it (click “expand” for more):
For Kim Jong-un this is already a victory because he wants Somebody who keeps more 100,000 people in slave labor
legitimacy, he wants a place on the international, he wants camps and he's talking about how honored he is to meet
to be recognized as an equal by the president of the United him and how — what a great relationship they have and
States, he wants to seen as nuclear power, and he's how they're going to get along great. And, on the other
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hand, his aides are saying that Justin Trudeau, the Prime you'd have to say what happened is a success and I think that's
Minister of our closest ally and neighbor, Canada, he's primarily what both Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are
going to rot in hell. I mean, that is a striking contrast and a interested it. As we know, President Trump is all about the
difference between the way that Donald Trump approaches ratings. He views success as being the center of attention and
dictators and Democrats. now he has the entire attention of the world on him and, you
know, I'm sure people are watching and they’re riveted by what's
Expanding on that, Boot ruled that Trump’s going on. They’re riveted by Dennis Rodman's comments. For
feuding was “not something that should Kim Jong-un this is already a victory because he wants
be happening” and “very destructive for legitimacy, he wants a place on the international, he wants to be
the American position in the world” that recognized as an equal by the president of the United States, he
could have a bigger global impact “than wants to seen as nuclear power, and he's achieving all of that.
whatever happens here with Kim Jong- This is a tremendous propaganda victory for him. Now, Scott just
un.” suggested it was a huge victory for Donald Trump simply to come
to the summit. Well, I know, I beg to differ because, in fact, any
“[B]ut the fact that Donald Trump is previous president could have easily had a summit with any
undermining the unity of the western previously leader of North Korea because they've been very
alliance, which has been the eager to be legitimated by the President of the United States, and
underpinning of American peace and Donald Trump is the first one to agree to do that. Now, the
prosperity since 1945. I think is a question is, is he actually going to receive something in
calamitous development,” he concluded. substantial in return? At the end of April, Donald Trump said he's
going to judge the success of the summit on whether they'd give
To see the relevant transcript from June 11's CNN Tonight: up their nuclear weapons or not and there’s, so far, zero
indication that the North Koreans are actually going to give up
CNN Tonight their nuclear weapons, but I suppose we can always be
June 11, 2018 pleasantly surprised.
10:19 p.m. Eastern
DON LEMON: So, let’s talk about — Scott — let's talk about what
max just said. Do you think this gives Kim legitimacy? That’s the
first part then I have another question for you.
JENNINGS: Well, sure. I think that, in the short term, they're both
operating from an area of legitimacy and that's okay for now. The
North Koreans do have to, ultimately, give up their nuclear
weapons and they have to be better world actors and the
President has to be prepared for them to lie about this and
disappoint us in the long-term. I absolutely agree at that — with
that. Where I think Trump has, gotten it right and I don't think
Hillary Clinton would have pulled it off if she had won. I don't
think Obama tried hard to pull it off. The Bush 43 White House
SCOTT JENNINGS: Well, it looks great for Donald Trump so far didn’t pull it off. The Clinton White House didn’t pull it off. Where
because he’s done what he promised the American people he they all came up short was they never drove the sanctions deep
would do and that’s drive the North Koreans to the table for the enough to drive Kim to the table and never made Kim believe
purpose of them giving up their nuclear weapons Now, we’ll have that the military option was truly on the table. I think Trump did
to see if North Korea is willing to follow through on what they say that on both fronts and that’s why Kim is here. So, you can say
they want and I think the President must be prepared for these that it’s legitimacy in the short-term, but I’m willing to give that up
people to lie to us because they've about lying to the world for a if it means long-term denuclearization. I want the President to
long time, but right now, from a policy perspective, from a political stick to that, though. I don’t want to let him off the hook.
perceptive, Donald Trump looks like he's in command of this
situation and I suspect that the American people are rooting for (....)
him to succeed. Nobody wants to be in a nuclear war with
anybody and this is the most clear and present danger to that, so JENNINGS: Well, I tell you what he gets and what America gets,
good for the President tries to make peace with a guy that no one today, is we get to stop banging our head against the wall. We’ve
previously has been able to solve. been banging our head against the wall on this problem for
decades and, today, it feels like at least there's a light open here,
(....) a door open, a window is open for us to go through it and see
what's on the other side. What are the possibilities? When Trump
MAX BOOT: Well, I just think the Rodman comments kind of add ran for president, like it or not like it, he said I'm going to do
to the spectacle of the day and from the standpoint of spectacle, foreign policy different than the way the political establishment
has done. He’s clearly doing that today and if he manages,
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somehow, to pull it off, he will have pulled off what the political BOOT: Well, I mean, this was just the fiasco at the G7. I’ve never
establishment could not for all those decades. So what does he seen anything like this and the contrast is all the greater when we
get, Don? I think he gets America for the short time we're not see the way Donald Trump is glad-handing Kim Jong-un, who is
banging our head against the wall. the enslaver of his people. Somebody who keeps more 100,000
people in slave labor camps and he's talking about how honored
LEMON: Go ahead, Max. he is to meet him and how — what a great relationship they have
and how they're going to get along great. And, on the other hand,
his aides are saying that Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of
BOOT: That's a huge what if that — that Scott is throwing out
our closest ally and neighbor, Canada, he's going to rot in hell. I
there and let's remember how he and other Republicans would
mean, that is a striking contrast and a difference between the
be acting if this was Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama who would
way that Donald Trump approaches dictators and Democrats.
agree to a sit down with Kim Jong-un without having gotten any
And, you know, we're not going to be successful in dealing with
significant concessions in return. They would be apoplectic. Now,
our problems whether it's North Korea, China, Russia, Syria or so
I mean, I’m all in favor of diplomacy and I certainly hope this
many others unless we have unity in our western alliance, but
works out, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves and claim that
Donald Trump is destroying that unity. He is waging trade war
simply meeting with Kim, which again, is something that any
with our allies. He is in a war of words with the Prime Minister of
previous president could have done. Meeting with him is not an
Canada. I mean, let's remember how amazing this is. Canada,
achievement. The achievement comes if he agree to complete
one of our closest allies, a country that has fought with us for 100
verifiable, irreversible, denuclearization and, so far, there's very
years and Donald Trump is angrily castigating its prime minister?
little indication that he's going to do that and I do have to give — I
This is not something that should be happening. This is just very
mean, I do have to give President Trump credit for his maximum
destructive for the American position in the world and whatever,
pressure policy on North Korea. I mean, I agree with Scott there.
in fact, this may ultimately turn out to be more significant than
I think increasing the sanctions was a good move and it may well
whatever happens here with Kim Jong-un, we'll see what
have brought Kim Jong-un to the table.
happens, but the fact that Donald Trump is undermining the unity
of the western alliance, which has been the underpinning of
(....) American peace and prosperity since 1945. I think is a
calamitous development.
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CNN Host Fears Trump Is Too
Jetlagged To Know What He’s Doing
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 12, 2018 12:23 AM EDT
It was a historic moment for the world where anything Burnett declared that Trump had a major
could happen (including the possibility of an outline for “problem” in that “the Iran deal is the
further peace talks), but Burnett huffed about how all she standard” and suggested Trump couldn’t
saw was two men running a “reality show”: possibly get that much in an agreement.
“He's gotta have more verification than
He's making it clear he believes this is all about him, his was in there. He’s got to have -- and
personal power and ability, mano-a-mano with Kim, and that's pretty hard to do,” she claimed.
that's what it is about. Two larger than life showmen have “You're absolutely right. In a logical
turned a summit about life and death into a sort of reality world, that's a problem. But not in this
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world,” opined a bitter Joel Wit, a Clinton- BURNETT: Bob, a senior Trump administration official is telling
era official who negotiated with North us they're going to go in front of the cameras for this first very
Korea for that administration. “And so, I formal handshake, and then there's this one-on-one, and we
think what Trump will do is take really do understand it to be one-on-one, Trump, Kim, translators,
ownership of this problem and he'll say, that's it. No aides, no other secondary tertiary sources on what
‘this is enough.’ And then the Iran deal, actually happens in the room. Your take?
well, he didn't make that deal. So it was
a bad deal. He makes this deal, it's a ROBERT BAER: That's a bad idea. You've already mentioned
good deal.” the jet-lag, the issues are too complicated for him. He's said in so
many words he's not really up on the issues. In the sense, it
Judging by this frantic attempt at trying to cast the summit starts a process and it's better than threatening each other. So
in a negative light from every angle, it’s almost like they that's the good part of it. But at the end of the day, I don't see
didn’t want the summit to be successful. what you could get out of a one-on-one meeting like that and will
he even remember what was said at that point? And will he cover
This is CNN. the main points? I tell you, I couldn't.
CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront BURNETT: And yet, Jean, when you see what's happened here,
June 11, 2018 the North Korean envoy coming to Washington, D.C., an
7:01:12 PM Eastern unprecedented move, something the Iranians were never granted
when they were working on the deal with President Obama. You
have this meeting itself, the cheers, the selfie. Kim Jong-un is
(…)
sort of a -- I don't know what the right word is, but certainly
approachable figure. You say he's already won hugely.
ERIN BURNETT: He and President Trump are expected to leave
their respective hotels for the summit within moments. 12 hours'
JEAN LEE: He has. We've given him this platform to make his
difference. So it's Tuesday morning in Singapore, and they are
international debut. He's done very little in return. He will come
heading to Sentosa Island just off the coast there. These are live
into this saying, “look, I blew up our nuclear test site,” and Joel
pictures of the island, that's where the summit is going to be held.
can talk a bit more about that. He'll say, “I released the American
Once there, they'll head to the Capella hotel. They'll then walk
hostages.” We may see another symbolic gesture, perhaps the
outside there to have an official greeting for the cameras, a
return of the USS Pueblo, which is a warship that was captured
historic handshake.
50 years ago this year. But we haven't had anything concrete.
We've given him this platform to show himself as a world leader
And that will be the beginning of the first one-on-one meeting and a nuclear power. It's a bit unsettling for me to be honest
between a sitting U.S. President and the leader of North Korea. because he's not changed. He's still the same person and we are
And we do understand it will be one-on-one. Just the two men just giving him this platform.
and their translators.
(…)
Now, President Trump seems to have slept little if at all, that's the
issue with Asian jet-lag. But he started tweeting just after 5:00 am
BURNETT: Doesn't Trump have a problem, though? Because, I
local time this morning. His most recent tweets slamming critics
mean, the Iran deal is the standard right? He's gotta have more
of the meeting, calling them, quote, “haters and losers.” And then
verification than was in there. He’s got to have -- and that's pretty
this one, maybe the tweet that ultimately matters the most, the
hard to do.
President saying, quote, “meetings between staffs and
representatives are going well and quickly, but in the end, that
doesn't matter. We'll all know soon whether or not a real deal, JOEL WIT: You're absolutely right. In a logical world, that's a
unlike those of the past, can happen.” problem. But not in this world. And so, I think what Trump will do
is take ownership of this problem and he'll say, “this is enough.”
And then the Iran deal, well, he didn't make that deal. So it was a
He's making it clear he believes this is all about him, his personal
bad deal. He makes this deal, it's a good deal.
power and ability, mano-a-mano with Kim, and that's what it is
about. Two larger than life showmen have turned a summit about
life and death into a sort of reality show in Singapore. You know, BURNETT: So it's about personality.
listen to the cheers for Kim when he went out on the town in
Singapore. (…)
(…)
.
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Enough! CNN’s Jim Acosta Screams Out Most
Inappropriate Question At Most Inappropriate Time At
Trump-Kim Summit… Disgusting!
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 1:36 Am
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Details Of Trump-Kim
#Singaporesummit Document
By Kristinn Taylor
June 12, 2018, 1:59 Am
Screen images by Kristinn Taylor. “4 STATEMENTS BOTH COMMITTED TO: “1. The
United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-
DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the
peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.”
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“2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts
to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean
Peninsula.”
Video of signing:
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denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump
and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following:
*at the Singapore Summit* President Donald J. Trump of the United States of
_ America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State
Affairs Commission of the Democratic Peoples
President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for
and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs the development of new U.S.DPRK relations and for
Commission of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the
(DPRK) held a first, historic summit in Singapore on June Korean Peninsula and of the world.
12, 2018.
DONALD J. TRUMP
President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a
comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions President of the United States of America
on the issues related to the establishment of new
U.S.DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and
robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. President KIM JONG UN
Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the
DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the
and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
of the Korean Peninsula.
June 12, 2018
Convinced that the establishment of new U.S. DPRK Sentosa Island
relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Singapore
Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that
mutual confidence building can promote the
.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP Shows Kim Jong Un
An Inside View Of “The Beast” After Historic Summit
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 7:07 Am
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Seriously? Anti-Trumper Ben Shapiro On
Trump-Kim Summit: “The Paper That Was Signed
Yesterday Is Weak” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 7:50 Am
After President Trump’s historic summit meeting wtih Ben Shapiro also hit President Trump on Twitter.
Kim Jong Un Ben Shapiro went on FOX and Friends and
threw water on the fire.
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On point.
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Robert Mueller Spent $4.5 Million On
Russiagate Without A Congressional Appropriation
Whether For A New Park In A Powerful Congressman’s Home District Or For A
Special Counsel, The Country’s Checks Mustn’t Clear Unless Congress Actually Says
They Should.
By Sean Ross Callaghan
June 12, 2018
We might wonder, then, how Special Counsel Robert But does the permanent and indefinite appropriation for
Mueller spends money. Congress has not specifically independent counsels apply to special counsels?
appropriated money to fund Mueller’s investigations and
prosecutions. How, then, do Mueller’s checks clear? What GAO Actually Thinks About This
Recently, Mueller provided a little-noticed answer that
raises serious legal and constitutional concerns.
Mueller cites the GAO opinion as “agreeing with the DOJ
that this appropriation was legally available to fund special
Robert Mueller’s Spending Report counsels.” The opinion concerns the appointment in
December 2003 of Patrick Fitzgerald, then a Senate-
Late last month, Mueller released a spending report. The confirmed U.S. attorney, as special counsel, by then-
report lays out the legal authority that Mueller claims to Deputy Attorney General James Comey. (Fitzgerald, you
spend money. Mueller claims his spending is principally may recall, investigated who revealed the identity of
authorized by “the permanent, indefinite appropriation for undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.)
independent counsels.” Muller claims “the [Department of
Justice (DOJ)] has determined [that this appropriation] is As noted above, the permanent and indefinite
legally available to fund” his investigation. Mueller cites a appropriation is available to fund investigations and
2004 Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion prosecutions by “independent counsel appointed pursuant
that “this appropriation was legally available to fund to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. 591 et seq. or other law.”
special counsels.” The GAO focused on the “other law” prong of the
appropriation because Section 591 et seq. of Title 28 of the
The permanent and indefinite appropriation is important to U.S. Code—the independent-counsel law—lapsed in 1999.
Mueller’s investigations and prosecutions. According to
Mueller’s report, from October 1, 2017, through March 31,
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“The term ‘independent counsel’ is not and instructing him to exercise that
defined in the permanent indefinite authority independent of the control of any
appropriation,” the GAO noted in beginning officer of the Department.”
its analysis. So, the GAO considered
whether Fitzgerald was an “independent The GAO further concluded that to the extent they limited
counsel appointed pursuant to … other Fitzgerald’s independence, regulations in Part 600 of Title
law.” To decide, the GAO “looked for 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations were waived. The
indicia of [the Special Counsel’s] GAO noted,
independence.” In this regard, the GAO
looked for Fitzgerald’s de jure
“In February 2004, Acting Attorney General
independence—viz., independence
Comey clarified Special Counsel
expressly granted by law.
Fitzgerald’s delegation of authority to state
that the authority previously delegated to
Under the GAO’s reasoning, an him is plenary…. [and that] the title of
‘Special Counsel’ in this matter should not
“independent counsel appointed pursuant be misunderstood to suggest that [his]
to … other law” who is entitled to the position and authorities [were] defined and
permanent and indefinite appropriation limited by 28 CFR Part 600.”
enjoys the de jure independence that
independent counsels appointed under the Not so with Mueller.
lapsed independent-counsel law generally
did. Under a provision of the lapsed
Let’s Apply that GAO Opinion to Mueller
independent-counsel law, independent
counsels enjoyed the “independent Mueller’s independence, as a de jure
authority to exercise all investigative and matter, is clearly “defined and limited” by
prosecutorial functions and powers of … Part 600 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal
the Attorney General.” Regulations. This means Mueller lacks the
“indicia of independence” the GAO required
That makes sense. The permanent and indefinite in 2004 to fit Fitzgerald into Congress’
appropriation was originally for independent counsels. As permanent and indefinite appropriation.
the GAO explained in its opinion, when Congress
considered the permanent and indefinite appropriation, in The public order appointing Mueller—who, unlike
1987, because of “legal challenges … underway regarding Fitzgerald at the time of his appointment, is not currently a
the constitutionality of the procedure followed to appoint Senate-confirmed officer—states that
independent counsels”—presumably the famed case
Morrison v. Olson the Supreme Court decided the “Sections 600.4 through 600.10 of Title 28
following year— of the Code of Federal Regulations are
applicable to the Special Counsel.”
“the independent counsels appointed under
‘other law’ around [that] time…. were the These sections limit Mueller’s de jure independence,
independent counsels that also had been subjecting him to the supervision of Deputy Attorney
appointed in conformity with the General Rod Rosenstein, the acting attorney general in
requirements of the independent counsel charge of Mueller’s investigation to the extent that
law.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions is recused.
Put differently, the same independent counsels were being In particular, Section 600.7(b) states that
appointed under dual authority to ensure that their Rosenstein “may request that the Special
investigations would continue should Morrison v. Olson Counsel provide an explanation for any
strike down the appointment procedure in the independent- investigative or prosecutorial step, and may
counsel law. after review conclude that the action is so
inappropriate or unwarranted under
In looking for “indicia of independence” for Fitzgerald, the established Departmental practices that it
GAO concluded that should not be pursued.” In de jure
independence, Mueller is no Fitzgerald,
“[t]he [DOJ], in appointing Special Counsel and certainly no independent counsel.
Fitzgerald, has afforded him independence
by delegating all of the Attorney General’s At bottom, Mueller is relying on a broad interpretation of a
authority with respect to [an] investigation three-decade old appropriation for an “independent
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counsel” that, with the lapse of the independent-counsel unlikely to agree to such new appropriation with a veto-
law, does not really exist anymore. proof margin.
Here’s the DOJ’s Choice Conceivably, perhaps, the DOJ could replace Mueller with
a Senate-confirmed officer and grant his replacement
To strengthen Mueller’s claim to the permanent and greater de jure independence. It is unclear, however,
indefinite appropriation, the DOJ could grant Mueller whether the DOJ would take such a step now. As to his
greater de jure independence. But not so fast. authority to be appointed and to spend money, Mueller is
under a political-legal whipsaw.
The Appointments Clause of the Constitution requires that
principal officers of the executive branch be appointed by Congress Has a Choice to Make
the president and confirmed by the Senate. Mueller wasn’t.
Yet to be exempt from that constitutionally mandated Congress has a constitutionally mandated role in
appointments procedure, the Supreme Court holds that an appropriating money. Under the constitutional
appointed officer must have a boss—that is, the officer nondelegation doctrine, Congress cannot wholly delegate
must be “directed and supervised at some level by others its legislative functions to an executive-branch agency. If
who were appointed by presidential nomination with the “independent counsel appointed pursuant to … other law”
advice and consent of the Senate” (Edmond v. United were interpreted as whomever an executive branch officer
States, 520 U.S. 651, 663 (1997)). whenever designates for whatever purpose, surely
nondelegation concerns would arise.
If the DOJ grants Mueller de jure independence from any
such boss, then Mueller is a principal officer and his This is ironic, as one would think that the last thing
appointment therefore violates the Appointments Clause of Congress would seek to delegate is its power to spend. But
the Constitution. whether for a new park in a powerful congressman’s home
district or for a special counsel, the country’s checks
Alternatively, the DOJ could seek another congressional mustn’t clear unless Congress actually says they should.
appropriation to replace Mueller’s spending from the Checks and balances, and all that.
permanent and indefinite appropriation. But Congress is
.
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Dirty Cop Rosenstein Won’t Allow Grassley
To Interview Agent Pientka Who Knows DOJ Likely
Altered Mike Flynn’s Testimony
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 8:18 Am
Now this…
Now Senate investigators suspect
McCabe altered his 302 notes on Deputy Attorney General Rod
General Flynn and have referred the Rosenstein doesn’t want Special Agent
matter to Inspector General Horowitz. Pientka to testify.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is the one who Investigative reporter, Sara Carter says
pressured the FBI and DOJ to turn over the 302 notes on Pientka, if issued a subpoena, will discuss
General Flynn’s investigation. how forthcoming Flynn was about very
specific sensitive information that Flynn
could not have possibly known the
In Friday May 11, 2018, Senate Judiciary
Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent investigators already knew, which may give
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additional insight into Flynn’s veracity and Justice Department rebuffs his repeated
willingness to tell the truth. attempts to speak with the FBI agent
whose interview with Michael Flynn was
Pientka is ready to discuss a very
used to indict the ex-national security
specific piece of sensitive information
adviser in the Russia probe.
Flynn provided during the interrogation
that will further prove Flynn is being “This is no ordinary criminal case,”
truthful. Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a June 6 letter
to Deputy Attorney General Rod
Grassley is now going after Rosenstein
for access to Pientka. Rosenstein. “Congress has a right to know
the full story and to know it now.”
FOX News reported:
Grassley is pressing his request anew after the DOJ once
again rejected his bid to speak with FBI Agent Joe Pientka
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and to obtain the FBI’s records of the interview.
Chuck Grassley isn’t backing down as the
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Here’s What Trump,
Kim Jong Un Agreed Upon At Summit
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
8:36 AM 06/12/2018
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Glum MSNBC: Just Because Summit
Hasn’t Happened Before, ‘Doesn’t Mean It’s Historic’
By Scott Whitlock
June 12, 2018 8:51 AM EDT
Glum is a word that described the reaction on MSNBC to Also, it should be pointed out to Mr. Meacham that media
the North Korean summit. With an annoyed tone, the outlets love to use the word “historic” for liberal
Morning Joe hosts of Tuesday mocked the chances for accomplishments. ABC hailed Barack Obama’s “historic”
success in the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Cairo speech. CBS cheered the “historic victory" for
Jong-un. MSNBC guest Jon Meacham even denied that the ObamaCare.
summit was “historic.”
Scarborough was downright bitter in his reaction to the
Talking to Joe Scarborough, the Time contributing editor summit. Reacting to Trump’s effort to push economic
whined: possibilities, such as hotels and condos in North Korea, he
sarcastically sneered:
“Just because something hasn't
happened before, doesn't mean it's
historic.
That's one thing. I think when you call
something historic, it means it has a good
chance of having lasting implications. And I
think it's very unclear, at least to my
layman's eye, that this does that.”
DONALD TRUMP: You could have the best hotels in the world
right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective. You have
South Korea, you have China and they own the land in the
middle. How bad is that, right? It's great.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Jonn Meacham, this is just too easy. We JON MEACHAM: Yeah. Remember, George Kennan's great
hear that history rhymes. Here, it is — it's just the same words telegram how to lay out the hospitality industry throughout the
used in verse one and verse two where I mean you can go from Soviet Union.
whether you're talking about what happened at the Appomattox
Court House or talking about what happened in Versailles during SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
the Paris Peace Accords of 1919 or even Kissinger going to Paris
to end the Vietnam War, they talked about beachfront condos.
GEORGE MEACHAM: It's a -- Richard actually keeps a copy of
That's the great — that's the great equalizer here between
that on his desk, I think.
nations. It is — that — it is Donald Trump still, Donald Trump
the real estate developer, and he doesn't realize that this dictator
doesn't want beach condos. He wants nuclear weapons. And I SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
don't think he has any plans to go the way of Gaddafi.
MEACHAM: Two thoughts. Just because something hasn't
happened before, doesn't mean it's historic. That's one thing. I
think when you call something historic, it means it has a good
chance of having lasting implications. And I think it's very
unclear, at least to my layman's eye, that this does that.
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Wow! Jim Acosta On Hot Mic:
“If They’re Not Going To Let Me In The F*Cking Meeting,
That’s What Happens!” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 8:54 Am
Jim Acosta:
Jim Acosta:
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Rep. Lee Zeldin To Trump-Bashers:
Obama Didn’t Even Get Iran To Sign
His Nuclear Deal (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 10:32 Am
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) blasted the Trump-bashers after Trump and Kim Jong Un signed their
the president’s historic summit with North Korean leader nuclear disarmament agreement.
Kim Jong Un.
And Kim promised reaffirmed his firm and unwavering
Zeldin remind the FOX Business Network audience that commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean
Barack Obama did not even get the Iranian regime to sign Peninsula.
the JCPOA nuclear agreement.
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Chris Matthews: Dems, Media Must
Remind America What Decency,
Morality Is In Trump Era
By Kristine Marsh
June 12, 2018 10:52 AM EDT
Quite the take coming from the same man who had no
problem or doubts about the Obama Administration Matthews couldn’t be a worse messenger for this task.
negotiating in 2015 with a foreign dictator who oppressed After all, he is known for his quick temper on his MSNBC
his people. In fact, Matthews was so enamored with show and has been accused of being verbally abusive and
Obama’s catastrophic Iran Deal, that he suggested it inappropriate with staffers. Colbert is no better, regularly
should be illegal for a sitting Senator to criticize it. making obscene and crude remarks about Republicans on
his CBS show. He seemed to acknowledge this fact to
Matthews:
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COLBERT: I agree with you, and I can be what the prize should be and criticize the
guilty of that myself -- ( laughter ) -- I don't man as much as you want.
know what they're laughing at -- but
“We have to remind ourselves we're
ultimately, in all your criticism of the man,
Americans,” Matthews surmised.
you can’t forget have to wish the best for
the presidency and that, in instance for this “God bless America,” Colbert agreed,
case, he finds peace. Keep your eye on closing the interview.
.
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AMAZING! Trump Showed Kim Jong-Un
Powerful Video Promising “A New World” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 11:30 Am
The video, which was about four minutes long, was shown
by Mr. Trump to Mr. Kim on Tuesday when the two
leaders met. It was also aired – in both a Korean and an
English version – before Mr. Trump gave a press briefing
later that day.
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Joe Scarborough: Trump ‘Sick’ For
Ignoring Human Rights In North Korea (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 12, 2018, 11:34 Am
Trump also noted that the meeting with Jong Un may not
have happened if not for the death of Otto Warmbier, a
college student who was arrested in North Korea in 2016
for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. Warmbier was Trump is too simple-minded to understand
sentenced to 15 years in prison and fell into a coma while human rights is the “hallmark of sound
incarcerated. He was brought back to the U.S. in June 2017 American policy,” Scarborough’s guest,
only to die a few days later. presidential historian Jon Meacham,
added.
Rather than celebrating Trump’s historic achievements, “Complexity is not Donald Trump’s friend,
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough railed against the President obviously, and never has been and isn’t
Tuesday morning, claiming the Commander-in-Chief is here,” he said. “Suddenly that personal
“sick” for not publicly condemning North Korea’s human characteristic – his need to simplify
right’s record during the summit and repudiating the everything, to make a deal out of it in which
Communist regime’s treatment of Warmbier. he is a protagonist and the person across
the table is a co-star to some extent, is now
“I thought it was tortured logic at best to intersecting with the life of nations.”
say that the North Koreans murder of Otto
Warmbier was a time of reflection for them Unlike Reagan, who “knew how to make a deal,”
– that’s just not true at all. I personally think Meacham noted, Trump’s foreign policy is not “humane.”
it’s sick for him to suggest such a thing
about the most murderous regime, one of
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“Remember [Reagan] said his philosophy view,” he said. “Reagan did bring a moral
of the Cold War, ‘we win/you lose,’ but dimension to policy. George Herbert
that’s the caricature. that was the union Walker Bush, who is 94 today, did much
negotiator, he understood how to make a the same thing as he managed the end
deal. He was deeply concerned about the of the cold war. We don’t have to be
human rights abuses and was someone sentimental to be humane – and I think that
who rejected the real politic of ideas of is the hallmark of the sound American
détente in the 1970s, the Henry Kissinger policy.
.
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Nancy Pelosi Trashes Trump After Kim Summit:
Trump Handed Kim Concessions In Exchange
For Vague Promises
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 12:25 Pm
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Fmr. Senator: Dems Should Be
Trump’s ‘Loyal Opposition,’ ‘Not MSNBC’
By Kyle Drennen
June 12, 2018 1:26 PM EDT
While appearing on MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle on ultimately they come for everybody.” I’m
Tuesday, former Democratic New Jersey Senator Robert not saying that that’s where we’re going,
Torricelli complained that members of his own party were but silence is absolutely complicity. And so,
not denouncing President Trump’s summit with North the press is not –
Korean leader Kim Jong-un and even took the liberal
media to task for seizing the role of the political Ruhle interrupted:
opposition.
“But he's neutered them! He’s hijacked
When anchor Stephanie Ruhle asked, his own party and they’ve allowed it to
happen.”
“What can the Democratic Party really
do?,” Torricelli responded: “What you’re Insana added:
doing. The loyal opposition in America
is not the press, with all due respect, it’s “He’s gas-lighted everybody, too. And
the Democratic Party.” He went on to add that’s a problem.”
that objections to the president’s foreign
policy should “come from the
Democratic Party, not MSNBC.” The fact that Ruhle seems unwilling to relinquish her role
as Trump’s opposition is very telling. It’s reflective of the
attitude of many of her media colleagues.
9:44 AM ET
(...)
RUHLE: But he's neutered them! He’s hijacked his own party and
RUHLE: But what can the Democratic Party really do? they’ve allowed it to happen.
TORRICELLI: What you’re doing. The loyal opposition in America INSANA: He’s gas-lighted everybody, too. And that’s a problem.
is not the press, with all due respect, it’s the Democratic Party.
Questions about national security, the competence of the (...)
administration, preparation, whether or not we’re abusing our
allies, whether or not we’re breaking our standing commitments.
They come from the Democratic Party, not MSNBC.
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'The View' Bashes Trump For Meeting
Kim Jong-Un: Went ‘Too Far!’
By Kristine Marsh
June 12, 2018 1:27 PM EDT
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Host Sara Haines attempted to be reconcile the two hosts’ Iran, they don't like it. He opens up
opinions. dialogue with Cuba, they don't like it.”
Behar complained,
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Just In Time To Embarrass Trump,
New York Times Reports North Korea's A Dictatorship
By Clay Waters
June 12, 2018 1:33 PM EDT
“Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison country’s four major political prisons in
Gulags, Executions” is a solid, depressing rundown of the 2014 and were subjected to gruesome
totalitarian state in Monday’s New York Times. So what conditions, according to the United Nations
took the paper so long to acknowledge the brutality of the report.
regime? The timing seems calculated to embarrass
Prisoners are starved, forced to work,
President Trump, in Singapore at a summit meeting with
tortured and raped. Reproductive rights are
the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
denied through forced abortions and
infanticide. Some are executed --
sometimes in public. Hundreds of
thousands of political prisoners have died
in the camps over the past 50 years, the
United Nations report found.
....
Often the first human rights violations
Westerners ascribe to North Korea, aside
from preventing North Koreans from
leaving the country, are the lengths it takes
to indoctrinate its citizens.
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Judge Rules Mueller Must Identify
Unnamed Individuals In Manafort Indictment
By Avery Anapol
06/12/18 01:38 Pm Edt
The New York Times reported last week that two veteran
journalists told Mueller that Manafort attempted to contact
them and tried to shape their testimony. Three Times
sources identified the journalists as Alan Friedman and
Eckart Sager. Mueller’s indictment did not name the
witnesses that Manafort and Kilimnik allegedly contacted.
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“HE IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE!”
Trump 2020 Campaign Chair Brad Parscale Calls For Jim
Acosta’s Press Credentials To Be Immediately Suspended
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 1:42 Pm
Jim Acosta:
President Trump arrived in Singapore President Trump (from balcony with Kim Jong Un):
over the weekend for a historical, high
stakes meeting with North Korea’s Kim Very, very good.
Jong Un in an effort to negotiate the de-
nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Jim Acosta:
President Trump made history on Tuesday. The US Mr. Kim will you give up your nuclear
president somehow brought the tyrant of North Korea to weapons, sir?
the table to sign the most important nuclear agreement in
the last 70 years for the Korean people.
Jim Acosta: (After President Trump and Kim Jong Un exit
the balcony)
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Rosenstein Threatened To 'Subpoena'
GOP-Led Committee In 'Chilling' Clash
Over Records, Emails Show
By Catherine Herridge | Fox News
2:00pm 6/12/2018
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"merely referring to how DOJ would Fox News provided extensive quotes from the emails and
vigorously defend any litigation that the offered an opportunity to respond to all parties. The House
committee might initiate?” – Office of General Counsel declined to comment. A source
close to the speaker said they “encouraged the Committee
- an apparent reference to Nunes' threat to hold Rosenstein to work through the non-partisan DOJ Inspector General’s
and Wray in contempt for not providing records. Office.”
“The Intelligence Committee considers staff Dupree, though, said the tensions between Congress and
concerns at the most serious level, the Justice Department go well beyond the traditional
especially those involving interactions with oversight negotiations.
the executive branch. Based on the
justified concerns expressed by our lead
"Rarely, if ever, has it deterioriated to this
staff investigators, we referred this matter
point where you have what appears to be
to the Speaker’s Office.”
threats going back and forth between the
two sides," he said.
.
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REPORT: Trump Lawyer
Michael Cohen Expects To Be Arrested Soon
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 2:08 Pm
The New York Times first reported the FBI raid collected
documents related to Michael Cohen’s payment to porn
star Stormy Daniels in October of 2016.
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JUST IN: Rosenstein Threatened To Subpoena Emails,
Phone Records Of Nunes And House Intel If They
Didn’t Stop Investigation
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 3:22 Pm
Deputy Attorney General Rod “Let me just add that watching the Deputy
Rosenstein threatened to subpoena Attorney General launch a sustained
emails, phone records and other personal attack against a congressional
documents of Republican lawmakers on staffer in retaliation for vigorous oversight
the House Intel Committee back in was astonishing and disheartening. …
January, confirming previous reports. Also, having the nation’s #1 (for these
matters) law enforcement officer threaten
to ‘subpoena your calls and emails’ was
downright chilling.”
The committee staffer noted that Rosenstein’s comment
could be interpreted as meaning the department would
“vigorously defend a contempt action” — which might be
expected. But the staffer continued,
Fox News Catherine Herridge reported: Of course the FBI and DOJ are disputing this account and
defending Rosenstein.
The emails memorialized a January 2018
closed-door meeting involving senior FBI The swamp always protects their own.
and Justice Department officials as well as
members of the House Intelligence A DOJ official told Fox News that Rosenstein “never
Committee. The account claimed threatened anyone in the room with a criminal
Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on investigation.” The official said the department and bureau
the committee’s inquiries regarding the officials in the room “are all quite clear that the
Russia probe. characterization of events laid out here is false,” adding
“The DAG [Deputy Attorney General that Rosenstein was responding to a threat of contempt.
Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for
sending our requests in writing and was “The Deputy Attorney General was making
further critical of the Committee’s request the point—after being threatened with
to have DOJ/FBI do the same when contempt — that as an American
responding,” the committee’s then-senior citizen charged with the offense of
counsel for counterterrorism Kash Patel contempt of Congress, he would have the
wrote to the House Office of General right to defend himself, including requesting
Counsel. “Going so far as to say that if the production of relevant emails and text
Committee likes being litigators, then ‘we messages and calling them as witnesses to
[DOJ] too [are] litigators, and we will demonstrate that their allegations are
subpoena your records and your emails,’ false,” the official said. “That is why he put
referring to HPSCI [House Permanent them on notice to retain relevant emails
Select Committee on Intelligence] and and text messages, and he hopes they did
Congress overall.” so. (We have no process to obtain such
records without congressional approval.)”
A second House committee staffer at the meeting backed
up Patel’s account, writing:
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The DOJ official also told Fox News that once Rosenstein
returns from a business trip, “he will request that the
House General counsel conduct an internal investigation of
these Congressional staffers’ conduct.”
Gregg Jarrett says what Rosenstein did Sources say Rosenstein is behind the stonewalling and
is a crime. slow walking and attempted redactions of the much-
anticipated IG report.
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Senator Flags ‘Highly Questionable’
Redactions In Peter Strzok Texts
Chuck Ross | Reporter
4:03 PM 06/12/2018
Sen. Ron Johnson letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray (June 11, 2018)
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An Aug. 5, 2016 text refers to a remark made during an The message was sent several days after the FBI opened
inter-agency meeting about the newly formed Trump- Crossfire Hurricane. “L.C.” has not been identified.
Russia probe.
Sen. Ron Johnson letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray (June 11, 2018)
The bureau also redacted text messages about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Johnson flagged one heavily redacted
text message that Strzok sent to Page on July 26, 2016. In it, Strzok suggested the FBI would have conducted a more thorough
investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server if the bureau had more resources.
Sen. Ron Johnson letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray (June 11, 2018)
“These redactions included the names and what appear to be initials of Justice Department or FBI employees,”
Johnson wrote in his letter. “Redacting the identities of these employees prevents the Committee from assessing the
need to request additional documents relating to these employees or requesting interviews with these employees.”
.
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FCC Chair Ajit Pai And His Family Still Require 24
Security Following Death Threats From Violent Leftists
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 3:47 Pm
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai told reporters his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman
family still needs 24 hour security Ajit Pai told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that he
following the repeal of Obama’s net and his family are still being threatened in the months
neutrality rules. since the agency voted to roll back Obama-era net
neutrality rules.
Pai, his family and his in-laws have all
received threats since he since he rolled Pai visited the newspaper’s offices on Monday, the day the
back the net neutrality rules. repeal went into effect, and said he has continued to
receive threats following the December vote. His wife and
in-laws have also received threatening phone calls and
messages at home and at work, according to Journal
opinion writer James Freeman.
The repeal of the 2015 net neutrality rules went into effect
this week.
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In A Bid To Hide Evidence, Mueller Claims
Russia Will Use Discovery From Junk Bot Case To
Spy On Witch Hunt And Americans
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 4:22 Pm
Robert Mueller’s team came up with a say they’re worried information they
new excuse as to why they don’t want to provide to the company’s attorneys
cough up over 70 discovery requests by could end up in the hands of other
indicted Russian company Concord defendants or Russian spy agencies.
Management & Consulting.
Mueller’s team says disclosure of the
Mueller’s liberal hack lawyers claim information could compromise American
Russia could use the evidence they sources and methods for monitoring foreign
gather through discovery to spy on the interference operations.
witch hunt and American citizens.
Prosecutors also want to bar other
That’s right. Mueller is arguing a case defendants from accessing the materials
he brought to court is now a threat to turned over in the case until they appear in
his own investigation. a U.S. court. That includes Yevgeny
Prigozhin, a wealthy businessman who
controls the company. He has ties to
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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DOJ Takes Down 2,300 Alleged
Child Sex Abusers In Massive National Operation
Anders Hagstrom | Justice Reporter
4:50 PM 06/12/2018
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How Petty! CNN Panelists
Whine About Menu For North Korean Summit
By Randy Hall
June 12, 2018 5:35 PM EDT
Since the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong- “I want to bring it back to the menu for a
un has received wall-to-wall press coverage, it’s not second,” Vinograd stated, “not just
surprising that analysts on CNN might struggle to come up because I am hungry, but because typically
with a fresh angle on describing the event. the White House releases these kinds of
details after, after for example, the French
However, panelists on Monday’s edition of CNN Tonight president comes to White House or another
showed their displeasure with the entire process when they head of state comes for a state visit.”
grumbled about the list of items on the menu while “So by releasing the details of the menu,
stating they’re “really hungry” for “some substance here.” this is again legitimatizing Kim Jong-un and
putting him on equal footing with other
world leaders, which is what he wants,” she
noted.
“And I really want to stress here that this
working lunch is perfunctory at this
juncture,” Vinograd added.
"If Sarah Sanders is in the room,” she
continued, and “if we have the press
secretary there, they are not diving into the
kind of classified details that are going to
lead to the substance that Max is
referencing.”
The first person to complain was global affairs analyst and
anti-Trump Republican Max Boot: Lemon stated moments later that several other people were
in the room for that moment, including Pompeo, Sanders,
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security
I enjoyed hearing the list of the menu
Advisor John Bolton, diplomat Sung Kim and Matthew
items. What I'm really hungry for is some
Pottinger from the National Security Council.
substance here because the glitz is great,
but this is like having ice cream before you
get the main meal. “So what do you say to that?” he asked
foreign policy analyst Jonathan Wachte
I want something nourishing here, and regarding whether all those people were
Kim Jong-un has to deliver necessary to the process.
denuclearization in a verifiable and
irreversible manner as Trump and
If Lemon hoped this panelist would roundly criticize the
[Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo and
summit and its results, he was very disappointed.
others have demanded.
“You know, maybe we're going to be “Well, there is a perfunctory aspect to it,”
surprised, but there are no indications Wachte replied. “I mean, you can't
whatsoever leading up to the summit that anticipate that you're going to achieve so
he will in fact do this,” Boot added. “And in much so quickly.”
fact, there's been a downsizing of the
expectations from everybody concerned.”
He continued:
Host Don Lemon then turned to CNN national security
You know, all this is going to be ironed out
analyst and former Obama official Samantha Vinograd,
in the months and years ahead as they
who was nodding her head in agreement with her fellow
actually go into the verification issues and
panelist’s perspective.
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other things should the summit all work out The analyst then returned to the “food” motif of the
and we head in that direction. discussion.
So yes, of course, you're not going to get ,as Max alluded “One particularly interesting thing about the
to, a fulfilling of that food in terms of substance at this menu is I was thinking as you were reading
point. all that out, Don, the North Korean people,
if they knew what is being dished out there,
“You can't have the president of the United they can't even imagine the types of foods
States sit down with the leader of a rogue that you've rolled off your tongue.”
state and immediately start, you know,
working out the details right there and Of course, any success by Trump is hard to swallow for
then,” Wachte continued. many of the analysts at CNN, most of whom had hoped
the menu of the event wouldn’t include the special
“We’ve heard some sense that there's a will
dessert of a potential Noble Peace Prize.
to actually get something down here, but
it's going to take time.”
.
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Always Spicy. Papa Don’s Pizza Restaurant Plasters
President Trump On Their Front Window –
Promises ‘No Illegal Drivers’
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 5:29 Pm
A Papa Don’s Pizza store is celebrating
the Great President Trump this week
with life-size posters on their store
windows.
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“Wake Up Punchy!” – POTUS Takes A Blowtorch To
“Low IQ” De Niro ‘Too Many Shots To The Head’
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 5:52 Pm
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BREAKING: Kim Jong Un Accepts
President Trump’s Invitation To Visit US, Says KCNA
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 6:12 Pm
Now this…
BREAKING NEWS.
Kim Jong Un accepted Trump’s
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un accepted invitation to visit the US.
President Trump’s invitation to visit the
US, says KCNA
The President met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Kim also invited Trump to visit North
in Singapore Tuesday for historic peace talks. Korea during the meeting.
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Story developing…
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In HUGE Win For Trump, Xi Jinping Pulls
Missiles From South China Sea Leading Up To
Successful North Korea Summit
By Wohl Jacob
June 12, 2018, 6:43 Pm
China’s activities in the South China Sea have proven to Amid a cancellation of joint US-South Korea military
be one of the most contentious geopolitical issues of the drills near the Korean Peninsula and a decrease of tensions
Trump Presidency. Leading up to a successful summit in with North Korea, much of America’s attention is likely to
Singapore between President Trump and North Korean be turned to the South China Sea, as President Trump
leader Chairman Kim Jong Un, new data released by pursues a foreign policy that considers both military force
Israeli Private Intelligence Firm ImageSat shows that and economics in every foreign affair.
China removed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles from
Woody Island, in the South China Sea last week. According to a 2015 Department of Defense estimate, $5.3
Trillion worth of goods move through the South China Sea
every year. Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense James
“Mad-Dog” Mattis accused China of “intimidation and
coercion” in the South China Sea, and vowed that America
will “compete vigorously” in the area.
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BREAKING: Andrew McCabe Sues FBI, Justice
Department And Inspector General Over His Firing
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 7:25 Pm
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AWOL AG Jeff Sessions: “I’m Confident” Deputy AG
Rosenstein Did Not Threaten Members Of Congress
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 8:00 Pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined Tucker Carlson: Did the Deputy Attorney General
Tucker Carlson to discuss the shocking threaten to subpoena the email or phone records of the
revelation today that Deputy Attorney members of the House Intel Committee?
General Rod Rosenstein threatened
members of Congress. Jeff Sessions: All I can say is Chris Wray and the senior
ethics attorney and others and did not see it in that same
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to fashion.
subpoena emails, phone records and other documents of
Republican lawmakers on the House Intel Committee back Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
in January, confirming previous reports.
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Trump Haters TRIGGERED By
POTUS Success: Losers And Underachievers Attack
Posted On June 12, 2018
(National Sentinel) Typical: If President Donald Trump What he brought about instead
woke up tomorrow and cured all forms of cancer, someone was peace.
somewhere would find something to complain about.
Trump’s refusal to back down was what got Kim’s
Some of that criticism, no doubt, would also come from attention and the attention of his main benefactor —
people he saved — because even though they would be Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump’s steadfastness led to
cancer-free, they’d still be afflicted by Trump this historic agreement.
Derangement Syndrome.
But since Obama couldn’t do it — or Bush
What POTUS Trump did overnight in signing a four-point 43 or Bush 41 or Clinton or anyone else in
denuclearization agreement with North Korean leader Kim the Washington, D.C. ‘club’ — then the
Jong-un was nothing short of historic. only thing left for the phony ‘experts’ and
diplomats and pundits is to criticize the
The agreement, which was no doubt worked out well in president who did get it done.
advance or Trump wouldn’t have shown up in the first
place — that’s how diplomatic tradecraft works — is clear That’s all they’ve got.
in what it aims to accomplish, as we reported earlier:
“The president’s praise for the dictator of
1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish North Korea was disquieting… The paper
new U.S.–DPRK relations in accordance with the that was signed yesterday was weak,”
desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace chided #nevertrump “conservative” Ben
and prosperity. Shapiro — who, as a Harvard law grad
2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to makes a lousy national security and foreign
build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean policy expert.
Peninsula.
3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, Hey Ben, you know who else American presidents have
the DPRK commits to work toward complete sat down with to avoid nuclear or total war? FDR sat down
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. with gulag master and mass murder Josef Stalin to end
4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering World War II. Ronald Reagan sat down with the Soviet
POW/MIA remains, including the immediate leader Mikhail Gorbechev to end the Cold War.
repatriation of those already identified.
Great presidents do such things when they
Note the highlighted portion of the agreement. are in the interests of the American people.
We aren’t negotiating with Kim to tell him
That’s the historic part. how to run his country; we’re negotiating to
get rid of a potent nuclear threat. How ’bout
Just a year ago, POTUS Trump and Kim were trading you put your thinking cap on next time
barbs and insults. Trump was very clearly and very before you speak?
straightforwardly threatening to annihilate North Korea,
much to the chagrin of South Korea, China, and Russia. Over at MSNBC, meanwhile, the perpetually unhinged
morning host Joe Scarborough made the same dumb
At that time he was being criticized by the haters as a argument as Shapiro. And for extra measure, he had on an
“madman,” an “idiot” and a “dolt” who was going to fulfill “expert” guest who has failed to accomplish anything
their worst nightmares and bring about nuclear holocaust. nearly as substantial in his career to tell us all how dumb
Trump is.
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Scarborough railed against the President Tuesday morning, What matters are results. And Trump is the one who has
claiming POTUS was “sick” for not publicly condemning delivered on this issue.
North Korea’s human right’s record during the summit and
repudiating the Communist regime’s treatment of Otto Earlier, Obama’s failed national security adviser Susan
Warmbier. Rice, who may have criminally unmasked American
citizens tied to Trump’s 2016 campaign, claimed that
“I thought it was tortured logic at best to Obama could have done this if only Kim had decided at
say that the North Koreans murder of Otto that time he was ready to deal.
Warmbier was a time of reflection for them
– that’s just not true at all. I personally think Really?
it’s sick for him to suggest such a thing
about the most murderous regime, one of
Kim was only “ready to deal” after Trump — using
the most murderous regimes on the face of credible threats of force and maximum sanctions — forced
the earth,” Scarborough whined.
him to become “ready.”
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President Trump On Kim Jong-Un:
He’s A Strong Guy, Very Good Personality, Funny, Smart,
Very Strategic (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 12, 2018, 9:14 Pm
President Trump:
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NBC Whines And Frets About
North Korea Summit, But Defends Iran’s Deal
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 12, 2018 9:39 PM EDT
Mitchell began her report by scoffing at claims by “Cancelling these war games is seen
President Trump that he trusted Kim and his intentions. here as a major concession to North
Korea,” Engel continued to huff.
“How can the U.S. be sure? A key
missing ingredient, no requirement that Of course, there was no mention of how such an exercise
Kim Jong-un disclose how many nearly led to the summit being derailed altogether.
weapons he has or where they are
hidden,” she huffed. Then came the allusions to President Trump not caring
about Kim Jong-un’s and North Korea’s abysmal human
This pessimism was coming from the same NBC reporter right record.
who had apparently made it a personal mission to defend
President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. Mitchell once
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“One issue that did not receive much the past? NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea
discussion during this summit was the Mitchell has more on the big questions.
brutal reality of life in North Korea …
NBC's Hallie Jackson has more on what [Cuts to video]
wasn't said at this historic face-to-face,”
announced Holt.
ANDREA MITCHELL: The ink now dry with great fanfare. Kim
Jong-un committing to the complete denuclearization of the
The only problem was that they had a clip of Trump saying Korean peninsula. But will he deliver? The President suggesting
they talked about it. it comes down to trust.
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[Cuts back to live] JACKSON: President Trump didn't dwell on the negative, instead
repeatedly pointing to the positive.
Cancelling these war games is seen here as a major concession
to North Korea. And this morning, North Korean media's (…)
reporting that Kim Jong-un demanded it and President Trump
complied. Lester? JACKSON: Kim Jong-un, as you know, has killed family
members, has starved his own people, is responsible for the
(...) death of Otto Warmbier. Why are you so comfortable calling him
very talented?
HOLT: One issue that did not receive much discussion during
this summit was the brutal reality of life in North Korea. Kim Jong- (…)
un's regime has been accused of appalling human rights
violations against his own people as well as the mistreatment of JACKSON: But on Capitol Hill, disappointment today that human
American prisoners. NBC's Hallie Jackson has more on what rights wasn't more of a focus.
wasn't said at this historic face-to-face.
CORY BOOKER: There's been a lot left off the table. There are a
[Cuts to video] lot of scant details. That's why this amounts to nothing more, at
this point, than a photo-op.
HALLIE JACKSON: In Singapore, smiles and a stroll from Kim
Jong-un but back home, a U.N. report paints a much more grim [Cuts back to live]
picture. One of extermination, murder, enslavement, torture,
imprisonment, rape, crimes against humanity.
JACKSON: But there are other lawmakers like Senator Bob
Corker, for example, who are instead of picking apart what wasn't
DONALD TRUMP: His country does love him. His people, you said, focus on what was on denuclearization. The President
see the fervor. They have a great fervor. himself suggested he would bring up these human rights abuses
with Kim Jong-un down the road, but, of course, Lester, that may
JACKSON: But what he calls “fervor,” the U.N. calls not be a conversation Kim wants to have.
indoctrination. Another in a long and disturbing list of human
rights abuses Kim's accused of. (…)
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Trump’s 2020 Campaign Chair Brad Parscale Drops A
MOAB On Jim Acosta After Their Twitter War Escalates
By Cristina Laila
June 12, 2018, 9:37 Pm
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The Democrats Out-Right
The Right On North Korean Summit
By Ajamu Baraka
June 12, 2018
The positions staked out by the leadership of the That is why the peace, anti-war and anti-imperialist forces
Democratic party just confirmed what was already must do the work to clear up that confusion. The
commonly understood as the hegemonic positions among movement must declare without equivocation the position
the majority in the foreign policy establishment. of the Black Alliance for Peace: Not one drop of blood
from the working class and poor to defend the interests of
the capitalist oligarchy.
.
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VIDEO: Tucker Carlson GOES OFF On Former DNC
Deputy Press Secretary, Calls Him ‘Stupid Person’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 12, 2018, 11:39 Pm
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Boot: Trump Is An ‘Arsonist’
Putting Out His North Korea Fire
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 13, 2018 12:57 AM EDT
But it’s not “the same thing.” The situation was nowhere But what's striking to me about the summit is how little Donald
near the same as 10-years-ago. When Obama was Trump got in return for legitimating Kim Jong-un on the world
president, North Korea didn’t have the ability to have a stage. For treating this leader of this two-bit dictatorship as the
nuclear missile reach as far as Washington, D.C. equal of the president of the United States; for suspending
(according to some estimates). North Korea wasn’t U.S./South Korean joint military exercises, which is a huge
threatening to irradiate Guam with their weapons and we concession to the North in describing those exercises as
weren’t drawing up plans for a ground war on the Korean provocative war games, which is adopting the language of
Peninsula. Time passes and situations change. Northern propaganda; for describing Kim Jong-un as this very
talent, smart, funny guy. I mean, it sounded like, you know,
“I don't think we should fall to the trap of Donald Trump wanted to invite Kim to the prom.
saying the only alternatives are nuclear
war or the kind of diplomacy that And in return for all of that, what does he get? Nothing except the
Donald Trump is conducting where he's empty blather that you quoted about working towards the
making a lot of unilateral concessions complete denuclearization and Korean peninsula, which is what
and not getting a lot in return and kind the North Koreans have been saying since 1992. I mean, I could
of fawning over this dictator,” say I'm working toward beating Roger Federer at Wimbledon,
that doesn’t mean it’s ever going to happen.
Boot bemoaned a short time later. But for all of his and
the liberal media opining about “unilateral concessions,” (…)
the U.S. really hasn’t given up anything of substance.
LEMON: Having set that up, Dana, this is possibly a double
They’ll complain that we “elevated” Kim and gave him standard whether you look at what Fox News and how
“legitimacy” but he arguably got that when he got D.C. in conservatives slammed Obama for his willingness to talk to
range of his nukes. For all their outrage at the President, dictators. Watch this.
their suggestions only leave Trump with the option to go to
war. (…)
The relevant portions of the transcript are below: LEMON: So, if you open the dictionary to the word hypocrisy
does that video play, Dana?
CNN Tonight
June 12, 2018 DANA BASH: Loudly and proudly that video plays. There’s no
10:06:38 PM Eastern question about it. I said it earlier today that if Donald Trump were
a Democrat, the impeachment articles would be written right now
(…) if the Republicans were in charge doing the same thing.
DON LEMON: Okay, Max, let’s just put—because I have other Having said that, that wouldn’t make it right because there is,
dictators that he’s had nice words for. Let's put that on hold for a rightly so, a bipartisan feeling and sentiment that having a
second and talk about what Scott said, at least we're off the brink diplomatic conversation is the right way to go. Now, as Max was
of a nuclear war. Wasn't it the President's rhetoric in the first saying, whether or not he went way over his skies is a different
place that put us in that? And all you have to do -- I'm wondering conversation. You have people like Marco Rubio today saying
did you need to have this summit in order to get what these two that he is appalled at the kind of language Donald Trump used
people got? This short little letter that basically said—and this is a about this dictator given the way he tortures and starves his
key I don’t know if anyone else has noticed that it's number three, people. He kills his own family members, executes them when
the whole crux of this, it says: “Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 they don't do what he wants. And he's following in the steps of
Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward his father and grandfather. But having said that, this is, you know,
complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Will, that many people say—and not just many people say, I sound like the
was decided back in April, that's what they've been working for all President now (Lemon laughs) – this is flatly better than the
along. Do they need to do this, Max? alternative, which is a horrendous war.
MAX BOOT: No. I mean, I think your exactly right, Don, a lot of (…)
the reason we were on the brink of nuclear war last year—I mean
part of it to be sure was because of the North Korean nuclear BOOT: I don't think we should fall to the trap of saying the only
tests and their missile test, but also because of the reckless and alternatives are nuclear war or the kind of diplomacy that Donald
irresponsible rhetoric from Donald Trump ratcheting up the Trump is conducting where he's making a lot of unilateral
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concessions and not getting a lot in return and kind of fawning were doing, okay fine. You said that didn't work, all right I'll grant
over this dictator. I'm all in favor of engaging in North Korea but I you that. But when that wasn't working the former president was
think you need to do it firmly. I don't think you allow the North being criticized by your party for wanting to talk to Kim Jong-un
Korean dictator a meeting with the U.S. president without getting and wanting to talk to dictators. How is that not hypocrisy? What
some concessions upfront. And we’re just not seeing— is different now? Please explain that to me.
SCOTT JENNINGS: There is a third way. There is a third way. JENNINGS: I'll give you one point about Obama that
We can keep doing what we were doing and that was not Republicans always believed, and that is they never believed he
working. And I think the President has dealt with Kim firmly. The would show the resolve necessary in conversations with
sanctions were firm, the threat of military force was firm. dictators. And he proved it. He drew a red line on Syria for
instance.
LEMON: Scott, I think you’re right. I think, listen. I think your right
but answer this for me, Scott. We could continue to do what we
(…)
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Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence
After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 06/13/2018 - 05:34
As Powerline notes,
Mueller asked a Washington federal Judge for a protective Mueller probably didn't see that
order that would prevent the delivery of copious evidence coming –
to lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting, LLC,
one of three Russian firms and 13 Russian nationals. and the indictment itself was perhaps nothing more than a
PR stunt to bolster the Russian interference narrative.
The indictment accuses the firm of
producing propaganda, pretending to be I don’t think anyone (including Mueller)
U.S. activists online and posting anticipated that any of the defendants
political content on social media in would appear in court to defend against
order to sow discord among American the charges.
voters.
Rather, the Mueller prosecutors seem to have obtained the
The special counsel's office argues that the risk of the indictment to serve a public relations purpose, laying out
evidence leaking or falling into the hands of foreign the case for interference as understood by the government
intelligence services, especially Russia, would assist the and lending a veneer of respectability to the Mueller
Kremlin's active "interference operations" against the Switch Project.
United States.
One of the Russian corporate defendants nevertheless hired
“The substance of the government’s counsel to contest the charges.
evidence identifies uncharged individuals
and entities that the government believes
In April two Washington-area attorneys
are continuing to engage in interference
— Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly of the
operations like those charged in the
Reed Smith firm — filed appearances in
present indictment,” prosecutors wrote.
court on behalf of Concord Management
Improper disclosure would tip foreign and Consulting.
intelligence services about how the U.S.
operates, which would “allow foreign Josh Gerstein covered that turn of events for Politico here.
actors to learn of those techniques and -Powerline Blog
adjust their conduct, thus undermining
ongoing and future national security
operations,” according to the filing.
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Politico's Gerstein notes that by defending against the In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S.
charges, District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich
offered no explanation for her decision
“Concord could force prosecutors to to deny a request prosecutors made
turn over discovery about how the case Friday to put off the scheduled
was assembled as well as evidence that Wednesday arraignment for Concord
might undermine the prosecution’s Management and Consulting, one of the
theories.” three firms charged in the case. -Politico
In a mad scramble to put the brakes on the case, In other words, Mueller was denied the opportunity to kick
the can down the road, forcing him to produce the
requested evidence or withdraw the indictment,
Mueller's team tried to delay the trial -
potentially jeopardizing the PR aspect of the entire "Trump
saying that Concord never formally
collusion" probe.
accepted the court summons related to
the case,
And now Mueller is pointing to Russian
wrapping themselves in a "cloud of confusion" "interference operations" in a last-ditch
as Powerline puts it. effort.
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Loudmouth #Nevertrumper Mark Sanford Loses
SC Primary To Pro-Trump Candidate –
Congratulations Katie Arrington!
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 8:01 Am
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Career State Dept. Officer SMACKS DOWN
Critics Of POTUS Trump’s Summit With Kim:
‘STOP Watching MSM!’
Posted On June 13, 2018
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“Keep in mind it was the earlier failures in in every setting, including during the Cold
Korea by the former government officials War (and Obama in Cuba!) So just STFU,”
on TV today criticising the he wrote.
#TrumpKimSummit who made the summit
Never-Trump “conservative” Jonah Goldberg made the
necessary. They’re the last people anyone
same error.
should be listening to at this point.”
Stupid.
Then Van Buren addressed the lie that Trump ‘gave away
the store.’
“Concessions? Kim’s ongoing moratorium
on nuclear and ballistic missile testing, the
return of American prisoners, the closing of
a ballistic missile test site, and the shutting
down of nuclear test facility without opening
a new one,” he wrote.
The ‘coup’ came, as one ignorant observer noted, as a
result of the U.S. and North Korean flags standing
with equal prominence behind the two leaders — standard
operating procedure for diplomatic events, Van Buren
points out.
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Thank You President Trump!
US Households On Food Stamps Drops
Below 20 Million
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 8:30 Am
Breitbart.com reported:
Morning Joe on MSNC, Tuesday morning. Trump has referred (accurately) to U.S. training activities
in South Korea as “provocative” and unnecessary and
Ugh, she says. stated at his press conference in Singapore that he would
end them. This is very good! MSNBC calls on Pentagon
correspondent Hans Nichols to comment; he says
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un just had a successful Secretary of Defense Mattis never cleared Trump’s
Singapore summit resulting in a signed statement lifting remarks.
the specter of war from the Korean peninsula.
David Ignatius appears and interviews Sen. Chris Coons
And MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski says Ugh. He’s a dictator! (D-DE) demanding no lifting of sanctions until full
Trump praised him for his “talent.” Ugh. denuclearization.
Can we trust the North Koreans? she asks her cable co- MSNBC rather than rejoicing at an agreement establishing
host and paramour Joe Scarborough. Joe authoritatively diplomatic relations, mutual commitment to lasting peace,
tells her no, explaining how the North Koreans have negotiations towards complete denuclearization of the
always violated their agreements. This was a glorified peninsula and the return of remains of U.S. troops from the
photo-op, he tells her. north complains it’s “not a deal at all.” Yes, Eugene
Robinson just said that.
Mika is glaring this morning. She thinks North Korea got a
lot more out of the agreement than the U.S. She and Joe You fools! Do you so disparage the approximately 75
are focusing on Trump’s press conference comments about million Korean people and their aspirations for peace, that
North Korean beaches and the prospect of condo you want to treat Singapore as some sort of scandal rather
construction. (He must be in it for the money, as usual.) than a very positive development?
CNN’s house “presidential historian” Jon Meacham Joe calls it a “shotgun summit” and compares it to heroic
reiterates authoritatively that Kim Jong Un is oppressive. Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach to Gorbachev
Like we didn’t know that yesterday. Like it’s relevant to 30 years ago. Ignatius demands the fleshing out of details.
the issue of denuclearization. MSNBC is pouring cold Negativity and cynicism prevail. Mika is 100% hostile.
water over the summit, minimizing its significance. “This is the risk one takes when Donald is alone at the
table,” she gripes. Meaning: he didn’t get all the
Whose success do Joe and Mika so resent? I submit it’s not concessions demanded by the Democrats in their recent
Trump’s so much as the success of the Korean people in letter to Trump.
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Mika’s late dad (Zbigniew Brzezinski) famously proposed But they and their team like school marms lecture their
to President Jimmy Carter that the U.S. “bleed the Soviets audience that North Korea is oppressive, that Kim kills his
in Afghanistan the way they bled us in Vietnam.” He relatives, that Trump hasn’t gotten anything concrete yet.
spearheaded the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan after Keep worrying, people. Take no comfort in anything
1978. He was an inveterate anticommunist, a war- Trump does. Roll your eyes like Mika does. Or like Joe
mongering Cold Warrior who rejoiced in the Roman does. Think about it. Full diplomatic relations between
Catholic Church’s role in the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Washington and Pyongyang. Potential end to U.S. war
Mika is a Democratic party shill, Joe a disillusioned games in South Korea. Potential removal of (provocative)
Republican who has never rocked the boat but just come U.S. troops. Security guarantees for the DPRK. Deepening
off as obnoxious. Neither of them has any intellectual north-south economic ties and gradual reunification.
substance.
Ugh? Why ugh? Why ugh, Mika?
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Unreal! Lameduck Paul Ryan Reaches Agreement – Will
Allow Votes On Immigration And Amnesty Next Week
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 8:50 Am
Ryan also promised to pass amnesty back in September But the fact that two bills will be put on the floor suggests
2017. there is still no unanimity within the party on how far to go
on legalization of “Dreamers,” nor on how to stiffen
President Trump promised Democrats border security and interior enforcement to prevent another
amnesty for up to 3 million illegals if wave of unauthorized migration.
they would agree to build a border wall.
.
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Not Sick Of Winning Yet - While Historic
NK/US Summit Grabs Headlines, 2,300 Suspected Online
Child Sex Offenders Were Arrested
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
June 13, 2018
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There is no guarantee whatsoever that Kim will act in good "Later, responding to a direct question from
faith, everyone knows that. With that said, President John Roberts of Fox News about human
Trump has already managed to do what no other U.S. rights, Trump said that the issue had been
leader has been able to do, he got Kim to the table with a discussed — though he admitted it had not
mixture of harsh rhetoric (Little Rocket Man - My nuke been as prominent as denuclearization.
button is bigger than yours - etc...) along with assurances “They will be doing things” to improve the
that should he act in good faith and continue to do so, his country’s human rights situation, he said."
standing and his country would be better off.
So outlets claiming the issue was not discussed at all,
In that vein, the White House showed Kim a video either missed that or are lying.
guaranteed to play to the "you can be seen as a great leader
if....." mindset, showing him the standing boost he would You decide.
receive in the eyes of the world if he works towards it.
Either way, the main goal was to get Kim to the table, to
When a man has a huge ego, playing to it must be included discuss denuclearizing and that was accomplished as just
in your arsenal of tools. the first step, with many more hopefully to come.
The mainstream media is all over the place on reporting The fact is, while North Korea is a brutal regime and no
this with NYT headlining "Trump and Kim Have Just one should forget that, walking back from the brink of
Walked Us Back From the Brink of War," at the same nuclear war had to come first, because the issue of human
time as publishing the headline from another writer stating rights means nothing if the country is leveled and only
"Trump Was Outfoxed in Singapore." bodies, dust and debris are left.
They just cannot converge on one set narrative here BOTTOM LINE
because the summit was unprecedented.
Between the historical summit between Kim and President
One common theme seen in most the liberal media outlets Trump and the news of the continued efforts on the part of
today is their reference to human rights issues, and their the Trump administration to battle the horrible human
claim that President Trump did not address those with trafficking epidemic and the sexual trafficking of children,
Kim, but as reported by Breitbart: the phrase "still not sick of winning yet" comes to mind.
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Trump Declares Pravda Media’s ‘FAKE NEWS’ Our
Greatest Threat: Here’s Why He’s RIGHT
Posted On June 13, 2018
(National Sentinel) Spot-On: The establishment media has Now, the president himself is calling out the Pravda media
been so obviously and outrageously hostile to President by declaring that its fake news reporting is harming our
Donald Trump since before he took office that recent country and his ability to conduct domestic and world
studies have found that he received negative coverage 90 affairs. He sees that as our nation’s biggest threat…and
percent of the time. he’s right.
This, despite the fact that things are good in America and As reported by CNS News:
that is due largely to the president and his policies.
Criticizing some of the liberal media’s
He’s had a bit of help here and there from the Republican coverage of the U.S-North Korea summit
congressional majority — tax reform, most notably, and in on denuclearization, President Donald
repealing burdensome, expensive regulations imposed by Trump said “Fake News” outlets NBC and
Obama on his way out the door. CNN are trying to “downplay” the summit, a
deal they would have praised a year ago,
The results have been momentous: Rocketing stock market and added that America’s “biggest enemy
growth, economic growth, historic low unemployment, is Fake News,” which is “so easily
manufacturing jobs coming back to the U.S., and progress promulgated by fools!”
in renegotiating horrible trade deals.
In a June 13 tweet, the president wrote,
At the same time, Trump has managed to reaffirm
America’s global leadership role while staring down “So funny to watch the Fake News,
Russia and China and moving closer to an actual especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting
denuclearization deal with North Korea. hard to downplay the deal with North
Korea.”
There has been plenty of good news to report. But the
Pravda media refuses to do so, and in the process has
relied instead upon concocted narratives like “collusion”
.
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Drudge Headline: Cohen Flips? — Another
Mueller Investigation Leak Day Before IG Report
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 10:14 Am
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A Blow To Interventionists,
As US And North Korea Move Toward Peace
By Jeffrey Sommers – Peter Paik
June 13, 2018
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BOOM! President Trump: America’s Greatest Enemy Is
Fake Liberal News “Promulgated By Fools!”
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 10:44 Am
According to the latest FOX News poll Criticizing some of the liberal media’s coverage of the
President Donald Trump has a better U.S-North Korea summit on denuclearization, President
rating than Presidents Obama and Donald Trump said “Fake News” outlets NBC and CNN
Reagan at the same point in their are trying to “downplay” the summit, a deal they would
presidencies. President Trump’s have praised a year ago, and added that America’s “biggest
approval is now at 45%. enemy is Fake News,” which is “so easily promulgated by
And that is with 90% negative fools!”
coverage from the far left mainstream
media. In a June 13 tweet, the president wrote,
The liberal media hates this president and continues to “So funny to watch the Fake News,
spread Fake News on almost a daily basis to take him especially NBC and CNN. they are fighting
down. hard to downplay the deal with North
Korea.”
“500 days ago they would have ‘begged’
for this deal — looked like war would break
out [then],” he wrote.
“Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake
News so easily promulgated by fools!” said
President Trump.
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WTH? Deputy AG Rosenstein THREATENED To
Subpoena Records From GOP Lawmakers,
Staff In ‘Personal ATTACK’
Posted On June 13, 2018
(National Sentinel) Deep State: Where in the blue blazes “Let me just add that watching the Deputy
of Hades is Attorney General Jeff Sessions? His Justice Attorney General launch a sustained
Department has been completely hijacked by a Deep State personal attack against a congressional
staffer in retaliation for vigorous oversight
careerist, Rod Rosenstein, who sees his number one
was astonishing and disheartening. …
priority these days as defending the dirty and keeping the
Also, having the nation’s #1 (for these
D.C. swamp filled with creatures.
matters) law enforcement officer threaten
to ‘subpoena your calls and emails’ was
The deputy AG threatened to “subpoena” emails, phone downright chilling,” the second unnamed
records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on staffer wrote.
a Republican-led House committee during a tense meeting
earlier this year, according to Fox News‘ Catherine
The committee staffer noted that Rosenstein’s comment
Herridge.
could be interpreted as meaning the department would
“vigorously defend a contempt action” — which might be
Aides called it a “personal attack” on the committee and expected. But the staffer continued, “I also read it as a not-
Republicans in particular. so-veiled threat to unleash the full prosecutorial power of
the state against us.”
The emails memorialized a January 2018
closed-door meeting involving senior FBI This is unbelievable. This goes beyond
and Justice Department officials as well as simply defending the integrity of the
members of the House Intelligence Justice Department.
Committee. The account claimed
Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on
In fact, you could make the argument that Rosenstein is
the committee’s inquiries regarding the
abusing the power of the federal government in the same
Russia probe.
way the Obama administration did when it launched
“The DAG [Deputy Attorney General “Spygate” — an operation that Congress has a
Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for constitutional duty to investigate and which the
sending our requests in writing and was subordinate Justice Department has a duty to cooperate.
further critical of the Committee’s request
to have DOJ/FBI do the same when
responding,” the committee’s then-senior
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The FBI and DoJ claimed Rosenstein was just making it As for Sessions, he was defending
clear he would defend himself and the department against Rosenstein, the de facto head of DoJ.
any contempt charge issued by Congress.
POTUS Trump is going to have to intervene in this dog-
But he wouldn’t have to do that if he was and-pony show at some point. Congress is within its
complying with legitimate requests by authority to investigate alleged abuses of the law by
Congress for information. subordinate federal agencies. The FBI and DoJ are not
exempt from that oversight.
.
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Mueller’s Fraudulent “Made Up” Cases And Indictments
Are Unraveling – Time To Shut Dirty Cop Mueller Down
And Indict His Entire Gang
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 10:54 Am
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General Mike Flynn and never expected this. They immediately asked the
judge for more time but the judge denied their pleas noting
The biggest indictment to date by the dirty cops and that they were the ones who indicted the Russian company
attorneys on the Mueller team was the indictment of in the first place.
General Flynn for lying to the FBI. One of the two
individuals that Flynn apparently lied to was Peter Strzok When the case proceeded, the Concord attorney’s noted
in a discussion at the White House shortly after the that another of the three companies indicted by Mueller
inauguration. Strzok was the lead investigator who took was not in existence at the time of Mueller’s indictment.
Hillary Clinton’s testimony in her email scandal and They called this a case of Mueller indicting the proverbial
Strzok was apparently fine when with Hillary destroyed ‘ham sandwich’.
her server, 30,000 emails, numerous phones with hammers
and lied to him and all of America. However, shortly after At a following court appearance, the attorneys representing
Flynn spoke with Strzok, former Attorney General Sally Concord stated that the corrupt Mueller team’s allegations
Yates went to the White House and told the President the of 13 Russian individuals impacting the 2016 election
General had lied. were “made up” nonsense. The individuals were not even
real.
Flynn was fired by the President and then when Mueller
started his witch hunt he charged Flynn for lying to the Concord Management’s lawyers revealed that Mueller’s
FBI. Flynn eventually pled guilty but the judge overseeing team had ignored over 70 discovery requests they had
the case was recused. Judge Rudolph Contreras was also a made for information before the case. In response
FISA Court judge and a friend of Strzok’s. Mueller’s team offered to give Concord Management’s
lawyers a massive amount of social media data from those
To date Flynn has not been sentenced after the new judge dangerous trolls who sought to influence the US election
demanded Mueller provide the General with all and the majority of the data was in RUSSIAN.
information related to his case. Also, new evidence has
unfolded of Sally Yates and/or former FBI Head Andrew Mueller’s lawyers then admitted that they don’t even have
McCabe doctoring and destroying evidence that led to English translations for the Russian social media posts.
Flynn’s conviction. The Senate has asked the FBI and Mueller’s lawyers don’t have English translations of the
DOJ for this support but it has not been provided to date Russian social media posts but somehow Americans were
because some expect it is not there (it was destroyed). influenced by these Russian language posts?
They have also asked for the other FBI Agent who
interviewed Flynn with Strzok but to date the FBI will not Yesterday it was reported that Mueller’s team didn’t want
allow him to be interviewed by the Senate. to hand over the data that had been accumulated related to
the Russians because the Russians would then use the
The entire Flynn case is now not only information to spy on Americans (ignoring that they
falling apart but it appears Strzok, Yates, supposedly already had).
McCabe, Mueller and possibly others may
be involved in crimes in doctoring and The case of the Russians has quickly turned into a big
destroying evidence and charging Flynn for joke. The Mueller team should be ashamed for bringing it
a crime as a result. to the court and indicted for making the whole thing up.
Richard Gates pleaded not guilty to all charges against him Alex van der Zwaan and Richard Pinedo
by Mueller, many related to years before the election.
These are two individuals no one has ever heard of or will
Rick Gates was named alongside Manafort in the recent ever remember. van der Zwan was charged with lying to
charges brought by the special counsel. He’s accused of 11 the FBI and Pinedo was charged for selling bank accounts
counts related to filing false income tax returns and three to Russians, even though Pinedo said he didn’t know he
counts of failure to report foreign bank and financial was selling accounts to Russians. Both cases sound
accounts. suspect and more related to abuse of power by the Mueller
team than actual crimes being committed.
Gates pleaded guilty on Feb. 23 to federal conspiracy and
false-statements charges. All in all, Mueller’s indictments are
pathetic and falling apart. He and his
In wake of the guilty plea, Mueller moved to drop the 22 team of corrupt and conflicted deep
bank and tax fraud charges against him. The decision to state crooks should not only have their
drop the more expansive charges against Gates could cases thrown out, they should be
suggest that the former Trump campaign official is indicted for their actions and efforts to
cooperating and providing good information to Mueller’s overthrow the duly elected President of
team. the United States, Donald J. Trump. Let
justice be served!
Manafort has challenged the court as to the
constitutionality of indictments for activities before the
.
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Trump Effect: China Pulled Anti-Aircraft Missiles From
South China Sea Island BEFORE Trump-Kim Summit
Posted On June 13, 2018
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Tom Steyer: I’m Worried About
Trump Staging A Coup Against Democrats
Why Would The Sitting President Need To Stage A Coup Against A Political
Party That Currently Controls Nothing In America?
By NTK Staff
06.13.2018 @11:48am
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Rep Gaetz: Rosenstein’s Threats Left Congressional Staff
Members “Physically Shaking In My Office”
In Fear For Their Families
By Cristina Lail
June 13, 2018, 11:49 Am
Of course the FBI and DOJ are disputing this account and
defending Rosenstein.
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from investigations into Trump’s
campaign and behavior of officials at
the FBI and DOJ, citing conflicts of
interest.
Gaetz then called for Rosenstein, a Rosenstein is also trying to block Senate Judiciary
person who “improperly signed a FISA Chairman Chuck Grassley from interviewing FBI Special
application renewal,” to recuse himself Agent Joe Pientka because he has damning information on
the altered General Flynn 302’s.
.
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Dem Senator Tries To Get DOJ Official To
Say There’s Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion
Sen. Richard Blumenthal Wanted One Election Security Expert To Say That
President Trump's Campaign Coordinated With The Russian Government To Steal
The 2016 Election.
By NTK Staff
06.12.2018 @11:52am
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, “If those facts were true, wouldn’t it be
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) tried to force Deputy evidence of collusion between the Trump
Assistant Attorney General Adam Hickey to say that campaign and the Russian interference?”
evidence existed that President Trump’s campaign worked he asked.
with Russian intelligence to swing the 2016 presidential “I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to
election. comment in any respect on a pending
matter,” Hickey responded, ending
“There have been statements about there Blumenthal’s question period.
being no evidence of any collusion
between the Trump campaign and the
Russian attempt to interfere in our elections
.
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MSNBC Panelist: Conservative Christians
Have 'Sold Soul' For Trump, Without Much In Return
By Kristine Marsh
June 13, 2018 12:35 PM EDT
MARK LEIBOVICH: I'm not sure Mitch Mcconnell would say that But what do you see to evangelical
privately, to be perfectly honest with you. Look, they obviously Christians who say you don't need to
accomplished a great deal. But what we're talking about here is, I like the boss as long as he gets the job
don't know if you call it cowardice, or just pragmatism or done.
whatever, no this is, it's not news that politicians talk different
privately than they do publicly. Right now, it's more pronounced. So from the judicial appointment standpoint, don't you think
Look,I think at some point, we were saying this during the break, they're saying, who cares, I'm not going to know that guy in four
voters need to speak. We don't know what the toll will be on or eight years. And these judges will be in position for a lifetime?
Republicans for speaking out until voters render a verdict. It's not
just the Republican primary voters that we're talking about today, WEHNER:
they're going to make Cory Stewart, not just a state story but a
national story. It could be Todd Aiken, he could be Roy Moore,
he could drag down and uptick candidates also. But look At some Yeah, I’d say a couple of things, they're
point, the voters are going to make a verdict here. selling their soul for judges.
RUHLE: Okay. But the issue is conservative principles or values And I don't think that's a good tradeoff. There's a tremendous
versus policy. It almost seems like Mitch Mcconnell is saying for and huge discrediting effect that's happening to evangelical
conservatives its been an extraordinary 16 months. What he's Christians. They were ones, during the Clinton years and before,
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who argued about the centrality of morality in leaders. They can LEIBOVICH:
never make those arguments again. And where the real
hypocrisy is, they could easily say, look, we agree with Trump on What I would also a, Ronald Reagan
judges. We agree with him on abortion policy. And he's actually governed during the Cold War. And
advanced things we care about. But on the other side, the George W. Bush governed in a crisis
annihilation of truth, the pathological lies, the cruelty and crudity. during his first term. He was tested by
All of those other things really bother us, but they will not say very, very really and threatening events.
that. Instead of what they've done, they’re 100% for him, they will Again, we keep reminding people, but
not give a voice of dissent. That is really a discrediting judgment Donald Trump really has not, at this
on it. point.
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Morning Joe:
'The GOP Has Devolved Into Trumpist Cult'
By Cody Leach
June 13, 2018 2:00 PM EDT
Not even 24 hours removed since the most potentially Republican Party. Regardless of your
impactful foreign policy summit in a generation, the ideology, regardless of everything else, if
mainstream media has returned to its Trump-bashing he wants to put a target on your back, he
obsession. On Wednesday morning, MSNBC host Joe can and will.
Scarborough declared:
SCARBOROUGH: The Republican Party
“Primary voters in the Republican Party is not a conservative party. It's not
have devolved into a Trumpist cult.” conservative intellectually. It's not
conservative physically. It's not
conservative temperamentally. You look at
everything whether, from Edmund Burke,
through Russell Kirk, through William F.
Buckley. Straight into Ronald Reagan.
What's happening today is an aberration of
all of those things. That's fine, I wonder
where conservatives go now.
Scarborough, the one-time GOP Congressman
The insults were aided by national affairs analyst John representing the Florida panhandle went as far as stating
Heilemann, that
“It's clear that conservatism, liberalism, “The Republican party is not a conservative
voting records, none of those things matter, party. It's not conservative intellectually. It's
it's a cult of personality and the president not conservative physically. It's not
has an extraordinary hold over his base.” conservative temperamentally. You look at
everything whether, from Edmund Burke,
JOE SCARBOROUGH: It has devolved through Russell Kirk, through William F.
into a cult. Primary voters in the Republican Buckley. Straight into Ronald Reagan.
Party have devolved into a Trumpist cult. What's happening today is an aberration of
all of those things. That's fine, I wonder
JOHN HEILEMANN: It's clear that
where conservatives go now.”
conservatism, liberalism, voting records,
none of those things matter, it's a cult of These ad-hominem attacks from the Morning Joe
personality and the president has an host have become routine while he continues his self-
extraordinary hold over his base. Cult of appointed crusade to delegitimize the President of the
personality is one good description for it. United States.
For all of the people out there, at various
times everyone at this table and me, all of While steering off script and levying unhinged attacks has
us who have sat and said, why are become the new normal for Morning Joe and MSNBC,
Republicans afraid of Donald Trump? Why Scarborough, and his hosts find themselves again in an
do they -- why will they never cross him? awkward position where the facts disagree with him and
He's terrible, he's this, he's that they should his fellow hosts. In a report released from the Heritage
have the courage of their convictions and Foundation earlier in the year, Donald Trump has
stand up to him. This is a good example. successfully compiled a record of meeting sixty-four
Mark Sanford didn't even really stand up to percent of their policy recommendations from the
him, but President Trump brings the wrath “Mandate for Leadership”. Additionally, according to
and Mark Sanford loses his job. The fact is, director of Heritage’s congressional and executive
if you get on the wrong side of Donald outreach, Thomas Binion,
Trump, his power over his base is “We’re blown away” and Trump “is very
significant enough that he can kill you, active, very conservative, and very
regardless of how conservative voting effective.”
record is. Regardless of your history in the
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GOP Lawmakers To Introduce Resolution Giving DOJ
7 Days To Turn Over Documents Owed To Congress
By Cristina Laila
June 13, 2018, 2:19 Pm
Jim Jordan tweeted: @RepMarkMeadows and I are On Tuesday, Fox News Catherine Herridge reported on
introducing a resolution that would give the DOJ seven emails obtained memorializing a January 18, closed-door
days to turn over the documents that they owe Congress. meeting with DOJ, FBI and House Intel members where
We need to vote on this immediately. Rosenstein threatened GOP-led staffers if they didn’t stop
their investigation.
Of course the FBI and DOJ are disputing this account and
defending Rosenstein.
Rep. Jordan then ripped DAG House Leadership needs to clean house and get rid of
Rosenstein for threatening Sessions, Rosenstein and Wray.
Congressional staff members. “It’s time
for House Leadership to stand up.”
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North Korea: Pelosi Versus Peace
By Thomas Knapp
June 13, 2018
In her official statement on Trump’s Singapore summit If the Korean War is going to be sorted out, it will be the
with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, US House Minority belligerents — North Korea, South Korea, China and the
Leader Nancy Pelosi makes it clear that a few million United States, likely with significant input from Russia —
incinerated human beings are a small price to pay to keep doing the sorting.
the 68-year-old Korean War going. Maybe not forever, but
at least until there’s a Democrat in the White House. But Pelosi, the Democratic Party, and the party’s allies in
the media, would rather it NOT get sorted out.
“[T]he President handed Kim Jong-un concessions in
exchange for vague promises that do not approach a clear That’s disgusting.
and comprehensive pathway to denuclearization and non-
proliferation,” Pelosi complains.
Posturing America as “the exceptional nation,” Kim as a
supplicant in rags, and those other governments as mere
What were these dangerous “concessions?” hangers-on could have had only two possible outcomes.
One was the status quo ante. The other — a danger faced
First, the US armed forces will, conditional upon progress by then-president Barack Obama in negotiating the Iran
toward North Korean denuclearization, stop conducting the nuclear deal — was those other parties negotiating their
threatening military exercises that they’ve conducted on own deal, leaving a petulant, marginalized America to
North Korea’s border and off its coast since the 1953 watch their parade from the sidelines.
ceasefire. Some “concession.” If US and South Korean
forces aren’t prepared for a new outbreak of hostilities A genuine and durable peace on the Korean peninsula may
after 65 years of training, they never will be. or may not be achievable, but Trump seems to be giving it
the old college try. Pelosi and her party, having proven
Secondly, again conditional upon North Korea holding up unable to lead and unwilling to follow on the matter,
its end of the developing bargain, the US will provide should at least have the decency to get the hell out of the
“security guarantees.” Which means, the US and South way.
Korea won’t invade North Korea, just like they haven’t
.
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Mark Meadow RIPS AWOL Sessions For Defending
Rosenstein: “I’m Confident He Doesn’t Know What He’s
Talking About” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 13, 2018, 2:55 Pm
Chris Ulrich noted that Kim Jong Un had the upper hand in
the first photo-op with Trump because he was standing on
the left side of the photo, but added that Trump put his
hand on Kim Jong Un’s upper arm during their hand shake
as a way of “reestablishing dominance.”
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James Clapper Praises Trump
For North Korea Meeting
Amber Athey | Media And Breaking News Editor
4:55 PM 06/13/2018
Former director of national intelligence James Clapper Clapper, who has been incredibly critical of Trump, said
praised President Donald Trump for his efforts in that he gives the president credit for changing the narrative
denuclearizing North Korea. in negotiations with the North Korean regime.
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Mueller Appears To Have Screwed
Up By ‘Accidentally’ Exposing Names In Manafort Case
By Matt Naham
5:17 Pm, June 13th, 2018
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DENNIS RODMAN: “Obama Wouldn’t
Give Me The Time Of Day, But Trump Is Trump”
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 5:19 Pm
Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman visited “Barack Obama would not give him the
Singapore this week for the Trump-Kim Jong Un talks. time of day. But Trump is Trump.”
Dennis Rodman has met with Kim Jong Un before in Dennis Rodman:
North Korea. He is also a friend of President Trump.
He just wouldn’t listen to me at all. I mean,
he was just so trying to be the first black
president ever… ta-da-da-da… Some sh*t
like that… He wouldn’t listen to me. I
begged him to listen to me. I said I just
want to talk to you. I’ll visit the White House
we’ll sit down and talk. He didn’t give me
the time of day. It doesn’t matter. But,
Trump is Trump.
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Salon Finds Psychiatrist
To Diagnose Trump As Insane
By Isaac Cross
June 13, 2018 5:21 PM EDT
Gartner, of course, hasn’t personally evaluated Trump. In the poll that he is referencing, out of a pool of 650
Still, he’s sure Trump people, half of those who identified as republican said they
would support postponing the election.
“truly doesn't care if he destroys us all. In
fact, there's a part of Trump that would The interview represented just one more small-minded
almost take glee in it.” Gartner added for attack on Trump. Instead of taking on his policy decisions
good measure, “He's impulsive, he's in a civilized argument, the media has continually decided
erratic, he's seeing the world in a grossly to slander his mental health instead. Since Brian Stelter’s
distorted way.” opinion was not enough, they finally found medical
experts like Dr. Gartner with enough lack of
How does Gartner know? professionalism to be willing to support their claims.
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Jim Jordan Explodes On
AG Sessions For Defending Rosenstein
Amber Athey | Media And Breaking News Editor
5:38 PM 06/13/2018
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Trump Thinks China Shares
Vision On North Korean Nukes
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
7:21 PM 06/13/2018
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Sessions Defends Firing Comey,
Warns DoJ Report Could Prompt
More Terminations
By The Hill Staff
06/13/18 08:44 Pm Edt
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A Perfect Present For The President? Inspector General To
Release Bombshell Report On Clinton Email Case Today
On Trump's Birthday And Is Expected To Point The Blame
At 'Insubordinate' James Comey
DOJ Inspector General Report, Released Today, Is Expected To Scorch James Comey For Re-
Opening The Clinton Email Probe Days Before The 2016 Election
The Report Is The Perfect Present For The President Who Celebrates His 72nd Birthday On
Thursday
White House Official: Comey 'And His Cheap Halo Have Been Wearing The Holier-Than-Thou Act
Pretty Thin, And Nobody Around Here Is Going To Shed A Tear'
June 18 And 19 Will See Horowitz Testifying In Senate And House Hearings On Capitol Hill
Report Will Call Comey 'Insubordinate' – Suggesting Attorney General May Have Ordered Him To
Not Tell Congress Until After Election That He Rebooted The Probe
Also Expected To Be Deeply Critical Of Former AG Loretta Lynch For Meeting Bill Clinton In Secret
While Her Agency Was Deciding Hillary Clinton's Fate In 2016
The President Said He Hopes The Report Is Not Being 'Made Weaker'
By David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor And Hannah Perry For Dailymail.Com
Published: 23:58 Edt, 13 June 2018 | Updated: 07:06am Edt, 14 June 2018
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President Donald Trump will turn 72 on June 14, and his Of particular interest is Comey's bombshell announcement
present is the report from the Justice Department's two weeks before the 2016 election that the agency was
inspector general that is expected to excoriate his nemesis, reopening the Clinton email probe after stumbling upon
fired FBI director James Comey the new material. It wasn't until two days before the
election that the FBI announced, for a second time, it
would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton.
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Former attorney general Loretta Lynch will be under the
inspector general's microscope, reportedly for announcing Trump asked this week why it was 'taking so long' for the
just after a secret meeting with Bill Clinton that she Justice Department's IG to complete his report, details of
wouldn't intervene in deciding whether to charge Hillary which have begun to dribble out to the press
with a crime
Clinton maintained a private, home-brew email server for PRESSURE: The president said he hoped the report wasn't
her communications while she was secretary of state, and being made 'weaker' – a possible reference to the 'comment
classified material was found on it; Comey cleared her of period' where the Justice Department and FBI get the
criminal wrongdoing in July 2016 but rebooted the probe chance to make comments or dispute conclusions
in October, a move that she has said doomed her
presidential hopes
President Donald Trump put public pressure on the
inspector general this week to finish the report, and said he
That episode raised deep suspicions about whether she was hoped it wasn't being made 'weaker.'
putting her thumb on the scales of justice to help the
Clintons, although both insisted they didn't speak about the
then-Democratic presidential candidate's email scandal. The IG was originally scheduled to complete its findings
by the end of May.
The late-October 2016 restart of the Hillary Clinton probe
came after a tranche of her emails were discovered on a 'What is taking so long with the Inspector
laptop belonging to disgraced former Democratic General’s Report on Crooked Hillary and
congressman Anthony Weiner. Slippery James Comey,' Trump tweeted
this week.
Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy 'Numerous delays. Hope Report is not
campaign manager, from whose account the emails were being changed and made weaker! There
forwarded. are so many horrible things to tell, the
public has the right to know. Transparency!'
Sending the letter to Congress broke with longstanding
DOJ policy not to take actions that could interfere with There has been no indication that Trump has seen the
political processes, according to ABC. report ahead of its release.
The network's anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Amid growing interest in the report, the Senate Judiciary
Comey in April: 'If Attorney General Lynch had ordered Committee last week gave notice that it would hold a
you not to send the letter, would you have sent it?' hearing titled: 'Examining the Inspector General’s First
Report on Justice Department Decisions Regarding the
'No. I believe in the chain of command,' he replied. 2016 Presidential Election.'
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It pushed the hearing back a week, from its original date of HOW THE RELEASE OF THE I.G. REPORT WILL
June 5 to June 12. LIKELY PLAY OUT
'We are not going to hold the hearing until WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL SAY
the report comes out,' said a Judiciary
panel spokesman on Monday.
The president has depicted the former FBI director as
a renegade who breaks protocol, nicknaming him
Horowitz told a House Oversight hearing late last year his "Slippery James Comey."
office was
That portrayal serves a keen political purpose:
'aiming to release the report in late undercutting the ongoing Russia probe, since taken
winter/early spring — hopefully in that over by special counsel Robert Mueller. That probe
March/April time period.' includes a look at whether Trump himself tried to
obstruct justice by firing Comey.
One person the IG interviewed in the course of his
investigation was Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who on Any IG investigation challenging Comey's work as
Sunday said he provided satisfactory assurances that he did FBI director could bolster Trump's argument that he
not have inside information on the FBI reopening the did the right thing by pushing Comey out. It also
Clinton email investigation. brings the debate back to Clinton's email server.
Asked if he expected to be identified in the report as "When will people start saying, "thank you, Mr.
getting leaked information from the FBI, Giuliani told President, for firing James Comey?" Trump tweeted
NBC's 'Meet the Press': Thursday.
'Oh no, no, absolutely not. No. Impossible. He'll also likely point to an earlier inspector general
I didn't get any leaked information from the report that accused Comey's deputy, Andrew
F.B.I.' McCabe, of misleading internal investigators about a
news media disclosure.
Giuliani said he had
But what if the report doesn't go far enough for
'no idea that Weiner was involved in this at Trump? He's already floated the idea that the
all. Had no idea they were going to reopen findings could be watered down and that's why it
it.' hasn't been released. Trump seemed pleased
Thursday, though, following an ABC News report that
Giuliani in advance of the FBI's surprise move had touted the IG could use the term "insubordinate" to describe
'some pretty big surprise,' telling Fox News: 'You'll see.' Comey.
He told NBC he was referring to a major TV ad buy, "It is all a Democrat Excuse for LOSING the
'where we were going to buy a tremendous amount of time Election," Trump tweeted Thursday of the Russia
unlike anything we had ever done before.' He says he was probe. "Where is the server?"
able to 'show them a memo, a contemporaneous memo I
have' about it. WHAT DEMOCRATS WILL SAY
Asked by host Chuck Todd if he had a heads-up, Giuliani "Twilight zone," Mook tweeted at the time. "I was as
replied: 'Right, no heads up. I had a speculation.' disappointed and frustrated as anyone at how the
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email investigation was handled. But this terrifies But while that option was "really bad," concealing the
me." new information would be "catastrophic," considering
he had testified under oath that the investigation was
It's likely Democrats will search the IG report for finished. He has said he felt compelled to advise
justification that Comey's handling of the email them that was no longer the case.
investigation was clumsy. But they'll also probably
argue Trump really fired Comey because of his It's not clear how Comey will respond to the report,
agency's Russia probe and Comey's refusal to but on Tuesday, he tweeted that "facts" have a way
publicly say the president himself wasn't under of winning out.
investigation.
"It can take a while, but decency and the rule of law
WHAT JAMES COMEY WILL SAY inevitably win over demagogues and liars," he said.
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Norwegian Politicians Nominate
President Trump For Nobel Peace Prize
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 7:46 Am
Now this…
Two Norwegian lawmakers nominated
President Donald Trump for the Nobel
Peace Prize following the Singapore
Summit with Kim Jong-Un.
In March President Donald Trump was nominated for the Sky.com reported:
2017 Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘peace through strength
ideology’.
Donald Trump has been nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian
This followed his progress on the North Korean missile politicians after his historic meeting with
crisis. Kim Jong Un.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an MP, and
In April President Trump held a rally with supporters in
former justice minister Per-Willy Amundsen
Michigan.
said Mr. Trump “had taken a huge and
important step in the direction of the
They started chanting “Nobel! Nobel!” disarmament, peace and reconciliation
between North and South Korea”.
Both men are politicians with the anti-
establishment Progress Party.
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Shocking Details In IG Report Reveal James Comey,
Peter Strzok And FBI Agents Plotted
TREASON Against America
By Mike Adams
06/14/2018
James Come used illegal, secret Gmail [We have] identified numerous FBI
account to conduct FBI business employees, at all levels of the organization
and with no official reason to be in contact
The report also finds that treasonous deep state actor James with the media, who were nevertheless in
Comey used an illegal, secret email account on Gmail to frequent contact with reporters… [FBI
conduct official FBI business, mirroring the criminal agents were] improperly receiving benefits
actions of Hillary Clinton who violated national security from reporters, including tickets to sporting
laws by operating her own secret email server. When events, golfing outings, drinks and meals,
Congress issued a subpoena for the tens of thousands of and admittance to nonpublic social events.
emails on Clinton’s server, she ordered them all
destroyed. James Comey then covered up for Hillary’s In other words, the FBI was actively committing treason
crimes by publicly exonerating her for acts that clearly and got caught. James Comey ran the entire operation. Yet
meet the definition of obstruction of justice. to this day, he remains in such a state of denial about the
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rule of law that he continues to claim he did nothing will lose any remaining faith in the
wrong. institution of federal government.
The consequences for treason include This, in turn, will lead to secession, civil war or other
the death penalty extreme outcomes that ultimately spell the end of America
as we know it. After all, if the federal government is
clearly run by criminals and policed by criminals who
While I support everyone’s right to a fair trial and a
exonerate all their deep state buddies from serious crimes,
competent defense, it’s becoming increasingly clear that a
why should the American people believe anything the
long list of individuals inside the FBI and DOJ need to be
government does (or says) at all?
indicted and charged with treason. If found guilty in a
court of law, one of the penalties for treason is the death
penalty. We are facing a “do-or-die” moment for the future of this
nation. We either hold these deep state criminals
accountable for their crimes, or America is lost forever.
Through their actions, conspirators like James Comey and
Peter Strzok have not only proven they are unfit to serve
the American people; they are very likely going to face Watch my video for full details:
serious criminal indictment for their attempted conspiracy
to overthrow the United States of America. Their acts of
treason carry severe consequences, and We the People are
beyond “fed up” with a two-tiered justice system where
crooks in Washington D.C. seem to get away with
everything and face no consequences for their crimes. It’s
time to hold these people accountable for their failed coup
attempt and charge them with the crime they committed:
TREASON.
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BREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Responds To CBS
Report On Her ‘Plans To Leave The White House’
By Cristina Laila
June 13, 2018, 8:05 Pm
BREAKING NEWS.
CBS also claimed,
CBS reported Wednesday afternoon
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was
planning to leave her position at the “there will be more people leaving the
White House by the end of 2018. White House sooner rather than later…”
Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Raj Sarah Huckabee Sanders replaced Sean Spicer as Press
Shah is also planning on departing the Secretary last July after briefly serving as the Principal
White House, however; the exact date of Deputy Press Secretary.
his exit is unknown at this time,
according to CBS.
Sanders, like Sean Spicer took a tremendous amount of
liberal abuse by the snakes in the press pool.
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Don Trump Jr. On Mueller Witch Hunt: I Don’t Trust
These People – My Father Should Not Sit
Down With Them (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 8:12 Am
Brian Kilmeade:
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Mueller Files Request For
150 Blank Subpoenas In Manafort Case
By Cristina Laila
June 13, 2018, 9:59 Pm
GOP Representatives Ron DeSantis, Jim Jordan and Matt the bias then they’re threatened by Rod
Gaetz joined joined Sean Hannity on Wednesday night to Rosenstein? This is outrageous. Kash
discuss the shocking development that Deputy Attorney Patel was in my office concerned for the
General Rod Rosenstein threatened Congressional staffers. fact that he as a staff member was doing
his job and then somehow had a different
Earlier on the show Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Sean branch of government bringing these
that Rod Rosenstein threatened three staffers in his threats upon him…
presence and he suspects several more were threatened. Look, I’m sick and tired of Rod
Rosenstein’s games. I think we need to
impeach Rosenstein. He won’t turn over
documents. He signed a FISA renewal
against the President of the United
States. And frankly if we don’t step up
and defend our institution then what
good is the Congress anyway?
Via Hannity:
Matt Gaetz:
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First Leaks On IG Report: Comey Broke From FBI
Procedures But “No Political Bias”
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 10:18 Am
The first leaks say Comey broke from FBI procedure but
was not politically biased.
Bloomberg reported:
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Comey Broke From FBI Procedures
In Clinton Probe, Watchdog Finds
ByChris Strohm
June 14, 2018, 9:07 AM CDT Updated On June 14, 2018, 10:57 AM CDT
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“This finding could have been reached the Lynch ahead of Comey’s July 5 press conference on
day of Comey’s press conference,” Brian Clinton and his October 28 letter to Congress.
Fallon, who was spokesman for Clinton’s
presidential campaign, said Thursday. “It “We found it extraordinary that, in advance
was obvious at the time that Comey was of two such consequential decisions, the
completely deviating from department FBI director decided that the best course of
protocols and it had a fateful impact on the conduct was to not speak directly and
2016 campaign and the long-term substantively with the attorney general
reputation of the FBI.” about how best to navigate those
decisions.”
Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Elijah Cummings, the
top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Lynch had announced that she would go along with
committees, said in a statement that whatever Comey recommended with regard to the Clinton
case, although she didn’t formally recuse herself. Lynch
“the stark conclusion we draw after had come under heated criticism for agreeing to meet with
reviewing this report is that the FBI’s former President Bill Clinton in June 2016 on her plane
actions helped Donald Trump become while it was sitting on a tarmac in Phoenix. The two sides
president.” have said they didn’t discuss anything related to the
investigation.
Republican members of Congress said they wanted to read
the report before commenting. The inspector general released a report in April finding
that Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe
Anti-Trump Texts lacked candor on four different occasions regarding
interactions with the media, including providing
information to a news reporter about the FBI’s
Republican critics seized on previous revelations from the investigation into the foundation created by Hillary and
inspector general that two FBI officials who worked on Bill Clinton. The inspector general has referred the matter
Mueller’s Russia investigation, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for further
exchanged text messages sharply critical of Trump. investigation.
Mueller removed Strzok from the inquiry after the texts
were discovered, and Page has since left the FBI.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions relied on the report to fire
McCabe only hours before he was set to retire and qualify
One example cited in the new report is an email exchange for his full government pension. McCabe and his lawyer
between Strzok and Page on Aug. 8, 2016. Page have adamantly contested the allegations.
questioned whether Trump would become president.
Strzok replied:
Sessions said before the inspector general’s latest report
was released that
“No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
“if anyone else shows up in this report to
But Horowitz said in the report to be issued Thursday that
have done something that requires
termination we will do so.”
“we did not find documentary or testimonial
evidence that improper considerations, The attorney general said in an interview with The Hill
including political bias, directly affected the that he expected “a careful report” that will “help us better
specific investigative actions we reviewed.” fix any problems that we have and reassure the American
Still, he wrote that “the conduct by these people that some of the concerns that have been raised are
employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI not true.”
investigation.”
Comey-Lynch Criticism The inspector general also has opened a separate review
into whether the Justice Department and FBI followed
appropriate procedures in obtaining a secret warrant to
Horowitz found a “troubling lack of any direct, substantive conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign aide
communication” between Comey and Attorney General Carter Page in late 2016 and early 2017.
.
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The Long-Awaited Inspector General Report
On The FBI, Comey, Clinton, And 2016, Explained
Michael Horowitz Is An Obama Appointee Who Started This Review Long Ago.
But Trump Hopes To Use His Findings To Discredit Comey.
By Andrew Prokopandrew@Vox.Com
Updated Jun 14, 2018, 10:42am EDT
A hotly anticipated inspector general report about then-FBI What is taking so long with the Inspector
Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton General’s Report on Crooked Hillary and
email investigation is finally complete. It’s set to be Slippery James Comey. Numerous delays.
released to Congress Thursday afternoon — and is Hope Report is not being changed and
guaranteed to become a lightning rod in President Trump’s made weaker! There are so many horrible
clashes with his own Justice Department. things to tell, the public has the right to
know. Transparency!
We’re still awaiting the full text, but Chris Strohm of — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Bloomberg News reports that the IG’s conclusions include June 5, 2018
the following:
However, commentators on all sides of the political
1) Comey’s actions in the Clinton case departed “clearly
spectrum had — and still have — reasonable complaints
and dramatically from FBI and department norms” and
about Comey’s unusual choices during the 2016 campaign.
hurt the “perception of the FBI” — but they weren’t the
result of “political bias.”
2) Specifically, it was not Comey’s job to publicly proclaim Horowitz has spent six years in the IG job, has a good
what a “reasonable prosecutor” should do in the Clinton reputation, and is by all appearances nonpartisan.
case — the FBI is supposed to investigate, while the Furthermore, the inspector general operates with a measure
Justice Department makes charging decisions. of independence from government higher-ups. Now he’s
3) Texts between affair-having FBI officials Peter Strzok about to walk into the most dangerous political maelstrom
and Lisa Page did have political bias, but the IG found he’s faced yet. But to understand the new report, you have
no evidence that “improper considerations” affected to first understand the inspector general role — and
their investigative actions in the Clinton case. Horowitz himself.
Michael Horowitz, the inspector general writing the report, What is an inspector general?
is an Obama appointee, and when he first announced he
was reviewing the DOJ and FBI’s actions all the way back Often called the “watchdog” for the federal government,
in January 2017, many Clinton supporters eagerly hoped an inspector general is supposed to investigate allegations
he would take Comey to task for actions that they felt of misconduct within his or her particular agency. Each
inappropriately affected the presidential election. major Cabinet department has one, and so do various other
federal offices and agencies — there are 73 inspectors
But we now live in a world where former FBI Director general (or IGs) in total. (This helpful CRS report lists
James Comey is a prominent critic of Trump and an them all.)
important witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation of whether the president obstructed justice. When inspector general offices were first established in the
mid-1970s, their primary task was to investigate “waste,
Even though Horowitz’s report isn’t about the Russia fraud, and abuse” in federal spending, and that remains an
investigation at all, it will be released in a political context important part of their job today.
dominated by both Mueller’s probe and Trump’s attacks
on his Justice Department. Indeed, Trump has recently But gradually, their authority has expanded to the point
signaled that he’s eagerly anticipating the IG report, since where IGs have become all-purpose scandal investigators.
it was expected to criticize Comey, and he is trying to It’s become understood that when something controversial
undermine Comey’s credibility. goes down at an agency, it’s the IG — who’s outside the
normal chain of command — that’s supposed to look into
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it. IGs can start investigations based on whistleblower By now, Trump has cleared out most of the Justice
complaints, referrals from their office’s leadership, or Department’s Obama-era leadership — but Inspector
requests from Congress. General Michael Horowitz remains.
A department’s IG has the authority to examine relevant Horowitz has deep roots in the department. From 1991 to
records from the department, from memos to emails. IGs 1999, he worked as an assistant US attorney in Justice’s
have subpoena power and can arrange interviews of prestigious Southern District of New York office, where he
current employees — interviews in which it would be a led a major investigation into police corruption. He was
crime to make false statements. So their investigations then promoted to higher-level roles in the main Justice
have the potential to be quite vigorous. Department’s criminal division — first as deputy assistant
attorney general and then as the division chief of staff. In
Yet one crucial thing to understand is that inspectors 2002, he left the government and spent the next decade as
general have no authority to actually charge anyone with a partner at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
crimes (or indeed, to impose any disciplinary actions). (where he was well-compensated).
Their investigations end when they assemble reports on
what they found. These reports, which are generally made When the Justice Department’s well-respected Inspector
public, can recommend that people be prosecuted, but General Glenn Fine decided to resign after a decade in the
actual charging decisions are left to elsewhere in the post, President Obama decided to nominate Horowitz to
Justice Department. replace him. With congressional Republicans already
demanding various investigations into the Obama
The most prominent IGs are all presidential appointees administration, Horowitz was likely picked because he was
who have to be confirmed by the Senate. However, the a nonpartisan figure who’d worked under presidents of
offices do have a reputation for independence. Though the both parties. The Senate confirmed him without objection
president can fire them so long as he tells Congress why in in the spring of 2012.
advance, in recent decades that’s rarely been done. Instead,
IGs are generally (though not always) left in place and get Horowitz has served in the post in the six years since. In
to serve until they choose to move on. that time, he’s overseen investigations into politically
charged matters like “Fast and Furious,” the mishandled
Trump has so far abided by that tradition. Nearly all of the operation to infiltrate a weapons-smuggling ring in which
most prominent inspectors general are still holdovers from law enforcement officials allowed hundreds of weapons to
the Obama or even George W. Bush administrations. They be smuggled into Mexico. (Horowitz’s report criticized 14
include the IGs for State, Treasury, Defense, Health and officials for mishandling the matter.)
Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency,
Veterans Affairs — and Justice Department Inspector He’s occasionally clashed with Justice and FBI leadership,
General Michael Horowitz. publicly criticizing them for failing to turn over records on
grand jury investigations relevant to his probes. And he’s
Who is Michael Horowitz? become a sort of champion for the IGs themselves,
chairing a council of inspectors general and asking
Congress to give IGs more investigative powers.
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On January 12, 2017 — after Trump had won the election say the least, and some analysts believe Comey‘s late
but before his inauguration — Horowitz announced that he letters helped swing the election to Trump.
was opening “a review of allegations regarding certain
actions” by the Justice Department and FBI “in advance of Horowitz’s January 2017 announcement suggested he’d
the 2016 election.” examine criticisms of Comey‘s behavior from all sides of
the political spectrum — and certain other officials’
By that, he meant, mainly, officials’ handling of the now- conduct too. These included then-Deputy FBI Director
closed Hillary Clinton email probe, and not the probe of Andrew McCabe (who some conservatives said should
the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. (The latter have recused himself because Clinton ally Gov. Terry
investigation hadn’t even been publicly confirmed to exist McAuliffe had earlier helped fundraise for McCabe’s
at the time and is still ongoing even today.) wife’s failed state Senate campaign), and then-Justice
official Peter Kadzik, who had contacts with Clinton
To recap the infamous chain of events in the Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. Finally, Horowitz also said
probe: When it emerged in 2015 that Clinton had used a he would look into DOJ and FBI leaks that happened
personal email account on a private server for all of her during the campaign more generally.
emails while she was secretary of state, the Justice
Department launched an investigation into whether she had What did the IG report find?
mishandled classified information. Eventually, in a
decision Comey says was unanimous among his We’re still awaiting the full text of the report, but the
investigative team, the FBI privately concluded that it fullest accounting of what Horowitz concluded so far
wouldn’t recommend any charges in the matter. comes from Chris Strohm of Bloomberg News.
But by the summer of 2016, the case had become According to Strohm, the report concludes that Comey
enormously politically charged, with GOP nominee-in- public announcement that he would recommend no
waiting Donald Trump repeatedly claiming the charges in the Clinton email case went contrary to Justice
investigation would result in Clinton’s indictment. And Department tradition — because it is the Justice
after word leaked out that Attorney General Loretta Lynch Department, not the FBI, that is supposed to decide on
and Bill Clinton had met on an airport tarmac in late June, charging decisions. (The FBI is just supposed to
Republicans claimed the fix was in. investigate.)
So on July 5, 2016, Comey bypassed Justice Department Horowitz says he found no evidence that Comey made his
leadership to make a highly unusual public statement in decisions because of political bias — but that they ended
which he announced that though he believed Clinton had up hurting the public perception of the FBI anyway.
been “extremely careless” in her email practices, he would
not recommend any charges in the case. Republicans
blasted him for his conclusion that charges weren’t Indeed, according to Justice Department policy and
necessary, while some Democrats questioned why he felt tradition, the FBI should not make grand public
compelled to pontificate publicly about a probe in which pronouncements and criticisms about someone who hasn’t
he found no criminal wrongdoing. been charged with any crime. They also shouldn’t
announce investigative actions that could impact an
election just days before that election.
Comey’s public statements about the case continued, first
in extensive congressional testimony, then in an October
28 letter announcing the FBI had discovered new emails Comey did both of these in the Clinton case. He claims he
that could be relevant, and then in another November 6 was trying to preserve the reputation of the FBI for
letter saying the new emails didn’t change the FBI’s impartiality.
investigative conclusion. All this was highly unusual, to
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“The confidence of people that the system This was self-evidently absurd, because the DOJ memo
is working in a fair way, that Lady Justice criticized Comey for actions that hurt Clinton (his critical
has kept her blindfold on, matters,” he’s public statement about her, and his late letter saying new
said. emails had been found). Trump, meanwhile, had long
made it unmistakably clear that he thought Comey was too
(Less charitably, his actions could be construed as an easy on Clinton in 2016 — and he ended up torpedoing his
attempt to protect himself politically from expected aides’ story by admitting the Russia probe played a role in
criticisms from the right.) Yet Horowitz might not be so his decision just two days later.
convinced that these allegedly lofty motivations justify
Comey’s highly unusual behavior. But now the new IG report could prove useful to Trump
for a few different reasons, as Mueller investigates whether
According to Strohm, Horowitz also concluded that anti- Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.
Trump text messages exchanged by FBI officials Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page, who were involved in the Clinton For one, Comey is an important witness to Mueller, and
case and having an affair, were ill-advised and displayed several of his key interactions with Trump occurred
bias. However, he did not find evidence that that affected without anyone else present. Trump, naturally, has aimed a
any decisions in the email case itself. barrage of criticism at the fired FBI director in an attempt
to impugn his credibility as a witness, calling him “a leaker
Other officials are expected to come in for criticism too, and a liar.”
including Loretta Lynch. Plus, Horowitz has already
referred Comey’s former deputy at the FBI, McCabe, for Trump is also searching for ways to argue that he was
criminal prosecution, saying McCabe misled investigators correct in firing Comey, and that that act did not constitute
about his role in a pre-election leak about an investigation obstruction of justice. So if the IG concludes that Comey
into the Clinton Foundation. Horowitz broke out these mishandled the Clinton email case, Trump will likely
criticisms into a separate IG report — read this post for question how firing an FBI director who’d made such
more on that — but he may have more to say about major errors could possibly be construed as obstruction.
McCabe and the email case here. (However, many legal experts believe that if Trump fired
Comey with corrupt intent, in hopes of thwarting an
What does all this mean for the Russia investigation? investigation he viewed as dangerous for either himself or
his allies, it could still be obstruction.)
Horowitz’s report may well be quite reasonable in what it
concludes. But inevitably, and almost regardless of the The IG report is also being released in the midst of a
report’s specifics, President Trump will attempt to exploit continuing effort by Trump to try to undermine the Justice
it to try and discredit the Russia investigation (even Department’s independence and discredit the Mueller
though, again, this IG report is not actually about the probe more generally as part of a “deep state” plot against
Russia investigation). him. So the more Horowitz criticizes the Obama-era
Justice Department leadership, the more ammunition
Trump will have against them too.
It’s not the first time Trump has tried to use the Clinton
email case against Comey. Back when Trump fired him as
FBI director in May 2017, the White House initially put Horowitz, though, is likely trying to ignore this larger
out a cover story saying he did so because Comey violated political battle by focusing only on his particular role — to
DOJ policy in the Clinton email probe. assess whether there was any Justice Department
misconduct with regards to the 2016 election. Perhaps, in
the end, that’s all he can be expected to do.
.
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Rudy Giuliani: Mueller Lawyers Were
The Ones “Crying Like Babies” The Night Hillary Lost
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 13, 2018, 10:45 Pm
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BREAKING: IG Report To Weigh In On Hatch Act
Violations At FBI ‘Officials Using Their Authority To
Interfere With An Election’
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 10:45 Am
The first leaks on the report say James Comey broke from
FBI procedures when he delivered his report publicly on
the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Last June, then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe was
being investigated by the Office of U.S.
Hillary broke several rules, laws and regulations but was
not found guilty for her actions.
Counsel for violating the Hatch Act according to a report
by Circa News.
It was a sham investigation by the FBI and DOJ.
The Hatch Act prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in
Now this… partisan races. Photos of McCabe campaigning for his
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry says wife raised questions about McCabe’s compliance with the
the IG report will weigh in on Hatch Act law.
violations at the FBI.
The full IG report will be released later Thursday. Stay
Sperry tweeted: BREAKING: Bombshell IG report to tuned. Happy birthday, President Trump!
weigh in on Hatch Act violations at FBI — specifically,
employees using their official authority or influence “to
interfere with or affect the result of an election”
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ABC & CBS Ignore Mueller’s
Public Image Hitting All-Time Low
By Kyle Drennen
June 14, 2018 11:05 AM EDT
On Thursday, while reporting on the latest developments “In the latest survey, 40 percent of voters
in the Russia investigation, neither ABC’s Good Morning said it had been handled unfairly,
America nor CBS This Morning made any mention of a compared to early February when 34
new poll showing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s percent said the probe wasn’t being
favorability with the American people dropping to lowest handled fairly,” explained a Politico write-
level since the probe began over a year ago. NBC’s Today up of the poll.
show did manage to note the survey, but only for a mere
17 seconds. The article also highlighted:
On finding Welker left out of her seconds-long account of Back in the 1990s, the liberal media certainly were not shy
the Politico/Morning Consult poll was that there was also about denigrating the work and character of
a significant increase in the number of people who thought Independent Counsel Ken Starr throughout his years-long
the Russia investigation was being handled unfairly. investigation of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
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HUGE=> IG Report Reveals Peter Strzok Text Messaged
“We’ll Stop” Trump From Becoming President
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 11:34 Am
The first leaks on the report say James Comey broke from
FBI procedures when he delivered his report publicly on
the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
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POTUS TRUMP Blasts Disgraced Former AG
Schneiderman And NY Democrats Over Latest Junk
Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 11:49 Am
President Trump:
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WHO DELETED IT? Peter Strzok’s ‘We’ll Stop Trump
From Becoming President’ Text Message Was MISSING
From Earlier Document Productions
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 12:38 Pm
WaPo reported:
This text message from Strzok was sent to Page 9 days But no ‘political bias’???
after “Crossfire Hurricane” was opened and 6 days
before the “insurance policy” text. Lisa Page’s portion of this text message
exchange was previously disclosed,
Someone may have deleted this damning text message however; Strzok’s response was
because it was ‘missing’ from a previous doc dump. REMOVED. (screenshot below)
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The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross said, “DOJ official is unable to say if Strok’s “we’ll stop” Trump text message
was deleted, or something else. But the response was to an Aug. 9, 2016 message from Lisa Page. That’s
before FBI servers were hit with glitch.”
“I want to believe the path you threw out
for consideration in Andy’s office…that
there’s no way [Trump] gets
elected…but I’m afraid we can’t take
that risk,” Strzok text messaged to Page
in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring
to Andrew McCabe.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the
unlikely event you die before you’re 40,”
Strzok added.
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Rep. Meadows: Strzok’s ‘We’ll Stop Trump From
Becoming President’ Text Message Was Also HIDDEN
FROM CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 1:05 Pm
Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok:
sent his mistress a text message saying “(Trump’s) not ever going to become
“we’ll stop” Trump from becoming president, right? Right?!” Strzok reply:
President. “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” This
Peter Strzok text about “stopping”
This text message from Strzok was sent Donald Trump was hidden from
to Page 9 days after “Crossfire Congressional investigators. We never
Hurricane” was opened and 6 days had it. Absolutely unreal.
before the “insurance policy” text.
Not only was the public in the dark about this extremely
damning text from Strzok, it was also most likely
deliberately hidden from Congressional investigators.
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Lisa Page’s portion of this text message “He’s not ever going to become
exchange was previously disclosed, president, right? Right?!”
however; Strzok’s response was
REMOVED. (screenshot via Chuck Ross What happened?? Who deleted this?
below)
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross said, Just 6 days later, in another damning text exchange
between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an
“DOJ official is unable to say if Strok’s “insurance policy” to keep Donald Trump out of office.
“we’ll stop” Trump text message was
deleted, or something else. But the “I want to believe the path you threw out for
response was to an Aug. 9, 2016 consideration in Andy’s office…that there’s
message from Lisa Page. That’s before no way [Trump] gets elected…but I’m
FBI servers were hit with glitch.” afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok text
messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016
exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.
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Attorney Warns: Rich Family, Obama Admin Lawyers
‘Desperately’ Obstructing Wikileaks From Revealing
Truth About ‘Hacked’ DNC Server
By Alicia Powe
June 14, 2018, 1:13 Pm
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correspondences retaliate against Clevenger for demanding
the Rich family authorize WikiLeaks to reveal what it
knows about the DNC data breach, Clevenger explained.
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And they never will.
Attorney Ty Clevenger
The lawyer representing Rich, Michael J. Gottlieb, served Rather than availing the server to the FBI for forensic
as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White examination, which would determine whether the server
House Counsel from 2009- 2010, where he focused on was hacked or the emails were leaked, the DNC hired the
national security law and judicial nominations. In January private cyber security firm CrowdStrike to provide replicas
2010, he left the White House to serve as Senior Civilian of the server’s data to the FBI and then destroyed the
and Deputy Director of Combined Joint Interagency Task server.
Force 435 in Kabul Afghanistan. Following his time in
Afghanistan, Gottlieb returned to the White House Federal Election Commission records show that
Counsel’s Office, where he served until the end of CrowdStrike received a $98,849.84 check from the
February 2013. Democratic National Committee the day after Seth Rich
was killed. Yet, the DNC has yet to offer a reward for
A second attorney prosecuting Rich’s case is David Boies, information leading to the arrest of the murderer of its own
chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, whos young staffer.
has been involved in various high-profile cases in
the United States, including Bush v. Gore, the defense WikiLeaks is offering $20,000 for information leading to
of Harvey Weinstein against sexual abuse allegations and the arrest of Rich’s killer. The D.C. Metropolitan Police
United States v. Microsoft Corp. Department is offering $25,000; One America News
Network, $100,000; GOP lobbyist Jack Burkman,
Rich’s story has been largely ignored by establishment $105,000; and businessman and investor Martin Shkreli,
media. Those who have called attention to the suspicious $100,000. The DNC honored its murdered employee by
circumstances surrounding his murder have been branded dedicating a bike rack outside its headquarters to Rich’s
“conspiracy theorists,” including Fox News host Sean memory.
Hannity.
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Just Out. St 3:00pm June 14th, 2018 (560 pages, see 37a-Appendix for Repot)
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Dirty Cop Rosenstein Spotted Leaving
White House After 2.5 Hour Meeting On IG Report
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 1:29 Pm
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BREAKING: Full Report By Inspector General On FBI
Handling Of Clinton Investigation Released
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 1:30 Pm
Lawyers for the subjects included in the report were given Rep. Meadows also revealed this damning text message
a draft copy to prepare rebuttals for their clients which is was HIDDEN from Congressional investigators as well as
what partially led to delays in releasing the report to the the public.
public.
Story developing…The Gateway Pundit will be breaking
What we know so far… down the IG report throughout the day.
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Comey Responds To IG Report: ‘This Report Says I Was
Wrong. But That’s Good For The FBI’
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 1:52 Pm
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First, the inspector general’s team went through the Rep. Meadows also revealed this
F.B.I.’s work with a microscope and found no evidence damning text message was HIDDEN
that bias or improper motivation affected the investigation, from Congressional investigators as
which I know was done competently, honestly and well as the public.
independently.
Investigative reporter, Paul Sperry cautioned earlier
What a complete sham. Thursday that Horowitz is deeply conflicted.
No political bias?
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IG Report Reveals Crooked Comey
Used Secret Gmail Account For FBI Business
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 2:20 Pm
James Comey used a personal Gmail “Of that I am highly confident,” he added.
account to conduct FBI business on “I’m also highly confident, in fact,
numerous occasions when he was director certain you would not be criminally
of the bureau — even though he warned prosecuted for that conduct.”
FBI worker they would be in “huge trouble”
for doing the same thing, the Justice The IG report identified FIVE different instances where
Department‘s internal watchdog revealed Comey used a Gmail account to conduct official FBI
Thursday. business, CNBC reported.
Comey’s frequent use of a personal email
account for unclassified FBI business was So why the hell is Comey still walking around freely after
“inconsistent with” the policy statement for all of this has come to light??
email use by the Justice Department,
according to a report issued by the Office The Inspector General said Comey broke from FBI
of the Inspector General. procedure but was not politically biased.
The findings were published on page 425
of the report. What a complete sham!
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On Thursday, fired FBI Director James Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok sent his mistress a
Comey responded to the Inspector text message saying “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming
General’s report in an op-ed in the New President.
York Times.
‘This report says I was wrong. But that’s This text message from Strzok was sent to Page 9 days
good for the FBI,’ said Comey. after “Crossfire Hurricane” was opened and 6 days
before the “insurance policy” text, but no political bias,
Comey penned an op-ed in the New York Times prior to the says Horowitz.
IG report being released to the public.
.
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HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Another Lawyer Was
Removed From Mueller’s Team This February Over Anti-
Trump Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 2:40 Pm
BREAKING NEWS.
The attorney’s comments are revealed in a Justice
The IG report released Thursday Department inspector general’s report released on
revealed ANOTHER lawyer was removed Thursday.
from Mueller’s team of liberal hacks
February of this year after anti-Trump
text messages surfaced. The lawyer is not identified, but he worked on the Hillary
Clinton email investigation and was the FBI’s lead
‘Viva Le Resistance,’ said the attorney on the investigation into Russian election
unidentified Trump-hating (future) interference. He was assigned to special counsel Robert
Mueller lawyer in a November 2016 text Mueller’s investigation soon after it began in May 2017
message. and left in late February of this year after some of his
private messages were shared with the special counsel.
“Viva le Resistance.” And Horowitz said there was no political bias at the FBI…
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AWFUL! CNN Analyst Starts SCREAMING AT SARAH
HUCKABEE SANDERS During Presser (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 2:56 Pm
342
IG Report: McCabe Continued To Involve
Himself In Clinton Probe AFTER He Recused
Himself For Conflicts Of Interest
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 3:43 Pm
On Thursday, Inspector General Michael Now we find out he was still involved in Hillary Clinton’s
Horowitz released his much anticipated probe even though he recused himself from the
review on FBI and DOJ actions during investigation.
the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Follow this thread from investigative
According to the Inspector General, McCabe continued to reporter, Paul Sperry…
involve himself in the Clinton probe AFTER he recused
McCabe was present at meetings where
himself for obvious conflicts of interest.
the Clinton email investigation was
discussed.
Even worse, McCabe deliberately hid his recusal from the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
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So Andrew McCabe was able to protect Hillary Clinton
McCabe and Lisa Page deliberately
during the ENTIRE investigation and didn’t recuse
withheld McCabe’s recusal from the
himself until a week before the election.
Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Inspector General Refers FIVE FBI Employees For
Investigation After MORE Anti-Trump
Text Messages Surface
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 4:27 Pm
These FBI agents not only hate Donald Trump, they have a “I find anyone who enjoys [this job] an
tremendous amount of contempt for Trump supporters as absolute f—ing idiot. If you don’t think so,
well. ask them one more question. Who are you
voting for? I guarantee you it will be Donald
“Trump supporters are all poor to middle Drumpf,” Agent 1 sent.
class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he “I forgot about drumpf…that’s so sad and
will magically grant them jobs for doing pathetic if they want to vote for him,” Agent
nothing. They probably didn’t watch the 5 responded. “Someone who can’t answer
debates, aren’t fully educated on his a question. Someone who can’t be
policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his professional for even a second.”
umerited enthusiasm,” wrote an FBI official.
(screenshot via Breitbart Editor Amanda In September, Agent 1 and 5 conversed again, bashing
House) Trump supporters as “retarded.”
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Agent 5 later wrote: It is unclear which five FBI employees have been referred
for investigation.
“I would rather have brunch with trump and
a bunch of his supporters like the ones An FBI spokesperson told Fox News Thursday they were
from ohio that are retarded.” not able to comment on the names of the five employees
referred for investigation.
The report did not, however, find evidence connecting
those political opinions held by FBI officials to decisions Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok
made in the Clinton investigation. also sent his mistress a text message
saying “we’ll stop” Trump from
Futher, the report said that while it found no evidence the becoming President.
views influenced investigative decisions, “five employees”
have been referred for investigation into whether the This text message from Strzok was sent
messages violated FBI code. to Page 9 days after “Crossfire
Hurricane” was opened and 6 days
“The FBI will handle these referrals before the “insurance policy” text.
pursuant to the FBI’s disciplinary
investigation and adjudication processes, Rep. Meadows also revealed this damning text message
and will impose disciplinary measures as was HIDDEN from Congressional investigators as well as
warranted,” the report read. the public.
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“But My Emails” Hillary Clinton Trolls Comey After IG
Report Reveals He Used Secret Gmail
To Conduct FBI Business
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 4:47 Pm
CNBC reported:
The IG noted Comey blasted agents in a speech in October the course of doing our business even
of 2016 over the use of private email/private server. though you were communicating with
people with clearances and doing work you
“I have gotten emails from some employees discussed classified matters in that, in those
about this, who said, “If I did what Hillary Clinton communications, TS/SCI, special access
did I’d be in huge trouble.’ “ programs, you would be in huge trouble in
the FBI,” Comey said.
“My response is you bet your ass you’d be in
huge trouble,” Comey said in that speech. “Of that I am highly confident,” he added. “I’m
also highly confident, in fact, certain you
would not be criminally prosecuted for that
“If you used a personal email, Gmail or if
conduct.”
you [had] the capabilities to set up your own
email domain, if you used an unclassified
personal email system to do our business in
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The IG report identified FIVE different instances where
Comey used a Gmail account to conduct official FBI
business, CNBC reported.
Hillary tweeted:
“But my emails”
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IG Report Littered With References
Of Top FBI Officials Calling Trump Supporters:
F***Ing Idiots, Sad,
Pathetic, Retarded
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 5:31 Pm
What a disgrace.
Death threats.
F**king idiots.
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FBI Director Wray Defends The Swamp In Press
Conference After IG Report Released ‘No Evidence Of
Political Bias’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 5:47 Pm
Wray defended the swamp; he said the “I forgot about drumpf…that’s so sad and
IG report “did not find any evidence of pathetic if they want to vote for him,” Agent
political bias or improper 5 responded. “Someone who can’t answer
considerations actually impacting the a question. Someone who can’t be
investigation under review.” professional for even a second.”
The top officials at the FBI and DOJ hated Donald Trump Futher, the report said that while it found no evidence the
and his supporters. views influenced investigative decisions, “five employees”
have been referred for investigation into whether the
The Deep State hacks called Trump supporters: F***ing messages violated FBI code.
Idiots, Sad, Pathetic, Retarded.
“The FBI will handle these referrals
Fox News reported: pursuant to the FBI’s disciplinary
investigation and adjudication processes,
and will impose disciplinary measures as
The report revealed instant messages
warranted,” the report read.
between unnamed agents, labeled “Agent
1” and “Agent 5,” discussing their jobs in
August 2016. It is unclear which five FBI employees have been referred
for investigation.
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An FBI spokesperson told Fox News Thursday they were
not able to comment on the names of the five employees
referred for investigation.
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Newly Obtained Documents Reveal ‘Foreign Actors’
Accessed Hillary Clinton’s Emails
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 6:39 Pm
range of issues in their memo including Clinton’s email
Lock her up! security.
The memo did not disclose who the ‘foreign actors’ are.
Shocker.
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Director Wray Says FBI Electioneering Including Deep
State Spying On Trump Campaign Shows “No
Evidence Of Political Bias”
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 7:26 Pm
The top officials at the FBI and DOJ hated Donald Trump
and his supporters.
This is outrageous.
What a disgrace.
.
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HE WENT THERE=> Rep Desantis Drops A MOAB On
Crooked Hillary After She Trolls Comey
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 7:40 Pm
‘But Bleachbit”
.
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REVEALED: At Least TWO Of The FBI Agents To
Interview Hillary Were Having Affairs With Fellow Agents
And Were HILLARY GROUPIES
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 8:52 Pm
Comey wrote Hillary’s exoneration months before the A few days before the Clinton confab, he sent an instant-
interview at FBI headquarters. message in which he complained about how many agents
and attorneys were prepping for the questioning: “… very
In December 2017 the FBI revealed that top FBI aggravating making this flow with 20+ voices for disparate
investigator Peter Strzok who was having an affair with information anyway.” Fair enough. But then, as the
Lisa Page was the top FBI investigator in the Hillary message goes on he suggests that he has a certain lack of
Clinton email scandal. enthusiasm for the whole affair. “We have nothing—
shouldn’t even be interviewing”
Strzok promised his lover Lisa Page that “we’ll stop”
Trump from becoming president. Just in case his girlfriend didn’t savvy the
full extent of his disgruntlement at the
prospect of interviewing Hillary Clinton,
Agent 1 added “My god … I’m actually
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starting to have embarrassment sprinkled was phoning in a politically determined
on my disappointment. … Ever been forced investigation. But there are also reasons to
to do something you adamantly think his unhappiness flowed from an
opposed.”… admiration for Hillary. Take his message to
Agent 5 after completing the questioning of
…There are reasons to think that Agent 1
Clinton: “done interviewing the President.”
was dissatisfied because the organization
.
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IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received ‘Improper’
Gifts From Reporters In Exchange For Leaks
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018, 10:09 Pm
Fox News reported: Fired FBI Director James Comey also leaked contents of
his memos he penned stemming from 7 conversations he
Numerous FBI employees accepted had with President Trump to his ‘friend’ Daniel Richmond
inappropriate gifts from reporters and to give to the New York Times.
routinely spoke to media outlets without
authorization during the Hillary Clinton It’s no surprise that these two corrupt top FBI officials had
email probe, the Justice Department’s an agency full of leakers.
watchdog revealed in Thursday’s long-
awaited accountability report. The Inspector General found ZERO pro-Trump text
messages and ZERO anti-Hillary texts.
The shocking revelation came just a week after the former
security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee — Every single agent working on Hillary Clinton’s email
who was in charge of maintaining all classified investigation was pro-Hillary.
information from the Executive Office to the panel — was
indicted for allegedly giving false statements to FBI agents
Every single agent working on the Russia investigation
looking into possible leaks to reporters.
was anti-Trump. That’s all you need to know.
“We identified instances where FBI
employees improperly received benefits
.
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Dinesh D’Souza On IG Report: In America Today There
Are Quite A Few Criminals With Badges (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 14, 2018, 11:36 Pm
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President Trump On His Birthday Wish: “All I Want Is
For America To Be Successful” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 8:15 Am
President Donald Trump left the West The conversation covered trade, Russia, Comey and his
Wing on Friday morning and walked out 72nd birthday on Thursday.
on the White House lawn to talk with
FOX and Friends host Steve Doocy. President Trump told Steve,
The president spoke with Steve Doocy for a half hour. “All I want for my birthday is for
America to be successful.”
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President Trump On Leaker James Comey: They Seem Like
Criminal Acts To Me. What He Did Was Criminal (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 8:33 Am
President Donald Trump left the West Wing on Friday Well, look, I would never want to get
morning and walked out on the White House lawn to talk involved in that. Certainly, they really seem
with FOX and Friends host Steve Doocy. like very criminal acts to me. What he did
was criminal. What he did was a terrible
The president spoke with Steve Doocy for a half hour. thing to the people. What he did was so
bad in regard to our Constitution, in terms
of the well-being of our country. Should he
President Trump then went and spoke with liberal
be locked up? Let somebody make a
mainstream reporters for another 20 minutes.
determination. Look at all the dishonest
things that Crooked Hillary did. Look what’s
gone on. It’s very sad.
Steve Doocy:
President Trump:
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POTUS Trump: I Beat Bush Dynasty, I Beat Clinton
Dynasty, Now I’m Going To Beat Dishonest Intelligence
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 8:59 Am
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Trump Takes Out Top
Taliban Leader In Drone Strike
By Jacob Wohl
June 15, 2018, 9:24 Am
Fazlullah was killed in a US Drone Strike in the Afghan “Iran or North Korea on steroids”.
province of Kunar Thursday morning, according to
Pakistani ISI Officials who spoke to the New York Times. Pakistan does not support US drone strikes on terrorists
within or near their country, claiming that they threaten
their sovereignty.
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Boom! Trump Blasts Liberal Reporter On Talks With Kim
Jong-Un: “I Don’t Want To See A Nuclear Weapon
Destroy You And Your Family”
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 9:37 Am
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WATCH=> Obama Lies On TV About Hillary Clinton’s
Private Email Server (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 10:09 Am
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VIDEO: CNN Pleads With Remaining Viewers
“We Are Not The Enemy Of The American People”
By Jacob Wohl
June 15, 2018, 10:52 Am
WATCH:
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BREAKING: Federal Judge JAILS
Paul Manafort Citing Recent Obstruction Charges
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 10:53 Am
BREAKING NEWS.
This type of witch hunt is what you see in Banana
Republics.
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BREAKING: Horowitz Confirms He Did NOT Recover All
‘Missing’ Strzok-Page Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 11:51 Am
Although the report was well over 500 pages and took a
year and a half to produce, it is an incomplete
investigation.
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One text message from Strzok that was recovered in no way [Trump] gets elected…but I’m afraid
Thursday’s IG report shocked the country. we can’t take that risk,” Strzok text
messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016
Strzok sent his mistress a text message exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.
saying “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming
President. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely
event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok
This text message from Strzok was sent to Page 9 days added.
after “Crossfire Hurricane” was opened and 6 days before
the “insurance policy” text. Other profanity-laced text messages between Strzok and
Page showed their contempt for Donald Trump.
In another damning text exchange between the FBI
lovebirds 6 days after Strzok said he’ll “stop” Trump from We must see the remaining text messages sent between
becoming President, was a discussion about an “insurance these two FBI officials; certainly they are damning
policy” to keep Donald Trump out of office. otherwise the department wouldn’t be working so hard to
conceal them from investigators.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s office…that there’s
.
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Lindsey Graham: If You Don’t Like
Me Working With President Trump…
I Don’t Give A Shi*T” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 12:00 Pm
Senator Lindsey Graham went on CNN to discuss President Trump’s historic meetings with North Korean dictator
Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
Graham spoke with the US president after his talks with Jong-Un in Singapore.
The CNN hosts were not used to Graham praising President Trump.
Sen. Graham: “So if you don’t like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, I don’t give a
sh*t.”
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Hah! Donald Trump Jr. Retweets
‘Sad Ben Rhodes – Presidential Birthday Remix”
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 12:20 Pm
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CRIMINAL IN A ROBE=>
Here’s The Rundown On The Corrupt Obama-Appointed
Judge Who Tossed Manafort In Jail
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 12:43 Pm
It sure seems like every Obama appointed What is clear is that with her atrocious and slanted record
judge is a far left radical who puts their own to date, the Deep State and the Mueller team certainly
distorted interpretation of reality ahead of wanted Judge Jackson overseeing the Manafort case and
the US Constitution. In this respect, US this is supported by her record to date.
District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a
case study. This past week she again On January 3rdwe reported that Paul
showed that she puts politics before the law. Manafort filed a suit against the “Deep
State” DOJ (Jeff Sessions), Assistant AG
Her actions with Paul Manafort alone are Rod Rosenstein and Corrupt Investigator
cause for her to be removed or impeached. Robert Mueller that would possibly shut
down Mueller’s corrupt investigation!
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Prior to the Obama administration approving the very Manafort’s case was solid but the judge was
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 handing Russia Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge Jackson. On
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that April 27, 2018, Judge Jackson dismissed
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in Manafort’s plea.
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin. It is very clear that Manafort’s argument was valid. There
is no crime in US law for collusion and Rosenstein’s order
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We also allowing Mueller to look at whatever he wants was
know that Rosenstein and Mueller were the challenged in another Manafort case that Mueller filed
ones who allowed the Uranium One deal to against him in Virginia.
go forward. This was the real Russia
collusion story involving the US Judge T.S. Ellis blasted prosecutors, saying
government. he believes Robert Mueller is effectively
using the Paul Manafort case to provide
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails material that would lead to Trump’s
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were “prosecution or impeachment”. He also
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his condemned the investigation for having no
entire team should have resigned after this. barriers.
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Manafort was smart in moving his case out refusing to throw out some of the criminal charges against
from under Judge Jackson to Virginia. It him.
looks like this move and having his case in
front of a judge not appointed by corrupt Manafort’s legal team had argued in a Washington, D.C.,
Obama was a great move. court that he was being charged twice for the same offense
of lying to federal officials. Manafort maintained that the
Judge Jackson is not only wrong in her judgements, she is stacking up charges could negatively influence a jury
also overly abusive to Manafort. She scolded Manafort and against him, The Associated Press reported.
his team for a statement his spokesman issued maintaining
his innocence and said the comments appeared to run afoul U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, however, said
of the order she issued in November limiting public in a ruling Friday that any harm or prejudice Manafort
statements about the case by lawyers involved and by the could face would be handled by giving the jury “proper”
defendants. Of course she says nothing about the many instructions, according to the AP.
leaks from the corrupt Mueller team.
The judge dismissed the motion from Manafort without
Judge Jackson set the court date for Manafort’s case that prejudice, meaning he can revisit it after his trial in the
she oversees for mid-September, right before the mid-term case, which is scheduled for September, the AP noted.
elections. Clearly she is trying to have this publicized and
negatively impact Republican chances in the election.
On Friday the Criminal in a Robe tossed Paul Manafort in
What a piece of rotten work!
jail.
His crime was to participate in the Trump campaign.
In May Judge Jackson addressed another
argument from the Manafort team and
Do not fool yourself. The Democrats and
basically threw it out as well. (There’s no
their minions are cheering this.
way Manafort is getting a fair trial with
Judge Jackson overseeing his case.)
And they would cheer just as loud if it was
you.
A federal judge delivered a setback to President Trump’s
former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday by
.
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IG Report: FBI Agents Found Huma Abedin Deleting
Classified/Hillary Emails From Yahoo Account But Failed
To Subpoena Her Devices
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 1:08 Pm
There’s more…
FROM IG REPORT:
In late December, the State Department released a portion “[T]he Midyear team did not obtain search
of the documents found on pervert Anthony Weiner’s warrants to examine the content of emails in
laptop and at least 5 emails contain classified information. Mills’s or Abedin’s private email accounts
and did not seek to obtain any of the senior
aides’ personal devices.”
The FBI seized Weiner’s laptop after he was caught
sexting with an underage teenager and discovered
WTF?!
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As previously reported, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe knew about Hillary’s emails on Weiner’s laptop
as early as September of 2016 and didn’t alert the bureau
for an entire MONTH.
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POTUS Trump Reacts To Manafort Arrest ‘What About
Comey And Crooked Hillary?’
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 1:46 Pm
The Special Counsel accused Trump’s Comey is also not in prison even though he leaked
former campaign chairman Paul Manafort of classified memos to the media.
attempting to tamper with potential
witnesses, in a court filing Monday. PAGING AG SESSIONS!
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‘Morning Joe’: Comey Is
The Reason Trump Is President
Mike Brest | Contributor
2:12 PM 06/15/2018
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SICK. Joe Scarborough Compares US Law Enforcement
To Nazis Who Kill Children — White House
Responds (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 2:13 Pm
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Friday compared US law This is the type of inflammatory and unacceptable rhetoric
enforcement officers to Nazis. that puts a target on the backs of our great law
enforcement. It is also horribly insulting to the memory of
the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust.
The Morning Joe host compared US law enforcement
Not only is Scarborough’s rhetoric shameful, but his facts
officials to Nazis marching children to the showers.
are categorically false. When American citizens break the
law, they are separated from their children and prosecuted.
Joe Scarborough: I know children are being marched
away to showers. I know they’re being marched away to
It’s unclear why Scarborough believes that
showers, being told they are just like the Nazis.
illegal aliens are entitled to more rights than
those afforded to American citizens.
Via Morning Joe:
While Scarborough is quick to launch into his straight-to-
camera outrage over the temporary separation of illegal
alien families, he has never shown similar outrage for the
permanent separation of American families forever torn
apart from their children, who were killed by criminal
aliens as a result of Democrats’ open borders policies. If
Joe Scarborough actually cared about keeping illegal alien
families together, he would use his platform to support the
Trump Administration’s efforts to close loopholes in
federal immigration law.” – Hogan Gidley
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Breaking: DEEP STATE Scrubbed
Obama’s Name From FBI Report On Hillary’s Emails
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 2:56 Pm
President Obama was one of a select handful of individuals David French tweets screenshots from the IG report:
who had “direct contact” with Hillary Clinton on her
private email account, Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz indicated in his bombshell
report Thursday on the Clinton email probe.
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Sean Davis tweeted: Obama knew about Hillary’s secret e-
mail scheme, because she e-mailed him using her private
address “while in the territory of a foreign adversary.”
That finding was removed from Comey’s statement
exonerating Clinton.
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Hugh Hewitt: Trump’s Victory Would Have Been Even
Bigger If Voters Knew About FBI Bias
Mike Brest | Contributor
3:43 PM 06/15/2018
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Clapper: US Intel Identified Suspect In
Kremlin-Wikileaks Transfer Of DNC Emails
Chuck Ross | Reporter
5:47 PM 06/15/2018
Former director of national intelligence James Clapper But Clapper told Isikoff that the Russian government used
says U.S. intelligence officials last year identified a person a cut-out in order to ensure Assange “plausible
suspected of transferring thousands of hacked DNC emails deniability.”
to Wikileaks on behalf of the Russian government.
“In April, Russia used a third party ‘cut-out’
“We had a suspect,” Clapper told Yahoo! to send more than 19,000 DNC emails and
News’ Michael Isikoff in an interview for the more than 8,000 documents to WikiLeaks
“Skullduggery” podcast. and Julian Assange, attempting to cover its
tracks and to give WikiLeaks some degree
Clapper, who left government on Jan. 20, 2017, said that of deniability in knowing the source of the
by the time he left office, U.S. officials had identified a leaks,” Clapper wrote in his new book,
“cut-out” selected by Russian intelligence to pass nearly “Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life
20,000 stolen DNC emails to Wikileaks in April 2016. in Intelligence.”
Clapper said of the cut-out’s identity that U.S. intelligence Wikileaks also released thousands of emails stolen from
officials were “pretty confident at the time but not Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The
sufficient enough to publicize it.” website began publishing the documents in October 2016.
“I don’t know whether the suspicions we Clapper did not suggest that the Trump campaign was
had at the time were conveyed [to Justice aware of the Kremlin and Wikileaks’ activities. He has
Department special counsel Robert regularly stated that he saw no “smoking gun evidence” of
Mueller] or whether they were validated,” Trump campaign collusion when he worked in
he told Isikoff. government.
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Seems Rational=> MSNBC: Law Enforcement Officers Are
Nazis And Trump Is Running Concentration Camps
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 7:13 Pm
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Prosecutor Who Petitioned To Put Paul Manafort In Prison
Attended Hillary Clinton’s Election Night Party
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 7:39 Pm
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James Clapper Now Claims US Intel Identified A “Suspect”
Who Transferred DNC Emails To Wikileaks
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 7:59 Pm
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DNC was working in favor of Hillary over the highly WikiLeaks hammered Clapper on Friday
popular Bernie Sanders. in a pair of tweets for his false claims.
“Clapper gets literally everything wrong,”
WikiLeaks then dropped an October surprise on Hillary tweeted WikiLeaks.
Clinton by publishing emails from her campaign chair,
John Podesta.
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Wikileaks Moves In With Kill
Shot After Crooked Hillary Trolls Comey
By Cristina Laila
June 15, 2018, 8:57 Pm
“But my emails.”
388
Atlanta Fed Raises Estimate Of
Second Quarter GDP Growth To 4.8%
By Jim Hoft
June 15, 2018, 9:02 Pm
.
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Paul Manafort May See Life In Prison! He Dared To Lead
Presidential Campaign Against Hillary Clinton,
Now He Must Pay
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 8:18 Am
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HERE IT IS: The Top 10 Different Reasons
The IG’s Report On The Clinton Email ‘Matter’ Is Flawed
– Obama’s Deep State Runs Deep
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 9:17 Am
Is IG Horowitz a Good Guy? The fact that Horowitz was IG at the DOJ
since 2012 under the Obama
There’s reason to believe that Horowitz is a good guy. Last Administration is concerning.
week Horowitz announced that he located the text
messages after the FBI said they were lost – There is no evidence that he ordered an inspection into AG
Lynch when it was reported that she met with President
In a letter to congressional leaders, Inspector General Clinton on a tarmac in 2016 and then a week later when
Michael Horowitz said his office “succeeded in using Hillary Clinton was given a pass by crooked FBI Director
forensic tools” to recover messages between senior FBI Comey. We don’t know that the IG looked into any
agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page during a key number of Obama era crimes and corrupt actions. We
five-month period ending the day special counsel Robert don’t know that he looked into the reasons for why the
Mueller III was appointed to investigate possible DOJ is delaying emails and documents to Congress or
coordination between the Kremlin and Trump’s campaign.
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Judicial Watch concerning scandals during the Obama
years. The biggest and highest risk areas of the Obama era
were never touched or never had any issues identified and
reported to the public.
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place of custody” even through mere “gross negligence.” Now we find out in the (highly unlikely and questionable)
There is no requirement of finding specific intent. report from the IG that he does not have any more of the
Strzok – Page texts.
3. The IG notes on page ii reports that the FBI in the
Hillary investigation – It is simply unbelievable that the IG and
his team did not have all the texts at
Sought to obtain evidence whenever possible through some point in the investigation and if
consent but also used compulsory process, including grand they did not have them, why was
jury subpoenas, search warrants, and 2703(d) orders (court Congress not fully disclosed to this
orders for non-content email information) to obtain various fact?
evidence. We found that the prosecutors provided
justifications for the preference for consent that were 6. When the IG discusses the meeting in Arizona between
supported by Department and FBI policy and practice; impeached President Bill Clinton and Obama’s AG
Lynch he neglects to highlight that the only emails
However, a former FBI Agent stated in 2017 that – released related to the meeting from FBI agents didn’t
question the reasonableness of the meeting. Emails
Never, I repeat never, in my 25-year career have I or any released since that date requested by Judicial Watch
FBI agent known to me investigated a criminal case show the FBI was only interested in finding out who
without the use of a federal grand jury, federal grand jury reported the meeting, not why the meeting occurred or
subpoenas, search warrants, etc. the legality of the meeting with the Hillary ‘matter’ in the
works at that time.
Search warrants and/or subpoenas should have been
executed at Clinton’s residences in Chappaqua and Judicial Watch today released 29 pages of Federal Bureau
Washington and at Platte River. of Investigation (FBI) documents related to the June 27,
2016, tarmac meeting between former Attorney General
The fact that this is coming out now is shocking. Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton.
Why did the FBI and IG until now The documents show that FBI officials
withhold information that subpoenas were more concerned about leaks than
were used in the Hillary investigation the actual meeting itself. The new
and what was subpoenaed? documents also show that then-FBI
Director Comey seemed to learn of the
When was it subpoenaed? Why was the IG ok with the meeting from news reports.
fact that Hillary was never subpoenaed in front of a jury?
Why is the IG not more transparent on this new issue? 7. Conflicts of interest are all over the report but the
IG states that they did not influence the
4. The IG ends up agreeing with the FBI’s story investigation which clearly is not the case. Due to
regarding Hillary’s emails and ignores the the significance of the Clinton scandal all prejudices in
significance of some of the emails found on her actuality or appearance should have been eliminated
server. The IG glosses over the fact that some of the but they were not. The result was the Hillary ‘matter’
emails on Hillary’s server were of the highest of was a sham. The IG states on p iii of the Executive
classification categories. Documents like these are Summary –
maintained in super controlled environments where an
individual must have top clearance to review. Why There were clearly tensions and disagreements in a number
does the IG seem to ignore this fact? of important areas between Midyear agents and
prosecutors. However, we did not find documentary or
5. The IG noted that he and his team did not recover all of testimonial evidence that improper considerations,
the corrupt Strzok and Page text messages. A few including political bias, directly affected the specific
months ago when Congress requested the text investigative decisions we reviewed.
messages, the corrupt DOJ and FBI delayed and
delayed and then finally shared some of the messages. 8. The IG mentions emails obtained from Weiner’s
Then when pressed corrupt AG Sessions’ DOJ and FBI laptop but stays away from the contents of these
announced that the text messages had be deleted and emails. The laptop held by Anthony Weiner, the
they no longer had them. When that happened the spouse of Hillary’s top aid, Huma Abedin was obtained
question was raised, why did IG Horowitz not by the FBI with a reported 340,000 Clinton emails
announce that he didn’t receive them? A short time going back to 2007. What the hell was in
later the IG announced that he had the Strzok and those emails?
Page texts.
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9. The IG in his report overlooks the actions of the FBI and make edits. Did it take so long to cover up the
and DOJ that clearly were more about perception than truth?
adhering to the law. For example from page xi of the
Executive Summary –
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Man Shuts Down Hoover Dam In
Armored Vehicle Demanding Release Of Full IG Report
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 11:39 Am
He added,
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Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Lashes Out At POTUS Trump
‘Americans Deserve A President Who
Is Honest And Ethical’
By Cristina Laila
June 16, 2018, 1:10 Pm
The President praised his ‘loyal, hardworking, smart’ base Brennan is caught in a perjury trap over his statements
Saturday morning. about Hillary’s phony dossier in a May 2017 testimony to
the intel panel.
Trump tweeted: My supporters are the smartest,
strongest, most hard working and most loyal that we have Obama’s former CIA chief was also involved in setting up
seen in our countries history. It is a beautiful thing to Russian espionage traps for minor players in Trump’s
watch as we win elections and gather support from all over camp, according the investigative reporter, Paul Sperry.
the country. As we get stronger, so does our country. Best
numbers ever!
.
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Sick! 71% Of Liberals Don’t Want Peace With North
Korea Because Trump Would Gain Popularity
By Jacob Wohl
June 16, 2018, 1:36 Pm
The North Korea Peace Process, more than any other issue,
shines light on the worst sufferers of Trump Derangement
Syndrome.
397
Crooked Comey’s Latest Tweet Has
People Saying ‘He’s Running In 2020’
By Cristina Laila
June 16, 2018, 1:50 Pm
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.
399
Former CIA Director
Compares United States To Nazi Germany
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 3:43 Pm
400
Chairman Nunes Bombshell: “We Had Whistleblowers” In
The Fbi Tip Off Congress About Weiner Laptop In
September Of 2016 (Video)
By Cristina Laila
June 16, 2018, 4:36 Pm
VIDEO:
Huma forwarded State Department passwords and As previously reported, then-FBI Deputy
classified emails to this Yahoo account before it was Director Andrew McCabe knew about
hacked by foreign agents and the FBI did nothing. Let that Hillary’s emails on Weiner’s laptop as
sink in. early as September of 2016 and didn’t
alert the bureau for an entire MONTH.
401
The FBI waited over a month to obtain a warrant to review The same FBI agents who did nothing about Weiner’s
emails on Weiner’s laptop. laptop for over a month hunted down President Trump
with a vengeance. Truly disgusting.
402
FLASHBACK: Three Years Ago Today –
Donald Announced His Historic Run For President —
WATCH HOW MEDIA MOCKED HIM
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 6:28 Pm
403
Chinese Media Mocks President Trump:
“Only Fools Build Walls” …Wait, What?
By Jim Hoft
June 16, 2018, 11:07 Pm
The Chinese media this weekend The US had earlier warned that it will impose even more
mocked President Trump saying, “Only tariffs should China retaliate.
fools build walls.”
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Leaker-Liar James Clapper NOW
Claims A ‘Cut-Out’ Gave Hacked DNC Emails To Wikileaks
Posted On June 16, 2018
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Clapper, on the other hand, has a history of lying — to
Congress, to reporters, and to the American people.
406
All In The Family: Law Firm Hired
By Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok Donated More Than
$24K To Hillary Clinton
By Jacob Wohl
June 17, 2018, 6:52 Am
.
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Lou Dobbs Issues Warning: If Paul Ryan ‘Deceives’
Trump Into DACA Amnesty, GOP Will
Lose House Majority (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 17, 2018, 7:20 Am
Breitbart.com reported:
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Rudy: FBI Agents Conspiring Against
Trump Should ‘Go To Bellevue’ Psych Ward
By Alicia Powe
June 17, 2018, 9:09 Am
409
ABC Panics As Congressional Leaders
Call For Mueller Probe To Be Wrapped Up
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 17, 2018 10:15 AM EDT
JON KARL: Well, it certainly could. They’ve still held the line
MITCH MCCONNELL: They ought to wrap it up. It's gone on
saying that firing Mueller would be a mistake. But if the
seemingly forever.
investigation goes on for a significant time after these
Congressional leaders said it needed to stop, it does give the
(…) President some -- it seems to me -- some leeway to do
something dramatic like that.
8:10:21 AM Eastern [26 seconds]
(…)
PALMERI: At the same time, Giuliani potentially dragging the
case out even longer. Calling for the probe to be suspended.
.
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Rep. Nunes: If DOJ Does Not Turn Over Documents By
Monday – They Will Have ‘Hell To Pay’ By Wednesday
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 17, 2018, 10:18 Am
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) the Chairman of the House be hell to pay by Wednesday morning… All
Intelligence Committee joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday of the members of the House of
Morning Futures on Father’s Day. Representatives are going to start taking
action against the Department of Justice
and FBI.
Maria Bartiromo: Taking action meaning
contempt of Congress?
Rep. Devin Nunes: Well that’s just one of
many options but I can tell you that it’s not
going to be pretty.
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LIST Of The Many Criminal Acts Of Dirty-Cop Peter
Strzok: Obama’s Top FBI Investigator And Mueller’s
Former Lead Investigator
By Jim Hoft
June 17, 2018, 12:15 Pm
What we now know from the Strzok and Page texts are
that the FBI implanted numerous spies in the Trump
campaign as early as 2015. We also know that former
President Obama was in on the entire corrupt scandal
based on the text between the two conflicted individuals
“Potus [Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing”
Peter Strzok will go down in history as and another text that said that the Obama White House is
the most corrupt and criminal dirty cop running this.
in US history. The Strzok name will be
synonymous with sleazy, self-absorbed,
grandiose, sinister, corrupt and criminal Through the Strzok and Page texts, we now know that they
bad cops. He’s become the most not only hated candidate and now President Trump and his
disgusting individual in the Deep State millions of followers, but they also wanted to prevent him
and shockingly he still has a job at the from being President and then wanted to do all they could
corrupt FBI. to have him removed from office. They texted each other
–
The US Justice Department is a mess
and perhaps no one, besides Barack “We’ll stop Trump from becoming
Obama, has been involved in more President”.
corruption in our country’s history than
Peter Strzok. Through the IG’s reports we know that Peter Strzok did all
he could to prevent any charges of Hillary Clinton during
Strzok worked in the FBI as an inspector and rocketed to her email investigation that ended in 2016 as he was the
the top of the department in a relatively short period of lead investigator. He was fine with her server being
time. Some reports believe that Strzok’s family’s ties with scrubbed, her phones being beat to bits by hammers and
Obama and his family’s history overseas and with uranium her arguments on the emails in her position that were
may be the reason for Stzok’s meteoric rise at the FBI. classified and illegally held outside of government
protection.
Reports are that Strzok first hit the spotlight in August and
September of 2015 when he requested all Hillary Clinton Strzok was involved in doctoring the report on Hillary’s
email copies under control of the DOE, U.S. Nuclear exoneration presented by now fired corrupt FBI Director
Regulatory Commission, NSA, and National James Comey which was changed to state that Hillary
counterterrorism center, Director of National Intelligence, broke no crimes. The report was written months before the
DOJ, NSA, and US Treasury. case was closed and Hillary and her team were
interviewed.
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FBI agents to interview General Mike Flynn who was
reportedly set up. There is now evidence that Flynn did
not lie to the FBI even though this was communicated to
President Trump who fired Flynn and to corrupt Mueller
who indicted him for lying to the FBI.
When the Hillary investigation was reopened in late Strzok and Page were removed from the Mueller team with
October 2016 due to some of her emails being found in a the explanation being that they had biased text messages.
pervert’s computer in New York, Peter Strzok was They weren’t just biased, they were attempting to
assigned again to the case. He worked and somehow overthrow our government through letting Hillary off with
performed miracles on “1,355,980 electronic files (pg no charges for mishandling classified information and then
389), containing 350,000 emails and 344,000 Blackberry damaging President Trump through numerous activities to
communications [that] were reviewed between October prevent him from being President and then from
30th and the morning of November 6th, 2016.” performing his duties as President.
The Conservative Treehouse notes that – Page resigned from the FBI but
Strzok is still there!
There were only three people in the Mid-Year-Event
team granted authority to physically do the Clinton
email review.
They were: FBI Agent Peter Strzok, FBI Attorney-1
Tashina “Tash” Gauhar, and an unnamed lead
analyst.
FBI Agent Peter Strzok says they were able to cull the
number of emails through the use of “some amazing
things to rapidly de-duplicate” the emails.
The New York FBI case agent assigned to the Weiner
investigation, a certified Digital Extraction Technician,
as well as the FBI forensics team in Quantico say it
was impossible to use the conflicted metadata to “de- Let’s hope and pray the US never has an
duplicate” the emails. individual as corrupt and criminal Peter
Someone is lying. Strzok in any capacity in our
government and that he and his
After that escapade Strzok began working for the totally accomplices are brought to justice
corrupt Mueller team. But before that he was one of two soon. God bless the USA.
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MORE DEEP STATE SPYING=> Roger Stone And
Michael Caputo Were Targets Of FBI Informant
By Jim Hoft
June 17, 2018, 1:34 Pm
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NBC Panel Debates How Often
Media Should Call President Trump A Liar
By Nicholas Fondacaro
June 17, 2018 1:39 PM EDT
Moderator Chuck Todd actually set aside time in the “If someone behaved like this in my actual
program so he and his stacked panel could go over recent life, if someone kept insisting that the sea
statements by the President and rake him over the coals. was red and the sky was green, I’d assume
they were a few sandwiches short of a
“You have to be a sort of taxonomist of picnic. It's vital to remember this every day:
falsehoods. I mean, traditionally, the Almost no one else in public life is no
President’s stock and trade has been to openly living in his own disturbed world.”
traffic in a substance that's identical to “What do you want me to do,” laughed
my initials,” declared New York Times New York Times Pentagon correspondent
columnist and faux conservative Bret Helene Cooper as she went on the explain
Stephens. The Times’ policy on using the word “lie.”
“And we have said lied in the past but
Having found great amusement in the low-brow joke, what Dean Baquet, the executive editor
Todd reminded viewers that Stephens’ initials were B.S. of The Times, has said is that he thinks
The columnist then appeared to push the CNN-backed we shouldn't use it all the time because
conspiracy theory that something was wrong with the if you use it all the tie it loses the
President’s head. meaning.”
“And there's always a question also According to Cooper, she couldn’t remember ever
about the President's state of mind “wrestling” with whether or not to use the term.
because he says stuff and then often
doesn't seem to remember what he had “[I]t's something, I’m not used to having
said the day, the hour, the minute to deal with as a reporter when you’re
before,” he suggested. talking about the president,” she
lamented. Todd sympathized with her and
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described the Trump-era as contradicting information that he has previously pervaded. And
“disorientating.” that is what we call a lie, not a falsehood.
“This is a different level. And I think
what we struggle with as reporters, is TODD: Fair point. It's funny you say this about his mental
what do you label a lie? Because a lie capacity. Andrew Sullivan went there. This is what he wrote,
has to be deliberate,” said NBC national Helene: “If someone behaved like this in my actual life, if
reporter Carol Lee. “So President with someone kept insisting that the sea was red and the sky was
Trump, you know, in order to call it a lie, green, I’d assume they were a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
you have to be able to show that he is It's vital to remember this every day: Almost no one else in public
deliberately and intentionally doing that. life is no openly living in his own disturbed world.”
A lot of times when he's ill-informed,
he’s misinformed and you don't know HELENE COOPER: What do you want me to do? [Laughter]
what his intent is.” That's like -- it's something that at The Times we’ve been
wrestling with on the news side because we get a lot of letters
Republican strategist and former head of the American from readers saying, “why don't you say the President made
Conservative Union, Al Cardenas claimed there were only misstatements—“
two reasons for why the President would twist the truth,
one of them being that he had a mental problem. TODD: Getting a lot of tweets right now.
Todd also though Cardenas made some great points and COOPER: -- why don’t you just call a lie a lie?” And we have said
huffed about how Obama was “punished” by receiving the lied in the past but what Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The
Lie of the Year label by PolitiFact. Times has said is that, he thinks we shouldn't use it all the time
because if you use it all the tie it loses the meaning. This is
“He didn't serially do it [like Trump]. So something that not-- I can't remember as a reporter wrestling with
here he is punished for one, in a way -- if you keep saying and he's right to a certain extent if you keep
uniquely.” But claiming Obama was saying lie, lie, lie, it does lose the impact when there’s a real
“uniquely” slapped with Lie of the Year whopper. But it's something, I’m not used to having to deal with
was in itself a falsehood because Trump as a reporter when you’re talking about the president.
also got that label in 2017.
TODD: It’s disorientating.
The transcript is below:
CAROL LEE: That's the thing. All politicians tell lies. We have
NBC experienced this in covering politicians.
Meet the Press
June 17, 2018 TODD: But there used to be honor among thieves.
10:58:17 AM Eastern [4 minutes 20 seconds]
LEE: This is a different level. And I think what we struggle with as
(…) reporters, is what do you label a lie? Because a lie has to be
deliberate. So President with Trump, you know, in order to call it
BRET STEPHENS: You have to be a sort of taxonomist of a lie, you have to be able to show that he is deliberately and
falsehoods. I mean, traditionally, the President’s stock and trade intentionally doing that. A lot of times when he's ill-informed, he’s
has been to traffic in a substance that's identical to my initials. misinformed and you don't know what his intent is. And so, that
And that this is a world adds a whole other dimension that’s we’re not used to. But his
false statements -- there's nothing to compare it with. The
number of times.
CHUCK TODD: Your name again is Bret Stephens.
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CARDENAS: Here's the point. The point politically is that it’s less TODD: The numbness.
damaging for him to lie 18 times in one morning than once.
Because that feature that helps him the most is the numbness STEPHENS: The lies sort of disappear in their own ubiquity. But
because of the frequency and volume of these things. The it's important –
numbness with the electorate. They have so much to absorb and
so little time to do it that they go home half of the time confused
TODD: That’s right out of the Putin playbook, by the way.
rather than convinced that something is amiss here.
STEPHENS: Right, it's important for us in the media, I think, to
TODD: What a great point. You know, Barack Obama got the
pick our spots. I remember Senator McCain at one point said, “I
quote lie of the year, if you like your health care plan, you get to
can't be the car alarm that's always going off.” And I think we also
keep it. I think that was back in 2012 or 2013 or whenever it was.
have to be careful about -- for our own credibility about being
But you're right. He didn't serially do it. So here he is punished for
very scrupulous of separating what are clear lies or seem to be
one, in a way uniquely. Bret.
clear lies from misstatements, falsehoods. Otherwise, it gives him
the opening to call us the fake news media which is what he
STEPHENS: Sure. wants.
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Rudy Giuliani Calls For Mueller Witch Hunt To Be
Investigated (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 17, 2018, 2:15 Pm
On Sunday, an attorney for Trump, Rudy This text message from Strzok was sent to Page 9 days
after “Crossfire Hurricane” was opened and 6 days
Giuliani called for the Mueller witch hunt
before the “insurance policy” text.
to be investigated.
Mueller and his team of hacks should be shut down and
On Sunday it was revealed in the Washington Post, Trump investigated immediately.
associates Roger Stone and Michael Caputo were
approached by another FBI informant during their
VIDEO:
campaign in the Deep State’s quest to tie Donald Trump to
Putin’s Russia.
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Gowdy: FBI, DOJ Must Comply With GOP Subpoena Or
Face ‘Full Arsenal Of Constitutional Weapons’ (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 17, 2018, 3:53 Pm
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DISGRACE: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden Likens
The U.S. To Nazis, But WE Are Correcting The Record
Posted On June 17, 2018
(National Sentinel) Outrage: Those on the Left have never Now, former CIA Director Michael Hayden — who ought
been known for their tolerance of opposing viewpoints, but to know a nation without border security really isn’t a
in the age of Trump they have become nation — has made the same Nazi comparison, tweeting
completely unhinged. out a picture of a concentration camp at Birkenau which
was then a part of Nazi Germany, but is now Poland.
The latest outrage on the Left pertains to the Trump
administration’s continuation of an Obama-era policy that
separates children from criminal adults who attempt to
sneak into the U.S. illegally.
Just disgraceful. This man used to run the CIA and the
NSA. Suddenly, border security doesn’t matter to him, and
our border enforcement personnel are nothing but ‘jack-
booted thugs,’ apparently.
He could change it with an executive order, true, but they The report noted that the kids were kept inside most of the
he loses the only leverage he has in his ongoing effort to day, but it’s Texas. It’s hot this time of year.
curb serial abuses of our immigration laws — which
are not adequate and which the current Republican NPR called it a “carefully-scripted visit,” a journalistic
leadership in Congress refuses to address. twist-of-phrase meant to give the reader the impression
that what the reporter saw was out of the ordinary. That’s
But there’s another aspect of this that isn’t absurd; there is no evidence presented to indicate that.
being reported — the perception of ‘kids
in cages’ being perpetrated by the
Left is a gross misrepresentation, and of NPR is liberal so we get it. The larger point is this:
course, that’s purposeful.
These kids are not being corralled into
cages 23 out of 24 hours a day. They are
Interestingly, Left-leaning NPR sent a reporter to a Texas
being cared for. Fed. Housed. Educated.
facility in an effort to get details on conditions where
children separated from criminal border crossers are being
‘caged.’ To portray the situation as anything other than that is
dishonest and disgusting.
Turns out they aren’t in cages at all, but well-maintained
facilities where they are very well cared for:
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Activist CNN Analyst Doubles Down, Refuses To Apologize
For Tantrum During Tuesday’s White House Briefing
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 17, 2018, 4:56 Pm
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First Lady Melania Trump Weighs In On Border
Separation Controversy
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 17, 2018, 5:46 Pm
First Lady Melania Trump tends to shy away from political “Mrs. Trump hates to see children
discourse, but has now weighed in on the emotionally separated from their families and hopes
charged debate about border separations. both sides of the aisle can finally come
together to achieve successful immigration
reform,” Grisham said.
“She believes we need to be a country
that follows all laws, but also a country
that governs with heart.”
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Johnson: Trump Admin Are 'Terrorists,'
Comey 'Pissed' At 'Black Woman Boss'
By Brad Wilmouth
June 17, 2018 5:51 PM EDT
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's AM Joy, race-obsessed In a later segment, during a discussion of the issue of
MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson accused former FBI children being separated from their parents who have
director James Comey of resenting Attorney General entered the U.S. illegally, host Joy Reid lamented that
Loretta Lynch for being a "black woman boss," and then "these children will remain hostages" until funding for a
went on to accuse Trump administration members of being border wall is provided, leading Johnson to make
"terrorists" who "terrorize people into leaving the country" hyperbolic charges of President Donald Trump making the
to promote "white nationalism." government into a "terrorist organization." Johnson:
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Kathy Griffin To First Lady Melania Trump:
“F**K You, Melanie… You Feckless Piece Of Sh*T”
By Cassandra Fairbanks
June 17, 2018, 7:06 Pm
Griffin, naturally, responded to the classy stat “F-ck you Supporters of the policy note that American children
Melanie, You know damn well your husband can end this whose parents are jailed do not join them behind bars.
immediately… you feckless complicit piece of sh-t,” There is also concerns from many that children who do not
Griffin tweeted, using the wrong name. have proper documentation could be victims of human
trafficking.
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Tom Arnold Rants That 'Trump
Is A Russian Asset'; Gives No Evidence
By P.J. Gladnick
June 17, 2018 7:12 PM EDT
"Don't worry. Tom Arnold is on it and I'm ARNOLD: Well, he won't let us investigate.
Tom Arnold." He won't let us follow through. They
meddled in our election.
That was Tom Arnold promoting his upcoming television KNOWLES: How did they meddle in the
show, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes With Tom Arnold. election? They spent $100,000 on
However the only thing Arnold seemed to be on during his Facebook ads from one digital company.
Wednesday interview on the Daily Wire's Michael
Knowles Show podcast was a variety of stimulants judging ARNOLD: Do you not listen to our own
from his unhinged rants about President Trump being a intelligence?
"Russian asset" backed up by nothing since he was unable KNOWLES: What intelligence are you
to provide any evidence for his wild claim. referring to? Because I'm citing the
$100,000 in Facebook ads.
ARNOLD: You are privy to it because it's
the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI. They've
shared all that with...
KNOWLES: How did they meddle,
specifically?
.
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Obama Administration Placed Children With Human
Traffickers, Democrats Were Silent
By Alicia Powe
June 17, 2018, 10:45 Pm
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A Senate investigation report, which After authorities in July discovered several Guatemalan
was ignored by the mainstream media, eight teen boys were being held captive a decrepit trailer in
revealed the Obama administration Marion, Ohio, by traffickers, Sen. Rob Portman, R -Ohio,
neglected to protect thousand of Central to initiated an investigation into welfare of
American children who surged across unaccompanied, undocumented minors.
the U.S. border since 2011, subjecting
them to traffickers and abuses. The boys were forced to work at an egg farm are among
125,000 unaccompanied minors who have flooded into the
United States since 2011 to escape socialistic unrest in
South America.
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Rudy G: In Wake Of Doj IG Report
Showing FBI Bias, Sessions And Rosenstein Must Pull The
Plug On Mueller Witch Hunt
Posted On June 16, 2018
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director of the FBI to have him there suspend his investigation,” Giuliani said,
tomorrow would be disgraceful. according to Real Clear Politics.
“Every FBI agent should demand that that
man be fired and tomorrow Mueller should
.
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Politifact Rules It's 'True' That Democrats Are Near 'Their
Lowest Representation' In 100 Years
By Tim Graham
June 18, 2018 7:47 AM EDT
Our News Analysis Division has given this fact checker a than they did following the 2016 election: in
rating of: 1920, 1926 and 1928.
Given Zakaria’s hedging — he said Democrats almost
have their lowest representation in about 100 years — we
The Real Deal think his claim passes muster.
It doesn't look so bad in the Senate (where Republican
have a narrow 51-seat majority) and the number of House
Democrats has been lower than the current 193. But it's
tougher out in the states, where the R's lead the D's in
governorships 33 to 16 (Alaska has an independent). And
state legislatures?
John Mahoney, a policy specialist at the National
Conference of State Legislatures, said it was accurate to
say Democrats are at near-historical lows in this arena.
"There are currently 3,125 Ds serving in
state legislatures, which is the lowest since
It's not surprising that PolitiFact would rule that a CNN
1928 when there were 3,057 Ds serving,"
host was "True." But it was surprising that Fareed
Mahoney said.
Zakaria's "True" statement was
"Yes, the Democratic Party is at nearly its
weakest point in a century."
So why is that a surprise? Because our liberal media has
this amazing tendency to spend all its political-pundit time
discussing the terrible shape the Republican Party is in.
"Over the last decade the center left has
been destroyed electorally across the
West.Unless Democrats face up to this
reality and devise a strategy to reverse this Someone at Politifact (or a tipster) must have thought
tidal wave of defeat, they might find these facts must have been wrong.
themselves surprised one more time this
November," Zakaria proclaimed on his But Zakaria is hoping for a resurgence on the left,
opening commentary on June 10. "When concluding:
you tally up their representation in "The left has always been about a hopeful
Congress, state legislatures and vision of the future, one in which everyone
governorships, the Democrats almost have prospers. But when a large part of the
their lowest representation in about 100 public is fearful and pessimistic, and
years." nostalgic for a world gone by, offering hope
PolitiFact's John Kruzel cited the Real Clear Politics becomes a hard sell."
index: We have rated this PolitiFact "fact check" as The Real
Under the RCP index, we found three Deal. For similar analyses, please visit our Fact-Checking
historical instances where Democrats held the Fact-Checkers site.
a weaker position, relative to Republicans,
.
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MUST READ: Mueller’s Bumbling And Hysterical Special
Counsel Team Is Getting Pummeled In Court –
Media Is Ignoring All Of This
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 8:00 Am
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these Russians were all members of Concord to conceal all data related to their case. The Concord team
Management. states in their motion filed June 14th (emphasis added) –
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It’s more than clear that dirty cop Robert Mueller rolled chance against these guys, they might
out this indictment of Russians as a PR stunt to justify his as well drop all charges now and plead
witch hunt; his team is not prepared to try this case and it’s guilty to making up Russian collusion
hilarious to watch as they struggle and look like the crimes for the sole purpose of removing
corrupt amateurs that they are. President Trump from his duly elected
position as President of the United
Concord Management’s States.
attorneys are like Marvel super
heroes taking on Mueller’s
corrupt gang of teletubbies!
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Gowdy To Rosenstein And Wray: ‘Give Congress
Documents OR Deal With POTUS And CONTEMPT’
Posted On June 18, 2018
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White House Deputy Press Secretary:
Democrat Policies Put Drug Cartels And Child Smugglers
In Business (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 8:32 Am
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidly: Let’s be clear about what they’re asking us
Hogan Gidly joined FOX and Friends on to understand and believe. Democrats are saying you can’t
Monday morning to discuss the uproar deport them, you can’t detain them, you can’t prosecute
Democrat media hysterics over the them. The only thing you can do per a Democrat is to
detention of illegal children. release them into the interior without any ramification for
what they’ve done by breaking our laws. It’s absolutely
This is the latest theatrics coming from the Democrat Party incredible… The Democrat’s policies put the drug cartels
since the Russia witch hunt fell apart. in business. They raking in money hand over fist sending
people to this country carrying drugs. And also the child
smuggling industry. International child smuggling is up.
Hogan Gidly put the blame squarely on
the pro-cartel Democrat Party.
Via FOX and Friends:
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BRAVO! Trump Supporter Storms Stage At De Niro’s
Broadway Show — Unfurls MAGA 2020 Flag
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 9:15 Am
Bravo!
Lovely people.
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President Trump Slams The Russia Witch Hunt: Comey
And Mueller Are ‘Best Friends’
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 1:55 Pm
President Trump attacked the Russia In another damning text exchange between the FBI
witch hunt Monday morning, calling out lovebirds 6 days after Strzok said he’ll “stop” Trump from
Mueller and Comey for their cozy becoming President, was a discussion about an “insurance
relationship, and obvious conflict of policy” to keep Donald Trump out of office.
interest.
“I want to believe the path you threw out
for consideration in Andy’s office…that
there’s no way [Trump] gets
elected…but I’m afraid we can’t take
that risk,” Strzok text messaged to Page
in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring
to Andrew McCabe.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the
unlikely event you die before you’re 40,”
Strzok added.
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BREAKING: IG Horowitz Confirms Comey Under
Investigation For Handling Of Classified Memos
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 2:08 Pm
Inspector General Horowitz confirmed Comey gave contents of his memos to his ‘friend’ Daniel
Monday during a Congressional hearing Richman to leak to the New York Times in order to
Comey is under investigation for his prompt a Special Counsel.
handling of classified information.
On Monday, Inspector General Horowitz was asked by
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley ‘if the IG is
investigating Comey’s handling of his memos about
Trump.’
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WTH…? IG Withholding Additional
Anti-Trump Text Messages From Lisa Page To
Andrew McCabe From Public
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 3:04 Pm
Inspector General Michael Horowitz Defense, his staff was unable to recover all ‘missing’ text
revealed in a Congressional hearing in messages from the FBI lovebirds.
front of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Monday there are additional anti-Trump The Inspector General says he is preparing a separate
text messages from Lisa Page to report to recover the text messages.
Andrew McCabe that have been
withheld from the public.
Sperry reported: BREAKING: IG Horowitz is preparing
a separate report on efforts to recover missing Stzok &
Page text messages from the FBI.
Paul Sperry reported: BREAKING: Lisa Page sent Trump-hating FBI Special Agent Peter
similarly anti-Trump text messages to her boss Andrew Strzok sent his mistress Lisa Page a
McCabe, yet the IG has withheld these texts from the text message saying “we’ll stop” Trump
public. Why? from becoming President.
Inspector General Horowitz also admitted after four “I want to believe the path you threw out
different attempts, including help from the Department of for consideration in Andy’s office…that
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there’s no way [Trump] gets “It’s like an insurance policy in the
elected…but I’m afraid we can’t take unlikely event you die before you’re 40,”
that risk,” Strzok text messaged to Page Strzok added.
in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring
to Andrew McCabe. The IG is hiding very damning text messages from Page,
Strzok and McCabe from the public. Why?
.
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Mccabe Refuses To Testify At Senate Judiciary Hearing –
Invokes 5th Amendment Rights
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 3:33 Pm
On Monday, former FBI Deputy Director prosecution in exchange for his testimony because of his
Andrew McCabe refused to testify to the criminal referral.
Senate Judiciary Committee about the
IG report’s findings on the FBI’s ‘If McCabe is not granted immunity, he will
handling of the Clinton email invoke his 5th Amendment privilege’, said
investigation. Bromwich.
McCabe invoked his 5th Amendment
rights on Monday after failing to receive Fox News Senate reporter, Chad Pergram reported
immunity from prosecution in exchange McCabe indeed invoked his 5th Amendment rights and
for his testimony. was a no-show Monday.
On page 3 of the letter, Bromwich requested the Senate Even though McCabe invoked his 5th Amendment rights,
Judiciary Committee grant McCabe immunity from lawmakers can still issue him a subpoena and ultimately
threaten contempt charges.
.
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FBI Director Wray Praises Mueller “I Do Not Believe
Special Counsel Mueller Is On A Witch Hunt” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 4:53 Pm
What a disgrace.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to
the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday on The top officials at the FBI and DOJ hated Donald Trump
the IG report’s findings of the Clinton email and his supporters.
investigation.
The Deep State hacks called Trump supporters: F***ing
Christopher Wray told Senator Leahy (D-VT) Idiots, Sad, Pathetic, Retarded.
that Robert Mueller’s investigation is ‘not a
witch hunt.’ VIDEO:
Americans are disgusted after reading more anti-Trump Wray needs to go.
text messages from FBI agents.
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Grassley Demands Probe Into Comey’s Use Of Secret
Gmail Account For FBI Business
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 5:31 Pm
The IG report identified FIVE different instances where Grassley wants all of Comey’s private
Comey used a Gmail account to conduct official FBI emails to make sure classified
business, CNBC reported. information was not transmitted:
Senator Grassley said Comey’s use of a In the FBI’s response to the Inspector General’s report, it
private email account raises some claims, “there is no finding or indication that any classified
“serious questions,” being that the material ever transited former Director Comey’s, Ms.
bureau was investigating Hillary Clinton Page’s, or Mr. Strzok’s personal devices or accounts.”9
for the same misconduct: However, unless the FBI has obtained and examined those
records, then it simply cannot know one way or the other.
It is disturbing that FBI employees tasked with
investigating Secretary Clinton, including the former Inspector General Horowitz also
Director, appear to have engaged in strikingly similar confirmed Monday during a
conduct. Although it does not appear as egregious and Congressional hearing Comey is under
prolonged, they also used non-government systems for investigation for his mishandling of
official work. classified memos.
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HUGE! Top Clinton Campaign Operative And AG Lynch
Reportedly Exchanged “Highly Classified Material”
During Election …Updated
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 6:07 Pm
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Crooked Hillary Cites Bible Verse To Fight Against
‘Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policy’ – Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 6:38 Pm
This exact law was in place during the Obama years, but
now since Trump is president, it is suddenly a
humanitarian crisis and Republicans are evil for allowing it
to happen.
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Twitter users hammered Hillary.
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Jeb! Bush Joins First Ladies And
Demands Trump End “Heartless” Child Border Policy
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 7:45 Pm
Via Breitbart:
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Mitchell Invites Guest To Slam 'Evil,' 'Sin' Of Trump
Enforcing Immigration Law
By Brad Wilmouth
June 18, 2018 8:17 PM EDT
After making a strong push last week to promote the views "has been used to justify slavery at different
of religious liberals to advocate against the Trump points and even Nazi-era laws."
administration strictly enforcing immigration laws,
Monday saw the liberal Bible-thumping go into overdrive He soon complained that
as MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell brought aboard Father
James Martin, and cued him up to complain that Trump's
"I think those uses of Scripture to justify
immigration policies are "sinful" and to repeatedly attach
what is sinful, I think, is obscene," and then
the word "evil" to the government keeping children in a
added that "it's really insane to use the
separate facility while their parents are prosecuted for
Bible to justify sin."
illegally crossing the border.
Mitchell soon brought up the Statue of Liberty, noting that
it is
At 12:26 p.m. Eastern, on her Andrea Mitchell Reports The MSNBC host further cued up her guest for more
show, the MSNBC host introduced the segment by bashing of the Trump administration as she recounted,
recalling that
"And you said last night on Twitter that it
"a growing number of religious leaders, was 'evil,'" leading him to respond: "It is
including the American Council of Catholic evil. I mean, we need to call it 'evil.' It
Bishops, rabbinical groups, even clearly does not proceed from God."
evangelicals who have in the past
supported President Trump, are imploring
the White House to change this policy." Father Martin had used the word "evil" a total of five times
by the time he reached the end of his rant:
Without informing viewers that it was religious liberals
who started arguing that the Trump administration is It's also something that -- as we see, sadly
violating the Christian Bible, leading Attorney General -- is cloaked in lies, which is another way of
Jeff Sessions to quote Scripture last week in response, recognizing something that is evil, so it has
Mitchell began by turning to Father Martin and posing: all the hallmarks of evil. I don't know what
"I've been following you on Twitter. You have tried to set more we can say. We're choosing to do evil
the record straight in terms of the biblical verses that are actions, and the only thing that we can say
being used by Jeff Sessions, Sarah Sanders, and others, to is that, you know, people who participate in
justify this policy. Help explain it for our viewers." these things are also going to be judged
pretty harshly, I would think.
Father Martin recalled that the biblical portion read by
Sessions As if she were previously a model of journalistic
neutrality, Mitchell then suggested that journalists are
justified in taking a political position against such
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determined enforcement of immigration laws by the and just describe this policy without
Trump administration: pointing out that this is being
misrepresented, and it's very
This has precipitated a real soul-searching uncomfortable for a lot of people of my
among journalists because those of us generation of journalists to constantly be
raised in the traditional frame of "On the saying the President "Misrepresented, he
one hand and on the other hand," are misspoke, this is a lie, this is not true," but
finding that we can no longer stand quietly people have to speak out.
.
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VIDEO: The Gateway Pundit Wrap With Lukasz Dusza:
Trump & Kim Jong Un Historic Meeting
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 8:36 Pm
457
IT WAS A SET-UP: Trump Campaign Aide Reveals
Mueller Knew More About FBI Informant Than He Did
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 9:46 Pm
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DISGRACEFUL! AWOL Sessions Says He Will Let
Rosenstein Continue To Oversee Mueller Witch Hunt
Despite Conflicts (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 18, 2018, 10:55 Pm
WHAT A DISGRACE! given the fact that he did sign one of those
AG Jeff Sessions went on with Laura FISA warrants and that’s a big controversy
in this case?
Ingraham on Monday to discuss
immigration and the Mueller witch hunt.
Jeff Sessions: I am not involved in that. He is the acting
Attorney General for that matter and he has to make his
own decision as I had to make my decision.
What a disgrace.
Laura Ingraham:
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James Woods Has Perfect Response To Crooked Hillary’s
Faux Outrage Over ‘Trump’s Immigration Policy’
By Cristina Laila
June 18, 2018, 11:17 Pm
This exact law was in place during the Obama years, but
now since Trump is president, it is suddenly a
humanitarian crisis and Republicans are evil for allowing it
to happen.
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Trump Directs Pentagon To Create ‘Space Force,’ After
Obama Gutted NASA For ‘Feel Good’ Muslim Outreach
Project (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 18, 2018, 11:26 Pm
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was “When it comes to defending America, it is
preparing to take Americans back to the Moon and on to not enough to merely have an American
Mars—until President Obama took office. presence in space. We must have
American dominance in space,” the
Obama crippled NASA’s efforts to send astronauts beyond president declared in the White House East
low Earth orbit without international assistance and needed Room in a meeting of the National Space
the help of allies to make it to Mars. Council. “Very importantly, I’m hereby
directing the Department of Defense and
The former president redirected America’s space agency Pentagon to immediately begin the process
from pioneering the future in space exploration and necessary to establish the Space Force as
scientific discovery to advancing his so-called social the sixth branch of the armed forces.”
justice agenda — push radical global warming extremism “We are going to have the Air Force and
and Muslim outreach. we are going to have the Space Force:
separate but equal, it is going to be
Obama directed NASA administrator Charles Bolden to something so important,” he said.
make Muslim outreach a top priority for the agency.
The initiative, Trump explained, would protect American
interests in space through monitoring commercial traffic
and debris and would be “great not only in terms of jobs
and everything else, it’s great for the psyche of our
country.”
“Donald Trump increasingly looks like While cooler heads in the media condemned this
Hitler in Nazi Germany.” comparison, Hayden later defended those statements
during two CNN appearances on Monday.
The following day, he appeared again on Newsroom in the
afternoon to embellish on his already hysterical take:
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“Now look, I know we’re not Nazi Tears on AM Joy, adding that he felt the practice was “very
Germany,” he said on New Day, “but there American.” Leadership Development Strategist Kwame
is a commonality there.” Jackson echoed Capehart’s point later that day on MSNBC
Live with Yasmin Vossoughian:
He repeated that point on The Situation Room that same
day: We’re also talking about a legacy of this in the United
States of America, whether it was Native American family
“I knew it would be controversial, but I separation, whether it was African slave separation,
felt a warning flare was necessary.” whether it was the Japanese internment camps. So this is a
long line that we’re actually hearkening back to, that we
Hayden’s tweet was also featured on five different really should be ashamed of and look at where we come
MSNBC shows on Monday, with hosts such as Nicolle from historically.
Wallace of Deadline: White House and Stephanie Ruhle of
MSNBC Live appearing reluctant even to criticize the So absurd was the media's melodrama that even CNN’s
comparison. Brian Stelter felt the need to step in and pump the
proverbial brakes. On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he posed
a challenge to his guests:
“We don’t want to go too far, but is this
warning valid?” Ruhle pondered anxiously
on her 9 a.m. show. “Doesn’t the tone of this coverage
offend a great deal of Americans who
Some pundits too squeamish for Holocaust references feel that the real scandal is that people
instead made overtures to America’s Japanese internment are entering the country illegally in the
camps from World War II. MSNBC contributor Jonathan first place?”
Capehart mentioned both those camps and the Trail of
.
463
Unhinged Democrat Releases Dumpster Fire Ad:
Perfectly Depicts Dem Party In One 40 Second Clip
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
June 19, 2018, 7:30 Am
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Viva Le Resistance… Rep. Devin Nunes Drops Clue On
French-Speaking Anti-Trump Hack In IG Report
By Jim Hoft
June 19, 2018, 8:12 Am
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WATCH=> Sarah Huckabee Sanders LAUNCHES
TRUTH BOMB On Laura Bush’s Family
Separation Comments
By Jim Hoft
June 19, 2018, 10:00 Am
Laura Bush — who did not vote for Donald Trump — Via Josh Caplan:
piled on the Trump administration for detaining illegal
alien children.
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From Our UK Adorable Deplorables: Brexit Update And
Working To Make Britain Great Again
Guest post by Janice Atkinson
June 19, 2018, 11:11 Am
had better build your walls to keep the terrorists out and,
From our friends in the UK: Brexit by the way, we’ve got 30 odd countries queuing up to do
update and trying to Make Britain Great free trade deals with us. Deal done, a free trade deal in
Again goods and services, benefitting both sides.
Instead we have a weak, indecisive, accidental prime They believe that the ordinary people did not know what
minister in Theresa May. Weak because she cannot control we were voting for. That we were all too stupid, too
her government, indecisive because no one knows what ignorant, too uneducated and hate the EU because Nigel
she stands for (a quote by Brexit Secretary David Davis, to Farage and right wing pundits told them it was the right
me some years ago, and is still true today, particularly over thing to do.
Brexit), and accidental because the two front-runners in the
prime ministerial race, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson Mrs May, who does not have a working majority because
had a public spat, caused by the former’s wife, which saw she stupidly called a general election last year and lost the
Mrs May rise from failed home secretary to prime so-called Conservative’s majority, has to rely on those
minister. And she’s been a disaster ever since. very nice people from the Northern Irish Democratic
Union Party. All decent, real conservatives. The trouble is,
If we had Brexit supporting President Trump at the there are a number of Remainer MPs in her own ranks who
negotiating table with the European Union, the art of the are also committing political suicide by defying her
deal would have been struck by now. He would have taken government (and their boss), by voting against the
the unelected and undemocratic Eurocrats into a private government’s Brexit Withdrawal Bill. They know she is
room – devoid of spin doctors and government flunkies – weak but the fear on the government’s side of a real
traded a deal and then announced it to the waiting press Marxist in Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Her Majesty’s
corps, just like with Kim in Sing. Opposition, occupying No.10 Downing Street is a very
real possibility.
President Trump would know that he had the upper hand
in the Brexit negotiations. He would lay it out bare: you The Remainer Rebels and the quislings in the Lords are
sell us more goods than we sell to you, our budget deficit seeking a ‘Meaningful Vote’, ie not trusting the filthy
is too high and we need to get it down, immigration is at a voters of the largest plebiscite the UK has ever had and
tipping point – no more migrants, your liberal left opinion polls that show over 70% of the people want the
governments are collapsing all over Europe in favour of government just to get on with Brexit.
my friends, the populists, we’re closing our borders so you
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They are busy digging their own graves. One long- [bad trade deal] that the EU will offer you and, secondly
standing socialist member whom I like very much, Frank the EU does not understand free trade, it’s a protectionist
Field MP, has tabled a Parliamentary Bill to abolish them. racket”. My hero. Shocked MEPs all choking on their
This is not something I could ever have envisaged soup, except me.
supporting but now I do. It’s time to move to our second
chamber becoming elected. The art of the deal is also hampered because the EU’s trade
Commissioner is Cecilia Malmstrom, a former liberal
As for the trade negotiations? You have Secretary of State sociology lecturer and the so-called High Representative
Wilbur Ross, who I met in a visit to DC in December. I sit (foreign affairs Commissioner) is a recycled communist,
on the EU-US trade delegation committee and I travelled one Federica Mogherini, who is an embarrassment on the
to DC, with a number of senior MEPs from across the EU, world stage, both of whom are incapable of understanding
to meet counterparts in the Republican and Democrat business. Both women are over promoted gender quotas.
parties (the latter’s narrative: The Russians! it’s the
Russians that made Brexit happen. Jim Costa was told in Though I do take heart, friends, the EU is collapsing in on
no uncertain terms what I thought of his conspiracy itself. With my friends in power in Austria and Italy, with
theories. Yawn.). At a lunch Wilbur Ross addressed us. I Poland, Slovenia and Hungary revolting, and with the real
asked him to confirm the UK/US special relationship to possibility that Frau Merkel will be gone by the weekend
those in the room and to update us on a free trade and other nation state elections looming with more
agreement between our two countries. populists on the way, at least the voters in the EU are
doing what we in the UK and you in the US did, our
He had a very stark message for the MEPs in the room. Deplorable EU voters are revolting.
“Janice, absolutely our two countries have a long and
special relationship. Of course we’ll give the UK a free Let’s Make Europe Great Again.
trade deal, but first of all you musn’t take the bitter pill
.
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HOROWITZ DROPS BOMBSHELL:
Hillary Clinton Was Not Formally Under FBI Investigation
At Any Time In 2015-2016
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 12:02 Pm
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No subjects were named, immunity was handed out like
candy and Hillary was exonerated before witnesses were
interviewed, including Hillary Clinton herself.
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Trump’s 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale Calls For
End Of Mueller Investigation, AG Sessions To Be Fired
By Jacob Wohl
June 19, 2018, 12:31 Pm
“Time to fire Sessions, End the Mueller During their discussion Laura asked the AWOL Attorney
investigation, You can’t obstruct something General why he recused himself from the Trump-Russia
that was phony against you, The IG report collusion witch hunt for talking to the ambassador at
gives President Trump the truth to end it cocktail parties but allows Rosenstein to oversee the witch
all.” hunt after he signed the fraudulent FISA memo to spy on
Trump?
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WAYNE ALLYN ROOT:
FBI=“FIRE BUREAU IMMEDIATELY”
By Assistant Editor
June 19, 2018, 12:48 Pm
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President Trump Hugs
American Flag After Speech,
Liberals Triggered
By Kristinn Taylor
June 19, 2018, 1:33 Pm
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President Trump’s speech:
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IG Horowitz Confirms He Is Investigating Whether
Strzok’s Anti-Trump Bias Impacted Launch
Of Russia Probe
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 1:58 Pm
Inspector General Michael Horowitz “That’s a matter we’ve got under review
revealed on Tuesday in a joint hearing and are looking at right now,” Horowitz
with the House Oversight and House said.
Judiciary Committees he is Of course Peter Strzok’s hatred for
investigating whether Peter Strzok’s
Trump impacted the launch of the
anti-Trump bias impacted the launch of
Russia probe.
the Russia Probe.
Trump-hating FBI Special Agent Peter
Strzok sent his mistress Lisa Page a
text message saying “we’ll stop” Trump
from becoming President.
478
BREAKING: Horowitz Reveals Two More Anti-Trump
Lawyers May Have Been Removed From Mueller Witch
Hunt (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 2:41 Pm
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On Monday, a group of GOP lawmakers, People speculated as to why Horowitz redacted the names
led by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sent a of the FBI officials in his report.
letter to Inspector General Horowitz
demanding he release the names of the Now we know it is most likely because we would find out
FBI employees named in the IG report. they were on Mueller’s team of liberal hacks.
Rep. Biggs brought up the Trump-hating ‘FBI attorney 2’ The Mueller witch hunt needs to be shut down
who messaged about ‘the resistance.‘ immediately and a Special Counsel needs to investigate
Mueller and Rosenstein.
‘”For example, one FBI attorney texted
“viva le resistance” when asked about his
commitment to the incoming Trump
administration in November 2016.”
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IG Horowitz: FBI Withholding Names Of Anti-Trump
Agents From Public
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 3:33 Pm
“So the FBI does not want their names Rep. Biggs brought up the Trump-hating ‘FBI attorney 2’
released?” Rep Ted Poe (R-TX) asked who messaged about ‘the resistance.‘
Horowitz.
‘”For example, one FBI attorney texted
“Correct,” Horowitz replied. “viva le resistance” when asked about his
commitment to the incoming Trump
administration in November 2016.”
The Inspector General also revealed
Tuesday two more anti-Trump FBI
lawyers may have been removed from
Mueller’s witch hunt.
WE WANT NAMES!
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CBS Ignores FBI Getting Grilled
On Capitol Hill Over IG Report
By Kyle Drennen
June 19, 2018 3:59 PM EDT
Despite an avalanche of coverage of the Trump “We found the implication that senior
administration’s immigration policy, both ABC and NBC FBI employees would be willing to take
found time to offer full reports on FBI Director official action to impact a presidential
Christopher Wray facing a tough grilling on Capitol Hill candidate’s electoral prospects to be
on Monday over the Justice Department’s “scathing deeply troubling and antithetical to the
inspector general’s report.” However, CBS was far too core values of the FBI and the Justice
engrossed visiting illegal immigrant detention centers Department.”
along the U.S. southern border to offer a single second to
the story. Wrapping up the segment, Welker explained that “more
fallout is still possible” as the inspector general next plans
“The FBI working overtime to do to examine how memos from fired FBI Director James
damage control and contain the fallout Comey were handled and “who exactly leaked all of that
from that scathing inspector general’s information to the press.”
report, the FBI director facing a grilling
on Capitol Hill,” Despite all of those obvious headlines, on Monday
evening, ABC’s World News Tonight focused its story
NBC co-host Savannah Guthrie announced on Tuesday’s about the hearing entirely on discrediting the President.
Today show. Moments later, White House Correspondent
Kristen Welker added: “President Trump claims a report from the
Justice Department’s inspector general has
“The FBI director and the Justice cleared him of any wrongdoing....But today,
Department’s inspector general were in the inspector general contradicting the
the hot seat Monday, facing tough president, saying his report was focused on
questions about that 500-page report the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, not
which blasted former FBI Director Russia,” declared Justice Correspondent
James Comey and senior FBI officials.” Pierre Thomas.
KRISTEN WELKER: Hi, Savannah, good morning to you. The DONALD TRUMP: There was collusion, there was no
FBI director and the Justice Department’s inspector general were obstruction. The IG report yesterday went a long way to show
in the hot seat Monday, facing tough questions about that 500- that.
page report which blasted former FBI Director James Comey and
senior FBI officials. The inspector general making it very clear his WELKER: The inspector general says his report did not address
work isn’t finished yet. that.
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[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: FBI Under Fire; Inspector General TRUMP: I think that the Mueller investigation has been totally
Defends Report; Wray Grilled] discredited.
PIERRE THOMAS: President Trump claims a report from the SEN. DICK DURBIN [D-MINORITY WHIP]: Did you address the
Justice Department’s inspector general has cleared him of any credibility of the investigation of Robert Mueller?
wrongdoing.
HOROWITZ: We did not address the credibility of the special
DONALD TRUMP: I think that the report yesterday, maybe more counsel’s investigation here.
importantly than anything, it totally exonerates me. There was no
collusion, there was no obstruction. And if you read the report, THOMAS: The president has called the Russia investigation a
you’ll see that. witch hunt. Today, his hand-picked FBI director again making
clear he does not agree.
THOMAS: But today, the inspector general contradicting the
president, saying his report was focused on the Hillary Clinton e- CHRISTOPHER WRAY [FBI DIRECTOR]: And as I said before, I
mail investigation, not Russia. do not believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt.
MICHAEL HOROWITZ [INSPECTOR GENERAL]: We did not THOMAS: Wray also agreed with the inspector general that
look into collusion questions. political bias did not effect the outcome of the Clinton
investigation. But tonight, Republicans aren't buying it.
THOMAS: He also rejects the President’s claim that the report
undermines the special counsel probe. SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM [R-SC]: These people hated Trump
and this investigation was anything but by the book.
.
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Trump-Hating Special Agent
Peter Strzok Escorted Out Of FBI Building
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 4:02 Pm
Trump-hating FBI Special Agent Peter “Pete has steadfastly played by the rules
Strzok was escorted out of the FBI and respected the process, and yet he
building on Friday but he is still continues to be the target of unfounded
employed in Human Resources. personal attacks, political games and
inappropriate information leaks….All of this
seriously calls into question the impartiality
of the disciplinary process, which now
appears tainted by political influence.
Instead of publicly calling for a long-serving
FBI agent to be summarily fired, politicians
should allow the disciplinary process to
play out free from political pressure.”
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This Is CNN? Smerconish Changes
Mind on Video Trump Gave to Kim Jong-un
By P.J. Gladnick
June 19, 2018 4:03 PM EDT
Remember how many members of the mainstream media UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A story about a special moment
derided the video that President Donald Trump gave to in time when a man is presented with one chance that may
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? They wrote it off as never be repeated.
something like a mere elevator pitch video for selling
(END VIDEO CLIP)
timeshares. Well, that was the first impression of CNN
host Michael Smerconish...until he watched it a second SMERCONISH: That's when I said to myself, is this the
time and came to realize that it could be a very effective equivalent of when we went to the drive-in in the '70s and
video. the image of a hot dog would go sailing by and suddenly
you felt hungry?
On Saturday he interviewed a former U.S. diplomat and
psychiatrist who agreed that it was indeed a very effective In other words, is it possible that this was
video. not some slap dash production, but
rather was the result of thought and
deliberation as to how do we reach --
based on some psychological profile,
how do we reach Chairman Kim?
Is it more sophisticated than we might have thought at
first blush? Joining me now is Dr. Ken Dekleva. He's a
former U.S. diplomat and psychiatrist who used to work
with the State Department. He's profiled various world
leaders, including Kim. Dr. Dekleva, on a propaganda
scale, how many stars out of five?
KENNETH DEKLEVA, PSYCHIATRIST: Good
MICHAEL SMERCONISH: For me, the lingering morning, Michael. I give it 4.5.
question about the Singapore summit had nothing to do SMERCONISH: And why 4.5?
with did Trump give up too much or what are the details or
what's the timeline. No, no, no. I'm interested in that four- DEKLEVA: I agree with -- with what you
minute video that the president showed Kim on an iPad, were saying in your introduction, that the
showing what North Korea can be if it will allow itself to video is remarkably sophisticated, and I
be integrated into the world community. think it was carefully and thoughtfully
designed to appeal not only to
In some quarters, the White House is Chairman Kim but also to other
being derided for use of that video as if members of the North -- North Korean
it's an elevator pitch. You know, Trump elite. And also in an indirect way, to the
trying to sell Kim a timeshare in Phoenix people of South Korea and President
or some such thing. And that was my Moon. I thought it rich with symbolism,
first reaction, too. But when I looked at powerful emotions and marvelously put
it a second time, what stood out to me together.
was the basketball dunk. In the midst of
all of this footage showing progress in So rather than mere elevator pitch, a psychiatrist with a
North Korea, trains and buildings and diplomatic background agrees that it is "remarkably
medical advance comes the dunk of a sophisticated" and designed to appeal not only to Kim but
basketball. also to other members of the North Korean elite. Oh, and
"marvelously put together."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
This is CNN?
.
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BREAKING: Rep Mark Meadows Unmasks Two
Unidentified Trump-Hating FBI Officials Referred For
Investigation (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 4:32 Pm
BREAKING NEWS.
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*** BREAKING NEWS *** Horowitz said the FBI is withholding the names from the
public “because they work on counterintelligence.”
House Judiciary member Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-NC) unmasked the ID of anti-
Trump, pro-Hillary FBI investigators “So the FBI does not want their names released?” Rep Ted
referred for punishment by IG. One is Poe (R-TX) asked Horowitz.
SALLY MOYER who allegedly was having
a romantic relationship with a male FBI “Correct,” Horowitz replied.
attorney, mirroring Page & Strzok
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 19, Horowitz referred five unnamed FBI employees for
2018 investigation after more anti-Trump text messages
surfaced.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz
revealed on Tuesday in a joint hearing
with the House Oversight and House FBI employees were simply referred to as “FBI attorney
Judiciary Committees the FBI is 2,” or “FBI employee.”
refusing to allow Trump-hating agents
to be named publicly. More stonewalling and lies from the FBI!
Rep Ted Poe (R-TX) asked Inspector General Horowitz This is a breaking story…please refresh page for updates.
about the unnamed, anti-Trump FBI officials in his review
on the bureau’s (mis)handling of the Hillary email
investigation.
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AUDIO: Congressional Intern Screams
‘F*** You!’ At President Trump At Capitol
By Kristinn Taylor
June 19, 2018, 6:56 Pm
”The woman who heckled the President “LISTEN: As Pres Trump’s entourage
most likely had to either be an intern or entered Speaker Ryan’s office in the
aide. Someone with a hard Congressional Capitol, someone on the other side of the
pass allowing access to the Rotunda area Capitol rotunda yelled: “Mr. President, F—k
after hours. The Capitol closes to public you!!” (He entered about 15 seconds
tours ar 4:30 pm et.” later):”…”Per our intern, who was standing
there, the woman who yelled “Mr.
President, F–k you!!” was a congressional
intern.”
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The Daily Mail’s David Martosko posted a tongue-in-
cheek poll on the fate of the foul-mouthed anti-Trump
intern.
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Rosenstein Hid Damning Strzok Text Message “We’ll
Stop” Trump From Becoming President From
Congressional Investigators For A Month (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 7:05 Pm
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Chairman Bob Goodlatte Fires Warning Shot To Peter
Strzok ‘A Subpoena Is Coming’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
June 19, 2018, 8:24 Pm
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Rush Limbaugh: Drive-By Media Bombarding Americans
With ‘Manufactured Crises’ To Distract From IG Report,
Robust Economy (VIDEO)
By Alicia Powe
June 19, 2018, 9:40 Pm
Pro-amnesty Democrats, who are adamantly against The United States government is not separating children
building a wall along the US, Mexico border do not from their families, Limbaugh noted, their parents are.
sincerely care about the welfare of unaccompanied illegal
children or they would support legislation that secures the
“All of these unaccompanied minors – their
parents force them out of the house in
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Guatamala, El Savador wherever, put them Donald Trump — where is that mouth trap
on the trains, put them on the bus and send lawyer of hers, Avenatti– done and been
them unaccompanied to the United States there, used up, spit out and moved on,” he
on a journey where they could be severely said. ‘Remember, before that it was David
injured or killed. Nobody is separating ‘camera’ Hogg and the students at the
these people in the United States, their school in Florida and they occupied a crisis
own parents are separating themselves involving guns, for how many weeks did
from their kids when they put them on this that go on? At various stages it has been
train, when they put them on the flatbeds, the Russian Trump collusion story. It’s just
when the put them on the buses, or the one manufactured crisis after another.”
mule backs or whatever else they are using
“One of the reasons that this exists is to
to get them in.”
take the IG report off the table. To provide
mechanisms whereby they don’t have to
But Democrats and their accomplices in the media don’t report on the great and robust economic
care about the truth or the children because they are news, or anything else positive regarding
“manufacturing a crisis out of something that has been the Trump administration,” he continued.
going on for years” to vilify Trump, distract from the IG “They lost, they’re the losers in the last
report and the booming economy Trump has fostered, election. Their voters and their side
Limbaugh argued. represents a minority of thinking. And yet
they get away with going on offense with
“Remember it used to be Stormy Daniels. this never ending accusatory journalism
The drive-bys were totally devoted to a against us, Trump. Thank God for Donald
porn star. They were converting a porn star Trump, not backing down at all. In fact, he
into a credible spokeswoman against is doubling down.”
.
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