House Intel Democrats Release Nunes Counter-Memo

The 2017 Trump

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 ‘Leaker’ Adam Schiff CONFIRMS That DEM Intel
Committee Memo Contained ‘Methods And Sources’
Posted On February 15, 2018
(National Sentinel) Unpatriotic Games: Rep. Adam
Schiff, the ranking minority member of the House
Intelligence Committee, has admitted that a Democratic
memo he authored as a response to the FISA memo
recently released by his Republican counterparts did
contain sensitive “methods and sources” and thus needed
to be scrubbed before release.
As reported by The Daily Caller:
White House problems with the Democrats’
“rebuttal memo” on the surveillance of
Trump associates are genuine and the
document could disclose “sources and
methods,” California Rep. Adam Schiff, the
ranking Democrat on the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence
confirmed.
“We need to go through that and identify
that which remains classified and would
implicate sources and methods or
investigative interests,” he said at a
newsmaker’s breakfast meeting on
Wednesday sponsored by the Christian
Science Monitor.
That admission was a direct rebuke of previous statements
made by the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of
California, who has previously claimed that President
Donald J. Trump and Republicans were playing politics by
refusing to release the Democratic response to the FISA
memo, the latter of which detailed serial abuses of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by Obama-era FBI
and Justice Department officials in order to spy on Trump
campaign figures.
White House counsel Don McGahn said in a
statement Friday that Trump was “inclined” but “unable”
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to declassify the Democrat’s 10-page memo because it
“contains numerous properly classified and especially
sensitive passages,” as reported by Politico.
Following McGahn’s statement, Pelosi
issued one of her own saying, President
Trump’s refusal to release Intelligence
Committee Democrats’ memo is a
stunningly brazen attempt to cover up the
truth about the Trump-Russia scandal from
the American people.”
Democrats continue to push the “Trump-Russia collusion”
narrative despite a lack of evidence, and after nearly two
years’ worth of investigating by Congress and the Justice
Department.
“I’ve never said there was proof beyond a
reasonable doubt” about collusion, Schiff
told reporters. “Our responsibility is not
determining what can be proved to a jury
beyond a reasonable doubt. Our
responsibility is to tell the country as much
as we’ve been able to learn.”
Yet, in the same presser sponsored by the Christian
Science Monitor, Schiff indeed said there is “ample
evidence” of collusion.
“There is already, in my view, ample
evidence in the public domain on the issue
of collusion if you’re willing to see it,” he
said. “If you want to blind yourself, then you
can look the other way.”
Schiff has been implicated by Trump administration
officials and others in Congress as responsible for leaking
sensitive material to friendly media outlets.
 Hollywood Liberals Cut Their First Ad Urging Democrats
To Vote — In NOVEMBER Elections (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 15, 2018, 8:09 Am

Spraying gas on this raging political inferno is a

Hollywood “axis of influence” — a group of established
comedians participating in a well-funded political
offensive called “Glam Up the Midterms.”

Included in this newly formed comedy troupe are

Hollywood liberals and late night hosts
cut their first video of the year urging
Democrats to vote …in NOVEMBER!
It’s February.
They are desperate as hell.
Republicans now lead Democrats in generic congressional
polling.
Two months ago Democrats were ahead by more than 10
points.
predictable names such as Billy Eichner, James Corden,
Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan
O’Brien, John Oliver, Robin Thede, Andy Cohen, and
Chelsea Handler. Officially launched on February 2 with
an engaging video, “Glam Up the Midterms” is a perfect
confluence of politics and entertainment in the Age of
Trump. Since comedians think they can influence their
fans’ political beliefs, the two are now virtually
inseparable.
Officially launched on February 2 with an engaging video,
“Glam Up the Midterms” is a perfect confluence of politics
and entertainment in the Age of Trump. Since comedians
think they can influence their fans’ political beliefs, the
two are now virtually inseparable.
The Hollywood elites really believe they
are the center of the universe.

Republicans passed the largetst tax

cuts in history in December.
Americans are finding economic relief
after eight long years of Barack Obama.
Hollywood liberals have nothing to offer
the American public except words —
and stale humor.

National Review reported:

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 Donald Trump: ‘So Many Signs’
That Florida Shooter Was A Threat
By Charlie Spiering
15 Feb 2018
President Donald Trump reacted to the
shooter who is suspected of killing 17
students at a Florida high school.
“So many signs that the Florida shooter
was mentally disturbed, even expelled from
school for bad and erratic behavior,” Trump
wrote on Twitter. “Neighbors and
classmates knew he was a big problem.”
The suspected shooter was reportedly treated for mental
problems at a local clinic and expelled from school for
threatening students and demonstrating abusive behavior.
Law enforcement officials said that the shooter
demonstrated “very, very disturbing” behavior on social
media and the FBI was reportedly told of a comment under
a YouTube account with his name about being a
“professional school shooter.” The account was deleted by
YouTube on Wednesday night. The shooter’s Instagram
account featured images of guns, according to reports.
Before he was expelled, Former teachers and students said
that the shooter was suspended in school for having bullets
in his backpack and that teachers were warned that he was
not allowed on campus with a backpack.
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Trump urged friends and families to report
problematic students to law enforcement.
“Must always report such instances to
authorities, again and again!” he wrote.
Trump offered prayers and condolences on Twitter on
Wednesday after news broke of the deadly shooting.
“My prayers and condolences to the
families of the victims of the terrible Florida
shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else
should ever feel unsafe in an American
school,” he wrote. “We are working closely
with law enforcement on the terrible Florida
school shooting.”
Wednesday’s White House press briefing was canceled
after several delays and the president did not address the
country after it was clear that multiple casualties occurred.
My prayers and condolences to the families
of the victims of the terrible Florida
shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else
should ever feel unsafe in an American
school.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 14, 2018
So many signs that the Florida shooter was
mentally disturbed, even expelled from
school for bad and erratic behavior.
Neighbors and classmates knew he was a
big problem. Must always report such
instances to authorities, again and again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 15, 2018
 Pence Rips 'Out Of Touch' ABC For
Promoting 'Religious Intolerance' On 'View'
By Kristine Marsh
February 15, 2018 11:57 AM EST

He went on to describe how he starts every day by reading

the Bible and praying with his wife. Calling himself a
“typical” American, he ripped ABC again for allowing
such anti-Christian, “religious intolerance” to take place. “I
call them out on that,” Pence charged:

I’m not unusual, I think I’m a very typical

American...It demonstrates how out-of-
touch some in the mainstream media
In a sit-down interview with Axios on Ash Wednesday, are, with the faith and values of the
Vice President Mike Pence told investigative journalist American people. That you could have a
Mike Allen that he was upset to hear about The View’s major network like ABC permit a forum
callous remarks about his faith on their show earlier this for invective against religion, like that. I
week. call them out on that.

“I actually heard that ABC has a
program, that compared my Christianity
to mental illness. And I’d like to laugh
about it but I really can’t,” he began.
Pence was referring to the Tuesday episode of ABC's
The View, where the liberal hosts mocked the VP for his
faith. Host Joy Behar joked that Pence talking to God was
akin to a “mental illness,” and fellow host Sunny Hostin
claimed he had a “dangerous” faith.
Not because of what was said about me, but its just simply
wrong, for ABC, to have a television program, that
expresses that kind of religious intolerance.
“We’re better than that. Our country’s better
than that. And you’re better than that,” he
said pointing to Allen.
Pence admitted he couldn’t stand by while such offensive
comments were made on a mainstream television network.

During a Q&A at the Axios forum February 14, Pence told
the audience that the network’s tolerance for this kind of
religious bigotry was “just wrong:”
Mike, I’m a believer. Like tens of millions of Americans
today will have ash on their foreheads, to mark the
beginning of Lent, overwhelming majority of Americans
cherish their faith. And we all have different types of faith
in this country.
“I’d like to be light about it but I really
can’t. Not for my sake but for the tens of
millions of Americans who cherish their
faith. I can’t be silent,” he stated.
C-Span tweeted out video of the VP's comments against
ABC:

But I have to tell you. To have ABC,

maintain a broadcast forum that
compared Christianity to mental illness,
is just wrong. And it's an insult not to
me, but to the vast majority of American
people who like me, cherish their faith.
“I mean, my Christianity is the most
important thing in my life...My faith sustains
me in all that I do,” Pence admitted.
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ABC has a long history of religious bigotry against open letter to the network, (on next page).
Christians, as MRC President Brent Bozell noted in his

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 Brent Bozell’s Open Letter To ABC & The View:
Apologize For Bigotry Against Christians
By NB Staff
February 15, 2018 10:49 AM EST

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the
following opening letter today in response to ongoing
hateful comments made by ABC hosts, including The
View’s Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin. Hostin referred to
Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith as
“dangerous.” Behar equated it to a “mental illness.”
Bozell’s complete February 15 letter is below. A PDF can
be found here.
February 15, 2018
Mr. James Goldston
President, ABC News
47 West 66th St.
New York, NY 10023
Dear Mr. Goldston,
I am writing to bring a serious problem to your attention.
Yesterday, I issued a statement on Twitter, addressing offensive
comments made by Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin of The View
regarding Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith. I referred
to comments they made after playing a clip from Celebrity Big
Brother. Omarosa Manigault-Newman trashed Pence as an
“extreme Christian” who has conversations with Jesus. The panel
then took turns taking shots at the Vice President’s faith.
Ms. Hostin, who identifies as Catholic, called Pence’s Christianity
“dangerous”: “When you have a Mike Pence who now puts this
religious veneer on things and who calls people values voters, I
think we're in a dangerous situation. Look I'm Catholic. I'm a
faithful person, but I don’t know that I want my vice president, um
-- speaking in tongues and having Jesus speak to him.”
Ms. Behar mocked the Vice President directly, equating his faith
to “mental illness”: “Like I said before, it's one thing to talk to
Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to you,” she warned.
Hostin agreed: “Exactly. That's different!” Behar responded:
“That's called mental illness, if I'm not correct. Hearing
voices.”
These characterizations of the Vice President’s faith are insulting
not just to him, but to all Christians. Yet as of the writing of this
letter, neither Ms. Hostin, nor Ms. Behar, nor ABC have
apologized.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time ABC and The View have
insulted Christians. This is a disturbing trend. Here are some
examples:
 On a June 1, 2017 episode of the The View, the entire
lineup “blamed” Christians for taking away free
contraception, likening Christianity to the Taliban: “You
can’t hide behind religion to restrict other people’s
rights!” host Jedediah Bila slammed. “You’re almost
punishing us for having ovaries,” fellow host Sara
Haines added. Joy Behar asked, “How is it different
from the Taliban?” adding, “Let’s not forget they are
trying to keep women in their place, barefoot and
pregnant.”
 On July 12, 2017, ABCNews.com reported on a Jeff
Sessions speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom
with the following headline: “Jeff Sessions addresses
‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ but DOJ won’t release his
remarks.” The “hate-group” designation for the ADF
comes from the highly partisan Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC). The shocking thing is that ABC News
took that incredible charge from the SPLC for granted,
and used it to trash both ADF and Attorney General
Jeff Sessions.
 The ABC show Good Christian Bitches, which aired in
2012, portrayed Christians as superficial, carnal,
shallow hypocrites. Unfortunately, while the show
changed its name to GCB, it never stopped its lewd
and offensive caricatures of Christianity.
And there are many more such examples. Ms. Behar and Ms.
Hostin are just the latest.
But now you, Mr. Goldston, have the opportunity to right this
wrong. Apologize on behalf of ABC. Require Ms. Hostin and Ms.
Behar as individuals to apologize. Bigotry against any group is
hateful and ugly. Unfortunately, anti-Christian bigotry seems to
be the last acceptable bigotry. A simple unqualified apology will
go so far. Our country is so divided right now, why make things
worse? By apologizing you have everything to gain and nothing
to lose.
Make no mistake, the slurs against the Vice President’s faith
insult millions of Christians and are unacceptable. If there are no
on-air apologies after this deplorable episode, Christians will tune
out ABC programming across the board. And we will do our best
to encourage it.

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If there is no apology, we will contact the advertisers of The View,
and ask MRC’s millions of grassroots activists to do the same. I
am sure the advertisers of The View will be just as appalled as I
am about the anti-Christian remarks made on the show. I hope
you are able to take the appropriate action before we begin.

I look forward to your reply. Please do not hesitate to call me by

COB Friday if you want to discuss.

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 Salon Brazenly Lies About Trump
Blaming Florida Victims For School Shooting
Claims His First Response Came This Morning,
When It Actually Happened Yesterday
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
February 15, 2018

In a brazen example of media bias,

Salon.com claimed that President
Trump’s first response to the horrific
school shooting in Florida was to blame
the victims.
In an article entitled Trump finally acknowledges Florida
school shooting — only to suggest victims at fault, Salon’s
Sophia Tesfaye asserts,
“Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to
break his silence about the deadliest high
school shooting in U.S. history.”
This is a demonstrably provable lie.
Trump ‘broke his silence’ on the Florida shooting the day
before, when he tweeted, “My prayers and condolences to
the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting.
No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in
an American school.”
He then followed up with a second tweet offering help to
Florida Governor Rick Scott.
Salon’s claim that Trump’s first response to the shooting
didn’t take place until Thursday morning was an outright
lie, and Salon had to change the article after it was
published to reflect that (without issuing any retraction).
“Trump suggested that people around the
shooter who did not sufficiently inform
authorities were partially at fault,” wrote
Tesfaye.
This again is completely false.
Trump tweeted,
“So many signs that the Florida shooter
was mentally disturbed, even expelled from
school for bad and erratic behavior.
Neighbors and classmates knew he was a
big problem. Must always report such
instances to authorities, again and again!”
The purpose of this tweet is clearly not to blame the
victims, it is to encourage people to report suspicious
behavior in order to stop future mass shootings.

The article also directly accuses Trump of blaming the Given Salon’s reputation, this is after all the publication
victims. that gave a platform to a pedophile, perhaps we shouldn’t
be surprised that they barely waited until the bodies were
cold before exploiting the shooting to justify their Trump
Derangement Syndrome.
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 Trump Finally Acknowledges Florida
School Shooting — Only To Suggest Victims At Fault
“Neighbors And Classmates Knew He Was A Big Problem,” The President
Tweeted After A Young Man Killed 17 In Parkland
Sophia Tesfaye
02.15.2018•8:46 AM

"So many signs that the Florida shooter

was mentally disturbed, even expelled from
school for bad and erratic behavior.
Neighbors and classmates knew he was a
big problem. Must always report such
instances to authorities, again and again!"
Trump tweeted.

Trump's tweet, inexplicably linked to another tweet

disingenuously blaming Democrats for the DACA
deadline he created, follows a pattern of partially blaming
certain mass shootings on the people around the shooter.
Following a familiar script, President Donald Trump took
to Twitter Thursday morning to opine about the deadliest "Many people saw the bombs all over the
high school shooting in U.S. history. Like he had after the apartment (in San Bernardino), Muslims
shootings in San Bernardino and Orlando, both during his have to report the problems when they see
presidential campaign, Trump suggested that people them," Trump said during a presidential
around the shooter who did not sufficiently inform debate.
authorities were partially at fault.
Curiously, Trump made no similar proclamation after the
worst mass shooting in modern history only months ago,
when a middle-aged white man opened fire on Las Vegas
concertgoers.

A 19-year-old former student of Marjory Stoneman

Douglas High School in Parkland, near Fort Lauderdale,
returned on Valentine Day's to unleash terror on students,
teachers and faculty. Seventeen people died on
Wednesday, and 15 more remain hospitalized, according to
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. The gunman was
believed to have been armed with an AR-15-style
semiautomatic rifle and multiple magazines.

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 The Media Stopped Reporting The
Russia Collusion Story Because They Helped Create It
The Press Has Played An Active Role In The Trump-Russia
Collusion Story Since Its Inception. It Helped Birth It.
By Lee Smith
February 15, 2018
Half the country wants to know why the press won’t cover
the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening
to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence
Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.
After all, the release last week of a less-redacted version of
Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham’s January 4
letter showed that the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrant to search the communications of
a Trump campaign adviser based on a piece of opposition
research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee. The Fourth Amendment
rights of an American citizen were violated to allow one
political party to spy on another.
If the press did its job and reported the facts, the argument
goes, then it wouldn’t just be Republicans and Trump
supporters demanding accountability and justice.
Americans across the political spectrum would understand
the nature and extent of the abuses and crimes touching not
just on one political party and its presidential candidate but
the rights of every American.
That’s all true, but irrelevant. The reasons the press won’t
cover the story are suggested in the Graham-Grassley letter
itself.
Steele Was a Media Informant
The letter details how Christopher Steele, the former
British spy who allegedly authored the documents
claiming ties between the Trump campaign and Russia,
told the FBI he wasn’t talking to the press about his
investigation. In a British court, however, Steele
acknowledged briefing several media organizations on the
material in his dossier.
According to the British court documents, Steele briefed
the New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo! News, The
New Yorker, and CNN. In October, he talked to Mother
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Jones reporter David Corn by Skype. It was Corn’s
October 31 article anonymously sourced to Steele that
alerted the FBI their informant was speaking to the press.
Grassley and Graham referred Steele to the Department of
Justice for a criminal investigation because he lied to the
FBI.
The list of media outfits and journalists made aware of
Steele’s investigations is extensive. Reuters reported that
it, too, was briefed on the dossier, and while it refrained
from reporting on it before the election, its national
security reporter Mark Hosenball became an advocate of
the dossier’s findings after November 2016.
BBC’s Paul Wood wrote in January 2017 that he was
briefed on the dossier a week before the election.
Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald likely saw Steele’s work
around the same time, because he published an article days
before the election based on a “Western intelligence”
source (i.e., Steele) who cited names and data points that
could only come from the DNC- and Clinton-funded
opposition research.
A line from the Grassley-Graham letter points to an even
larger circle of media outfits that appear to have been in
contact with either Steele or Fusion GPS, the Washington
DC firm that contracted him for the opposition research the
Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee
commissioned.
“During the summer of 2016,” the Grassley-
Graham letter reads, “reports of some of
the dossier allegations began circulating
among reporters and people involved in
Russian issues.”
Planting the Carter Page Story
Indeed, it looks like Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson may have persuaded a number of major foreign
policy and national security writers in Washington and
New York that Trump and his team were in league with
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those journalists
include New Yorker editor David Remnick, Atlantic editor
Jeffrey Goldberg, former New Republic editor Franklin
Foer, and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum.
A Foer story published in Slate on July 4, 2016 appears to
be central. Titled “Putin’s Puppet,” Foer’s piece argues
the Trump campaign was overly Russia-friendly. Foer
discusses Trump’s team, including campaign convention
manager Paul Manafort, who worked with former
Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich, a Putin ally; and
Carter Page, who, Foer wrote, “advised the state-controlled
natural gas giant Gazprom and helped it attract Western
investors.”
That’s how Page described himself in a March 2016
Bloomberg interview. But as Julia Ioffe reported in a
September 23, 2016 Politico article, Page was a mid-level
executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role
in any of the big deals he boasted about. As Ioffe shows,
almost no one in Moscow remembered Page. Until Trump
read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a
March interview with the Washington Post, almost no one
in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Page
either.
So what got Foer interested in Page? Were Steele and
Simpson already briefing reporters on their opposition
research into the Trump campaign? (Another Foer story
for Slate, an October 31, 2016 article about the Trump
organization’s computer servers “pinging” a Russian bank,
was reportedly “pushed” to him by Fusion GPS.) Page and
Manafort are the protagonists of the Steele dossier, the
former one of the latter’s intermediaries with Russian
officials and associates of Putin. Page’s July 7 speech in
Moscow attracted wide U.S. media coverage, but Foer’s
article published several days earlier.
The Slate article, then, looks like the predicate for
allegations against Page made in the dossier after his July
Russia trip. For instance, according to Steele’s
investigations, Page was offered a 19 percent stake in
Rosneft, one of the world’s energy giants, in exchange for
help repealing sanctions related to Russia’s 2014 incursion
into Ukraine.
Building an Echo Chamber of Opposition Research
Many have noted the absurdity that the FISA warrant on
Page was chiefly based, according to a House intelligence
committee memo, on the dossier and Michael Isikoff’s
September 23, 2016 news story also based on the dossier.
But much of the Russiagate campaign was conducted in
this circular manner. Steele and Simpson built an echo
chamber with their opposition research, parts of the law
enforcement and intelligence communities, and the press
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all reinforcing one another. Plant an item in the open air
and watch it grow—like Page’s role in the Trump
campaign.
Why else was Foer or anyone so interested in Page? Why
was Page’s Moscow speech so closely watched and widely
covered? According to the Washington Post, Page
“chided” American policymakers for an “often-
hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality,
corruption and regime change” in its dealings with Russia,
China, and Central Asia.
As peculiar as it may have sounded for a graduate of the
Naval Academy to cast a skeptical eye on American
exceptionalism, Page’s speech could hardly have struck
the policy establishment as shocking, or even novel.
They’d been hearing versions of it for the last eight years
from the president of the United States.
In President Obama’s first speech before the United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on September 23,
2009, he insisted that no country, least of all America, has
the right to tell other countries how to organize their
political lives.
“Democracy cannot be imposed on any
nation from the outside,” said Obama.
“Each society must search for its own path,
and no path is perfect. Each country will
pursue a path rooted in the culture of its
people and in its past traditions.”
Obama sounded even more wary of American leadership
on his way out of office eight years later. In his 2016
UNGA speech, the 2009 Nobel laureate said:
“I do not think that America can — or
should — impose our system of
government on other countries.”
Obama was addressing not just foreign nations but perhaps
more pointedly his domestic political rivals.
In 2008 Obama campaigned against the Iraq War and the
Republican policymakers who toppled Saddam Hussein to
remake Iraq as a democracy. All during his presidency,
Obama rebuffed critics who petitioned the administration
to send arms or troops to advance U.S. interests and values
abroad, most notably in Ukraine and Syria.
In 2016, it was Trump who ran against the Republican
foreign policy establishment—which is why hundreds of
GOP policymakers and foreign policy intellectuals signed
two letters distancing themselves from the party’s
candidate. The thin Republican bench of foreign policy
experts available to Trump is a big reason why he named
the virtually unknown Page to his team. So why was it any
surprise that Page sounded like the Republican candidate,
who sounded like the Democratic president?
Why Didn’t the Left Like Obama’s Ideas from a
Republican?
On the Right, many national security and foreign policy
writers like me heard and were worried by the clear echoes
of Obama’s policies in the Trump campaign’s proposals.
Did those writing from the left side of the political
spectrum not see the continuities?
Writing in the Washington Post July 21, 2016, Applebaum
explained how a
“Trump presidency could destabilize
Europe.”
The issue, she explained, was Trump’s positive attitude
toward Putin.
“The extent of the Trump-Russia business
connection has already been laid out, by
Franklin Foer at Slate,” wrote Applebaum.
She named Page and his “long-standing
connections to Russian companies.”
Even more suggestive to Applebaum is that just a few days
before her article was published,
“Trump’s campaign team helped alter the
Republican party platform to remove
support for Ukraine”
from the Republican National Committee’s platform.
Maybe, she hinted, that was because of Trump aide
Manafort’s ties to Yanukovich.
Did those talking points come from Steele’s opposition
research? Manafort’s relationship with Yanukovich had
been widely reported in the U.S. press long before he
signed on with the Trump campaign. In fact, in 2007
Glenn Simpson was one of the first to write about their
shady dealings while he was still working at the Wall
Street Journal. The corrupt nature of the Manafort-
Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the
dossier. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia
releasing the DNC emails,
“the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline
Russian intervention in Ukraine as a
campaign issue.”
The reality, however, is that the Trump campaign team
never removed support for Ukraine from the party
platform. In a March 18, 2017 Washington Examiner
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article, Byron York interviewed the convention delegate
who pushed for tougher language on Russia, and got it.
“In the end, the platform, already fairly
strong on the Russia-Ukraine issue,” wrote
York, “was strengthened, not weakened.”
Maybe Applebaum just picked it up from her own paper’s
mis-reporting.
For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump
would express skepticism about the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, except to appease Putin. She referred to a
recent interview in which Trump
“cast doubt on the fundamental basis of
transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5
guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d
have to think first before defending U.S.
allies.”
The Echoes Pick Up
In an article published the very same day in the Atlantic,
Jeffrey Goldberg made many of the very same
observations. Titled “It’s Official: Hillary Clinton is
Running Against Vladimir Putin,” the article opens:
“The Republican nominee for president,
Donald J. Trump, has chosen this week to
unmask himself as a de facto agent of
Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
What was the evidence? Well, for one, Page’s business
interests.
Trump’s expressed admiration for Putin and other
“equivocating, mercenary statements,” wrote Goldberg,
are “unprecedented in the history of Republican foreign
policymaking.” However, insofar as Trump’s fundamental
aim was to find some common ground with Putin, it’s a
goal that, for better or worse, has been a 25-year U.S.
policy constant, across party lines. Starting with George
W.H. Bush, every American commander-in-chief since the
end of the Cold War sought to “reset” relations with
Russia.
But Trump, according to Goldberg, was different.
“Trump’s understanding of America’s role
in the world aligns with Russia’s
geostrategic interests.”
Here Goldberg rang the same bells as Applebaum—the
Trump campaign “watered down” the RNC’s platform on
Ukraine; the GOP nominee “questioned whether the U.S.,
under his leadership, would keep its [NATO]
commitments,” including Article 5. Thus, Goldberg
concluded:
“Donald Trump, should he be elected
president, would bring an end to the
postwar international order.”
That last bit sounds very bad. Coincidentally, it’s similar to
a claim made in the very first paragraph of the Steele
dossier — the “Russian regime,” claims one of Steele’s
unnamed sources, has been cultivating Trump to
“encourage splits and divisions in the western alliance.”
The West won the Cold War because the United States
kept it unified. David Remnick saw it up close. Assigned
to the Washington Post’s Moscow bureau in 1988,
Remnick witnessed the end of the Soviet Union, which he
documented in his award-winning book, “Lenin’s Tomb.”
So it’s hardly surprising that in his August 3, 2016 New
Yorker article, “Trump and Putin: A Love Story,”
Remnick sounded alarms concerning the Republican
presidential candidate’s manifest affection for the Russian
president.
Citing the “original reporting” of Foer’s seminal Slate
article, the New Yorker editor contended
“that one reason for Trump’s attitude has to
do with his business ambitions.”
As Remnick elaborated,
“one of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers,
has longstanding ties to Gazprom, a pillar
of Russia’s energy industry.”
Who could that be? Right—Carter Page. With Applebaum
and Goldberg, Remnick was worried about Trump’s lack
of support for Ukraine and the fact that Trump
“has declared NATO ‘obsolete’ and has
suggested that he might do away with
Article 5.”
Where Did All These Echoes Come From?
This brings us to the fundamental question: Is it possible
that these top national security and foreign policy
journalists were focused on something else during
Obama’s two terms in office, something that had nothing
to do with foreign policy or national security? It seems we
must even entertain the possibility they slept for eight
years because nearly everything that frightened them about
the prospects of a Trump presidency had already transpired
under Obama.
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The Trump team wanted to stop short of having the RNC
platform promise lethal support to Ukraine—which was in
keeping with official U.S. policy. Obama didn’t want to
arm the Ukrainians. He ignored numerous congressional
efforts to get him to change his mind. “There has been a
strong bipartisan well of support for quite some time for
providing lethal support,” said California Rep. Adam
Schiff. But Obama refused.
As for the western alliance or international order or
however you want to put it, it was under the Obama
administration that Russia set up shop on NATO’s
southern border. With the Syrian conflict, Moscow re-
established its foothold in the Middle East after 40 years of
American policy designed to keep it from meddling in U.S.
spheres of influence. Under Obama, Russia’s enhanced
regional position threatened three U.S. allies: Israel,
Jordan, and NATO member Turkey.
In 2012, Moscow’s Syrian client brought down a Turkish
air force reconnaissance plane. According to a 2013 Wall
Street Journal article, “Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan raised alarms in the U.S. by suggesting
that Turkey might invoke NATO’s Article V.”
However, according to the Journal,
“neither the U.S. nor NATO was interested
in rushing to Article V… NATO was so wary
of getting pulled into Syria that top alliance
officials balked at even contingency
planning for an intervention force to protect
Syrian civilians. ‘For better or worse,
[Syrian president Bashar al- Assad] feels
he can count on NATO not to intervene
right now,’ a senior Western official said.”
Whatever one thinks of Obama’s foreign policy, it is
hardly arguable that he—wisely, cautiously, in the most
educated and creative ways, or unwisely, stupidly,
cravenly, the choice of adjectives is yours—ceded
American interests and those of key allies in Europe and
the Middle East in an effort to avoid conflict with Russia.
When Russia occupied Crimea and the eastern portion of
Ukraine, there was little pushback from the White House.
The Obama administration blinked even when Putin’s
escalation of forces in Syria sent millions more refugees
fleeing abroad, including Europe.
Was Anyone Paying Attention When This Happened?
Surely it couldn’t have escaped Applebaum’s notice that
Obama’s posture toward Russia made Europe vulnerable.
She’s a specialist in Europe and Russia—she’s written
books on both. Her husband is the former foreign minister
of Poland. So how, after eight years of Obama’s
appeasement of a Russia that threatened to withhold
natural gas supplies from the continent, did the Trump
team pose a unique threat to European stability?
What about Goldberg? Is it possible that he’d never
bothered to research the foreign policy priorities of a
president he interviewed five times between 2008 and
2016? In the last interview, from March 2016, Obama told
him he was “very proud” of the moment in 2013 when he
declined to attack Assad for deploying chemical weapons.
As Obama put it, that’s when he broke with the
“Washington playbook.” He chose diplomacy instead. He
made a deal with Russia over Assad’s conventional
arsenal—which Syria continued to use against civilians
throughout Obama’s term.
Again, regardless of how you feel about Obama’s
decisions, the fact is that he struck an agreement with
Moscow that ensured the continued reign of its Syrian ally,
who gassed little children. Yet only four months later,
Goldberg worried that a Trump presidency would “liberate
dictators, first and foremost his ally Vladimir Putin, to
advance their own interests.”
Remnick wrote a 2010 biography of Obama, but did he,
too, pay no attention to the policies of the man he
interviewed frequently over nearly a decade? How is this
possible? Did some of America’s top journalists really
sleepwalk through Obama’s two terms in office, only to
wake in 2016 and find Donald Trump and his campaign
becoming dangerously cozy with a historical American
adversary?
All’s Fair in War and Politics
Of course not. They enlisted their bylines in a political
campaign on behalf of the Democratic candidate for
president and rehearsed the talking points Steele later
documented. But weren’t the authors of these articles, big-
name journalists, embarrassed to be seen reading from a
single script and publishing the same article with similar
titles within the space of two weeks? Weren’t they worried
it would look like they were taking opposition research,
from the same source?
No, not really. In a sense, these stories weren’t actually
meant to be read. They existed for the purpose of
validating the ensuing social media messaging. The stories
were written around the headlines, which were written for
Twitter: “Putin’s Puppet”; “It’s Official: Hillary Clinton
is Running Against Vladimir Putin”; “Trump and
Putin: A Love Story”; “The Kremlin’s Candidate.” The
stories were vessels built only to launch thousands of 140-
character salvos to then sink into the memory hole.
Since everyone took Clinton’s victory for granted,
journalists assumed extravagant claims alleging an
American presidential candidate’s illicit ties to an
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adversarial power would fade just as the fireworks
punctuating Hillary’s acceptance speech would vanish in
the cool November evening. And the sooner the stories
were forgotten the better, since they frankly sounded
kooky, conspiratorial, as if the heirs to the Algonquin
round table sported tin-foil hats while tossing back
martinis and trading saucy limericks.
Yes, the Trump-Russia collusion media campaign really
was delusional and deranged; it really was a conspiracy
theory. So after the unexpected happened, after Trump
won the election, the Russiagate campaign morphed into
something more urgent, something twisted and delirious.
Quick, Pin Our Garbage Story on Someone
When CNN broke the story—co-written by Evan Perez, a
former colleague and friend of Fusion GPS principals—
that the Obama administration’s intelligence chiefs had
briefed Trump on the existence of the dossier, it not only
cleared the way for BuzzFeed to publish the document, it
also signaled the press that the intelligence community was
on side. This completed the echo chamber, binding one
American institution chartered to steal and keep secrets to
another embodying our right to free speech. We know
which ethic prevailed.
Now Russiagate was no longer part of a political campaign
directed at Trump, it was a disinformation operation
pointed at the American public, as the pre-election media
offensive resonated more fully with the dossier now in the
open. You see, said the press:
Everything we published about Trump and
Putin is really true—there’s a document
proving it. What the press corps neglected
to add is that they’d been reporting talking
points from the same opposition research
since before the election, and were now
showcasing “evidence” to prove it was all
true.
The reason the media will not report on the scandal now
unfolding before the country, how the Obama
administration and Clinton campaign used the resources of
the federal government to spy on the party out of power, is
not because the press is partisan. No, it is because the press
has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion
story since its inception.
It helped birth it.
To report how the dossier was made and marketed, and
how it was used to violate the privacy rights of an
American citizen—Page—would require admitting
complicity in manufacturing Russiagate. Against
conventional Washington wisdom, the cover-up in this
case is not worse than the crime:
Both weigh equally in a scandal signaling
that the institution where American citizens
are supposed to discuss and debate the
choices about how we live with each other
has been turned against a large part of the
public to delegitimize their political choices.
This Isn’t the 27-Year-Olds’ Fault
I’ve argued over the last year that the phony collusion
narrative is a symptom of the structural problems with the
press. The rise of the Internet, then social media, and gross
corporate mismanagement damaged traditional media
institutions. As newspapers and magazines around the
country went bankrupt when ownership couldn’t figure out
how to make money off the new digital advertising model,
an entire generation of journalistic experience, expertise,
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and ethics was lost. It was replaced, as one Obama White
House official famously explained, by 27-year-olds who
“literally know nothing.”
But the first vehicles of the Russiagate campaign were not
bloggers or recent J-school grads lacking wisdom or
guidance to wave off a piece of patent nonsense. They
were journalists at the top of their profession—editors-in-
chief, columnists, specialists in precisely the subjects that
the dossier alleges to treat: foreign policy and national
security. They didn’t get fooled. They volunteered their
reputations to perpetrate a hoax on the American public.
That’s why, after a year of thousands of furious
allegations, all of which concerning Trump are
unsubstantiated, the press will not report the real scandal,
in which it plays a leading role. When the reckoning
comes, Russiagate is likely to be seen not as a symptom of
the collapse of the American press, but as one of the
causes for it.
 SARA CARTER: Mueller’s Right-Hand
Man Accused Of “Corrupt Legal Practices,” Caught
Withholding Evidence In Major Case
By Joshua Caplan
February 15, 2018, 11:40 Am

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s right-
hand man, Andrew Weissmann, was
accused of using “corrupt legal
practices,” and withholding evidence in
a previous case involving the Colombo
crime family, reports Fox News
contributor Sara A. Carter.
Carter reports:
or material to the defense is really unfair and misleading,”
stated Schoen.
“The FBI had to redo their whole guidelines
on the use of informants over this,” said
Schoen. “Weissmann and crew did not just
withhold evidence. They actively allowed a
mafia killer to remain on the street killing.”
Paul Sperry of the New York Post reported last month
that Weissmann is under investigation for “media leaks.”
“BREAKING: Congress investigating
Mueller “pit bull” investigator Andrew
Weissmann for media leaks. Weissmann
held April 11 private presser w major
media–week before CNN, WaPo,NYT
reported FISA on Page bolstered by
dossierWeissmann attended Hillary’s
election night party in NYC,” tweeted
Sperry.

The top attorney in Robert Mueller’s

Special Counsel’s office was reported to
the Department of Justice’s Inspector
General by a lawyer representing
whistleblowers for alleged “corrupt legal
practices” nearly a decade before the 2016
presidential election, this reporter has
learned. […]
Civil rights and criminal defense attorney
David Schoen, was the lawyer who According to the Wall Street Journal, Weissmann attended
reported Weissmann. Schoen met with Hillary Clinton’s election night party in New York City.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz and
several FBI officials to discuss Weismann
in 2015. […]
The case against the Colombo crime family in the late
1990s involved Theodore Persico, who was convicted of
conspiracy to commit murder, loan sharking, racketeering
and firearms charges. Persico was the brother of Colombo
boss Carmine Persico, Jr, and the network was one of five
major Italian mafia organizations operating out of New
York.
The judge who handled many of the cases ruled that the
jury should be told and many of the “defendants were
found not guilty. So, for DOJ to claim this was cumulative
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 Dem Narrative Destroyed: Cops, FBI, Border Patrol
‘Absolutely Enthralled’ With President Trump
Posted On February 15, 2018
(National Sentinel) ‘Our President:’ In recent days
Democrats and Left-leaning media have accused President
Donald J. Trump of destroying Americans’ trust in law
enforcement after he approved the release of a House
Intelligence Committee memo detailing abuses of the
FISA court during the Obama administration.
Some ranking members of Obama’s Justice Department
and FBI reportedly used fabricated political opposition
research — the “Russia dossier” to obtain a surveillance
warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
to spy on a Trump campaign figure, Carter Page, who
likely interacted with other campaign figures at the time he
was under surveillance.
But in reality, rank-and-file police officers, FBI agents,
and Border Patrol members and their mid-level supervisors
are very pleased with the president, mostly because of his
‘enforce all laws’ approach to governing, the Washington
Examiner reported:
Law enforcement is pushing back hard on
Democratic charges that President Trump’s
criticism of top FBI and Justice officials is a
demoralizing attack on the rank and file,
with one top cop saying there is “no doubt”
that Trump has been better for police than
former President Obama.
“The majority of law enforcement is very,
very pleased with this administration
because he truly does support law
enforcement and it doesn’t matter at what
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level. He supports law enforcement and
that’s very important,” Sheriff Harold
Eavenson of Rockwall County, Texas, and
president of the National Sheriffs’
Association, told the news site.
Trump hosted sheriffs from around the country in the Oval
Office on Thursday to discuss border security and other
issues.
Eavenson, in Washington, D.C., for the annual legislative
meeting with the president, said he’s heard from rank-and-
file officers up to the management of the FBI and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agency.
“I have talked with some of those guys at
the supervisor level down to the agent level
and they are absolutely enthralled with
President Trump. They like him because
they can do their the job the way it is
supposed to be done,” he said in an
interview.
Democrats have insisted that Trump is destroying morale,
especially inside federal law enforcement.
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, for example,
said Wednesday,
“I am concerned about the attack on these
institutions and the long-term damage that
is being done.”
However, as the Washington Examiner reported further:
But that ignores the strong ties Trump has
with law enforcement dating back to the
2016 presidential campaign, when he
made time to thank motorcade cops, to
calls he’s made like one to an Indianapolis
motorcycle policeman injured in a
presidential motorcade, to this week when
he hosted sheriffs at the White House.
“It has raised morale to see that the
president and the attorney general of the
United States, as they say, has their back,”
 Jonathan F. Thompson, executive director
of the Sheriffs’ Association, told the news
site. “It does trickle down to the rank and
file in local law enforcement because they
know that if they are on a case or they are
working a task force that they have their
support.”
President Obama, by comparison, regularly took the side
of those who claimed they were abused by police.
Presidential advisor Stephen Miller told the WE that the
president demands his staff make time for him to meet
with police and first responders when he travels.
“You can see that bond with law
enforcement and how much he enjoys
engaging with law enforcement,” said
.
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Miller.
“I see it so often behind closed doors
where he wants to ask them about their
shifts, about their responsibilities, about
what they’ve seen and where they’ve been
and who they’ve interacted with. And he
loves to ask them, as well, as a rank and
file person, what is your thought on how we
should address a policy issue affecting
your department or your line of work,” Miller
continued.
“He really wants to hear from the rank and
file about whatever legislative or policy
issues we’re dealing with that impact that
person’s life or career based upon their
insight as someone intimately involved with
it on a day to day basis.”
 TRUMP White House Says TRUMP Will Not Sign
Democrat-RINO Amnesty Bill – Would Give Amenesty
To 5-10 Million People
By Jim Hoft
February 15, 2018, 11:58 Am

Democrats and RINOs are determined to “The administration is committed to finding

pass a massive amnesty bill to change
the course of the nation forever.
The Trump White House said Thursday
the president will veto the bipartisan
immigration bill by Senate Democrats
and RINOs.
a permanent, fair, and legal solution for
DACA,” the White House said. “But this
amendment would only compound the
problem by encouraging millions of
additional minors to be smuggled into the
United States. We need to solve the
problem, not perpetuate it indefinitely.”

Conservative Senator Tom Cotton called the Schumer plan

a HUGE AMNESTY.

Senator Tom Cotton: Schumer bill is a

disgrace. Huge amnesty of 5-10M
people, including PARENTS of DACAns.
Phantom border control. No chain or
diversity reforms. Directs DHS to
deprioritize enforcement for illegals
NOT YET IN COUNTRY. Call your
senator this morning & ask to vote no!
202-224-3121
CNN reported:

The White House said Thursday President

Donald Trump would veto a bipartisan
Senate deal on immigration that would
create a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2
million undocumented immigrants and allot
$25 billion for border security.

“This amendment would drastically change

our national immigration policy for the
worse by weakening border security and
undercutting existing immigration law,” the
White House said in a statement.
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 FBI Too Busy Committing TREASON To Stop The Florida
Shooter Who Was Reported To The FBI Months Ago
By: Mike Adams
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Now we get to the real repercussions of a corrupt Federal
Bureau of Investigations that spends its time illegally
spying on U.S. citizens (i.e. Trump campaign officials) and
conspiring with deep state hacks to frame Trump rather
than following up on serious leads about dangerous
individuals who threaten to shoot up schools.
The Florida shooter, now identified as Nikolas Cruz —
(originally misnamed by the Miami Herald, which was
later corrected) — was reported to the FBI last September
after commenting on a YouTube channel, claiming he
wanted to be a “professional school shooter,” reports The
Gateway Pundit.
In fact, here’s a YouTube video from the individual who
reported Cruz to the FBI and later spoke with the FBI:
The individual who reported Cruz to the FBI is named
Bennight. He explains in the video:
I looked up the number to my local field
office and I called and left them a message.
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The next day I had two FBI agents standing
in my office taking down the information
and copies of the screenshot. They were
asking me questions that of course I
couldn’t answer. All it was on my channel
was a comment, people leave pretty
heinous comments on a pretty regular
basis…
The FBI had all the information they needed to prevent
this shooting
As DailyWire.com reports, the FBI was in possession of
all the information they needed to prevent this mass
shooting:
So, another major fail by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Sure, there’s no
way to tell whether someone who posts a
threatening message will follow through on
the threat, but it’s a another big black eye
for the embattled bureau.
The FBI, it seems, has been too busy running deep state
hoaxes against Donald Trump to bother with stopping
real criminals. Also via Daily Wire:
…[T]he FBI has been busy jousting with
windmills of late. They’ve been off on a wild
goose chase trying to find evidence to
prove President Trump colluded with
Russians to influence the 2016 election. As
part of that effort, they wiretapped phones
of Trump campaign aides, winning court
approval by using questionable “evidence”
of wrongdoing.
The bureau has also been in internal
turmoil. One FBI agent, Peter Strzok, was
demoted after text messages with his
mistress showed a hatred of Trump. And
Strzok, it turns out, was heavily involved in
both the Russia probe and the decision to
clear Hillary Clinton in her sordid email
scandal.
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe left the
bureau earlier this month, reportedly amid
 a Justice Department probe into his
handling of the Clinton email investigation.
In September 2017, a memo outlined an
ongoing probe by the Department of
Justice that found “systemic” misconduct
problems at the FBI where the bureau was
not reporting “high-risk security concerns”
made against agents, Newsweek reported.
The Daily Wire adds,
“perhaps it’s not surprising that the FBI
failed to follow up on leads about the young
man who would eventually go on a
shooting spree, killing 17 and wounding 14.
Maybe the bureau should get back to its
core job — it is called the ‘bureau of
investigation,’ after all.”
This is what happens when the FBI
transforms into a political weapon
rather than a law enforcement
organization
I used to have a lot of faith and trust in the FBI. In fact, I
know former FBI agents who now share my horror at what
the discredited agency has become: A “weaponized”
political organization that runs deep state scams to destroy
political opponents. Meanwhile, actual murderers who
were reported to the FBI are running loose, shooting up
schools even when they have directly threatened to
become “professional school shooters.”
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The deranged Democrats, not surprisingly, blame all this
on “guns.” Yet there are over 300 million guns in America,
and at least 299,999,999 of them weren’t involved in a
shooting yesterday. The cause of the shooting is the person
who pulled the trigger, and that person was reported to
the FBI months ago, yet nothing was done to stop him
from carrying out the horrific mass shooting. It makes you
wonder: What exactly is the FBI investigating if not people
who promise to shoot up schools? (Answer: They are still
spending their time and effort trying to eliminate Trump,
in defiance of the voters…)
In defense of the FBI, perhaps, it’s impossible for any law
enforcement agency to stop all mass shootings, given the
number of people on psychiatric medications who are
bound to commit acts of violence sooner or later. But at
least they should get their investigative priorities
straight. When James Comey, Peter Strzok, Andrew
McCabe and all the other treasonous actors were running a
deep state operation to try to overthrow the democratically
elected President of the United States, they were taking
resources away from real investigations that could have
stopped dangerous shooters like Cruz.
Under Obama, the FBI was turned into a Soviet-style
“secret police” that focused its resources on destroying
Donald Trump rather than catching criminals. And that’s
precisely what led to these 17 deaths (so far) in Florida.
Shame on the FBI for abandoning its law enforcement
duties. Maybe it’s time to shut it down altogether, or at
least reform it from top to bottom so that We the People
might once again have some trust in this discredited
organization.
 DEMOCRAT ADAM SCHIFF: House Intel Has
“ABUNDANCE” Of Evidence Of Trump COLLUSION,
OBSTRUCTION… MONEY LAUNDERING!
By Cristina Laila
February 15, 2018, 5:00 Pm

“We have not been able to adequately follow

Ranking member of the House Intel
Committee and suspected leaker, Adam
Schiff (D-CA) continued to spread the big lie
that he has ‘more evidence’ of Trump-
Russia collusion and obstruction.
The DNC servers have yet to be inspected by federal
investigators and the FBI has not questioned WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange. Let that sink in.
the money,” Schiff said completely ignoring the
fact that Hillary Clinton’s entire campaign was a
money laundering scheme.
Schiff also compared the Trump-Russia witch hunt to
Watergate.
In reality, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is the one who spied
on their political opponent by illegally obtaining a FISA
warrant based on ‘Russian intelligence’ collected by a
former British spy.

VIDEO:

At a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor

on Wednesday, Rep Schiff told reporters the panel has
“non-public” evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and
obstruction.
Adam Schiff has been in overdrive since the FISA memo
After rattling off his usual talking points of Russian was released by the House Intel Committee.
collusion ‘evidence’ which is already public knowledge,
Schiff pivoted to the issue of ‘obstruction’.
Schiff and the House Minority concocted a junk counter-
memo purposely full of sources and methods so Trump
“There is certainly an abundance of non-public wouldn’t release the document.
info that we have gathered in the investigation
and I think that some of that non-public
evidence is evidence on the issue of collusion. Schiff told reporters Tuesday the Democrats would not
Some of that non-public evidence is evidence make any revisions to their junk memo.
on the issue of obstruction,” Schiff said.
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 CNN's Cuomo: How Is Gun Control
Not Part Of The '#MAGA Agenda?'
By Ryan Foley
February 15, 2018 5:18 PM EST
During Thursday’s edition of New Day, gun control
advocate and part-time journalist Chris Cuomo seemed
perplexed that gun control did not make it into the priority
list of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again”
agenda.
Cuomo began a brief soliloquy after co-host Alisyn
Camerota finished interviewing a witness to yesterday’s
mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. He
said that it was “such a disgrace” that the witness is
“depending on teachers to...do the right thing when this
happens the next time.”
Cuomo chastised “our leaders” for not appearing on New
Day, making the argument that “they’re hiding from the
reality and they’ll disguise it as sympathy and sensitivity.
Wow, what an irony.” Cuomo expressed his pessimism
that Congress will take up gun control, pointing out that
the Las Vegas Massacre resulted in no meaningful changes
to the gun laws. No wonder Republicans don't want to go
on the show; they know that they would have more of a
shouting match than a dialogue.
After briefly speaking with White House reporter Abby
Phillip, Cuomo brought on Real Clear Politics’ A.B.
Stoddard and CNN political analyst David Drucker.
Cuomo complained to Stoddard that no Republicans
wanted to come on the show. Stoddard said that
“Republicans...are trying to find a way to avoid the
subject” and said that nothing will change until a group of
single-issue voters demanding gun control storm the polls.
That might come as quite a challenge nearly all of the
single-issue voters on gun control live in either
Washington, D.C, New York City, San Francisco, or a
college town.
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Cuomo teed up the segment with Drucker by complaining
that Republicans do not react to mass shootings with the
same passion that they respond to terror attacks. Keep in
mind the media does everything in their power to
downplay the race of the perpetrator of a terror attack
when it turns out to be a Muslim. He also asked why the
prospect of changing gun laws is “so frightening” to
Republicans.
Toward the end of the segment, Cuomo said: “The
President has that hashtag #MAGA right? Make America
Great Again. How can you not include this issue in part of
that agenda?” The pompous host also complained that “we
are the scourge of the world when it comes to these”,
referring to mass shootings. He also added, “nobody is
worse than we are”, which, coincidentally, describes how
many on the American left feel about the country. The
American people would take liberals and the media a lot
more seriously if they just admitted that they believe
America should become more like Europe.
It might seem like the media’s demand for gun control will
last forever, but keep in mind the ADHD nature of our 24-
hour news cycle. The moment a more exciting story comes
along (preferably one that reflects negatively on the Trump
Administration), the media will promptly cease their
coverage of the South Florida massacre and provide wall-
to-wall coverage of the new story.
CNN's New Day
02/15/18
06:42 a.m.
CHRIS CUOMO: I mean, it’s something that you wouldn’t be able
to make up if you wanted to create a destructive fiction for a
society where a mother has to sit next to her child, and you
interviewed them and asked them all the right questions to help
us understand what this is like for them, and she says “While I’ve
taken the active shooter course.” He has, and he’s depending on
the teachers you know, and for them to do the right thing when
this happens the next time. That’s the best we can do? It really is
just such a disgrace. Alisyn, thanks for taking us down there so
that we can be focused on the right things this morning. So,
where are our leaders? They’re not on this show and I bet you
you’re not going to see many of them on TV today because
they’re hiding from the reality and they’ll disguise it as sympathy
and sensitivity. Wow, what an irony. President Trump, he tweeted
condolences to the families of school shootings and their victims
but he hasn’t made any public comments about this senseless
attack despite aides reportedly urging him to speak. CNN’s Abby
Phillip is live at the White House. After Las Vegas when we had
some low-hanging fruit there to deal with in the form of a bump
stock, something that should never be available, he said “We’ll
be talking about gun laws soon.” Not a word since.
ABBY PHILLIP: That’s right, Chris. Nothing has happened since
then. And this morning, the sun is rising on Washington yet
another day after a mass shooting. And with a lot of the country
looking to the President to find out what to do, what kind of
guidance or, or, or, or structure will there be after this. And the
President hasn’t really said a whole lot; it’s been pretty quiet here
at the White House, uncharacteristically quiet, frankly, Chris. The
President went to bed last night having sent that tweet and
wakes up this morning with the possibility that he might say
something. But we know, as you just mentioned, according to the
New York Times’s Maggie Haberman that the President’s aides
encouraged him to say something yesterday and he chose not to.
Today, we’ll see if that changes. As you mentioned, this is not the
first time in the President’s tenure that he has dealt with these
horrific acts. And after the Las Vegas shooting, he did address
the public but often those comments are about offering con-
condolences to the people who were lost, praise for first
responders. But Washington has been unwilling and unable to do
anything about the gun issue, even while a lot of Democrats say
the time is now. I think we’ll see the same cycle playing out again
here today, Chris.
CUOMO: Well, look, guns are obvious. But there are other
components. You know, this mad man was getting mental health
treatment. Well, did that in any way affect his ability to buy a
gun? Were doctors able to talk to him about owning guns? He
wasn’t allowed on the campus with a backpack because he was
seen as a threat but that didn’t seem to funnel down into any
other sense of urgency. There are a lot of components. We’re not
even at step one. What are we going to do to stop the school
shootings? We’re not even there yet. How sickening is that?
Abby, thank you very much for the reporting. Let’s bring in CNN
Political Analyst David Drucker and Associate Editor for Real
Clear Politics, A.B. Stoddard. A.B., when I say that nobody wants
to come on, I’m talking about from the GOP. You’ll get
Democrats to come on, they don’t have the power to make any
kind of change. They could do more to start the conversation;
we’ll ask them those questions. But it all starts, in terms of tone,
from the top. The reports are the President was urged by aides to
say more about the shooting and he declined. Your read?
A.B. STODDARD: Well, I think the President has made it clear
throughout these shootings that have taken place in his first year
in office that he doesn’t want to do anything beyond offer
condolences whether it’s in a tweet or on camera. He’s not
obviously unlike President Obama, who would come out and
.
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address these situations because he wanted to talk about
mitigating the threat, wanted to talk about making changes.
President Trump doesn’t have any plans to address these issues.
He do...It is not on his agenda. He is not pushing his own party,
members of his party in Congress to make any changes and it’s
not a priority and so he’s going to try to avoid talking about it. In
his tweet, I would note he said “no one should have to feel
unsafe or not feel safe in a school. I think members of both
parties agree now none of us are safe anywhere but at an airport.
You’re not safe at the grocery store, you’re not safe in a movie
theater in the dark, you’re not safe at a hospital, and you’re not
safe at church, and you’re certainly not safe at school. And so
Republicans increasingly are, now that people have pushed back
after these recent shootings saying that thoughts and prayers are
not enough, Republicans are, are trying to find a way to avoid the
subject. Because, as you said, even the bump stock legislation
didn’t go anywhere. So I think, I think we’re going to continue to
have these same conversations. And I would also add that,
Chris, single issue advocate voters on the issue of abortion, on
the issue of gun rights, on the issue of refugee policy, they’re out
there and they come to the polls. But it really is shown in polling
that people don’t vote on primarily the issue of gun control and
until and unless they do, I don’t see things changing much.
CUOMO: Well, look, I mean, you have to be right, A.B. Because
otherwise, there’s some kind of mass insanity going on because
we keep seeing the same things, the same outpourings of
emotion, the same senseless killing but nothing changes. And
David Drucker, the proof is in just any kind of perfunctory
analysis. If this were a terror attack, all right, what happens when
one of those happens? They start taking a forensic look at how
this was able to happen and what to do to stop it. The guy drove
the truck onto the West Side Highway, how did he get there?
Barriers have to go up. How did he get into this country? How did
he get the weapons? Who sold them to him? Right? All those
different protocols. Not here. Which, what makes this so
frightening to Republicans?
(....)
6:50 AM
CUOMO: Right but Abby, you know, A.B., Abby, A.B. A.B., the,
the question that I think is the initial one, the premise where any
action would have to begin, doesn’t even have the word gun in it.
You can’t deal with this issue without dealing with the availability
of guns. You just can’t. Sorry. It’s a fundamental aspect of every
one of these. But it’s what are we going to do to stop the school
shootings? They don’t even ask that question. And that goes all
the way to the top. The President has that hashtag #MAGA right?
Make America Great Again. How can you not include this issue in
part of that agenda? He’s supposed to be a change agent, right?
We are the scourge of the world when it comes to these. Nobody
is worse than we are. How does that not make the MAGA
agenda?
 Jim Acosta Rudely Shouts Gun Control Question
After Potus Gives Somber Speech – Complains
After Trump Ignores Him
By Cristina Laila
February 15, 2018, 6:43 Pm

CNN’s Jim Acosta rudely shouted out a

question about guns to President Trump
after he wrapped up a somber address
Thursday.

President Trump gave a genuine, heartwarming speech a

day after Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida
high school. Acosta rudely shouted at the president,
ruining the mood in a room full of people saddened by the
tragic loss of life.

And he wonders why President Trump ignored him.

Acosta tweeted,

“Following the president’s remarks, I tried to ask

Trump why does this keep happening in
America and whether he will do anything about
guns. He did not respond except to say thank
you.”
Video of POTUS Trump saying no child or teacher should
ever be in danger in an American school:

According to the press pool present at President Trump’s

speech, Jim Acosta broke the silence by shouting about
guns.

Whiny Acosta then took to his Twitter account to complain

President Trump didn’t respond to his rude outburst.

This behavior is very typical of Jim Acosta. He has to have

the attention on himself even after a tragic mass shooting
that took the lives of many Americans including minors.
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 Series Of Catastrophic FBI And Social Media Failures
Have Enabled Mass Shooters To Slaughter Americans
While They Pursued Fake Russia Collusion
Narrative And Stifling Conservatives
- Is FBI's Deliberate Incompetence Part Of Their Gun Control Agenda?
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 15, 2018
Within minutes of news hitting the headlines of a mass
shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
South Florida, which killed at least 17, liberals and
Democratic politicians, knowing nothing about the shooter
or his history, were screeching all over social media about
"gun control," but as more is learned, we note a disturbing
pattern of failure on the part of the FBI, and social media
giant Facebook, which owns Instagram.
Common themes we have been noting regarding mass
shootings and terrorist attacks over the past decade is 1)
The FBI had been aware of the perpetrator prior to the
violent act or acts, and: 2) Social media gurus, so
concerned about obtaining more users, making more
money and censoring conservative thought, that they
completely ignore the huge red flags waved right on their
own sites regarding killers.
HISTORY OF FBI FAILURES TO
PREVENT KNOWN SUSPECTS FROM
MASS KILLINGS
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While not a fan of the far left website BuzzFeed, credit
where it is due, as they highlight the fact that person by the
name of Nikolas Cruz was reported to the FBI back in
September by YouTube vlogger Ben Bennight, for leaving
a comment on a YouTube video stating
"I'm going to be a professional school
shooter."
The vlogger even received a visit by the FBI to follow up
on the report.
Agents with the bureau's Mississippi field
office got back to him "immediately,"
Bennight said, and conducted an in-person
interview the following day, on Sept. 25.
"They came to my office the next morning
and asked me if I knew anything about the
person," Bennight told BuzzFeed News. "I
didn't. They took a copy of the screenshot
and that was the last I heard from them."
That was the last he heard from them until after the school
shooting on Wednesday, when the man arrested was a
person with that same name, Nikolas Cruz.
Under a documentary about the 1966 Texas University
massacre, another comment by someone using the same
name as the Florida shooter, Nikolas Cruz, said "I am
going to what he did," nine months before the tragic events
on Wednesday.
Other information now coming out indicates that the
alleged shooter Cruz was also expelled from the high
school last year, with other students claiming "everyone
predicted it," and school officials having been warned
previously Cruz was dangerous.
Had the FBI not been so busy meddling in the U.S.
elections, and then extremely busy again covering their
own butts about said election meddling as they find
themselves the subject of multiple congressional
investigations and a year-long DOJ Office of Inspector
General internal investigation into those wrong-doings,
they might have followed up a little better to see that
Cruz's social media activity included what is now being
described as "disturbing" content, and images.
What set the accused shooter off remains
unknown, but the sheriff said detectives
have been going through Cruz’s social
media, and they have found some
disturbing images among the postings,
inlcuding a picture of the gun used in the
shooting.
The Telegraph provides some of those postings from
Cruz's Instagram account. For the record, Instagram was
acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, but we will
deal with the never-ending social media giant's failures in
the next category of this article. (Instagram did not remove
the suspects account until after the shooting.)
One student, who escaped the shooting,
wrote on Twitter: "He literally had an
Instagram where he posted pictures of
animals he killed gruesomely."
So, the FBI knew Cruz had previously stating he would be
a "professional school shooter," and Cruz's Instagram,
social media accounts held a number of red flags, yet the
FBI wasn't keeping an eye on him, a very close eye?
If this was just an isolated example of someone falling
through the cracks, it could be explained perhaps, but
going back to previous attacks and mass killings in the
U.S., we see multiple examples of killers who had
previously been reported to the FBI, interviewed in some
cases more than once, who then went on to carry out mass
killings.
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Boston Marathon
Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was interviewed by the FBI
two years before he and his brother, Dzhokhar, set off
homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston
Marathon, which killed three people, injured hundreds of
others, including over a dozen who lost limbs.
Tsarnaev was interviewed by the FBI in 2011 at the
request of Russia, who indicated they had information that
he was a follower of radical Islam.
Pulse Nightclub Shooting:
The FBI had interviewed Omar Saddiqui Mateen twice
prior to his opening fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando
Florida, killing 49 people and wounding over 50 more.
The FBI first became aware in 2013 of
Omar Mateen, the identified shooter, when
he made "inflammatory comments to
coworkers alleging terrorist ties," said
Ronald Hooper, the agent in command of
the shooting investigation, during a press
conference.
He said that the FBI investigated the
comments made by Mateen, who worked
as a security guard, and interviewed
Mateen twice. However, the FBI was
"unable to verify the substance of his
comments and the investigation was
closed."
Mateen came on the FBI's radar again
back in 2014 for contacting an American
suicide bomber, Moner Abu Salha. Hopper
said that the contact was "minimal" and
didn't constitute a "substantive
relationship."
San Bernardino Massacre:
14 people were killed in San Bernardino, California in
2015, with another 22 injured, when a husband and wife,
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at a
Christmas party. Malik had entered the U.S. using a K-1
visa, and had supposedly gone through three different U.S.
intelligence agency checks. Former FBI Director James
Comey was even questioned about the process in front of
Congress, given "discrepancies" in her applications.
Lawmakers at three separate hearings,
including at which FBI Director James
Comey testified, demanded to know how
she gained admittance, especially given
discrepancies in her application.
 “Was she actually given an interview in the
K-1 process, do we know that?” Sen. David
Purdue, R-Ga., asked the FBI boss during
a hearing before the Senate Judiciary
Committee oversight hearing.
Comey replied that “the process requires”
an interview, but that he didn’t know if one
occurred.
Fort Hood:
A year before Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and
psychiatrist, killed 13 people and injured over 30 others at
the Fort Hood military post in Texas in 2009, the FBI had
intercepted emails between the shooter and a radical cleric
Anwar al-Awlaki. The FBI determined the emails were
"fairly benign." During the trial, the FBI Director at the
time, Robert Mueller, went on national television to
discuss the string of intercepted emails.
As it turns out, the FBI quietly released the
emails in an unclassified report on the
shooting, which was produced by an
investigative commission headed by former
FBI director William H. Webster last year.
And, far from being “benign,” they offer a
chilling glimpse into the psyche of an
Islamic radical. The report also shows how
badly the FBI bungled its Hasan
investigation and suggests that the Army
psychiatrist’s deadly rampage could have
been prevented.
Hasan first appeared on the bureau’s radar
in December of 2008—nearly a year before
the Fort Hood massacre—when he emailed
Awlaki to ask him whether serving in the
US military was compatible with the Muslim
faith. He also asked whether Awlaki
considered those who died attacking their
fellow soldiers “shaheeds,” or martyrs.
At the time, Awlaki, who was killed by a US
drone strike in 2011, was emerging as Al
Qaeda’s chief English-speaking
propagandist. He was also known to have
ties to several of the 9/11 hijackers, two of
whom attended his mosque in San Diego.
The examples above show a systemic failure on the part of
the FBI to follow through or even investigate fully those
with a high probability to go on a killing rampage. They
are too busy forcusing on political issues, targeting patriots
rather than people that actually acknowledge they plan to
become a "professional school shooter" as the BuzzFeed
report highlights about this latest alleged shooter in
Florida.
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In my opinion this goes beyond mere incompetence and
quite possibly into the realm of deliberate incompetence to
support a gun control agenda, knowing that liberals and
politicians will rush to scream "GUN CONTROL!," rather
than focus on the people pulling the triggers and law
enforcement's failures to follow up on reports about those
suspects.
FACEBOOK & SOCIAL MEDIA FAILURES
Facebook has been engulfed in a number of controversies
of late, with their constant harassment and censorship of
conservative content, where it appears they have plenty of
employees that will police political ideological
commentary, yet they do not appear to have enough, or are
not willing to spend enough on policing actual dangerous
individuals. As stated above, Facebook's Instagram did not
delete Cruz's account until after the shooting, despite
violent content, which included pictures of animals he had
killed.
Facebook has a serious "violence" problem from people
using their Facebook live, which as BuzzFeed reported
back in 2017, is far more extensive than national headlines
have shown.
At least 45 instances of violence —
shootings, rapes, murders, child abuse,
torture, suicides, and attempted suicides —
have been broadcast via Live since its
debut in December 2015, a new BuzzFeed
News analysis found. That's an average
rate of about two instances per month.
Facebook appears to be more worried about "fake news,"
meaning anything they disagree with ideologically, than
paying attention to their violent content, such as Cruz's on
their Instagram account. We have seen pages calling for
the assassination of President Trump, which Facebook said
did not violate their "Community Standards," yet an image
in support of traditional marriage does violate those same
"standards."

After going viral, Facebook did finally remove the
Assassinate Trump page and restore the image directly
above, but the example shows clearly that their human
reviewers base their initial decisions on their own
ideology, which has been exposed as being radically
leftist.
Perhaps if Facebook's owner Mark Zuckerberg were
worried a little less about kissing liberal butt, he would put
more resources into stemming violent threats and content,
rather than making a big deal out "fake news," which he
has previously asserted was only a mere one percent of
Facebook content. Quite a bit of attention is being shown
to the one percent, while threats and actual violence on
Facebook and it's Instagram accounts continue.
Facebook/Instagram isn't the only social media platform
that failed here, as the multiple threats left by a YouTube
user Nikolas Cruz, in the comment sections of videos,
were deleted when reported, but the account was allowed
to continue, and wasn't removed until Wednesday after the
school massacre. The YouTube Cruz commenter, states
under a video documentary of the 1966 Texas University
massacre, that he was going to "do the same thing," calls
himself a future "professional school shooter," and
according to The Verge, who cites CNN, the user also
stated on another video "I whana [sic] shoot people with
my AR-15."
Yet it isn't until after he backs up those threats by killing
17 people, that Google's YouTube team decides to delete
his account due to "multiple or severe violations of
YouTube's policy on violence?" Isn't that a little like
shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted?
Perhaps if these social media platforms and big tech were
less worried about "Russia" and censoring conservative
content to "protect" their users from conservative ideology,
they could focus on the truly dangerous people that show
clear indicators, to the point of actually telling people they
are going to go out and kill people.
CHATTER ABOUT THE FLORIDA SHOOTING
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According to reports it appears that there was an active
shooter drill at the Florida high school recently, with the
Daily Beast reporting that Cruz, aware of the schools
procedures in training students what to do if there is an
active shooter, took advantage of that to plan carry out his
attack. According to Reason's Hit & Run, some students
reported there was a fire drill held earlier on Wednesday.
One student claims she was speaking with the "suspect"
when everything was going down and claims there was
"another shooter involved." (Video over at Intellihub)
BOTTOM LINE
While more information will no doubt emerge about the
Florida high school shooting and the shoot himself, this
latest example of the failures on the part of the FBI and
social media and tech giants, should highlight why more
attention should be paid to the mental health of these
individuals when clear signs, and direct threats are made
via social media by the perpetrators, and less howls of
"gun control."
Over the past years we have seen people use trucks to mow
down innocent bystanders, yet liberals do not scream about
"truck control." We have seen violent and brutal mass
stabbings, yet no screams for "knife control." Yet anytime
the weapon is a gun, we see screeching about "gun
control," by those with an agenda to disarm Americans.
It is the hand holding the knife, the foot pushing the pedal
of the truck and the finger pulling the trigger, not the
object used to kill, that should be the focus, because a
mentally ill individual will use any method to kill.
President Trump addressed the mental health issue in his
statement to the nation about the Florida high school
massacre, at around the 5:07 minute mark in the clip
below, the President says
"We are committed to working with state
and local leaders to help secure our
schools and tackle the difficult issue of
mental health." He continues on to say that
"Later this month I will be meeting with the
nation's Governors and Attorney Generals,
 where making our schools and our children .
safer, will be our top priority."

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 Horrible! Debbie Wasserman Schultz Turns Florida
Shooting Vigil Into Political Rally! (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 15, 2018, 6:48 Pm

HORRIBLE!

Debbie Wasserman Shultz turned the

candlelight vigil in Parkside, Florida into a
political pep rally tonight.

Wasserman Schultz started screaming about “other

people’s officials” during her speech to remember those
lost in Wednesday’s high school shooting.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

“We must hold OTHER PEOPLE’S elected

officials accountable. We must make sure that
they hear us! The people behind me they stand
with us on these issues. So we will help other
communities elect people who will do the right
thing.”

How awful.
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 WashPost Global Opinions Editor Oozes:
'Christopher Steele Is a Hero'
By Tom Blumer
February 15, 2018 8:12 PM EST
On Wednesday, a global opinions editor at the Washington
Post praised the work of Christopher Steele as
"extraordinarily prescient," created by a
man who "had stumbled onto a
breathtaking threat to U.S. national
security."
Accordingly, Steele, per the headline at Christian Caryl's
opinion piece, "is a hero – and Americans owe him their
thanks" — a Four-Pinocchio claim by the Post's own
standards.
Caryl has special affection for Steele because:
... (he) drives Republicans crazy. They
have recommended that the Department of
Justice open a criminal investigation into
his work. They released a formerly
classified memo by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-
Calif.) that vilifies him — and now they are
holding back a Democratic brief that
tries to correct the record.
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff has admitted that
the Democrats' memo contains "sources and methods," i.e.,
acknowledging that it can't be released in its current form.
He is really the one "holding back" the memo, using its
unknown contents as a political shield.
Caryl quoted a February 9 claim by California Senator
Dianne Feinstein. In disputing the Senate Judiciary
Committee's January criminal referral of Steele, she
contended that
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"Not a single revelation in the Steele
dossier has been refuted."
As Andrew McCarthy at National Review explained on
January 8, Steele has likely violated 18 U.S.C. § 1001 in
providing false statements to the FBI about (per the
referral)
"statements the Committee has reason to
believe Mr. Steele made regarding his
distribution of information contained in the
dossier."
As Lee Smith at TheFederalist.com recounted early
Thursday, Steele worked furiously to give the dossier
media traction before the 2016 election:
(Steele) told the FBI he wasn’t talking to
the press about his investigation. In a
British court, however, Steele
acknowledged briefing several media
organizations on the material in his
dossier.
According to the British court documents, Steele briefed
the New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo!
News, The New Yorker, and CNN. ... Mother
Jones reporter (David) Corn’s October 31 article ... alerted
the FBI their informant was speaking to the press.
Smith also identified Reuters, the BBC, and Newsweek's
Kurt Eichenwald as having pre-election dossier
knowledge.
Thus, the criminal referral credibly contends that Steele
lied.
Caryl's reference to Feinstein's statement is a smokescreen.
Her contention that the dossier's "revelations" have not
have been refuted is irrelevant to whether Steele
committed the alleged offenses.
Feinstein's contention, however, is germane to the dossier's
use; Caryl conveniently didn't discuss that. Former FBI
Director James Comey described the dossier as "salacious
and unverified" in Senate testimony in June. As such, it
shouldn't have been used as at least a partial basis for
obtaining several 2016 and 2017 FISA warrants.
Concerning the press's long-running Russia obsession,
TheFederalist.com's Smith observed:
Caryl's piece is really a desperate attempt to defend the
establishment press's indefensible involvement in
attempting to delegitimize an election result they opposed.

... (they have) volunteered their

reputations to perpetrate a hoax on the
American public.

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 Susan Rice’s Bizarre Trump Inauguration Day Email
Poses NEW Credibility Problems For Comey As
Obamagate Spy Scandal Widens
By JD Heyes
02/15/2018 /
If you ever needed more evidence that Barack Obama led
the most corrupt administration ever in the history of our
country, here’s some: Fired FBI Director James Comey
may have misled Congress over details regarding the
former regime’s spy operation against the Trump
campaign.
As reported by Fox News — one of the few top news
networks aside from Newsmax TV and the One America
News Network that is attempting to get to the bottom of
this massive scandal — Obama national security advisor
Susan Rice sent herself a bizarre email on the day
President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated a little more
than a year ago documenting a meeting between herself,
Obama, Comey and others regarding the ongoing Trump-
Russia ‘collusion’ investigation.
“President Obama began the conversation by
stressing his continued commitment to ensuring
that every aspect of this issue is handled by the
Intelligence and law enforcement communities
‘by the book,’” Rice wrote. “The president
stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or
instructing anything from a law enforcement
perspective. He reiterated that our law
enforcement team needs to proceed as it
normally would by the book.”
The existence of that meeting appears to contradict
testimony Comey gave the Senate Intelligence Committee
during his opening statement June 8, 2017, in which he
downplayed his meetings with Obama when contrasting
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them with numerous conversations he had with Trump
before he was dismissed.
“I spoke alone with President Obama twice in
person (and never on the phone) — once in
2015 to discuss law enforcement policy issues
and a second time, briefly, for him to say
goodbye in late 2016,” Comey said in his written
statement.
However, Fox News reports:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., earlier this week released an email Rice
sent to herself on Inauguration Day 2017,
detailing an Oval Office meeting held Jan. 5
with Obama, Comey, then-Vice President Joe
Biden, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally
Yates and herself.
So — Comey did meet with Obama at least a third time
after all. And wouldn’t you know it — the topic was the
bogus Russia investigation into Trump campaign
“collusion.”
Okay, so technically speaking, Comey’s statement doesn’t
directly contradict, because he did use the qualifier “alone”
when testifying about how often he spoke with Obama.
And yet, it’s pretty strange that he wouldn’t have
mentioned that final meeting…unless, of course, it
involved a subject Comey (and others) would not want to
publicize, right?
In a letter to Rice seeking further explanation of her email,
Grassley and Graham asked a number of additional
questions pertaining to Comey’s role in the meeting. In
particular, the senators want to know if Comey mentioned
any potential press coverage regarding the so-called
“Trump dossier” and if he described the FBI’s relationship
with the author of the bogus dossier, former British spy
Christopher Steele.
In the recently-released FISA memo, House Republicans
insisted that the dossier was instrumental in the FBI
securing a surveillance warrant from the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on one-time Trump
campaign member Carter Page, who at one time was an
FBI informant, according to House Intelligence Committee
chair Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (Related: BUSTED: Team
Trump campaign members most likely surveilled by
Obama admin spying on Carter Page.)
In a Monday interview with Fox News’ Martha
MacCallum, Graham said he would like to know how
Comey responded when Obama insisted the investigation
.
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be done “by the book.” And he questioned whether the
former FBI director mentioned that the “source” of
information used to justify the FISA court warrant was
derived from a “paid operative of the Democratic Party”
— the Clinton campaign.
“This is the oddest conversation I can imagine,”
Graham said of the Jan. 5, 2017 meeting Rice
documented.
For sure. And it’s going to be interesting to find out what
Comey — and Obama — really knew about the bogus
investigation.
 Nets Push Fake News Trump
Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 15, 2018 9:04 PM EST
Fresh off their disinformation campaign in the immediate
aftermath of the Parkland, Florida school shooting in
which they falsely claimed there had been 18 school
shootings this year, the three major network news outlets
(ABC, CBS, and NBC) moved on to another fake news
topic they wanted to push on the American people:
President Trump and the GOP made it easier for mentally
ill people to buy guns.
The accusation that a bill designed to remove restrictions
and allow the mentally ill to purchase guns was passed by
the GOP and signed by President Trump had long been
debunked.
As the National Review’s Charles C.W.
Cooke wrote over a year ago, what got
removed was “in layman’s terms:
The rule would have allowed bureaucrats
within one of our federal agencies to bar
American citizens from exercising a
constitutional right — and on the highly
questionable grounds that to be incapable
of managing one’s finances is, by
definition, to be a ‘mental defective.’”
And the bill wasn’t even supported by the NRA. But it was
supported by the liberal ACLU and the American
Association of People with Disabilities. Yet that didn’t
stop the networks from pushing lies and being appalled
that the President wasn’t exploiting the situation to push
gun control as their previous president did.
“The President's efforts to comfort the
nation tonight striking for what he didn't
say,” chided White House Correspondent
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Peter Alexander during NBC Nightly News.
“President Trump in a nearly seven-
minute statement not once mentioning
the word ‘Guns.’ Instead, again
signaling his focus is on the mental
health of shooters, not the weapons
they use.” He then spewed a torrent of
fake news:
Despite emphasizing mental health, the White House's
newly unveiled budget would slash funding for Medicaid
that covers a quarter of mental health care in the U.S. And
President Trump last year revoked a hotly contested
Obama-era regulation that would have made it harder for
some people with mental illness to buy guns.
That lamenting for the lack of a gun control push was
echoed on CBS Evening News when anchor Jeff Glor
bemoaned that
“President Trump did not mention gun
laws when he addressed the nation
today about the shooting.”
“Well, Jeff, the President didn't have a
lot to say today about what he actually
plans to do about school shootings,”
CBS’s Chip Reid whined to Glor. “But just
last year, the President signed
legislation reversing an Obama-era
regulation that would have made it more
difficult for some people with mental
illness to buy guns,” Reid continued.
The report by ABC’s Senior White House Correspondent
Cecilia Vega during World News Tonight was particularly
vindictive.
“Calling the shooter mentally disturbed,
his message was clear … But shortly
after taking office, President Trump
blocked an Obama-era rule that made it
tougher for the mentally ill to obtain
guns,” she claimed.
But Vega’s lie appeared to be inadvertently exposed when
Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas was describing how
the shooter obtained his rifle.
“Federal law bans anyone deemed by
authorities as mentally ill from buying
guns, but it's unclear whether any court
or commission designated Cruz as
mentally unfit. So, it appears he fell
through the cracks,” he explained.
So, is it easy for the mentally ill to buy guns or are they
banned? ABC doesn’t seem to know, judging by their own
reporting.
It should be noted that all three of the networks backed off
and didn’t repeat the bogus claim about there being 18
school shootings since the start of the year. BUT, all of
them left it out there and didn’t correct their reporting from
the previous night.
The relevant portions of the transcripts are below, click
expand to read:
NBC Nightly News
February 15, 2018
7:10:12 PM Eastern
LESTER HOLT: And President Trump says he plans to visit the
site of this horrifying massacre in the coming days. Today he
addressed a grieving nation while many are calling on the
President and Congress to finally address guns and mental
health. We get more from NBC's Peter Alexander.
[Cuts to video]
PETER ALEXANDER: The President's efforts to comfort the
nation tonight striking for what he didn't say.
DONALD TRUMP: Answer hate with love. Answer cruelty with
kindness.
ALEXANDER: President Trump in a nearly seven-minute
statement not once mentioning the word "Guns." Instead, again
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signaling his focus is on the mental health of shooters, not the
weapons they use.
(…)
ALEXANDER: The President's initial response this morning
suggesting the Parkland community could have done more
tweeting, “so many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally
disturbed. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big
problem.”
Despite emphasizing mental health, the White House's newly
unveiled budget would slash funding for Medicaid that covers a
quarter of mental health care in the U.S. And President Trump
last year revoked a hotly contested Obama-era regulation that
would have made it harder for some people with mental illness to
buy guns.
(…)
CBS Evening News
February 15, 2018
6:42:57 PM Eastern [1 minute 44 Seconds]
JEFF GLOR: The Broward County Sheriff called today for
tougher laws to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental
health issues, including forcing them to be examined by mental
health professionals. President Trump did not mention gun laws
when he addressed the nation today about the shooting.
(…)
GLOR: So the question is what is being done to protect those
children and others? Chip Reid is at the White House tonight with
more on this part of the story. Chip.
CHIP REID: Well, Jeff, the President didn't have a lot to say
today about what he actually plans to do about school shootings.
One thing he did say he wants to do is, quote, "work with state
and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the
difficult issue of mental health." But just last year, the president
signed legislation reversing an Obama-era regulation that would
have made it more difficult for some people with mental illness to
buy guns.
Now, Jeff, as you mentioned, the President did not even mention
gun control today, and the truth is, as long as Republicans are in
charge of both Houses of Congress, there is little chance of doing
anything on that front. The one thing the President did say today
that he definitely wants to do in the coming days is to go to
Parkland, Florida, and visit with families and local officials. Jeff.
(…)
ABC
World News Tonight
February 15, 2018
6:45:22 PM Eastern [1 minute 38 Seconds]
DAVID MUIR: For the fourth time since his inauguration,
President Trump addressing the nation about a mass shooting.
Something his predecessor had to do often, as well. Today,
President Trump sending his condolences to the families and
promising to focus on mental health, but he did not answer
questions about guns. Here's ABC's Senior White House
Correspondent Cecilia Vega.
[Cuts to video]
CECILIA VEGA: President Trump today speaking directly to
those grieving families in Parkland, Florida.
DONALD TRUMP: You are suffering is our burden, also.
VEGA: Calling the shooter mentally disturbed, his message was
clear.
VEGA: But shortly after taking office, President Trump blocked
an Obama-era rule that made it tougher for the mentally ill to
obtain guns. Today, no mention of gun control.
(…)
VEGA: Immediately after past shootings, the President has said it
was too soon to discuss gun control. But today, in that grief-
stricken community, many saying now is the time.
(…)
6:51:57 PM Eastern
PIERRE THOMAS: David, Cruz bought that gun legally at a local
gun store, despite all those signs that he was troubled. Federal
law bans anyone deemed by authorities as mentally ill from
buying guns, but it's unclear whether any court or commission
designated Cruz as mentally unfit. So, it appears he fell through
the cracks, David.

TRUMP: We are committed to working with state and local

leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of
mental health.
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 Attorney Gregg Jarrett Blasts DOJ Official Bruce Ohr
‘Anyone Who Knowingly Lies To The Government – It’s
One Year Behind Bars’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 15, 2018, 9:42 Pm

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton Bruce Ohr failed to disclose his wife’s payments from
appeared on Fox News to speak with Fusion GPS; Ohr never obtained a conflict of interest
attorney Gregg Jarrett who filled in for waiver from his superiors.
Lou Dobbs Thursday evening.
VIDEO:
Gregg Jarrett brought up DOJ official Bruce Ohr who was
recently caught hiding his wife’s Fusion GPS payments
from ethics officials.

Jarrett says anyone who knowingly and willfully lies to the

government, it’s one year behind bars.

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson recently

admitted in a court document that his firm hired Nellie
Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr to investigate then-candidate
Donald Trump.

It’s also important to note, Nellie Ohr, the wife of demoted

“18 USC 1001, if you knowingly and
willfully lie to the government it’s one year
behind bars,” Jarrett began.
Tom Fitton pointed out Paul Manafort is facing similar
charges for failing to file a FARA form.
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, who worked at
Fusion GPS last year when the firm was working for the
Clinton presidential campaign compiling the controversial
anti-Trump Russian dossier, is listed as working for the
CIA’s Open Source Works department in a 2010 DOJ
report.

Demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr was being fed

information from his wife, Nellie Ohr who was employed
by Fusion GPS. Bruce Ohr then took that ‘oppo research’
given to him from his wife and gave it to the FBI.
.

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 Goldman Sachs CEO:
Economy Is Stronger Under Trump
Than If Clinton Won
Business Leaders
Published February 15, 2018

Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq

Composite indexes climbing to historic highs.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says the U.S. economy is

higher under President Trump than if Hillary Clinton won the
election

Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a staunch
Hillary Clinton supporter, stated that the economy is better
off under President Donald Trump.
“If the president didn’t win, and Hillary
Clinton won…I bet you the economy is
higher today than it otherwise would be,”
Blankfein told CNN Money, responding to a
question on how much credit Trump
deserves for the surge in the economy and
the markets.
Since Trump won the election in November 2016, the U.S.
stock market has gained steam with the Dow Jones
.
Lanhee Chen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution,
agreed with Blankfein, noting how the Trump
administration has invoked policies that have generated
economic growth and optimism.
“Generating optimism in the economy from
the perspective of the bully pulpit … is
something President Trump has done
pretty well,” Chen told FOX Business’
Melissa Francis Thursday.
In a sign of optimism in the economy, 63% of Americans
voters are confident in the stock market, according to a
Fox News poll conducted February 10-13 following the
wild swings in the markets.

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 Are Democrat Mental Health Failures
To Blame For Another Mass Shooting On US Soil?
By Jim Hoft
February 15, 2018, 10:00 Pm
Did failed Democrat policies to blame
for another deadly mass shooting on
American soil?
It looks that way.
Decades of failed liberal policy have
made it difficult to force people with
severe mental diseases to be treated or
institutionalized.
And, then we are all shocked when these same
dysfunctional individuals go on a shooting rampage like
we witnessed this week in Parkside, Florida.
We know that many of the worst mass shooters in US
history were mentally disturbed.
Adam Lanza, Seung Hui Cho, James
Holmes, Jared Loughner… Nikolas
Cruz.
What did they all have in common?
Severe homicidal mental illness.
For Your Country posted this back after schizophrenic
Jared Loughner went on his shooting rampage in Arizona
that left several people dead and US Rep. Gabby Giffords
seriously wounded.
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It is just as true today.
It actually very hard to force people with severe mental
diseases to be treated because of a range of reforms pushed
by progressives starting in the 60’s:
1. Ronald David Laing, a Scottish Psychiatrist, In the 60’s
put forth the foundation of the Anti-Psychiatry
movement. He maintained that schizophrenia was “a
theory not a fact”. The popularity of Laing’s theories is
blamed for decline in students entering the psychology
profession.
2. President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Community Mental
Health Centers Act accelerated the trend toward
deinstitutionalizationwith the establishment of a
network of community mental health centers and
changes in laws regarding commitment.
3. Kenneth Kesey, wrote “One Flew over the Cukoo’s
Nest”based in part on Laing’s thinking (and his own
intensive use of drugs). “Kesey did not believe that
these patients were insane, rather that society had
pushed them out because they did not fit the
conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act
and behave.” The Book,play, and later the movie,
portrayed a anti-psychiatry philosophy leading to a
public displeasure with residential mental facilities
resulting in further deinstitutionalization policies.
4. Deinstitutioanlization led to many legal and structural
changes. American public mental hospital patients
declined from more than 550,000 in 1955 to fewer than
40,000 at present. The displaced patients now
represent 30-50% of the homeless populations.
As a result of Laing, Kennedy, Kesey and public efforts to
transform the mental health care system to be more
humane, to characterize mentally ill people as “Just
thinking differently”, and characterizing mental health care
as some form of evil, we now have a system that makes it
virtually impossible to get folks like Loughner the care
they need.
Deinstitutionalization policies driven by “do good” liberals
and the federal government put focus on limited bad acts.
Kesey wrote a story based on his LSD induced
observations in one VA mental hospital. Once his story
.
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was put into film, his small example falsely characterized
the bulk of mental health care as dehumanizing and made
it impossible to force the Laughners of the world to get
treatment.
Critics will focus on gun control after
this week’s school massacre.
The focus should be on failed liberal
policies that excuse, rather than assist,
extremely dysfunctional individuals.
 General Flynn Should WITHDRAW His Guilty Plea.
His New Judge Is A Government Misconduct Expert
Sidney Powell - Former Federal Prosecutor
2:48 AM 02/16/2018
Extraordinary manipulation by powerful people led to the
creation of Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation and
prosecution of General Michael Flynn. Notably, the recent
postponement of General Flynn’s sentencing provides an
opportunity for more evidence to be revealed that will
provide massive ammunition for a motion to withdraw
Flynn’s guilty plea and dismiss the charges against him.
It was Judge Rudolph Contreras who accepted General
Flynn’s guilty plea, but he suddenly was recused from the
case. The likely reason is that Judge Contreras served on
the special court that allowed the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to surveil the Trump campaign based on the
dubious FISA application. Judge Contreras may have
approved one of those four warrants.
The judge assigned to Flynn’s case now is Emmet G.
Sullivan. Judge Sullivan immediately issued what is called
a “Brady” order requiring Mueller to provide Flynn all
information that is favorable to the defense whether with
respect to guilt or punishment. Just today, Mueller’s team
filed an agreed motion to provide discovery to General
Flynn under a protective order so that it can be reviewed
by counsel but not disclosed otherwise.
This development is huge. Prosecutors almost never
provide this kind of information to a defendant before he
enters a plea — much less after he has done so. This is one
of myriad problems in our justice system. As Judge Jed
Rakoff wrote several years ago, people who are innocent
enter guilty pleas every day. They simply can no longer
withstand the unimaginable stress of a criminal
investigation. They and their families suffer sheer
exhaustion in every form — financial, physical, mental,
and emotional. Add in a little prosecutorial duress — like
the threat of indicting your son — and, presto, there’s a
guilty plea.
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Judge Sullivan is the perfect judge to decide General
Flynn’s motion. The judicial hero of my book, Emmet
Sullivan held federal prosecutors in contempt for failing to
disclose evidence, dismissed the corrupted prosecution of
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and appointed a special
prosecutor to investigate the Department of Justice.
That independent counsel, Henry Schuelke, issued a
scathing report finding systematic, intentional and
pervasive misconduct in the Department of (In)Justice. He
identified the prosecution’s deliberate concealment of
evidence favorable to the defense. That is why Judge
Sullivan both issues such Brady orders in each of his cases
and encourages every other judge in the country to do the
same.
Emmet G. Sullivan is one judge who is ready, willing and
able to hold Mr. Mueller accountable to the law and who
has the wherewithal to dismiss the case against General
Flynn — for egregious government misconduct — if
Mueller doesn’t move to dismiss it himself.
Judge Sullivan’s experience can only help General Flynn
as more evidence appears every day to reveal that Flynn
should not have been prosecuted. James Comey testified to
Congress that the agents who interviewed Flynn —
including the hopelessly compromised Peter Strzok —
thought Flynn was telling the truth. The entire FISA
warrant application becomes more problematic by the day.
Within the next six weeks, we will probably have the
bombshell report of Michael Horowitz, the Inspector
General for the Department of Justice. He is the one who
discovered the Strzok-Page emails, and he has been
investigating the FBI and DOJ in their Clinton cover-up
for the last year.
Since Flynn entered his guilty plea, we’ve learned that
information Mr. Comey leaked deliberately to “trigger”
Robert Mueller’s entire investigation was classified. Also,
FBI agents Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe were working on an “insurance policy”
to protect the country against a Trump presidency. It seems
plausible that this “insurance policy” included the
appointment of a special prosecutor.
Indeed, the bases for throwing out everything Robert
Mueller has touched grow exponentially as more truth
finds sunlight.
Watching guilty pleas evaporate is nothing new for Mr.
Mueller’s favored lieutenant Andrew Weissmann. Along
with his Enron Task Force comrade Leslie Caldwell,
Weissmann terrorized Arthur Andersen partner David
Duncan into pleading guilty. (RELATED: Meet The
Very Shady Prosecutor Robert Mueller Has Hired For
The Russia Investigation)
Weissmann and Caldwell made Duncan testify at length
against Arthur Andersen when they destroyed the company
and 85,000 jobs only to be reversed by a unanimous
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Supreme Court three years later. Turns out, the “crime”
they “convinced” Mr. Duncan to plead guilty to was not a
crime at all. The court allowed Duncan to withdraw his
plea. And, that was not the only Weissmann-induced plea
to be withdrawn either. Just ask Christopher Calger.
Judge Sullivan is the country’s premiere jurist experienced
in the abuses of our Department of Justice. He knows a
cover-up when he sees one. Until the Department is
cleaned out with Clorox and firehoses, along with its
“friends” at the FBI, Judge Sullivan is the best person to
confront the egregious government misconduct that has led
to and been perpetrated by the Mueller-Weissmann
“investigation” and to right the injustices that have arisen
from it. Stay tuned for the fireworks.
 Lebron James Talks Smack About
President Trump — And Gets Smacked Back
NBA Superstar's Profanity-Laced Video Is Far From A
Slam Dunk With American Sports Fans
By Michele Blood
Updated 16 Feb 2018 At 7:47 AM
Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star forward LeBron James said
President Donald Trump doesn’t “give a f***” about
Americans in a video released Thursday.
On “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday
night, host Laura Ingraham described the
“rich, spoiled pro-athlete’s” rant as “barely
intelligible.”
“Unfortunately, a lot of kids, and some
adults, take these ignorant comments
seriously,” she noted.
Then she added a bit of advice for NBA star James and
also for Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant, who
also appeared in the video.
“Keep the political commentary to yourself.
Or, as someone once said, ‘Shut up and
dribble.'”
The man who countless youngsters hail as a sports hero
spewed the obviously inaccurate and R-rated insult against
the sitting president of the United States in a video filmed
in Ohio in January and released Thursday by
Uninterrupted, a site he co-founded, as the New York Post
reported.
In the video, he appears with Durant and ESPN
SportsCenter anchor Cari Champion.
James didn’t come by his disdain for President Trump and
his policies recently, nor has he kept it under wraps.
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In one particularly memorable example, he used the
Twitter platform to communicate this to his 40 million+
followers:
That gem from last fall came on the heels of Trump's
calling out of basketball players who chose to kneel during
the national anthem. When he followed that up by
disinviting the Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen
Curry from coming to the White House, James didn't take
kindly to it.
Durant's political inclinations appear similar to those of
James. In the Uninterrupted video — part of the "Rolling
with the Champion" series — Durant shared his feelings
on the current political climate as well.
"When we're talking about leadership and
what's going on in our country, it's all about
leadership," Durant said in the video. "I
learned that playing basketball. I learned a
lot of life skills from playing basketball. You
need to empower people; you need to
encourage people. That's what builds a
great team. And I feel like our team, as a
country, is not ran [sic] by a great coach."
Though Durant — and James — may believe America is
lacking in leadership, many of this country's sports fans
have their own feelings. Some of their responses to the
video appear below.
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 Joy Behar Insists She’s A Christian After Trashing VP
Mike Pence’s Christian Faith As “Mental Illness” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 8:20 Am
Godless Joy Behar insisted she was a
Christian on Thursday’s show after she
attacked Vice President Mike Pence’s
Christian faith as a “mental illness.”
Behar faced mounting criticism after
she lashed out at devout Christian Mike
Pence.
Joy Behar, the ladies of The View and Democrat leaders
believe faith in Christ is a “mental illness.”
On Thursday Behar told the far left crowd she was a
Christian (mental illness).
** Joy Behar has a long history of
attacking Christians, Catholic Saints
and Christianity.
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She’s trashed Christians her entire
career and we’re supposed to believe
this?
FOX News reported:
ABC is facing mounting criticism after its
panelists on “The View” mocked Vice
President Mike Pence’s Christian faith.
Detractors of “The View” are focusing on
the fact that ABC News, which claims to be
an unbiased broadcast news operation,
oversees such a nakedly partisan program
with one “token” conservative.
The women of “The View” took a shot at
Pence’s Christian faith on Tuesday,
mocking the former governor of Indiana for
talking to Jesus and even calling it a
“mental illness.”
Sunny Hostin said it’s “interesting” that former White
House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman recently said
that Pence talks to Jesus and believes Jesus tells him
things.
Hostin said she is a “faithful” Catholic but
doesn’t want her vice president “speaking
in tongues.” Joy Behar then said, “It’s one
thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing
when Jesus talks to you… that’s called
mental illness.”
ABC News paints itself as a fair news organization but its
longtime slogan,
“See the Whole Picture,” often doesn’t
apply to “The View,” according to many
critics.
 Today’s #Fakenews: Liberal Media Pushes Lie That
Trump Made It Easier For Mentally Ill
To Buy Guns (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 8:48 Am
And they wonder why no one trusts them?
The far left mainstream media pushed
another lie on Thursday, the day after
19-year-old Nikolas Cruz murdered 17
students and adults in Parkland, Florida.
ABC, NBC and CBS all pushed the same
lie that President Trump and the GOP
made it easier for the mentally ill to buy
guns.
Of course, the truth is just the opposite. Decades of failed
liberal policy have made it difficult to force people with
severe mental diseases to be treated or institutionalized.
And society has to deal with the carnage.
.
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NewsBusters reported:
Fresh off their disinformation campaign in
the immediate aftermath of the Parkland,
Florida school shooting in which they
falsely claimed there had been 18 school
shootings this year, the three major
network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and
NBC) moved on to another fake news topic
they wanted to push on the American
people: President Trump and the GOP
made it easier for mentally ill people to buy
guns.
Te accusation that a bill designed to remove restrictions
and allow the mentally ill to purchase guns was passed by
the GOP and signed by President Trump had long been
debunked. As the National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke
wrote over a year ago, what got removed was
“in layman’s terms:
The rule would have allowed bureaucrats
within one of our federal agencies to bar
American citizens from exercising a
constitutional right — and on the highly
questionable grounds that to be incapable
of managing one’s finances is, by
definition, to be a ‘mental defective.’”
And the bill wasn’t even supported by the NRA. But it was
supported by the liberal ACLU and the American
Association of People with Disabilities. Yet that didn’t
stop the networks from pushing lies and being appalled
that the President wasn’t exploiting the situation to push
gun control as their previous president did.
Gee, all of the mainstream channels
pushed the same lie?
It’s almost as if they coordinate their
stories with the DNC!
 Jimmy Kimmel Blames Trump, GOP After School
Shooting: 'You're Obviously Mentally Ill'
By Kristine Marsh
February 16, 2018 9:53 AM EST
Comedian turned left-wing activist Jimmy Kimmel had his
barbs ready for Trump and the GOP on his Thursday
evening show, after the horrific school shooting on
February 14. As he has done previously on healthcare and
guns, Kimmel went on a highly partisan, fake-news-filled
rant blaming them for not “acting” when these tragedies
occur, even slamming Trump as “mentally ill” for not
giving in to the left’s demands for gun control.
“Tell your buddies in Congress, tell
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and
Marco Rubio, all the ‘family men’ who
care so much about their communities,
that what we need are laws, real laws, that
do everything possible to keep assault
rifles out of the hands of people who are
going to shoot our kids. Go on TV and tell
them to do that,” he slammed.
Getting emotional, Kimmel choked up. “Children are
being murdered,” he said as an audience member shouted
in reference to Trump,
“Do something now!” The talk show host
agreed. “Do something! We still haven’t
even talked about it, you still haven’t
done anything about it. You’ve literally
done nothing!” he scolded.
Kimmel then repeated a lie that the media has regurgitated
several times over the past 48 hours, that Trump
supposedly made it easier for the mentally ill to access
guns legally. This is simply not true, but the left-wing
talking head continued his misleading rant:
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“Actually you’ve done worse than nothing:
You like to say this is a mental health
issue, but one of your very first actions
as president Mr. Trump, was to roll back
the regulations that were designed to
keep firearms out of the hands of the
mentally ill. You did that.”
Kimmel’s diatribe got nastier, with him calling Trump
“mentally ill” for not wanting gun control.
“So I agree this is a mental illness issue,
because if you don’t think we need to do
something about it, you’re obviously
mentally ill!”
he said to cheers and applause from the audience.
Appealing to his left-wing base, Kimmel downplayed the
severe illegal immigration problem we have in this
country, claiming that a singular car accident caused by an
illegal immigrant was what motivated Trump’s “wall”:
It is amazing to me that If one illegal
immigrant causes a car accident, we've got
to build a wall to keep the rest of them out,
why are you looking for solutions to that
problem and not this one? Somewhere
along the line, these guys forgot they work
for us, not the NRA. Us. And this time,
we’re not going to allow you to bow your
head in prayer for two weeks.
He ended his tirade by urging viewers to visit the left-wing
Michael Bloomberg gun control group, Everytown for Gun
Safety even leaving the activist group’s website url up on
the screen.
ABC’s morning news program, Good Morning America,
touted Kimmel’s emotional rant on their show Friday
morning. In her report, ABC’s Cecilia Vega again misled
viewers, as she did on last night’s World News Tonight and
Kimmel did on his show hours later, claiming that
President Trump “rolled back” Obama-era restrictions on
the mentally ill being able to buy guns.
The GMA team played several clips from Kimmel’s
monologue, with anchor Robin Roberts and George
Stephanopoulos lamenting how Kimmel seemed to get that
Americans wanted action on gun control, but President
Trump wouldn’t address it.
.
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“You heard someone yelling out ‘Do
something now’and it seems you can't
even get lawmakers to utter the words
gun control," Roberts gushed.
"Well, not President Trump yesterday.
Kimmel, of course, spoke after President
Trump's addressed the nation yesterday
afternoon and as you said Robin, the
president did not mention guns,”
Stephanopoulos stated.
 What A Lame Apology: Joy Behar Claims
She Was Joking, Not Smearing Christians As Nuts
By Kristine Marsh
February 16, 2018 10:57 AM EST
Editor’s Note: This episode of the ‘View’
did not air live on the Eastern Time
Zone due to interrupted news coverage
related to Wednesday’s school shooting in
Florida. The segment below was accessed
through clips posted late Thursday evening
online.
Thursday on ABC’s The View, the whole table addressed
co-host Joy Behar’s mockery of Mike Pence’s Christian
faith on Tuesday’s show that caused an uproar. Even
though the rest of the table, with the exception of Meghan
McCain and to some extent Whoopi Goldberg, also made
vile comments, ABC only brought up Behar’s comments
as controversial.
To make matters worse, what started off as an apology
eroded into a rant against their viewers for being upset
about "free speech." This just digs the hole deeper.
Replaying the clip of Behar saying Pence must be
“mentally ill,” Whoopi bluntly addressed the elephant in
the room. Reading off a cue-card, Whoopi asked Behar,
“Do you think Christians are mentally ill?”
Behar claimed she was a Christian, and said everyone at
the table was a Christian as well, so of course she didn’t
mean it as a slam:
Well that would make me mentally ill,
since I’m a Christian myself. That would
make my father mentally ill, my mother,
my aunt, my daughter, this girl here
[pointing to Sunny Hostin], you
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[pointing to Whoopi], you [pointing to
Meghan McCain], I mean, of course not.
“I don’t mean to offend people but
apparently I keep doing it,” she grinned.
Sounding less rehearsed, Behar dismissed
any responsibility for what she said. “I
mean, it was a joke. Comedians are in
danger these days,” she stated.
“Mm-hmm,” Sunny Hostin agreed.
Whoopi dug themselves further into a hole by actually
demanding that viewers separate their show from their
network:
“Let’s take this out of the realm of ABC,”
she urged. “This is a show that has had
great relationships with all kinds of leaders
of different religions. We sit with each
other, we don’t always agree but we listen,”
Whoopi claimed. While she was saying
this, McCain looked incredibly
uncomfortable, sitting in silence with a
glare on her face.
“We do make jokes, it is what happens on
this show. You don’t have to agree with
what we’re doing. You don’t even have to
like it. But you have to understand that it
does happen,” Whoopi took Behar’s tack of
downplaying the incident as innocent
humor.
Again playing the PR-spin machine for her network,
Whoopi urged viewers to leave ABC out of the criticism
against their show:
Now to call us intolerant or to call out
ABC. Let’s get rid of that, Because as
ABC as we know is tolerant of everyone.
They have Sunday nights with Joel
Osteen. So we know that they’re fine
with that. The idea that this show is not
tolerant of other people’s beliefs I find a
little bit hard.
When does ABC broadcast Joel Osteen on Sunday nights?
You can find Osteen's televised service on Freeform
(formerly ABC Family) on Sunday (Saturday night) at 12 Proving exactly what McCain was arguing, Whoopi
AM. dismissed McCain’s feelings as wrong.

Behar added that she gave money to the church. “We don’t want to talk about liberals and
what they’re doing,” she shushed the
“I’m not insulting Christians,” she shrugged. conservative host.

McCain finally jumped in and thanked Behar for Whoopi then admitted that they were only addressing their
apologizing, saying that “so many people were upset and anti-Christian comments because the network forced them
offended” by Behar’s words. to.

“I’ve had a very hard time with this,” she “I’m trying to get out of this because
admitted, before laying into the liberals at this is what they’ve asked me to do,”
the table for being intolerant. she admitted.
“As a Republican,I feel like sometimes,
McCain tried to clear the air, and personally apologized to
liberals say, ‘We need to be tolerant of
Mike Pence on behalf of the show, even though she didn’t
everyone, we need to be tolerant of
mock him like the rest of the table did. That irked Behar,
everyone. Except pro-lifers. Except
who snarked about “free speech.”
Trump supporters. Except gun owners.
Except everyone in the red, the middle-
of-the country,” McCain began before “We also have a First Amendment in
Whoopi interrupted. this country!” she griped. Hostin agreed:
“The notion that we’re intolerant is
“I’m going to stop you, because that’s untrue,” she slammed.
not actually true,” Whoopi slammed
McCain, as the audience clapped.

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 Morning Joe Hosts Demolish Already
Paper-Thin Pretense Of Impartiality
By Bill D'Agostino
February 16, 2018 11:43 AM EST
After weeks of breathless coverage of White House
scandals, political intrigue, and gun control, the hosts of
MSNBC’s Morning Joe appear to have gotten high on
their own supply and inadvertently incited themselves with
their own rhetoric. On Friday’s panel, Mika Brzezinski
abandoned all pretense of objectivity –
what little remained – and deemed
Democratic turnout in the 2018 midterms
“our hope for the future of this country.”
Media bias is a game of plausible deniability. For news
personalities and journalists alike, the key to injecting a
political agenda into one’s reporting is to remain implicit
with one’s words, toeing the line between suggestion and
outright advocacy. So when MSNBC Washington
Correspondent Kasie Hunt issued an impassioned plea that
viewers “get out there and vote,” (perhaps implying
support for Democrats, though never specifying for which
party), nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Hosts Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, however, were
more than happy to fill in the blanks for Ms. Hunt. While
attempting to extrapolate 2018 voter turnout from past
midterm elections, journalist John Heilemann brought up
the so-called coalition of the ascendant – the DNC’s pet
term for white college-educated women and ethnic
minorities who comprise the majority of the Democratic
Party’s base. Scarborough enthusiastically commented that
this coalition was “energized,” citing the recent Alabama
special election:
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Black turnout [was] higher in Doug
Jones’s off-year special election race
than it was for Barack Obama. That
remains the most remarkable statistic of
this year and the reason why
Republicans should be shaking in their
boots right now.
Brzezinski added, “It also remains our
hope for the future of this country.”
“Yeah,” Scarborough agreed. “Hope.”
Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude concurred and decided
to approach the issue from the opposite side – admonishing
congressional Republicans. He caricatured a series of GOP
platform issues in succession, including immigration and
firearm regulation:
Even when Democrats come to the table
and compromise that will put them in
jeopardy with their Progressive base it's
rejected on the basis of an
extreme position with regards
to immigration. You think about what's
driving the attack on the FBI, it's
this extreme position about the
deep state. You think about what's
driving the position with regards to
gun control, it's this extreme position
about the federal government coming in
to take our guns so that we can't
protect ourselves.
"The Republican Party," he concluded,
"has been hijacked by extremists."
Glaude then claimed that Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer had given his Republican counterparts “leverage”
on the issue of DACA recipients in a bid for “good faith,”
which he felt they had been summarily denied.
“What we see now is that Mitch
McConnell and the Republicans are who
we thought they were,” he remarked
dourly.
 “This Development Is Huge”:
Attorney Explains Why New Judge Could
Bring Justice For Gen. Flynn
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 11:06 Am
With each passing day, more evidence
suggests the indictment of former
National Security Adviser Ret. Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn was a dubious one. In
what would be an insurmountable blow
to special counsel Robert
Mueller’s unchecked Russia probe,
former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell
says if there is a man who can bring
justice for Fynn, it’s Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan.
Sidney Powell explains:
The judge assigned to Flynn’s case now is
Emmet G. Sullivan. Judge Sullivan
immediately issued what is called a “Brady”
order requiring Mueller to provide Flynn all
information that is favorable to the defense
whether with respect to guilt or punishment.
[…]
This development is huge. Prosecutors
almost never provide this kind of
information to a defendant before he enters
a plea — much less after he has done so.
[…]
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Judge Sullivan is the perfect judge to
decide General Flynn’s motion. The judicial
hero of my book, Emmet
Sullivan held federal prosecutors in
contempt for failing to disclose evidence,
dismissed the corrupted prosecution of
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and appointed
a special prosecutor to investigate the
Department of Justice. […]
Emmet G. Sullivan is one judge who is ready, willing and
able to hold Mr. Mueller accountable to the law and who
has the wherewithal to dismiss the case against General
Flynn — for egregious government misconduct — if
Mueller doesn’t move to dismiss it himself.
Judge Sullivan’s experience can only help General Flynn
as more evidence appears every day to reveal that Flynn
should not have been prosecuted.
On Monday, Byron York of the Washington
Examiner reported former FBI Director James Comey told
congressional investigators he did not believe Flynn lied
during an unannounced interview with agent Peter Strzok
on January 24th, 2017.
According to veteran political operative and Infowars
correspondent, Roger Stone, lawyers for Flynn are
preparing legal action to have all charges against him
dropped.
Last month, special counsel Robert Mueller requested the
postponement of Flynn’s sentencing.
“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s
investigation, the parties do not believe that
this matter is ready to be scheduled for a
sentencing hearing at this time,” the special
counsel asked the court.
The court filing stated the special counsel could not On December 1st, 2017, Flynn plead guilty to lying to FBI
determine a sentencing date for Flynn and requested a 90- agents about making contact with Russian
day extension. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition period.
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 Mueller Interviews Former
Trump Legal Spokesman: Report
By Jacqueline Thomsen
02/16/18 11:48 AM EST

The former spokesman also hired a pair of D.C. lawyers in

anticipation of interviewing in the probe.

Author Michael Wolff wrote in his book “Fire and Fury:

Inside the Trump White House” that Corallo quit over
concerns about a misleading statement that Trump helped
to write about the meeting with the Russian lawyer that
included Donald Trump Jr.
“Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak
to the press, indeed not to even answer the
phone,” Wolff wrote. “Later that week,
Corallo, seeing no good outcome — and
A former spokesman for President Trump’s legal team privately confiding that he believed the
interviewed with special counsel Robert Mueller on meeting on Air Force One represented a
Thursday, The Daily Beast reported Friday. likely obstruction of justice — quit.”

Mark Corallo, who stepped down from the job in July, Mueller is reportedly focusing on the Trump Tower
reportedly spoke with Mueller’s team for more than two meeting in his probe.
hours on Thursday, and was reportedly planning on telling
Mueller that White House communications director Hope The special counsel is also seeking an interview with
Hicks might have been planning to obstruct justice. Trump, which the president has said he would be open to.
However, Trump said the final decision on an interview
The New York Times reported last month that Corallo would be made by his attorneys, and his lawyers are
planned to testify that Hicks told President Trump in a reportedly warning against it.
phone call that news of a 2016 meeting between Trump
campaign staffers and a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower
“will never get out.” The comment sparked concerns that
Hicks might be considering obstructing justice.

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 Far-Left Group Calls For Murdering
Republicans As Revenge For Florida School Shooting
“Dear Crazed Shooters, The GOP Has Frequent Baseball Practice”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
February 16, 2018

WEEK until those NRA-funded sons of

bitches do something about this.”

A far-left group on Facebook is calling

on people to murder Republican
lawmakers who support the NRA as
revenge for the Florida school shooting.

The unhinged posts appeared on a Facebook group called

‘Milkshakes Against the Republican Party’ in the hours
after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School.

“Dear Crazed Shooters, The GOP has

frequent baseball practice. You really
wanna be remembered, that’s how you do
it. Signed, Americans tired of our politicians
bathing in the blood of the innocent for a
few million dollars from the terrorist
organization NRA,” states one of the posts.
Neither of the posts has been removed by Facebook
despite being online for approaching 48 hours.
The mention of GOP baseball practice is in reference to
the June 2017 shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise,
which was carried out by a far-left Bernie Sanders
supporter, James T. Hodgkinson, who was attempting to
murder as many Republicans as possible.

These posts again illustrate how extremists on both the far

left and far right are exploiting the hyper-partisan
environment to spread hate and encourage violence.

The irony of openly encouraging terrorist attacks as Leftists on Twitter responded to a parent of one of the
revenge against a “terrorist organization” is seemingly lost victims who lost his daughter in the school shooting with
on whoever posted the message. total vitriol merely because the man was wearing a ‘Trump
2020’ t-shirt.
“You remember the shooting at the
Republican baseball game?” asks another
post. “One of those should happen EVERY
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 Mueller Indicts Russians Accused
Of ‘Disparaging Hillary Clinton’ In Election Hacking
Scheme – FULL DOCUMENT
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 12:07 Pm
On Friday, the office of special counsel
Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
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CNBC reports:
The special counsel’s office said Friday
that a federal grand jury indicted 13
Russian nationals and three Russian
entities in the probe into Russian
interference in the 2016 elections.
The indictment says that the defendants
allegedly, by early to mid 2016, were
“supporting the presidential campaign of
then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and
disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
An announcement from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
office said that the government accuses all the defendants
of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Three
defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and bank fraud. Five defendants are charged with
aggravated identity theft.
UPDATE — Here is the full indictment released today.
U.S. v. Internet Research Agency, et al by CNBC.com can
be seen starting on next page.
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 MUELLER PROBE: Russians Organized Anti-Trump
Rallies In New York City & Charlotte
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 12:34 Pm

On Friday, the office of special counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand Here is NBC‘s report on the New York City event.
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.” Investigators also found the
Russians organized rallies against
Trump in New York City and Charlotte.

“At the same time, Defendants and their

co-conspirators, through another
Not My President’s Day” rallies were staged in New York,
ORGANIZATION-controlled group,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia and more
organized a rally in New York City called
than two dozen other cities across the nation in a spirited
“Trump is NOT my President” held on or
display of defiance against a president who has been in
about November 12, 2016. Similarly,
power for just one month.
Defendants and their co-conspirators
organized a rally entitles “Charlotte Against
Trump” in Charlotte, North Carolina, held In Trump’s hometown, a huge throng rallied outside the
on or about November 19, 2016. Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, with the crowd
blanketing the southwestern corner of Central Park and
singing “We Shall Overcome.”
See footage below of New York City event on November
12, 2016.
Many carried signs that read “Not My President” and
“Resist” and chanted “No Ban, No Wall” — a reference
to Trump’s executive order on travel by immigrants and
his still-unbuilt wall along the Mexican border.

A BuzzFeed report published October 26th, 2017, shows

Facebook was aware an anti-Trump rally in Charlotte was
organized by Russia:

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 2016 election: trying to organize anti-Trump rallies,
according to private messages from a page aimed at black
civil rights activists that has been linked to a wider Russian
effort.

“We’re holding a protest against Trump on

Saturday,” read a message obtained by
BuzzFeed from the BlackMattersUS
Facebook page to an activist who’d spoken
at a previous rally organized by the group
in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The BlackMatters page also sent a
poster for the “Charlotte Against
Trump” rally on Nov. 19, 2016, and a
now-unavailable link to a Facebook
event.

The page was identified in a bombshell investigation by

People believed to be Russians meddling in American RBC, a Russian outlet, as one of 180 social media
politics swiftly chose a new target in the days after the accounts created by a St. Petersburg “troll farm.”

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 Anti-Trump Chihuahuas Overlook
The President's Many Achievements
By Roger Kimball
November 16, 2017

Let’s leave aside the hypocrisy of a reporter for The New

York Times stepping onto his high horse to deliver anti-
Russian salvos. Shameless: he even invokes Reagan’s
“tear down this wall” speech in Berlin. Go back and read
what the Times had to say about that phrase at the time.

You do not have to convince me that Vladimir Putin is a

nasty piece of work. Indeed (commercial break), I am just
about to publish Putin on the March, Douglas Schoen’s
brilliant book on that subject.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The world is full of bad guys. But if you are president of
the United States, you should understand that the interests
I am told that on that this day in 1933, Franklin Delano
of peace and the interests of prosperity demand that you
Roosevelt opened diplomatic relations with the Soviet
get along with other nations, if at all possible, especially
Union. Despite Walter Duranty’s protestations to the
powerful nations. Donald Trump was quite right when he
contrary in The New York Times, that was while Stalin was
tweeted a few days ago that
systematically starving millions—yes, millions—of his
own people. He went so far as to seal the windows of
“having a good relationship with Russia is a
trains running through the areas he wished to devastate so
good thing, not a bad thing. . . . I want to
that passengers could not throw out food to the starving
solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine,
multitudes. FDR knew this. So: was his diplomatic action
terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!”
a good thing or a bad thing?
It is “a good thing, not a bad thing” to have a good
On this day in 1985, Ronald Reagan travelled to Geneva to
relationship with Russia. Ditto on China, Vietnam, South
meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Cold War was still
Korea, and the Philippines.
raging. So: was Reagan’s action a good thing or a bad
thing?
Yesterday, just back from his 12-day, 20,000-mile
whirlwind trip through Asia, the president gave what
Fun archival project: go back to the 1980s and read what
posterity will regard as a turning-point speech. The master
The New York Times (and kindred outlets) had to say about
word of this speech was “confidence.” “When we are
Ronald Reagan. He was a moron. He was a war monger.
confident in ourselves,” the president said, confident in our
He was being played by Gorbachev.
strength, our flag, our history, our values—other nations
are confident in us. And when we treat our citizens with
Fast forward to today. Andrew Rosenthal, writing in The
the respect they deserve, other countries treat America
New York Times, wants us to know how “grown-ups” deal
with the respect that our country so richly deserves.
with Vladimir Putin. His proffered adult is Prime Minister
Theresa May, who, in her address at the Lord Mayor’s
During our travels, this is exactly what the world saw: a
banquet, gave a tart (and accurate) assessment of Putin’s
strong, proud, and confident America.
hostile actions, from his annexation of Crimea to his
propaganda war and “weaponization” of information
Donald Trump displayed, in a way we have not seen since
technology. Spot on, Mrs. May!
the heyday of Ronald Reagan, what foreign-policy
leadership looks like. We have serious differences with
Andrew Rosenthal contrasts May’s blast against Putin with
Russia and China. We also have areas of agreement and
Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts.
potential agreement. To address the former a canny leader

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endeavors to exploit the latter. This Donald Trump is
doing.
The president returned from his trip to Asia having secured
a renewed commitment from Chinese President Xi and
other leaders to help deal with the threat of a nuclear North
Korea. “Throughout the trip, we asked all nations to
support our campaign of maximum pressure for North
Korean denuclearization,” Trump noted.
And they are responding by cutting trade with North
Korea, restricting financial ties to the regime, and
expelling North Korean diplomats and workers.
Over the last two weeks, we have made historic strides in
reasserting American leadership, restoring American
security, and reawakening American confidence.
The president also came back from Asia with billions of
dollars in trade deals. “Fair trade and reciprocal trade.”
That is Trump’s mantra. “We can no longer tolerate unfair
trading practices that steal American jobs, wealth, and
.
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intellectual property. The days of the United States being
taken advantage of are over.”
The anti-Trump chihuahuas keep yammering about his
tweets, his being in cahoots with Putin, and his not
understanding the complexities of foreign affairs. But this
summary of Donald Trump’s achievements in just 10
months is difficult to gainsay:
Economic growth has been over 3 percent the last two
quarters and is going higher. Unemployment is at its
lowest level in 17 years. The stock market has gained
trillions of dollars in value since my election and has
reached record highs. We are massively increasing our
military budget to historic levels. The House has just
passed a nearly $700 billion defense package, and it could
not come at a better time for our nation. Once again our
country is optimistic about the future, confident in our
values, and proud of our history and role in the world.
What’s not to like?
 MUELLER PUSHES DEEP STATE RUSSIAN
COLLUSION BS: Numerous Sites Listed Were
PRO-HILLARY Not PRO-TRUMP!
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 12:37 Pm

On Friday Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced the In the indictment Mueller and his team of far left attorneys
federal grand jury indicted 16 Russians accused of and Obama supporters claim Russia used the internet to
“supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate push ads that were in support of Donald Trump for
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Clinton.” president.

The full document is here: The groups listed include: Secured Borders, Blacktivist,
United Muslims for America, Army of Jesus, South United
U.S. v. Internet Research Agency, et al by and Heart of Texas.
CNBC.com on Scribd
From page 14:
See on page xxx

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 That is not accurate. Union Square against Trump in New York City after the
election.
That is a deep state lie.
Several of these online groups were pro-
Hillary and even HELD RALLIES for
Hillary.
United Muslims of America was NOT
pro-Trump.

HPSCI Minority Open Hearing Exhibits

Stop AI 1/3
Stop AI 2/3
Stop AI 3/3
These same Russian groups organized the monster rally Stop AI Burqa
“Trump is not my president” in New York City on
AI_metadata
November 12, 2016.

This was NOT pro-Trump. Anti HRC Event

Anti HRC Event_metadata
These same Russian ads were published in November
2017 by the House Intelligence Committee. Black Matters Ad
Black Matters_metadata1
Black Matters_metadata2
Mueller and Democrats want you to believe these Russian
Black Matters_metadata3
Facebook ads flipped the election to Donald Trump.
Blacktivist
But at least half of the ads are pro-Hillary.
Blacktivist_metadata

And Russia claims half of their paid ads ran after the
Defend the 2nd Amendment Ad
election and 25% never ran at all.
Defend the 2nd Amendment_metadata
Facebook announced previously the Russian ads
comprised .004% of their advertising during the election. Don’t Shoot Ad
Don’t Shoot_metadata 1
Don’t Shoot_metadata 2
As previously reported…

Police Anti-BLM Ad
The House Intelligence Committee released a sampling of
Police Anti-BLM Ad_metadata
Facebook ads linked to Russia. One of the ads released
was a sponsored post for the Nov. 12 anti-Trump march at

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Secured Borders Ad
Secured Borders_Cultural metadata 1
Secured Borders_Cultural metadata 2

United Muslims Banner

United Muslims of America_metadata

United Muslims Paid Event Ad

Secured Borders_metadata 1 United Muslims Paid Event Ad_metadata
Secured Borders_metadata 2
White House Petition
White House Petition Metadata

RT ads

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 Schiff: 'We're Very Close To Reaching
An Agreement' With FBI On Countermemo
By Olivia Beavers
02/16/18 12:38 PM EST
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee
said Friday he is very close to striking a deal with the FBI
over releasing his classified countermemo that offers a
point-by-point rebuttal of the GOP surveillance memo
released earlier this month.
"I think we’re very close to reaching an
agreement on it,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-
Calif.) said during a Center on Foreign
Relations event.
Schiff is in the process of making changes to the
countermemo, in cooperation with the FBI. He said that
while he is willing to make redactions that protect sources
and methods, he does not want to make any changes to
information that the Trump administration may be trying
to block.
“What I am trying to gain visibility into is
what are the concerns of the FBI and
[Justice Department], because we want to
redact that. And what are political
redactions that the White House might be
insisting on?” he said.
Schiff’s memo directly refutes the GOP memo drafted by
the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
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Nunes (R-Calif.), which was released a few weeks ago
after President Trump signed off, overriding FBI concerns.
The Nunes memo outlines allegations that the FBI
and Justice Department officials misled a clandestine court
to grant a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, an adviser
to President Trump's campaign. The memo makes the
claim that federal officials failed to disclose that Hillary
Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National
Committee paid in part for a dossier that was used as
evidence to obtain their spy application.
Trump tweeted that the GOP memo “vindicates” him in
the ongoing Russia probe that is examining whether
Trump campaign aides colluded with Russia during the
2016 election.
Schiff has repeatedly blasted the Nunes memo for not only
causing “lasting damage” with the intelligence community,
but also for cherry-picking facts in an effort to protect the
White House from the federal investigation.
Last week, the White House signaled it is open to
releasing Schiff's countermemo if certain information is
redacted.
“The administration stands ready to work
with Congress to accommodate oversight
requests consistent with applicable
standards, including the need to protect
intelligence sources and methods,” White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders said last Friday in reference to
Schiff's memo.
Schiff has repeatedly emphasized that the FBI has not
dismissed their memo as inaccurate, while the bureau
publicly voiced "grave concerns" over the accuracy of the
Nunes memo.
 Mueller Indicts 13 Russians For
Interfering In US Election
By The Hill Staff
02/16/18 12:58 PM EST
Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought charges
against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups for
interfering with the 2016 U.S. elections, the Department of
Justice announced Friday.
The charges allege that the Russians posed as U.S. people,
created false U.S. personas and stole the identities of real
U.S. people in order to interfere with U.S. elections,
including the presidential contest between Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will announce
charges at a press conference later Friday.
“From in or around 2014 to the present,
Defendants knowingly and intentionally
conspired with each other (and with
persons known and unknown to the Grand
Jury) to defraud the United States by
impairing, obstructing, and defeating the
lawful functions of the government through
fraud and deceit for the purpose of
interfering with the U.S. political and
electoral processes, including the
presidential election of 2016,” the
indictment reads.
DEVELOPING.
 MUELLER INDICTMENT NOTHINGBURGER=>
Rosenstein: Russian Operation DID NOT Change
Election Outcome (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 12:59 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
discover Russians were stealing identities
and committing bank fraud?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a press
conference on Friday to answer questions about Mueller’s
indictment.
Rosenstein said,

In other words the Mueller team has zero Trump-Russia

“According to the indictment, the
collusion.
Americans did not know they were
communicating with Russians”.

VIDEO:

CNBC reports: “#Rosenstein repeats no allegation

outcome of election was affected. No
An announcement from special counsel allegation in this indictment that any
Robert Mueller’s office said that the American had any knowledge (including in
government accuses all the defendants of Trump campaign)”
conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Three defendants are charged with
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank
fraud. Five defendants are charged with
aggravated identity theft.
According to the indictment, the Russians
began their operation to disrupt the U.S.
political system in 2014. So why on earth
did it take a Special Counsel in 2017 to
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 SHUT IT DOWN: Tom Fitton & Julian Assange Hail
Implosion Of Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative
After Mueller Indictments
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 1:31 Pm

On Friday, the office of special counsel “supporting the presidential campaign of

Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and
disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
An announcement from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
office said that the government accuses all the defendants
of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Three
defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and bank fraud. Five defendants are charged with
aggravated identity theft.

In a press conference shortly after news broke of the

scheme, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the
indictments show the Russian operation did not impact the
results of the 2016 presidential election.

CNBC reports:
The special counsel’s office said Friday
that a federal grand jury indicted 13
Russian nationals and three Russian
entities in the probe into Russian
interference in the 2016 elections.

The indictment says that the defendants allegedly, by early

to mid 2016, were

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Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton took to Twitter to hail
the implosion of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

“So big Mueller indictment of Russians

confirms “unwitting” involvement of Trump
campaign with disguised Russian
operatives. No collusion. Shut it down,”
Fitton tweeted.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange found vindication in the

announcement, as well.

“So the big Mueller Russia indictment

details that the Russian conspirators
supported @SenSanders. Yet no special
counsel investigating Sanders collusion
with the Russians. I guess the Clinton
campaign didn’t give the Obama gang a
Bernie Dossier to justify spying/targeting
him,” added Fitton.

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 BREAKING: Florida Governor Rick Scott Calls For FBI
Director Chris Wray To Step Down Following
Parkland School Massacre
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 2:01 Pm

warning about Nikolas Cruz in

JANUARY!

FOX Business Network reported:

On Friday morning the FBI admitted

they did not follow protocol in
investigating the violent threats posted
online by Nikolas Cruz.

As reported earlier today by TGP writer Josh Caplan. Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 individuals at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School, Wednesday, February 14, 2018,
in Parkland, Florida.
On Friday Governor Rick Scott called on
FBI Director Christopher Wray to step
down following the botched
investigation of mass murderer Nikolas
Cruz.
Governor Scott called on FBI Director
Christopher Wray to resign as a result
of the “FBI’s admission that they failed
to take action after receiving
information on January 5, 2018” on
Nikolas Cruz.

The FBI also admitted they did not

follow protocol on a second threat
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Governor Scott: “The FBI’s failure to unacceptable.”
take action against this killer is

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 Mueller Still Investigating
Possible Collusion, Source Says
By Chris Strohm
February 16, 2018, 2:32 PM CST
Updated On February 16, 2018, 3:47 PM CST
 Indictments of 13 Russians don’t preclude further
charges
 Trump reaffirms ‘no collusion!’ by his presidential
campaign
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors
haven’t concluded their investigation into whether
President Donald Trump or any of his associates helped
Russia interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person
with knowledge of the probe.
Friday’s indictment of a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm”
and 13 Russian nationals should be seen as a limited slice
of a comprehensive investigation, the person said.
Mueller’s work is expected to continue for months and
also includes examining potential obstruction of justice by
Trump, said the person, who requested anonymity to
discuss an investigation that is largely confidential.
A federal grand jury indicted the Russians for what it
alleged was a vast scheme to interfere in the 2016 election
and help Trump win. But Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein said at a news conference Friday that there is
“no allegation in this indictment that any American was a
knowing participant” in the alleged scheme.
Read more: Mueller Accuses Russians of Pro-Trump,
Anti-Clinton Meddling
Trump indicated that he believes the indictment exonerates
him and his campaign.
“Russia started their anti-US campaign in
2014, long before I announced that I would
run for President. The results of the
election were not impacted. The Trump
campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!”
Trump said on Twitter.
That has yet to be determined. Friday’s indictment should
be seen as an effort by Mueller to raise awareness about
Russia’s capabilities as the 2018 U.S. elections draw near,
the person said.
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It’s still possible that Mueller will indict Americans for
knowingly helping Russia, the person said.
By contrast, Trump and those around him portrayed the
Russia investigation as if it were all but closed. “I am
happy for the country. Bob and his team did a very good
job on this,” Trump lawyer John Dowd said, although he
declined to say if the action clears the president.
Shaky Ground
Rosenstein, who has been on shaky ground with Trump
from the time he named Mueller as special counsel,
offered a summary of the indictment that conspicuously
skipped its repeated references to the Russian goal of
helping Trump win the presidency and hurting his
Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Instead, Rosenstein singled out a post-election example of
efforts to create turmoil, citing allegations the Russians
allegedly staged simultaneous rallies to support President-
elect Trump and “to protest his election.”
Asked if Trump officials had been “duped” by the
Russians, Rosenstein, said,
“The defendants took extraordinary steps
to make it appear that they were ordinary
American political activists.”
Still, implicit in Rosenstein’s words - and his appearance
to announce the indictment - was an endorsement of the
work of Mueller, who like Rosenstein has faced intense
scrutiny. The indictments prompted a wave of statements
from lawmakers in both parties backing the special counsel
and demanding action against Russia.
Congressional Reaction
Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat
who’s the ranking member on the House Judiciary
Committee, said the announcement Friday should “lay to
rest” assertions the investigation was a hoax and preempt
efforts to remove officials involved in investigating House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, said the
Trump. announcement underscored

“At this point, any step President Trump “why we need to follow the facts and work
may take to interfere with the Special to protect the integrity of future elections.”
Counsel’s investigation -- including “Mueller just put Moscow on notice," said
removing Deputy Attorney General
Republican Senator Ben Sasse of
Rosenstein, or threatening to remove Nebraska. "This ought to be a wake-up call
Special Counsel Mueller directly -- will have
to Washington: Putin’s shadow war is
to be seen as a direct attempt to aid the
aimed at undermining Americans’ trust in
Russian government in attacking American our institutions. We know Russia is coming
democracy,” Nadler said in a statement.
back in 2018 and 2020. We have to take
this threat seriously.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mueller’s
inquiry must be allowed to follow the facts “unhindered by
the White House or Republicans in Congress.”

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 CNN Security Analyst Calls For National Gun Registry
Following Parkside, FL Shooting (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 2:35 Pm

But this didn’t stop CNN security

analyst and former CIA operative Philip
Mudd from calling for a national gun
registry.

The final step of Nazi control in Austria was registration

and confiscation of guns. (Fairly Civil)

It’s not a surprise that gun Registration often leads to

confiscation.

On Wednesday 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz

murdered 17 individuals at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida.

The FBI admitted later in the week they botched the

investigation of Nikolas Cruz despite warnings that he was
armed and homicidal.

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 POTUS Trump Breaks Silence After Mueller Indicts
Russians In Election Interference Scheme
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 2:50 Pm

On Friday, the office of special counsel
Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
An announcement from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
office said that the government accuses all the defendants
of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Three
defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and bank fraud. Five defendants are charged with
aggravated identity theft.

Shortly after the announcement, President Trump broke his

silence on the indictments.

“Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long

before I announced that I would run for President. The
results of the election were not impacted. The Trump
campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!” tweeted
President Trump.

CNBC reports:

The special counsel’s office said Friday that a federal

grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian
entities in the probe into Russian interference in the 2016
elections.

The indictment says that the defendants allegedly, by early

to mid 2016, were “supporting the presidential campaign The White House followed up with its own statement.
of then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging
Hillary Clinton.”
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 “There was NO COLLUSION between the
Trump campaign and Russia and that the
outcome of the election was not changed
or affected.”

In a press conference today, Deputy Attorney General Rod

Rosenstein said the indictments show the Russian
operation did not impact the result of the 2016 presidential
election.

The indictment shows Russian efforts to interfere in U.S.

elections dates back to 2013.

“The indictment says part of the Russian

influence campaign dates to 2013. It
involved hundreds of people and millions of
dollars. The goal? “Spread distrust towards
the candidates and the political system in
general,” tweeted Boston Globe reporter
Matt Viser.

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 Reliable Stelter? I Don't Decry Trump's Madness
(Yes I Do); We're Not Anti-Trump (We Are)
By Tim Graham
February 16, 2018 2:58 PM EST
Earlier this week, CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter
oddly denied in a Clintonian way that he had ever spoken
of Trump as “mentally ill.” Conservative Twitter
responded by lining up many examples of Stelter
questioning the president’s “mental fitness.” In a largely
sympathetic interview with Andrew Chang on the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation posted on February 5,
they discussed Stelter proclaiming Trump’s “madness.” So
why deny it on Twitter?
ANDREW CHANG: I’m curious about your own work,
because on air, you have referred to Trump as being, or
suggesting, that he’s unfit, perhaps, for office. You’re
referred to this presidency as madness. Does that cross a
line?
BRIAN STELTER: The night that he tweeted about his
nuclear button, and then 12 minutes later, announced he
was going to give out Fake News awards, you know, what
do you call that, other than madness? I thought on a
night like that, when he’s using Twitter to talk about a
nuclear taunt, and then criticizing the press, I think
journalists need to have the space and the freedom to talk
openly about what’s going on about his reckless use of
Twitter.
CHANG: But I guess I wonder, is that a judgment for a
journalist to make? Right, that’s the question, to make that
judgment call?
STELTER: I think there’s a healthy tradition
in America of aggressive, sometimes
adversarial journalism, of journalists being
on the side of the audience at home. And
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we’re seeing more of that now, we definitely
are.
But Stelter spoke out of both sides of his mouth, and not
just about the idea of it being "healthy" to be adversarial
on behalf of an "audience at home." That's not the way he
would summarize Fox News reporting on Obama or the
Clintons.
Just a minute earlier, Stelter denied anyone was “anti-
Trump,” they are just pro-“truth and decency.” They only
brought “context,” not opinion. (I hear echoes of Dan
Rather in confusing "context" and editorializing.)
ANDREW CHANG: Do you accept any of the criticism?
The extremes aside, there is a critical look at CNN, and the
way it operates, and that it has gone beyond simply
reporting the facts, and that in fact it has chosen sides?
STELTER: I don’t think CNN, or any other
channel right now, is anti-Trump. What we
are seeing are journalists trying to stand up
for truth and decency.
And when President Trump gives an inspiring speech, we
should and we do say so. [Really?] When he makes up
false stats, when he makes up fake facts, when he spews
lies on Twitter, then we say that as well. I don’t think
that’s opinion. That’s much needed context in a really
confusing world.
Stelter traveled to Toronto to be interviewed on
stage by the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
He did the same shtick there. In his media
taxonomy, there's an "explicitly pro-Trump
 booster media" (most of Fox, Hannity,
Limbaugh, Breitbart), a "smaller bubble of truly
anti-Trump media" (The Nation, Salon.com,
Maddow) and then "in between you have a lot
of other stuff...It's my program, it's CNN, it's all
those big news outlets" that are "not explicitly
pro- or anti-Trump." They're "trying to be in the
middle."
How can anyone that watches CNN think it's
"not explicitly anti-Trump"?
Even his interviewer, former NBC correspondent Dawna
Friesen, said of CNN
"I don't see a lot of pro-Trump stuff on
there."

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 “They Got These Bastards”: Trump Lawyer Issues
Statement After Russians Indicted For Election Meddling
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 3:06 Pm

Following the announcement that campaign did nothing wrong – no

Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians and collusion!” tweeted President Trump.
3 Russian entities for meddling in U.S.
elections, President Donald Trump’s
attorney, John Dowd, claimed the
special counsel did “a hell of a job.”

The White House followed up with its own statement.

“There was NO COLLUSION between the

Trump campaign and Russia and that the
outcome of the election was not changed
Daily Beast reports: or affected.”

The criminal complaint, Dowd said, “speaks

for itself,” adding that, “I think the special
counsel found the culprits. I think he did a
good job. I think he did a hell of a job.”
Dowd said he was confident the president
would be pleased with the news. “I’m sure
he is happy,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of
faith in Bob Mueller and his team and it
makes you feel good when they do a good
job. They got these bastards who tried to
hurt the country.”

Shortly after the announcement, President Trump broke his

silence on the indictments.

“Russia started their anti-US campaign in

2014, long before I announced that I would
run for President. The results of the
election were not impacted. The Trump

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 Crazy Adam Schiff Attacks POTUS After Mueller
Indictment Shows ZERO Trump-Russia Collusion
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 3:20 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel election were not impacted. The Trump
Robert Mueller announced that a grand campaign did nothing wrong – no
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, collusion!”
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a press

conference on Friday to answer questions about Mueller’s
indictment.

Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge

they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Adam Schiff tweeted:
Americans.

No, Mr. President. The Special Counsel’s

Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation
indictment states no conclusion on issue of
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential
collusion or electoral impact of Russian
election.
interference on the election. The former is
under investigation and latter is beyond
their scope.

President Trump promptly reacted to the Mueller

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam
indictment of 13 Russians. Mueller’s indictment revealed
Schiff (D-CA) is unhinged. He’s been pushing the Russian
the Russians started their operation in 2014 so where was
collusion hoax for over a year and actively blocking
the FBI back in 2014?
Chairman Nunes from uncovering Obama’s unmasking
scandal.
Trump tweeted,
Schiff has a lot to lose which is why he’s in panic mode.
“Russia started their anti-US campaign in
2014, long before I announced that I would
Mueller has nothing on Trump’s campaign and everyone
run for President. The results of the
knows it.
.
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 BITTER John Brennan Reacts To Mueller
Indictment Of 13 Russians In Election Meddling Plot
By Joshua Caplan
February 16, 2018, 3:21 Pm

On Friday, the office of special counsel Brennan lashing out at the decision comes amid reports
Robert Mueller announced that a grand that the former CIA Director is in the crosshairs of House
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes.
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan appears to disagree

with the probe’s collusion that the meddling scheme did
not impact the result of the 2016 presidential election.

“DOJ statement and indictments reveal the

extent and motivations of Russian
interference in 2016 election. Claims of a
“hoax” in tatters. My take: Implausible that
Russian actions did not influence the views
and votes of at least some Americans,”
tweeted a bitter Brennan. Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino joined “Fox &
Friends,” Monday morning and warned Brennan is in a
“world of trouble right now,” over his testimony on the
dubious Steele dossier.

Newsmax reported:

“My sources on this are telling me John

Brennan is in a world of trouble right now,”
Bongino told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends”
program.
“Back in August of 2016 he gives a private
briefing to Sen. Harry Reid, Democrat, of

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 course. He gives that briefing to Reid. Reid of trouble because he raised his right hand
fires off a letter to the FBI. In that letter is and he said the exact opposite.”
information that clearly came from the
dossier.” In a press conference today, Deputy Attorney General Rod
“The CIA has a central role in the Rosenstein said the indictments show the Russian
verification of foreign assets and operation did not impact the result of the 2016 presidential
information we get from foreign assets,” election.
Bongino said. “It is not plausibly deniable
that John Brennan did not know who
commissioned that dossier he is in a world
.

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 Mueller Investigation Leak To Bloomberg:
Trump Not Cleared Of Collusion Or Obstruction
In Russia Probe
By Kristinn Taylor
February 16, 2018, 3:35 Pm

Bloomberg published a report Friday afternoon based on
leaks by a source with intimate knowledge of the Mueller
probe (and Mueller’s thinking on the probe) who said
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has not cleared President
Donald Trump of colluding with Russia in the 2016
election nor of obstructing the subsequent investigations
into the alleged collusion. The leaker also claimed Friday’s
indictments about Russian interference in the election are
meant to be a warning for the 2018 mid-term elections.
election were not impacted. The Trump
campaign did nothing wrong – no
collusion!” Trump said on Twitter.
That has yet to be determined. Friday’s
indictment should be seen as an effort by
Mueller to raise awareness about Russia’s
capabilities as the 2018 U.S. elections
draw near, the person said.
It’s still possible that Mueller will indict
Americans for knowingly helping Russia,
the person said.

End excerpt. Please read the entire Bloomberg article at

this link.

Earlier tweet by President Trump:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Bloomberg’s Chris Strohm reported:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his

prosecutors haven’t concluded their
investigation into whether President Donald
Trump or any of his associates helped
Russia interfere in the 2016 election,
according to a person with knowledge of
the probe.
Friday’s indictment of a St. Petersburg-
based “troll farm” and 13 Russian nationals
should be seen as a limited slice of a
comprehensive investigation, the person
said. Mueller’s work is expected to continue
for months and also includes examining
potential obstruction of justice by Trump,
said the person, who requested anonymity
to discuss an investigation that is largely
confidential.
…“Russia started their anti-US campaign in
2014, long before I announced that I would
run for President. The results of the
Earlier White House statement:
Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Russia
Indictments
Issued on: February 16, 2018
Earlier today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
announced indictments against 13 Russian nationals and 3
Russian entities for meddling in the 2016 Presidential
election, which began in 2014 before the President
declared his candidacy. President Donald J. Trump has
been fully briefed on this matter and is glad to see the
Special Counsel’s investigation further indicates—that
there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump

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campaign and Russia and that the outcome of the election
was not changed or affected.
President Trump says, “it is more important than ever
before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow
those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be
successful. It’s time we stop the outlandish partisan
attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories,
which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like
Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our
institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the
integrity of our democracy and our elections.”
The Justice Department issued a statement about the
indictments–the conclusion of the statement was
apparently rebutted with the leak to Bloomberg.
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…There is no allegation in the indictment
that any American was a knowing
participant in the alleged unlawful activity.
There is no allegation in the indictment that
the charged conduct altered the outcome of
the 2016 election.
Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent
unless proven guilty in court. At trial, prosecutors must
introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each
defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the
unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.
The Special Counsel’s investigation is ongoing.
There will be no comments from the Special
Counsel at this time.“
 Mueller Indictment Shows Russian
Conspiracy To Support Bernie Sanders
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 4:19 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel United Muslims of America was NOT pro-Trump.
Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

Mueller’s indictment exposes a Russian operation of

online trolls disparaging Hillary Clinton (big deal) while
showing support for Trump…and Bernie Sanders.
In other words, Mueller has nothing on Trump’s campaign,
but the witch hunt continues.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a press
conference on Friday to answer questions about Mueller’s
indictment.

On page 17 of Mueller’s indictment, it is revealed the
Russians not only disparaged Hillary Clinton, they
denigrated other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco
Rubio.
Mueller’s indictment also revealed the Russians supported
Bernie Sanders.
Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge
they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans.
Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential
election.

“Specialists were instructed to post content that
focused on “politics in the USA” and to “use any
opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest
(except Sanders and Trump–we support them).”
But the Russia witch hunt of President Trump continues…
A leaker with inside knowledge of the Special Counsel’s
operation ran to Bloomberg Friday and said Mueller’s
witch hunt will continue for MONTHS.

TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Bloomberg published a

report Friday afternoon based on leaks by a source with
intimate knowledge of the Mueller probe (and Mueller’s
thinking on the probe) who said Special Counsel Robert
Mueller has not cleared President Donald Trump of
colluding with Russia in the 2016 election nor of
obstructing the subsequent investigations into the alleged
collusion.

The leaker also claimed Friday’s indictments about

Russian interference in the election are meant to be a
The Russians also supported Hillary Clinton. warning for the 2018 mid-term elections.

Several of these online groups were pro-Hillary and even

HELD RALLIES for Hillary.

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 MUELLER COLLUSION BOMBSHELL: Trump
Volunteer Provided Trump Signs To Russian “Posing
As Grassroots Activist”
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 5:21 Pm

Robert Mueller released a nothing burger today on Russian

involvement in the 2016 election.

The indictment contained this nugget of “collusion.”

A volunteer for the Trump campaign in New

York…agreed to provide signs” for a Trump rally to a
Russian “posing as a US grassroots activist.”

That’s it.

That’s all they got!

Meanwhile Crooked Hillary walks free after

she paid for a Russian created dossier to
This is all they got on Trump.
take down Trump.
If Mueller looked at the Clinton campaign and Russian
Via Paul Sperry:
collusion they could write volumes and indict dozens
Hillary operatives.

But they’re not.

Mueller and his corrupt team of liberal

lawyers is only looking at President Trump
and his ties to Russians.
There are none.

This is the state of the US government today.

Deep State crooks out to take down a legitimate
Republican President.

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 Can’t Let It Go: CNN Hung Up On
Collusion Despite Mueller Indictments
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 16, 2018 6:34 PM EST

doesn't this show there's no collusion?’ But

can they come out and say that?”

“Well, I don't think we can take this to mean

there is no collusion in anything that Mueller
is looking at,” Murray insisted. “Now that does
not mean that there's no part of Mueller's
investigation that has not found some kind
of collusion.”

The Special Counsel investigation into Russian meddling

in the 2016 election dropped federal indictments on 13
Russian nationals on Friday, stunning Washington, DC.
And in a press briefing a short time later, Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein told the media that the
indictments had no allegations against Americans because
none were “knowing participants” in the plot and the
election outcome was not swayed. But that didn’t sit well
with a CNN Newsroom panel who couldn’t seem to wrap
their heads around it.
Murray seemed to take issue with Rosenstein stating that
Before introducing the panel, host Pamela Brown played a the outcome of the election wasn’t stolen from Hillary
clip of Rosenstein articulating what was in the indictments: Clinton by outside forces and seemed perturbed that it
helped Trump’s argument.
Russians also recruited and paid real
Americans to engage in political activities, “Unclear to me how he feels like he can draw
promote political campaigns, and stage political that conclusion based on this kind of
rallies. The defendants and their co- interference,” she questioned. “But that is
conspirators pretended to be grassroots certainly something that will resonate with
activists. According to the indictment, the the President. Because he has viewed these
Americans did not know that they were Russian investigations a way to undermine
communicating with Russians. --> Now there is his victory from day one.”
no allegation in this indictment that any
American was a knowing participant in this CNN Political Director David Chalian also tried to
illegal activity. There is no allegation in the discredit Rosenstein’s announcement.
indictment that the charged conduct altered the
outcome of the 2016 election.
“We certainly can’t tell. We just don’t have
the full scope of what Mueller and his team
After chiding how the White House had “latched onto” have. We have this piece of it. Lots of new
“the fact” that a few Trump campaign aids unwittingly detail but don't have the full scope. So, it's
worked with Russians, Brown wondered to White House unclear how Rosenstein can say that,” he
Correspondent Sara Murray: huffed.

“So you can imagine that the White House

would want to come out and say, ‘look,

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Later in the show, Brown trotted out media reporter Brian
Stelter and touted how the indictment destroyed Trump’s
arguments about the Russia investigation.
“Brian, not only does this completely blow
up the president's, quote, hoax argument
but the conservative media that echoes
him,” she praised. “Of course, the White
House will say the President is talking about
collusion when he says it’s a hoax, not
Russian meddling, but that distinction
hasn’t really been made.”
“I think his tweet from a few minutes ago
shows that he's still not taking this all that
seriously. This is the kind of attack from
another country that merits a prime-time
address. That was true a year ago. It's still
true today,” Stelter self-righteously declared.
“This is the kind of behavior by Russian
propagandists that demand a forceful
government response. And we're not seeing
it from the President.”
Stelter admitted that he had been gullible enough to be
duped by a Russian troll before the election. And because
of that, he was worried about the rest of us.
“The point is, I think all of us have to think
about our use of these social platforms,
whether we are even inadvertently falling for
what could be foreign propaganda,” he
opined.
This coming from the outlet that helped push North
Korean propaganda by fawning over their propaganda
master being at the Olympics.
It wasn’t too long ago CNN was up in arms about
President Trump tweeting negative things about
Rosenstein. But not that he gave them news they didn’t
like, the roles were reversed.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click
expand to read:
CNN Newsroom
February 16, 2018
3:01:20 PM Eastern
(…)
ROD ROSENSTEIN: Russians also recruited and paid real
Americans to engage in political activities, promote political
campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and their
co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According
to the indictment, the Americans did not know that they were
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communicating with Russians. --> Now there is no allegation in
this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in
this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that
the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.
(…)
PAMELA BROWN: From a political standpoint, I know something
that the White House has really latched on to, Sara, is the fact
that the indictment says no one wittingly worked with the
Russians, that there was some unwitting participation on behalf
of Trump campaign associates and aides but no one wittingly. So
you can imagine that the White House would want to come out
and say, “look, doesn't this show there's no collusion?” But can
they come out and say that?
SARA MURRAY: Well, I don't think we can take this to mean
there is no collusion in anything that Mueller is looking at. He is
looking at these specific instances, these specific contacts and
saying these people were not aware they were speaking with
Russian, they were not aware they were helping Russian
officials.
Now that does not mean that there's no part of Mueller's
investigation that has not found some kind of collusion. We just
don't have the full sense of what he has been looking at. But you
know, I do think in addition to pointing that out, I would be
surprised, shocked if the White House did not note rod
Rosenstein saying this did not affect the outcome of the election.
Unclear to me how he feels like he can draw that conclusion
based on this kind of interference. But that is certainly something
that will resonate with the President. Because he has viewed
these Russian investigations a way to undermine his victory from
day one.
(…)
BROWN: We know, David Chalian, that appears to be top of
mind and it's curious that rod Rosenstein made a point of saying
that today and, as Sara pointed out, how the heck can he -- how
can you tell whether or not this impacted – did he go to every
voter and say, “did that social media post impact your vote.”
DAVID CHALIAN: We certainly can’t tell. We just don’t have the
full scope of what Mueller and his team have. We have this piece
of it. Lots of new detail but don't have the full scope. So, it's
unclear how Rosenstein can say that.
(…)
3:36:12 PM Eastern
BROWN: Brian, not only does this completely blow up the
president's, quote, hoax argument but the conservative media
that echoes him. Of course, the White House will say the
President is talking about collusion when he says it’s a hoax, not
Russian meddling, but that distinction hasn’t really been made.
BRIAN STELTER: I think his tweet from a few minutes ago
shows that he's still not taking this all that seriously. This is the
kind of attack from another country that merits a prime-time
address. That was true a year ago. It's still true today. This is the
kind of behavior by Russian propagandists that demand a
forceful government response. And we're not seeing it from the
President.
(...)
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I noticed in the indictment today a Twitter account called 10GOP
is mentioned. 10GOP was one of these far right-wing Twitter
accounts that promoted Trump and made up a lot of lies. I
remember before Election Day getting into arguments with this
Twitter troll, not knowing it was a Russian Twitter troll. I
remember trying to debunk his lies. I guess it was a waste of
time. The point is, I think all of us have to think about our use of
these social platforms, whether we are even inadvertently falling
for what could be foreign propaganda.
(…)
.
 Tom Fitton Hammers Mueller Indictment:
‘Russian Troll Farms Pale In Comparison To Clinton-
DNC-Obama Use Of Dossier To Spy On Trump’
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 6:55 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger.

Tom Fitton is 100% correct. Where are the indictments for
Mueller has nothing on Trump’s camp yet the witch hunt
the criminals who misled the FISA court and used
continues.
Hillary’s phony Russia dossier in order to spy on a
political operative?
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton hammered the
Mueller indictment on Friday and called for the Special
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a press
Counsel to be shut down.
conference on Friday to answer questions about Mueller’s
indictment.

Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge

they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans.

Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation

did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential
election.

A leaker with inside knowledge of the Special Counsel’s

operation ran to Bloomberg Friday and said Mueller’s
witch hunt will continue for MONTHS.
“Any Russia troll farm interference in the
election pales in comparison to Clinton-DNC- TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Bloomberg published a
Obama administration’s using Russia report Friday afternoon based on leaks by a source with
disinformation as a pretext to target and spy on intimate knowledge of the Mueller probe (and Mueller’s
@RealDonaldTrump. Shut Mueller down.” thinking on the probe) who said Special Counsel Robert
Mueller has not cleared President Donald Trump of
colluding with Russia in the 2016 election nor of
obstructing the subsequent investigations into the alleged
collusion.

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 Is Robert Mueller Mad
Or A Russian Agent?
By Sarah Hoyt
February 16, 2018
illustration by author
Hey, guys, I have a news flash. It will rock your world.
Or at least I guarantee it will rock the MSM’s world as
well as blow the minds of some millennials who believe
the dog and pony show.
Are you ready? Are you seated? Good, because this will
require the full response of your shocked face. I know it
called up mine.
Okay, ahem, here it is:
Believe it or not nations and other political-
economic powers try to influence other nations
and political-economic powers, including putting
out propaganda during elections and
sometimes even – gasp – subsidizing
propaganda groups in other countries.
I know! Aren’t you astonished? It’s only been going on
since there have been nations, or perhaps even hominid
tribes. Even the U.S. has tried to do it, although admittedly
not particularly subtly or well. But apparently, this is news
to the MSM and children. (I know, I repeat myself.)
I’m away – for fans of my Instapundit night posting, it
probably will resume on Monday – at a writing symposium
in Provo, Utah, and yesterday was a very busy day. Today
is slower, so I woke up late, and haven’t exactly followed
the news.
Therefore, I was surprised by a text from my younger son
asking me about what these indictments were from
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Mueller, and why his liberal friends (look, guys, I’ve
warned him, okay, but some of them are girls and cute and
he’s in his early twenties) were acting like they’d scored a
big, game-ending play.
Note that I wasn’t even alarmed because I have
read everything about the Mueller
“investigation” and I have it filed under “if I roll
my eyes any harder, they’ll fall off and hit the
floor, and then the cats will play with them.”
When I checked it out, I found this:
"Special Counsel Mueller: Russians conducted
'information warfare' against US during election
to help Donald Trump win."
This headline about stopped my heart. Or it would have,
if, you know, I had just dropped here from Alpha Centauri
and didn’t have half a century of knowledge on how the
MSM creates headlines. (Well, it’s been updated. They
used to do this manually, but these days I believe they
have an app that says “spin this to look bad for
Republicans.” I could be wrong, but no, I’m not.)
Since I’m not an alien or a child, I simply read the article.
And then I wondered if I were an alien again. Or at least,
the article (even without counting the headline) made no
sense in the universe I live in.
Take this:
A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian
nationals and three Russian entities for alleged
interference in the 2016 presidential elections,
during which they boosted the candidacy of
Donald Trump , special counsel Robert Mueller
's office said Friday.
The indictment says that a Russian organization
called the Internet Research Agency sought to
wage "information warfare" against the United
States by using fictitious American personas
and social media platforms and other Internet-
based media.
 While that effort was launched in 2014, by early
to mid-2016 the defendants were "supporting
the presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary
Clinton," the indictment charges.
Note this doesn’t even say if these were Russian nationals
in the U.S. or in Russia, and the same for the Russian
organizations. At least some of my sources seem to think
these were all or are now located in Russia.
The question is: if located in Russia, yeah, it might be
illegal for them not to register as foreign agents here (it’s
nebulous, since they’re operating from a foreign country)
but why exactly should they care? If located in the U.S.,
since when is it illegal for Russian emigres to exert their
First Amendment rights?
Then there is the “supporting Donald J Trump.” I mean,
okay, I fully believe they were disparaging Hillary, but
dear Lord, everyone, abroad and here, was disparaging
Hillary, except for the MSM and children -- or at least
mental children.
Thing is in their own article they quote this:
On one day, Nov. 12, 2016, the defendants
organized a rally in New York to "show your
support for President-elect Donald Trump" while
at the same time organizing a "Trump is NOT
my president rally" that also was held in New
York.
So, apparently, the Russians were organizing these rallies
against Trump to help Trump… or something. In fact, if
these are the same Russians and organizations who bought
Facebook ads, and whom we’ve known about for almost a
year, they also ran anti-Trump ads… to help him or
something.
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In fact, the Russians were working as they always do, to
divide the country. Something that Mueller has now
apparently decided to help them with.
How you ask?
Oh, by getting children, leftists and low-information voters
(yeah, I know, I DO like to repeat myself) to believe that
“indictments were handed down” and it’s therefore proven
that Trump had Russian help. By the time the court throws
these out on the basis of “First Amendment, morons,”
everyone who is very young or on the left, conditions that
are often covalent, will be convinced that Trump was in
fact helped by Russians and bewildered that he is not being
impeached. And no one on the right will be able to talk to
them because Mueller’s propaganda coup will have
convinced them that Trump is guilty of collusion, and
therefore that the right in the country is in foreign-enemy
hands.
Tell me how this doesn’t make Mueller an accomplice in
the Russian attempt to divide the U.S. and subvert our
system. Even better, I demand that Mueller explain what
other possible purpose he can have in handing down
meaningless indictments.
Since his only conceivable purpose is to help Russian psi-
ops, he should immediately register as a foreign agent.
And if he won’t, then he should have himself committed,
because his actions can’t have any other possible purpose.
Which is it going be, Mueller, are you crazy or a Russian
agent? In either case, you owe the American people a
massive apology for your actions. And not all the “heroic
persecutor” photographs the MSM publishes of you will
absolve you of your guilt.
Can we stop this madness now?
Judicial Watch Chief Investigator Chris Farrell: Shut Down
The FBI – Clean Out The Headquarters (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 7:23 Pm

Chris Farrell:
On Friday morning the FBI admitted they did
not follow protocol in investigating the
violent threats posted online by Nikolas
Cruz.
The FBI also admitted they did not follow
protocol on a second threat warning about
Nikolas Cruz in JANUARY!
FOX Business Network reported:
People do need to go. You can start with
Director Wray. And frankly I would go back 200
years to the US Marshals Service. I would
create a new division for investigations and in
about 6-8 months I would shut the FBI down.
And agents would be allowed to apply for or
laterally transfer to a new investigative arm of
the US Marshals Service… There’s a systemic
institutional problem.

Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 individuals at Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,
Wednesday, February 14, 2018, in Parkland,
Florida.

On Friday Governor Rick Scott called on FBI

Director Christopher Wray to step down
following the botched investigation of mass
murderer Nikolas Cruz.

On Friday evening Judicial Watch chief

investigator Chris Farrell called to shut
down the FBI and clean out the
headquarters.
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 Leaker Comey Brags About Upcoming Interview With
George Stephanopoulos To Discuss New Book
“A Higher Loyalty”
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 7:45 Pm

Crooked cop Comey promoted his new book

“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and
Leadership” Friday morning on his Twitter
account.

He also announced he would be sitting down for an

interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

This interview will be Comey’s first major appearance

since President Trump fired him in May of 2017.

Comey announced his book is finished and he’s looking

forward to sharing it with everyone.

Comey tweeted,

“Book is finished. I’m looking forward to sharing Comey’s publisher Flatiron Books confirmed last week the
it with everyone and talking about it on ABC.” release of Comey’s memoir would be pushed up to April
17th from its original launch date of May 1st.

According to the Washington Post, publisher Flatiron

Books paid Comey $2 million advance for book.

Last week, Judicial Watch announced it is

suing the FBI for documents on James
Comey’s book deal.

Some of the reaction from Trump supporters…

George Stephanopoulos, who hosts ABC’s “This Week”
on Sunday will be interviewing James Comey for the
launch of his new book, however; it was not specified
when the interview would take place.
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 BREAKING: Mueller Hits Paul Manafort
With New Allegations Of Bank Fraud
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 8:33 Pm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
prosecutors hit Trump’s former campaign
Chairman Paul Manafort with new
allegations of bank fraud on Friday.
Robert Mueller’s team is now focusing on Manafort’s real
estate transactions and alleged mortgage fraud.
These are separate allegations from Manafort’s October
charges of money laundering and failure to file a FARA
form.
Politico reported:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has told
a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul
Manafort, the former Trump campaign
chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed
by the indictment last October in which he was
charged with money laundering and failure to
register as a foreign agent.
As legal wrangling continues over a $10 million bail
package for Manafort, prosecutors this week accused him
of submitting false information to a bank in connection
with one of his mortgages.
“The proposed package is deficient in the
government’s view, in light of additional criminal
conduct that we have learned since the Court’s
initial bail determination,” prosecutors wrote in a
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court filingsubmitted on Tuesday and made
public in a redacted form on Friday evening.
“That criminal conduct includes a series of bank
frauds and bank fraud conspiracies.”
Prosecutors also used the word “conspiracies” in the court
filing which means others may have been involved.
Further, the proposed package is deficient in
the government’s view, in light of additional
criminal conduct that we have learned since the
Court’s initial bail determination. That criminal
conduct includes a series of bank frauds and
bank fraud conspiracies, including criminal
conduct relating to the mortgage on the Fairfax
property, which Manafort seeks to pledge.
The court filing also states Manafort obtained a mortgage
with doctored profit and loss statements overstating the
income by one of his companies by millions of dollars:
The government has secured substantial
evidence that Manafort secured this mortgage
from The Federal Savings Bank through a
series of false and fraudulent representations to
The Federal Savings Bank. For
example, Manafort provided the bank with
doctored profit and loss statements for DMP
International LLC for both 2015 and 2016,
overstating its income by millions of dollars.
No criminal charges have been filed. Manafort has been on
house arrest since he was indicted in October of 2017.
Once again these allegations have nothing to do with
Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 presidential
election.
Mueller has nothing therefore he has to hit Trump’s team
with charges stemming from real estate transactions or
making false statements to the FBI.
On Friday, the office of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian
nationals, along with 3 Russian entities, accused of
“supporting the presidential campaign of then-
candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging
Hillary Clinton.”
On January 3rd, Paul Manafort filed a civil lawsuit in a DC
court against Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and the
Justice Department.
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The lawsuit alleges Mueller has gone outside of his scope
as Special Counsel and the charges brought by Mueller
have nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election.
On February 3rd, 2018, Mueller quietly petitioned the court
to throw out Manafort’s case. Corrupt Rod Rosenstein
(noted recently as one individual who signed off on the
FISA memos to spy on President Trump) came to corrupt
bad cop Mueller’s aid.
Read the 5-page court filing starting on next page.
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 Obama Officials Attack Pres. Trump Over Hospital Visit
To Parkland School Shooting Victims; Falsely Claim
POTUS Only Spent Six Minutes With Victims
By Kristinn Taylor
February 16, 2018, 10:00 Pm
How low will Democrats and the media go to undermine
President Donald Trump? A new low was set Friday night
with their Lying about how much time Trump spent
visiting victims of the Parkland school shooting. Trump,
accompanied by First Lady Melania, spent over thirty
minutes at the hospital but was falsely accused of breezing
in and out in just six minutes.
Photo of visit posted by CBS News reporter Mark Knoller:
Andrew Weinstein, whose Twitter bio reads,
“Chair @TheDemocrats Lawyers Council.
@ObamaWhiteHouse appointee.
@HolocaustMuseum Council member. Trial
Lawyer. Music & Hockey Fan,” posted Friday
night, “Donald Trump spent a total of 6 minutes
with the shooting victims.”
Donald Trump spent a total of 6 minutes with
the shooting victims. https://t.co/l9NLuwkOFL
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— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw)
February 17, 2018
(UPDATE: Weinstein deleted the tweet shortly after the
publication of this TGP article and posted a replacement:
I deleted my tweet about Trump spending 6
minutes with the Parkland shooting victims as it
appears he was actually at the hospital for
around 35 minutes. I’m also sharing, without
comment, a story about President Obama’s visit
with the Newtown families.
https://t.co/S4HffwOsbd
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw)
February 17, 2018
End update.)
Weinstein was keying off a tweet by NY Times White
House reporter Maggie Haberman of the pool report from
Trump’s visit to Broward Health North Hospital.
Current Obama worker Paulette Aniskoff, whose Twitter
bio reads,
“Mom. Optimist. Organizer. Founder of Citizen
44. Obama White House & ’08 campaign alum,”
replied to Weinstein, “Hardest part of the job
has to be consoler in chief. Grieving with
devastated families and letting them know a
country mourns with them. I wasn’t expecting
Amazing Grace but he gave it 6 minutes?”
Aniskoff’s tweet attacking Trump was liked and/or The president said yes I did. I did indeed when asked if he met
retweeted by several of her fellow former Obama with victims.
administration officials including Anna Perng, DJ Patil,
Ben Milakofsky, Clay Dumas and Melanie Fonder Kaye. Its sad something like that could happen, Trump said.

Haberman’s tweet of the pool report: He said he was impressed with the speed with which first
responders reacted, calling it record-setting and in one case 20
minutes.

Its an incredible thing, POTUS said.

POTUS did not respond when asked if the nations gun laws need
to be changed and then walked into another room.

Motorcade was rolling at 7:15 PM.

Sent from my iPhone

George Bennett with the Palm Beach Post reported

Trump’s visit was over thirty minutes.

The alleged six minute time frame from Trump’s visit with
victim’s is based on the pool report by The Hill’s Jordan
Fabian stating that the media saw Trump at the hospital at
7:09 p.m. EST and that Trump’s motorcade departed the
hospital at 7:15 p.m.

*From:* Jordan Fabian <xxx@thehill.com>

*Date:* February 16, 2018 at 7:18:32 PM EST
*Subject:* *Travel print pool report #4 -inside hospital Bennett had earlier posted when Trump arrived, with a
& POTUS comments * time stamp of 6:35 p.m.

Pool was ushered into Broward Health North hospital at 6:55 PM

and was positioned at the end of a long corridor with white floor
tiling and off-white painted walls. The hallway was empty aside
from a doctor and security personnel.

POTUS, FLOTUS, and an unnamed doctor walked down the

hallway at 7:09 PM and POTUS spoke to the media for roughly a
minute. (Note: pool updated later with the name of the doctor:
trauma surgeon Dr. Igor Nichiporenko.)
Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner later posted a timeline to correct
The job theyve done is incredible and I want to congratulate you, the lies being spread about Trump’s visit,
POTUS said as he shook the doctors hand.
“TIMELINE, per pool: 6:32p: POTUS arrival at
hospital; 6:55p: Press let in; 7:09p: POTUS et al
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 walk into hall (where press was); 7:15p: POTUS
departs hospital; 7:35p: POTUS arrival at
Sheriff’s Office; 8:05p: POTUS joins roundtable
(where press was); 8:15p: Press ushered out”

Think Progress’ Judd Legum deleted his tweet alleging a

six minute visit by Trump.

Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum also deleted a tweet

that falsely claimed a six minute visit by Trump.

As of this writing, Maggie Haberman has not posted a

clarification of the time of Trump’s hospital visit.

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TRUMP CURSE=> Skier Lindsey Vonn Fails To Medal In
Her First Olympic Event In 8 Years After Trashing Trump
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 10:21 Pm

The Trump curse hit leftie skier Lindsey

Vonn yet again after she previously trashed
the President.

During an interview with CNN in December, Vonn said

she does not compete for the president. When asked how it
will feel “competing at the Olympic games for the United
States whose president is Donald Trump?” Vonn
responded with this:

Lindsey Vonn: “Um, well I hope to represent

the people of the United States, not the
president.”

Vonn was then asked if she would accept an

invitation to the White House if she wins gold,
she said,

Lindsey Vonn: “Absolutely not. But you have to

win to be invited.” OUCH. The Trump curse hit Lindsey Vonn hard.

Lindsey Vonn then promptly injured her back

during a World Cup competition, finishing in
24th place.

Now this…

Sports Illustrated reported,

“In her first Olympic event in eight years,

Lindsey Vonn fails to medal in the Super-G”

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 Eric Holder’s Reaction To Robert Mueller’s Indictment
Proves The Left Is Desperate
By Cristina Laila
February 16, 2018, 10:59 Pm

rally to a Russian “posing as a US grassroots

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel activist.”
Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 That’s it.
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Eric ‘Fast and Furious’ Holder thought
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Mueller’s joke of an indictment Friday was
Clinton.”
“hugely significant”.
The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger.
Holder tweeted,
Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge
they were interacting with Russians who were posing as “Mueller indictment of Russians starts to fill out
Americans. the other side. Next: who are the actors in this
country. The contours of the conspiracy are
Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation starting to be detailed. This is hugely
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential significant.”
election.

The left is truly desperate when they think a handful of

Russians getting busted after posting memes on Twitter
and Facebook is hugely significant.

A leaker with inside knowledge of the Special Counsel’s

Mueller’s indictment is a total embarrassment to the
Special Counsel.
Robert Mueller released a nothing burger today on Russian
involvement in the 2016 election.
The indictment contained this nugget of “collusion.”
“A volunteer for the Trump campaign in New
York…agreed to provide signs” for a Trump
.
operation ran to Bloomberg Friday and said Mueller’s
witch hunt will continue for MONTHS.
TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Bloomberg published a
report Friday afternoon based on leaks by a source with
intimate knowledge of the Mueller probe (and Mueller’s
thinking on the probe) who said Special Counsel Robert
Mueller has not cleared President Donald Trump of
colluding with Russia in the 2016 election nor of
obstructing the subsequent investigations into the alleged
collusion.

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 Hilarious! Rush Limbaugh Rips Rosenstein During
Presser: “This Is Absolutely Unreal…
There’s Nothing Here!” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 16, 2018, 11:59 Pm
On Friday the office of special counsel Robert Mueller
announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud, conspiracy to
commit wire fraud and bank fraud.
In today’s nothing burge Mueller discovered that a Trump
volunteer unwittingly provided Trump signs to a Russian
“posing as a grassroots activist.”
This is all they got.
There never was Trump-Russian collusion so now they’re
just making stuff up.
Rush Limbaugh ripped Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein during his live performance explaining the
nothing burger after the charges were announced.
This was hilarious!
ROSENSTEIN: The indictment includes eight criminal counts.
Count 1 alleges a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United
States by all of defendants. The defendants allegedly conspired
to defraud America by impairing the lawful functions of the
American Election Commission, the United States Department of
Justice and the Department of State. Those organizations of the
U.S. government are responsible for administering federal
requirements for disclosure of foreign involvement in certain
domestic activities. Count 2 charges conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and bank fraud by Internet research agency and two of the
individual defendants. And Counts 3 through 8, charge
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aggravated identity theft by Internet Research Agency and four
individuals. Now there is no allegation in this indictment that any
American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity.
RUSH: Oh no!
ROSENSTEIN: There is no allegation in the indictment that the
charged conduct altered in the 2016.
RUSH: Again! Again they’re telling us!
ROSENSTEIN: Everyone charged with the crime is presumed
innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. At trial,
prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to
prove each defendant guilty beyond any reasonable doubt to a
unanimous jury. The special counsel’s investigation is ongoing.
There will be no comments from the special counsel at this time.
RUSH: Obviously, because there’s nothing here.
ROSENSTEIN: This indictment serves as a reminder —
RUSH: Of nothing!
ROSENSTEIN: — that people are not always appear to be on
the Internet. The indictment allegations that the Russian
conspirators want to promote discord in the United States —
RUSH: We knew this!
ROSENSTEIN: — and to undermine public confidence in
democracy. We must not allow them to succeed. The
Department of Justice will continue to work cooperatively with
other law-enforcement intelligence agencies —
RUSH: I can’t believe this.
ROSENSTEIN: — and with the Congress to defend our nation
against similar current and future efforts. I want to thank the
federal agents and prosecutors.
RUSH: Okay, that’s it. That’s it Take it out. Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein announcing indictment of 16 Russians
that didn’t do anything. First thing, it’s a Friday. It’s in the middle these Russian snakes did rallies for Trump and against Trump on
of a shooting story down in Florida, and Mueller did not announce the same day in New York City? (laughing) Sorry, what are we
any of these. Did you hear? He stressed that in all of this supposed to take from that?
nefarious activity, there wasn’t one American involved. There
wasn’t one American that benefited and there is no evidence that
any American was involved or benefited. This has been in every
leaked story on this subject, starting with the day Trump was
elected.

Every deep state-sourced story, thousands of words alleging

collusion, and in every story there was at least one line that
admitted, “To date, no hard evidence of the allegations has been
found, da da da,” and he said it here again. He repeated, in
effect, in these indictments that no Americans are involved, no
Americans helped. There is no evidence this helped any
particular American or harmed any American. This business that
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 Tom Fitton: Trump Was Victimized, Targeted By FBI,
Clinton Campaign, Russian Operatives, Obama Admin
And Fusion GPS (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 17, 2018, 10:48 Am
Judicial Watch founder and President Tom Fitton
hammered the corrupt Mueller investigation on FOX and
Friends Weekend on Saturday morning. Tom blasted the
corrupt Obama Justice Department and declared the
Trump-Russia collusion investigation over after Friday’s
sham announcement of the indictment of 13 Russians.
Tom Fitton calls out the corrupt Justice
Department on their criminal activity against
candidate and President Trump.
Tom Fitton:
At the end we have the massive Russia investigation that finds
no collusion with the Trump Campaign. I don’t understand why
we are still talking about a Special Counsel investigating the
president in light of this indictment… Look those who say the
Trump campaign colluded with the Russians are going to have to
.
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start providing evidence other than the Clinton-DNC dossier.
Look this was in the news this week. We had the Susan Rice
memo indicting Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Sally Yates, James
Comey and Susan Rice in a conspiracy to get Trump on Russia.
You had information that the number four at the Obama Justice
Department, Bruce Ohr, hid information on his relationship with
the Clinton Campaign cash machine – basically Fusion GPS that
was collaborating with the Russia to launch dirt or really
defamatory dirt against President Trump into the FBI-DOJ
apparatus. And now you have this indictment of Russians
abroad, an indictment that’s never going to see the light of day in
short of trial because they’re never going to come here. It’s never
going to be tried. We’re never going to find out whether anything
in the indictment’s true. And what would they rather be talking
about? This indictment where they found, despite all the king’s
horses and all the king’s men, not one American colluded with
the Russians.
Why isn’t this Justice Department looking into the abuse of the
FISA process? Look the Russians were trying to make it clear to
the Clinton Camp that they had dirt on Trump and they were
going to use it against him. And all of that was false.
And Trump was victimized and the FBI,
rather than trying to protect him, used it as a
pretext working with the Clinton campaign
to target him under the corrupt Obama
administration. Look this indictment shows
the Russian scandal is over as far as Trump
is concerned.
 Chaffetz: Mueller’s Russian Indictments
‘Dismantle’ The Left’s Narrative
By Erin Coates
February 17, 2018 At 11:09am

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz said that the indictment of

Russians for meddling with the election “dismantles the
Democrats’ narrative that this was all about Trump.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office charged 13
Russians and three Russian companies Friday with plotting
to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,
Newsmax reported.
Chaffetz said that the indictment reveals that Russia had
attempted to cause chaos in the U.S.
Chaffetz points out that this important part of the
indictment “dismantles” the narrative given by the Left
and liberal news media.
“I do think it dismantles the Democrats’
narrative that this was all about Trump,” he
said. “It’s all about the United States of
America and sewing discord, and I think
that’s the narrative that is miraculously
portrayed here.”

The indictment released Friday says that the

“I think it would be naive to think this is the
defendants allegedly conducted “information warfare”
only thing the Russians were doing and
against the U.S. in order to spread “distrust towards the
consequently, my guess is that Mueller and
candidates and the political system in general,” according
his team are looking into other avenues,”
to Rosenstein.
he said. “I am struck with the brazen nature
of how the Russians will be so aggressive
with so many people.” Twelve defendants worked for a company called Internet
Research Agency, LLC, based in St. Petersburg. It
He added, reportedly operated through Russian shell companies.

“It employed hundreds of people in its online operations,

“I applaud the Department of Justice for
bringing forward this indictment, I hope
these people are prosecuted.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein held a press
conference in which he gave details into the indictment
charges, making clear that there is nothing in it that says
American citizens were knowingly involved.
ranging from creators of fictitious personas, to technical
and administrative support personnel, with an annual
budget of millions of dollars,” Rosenstein said.
In order to hide their activity, the Russians “used stolen or
fictitious American identities, fraudulent bank accounts
and false identification documents.”

“Now, there is no allegation in this
indictment that any American was a
knowing participant in this illegal activity,”
he said. “There is no allegation in the
indictment that the charged conduct altered
the outcome of the 2016 election.”
eportedly, they also recruited and paid Americans to
participate in political activities by promoting campaigns
and staging rallies.
“According to the indictment, the Americans did not know
that they were communicating with Russians,” Rosenstein
added.

There are eight criminal counts in the indictment.

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 White House Blasts Washington Post Reporters
For Ugly Report Of Pres. Trump’s Visit With
Parkland School Shooting Victims
by Kristinn Taylor
February 17, 2018, 12:07 pm
President Donald Trump, accompanied by First Lady
Melania, paid a visit to Broward Health North Hospital in
Florida Friday night where he visited with victims of the
Parkland school shooting, their families and medical staff.
Trump’s visit was attacked by the media and Obama
administration officials who falsely accused Trump of only
being at the hospital for six minutes when he was there for
almost 45 minutes. Trump then paid a separate visit to law
enforcement officers who responded to the school shooting
and captured the killer that lasted about the same time.
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President and Mrs. Trump visit Parkland school shooting
victim Madeline Wilford and her family, White House
photos.
The Washington Post published a nasty hit piece on
Trump’s visit by Josh Dawsey that was praised on Twitter
by the Post’s White House bureau chief Philip Rucker who
wrote,
“Very nice @jdawsey1 dispatch on Trump at
Florida hospital — not as comforter in chief, but
as congratulator in chief. Keep reading to the
end.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
responded to Rucker on Twitter,
“Actually @PhilipRucker it’s not very nice, but it
is very misleading. @POTUS spent private time
w/ victims of the shooting & their families. Out of
respect for them he didn’t bring media into their
 hospital rooms but don’t let the truth get in the
way of your anti-Trump narrative”

Director of Social Media and Assistant to the President

Dan Scavino, Jr. went after Dawsey on Twitter Saturday
morning, writing,

“That’s because at the hospital when President

Trump goes from one room to the next focusing
on spending time consoling shooting victims
and their families — it’s private with no pool
sprays. The stories and moments are very
powerful and heartbreaking.” Neither Rucker nor Dawsey responded to either Sanders of
Scavino. However Dawsey did a passive/aggressive
retweet of Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann
defending him to Sanders,

“The story says that he did this. It’s in the fourth

paragraph.”

The Dawsey tweet Scavino responded to read,

“Faced with a tragedy or mass killing, Trump

usually focuses more on congratulating first The White House released photos Friday night of the
responders and police than he does on President and First Lady visiting one of the victims and her
consoling victims. He did that again Friday family, as well as hospital staff.
night. My story:”

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Excerpts from the Post article (including the ‘read to the
end’ bit promoted by Rucker):
President Trump, as he often does while
responding to natural disasters, mass shootings
or unfolding crises, spent much of his time
congratulating the responders instead of
memorializing the victims of Wednesday’s
school shooting during a visit here Friday.
Trump, in two quick stops at a hospital and
sheriff’s office near the school where 17 were
killed and scores were injured, praised the
doctors, police officers, fire officials and others
who responded quickly to the mass shooting in
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Parkland, casting their response as heroic and
record-setting.
“Incredible job, and everybody is talking about
it,” Trump said of the response, with dozens of
officers flanking a large circular conference
room table on the fifth floor of the Broward
County Sheriff’s Office.
Trump said he saw victims at the hospital — he was not seen
doing so — and even described one woman who suffered bullets
to her lungs. That anecdote, though, quickly became about the
officers, who responded within 20 minutes and saved her life.
…He did not give an emotional or rousing
commemoration to the victims — like President
Barack Obama’s after a mass shooting at a
Charleston, S.C., church — nor did he publicly
greet any families whose children were killed in
the attack. Speaking at a funeral or a large vigil
was not on the agenda. There were no calls for
American resolve. There were no tears.
The visits were quick. For instance, Friday night, he was in the
hospital for about 35 minutes, speaking to the news media for
about 45 seconds. He was in the sheriff’s office a bit longer.
By 8:50 p.m, the president’s motorcade was rolling north to his
palatial coastal estate called Mar-a-Lago.
The president and his aides — who have been largely silent as
Cabinet officials have been accused of wrongdoing and
inappropriate spending, an immigration push failed, 13 Russians
were indicted with spreading disinformation to help Trump in the
election, new detailed accusations of his alleged affairs emerged
and concerns grew about security clearances — did not take
questions again Friday.
Trump ignored shouted requests to weigh in on the FBI, which
failed to follow up on a tip on the Florida shooter, and whether he
believes gun laws should be tightened.
…The victims and those present at a vigil who
called for tougher gun-control laws did not see
the president.
…At the end, Michael Leonard, the officer who
found the gunman and handcuffed him, spent
15 seconds explaining his actions.
The president was not satisfied, so he elaborated for the officer:
“That was so modest; I would have told it much
differently,” Trump said. “I would have said,
without me, they never would have found him.”
End excerpt.

This is not reporting. This is Dawsey pounding on his

keyboard venting his contempt for President Trump.

Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker, twin trolls separated at

birth?

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 Rosenstein And Mueller Running
For Cover Leaving Brennan Exposed
Paul Craig Roberts
February 17, 2018
Now the Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein confirms
what I told you in my previous post. Mueller found no
evidence that Russia had any impact on the outcome of the
2016 election.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/bitter-john-brennan-reacts-
mueller-indictment-13-russians-election-meddling-
plot/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=th
egatewaypundit.com&utm_term=68735&utm_content=2191016
So what was Russiagate all about?
It was exactly, precisely what I told you it was about from
the very begining. It was a conspiracy orchestrated by the
military/security complex, CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton, and
the Democratic National Committed against Donald
Trump.
Trump’s emphasis during his presidential campaign on
normalizing relations with Russia, which the neocon
Obama regime had turned into “America’s most dangerous
enemy,” was a threat to the power and budgets of the
military/security complex. Without a demonized enemy,
what is the justification for a 1,000 billion annual budget
and the laws passed in the 21st century that completely
destroy the protections provided by the US Constitution?
From the Clinton/DNC standpoint, a Trump victory would
halt the vast riches pouring into the Clinton/DNC pockets
from “pay to play.” The Clinton Foundation and the
Clintons themselves were on their way to both being
billionaires with the DNC collecting the registration fees.
This was a model for one party rule. And along comes
Donald Trump.
I doubt Trump knew what he was stepping into. So far he
has been unable to function as President. But now that the
FISA court has on record Rosenstein and Comey’s
confessions that the spy warrants requested by the FBI to
spy on Trump are based on deception of the court, the
conspirators against Trump face indictment, conviction,
.
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and prison, if Trump has the balls, which he might not
have. We cannot even be sure Trump understands the
situation.
What perhaps has surely happened is that former CIA
director John Brennan is now exposed by the total failue of
Mueller to find a Trump/Putin conspiracy against
American democracy. Rosenstein’s statement that
“there is no allegation in [Mueller’s]
indictment that any American was a
knowing particiipant in this illegal activity
[illegal activity is an unsubstantiated
assertion only]. There is no allegation in the
indictment that the [Russians’] conduct
altered the outcome of the election.”
Brennan as CIA director had lied under oath to Congress
to the contrary.
Rosenstein and Comey are trapped in their confessions to
the FISA court that the FBI obtained spy warrants from the
court via deception of the court.
See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/spy-
court-finds-survelliance-operating-outside-law/
What we must ask ourselves is how it is possible in the
Great American Democracy that people totally devoid of
all integrity, all honesty, all respect for truth can be
confirmed by the US Senate as heads of the CIA, FBI, and
National Intelligence?
How is it possible that these utterly corrupt people can go
before the House and Senate continuously and tell lies
under oath and never be held accountable?
How is it possible that American Democracy is so utterly
weak that nothing whatsoever can be done about it?
What kind of America is it when it is ruled by blatant
transparant lies?
In what sense do The People exist?
 Director Michael Moore Was Russian Pawn
In Anti-Trump Protest At Trump Tower (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 17, 2018, 2:29 Pm

On Friday, the office of special counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

Investigators also found the Russians

organized rallies against Trump in New York
City and Charlotte.

See footage below of New York City event on November

12, 2016.

According to court documents,

“At the same time, Defendants and their co-

conspirators, through another
ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a
rally in New York City called “Trump is NOT my
President” held on or about November 12,
2016. Similarly, Defendants and their co-
conspirators organized a rally entitles “Charlotte
Against Trump” in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Here is NBC‘s report on the New York City event:
held on or about November 19, 2016.”
“Not My President’s Day” rallies were staged in
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta,
Philadelphia and more than two dozen other
cities across the nation in a spirited display of
defiance against a president who has been in
power for just one month.

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In Trump’s hometown, a huge throng rallied outside the
Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, with the crowd
blanketing the southwestern corner of Central Park and
singing “We Shall Overcome.”

Many carried signs that read “Not My President” and

“Resist” and chanted “No Ban, No Wall” — a reference
to Trump’s executive order on travel by immigrants and
his still-unbuilt wall along the Mexican border.
Progressive director Michael Moore appears to have been
used unwittingly to bring attention to a Russian-led protest
against the President-elect. Moore actively participated and
promoted the New York City protest organized by the
Russians.
Moore live broadcasted the protest on his personal
Facebook page.

“I’m in the middle of thousands -tens of As reporter Michael Finnegan pointed out, Moore had “no
thousands?- of American voters outside Trump luck,” meeting with the President-elect.
Tower demanding he step aside. He got the
least votes,” tweeted Moore.

Earlier in the day, the director attempted to meet with

Trump.

Moore, a vocal critic of Trump, has long claimed the New

York billionaire conspired with Putin to become president.
.

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 Wapo Just Admitted ‘Russian Propaganda’
Was Actually US Mainstream Media, And Was ‘Factual’
The Washington Post Went From Claiming That Russian Bots Were Using
Alternative Media Outlets To Spread "Fake News" To Admitting That
They Were Actually Sharing Mainstream Media
Stories That Favored Trump.
By Rachel Blevins
February 17, 2018

commentary. The stories themselves were

generally factually accurate, but the Russian
accounts carefully curated the overall flow to
highlight themes and developments that
bolstered Republican Donald Trump and
undermined his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Among the tweets Albright studied, the most

common links were to Breitbart News, followed
by The Washington Post and the San Francisco
Chronicle. The list of the top 25 linked sites had
a conservative bent, with the Daily Caller, Fox
During the 2016 election, the narrative that interference News and the Gateway Pundit appearing.”
from “the Russians” had an impact on Donald Trump’s
success was alive and well, and it was pushed heavily by
the Washington Post. However, the Post is now claiming
that the propaganda it accused Russian bots of spreading
was actually American, and it was “factually accurate.”

In a new story titled “Russia Used Mainstream Media To

Manipulate American Voters,” the Post admitted that
instead of creating and spreading “fake news,” the accounts
it claimed were controlled by Russians actually focused on
sharing stories from American mainstream media outlets,
and one of their most used sources just happened to be The
Washington Post.

Citing an analysis by Columbia University social-media

researcher Jonathan Albright, the Post noted that the
majority of the “Russian propaganda” spread by these
accounts was made up of “factually accurate” stories from
American sources:
While the Post did not admit it directly, the claim that so-
“Some well-chronicled hoaxes reached large called Russian accounts on social media were frequently
audiences. But Russian-controlled Twitter sharing mainstream media reports that elevated Trump or
accounts, Albright said, were far more likely to criticized Clinton, is a far cry from the claims the Post
share stories produced by widely read made during the election.
sources of American news and political

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In November 2016, the Post published a story titled,
“Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake
news’ during election, experts say” in which it
cited a list of 200 sites it accused of spreading
Russian propaganda, compiled by “a group that
insists on public anonymity.” However, the
group, which went by the name of “PropOrNot,”
lacked both credentials and evidence.
As The Free Thought Project reported following the hit-
piece:
“Literally nothing in that Post article was true.
None of the claims were backed by evidence,
no research or investigation had been
performed, nothing. WaPo just printed the
claims of PropOrNot and inserted plausible
deniability by failing to link to the list the site. A
subsequent retraction at the top of the page
was akin to plugging a crack in a dam that’s
already burst—damage to many reputable and
award-winning outlets listed had already been
done.
Additional stories from the Post—none including
any proof—blamed The Russians for everything
.
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from meddling in the U.S. election to install
Trump, to hacking into the power grid in
Vermont. ‘We’re all in peril because
Russia,’ WaPo repeatedly claimed — without so
much as a shred of evidence.”
The latest update from the Washington Post on alleged
Russian meddling also cited Clinton Watts, a former FBI
agent who is now working for the Foreign Policy Research
Institute. He claimed that instead of using obscure
alternative sources, the “Russian accounts” on Twitter
opted to share American mainstream media stories because
it appeared to enhance their credibility.
“The Kremlin, they don’t need to create a false
narrative. It’s already there,” Watts said. “You’re
just taking a narrative and elevating it.”
In the same way that the Washington Post is criticizing
Twitter accounts for sharing links to their stories that
promoted Trump or cast doubt on Clinton, the Post should
also be held accountable for the many stories its outlet
published pushing the narrative that Russian meddling and
“fake news” were alive and well—only to then completely
shift the story when the original claims fell apart.
 Another Washington Post Reporter Attacks
President Trump Over Hospital Visit To
Parkland School Shooting Victims
By Kristinn Taylor
February 17, 2018, 2:32 Pm

The Washington Post’s hatred of President Donald Trump

is on full display this weekend as Post reporters attack The White House blasted two Post reporters, Philip Rucker
Trump over his visit Friday night to Broward Health North and Josh Dawsey, earlier Saturday for their attacks on
Hospital where he and First Lady Melania visited with Trump over his hospital visit.
Parkland school shooting victims, their families and
hospital staff. One reporter nastily wrote of Trump that he
is a

“president who can’t summon empathy and

flees from grief”.

Late Friday night yet another Post reporter, Nick Miroff,

who covers national security and border/immigration
issues, attacked Trump in very personal terms, writing on
Twitter,

“Devastating @jdawsey1 quick-sketch of a

president who can’t summon empathy and flees
from grief by lapsing into empty superlatives like
“everyone is talking about it” Read to the kicker
quote.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania visit Parkland school
shooting victim Madeline Wilford and her family, White House photos.

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Here are photos of President Trump failing to ‘summon
empathy and fleeing from grief’ as the Post puts it.

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 Hillary Clinton Outspent
Russians 53-1... And Lost
By Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/17/2018 - 14:45

The mixed messages from yesterday's "shocking"

indictments of some Russian trolls (while The FBI was
busily ignoring potential mass murderers in Florida) need
some context to calm the chaotic "told you so" narrative
spewing from every orifice of every side in this debacle.

Hillary Clinton spent 53 times more money

per month than Russians seeking to
influence the 2016 presidential election.
That means Clinton and her PAC spent about $66 million a
month in 2016, a whopping 53 times more money than
Russia’s $1.25 million monthly budget.

It’s also worth nothing that not all of the

money spent by the Russian operation was
used to campaign for President Donald
Trump.

According to the Mueller indictment released Friday,

As The Daily Caller's Amber Athey details, according to
reports,
the monthly Russian budget for the
operation to meddle in the election was $1.2
million.
As Peter Hamby pointed out on Twitter, Clinton and
supporting PAC Priorities USA spent approximately $800
million in 2016.
Russian trolls also supported Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders
and even planted seeds for leftist groups like “Blacktivist”
and “Woke Blacks.”
After the election,
Russians continued to sow division in the
United States by riling up “#Resist” groups
involved in anti-Trump protests.
But none of that matters... Russians 'meddled' - end of
story, Adam Schiff will no doubt be popping corks this
weekend.

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 When Will Deep State FBI Indict
Jackass Vicente Fox For Meddling In US Election?
By Jim Hoft
February 17, 2018, 2:52 Pm

Now that we know the FBI is indicting

foreign nationals for interfering with US
elections by trolling on social media isn’t it
about time we revisit Vicente Fox?

On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller

announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian
nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud,
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014
through the 2016 elections.

The Russians launched pro-Trump and Pro-Hillary Vicente Fox said Donald Trump reminded him of Hitler in
websites and organized pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies. February 2016.

With that in mind isn’t it time to revisit

former Mexican President Vicente Fox?

During the 2016 election Vicente Fox campaigned

regularly against candidate Trump.

Vicente Fox ridiculed Donald Trump on his secure border

policy. Fox said he was not going to pay for his f*cking
wall.

Vicente Fox repeated this on the air with Maria Bartiromo
in May 2016,
“I am not going to pay for that f*cking wall! I
am not! He should know that and I am not
going to apologize.”
Vicente Fox flipped off candidate Donald Trump in May 2016.
Vicente Fox called Donald Trump an “ugly American” and
“hated Gringo” and warned his election would lead to war.
Surely if Deep State is going to indict Russians for a few
Facebook ads they will take a close look at Vicente Fox.

It’s time to bring Vicente to justice!

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 Mueller’s Report, A Blockbuster
But The Real Story, So Many Traitors
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
February 17, 2018
[ Editor’s Note: We have been waiting for someone to drop the
bomb in the “election interference”story, especially for Russia to
do it. But they did not, nor would a soul in the US despite the
huge funding of investigative journalism, think tanks, and so-
called public interest groups. There is only VT, so here we go.
Everything that the US is accusing Russia of doing, we have
been doing, and to any and every country we chose to do it, and
for any damn reason that we choose. We even did away with the
term “pursuing our national security interests” with “pursing our
interests”, which we could interpret any way we wanted.
What is the difference you ask? Well, the former is basically a
defensive concept, and the latter is basically an offensive one.
Got it? Blowback on this huge strategic shift was zero, despite
the big hints that this was a blank check policy.
The one that first that got my attention is when during the Bill
Clinton days when something incredible happened. We had the
NeoCons, a very small Khazarian Mafia group emerged as the
engine for changing our first strike policy even though the Cold
Was was over and Russian was a basket case, a threat to no
one.
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We went from using nuclear weapons
first only in the situation of an
“impending” strike, meaning we had
hard Intel that we were about to be
attacked, to a mind blowing new
version. We would now consider using
nuclear weapons first, against anyone
we felt might become a threat to us at
some time in the future.
Here comes the big boy
I find even in the officer corps today, hardly a soul has ever even
heard of it. I was astounded. Many thought I was joking.
But even worse, none seemed to care about the potential
consequences, ie, if the US was going to be that aggressive,
then potential targeted countries had to come up with some way
to protect themselves, as there were no longer any rules, thanks
to the US blank check policy.
After 9-11 this got cranked up a notch, to what our Intel
community call a policy of “full awareness”, another blank check
for throwing the rule book out, that anything could be down by
wrapping it in national security, with a few public exceptions
made to placate the public that there were still some controls in
place.
The irony in all this is that despite the
huge crackdown on defending America,
and new massive surveillance, our
 protectors still did not manage to bust The Mueller Report is a blockbuster but
up a single Israeli espionage network, the story has no balance and has key
even in DC on Capitol Hill which is one details edited out. Mueller himself has a
of Israeli’s biggest targets. They got a long history as an insider and an
pass, and no one in authority publicly agenda to restore the status quo, which
protested. by now is regrettable but everyone
admits it is preferable to the chaos and
corruption of Trump.

However, while blaming Russia it must be remembered

that the groups in Russia blamed by Mueller have a
history. That comes first.

Starting in 1991, the US came to Russia with billion in

cash, buying talent, nuclear weapons designers first, the
best and brightest and sending them to America. Then
came “influencers,” young people hired by Booz Allen
Hamilton/CIA, hired by Radio Free Europe, USAID and
Radio Liberty, who became the hackers and bloggers that
have ruled the internet now for decades.

America’s hands are in everything coming out of Russia

I have routinely run into military officers who told me that mini-nukes were
a hoax. I would always send them this photo. They never spoke to me
again.
There are, but this are token. The proof is sitting right in front of
us with State sponsored proxy terrorism, meaning the US-NATO
version, being just another foreign policy arrow in the US quiver,
another slide down into the abyss that most a Americans had
nothing to say about.
Gordon will lay the rest of this out. The Russians, of course, are
holding a huge trove of files on how we looted their post Yeltsin
prostrate country, while a unknown man in the Russian Intel
services was watching it all happen. His name was Vladimir
Putin… Jim W. Dean ]
and Russian opposition has, for years, been funded by the
CIA. We interfere in their elections, in their media and are
doing it on a massive scale to this day. Remember this and
read on.
According to the Mueller report, 126
Million American Facebook users
interacted with fake account holders
spreading propaganda to influence the
election. The truth is worse, so much
worse.
We call it “RKM-RussiaGate.” What is being hidden is
the involvement of the NRA, the VFW and American
Legion in spreading foreign propaganda and how many
DC “stink tanks” were on the payroll as well.
Stories about police shootings of blacks were, in some
cases, written in Russia and African American groups were
given support as were the White Identity groups that were
RussiaGate funded to go after them. The whole thing was
staged.

Were police killing Americans because they were being

paid by the RKM and protected by the Federalist Society
and its stranglehold on America’s criminal justice system?
These stories are starting to materialize and a much wider
operation is being outlined, to the extent that all social
discord since 2014, perhaps even “terror events” and
school shootings might well be related.

Before going that far, however, we will go to what is really

the news of the day, but we want readers to consider that
– First published … February 17, 2018 –
those involved had no reason to show restraint, this much,
and we are talking about a Third World War, is at stake.
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America got a new swamp with billionaires and thugs
inside the hen-house and running the show. Follow the
new revelations by Mueller and more from VT
investigators.
More is in on the election and how it was rigged. The
Russian base is part of it but we are also very suspicious
that the massive Macedonian operation is not being
investigated. We tied Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia to
that, the backers of both Trump and ISIS, one in the same.
The evidence for the involvement of the Internet Research
Agency in Russia is inexorable.
VT support strong relations with Russia but we aren’t
blind. We find Russia has the infiltration problem the US
has and a bureaucracy just like Washington. That we are
accused of working for Russia as well, Oxford University,
Politico, the WaPo, and so many others, means we are
doing our job. To the story:
According to Mueller:
Russian graphics teams did the anti-Hillary
slogans and bumper stickers that hit social
media, not just “Hillary for Prison” but
others, thousands hitting Facebook and
email groups tied to “bought and paid for”
activists for months beginning as early as
2014.
Millions was spent, much inside the US on
traitors who supported Trump.
linked Russian troll group, set up a vast
network of fake American activist
groups and used the stolen identities of
real Americans in an attempt to wreak
havoc on the U.S. political system.”
Mueller’s report says that sub-groups took over posting on
every social media and website comment board on not just
Trump but focused on race relations, religion and
immigration as well, and of course, gun control.
Those created by this group became the strongest base for
Texas Independence, the Jade Helm rumors, the Comet
Pizza and Benghazi crap and, worst of all, they targeted
members of Congress and may well have pushed GOP
staffers who may have been on the “Russian/RKM”
payroll since 2014.
The GOP “investigations” since 2014 were driven and
funded with information continually being submitted to
congress and read on the floor of the House of
Representatives by GOP “Tea Party” types who were all
funded by Sheldon Adelson.
One RKM-Russia funded Group according to Mueller:

Google worked hand in hand with them as did Facebook

but Mueller puts it all on “savvy” operations. From CNN:

“There’s a graphics team. There is a

team devoted to making sure the
company’s content shows up near the
top of search results. There are IT
people and a finance department
controlling a budget in the millions.
Employees track their social media According to CNN, Congress has known about this since
posts to see how they’re doing — how before the election, problem is that they were part of it as
many likes, comments and shares well. From CNN:
they’ve gotten. They do post-mortems
on their work to make sure it’s up to the On Facebook alone, an estimated 126
company’s standards. million Americans may have been
exposed to material the group
If you didn’t know that it had just been
produced, the social media company
indicted for trying to interfere with the
told Congress last fall. The indictment
2016 U.S. presidential election, you
provides a fuller picture of how the
might well want to hire the Internet
Internet Research Agency worked. It
Research Agency.
details a sophisticated operation that
A federal indictment against 13 Russian allowed the group to achieve such wide
nationals made public on Friday reach.
provides new insight into how the
Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-
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 “To measure the impact of their online the Heritage Foundation, Jamestown Foundation and NRA
social media operations, Defendants along with the American Legion and Veterans for Foreign
and their co-conspirators tracked the Wars, alleged veterans organizations.
performance of content they posted
over social media,” it says. “They The beginning of this is alleged by Mueller is 2014.
tracked the size of the online U.S. Trump is said to have met with Putin in 2013 and was
audiences reached through posts, promised backing to run for the Presidency.
different types of engagement with the
posts … changes in audience size, and
Mueller’s indictment says that live posters stayed online
other metrics. Defendants and their co-
24 hours a day, reaching and posting with real people,
conspirators received and maintained
organizing, pushing, gaining feedback and honing
metrics reports on certain group pages
messages tied to each timezone.
and individualized posts.”
The group worked hard to make its work This is a RKM RussiaGate graphic:
look like it came from real Americans.
Apart from the occasional typo — or a
phrase that, in hindsight, was clearly
written by a non-native English speaker
— the group’s Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, YouTube and Tumblr pages
were convincing. They looked like many
other politically-themed pages on social
media: Designed to take advantage of
Americans’ divisions, to get
engagement by stoking outrage.”

Mueller’s investigators went to Texas where they found

the “Heart of Texas” pro-session group to be Russian
funded along with the “Stop Jade Helm” and “Stop
Islamization of Texas as well.

RussiaGate funded not only these groups and their leaders

As VT stated in an earlier article, the RKM-RussiaGate
group came to the US in 2014 and began interviewing and
hiring alternative media groups. We believe they may
have worked though Washington think tanks and Pajama
Media or PJ Media.
but funded opposing groups and organized demonstrations
and confrontations. Their supporters, InfoWars and
Breitbart, along with Fox, “spun” the content delivering
the RKM-RussiaGate message to over 100 million
Americans a day. From CNN:

They use their internet monitoring software, same used by “In one case, as CNN has previously
the CIA, funded by the Koch Brothers and Adelson and reported, the troll group organized and
backed by the American Enterprise Institute, Fox News, promoted two opposing events on the
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 same day at the same location in Houston,
Texas.
“Heart of Texas,” a page that posed as a
pro-Texas secession organization,
promoted a “Stop Islamization of Texas”
protest at the opening of a library at an
Islamic Center on May 21, 2016. The
same troll group used another page,
“United Muslims of America,” to
promote a “Save Islamic Knowledge”
event at the same time.
In the weeks leading up to the 2016
election, the group used its pages
targeted at African Americans and
Muslims to try to suppress minority
voter turnout, Mueller’s team said. A
post on the Instagram account “Woke
Blacks” suggested that rather than for
voting for the “lesser of two evils,”
African Americans should not vote at
all.
The group used its pages to promote
grassroots Donald Trump events and in
August 2016, they were contacted by a
Florida-based political activist identified
as the “Chair for the Trump Campaign”
in a particular Florida county. The
activists identified two additional sites
in Florida for possible rallies, the
indictment states.
After the election the group used its
pages to promote events celebrating the
election of Donald Trump and events
protesting Trump’s election.”
Mueller also states that funding for these organizations,
referred to by Mueller as “unwitting real Americans,”
continued through 2017.
One group, “Black Defense,” out of New York and Miami
hired personal trainers to reach high profile African
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Americans on behalf of RKM-RussiaGate. How does a
“personal trainer” get to someone? We aren’t kidding, this
is in the documents. From CNN:
One of the personal trainers with whom
CNN spoke last year, Omowale Adewale,
said he ran more than a dozen events
for Black Fist between January and May,
never suspecting that the Russian
group was behind them.
The group paid him $320 each month
through PayPal and Google Wallet, he
told CNN.
In order to use PayPal, the indictment
alleges, the Internet Research Agency
employed the stolen identities of at least
five different Americans, who it
identifies only by their initials. CNN
spoke with one of them, a woman in
Georgia who asked not to be named, on
Friday after the indictment was made
public.
CNN had first discovered a fraudulent
account in the woman’s name tied to
Black Fist in October, and brought it to
the attention of both the woman and of
PayPal at the time. PayPal removed it
shortly thereafter.
Millions was paid out in RussiaGate, through Paypal and
Google Wallet, into “independent news,” phony fake news
podcasters or through YouTube who pays select bot driven
content providers who follow Googles guidelines in
providing approved child sex, beheading and fake news
content.
The “big number” view providers, those doing airline and
motorcycle crash videos that fill YouTube were first
targeted and best funded. They helped provide insights
used into the marriage between Facebook, Google and
RussiaGate that reached so many.
 Judicial Watch Targets Samantha Power
In New Lawsuit Against State Department For Docs
Related To Unmasking Scandal
By Cristina Laila
February 17, 2018, 4:11 Pm
Conservative watch dog group Judicial
Watch filed a new lawsuit against the State
Department Friday requesting records on
former UN Ambassador Samantha Power
relating to the unmasking scandal.
Samantha Power reportedly unmasked 260 Americans in
her last year at the State Department with zero explanation.
Why would a UN Ambassador need to unmask hundreds
of American citizens?
Via Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
against the U.S. Department of State for
“unmasking” and other records tied to Obama’s
United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power
relating to the ongoing investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:18-
cv-00300)). Unmasking refers generally to the
practice of political appointees obtaining the
identities of American citizens referenced in
intelligence surveillance of foreign nationals.
Judicial Watch sued the State Department after it failed to
respond to an October 31, 2017, FOIA request seeking
information about Power’s unusual unmasking requests,
including:
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 All requests for information submitted to any
Intelligence Community member agency by former
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Samantha Power concerning, regarding, or relating to
the following:
Any actual or suspected effort by the Russian government
or any individual acting on behalf of the Russian
government to influence or otherwise interfere with the
2016 presidential election. The alleged hacking of
computer systems utilized by the Democratic National
Committee and/or the Clinton presidential campaign.
Any actual or suspected communication between any
member of the Trump presidential campaign or transition
team and any official or employee of the Russian
government or any individual acting on behalf of the
Russian government.
The identities of U.S. citizens associated with the Trump
presidential campaign or transition team who were
identified pursuant to intelligence collection activities.
In September, an attorney for Trump Jay Sekulow and his
partner (son) at the ACLJ, attorney Jordan Sekulow broke
down Samantha Power’s unprecedented unmasking
requests on their radio show.
Jordan Sekulow points out that Power’s unmasking was
crammed in the last few weeks or perhaps days of the
Obama administration which means she was unmasking
dozens of people OR MORE in a single working day.
Sekulow puts Power’s unmasking requests into context by
comparing it to other UN Ambassadors of the past.
“Her number of requests are unprecedented in
the history of UN Ambassadors who also have
the position to unmask,” Jordan Sekulow
began.
“No other UN Ambassador has ever even
made half of the requests Power made in
 their ENTIRE CAREER, let alone a few
months.”

In another stunning development, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-

SC) revealed to Fox News host Brett Baier in October that
former UN Ambassador Samantha Power testified to
House lawmakers that she did not make all the unmasking
requests that were attributed to her name.

President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton with more on

Samantha Power and the unmasking scandal:

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 Will Deep State Now Indict Obama For Interference In
Egyptian, Israeli, Kenyan, German And British Elections?
By Jim Hoft
February 17, 2018, 5:00 Pm

The 13 Russian internet trolls have NOTHING on Barack

Obama.

On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller

announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian
nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud,
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014
through the 2016 elections.

The Russians launched pro-Trump and Pro-Hillary

websites and organized pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies.

The anti-Trump rallies were much more successful. Obama and Odinga

It’s a lot easier to get leftist sheep out to protest than Some 600 people died in rioting after the election and
conservatives who work all day. 250,000 were displaced.

Obama and Israel–

Obama’s hatred for Netanyahu and the Jewish state are

legendary.

But these Russians have nothing on Barack

Obama.

Obama and Kenya–

The Obama administration spent $350,000of US taxpayer

Barack Obama interfered in the Kenyan Election in 2007
dollars trying to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
in favor of his radical cousin Raila Odinga.
Netanyahu from office.

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Obama and Great Britain– Barack Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood party.

Obama and Germany–

Germany, 2017

Obama threatened Great Britain with trade penalties if they

passed Brexit.

Obama lost.

Obama and Egypt–

Obama detested American ally
Obama pushed him from office.
Hosni Mubarak. The poster says “If I could, I’d vote for Merkel”.
BERLIN — Barack Obama was on his final overseas trip
as U.S. president last November, with the wounds of
Donald Trump’s victory still fresh, when he ad-libbed an
unusual endorsement for his host, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.

“If I were German and I had a vote, I’d support

her,” Obama said as Merkel stood by his side at
a news conference in Berlin. “I don’t know if that
helps or hurts.”

This is a partial list of Barack Obama’s

interference in foreign political campaigns.

When will Deep State arrest Obama?

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 Boom! Facebook VP Of Ads
Slams Liberal Media’s Coverage Of Russia
By Cristina Laila
February 17, 2018, 5:23 pm

The Russian Facebook ads supported and disparaged both

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. There was no
organized effort to take down only Hillary Clinton.
Rob Goldman, the VP of Facebook ads, unleashed a
tweetstorm Friday, attacking the liberal media for their
coverage of Trump-Russia.
Goldman began his tweetstorm by saying,

The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger. “Very excited to see the Mueller indictment
Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge today. We shared Russian ads with Congress,
they were interacting with Russians who were posing as Mueller and the American people to help the
Americans. public understand how the Russians abused
our system. Still, there are keys facts about the
Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation Russian actions that are still not well
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential understood.
election.
The Vice President of Facebook ads, Rob Goldman
unleashed on his Twitter account after Mueller’s
indictment hit the wire.
Goldman slammed the fake news media’s coverage of
Russia.
Actual Russian Facebook ad — supporting Hillary
Clinton.

Goldman then said he has seen all of the

Russian ads and he can say “very definitively
that swaying the election was NOT the main
goal”. OUCH!

Truth bomb! The majority of the Russian ad spend

happened AFTER the election and very few outlets

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covered it because it doesn’t align with the MSM narrative Rob Goldman reveals just last week Russian spies
of Trump and the election. attempted to sell a fake video of Trump with a hooker to
the NSA!

Goldman says we are divided as a nation.

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President Trump shared Rob Goldman’s tweets.
Trump tweeted,

“The Fake News Media never fails. Hard to The media is desperate to hang onto the Trump-Russia
ignore this fact from the Vice President of narrative; they refuse to admit they have been pushing
Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman!” conspiracy theories and propaganda for nearly 2 years.

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 BOOM! President Trump Publicly Rips FBI And National
Security Advisor McMaster Over Russia Investigation
By Kristinn Taylor
February 17, 2018, 10:50 Pm
President Donald Trump ripped the FBI and his National
Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster in tweets late
Saturday night over the charges of Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election.
Trump posted about the FBI,
“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many
signals sent out by the Florida school shooter.
This is not acceptable. They are spending too
much time trying to prove Russian collusion
with the Trump campaign – there is no
collusion. Get back to the basics and make us
all proud!”
Trump posted about McMaster,
“General McMaster forgot to say that the results
of the 2016 election were not impacted or
changed by the Russians and that the only
Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H,
the DNC and the Dems. Remember the Dirty
Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the
Podesta Company!”
McMaster spoke about Russia in a speech at this Week’s
Munich Security Conference. The New York Times
reported on McMaster’s speech:
Just hours after the Justice Department indicted
13 Russians in what it charged was a broad
conspiracy to alter the 2016 election, President
Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, accused Moscow of engaging in a
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campaign of “disinformation, subversion and
espionage” that he said Washington would
continue to expose.
The evidence of a Russian effort to interfere in the election
“is now incontrovertible,” General McMaster said at the
Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting of
European and American diplomats and security experts,
including several senior Russian officials.
On Friday, just hours before the indictment, the
top White House official for cyberissues
accused Russia of “the most destructive
cyberattack in human history,” against Ukraine
last summer.
Taken together, the statements appeared to
mark a major turn in the administration’s
willingness to directly confront the government
of President Vladimir V. Putin. Defense
Secretary Jim Mattis and C.I.A. Director Mike
Pompeo also attended the Munich conference,
and while they did not speak publicly, in private
meetings with others here they reiterated similar
statements.
The comments highlighted a sharp division
inside the administration about how to talk
about the Russian covert efforts, with only Mr.
Trump and a few of his close advisers holding
back from acknowledging the Russian role or
talking about a larger strategy to deter future
attacks…”
Mike Cernovich characterized McMaster’s speech as,
“President McMaster is back, showing
@realDonaldTrump who is boss.”
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 Friday’s Mueller Investigation Russia Rouse
A Case Study In Deep State Crazy, Corrupt And
Inept Investigative Work
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 8:21 Am
Friday’s announcement by the ‘Keystone Cops’ of Deep
State – the Mueller Investigation – is a case study in deep
state corruption and dishonesty. The press release was
nothing other than a pretend firestorm of Russia influence
by the biased Mueller team who continue to charge ahead
with the most laughable and corrupt investigation in US
history.
As reported on Friday, the Mueller team announced that a
grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals along with 3
Russian entities in connection with interfering with U.S.
elections and political processes. The corrupt and inept
Mueller team noted in its release that these Russian
individuals worked on their operations since “in or around
2014”.
There were more ‘in and arounds’ in this
indictment than any in recent history!
The entire Mueller investigation is a farce
not based on US law.
FOX News’ Gregg Jarett noted months ago that the
Mueller ‘Keystone Cops’ are tasked with finding a crime
that does not exist in the law. It is a legal impossibility.
Mueller is being asked to do something that is manifestly
unattainable. There is no law in the entire US statutory
code that relates to ‘collusion’ with Russia or any foreign
entity which is why the investigation is a farce.
In addition, the scope of the entire investigation is beyond
what is allowed in the Constitution. The special counsel
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law mandates that special counsels can only be appointed
to investigate crimes and their scope has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in this investigation, corrupt deep state
Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein, who we now know is the
same person who signed off on the corrupt FISA warrants
to spy on President Trump illegally, set the scope on this
investigation as broad as possible.
This was against the law and Paul Manafort
is now suing Rosenstein, Mueller and the
DOJ for creating an unconstitutional
investigation.
Rosenstein and Mueller have asked the court to throw out
Manafort’s suit because they see no conflicts doing what
they are doing, US Constitution be damned.
It’s clear that Mueller and his gang of corrupt tricksters
and Obama and Clinton cronies have no intention of
abiding by the law and Friday’s announcement is case in
point. Mueller’s team is corrupt and biased and if Mueller
was on the up-and-up he would never appoint the corrupt
Obama and Clinton cronies that he did.
Also, Mueller never should have accepted
the position. His best friend is James
Comey who was fired by President Trump
for being corrupt.
Comey had to meet with Mueller before he met with
Congress last year, but we still don’t know what they
discussed.
Friday’s announcement was a joke.
Russian entities were indicted for tweeting and posting
items on Facebook related to the 2016 election. Although
the announcement highlights the posts were supportive of
President Trump, they later in their memo note that they
were anti-Trump as well. The Mueller team never once
even implies that they looked into the social media’s
efforts to steal the election for the Hillary campaign.
 Do they know how many bots the Clinton
campaign purchased in an effort to subvert
the 2016 Presidential campaign?
Undoubtedly, Hillary used them too.
Speaking of bots, has anyone determined
how many people were really touched by the
tweets and Facebook posts? Who has ever
even heard of any of them?
Also, the report insinuates that these ‘Russian’ ads were
made before the 2016 election, but in reality everyone
knows many were made after the election.
The Facebook VP of ads set the record
straight on Saturday.
What impact could they have made if after the election?
This question alone makes the novice reader wonder what
kind of jokesters are involved in this investigation.
They represent themselves more like Bozo
the clown and his fellow jugglers than a
serious team of investigators.
(See texts from former Mueller FBI clowns Strzok and
Page.) What a joke this investigation and the FBI leaders
have turned into!
Will the indicted Russians ever be arrested? How did
Mueller and his team obtain the so-called information they
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used in the case? Did they buy this from Russia like they
did before the election in their creation of the phony
dossier used to spy on President Trump? Clearly,
if Mueller was interested in the truth, would
he not look into the Russian connection with
the dossier?
Why are Republicans in Congress the only ones looking
into this?
Did Mueller and his team find any other foreign nationals
involved in illegally entering our election process? How
about that Mexican jackass Vicente Fox?
Why was there a leak to Bloomberg about
the investigation continuing? Who did this
and was it legal? Any efforts to find the
leaker? …Of course not. Maybe Comey was
just copying Mueller who leaked classified
information?
What a terrible joke the crooked Mueller
investigation and the leadership in the FBI
and DOJ have become.
These people should be in jail rather than running a made-
up investigation in an effort to remove President Trump
from office. One final question –
When will the real crooks be brought to
justice?!
 STUNNING: Mueller Patched Together Much Of
His Indictment From 2015 Radio Free Europe Article
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 8:48 Am
After sixteen months of investigations and over a year- The indictment named 13 Russian
and-a-half of the FBI and Obama administration spying on operatives from the internet Research
Donald Trump, his family, his business, his campaign, his Center LLC. in St. Petersburg who attempted
transition team and his administration — Special Counsel to “interfere” with the 2016 US presidential
Robert Mueller dropped an absolute nothing-burger on election.
Friday in announcing charges against Russian operatives
who sullied the US election process during the 2016
election and following Donald Trump’s victory.

The full report is here. On page xxx

But this information is nothing new.

It appears Mueller and his team of far left

attorneys copied much of their report from
an earlier RFE article.

4chan has a thread alleging Robert Mueller and his high-

priced sham investigators got all the names and the idea
for his Russian indictment from a 2015 Radio Free Europe Here is the Mueller indictment describing the Internet
article. Research Agency LLC:

We plugged the article into Google translate

(It’s in Ukrainian), and the article reads like
the Mueller indictment.

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And here is the RFE article from 2015: The article even has a photo of the Ministry
of Justice headquarters on Savushkin Street
For the third year, first in St. Petersburg, in the in St. Petersburg–
village of Ol’hina, and then in the city itself, on
the street Savushkina, in the building number
55 there is a mysterious organization, which is
officially called the Limited Liability Company
Internet Research, and unofficially nicknamed
by its employees, the so-called “Kremlin trolls”,
“the Ministry of Truth” .

The official founder and director general of this

organization is the retired militia colonel Mikhail
Bystrov , and is funded by the Concord holding,
headed by friend and chef of President Vladimir
Putin Yevgeny Prigozhin . Since 2000, this
holding organizes banquets in the Kremlin, as
well as cooperates with “Vointorg” and the
Ministry of Defense.
It appears the hotshot liberal Mueller team
In the “Trust Ministry”, approximately 400 produced their report with the help of a
people, who change one at a time for 12 hours, report written back in 2015.
sit around the computer around the clock and
write in blogs – mostly in “Live Journal” or And there’s this…
“VKontakte”. There are several departments. In
one they are engaged in the blogosphere, in The Russian ads mentioned in Mueller’s
another they are preparing TK – technical tasks, indictment were already released by the
in the third one – they comment on the news in House Intelligence Committee in November
Russian and foreign media , in the fourth – 2017.
mount photos in the photoshop, forcing, say,
heads of Navalny and Obama to the bodies of
animals, and so on. Facebook previously announced the Russian ads
comprised .004% of their advertising during the election.
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 As previously reported… Mueller’s Friday indictment was a nothing-
burger that contained information
The House Intelligence Committee released a sampling of previously reported.
Facebook ads linked to Russia. One of the ads released
was a sponsored post for the Nov. 12 anti-Trump march at They have nothing.
Union Square against Trump in New York City after the
election.
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 COVER-UP: Susan Rice’s Day Inauguration Day
Email Poses BIG Credibility Problems For Comey
As Obamagate Spy Scandal Widens
By J. D. Heyes
Posted On February 18, 2018
(National Sentinel) If you ever needed more evidence that
Barack Obama led the most corrupt administration ever in
the history of our country, here’s some: Fired FBI Director
James Comey may have misled Congress over details
regarding the former regime’s spy operation against the
Trump campaign.
As reported by Fox News — one of the few top news
networks aside from Newsmax TV and the One America
News Network that is attempting to get to the bottom of
this massive scandal — Obama national security advisor
Susan Rice sent herself a bizarre email on the day
President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated a little more
than a year ago documenting a meeting between herself,
Obama, Comey and others regarding the ongoing Trump-
Russia ‘collusion’ investigation.
President Obama began the conversation by stressing his
continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this
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issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement
communities ‘by the book,’” Rice wrote.
“The president stressed that he is not asking
about, initiating or instructing anything from a
law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that
our law enforcement team needs to proceed as
it normally would by the book.”
The existence of that meeting appears to contradict
testimony Comey gave the Senate Intelligence Committee
during his opening statement June 8, 2017, in which he
downplayed his meetings with Obama when contrasting
them with numerous conversations he had with Trump
before he was dismissed.
“I spoke alone with President Obama twice in
person (and never on the phone) — once in
2015 to discuss law enforcement policy issues
and a second time, briefly, for him to say
goodbye in late 2016,” Comey said in his written
statement.
However, Fox News reports:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., earlier this week released an email Rice
sent to herself on Inauguration Day 2017,
detailing an Oval Office meeting held Jan. 5
with Obama, Comey, then-Vice President Joe
Biden, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally
Yates and herself.
 Donald Trump Fuels
Viral ‘Loser CNN’ Meme
By Charlie Spiering
18 Feb 2018

The caption of the cartoon was marked “CNN 2038,” as

Blitzer announces

“Update! We should see evidence of Russia-

Trump collusion any day now.”

President Donald Trump shared a cartoon

mocking CNN, a news network fueling the
notion that the president’s campaign
colluded with Russia to win the 2016
election.

“The Fake News of big ratings loser CNN,”

Trump wrote, retweeting a cartoon image of an
old Wolf Blitzer searching for evidence of
Russian collusion.

Blitzer did not respond on Twitter.

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 AG Sessions Defends Rod Rosenstein And FBI Director
Wray After Another Week Of Deep State Failures
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 10:13 Am

Failed Attorney General Jeff Sessions went on with Maria authority as the Attorney General to ensure
Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. that. But the management of this case which I
recused is in the hands of Mr. Mueller and
Sessions spoke to Maria after another week where supervised by the acting Attorney General of
Americans learned the FBI ignored calls to investigate this investigation Rod Rosenstein, a proven
mass murdered Nikolas Cruz at least two times before last professional in Deputy Attorney General.
Wednesday’s Florida school shooting.
This comes after Rod Rosenstein screamed at and
threatened Intel Chairman Devin Nunes just a few weeks
ago during a private meeting.

Sessions then defended FBI Director Christopher Wray.

AG Jeff Sessions:

We are setting a tone of professionalism and

responsibility and lawfulness in this department.
We expect it in every member. We got a new
FBI director. A new Deputy FBI Director… Chris
Wray is a man of integrity and decency.
AG Sessions defended Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein, who is currently running the DOJ, and FBI
Director Christopher Wray. This was a shocking interview by the failed Attorney
General.
Florida Governor Rick Scott called on Wray to step down
on Friday after it was reported the FBI ignored calls to
investigate killer Nikolas Cruz.

When asked about recent attacks by Newt Gingrich

Sessions defended the Department of Justice, Robert
Mueller and Rod Rosenstein.

AG Jeff Sessions:

We have the responsibility to ensure the

integrity of this process. I am going to use my
.

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 AG Sessions Defends FBI Director Wray After Calls For
His Resignation Following Florida Mass Murder (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 10:26 Am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions went on with Maria

Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.
Sessions spoke to Maria after another week where
Americans learned the FBI ignored calls to investigate
mass murdered Nikolas Cruz at least two times before last
Wednesday’s Florida school shooting.
Florida Governor Rick Scott called on Wray to step down
on Friday after it was reported the FBI ignored calls to
investigate killer Nikolas Cruz.

Sessions defended FBI Director Christopher Wray on

Sunday.
AG Jeff Sessions:

We are setting a tone of professionalism and

responsibility and lawfulness in this department.
We expect it in every member. We got a new
FBI director. A new Deputy FBI Director… Chris
Wray is a man of integrity and decency.

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 Trump Lashes Out At FBI
And HR McMaster In Saturday Night Tweets
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 02/18/2018 - 10:33

President Trump took to Twitter Saturday night and laid
into both the FBI and his National Security Advisor, H.R.
McMaster - shredding them within 15 minutes of each
other over recent failures.
First, Trump excoriated the FBI for missing "all of the
many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter," and
knocking the agency for "spending too much time trying to
prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there
is no collusion."
Counsel Robert Mueller's indictments of 13 Russian
nationals.
Trump shot off an angry tweet, noting that McMaster
failed to mention that
"the results of the 2016 election were not
impacted or changed by the Russians,"
as told by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,"
adding "the only Collusion was between Russia and
Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems.
Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium,
Speeches, Emails and the Podesta
Company!"

The FBI was warned about Cruz after he posted

on YouTube saying he was going to become a
“professional school shooter.” The agency
said they couldn’t identify the user who made
the threat, despite Cruz posting under his Recall this from Rod Rosenstein on Friday:
own name.
The FBI also received a more recent tip on January 5 from
someone close to Cruz that he owned a gun and had
discussed committing a school shooting. The bureau
acknowledged on Friday that it failed to investigate the tip
- saying that the call should have been assessed and
forwarded to the Miami FBI field office, according to
the New York Times. Less than six weeks later, Cruz
pulled the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School and began shooting his former classmates with his
AR-15.
With calls for Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher
Wray to step down in the wake of the shooting, one has to
wonder if Trump's tweet is foretelling of yet more
shakeups at the FBI.
H.R. McMaster
President Trump's second scorching Saturday night tweet
was directed at H.R. McMaster, after the National Security
Advisor told an international audience at the Munich With incontrovertible evidence that the FBI has been both
Security Conference that Russian interference in the US criminally inept and criminally conspiratorial against
election is "now incontrovertible" following Special Trump and his associates, one has to wonder if Trump is
about to leverage recent developments to clean house.
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 Is there a sheriff in town who could possibly
take action against criminal elements within
our intelligence communities?

Because this guy has conveniently recused himself,

allowing Rod Rosenstein - who signed off on one of the
FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump team - is now
calling the shots.

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 ‘Wheels Coming OFF!’ Devin Nunes LIGHTS Media UP
For Russia Coverage, Triggers WHOLE Lotta Stupid
By Sam J.
Posted At 10:37 Am On February 18, 2018

Raise your hand if you DON’T have any sympathy for the BBC’s Paul Wood wrote in January 2017 that
media. he was briefed on the dossier a week before the
election. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald likely
Sorry folks, you did this to yourselves. saw Steele’s work around the same time,
because he published an article days before the
election based on a “Western intelligence”
And after the nonsense and garbage they’ve written about
source (i.e., Steele) who cited names and data
Devin Nunes we don’t blame him one bit for taking a
points that could only come from the DNC- and
moment to enjoy seeing the media embarrassed and all but
Clinton-funded opposition research.
scolded for their behavior around Russia for nearly TWO
YEARS.
The media never let a little thing like the truth get in the
way, eh? And if you thought the Left was NUTTY about
Russia, they absolutely lost their shiznit on Nunes over this
tweet:

Huh?

From The Federalist:

The list of media outfits and journalists

made aware of Steele’s investigations is
extensive. Reuters reported that it, too, was
briefed on the dossier, and while it
refrained from reporting on it before the
election, its national security reporter Mark
Hosenball became an advocate of the
dossier’s findings after November 2016.

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Super tough. They’re so MAD.

EL OH EL.

If you ever want to see a bunch of grown adults acting like

toddlers who need a nap (or to be spanked) look no further
than the timelines of Devin Nunes, Sarah Sanders or the
Sean Spicer parody.

True story.

Wow, Travis showed him. *eye roll*

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 Stop The 'Trump Collusion' Nonsense
By Michael Van Der Galien
February 18, 2018
With the federal indictment issued Friday against the
Internet Research Agency (IRA), we can finally end what
has come to be known as "RussiaGate": the involvement of
Russian intelligence agencies in the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. As the Wall Street Journal reports:
The IRA’s opinion-influencing unit, set up in 2014 to
exploit social media, had at least 80 staff by 2016, and a
stated goal to spread “distrust towards the candidates and
the political system in general,” the indictment says.
Employees of that division crafted viral Facebook FB
posts and widely-followed, fraudulent Twitter accounts,
according to the indictment. The indictment, secured by
special counsel Robert Mueller, also named two related
companies and 13 Russian nationals allegedly involved in
the scheme.
The important part here is, of course, their objective: To
spread "distrust towards the candidates and the political
system in general." Supporting Trump, spreading anti-
Hillary Clinton talking points, and even the staging of
rallies were tactics used to reach that goal. For the
Russians, there were only upsides to this approach:
1. The Kremlin considered it likely that Hillary Clinton
would win. By attacking her so aggressively online (and
spreading fake news stories about her and other
Democrats), she would end up a weak president who'd
have great trouble uniting such a divided nation.
2. And if Trump did -- because of some kind of miracle --
win, well, their (Russians') own involvement in the
campaign could be used to discredit him.
In either case, no matter who ended up winning, the United
States would end up with an embattled president unable to
unite the country.
Of course, this is exactly what happened. A miracle did
occur: Trump won. Immediately afterward, he and his
.
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campaign were accused of "colluding with Russia." Even
though no evidence of such collision has been found,
chaos and distrust rule the day. After all, liberals argue, he
was the beneficiary of Russia's propaganda!
Yes, he was -- and conservatives have to be courageous
and honest enough to admit it. What those liberals neglect
to mention, though, is that it wasn't about Trump, but
about wreaking havoc. He didn't collude with anyone;
Russia did this all by itself. Not to actually help Trump,
but to sow chaos and distrust.
Looking at the debate in America right now, this has
clearly been an effective strategy. You've got
conservatives pretending Russia didn't do anything wrong
(out of fear of giving liberals more material to discredit
Trump and the election results), while liberals are
repeating time and again that Trump must have worked
with the Russians (for which no evidence has been found,
and which would be extremely illogical).
Enough of this nonsense. It's time for both sides to admit
the obvious:
1. Russia did interfere in the campaign, but
2. Team Trump didn't collude with Russia
These are the only possible conclusions to be drawn from
the indictment against the IRA. When both sides have the
courage to say so out loud, the whole "Russia collusion"
madness can be put to pasture... and they may finally be
able to come up with ways to prevent Russia from doing
this again in the future.
The longer the two sides continue this madness (one side
denying Russia did anything, the other side pretending that
Trump must have committed treason), the more Russia
gets what it wanted all along.
 HOT MESS -> Ron Perlman’s LATEST Curse-Filled
Meltdown About Russia (We Think?) REKT OBAMA
By Sam J.
Posted At 11:10 Am On February 18, 2018

Mueller’s investigation found that Russians were working

both for and against Trump during the election, and that
ultimately they didn’t care who won as long as Americans
were divided and angry with one another it was a win for
them. This started back in 2014 before we even knew who
would be running (although you’d have to live under a
rock to think anyone but Hillary would get the nod for
Democrats), so this ridiculously weak, curse-filled tweet
using way too many caps from Ron Perlman should really
be directed at Obama.

Or eat some fiber, something.

Gosh, Ron, you kiss your mama with that mouth? Cripes
dude.

Wow, there is so much wrong with this tweet. First and

foremost we’re not a Democracy, Ron, we’re a Republic.
And second … you know what, there is just so much
ranting and raving here it’s hard to really tell what he’s
babbling about.

You know that scene in ‘Animal House,’ where Bluto is

raging about how the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
That’s this tweet.

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Cute indeed.

Remeber how they made fun of Romney for saying Russia

was a threat?

They’re like children, except children listen sometimes.

Convenient ain’t it?

That or they just never paid attention until they got mad
because Trump won the election.

Ouch. But not untrue.

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 Here’s A Guy Who Might Know
How The FBI Clinton Email Probe Was Sabotaged
Key Agent Who Suddenly Retired In February 2016 May Have Left Out
Of Frustration With Cover-Ups By The Higher-Ups
By Charles Ortel
Updated 18 Feb 2018 At 11:53 AM
On Oct. 13, 2015, Sen. Bernie Sanders graciously stole the
show at a Democratic presidential debate, when he
exclaimed to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that
“the American people are sick and tired of
hearing about your damn emails.”
At that moment, certain State Department officials and FBI
agents must have concluded a fix was in. The Vermont
independent socialist senator could not possibly have
reached an informed conclusion — so he was either in the
dark, or in the tank.
Well before the debates began, these government officials
knew that crucial evidence suggested Clinton mishandled
vast amounts of classified government information and had
done so repeatedly, from Jan. 21, 2009, through Dec. 5,
2014, if not afterward.
They knew because the inspector general (IG) of the
intelligence community issued a July 6, 2015,
report, triggering a full-scale FBI investigation that opened
four days later. The subject was mishandling of classified
information, and the targets included Hillary Clinton and
her key aides.
Somebody might have crucial details.
FBI veteran John Giacalone served as executive assistant
director of the FBI from June 2014 through February 2016,
working from the Washington, D.C., headquarters. His
Linkedin profile indicates that during this period he
“manage[d] the strategic risks associated
with the FBI’s counterterrorism,
counterintelligence and weapons of mass
destruction programs in close coordination
with domestic and international partners.”
Giacalone was also centrally involved in the FBI
investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified
information — a serious felony crime — and he resigned
suddenly, for reasons not yet fully understood. Evidence
now tumbling into the public domain suggests Giacalone
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may have exhausted his tolerance for a rigged inquiry late
in January 2016.
Five days before the Iowa caucuses, on Wednesday, Jan.
27, 2016, a mysterious visitor arrived at FBI offices in
Washington, D.C.,
“to present evidence of Hillary Clinton’s
misuse of classified documents by putting
them on an unclassified email system.”
The male visitor was described as:
“a long-time government employee [who]
had previously worked for many years at
the Department of State. He provided a
résumé and a U.S. Foreign Service
Employee Evaluation Report to prove his
bona fides.”
Neither the name of the visitor nor that of the recorder of
the FBI Vault report, starting on page 11, are known.
The document was written on Feb. 22, 2016, 26 days after
the unscheduled visit, approved by another as yet
unidentified person, and copied to Jonathan C. Moffa,
Peter P. Strzok II, and a fourth unidentified person. The
named individuals are controversial, and the delay between
the date of the visit and the date of the report is odd, all of
which needs to be fully investigated.
Additional details contained in the report and still
unreleased portions of FBI Vault records likely will help
explain why John Giacalone resigned.
Why a VIP FBI probe “went sideways.”
Judge Andrew Napolitano reported in the Washington
Times on Oct. 26, 2106, that Giacalone retired in February
2016 in part because he was concerned the investigation
was never given adequate resources, including subpoena
powers.
The FBI Vault records referenced above appear to have
been declassified on Nov. 10, 2016, not long after
Napolitano’s report.
According to new FBI records, the visitor
“explained … he had sent evidence of
Hillary Clinton’s misuse of classified
documents to the FBI director earlier in
January 2016, but when he called to
confirm receipt, he could not do so and
therefore wanted to walk in to make sure
that the information was received by the
right people at the FBI, specifically the ‘task
force’ working on the Clinton email
scandal.”
Perhaps Giacalone was told by the bureau’s director,
James Comey, the full details in early January, when the
evidence may have arrived at FBI headquarters. If not, one
imagines Giacalone would have been mightily upset over
the integrity of the investigative process if Comey had
withheld material evidence from him.
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The visitor
“did not go into detail as to what the
evidence was, as he had provided other
typed documents explaining the evidence
to the unclassified level he could. He
offered to be interviewed in a SCIF [Secure
Compartmented Information Facility] so he
could talk at a higher classification level to
further explain other evidence he had.”
According to the report,
“all of the documents provided by [the
visitor] are being attached … for further
review by the appropriate personnel
reviewing this matter.”
One hopes that Department of Justice IG Michael
Horowitz and his team already have interviewed Giacalone
and reviewed all relevant evidence. Comey and many other
have lots to explain to
“We, the People.”
 Sessions: FBI’s Handling Of
The Dossier ‘Will Be Investigated’ [VIDEO]
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:14 PM 02/18/2018

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sunday that the
Department of Justice is investigating whether the FBI
submitted accurate information about the infamous Steele
dossier in order to obtain a surveillance warrant against
former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI
used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump
associates and they did not tell the FISA court
that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid for
the dossier?” Maria Bartiromo, the host of Fox’s
Sunday Morning Futures, asked Sessions.
“Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on
facts submitted to that court have to be
accurate,” he replied.
“That will be investigated and looked at, and we
are not going to participate as a Department of
Justice in providing anything less than a proper
disclosure to the court before they issue a FISA
warrant. Other than that, I’m not going to talk
about the details of it, but I tell you, we’re not
going to let that happen.”
Republican lawmakers have asserted that the law
enforcement officials who submitted the application failed
to note that the Clinton campaign and DNC funded the
dossier. The application does note that the dossier was put
together by a “U.S. person” with political motivations, but
Republicans have argued that the application should have
been more specific.
Republicans have also alleged that the author of the
dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, misled the
FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in Sept.
2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump. (RELATED:
Dossier And News Article Used To Justice Spy
Warrant On Carter Page)
One of those reporters, Yahoo! News’ Michael Isikoff,
wrote a story based on Steele’s information. That Sept. 23,
2016, article, which included Steele’s allegations about
Page, was also used by the FBI and DOJ to help justify the
surveillance warrant. But the application failed to note that
the Isikoff article came from the same source as the
dossier.
WATCH:

Sessions did not provide additional detail about the

investigation, which has been urged by Republican
lawmakers.

In Oct. 2016, the FBI and Justice Department submitted an

application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
in order to obtain a spy warrant against Page, a Trump
campaign volunteer who had left the Trump team a month
earlier.

The dossier is said to have been a significant part of the

application, even though the salacious document was and
remains largely unverified.
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 RUSH LIMBAUGH: All Of This Spying On Trump
Happened With Obama’s Knowledge And
Probably Encouragement (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 12:26 Pm

Rush Limbaugh:

It is about protecting Hillary AND Obama.

Obama is the primary person being

protected.

Because all of this spying and all of this collusion to

destroy Trump happened with his knowledge and probably
encouragement.
EIB Network radio host and best-selling
author Rush Limbaugh joined Chris Wallace And the reason And the reason Hillary isn’t
on FOX News Sunday this morning. charged is because that would mean Obama
would have to be exposed in participating in
this scheme too.
Rush weighed in on the Mueller witch hunt today during
his discussion with Chris Wallace.
Via FOX News Sunday:
Rush said the DOJ’s Special Counsel’s purpose is to
destroy President Trump.

Rush Limbaugh also said Hillary was not charged with

crimes because then they would have to indict Barack
Obama who “probably” encouraged the spying on Donald
Trump.

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 James Woods Pounds Obama
Into Dirt For His Weak Leadership.
“Obama Was Pushed Around Like A
Hotel Vacuum Cleaner”
By Cristina Laila
February 18, 2018, 1:08 Pm

Patriotic actor James Woods torched Barack

Obama after Mueller rolled out his
indictment of 13 Russians and it was
glorious.

James Woods pounded Obama into dirt with a perfect

response to Sarah Sanders.

Woods tweeted,

“Well, Obama was pushed around like a hotel

After Mueller rolled out his indictment of 13 Russians on
vacuum cleaner. Pretty east to be more of a
Friday, President Trump called for unity.
leader than he was. My neighbor’s Shih Tzu
has bigger balls than Obama…”
The 37-page indictment was a big fat
nothingburger.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders echoed the

president and slammed Obama for his weak leadership.

Sanders tweeted,

“Unlike Obama, @POTUS isn’t going to be

pushed around by Russia or anybody else. As
he said yesterday: It’s time we stop the wild and
false allegations that further the agendas of bad
actors like Russia & unite as Americans to OUCH! This is why we LOVE James Woods!
protect the integrity of our democracy & our
elections”
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 President Trump Trolls ‘Liddle Adam Schiff The Leakin’
Monster’ After Mueller’s Indictment Reveals Russians
Began Interference Operation In 2014
By Cristina Laila
February 18, 2018, 2:10 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel President Trump unleashed a tweetstorm on Sunday and
Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury dedicated a couple of tweets to
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
“Liddle Adam Schiff, the leakin’ monster of no
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
control.”
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Trump tweeted:
Clinton.”
Finally, Liddle’ Adam Schiff, the leakin’ monster
The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger. of no control, is now blaming the Obama
Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016
Not only was Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians
Election. He is finally right about something.
completely pathetic, it revealed these Russians started
Obama was President, knew of the threat, and
organizing their campaign in 2014, well before Donald
did nothing. Thank you Adam!
Trump became president.
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee and
suspected leaker, Adam Schiff (D-CA) called out Obama
on Sunday for not acknowledging the ‘Russian
interference’ sooner.

Trump then hammered Schiff and Crooked Hillary

Clinton.
Now that Adam Schiff is starting to blame President
Obama for Russian meddling in the election, he is
probably doing so as yet another excuse that the
Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary
Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn’t I a great
candidate?
On Sunday, Adam Schiff said on CNN’s ‘State of the
Union’, “At the time, we could get the Obama
administration to acknowledge the Russian interference,”
stating Obama’s response was not “sufficient.”
Schiff also attacked POTUS Trump and said,
“None of that is an excuse for this president to
sit on his hands. It is inexplicable for the
president of the United States to sit on
sanctions that Congress passed.”
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 New Level Of Crazy Reached As MSM Attempts To
Brainwash The Masses To Create A New 'Pseudo-Reality'
With Claims Of A 'Russian Pearl Harbor'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 18, 2018
Just when you think the media has sunk as low as it can
go, BOOM, they manage to make even those of us that
have been documenting their antics, shakes our heads in
amazement.
BRIEF RECAP ON TRUMP
DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Trump announces Presidency. Media laughs, selectively
edits his comments on Mexico, declares his candidacy
dead before it even begins. Trump starts rising in the polls,
the MSM lies and attacks, and declares his campaign dead
almost on a daily basis. Trump rises in the polls, even the
skewed ones, and starts knocking off 16 GOP primary
opponents. The media freaks out and publishes content 91
percent negative on Trump. Trump rises in the polls
against Hillary Clinton. Media, washes, rinses and repeats
their attacks while screaming about inaccurate polls
showing Trump has no chance against Clinton, while the
majority publicly endorse Clinton for president. Trump
wins the 2016 Presidential election.
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That is when the media started losing whatever was left of
their minds. They cried openly live on-air on election
night. Shock came next that they lost in their campaigning
against him. After Trump's inauguration, the media
stopped even trying to report accurate news, and started
spreading outright fake news (which they are still doing as
evidenced by last week's utter humiliation in regards to the
Florida high school shooter.)
There, caught up. Good. Now, we see that Trump
Derangement Syndrome suffered by the majority of liberal
media outlets, has reached a new level of crazy, and how
they are blatantly attempting to brainwash the masses with
a "pseudo-reality," so insane, it is almost like we are now
living in the Twilight Zone.
MEDIA BLATANTLY BRAINWASHES
THE MASSES
One more reminder from April 2017:
A memo titled "POTUS & Political
Warfare," written by former director of
strategic planning at the National Security
Council, Rich Higgins, rocked Washington.
Before becoming director of strategic
planning for the NSC, Higgins was an Army
veteran and a former Pentagon official who
specialized in irregular warfare.
In his memo,
Higgins detailed "information campaigns
designed to first undermine, then
delegitimize and ultimately remove the
President," calling it "political warfare at an
unprecedented level that is openly
engaged in the direct targeting of a seated
president through manipulation of the news
cycle."
On page 6 of that 7-page memo, Higgin's explains how the
media is used to brainwash the masses, by pushing
"pseudo-realities," in a campaign to "delegitimize
President Trump," with preferred narratives including the
"Russia hacked the election", "Obstruction of Justice",
"Hiding Collusion", and "Putin Puppet." (Entire 7-Page
memo on April 2017 ANP article)
To this day, we still see liberals and the media pushing
almost all those points, that is how successful the
brainwashing and mind control campaign upon the public
was, and below, we will show how the media has
converged on a different dangerous and reckless narrative
regarding Russia, now that their "collusion" narrative has
crumbled after the Mueller indictments which highlighted
there was no collusion with Russia on the part of the
Trump campaign or any American.
Over this past weekend, the new phrase members of the
media and liberals are attempting to program into the
heads of other liberals to push onto the public is PEARL
HARBOR, the new "pseudo-reality," the MSM is
repetitiously stating over and over again to get Americans
to "associate" Russian Internet trolls with an "act of war,"
comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
CNN has compared Russian election interference to Pearl
Harbor multiples times by different people on air and on
social media.
MSNBC analyst and Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter
tweeted
"Imagine if FDR discounted the importance
of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
and focused on how his critics had no proof
that he knew about it," using the
#RussianPearlHarbor hashtag.
Karen Tumulty at Washington Post wrote a column,
sharing it on social media with the message,
"My latest:
Imagine how history would have judged
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the aftermath of
Pearl Harbor, if he had taken to the radio
airwaves to declare that Tokyo was
“laughing their asses off."
Tumulty also made sure she pushed the other "pseudo-
reality" catch-phrase out in another tweet, specifying the
term "act of war. She tweeted
"There was no loss of life or destruction of
a city in the Russian actions described in
the indictment. But it was an act of war
nonetheless, a sneak attack using 21st-
century methods."
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Kara Swisher at Recode also shared that same Washington
Post article, with exact same message that Tumulty used
above.
Matthew Dowd of ABC News, didn't use the term Pearl
Harbor, but did reference the 1941 attack, calling Russia's
Online trolling an "act of war," stating
"The Russians committed an act of war
against our democracy. If Trump were
President on Dec. 7, 1941: “Japan started
building aircraft carriers long before I
became President, and they haven’t
attacked any of my resort properties. What
we should really be focused on is Wilkie"
On MSNBC, Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler and
long-time Clinton aide Philippe Reines, both compared the
Russian troll farm, buying ads on social media and trolls
different platforms, to... yup, you guessed it.... Pearl
Harbor.
Glenn Greenwald over at The Intercept highlights how
liberals are demanding punishment, but none want to
actually offer up what punishment they think fits their own
narrative, because "sanctions" against Russia seems so
mild if these liberals and the media truly believe their own
rhetoric in comparing Russian social media trolling in an
attempt to sow discord, to an "act of war," and specifically
comparing it to Pearl Harbor.
At the very least, no politician or pundit
should be able to get away with issuing
rhetoric of this type without being required
to specify what they think ought to be done.
Here, for instance, is Meet the Press host
Chuck Todd, doing his best 2002
impression of Bill Kristol, decreeing in a
predictably viral tweet that all patriotic
Americans are duty-bound to focus on the
question of what we should do to “punish
Russia”

Note, though, that Todd himself neglects to
specify what “punishment” he advocates.
This is reckless rhetoric of the most
irresponsible kind: demanding that
everyone agree that “punishment” toward
Russia is warranted (upon pain of being
found guilty of bad citizenship), while failing
to specify what punishment would be just,
warranted and rational. To do that is to
deliberately beat the drums of war, cultivate
an atmosphere of belligerence and
aggression, without any limits or notions of
proportionality.
That’s exactly what is being done by those
who keep declaring the U.S. to be “at war”
with Russia, and especially those who
invoke the worst attacks in U.S. history
when doing so, all while refusing to state
what they think should be done in
response. It’s simultaneous reckless and
cowardly.
Yes, things he said!
THE REAL ACT OF WAR - ILLEGAL
ALIENS COMMIT THE SAME CRIMES
THE RUSSIAN TROLLS DID
The whole Pearl Harbor narrative by the mainstream
media, in an attempt to program and brainwash the masses,
is easily countered.
They started this coordinated Political Warfare campaign
after Friday's news of Robert Mueller indicting 13
Russians, who will never stand trial because we do not
have an extradition treaty with Russia, but a look at the
indictment and the DOJ press release about the indictment,
brings up another analogy, one the liberal media and
Democrats are not going to be very happy with, because it
shows
Democratic collusion with foreign
agents that have committed the same
exact crimes that Robert Mueller just
indicted 13 Russians of.
They are called illegal aliens.
According to the press release:
Two of the defendants allegedly traveled to
the United States in 2014 to collect
intelligence for their American political
influence operations.
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To hide the Russian origin of their
activities, the defendants allegedly
purchased space on computer servers
located within the United States in order to
set up a virtual private network. The
defendants allegedly used that
infrastructure to establish hundreds of
accounts on social media networks such as
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, making
it appear that the accounts were controlled
by persons within the United States.
They used stolen or fictitious American
identities, fraudulent bank accounts,
and false identification documents. The
defendants posed as politically and
socially active Americans, advocating
for and against particular political
candidates. They established social
media pages and groups to
communicate with unwitting Americans.
They also purchased political
advertisements on social media.
The press release also lists the actual criminal counts the
13 Russians were indicted for as "The indictment includes
eight criminal counts. Count One alleges a criminal
conspiracy to defraud the United States, by all of the
defendants.
The defendants allegedly conspired to
defraud the United States by impairing the
lawful functions of the Federal Election
Commission, the U.S. Department of
Justice, and the U.S. Department of
State in administering federal
requirements for disclosure of foreign
involvement in certain domestic
activities.
Count Two charges conspiracy to commit
wire fraud and bank fraud by Internet
Research Agency and two individual
defendants. Counts Three through Eight
charge aggravated identity theft by
Internet Research Agency and four
individuals."
It also asserts that at one point in July 2016, the project
employed about 80 people.
If Democrats and the media are going to say these 13
individuals, along with their 80 employees, committed an
"act of war" that is comparable to Pearl Harbor, then we
have to ask, is it not also an "act of war" that millions of
illegal aliens within America commit "aggravated identity
theft" when they steal Americans social security numbers
and identities?
 Or when they "posed as politically and
socially active Americans, advocating for
and against particular political candidates,"
attending protests and rallies, and
candidate events with the goal of
"influencing elections?"
Or when they have millions (vs the hundreds the Russians
had) accounts on social media networks such as Facebook,
Instagram, and Twitter and organize and participate in
political events, rallies or protests?
If liberals and the media and Democrats want to call 80+
Russians trolling online to "sow discord" within America,
an "act of war," comparable to Pearl Harbor, then what
exactly do they call it when millions of foreigners are still
within America doing the very same things those Russians
did?
Using liberal logic, that means illegal aliens in America
are committing an act of war even worse than what Pearl
Harbor was.

What about their "fraudulent bank accounts," created using
false identification documents?'
Is all that not an "act of war" perpetrated by millions of the
12.5 million foreign nations in America illegally, if we use
the liberals' own argument?
In their attempt to brainwash Americans into repeating the
claim that a Russian troll farm to influence public opinion
online is an actual act of war, they have opened a can of
worms they could very well come to regret.
They really shouldn't have gone there.

Using the logic the media is using with their attempt to

associate some Russian troll farm with an "act of war" as
bad as Pearl Harbor, every single illegal alien that has false
identification documents and has used them to open bank
account, have committed bank fraud and wire fraud if they
ever transfer that money, anywhere. Every single illegal
alien within America is a foreign agent, and any political
activity they participate in with the goal to "influence"
American election, should be indicted.

This means every single Democratic politician in charge of

a sanctuary city is also "colluding" with those foreign
agents in committing an "act of war" against America.

BOTTOM LINE
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 WOW! Trump Goes After Obama For
$1.7 Billion Cash Bribe To Iranian Regime!
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 2:36 Pm

On January 17, 2016, a cargo plane with

$400 million in foreign currencies was
secretly sent to Iran in the dead of night.

This was the same day the Iranian regime released four
American hostages held in Tehran.

US officials held the ransom cash until the

hostages were released.

Two days after Obama sent Iran the ransom cash the US
government wired 13 individual payments for
L to R: Matt Trevithick (Photo Credit Robin Wright) Amir Hekmati,
$99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling
Jason Rezaian (Photo Credit AP), Saeed Abedini (News 4).
$1,299,999,999.87.
Barack Obama later told reporters this was
not a ransom payment. Already the cash from Obama’s ransom
payment to Iran has been traced to terrorist
groups in the region.
Obama lied.
On Sunday President Trump blasted Barack
Former US Iranian Hostage Saeed Abidini Obama for his $1.7 billion bribe to Iran.
told FOX Business Network today the
Iranian regime WOULD NOT let his
plane leave Tehran until the
ransom plane arrived.

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 John Podesta Rattled After CBS Host Asks ‘How Did The
Russians Know To Focus On Wisconsin But
Hillary Didn’t?’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 18, 2018, 3:05 Pm

Cordes quickly shot back and said,

On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” Hillary
Clinton’s former campaign chairman John “Hillary Clinton herself did not spend much time
Podesta was rattled after CBS host Nancy in those states.”
Cordes asked him how the Russians knew
to focus on Michigan and Wisconsin and
Podesta was stunned at the push back and stammered his
Hillary didn’t.
way through his talking points.

BRUTAL.
“We had Tim Kaine was there, Barack Obama
and she spent enormous time in Pennsylvania
and Michigan,” Podesta said.

Podesta then said Hillary Clinton had more staff in

Wisconsin than Obama did in 2012. Wow what a pathetic
argument.

The bottom line is Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate

and she only went to Wisconsin AFTER the election to
peddle her book of excuses ‘What Happened’.

Hillary Clinton was too busy rubbing elbows with

celebrities and elites on either coast to bother with
Wisconsin.
Nancy Cordes referenced Robert Mueller’s indictment
which revealed the Russians targeted swing states such as President Trump however, visited Wisconsin several times
Michigan and Wisconsin for their disinformation during the election; he earned their votes.
campaign.
VIDEO
“But it does beg the question, how is it that
these Russian operatives knew to focus on
purple states like Michigan and Wisconsin and
your campaign didn’t?” Nancy Cordes asked.

Podesta was visibly flustered.

“Of course we spent a lot of time and energy

and effort in all those states,” Podesta said.

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 MORE DIRTY MUELLER LIES: Russian Pro-Trump
Rallies Total: 31 People… Russian Anti-Trump
Rallies Total: 10,100 People
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 4:36 Pm

On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced Here is a recap of the Russian organized rallies.
that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with
3 Russian entities, accused of First two events:

“supporting the presidential campaign of then- — March for Trump

candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging
Hillary Clinton.”
— Down with Hillary
The indictment claims Russian operatives
were working in St. Petersburg, Russia on a Total attendees: Zero
campaign to assist Donald Trump and
disparage Hillary Clinton. Third event:

The Russians used Facebook and Twitter to carry out their — Support Hillary, Save American Muslims
nefarious acts.
Total attendees: Zero
Special Counsel Mueller even listed the
events that were organized by Russian trolls
to assist Donald Trump.

Yossi Gestetner pointed out the ridiculousness of Robert

Mueller’s remarks.

The rallies for Donald Trump drew 31 people while the

anti-Trump rallies drew THOUSANDS!

Fourth event:

Florida rallies for Trump.

— Total attendance: 31 people

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Fifth event:

Miners for Trump

— Total attendance: Zero

Sixth event:

Trump is not my president.

— Total attendance: 10,000 and Michael Moore

Seventh event:

Show your support for Trump

— Total attendance: Not sure if it took place

Eighth event:

Charlotte Against Trump:

— Total attendace: 100

Combined totals for ALL RUSSIAN ORGANIZED

RALLIES:

Pro-Trump — About 31

Anti-Trump — 10,100

Take Away: Robert Mueller is a lying skunk.

Steven MIntyre from Climate Audit compiled the research

for the rally numbers.

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 JAMES CLAPPER: Trump’s Business Finances May Be
‘Next Shoe To Drop’ In Mueller Investigation (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 18, 2018, 8:42 Pm
Former Director of National Intelligence,
James Clapper told CNN’s Anderson Cooper
there are other shoes to drop in the Mueller
investigation.
Clapper implied Trump’s business finances BEFORE and
during the election will be the next target for dirty cop
Mueller.
On Friday, the office of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller announced that a grand jury
indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3
Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate
Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”
The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger.
Rosenstein said not one American had knowledge they
were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans.
Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential
election.
Also, no where in the indictment does Mueller accuse the
Russian government of being involved in the troll farm.
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The Mueller witch hunt continues despite ZERO evidence
Trump worked with the Russians to take down Hillary
Clinton during the presidential election.
“And I think there are other shoes to drop here,
notably finances. I think that’s going to be
another profound thing that’s going to come out
about this. What were the financial relationships
between the Trump Organization before the
election and the Trump campaign,” Clapper
said.
VIDEO:
Crazy Adam Schiff also brought up Trump’s finances
recently in a breakfast meeting with the Christian Science
Monitor.
Schiff floated the idea that Trump’s campaign may have
engaged in money laundering.
“We have not been able to adequately follow
the money,” Schiff said completely ignoring the
fact that Hillary Clinton’s entire campaign was a
money laundering scheme.
The Deep State and criminal Democrats are never going to
give up this witch hunt.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton and Obama’s dirty FBI and
DOJ used a fraudulent dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to
spy on Trump’s camp.
Where the hell is AG Sessions??
 KIM DOTCOM: “DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack –
It Was An Insider With A Memory Stick”
By Joshua Caplan
February 18, 2018, 9:20 Pm

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom took
to Twitter Sunday to once again attempt to
dispel the mainstream narrative surrounding
the Democratic National Committee hacking
scandal.
Was Russia actually behind a series of hack attacks that
led to a trove of DNC emails landing up in the hands of
WikiLeaks? Dotcom, once again, claims the culprit was
actually “an insider with a memory stick.”
“Let me assure you, the DNC hack wasn’t
even a hack. It was an insider with a memory
stick. I know this because I know who did it
and why,” adding “Special Counsel Mueller is
not interested in my evidence. My lawyers wrote
to him twice. He never replied. 360 pounds!”
alluding of course to Trump’s “400 pound
genius” comment.

Zerohedge reports,

Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the

DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet
from President Trump clarifying his previous
comments on Russian meddling in the 2016
election.

Dotcom’s assertion is backed up by an analysis done last

year by a researcher who goes by the name Forensicator,
who determined that the DNC files were copied at 22.6
MB/s – a speed virtually impossible to achieve from
halfway around the world, much less over a local network
– yet a speed typical of file transfers to a memory stick.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported,

DotCom dropped a bomb last May when he claimed to
have evidence that former DNC worker Seth Rich was
In response, Dotcom tweeted involved in the leaked emails released by WikiLeaks.

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 “I KNOW THAT SETH RICH WAS INVOLVED
IN THE DNC LEAK.”

He admitted earlier that month that he was part of an

operation along with Seth Rich to get stolen DNC emails
to Wikileaks.

Kim Dot.Com:
In late May Kim DotCom shared that he was willing to
come to the US and give testimony if it is required.
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OUCH! Julian Assange DESTROYS Mueller: The Russians
Also Ran Kitten Appreciation Groups – Was That Also
A Plot To Divide America?
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 9:27 Pm

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange weighed in on Special Internet Research Agency’s “troll farm” is
Counsel Robert Mueller’s nothing burger indictment on geared to develop audience in socially active
Friday. communities (e.g through aligned memes), in
order to spam them on behalf of anyone willing
The Russians from The Internet Research Agency spent to pay.
thousands of dollars on Facebook ads to grow their
audiences — something that is very common and
encouraged by Facebook corporation. It’s how Facebook
makes money and how groups build an audience.

The Russian ads mentioned in Mueller’s

indictment were already released by the
House Intelligence Committee in November
2017.

Facebook previously announced the Russian

ads comprised .004% of their advertising during the
election. Julian Assange:

Assange destroyed Robert Mueller on this
point that was completely lost on the
mainstream media.
Before advertising networks can advertise they
must build audience. How much of IRA’s
activities were simply trying to build audience by
gaining followers using tweets and memes likely
to be shared in those communities?

Julian Assange:

IRA allegedly also ran kitten appreciation

Julian Assange: groups. Are we also to believe that these kittens
were also a plot to divide America? To not
Buried in the Mueller astro-turfing indictment is distinguish between audience building and
something that we have long suspected. The customer advertising payload is sketchy.

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 Julian Assange:

Re-enforcing audience bias is exactly what

Facebook & Google have been doing at a vast
scale by algorithmically preying on people’s
existing biases to increase engagement. In a
more traditional manner, FOX, MSNBC, CNN,
NYTimes, WaPO etc, are doing the same thing.

Julian Assange:

The US has 320 million people with a trillion

dollar media and cultural sector that employees
over a million people. I do not assess that it is
possible whatsoever to divide America by trying
to “heighten the differences” with a hundred
trolls.

Julian Assange:

Regardless of whether IRA’s activities were

audience building through pandering to
communities or whether a hare-brained Russian
government plan to “heighten the differences”
existed, its activities are clearly strategically
insignificant compared to the other forces at
play.

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 Media Hands Russia A Gift As President
Trump Says Moscow 'Laughing Their A**Es Off'
- CNN Admits Running Yet Another Russia Story
They Have Not 'Independently Verified'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 18, 2018
Right on the heels of the MSM being utterly humiliated
after being conned, tricked, pranked into mass publishing a
fake and totally fabricated story by 4chan trolls all because
the mainstream media found a storyline that fit their
agenda, so they didn't even do a minimal amount of fact-
checking or verification, CNN runs with a headline and
story and admits in their very own article the narrative was
not "independently verified" by CNN. (Archive is link
because I will not link to those jag-offs)
Is it any wonder that CNN lost 30 percent of their
viewership in just the last year?
STILL WHINING ABOUT RUSSIA
The CNN article in question is headlined "Russian bots
promote pro-gun messages after Florida school shooting."
In their very first paragraph they inform readers what their
headline did not, which is that the headlined assertion is
nothing more than a claim from a shadowy "monitoring"
group.
That group is Hamilton 68, which claims to monitor 600
accounts "linked to Russian influence operation," yet they
do not say what accounts they are supposedly tracking and
offer absolutely no proof that any of the accounts are
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"linked" to Russia. No, they just expect people to believe
their assertions, which obviously CNN does, as do other
MSM groups, even with no ability to "independently
verify," their findings, because who needs confirmation if
the narrative plays into their agenda?
The group does not disclose which
accounts it tracks and CNN has not
independently verified its findings.
Why do we refer to Hamilton as a shadowy group?
1) It was created after the 2016 election and its "advisory
council," is full of #NeverTrumpers who supported
Hillary Clinton and screech about Russia as often as
the MSM has over the last year;
2) They offer no justification, proof or transparency for
their so-called data and percentages listed;
3) On any given day, Hamilton's claim of top hashtags
promoted by Russian-linked accounts that only those at
Hamilton know the names of, are the same hashtags
that almost everyone on Twitter are using, because
that is what hashtags are geared for, getting attention
to the message;
4) The background of the 'staff' running the site.
A look at the "staff" of the group that runs the Hamilton
site is very enlightening, as the first name on the list is
Lauren Rosenberger, who just happened to be the
"foreign policy advisor for Hillary for
America, where she coordinated
development of the campaign’s national
security policies, messaging, and
strategy."
Nah, she doesn't have any reason to excuse her failure with
messaging and strategy helping the candidate that every
single liberal media outlet tried to help win, to lose, by
blaming it on those nasty Russian bots.
Before that Rosenberger worked for the Obama
administration, at the U.S. Department of state and as part
of the National Security staff for the White House.
The next name on the list is Jamie Fly, who again worked
on a presidential campaign of a candidate Donald Trump
knocked out of the primaries to become the GOP nominee.
Fly was Marco Rubio's foreign policy advisor.
The next name is David Salvo, who before joining
the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing
Democracy, which runs the Hamilton 68 website, was a
foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State
from 2007 to 2017. His jobs included Special Assistant to
the Deputy Secretary of State, Regional Conflicts Advisor,
and various other positions.
Last but not least is Brittany Beaulieu, who spent the
majority of her career working for Democratic politicians.
According to her bio she served on the Europe, Eurasia,
and Central Asia team on the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee advising Chairman Menendez (D-NJ) and
Ranking Member Cardin (D-MD). While on the
Committee, she contributed to the Support for the
Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic
Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014, the Ukraine Freedom
Support Act of 2014.
CNN also uses information from another site called
"Botcheck.me, which claims to track
"political propaganda bots," yet who
decides what is "propaganda" vs "opinion?"
They found that not only "gun control," "Nikolas Cruz,"
"school shooting," "school shooter" and "fake news,"
topping the political propaganda bots hashtag usage, but so
was the leftists favorite hashtags calling for gun reform
and gun control.
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WHY IS THE MSM ONLY FOCUSING ON
'RUSSIAN' BOTS, ADS AND TROLLS?
Make no mistake, we are not claiming there are no Russian
bots, as we have seen the 13 Russians, who will never be
extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, have been indicted by
Robert Mueller for setting up fake social media accounts,
wire fraud, identity theft, are among the charges, but there
are a number of pieces missing from the conversation
where the mainstream media wants to focus on only
Russia's manipulation of social media, while ignoring the
fact that everybody was using bots, fake accounts and paid
trolls to "manipulate" and "influence" the 2016 election.
Barely a peep from the mainstream media when Media
Matter's founder David Brock reported they would pay out
a million dollars to online "trolls," to push pro-Hillary
Clinton propaganda online.
China has a whole army of trolls that go online to attack
their critics. They used to be called the "50 cents" because
they used to pay these people for patriotic posts, but now
they have an army of volunteers to head online and
propagate their propaganda.
According to a report from Freedom on the Net 2017, 30
different countries
"deployed some form of manipulation to
distort online information, up from 23 the
previous year. Paid commentators, trolls,
bots, false news sites, and propaganda
outlets were among the techniques used by
leaders to inflate their popular support and
essentially endorse themselves."
Lets us not forget that it was reported in
2011, that the U.S. Central Command
(Centcom) has hired a corporation in
California to create software that would
allow members of the U.S. military to
create up to 10 different "fake online
personas to influence internet
conversations and spread pro-American
propaganda."
The discovery that the US military is
developing false online personalities –
known to users of social media as "sock
puppets" – could also encourage other
governments, private companies and non-
government organisations to do the same.
The Centcom contract stipulates that each
fake online persona must have a
convincing background, history and
supporting details, and that up to 50 US-
based controllers should be able to operate
 false identities from their workstations of set-up to push propaganda, and in fact, the U.S. has
"without fear of being discovered by "meddled" in other countries elections and affairs, far more
sophisticated adversaries". than any other country in the world.

Centcom spokesman Commander Bill
Speaks said: "The technology supports
classified blogging activities on foreign-
language websites to enable Centcom to
counter violent extremist and enemy
propaganda outside the US."
Amazingly, as Laura Ingraham was recently told by former
CIA director James Woolsey, that when the U.S. interferes
in other countries elections it is "for a very good cause."
(His quote can be heard towards the end of the video clip
below)

Of course at the time it was claimed none of the

interventions would be in English because it was unlawful
to "address U.S. audiences" with government sponsored
propaganda, but in 2013 Barack Obama repealed the
propaganda ban, and by the end of 2016, Barack Obama
had signed a law which contained the "Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act," creating a de-
facto Ministry of Truth, run by

"the State Department, but with the active

senior level participation of the Department
of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting
Board of Governors, the Intelligence
Community, and other relevant agencies.
The Center will develop, integrate, and
synchronize whole-of-government
initiatives to expose and counter foreign
disinformation operations by our enemies
and proactively advance fact-based
narratives that support U.S. allies and
interests."
A "good cause" for who? In other words if the U.S.
meddles to promote what the leaders believe is something
that is best for the U.S., and Russia "meddles" promoting
what they think is the best for them, exactly how
hypocritical is it to castigate Russia and yet refuse to
inform the American people that the U.S. is busy playing
the same exact games?

Second, the legislation seeks to leverage The Russian Embassy took careful note of Woolsey's
expertise from outside government to statement, and tweeted
create more adaptive and responsive U.S.
strategy options. The legislation "Former CIA director James Woolsey: "US
establishes a fund to help train local meddles in foreign elections - but only for a
journalists and provide grants and very good cause". Says it all."
contracts to NGOs, civil society
organizations, think tanks, private
sector companies, media organizations,
and other experts outside the U.S.
government with experience in identifying
and analyzing the latest trends in foreign
government disinformation techniques.
This fund will complement and support the
Center’s role by integrating capabilities and
expertise available outside the U.S.
government into the strategy-making
process. It will also empower a
decentralized network of private sector
experts and integrate their expertise into
the strategy-making process.

Liberals, the media (yes, I know, redundant) and

Democratis politicians are only focused on the "Russians!"
yet many countries, including the U.S. have the same type

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WHAT RUSSIA DID NOT BLATANTLY DO
It is also noteworthy to think about the things Russian
President Vladimir Putin, or his government officials, did
not blatantly do.
Such as send $350,000 taxpayer dollars to a group to
"build a voter database, train activists and hire a political
consulting firm," to oust Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in the 2015 parliamentary elections. Nope, that
was Barack Obama, but the mainstream media never
screamed about "election meddling.".
Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice,
ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to
back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement
negotiations. But OneVoice used the
money to build a voter database, train
activists and hire a political consulting firm
with ties to President Obama’s campaign
— all of which set the stage for an anti-
Netanyahu campaign, the Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations said in a bipartisan staff
report.
In one stunning finding, the subcommittee
said OneVoice even told the State
Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of
its plans in an email, but the official, Consul
General Michael Ratney, claims never to
have seen them.
Putin did not spend $500 million dollars training and
arming a rebel group to oust the leader in Syria. Nope, that
was Barack Obama. It is very important to remember that
some of those U.S. weapons given to Syrian rebels, ended
up in the hands of ISIS terrorists.
A 200-paged report by Conflict Armament
Research analyzed more than 40,000
weapons retrieved from ISIS in the past
three years, finding cases in which the
weapons were originally supplied by the
United States, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and
Libya.
“In summary, evidence collected by
[Conflict Armament Research] indicates
that the United States has repeatedly
diverted EU-manufactured weapons and
ammunition to opposition forces in the
Syrian conflict,” the report says. “[ISIS]
forces rapidly gained custody of significant
quantities
 of this materiel.”
I could go on and on and on about the U.S. "meddling" in
the affairs and elections of other countries, but I think the
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point is made. Everyone "meddles," and while no
American wants another country to do so in our elections,
neither do other countries want us meddling in theirs.
The bottom line here is even the Mueller indictments
against the 13 Russians, states clearly, the Russian's
actions did not "affect the outcome" of the election.
FACEBOOK VP DEBUNKS MEDIA NARRATIVE
ON RUSSIAN ADS
In an act that may have been career suicide considering the
liberal lean of Facebook and their employees, Facebook
Vice President of ads Rob Goldman went on a tweet storm
on February 16, 2018, taking on the mainstream media and
the "narrative" of liberals, Democrats, Robert Mueller, and
the media in their assertions of how "bad" those Russian
ads were that were shown on Facebook, and how they
were geared to "help" Donald Trump.
Goldman's series of tweets, started with
"Very excited to see the Mueller indictment
today. We shared Russian ads with
Congress, Mueller and the American
people to help the public understand how
the Russians abused our system. Still,
there are keys facts about the Russian
actions that are still not well understood."
He continued
"Most of the coverage of Russian meddling
involves their attempt to effect the outcome
of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of
the Russian ads and I can say very
definitively that swaying the election was
*NOT* the main goal."
Then he drops a bombshell, while criticizing the MSM for
under-reporting the true facts, by saying
"The majority of the Russian ad spend
happened AFTER the election. We shared
that fact, but very few outlets have
covered it because it doesn’t align with
 the main media narrative of Trump and
the election." Along with that last tweet he
offered a link to an October 2017 Facebook
Newsroom article, explaining some key
facts about the Russian ads.
Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive
social and political messages across the
ideological spectrum, touching on topics
from LGBT matters to race issues to
immigration to gun rights. A number of
them appear to encourage people to follow
Pages on these issues.
I would agree that was their purpose, but I wouldn't agree
as to it working, because Russia did not need to "stoke fear
and hatred amongst Americans," because the mainstream
media has done that quite well on their own.
So if sowing discord was Russia's goal, the media has
spent the last year handing them everything they wanted,
like a gift on a silver platter.
President Trump is right, Moscow is probably laughing
their a**es off.

Here are a few other facts about the ads:

• An estimated 10 million people in the US saw the ads.

We were able to approximate the number of unique
people (“reach”) who saw at least one of these ads,
with our best modeling 44% of total ad impressions
(number of times ads were displayed) were before the
US election on November 8, 2016; 56% were after the
election.

• Roughly 25% of the ads were never shown to anyone.

That’s because advertising auctions are designed so
that ads reach people based on relevance, and certain
ads may not reach anyone as a result.

• For 50% of the ads, less than $3 was spent; for 99% of
BOTTOM LINE
the ads, less than $1,000 was spent.
The MSM is still pumping out anti-Russia/Anti-Trump
• About 1% of the ads used a specific type of Custom
stories, admitting they haven't even verified the data
Audiences targeting to reach people on Facebook who
contained within, while every new bit of information
had visited that advertiser’s website or liked the
revealed about Russia's "meddling," these days counters
advertiser’s Page — as well as to reach people who
and debunks the "collusion" nonsense they have been
are similar to those audiences. None of the ads used
pushing upon Americans for the last year.
another type of Custom Audiences targeting based on
personal information such as email addresses. (This
bullet added October 3, 2017.)

• Of the more than 3,000 ads that we have shared with

Congress, 5% appeared on Instagram. About $6,700
was spent on these ads (This bullet added October 6,
2017.)

Goldman ended his series of tweets by stating "The main

goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort
is to divide America by using our institutions, like free
speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and
hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly well.
We are quite divided as a nation."

Related: The social media ads Russia wanted Americans

to see.

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 CHAIRMAN NUNES: ‘DOJ And FBI Are Not Above The
Law; We’re Going To Put Them On Trial’ If They
Committed Abuse Before A Secret Court (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 18, 2018, 10:40 Pm
Chairman of the House Intel Committee
Devin Nunes (R-CA) sat down for an
interview with investigative journalist Sharyl
Attkisson which aired Sunday.
Nunes answered questions about the House Intel
Committee’s Russia probe, the unmasking scandal and the
FISA abuse.
Chairman Nunes said very sternly the FBI and DOJ are not
above the law and they will be put on trial if they abused
the FISA court.
Partial transcript and video via Full Measure:
Sharyl: Why is the Carter Page wiretap interview so important?
Carter Page is the former Trump volunteer, advisor, who was
wiretapped apparently, at least four times. Three times by the
way, apparently after President Trump was elected. Why is that
wiretap so important?
Rep. Devin Nunes: It really boils down to this. You had a
campaign. The Hillary Campaign and the Democratic Party went
out and paid for dirt. They got it from Russians by the way. Then
they used that dirt and funneled it into the FBI. The FBI then used
that dirt to get a warrant on a US citizen who was part of the
other campaign. A limited role, yes. But still, to do that, it’s wrong.
Sharyl: We asked your Democrat counterpart Adam Schiff for an
interview, but he wouldn’t do it. He said that the memo that you
put out was misleading and omitted material facts.
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Rep. Devin Nunes: Because we didn’t want to disclose any
sources and methods. We tried to reduce the memo down to
what we believed the American people needed to know. What
was most important? So we put in the memo, the things that
were used before the FISA court in order to justify the warrant.
Was there other information? Sure. But it wasn’t, it wasn’t
important in terms of the justification of the warrant.
Sharyl: Congressman Adam Schiff says, your goal is to put the
FBI on trial, and to put special council Bob Mueller’s investigation
on trial.
Rep. Devin Nunes: Yeah, well FISA abuse has nothing to do
with, with the Mueller investigation. As it relates to Department of
Justice and the FBI, if they need to be put on trial, we will put
them on trial. The reason that Congress exists is to oversee
these agencies that we created. DOJ and FBI are not above the
law. Congress created them, we oversee them, and we fund
them. And if they’re committing abuse for a secret court, getting
warrants on American citizens, you’re darn right that we’re going
to put them on trial.
Sharyl: What would you say is the takeaway?
Rep. Devin Nunes: And I think people are just starting to learn
now what really happened. Because as we peel more and more
of this back, I think more and more Americans get educated. And
I think that they’re gonna demand that changes are made.
Adam Schiff was also asked to speak with Sharyl
Attkisson, however; he declined the invitation.
Schiff only talks to left-wing sycophants who let him get
away with his misleading talking points.
Chairman Nunes is a hero. He has relentlessly pursued the
truth while Schiff and other Dems attacked him nonstop.
Media was set ablaze after the House Intelligence
Committee released their classified FISA memo on
February 2nd.
The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.

These crooked officials better stand trial; we want justice.

VIDEO:

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 Democrat Congressman Posts Assassination Dog Whistle
Against Pres. Trump: ‘America Will Regret Day
Psychopath Trump Was Born’
By Kristinn Taylor
February 18, 2018, 10:46 Pm

Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego for Arizona’s 7th CD

attacked President Donald Trump Saturday night on
Twitter using language that appears be a dog whistle for
Trump’s assassination. Gallego wrote Trump is a
“psychopath” and that “America will regret the day you
were ever born.”

In about 24 hours, Gallego’s tweet received over 121,000

likes, over 30,000 retweets and over 4,000 replies.

Gallego was responding to Trump’s tweet castigating the

FBI for allowing the Parkland school shooter to slip by Gallego replied just four minutes later, at 11:12 p.m.,
investigators while the bureau was pursuing the Trump- indicating that he was emotionally triggered and posted his
Russia collusion hoax. gut reaction,

“You are such a psychopath that you have

to make even the death of 17 children about
you. America will regret the day you were
ever born.”

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) , screen image via C-SPAN.

Trump posted at 11:08 p.m. EST on Saturday,

“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many
signals sent out by the Florida school shooter.
This is not acceptable. They are spending too
much time trying to prove Russian collusion
with the Trump campaign – there is no
collusion. Get back to the basics and make us
all proud!”
.
Gallego’s Twitter bio for the personal account he posted
from reads, “Iraq War Veteran. USMC 0311/0341.
Member of Congress for Arizona’s 7th Congressional
District. Proud Democrat. Hispanic, Latino”
The Secret Service would be wise to keep Gallego away
from President Trump. With that much quick tempered
hatred, he might take it upon himself to make it seem as if
Trump was never born.

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 Shock: Mueller Indictments Plagiarized From Buzzfeed?
Russian Troll Group Activities Reported By Liberal Media Since 2013
Jamie White | Infowars.Com
February 18, 2018
The article goes on to outline exactly how the scheme
worked:
FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller
announced the indictments of 13
Russian nationals for “promoting
discord” in US politics during the 2016
election.
The only problem: left-leaning publications Buzzfeed and
The Atlantic already extensively reported on the troll group
years ago.
According to the indictment, the 13 Russians worked for
several companies, including a “troll farm” based in St.
Petersburg called the Internet Research Agency, which
operated both pro- and anti-Trump social media accounts,
as well as accounts favorable to Black Lives Matter and
Bernie Sanders.
A 2013 article from The Atlantic reveals the same scheme
by Russian trolls to influence U.S. opinion on a number of
“The indictment charges all of the defendants with
issues.
conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants
with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and
five defendants with aggravated identity theft,” special
counsel spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement.
However, a 2014 report from Buzzfeed shows that not only
was this troll group’s activities known, they were also
fairly transparent about what they were doing.
“Russia’s campaign to shape international
opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has
extended to recruiting and training a new
cadre of online trolls that have been
deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message
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on the comments section of top American
websites,” wrote Max Seddon.
“The bizarre hive of social media activity
appears to be part of a two-pronged
Kremlin campaign to claim control over the
internet, launching a million-dollar army of
trolls to mold American public opinion as it
cracks down on internet freedom at home.”
“The documents show instructions provided
to the commenters that detail the workload
expected of them. On an average working
day, the Russians are to post on news
articles 50 times. Each blogger is to
maintain six Facebook accounts publishing
at least three posts a day and discussing
the news in groups at least twice a day,” he
added. “By the end of the first month, they
are expected to have won 500 subscribers
and get at least five posts on each item a
day. On Twitter, the bloggers are expected
to manage 10 accounts with up to 2,000
followers and tweet 50 times a day.”
“A Russian journalist who visited one such
comment-mill, the St. Petersburg Internet
Research Agency, met with a coordinator
who said the job was not unlike writing
copy for a hair dryer: ‘The only difference is
that this hair dryer is a political one,'” wrote
Olga Khazan.
“The effect created by such Internet trolls is
not very big, but they manage to make
certain forums meaningless because
people stop commenting on the articles
when these trolls sit there and constantly
create an aggressive, hostile atmosphere
 toward those whom they don’t like. These
include commentary systems on the web
sites of every major media outlet in the city
that the trolls began to occupy a long time
ago and react to certain news with torrents
of mud and abuse. This makes it
meaningless for a reasonable person to
comment on anything there,” said
opposition activist Vladimir Volokhonsky.
Has the FBI really been out of the loop on this issue since
2014? Don’t bet on it.
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More likely, the bureau is trying to save face on their
phony Russia investigation because they know it’s a dead-
end but must show they’ve been doing something (other
than colluding against Trump) since the Russia collusion
probe was launched over a year ago.
It’s worth noting that none of the 13 Russians have been
arrested, and won’t likely face a U.S. courtroom unless
extradited by the Russian government.
 POTUS Trump BLASTS ‘Very Insecure
Oprah’ Over 60 Minutes Interview Questions
By Joshua Caplan
February 18, 2018, 10:55 Pm
President Trump blasted Oprah Winfrey
Sunday evening, saying he hopes that she
runs for the White House so she can be
‘exposed,’ and ‘defeated.’
“Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey,
who at one point I knew very well, interview a
panel of people on 60 Minutes. The questions
were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect.
Hope Oprah runs so she can be exposed and
defeated just like all of the others!” tweeted
Trump
Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey,
who at one point I knew very well, interview a
panel of people on 60 Minutes. The questions
were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect.
Hope Oprah runs so she can be exposed and
defeated just like all of the others!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 19, 2018
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The Hill reports:
Winfrey had interviewed a group of Michigan
voters for a “60 Minutes” segment that aired
Sunday night. Half of the group had voted for
Trump and the other half had not.
Speculation that Winfrey might run for president
emerged after she delivered an emotional
speech at the Golden Globes last month.
However, she has denied that she was
considering a presidential bid.
Trump has weighed in on a potential run by Winfrey
before, saying that he didn’t think she would run but that if
she did, he would beat her.
As the left continues to float their Oprah for President
fantasies and the media continues to fan the flames, it’s
always important to do somewhat of a reality check,
reported The Gateway Pundit’s Carter.
The Central Florida Post conducted a poll with the help
of Dixie Strategies, wherein they found that president
Donald Trump would “trounce” Oprah in the must-win
state of Florida.
The numbers break down as follows:
President Donald Trump would win with a
whopping 47.91% to Winfrey’s 23.95%, with a
theoretical third party candidate getting 14.83%
and 13.31% of voters undecided.
Slate, Yahoo News, NYT, Washpost, Mother Jones, CNN And
The Atlantic All Named As Willing Co-Conspirators In
Deep State #Russiagate Propaganda Plot
By Mike Adams
02/18/2018
If you're been reading this site for very long, you're already well
aware that the so-called "mainstream media" functions as pawns
of the deep state, catapulting propaganda on command, blacking
out news stories they don't want you to see, and fabricating false
"sources" to justify fictitious stories that achieve a political
agenda.
Some of the media organizations that have knowingly and
deliberately published deep state propaganda, as you'll see
below, include Mother Jones, Slate, Yahoo News, the
Washington Post, the New York Times, The Atlantic and of
course fake news CNN.
Author Lee Smith at The Federalist has authored a detailed tour
of the journalistic malpractice pursued by these organizations
over the last two years. It's an extremely important article that
every informed American should read because it exposes the
utter fakery and maliciousness of the left-wing media.
Because of the importance of this piece, I'm reprinting the full
article here, with credit to The Federalist. I also encourage you to
read some of the other stories authored by Lee Smith.
The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia
Collusion Story Because They Helped Create It
Story by Lee Smith, The Federalist
The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia
collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it.
Half the country wants to know why the press won’t
cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal
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Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and
threatening to reach the State Department, Central
Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White
House.
After all, the release last week of a less-redacted version of
Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham’s January 4
letter showed that the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrant to search the communications of
a Trump campaign adviser based on a piece of opposition
research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee. The Fourth Amendment
rights of an American citizen were violated to allow one
political party to spy on another.
If the press did its job and reported the facts, the argument
goes, then it wouldn’t just be Republicans and Trump
supporters demanding accountability and justice.
Americans across the political spectrum would understand
the nature and extent of the abuses and crimes touching not
just on one political party and its presidential candidate but
the rights of every American.
That’s all true, but irrelevant. The reasons the press won’t
cover the story are suggested in the Graham-Grassley letter
itself.
Steele Was a Media Informant
The letter details how Christopher Steele, the former
British spy who allegedly authored the documents
claiming ties between the Trump campaign and Russia,
told the FBI he wasn’t talking to the press about his
investigation. In a British court, however, Steele
acknowledged briefing several media organizations on the
material in his dossier.
According to the British court documents, Steele briefed
the New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo!
News, The New Yorker, and CNN. In October, he talked
to Mother Jones reporter David Corn by Skype. It was
Corn’s October 31 article anonymously sourced to Steele
that alerted the FBI their informant was speaking to the
press. Grassley and Graham referred Steele to the
Department of Justice for a criminal investigation because
he lied to the FBI.
The list of media outfits and journalists made aware of
Steele’s investigations is extensive. Reuters reported that
it, too, was briefed on the dossier, and while it refrained
from reporting on it before the election, its national
security reporter Mark Hosenball became an advocate of
the dossier’s findings after November 2016.
BBC’s Paul Wood wrote in January 2017 that he
was briefed on the dossier a week before the
election. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald likely saw Steele’s
work around the same time, because he published
an article days before the election based on a “Western
intelligence” source (i.e., Steele) who cited names and data
points that could only come from the DNC- and Clinton-
funded opposition research.
A line from the Grassley-Graham letter points to an even
larger circle of media outfits that appear to have been in
contact with either Steele or Fusion GPS, the Washington
DC firm that contracted him for the opposition research the
Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee
commissioned.
“During the summer of 2016,” the Grassley-
Graham letter reads, “reports of some of
the dossier allegations began circulating
among reporters and people involved in
Russian issues.”
Planting the Carter Page Story
Indeed, it looks like Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson may have persuaded a number of major foreign
policy and national security writers in Washington and
New York that Trump and his team were in league with
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those journalists
include New Yorker editor David Remnick, Atlantic editor
Jeffrey Goldberg, former New Republic editor Franklin
Foer, and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum.
A Foer story published in Slate on July 4, 2016 appears to
be central. Titled “Putin’s Puppet,” Foer’s piece argues
the Trump campaign was overly Russia-friendly. Foer
discusses Trump’s team, including campaign convention
manager Paul Manafort, who worked with former
Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich, a Putin ally; and
Carter Page, who, Foer wrote, “advised the state-controlled
natural gas giant Gazprom and helped it attract Western
investors.”
That’s how Page described himself in a March
2016 Bloomberg interview. But as Julia Ioffe reported in a
September 23, 2016 Politico article, Page was a mid-level
executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role
in any of the big deals he boasted about. As Ioffe shows,
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almost no one in Moscow remembered Page. Until Trump
read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a
March interview with the Washington Post, almost no one
in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Page
either.
So what got Foer interested in Page? Were Steele and
Simpson already briefing reporters on their opposition
research into the Trump campaign? (Another Foer story
for Slate, an October 31, 2016 article about the Trump
organization’s computer servers “pinging” a Russian bank,
was reportedly “pushed” to him by Fusion GPS.) Page and
Manafort are the protagonists of the Steele dossier, the
former one of the latter’s intermediaries with Russian
officials and associates of Putin. Page’s July 7 speech in
Moscow attracted wide U.S. media coverage, but Foer’s
article published several days earlier.
The Slate article, then, looks like the predicate for
allegations against Page made in the dossier after his July
Russia trip. For instance, according to Steele’s
investigations, Page was offered a 19 percent stake in
Rosneft, one of the world’s energy giants, in exchange for
help repealing sanctions related to Russia’s 2014 incursion
into Ukraine.
Building an Echo Chamber of Opposition Research
Many have noted the absurdity that the FISA warrant on
Page was chiefly based, according to a House intelligence
committee memo, on the dossier and Michael Isikoff’s
September 23, 2016 news story also based on the dossier.
But much of the Russiagate campaign was conducted in
this circular manner. Steele and Simpson built an echo
chamber with their opposition research, parts of the law
enforcement and intelligence communities, and the press
all reinforcing one another. Plant an item in the open air
and watch it grow—like Page’s role in the Trump
campaign.
Why else was Foer or anyone so interested in Page? Why
was Page’s Moscow speech so closely watched and widely
covered? According to the Washington Post, Page
“chided” American policymakers for an “often-
hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality,
corruption and regime change” in its dealings with Russia,
China, and Central Asia.
As peculiar as it may have sounded for a graduate of the
Naval Academy to cast a skeptical eye on American
exceptionalism, Page’s speech could hardly have struck
the policy establishment as shocking, or even novel.
They’d been hearing versions of it for the last eight years
from the president of the United States.
In President Obama’s first speech before the United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on September 23,
2009, he insisted that no country, least of all America, has
the right to tell other countries how to organize their
political lives.
“Democracy cannot be imposed on any
nation from the outside,” said Obama.
“Each society must search for its own path,
and no path is perfect. Each country will
pursue a path rooted in the culture of its
people and in its past traditions.”
Obama sounded even more wary of American leadership
on his way out of office eight years later. In his 2016
UNGA speech, the 2009 Nobel laureate said:
“I do not think that America can — or
should — impose our system of
government on other countries.”
Obama was addressing not just foreign nations but perhaps
more pointedly his domestic political rivals.
In 2008 Obama campaigned against the Iraq War and the
Republican policymakers who toppled Saddam Hussein to
remake Iraq as a democracy. All during his presidency,
Obama rebuffed critics who petitioned the administration
to send arms or troops to advance U.S. interests and values
abroad, most notably in Ukraine and Syria.
In 2016, it was Trump who ran against the Republican
foreign policy establishment—which is why hundreds of
GOP policymakers and foreign policy intellectuals signed
two letters distancing themselves from the party’s
candidate. The thin Republican bench of foreign policy
experts available to Trump is a big reason why he named
the virtually unknown Page to his team. So why was it any
surprise that Page sounded like the Republican candidate,
who sounded like the Democratic president?
Why Didn’t the Left Like Obama’s Ideas from a
Republican?
On the Right, many national security and foreign policy
writers like me heard and were worried by the clear echoes
of Obama’s policies in the Trump campaign’s proposals.
Did those writing from the left side of the political
spectrum not see the continuities?
Writing in the Washington Post July 21, 2016, Applebaum
explained how a
“Trump presidency could destabilize
Europe.” The issue, she explained, was
Trump’s positive attitude toward Putin. “The
extent of the Trump-Russia business
connection has already been laid out,
by Franklin Foer at Slate,” wrote
Applebaum. She named Page and his
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“long-standing connections to Russian
companies.”
Even more suggestive to Applebaum is that just a few days
before her article was published,
“Trump’s campaign team helped alter the
Republican party platform to remove
support for Ukraine” from the Republican
National Committee’s platform. Maybe, she
hinted, that was because of Trump aide
Manafort’s ties to Yanukovich.
Did those talking points come from Steele’s opposition
research? Manafort’s relationship with Yanukovich had
been widely reported in the U.S. press long before he
signed on with the Trump campaign. In fact, in 2007
Glenn Simpson was one of the first to write about their
shady dealings while he was still working at the Wall
Street Journal. The corrupt nature of the Manafort-
Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the
dossier. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia
releasing the DNC emails,
“the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline
Russian intervention in Ukraine as a
campaign issue.”
The reality, however, is that the Trump campaign team
never removed support for Ukraine from the party
platform. In a March 18, 2017 Washington Examiner
article, Byron York interviewed the convention delegate
who pushed for tougher language on Russia, and got it.
“In the end, the platform, already fairly
strong on the Russia-Ukraine issue,” wrote
York, “was strengthened, not weakened.”
Maybe Applebaum just picked it up
from her own paper’s mis-reporting.
For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump
would express skepticism about the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, except to appease Putin. She referred to a
recent interview in which Trump
“cast doubt on the fundamental basis of
transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5
guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d
have to think first before defending U.S.
allies.”
The Echoes Pick Up
In an article published the very same day in the Atlantic,
Jeffrey Goldberg made many of the very same
observations. Titled “It’s Official: Hillary Clinton is
Running Against Vladimir Putin,” the article opens:
“The Republican Nominee For President, Donald J.
Trump, Has Chosen This Week To Unmask Himself As
A De Facto Agent Of Russian President Vladimir
Putin.” What was the evidence? Well, for one, Page’s
business interests.
Trump’s expressed admiration for Putin and other
“equivocating, mercenary statements,” wrote Goldberg,
are “unprecedented in the history of Republican foreign
policymaking.” However, insofar as Trump’s fundamental
aim was to find some common ground with Putin, it’s a
goal that, for better or worse, has been a 25-year U.S.
policy constant, across party lines. Starting with George
W.H. Bush, every American commander-in-chief since the
end of the Cold War sought to “reset” relations with
Russia.
But Trump, according to Goldberg, was different.
“Trump’s understanding of America’s role in the world
aligns with Russia’s geostrategic interests.” Here Goldberg
rang the same bells as Applebaum—the Trump campaign
“watered down” the RNC’s platform on Ukraine; the GOP
nominee “questioned whether the U.S., under his
leadership, would keep its [NATO] commitments,”
including Article 5. Thus, Goldberg concluded:
“Donald Trump, should he be elected
president, would bring an end to the
postwar international order.”
That last bit sounds very bad.
Coincidentally, it’s similar to a claim
made in the very first paragraph of the
Steele dossier — the “Russian regime,”
claims one of Steele’s unnamed sources,
has been cultivating Trump to “encourage
splits and divisions in the western alliance.”
The West won the Cold War because the United States
kept it unified. David Remnick saw it up close. Assigned
to the Washington Post’s Moscow bureau in 1988,
Remnick witnessed the end of the Soviet Union, which he
documented in his award-winning book, “Lenin’s Tomb.”
So it’s hardly surprising that in his August 3, 2016 New
Yorker article, “Trump and Putin: A Love Story,”
Remnick sounded alarms concerning the Republican
presidential candidate’s manifest affection for the Russian
president.
Citing the “original reporting” of Foer’s seminal Slate
article, the New Yorker editor contended “that one reason
for Trump’s attitude has to do with his business
ambitions.” As Remnick elaborated,
“one of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers,
has longstanding ties to Gazprom, a pillar
of Russia’s energy industry.”
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Who could that be? Right—Carter Page. With Applebaum
and Goldberg, Remnick was worried about Trump’s lack
of support for Ukraine and the fact that Trump
“has declared NATO ‘obsolete’ and has
suggested that he might do away with
Article 5.”
Where Did All These Echoes Come From?
This brings us to the fundamental question: Is it possible
that these top national security and foreign policy
journalists were focused on something else during
Obama’s two terms in office, something that had nothing
to do with foreign policy or national security? It seems we
must even entertain the possibility they slept for eight
years because nearly everything that frightened them about
the prospects of a Trump presidency had already transpired
under Obama.
The Trump team wanted to stop short of having the RNC
platform promise lethal support to Ukraine—which was in
keeping with official U.S. policy. Obama didn’t want to
arm the Ukrainians. He ignored numerous congressional
efforts to get him to change his mind.
“There has been a strong bipartisan well of
support for quite some time for providing
lethal support,” said California Rep. Adam
Schiff.
But Obama refused.
As for the western alliance or international order or
however you want to put it, it was under the Obama
administration that Russia set up shop on NATO’s
southern border. With the Syrian conflict, Moscow re-
established its foothold in the Middle East after 40 years of
American policy designed to keep it from meddling in U.S.
spheres of influence. Under Obama, Russia’s enhanced
regional position threatened three U.S. allies: Israel,
Jordan, and NATO member Turkey.
In 2012, Moscow’s Syrian client brought down a Turkish
air force reconnaissance plane. According to a 2013 Wall
Street Journal article, “Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan Raised Alarms In The U.S. By
Suggesting That Turkey Might Invoke NATO’s Article
V.” However, according to the Journal,
“neither the U.S. nor NATO was interested
in rushing to Article V… NATO was so wary
of getting pulled into Syria that top alliance
officials balked at even contingency
planning for an intervention force to protect
Syrian civilians. ‘For better or worse,
[Syrian president Bashar al- Assad] feels
 he can count on NATO not to intervene
right now,’ a senior Western official said.”
Whatever one thinks of Obama’s foreign policy, it is
hardly arguable that he—wisely, cautiously, in the most
educated and creative ways, or unwisely, stupidly,
cravenly, the choice of adjectives is yours—ceded
American interests and those of key allies in Europe and
the Middle East in an effort to avoid conflict with Russia.
When Russia occupied Crimea and the eastern portion of
Ukraine, there was little pushback from the White House.
The Obama administration blinked even when Putin’s
escalation of forces in Syria sent millions more refugees
fleeing abroad, including Europe.
Was Anyone Paying Attention When This Happened?
Surely it couldn’t have escaped Applebaum’s notice that
Obama’s posture toward Russia made Europe vulnerable.
She’s a specialist in Europe and Russia—she’s written
books on both. Her husband is the former foreign minister
of Poland. So how, after eight years of Obama’s
appeasement of a Russia that threatened to withhold
natural gas supplies from the continent, did the Trump
team pose a unique threat to European stability?
What about Goldberg? Is it possible that he’d never
bothered to research the foreign policy priorities of a
president he interviewed five times between 2008 and
2016? In the last interview, from March 2016, Obama told
him he was “very proud” of the moment in 2013 when he
declined to attack Assad for deploying chemical weapons.
As Obama put it, that’s when he broke with the
“Washington playbook.” He chose diplomacy instead. He
made a deal with Russia over Assad’s conventional
arsenal—which Syria continued to use against civilians
throughout Obama’s term.
Again, regardless of how you feel about Obama’s
decisions, the fact is that he struck an agreement with
Moscow that ensured the continued reign of its Syrian ally,
who gassed little children. Yet only four months later,
Goldberg worried that a Trump presidency would
“liberate dictators, first and foremost his ally
Vladimir Putin, to advance their own
interests.”
Remnick wrote a 2010 biography of Obama, but did he,
too, pay no attention to the policies of the man he
interviewed frequently over nearly a decade? How is this
possible? Did some of America’s top journalists really
sleepwalk through Obama’s two terms in office, only to
wake in 2016 and find Donald Trump and his campaign
becoming dangerously cozy with a historical American
adversary?
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All’s Fair in War and Politics
Of course not. They enlisted their bylines in a political
campaign on behalf of the Democratic candidate for
president and rehearsed the talking points Steele later
documented. But weren’t the authors of these articles, big-
name journalists, embarrassed to be seen reading from a
single script and publishing the same article with similar
titles within the space of two weeks? Weren’t they worried
it would look like they were taking opposition research,
from the same source?
No, not really. In a sense, these stories weren’t actually
meant to be read. They existed for the purpose of
validating the ensuing social media messaging.
The stories were written around the
headlines, which were written for Twitter:
“Putin’s Puppet”; “It’s Official: Hillary
Clinton is Running Against Vladimir
Putin”; “Trump and Putin: A Love Story”;
“The Kremlin’s Candidate.” The stories
were vessels built only to launch thousands
of 140-character salvos to then sink into
the memory hole.
Since everyone took Clinton’s victory for granted,
journalists assumed extravagant claims alleging an
American presidential candidate’s illicit ties to an
adversarial power would fade just as the fireworks
punctuating Hillary’s acceptance speech would vanish in
the cool November evening. And the sooner the stories
were forgotten the better, since they frankly sounded
kooky, conspiratorial, as if the heirs to the Algonquin
round table sported tin-foil hats while tossing back
martinis and trading saucy limericks.
Yes, the Trump-Russia collusion media campaign really
was delusional and deranged; it really was a conspiracy
theory. So after the unexpected happened, after Trump
won the election, the Russiagate campaign morphed into
something more urgent, something twisted and delirious.
Quick, Pin Our Garbage Story on Someone
When CNN broke the story—co-written by Evan Perez,
a former colleague and friend of Fusion GPS principals—
that the Obama administration’s intelligence chiefs had
briefed Trump on the existence of the dossier, it not only
cleared the way for BuzzFeed to publish the document, it
also signaled the press that the intelligence community was
on side. This completed the echo chamber, binding one
American institution chartered to steal and keep secrets to
another embodying our right to free speech. We know
which ethic prevailed.
Now Russiagate was no longer part of a
political campaign directed at Trump, it
 was a disinformation operation pointed
at the American public, as the pre-
election media offensive resonated
more fully with the dossier now in the
open.
You see, said the press:
Everything we published about Trump and
Putin is really true—there’s a document
proving it. What the press corps neglected
to add is that they’d been reporting talking
points from the same opposition research
since before the election, and were now
showcasing “evidence” to prove it was all
true.
The reason the media will not
report on the scandal now unfolding
before the country, how the Obama
administration and Clinton
campaign used the resources of the
federal government to spy on the
party out of power, is not because
the press is partisan. No, it is
because the press has played an
active role in the Trump-Russia
collusion story since its inception.
It helped birth it.
To report how the dossier was made and marketed, and
how it was used to violate the privacy rights of an
American citizen—Page—would require admitting
complicity in manufacturing Russiagate. Against
conventional Washington wisdom, the cover-up in this
case is not worse than the crime: Both weigh equally in a
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scandal signaling that the institution where American
citizens are supposed to discuss and debate the choices
about how we live with each other has been turned against
a large part of the public to delegitimize their political
choices.
This Isn’t the 27-Year-Olds’ Fault
I’ve argued over the last year that the phony collusion
narrative is a symptom of the structural problems with the
press. The rise of the Internet, then social media, and gross
corporate mismanagement damaged traditional media
institutions. As newspapers and magazines around the
country went bankrupt when ownership couldn’t figure out
how to make money off the new digital advertising model,
an entire generation of journalistic experience, expertise,
and ethics was lost. It was replaced, as one Obama White
House official famously explained, by 27-year-olds who
“literally know nothing.”
But the first vehicles of the Russiagate campaign were not
bloggers or recent J-school grads lacking wisdom or
guidance to wave off a piece of patent nonsense. They
were journalists at the top of their profession—editors-in-
chief, columnists, specialists in precisely the subjects that
the dossier alleges to treat: foreign policy and national
security. They didn’t get fooled. They volunteered their
reputations to perpetrate a hoax on the American public.
That’s why, after a year of thousands of furious
allegations, all of which concerning Trump are
unsubstantiated, the press will not report the real scandal,
in which it plays a leading role. When the reckoning
comes, Russiagate is likely to be seen not as a symptom of
the collapse of the American press, but as one of the
causes for it.
 REPORT: Andrew McCabe Altered Peter Strzok’s
302 Notes On General Flynn Interview –
Then Destroyed Evidence
By Jim Hoft
February 18, 2018, 11:07 Pm

Investigative journalist Mike Cernovich Via Mike Cernovich:

dropped a hot story on Sunday night.

According to Mike, former Deputy Director

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Andrew McCabe altered far left FBI
investigator Peter Strzok’s notes on his
interview with General Michael Flynn.

And then McCabe destroyed the evidence.

This comes after Byron York reported that former FBI

Director James Comey told lawmakers Flynn did not lie
under oath.

Then Flynn was indicted by the Mueller

witch hunt months later for lying.

What changed?

According to Cernovich Andrew McCabe

altered Strzok’s 302 reports — then
destroyed the evidence.

In March he’ll retire with 1.8 million in pension, paid by

us, the taxpayers.

He needs to be fired and put in prison, not nobly retired.

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 This Russian Journalist Who Helped Uncover Election
Interference SHAKING HIS HEAD At Mueller Indictments
Posted On February 19, 2018

American department was like 90 people.

So my reaction was that, for me, it was like
that curious list of oligarchs and Kremlin
authorities where they put the whole
Forbes list and the whole Kremlin
administration on it. It’s very strange.”

He also noted that most of the attention in the media and in

U.S. political circles focused on phony Internet-based
groups set up by the IRA that were “pro-Trump.”

“Also, everyone has focused on the pro-

Trump groups. What we saw was that they
were trying to spread tension in the society,
talking about problems people had with
(National Sentinel) Not a Bombshell: One of the Russian black people, Islam and so on,” he said.
journalists who wrote a story about “trolling” the U.S.
“They organized anti-Trump rallies also.
elections in 2016 is confounded by the importance of the
Yes, they were active against Hillary
issue in the United States after special counsel Robert
[Clinton], but they were not always pro-
Mueller relied in large part on his story to issue a 37-page
Trump. They were also active after the
indictment of 13 Russians on Friday.
election. The story about the Black Fist
movement — fake movement self-defense
As The Washington Post reported, journalist Andrey classes for black people — they started this
Zakharov, who co-wrote a 4,500-word essay with Polina story in 2017, after Trump was elected,”
Rusyaeva titled, “How The ‘Troll Factory’ Worked The Zakharov continued.
U.S. Elections,”
As for those working in the troll factory, he said,
“explained how it was a strange feeling
seeing something he had so closely
“For them it was really fun: 90 people
investigated become a major issue in the
sitting in St. Petersburg, organizing groups
United States, when it had not been a
with thousands and thousands of likes. It
‘bombshell’ when he published his report at
was a very successful social media
home.”
marketing campaign.”

In particular, Zakharov’s co-written article explained the

He also commented on the small size of the operation in
functioning of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a
terms of personnel and budget having an outsized effect.
state-sponsored “troll factory” in St. Petersburg that was
mentioned as being behind much of the operation.
“A lot of Russian conservatives were proud.
They said: ‘Look at what Russians can do!
When asked what his reaction was to the indictments, he
Only 90 people with $2 million made
said,
America scared! We are strong!'” he said.

“It looks like they just took some employees U.S. journalists and other political observers were also
from the … American department [of the confused about Mueller’s indictments.
IRA] whose names they could get. But the

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That includes talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh, who noted
that Mueller’s indictments further clear President Donald
J. Trump of allegedly “colluding” with Russia to hijack the
election.
And former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova
said that the lack of indictments against
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any Americans proves that Mueller’s probe
“is over.”
“Now there is no allegation in this
indictment that any American was a
knowing participant in this illegal activity,”
he said. “There is no allegation that the
charged conduct altered the outcome of the
2016 presidential election.”
 Corrupt Podesta Group Filed Forms Only Weeks Before
Manafort Charged For Not Filing –
Who Tipped Them Off?
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 6:48 Am

In October we reported that the Podesta

Group with exact timing somehow
managed to file forms with the federal
government that were 5 or more years
overdue that Paul Manafort was charged
for not filing. Who tipped them off?

Mike Cernovich reported today that John Podesta now

seems as frightened as a little school girl when confronted
with questions about the Podesta Group’s activities before
the 2016 election –

Cernovich also notes that the Podesta’s filed forms in

2017, more than 5 years after they were due –

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 Creepy John Podesta was rattle on “Face the Nation” today
when confronted about the Podesta Group –

VIDEO

Video and H/T: Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller

Who told the Podesta’s to file forms 5

years after they were due? These forms
were filed only weeks before Manafort
was arrested by the corrupt Mueller
The Podesta Group was the most influential lobbiest in
team for the exact same derilection of
Washington before the election, now they closed their
doors – why? duty. The Podesta’s worked with
Manafort – why were they not
criminalized as well by the Mueller
conspirators? This is just more
evidence Mueller and team are crooked
and corrupt!
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 Nunes Vows FBI, DOJ NOT ‘Above The Law;’
Says He’ll ‘Put On TRIAL’ Anyone Who
Schemed Against FISA Court
Posted on February 19, 2018
(National Sentinel) Justice: House Intelligence Committee
chairman Devin Nunes vowed on Sunday to put any FBI
or Justice Department official on trial who willingly
schemed against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court to obtain a warrant so they could spy on former
Trump campaign official Carter Page.
In an interview with investigative journalist Sharyl
Attkisson on her “Full Measure” program Sunday, the
California Republican answered questions related to his
committee’s Russia probe, the unmasking scandal and the
FISA abuse.
He told her in no uncertain terms that the panel has never
found any evidence of President Donald J. Trump
“colluding” with the Russian government to ‘steal the
election’ from Hillary Clinton.
“…[W]e have a Russian Investigation going
on whether or not there was collusion
between any campaign and the Russians.
That’s coming to a close. We’ve never had
any evidence of collusion between the
Trump campaign and the Russians,” he
said.
“So you’re comfortable with saying at this
point, you don’t see anything there?”
Attkisson pressed.
“No, there’s nothing there,” Nunes
responded.
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When asked what else the committee has found, he said:
So in that investigation, we’ve unearthed
things that are very concerning. We know
that there are un-maskings that occurred
and probably were leaked to the media. So
this is, so these were, this is an intelligence
products that were put together. The
names or the names of the Americans
were masked.
And what we found was happening is, in
the last administration, they were
unmasking hundreds, and hundreds, and
hundreds of American’s names. They were
unmasking people for what I would say, for
lack of a better definition, were for political
purposes.
He went on to say that the committee has no evidence that
Obama administration officials leaked the names of
unmasked Americans to the media, only that those names
ended up there.
More:
Sharyl: Why is the Carter Page wiretap
interview so important? Carter Page is the
former Trump volunteer, advisor, who was
wiretapped apparently, at least four times.
Three times by the way, apparently after
President Trump was elected. Why is that
wiretap so important?
Rep. Devin Nunes: It really boils down to
this. You had a campaign. The Hillary
Campaign and the Democratic Party went
out and paid for dirt. They got it from
Russians by the way. Then they used that
dirt and funneled it into the FBI. The FBI
then used that dirt to get a warrant on a US
citizen who was part of the other campaign.
A limited role, yes. But still, to do that, it’s
wrong.
 Sharyl: We asked your Democrat
counterpart Adam Schiff for an interview,
but he wouldn’t do it. He said that the
memo that you put out was misleading and
omitted material facts.
Rep. Devin Nunes: Because we didn’t want
to disclose any sources and methods. We
tried to reduce the memo down to what we
believed the American people needed to
know. What was most important? So we
put in the memo, the things that were used
before the FISA court in order to justify the
warrant. Was there other information?
Sure. But it wasn’t, it wasn’t important in
terms of the justification of the warrant.
Sharyl: Congressman Adam Schiff says,
your goal is to put the FBI on trial, and to
put special council Bob Mueller’s
investigation on trial.
Rep. Devin Nunes: Yeah, well FISA abuse
has nothing to do with, with the Mueller
.
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investigation. As it relates to Department of
Justice and the FBI, if they need to be put
on trial, we will put them on trial. The
reason that Congress exists is to oversee
these agencies that we created. DOJ and
FBI are not above the law. Congress
created them, we oversee them, and we
fund them. And if they’re committing abuse
for a secret court, getting warrants on
American citizens, you’re darn right that
we’re going to put them on trial.
Sharyl: What would you say is the
takeaway?
Rep. Devin Nunes: And I think people are
just starting to learn now what really
happened. Because as we peel more and
more of this back, I think more and more
Americans get educated. And I think that
they’re gonna demand that changes are
made.
 Reports Appear To Show Hillary’s Former Campaign
Manager, Creepy John Podesta, Involved In
Pay For Play Violations
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 7:02 Am

Mike Cernovich is reporting on Twitter

that Hillary Clinton’s former campaign
manager, creepy John Podesta, was
involved in not one but three pay for pay
scandals while working with the
Clintons!

Cernovich released three tweets indicting the creepy

Podesta in at least $1.5 million in pay for play scandals –

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 Podesta, along with CNN and ESPN
helped the Saudis in a basic pay for
play scandal. How many more were
they involved in?

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 Kim Dotcom: ‘Let Me Assure You,
The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack’
Posted On February 19, 2018

“Let me assure you, the DNC hack wasn’t

even a hack. It was an insider with a
memory stick. I know this because I know
who did it and why. Special Counsel
Mueller is not interested in my evidence.
My lawyers wrote to him twice. He never
replied. 360 pounds!”

(National Sentinel) Dot-Bomb: Internet entrepreneur Kim

Dotcom has once again claimed that the Democratic
National Committee was not hacked during the 2016
election cycle as the party insists, but instead damaging
emails were downloaded locally by an insider and given to
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

On Sunday Dotcom reiterated his previous claims in

response to a tweet from President Donald J. Trump
clarifying his previous claims about Russian election
meddling.

Dotcom’s claim is supported by an independent IT analyst

who goes by the name Forensicator, who determined that
the DNC files were copied at 22.6 MB/s – “a speed
“I never said Russia did not meddle in the virtually impossible to achieve from halfway around the
election, I said “it may be Russia, or China world, much less over a local network – yet a speed typical
or another country or group, or it may be a of file transfers to a memory stick,” Zero Hedge reports.
400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing
with his computer.” The Russian “hoax”
was that the Trump campaign colluded with
Russia – it never did!” the president wrote.

Dotcom responded:

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Previously, Dotcom claimed that DNC IT specialist Seth The “robbers” shot Rich multiple times in
Rich was the one who downloaded the files and gave them the back. They didn’t take a thing — not a
to Wikileaks. watch, cell phone, money or wallet.

Rich was murdered in Washington, D.C., it what has been

officially labeled a “botched robbery attempt” by the
Metropolitan Police Department. It remains unsolved.
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 Judge Jeanine: “Mueller Is The Person
Who Should Be Investigated” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 7:06 Am

Hannity discussed accusations of political

Judge Jeanine Pirro recently appeared on the Sean Hannity
Show and suggested that there’s another investigation
which should be opened – of Robert Mueller. She cites as
one reason, the fact that he was head of the FBI when the
wheels began to turn for Hillary’s Uranium One deal.
bias on the special counsel’s team.
“I look at Mueller’s team: Obama donors,
Clinton donors, DNC donors. Nobody likes
Trump,” Hannity said, adding that he wants
to know the reason behind Mueller’s
appointment of “Trump haters” to his team
investigating the Russia case.
“Because Robert Mueller is not looking for
an objective team. Robert Mueller is
looking for people with an agenda against
Donald Trump. Robert Mueller is the
person who should be being investigated,
given the fact that he was the head of the
FBI when this attempt to find our uranium
started in 2009,” she said.
Watch the video:

The Hill reported:

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro: Mueller ‘is the person

who should be’ investigated
Fox News contributor Jeanine Pirro said
Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller
“is the person who should be investigated,”
instead of President Trump…
Pirro, one of TV’s most vocal pro-Trump
pundits, dismissed the “Russian so-called
interference” in an appearance on host
Sean Hannity’s program, and she and As a former prosecutor, she’s very good at making a case!

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 Klein: Mueller Indictment Shows Obama
Administration Failed To Stop Alleged Russian Threat
By Aaron Klein
19 Feb 2018
TEL AVIV — The indictment of Russian
nationals and entities for alleged
attempts to interfere in the 2016
presidential election represents a major
intelligence failure on the part of the
Obama administration, which was
warned about the purported Russian
threat since at least 2014.
According to numerous mainstream news media reports
citing U.S. officials, the Obama administration did not take
sufficient action to contend with the alleged Russian threat.
Some former Obama administration officials described the
White House as being reluctant to contend with Russia’s
alleged domestic disruption plots.
The indictment in question was announced Friday by the
Justice Department’s special counsel under Robert
Mueller. The 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals
and three Russian entities charges that since 2013 Russian
agents engaged in a campaign of deception designed to
influence domestic U.S. politics and sow discord among
the population. Almost the entire nearly three-year scheme
took place under the Obama administration.
The cases cited in the indictment reportedly didn’t
influence the election. The scheme largely involved
infiltrating social media groups while posing as Americans
and attempting to spread disinformation and even plan
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some local rallies. Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein emphasized,
“There is no allegation in the indictment
that the charged conduct altered the
outcome of the 2016 election.”
Still, the indictment spells out an alleged Russian attempt
to engage in domestic U.S. actions aimed at some
influence and disruption.
Among the many charges, the Russia nationals are accused
of using fraudulent claims to apply to the Obama State
Department, with two of them successfully tricking the
U.S. agency into providing them with visas. Upon entering
the U.S. on illicitly secured visas, the two Russians
allegedly collected intelligence for their efforts.
The domestic trips during the Obama administration’s
tenure were just part of the alleged Russian campaign,
which began about two years before Trump officially
announced his candidacy.
The indictment names an entity calling itself the Internet
Research Agency, based in St. Petersburg, Russia, as
serving as the main headquarters for allegedly
disseminating political propaganda designed to influence
domestic U.S. issues.
The Russians are accused of using the stolen identities of
real U.S. citizens, including social security numbers, to
interface with U.S. political groups and general voters, and
impersonate grassroots activists online. They are accused
of forming social media groups dedicated to topics such as
Black Lives Matter, immigration and religion, and creating
online groups titled, “United Muslims of America” and
“Army of Jesus,” among others.
The indictment claims that in or around May 2014 – still
prior to Trump’s June 16, 2015 speech announcing his
candidacy and still during the Obama administration — the
organization’s strategy included interfering with the 2016
U.S. presidential election, with the stated goal of
 “spreading distrust towards the candidates
and the political system in general.”
Starting in February 2016, Internet Research Agency
workers were told whom to support, with the indictment
quoting a directive to
“use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and
the rest (except Sanders and Trump — we
support them).”
The agenda seems to have been to sow discord and not
simply support one candidate. The indictment shows that
after the election, the alleged Russian operation began
engaging in anti-Trump activism, including using false
U.S. personas to organize “Trump is not my President”
rallies.
The document charges that the Russians stole the identities
of U.S. persons to deceptively “communicate with
unwitting members, volunteers and supporters of the
Trump campaign involved in local community outreach.”
Specifically, the Russian nationals allegedly impersonated
American grassroots activists to distribute pro-Trump
material and communicate with “Trump campaign staff”
involved in local community outreach for “Florida Goes
Trump” grassroots rallies.
The Russians’ alleged ability to carry out their reported
campaign virtually unimpeded represents a major failure
on the part of the Obama administration, which was
repeatedly warned about the Russia threat and apparently
took little action.
An extensive Politico article from last August was titled,
“Obama team was warned in 2014 about
Russian interference.” The piece cites
“more than half a dozen current and former
officials.”
Politico reported on the many warnings to the Obama
administration about possible Russian meddling:
The Obama administration received
multiple warnings from national security
officials between 2014 and 2016 that the
Kremlin was ramping up its intelligence
operations and building disinformation
networks it could use to disrupt the U.S.
political system, according to more than
half a dozen current and former officials.
As early as 2014, the administration
received a report that quoted a well-
connected Russian source as saying that
the Kremlin was building a disinformation
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arm that could be used to interfere in
Western democracies. The report,
according to an official familiar with it,
included a quote from the Russian source
telling U.S. officials in Moscow, “You have
no idea how extensive these networks are
in Europe … and in the U.S., Russia has
penetrated media organizations, lobbying
firms, political parties, governments and
militaries in all of these places.”
That report was circulated among the
National Security Council, intelligence
agencies and the State Department via
secure email and cable in the spring of
2014 as part of a larger assessment of
Russian intentions in Ukraine, the official
said.
Politico cited numerous officials expressing the view that
the Obama administration did not do enough to contend
with Russia’s alleged domestic plans:
But others in the national security community say an
overly cautious Obama White House could have done
more both during the campaign and in the previous months
and years to alert Russia that it was aware of its intentions
to subvert the U.S. democracy — along with those of some
other Western countries — and would retaliate forcefully
at the first sign of Russian interference.
POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen current and
former officials from across the national security spectrum,
including intelligence agencies, the State Department and
the Pentagon. Almost all said they were aware of Russia’s
aggressive cyberespionage and disinformation campaigns
— especially after the dramatic Russian attempt to hack
Ukrainian elections in 2014 — but felt that either the
White House or key agencies were unwilling to act
forcefully to counter the Russian actions.
The news agency cited five officials as charging the
Obama administration was reluctant to, as Politico
characterized it, “engage in more forceful
counterintelligence strategies against the Kremlin,
including more aggressively tracking and tailing Russian
operatives within the United States.”
A former senior Obama administration official put it more
bluntly, telling the Washington Post that
“I feel like we sort of choked,” referring to
the Obama administration’s response to
alleged Russian meddling. The official
referred to that period as “the hardest thing
about my entire time in government to
defend.”
Following the Mueller indictments, House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) said his
committee repeatedly warned the U.S. government about
Russian meddling attempts, but the Obama administration
“failed to act on the Committee’s warnings.”
Nunes wrote:
The House Intelligence Committee has
been investigating these threats for many
years: in 2014—the year the Russians
began their operation targeting the 2016
elections—I warned about Russia’s
worldwide influence operations. In April
2016 I stated that the United States’ failure
to predict Putin’s plans and intentions is
“the biggest intelligence failure that we’ve
had since 9/11.” Although the Obama
Administration failed to act on the
Committee’s warnings, it’s gratifying to see
that Russian agents involved in these
operations have now been identified and
indicted.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna
Romney McDaniel charged the indictment shows the
Obama administration lost “sight of Russia.”
“These indictments are very telling that the
Obama administration lost sight of Russia
during their tenure,” McDaniel said in an
interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto
on Friday. “I look back at 2012 when Mitt
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Romney said, ‘Hey, our biggest geopolitical
foe is Russia,’ and President Obama
laughed at him,” McDaniel stated.
Trump himself expressed similar views in a series of
tweets over the weekend:
Now that Adam Schiff is starting to blame
President Obama for Russian meddling in
the election, he is probably doing so as yet
another excuse that the Democrats, lead
by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary
Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn’t I
a great candidate?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 18, 2018
Funny how the Fake News Media doesn’t
want to say that the Russian group was
formed in 2014, long before my run for
President. Maybe they knew I was going to
run even though I didn’t know!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 17, 2018
Finally, Liddle’ Adam Schiff, the leakin’
monster of no control, is now blaming the
Obama Administration for Russian
meddling in the 2016 Election. He is finally
right about something. Obama was
President, knew of the threat, and did
nothing. Thank you Adam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 18, 2018
 Dem Lawmaker Warns Mueller Against Releasing Witch
Hunt Findings Before Election – Democrats
Worried It Will Hurt Them
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 8:28 Am

Late last year former White House chief
strategist told The Gateway Pundit that
he believed Robert Mueller would drop
his report in the fall of 2017 to impact
the midterm elections.
This was months ago before the
(conservative) public was made aware
of all of the illegal activities by the
previous Obama administration in
spying on the Trump campaign,
transition team and administration
using a phony Democrat document as
evidence of Russian collusion.
But as more and more information is revealed on the
Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama administration
activities and spying on Donald Trump the story is starting
to change direction.
This weekend liberal Senator Bob Casey
(D-PA) warned Robert Mueller not to
release his report on the Trump witch
hunt before the election.
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) on Sunday warned special
counsel Robert Mueller against issuing a report on his
findings in the ongoing investigation of Russian
interference in the 2016 election near the upcoming 2018
midterm elections.
Speaking to radio host John Catsimatidis on New York
radio station AM 970, Casey said he couldn’t make any
assumptions about where the Mueller investigation is
going in light of indictments issued on Friday. But he
added that he would recommend Mueller not release a
report on his findings near the midterms, when it would
distract from elections or cause people to question the
election’s integrity.
“I don’t think we’ll know anywhere near the full story
until [Mueller] issues his report,” Casey said. “But once
you get into the summer, and you get close to the election,
I think it’s a mistake for him to release it late. I think you
should wait until after [the election]” Casey said.
Here is the interview.

There is only one reason why a

Democrat would be worried about
Mueller’s findings — Democrats believe
the findings will hurt them.

The Hill reported:

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 Sen. Bill Cassidy: Congress Should Hold
Hearings On How FBI Botched Cruz Case
By Ian Mason
19 Feb 2018
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) says he
“absolutely” supports calls for
Congress to investigate the FBI’s
heavily criticized failure to stop a mass
murderer’s attack on a Florida high
school last week during an interview
with Breitbart News’ Deputy Political
Editor Amanda House on Breitbart News
Saturday.
The FBI’s lukewarm response to multiple tips that Nikolas
Cruz, the suspect in the Parkland, FL, school massacre that
left 17 people dead, was a potential threat, came under fire
from both sides of the political spectrum almost
immediately.
House asked Cassidy if he would support Congress
looking into the oversights that left Cruz able to carry out
his attack despite the FBI receiving tips in both September
and January that the 19-year-old was contemplating
violence, the police reportedly having been called to his
home 39 times, and his threatening both online and in
person to bring guns to school.
“Absolutely,” Cassidy replied. “Here we
have the FBI, not with subtle findings, but
with horrible findings of a young man who
the police have been called on 39 different
occasions, posting YouTube videos.
Someone within a month or even sooner
reporting to the FBI that he was prone to
danger, fellow students at the school
identifying him as someone who was
incredibly troubled, and it wasn’t followed
up on. Why not? And how systemic is that
issue?”
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“I think that’s something Congress should
be interested in,” he continued.
On Friday, the day before Cassidy’s radio appearance,
Florida Gov. Rick Scott called for FBI Director
Christopher Wray to resign over the fiasco, when asked for
his opinion, Cassidy was reluctant to do the same.
“The FBI director has not been on the job
that long, but someone should be held
accountable,” Cassidy said. “If there’s a
training accident and a Navy sailor dies, it
isn’t the head of the Navy who steps down,
it is the … Admiral most directly in charge
steps down. And whoever’s most directly in
charge should be held accountable.”
Cassidy was also skeptical of the cascade of generic calls
for “gun control” in response to the Parkland shooting.
“I’m never quite sure what people mean by
‘gun control’,” he told House. “If they mean
making sure that the mentally ill or those
prone to danger don’t get weapons,
absolutely. That’s already the law; we need
to implement it. If they mean the
confiscation of weapons from law-abiding
citizens, that is another issue.”
Other topics discussed include the senator’s continued
effort to completely repeal and replace Obamacare, the
Republican tax cut, immigration, and the 2018 midterm
elections.
Breitbart News Saturday is broadcast live on SiriusXM
Patriot Channel 125 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
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bot twitter accounts.
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And here is a list of 108 of the 2,752
Russian bot accounts banned by Twitter
where the archives can be found.
Russian bots banned by Twitter
They have come to be known as "Russian bots".
From the list of 2752 accounts banned by Twitter,
108 (4%) links where archives were found.
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 White House: President Trump Supports
New Law For Background Check System
By AWR Hawkins
19 Feb 2018
On Monday morning the White House
signaled that President Trump
supports the law Sens. John Cornyn (R-
TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) are
pushing for the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System
(NICS).
Cornyn and longtime gun control proponent Murphy
introduced the law shortly after the November 5, 2017,
Texas church shooting, with Murphy describing it as the
most significant gun law promoted since Sen. Joe Manchin
.
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(D-NW) pushed universal background checks as a
response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack.
Murphy tweeted:
The Fix NICS Act is the most important
piece of bipartisan guns legislation since
Manchin-Toomey. 4 Dems, 4 Republicans.
Reforms aren't window dressing. Big deal.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT)
November 16, 2017
On Monday morning ABC News’ Arlette Saenz reported
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s
announcement that Trump supports the proposal put forth
by Cornyn and Murphy, but did indicate that certain
revisions/changes must be made.
Saenz tweeted Sanders’ statement on the issue:
The Fix NICS Act is the most important
piece of bipartisan guns legislation since
Manchin-Toomey. 4 Dems, 4 Republicans.
Reforms aren't window dressing. Big deal.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT)
November 16, 2017
 REPORT: “Bombshells Are Likely Ahead”
In Gen. Flynn Case As Judge Puts Mueller In Hot Seat
By Joshua Caplan
February 19, 2018, 9:47 Am
With each passing day, more evidence
suggests the indictment of former
National Security Adviser Ret. Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn was a dubious one. In
what would be an insurmountable blow
to special counsel Robert
Mueller’s unchecked Russia probe,
former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell
says if there is a man who can bring
justice for Flynn, it’s Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan.
As the Daily Caller reported last week, Sullivan “issued a
“Brady” order requiring Mueller to provide Flynn all
information that is favorable to the defense whether with
respect to guilt or punishment.”
According to Margot Cleveland of The Federalist, the
order suggests “bombshell are likely ahead.”
The Federalist reports:
With a protective order in place, Flynn’s
attorneys should start receiving the
required disclosures from the special
counsel’s office. There is reason to believe
these will include some bombshells.
First, we know from the recently released
GOP House Intelligence Committee memo
and the Grassley-Graham criminal referral
of Christopher Steele, the FBI and DOJ
withheld significant (and material, in
my view) information in seeking a Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant
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to conduct surveillance on Trump
campaign volunteer Carter Page. There
is cause to believe the FISA court was
connected to the criminal charge filed
against Flynn because Contreras, who
recused less than a week after accepting
Flynn’s guilty plea, “is one of just three
FISA court judges who sits in the District of
Columbia, where it is likely the Trump-
Russia FISA warrants were sought.”
Was other evidence withheld, either from
the FISA court or from Flynn’s attorneys in
negotiating a plea? Again, there is reason
to believe so, given the players involved
and the facts already uncovered. […]
Mueller must now provide Flynn all exculpatory evidence:
Significantly, if the information is favorable to Flynn but
the special counsel’s office believes it is immaterial,
government attorneys must nonetheless provide the
evidence to Sullivan to allow him to make the call. In other
words, Mueller’s team cannot unilaterally decide what
evidence matters, as the Department of Justice did in
applying to the FISA court for a surveillance warrant on
Page while withholding the key fact that Hillary Clinton
and the Democratic National Committee paid for
information crucial to the application.
Earlier this month, Byron York of the Washington
Examiner reported former FBI Director James Comey told
congressional investigators he did not believe Flynn lied
during an unannounced interview with agent Peter Strzok
on January 24th, 2017.
According to veteran political operative and Infowars
correspondent, Roger Stone, lawyers for Flynn are
preparing legal action to have all charges against him
dropped.
Last month, special counsel Robert Mueller requested the
postponement of Flynn’s sentencing.
“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s
investigation, the parties do not believe that
this matter is ready to be scheduled for a
sentencing hearing at this time,” the special
counsel asked the court.
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 The court filing stated the special counsel could not
determine a sentencing date for Flynn and requested a 90-
day extension.

On December 1st, 2017, Flynn plead guilty to lying to FBI

agents about making contact with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition period.

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 Donald Trump Plans To Meet With Students,
Lawmakers, Teachers, And Law Enforcement
To Discuss School Shootings
By Charlie Spiering
19 Feb 2018

President Donald Trump plans to meet shooting in Florida. The legislation is also supported by
with interested parties at the White the National Rifle Association.
House to discuss preventing school
shootings in America. In his remarks after the shooting, Trump
said his “top priority” would be “making our
According to the White House, the president will host a schools and our children safer.”
listening session with high school students and teachers on
“It is not enough to simply take actions that
Wednesday and a meeting with state and local officials on
make us feel like we are making a
Thursday to discuss school safety.
difference,” he said. “We must actually
make that difference.”
Trump also signaled interest in moving forward legislation
on improving background checks in response to the school
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 Clinton Camp Promoted The DNC-Funded Steele Dossier
During General Election In Press Release —
Then Scrubbed It
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 10:14 Am

Now there is evidence the Hillary Campaign promoted the

bogus dossier during the election in a press release.

The press release has since been scrubbed from the

internet.

Here’s a copy of the Hillary Campaign press release

promoting the fake Russian dossier that was paid for by
the DNC.

According to Big League Politics the press release was

almost completely scrubbed from the Internet.

This bogus DNC dossier was then later

The Hillary Campaign and DNC paid for the bogus Steel used by the FBI, DOJ and State
dossier during the election. Department to spy on Donald Trump,
his campaign, his family, his transition
The document was a collection of bogus team and the Trump Administration.
accusations on Donald Trump and his
They all need to be locked up.
campaign fed to Fusion GPS by Russian
operatives.
Via Big League Politics.
The DNC knew all about the dossier but hid this from the
American public until October 2017 when it was published
in the Washington Post.

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 Judge’s ‘Unnoticed Order Reveals Something
Fascinating’: Gen. Flynn’s Motion To Withdraw Guilty
Plea ‘Likely In The Works’
By Joshua Caplan
February 19, 2018, 10:30 Am
With each passing day, more evidence
suggests the indictment of former
National Security Adviser Ret. Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn was a dubious one. In
what would be an insurmountable blow
to special counsel Robert Mueller’s
unchecked Russia probe, former federal
prosecutor Sidney Powell says if there
is a man who can bring justice for
Flynn, it’s Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
As the Daily Caller reported last week, Sullivan “issued a
“Brady” order requiring Mueller to provide Flynn all
information that is favorable to the defense whether with
respect to guilt or punishment.”
According to Margot Cleveland of The Federalist, the
order reveals something ‘widely unnoticed,’ and
‘fascinating,’ about Flynn’s next legal move.
The Federalist reports:
On Friday, Judge Emmet Sullivan
issued an order in United States v.
Flynn that, while widely unnoticed,
reveals something fascinating: A motion
by Michael Flynn to withdraw his guilty
plea based on government misconduct
is likely in the works. […]
Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor and author of
“Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the
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Department of Justice,” writes that Flynn should
withdraw his guilty plea and suggests that Sullivan, as
“the country’s premier jurist experienced in
the abuses of our Department of Justice, . .
. is the best person to confront the
egregious government misconduct that has
led to and been perpetrated by the Mueller-
Weissmann ‘investigation’ and to right the
injustices that have arisen from it.” […]
That order consisted of an updated standing order detailing
the government’s obligations under Brady. On the surface,
Friday’s order seems inconsequential, but in comparing the
December 12, 2017, version to the February 16, 2018,
version, one substantive change stood out.
It was subtle, but significant given the posture of this case:
The revised version added one sentence specifying that the
government’s obligation to produce evidence material
either to the defendant’s guilt or punishment
“includes producing, during plea
negotiations, any exculpatory evidence in
the government’s possession.”
“Judge Emmet Sullivan’s latest order
requiring DOJ to turn over all exculpatory
evidence to Flynn before he’s sentenced
seems like a pretty big deal,” said The
Federalist co-founder Sean Davis Monday.
According to veteran political operative and Infowars
correspondent, Roger Stone, lawyers for Flynn are
preparing legal action to have all charges against him
dropped.
Credit: The Alex Jones Channel
 STONE: “Lawyers for General Mike Flynn
will shortly file a motion to dismiss all the
charges filed against him, based on reports
now confirmed by The Hill, Circa News and
Infowars, that Assistant FBI Director
Andrew McCabe told a teleconference of
law enforcement officials, “first we f*ck
Flynn, then we f*ck Trump.”
Last month, special counsel Robert Mueller requested the
postponement of Flynn’s sentencing.
“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s
investigation, the parties do not believe that The court filing stated the special counsel could not
this matter is ready to be scheduled for a determine a sentencing date for Flynn and requested a 90-
sentencing hearing at this time,” the special day extension.
counsel asked the court.
On December 1st, 2017, Flynn plead guilty to lying to FBI
agents about making contact with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition period.

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 Trump Motorcade Press Van Drivers
Abruptly Replaced After Gun Found In Driver’s Bag
By Kristinn Taylor
February 19, 2018, 10:34 Am

Screening took place off club grounds in parking lot

A security scare with the motorcade for President Donald
Trump prompted the abrupt replacement of every press
van driver Monday morning at Mar-a-Lago after a gun was
found in a bag of one of the drivers. The gun was found
outside Mar-a-Lago as the driver was being screened by
the Secret Service.
across the street and roughly an hour before press
vans joined up with presidential motorcade.
Driver was not allowed onto club property so a White
House staffer drove the van instead. White House
staff said all drivers were replaced after the incident.
When press loaded back into vans, driver was being
questioned by an officer.
When on club grounds, another van grazed a Secret
Service vehicle in the parking lot. Damage to vehicles
appeared to be very minor and no one was hurt.
Sent from my iPhone”
The driver reportedly told the Secret Service he ‘forgot’
the gun was in the bag.

Jordan Fabian of the Hill filed a pool report on the

incident:

*From:* Jordan Fabian

*Date:* February 19, 2018 at 9:12:37 AM EST
*Subject:**Travel print pool report #2 – Trump
International Golf Club*
The presidential motorcade was rolling from Mar-a-
Lago at 8:55 AM. Pool did not see POTUS enter
motorcade.
Motorcade pulled into Trump International Golf Club in
West Palm Beach at 9:09 AM.
Press vans broke off to hold at lounge at Palm Beach
International Airport.
No word on the presidents activities at the golf club.
Trump skipped golf the past two days in the wake of
last weeks school shooting.
Pool has not laid eyes on POTUS since Friday night,
when he met with injured victims and first responders
from the Parkland shooting.
Press had an eventful morning before entering Mar-a-
Lago:
Driver of one of the press pool vans was detained
during security screening for what he said was a
personal firearm found in his baggage. Driver said he
forgot to leave the firearm inside his personal vehicle
before entering van.
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Press pool photo from Monday morning. “Typically such drivers are volunteers, not
government employees or members of the
Update: The Washington Times’ Dave Boyer reports the media.”
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 CNN Panelist Calls Trump
'Unhinged', Criticizes 'Tweet Storm'
By Ryan Foley
February 19, 2018 10:44 AM EST
During Monday’s edition of CNN's New Day, panelist
John Avlon said that President Trump’s “9-hour tweet
storm” demonstrates that he is “unhinged.” The “tweet
storm” in question consisted of about a dozen tweets
primarily discussing the Russia investigation and arguing
that the FBI’s obsession with it caused them to overlook
warning signs about the school shooter that killed 17
people at a south Florida high school last week.
Guest co-host Dave Briggs also criticized the “tweet
storm”, saying
“No proof of collusion, no proof of
instruction (sic) but proof the President,
John, should play more golf because 20
tweets on Saturday and Sunday, it was a
hot mess.”
Keep in mind that if the President actually chose to play
golf, the media would have criticized him for his
“insensitivity” for teeing up just miles away from the site
of last week’s school shooting.
After co-host Alisyn Camerota suggested that the tweeting
was prompted by Trump’s consumption of cable TV,
Avlon took a veiled swipe at Fox News, referring to it as
“one channel that has a tendency to sort of
give talking points to the worst angels of his
nature.”
Avlon also blasted the President for listening to cable TV
over his own intelligence community.
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Avlon continued to make the argument that the American
people have elected an “unhinged” President, saying that
his cabinet keeps attempting to contain him and arguing
that “the President is isolated himself in sort of a
hermetically sealed bubble.” Nothing thrills the media
more than the idea of a White House in chaos.
The rest of the segment dealt with one of CNN’s favorite
topics; the Russia investigation. The hosts and the panelists
attempted to drill into the audience’s skull the ideas that
the investigation has only just begun and that the
indictment of 13 Russian nationals completely unrelated to
the Trump campaign does not provide any vindication to
the President’s “no collusion” narrative.
Legal analyst Carrie Cordero argued that
the President’s tweets demonstrate “that
he’s terrified of this investigation.”
Nine months into the Special Counsel’s investigation, it
looks like CNN will not dial back the Russia hysteria
anytime soon.
CNN New Day
02/19/18
06:05 AM
JOHN AVLON: You could do a montage of him denying this; this
has been his reflexive position from the beginning. And it’s only
when he’s being tightly scripted does he acknowledge. One of
the extraordinary things about this 9-hour tweet storm is just how
unhinged the President seemed. I mean, he’s going after his own
National Security Director, right? He’s going after Hillary Clinton,
Obama, the FBI; all punctuated by dinner with Geraldo. This is
not a, a, a particularly hinged guy on, on Presidents’ Day
Weekend serving in the Oval Office. But you really do get a
sense of, of the real man from Twitter Trump and it doesn’t look
real pretty right now.
DAVE BRIGGS: Yeah, no proof of collusion, no proof of
instruction but proof the President, John, should play more golf
because 20 tweets on Saturday and Sunday, it was a hot mess
but Carrie let’s get back to the indictment; 13 Russians indicted,
three entities, what did it show? Some call this the largest attack
on our country since 9/11.
CARRIE CORDERO: Well, this was a really big indictment. As
you said, it was 13 Russian nationals and what it shows is that
the Special Counsel’s team is willing to charge Russian
nationals, Russian companies that were operating this
intelligence operation directed against American democracy,
even if the team knows that these individuals probably will never
actually stand trial in a U.S. Court. And so, what it shows, it
demonstrates the level of evidence that the United States
government has assembled against these Russian organizations
and individuals and it shows; I think that it’s more likely that in the
future, we might see more indictments and charges against
individuals, perhaps who were involved in the DNC hacking and
the Podesta hacking and the leaking of those, of that information
because if the team was willing to charge Russian nationals and
Russian organizations in this, which was conspiracy to defraud
the U.S. government, then I think we’re going to see more of the
same.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: You’re right. There’s no indication that this
was the end for Mueller. There is indication that this is, you know,
the beginning or somewhere in the middle but not the end. So
listen, John, back to the tweet storm because there’s an
interesting back story about what was happening behind the
tweet storm that we should get into. Maggie Haberman of The
New York Times has some reporting, as well as CNN that at first,
the President was pleased with the Mueller indictment because it
was people in Russia, 13 people who he doesn’t know. They’re
not connected to the Trump campaign. In fact, they said there’s
no, no, no one wittingly on the Trump campaign. So he saw that
as good news. And he wanted to play golf but he was counseled
that this would not be a good weekend to play golf when
Parkland, Florida is a few miles away and they have just suffered
this horrific school shooting. So, he was inside and he was
watching TV is the story. And then he started hearing analysts
and people saying that in fact, this was not good news for the
Trump campaign. And then he started getting sort of more
agitated and tweeting this stuff.
JOHN AVLON: Yeah. Look, we know the President is reactive to
what he watches on TV, particularly one channel that has a
tendency to sort of give talking points to the worst angels of his
nature. The fact that the President consistently listens to cable
TV over his own intelligence community is really troubling and
that raises the real question of, you know, technically, tweets are
official Presidential statements.
CAMEROTA: Absolutely.
AVLON: And the fact that the President’s keep confusing
American policy, keep being attempted to be contained by his
own cabinet, speaks to the which, they way in which the
President is isolated himself in sort of a hermetically sealed
bubble. This indictment is a thorough going indictment of the
denial that Russia meddled in our election. They clearly did on a
highly sophisticated way over a long period of time designed to
create massive disruption and prey on identity politics fissures in
.
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our society, okay? But Donald Trump, I think, realized over time
that this is not in any way a vindication; that this is part of a larger
plan that was in place; that Mueller is highlighting. And the fact
that he’s reactive to cable TV, maybe sometimes outside voices
give him a reality check. But this is not a situation where the
President should feel at all vindicated. This is part of a larger
Mueller investigation and that is incontrovertible now. He’s not
going to believe his intelligence agency, this lays it out real clear
for the American people.
BRIGGS: That was the word used by National Security Advisor
H.R. McMaster, “the evidence is now incontrovertible that
Moscow meddled in the 2016 campaign.” So Carrie, does it have
anything to do with vindicating the President because he
retweeted a New York Post column that says “charges deal Don
a big win.” Did they?
CARRIE CORDERO: I don’t think so. And here’s why. The main
part of the, what the, what the indictment charged was
conspiracy to defraud the United States and what that defrauding
is in the indictment is interfering with U.S. democracy and
interfering with the election. What that means is if there is
evidence that individuals connected to the campaign or other
Americans involved in the political process were also conspiring
or were assisting in some way or had knowledge that that
conspiracy can actually broaden. And so, I’m not, we don’t know
if there is that evidence yet because we haven’t seen that
revealed but the way in which this document was crafted leaves
open that possibility. I think, also, the President’s tweets
demonstrate that he’s terrified of this investigation and he’s either
terrified of this investigation because there is some kind of
evidence that would implicate those close to him or those
involved in his campaign or he’s worried about the fact that this
Special Counsel now, with this indictment and the way that the
Deputy Attorney General is conducting oversight of it, that this
investigation is now on track and will not be derailed. And
whether that reaches into financial aspects related to the
campaign or the Trump Organization, or whatever else it is that
has him so concerned, it is on track and this train is continuing to
run.
CAMEROTA: I guess. I mean, look. That’s one interpretation that
he’s terrified, we also do have some reporting that he’s just very,
very frustrated because he doesn’t want it to be perceived that he
had any help winning. He won this election, he feels, fair and
square and the idea of, whenever it’s suggested that he may
have had some help because the Russians wanted him to win,
that’s what he bristles at. He won’t hear that.
BRIGGS: This is all the small stuff. What are we going to do
about it? How are we going to stop it in 2018 and beyond? That
we will address. John?
AVLON: We know from DNI Coats’s testimony that there is no
coordinated effort to block, what he’s already saying is going on
now, that Russia is trying to influence the ‘18 election.
 JILL STEIN: Media And Democrats
Were The Real Meddlers In 2016 Election (VIDEO)
Guest Post By Michael Lachance At American Lookout
February 19, 2018

She told Alex Witt the idea there was this big Russian
attempt to back her campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton is
absurd, saying,

“This doesn’t pass the laugh test.”

She continued on to say there was

“other kinds of interference,” like all the

2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein was on MSNBC this
weekend. When the host tried to suggest that Stein was
complicit in Russian meddling which supposedly helped
Trump win, Stein got pretty angry. She accused the media
of giving too much air time to Trump and also accused the
Here’s the video:
DNC of rigging their primary.
airtime the media gave Trump in 2016:
“Yes, there was Russian interference, but
remember, there was very compelling
interference going on by way of media, by
way of the DNC––did the DNC not rig the
primary?”

The host could barely contain the situation and kept trying
to talk over Stein.

Mediaite has more details:

Jill Stein Downplays Russian Meddling:

Media and DNC Interfered in 2016 Election
Too
Days after the Russian indictments were
handed down, Jill Stein appeared on
MSNBC today to downplay Russian
interference by pointing to American
interference in the election.
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 EVERY Time! You’ll NEVER Guess What’s Got Brian
Stelter Questioning Trump’s Mental Fitness
By Sarah D
Posted At 11:47 Am On February 19, 2018

It takes a lot to set Brian Stelter off. We kid, of course. But

this is pretty pathetic, even for him.

Over the weekend, Stelter expressed grave concern over

Trump’s mental fitness:

Basically:

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Before we wrap this up …

Please to enjoy:

Well, to be fair, they were a major topic of cable news

coverage because of people like Brian Stelter. So.

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 MRC Supporters Make 25,000 Phone Calls
Demanding ABC Apologize For Attacking
Pence, Christians
By NB Staff
February 19, 2018 12:17 PM EST
As of Monday morning, the Media Research Center and its
grassroots members made over 25,000 calls to ABC
lambasting the network, demanding a full apology for anti-
Christian comments made by The View on February 13
that suggested Vice President Mike Pence’s “dangerous”
Christian faith was a “mental illness.”
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell tweeted the
following in response to this statistic:
This flood of 25,363 phone calls came following a
February 15 open letter by Bozell to ABC that called out
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the “offensive comments” by co-hosts Joy Behar and
Sunny Hostin.
“These characterizations of the Vice
President’s faith are insulting not just to
him, but to all Christians. Yet as of the
writing of this letter, neither Ms. Hostin,
nor Ms. Behar, nor ABC have
apologized,” Bozell added before noting
that this was the latest chapter in a pattern
of far-left, anti-Christian behavior by ABC.
Bozell warned that these “slurs against
the Vice President’s faith insult millions
of Christians and are unacceptable” and
if there’s no sufficient apology, the MRC
will reactivate its grassroots supporters and
have them “contact the advertisers of
The View.”
FoxNews.com's Brian Flood noted as such, pointing out
late Monday morning that the MRC has done just that,
reaching out to “at least five advertisers” on the show.
 Trump Called For ‘Unifying Event’
Two Weeks Before Florida School Shooting
Mac Slavo
February 19th, 2018
Two weeks before the Florida school shooting, president
Donald Trump said it would be difficult to “unify” the
country without a major event. But the odd coincidence is
that now that there was a “major event,” the country is
more divided than ever before.
According to PBS, hours before his first State of the Union
address two weeks ago, President Donald Trump said that
he wants to unite the country amid “tremendous
divisiveness” and hopes he can do so without a traumatic
event affecting Americans. Trump spoke about creating a
more united country during a lunch with a number of
television news anchors. The president said the United
States has long been divided, including during the
impeachment of former president Bill Clinton. Trump also
said that Americans usually come together during times of
suffering.
“I would love to be able to bring back
our country into a great form of unity,”
Trump said. “Without a major event
where people pull together, that’s hard
to do. But I would like to do it without
that major event because usually that
major event is not a good thing.”
But the major event – the mass shooting a high school in
Florida – did not bring people together; it only divided
them further. Joe Joseph with The Daily Sheeple says
“This is interesting, because this, he said
prior to the shooting down in Florida.”
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“Now, that’s not to say president Trump
orchestrated that [the mass shooting in
Florida] because I doubt that he did, in fact,
I don’t think that for a second. But, what I
will say, is that these events, oftentimes,
cause more divide than anything else,”
Joseph said. “The last time I saw an event
unify the country was 9/11, and it was only
for a short time.”
“Normally, it takes that negative event or
that attack that threatens the well-being of
the nation that affect us all, or that we
perceive affects us all,” Joseph said. But,
“there are so many things that divide the
country right now, it’s the whole gun control
debate again. Here we have another crazy
that’s gone out, done his thing, and
interestingly enough, they’re gonna raze
the school, which, I always thought crime
scenes needed to be preserved…it seems
like every major casualty or every major
event, we have to go and just raze the
crime scene…does anybody not think that
this is a little odd…that’s a crime scene!
Why are we destroying evidence?” It really
isn’t a wonder why people believe some of
the major events are scripted or didn’t
happen the way we were told that they did.
People want instant gratification and their
feelings validated which also leads to
divisiveness.
“One thing’s for sure,” Joseph says. “Since
he [Trump] said this, we did have a major
event an I’ll tell ya…that major event has
caused an even deeper rift and divide
among people in this country and I don’t
think that there’s an easy answer.”
 Hah-Hah! Julian Assange Trolls The Hell
Out Of Hillary Clinton With #Presidentsday Jab
By Joshua Caplan
February 19, 2018, 12:36 Pm

As millions of Americans celebrate

Presidents’ Day Monday, one person in
particular, is sure to be down in the
dumps. That person is Hillary Rodham
Clinton, who lost to President Trump in
the 2016 election. WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange brutally jabbed Clinton
by simply tweeting the hashtag
#PresidentsDay.

Ouch.
As The Gateway Pundit covered in great
detail, WikiLeaks published over 20,000 pages of Podesta’s
emails between October and November 2016.

Damning information from the emails included Hillary

Clinton’s Wall Street speeches and presidential debate
questions leaked by DNC operative Donna Brazile.

As Townhall’s Christine Rousselle wrote last year,

“This tweet aged about as well as an

avocado.”
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 CBS Gives Potential Candidate Oprah A
Platform To Quiz Voters On Trump’s Mental Fitness
By Scott Whitlock
February 19, 2018 12:39 PM EST

CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday devoted 11 minutes to

potential presidential candidate Oprah Winfrey’s
conversation with voters in the swing state Michigan.
Winfrey’s questions included pressing these selected
Americans on Donald Trump’s mental fitness as well as
accusations of sexual abuse against the President.
After the 60 Minutes aired, an angry Trump tweeted that
the segment was “biased and slanted.” In reality, the
segment featured seven voters who supported Trump and
seven who did not. Many of the questions were bland and
innocuous, such as this one:

At one point, Winfrey wondered: “So the tax plan... are you gonna
personally benefit from that?”
“There have been some members of
Congress, including Republicans,
questioning his stability and fitness for
office. What do you think of that, and do
you believe he has the temperament to be
president?”

However, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King admitted

on Friday that she is lobbying her friend Winfrey to run.
At a certain point, the talk show host's presence on CBS
and interview segments with swing state voters should be
considered a conflict of interest.
Later, she probed the voters on the Me Too movement, a
topic she gave a speech on for this year’s Golden Globes. A partial transcript of Winfrey’s questions can be found by
Those remarks started furious speculation amongst liberals clicking “expand” below:
in the media about her 2020 presidential plans.
60 Minutes
On Sunday, Winfrey asked voters in Grand Rapids, 2/19/18
Michigan:
OPRAH WINFREY: So the tax plan, do you feel, are you gonna
One person who hasn't been touched by personally benefit from that?
the movement is the president himself.
During the campaign, we are all aware that ...
some 20 women accused him of
inappropriate sexual behavior. There was WINFREY: So the tax plan, do you feel, are you gonna
the Access Hollywood tape of course. What personally benefit from that?
do you all think about that?
Winfrey did not mention the inappropriate ...
sexual behavior of Bill Clinton or her own
connection to alleged sexual predator
Harvey Weinstein.
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 ...

WINFREY: Okay, so polls are showing that respect for the United
States is eroding around the world. Do you care what the world
thinks of the United States?

...

WINFREY: How do you feel safer? Tell me how you feel safer?

WINFREY: Tom, you said the quote that was so memorable the
last time, I love him more and more every day. Do you still feel
that?
TOM: I do.
WINFREY: Do you still send a check every time he does
something that you approve of?
TOM: When he fulfills a campaign promise, yes I do.
...
...
WINFREY: There have been some members of Congress,
including Republicans, questioning his stability and fitness for
office. What do you think of that, and do you believe he has the
temperament to be president?
...
WINFREY: One person who hasn't been touched by the
movement is the president himself. During the campaign, we are
all aware that some 20 women accused him of inappropriate
sexual behavior. There was the Access Hollywood tape of
course. What do you all think about that?

WINFREY: Who here believes that he made the comment about,

quote, "s*ithole countries?"

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 Eric Holder Unleashes On Trump Admin
Over 13 Russian Trolls – Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
February 19, 2018, 12:42 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand It also appears Mueller and his team of
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, far left attorneys copied much of their
along with 3 Russian entities, accused report from an earlier RFE article.
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary The Russian troll farm was public knowledge years ago,
Clinton.” but this is all Trump’s fault.

The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger. According to the left, 13 Russian trolls are a threat to our
democracy, but millions of illegal aliens leeching off our
system and voting in our elections is no problem
Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge
whatsoever.
they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans; the outcome of the election wasn’t impacted.
Trump supporters responded.
The Russian trolls started their operation in 2014 but Eric
‘Fast and Furious’ Holder is hammering Trump even
though Obama was president when these Russians entered
the U.S.

He initially said Mueller’s indictment was “hugely

significant” which is laughable.

Now Holder is hammering the Trump administration for

not putting sanctions on Russia.

Holder tweeted,

“13 Russians indicted/the scheme to

undermine our democracy laid bare. What
is this President/this Administration doing
to retaliate (there are sanctions passed by
Congress) or to prevent further harm from
occurring by protecting upcoming
elections? Nothing-not a thing. Why not?”

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 Flashback: CNN And MSNBC’s Enthusiastic
Coverage Of Russian-Sponsored Anti-Trump Rally
By Rich Noyes
February 19, 2018 1:09 PM EST

“Alex, it’s not only a legitimate concern for

her, it’s a legitimate concern for a lot of
people I’ve spoken to....They’re wondering
if this [Trump’s election] is almost a license
to carry in terms of hate.”

If the goal of the secret Russian organizers was to inject

nonsense like that into the American political dialogue,
then their unwitting helpers on CNN and MSNBC
certainly gave them plenty of assistance that day.

One of the revelations in Friday’s indictment handed down

by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was that alleged
Russian attempts to sow disunity in 2016 included the
organization of both pro- and anti-Trump rallies in New
York City on the Saturday after Election Day.

A check of their Novembe 12 coverage showed both CNN

and MSNBC gave enthusiastic coverage to the Russian-
organized anti-Trump rally that day, with live reports
every hour. Correspondents celebrated the idea that it was
“a love rally,” and repeated the marchers’ anti-Trump
mantras, such as: Both CNN and MSNBC talked about who they thought
was organizing the rally. On MSNBC a few minutes
“We reject the President-elect.” before the march began, anchor Alex Witt asked Radford:

While the two liberal anti-Trump networks offered heavy “Hey, Morgan, can you tell who has
coverage of the anti-Trump rally throughout the day, a organized this rally?...Is there someone in
check of coverage between noon and 5:00 charge here?”
p.m. Eastern found that the Fox News Channel offered
“Right now, this is lots of different groups of
only a short re-cap (66 seconds) at the start of their 4:00
people who have come together,” Radford
p.m. Eastern hour.
explained, “with no, necessarily, official
leader, and that’s been some of the
Of course, none of the networks were aware of who was criticism.”
allegedly behind the march, but CNN and MSNBC reveled
in the inflammatory messages of the march. At one point,
An hour later on CNN, correspondent Brynn Gingras said
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt credulously responded to the
the rally had been organized by
ridiculously alarmist rhetoric:

“a 20-year-old student from St. John’s

“That woman, when she’s saying she’s
University here in New York....We’ve seen
concerned that black people will be shot in
him several times shaking hands with
the street....Is that a legitimate concern for
police officers....It is the most organized
her? Because, that’s scary.”
protest that I’ve seen here in New York
City.”
Correspondent Morgan Radford cheerfully played along:

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A little after 3:00 p.m. Eastern, Gingras marveled at the
crowd size, saying she had been “texting with the person, a
20-year-old college student here in New York City who
organized this protest. I’ve been texting with him, and I
asked,
‘Are you impressed with the size,’ and he
says ‘It’s amazing what the collective
voices can spread.’”
York called “Trump is NOT my President”
held on or about November 12, 2016.
Here’s a video with more highlights from CNN and
MSNBC’s coverage of the Russian-organized anti-Trump
march, all from between noon and 5:00 p.m. Eastern on
November 12, 2016:

But according to Mueller’s indictment:

In or around November 2016, Defendants

and their co-conspirators organized a rally
in New York through one
ORGANIZATION-controlled group
designed to “show your support for
President-Elect Donald Trump,” held on or
about November 12, 2016. At the same
time, Defendants and their co-conspirators,
through another ORGANIZATION-
controlled group, organized a rally in New
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 Watch A Flustered John Podesta Respond
To "How 13 Russians Operatives" Outsmarted Hillary
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 13:29

Former Clinton campaign manager and ardent foodie, John

Podesta, was caught flat-footed during a heated exchange
on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday after being asked
about the campaign's failure to campaign in so-called
"purple states" in 2016.

In a discussion of 13 Russian nationals indicted by Special

Counsel Robert Mueller, host Nancy Cordes noted that
Russian operatives who meddled in the election somehow
realized the importance of focusing on those highly
Podesta was caught off guard by the same MSM which
contested swing states.
was literally eating out of his home during propaganda
huddles "off-the-record" dinners (no clue what was served
“How is it that these Russian operatives over what) - with one of the goals of "Framing the HRC
knew to focus on purple states like message and framing the race."
Michigan and Wisconsin and your
campaign didn’t?” Nancy Cordes, the
host of “Face the Nation,” asked Podesta.

A defensive Podesta responded “Of course we spent a lot

of time and energy and effort in all those states."

Cordes pushed back, something Podesta wasn't prepared

for. “Hillary Clinton did not spend much time" in said
"purple" states. A flustered Podesta then stammered his
way through a series of talking points, noting

“We had Tim Kaine was there, Barack

Obama and she spent enormous time in
Pennsylvania and Michigan.”

Alas for Podesta, it appears he may not enjoy the same

support from the media he once had. Recall a similar
heated exchange with Fox's Maria Bartiromo in June 2017
in which she grilled Podesta over his ties to a Kremlin-
backed company.

“Don’t you find it odd that there’s been so

Lynn de Rothschild had some thoughts on the matter: much attention on the Trump Campaign
and the Trump associates and potential
collusion with the Russians when in fact it’s
really the Democrats who have deeper and
stronger ties to Russia,” Bartiromo said.
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 “I mean John I have to ask your own
situation..”

Bartiromo then goes on to break down how Podesta joined

the board of the board of a small energy company in 2011
which later received $35 million from a Kremlin-funded
entity. Other members of the board of Joule Unlimited
included senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and
oligarch Reuben Vardanyan - a Putin appointee to the
Russian economic modernization council. Podesta
jettisoned his shares before the 2016 election, transferring
them to his daughter via a shell corporation.

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 CNN Digs Through Trash Outside Troll Farm
To Find Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 19, 2018, 1:37 Pm
CNN: Professional dumpster divers. from The_Donald
In a segment broadcasted Monday, CNN
senior correspondent Matthew Chance
is shown digging through dumpsters
outside the St. Petersburg building that
special counsel Robert Mueller alleges
troll farms interfering in the 2016
election operated out of.
H/T GregasaurusRektz via The_Donald
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When asked if he looked through the building’s trash,
Chance sheepishly replies,
“Yes we did.”
“We came here expecting this office to be
empty and in fact when all day, we’ve been
here the whole course of the day, people
have been going in and out,” said Chance.
“We went to the trash can to see what we
can find because we saw people dumping
rubbish there.”
Chance says he found “new computers,” are being brought
into the building and “rubbish” was being tossed away.
Mueller’s indictment named 13 Russian operatives from
the internet Research Center LLC. in St. Petersburg who
attempted to “interfere” with the 2016 US presidential
election.
It appears Mueller based much of the indictment on an
earlier RFE article.
We plugged the article into Google translate (It’s in
Ukrainian), and the article reads like the Mueller
indictment.
And here is the RFE article from 2015:
For the third year, first in St. Petersburg, in
the village of Ol’hina, and then in the city
itself, on the street Savushkina, in the
building number 55 there is a mysterious
organization, which is officially called the
Limited Liability Company Internet
Research, and unofficially nicknamed by its
employees, the so-called “Kremlin trolls”,
“the Ministry of Truth”
The official founder and director general of
this organization is the retired militia
colonel Mikhail Bystrov , and is funded by
the Concord holding, headed by friend and
chef of President Vladimir Putin Yevgeny
Prigozhin . Since 2000, this holding
organizes banquets in the Kremlin, as well
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Here is the Mueller indictment describing the Internet
Research Agency LLC:
as cooperates with “Vointorg” and the
Ministry of Defense.
In the “Trust Ministry”, approximately 400 people, who
change one at a time for 12 hours, sit around the computer
around the clock and write in blogs – mostly in “Live
Journal” or “VKontakte”. There are several departments.
In one they are engaged in the blogosphere, in another they
are preparing TK – technical tasks, in the third one – they
comment on the news in Russian and foreign media , in the
fourth – mount photos in the photoshop, forcing, say,
heads of Navalny and Obama to the bodies of animals, and
so on.
On Friday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller
announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump
… and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
 AWKWARD: Dan Bongino Poses
‘A Simple Question For The DNC’
(That’ll Be Met With Silence)
By Doug P.
Posted At 2:26 Pm On February 19, 2018

Maybe somebody at the DNC can help former Secret

Service agent Dan Bongino connect some dots:

Odds that the DNC will actually answer that question:

VERY low.

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 Oh, SNAP! Joe Scarborough’s Mini-Meltdown Over
Trump’s Tweets Gets HARSH Reality Check
By Sarah D.
Posted At 2:37 Pm On February 19, 2018

As Twitchy told you, Trump’s tweets were a central topic

of discussion among many in the media this weekend. Joe
Scarborough couldn’t help but get in on the action:

Yeah, Joe … about that:

Bingo.

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 Errol Louis On CNN:
There's 'Abundant Evidence' Of Collusion
By Ryan Foley
February 19, 2018 2:40 PM EST
During CNN Newsroom on Monday morning, panelist
Errol Louis dismissed claims from Trump supporters
arguing that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign
colluded with the Russians to secure an upset election
victory, even insisting that there was “abundant evidence”
of such collusion. While he cited the guilty pleas and
indictments of former Trump campaign official Paul
Manafort and former National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn, Louis failed to admit that those indictments had
nothing to do with alleged Russian meddling in the 2016
election.
It seems like Louis did not hear Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, who pointed out that
“There is no allegation in the indictment
that the charged conduct altered the
outcome of the 2016 election.”
During his brief soliloquy, Louis accused Trump
supporters of denying reality by refusing to acknowledge
Trump-Russia collusion. Maybe the media are the ones in
denial.
The Russia story had sort of taken a back seat in recent
weeks as the media has obsessed over the Rob Porter
scandal. The Russia investigation once again became a top
story on Friday when Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein announced the indictment of thirteen Russian
nationals for attempting to interfere in the 2016
presidential election.
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The media have ignored a few inconvenient truths laid out
in the indictment. Russia has tried to interfere with our
elections for years.
As Friday’s indictments pointed out, the
Russians began their “sinister and
systematic attack on our political system” in
2014, long before President Trump
announced his intentions to run.
While the Russians did support President Trump’s White
House bid, they also spread pro-Bernie Sanders
propaganda yet no one ever labels the elderly socialist as a
Russian agent.
The media has continued to make the Russia probe seem
like Watergate 2.0. Louis tried to compare the Russia
probe to the Watergate scandal, saying
“I would only point out that during
Watergate, there were people who thought
it was a communist plot right up until the
moment that Richard Nixon resigned in
disgrace.”
Maybe the left does not realize that their never-ending
obsession with Russia effectively proves the success of the
Russians’ campaign to undermine the United States
government.
CNN Newsroom
02/19/18
09:13 AM
JOHN BERMAN: You know, Errol Lewis, I wonder if all of this
now starting on Friday with these indictments reframes the, the
politicized debate over the Russia investigation. You know, we
have the Republican memo, we still haven’t seen the Democratic
memo, you think there will be as much concern about memos,
political memos, when there is an indictment here saying that 13
Russians tried to influence the election?
ERROL LOUIS: I would not underestimate the ability or the
propensity of Trump supporters to simply deny reality, to simply
shut it out. I mean, I got into some exchanges with some, some
viewers over the weekend where they just, you know “There’s no
collusion. There’s no evidence here.” You know, and there’s
abundant evidence. There’s guilty pleas, there’s indictments,
there’s a lot of troubling information that we already know. I
mean, just to read what’s in that indictment, to go back as some
people have done over the weekend, Brian Stelter and others,
and say people that we were engaged with as journalists over the
last year or during the campaign, it turns out that they were
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Russians, that it was all sort of fake, that they’re holding rallies in
the middle of the street and so forth. Very, very troubling stuff.
Those who want to deny it will continue to deny it. I would only
point out that during Watergate, there were people who thought it
was a communist plot right up until the moment that Richard
Nixon resigned in disgrace.
 Raj Shah Blasts Dems: Unlike Obama
Administration POTUS Trump Actually Is Holding
The Russians Accountable
By Lucian Wintrich
February 19, 2018, 2:42 Pm
This morning on Fox and Friends, Principal Deputy Press
Secretary Raj Shah declared that the President has
provably been willing to take a “tough” stance on Russia,
something the Obama administration never did. Shah
reminded the audience that the President “authorized a
bombing campaign in Syria against the Assad regime over
Russian objections,” despite pushback from other
politicians that such a move would further provoke Russia.
Continuing,
“He has authorized the sale of offensive
weapons in Ukraine, again, against
Russian objections. He has been tough,
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measured and smart when it comes to
Russia.”
Deriding the inaction of the Obama administration, which
many credit with Russia’s current geopolitical gains, Shah
said
“they failed to act for several years. I think
the president is looking at the whole world.
He actually is responsible for America’s
foreign policy. He doesn’t just get to
complain from Congress or the peanut
gallery, and is he working with the
Russians in some areas and holding them
to account in others.”
On North Korea and it’s Russian ties, Raj Shah remarked
on the President’s continued efforts to curb the threat
alongside Russia,
“He has gotten Russia to go along with
sanctions against North Korea at the
United Nations. He has gotten them to go
along with efforts in Afghanistan and the
Middle East.”
 Unhinged: One Year In,
NYT Presidential Survey Ranks Trump As Worst Ever
By Scott Whitlock
February 19, 2018 3:36 PM EST

In case it wasn’t clear, the New York Times really doesn’t
like Donald Trump. The paper used President’s Day to
reveal a new presidential survey finding — surprise! —
Donald Trump is ranked as the worst ever. Worse than
James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and
other perennial bottom dwellers. Again, this after just a
year as president. And, of course, Barack Obama is listed
as the eighth commander-in-chief.
Professors Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn
wrote:
“James Buchanan, who was at the helm
as the United States careened into civil
war, was dislodged from his position as
our nation’s worst president by our
current president, Trump.”
How bad does this new Times survey sound? Nate Silver, a
former contributor to the paper and FiveThirtyEight.com
editor (which used to be part of the NYT), scolded his
former employer:

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 (H/T to Mediaite for the tweet.) According to the Times,
the votes came from the “170 members of the American
Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive
Politics section.” Rottinghaus and Vaughn added:
“[Trump's] Oval Office predecessor, Barack Obama, shot
into the Top 10, up from 18th in the previous survey.”
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Good news for conservatives though: Ronald Reagan
finally cracked the top ten, landing at number nine.
Finally, ranking Trump as the worst president, while he’s
in office, after just completing year one, makes about as
much sense as including William Henry Harrison at all in
the poll. He died in 30 days and never had an opportunity
to be either good or bad.
 Michael Savage: FBI Released ‘Nothing Indictment’ To
‘Cover Up Their Own Failure’ In Florida
By Robert Kraychik
19 Feb 2018
The FBI is seeking to distract from its
failure to prevent last week’s mass
murder at a Florida high school by
making an announcement on Friday of
the indictment of 13 Russian nationals,
Michael Savage said on Friday’s edition
of his eponymous radio show.
“Timing is everything,” said Savage of the indictments’
announcement on Friday, pointing to the three-day
Presidents’ Day weekend, which is officially on Monday.
“Everything is done with great forethought,”
said Savage. “These are some of the
cleverest people on the planet right now,
working on trying to indict Donald Trump
and his family. Believe me, they chose to
drop it today because they’re covering their
own tracks.”
Savage explained what he viewed as the FBI’s motivations
for a Friday announcement of indictments related to
Mueller’s ostensible investigation into allegations of the
Russian state’s “attempts in interfere in the 2016
presidential election”:
Why do you think the indictments against
these Russians were dropped today, on a
Friday, before a three-day weekend, while
America is still recoiling in shock from the
300
mass shooting of children in Florida? Why
would this FBI do this to us today? The
answer is clear: because the FBI failed to
stop the shooting when they could have
done so.
The FBI is admitting that the protocols were not followed
after a tip on January 5 about the Florida school shooting
suspect. … The FBI did nothing. The FBI failed us
because they were very busy trying to indict Donald
Trump.
…
It’s to cover up their own failures in not stopping the
school shooting. Moreover, it is one of the most insensitive
drops I’ve ever seen in American history. America is
recoiling in horror from the school shooting, the bodies of
some of them are still laying there in the morgue, and this
insensitive, callous CIA, FBI, NSA – who is it? Who
actually makes a decision to do a thing like this after a
school shooting? Who made this decision?
The FBI “dropped the ball” and sought to “cover up their
massive failings” in Florida with a Friday announcement
of indictments related to Mueller’s ostensible probe, said
Savage:
There’s only one reason [for the Friday
announcement of indictments]. The FBI
itself should be indicted for failing to have
stopped the school shooting the other day.
They had the evidence. They have the
warning. It was January 5, and they
dropped the ball. Therefore, the best way
for them to cover up their massive failings
is to come with this nothing, zero,
indictment against Russians.
…
The FBI was warned in Miami. The FBI did nothing
because they were too busy cooking up an indictment
against Donald Trump. You talk about a failure of a major
agency. This is terrifying that they would go so far. They
would go this far as to take a nation that is still in shock
and mourning, while the bodies are still in morgues, and
release this nothing indictment just to cover up their own
failure.
President Donald Trump should terminate FBI Director
Christopher Wray, said Savage.
“Frankly, Trump has the power to fire the
FBI director, and he ought to do that. He
has the power to end Mueller’s career. He
should do that, and then he should worry
about the media fallout afterward.”
Allegations of Russian state-driven online disinformation
operations pale in comparison to those pushed by Rep.
Nancy Pelosi, Black Lives Matter, and late-night hosts,
said Savage:
What did the Russian trolls actually do?
They put out stuff that pit people against
each other. Is that any different than Black
Lives Matter? Is it any different than what
Nancy Pelosi does every time she opens
her mouth? Is it any different than … what
Jimmy Kimmel does every time he gets up
on television acting like a pimp for the
Democrat Party – actually like a prostitute
for the Democrat Party? All these late-night
hosts are prostitutes for the Democrat
machine. You’re telling me they’re not
engaging in propaganda?
Savage’s introductory monologue began with a tongue-in-
cheek expression of gratitude to the Russian government
for assisting in the election of Donald Trump:
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We are thanking God for Russian meddling
in the last election, and we are thankful that
they saved us from Hillary Clinton. If we
had the power, we would award them
medals for meddling in or election, doing
something that the Republicans failed to do
on behalf of the American people. … If
Jonathan Swift were alive, he wouldn’t
have done a better opening than I did.
Democrats and leftists agitating for the extension of
constitutional rights for illegal aliens are inconsistent in
not extending their agitation to include Russian nationals,
said Savage:
We are told over and over again that illegal
aliens from Mexico, Guatemala, El
Salvador are afforded all the protections of
the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
– even though they’re not. We’re told they
are because they’re in America. Wouldn’t
that also apply to Russians in America? In
other words, if a Russian is in America and
we’re told that foreign nationals, once
they’re in America, have all the rights of
Americans, wouldn’t they also have First
Amendment rights to publish anything they
want? I’m just asking.
All the illegals are afforded protections, as well as
Americans. Why not the Russians?
“They’re doing this to cover up their
failures,” said Savage, describing the FBI
as “corrupt,” “brutish,” “thuggish,” and
engaging in “Soviet behavior.”
 President Trump Hammers Obama
For Doing Nothing About Russian Meddling
By Cristina Laila
February 19, 2018, 3:37 Pm

President Trump hammered Barack
Obama again on Monday for doing
nothing about the Russian meddling up
to and beyond the 2016 election.
John Kerry’s State Department approved the visas for the
Russian operatives to travel to the U.S. in 2014-2016 in
order to meddle in our elections.
The left and fake news media continue to blame Donald
Trump for the Russian troll farm even though the Obama
administration allowed it to happen.

President Trump slammed Obama on Twitter.

Trump tweeted,

“Obama was President up to, and beyond,

the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do
something about Russian meddling?”

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

According the Mueller’s indictment, the Russian trolls

began their operation to interfere in the election in 2014.

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 EXPOSED: School Shooting Surviver Turned Activist
David Hogg’s Father In FBI, Appears To Have Been
Coached On Anti-Trump Lines [VIDEO]
By Lucian Wintrich
February 19, 2018, 4:29 Pm

are some of the hardest working individuals

I have ever seen in my life,” proclaimed
David Hogg to CNN.
“It’s wrong that the president is blaming
them for this.”

Continuing, Hogg demonstrated his complete lack of

American civics knowledge. A clueless Hogg appeared
unaware of the fact that the President is not ‘in control’
of each department and branch of government, but must
work and negotiate with them. Hogg added that Trump is
in charge of the FBI.
As previously reported:

In less than a week since they survived a

mass murdering gunman attack on their
school, two student who quickly became
media stars of the Parkland, Florida school
shootings are now media obsessed to the
point they say they are snubbing an
invitation to meet with President Donald
Trump this Wednesday in favor of
appearing on a televised town hall with
CNN’s Jake Tapper. […]

One student, in particular, David Hogg seems articulate

and highly skilled at setting a new anti-Conservative/anti-
Trump narrative behind the recent school shooting. Few
have seen this type of rapid media play before and when
they have it has come from well-trained political
operatives and MSM commentators.

Immediately, these students-turned-

activists threw up some red flags.
“He can’t put that off on them. He is in
In what seemed initially as an incredibly odd move for a charge of them and these people, what
high school student, they love to do is push this off on
bureaucracy and say it’s not them,” he
said. “He is in charge of the FBI … the
Hogg’s vehemently defended the FBI and
executive branch is supposed to enforce
placed the blame squarely on the
laws and as such, President Trump is in
President’s shoulders…. before admitting
charge of that and the FBI.”
that his father was in the FBI.
“I think it’s disgusting, personally. My
father’s a retired FBI agent and the FBI
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Anyone who has been following the news could tell you should be reciting, Hogg becomes flustered multiple times
that many in the FBI have been working against the and apologizing and asking for re-takes.
president from the start, with the most notable case being
the Obama Administration alongside the Clinton
campaign’s attempts to push the false ‘verification’ of the
junk Steele Dossier. It has also been widely reported that
the FBI received tips well in advance of the Flordia school
shooting and decided, for whatever reason, not to act.

The fault for this tragedy lies squarely on the shoulder’s of

the FBI who could have prevented this back in January.

Adding to the credibility of Hogg, in a recently uncovered

early cut from one of his interviews it appears he was
heavily coached on lines and is merely reciting a script.
Frequently seen in the footage mouthing the lines he

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 Even David Sirota Thinks Chuck Todd’s Tweet Debunks
The Notion That There Are Objective Journalists In DC
By Brett T.
Posted At 4:34 Pm On February 19, 2018

We’ve had some fun with journalist David Sirota before, So, Chuck Todd, what do you have to say about Barack
but we can’t argue that he’s hit the nail right on the head Obama’s priorities as president when he did nothing about
today after seeing this tweet from last Friday by NBC Russian meddling until after the election?
News’ Chuck Todd:

“If you work in the government on any level”; i.e., you’re

President Trump. We get it.

That was exactly our thought. In other words, Todd is

upset that Trump, who’s been dogged by the press for
more than a year with charges of colluding with Russia,
reacted by saying there was no collusion between his
campaign and Putin.

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 Busting The Russian Facebook Ad Hoax=>
Russians Spent Total Of $3,111 In Michigan,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania During Election
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 4:38 Pm

Democrats and their dishonest mainstream media want you election in Michigan, Wisconsin and
to believe the Russians hacked the election with a well Pennsylvania and all but $54 of that
financed and organized campaign to sway opinion in favor total was spent after the primaries.
of Donald Trump.
Byron York tweeted out a this commentary from Senator
The Russians spent a total of $100,000 during and after the
Burr on Monday:
campaign on Facebook ads.

Hillary Clinton had a lapdog media that favored her while

91% of the media coverage on her opponent Donald
Trump was negative.

Facebook executive Colin Stretch told the US Senate

Judiciary Committee in November that the total number of
those illegitimate ads are a drop in the ocean — less than
0.004 percent of all content — or about 1 in 23,000 news
feed items.

The Russians also planned election

rallies for Trump and for Hillary.
The Trump rallies saw a total of 31
people show up.
The anti-Trump rallies had a turnout of
10,100 people.

And now we know that the Russians

spent a total of $3,111 during the
.

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 BREAKING: POTUS Trump Endorses
Mitt Romney In Utah Senate Race
By Carter
February 19, 2018, 8:34 Pm

In a late evening tweet Monday,

President Trump announced his
endorsement of Mitt Romney for the
soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat of Orrin
Hatch (R-Utah).

Romney announced his campaign via the following

Twitter video on February 16, 2018, and is looking to take
the seat of the longtime Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. The
former-presidential candidate seems to have solidified his
relationship with President Trump and is poised to take the
seat thanks in part to his shining endorsement from the
president.

The President tweeted:

“Mitt Romney has announced he is running

for the Senate from the wonderful State of
Utah. he will make a great Senator and
worthy successor to Orrin Hatch, and has
my full support and endorsement!”

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 Tucker Carlson Reminds Liberal
Guest About Russians Killed In Syria
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:02 PM 02/19/2018
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blew his liberal guest’s
mind on Monday when he reminded him about the
hundreds of Russians recently killed in Syria.
WATCH:
Chris Hahn, a radio host and former aide to Sen. Chuck
Schumer, repeatedly insisted that President Donald Trump
hasn’t done anything in terms of retribution for Russian
meddling.
“They were spending over a million dollars
a month in violation of our federal
campaign finance laws,” Hahn exclaimed.
“They were involved in our election. Now,
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whether or not that had an effect, I don’t
know. They were meddling, H.R. Mcmaster
agreed they were meddling. The only
person that doesn’t seem want to take
action on this is the President of the United
States.”
The Daily Caller co-founder reminded Hahn about a
defensive strike in Syria in early February that killed at
least a hundred Russian military contractors. The
confrontation began when the mercenaries attacked
a Syrian Democratic Forces base where United States
troops were also stationed. (RELATED: The US Military
Is Now Fighting Russian Mercenaries In Syria)
“We are fighting Russia in Syria right now,”
Carlson asserted. “We just killed a bunch of
Russian citizens in Syria. Is that enough?
Does that make you feel better about him
not being a Russian agent?”
Hahn tried to sidestep the point, saying that the U.S.
should respond to Russia with “cyber methods.”
“Don’t ignore my point because it’s a real
one. Isn’t it a little implausible to describe
the president as a tool of Putin when we’re
killing Russians in Syria and opposing —
look, Russia’s only base outside of its own
border is in Syria,” Carlson pressed.
“We are not intentionally engaging the
Russians in Syria. We’re not intentionally
killing Russians in Syria,” Hahn claimed.
“That’s not true,” Carlson shot back.
 REPORT: Mueller Expands Witch Hunt To Jared
Kushner’s Contacts With Chinese Investors
During Trump Transition
By Cristina Laila
February 19, 2018, 9:23 Pm
Mueller is on the march as he expands
his witch hunt yet again.
Rosenstein gave Mueller a broad jurisdiction so he is on a
fishing expedition.
Since Mueller has failed to find any evidence of Trump-
Russia collusion, he is now investigating Trump’s son-in-
law Jared Kushner for his efforts to secure financing for
his company from foreign investors during the presidential
transition, CNN reported.
Dirty cop Mueller is going beyond Jared Kushner’s
contacts with Russia according to a new report.
Mueller now wants to investigate a November 16, 2016
meeting Kushner had with Chinese investors over a real
estate deal.
CNN reported:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in
Jared Kushner has expanded beyond his
contacts with Russia and now includes his
efforts to secure financing for his company
from foreign investors during the
presidential transition, according to people
familiar with the inquiry.
This is the first indication that Mueller is
exploring Kushner’s discussions with
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potential non-Russian foreign investors,
including in China.
[…]
One line of questioning from Mueller’s team involves
discussions Kushner had with Chinese investors during the
transition, according to the sources familiar with the
inquiry.
A week after Trump’s election, Kushner met with the
chairman and other executives of Anbang Insurance, the
Chinese conglomerate that also owns the Waldorf Astoria
hotel in New York, according to The New York Times.
At the time, Kushner and Anbang’s chairman, Wu
Xiaohui, were close to finishing a deal for the Chinese
insurer to invest in the flagship Kushner Companies
property, 666 Fifth Avenue. Talks between the two
companies collapsed in March, according to the Times.
Mueller’s team has also asked about Kushner’s dealings
with a Qatari investor regarding the same property,
according to one of the sources. Kushner and his company
were negotiating for financing from a prominent Qatari
investor, former prime minister Hamad bin Jassim Al
Thani, according to The Intercept. But as with Anbang,
these efforts stalled.
Jared Kushner’s attorney responded to CNN’s publication:
Kushner attorney Abbe Lowell told CNN in
a statement, “Another anonymous source
with questionable motives now contradicts
the facts — in all of Mr. Kushner’s
extensive cooperation with all inquiries,
there has not been a single question asked
nor document sought on the 666 building or
Kushner Co. deals. Nor would there be any
reason to question these regular business
transactions.”
 Majority Of Americans Now Support
Trump Tax Cuts=> Up 18% Since December
By Jim Hoft
February 19, 2018, 9:58 Pm

In December after weeks of negative

press by the far left mainstream media
the polling for Republicans looked
bleak.
Only 33% of Americans supported the
Trump tax cut.
52% disapproved of the tax cut.
In December Democrats led Repub-
licans by 18 points in CNN’s generic
party polling.
One month later Republicans are down
only 5 points after passing the Trump
tax cuts.
And two months later Republicans lead
Democrats in the generic race.

A new poll from the far left New York

Times has a majority of Americans now
approve of the Trump tax cuts.

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 Sarah Sanders Takes A Blowtorch
To Nancy ‘Crumbs’ Pelosi In Late Night Tweet
By Cristina Laila
February 19, 2018, 10:14 Pm

A new poll from the far left New York Botox Pelosi is one of the wealthiest members of
Times has a majority of Americans now Congress; she is completely removed from the everyday
approve of the Trump tax cuts. working American.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders hammered
Nancy “Crumbs” Pelosi in a late night tweet over Trump’s
tax cuts.
What a despicable woman.
The same Democrats who argue that $150-$200 a month is
“crumbs” and “pathetic” will argue that it’s a national
crisis that women are not receiving free birth control pills
which only costs $9 a month at Walmart. Let that sink in.

It turns out these “crumbs” are very popular; Americans

are happy with Trump’s tax cuts which is why the Dems
are panicking.

Sarah Sanders tweeted out an article from Axios reporting

the majority of Americans favor Trump’s tax cuts.

Sanders said,

“Other than Nancy Pelosi and her

Democratic allies, who could be against
lower taxes, higher wages, and a booming
economy?”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrogantly

dismissed the Trump tax cut bonuses as “crumbs” and
“pathetic” in a press conference in January.

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 Veteran FBI Official:
Mueller Indictment Of 13 Russians Meant To Justify
Existence And Salary Of Special Counsel Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
February 19, 2018, 11:07 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel This just in from a veteran FBI C.I. official:
Robert Mueller announced that a grand “The 13 indictments by Mueller are moot.
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
These subjects are all in Russia and will
along with 3 Russian entities, accused never be arrested or incarcerated. This is
of “supporting the presidential
solely to justify his existence and salary.
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
This is a ‘show’ indictment for public
Trump … and disparaging Hillary relations.”
Clinton.”
The 37-page indictment was a big fat
nothingburger.

Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge

they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans; the outcome of the election wasn’t impacted.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry spoke with a veteran

FBI official who said the Russians named in the indictment
are in Russia and will never be arrested or incarcerated; the
indictment was all a public relations stunt.
It appears Mueller and his team of far left attorneys copied
According to Sperry, a veteran FBI agent said the 13 much of their report from an earlier RFE article.
indictments by Mueller are moot and it was done for show
to solely justify the Special Counsel’s existence and salary. It appears the hotshot liberal Mueller team produced their
report with the help of a report written back in 2015.

And there’s this…

The Russian ads mentioned in Mueller’s

indictment were already released by the
House Intelligence Committee in
November 2017.

According to a leak from a Mueller insider, the Special

Counsel plans on investigating Trump’s for the next
several months.

Paul Sperry is the former D.C. bureau chief

for Investor’s Business Daily, Hoover
Institution media fellow, author of several
Paul Sperry tweeted: books, including bestseller INFILTRATION

BREAKING:

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 President Trump’s Stock Market Rally
Quietly Set Two New All-Time Records Last Week –
Who Would Have Known It?
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 6:30 Am
After having a tumultuous first week to
the month, the Trump Stock Market
Rally got back on track and quietly set a
couple new all-time record highs last
week.
As January came to a close the Trump Stock Market Rally
was on fire. The Dow was up more than 45% since the
2016 election and numerous all-time record highs were
set. In 2017 the Dow recorded more all-time highs than
any year in US history and 2018 was a continuation of the
Trump Stock Market Rally.
The economy was on fire. GDP was being projected to be
near 5% for the first quarter. Unemployment was at 45
year lows and consumer confidence was through the roof
top. Positive results from the tax cut bill were not yet in
effect. All signs were showing a continued rally.
Then came the February surprise. The first week in
February showed the market decreasing by alarming rates.
Twice the market dropped more than 1,000 points.
Democrats and their liberal cheerleaders in the media were
ecstatic. The Trump Rally had ended. To hell with
America, the bad economy was good for them and their
thirst for power.
Something didn’t make sense about the markets going
down though. We soon found out that unethical actions
taken by Chicago options traders caused the markets
downturn. This is the only explanation that made sense
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and the SEC has now been advised. (We’re not sure if
Obama and Hillary had anything to do with it.)
Quietly last week the Dow rebounded.
By Thursday the market had regained
more than 1,300 points in the prior five
days of trading (1,340). This had never
happened before. In the history of
the Dow, the markets had
never gained more than 1,300
points in five trading days.
In fact, the Dow had only gained more than 1,000 points in
five days of trading only four times as of Thursday – on
March 21, 2000 by 1,096 points; on November 3 rd of 2008
by 1,144 points; on November 28th of 2008 by 1,277
points and then again on Thursday.
It’s funny, when the stock market went
down in the first week of February, the
media was all over it. Now that a new
record was set for the best five days in
trading history, the media was silent.
By Friday, the markets had
achieved the best week in Dow
history.
The markets were up 1,028 for the week. The Dow had
never gained so many points in its rich history in one
week. Some media outlets reported that the Dow had its
best week since 2015 – hogwash. This was the best week
ever.
Day after day the Trump Stock Market
Rally continues to thrive. The
mainstream media won’t report it but we
will at TGP. We can expect to see
continued market success and
Americans will continue to benefit in
their 401k accounts, whether the media
reports it or not.
 Here We Go… Liberal Lawmaker
Compares Russian Collusion Hoax To 9-11 Terror Attack
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 8:05 Am

There’s something seriously wrong with this party.

Democrats are now openly comparing the

“Russian collusion” hoax to the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001.

Radical Muslims murdered 2,996 people in the attacks and

destroyed the World Trade Center.

Joaquin Castro was a staunch Hillary supporter.

Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro compared those bloody
attacks to the Russian collusion hoax.

Democrats won’t be happy til they get their war.

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 TRUMP TWEET STORM: President Trump
Takes On Obama For Not Taking Action Against
Russian Election Interference
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 8:28 Am

President Trump cut loose on Twitter

again on Tuesday morning.
The Republican president went off on
Barack Obama again, the Democrat
Party and the far left’s Russia collusion
hoax.
Trump hit Barack Obama on his Russia
policy.

President Trump: “There is no serious person out there

President Trump thanked FOX and Friends for their
coverage on Obama’s failures with Russia.
who would suggest somehow that you could even rig
America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has
happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so
I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to
get votes.” The President Obama quote just before
election. That’s because he thought Crooked Hillary was
going to win and he didn’t want to “rock the boat.” When I
easily won the Electoral College, the whole game changed
and the Russian excuse became the narrative of the Dems.
It’s so refreshing having a Republican
leader who is not afraid of his own
shadow.

President Trump then hit former President Obama for his

famous quote on election integrity before the election
when Barack thought Hillary Clinton would win.

Hah!

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 Brennan, Former CIA Chief,
Blasts Trump Over ‘Insecurity’ On Russia Probe
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President
Trump Tuesday for asserting that he was tougher than
former President Barack Obama on Russia.
“It never ceases to amaze me how
successful you have been making yourself
so small, petty, and banal with your
tweets,” Mr. Brennan told the president on
Twitter. “Your insecurity is well deserved,
as is your concern over Russia
investigation.”
The ex-CIA chief concluded, “
Thomas Paine was right when he said,
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
He was responding to Mr. Trump’s tweet earlier Tuesday
in which the president said,
“I have been much tougher on Russia than
Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake
News!”
Mr. Brennan led the CIA from 2013 to January 2017,
when Mr. Trump became president. Mr. Trump has
.
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stepped up his comments online about Russia since special
counsel Robert Mueller won indictments on Friday against
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly questioned why the Obama
administration didn’t do more to stop the election
interference.
Former Obama national security spokesman Ned Price said
on MSNBC Tuesday that the Obama administration warned
voters about the meddling one month before the election.
He said the Obama team “wanted to do more,” but Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wouldn’t go along with
a tougher stance.
He also noted that Mr. Obama ejected 35 Russian spies
from the U.S. after the election.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said last month
that Mr. McConnell refused to sign on to a bipartisan
statement of condemnation of Russia before the 2016
election.
Mr. McConnell’s office has noted previously that all four
congressional leaders signed a letter in September 2016 to
the president of the National Association of State Election
Directors, urging cybersecurity precautions due to reports
of attempted hacking.
“The Obama White House asked
congressional leaders to sign a bipartisan
letter on protecting election systems, which
of course all four leaders signed,” said
McConnell spokesman Don Stewart.
A month later, Mr. Obama’s Secretary of Homeland
Security and Director of National Intelligence issued a
joint statement about Russia’s interference in the election.
 Judge Napolitano Weighs In On
General Flynn Indictment: “Judge Sullivan Must Suspect A
Defect In Guilty Plea” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 9:20 Am

(Yes.)… So now the question arises: Was

Judge Napolitano weighed in on the recent developments
in Mueller’s case against General Michael Flynn.
Judge Nap says Judge Sullivan must suspect a defect in
General Flynn’s guilty plea.
he guilty? Did he lie to the FBI? Did the FBI
agents who interviewed him, one of them
who was Peter Strzok believe that he lied
or did he say, ‘We don’t see anything
wrong.’… We don’t know the answers to
that. But it may very well come out that as
a result of Judge Sullivan, a very
courageous federal judge in DC, ordering
this information to be reviewed.
On Sunday investigative journalist Mike
Cernovich reported that former Deputy
Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Andrew McCabe altered
far left FBI investigator Peter Strzok’s
notes on his interview with General
Michael Flynn.

Judge Napolitano: Via FOX and Friends:

So Mike Flynn pleads guilty. A new judge

comes in. It’s time for sentencing. Bob
Mueller delays sentencing until May. That’s
normal. You have a cooperating witness.
You don’t want to sentence him until after
the cooperation is finished. And then the
judge on his own, not in response to any
application from General Flynn’s lawyer
says, “By the way I want all exculpatory
evidence.” Evidence that could help Flynn
or hurt the government to be turned over to
Flynn’s lawyers. Why would we want that
when General Flynn has already pleaded
guilty. That is unheard of. He must
suspect a defect in the guilty plea.
Meaning, he must have reason to believe
General Flynn pleaded guilty for some
reason other than guilt. Do people plead
guilty for a reason other than guilt?
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 Trump Drops Giant Truth Bomb About Russia
That Everyone Needs To Hear And Understand
By JD Heyes
02/20/2018
For more than a year now we’ve been inundated with often
breathless reporting from the American Pravda media that
President Donald J. Trump “colluded” with Russia to
“steal the election” from Hillary Clinton.
Not a few Democrats and Republicans have echoed similar
concerns. Some have outright claimed they have
“evidence” of it (the fake Russian “dossier” paid for by
Clinton notwithstanding).
But after months and months of allegations, innuendo,
speculation, and narratives no evidence whatsoever
proving the outlandish claims has been provided to the
public — and it would have been leaked by now if said
evidence existed.
Most recently the grand leaker of them all, House
Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff
claimed, very irresponsibly, that the panel has “nonpublic
evidence on this issue of collusion.”
“And I think some of that nonpublic
evidence is evidence on the issue of
collusion and some of that nonpublic
evidence is evidence on the issue of
obstruction,” he told a breakfast sponsored
by The Christian Science-Monitor in
Washington, D.C., last week. “So you know
the short answer is yes, there is nonpublic
information that I think is relevant on these
issues that if I were giving you a complete
picture I would include.” (Related:
ENOUGH! POTUS Trump goes OFF over
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phony Russian collusion ‘witch hunt’; wants
GOP to ‘take CONTROL’.)
In a word, BS. I’m throwing the BS flag, Mr. Schiff; there
is no such thing as “nonpublic evidence” these days when
it comes to information that harms our president. None. If
it hurts Trump, it’s leaked, and increasingly, many people
inside Congress and the White House think one of the
biggest leakers is you.
So there’s that.
But the thing is, once upon a time it was comical to hear
these fools talk about a Trump-Putin ‘alliance’ — because
that’s what it would have been if the collusion narrative
were true — to ‘steal’ the White House, making Trump a
real-life Manchurian candidate.
It’s not funny anymore. In fact, it’s getting to the point that
this nonsense is hurting our foreign policy, our position in
the world, and even our national security, because as long
as the narrative is being used as a political weapon against
Trump, he isn’t free to actually try to improve U.S.-Russia
relations, something that even the Obama administration
and Hillary Clinton tried to do (remember the ridiculous
“reset button” — which she botched, by the way).
He’s not free to address world leaders and negotiate from a
position of strength because he is viewed as politically
compromised at home.
He’s not free to be our leader.
Needless to say, this undermining is by design.
#NeverTrumpers in the nation’s D.C. swamp don’t want
Trump to succeed. In fact, they’d rather see Russia
succeed.
That’s right, Russia. In effect, they are colluding with
Russia in an attempt to destroy the Trump presidency, and
the president himself called those people out in a tweet
over the weekend that perfectly characterizes what’s going
on.
“If it was the GOAL of Russia to create
discord, disruption and chaos within the
 U.S. then, with all of the Committee
Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred,
they have succeeded beyond their wildest
dreams. They are laughing their asses off
in Moscow. Get smart America!” he
tweeted.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965212168449
941505
That is precisely right. We’ve been told by the Pravda
media and their Marxist Democratic allies for a year that
.
‘Russia is attempting to destroy our democracy’ (as if this
is the first time ever that Moscow has tried to interfere in
the U.S. political system). But by keeping the collusion lie
alive, the #NeverTrump cabal in D.C. is assisting Vladimir
Putin and harming their own president and country.
There’s a legal definition for people who do that; they are
aiding and abetting our enemies.
There’s a name for people who do that: Traitor.

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 BREAKING: Mueller Indicts London Attorney
Alex Van Der Zwaan In Russian Witch Hunt!
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 9:25 Am
Alex van der Zwaan
Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted
a London lawyer on Tuesday in his
continuing witch hunt against the
Trump campaign and administration.
Alex van der Zwaan lives in London.
Last week Mueller indicted 13 Russians.
This week he indicted a London
attorney.
Bloomberg reported:
An attorney who worked for a prominent
law firm was charged with making false
statements to federal authorities as part of
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of
Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential
election.
Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged Feb. 16 in federal court
in Washington with lying to investigators about
conversations related to a report he helped prepare on the
trial of a Ukrainian politician, Yulia Tymoshenko. Van
Der Zwaan was charged with a criminal information,
which typically precedes a guilty plea.
Van Der Zwaan, identified on his LinkedIn page as an
associate in the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate
Meagher & Flom, was questioned regarding the firm’s
work in 2012 on behalf of the Ukraine Ministry of Justice.
He allegedly lied to investigators about his last
communications with Richard Gates, who was indicted in
October with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
over their consulting work in Ukraine.
The lawyer also allegedly lied about his talks with
someone else, referred to by the government as “Person
A.” Van Der Zwaan deleted and failed to produce emails
sought by the special counsel and a law firm, prosecutors
said.
 Judge Napolitano Thinks Gov’t May
Have Strong Armed Michael Flynn Into Guilty Plea
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:38 AM 02/20/2018

General Flynn pleaded guilty for some

reason other than guilt. Do people plead
guilty for a reason other than guilt?”

WATCH:

Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said it’s

possible former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
is innocent and was forced to plead guilty to lying to
federal agents for reasons other than guilt.

“I’ve never heard of this. So Mike Flynn

pleads guilty to lying to the FBI in
December. The judge before whom he
pleads guilty takes himself off the case.
Why? Because that judge is also on the
FISA court. And he may, he may very well
have authorized the wiretap that surveilled
Mike Flynn when he was talking to then
Ambassador Kislyak, which is the alleged
lie that he told the FBI
about,” Napaolitano said Tuesday on “Fox
& Friends.” “So Mike Flynn pleads guilty. A
new judge comes in. It’s time for
sentencing. Bob Mueller says we don’t
want to sentence him until May. That’s
normal.”
“Then the judge on his own, not in
response to any application from General
Flynn’s lawyers says, ‘By the way, I want
all exculpatory evidence, evidence that
could help Flynn or hurt the government
turned over,'” Napolitano continued. “Why
would he we want that after General Flynn
has already pleaded guilty? That is
unheard of. He must suspect a defect in
the guilty plea. Meaning, he must have
reason to believe that
.
“Unfortunately yes,” he added.
Napolitano said it’s common for defendants to feel
suffocated by the legal and financial restraints of a trial,
causing them to make deals with the government to bring
the case to a close.
“I don’t want to have to mortgage my house
again to pay my legal fees. So give me
something to plead guilty to so that this can
be over with,” Napolitano said. “So now the
question arises, was he guilty? Did he lie to
the FBI? Did the FBI agents who
interviewed him, one of them was Peter
Strzok, actually believed that he lied or did
they say we don’t see anything wrong, but
senior management said wow, we do. We
think it was a lie.”
“If it was a faulty guilty plea — If the
government accepted the guilty plea
knowing he wasn’t guilty, the lawyers
involved have a very serious problem,”
Napolitano concluded.

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 WOW! Mueller Indicts London Lawyer Regarding
Interview On His Work With Ukrainian Ministry
— IN 2012!
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 10:12 Am
We are witnessing the most corrupt and
expansive witch hunt in US history!
The Salem witch trials have nothing on
Robert Mueller!
Robert Mueller was ordered to oversee the investigation
into
“any links and/or coordination between
Russian government and individuals
associated with the campaign of
President Donald Trump, and any
matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation.”
On Tuesday Special Counsel Robert
Mueller indicted a London lawyer on
Tuesday in his continuing witch hunt
against the Trump campaign and
administration.
Alex van der Zwaan lives in London.
Last week Mueller indicted 13 Russians.
This week he indicted a London
attorney.
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The indictment is regarding Van der
Zwaan’s work with the Ukrainian
Ministry of Justice in 2012 — Three
years before Donald Trump announced
his intentions to run for US president.
Via Bloomberg:
The lawyer is accused of misleading
investigators about the last time he talked
with Richard Gates, who was indicted in
October with ex-Trump campaign chairman
Paul Manafort over their consulting work in
Ukraine. Van Der Zwaan was questioned
by U.S. authorities regarding his firm’s work
in 2012 on behalf of the Ukraine Ministry of
Justice.
Van Der Zwaan told investigators that his last contact with
Gates was an innocuous text message in mid-August 2016,
when they actually spoke the following month about the
Tymoshenko report in a call the lawyer secretly recorded,
the information says.
Mueller charged Alex van der Zwaan
with making false statements to federal
authorities as part of Special Counsel’s
probe of Russian collusion in the 2016
presidential election.
So now they are arresting foreigners
with crimes linked to work they did in
2012!
 Cuomo: Trump’s Claim He’s Been Tougher
On Russia Than Obama Is ‘Demonstrably False’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
10:40 AM 02/20/2018

Chris Cuomo asserted Tuesday that Donald Trump’s claim

that he has been “much tougher on Russia” than Barack Cuomo’s claim that Trump’s statement was 100 percent,
Obama is “demonstrably false,” a claim which itself is hands-down phony bologna isn’t exactly accurate by
wrong. Vaughn’s own standards, especially when considering how
Trump’s April 2017 strike on a Syrian airfield effectively
drew a line in the sand for Russia.
CNN had invited Justin Vaughn, who conducted the recent
“presidential greatness” poll, to come on and explain his
methodology and how Trump had placed dead last. In case your memory is foggy, Trump attacked an airfield
controlled by the Syrian government with 59 tomahawk
missiles in response to a sarin gas attack believed to have
“Some of the factors that have historically
been carried out by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
gone into explaining why some presidents
are better than others, greater than others
are the — whether or not they won a war
while they were in office, how the economy
performed while they were in office,
whether they had scandals that cursed
their administrations while they were in
office, how popular they were, how
productive they were,” he explained. “A lot
of those factors all sort of worked together
to determine the historical memory of a
president.”

WATCH:

Former President Barack Obama congratulates President Donald

Trump after he took the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S.
Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson explained that the

“proportional response to Assad’s heinous act” was also
meant to serve as a warning to Moscow.

The State Department accused Russia of not upholding its

“It’s interesting, the president just tweeted a
few minutes ago, ‘I’ve been much tougher
on Russia than Obama. Just look at the
facts. Total fake news.'” Cuomo offered.
“Do you think he’s calling his statement
about the fact that he’s tougher than
Obama on Russia, ‘Fake news?'”
“I wonder if this is the dynamic that played
into the selectivity by your experts,” he
continued. “This is demonstrably false.”
end of a 2013 agreement to secure and destroy chemical
weapons held by the Syrian government and lending direct
support to a dictator like Assad.
“Russia should ask themselves, ‘What are
we doing here?'” Tillerson said after the
strike. “Why are we supporting this
murderous regime that is committing mass
murder of its own population and using the
most heinous weapons available?”

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Fast forward to December 2017, and Trump again one- Following Trump’s approval, Sen. Bob Corker said the
upped his predecessor by green-lighting the sale of lethal move showed an avowed commitment to the people of
weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine “in the face of ongoing Russian aggression.”

Back in 2014, Congress had passed the Ukraine Freedom

Support Act, but the Obama administration never
exercised the option to actively arm Kiev.

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 CNN's Cuomo: 'Leaks Are Part
Of The Currency Of Journalism'
By Ryan Foley
February 20, 2018 10:52 AM EST
During an interview with former Trump campaign adviser
Michael Caputo Tuesday morning, CNN New Day co-host
Chris Cuomo defended the leaks coming out of the
Mueller investigation, saying
"leaks are part of the currency of
journalism."
Caputo had expressed his doubts about the Los Angeles
Times story indicating that Rick Gates, who briefly served
as Deputy Campaign Manager to the Trump Campaign,
intends to cooperate with the Special Counsel and testify
against Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort.
Caputo said that it was
“really within the character of the Mueller
investigation” to leak this information and
“really within the character of journalists to
carry it like stenographers.”
Cuomo defended the leaks as “part of the
currency of journalism” and argued that
“the only people who don’t like them are
the people that the leaks work against.”
Throughout the interview,
Caputo repeatedly stressed the
illegality of leaks, which Cuomo
himself acknowledged when he
previously told the American
people it was illegal for anyone
but the media to access Hillary
Clinton’s leaked e-mails.
Cuomo then attacked Caputo for echoing the “false
narrative” that the Democrats and the media have done
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more to “bred dissension during the election” than Russia.
When Caputo pointed out that the Democrats have latched
onto the “bogus Russian collusion narrative”, Cuomo
responded by saying,
“Every one of the investigations is run by
Republicans including the Special Counsel,
who’s for life a Republican, way more of a
Republican than President Trump has ever
dreamed of being.”
Caputo concluded his interview by warning that
“we’re going to have our own version of
9/11 truthers out there who...never will ever
believe that the Trump campaign did not
collude with Russia.” Cuomo seemed to
dismiss Caputo’s statement as a
conspiracy theory, saying “Well, last I
checked, it’s not the media that’s big into
conspiracies these days.”
The media have actually seen nothing but conspiracy when
it comes to the Russia investigation, despite a lack of
evidence. Hopefully the American people have learned to
take everything that comes out of the press with a hefty
grain of salt.
CNN New Day
02/20/18
06:56 AM
CHRIS CUOMO: But how do you know what the truth is? How do
you know that Gates hasn’t made a deal with him? Have you
been in contact with him?
MICHAEL CAPUTO: Well, I’ve, I’ve spoken to Rick. I’ve spoken
to Paul. I’ve known them for thirty years.
CUOMO: So does Gates say this isn’t true? I didn’t cut any deal.
CAPUTO: No, I did not, I did not ask Rick about this. I saw him
last week. I just find this completely out of character but really
within the character of the Mueller investigation, to leak it. And
really within the character of journalists to carry it like
stenographers.
CUOMO: Well, look. First of all, leaks are part of the currency of
journalism. And the only people who don’t like them are the
people that the leaks work against.
CAPUTO: And also, those who are worried about the rule of law
because they’re illegal.
CUOMO: Right, but look. Mueller being a leak machine, or
however you characterized it, is almost without basis, Michael.
CAPUTO: I don’t characterize it that way.
CUOMO: We have learned so little about what is going on in that
investigation. Uncharacteristically so, I would argue. If anything,
this investigation has been an example of integrity in terms of
leaks, not a sieve.
CAPUTO: Well, I don’t characterize Director Mueller or those
around him as leakers. I know Director Mueller...
CUOMO: You just kind of said that, Michael.
CAPUTO: But there are leaks coming out. CNN has been the
beneficiary of some of them. They’re still illegal. And even though
it might be a tactical move to try to push, you know, a target into
cooperation, it’s still illegal. And it did come from the Mueller
investigation. The stories directly say that. I think the L.A. Times
story that came out of this and the others that came out of this
regarding Gates and Manafort, none of those reporters are going
to turn around and say they’re sorry in the end. This is just
another leak from an investigation that really must, in my mind,
upset Director Mueller.
CUOMO: I’m just saying, all leaks are not equal. So we have to
see where it comes out and then you can judge, you know, the
process at that point. Let me ask you something about the
Russia investigation in general. You know Russian culture,
Russian political culture well. You worked there. You know
people. You are not surprised by Russian interference. You say
that this is something that needed to be pinpointed for decades.
So you believe that Russia interfered in this election? Yes?
CAPUTO: No doubt. I believe that Russia interferes in all the
elections of, let’s say, for example, the Security Council from the
United Nations. We also do things to, to manipulate elections
overseas. I was sent to Russia by the Clinton Administration to
get involved in their elections. However, this whole thing, from
the internet to research agency that’s run by this oligarch named
.
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Prigozhin, they call him the Chef. This stuff has been going on
since 2013. It’s been in the news in Russia for a while.
CUOMO: So it’s real?
CAPUTO: This needs to be shut down.
CUOMO: So it’s real? It’s nefarious?
CAPUTO: It’s absolutely real. No question.
CUOMO: You believe in that?
CAPUTO: No doubt.
CUOMO: What I don’t understand is why would you echo this
false narrative that “you want to know who really bred dissension
during the election, it was the Democrats and the media, they’re
the real problem, not Russia. Why would you endorse such a silly
statement as that?
CAPUTO: I don’t find that silly. I think that a lot of the dissension
that’s been sewn since the election was entirely the responsibility
of the Democrats, the responsibility of the Democrats. I think the
Democrats have fed this bogus Russian collusion narrative, the
media have gleefully swallowed it because it’s really good for
ratings...
CUOMO: Every one of the investigations is run by Republicans
including the Special Counsel, who’s for life a Republican, way
more of a Republican than President Trump has ever dreamed of
being.
CAPUTO: I get that. And because of the Republican involvement
and Republican leadership of these committees, the Democrats
have been really successful in this gambit. I, you know, I, I, I
salute them as a cynical political operative, but as an American, I,
I weep for my country. But at the same time, you know, when we
look at this Russia investigation and what’s gone on since. And
as this thing winds down, as it peters out and we’re seeing that
happening right now, unfortunately, the media and the
Democrats have painted this as, with such certainty that we’re
going to have our own version of 9/11 truthers out there who
never will, never will ever believe that the Trump campaign did
not collude with Russia.
CUOMO: Well, last I checked, it’s not the media that’s big into
conspiracies these days. So let’s see where the investigation
winds up and we’ll see how people play it. Michael Caputo, thank
you for coming on and giving us your take, as always.
 Nunes Presses Current And
Former US Officials Over Dossier
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:29 AM 02/20/2018

Nunes is also asking whether the officials took any official

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
action or convened any meetings after receiving the
Chairman Devin Nunes sent letters Tuesday to more than a
dossier.
dozen current and former U.S. government officials asking
about their knowledge of the infamous Steele dossier.
The letters also suggest that members of the Obama
administration are being pressed for answers. Nunes asks
In the letters, Nunes submitted 10 questions covering when
whether President Barack Obama was aware of the dossier
the officials learned of the dossier and how they handled
prior to Jan. 5, 2017, when he was reportedly briefed by
the salacious and unverified document written by former
then-FBI Director James Comey about the report. The
British spy Christopher Steele.
dossier alleges that Russian government was blackmailing
Donald Trump and that members of the Trump campaign
The identities of the recipients are redacted from the letter, colluded with the Kremlin to sway the election.
which a congressional source shared with The Daily Caller
News Foundation. The recipients were described as “high-
Comey briefed then-President-elect Trump on some of the
ranking” current and former government officials.
allegations on Jan. 6, 2017. After CNN reported the
Between one and two dozen letters were issued.
briefing, BuzzFeed News published the dossier four days
(RELATED: FISA Warrant Relied On Dossier, News
later.
Story)

Nunes has led the Republican inquiry into the document,

Nunes, a California Republican, threatened subpoenas if
the officials did not comply with the letters.
“If you do not provide timely answers on a
voluntary process, the Committee will
initiate compulsory process,” he wrote.
In the letters, Nunes asks how the Steele information was
presented to the government officials and whether they
shared it with anyone else, including reporters.
WATCH:
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which remains largely unverified more than a year after its
release. He issued subpoenas in 2017 that led to the
revelation the Clinton campaign and DNC paid $1 million
to Fusion GPS as part of the dossier project.
Nunes and other House Intelligence Committee
Republicans also produced a four-page memo last month
that alleged the FBI and Department of Justice relied
heavily on the dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump
campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have cried foul over the warrant because the
dossier remains largely unverified. Nunes’ memo, which
cites the FBI application for the Page FISA, also noted that
a Sept. 23, 2016, news article based on information from
Steele was used to help justify the spy warrant. But the
application failed to note that the article came from the
same source of information as the dossier.
The FISA application also failed to note that the Clinton
campaign and DNC funded the dossier. Instead, the
application only acknowledged that the dossier was a part
of politically-motivated research against Trump.
Nunes letter about dossier by Chuck Ross from Scribd
below:

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 Joe Scarborough:
Attacking Trump Is 'What We Do'
By Bill D'Agostino
February 20, 2018 12:03 PM EST
After insisting for months that President Trump has been
undermining one of America’s most vital institutions with
his attacks on the news media, the hosts of MSNBC’s
Morning Joe briefly dropped their act.
On Tuesday, host Joe Scarborough
admitted that as a member of the media,
attacking Trump is just “what we do.”
Scarborough and fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski have had
a tumultuous relationship with the President, and indeed
their largely favorable treatment of him during the 2016
primaries now seems almost impossible to imagine. But
the relationship between Trump and the news media in
general has been unprecedentedly vicious since he
declared his presidential run in July of 2015.
On rare occasions, the media have shown their hand and
admitted to their vehement anti-Trump bias. One
particularly notable example was Jim Rutenberg’s New
York Times article published in August of 2016, which
described a Trump presidency as “potentially dangerous”
and admitted the Times’s “reporting [would] reflect that.”
However, Scarborough and Brzezinski have consistently
maintained that their coverage of the President has been
both fair and honest.
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That all went out the window on Tuesday. In a segment
about President Trump’s response over the weekend to
Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of Russian saboteurs,
Scarborough appeared dumbfounded that the President
was still affected by the media’s unfair treatment of him.
“Like, how could you be shocked, if you
were Donald Trump, that the media is
going to say negative things about
you?” he wondered aloud, evidently baffled
that the President had not yet made his
peace with media bias.
He added with a smirk,
“It’s like a Geico ad. It’s what we do.”
As if to prove his point, Scarborough went on to
sarcastically mock the President for his tweets. He alleged
that Trump was “obsessed” with the Russia investigation,
and that Mueller had
“gotten into his head with those
indictments on Friday.”
With mock concern, he continued:
He’s freaked out. He’s panicked... It’s
unbecoming. His lawyer should tell him
to stop tweeting about that, because it
suggests that he feels like he has
something to hide.
Scarborough’s behavior Tuesday fit his established pattern
of partisan rhetoric interrupted by brief, uncomfortable
bouts of clarity and self-awareness. Given the gravity of
his most recent admission, he most likely won't be due for
another such moment of honesty for a few weeks.
 BUSTED: Robert Mueller’s ’13 Russian Trolls
Indictment’ Is A COPY + PASTE Job From 2015
Ukrainian Radio Free Europe Post
Robert Mueller Stole Much Of His Indictment From
2015 Radio Free Europe Article.
by Alex Christoforou
February 20, 2018, 12:42
I am certain that Mueller and his team of cracker jack
investigators are making shit up as they go along, in this
entire “Russia collusion” (or is it now “meddling”)
investigation…all the while sitting back and collecting
million dollar paychecks from American
taxpayers…laughing all the way to the bank at the hysteria
they are purposefully creating.
Case in point, Mueller and his team
completely lifted the pathetic ’13
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Russian troll’ indictment from a
propaganda article published on
Ukraine’s Radio Free Europe web site
way back in 2015.
The Gateway Pundit reports…
After sixteen months of investigations and
over a year-and-a-half of the FBI and
Obama administration spying on Donald
Trump, his family, his business, his
campaign, his transition team and his
administration — Special Counsel Robert
Mueller dropped an absolute nothing-
burger on Friday in announcing charges
against Russian operatives who sullied the
US election process during the 2016
election and following Donald Trump’s
victory.
The indictment named 13 Russian
operatives from the internet Research
Center LLC. in St. Petersburg who
attempted to “interfere” with the 2016 US
presidential election.
It appears Mueller and his team of far left attorneys copied
much of their report from an earlier RFE article.

4chan has a thread alleging Robert Mueller

and his high-priced sham investigators got
all the names and the idea for his Russian
indictment from a 2015 Radio Free Europe
article.
Here is the Mueller indictment
We plugged the article into Google
describing the Internet Research
translate (It’s in Ukrainian), and the article
Agency LLC…
reads like the Mueller indictment.

And here is the RFE article from 2015…
For the third year, first in St. Petersburg, in the village of
Ol’hina, and then in the city itself, on the street
Savushkina, in the building number 55 there is a
mysterious organization, which is officially called the
Limited Liability Company Internet Research, and
unofficially nicknamed by its employees, the so-called
“Kremlin trolls”, “the Ministry of Truth” .
The official founder and director general of this
organization is the retired militia colonel Mikhail Bystrov ,
and is funded by the Concord holding, headed by friend
and chef of President Vladimir Putin Yevgeny Prigozhin .
Since 2000, this holding organizes banquets in the
Kremlin, as well as cooperates with “Vointorg” and the
Ministry of Defense.
In the “Trust Ministry”, approximately 400 people, who
change one at a time for 12 hours, sit around the computer
around the clock and write in blogs – mostly in “Live
Journal” or “VKontakte”. There are several departments.
In one they are engaged in the blogosphere, in another they
are preparing TK – technical tasks, in the third one – they
comment on the news in Russian and foreign media , in the
fourth – mount photos in the photoshop, forcing, say,
heads of Navalny and Obama to the bodies of animals, and
so on.

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 It gets better. The RFE post even has a
photo of the Ministry of Justice
headquarters in St. Petersburg…the
same photo now being circulated all
over the corrupt mainstream media.

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 Chairman Nunes Goes After Comey, Clapper, Brennan In
Phase 2 Of Trump Dossier Probe – THREATENS
TO ISSUE SUBPOENAS
By Cristina Laila
February 20, 2018, 1:18 Pm
GOP House Intel Committee members
just launched phase two of their dossier
probe.
Chairman Nunes fired off an inquiry to many current and
former intelligence, law enforcement and State Department
officials Tuesday, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported.
Nunes even threatened to issue subpoenas if he doesn’t
receive a timely response on a voluntary basis.
Via Fox News:
House Intelligence Committee Republicans
have launched “Phase 2” of their probe
into the origins of the unverified anti-Trump
dossier, firing off an inquiry to a host of
current and former officials — including
former FBI Director James Comey.
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In a letter obtained by Fox News, committee Chairman
Devin Nunes, R-Calif., posed a string of dossier-related
questions to current and former intelligence, law
enforcement and State Department officials. He
specifically wants to know when they learned the
document was funded by Democratic sources, and how it
was used to obtain one or more surveillance warrants at the
secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
In the Feb. 20-dated letter, Nunes even threatened to issue
subpoenas.
“If you do not provide timely answers on a
voluntary basis, the Committee will initiate
compulsory process,” he wrote.
[…]
Fox News understands the questionnaire went out to about
two dozen current and former officials.
Among them were Comey, former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John
Brennan, who testified in May 2017 that the Trump dossier
was virtually unknown to him.
Page 1 on Nunes letter via Fox News:
Nunes letter on Trump dossier, page one by Fox News
from Scribd:
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This Fox News report confirms the Gateway Pundit’s
previous report via Paul Sperry that Chairman Nunes was
to investigate Brennan and other Obama officials for their
role in promoting Hillary’s phony dossier.

Paul Sperry reported via Real Clear Investigations:

In his May 2017 testimony before the

intelligence panel, Brennan emphatically
denied the dossier factored into the
intelligence community’s publicly released
conclusion last year that Russia meddled in
the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances
of victory.”
Brennan also swore that he did not know
who commissioned the anti-Trump
research document (excerpt here), even
though senior national security and
counterintelligence officials at the Justice
Department and FBI knew the previous
year that the dossier was funded by the
Hillary Clinton campaign.

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 Crazy Adam Schiff Attacks POTUS Over
Russian Trolls Interfering In 2016 Election –
Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
February 20, 2018, 2:51 Pm

Ranking member of the House Intel
Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA)
continues to attack President Trump
over Russian trolls posting memes to
Facebook and Twitter during the 2016
election.
If by “tough”, you mean praising Putin,
denying Russian involvement in our
election, and refusing to impose the
sanctions Congress passed, then you are
one tough customer. Otherwise, the word
you are looking for is “weak.”

Schiff is upset Trump refuses to impose sanctions on

Russia; the only thing that would make these liberals
happy would be a full blown war with Russia.

The truth is president Trump doesn’t deny the Russians

tried to interfere in our election. The Russians have
historically tried to interfere in U.S. elections. This is
nothing new.

Trump has simply stated over and over

President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning,
“I have been much tougher on Russia than
Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake
News!”
again that his campaign did not collude
with the Russians during the 2016
election.
The only people who worked with the Russians via former
British spy Christopher Steele was Hillary Clinton, the
Dems and Obama’s DOJ, FBI.
On Tuesday morning, Fox & Friends absolutely destroyed
Obama on his weak stance with Russia (video):

Schiff responded with more lies and fake news.

Schiff tweeted:

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Trump supporters hammered old
Schiffty.

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 Still Lacking Evidence Of Collusion,
Democrats Move The Goalposts
Peter Hasson - Associate Editor
2:54 PM 02/20/2018
 Democrats accused the Trump campaign of
working with the Russian hackers who stole
campaign emails
 13 months into the Trump presidency, Democrats
still have no proof of collusion
 Now they’re trying to change the definition of
“collusion” to keep the narrative alive
Lacking any evidence of collusion between President
Trump and the Russian operatives who meddled in the
2016 campaign, Democrats are now attempting to re-
define “collusion” in order to declare Trump guilty of it.
When Democrats first raised the collusion accusations
after the election, they suggested that the Trump campaign
had been in direct cahoots with the Russian hackers who
stole emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta
and the Democratic National Committee, before later
distributing them to WikiLeaks.
“It’s very much unknown whether there was
collusion,” Podesta said in December 2016,
referring to Russia’s hacking of the emails.
That same month, then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
claimed to have “no doubt” that the Trump campaign was
involved with the Russian hacking efforts during the
campaign.
“Someone in the Trump campaign
organization was in on the deal. I have no
doubt. Now, whether they told [Trump] or
not, I don’t know. I assume they did. But
there is no question about that,” Reid told
HuffPost.
Clinton herself claimed in May that the Trump campaign
likely “guided” Russian propaganda efforts online. She
cited no evidence.
Now, with no evidence of such collusion between the
Trump campaign and the Russians, leading Democrats are
trying to redefine “collusion” to mean public statements
Trump made on the campaign trail and conversations then-
Trump adviser Michael Flynn held with Russian officials
during the post-election transition period.
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Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell published a
PowerPoint Monday night titled “Evidence of Collusion”
that failed to include any evidence of collusion.
Swalwell’s PowerPoint claimed public statements Trump
made on the campaign — such as “WikiLeaks, I love
WikiLeaks” or
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re
able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that
are missing”
— were proof of collusion between Trump and the
Russians.
Swalwell’s PowerPoint also claimed that Donald Trump
Jr.’s Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, who
promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, was proof of collusion.
But four months ago, the congressman conceded that the
meeting — which failed to produce the promised dirt —
wasn’t proof of actual collusion but of “an eagerness to
collude.” Now, Swalwell appears to classify that meeting
as collusion.
Swalwell also claimed that Trump business associate Felix
Sater’s boast in a 2015 email that a Trump hotel deal in
Russia could get him elected was proof of collusion. The
Sater email has been public knowledge since August 2017
and is not proof of collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia.
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein conceded in
November, months after both the Sater email and the
Trump Tower meeting became public, that she had yet to
see any evidence of collusion. Feinstein’s admission
undercuts Swalwell’s revisionist attempt to classify those
events, as well as Trump’s campaign statements, as
“collusion.”
The PowerPoint also included inaccurate information.
Swalwell repeated the long-debunked Democratic talking
point that the Trump campaign altered the Republican
platform in order to make it more favorable to Russia.
(Swalwell ignored that two months ago, President Trump
sent lethal arms to Ukraine, an affront to Russia that
Obama declined to enact.)
Swalwell claimed that Trump “will not acknowledge”
Russian interference in the election process, but that
simply isn’t true. In fact, the day before Swalwell
published his misleading PowerPoint, Trump slammed
Obama for failing to prevent Russian meddling in
American politics.
Screenshot/Twitter
Screenshot/Twitter
Swalwell also claimed that low-level Trump aide George
Papadopoulos’ drunken claim to an Australian diplomat in
May 2016 that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton — a
.
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common rumor among right-wingers at the time, due to
Clinton’s private email server — was proof of collusion.
Papadopoulos’ claim reportedly was the catalyst for the
FBI’s Russia probe, but 10 months into the investigation
top FBI agent Peter Strzok said he had yet to see any proof
of collusion — undercutting Swalwell’s claim that
Papadopoulos’ bragging was itself proof of collusion.
Three days before he recycled old news clipping for his
“Evidence of Collusion” PowerPoint, Swalwell said on
CNN that it was an open question “if” there was any
Trump-Russia collusion and said he would defer to Special
Counsel Robert Mueller.
“It’s up to Bob Mueller’s team to find out if
collusion existed, but [Trump] certainly
gave them a green light,” Swalwell said.
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff similarly claimed
last week that events which aren’t proof of collusion, are
proof of collusion.
Like Swalwell, Schiff claimed the Trump Tower meeting
was proof of collusion, even though there is no proof it
actually led to collusion between the Trump campaign and
Russia.
Schiff also claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a
Republican data firm hired by the Trump campaign, was
complicit in collusion because it reached out to WikiLeaks
about emails. WikiLeaks reportedly rebuffed the request
and there was no further cooperation between the two
parties.
Schiff also said claimed Flynn’s conversations with
Russian officials during the transition period after the
election somehow constituted proof of collusion with
Russian efforts to meddle in the run-up to the election.
 London Attorney Pleads Guilty To Lying To FBI Over
Contact With Trump Campaign
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 20, 2018, 3:10 Pm
Alex van der Zwaan has pleaded guilty
to lying to the FBI about contact with
Richard Gates, a former Trump
campaign official and associate of Paul
Manafort.
The charge does not implicate the Trump campaign.
.
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“The charge against van der Zwaan
does not involve election meddling or
the Trump campaign’s operations. It
stems from the special counsel’s
investigation into a covert Washington
lobbying campaign Manafort and Gates
are accused of directing on behalf of
pro-Russian Ukrainian interests,” WCNC
reports.
Judge Amy Jackson has agreed to expedite van der
Zwaan’s sentencing because his wife Eva Kahn, the
daughter of Russian oligarch German Kahn, is pregnant
and living in London. He is facing up to five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine, though he is expected to be
sentenced to six months or less because of his cooperation
with the Mueller probe.
German Kahn is currently suing Fusion GPS for libel over
being named in their infamous Trump dossier that was
compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
 American Center For Law And Justice Files Lawsuits
Against ‘Deep State’ Over Clinton Investigation
And Uranium One
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 20, 2018, 3:43 Pm
The American Center for Law and
Justice (ACLJ) has filed lawsuits
against the Department of State, the
Department of Justice, the FBI and the
US Treasury over the sham Hillary
Clinton investigation and the Uranium
One scandal.
The lawsuits are over the agencies failing to comply with
Freedom of Information Act requirements. The group is
asking that a federal court order the agencies to issue
determinations and produce documents responsive to the
ACLJ’s FOIA request.
In the first lawsuit, the ACLJ explained in a press release
that they
“are seeking to obtain documents
concerning a decision by the Committee on
Foreign Investments in the United States
(CFIUS) to transfer the U.S.’s controlling
interest in Uranium One to the Russian
state-owned ARMZ – a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Russian nuclear giant,
Rosatom.”
“The FBI was investigating bribes,
kickbacks and racketeering by the
Russian conglomerate’s American
subsidiary calculated to compromise
contracts in the American nuclear
energy industry and the Attorney
General’s representative sat on CFIUS,”
the statement from ACLJ notes.
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The ACLJ points out that the Obama administration deal
puts Russian President Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of
controlling much of the global uranium supply chain. They
also point out that Russian nuclear officials had reportedly
given $145 million to the Clinton Foundation while then-
Secretary Clinton’s representative sat on the CFIUS. Bill
Clinton also received $500,000 from the Russian
government for a speech in Moscow.
“The ACLJ’s FOIA, and now the resulting
lawsuit, seeks information that would shed
light on this ill-advised—and, frankly,
foolish—deal approved by CFIUS.
Specifically, the information the ACLJ has
demanded in its FOIA request will reveal
just how much information the Obama
FBI/DOJ provided to members of the
CFIUS before its approval of the deal, as
well as the validity of reports that Russia
tried to bribe Hillary Clinton,” the statement
asserts.
An FBI informant who was involved in the Uranium One
deal was gagged by the Obama administration and
threatened with prosecution if he publicly disclosed any
details has alleged that Russian nuclear officials
“told [him] at various times that they
expected APCO to apply a portion of its
funds received from Russia to provide in-
kind support for the Clintons’ Global
Initiative.”
“APCO was expected to give assistance
free of charge to the Clinton Global
Initiative as part of their effort to create
a favorable environment to ensure the
Obama administration made affirmative
decisions on everything from Uranium
One to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear
Cooperation agreement,” he wrote in a
10-page statement to the Senate
Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence
Committee, and House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee.
More specifically, in exchange for Russia’s payment of $3
million, he said that
“APCO was expected to give assistance
free of charge to the Clinton Global
Initiative as part of their effort to create a
favorable environment to ensure the
Obama administration made affirmative
decisions on everything from Uranium One
to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear
Cooperation agreement.”
The DOJ and FBI have acknowledged that the documents
ACLJ’s FOIA request is seeking are
“a matter of widespread and exceptional
media interest in which there exist possible
questions about the government’s integrity
which affect public confidence,” but they
have held up the release for more than
three months.
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The second lawsuit relates to former FBI Director James
Comey’s investigation into Clinton’s use of private email
servers and treatment of classified information.
The organization is seeking all records concerning or
relating in any manner to the decision of the FBI declining
to prosecute Clinton, all drafts of Comey’s statement
closing the investigation, from his original draft in early
2016 to the final version, all records regarding Comey’s
decision to close the investigation and not prosecute her,
all “evidence of potential violations of the statutes
regarding the handling of classified information”
referenced by Comey in his statement on July 5, 2016, all
records concerning the immunity agreements entered into
between the DOJ and witnesses and/or subjects of the
FBI’s investigation, including Cheryl Mills and Heather
Samuelson and all grand jury subpoenas obtained by the
FBI to compel information from Clinton’s internet service
providers.
“We will continue to hold the deep state
bureaucracy accountable,” the ACLJ
concluded their statement.
 Howard Dean:
Devin Nunes 'Belongs In Jail'
By Debra Heine
February 20, 2018

President Trump recently praised House Intelligence own power," the former DNC chair
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes as a “Great American declared, projecting of course, and not
Hero” for the work he's done to expose deep state explaining how ignoring Russian meddling
corruption, but former Vermont governor and 2004 was "bipartisan."
presidential screamer Howard Dean begs to differ.
"Didn't he also say he didn't want to look
like he was meddling?" Witt pressed,
Dean on Sunday told MSNBC host Alex Witt that he referring to Obama.
suspects Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) “belongs in jail,"
arguing that Nunes doesn't put the country first like former "Sure," Dean answered. "But that's the
President Obama did. choice he made. It's easy in retrospect to
criticize somebody and say he made the
wrong choice. Look, I had plenty of
The comment came after Dean had skillfully *cough* disagreements with Obama but Obama
deflected away from a semi-tough question from Witt. always put the country first," Dean
continued, incredibly. "That is something
"Do you agree, Howard, with the House that McConnell does not do and certainly
Intel Committee ranking member, Adam people like Devin Nunes who I suspect
Schiff, that the Obama administration belongs in jail has not done."
should have done more about Russia's
meddling?" Witt asked. "Okay!" Witt replied. "We'll pick up on that
conversation at another time."
Dean struggled to answer the question without faulting the
former president.

"Uhh -- well -- in retrospect, of course,"

Dean began hesitantly. "He wanted to be
bipartisan. [??] I told him a very long time
ago before he ever started his term that he
was wasting bipartisanship on the
Republicans. They don't give a damn about
the country -- they only care about their

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 Sad. Facebook VP Of Advertising Apologizes
To Liberal Mob After Tweeting Truth About Russian Ads
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 3:57 Pm

On Friday, the office of Special Counsel

Robert Mueller announced that a grand
jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused
of “supporting the presidential
campaign of then-candidate Donald J.
Trump … and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.”

The 37-page indictment was a big fat

nothingburger.
That prompted Goldman to backtrack on
The Vice President of Facebook ads, Rob Goldman his comments.
unleashed on his Twitter account after Mueller’s
indictment hit the wire. The pressure from the Twitter mob was
just too much. Goldman folded.
Goldman slammed the fake news media’s coverage of
Russia. Via Conservative Treehouse:

Rosenstein admitted not one American had knowledge
they were interacting with Russians who were posing as
Americans.
Furthermore, Rosenstein admitted the Russian operation
did not impact the outcome of the 2016 Presidential
election.
On Sunday Presdent Trump retweeted Rob Goldman’s
tweets on the Russian witch hunt.
After President Trump re-tweeted a
discussion thread from Facebook VP of
Ads Rob Goldman, which cited
analysisdone last year of Russian ad
purchases/ engagement, the liberal hive
instantly attacked the executive.
According to Wired.Com Rob Goldman quickly began
apologizing for expressing “uncleared thoughts”, where
those thoughts are actually based on facts – but run counter
to the necessary liberal narrative – so they must be repelled
at all costs.

This you have to read:

(Via Wired) On Friday morning, just before 10am on the

West Coast, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller
published his indictment of 13 Russian operatives
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for interfering in the US election. The document was 37
pages, and it mentioned Facebook 35 times. It detailed
how Russian operatives used the platform to push memes,
plan rallies, create fake accounts, suppress the vote, foment
racism, and more.
[…] But then, roughly eight hours after the indictment
appeared online, Rob Goldman, a VP for ads for
Facebook, decided he had a few points to add to the
debate. He was just freelancing, and had not cleared his
thoughtswith either Facebook’s communications team or
its senior management.
.
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[…] With Mueller’s indictment, according to multiple
people at the company, everyone felt that Facebook had
done something right. The 35 mentions clearly showed that
Facebook had fully cooperated with authorities. Many of
the details in the indictment, particularly from pages 25 to
30, which include details of messages sent between private
Facebook accounts, were given to Mueller by Facebook.
That could have been a good story. But then Rob Goldman
decided to weigh in, using a rival platform. He now has
10,500 Twitter followers, but a few fewer friends at work.
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 Karl, Sanders Clash Over Trump’s Response To Russian
Attempts To Interfere In 2016 Election
Christian Datoc - Breaking News and Engagement Editor
4:16 PM 02/20/2018

Sarah Sanders clashed with ABC’s Johathan Karl at best ways going forward. Everybody wants
Tuesday’s White House press briefing over President to blame this on the Trump Administration.
Trump’s perceived response to Russia’s attempted Let’s not forget that this happened under
influence into the 2016 election. the Obama Administration.”

Karl argued that though the president had been gloating on

Twitter about how Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
Friday indictment of 13 Russian nationals apparently
exonerated the Trump campaign of collusion, he has done
little prevent future attempts to influence American
elections.

“You just agreed that the evidence is there

that the Russians interfered in our
election,” Karl continued. “Doesn’t he agree
that the evidence is there?”

WATCH:
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 13: White House
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a daily
news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of
the White House February 13, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Sanders held her daily briefing to fill questions from
members of the White House Press Corps. (Photo by Alex
Wong/Getty Images)

“This happened over a year ago,” Karl

interjected. “What’s he done about it?”

Sanders continued by rattling off the various ways the

Trump administration is seeking to curb foreign meddling
“This investigation is obviously about what
in future elections.
Russia did, and this raises the question —
now that you’ve said the president agrees,
the national security adviser says the
evidence is incontrovertible — what is the
president going to do about it? What is he
specifically doing about the fact that the
Russia interfered with our election and has
every intention, we are told, of doing it
again? What is he doing about it?”
“Look, just last week the Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen met with a number of relevant
stakeholders,” Sanders responded. “They
are discussing this process and going
through and looking every single day at the
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“We have spent a lot of time working on
cyber security, focusing on protecting the
fairness on our elections. And, as I said,
the department of homeland security met
with state and local officials just over the
last several weeks along with election
vendors to make sure our election system
is secure. They met with state and private
officials on how best to secure the election
system from foreign interference. We’re not
the only targets of foreign interference, and
we’re working with our allies on a daily
basis to make sure we’re following best
 practices. This has been a topic of
conversation with multiple foreign heads of
state. President Trump and the
administration that interference in our
electrics will have consequences. And we’ll
continue to impose consequences in
response to Russian cyber attacks. Just
last week we called out Russia by name, it
was one of the first times you’ve seen
something like that take place.”
Pushing onward, Karl asked why POTUS hasn’t
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“even called out Vladimir Putin about this?
He criticized Obama, he criticized the FBI.
He didn’t even criticize Vladimir Putin.”
“He has been tougher on Russia in the first
year than Obama was in eight years
combined,” the White House press
secretary testily shot back at Karl. “He has
imposed sanctions, he’s taken away
properties, he’s rebuilt our military. He has
done a number of things to put pressure on
Russia and be tough on Russia. Just last
week there was an incident that will be
reported in the coming days in an another
way this president was tough on Russia.”
 Sarah Sanders Blasts Liberal Reporter Over Trump’s
Response To Russian Trolls Interfering In 2016 Election
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 20, 2018, 4:40 Pm

On Tuesday, White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders had a fiery
exchange with ABC’s liberal reporter,
Jonathan Karl over Trump’s response to
Russian trolls interfering in the 2016
election.
VIDEO via the Daily Caller:
“He has been tougher on Russia in his first
year than Obama was in eight years
combined. He has imposed sanctions, he’s
taken away properties, he’s rebuilt our
military. He has done a number of things to
put pressure on Russia and be tough on
Russia. Just last week there was an
incident that will be reported in the coming
days in an another way this president was
tough on Russia.”

The liberals had a feeding frenzy after Mueller indicted 13

Russians for interfering in the 2016 presidential election
via social media. Sarah Sanders also blasted fake news reporters for
conflating two facts-Russian interference and Trump
The 37-page indictment was a big fat nothingburger but colluding with the Russians to help them with their
the liberals are now demanding Trump “do something interference operation.
about the Russians”. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein even said in a press
conference last week after Mueller indicted 13 Russians
Obama did nothing as the Russians set up shop in the U.S. that their meddling had no impact on the outcome of the
in 2014 but this is somehow Trump’s fault. election and Trump’s camp did not collude with them.
Second video via Fox News:
“You just agreed that the evidence is there
that the Russians interfered in our election,
doesn’t he agree that the evidence is
there?” Karl asked Sanders of Trump.
“What is the president going to do about it?
What is he specifically doing about the fact
that the Russia interfered with our election
and has every intention, we are told of
doing it again? What is he doing about it?”
Karl asked.

Sarah Sanders explained Trump is tougher on Russian than

Obama was.

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 Peter Schweizer: Robert Mueller’s FBI ‘Completely
Ignored’ Russian Corruption In 2010 Uranium One Deal
By Robert Kraychik
20 Feb 2018
The FBI apparently ignored evidence of
Russian involvement in the uranium
market “when they approved the deal
back in 2010,” said Peter Schweizer of
the Committee on Foreign Investment in
the United States’s (CFI) 2010 approval
of the Russian government’s
purchasing of a majority stake in
Uranium One.
Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability
Institute, offered his remarks in a Monday interview on
SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca
Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Robert Mueller — director of the FBI between 2001 and
2013 — must have known of corrupt dealings related to
the Uranium One deal in 2010, said Schweizer.
“It’s been long known by the FBI that the
Russian involvement in the uranium market
was highly suspect, that their efforts were
nefarious, and that there was a lot of
corruption involved with these programs,”
said Mueller:
There was a megatons program that was
designed to, in a sense, help the Russian
nuclear industry transition from sort of
military-based work to civilian work — a lot
of detailed corruption that the FBI tracked
in the 1990s and 2000s, so going up to the
2010 approval for Uranium One, it’s really
impossible for senior FBI officials, including
the director at the time — Mueller — to
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argue that they are just completely shocked
that Uranium One and these kickbacks
were taking place. It was widely known.
Schweizer spoke of William Douglas Campbell, a
“Uranium One whistleblower” who has testified privately
before Congress about his involvement in the Uranium
One deal.
“[Bruce Campbell] testified before
Congress,” said Schweizer:
It was behind closed doors, so we don’t
know the details, but essentially he was
asked about what he knew as it related
specifically to the Clinton Foundation, and
what you hear indirectly — I was certainly
not there — but what you hear indirectly is
that he was told specifically by the
Russians to work on helping get Uranium
One approved. One of the things that they
did was the Russians hired the lobbying
firm APCO, and then APCO turned around
and essentially gave an in-kind or free
donation to the Clinton Foundation, valued
somewhere in the order of $3 million.
Campbell’s work as an undercover informant for the FBI
led to convictions of Russian executives related to
Rosatom — the nuclear agency of the Russian state — in
2015 on bribery and money-laundering charges related to
the Uranium One deal.
“APCO denies that charge, but Campbell is
a pretty credible guy,” said Schweizer:
This is a guy who was an FBI witness. It’s
known that the Russians were paying him
$50,000 a month to do work for them, and
some of that work included, according to
his job description, setting up meetings with
high-level ranking U.S. officials. That’s all
not in dispute. So this is a guy that certainly
was there. The FBI found him credible. He
got FBI executives thrown into jail, and they
eventually pleaded guilty to a variety of
charges, including bribery and kickbacks.
 So you can’t dismiss, as some Clinton
defenders want to, this whistleblower as if
he has no credibility because he was there.
It was Campbell’s
“testimony and undercover work that got
them convicted,”
said Schweizer.
“It’s also been hinted that [Campbell] has
audiotapes that talk about some of these
meetings, and essentially, that some of
these Russian officials were bragging and
making claims as it related to the Clintons
and providing support for them,” said
Schweizer.
The Clintons stood to benefit financially from approval of
the Uranium One deal, said Schweizer.
“Looking at the approval of Uranium One, it
seems pretty clear to me that the Clintons
had a huge financial motive to see this deal
approved because so many of their big
financial supporters stood to gain from this
deal being approved, and of course, they
had a lot of Russians that were involved in
supporting the Clinton Foundation and
were partners,” said Schweizer.
The ostensibly charitable Clinton Foundation received
$145 million in donations from nine of the deal’s
investors.
The CFI’s 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal —
through which approximately 20 percent of America’s
uranium supply came under Russian state control —
occurred while the Obama administration was pursuing a
“Russian Reset” policy.
“This occurred in 2010, and this was a time
when Barack Obama’s number one foreign
policy agenda was the ‘Russian Reset,’”
said Schweizer:
I’m sure there were professionals within
parts of the national security bureaucracy
that were concerned about this transaction,
we know that they were, we know on
Capitol Hill that there here half a dozen
members of Congress on powerful
committees dealing with national security
deadly opposed to this deal. Those voices
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were clearly never heard in the Obama
administration because there was no
debate about this. I think the reason there
was no debate about this was because the
Obama administration decided very early
on: we’re going to do whatever we can to
have warmer relations with Moscow, and if
that means turning over this uranium
company to a corrupt Russian government
institution, so be it. We’re going to ram it
through.
“It’s got to go down as one of the worst
deals that has ever been done in American
foreign policy,” said Schweizer.
“We have no idea where that uranium is
now,” said Mansour. “We’ve completely lost
track of it. It could be going to Iran, it could
be going to North Korea. No one can tell.”
The statute of limitations —
“where the allegation is that the Clintons
traded favors for financial gain and
benefits,” as Schweizer described it —
has passed on crimes of corruption related to the Uranium
One transactions, said Schweizer. Such crimes have
statutes of limitations ranging between five and seven
years, he added.
Criminal use of a charity for self-enrichment does not have
a statute of limitations, said Schweizer:
“If you use a charity for personal gain,
which is a violation of the IRS tax code,
those statutes of limitation do not run out.”
According to a January report in The Hill, the FBI
launched a new investigation of possible criminal conduct
related to the Clinton Foundation, including possible
monetization of political influence by the Clintons:
The Justice Department has launched a
new inquiry into whether the Clinton
Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play
politics or other illegal activities while
Hillary Clinton served as secretary of State,
law enforcement officials and a witness
tells The Hill. … The probe is examining
whether the Clintons promised or
performed any policy favors in return for
largesse to their charitable efforts or
whether donors made commitments of
donations in hopes of securing government
outcomes. … The probe may also examine
whether any tax-exempt assets were
converted for personal or political use and
whether the foundation complied with
applicable tax laws, the officials said.
 Muh Russia: Barack Obama Spent Three
Times As Much Interfering In Israeli Election Than
Russians Spent On Facebook Ads
By Jim Hoft
February 20, 2018, 7:18 Pm
The 13 indicted Russian internet trolls
have NOTHING on Barack Obama.
On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller
announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian
nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud,
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014
through the 2016 elections.
CNS News reported:
The Russians launched pro-Trump and Pro-Hillary
websites and organized pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies.
The anti-Trump rallies were much more successful.
It’s a lot easier to get leftist sheep out to protest than
conservatives who work all day.
In the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report
about the State Department’s action, Chairman Bob
Portman (R-Ohio) said,
But these Russians have nothing on
Barack Obama.
The Russians spent a reported $100,000
on Facebook ads during the election.
Barack Obama spent $350,000 to
interfere with the Israeli elections to
unseat pro-US Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
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Obama spent more than three times as
much to interfere in the Israeli elections
than the Russians spent on Facebook
ads.
Barack Obama also interfered in the
Kenyan, Egyptian, German and British
elections.
According to the U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), the
State Department gave $349,276 in U.S.
taxpayer-funded grants to a political group
in Israel to build a campaign operation,
which subsequently was used to try to
influence Israelis to vote against
conservative Benjamin Netanyahu in the
March 2015 election for prime minister.
“It is completely unacceptable that U.S.
taxpayer dollars were used to build a
political campaign infrastructure that was
deployed — immediately after the grant
ended — against the leader [Netanyahu] of
our closest ally in the Middle East.
American resources should be used to help
our allies in the region, not undermine
them.”
“The State Department ignored warning
signs and funded a politically active group
in a politically sensitive environment with
inadequate safeguards,” said Portman in a
July 12, 2016 press release.
 How The MSM And Russian
Trolls Are Destroying The Democratic Party
By Roger L Simon
February 20, 2018
In what feels like the 27th year of the Trump-Russia-
Collusion Investigation, what we have most recently
learned is that a lawyer no one ever heard of may have
made a false statement to the FBI and even erased a few
emails concerning events that happened years before the
election and have something to do with Ukraine. We have
further learned that a group of Russians in St. Petersburg
have been trolling us since at least 2014 (what took them
so long?), playing both sides against the middle and even
going so far as to organize a post-election demonstration in
front of Trump Tower featuring Michael Moore assuring
us that "he's not my president!" while being cheered on by
some extraordinarily credulous women with microphones
from CNN.
Forget going from the sublime to the ridiculous. This has
gone from the ludicrous to the harebrained. The fact that
anyone could be taking this nonsense seriously anymore
boggles the proverbial mind, but they do -- especially at
that antediluvian relic known as the mainstream media.
And therein lies the treachery -- not for Donald Trump,
who spends far too much time paying attention to it
himself, but for the Democratic Party because, seemingly
entranced (even hypnotized) by the non-stop (even now)
coverage by CNN and other so-called serious outlets, they
have completely forgotten who they are, i. e. a political
party with policies, goals, etc.
Lost in a Russia-induced haze, the Democratic Party
virtually no longer exists. They have no ideas, no
proposals, nada. There's nothing but Nancy Pelosi
whining about "crumbs" while genuine tax reform is
appearing live in people's paychecks. The Democrats can
dream about a "wave election," but the only wave that
seems to be coming their way is a surfer's wipeout.
Nevertheless, CNN et al. bleat on about Russia, Russia,
Russia. I have news for Zucker, Tapper, Acosta and
company. No one's interested. This is the boy who cried
wolf times twenty. The public has been on to the game for
months now. It's even beginning to show in the polls.
In the process, Adam Schiff may have become the most
visible Democrat on the planet, but his face is the image of
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slimy prevarication. He's Nixon with less hair. Everyone
sees it -- except for that same loyal media claque. It's hard
to understand how they could have been so clueless.
They also didn't get that Devin Nunes is a natural born Mr.
Smith, an honest guy from the heartland (Fresno), while
Schiff is a natural born hustler representing the Hollywood
Hills and Burbank. It's basic casting. The media is
supposed to know something about this, but they miss it by
a mile -- and have been unwittingly destroying the
Democrats in the process.
As one who has been more than once to Russia and, yes,
even knew people in the KGB back in the day (please don't
surveil me, Mr. Mueller. I'm a loyal American), I am
certain that Donald Trump is correct in at least one of his
tweets. The Russians are laughing their asses off about
this. And they deserve to. We are the biggest doofuses of
all time.
Something has gone very wrong here. The question is how
to correct it. Harvard's esteemed Alan Dershowitz has
been everywhere insisting that the special counsel
investigation should never have occurred. Without a
specific crime cited, it had no basis and should have been
an internal national security matter and conducted as such.
That's undoubtedly true, but leaves outstanding the
question of what to do about some real specific crimes that
do seem to exist -- actions taken by the FBI itself, the
suborning of the FISA court, etc. This opens a giant can of
worms that leads back to the Clinton campaign and
foundation, all the unfortunate detritus that has been filling
an hour of the Hannity show for over a year.
Dershowitz suggests we forget that too. For whatever
reasons -- I could speculate, but I won't -- he's a "let
bygones be bygones" guy. He says it's all political in the
end and should be decided at the ballot box.
I disagree. But maybe I'm too sentimental about the rule
of law. It's a brave new world out there, after all, where
we live by the rule of trolls. Who knows what they're
cooking up now for their willing stooges in our media?
 POTUS HAMMERS CNN And MSNBC For Attending
And Promoting Anti-Trump Rally Sponsored By Russia
By Cristina Laila
February 20, 2018, 7:40 Pm

On Tuesday evening, President Trump Even funnier, left-wing crank, Michael Moore attended
unleashed on fake news CNN and one of these Russian-organized anti-Trump rallies as well.
MSNBC for attending anti-Trump rallies
organized by Russian trolls. Trump tweeted on Tuesday,

“Bad ratings @CNN & @MSNBC got

scammed when they covered the anti-
Trump Russia rally wall-to-wall. They
probably knew it was Fake News but,
because it was a rally against me, they
pushed it hard anyway. Two really
dishonest newscasters, but the public is
wise!”

Newsbusters previously reported:

One of the revelations in Friday’s

indictment handed down by Special
Counsel Robert Mueller was that alleged
Russian attempts to sow disunity in 2016
included the organization of both pro- and
anti-Trump rallies in New York City on the
Saturday after Election Day.
Video of MSNBC at a Russian-organized anti-Trump rally
A check of their November 12 coverage via Newsbusters:
showed both CNN and MSNBC gave
enthusiastic coverage to the Russian-
organized anti-Trump rally that day, with
live reports every hour. Correspondents
celebrated the idea that it was “a love rally,”
and repeated the marchers’ anti-Trump
mantras, such as:
“We reject the President-elect.”

While the two liberal anti-Trump networks offered heavy

coverage of the anti-Trump rally throughout the day, a
check of coverage between noon and 5:00
p.m. Eastern found that the Fox News Channel offered
only a short re-cap (66 seconds) at the start of their 4:00
p.m. Eastern hour.

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 S.E. Cupp Calls Out
Gun Grabbers For Lying About Their Intentions
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 20, 2018 10:11 PM EST

will hear it all over the news. You will

hear it from lawmakers. They will
dismiss the idea that taking your guns
away is what anyone is talking about.”
“But you should know, any time
someone says ‘they are not talking
about taking your guns away,’ what they
mean is, ‘they are talking about taking
your guns away,’” Cupp added.

She followed up by showing video of evidence of

President Obama and Hillary Clinton asserting they
HLN conservative host S.E. Cupp followed up her weren’t going to take guns away and then saying the exact
masterful takedown of self-righteous journalists who opposite later. She also noted the two-faced-ness of former
become anti-gun activists, last Thursday, by using the Republican Joe Scarborough on the subject:
opening monologue of Tuesday’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered to
call out disingenuous gun grabbers for lying about their
intentions.

“There is nothing more disingenuous

than the idea that no one is talking
about banning guns,” Cupp declared.

Cupp began the show by slamming actress Alyssa Milano

for sending out an “inane” tweet spewing hate for the
Second Amendment because it was passed during a time
when smallpox and dying during childbirth were
“popular.”
S.E. CUPP: I listen to the news when they
say things like this.
“What Milano tweeted may be inane, but
what’s problematic is that other inane JOE SCARBOROUGH: Nobody wants to
ideas masquerade and serious and take their shotguns away. Nobody wants to
actually get considered. People say all take their handguns away. They can't
kinds of crazy things in a desperate because that's unconstitutional now
attempt to quote, ‘do something,’” Cupp because of the Heller—because of D.C.
cautioned. versus Heller in 2008. They can't do it.
CUPP: And I continue to listen when in the
She then became extremely serious and warned of a liberal very next breath they then say this.
narrative every law-abiding gun owner would surely come
SCARBOROUGH: We need to take away
across.
these weapons of war. Look at these mass
shootings.
“But here’s the deal. I want you to be
very aware of one narrative that pops up Cupp also noted conservative turncoat and New York
over and over and over again. It is this Times columnist Bret Stephens:
idea that ‘no one is talking about taking
your guns away,’” Cupp warned. “You
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 “When columnists, like so-called
conservative Bret Stephens, take to the
pages of The New York Times and say it
is time to repeal the second
amendment, I listen to that and believe
him.”
“They will say they are not coming for
your self-defense gun or for your
hunting rifle, but this is where
definitions really matter and why the
term “assault weapon” is so odious and
slippery. It’s such an ambiguous term
that neither the federal government nor
individual states have a single
definition,” she expertly stated.
After going through varied definitions concerning the
firearm, she spoke about the shift in liberal terminology for
the weapons.
“Maybe that's why people like Joe
Scarborough are now calling them
‘weapons of war,’ an even more ill-
defined and vague but scary sounding
term,” Cupp surmised. “So, it is
completely possible that an assault
weapons ban would make your hunting
rifle or self-defense handgun illegal.”
“This stuff matters and anyone that says
it doesn't is just trying to bully you away
from facts and towards fist shaking
emotion,” she argued shortly before going
to the discussion.
While some might try to hide their discussions regarding
taking your guns away, others talk about it out in the open.
Just as NBC moderator Chuck Todd did during
Sunday’s Meet the Press and CBS did during Monday’s
Evening News when they were touting the demands of
Parkland students.
Transcript below, click expand to read:
HLN
S.E. Cupp Unfiltered
February 20, 2018
5:01:31 PM Eastern [4 minutes 50 seconds]
(…)
S.E. CUPP: But in the wake of yet another tragic mass shooting
absurd rises to the top. What Milano tweeted may be inane, but
what’s problematic is that other inane ideas masquerade and
serious and actually get considered. People say all kinds of crazy
things in a desperate attempt to quote, “do something.”
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Here on this show, we have been highlighting some possible
well-considered potentially lifesaving solutions from the left, from
the right and everywhere in between. I will continue to highlight
those solutions because I think it is an important conversation. I
am not afraid of having it.
But here’s the deal. I want you to be very aware of one narrative
that pops up over and over and over again. It is this idea that “no
one is talking about taking your guns away.” You will hear it all
over the news. You will hear it from lawmakers. They will dismiss
the idea that taking your guns away is what anyone is talking
about. But you should know, any time someone says “they are
not talking about taking your guns away,” what they mean is,
“they are talking about taking your guns away.”
How do I know this? Because I listen. I listen when someone
says this.
BARACK OBAMA: I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe
in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun
away. I will not take your rifle away.
CUPP: And I also listen when they say this.
OBAMA: We should restore the ban on military-style assault
weapons and a ten round limit for magazines.
CUPP: I listen to people when they say this.
HILLARY CLINTON: I'm not here to take away your guns. I just
don't want you to be shot by someone who shouldn't have a gun
in the first place.
CUPP: And I listen when they also say this.
CLINTON: And I think it's time to restore the ban on assault
weapons and high capacity magazines.
CUPP: I listen to the news when they say things like this.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Nobody wants to take their shotguns
away. Nobody wants to take their handguns away. They can't
because that's unconstitutional now because of the Heller—
because of D.C. versus Heller in 2008. They can't do it.
CUPP: And I continue to listen when in the very next breath they
then say this.
SCARBOROUGH: We need to take away these weapons of war.
Look at these mass shootings.
CUPP: I listen to Senator Dianne Feinstein who introduced an
assault weapons ban last year, saying she only wants to take
away the bad ones. But I also listened to her in 1993 when she
sold the Associated Press that, quote, “Banning guns addresses
a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe.”
When columnists, like so-called conservative Bret Stephens, take
to the pages of The New York Times and say it is time to repeal
the second amendment, I listen to that and believe him. I listen
when in response to the shooting in Florida state Senator Gary
farmer tweets: “They're in the capital. These kids will be lobbying
both chambers today for common sense gun safety legislation.”
So, what’s he talking about when he wants “common sense” gun
laws? Well, he says “we need an assault weapons ban in Florida.
The time for change is now.”
They will say they are not coming for your self-defense gun or for
your hunting rifle, but this is where definitions really matter and
why the term “assault weapon” is so odious and slippery. It’s
such an ambiguous term that neither the federal government nor
individual states have a single definition.
The 1994 ban defined an assault weapon as a rifle or pistol that
has a detachable magazine and at least two other military
features like a bayonet mount, a flash suppressor, or a pistol grip.
Most of those features are cosmetics and don’t necessarily make
a gun more powerful. States that have assault weapons bans
don't even agree on what they are and define them differently.
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Maybe that's why people like Joe Scarborough are now calling
them “weapons of war,” an even more ill-defined and vague but
scary sounding term. So, it is completely possible that an assault
weapons ban would make your hunting rifle or self-defense
handgun illegal. This stuff matters and anyone that says it
doesn't is just trying to bully you away from facts and towards fist
shaking emotion.
Over the coming days, weeks, maybe even months, you will hear
a spectrum of proposals to prevent more mass shootings. In fact,
just an hour ago, the President announced he has directed
Attorney General Jeff sessions to propose regulations that would
ban bump stocks, devices that turn ordinary rifles into automatic
weapons. That's good. We welcome all these proposals, but
there is nothing more disingenuous than the idea that no one is
talking about banning guns. So let's have that conversation and
get everyone's cards out on the table.
(…)
 The Left Hits Panic Button – Petition With 600K
Signatures To Remove Nunes From House Intel Committee
Delivered To Speaker Ryan’s Office
By Cristina Laila
February 20, 2018, 10:11 Pm

Fearless warrior Chairman Nunes is BREAKING: Leftwing activists w CREDO,

marching forward with his House Intel
Committee exposing corrupt DOJ and
FBI officials involved in FISA abuse to
take down President Trump.
GOP House Intel Committee members
just launched phase two of their dossier
probe; Comey, Brennan and Clapper are
in the hot seat.
Chairman Nunes fired off an inquiry to many current and
former intelligence, law enforcement and State Department
officials Tuesday, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported.
Nunes even threatened to issue subpoenas if he doesn’t
receive a timely response on a voluntary basis.
The left hit the panic button. Petitions with over 600,000
signatures to have Rep Nunes removed from the House
Intel Committee was delivered to Speaker Ryan’s
Wisconsin office Tuesday.
Common Cause & http://MoveOn.org
delivered 600,000+ petition signatures to
Speaker Ryan’s Janesville, Wis., office
today demanding he remove Devin Nunes
from House Intelligence Committee & its
Trump/Russia investigation.
THEY R WORRIED!
The petition from Credo Action to have Devin Nunes
removed has over 152,000 signatures.
Another petition from Credo Action to have Nunes
removed has 223,000 signatures.
Below is the petition from MoveOn.org to remove Nunes
from the House Intel Committee with 242,214 signatures
so far.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry tweeted:

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 Remove Rep. Devin Nunes From
The House Intelligence Committee
Petition By Joann Kelty
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We the people demand that Devin Nunes be removed from the House Intelligence Committee. We demand a special
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CNN Harasses Elderly Lady Over Pro-Trump Facebook
Group Targeted By Russian Troll Farm (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 21, 2018, 10:21 Am
CNN sent reporter Drew Griffin to
Florida to grill an elderly woman who
“unwittingly promoted a Russian-
coordinated event on Facebook.”
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Daily Caller reports:
The woman, Florine Gruen Goldfarb, had
no idea that her Team Trump Broward
County Facebook page was targeted by
Russian operatives, but that didn’t stop
Griffin from haranguing her anyway.
Griffin showed up to Goldfarb’s home in
Pembroke Pines and, microphone in hand
and TV camera in tow, proceeded to grill
her about the Russian operation.
Griffin acknowledged that Goldfarb was
likely unaware that her group was targeted
by Russians. And in a tweet of the two-
minute interview, CNN acknowledged that
she “unwittingly promoted” a rally
orchestrated by Russian trolls. […]
But Goldfarb was more focused on who actually attended
her rallies.
“Those people weren’t Russians. I don’t go
with Russians,” she said at one point.
“Those people that were with me were all
Trump supporters,” she added.
“And all apparently following the direction
of Russians who were actually infiltrating,”
Griffin replied.
“B.S.,” said Goldfarb.
CNN’s antics don’t stop here this week.
In a segment broadcasted Monday, CNN senior
correspondent Matthew Chance is shown digging through
dumpsters outside the St. Petersburg, Russia building that
special counsel Robert Mueller alleges troll farms
interfering in the 2016 election operated out of.
On Friday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller
announced that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals,
along with 3 Russian entities, accused of “supporting the
presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump
… and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
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 Figures. MSNBC Crank Tops
List Of Russian Trolls’ Favorite Pundits
By Jim Hoft
February 21, 2018, 10:46 Am

election campaign. In comparison, former Democratic

candidate Bernie Sanders was retweeted 27 times.

This is sooo delicious.

The Russian troll farmers used MSNBC
crank Joy Reid as one of their favorite
pundits.
BizPac Review reported:
While Reid has found endless occasions on her weekend
MSNBC show to call out President Trump for allegedly
colluding with Russians to win the election, it seems she
herself is the favored pundit of the Russian troll brigade,
according to a report by Law and Crime.
In fact, the liberal host earned almost half of the retweets
received by Trump whose verified Twitter account was
retweeted 578 times by the Olgino Trolls during the
According to Law and Crime:
According to an analysis of the raw data by
Law&Crime, Joy-Ann Reid–recently and
glowingly profiled as a heroine of the
#Resistance by the New York Times–
received some 267 total retweets by the
private sector Russian troll brigade.
The next closest pundit favored by the Russian trolls was
Sean Hannity–who received only a handful of their
retweets during the 2016 election.

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 Trump Slams Sessions For Not
Investigating Obama Handling Of Russia
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:10 AM 02/21/2018

President Donald Trump took aim at his attorney general Trump has also previously said he would not have hired
Wednesday for not pursuing investigations of his Sessions for Attorney General if he knew he would recuse
predecessors and Democrats. himself from the Russia investigation.

“Sessions should have never recused

himself, and if he was going to recuse
himself, he should have told me before he
took the job and I would have picked
somebody else,” he declared to The New
York Times in December.

WATCH — Valerie Jarrett Thinks Obama Doesn’t

Regret Downplaying Russian Threat:

Trump has long held ire towards Sessions for recusing

himself from the Department of Justice investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump believes Session’s recusal set the stage for deputy
attorney general Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of special
counsel Robert Mueller.

The President spent much of the summer attacking

Sessions for failure to open investigations into former
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

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 So, When Will Mueller Indict
OBAMA For Foreign Election Interference?
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On February 21, 2018
(National Sentinel) As you may know, last week a federal
grand jury returned 13 indictments of Russian citizens and
three Russian firms recommended as part of special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the
Trump campaign “colluded” with Russia to “steal the
election” from Hillary Clinton.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., said over the weekend that his panel has seen no
evidence of said collusion, but nevertheless, the Mueller
probe continues, hence the 13 new indictments.
The Russians’ alleged crime(s)? Interfering with the 2016
presidential election.
Oh, that.
Mueller didn’t name any Americans in this latest round of
indictments — including, naturally, members of President
Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign. In fact, Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made it clear when
announcing the indictments that no Americans “wittingly”
participated in the Russian operation.
But Mueller’s 13 indictments are puzzling for a number of
reasons — not the least of which because they represent
one of the greatest geopolitical hypocrisies in modern
times, which was not lost on Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman
Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center.
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In a column for FrontPage Magazine, all Mueller has done
thus far is indict “a bunch of Russians associated with a
troll farm for interfering with an election” that everyone in
the DOJ and FBI thus far has admitted did not change the
election outcome — meaning Trump beat Clinton fair and
square.
But “the Clinton campaign employed a
British foreign agent who used Russian
intelligence sources to put together
opposition research meant to interfere with
the results of a United States election,” he
wrote. “Collusion between the Clinton
campaign, Steele and the Russians doesn’t
require an endless fishing expedition.”
He goes on to point out that foreign governments
attempting to interfere with American democracy is not a
new thing (and it certainly isn’t for Russia, which, as head
of the Soviet Union, regularly sought to undermine U.S.
democracy).
In fact, he notes,
“Muslims in Gaza famously ran a phone
bank for Obama,” as “a Hamas political
advisor had declared that he hoped Obama
would win.”
The Mueller indictment claims that
“the Federal Election Campaign Act…
prohibits foreign nationals from making any
contributions, expenditures, independent
expenditures, or disbursements for
electioneering communications.”
However, Greenfield notes, Obama accepted untraceable
donations from abroad, while failing to require proof of
citizenship as his website even permitted donations from
Iran and North Korea.
“The chair of Nigeria’s stock exchange had
organized an ‘Africans for Obama’
 fundraiser. The Albanian Socialist Prime
Minister had been accused of a scheme to
transfer $80,000 to an Obama fundraising
committee. Gazans bought and resold
Obama t-shirts from the campaign website.
And no indictments,” Greenfield wrote.
(Related: SHOCKER: FBI had evidence of Clinton-
Russian collusion over uranium deal.)
What’s more, none of that was considered election
interference and none of those activities generated a
special counsel investigation of the former president.
In addition, Mueller’s indictments make us look foolish
and weak. And oh-so-political. They are unserious,
Greenfield adds, because it’s a toothless response to an
allegedly serious breach of American democracy.
But that’s not all. Obama’s State Department paid
hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to an
Israel-based organization which used the money in a
campaign to oust current Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, according to a 2016 congressional
investigation.
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The Washington Times reported:
Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice,
ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to
back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement
negotiations. But OneVoice used the
money to build a voter database, train
activists and hire a political consulting firm
with ties to President Obama’s campaign
— all of which set the stage for an anti-
Netanyahu campaign, the Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations said in a bipartisan staff
report.
No special counsels. No Justice Department investigation.
No indictments.
So much of what Mueller is doing is just a continuation of
the Democrats’ #NeverTrump campaign, and therefore it is
illegitimate.
There is a real threat to the American system of
government, but it’s not coming from the Russians, it’s
coming from Democrats.
 Clinton Press Sec: Trump More
Accessible To Press Than Clinton
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:13 AM 02/21/2018

“He is more accessible in exchanges,”

McCurry admitted. “You’re the master data
analyst, and he has probably been more
accessible than either Obama or Clinton,
correct?”
“Well, Clinton in the first year, before you
got there,” the moderator responded.
“You mean when we stopped letting him do
interviews at McDonald’s?” McCurry joked.
Mike McCurry, the former White House press secretary
“Donald Trump does do a lot of short
for Bill Clinton, said that President Trump has been “more
Q&A’s,” the moderator chimed in.
accessible” to the press than Obama or Clinton.

Current White House press secretary Sarah Sanders took

WATCH:
McCurry’s admission and ran with it.

“By the definition of the fact that he spends

as much time interacting with the press as
he does, I think it’s hard to argue that he
isn’t open to answering those questions
and being held accountable by the press,”
she countered. “And so I think that’s a very
big difference.”

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 Friedman Calls 'Code Red':
'Our President Is A Disturbed Person'
By Ryan Foley
February 21, 2018 11:20 AM EST
In a recent New York Times op-ed,
Thomas Friedman sounded the alarm
against President Trump and issued a
"code red", saying that "the biggest threat
to the integrity of our democracy today is in
the Oval Office." During an appearance on
CNN's New Day Wednesday morning,
Friedman doubled down, repeatedly
referring to the President as a "disturbed
person."
Friedman slammed Trump’s response to Russia’s
interference in our elections as “appallingly inept and
appallingly basically inactive.” He then seemed to call the
legitimacy of the President's election into question,
outlining his prescription for how a “real president” would
handle the Russia situation.
When anchor Chris Cuomo told Friedman that President
Trump says that we interfere in other countries’ elections,
Friedman brought up the Cold War and claimed that
“this is a qualitatively different moment.”
Apparently, he forgot that President Obama’s State
Department spent $350,000 of taxpayer money in an effort
to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
during his 2015 re-election bid.
Continuing his anti-Trump rant, Friedman blasted the
President for violating the norms of the typical president,
specifically mentioning “endless tweeting” and “ridiculous
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childish behavior.” He also claimed that Trump’s response
to Russian interference proved that he was
“violating his oath of office to protect and
defend the Constitution.”
The New York Times published Friedman’s op-ed, titled
“Whatever Trump is Hiding is Hurting All of us Now”,
exclusively online; in contrast to Friedman’s typical
Wednesday column that gets published in the newspaper.
Friedman said he “felt really strongly” about it and added
that the popularity of the article proves that many people
believe the premise of his argument, that
“Our President is a disturbed person.”
Friedman echoed this language in his piece, suggesting
that the President might be a “towering fool” or a “total
sucker for Putin” who is “totally compromised by the
Russians.”
Friedman ended the exchange by saying
that had Hillary Clinton “done one of things
Donald Trump has done, let alone the
whole totality of them, we’d be in
impeachment hearings right now.”
A year into the Trump presidency, Trump Derangement
Syndrome continues to infect the urban elites at The New
York Times. They will not let anything distract them from
their core mission, #Impeach45.
CNN New Day
02/21/18
06:39 AM
CHRIS CUOMO: The White House says President Trump has
had a tougher response to Russian meddling than President
Obama did in his entire eight years in office. But New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman says he was appalled by the
President’s reaction to indictments against thirteen Russian
nationals, writing in a new op-ed “This is code red. The biggest
threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval
Office.” Tom Friedman joins us now, author of the best seller
“Thank You for Being Late.” Ironic, because he is always on time.
Tom, make the case, Code Red. Why?
TOM FRIEDMAN: Well Chris, we just experienced, I would say
the biggest threat or challenge to the integrity of our democratic
system with the Russian interference in our elections. We now
go, know, going back to 2014. And the President’s response to
this has been basically appalling. Appallingly inept and
appallingly basically inactive. We have to step back, Chris, and
say what would a real President be doing in the face of two
things. One, our three intelligence chiefs testifying in the last two
weeks that not only were the Russians hacking our election, both
trying to poison relations between different Americans and tilt the
election toward Trump but they are still doing it, our intelligence
chiefs told us. They’re the FBI, CIA, and NSA and they plan to do
it in the next election. Following that, Mueller issues a report
indicting thirteen Russians for that kind of activity and several
Russian companies. Now what would a real President do in the
face of those two things? He’d do three things. One is he’d give a
speech to the country educating every American on what has
happened here and what is at stake. Second, he would call
together all the stakeholders in the country around our election
issues, state and local election officials, the leaders of our two
parties, a police and, you know, election authorities and basically,
come up with a plan, a defensive plan, to make sure this doesn’t
continue to happen. Or if it does, we can insulate our elections
from this kind of hacking. And lastly, call together his National
Security Advisor and National Security team and say develop for
me an offensive plan. That we’ve been sitting here while Putin,
for the last four years, basically, has been trying to spread lies
that poison our politics and undermine our democracy and I as
President want to plan to spread truth about Putin, all the money
he stole and all the Russians he’d made disappear in order to
undermine his autocracy. That is what a real President would
do. And Donald Trump has done none of them. It is appalling.
CUOMO: He questions the premise. He says Russia does this all
the time. We do the same thing. He says that the left is just using
this to delegitimize his election and that’s why he won’t give it his
attention. Do you accept that?
FRIEDMAN: Look, you know, in the Cold War, there is no
question we, the Russians, the Chinese, everyone meddled in
everyone else’s elections. That was really a world that was a
chess board divided between sort of red and red, white and blue.
And these weren’t elections. Really half the time, they were about
keeping our guys in or their guys in. I think this is a qualitatively
different moment. We never intervened in Russia’s elections
because Russia didn’t have elections. So we have a real
asymmetry here.
CUOMO: Now, the question is why? Why the President is doing
this. You have a theory in there, basically a bifurcated theory,
right? It’s one of two reasons. Either it’s just ineptitude or he’s
hiding something. I want you to explain that. But put some
context into it about why it can’t be as simple as his just saying
“Russian interference is bad for my legitimacy, for my win so I’m
going to be against it.” Why don’t you think it’s that? Why do you
think it could be something else?
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FRIEDMAN: Chris, let’s start at 30,000 feet. You know, for, for
the last year, for the first year plus of Trump’s Presidency, we’ve
seen him violate the norms of, of what we think a proper conduct
for a President. A massive amounts of lying and misleading
statements, endless tweeting, ridiculous childish behavior. We
have seen him violate norms of a President. When, when the
President of the United States, in the face of public warnings by
his three intelligence chiefs, tell us our democratic system is
being attacked by a foreign power, when he doesn’t respond to
that, that is not violating norms anymore. That’s violating his oath
of office to protect and defend the Constitution. And that’s why I
call it code red.
CUOMO: So, Tom, just to have people understand what’s, what’s
going on here, you wrote this and put it out online. This wasn’t
one of the, you know, the typical things that you were putting out
in the newspaper and you thought would be getting wide
distribution. How surprised were you that something that you put
out as a post online went so viral and why do you think that is?
FRIEDMAN: Well, yeah, my usual day for my column is today’s,
it’s Wednesday. I wrote that on Monday. I got up in the morning, I
read in the paper, I saw what was going on. I felt really strongly
about it. I asked my editors if I could write a, a column just online,
not in the newspaper and they encouraged me immediately to do
it. And the reaction’s been, been for me, overwhelming and it
simply tells me that many, many Americans have been feeling
the same thing. Chris, people are worried about our country. This
is America. Our country is at stake. Our President is a disturbed
person. And he’s behaving in ways that are simply inexplicable
that tell you that he is either compromised because the Russians
have been funding his company in ways that he’s, he would find
embarrassing if publicly disclosed. That’s why he hasn’t shown
us his tax returns. Or he’s compromised because of, maybe,
behavior he engaged in while in Moscow or he is simply a
towering fool who is ignoring the advice of his intelligence chiefs
being made in public. And when his National Security Advisor is
over in Germany at a conference, rather than summoning him
home to lead a response to Russia, he rebukes him for not
properly, you know, supporting the fact that these things didn’t tip
the election. I’m not saying they did tip the election. I have no
idea what the impact is, one way or another. What is
unacceptable is that this behavior continues and he is not
responding. He is not leading a response. That is not
Presidential. That’s deeply disturbing behavior. Chris, we are the
world. Okay? I say that with no arrogance. That is, you know, we
have been the foundation of the global liberal order. If America
doesn’t lead, I promise you your kids won’t grow up in a world
where China will lead, where Russia will lead. They’ll grow up in
a world where nobody will lead. So this is really dangerous. Our
President is a disturbed person. And I don’t know what we do
about it. Again, when he was violating the norms of the office, we
all found it entertaining to some degree or whatever. We were
ready to tolerate it. But when he, when he violates the actual, you
know, strictures of the office, that is deeply troubling. And what
magnifies it is that his party is complicit as well. They’re
completely silent in the face of this abhorrent behavior and you
know that if Hillary Clinton had done one of the things Donald FRIEDMAN: Let alone the whole totality of them, we’d be in
Trump has done... impeachment hearings right now. We would be in impeachment
hearings right now.
CUOMO: ...Oh that’s for sure.

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 James O’Keefe Unleashes After Twitter Purges Thousands
Of Conservative Accounts, Accuses Them Of Being ‘Bots’
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 11:44 Am

Twitter was set ablaze late Tuesday

evening after the social media platform
restricted and locked thousands of
conservative, pro-Trump accounts.

Twitter users also experienced a huge drop in followers

and used the hashtag #TwitterLockOut to discuss the
purge.

A woman named Gretchen Smith tweeted a picture of

herself Wednesday morning and said she is indeed a real
person who founded ‘Code of Vets’ yet she was locked out
and lost 3300 followers.

More users tweeted to each other asking if anyone else lost

tons of followers at once.

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 “If you were locked out of Twitter tonight
reply to this tweet with a screenshot of it if
you have one.”

One Twitter user reported Twitter is forcing people to

verify themselves with phone numbers.

Fox News contributor Charles Payne chimed in as well.

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe slammed Twitter

and posted one of his undercover videos of a Twitter
engineer claiming anyone tweeting about the American
flag, guns and God is “for sure a bot.”

O’Keefe tweeted:

Looks like thousands of Twitter users

Gab, a free speech social media platform tweeted,
committed the thought crime of tweeting
about “God,” “the American flag,” and
“guns,” and were taken off the platform.
Our undercover reporting into Twitter
showed those terms indicate to engineers
you are “for sure a bot.” #TwitterLockOut

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 It is also important to note that Democrats Adam Schiff
and Dianne Feinstein urged Twitter to do a forensic
investigation into accounts after users tweeted the hashtag
#ReleaseTheMemo.

The Democrat lawmakers claimed Russian bots pushed the

#ReleaseTheMemo campaign. Perhaps Twitter purged
thousands of accounts at the behest of Democrat
lawmakers.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to several Twitter users

affected by the Twitter purge. Every single one of these
Twitter users are real people with established accounts.

It also appeared that many people’s accounts were restored

Wednesday, once again proving that conservatives on
Twitter are not ‘Russian bots’.

Another epic failure by Twitter and the left.

Twitter did not release a statement about the purge at the

time of this publication.
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 Nunes ATTACKS: ‘Phase 2’ Of Trump Dossier Probe
Comes With Threat To Subpoena Comey, Clapper,
Brennan And A Dozen Others
Posted On February 21, 2018
(National Sentinel) Deep State: Republicans on the House
Intelligence Committee have launched “Phase 2” of their
probe into the origins and use of the so-called “Trump
dossier,” sending letters of inquiry to scores of current and
former Justice and Intelligence officials including former
FBI Director James Comey.
As reported by Fox News‘ Catherine Herridge, the letter,
from Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was addressed to
scores of former officials from the U.S. intelligence
community, federal law enforcement and the State
Department.
It contains several questions that are related to the
unverified dossier. Specifically, Nunes
“wants to know when they learned the
document was funded
by Democratic sources, and how it was
used to obtain one or more surveillance
warrants at the secret Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court,” Herridge reported.
The Feb. 20 letter also contains a threat to issue subpoenas.
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“If you do not provide timely answers on a
voluntary basis, the Committee will initiate
compulsory process,” the letter says.
The letter comes after Nunes, in cooperation with the
Trump administration, released the “FISA memo” which
alleges that the dossier, which was compiled by
Christopher Steele, a former British spy, and paid for by
the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee, was vital in securing a counterintelligence
surveillance warrant against one-time Trump campaign
associate Carter Page.
Nunes told Fox News earlier this month that Phase 2 was
coming, and it would target a wider subset of officials
from many agencies.
“Fox News understands the questionnaire
went out to about two dozen current and
former officials,” Herridge reported.
They include Comey, former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John
Brennan, who testified in May 2017 that he knew very
little about the dossier.
“I have no awareness,” Brennan said in
response to a question from Rep. Trey
Gowdy, R-S.C., about whether agencies
relied on the dossier for FISA court
warrants.
Herridge reported that a source familiar with Phase 2 said
more officials may be targeted by the committee.
 SARA CARTER: Attorney For FBI Informant
Demands DOJ Open Investigation Into Falsified Leaks
To Media By “Anonymous Federal Officials”
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 12:51 Pm
Victoria Toensing, the attorney for
William Douglas Campbell, the FBI
informant providing Congressional
investigators with information about the
Uranium One scandal is demanding the
DOJ open an investigation into the
falsified leaks to the media by
“anonymous federal officials”, reported
Sara Carter.
Via investigative reporter Sara Carter:
The lawyer representing a former FBI
informant demanded Wednesday that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions open an
investigation into unauthorized and falsified
leaks to the media by “anonymous federal
officials.” The informant’s lawyer said the
leakers disparaged her client in an effort to
silence him from providing testimony to
Congress regarding his role in exposing
Russia’s long-term strategy to dominate the
global uranium market and how Moscow
achieved its goal in 2010 of obtaining
roughly 20 percent of the U.S. uranium
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mining industry, according to a letter
delivered to the DOJ.
Victoria Toensing is the attorney for William Douglas
Campbell, the FBI informant who is providing Congress
with troves of documentation he gathered, saved and
turned over to the FBI during the nearly six years he
worked as an undercover FBI asset when he was a
contractor in Russia’s nuclear and energy field. She has
also asked Sessions to investigate a December 15 briefing
given by “senior officials” to the Senate Judiciary and
House Intelligence and Oversight committees
“with the same false information that was
leaked anonymously to the media and later
refuted by the Justice Department,”
as stated in her letter.
“The leaks were not only illegal but they
were also false, intended to attack the
credibility of Mr. Campbell,” said Toensing,
referring to the leaks by ‘federal officials’ to
the media. She attached a 38-page
appendix of documentation disproving the
leaks.
“As such they are libelous,” she added.
Now who could have possibly leaked to the media from
the House Intel Committee?
Adam Schiff?
It’s no mystery as to why Americans have no trust in these
committees as many members are corrupt swamp
creatures.
On February 7th 2018, Campbell gave over 4 hours of
testimony and answered every question from three
Congressional committees; the Senate Judiciary, House
Oversight and House Intelligence committees, according to
attorney Victoria Toensing.
In the testimony, obtained by investigative reporter Sara
Carter, Campbell reveals for several years he had a
relationship with the CIA which then evolved into working
as an FBI informant due to close connections he developed
with Kazakhstan and Russia in their nuclear energy
industries.
Campbell also said in a statement that Putin wanted to
dominate the world’s Uranium supply:
“Putin wanted Russia to dominate the
world’s uranium supply, a goal of crucial
interest to the U.S. government. At the
same time, the Russian companies –
Rosatom and Tenex – were engaged in
racketeering,” his testimony stated.
Also, attorney Victoria Toensing said her client William
Campbell recounted NUMEROUS times the Russians
bragged the Clintons’ influence would push the Uranium
One deal through:
He recounted numerous times that the
Russians bragged that the Clintons’
influence in the Obama administration
would insure CIFIUS approval for Uranium
One. And he was right.”
As previously reported, not only was the FBI informant
working on the Russian bribery case threatened by the
.
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Obama administration, he was blocked by the DOJ under
then-AG Loretta Lynch from testifying to Congress.
The FBI informant started providing information in 2009.
It wasn’t until the 2016 presidential election that Obama’s
DOJ threatened him with prosecution.
All Russian roads lead to Hillary Clinton.
Nine shareholders in Uranium One just
happened to provide more than $145
million in donations to the Clinton
Foundation in the run-up to State
Department approval.
From an October report by John Solomon, we also found
out that the investigation was supervised by then-U.S.
Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who is now President Trump’s
Deputy Attorney General, and then-Assistant FBI Director
Andrew McCabe, who became the deputy FBI director
under Trump.
Rod Rosenstein is now in charge of
dirty cop Mueller’s Russia witch hunt
against President Trump. Unbelievable.
Read Sara Carter’s full report on next page.
 Attorney For FBI Informant
Presses DOJ For Leak Investigation
Victoria Toensing Says Leaks Against Client Were
"Illegal" And "False"
Sara Carter
February 21, 2018
The lawyer representing a former FBI informant demanded
Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions open an
investigation into unauthorized and falsified leaks to the
media by “anonymous federal officials.” The informant’s
lawyer said the leakers disparaged her client in an effort to
silence him from providing testimony to Congress
regarding his role in exposing Russia’s long-term strategy
to dominate the global uranium market and how Moscow
achieved its goal in 2010 of obtaining roughly 20 percent
of the U.S. uranium mining industry, according to a letter
delivered to the DOJ.
Victoria Toensing is the attorney for William Douglas
Campbell, the FBI informant who is providing Congress
with troves of documentation he gathered, saved and
turned over to the FBI during the nearly six years he
worked as an undercover FBI asset when he was a
contractor in Russia’s nuclear and energy field. She has
also asked Sessions to investigate a December 15 briefing
given by “senior officials” to the Senate Judiciary and
House Intelligence and Oversight committees
“with the same false information that was
leaked anonymously to the media and later
refuted by the Justice Department,” as
stated in her letter.
“The leaks were not only illegal but they
were also false, intended to attack the
credibility of Mr. Campbell,” said Toensing,
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referring to the leaks by ‘federal officials’ to
the media. She attached a 38-page
appendix of documentation disproving the
leaks.
“As such they are libelous,” she added.
Campbell, who had also worked with the CIA during his
long overseas career, was interviewed earlier this month by
three congressional committees and provided a written
statement on his work as an informant and his reason for
coming forward with the information, as previously
reported. Campbell’s statement alleged that Moscow
routed millions of dollars through a Washington D.C.
based lobbying firm, which was
“expected to give assistance free of charge
to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of
their effort to create a favorable
environment to ensure the Obama
administration made affirmative decisions
on everything from Uranium One to the
U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
agreement.”
Toensing’s said it’s Campbell’s extensive knowledge and
evidence that makes him a target. In a detailed letter, she
stated that the unnamed federal sources have been
attempting to sully Campbell’s reputation, as well as his
decades of work providing vital counterintelligence
information to the U.S. government in an attempt to
silence him. Toensing noted that leaks to numerous media
outlets, attributed to these officials, were meant to distort
the truth, discredit Campbell and render him silent.
A Feb. 6, 2018 a letter from Reps. Adam Schiff, D-CA and
Elijah Cummings, D-MD to Chairmen Trey Gowdy R-SC
and Devin Nunes, R-CA, stated that ‘senior officials’ who
briefed the members on Dec. 15, told the House committee
staff that Mr. Campbell had
“serious credibility concerns.”
However, a week earlier in , DOJ officials stated that the
“leaks were not authorized by the Justice
Department and did not reflect accurately
the official thinking of the department.”
Toensing said that it appeared to be a concerted effort by
the unnamed “senior officials” to discredit Campbell from
the moment her client decided to go public.
She referenced several articles that she alleges contain
false information regarding Campbell. On Nov.16, 2017 a
Reuters article by Joel Schectman and on Nov. 17, 2017 a
Yahoo News story by Michael Isikoff referred to unnamed
federal officials. Both outlets described these officials as
having “detailed knowledge” of Campbell’s role as an
undercover FBI informant.
In Schectman’s article,
“two law enforcement officials with direct
involvement in the Rosatom [a corrupt
Russian company] bribery case,” claimed
they had “no recollection or record of him
mentioning the [Uranium One] deal during
their repeated interviews with him.”
But documents provided to the FBI at the time and
reviewed by this reporter tell a different story. Campbell
kept detailed and meticulous notes and logs. He wrote
daily briefings and provided those to the FBI during his
time as an informant. In a number of the briefings,
Campbell refers to Russia’s desire to get the Obama
administration’s approval for the purchase of the Canadian
mining company Uranium One and the effort the Russian
government put into garnering approval from the
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Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to
purchase Uranium One in the Fall of 2010. In fact, the
contract he signed with the Russian company specifically
cited the company Uranium One and Russia’s desire to
gain approval for the purchase.
“That claim is false,” said Toensing,
referring to Schectman’s story. “Mr.
Campbell complained bitterly when the
Uranium One deal was made public and
one of his FBI agent handlers told him the
decision was about “politics.” Throughout
the investigation, Mr. Campbell provided
documents to the FBI discussing Uranium
One.”
The Yahoo News article by Isikoff also claimed that
Campbell never mentioned his concerns regarding the U.S.
approval to sell Uranium One to the FBI. The federal
officials in the Yahoo News story, however, stated also that
Campbell was
“so unreliable that prosecutors dropped him
as a witness in an unrelated case involving
Russian uranium sales.”
“U.S. Attorney’s office for Baltimore
mishandled the case” Victoria Toensing
Toensing said in the letter that the federal officials lied to
Isikoff stating,
“the case was not ‘unrelated’ but was the
main target of the undercover
investigation. It was the indictment of
Vadim Mikerin, Head of Uranium
Directorate, Tenex (Moscow) and President
of Tenam, USA, two of the corrupt Russian
nuclear energy firms about which Mr.
Campbell had been providing evidence of
bribes and kickbacks.”
She stated that anyone with
“knowledge of federal prosecution and
national security knows that as a general
rule the government does not put an
informant with over 30 years of undercover
work for the CIA and the FBI on the witness
stand. All his past undercover work would
have to be revealed to defense counsel.”
Toensing argued that the FBI’s payment of $50,000 to
Campbell in January 2016, long after all the defendants in
the Russian nuclear bribery case pled guilty, showed his
worth as an informant for the DOJ, as reported earlier.
 “U.S. Attorney’s office for Baltimore
mishandled the case,” Toensing added. “It
filed a complaint without ever talking to Mr.
Campbell. Then the office interviewed him
and filed an indictment improperly claiming
he was a “victim,” a term he never used
when talking to the prosecutor. As a matter
of law, a willing informant is not a victim.
The wording of the indictment was not Mr.
Campbell’s responsibility.”
Not long before the 2016 presidential election, Campbell
filed a civil lawsuit attempting to recover roughly
$500,000 he had lost during his time working undercover
.
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but was threatened with the loss of his reputation and
freedom if he didn’t withdraw the lawsuit by the Fraud
Section of the Justice Department, then under Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, according to documents reviewed
by this reporter. Campbell fearing that would occur and
then under a non-disclosure agreement, which was lifted
last year, withdrew his lawsuit, as reported.
Toensing said it appears those threats against Campbell are
being carried out and “senior officials are covertly and
overtly maligning him for telling the truth. The illegal
conduct of these “senior officials” is appalling and we ask
it be investigated and those responsible be held
accountable.”
 POTUS Trump Goes Scorched Earth On
Crooked Obama Admin And Jeff Sessions ‘Ask Sessions
Why Dem Crimes Aren’t Under Investigation’
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 2:28 Pm
President Trump has unleashed fire and
fury on his Twitter account since
Mueller indicted 13 Russians for using a
troll farm to meddle in the 2016 election.
According to Mueller’s indictment, the Russians began
their operation in 2014, well before Donald Trump became
president.
This is another failure by the Obama administration, yet
Trump is taking all the arrows.
President Trump has been the victim of a Russian
collusion witch hunt hatched by Hillary Clinton with her
phony dossier and propped up by the fake news media
sycophants.
Earlier this week Trump slammed Obama in a ferocious
tweetstorm for allowing the Russians to set up shop and
interfere in the election on his watch.
POTUS Trump showed no signs of lifting his foot off the
peddle because he went scorched earth on Obama and the
Russian hysteria again Wednesday. This time he blasted
AG Jeff Sessions for doing NOTHING about the Dems
crimes!
Donald Trump tweeted,
“Question: If all of the Russian meddling
took place during the Obama
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Administration, right up to January 20th,
why aren’t they the subject of the
investigation? Why didn’t Obama do
something about the meddling? Why aren’t
Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff
Sessions!”
Where the hell is Jeff Sessions? He recused himself like a
coward after he caved to fake news pressure which is why
Rod Rosenstein was able to appoint Mueller as Special
Counsel.
There is ample evidence that the FBI, DOJ and other
intelligence officials were working with Crooked Hillary
and her phony dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on
Trump’s camp.
These are real crimes. How much more can the American
people take? Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court then
reportedly threatened members of the House Intel
Committee if they didn’t stop the investigation into the
dossier and FISA abuse and he’s the one in charge of
Mueller’s witch hunt.
FISAGate is much worse than Watergate yet Sessions sits
back while Trump’s people are skewered by a team of
liberal lawyers who coincidentally donated to Hillary and
Obama.
The Uranium One scandal also needs to be thoroughly
investigated. This is why Mueller and Rosenstein are on
the attack. They are implicated in these scandals; they are
delaying and stonewalling investigators.
 Legal Watchdog Files SUIT Over Sham
Clinton Uranium One Investigation: Deal Helped RUSSIA
Posted On February 21, 2018
(National Sentinel) What Happened: The American
Center for Law and Justice has filed Freedom of
Information Act lawsuits against the State Department,
Justice Department, the Treasury Department and the FBI
over what it believes was a bungled investigation in the
Uranium One deal during the Obama administration.
According to a statement from the ACLJ, the suits are
aimed at forcing the named agencies to turn over requested
documents pertaining to how the decision was made to
proceed with the deal, and the Obama administration’s
investigation of alleged crimes tied to it.
In the statement, the legal watchdog said it is
“seeking to obtain documents concerning a
decision by the Committee on Foreign
Investments in the United States (CFIUS)
to transfer the U.S.’s controlling interest in
Uranium One to the Russian state-owned
ARMZ – a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Russian nuclear giant, Rosatom.”
“The FBI was investigating bribes,
kickbacks and racketeering by the Russian
conglomerate’s American subsidiary
calculated to compromise contracts in the
American nuclear energy industry and the
Attorney General’s representative sat on
CFIUS,” the statement continued.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit:
The ACLJ points out that the Obama
administration deal puts Russian President
Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of
controlling much of the global uranium
supply chain. They also point out that
Russian nuclear officials had reportedly
given $145 million to the Clinton
Foundation while then-Secretary Clinton’s
representative sat on the CFIUS. Bill
Clinton also received $500,000 from the
Russian government for a speech in
Moscow.
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“The ACLJ’s FOIA, and now the resulting
lawsuit, seeks information that would shed
light on this ill-advised—and, frankly,
foolish—deal approved by CFIUS,” the
legal group said.
“Specifically, the information the ACLJ has
demanded in its FOIA request will reveal
just how much information the Obama
FBI/DOJ provided to members of the
CFIUS before its approval of the deal, as
well as the validity of reports that Russia
tried to bribe Hillary Clinton,” it continued.
The group noted that an FBI informant, William D.
Campbell, who is familiar with alleged crimes related to
the deal was gagged by the Obama administration and
threatened with legal action if he spoke to Congress.
Campbell has alleged that Russian nuclear officials
“told [him] at various times that they
expected APCO to apply a portion of its
funds received from Russia to provide in-
kind support for the Clintons’ Global
Initiative.”
“APCO was expected to give assistance
free of charge to the Clinton Global
Initiative as part of their effort to create a
favorable environment to ensure the
Obama administration made affirmative
decisions on everything from Uranium One
to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear
Cooperation agreement,” William D.
Campbell wrote in a 10-page statement to
the Senate Judiciary Committee, House
Intelligence Committee, and House
Oversight and Government Reform
Committee.
As for the ACLJ suit, The Gateway Pundit noted further:
The organization is seeking all records
concerning or relating in any manner to the
decision of the FBI declining to prosecute
Clinton, all drafts of Comey’s statement
 closing the investigation, from his original
draft in early 2016 to the final version, all
records regarding Comey’s decision to
close the investigation and not prosecute
her, all “evidence of potential violations of
the statutes regarding the handling of
classified information” referenced by
Comey in his statement on July 5, 2016, all
records concerning the immunity
agreements entered into between the DOJ
and witnesses and/or subjects of the FBI’s
investigation, including Cheryl Mills and
Heather Samuelson and all grand jury
subpoenas obtained by the FBI to compel
information from Clinton’s internet service
providers.
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“The Russians were compromising
American contractors in the nuclear
industry with kickbacks and extortion
threats, all of which raised legitimate
national security concerns. And none of
that evidence got aired before the Obama
administration made those decisions,” a
person who worked on the case told The
Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for
fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian
officials.
In December, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered
investigators in the Justice Department to take a fresh look
at the sale of Uranium One to Russian firm Rosatom.
 Bernie Sanders Blames Crooked Hillary
For Hiding Russian Meddling Info
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 3:04 Pm
Last week dirty cop Mueller indicted 13
Russians for operating an online troll
farm to meddle in the 2016 presidential
election.
The indictment showed these Russian trolls were also
supporting Hillary’s Democrat rival, Bernie Sanders.
Sanders said Wednesday that he had no idea Russians
trolls were promoting his campaign then blasted Hillary
Clinton for not doing more to inform people about the
trolls.
The left is eating its own over the Russia hysteria and it’s
glorious.
Bernie Sanders gave an interview to Vermont Public Radio
Wednesday when one of the listeners seemed to accuse
Sanders of knowing about the Russian trolls during the
election.
The exchange between Sanders and the interviwer:
“If he was aware that Russians were trying
to promote him and divide Democrats
against Mrs. Clinton, why did he not
communicate this to his supporters?” the
listener asked Sanders.
“This was not supporting me any more than
they were supporting groups like Black
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Lives Matter that are fighting for social
justice,” Sanders said.
“I did not know that Russian bots were
promoting my campaign,” Sanders added.
“Russians bots were not promoting my
campaign. What we found out is that in
April and May, it appeared that there were
lots of strange things happening, attacking
Hillary Clinton.”
The interviewer asked Sanders why he and his campaign
did not tell his supporters about Russian interference if
they knew Moscow was meddling to sow divisions.
“I would say that the real question to be
asked is what was the Clinton campaign—
they had more information about this than
we did, and at this point, we were working
with them,” he responded.
“So did the Clinton campaign say, ‘Don’t
talk about this?'” the interviewer asked.
“No, of course not, but who do you think
would be raising that issue?” Sanders said.
“I could see a world in which Mrs. Clinton
said, ‘It’s the Russians,’ and Sanders
supporters say, ‘Oh, that’s baloney,’ but if
Sanders says it, they say, ‘OK,'” his
interviewer said.
“We knew what we knew when we knew it,
and that’s about all that I can say,” Sanders
said.
Audio of Sanders’ interview with Vermont Public Radio
and partial transcript via Washington Free Beacon:
 The fake news media is quietly shifting their Trump-
Russia collusion hoax to

‘why isn’t Trump doing anything about it?’

The Russians set up shop in 2014 while Obama was

president which is another blow to the media’s Trump-
Russia hysteria.

President Trump unleashed ferocious tweetstorms this

week hammering Obama for doing nothing about the
Russian troll farms which were created under his watch.

This is hilarious. The Russian trolls weren’t promoting any

candidate in particular. To the chagrin of the fake news
media, Russian trolls posted anti-Trump, pro-Trump and
anti-Hillary and pro-Hillary ads.
.

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Report: Attorney For FBI Informant In Uranium One Deal
SLAMS Falsified Leaks By ‘Anonymous Federal Officials’
And Demands NEW DOJ Probe
Posted On February 21, 2018
(National Sentinel) Corruption: The lawyer for an FBI
informant who was party to alleged Clinton Foundation
corruption tied to the approval of the Uranium One deal is
demanding that Attorney General Jeff Sessions open a
probe into falsified leaks to the media by “anonymous
federal officials,” investigative journalist Sara Carter
reported.
Victoria Toensing, attorney for William Douglas
Campbell, the informant, “said the leakers disparaged her
client in an effort to silence him from providing testimony
to Congress regarding his role in exposing Russia’s long-
term strategy to dominate the global uranium market and
how Moscow achieved its goal in 2010 of obtaining
roughly 20 percent of the U.S. uranium mining industry,
according to a letter delivered to the DOJ,” Carter wrote.
Campbell has been providing Congress with a trove of
information that he gathered, saved, and handed over to the
FBI during the six years he worked as an undercover asset.
During that time, he was a contractor in Russia’s nuclear
and energy industry.
Toensing, a partner with her husband, former Justice
Department prosecutor Joseph DiGenova, in the
Washington law firm DiGenova and Toensing, is also
asking Sessions to examine a Dec. 15 briefing given by
“senior officials” to the Senate Judiciary and House
Intelligence and Oversight committees “with the same
false information that was leaked anonymously to the
media and later refuted by the Justice Department,” she
said in her letter to the AG.
“The leaks were not only illegal but they were also false,
intended to attack the credibility of Mr. Campbell,” wrote
Toensing, referring to the leaks by ‘federal officials’ to the
media.
She attached to her Sessions letter a 38-page appendix of
documentation disproving the leaks, Carter reported.
“As such they are libelous,” she noted.
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Her letter to Sessions comes as the American Center for
Law and Justice filed Freedom of Information Act lawsuits
against the State Department, Justice Department, the
Treasury Department and the FBI over what it believes
was a bungled investigation in the Uranium One deal
during the Obama administration.
According to a statement from the ACLJ, the suits are
aimed at forcing the named agencies to turn over requested
documents pertaining to how the decision was made to
proceed with the deal and the Obama administration’s
investigation of alleged crimes tied to it.
The group further noted that Campbell was gagged by the
Obama administration and threatened with legal action if
he spoke to Congress.
Campbell has alleged that Russian nuclear officials “told
[him] at various times that they expected APCO to apply a
portion of its funds received from Russia to provide in-
kind support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative,” according
to testimony he has given to Congress.
“APCO was expected to give assistance
free of charge to the Clinton Global
Initiative as part of their effort to create a
favorable environment to ensure the
Obama administration made affirmative
decisions on everything from Uranium One
to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear
Cooperation agreement,” Campbell wrote
in a 10-page statement to the Senate
Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence
Committee, and House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee.
“The Russians were compromising
American contractors in the nuclear
industry with kickbacks and extortion
threats, all of which raised legitimate
national security concerns. And none of
that evidence got aired before the Obama
administration made those decisions,” a
person who worked on the case told The
Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for
fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian In December, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered
officials. investigators in the Justice Department to take a fresh look
at the sale of Uranium One to Russian firm Rosatom.

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 In Case You Missed It=> EXPOSED: School Shooting
Survivor Turned Activist David Hogg’s Father In FBI,
Appears To Have Been Coached On Anti-Trump Lines
[VIDEO]
By Jim Hoft
February 21, 2018, 3:21 Pm

We posted this article on Monday evening and received
national headlines.
Chelsea Clinton disapproved of the post.
And on Wednesday I learned that I was kicked out of
CPAC because my writer Lucian Wintrich posted this
article.
I must clear something up though. I actually know about
the earlier discussions that were going on at CPAC. I know
they did not want Gateway Pundit to participate in any
panel at the conference. They believed some awful lies
from GOP elites (and the liberal media) that The Gateway
Pundit was a hate site that supported racism and white
supremacism. I spoke directly with the person today who
was helping to spread that lie. Anyone who has read this
website for more than two weeks knows that The Gateway
Pundit is one of the top five websites in America in
support of Israel.
To be clear the GOP elites do not
support The Gateway Pundit or our
readers.
So I went back today to revisit this controversial Lucian
Wintrich post from Monday night.
Lucian pointed out that the top student activist in Parkland
has a father in the FBI and that there is video that shows
the young activist being coached through his interview.
YouTube has since taken down the video.
I believe the post was important and accurate.
I have decided to repost today on The Gateway Pundit and
let you all decide for yourself.
************

I do think it is important to note once again, since the

CPAC organizers have NO IDEA who we are, that the
during the election The Gateway Pundit was the fourth
most influential conservative news source in America.

Following the 2016 election Harvard and Columbia

Journalism Review funded research (with money from the
Soros Open Society) to find out what happened to their
dear Hillary. They discovered that our website packed a
punch.
Since that time The Gateway Pundit has been shadow-
banned, blocked, smeared, sued and abused by liberals as
well as GOP elites.
I was willing to share my story to CPAC panel but they did
not want me to attend their annual convention.
As previously reported:
In less than a week since they survived a
mass murdering gunman attack on their
school, two students who quickly became
media stars of the Parkland, Florida school
shootings are now media obsessed to the
point they say they are snubbing an
invitation to meet with President Donald
Trump this Wednesday in favor of
appearing on a televised town hall with
CNN’s Jake Tapper. […]

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One student, in particular, David Hogg has been
astonishingly articulate and highly skilled at propagating a
new anti-Conservative/anti-Trump narrative behind the
recent school shooting. Few have seen this type of rapid
media play before, and when they have it has come from
well-trained political operatives and MSM commentators.

Immediately, these students-turned-

activists threw up some red flags.

In what was initially as an incredibly odd move for a high

school student, Hogg vehemently defended the FBI and
placed the blame squarely on the President’s shoulders….
before admitting that his father was in the FBI.

“He can’t put that off on them. He is in

“I think it’s disgusting, personally. My
father’s a retired FBI agent and the FBI
are some of the hardest working individuals
I have ever seen in my life,” proclaimed
David Hogg to CNN.
“It’s wrong that the president is blaming
them for this.”
Continuing, Hogg demonstrated his complete lack of
American civics knowledge. A clueless Hogg appeared
unaware of the fact that the President is not ‘in control’
of each department and branch of government, but must
work and negotiate with them. Regardless, Hogg pushed
the notion that Trump is in charge of the FBI.
charge of them and these people, what
they love to do is push this off on
bureaucracy and say it’s not them,” he
said. “He is in charge of the FBI … the
executive branch is supposed to enforce
laws and as such, President Trump is in
charge of that and the FBI.”
Anyone who has been following the news could tell you
that many in the FBI have been working against the
president from the start, with the most notable case
involving collusion between the FBI, Obama
Administration, and the Clinton campaign to push the false
‘verification’ of the junk Steele Dossier. It has also been
widely reported that the FBI received tips well in advance
of the Florida school shooting and decided, for whatever
reason, not to act.
The fault for this tragedy lies squarely on the shoulder’s of
the FBI, who could have prevented this back in January.

Adding to the “credibility” of Hogg, in a recently

uncovered early cut from one of his interviews it appears
he was heavily coached on lines and is merely reciting a
script. Frequently seen in the footage mouthing the lines he
should be reciting. Hogg becomes flustered multiple times,
is seen apologizing, and asking for re-takes.

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https://youtu.be/bvz3NsbptNc
Why would the child of an FBI agent be
used as a pawn for anti-Trump rhetoric
and anti-gun legislation? Because the
.
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FBI is only looking to curb YOUR
Constitutional rights and INCREASE
their power. We’ve seen similar moves
by them many times over. This is just
another disgusting example of it.
 Donald Trump Suggests Obama Administration Should Be
Under Investigation For Russian Meddling
Sally Persons - The Washington Times
Posted On February 21, 2018

President Trump said Wednesday that the Obama

administration should be under investigation for Russian
meddling instead of him and his campaign.
"Question: If all of the Russian meddling
took place during the Obama
Administration, right up to January 20th,
why aren't they the subject of the
investigation? Why didn't Obama do
something about the meddling? Why aren't
Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff
Sessions!" Mr. Trump tweeted.
.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the
Russia investigation due to his work on the Trump
campaign, which has created tensions between him and the
president.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into
possible collusion between the Trump campaign and
Russia has resulted in several indictments, including 13
Russians, for trying to meddle in the election. Former
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and fellow
campaign aide Rick Gates were both charged with fraud
for work predating their time on the campaign.

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 Shooting Survivors Thank
Trump For ‘Leadership’
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:52 PM 02/21/2018
Survivors and families affected by school shootings
gathered at the White House Wednesday to speak with
President Trump.
Trump gathered the families and students in the State
Dining Room at the White House and listened as
participants took turns on the microphone. Students at
Stoneman Douglas High School have been at the forefront
of the gun debate, with some criticizing Trump and
Republicans for not doing enough to stop school shootings.
However, at the White House Wednesday, criticism was
non-existent for the president.
One student, Jonathan, told Trump,
“Thank you for everything. You’ve done a
great job. I like the direction you’re going
in.”
Hello. I’m Jonathan. I go to Stoneman Douglas. I was
actually in the second classroom that was shot at. In my
mind, as a kid nothing that horrible should ever have to
happen to you. You can’t even think about it. It doesn’t
even seem real still. Everything seems fake. I can’t even
— I don’t know what is going on. It’s just crazy.
Everything happening. It’s just so tragic. Thank you for
everything. You’ve done a great job. I like the direction
you’re going in. Thank you.
WATCH:
.
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Another student, Ariana, told Trump,
“I would like to say thank you for leading
this country. You’re a great leader. I
appreciate your direction that the country is
going in.”
My name is Ariana. I would like to say
thank you for leading this country. You’re a
great leader. I appreciate your direction
that the country is going in. I’m a junior. I
attended Stoneman Douglas. I want to say
that everybody right now is so stuck on
what they believe, that they’re not listening
to what other people believe. We need to
listen to the other points of views. We all
need to realize that we all have different
points of views and that we need — this
solution is not a singular thing.
It’s going to be multifaceted and created by
a collection of different people working
together. We all have to realize that we all
have our opinions and together we’re going
to be able to work to a solution. This is not
just parkland’s anymore. This is America.
This is every student and every city and
everywhere. It’s everybody. It’s not small.
It’s everything. Thank you for having us.
WATCH:
 Chairman Nunes Trolls Adam Schiff After ‘Russian Bot’
Hysteria Reaches Fever Pitch ‘If You Are A Russian Bot
Make This Article Go Viral’
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 7:12 Pm
On Wednesday, Chairman Nunes trolled
Adam Schiff on Twitter after the Russian
bot hysteria reached a fever pitch.
Twitter was set ablaze late Tuesday
evening after the social media platform
restricted and locked thousands of
conservative, pro-Trump accounts.
Twitter users also experienced a huge drop in followers
and used the hashtag #TwitterLockOut to discuss the
purge; Twitter perceived these account to be ‘bots’.
Chairman Nunes recently began trolling lefties on Twitter
and it’s hilarious.
On Wednesday, Nunes trolled Adam Schiff over his crazy
Russian bot conspiracy theories and encouraged the
Russian bots to make an article hammering Schiff go viral.
Even funnier, Nunes said, “If you’re not a
Russian Bot you will become one if you
retweet.”
Nunes tweeted,
“Catch up on mainstream media Russian
conspiracy theories in this piece by
@FDRLST PS-If you are a Russian Bot
please make this go viral PSS-If you’re not
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a Russian Bot you will become one if you
retweet”
The Federalist article Nunes tweeted is titled, ‘How the
Media Enable Rep Adam Schiff’s Russian Bot
Conspiracy Theories’, written by Mollie Hemmingway.
When Schiff advanced his theory that it was Russian bots
— not Americans — who cared about FISA abuse, he
received typical friendly media coverage. But when
Twitter and Facebook refuted the claim, media outlets
either downplayed it or pretended it didn’t matter.
Politico is one outlet that heavily pushed the idea of
Russian bots being behind the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag,
despite the denials of officials at Facebook and Twitter. In
January, PoliticoPro ran a story that acknowledged Twitter
had found no evidence of any significant Russian bot
activity before this odd section that pretended denial had
never happened:
“Schiff and Feinstein said the companies
must deactivate the bot accounts if they
violate user policies. They want Twitter and
Facebook to notify users who may have
seen posts from the bots and to describe
how they’ll prevent similar foreign influence
campaigns in the future.”
Democrats Adam Schiff and Dianne Feinstein urged
Twitter to do a forensic investigation into accounts after
users tweeted the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo.
The Democrat lawmakers claimed Russian bots pushed the
#ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
Perhaps Twitter purged thousands of accounts Tuesday God bless Chairman Nunes. Not only is he a fearless
night at the behest of Democrat lawmakers. lawmaker taking on the Deep State, he’s really funny too!

Of course the only reason why Adam Schiff’s crazy

Russian bot conspiracy theory is accepted as fact is
because the media sycophants echo his delusions.

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 Has The Intelligence Inspector General Talked To This
Former FBI Agent Who May Have ALL The Details
Involving Comey’s Exoneration Of Hillary Clinton? Part I
By JD Heyes
02/21/2018 /
During a debate with Democratic presidential rival Hillary
Clinton on Oct. 13, 2015, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Socialist-
Vt., became a crowd-pleaser when he exclaimed that “the
American people are sick and tired of hearing about your
damn emails.”
Charles Ortel, a retired investment banker, fraud
investigator and Clinton Foundation expert, says when
Bernie made that claim, it’s likely he caused some FBI
agents and State Department officials to conclude that a fix
was in.
“The Vermont Independent Socialist
senator could not have possibly reached an
informed conclusion,” Ortel wrote in a
column for Lifezette, “so he was either in
the dark or in the tank.”
Long before that presidential debate, those same
government officials and agents were well aware that there
was a mountain of evidence indicating that Clinton, as
President Obama’s secretary of state, mishandled sensitive,
classified government information and had done so
repeatedly at least since taking office in January 2009
through the time she left in 2014 and beyond.
“They knew because the Inspector General
(IG) of the Intelligence Community issued a
July 6, 2015, report that triggered a full-
scale FBI investigation that opened four
days later. The subject was mishandling of
classified information and targets included
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Hillary Clinton and her key aides,” he
wrote.
Ortel believes there may be a former FBI agent who could
fill in some very crucial details about what went on during
the investigation that ultimately led fired FBI Director
James Comey to exonerate Clinton despite the
preponderance of evidence:
FBI veteran John Giacalone served as
executive assistant director of the FBI from
June 2014 through February 2016, working
from Washington, D.C. headquarters.
According to his www.linkedin.com profile,
during this period he "manage[d] the
strategic risks associated with the FBI's
counterterrorism, counterintelligence and
weapons of mass destruction programs in
close coordination with domestic and
international partners."
Giacalone was central to the FBI’s investigation into
Clinton’s serial mishandling of classified emails and
materials via her unsecured home-brew email server,
which is a serious felony. But he resigned suddenly “for
reasons not yet fully understood,” Ortel wrote.
(Related: Susan Rice’s bizarre Trump inauguration day
email poses NEW credibility problems for Comey as
Obamagate spy scandal widens.)
There is evidence now trickling into the public domain that
may help explain what happened, namely, that Giacalone
could have simply gotten fed up with what turned out to be
a rigged investigation by January 2016.
Five days before the start of the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 27,
2016, someone shrouded in mystery went to the FBI’s
Washington, D.C., office “to present evidence of Hillary
Clinton’s misuse of classified documents by putting them
on an unclassified email system,” Ortel noted, citing a
report.
The visitor, a male, was described as
 “…a long-time government employee [who]
had previously worked for many years at
the Department of State. He provided a
resume and a U.S. Foreign Service
Evaluation Report to prove his bona fides.”
The name of the visitor was not revealed, nor was the
identity of the recorder of the FBI Vault Report, beginning
on page 11.
The report was written Feb. 22, 2016, 26 days after the
unscheduled visit. It was approved by another unnamed
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person and copied to Jonathan C. Moffa, Peter P. Strzok II
(he of anti-Trump fame), and a fourth person, also
unidentified.
Ortel said the named individuals are currently mired in
controversy, and the length of time between the visit and
the report are odd — things that need to be fully
investigated. He added that additional details that were in
the report, as well as still-unreleased portions of the FBI
Vault records, may help explain why Giacalone resigned.
End Part I
 Dirty Cop Mueller Investigating Whether Manafort
Promised Chicago Banker Trump Admin
Job In Exchange For Loans
By Cristina Laila
February 21, 2018, 8:19 Pm
Mueller is on the march and he just hit
former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort with new criminal charges,
according to Reuters.
Dirty cop Mueller is also investigating whether Manafort
promised a banker a job in the Trump administration in
exchange for loans.
Because this has everything to do with Trump-Russia
collusion during the 2016 election.
NBC reports:
Federal investigators are probing whether
former Trump campaign chair Paul
Manafort promised a Chicago banker a job
in the Trump White House in return for $16
million in home loans, two people with
direct knowledge of the matter told NBC
News.
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Manafort received three separate loans in December 2016
and January 2017 from Federal Savings Bank for homes in
New York City, Virginia and the Hamptons.
The banker, Stephen Calk, president of the Federal
Savings Bank, was announced as a member of candidate
Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers in August 2016.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is now
investigating whether there was a quid pro quo agreement
between Manafort and Calk. Manafort left the Trump
campaign in August 2016 after the millions he had earned
working for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine drew
media scrutiny. Calk did not receive a job in President
Donald Trump’s cabinet.
The sources say the three loans were questioned by other
officials at the bank, and one source said that at least one
of the bank employees who felt pressured into approving
the deals is cooperating with investigators.
In court filings Friday related to Manafort’s bail, federal
prosecutors said they have “substantial evidence” that a
loan made from the bank to Manafort using the Virginia
and Hamptons properties as collateral was secured through
false representations made by Manafort, including
misstatements of income.
Because Manafort’s dealings with a Chicago banker in
December of 2016 have everything to do with Trump
colluding with the Russians to hack the DNC servers
during the presidential election.
Obviously Mueller has nothing yet the fishing expedition
continues.
Where the hell is AG Sessions??
 Breaking: Australian Labor Party Sent
Operatives To Work Against Trump During 2016
Campaign …When Will They Be Indicted?
By Jim Hoft
February 21, 2018, 8:59 Pm

It is well documented that the Australian Labor Party sent When will Dirty Cop Robert Mueller indict these foreign
staffers to work against Donald Trump in the 2016 nationals?
campaign.
This makes the Russian influence pale in significance.

In February 2016 Project Veritas released video of

Australian Labor Party activists assisting Democrats in the
US. The activists are seen assisting the Bernie Sanders
campaign.

This is a clear violation of FEC laws.

Will Robert Mueller indict this foreign interference with

US elections?

The Australian Labor Party was fined $14,500 over their

The story was well documented and raised a bit of a stink
US election interference in January 2018.
in Australia because the operatives were funded by Aussie
taxpayers.
.

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 POLL: Americans Are More Satisfied With
Their Country Than They Have Been In A Decade
According To Gallup, "National Perception" Is At A 13-Year High.
Byemily Zanotti
February 21, 2018
Americans are more satisfied with the United States' place
in the world now than they have been in more than a
decade, according to a new poll from Gallup — and that
number has grown by more than 10% in the past year
alone.
According to the respected polling company, 45% of
Americans
"are satisfied with the position of the United
States in the world,"
up 13 points from January of 2017 and, coincidentally, a
13-year high.
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Gallup is quick to point out that only 29% of Americans
think that President Donald Trump is "respected" by other
nations and world leaders, but it's clear that Americans
don't seem to believe that particular character trait is a
negative one.
Although former President Obama had a much different
approach to international diplomacy (one that Americans
felt, at the time, was well-received by world leaders),
Americans seem to believe that Trump's tougher hand
hasn't harmed how other nations feel about the country as a
whole.
This poll is extremely good news for Trump, and even
perhaps for Republicans, generally. Last year, just before
Trump's inauguration, American satisfaction with their
own country took a major dip, to just 36%, likely over the
popular perception that Trump represented a "failure" on
the part of the American public to select a proper
president.
But according to Gallup, that perception seems to have
"broken," and even as Trump's job approval ratings have
"failed to improve," the polling group says Americans now
believe we're in a better position in the world than we were
in the final year of the Obama Administration.
 Lawyer Gregg Jarrett Lists SIX WAYS Comey,
Rosenstein, McCabe & Yates Are In “SERIOUS LEGAL
JEOPARDY” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 21, 2018, 9:14 Pm

During a live broadcast of “Hannity” “Who do you see now is in serious legal
from CPAC Wednesday evening, Fox jeopardy?” Sean Hannity asked Jarrett in
News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett relation to the Nunes memo revelations.
articulated why former FBI Director “I think James Comey has signed off on the
James Comey, former Deputy Director
[FISA warrant], Rod Rosenstein who
Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney
signed off on it, Andrew McCabe signed off
General Rod Rosenstein and former on it,” replied Jarrett.
acting Attorney General Sally Yates, are
in “serious legal jeopardy.” “Sally Yates, as well,” added the Fox News
legal analyst.
“Using a fake document as an officer of the
court to convince just to spy on on an
American citizen is six different crimes.”

Listing off the crimes, Jarrett said the band of current and
former FBI and DOJ officials committed,

“abuse of power, false and misleading

WOW! Fox Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett just roasted
Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, Yates by identifying 6
crimes to these "officers of the court" may have
committed; Report them to the state licensing boards (bar)
ASAP from The_Donald
statements, perjury, it’s major fraud,
conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction
of justice.”
“Those are the crimes and people need to
be prosecuted,” Jarrett concluded.

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 Florida Shooting Survivor David Hogg Exposed As Son Of
FBI Deep State Agent, Caught Reciting Scripted
Talking Points To Trash Trump
By JD Heyes
02/20/2018

President Donald J. Trump has been right about one thing
all along: The American Pravda media is the biggest threat
to our way of life and form of government in the history of
our republic.
The latest evidence of this is the disgusting manner in
which the establishment press is turning some students
who survived the Florida school shootings into media stars
and Left-wing darlings, all to — you guessed it — bash
the president.
As The Gateway Pundit reported:
Adding to the credibility of Hogg, in a
recently uncovered early cut from one of
his interviews it appears he was heavily
coached on lines and is merely reciting a
script. Frequently seen in the footage
mouthing the lines he should be reciting.
Hogg becomes flustered multiple times, is
seen apologizing, and asking for re-takes.
And naturally, the disgusting media whores never
mentioned it.

In less than a week since they survived a

mass murdering gunman attack on their
school, two students who quickly became
media stars of the Parkland, Florida school
shootings are now media obsessed to the
point they say they are snubbing an
invitation to meet with President Donald
Trump this Wednesday in favor of
appearing on a televised town hall with
CNN’s Jake Tapper.
One student, in particular, David Hogg has
been astonishingly articulate and highly
skilled at propagating a new anti-
Conservative/anti-Trump narrative behind
the recent school shooting. Few have seen
this type of rapid media play before, and
when they have it has come from well-
trained political operatives and MSM
commentators. “I think it’s disgusting, personally. My
father’s a retired FBI agent and the FBI are
Wow, that was quick wasn’t it? some of the hardest working individuals I
have ever seen in my life,” young Hogg told
It sure was, but there’s a reason why young Hogg — who CNN. “It’s wrong that the president is
is being exploited by American Pravda media thugs as the blaming them for this.”
latest ‘weapon’ with which to undermine Trump, by the
way — was so articulate in his Trump attacks. Except that it’s not, young sir; the bureau itself has
admitted it failed you and your high school peers and
It seems his father is a retired FBI agent and he was likely colleagues by failing to act against school shooter Nikolas
coached in his responses. The Gateway Pundit noted Cruz — who, by the way, was a threat known by most kids
further: in your school. The president merely pointed this out and
he was 100 percent correct for doing so. (Related: CNN
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attacks Republicans for failing to be interviewed after Fla.
school shooting, then Sen. Ted Cruz corrects the record.)
Natural News founder and editor Mike Adams, the Health
Ranger, pointed out how political theater combined with
media exploitation of children is tainting debate and
problem-solving after this latest horrific incident:
Is anyone surprised anymore at the depths
of deception invoked by the fake news
media? All weekend long, the media
paraded high school kids in front of news
cameras, exploiting them as props for the
emotional exploitation of the public.
Now it turns out these kids were coached
to repeat scripted lines, just like actors
reading lines for a movie production. It’s all
scripted, in other words, to push a gun
control narrative rooted in emotional
reaction rather than constructive solutions.
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Now, young Master Hogg is defending his father and I get
that; nothing wrong with it per se. But when the issue of
trying to solve the epidemic of school shootings in
America rests with a youngster being used as a political
pawn by adults who should know better, that changes the
paradigm.
And it also shows that the media whores and presstitutes in
the American Pravda media aren’t serious about solving
anything; they seem perfectly willing to accept a certain
level of violence in exchange for giving them — dare I say
it? — political ammunition they can use to push the
singular objective of nullifying or, better yet repealing, the
Second Amendment.
Even if it takes exploiting young, impressionable kids
who’ve just been through what will probably be the most
traumatic thing they’ll ever live through in their lives —
that is, if they aren’t forced to live through the civil war the
Pravda media and American Left are attempting to foment.
 Trump’s DOJ Creates New Task Force
In Wake Of Mueller Indictments
By Erin Coates
February 22, 2018 At 8:40am
A new cybersecurity task force has been created to help
combat the global cyber threat after Russian nationalists
were indicted for trying to interfere with the 2016 election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed the memorandum
last Friday to create the Cyber-Digital Task Force to try
and confront people and agencies who might try to meddle
with U.S. elections.
“The Internet has given us amazing new
tools that help us work, communicate, and
participate in our economy, but these tools
can also be exploited by criminals,
terrorists, and enemy governments,”
Sessions said in a news release.
“At the Department of Justice, we take
these threats seriously,” he continued.
“That is why today I am ordering the
creation of a Cyber-Digital Task Force to
advise me on the most effective ways that
this Department can confront these threats
and keep the American people safe.”
According to the Department of Justice’s news release, the
new task force will have representatives from different
areas of the justice department including the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is also allowed
to invite representatives from other DOJ components and
other agencies, and can also create subcommittees.
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The task force is requested to issue a report to Sessions by
the end of June on their findings.
The group’s research will include “efforts to interfere with
our elections” and “the use of the Internet to spread violent
ideologies and to recruit followers,” as well as a few other
categories.
“Evaluating these threats, and formulating
a strategy to combat them, should be
among the Task Force’s highest priorities,”
Sessions wrote in the memo.
The Cyber-Digital Task Force will also help identify how
federal law enforcement can continue to combat the
evolving global cyber threat.
“The Internet has transformed our lives,” he
concluded. “We must ensure that Internet-
based technologies remain sources of
enrichment, rather than becoming forces of
destruction and vectors of chaos.”
This new task force was created after Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s office charged 13 Russians and three
Russian companies with plotting to interfere with the 2016
U.S. presidential election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein held a press
conference in which he gave details into the indictment
charges, making clear that there is nothing in it that says
American citizens were knowingly involved and that
“there is no allegation in the indictment that
the charged conduct altered the outcome of
the 2016 election.”
The indictment released Friday says that the
defendants allegedly conducted “information warfare”
against the U.S. in order to spread “distrust towards the
candidates and the political system in general,” according
to Rosenstein.
Twelve defendants worked for a company called Internet
Research Agency, LLC, based in St. Petersburg. It
reportedly operated through Russian shell companies.
“It employed hundreds of people in its
online operations, ranging from creators of
fictitious personas, to technical and
administrative support personnel, with an
annual budget of millions of dollars,”
Rosenstein said.

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 DEEP STATE SCANDAL=> Robert Mueller STILL
Relying On Hillary-Funded Phony Dossier As “Road
Map” For Russia Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
February 22, 2018, 1:25 Pm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still
relying on Hillary’s phony Russia
dossier as a “road map” for
investigative leads, reports Paul Sperry.
Paul Sperry reports via Real Clear Investigations:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is
continuing to use a controversial 35-page
dossier financed by the Democratic
National Committee and the 2016 Hillary
Clinton campaign as a “road map”
for investigative leads, sources familiar with
his investigation say.
Mueller’s team has also used information
gleaned from surveillance court-approved
wiretaps on former Trump adviser Carter
Page that were secured by citing material
in the dossier, the sources say.
[…]
Sources say Mueller’s office also inherited collections
from a separate wiretap of Manafort, who, like Page, was
the target of FBI eavesdropping during the election.
(Manafort was indicted by Mueller for financial crimes
unrelated to the Moscow “collusion” activities alleged
against Manafort in the dossier.)
Sources add that Mueller’s investigators and prosecutors
have access to any communications from Trump associates
and officials swept up in the wiretaps of Page and
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Manafort. Trump’s own communications may have been
“incidentally collected” as a result of the questionable,
dossier-based surveillance warrants.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton summed it up in
one perfect sentence,
“There is no Mueller investigation without
the dossier.”
It has been previously reported by many different news
outlets that Mueller was relying on the dossier for his
investigation, however; in light of the FISA memo released
by the House Intel Committee and other reports, the fact
that Mueller is still relying on the discredited dossier is
raising eyebrows.
Tom Fitton has also questioned if Mueller has hired
Christopher Steele or Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson. What
does Mueller know?
Congress must find out when Mueller learned
“that the dossier, which is apparently the
basis for his entire investigation, was paid
for by the DNC on behalf of the Clinton
campaign.”
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry also spoke with a
veteran FBI official who said the Russians named in the
indictment are in Russia and will never be arrested or
incarcerated; the indictment was all a public relations
stunt.
According to Sperry, a veteran FBI agent said the 13
indictments by Mueller are moot and it was done for show
to solely justify the Special Counsel’s existence and salary.
Just like Tom Fitton says, SHUT IT DOWN.
Robert Mueller’s witch hunt has cost taxpayers millions of
dollars. His team of liberal hack lawyers are receiving fat
paychecks on the backs of taxpayers even though they
know there is no Trump-Russia collusion.

Read Paul Sperry’s full report here.

Paul Sperry is the former D.C. bureau chief for Investor’s

Business Daily, Hoover Institution media fellow, author of
several books, including bestseller Infiltration

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 Mueller Still Relying On
Discredited Steele Dossier
By Paul Sperry, Realclearinvestigations
February 22, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is continuing to use a
controversial 35-page dossier financed by the Democratic
National Committee and the 2016 Hillary Clinton
campaign as a "road map” for investigative leads, sources
familiar with his investigation say.
Mueller’s team has also used information gleaned from
surveillance court-approved wiretaps on former Trump
adviser Carter Page that were secured by citing material in
the dossier, the sources say.
And a detail previously reported last fall – that Mueller’s
investigators traveled overseas last year to debrief the
dossier’s London-based author, Christopher Steele, a
former British spy – takes on a new cast with the
disclosure this month that FBI agents abruptly stopped
using Steele as an informant in late 2016 after concluding
that he had lied to them.
“The FBI’s reliance on Steele’s past
credibility was misplaced, since he
concealed from the FBI unauthorized
media contacts with numerous outlets and
his anti-Trump bias,” according to an
addendum to the so-called FISA memo
released Feb. 2 by the Republican majority
on the House Intelligence Committee.
Special Counsel’s Office spokesman Peter Carr told
RealClearInvestigations,
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“We will decline to comment” on Steele and
the dossier.
Mueller’s use of the dossier – opposition research
described by former FBI Director James Comey as largely
“salacious and unverified” – was reported by several news
outlets last year. But word that Mueller has continued
relying on it despite the House memo and other disclosures
raises new questions about the special counsel’s
investigation as it expands beyond indictments last week
of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies.
While those charges highlighted an ineffective operation to
propagate divisive political themes and generally “sow
discord" on social media during the election, the dossier,
largely based on unconfirmed reports from Russians with
suspected ties to the Kremlin, may have been a far more
consequential tactic for sowing American national discord.
It has served as basis for the ongoing, divisive
investigation of the president of the United States; it was
used to wiretap American citizens and it was central to a
series of resignations and demotions of top officials at the
FBI and Justice Department that undermined public
confidence in the rule of law.
Law enforcement experts note that in typical
circumstances, investigators’ use of unverified information
is unexceptional. They necessarily sift and sort broad
streams of information to arrive at the truth. But critics
argue the dossier is different for its seminal role in
sparking and guiding Muller’s investigation.
“There is no Mueller investigation without
the dossier,” said Tom Fitton, president of
Judicial Watch, a Washington-based
government watchdog group.
Learning precisely how Mueller is using that information
is complicated by restrictions the House Intelligence
Committee has placed on itself, a concession to the vice
chairman and ranking minority member, Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif). Under the concession, the panel has not been
investigating Mueller’s tenure.
 “Consistent with its bipartisan commitment
not to impede any ongoing investigation,
the committee has not sought documents
or information post-dating the appointment
of the special counsel in May 2017,” says a
recent set of House Intelligence Committee
talking points defending the release of the
FISA memo.
That means that much about Mueller’s work, and the
extent to which it continues work begun under Comey’s
FBI, could be kept out of the public eye, including details
of his investigative leads and personnel. The latter include
a senior investigator, Peter Strzok, and lawyer, Lisa Page -
- who both worked on the email investigation that
exonerated Hillary Clinton and had to be removed from the
Mueller probe after text messages revealed their anti-
Trump, pro-Clinton bias.
Fitton says the House’s self-imposed cutoff for its
investigation is a mistake in light of the raft of new
questions that have emerged from the investigation into the
FBI’s dossier-based applications for surveillance warrants
against the Trump camp.
He said Congress has a pressing oversight duty to find out
when Mueller learned
"that the dossier, which is apparently the
basis for his entire investigation, was paid
for by the DNC on behalf of the Clinton
campaign.”
Fitton added that it’s imperative to know if Mueller hired
Steele or any of the “researchers" he worked with on the
dossier, including Glenn Simpson, the journalist-turned-
opposition researcher who hired Steele on behalf of
Clinton and the DNC.
In recent congressional testimony, Simpson said he and his
company, Fusion GPS, are still investigating ties
between President Trump’s 2016 election campaign and
Russia, even though the Clinton campaign stopped paying
him long ago.
Who are his new clients? Simpson refuses to say.
“What I do in terms of my other work is not
something I am in a position to talk about,”
Simpson told the House Intelligence
Committee staff during his Nov. 14, 2017,
closed-door hearing, according to a
recently released transcript. “I am not going
to get into my current work. … I am not
going to answer that."
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In response to other questions, Simpson conceded that
he was personally
"opposed to Donald Trump”
while helping Steele compile the dossier on Trump for
Clinton. He also allowed that Fusion GPS regularly
contracts with attorneys in federal cases to help them dig
up financial and other records during the discovery phase
of their trials.
Congressional investigators say Simpson, a former Wall
Street Journal reporter, has been feeding Democratic
leaders in both the House and Senate investigations tips
regarding Trump and his associates, including former
campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Last fall, Simpson
urged Democrats specifically to look into the bank records
of Deutsche Bank, which has financed some of Trump’s
businesses, because he suspects some of the funding may
be linked to Russia.
Around the time Simpson was working with Democratic
investigators, Mueller subpoenaed Deutsche Bank
for financial records on Manafort and other individuals
affiliated with Trump.
Though Mueller didn't apply for the original warrants to
conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign adviser
Page, sources familiar with his probe say his team has been
privy to information collected from the warrants, which
ran through at least September of last year, as well as
warrants for other Trump officials obtained during the
election campaign.
They say a federal grand jury impaneled by Mueller has
interviewed Page at least once. The dossier alleges that
Page agreed to take a bribe from Kremlin officials during
the campaign in exchange for ending U.S. sanctions on
Russia if Trump became president. Page has repeatedly
denied the accusation under oath and claimed he never
even met the officials named in the dossier.
Under federal investigation for the past 16 months, Page
has not been charged with a crime, and he told
RealClearInvestigations that he has not been warned by
Mueller’s office to expect an indictment. He also said that
he was interrogated for several hours last year by
investigators for both Mueller and Comey, and that during
those interviews “the dodgy dossier was the centerpiece of
their questions."
Sources say Mueller’s office also inherited collections
from a separate wiretap of Manafort, who, like Page, was
the target of FBI eavesdropping during the election.
(Manafort was indicted by Mueller for financial crimes
unrelated to the Moscow “collusion” activities alleged
against Manafort in the dossier.)
Sources add that Mueller’s investigators and prosecutors At least 11 of the 16 publicly disclosed
have access to any communications from Trump associates prosecutors and attorneys on his team
and officials swept up in the wiretaps of Page and have donated almost exclusively
Manafort. Trump’s own communications may have been to Democratic candidates for public office,
"incidentally collected" as a result of the questionable, including Barack Obama and Hillary
dossier-based surveillance warrants. Clinton. For instance, Mueller’s
top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, not
Among other unsubstantiated accusations of criminal only gave thousands of dollars to Clinton’s
activity, the dossier alleges that Trump and his campaign presidential campaign but attended
conspired with the Kremlin to hack the Democratic her election-night party in New York City in
campaign and leak embarrassing emails to help Trump win November 2016.
the election. To date, none of the allegations of felonies
has been confirmed. There, in the Javits Center, some shocked and angry
Clinton supporters were already talking -- even before the
Fitton and other critics assert that Mueller’s continued use candidate herself had conceded — of impeaching the
of the dossier reveals a broader political bias on the part of newly elected president.
investigators who seem receptive to scurrilous allegations
against Trump.
.

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 BREAKING: Robert Mueller Special Counsel Robert
Mueller Hit Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Paul
Manafort And His Business Associate Rick Gates With 32
New Charges Thursday
By Cristina Laila
February 22, 2018, 4:01 Pm
Politico reported:
Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment
charging former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
and aide Rick Gates with multiple counts of tax and bank
fraud.
The new charges, returned by a federal grand jury in
Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday, come after Mueller
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separately charged the two men in Washington last year
with money laundering and failing to register as foreign
agents for their work related to Ukraine.
Read the charges here.
Last week Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors
hit Trump’s former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort
with new allegations of bank fraud.
Robert Mueller’s team is now focusing on Manafort’s real
estate transactions and alleged mortgage fraud.
These are separate allegations from Manafort’s October
charges of money laundering and failure to file a FARA
form.
Manafort has been on house arrest since he was indicted in
October of 2017.
Story developing…
 John McCain Associate Pleads
The Fifth In Russia Dossier Probe
By Jim Hoft
February 22, 2018, 4:02 Pm
David Kramer, an associate of Senator
John McCain, invoked his Fifth
Amendment right to not testify to
Congress in connection to his role in
distribution of the fake Russia dossier
to the FBI.
Kramer was briefed by the Russian
dossier author Christopher Steele in
London in 2016.
The Russian dossier was paid for by the Democratic
National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign.
The junk dossier was used as evidence in a FISA court
hearing as evidence to spy on Trump volunteer Carter Page
— in October 2016.
Kramer then returned back to the US and delivered the
phony dossier to John McCain.
McCain handed the document over to the FBI.
David Kramer is a senior fellow at the
McCain Institute for International
Leadership at Arizona State University.
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FOX News reported:
A former State Department official and
associate of Sen. John McCain has
invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to
testify in connection with questions from
the House Intelligence Committee about
the anti-Trump dossier’s Russian sources,
according to a law enforcement source.
David J. Kramer, who is a central player in
how the unverified Trump dossier made its
way to the FBI in late 2016, testified before
the committee in December in a closed-
door session, indicating he had information
about the dossier’s sources. A subpoena
was issued for mid-January, as first
reported by The Washington Examiner.
The law enforcement source confirmed, however, that
Kramer did not appear and has exercised his Fifth
Amendment rights.
Yet Kramer gave a videotaped deposition last December in
separate civil litigation against BuzzFeed about the dossier
and his contact with the former British spy who compiled
it, Christopher Steele. Steele was hired by opposition
research firm Fusion GPS to write and research the
dossier, with funding from the Democratic National
Committee and Clinton campaign.
According to British court records obtained by Fox News
as part of its ongoing investigation of the Trump dossier,
Kramer was personally briefed in late November 2016 by
Steele in Surrey, England. After that briefing, Steele told
the British court that an arrangement was made so that
Fusion GPS — co-founded by Glenn Simpson – would
provide hard copies of the dossier to McCain via Kramer.
Shortly afterward, the dossier was given to the FBI, which
already had its own copy from Steele.
 Mueller Witch Hunt Hits Manafort With 32 Bank Fraud
Charges From 2006 To 2013 — YEARS BEFORE
2016 ELECTION
By Jim Hoft
February 22, 2018, 5:12 Pm

The new 32-count indictment returned by a grand jury in

Alexandria, Virginia comes after Mueller separately
charged the pair in Washington last year with money
laundering and failing to register as foreign agents for their
work related to Ukraine.

The new indictment accuses Manafort and Gates of

repeatedly understating their income on federal tax returns
and of bank fraud surrounding three loans Manafort
applied for in connection with various homes he owns.

No new defendants were charged in the indictment, but it

This is something you would expect from a banana
republic – Not from the United States.
Dirty Cop Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel indicted
former Trump campaign manager with 32 bank fraud
charges.
The charges were based on his business ventures from
2006 through 2013 and one from 2015.
The Special Counsel of liberal partisans is out to destroy
this man.
alleges that the men had a “conspirator” at at least one of
the lenders from which Manafort obtained the loans.
Prosecutors said the case against Manafort and Gates that
was previously filed in Washington will continue, although
it appears a few charges from that indictment are being
moved to the Virginia case. Defendants in tax cases have
the right to insist on being charged in their home district.
Mueller’s team said they were willing to consolidate the
case in Washington, but either Manafort or Gates declined
to agree to be prosecuted on those charges in Washington.
Mike Cernovich added.

Cristina Laila reported on the indictment in a previous

post.

The Politico reported:

Special counsel Robert Mueller turned up

the pressure on former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick
Gates, as a federal grand jury returned a
new indictment Thursday charging the two
men with tax and bank fraud.
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 Michael Savage Rages Against George Soros: ARREST
That “Crazy Son Of A B*Tch” For Meddling In
Foreign Elections! (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 22, 2018, 6:48 Pm

Radio legend Michael Savage joined
InfoWars host Alex Jones Thursday and
called out progressive billionaire
George Soros, demanding that the
“crazy son of a b*tch” be arrested for
meddling in foreign elections.
one word, and this is the bewildering part
about it, why has Trump not gone after
Soros’ meddling in foreign elections? This
is a peculiarity of the Trump-Soros thing
and I don’t know why. Let me put it that
way, Alex. It’s a topic for you to look into.
But, Soros is a man who openly meddles in
foreign elections. Why is he not looked
into?

Recently, the Guardian UK reported Soros

donated £400,000 to an anti-Brexit campaign:

The investor has come under sustained

attack since details of his donations to Best
for Britain were revealed last week.
Soros, who has given much of his personal
fortune to his human rights organisation,
the Open Society Foundations (OSF), said
he had received “toxic personal criticism”.
Some have said the language echoes the
antisemitic attacks against him made by
some governments, such as Hungary and
Russia.

In an opinion piece published by the Daily Mail UK two

weeks ago, Soros warned against Brexit, stating

“This process will change Britain and

Europe from friends into foes, at least
during the transitional period.
SAVAGE: “Before the referendum Britain was doing
better economically than the rest of
Europe. But this has now been reversed,
“Soros is one crazy son of a b*tch.” I don’t
with continental economies powering
know how in the world he gets away with
ahead while Britain lags behind,” Soros
meddling in foreign elections without
added.
having been rounded up by INTERPOL.
Soros has meddled in more foreign
elections than you can count on one hand.
We know it for a fact! And yet we hear not
.

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 Yet Another Way Obama’s Spies
Apparently Exploited The Trump ‘Dossier’
By Paul Sperry
February 22, 2018 | 7:28pm
The much-hyped Obama intelligence report that
determined “Vladimir Putin ordered” Hillary Clinton’s
campaign emails hacked and leaked “to help Trump’s
chances of victory” has been accepted as gospel among
DC punditry and given the investigations besieging the
Trump presidency their legs. To date, no evidence has
publicly emerged to corroborate the report, and the reason
may have a lot to do with that sketchy dossier bought and
paid for by Clinton.
Suspiciously, Barack Obama’s Intelligence Community
Assessment matches the main allegations leveled by the
Clinton-paid dossier on Trump, which wormed its way into
intelligence channels, in addition to the FBI, Justice
Department and State Department, during the 2016
campaign.
In fact, the shady dossier makes exactly the same claim —
that Putin personally “ordered” the cyberattacks on the
Clinton campaign and leaked embarrassing emails to
“bolster Trump,” as part of “an aggressive Trump support
operation.” Like Obama’s ICA, Clinton’s dossier provides
no concrete evidence to back up the claim.
After learning Obama Justice and FBI officials relied
heavily on unsubstantiated rumors in the dossier to wiretap
a Trump adviser during the election, congressional leaders
now suspect the dossier also informed Obama intelligence
officials who compiled the ICA.
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The report was released Jan. 6, 2017 — the same day
intelligence officials attached a written summary of the
dossier to a highly classified Russia briefing they gave
Obama about the dossier, and the day after Obama held a
secret White House meeting to discuss the dossier with his
national security adviser and FBI director.
Staff investigators for GOP Rep. Devin Nunes’
intelligence committee, for one, are now going over “every
word” of the ICA — including classified footnotes — to
see if any of the analysis was pre-cooked based on the
dossier. On Tuesday, Nunes sent letters to Obama intel
officials responsible for the report. He demanded former
top spook John Brennan and intel czar James Clapper
provide answers about how they used the dossier in intel
reports and when they learned the Clinton camp paid for it.
Under oath, Brennan has denied knowing the Clinton
campaign commissioned the dossier. He also told the
House intelligence panel the CIA didn’t rely on the dossier
“in any way” for its reports on Russian interference.
Committee staff are taking a second look at his May 2017
testimony.
Clapper, for his part, conceded in a recent CNN interview
that the ICA was based on “some of the substantive
content of the dossier.” Without elaborating, he maintained
that “we were able to corroborate” certain allegations.
Clapper has also admitted he broke with tradition and
didn’t put out the assessment to all 17 US intelligence
agencies for review. (The New York Times and other
media have parroted Clinton in falsely stating the ICA was
the “unanimous” conclusion of “all 17 agencies.”)
Instead, he says he limited input to a couple dozen
“handpicked” analysts from three agencies — the CIA,
NSA and FBI — and that the report was drafted under the
supervision of his office. All three agencies agreed Putin
hacked and leaked Clinton’s emails to “help Trump’s
chances of victory” — though the NSA, which captures
Russian signals, expressed only “moderate confidence” in
the conclusion.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security,
State Department’s intelligence bureau and other agencies
with relevant expertise on Russia were excluded, in
violation of normal rules for drafting such assessments.
And in another departure from custom, the report is
missing any dissenting views or an annex with evaluations
of the conclusions from outside reviewers.
US intel veterans suspect the administration “manipulated”
the process to reach a “predetermined political conclusion”
in order to delegitimize Trump.
“The best way to skew an intelligence
assessment is to limit the number of players,”
said Fred Fleitz, who worked as a CIA analyst
for 19 years and helped draft national
intelligence estimates at Langley. He says
“there is no question in my mind” that political
propaganda from the dossier made it into the
January 2017 assessment.
Brennan and Clapper suggested that a new indictment filed
by special counsel Robert Mueller against 13 Russian
nationals for interfering in the election validates their
assessment.
.
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But the indictment doesn’t go as far as the ICA. It doesn’t,
for example, link the Facebook trolling gang to Putin or
Russian intelligence, or to any hacking operations.
So far, the investigative evidence is not lining up with the
ICA’s conclusions. That’s because “the ICA is for the
most part simply a reflection of the dossier’s central
findings,” Fleitz said. Congressional investigators agree
the similarities are “suspicious.”
Clapper claims the parts of the dossier incorporated in the
ICA were “corroborated” by independent “sources and
methods” that cannot be revealed and are tucked away in
the footnotes of the classified version of the report.
We heard the same story about the FISA warrants, only to
learn the corroboration of the dossier they were based on
was a Yahoo! News article that merely sourced the dossier.
Obama’s investigators and prosecutors lied. Now it’s time
to investigate his spies.
 POTUS Trump Lashes Out At Fake News CNN For
Scripted Anti-Gun Town Hall
By Cristina Laila
February 22, 2018, 8:25 Pm
As TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks
previously reported, Colton Haab opted
out of participating in CNN’s anti-gun
town-hall event on Wednesday evening
— seemingly because his perspective
does not fit the narrative they have been
peddling.
CNN scripted their entire anti-gun town hall which was
hosted by anti-gun Jake Tapper. Shocker.
Haab is the brave 17-year-old member of the Junior
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who ushered 60 to 70
people to safety in an open JROTC room during the
Parkland school shooting. The high school junior may
have saved many lives by using the Kevlar sheets from the
marksmanship program to try and protect his peers. His
actions were so important that the US Military is currently
considering awarding him with a JROTC Medal of
Heroism.
Despite this 17-year-old’s heroism, CNN would not allow
him to ask his prepared questions.
“CNN had originally asked me to write a
speech and questions and it ended up
being all scripted,” Haab said.
Fake News CNN didn’t want any students to go off of their
anti-gun script.
On Thursday, CNN responded to hero Colton Haab’s
claim the anti-gun town hall was scripted in a statement
via CNN public relations’ Twitter account.
CNN said,
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“There is absolutely no truth to this. CNN
did not provide or script questions for
anyone in last night’s town hall, nor have
we ever.”
Very fake news CNN never scripts their town halls, just
ask Donna Brazile.
On Thursday, Trump unleashed on fake news CNN for
refusing hero Colton Haab a platform because he wouldn’t
parrot their script. Trump then took a swipe at MSNBC.
Trump tweeted:
“School shooting survivor says he quit
@CNN Town Hall after refusing scripted
question.” @TuckerCarlson. Just like so
much of CNN, Fake News. That’s why their
ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse.
Please, Mr. President don’t ever stop tweeting!
The Gateway Pundit was the first publication to point out
that the students appeared to be regurgitating scripted lines
as the liberal media interviewed them.
The students looked like they were being coached to push
the anti-gun narrative.
The Gateway Pundit was on the receiving end of an all out
onslaught from all sides for pointing this out; we stand by
our reporting.
If CNN’s town hall was scripted, certainly their interviews
with the students were as well. Case closed.
 How Was Russian Disinformation Successful? The Folks
Running CNN Proved They’re Completely Oblivious
Geoffrey Ingersoll - Editor In Chief
9:54 PM 02/22/2018

The folks running CNN must have missed the irony when
they dispatched a reporter to traipse across a Florida lawn
and publicly shame an elderly woman on the world’s most
syndicated news channel.

Not that I believe Russian political incursion is pointless to

investigate, but there seems to be a startling lack of
proportion. After all, aren’t the sirens sounding at
America’s elite news network infinitely more valuable to
Russia than some woman’s Trump fan page?

As if to exemplify CNN’s obliviousness, Asha Rangappa,

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
CNN — a multi-billion dollar, global media behemoth —
has been rousted into a dead sprint to aggressively
lobby America’s government and its most lucrative sector,
Silicon Valley, to rein in the free flow of information, fake
or otherwise, to be more in line with the sensibilities of its
anchors. Meanwhile, those same anchors tell viewers that
the real result of Russian disinformation is stuff like a
completely unknown woman who held a relatively
unnoticed rally with a handful of friends.
a former FBI special agent CNN hired to coo softly into
America’s ear about secret surveillance courts, pointed out
on Twitter about Griffin’s video:
“How was Russia successful in its
disinformation campaign? Exhibit A.”
She was referring to Gruen’s own apparent lack of
awareness, while completely missing how her own
network is dancing on the tip of Putin’s finger (indeed
even “unwittingly” amplifying the results of his
propaganda).

The woman in question, Florine Gruen, ran a rather shoddy

pro-Trump Facebook page that apparently, at the urging of
Russian operatives posing as American patriots, promoted
a rally supporting then-candidate Donald Trump. The rally
drew an astounding tens of people, mostly on the older
side. They waved signs on the side of the road and went
home.

For the highly-paid, powerful folks at CNN, Gruen and her

completely forgotten rally represent the front line result of
Russian disinformation.

Here’s the Russian ad she supposedly ran “word-for-

word,” as CNN’s Drew Griffin pointed out while
heroically advancing on a visibly confused Gruen.

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To make matters worse, CNN’s entire jihad is predicated
on the stipulation that Russia’s social media campaign was
effective at swaying the public — an assertion that
countless experts, contextual studies and Facebook’s own
execs have time and again disputed.
Here’s The New York Times, itself a beneficiary of the fake
news jihad, blaring “‘Fake News’:
Wide Reach but little impact, Study
Suggests.” Here’s a Think Progress
reporter who specializes in open-source
analysis throwing major shade on the
efficacy of Russia’s efforts. Here’s The
New York Times again, but this time
shaming a Facebook exec for saying what
everyone at this point already knows about
how Russia influence on social was
nominal at best.
To this end, CNN and MSNBC have employed a number
of former intelligence operatives to help them find the
culprit.
Ray Bradbury saw the marriage of state and media coming
decades ago. His “Fahrenheit 451” imagined a world in
which mass media teamed up with government to police
the published word. In the book, at one pivotal moment,
Bradbury described a government manhunt the media
happily takes a hand in broadcasting and directing.
When the security forces can’t find their true culprit, they
literally turn on a random person.
“The camera, hovering in the belly of a
helicopter, now swung onto at an empty
street,” he writes.
Then:

Adrian Chen, America’s foremost reporter on the Russian

troll farm that propagated these posts, recently appeared on
MSNBC and said the obvious:

It’s my personal belief that it isn’t all that

effective. You know it’s essentially a social
media marketing campaign with 90 people,
a couple million dollars, a few million
dollars behind it, run by people who have a
bare grasp of the English language and not
a full grasp of who they’re targeting, what
they’re targeting.

If you think about that in terms of just a normal marketing

campaign, that’s not going to be a very good bang for your
buck.

That’s when Chen gets to the truly terrifying part. He

continued by noting the “paranoia” Russia generated,
clustered most acutely among American elites, was the They descend on a random. An innocent person who
most troubling aspect of the whole operation.
“stood bewildered.” She “probably never
“That is a very powerful thing that is going knew.”
on and is really increasing now in the wake
“As if to give the audience time to
of these indictments in kind of a worrying
appreciate everything, the raw look of the
way,” he concluded. “There’s not a lot of
victim’s face.”
people saying ‘let’s hold back, maybe it’s
not that big of a deal.’”
And the culprit they found?
Indeed they aren’t holding back. They’re charging
forward. They want control of your news feed, they want A hapless Florine Gruen.
dissent squished, they want content approved.

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 The Media Lied To You Again This Week:
Obama Was No Tough Guy, And Putin Knew It
Christopher Bedford - Senior Editor, The Daily Caller; Editor In Chief, TheDCnf
10:27 PM 02/22/2018
President Donald Trump clearly enjoys using his Twitter
account to prime our already impish elites for a day of
flailing, a week of wailing. This time, we were treated to
career diplomats, professional babblers and esteemed fact-
checkers, all in a hurry to show their man Barack Obama
was, despite all objective evidence, a real tough guy.
Like a skinny-armed “Guernica,” the blob howled out its
independent, completely individual rulings.
“President Trump Tweeted He’s Been
Tougher on Russia Than Obama. That’s
Not True,” Time magazine decreed. “Trump
tweets that he’s been tougher on Russia
than Obama — but he hasn’t been,” CNBC
declared. “Mostly False,” Politifact chimed
in. “No, Trump Hasn’t Been Harder on
Russia Than Obama,” Mother Jones
echoed a day later.
Nicholas Burns, a former Hillary Clinton
adviser, tweeted that Trump hasn’t
“defended us” from Russia, citing Obama’s
expulsion of 35 diplomats, closing of two
compounds and economic sanctions. The
Hill, in its write-up, cited Mr. Burns as “a
veteran U.S. diplomat and current Harvard
professor,” notably leaving out his failed
stint at electing Clinton.
Pretty kooky.
But there’s more wrong here. More left out.
In addition to keeping the two Russian compounds closed
over Kremlin protest, President Trump added three
Russian compounds to the list.
In addition to keeping the Obama sanctions in place,
President Trump’s Department of Treasury sanctioned 38
groups and individuals connected to Ukrainian separatists,
froze assets on five of Vladimir Putin’s prominent allies,
and began to roll out a new batch of congressionally
mandated sanctions, providing a list of targets and a report
on sanctions’ impact. Having provided these lists, the
administration is currently well within its 120-day timeline
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to evaluate which targets have changed their ways or
require the hammer.
But what else?
 President Obama was afraid to enforce America’s
chemical weapon treaty with Syria because he didn’t
want a confrontation with the Russians. President
Trump struck Syria without a single utterance about red
lines, calmly informing the Chinese dictator of his
unilateral action over “the most beautiful piece of
chocolate cake that you have ever seen.”
 President Obama scrapped George W. Bush’s promise
to deploy a missile-defense shield to Poland. President
Trump sent American missiles back along with
American natural gas — a direct slap to Russia, which
uses its energy-exports to threaten Europe at
will. (RELATED: 5 Times Trump Has Slapped Down
Russia)
 President Obama withheld lethal arms to Ukraine after
Russia’s invasion. President Trump OK’d lethal
weapons to Ukraine.
 President Obama let the military budget lapse under
the weight of multiple wars and domestic caps.
President Trump increased military spending.
 President Obama asked Russia to stop breaking the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and was
soundly ignored. President Trump responded “with a
missile of [our] own.”
 President Obama held the U.S. back from tapping into
the energy wells that crush Russia’s ability to pay for its
military. President Trump unleashed American fracking
and potential for oil exploration.
 President Obama told the Kremlin he’d have “more
flexibility” after he beat Gov. Mitt Romney.
 President Obama later told mean old Romney, “The
1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy
back because…the Cold War’s been over for 20
years.” MSNBC thought it was hysterical. The
Washington Post called it a sweet “zinger.”
Today, the same media that thought that was so funny, you
guys, is screeching that the new president says “meddle”
more often.
Oh, and Obama was a real tough guy.
 Why Richard Gates Is A Key
Player In The Mueller Probe
By Morgan Chalfant And Olivia Beavers
02/23/18 06:00 AM EST
Richard Gates has emerged as a key figure in special
counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's
interference in the presidential election.
Mueller on Thursday unveiled new criminal charges
against Gates and Paul Manafort, his longtime business
partner and President Trump's former campaign chairman,
accusing them of a series of financial crimes including tax
evasion, bank fraud and money laundering.
Observers for weeks had been expecting that Gates, a
onetime Trump campaign aide, might strike an agreement
with Mueller to avoid going to trial.
The superseding indictment released Thursday deepens the
legal peril for Gates.
Seth Waxman, a former federal prosecutor, said the timing
of the filing likely aims to maximize the pressure on Gates,
in case he is wavering on whether to cooperate with the
investigation.
“It is designed to continue to ratchet up the
pressure on Manafort and Gates to flip,” he
said.
Waxman said the new filings suggest Mueller is likely
sending a clear signal to Gates
“that he is not messing around."
Gates is a key figure for Mueller because of his close
relationship with Manafort.
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Gates and Manafort worked hand-in-hand for more than a
decade, including on lobbying work for a pro-
Russia political party in Ukraine, so his testimony at trial
could prove especially damaging for Manafort.
“If Manafort really did have a second in
command comparable to a close confidant,
you don’t get much better than that,” said
Steven Cash, a lawyer at Day Pitney who
specializes in criminal litigation and
national security-related matters. “It’s like
having the second in command of a
company testify against the CEO.”
A plea agreement with Gates would put heavy pressure on
Manafort to cut a deal of his own. If he flipped, it’s
possible he could give Mueller inside information about
any contact between the Trump campaign and Moscow
during the summer of 2016, a key period when
Russia began orchestrating the release of hacked
Democratic emails.
“The Manafort indictment is serious, is ugly
and is very likely backed by large volumes
of evidence,” said Ron Hosko, a former FBI
assistant director. “Gates can drive a final
nail.”
Trump has flatly denied any collusion between his
campaign and Russia, describing the allegations as a
“hoax.”
Mueller’s team first unveiled an indictment against
Manafort and Gates in late October.
That indictment, which included bank transactions,
accused Manafort and Gates of money laundering, bank
fraud and other financial crimes stemming from work
overseas that pre-dated their involvement in Trump’s
presidential campaign.
Both men pleaded not guilty last year.
Former prosecutors say Gates’s testimony, should he
choose to cooperate, could help prosecutors sort through
their evidence against Manafort. He could also fill in holes
in timelines and help walk prosecutors through some of the
complex financial transactions that he and Manafort are
accused of carrying out.
“In most businesses and white-collar
cases, the government really needs a
cooperator to explain events,” said Jack
Sharman, a former Whitewater special
counsel.
The possibility of Gates on the witness stand could be
enough to get Manafort to cooperate with Mueller’s
prosecutors, which is likely their main goal.
Manafort worked for Trump’s campaign for six months
before resigning under pressure in August 2016 over
reports of his dealings with a pro-Russia oligarch in
Ukraine. He was in the room for a June 2016 meeting at
Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who had promised
Donald Trump Jr. damaging information on Democratic
.
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nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and could provide
inside information about any contact between the
campaign and Russia.
If Gates were to strike a plea deal, he would be the fourth
known witness to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation,
in addition to former national security adviser Michael
Flynn, former Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos and a California man ensnared in the probe
for selling bank account numbers to foreigners committing
identity fraud.
“I think the question is not are there going
to be more indictments and guilty pleas. I
think there will be,” Sharman said.
“The larger question is ultimately what is
the relation of any of those offenses to the
original core mission of the special counsel,
who was appointed because of concerns
over presidential campaign involvement.”
 Sessions, DOJ ‘Better Be Doing
Something’ On Hillary, Dossier, Eric Trump Says
The President's Second Son Says He Doesn't Know If The Attorney
General Is Doing Enough To Hold Clinton, Obama Officials Accountable
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 23 Feb 2018 At 6:50 AM

“No,” Trump replied. “Honestly, I don’t

know, but I hope he is. I really hope he is
because it’s sad and it’s disgusting. And I
think so many of the facts have come to
light and they’re bad facts and they’re bad
facts for the other side. And it’s deeply
troubling, and we’d better be doing
something about it, otherwise there’s a lot
of injustice in this country.”
Eric Trump, President Donald Trump’s second son, said
Thursday during “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News that
Trump ripped Democratic lawmakers and media members
he “really hope[s]” Attorney General Jeff Sessions is
for using “absolutely anything they can” to take his father
“doing something” about the use of the unverified Trump-
and his family “down” because “they’re afraid of all of his
Russia dossier by Hillary Clinton and the Obama
successes” with the economy.
administration.

Trump noted that the dossier, authored by former British

spy Christopher Steele, was funded by Clinton’s
presidential campaign and the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election. The
Department of Justice and the FBI used the dossier to
obtain surveillance warrants against Trump campaign
officials.

“You see how crazy this dossier is, being

paid by everybody in government to
slander my father so they could investigate
him … I mean, they literally dug so deep
that they ended up finding themselves. It’s
amazing how things come full circle,”
Trump told host Laura Ingraham.
“And you know what? They caught
themselves in the process. I really hope the
Justice Department — I hope they do
something about it,” Trump said.
Ingraham asked the president’s son if he believes Sessions
was
“doing enough to investigate the Obama
administration’s involvement with pushing
that phony dossier” after knowing
“who funded it, knowing what it was, what
was behind it, who was behind it?”
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"There's nothing that we don't get attacked
for because, quite frankly, Democrats don't
have their own platform. They don't have
their own leadership. They've got no good
ideas. They've got no good bench of
candidates," Trump said. "They're petrified
over what's happening in this country, the
fact that people are putting more money in
their pocket and all the great things that we
talked about before."
"They do anything that they can to
undermine our family because it seems like
it's the only moves that they have," Trump
said.
Following the Trump interview Ingraham
interviewed Ariana Klein, a student who survived last
week's mass shooting, which left 17 people dead at a
Florida high school, and her father, Andrew Klein.
Ingraham pointed to CNN's Thursday town hall with
Florida lawmakers and school shooting survivors and
parents. Survivor Colton Haab claimed Thursday that
CNN wrote a scripted question for him to ask at the town
hall.
In response, CNN issued a statement claiming
"there is absolutely no truth to this. CNN
did not provide or script questions for
anyone in last night's town hall, nor have
we ever."
.
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But Ingraham pointed out that CNN has
"a history of planting questions," adding
that "most of the students ... had the same
opinion on what to do, namely to ban
certain weapons, you know, to trash the
NRA, to be really disrespectful to [Sen.]
Marco Rubio [R-Fla.] and nasty things
being said to [NRA spokeswoman] Dana
Loesch, she was there," Ingraham said.
"But they all seemed to be pretty much in
agreement, as far as I could tell. There was
no diversity of opinion among either the
students or anyone else that I saw, even in
the audience."
 Deep State Knows They Can Count On Corrupt Media To
Push Their Propaganda – Current Go-To Guy Is
Discredited Michael Isikoff
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 7:32 Am

uranium mining industry, according to a

letter delivered to the DOJ.

Carter notes that Toensing’s claim references –

…several articles that she alleges contain

Deep State uses the media (MSM)
whenever they want a particular farce
spread throughout the industry. The
MSM complies with an article where a
reporter announces anonymous
sources have shared whatever made up
story line the deep state wants
publicized. No one in the media is more
accommodating to the deep state lately
than ‘old faithful’ – Yahoo’s Michael
Isikoff.
Yesterday Sara Carter reported that –
false information regarding Campbell. On
Nov.16, 2017 a Reuters article by Joel
Schectman and on Nov. 17, 2017 a Yahoo
News story by Michael Isikoff referred to
unnamed federal officials. Both outlets
described these officials as having
“detailed knowledge” of Campbell’s role as
an undercover FBI informant.
This is not the first time of late that we hear Isikoff’s name
related to deep state media messaging. Earlier this month,
it was reported that Isikoff’s Yahoo report was used in
obtaining FISA warrants to spy on President Trump while
at the same time Isikoff was working with the DNC.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange tweeted evidence that Isikoff
was secretly working for the DNC in September of 2016,
the same time his FISA article was released –

Victoria Toensing the attorney for William

Douglas Campbell, the FBI informant in the
sale of the Canadian firm Uranium One to
Russia, is asking Attorney General Jeff
Sessions for a leak investigation into
unnamed federal officials who leaked false
and illegal information on her client.

Toensing’s claim states that –

…the leakers disparaged her client in an

effort to silence him from providing
testimony to Congress regarding his role in
exposing Russia’s long-term strategy to
dominate the global uranium market and
how Moscow achieved its goal in 2010 of
obtaining roughly 20 percent of the U.S.

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 “I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative
journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at
the Library of Congress – the Open World
Society’s forum – they put me on the
program to speak specifically about Paul
Manafort and I invited Michael Isikoff whom
I’ve been working with for the past few
weeks and connected him to the
Ukrainians,” Democratic consultant
Alexandra Chalupa wrote to Luis Miranda,
communications director of the Democratic
National Committee.
The memo on FISA abuse prepared by House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and released earlier
this year states:
The Carter Page FISA application also
cited extensively a September 23,
2016 Yahoo News article by Michael
Isikoff, which focused on Page’s July 2016
trip to Moscow. This article does not
corroborate the Steele dossier because it is
derived from information leaked by Steele
himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA
application incorrectly assesses that Steele
did not directly provide information
to Yahoo News—and several other
outlets—in September 2016 at the direction
of Fusion GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of
Steele’s initial media contacts because
they hosted at least one meeting in
Washington D,C, in 2016 with Steele and
Fusion GPS where this matter was
discussed.”
While discussing his story being one of the justifications in
the FISA warrant application against Page during an
episode of his podcast,
“Skullduggery,” Isakoff claimed that he was
“stunned.”
The Daily Caller reported that –
…the [House FISA] memo reveals that the
FISA application “extensively” cited an
.
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Sept. 23, 2016 news article that was in
effect planted by Fusion GPS.
That is significant because the article, written by veteran
reporter Michael Isikoff, is itself based on the unverified
dossier. Isikoff was among a small group of reporters who
in September 2016 was briefed on the dossier by Steele
and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. (RELATED:
Inside Fusion GPS’s Media Outreach Campaign)
A private investigator who knows both Steele and Isikoff
told The Daily Caller last year that the pair are good
friends, having been fixtures of the Washington, D.C.
journalism circuit for decades.
The FISA application made no mention of the link
between the Isikoff article and the dossier. Instead, the
article was treated as corroborating evidence for the
dossier. The memo says that the FISA application
“incorrectly assesse[d]” that the Isikoff article was based
on information separate from the dossier.
“That’s truly insane,” Page told TheDC on
Friday about the Isikoff article’s link to the
FISA.
The Daily Caller notes that Page is suing Yahoo over
Isikoff’s article.
Isikoff first garnered attention in the late 1990’s for
assisting in a Clinton cover-up. While working at
Newsweek he obtained information on the Monica
Lewinski scandal but did not report it.
Matt Drudge did report on the Lewinski
scandal at the Drudge Report which
resulted in the beginning of ‘new
media’ – changing news media forever.
Isikoff is expected to soon release a
book about Russia and the 2016
election. This too no doubt is another
fiction which is probably supported by
deep state operatives. He’s deep state’s
old faithful after all.
 It Never Gets Old=> CPAC Crowd Chants
“Lock Her Up!” During POTUS Trump Speech (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 9:39 Am

President Trump spoke at the CPAC The crowd went nuts.

2018 Conference in Washington DC on
Friday morning.

President Trump briefly mentioned his crooked opponent

during his speech to the enthusiastic crowd.

The CPAC crowd started chanting,

“Lock her up!”

It never gets old.

The president went on to attack the criminal deep state

actions that were exposed this last year by Congressional
investigators.

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 FLASHBACK 2016: CPAC Crowd
Plans Mass Walkout Protest During Trump Speech –
Trump Pulls Out Of CPAC
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 9:53 Am

President Trump was welcomed by an

enthusiastic CPAC crowd on Friday
morning.

But two years ago Donald Trump pulled

out of the “conservative” conference
after a planned walkout protest.
He was scheduled to speak on Saturday
morning at the conference.

Trump campaigned in Kansas instead.

MORE——–

Ted Cruz supporter William Temple was

planning a walkout protest during his
speech.

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More from Kristinn:
Leading Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump abruptly canceled his
scheduled speech at CPAC Saturday
morning as his campaign announced an
appearance in Wichita, Kansas the day of
that state’s caucus.
Likely factoring into Trump’s decision
was a planned protest walkout during
his speech at CPAC and the need to
have a campaign presence in Kansas.
The organizer of the walkout, William Temple, who
parades around CPAC in colonial garb, told BizPacReview
he expected one thousand CPAC attendees to participate in
the Trump walkout.
Temple organized a similar walkout last year during Jeb
Bush’s speech at CPAC that drew around 300 protesters.
This guy…
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Marco Rubio took a potshot at Trump after hearing the
news…
UPDATE: Rubio lackeys lobbied CPAC to remove him
from the convention earlier this week.
Politico reported:
Donald Trump’s speaking slot at the Conservative Political
Action Conference on Saturday is prompting an
acrimonious backlash from the conservative critics
desperately trying to mount a last-ditch campaign to block
the GOP presidential front-runner from winning the party’s
nomination.
A top aide to Trump rival Marco Rubio has accused CPAC
organizers of being in the tank for Trump and clearing the
way for his acceptance into mainstream conservatism,
while an anti-Trump super PAC is pressuring organizers to
rescind their invitation to the surging GOP front-runner.
Potentially complicating matters further, sources tell
POLITICO that Trump has made multiple donations
totaling more than $100,000 ― including a $50,000 check
last year ― to the American Conservative Union, the
group that organizes CPAC. That dwarfs the amounts
donated in recent years by allies of Trump’s rivals, all of
whom are also scheduled to speak at the annual gathering,
and seems likely to fuel already percolating suspicions
among his opponents that the ACU has its thumb on the
scale for Trump.
Even by the standards of CPAC, which over the decades
has been in the middle of more than its share of
contentious fights about the future of the conservative
movement, the one brewing around this year’s gathering is
shaping up as historic ― and historically nasty.
 Trump Slams Nancy Pelosi: We Have To Fight Nancy
Pelosi Who Wants To End Your Tax Cuts,
Take Away Your Rights (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 10:38 Am

In closing he hit Minority leader Nancy

President Trump spoke to an excited
CPAC crowd on Friday morning in
Washington DC.
Just two years ago the CPAC crowd
planned a mass walkout on candidate
Donald Trump.
On Friday the same crowd welcomed
him with open arms.
Pelosi.
President Trump:
I just leave you with this. We have to fight
Nancy Pelosi. They want to give your
money away. They want to give your
money away. They want to end your tax
cuts. They want to do things that you
wouldn’t even believe including taking your
Second Amendment rights away.

President Trump spoke for over an hour.

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 A Protester Interrupted Trump’s Speech By Throwing
Russian Flags – Trump Sent Him To Siberia
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
11:04 AM 02/23/2018

President Donald Trump spoke to an enthusiastic audience

of young conservatives Friday morning at CPAC, and
minutes into his speech, he was heckled by a man who
yelled about Russia and threw Russian flags.
Security immediately surrounded and escorted the
protester out of the room.
Trump was not deterred, savaging the protester and the
media in form. As the audience booed the protester, Trump
said
The crowd erupted in laughter and applause.
“He will say something, nobody hears
them,” Trump continued. “And then the
crowd will start screaming at him, and then
all of a sudden, we stopped, and that’s
okay. You have to show your spirit, right?
You have to show your spirit.”
WATCH:

“How did he get in here, Matt?” referring to

CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp.

Just for the media, the fake news back there, they took
very good care of him. They were very gentle. He was
very obnoxious. It was only one person. So we have
thousands of people here. So listen, tomorrow, the headline
will be a “Protesters that disturb –” It was one person,
folks. It doesn’t deserve a mention. Doesn’t deserve a
headline. One person, he was very nice.

“We looked at him, he immediately left,”

POTUS continued, “Okay?”
.

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 SECOND ACCUSER Accuses CNN Of Scripting Town
Hall – Only ‘Certain Narrative’ Allowed (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 11:35 Am

A second accuser has come forward with the credible

A second accuser stepped forward on allegation that CNN is only interested in interviewing
Thursday to accuse CNN of scripting those willing to “espouse a certain narrative” in favor of
their anti-gun town hall this week. gun control.
Andrew Klein, the father of a Marjory
On Thursday night, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham spoke
Stoneman Douglas student, told Laura
with Andrew Klein, the father of one of students who
Ingraham that CNN was only interested
survived last week’s school shooting massacre in Parkland,
in interviewing those willing to
Florida.
“espouse a certain narrative.”

Ingraham pointed out, accurately, that CNN’s widely-

criticized Wednesday night townhall event was one-sided.
The questioners were all anti-gun, all opposed the NRA,
and launched venomous personal attacks against Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and NRA spokesperson Dana
Loesch.

Jake Tapper, the anti-Trump/anti-gun pundit who

moderated the spectacle, also had an audience of thousands
who all appeared to be rabidly anti-gun — going so far as
Breitbart.com reported: to boo a rape victim as Tapper remained silent. Tapper has
yet to disavow his audience’s behavior or to apologize to
the rape survivor.
.

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 MSNBC Freaks: ‘Lying’ Trump’s ‘Strange’ Speech
Was Like Dictators From Cuba, Venezuela
By Scott Whitlock
February 23, 2018 12:12 PM EST

MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie

Ruhle on Friday suffered a total
meltdown after Donald Trump’s CPAC
speech, foaming that the “strange,” “lie”-
filled address was reminiscent of brutal
dictators such as Fidel Castro and
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ruhle labeled
certain comments “absurd across the
board.”
Velshi was clearly angry that the President called out the
media during the speech. He seethed that journalists really
just want to help Americans:
“[Trump] keeps pointing to the back row, all
the media, how they're against us. No,
we're trying to keep you honest because
you're lying to the crowd in front of you.”

Velshi fumed,

“There were a lot of lies in the speech... It

was a remarkable speech. It was lie to new
topic to another lie. It was very strange
speech.” How often were MSNBC hosts
concerned about the big lies told by Barack
Obama during his two terms? Immediately
after the “truly sprawling, meandering”
speech ended, Velshi compared Trump to
thug dictators:

A partial transcript of the February 23 segment is below.

Click on “expand” to read more:

MSNBC Live
2/23/18
11:30

ALI VELSHI: Okay. A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering

A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering speech by the
President. The likes of which — I was saying to Stephanie
— I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or Fidel
Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like
this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give
speeches like this.
As an aside, Ruhle snapped:
“Historically, the amount of lies the
President has told, and this administration,
over the last year, that is unprecedented.”
speech by the President. The likes of which — I was saying to
Stephanie — I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or
Fidel Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like
this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give speeches
like this. By our executive producer's conservative count, he
touched on 31 at least 31 different topics in the speech. None of
which were Russia, by the way. Russia didn't come up.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Absolutely no mention of Russia. When,
remember, last Friday, 13 Russians were indicted. The President
made no mention of it. If the White House is watching, I would
like to ask you, the President said over and over about these
great trade deals that this administration is renegotiating.
VELSHI: Yeah.

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RUHLE: We cover that every day here.
VELSHI: I don't know of any.
RUHLE: Please, let us know what they are. And to the audience,
we couldn't see the audience, only President trump, when they
were cheering about when President Trump was talking about
leaving TPP, unless the audience was filled with Chinese people,
I have no idea —
VELSHI: Chinese factory workers in particular.
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RUHLE: I have no idea why they'd be cheering. Leaving TPP has
absolutely not done anything for America or the American
worker.
VELSHI: He keeps talking about NAFTA, which he talked about
in the election. They also still haven't done anything about that.
Remarkable. This was a remarkable speech.
RUHLE: Touching on voter fraud there. We know the President's
voter fraud commission that was put together was, of course,
disbanded. When he was talking about the stock market, he said
he liked the fact there was that correction. He'd been saying, hey,
isn't it going to go down? That’s just absurd. Absurd across the
board. He continued to say nothing has ever been done like this
historically. Historically, the amount of lies the President has told
and this administration over the last year, that is unprecedented.
VELSHI: There were a lot of lies in the speech, including the stuff
you mentioned about trade, but talking about the fact that wages
are finally going up. They hadn't gone up before his
administration. Wages started going up — it was true that it
stagnated for a while after the recession. 2015 was the year that
wages started to go up. They went up in '15, went up in '16 and
and went '17, and we think they're going up. It was a remarkable
speech. It was lie to new topic to another lie. It was very strange
speech.
 Congress Investigating Whether Obama Admin Used
Phony Dossier For IC Joint Analysis Russia Report
By Cristina Laila
February 23, 2018, 12:58 Pm
Chairman Nunes is looking into whether the
Obama administration’s joint Intel analysis
report claiming “Vladimir Putin ordered”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails hacked
and leaked “to help Trump’s chances of
victory” relied on Hillary’s phony dossier,
Paul Sperry of the New York Post reports.
Paul Sperry of The New York Post reported:
The much-hyped Obama intelligence report that
determined “Vladimir Putin ordered” Hillary
Clinton’s campaign emails hacked and leaked
“to help Trump’s chances of victory” has been
accepted as gospel among DC punditry and
given the investigations besieging the Trump
presidency their legs. To date, no evidence has
publicly emerged to corroborate the report, and
the reason may have a lot to do with
that sketchy dossier bought and paid for by
Clinton.
Suspiciously, Barack Obama’s Intelligence Community
Assessment matches the main allegations leveled by the
Clinton-paid dossier on Trump, which wormed its way into
intelligence channels, in addition to the FBI, Justice
Department and State Department, during the 2016
campaign.
In fact, the shady dossier makes exactly the same claim —
that Putin personally “ordered” the cyberattacks on the
Clinton campaign and leaked embarrassing emails to
“bolster Trump,” as part of “an aggressive Trump support
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operation.” Like Obama’s ICA, Clinton’s dossier provides
no concrete evidence to back up the claim.
The New York Times and other fake news outlets
previously falsely reported that all 17 Intel agencies
unanimously concluded that Russia was to blame for the
hacking.
It turns out former Intel Chief James Clapper only gathered
intel from THREE agencies he handpicked, not 17. This
allowed him to control the information.
Instead, he says he limited input to a couple dozen
“handpicked” analysts from three agencies — the CIA,
NSA and FBI — and that the report was drafted under the
supervision of his office. All three agencies agreed Putin
hacked and leaked Clinton’s emails to “help Trump’s
chances of victory” — though the NSA, which captures
Russian signals, expressed only “moderate confidence” in
the conclusion.
In violation of normal rules, all experts on Russia from
various agencies were excluded, reports Sperry.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security,
State Department’s intelligence bureau and other agencies
with relevant expertise on Russia were excluded, in
violation of normal rules for drafting such assessments.
And in another departure from custom, the report is
missing any dissenting views or an annex with evaluations
of the conclusions from outside reviewers.
US intel veterans suspect the administration “manipulated”
the process to reach a “predetermined political conclusion”
in order to delegitimize Trump.
The best way to skew an intelligence assessment is to limit
the number of players,” said Fred Fleitz, who worked as a
CIA analyst for 19 years and helped draft national
intelligence estimates at Langley. He says “there is no
question in my mind” that political propaganda from the
dossier made it into the January 2017 assessment.
GOP House Intel Committee members launched phase two
of their dossier probe this week.
Chairman Nunes fired off an inquiry to many current and witch hunt. This is the biggest scandal of our time.
former intelligence, law enforcement and State Department Everyone involved should be investigated and brought to
officials Tuesday, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported. justice.

Nunes even threatened to issue subpoenas if he doesn’t

receive a timely response on a voluntary basis.

Former CIA Director John Brennan may have perjured

himself. In a May 2017 testimony to the House Intel
Committee he claimed he didn’t know Hillary Clinton’s
campaign paid for the dossier. Brennan also said the CIA
didn’t rely on the dossier in any way for it’s reports on
Russian meddling.

Crooked Clapper claims parts of the dossier used in the

ICA report were “corroborated” by independent “sources
and methods” that cannot be revealed and are tucked away
in the footnotes of the classified version of the report, says
Sperry.

Where have we heard this before? The FISA memo

revealed the ‘corroborated sources’ used to obtain FISA
warrants was actually a Yahoo! News article which was just
recycled information from Christopher Steele.

Hillary’s phony dossier is the fruit of the poisoned tree.

The dossier was used in every single aspect of the Russia
.

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 Former Trump Aide
Pleads Guilty In Mueller Probe
Chuck Ross - Reporter
3:39 PM 02/23/2018
 Rick Gates pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring
against the U.S.
 He is the fifth Trump associate to plead guilty in
Robert Mueller’s investigation
 Gates’ family and friends were reportedly urging
him not to cooperate with Mueller
Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates pleaded
guilty on Friday in a case being prosecuted by special
counsel Robert Mueller.
Gates pleaded guilty to conspiring against the United
States and making false statements to the special counsel’s
office and FBI.
He is the fifth associate of President Donald Trump to
plead guilty in Mueller’s sprawling investigation, which
began as an inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016
election.
Gates’ decision follows a day after Mueller indicted the
political consultant and his former business partner Paul
Manafort with 32 counts of bank fraud and money
laundering related to their work for a former Ukrainian
politician. (RELATED: Not A Single Mueller
Prosecutor Is A Republican)
Mueller indicted the pair in October on charges related to
money laundering, bank fraud, and making false
statements regarding their Ukraine work.
WATCH:
None of the charges appear to involve Manafort and Gates’
activities on the Trump campaign. Manafort served as the
Trump campaign’s chairman, and Gates was his deputy.
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According to the plea deal, Gates acknowledged that he
lied to the special counsel’s office and the FBI during an
interview earlier this month about a March 19, 2013,
meeting between Manafort, an unnamed lobbyist, and
California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican.
Gates admitted to falsely claiming that Manafort told him
that there were no discussions about Ukraine during the
2013 meeting. He acknowledged that he helped Manafort
prepare a report about Ukraine that was discussed in the
meeting.
Gates appeared to be in limbo about whether or not to
plead guilty to Mueller. He had been negotiating a plea
deal with Mueller’s team, CNN reported, but a source
close to Gates told The Daily Caller News Foundation last
week that he planned to fight the charges and had no
intention of pleading guilty.
There were several conflicting reports this week about
whether he would plea, with The Daily Beast reporting on
Thursday that Gates was ending negotiations with
Mueller’s team.
Gates’ family and friends were reportedly urging him not
to cooperate with Mueller. He sent a letter to them on
Friday saying that he had decided to cooperate because of
legal costs and “the circus-like atmosphere” of the case.
“The reality of how long this legal process will
likely take, the cost, and the circus-like
atmosphere of an anticipated trial are too much.
I will better serve my family moving forward by
exiting this process,” Gates said in a letter to
 friends and family published by ABC “I had hoped and expected my business
News Friday. colleague would have had the strength to
continue the battle to prove our innocence,”
Manafort issued a statement after Gates’ guilty Manafort added. “For reasons yet to surface he
maintaining his innocence. chose to do otherwise. This does not alter my
commitment to defend myself against the
untrue piled up charges contained in the
“Notwithstanding that Rick Gates pled today, I
indictments against me.”
continue to maintain my innocence,” he said in
a statement.
.

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 JUDICIAL WATCH: DOJ Says Loretta Lynch Used Alias
‘Elizabeth Carlisle’ To Conduct Official Business To
Protect Security, Privacy
By Cristina Laila
February 23, 2018, 7:06 Pm
The Department of Justice told conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch former
Attorney General Loretta Lynch used the
alias Elizabeth Carlisle to conduct official
business to protect security and privacy.
The use of aliases by government officials actually
stonewall’s FOIA requests because groups filing FOIA
lawsuits don’t know the aliases and only request records
using legal names.
This is another way the Obama administration slithered
around without the public knowing what they were up to
behind the scenes.
Via Judicial Watch:
Illustrating how government hides information
from the American public, former Attorney
General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to
conduct official Department of Justice (DOJ)
business in agency emails obtained by Judicial
Watch. As the nation’s chief law enforcement
officer Lynch, Barack Obama’s second attorney
general, skirted public-records laws by using
the alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent
from her official DOJ account. In the records
provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it
as necessary to “protect her security and
privacy and enable her to conduct Department
business efficiently via email.”
[…]
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In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the
records as part of an investigation into the
Obama administration’s involvement in a United
Nation’s international law enforcement coalition
called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The
purported mission of the global coalition was to
build social cohesion and community resilience
to counter violent extremism. The DOJ
masterminded the agreement and Americans
found out about the U.S.’s participation when
Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on
September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as
a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured
the notoriously corrupt world body that the
Obama administration was deeply committed to
the new initiative. “The government of the
United States is fully invested in this
collaborative approach and we have seen the
value of empowering local communities by
promoting initiatives they design and lead
themselves,” Lynch said.
In its mission to educate the public about the
operations and activities of government, Judicial
Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on
October 15, 2015 for documents related to
SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for
legal opinions and analysis prepared by the
DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the
program, documents that form the foundation
for the decision for the country to participate in
SCN, all international agreements and related
records involving the commitment of U.S.
resources or personnel to SCN and records of
communication between officials in the Office of
the Attorney General relating to the initiative.
The DOJ claimed to have no records related to
the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a
startling $50,000 to conduct the search that
didn’t produce a single file.
Judicial Watch says the DOJ just furnished the records
they requested from a 2015 FOIA lawsuit which cost them
$50,000 at the time which previously yielded no records
because of the use of an alias.
Judicial Watch was seeking a FOIA request on the name
Loretta Lynch, not Elizabeth Carlisle. Sneaky.

In August of 2017, the Department of Justice

released hundreds of emails to the American Center for
Law and Justice (ACLJ) in the investigation of former AG
Lynch’s secret meeting with former President Bill Clinton.

An email from Loretta Lynch revealed she used the alias

Elizabeth Carlisle (screenshot below):

Internet slueths figured out Lynch was using the

name of her late grandmother. Certainly other government employees used aliases in
order to hide from FOIA requests. The corruption never
Loretta’s grandmother’s name is Lizzie Carlisle ends with the Obama administration.
Harris.
DOJ Says Obama Atty. Gen. Lynch Used Alias
Loretta’s mother’s name is Lorine Harris to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security,
Lynch. Privacy —
@JudicialWatch https://t.co/PIu76G1rOd

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 23, 2018

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 Judicial Watch Lead Investigator:
Pay Attention To Obama DHS Advisor Lisa Monaco –
Deep State Link (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 23, 2018, 7:43 Pm

from (Lisa) Page saying that Andy McCabe and

Former Obama DHS advisor Lisa Monaco (CNN)
Judicial Watch chief investigator Chris Farrell told the Lou
Via Lou Dobbs:
Dobbs audience on Friday to pay attention to former
Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco.
Strzok, her boyfriend, saying that the White
House wanted to know everything that they
were doing. And so you see this contact in May
and then in August you see the counter-
intelligence operation that opened on the Trump
campaign gets a nickname. They call it ‘latitude’
and it’s tied back apparently to Lisa Monaco
who today has escaped any media inquiry or
scrutiny. I think people should take a hard
long look at the contact point between this
McCabe, Strzok, Page, Secret Society as
they refer to themselves, and who in the
White House was managing that. It appears,
it’s likely that it’s Lisa Monaco.

Chris Farrell:

If you want to really focus on Obama

administration targeting of the Trump campaign,
the transition and the administration, I think
people should sets their sights on Lisa Monaco.
She was the Trump (he meant Obama)
administration Homeland Security Director and
she appears in the notes and calendar of Andy
McCabe in May of 2016. And if you note back a
couple weeks you’ll note that there was a text
.

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 Susan Rice’s Lawyer Responds To Grassley Inquiry About
Bizarre Email She Sent Herself On
Trump’s Inauguration Day
By Cristina Laila
February 23, 2018, 9:28 Pm
Last week, Senate Judiciary Chairman
Chuck Grassley uncovered an unusual
email former NatSec Advisor to Barack
Obama, Susan Rice sent herself on January
20th 2017–Donald Trump’s inauguration
day.
Susan Rice sent herself an unusual email on January 20th
memorializing a secret meeting she had on January 5th
with Obama, Comey, Biden and Sally Yates to discuss
‘Russian interference’.
Senate Judiciary Chairmen Grassley and Graham sent
Susan Rice a list of questions she must answer the
Committee by January 22nd 2018.
Susan Rice’s lawyers responded to Congress late Friday in
a letter claiming the Obama admin was afraid to share
classified intel with General Flynn. Seriously?
Politico reported:
A lawyer for President Barack Obama’s national
security adviser, Susan Rice, told Congress late
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Friday that the outgoing administration was
fearful of sharing classified intelligence with
members of the incoming Trump team,
especially Rice’s successor, Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn.
In a letter to lawmakers, Rice’s lawyer Kathryn
Ruemmler, said Rice drafted a Jan. 20, 2017,
email to herself on the advice of White House
counsel to memorialize the outgoing
administration’s reluctance.
“President Obama and his national security
team were justifiably concerned about potential
risks to the Nation’s security from sharing highly
classified information about Russia with certain
members of the Trump transition team,
particularly Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,”
Rice’s lawyer also claims Susan Rice was not informed
about any FISA applications sought by the FBI in its
investigation and that she only learned about them from
the press reports after leaving office and that the dossier
was never discussed in this meeting.
This is hard to believe being that Rice has a track record of
lying and Comey, who was one of the attendees in this
secret meeting she was in on January 5th, traveled to
Trump Tower the very next day to brief Trump on the
dossier. The dossier and FISA warrants never came up in
the meeting? Yeah, ok.
Susan Rice’s lawyer also claimed there was nothing
unusual about this email.
Screenshot of the letter below via Politico’s Kyle Cheney:
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SUSAN RICE’s lawyer explains why she drafted the email
to herself on Jan. 20, 2017:
Obama team was afraid of sharing classified
intel with FLYNN. She wrote email on advice of
WH counsel. pic.twitter.com/IM2xbxv9ml
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 24,
2018
General Flynn was definitely targeted and taken down by
the Deep State.
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This secret meeting Rice had with the crooked Obama
admin took place ONE WEEK after Flynn’s phone call
with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.
A few days after Rice’s secret meeting, news of Flynn’s
phone call with Kislyak illegally leaked to the liberal
media.
Flynn was subsequently ambushed by the FBI and sucked
into an interview without his lawyer and ultimately fired
from his position as NatSec Advisor.
 Democrats Have No Message For 2018:
Far Left Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill Is Desperate
By Jim Hoft
February 24, 2018, 9:14 Am

Yes, this is what she is running on.

In her email over the weekend she states –

Every American gets a Social Security number,

so that when we grow old, this system that
we’ve paid into our entire lives will help us live
out our later years with dignity and financial
security.

But now, scammers are using children’s stolen

The Democrats are in a world of hurt leading
up to the 2018 Midterm elections.
Normally this is a winning election for
party not in the White House but
Democrats have no message and
looking really sad – almost as sad
election night 2016.
Social Security numbers to open fraudulent
credit cards before they even graduate high
school. We need to stay ahead of the curve to
the protect Missourians’ financial well-being,and we
the need the Social Security Administration to
are step up to the task.
as

Democrats stand for higher taxes, open borders, DACA

illegal aliens over Americans (and especially those in the
military), and they did nothing to support the booming
economy.

Their only message to date is ‘Stop Trump’ and ‘Muh
Russia’ and they look like unhinged loons. Their lack of a
coherent message will cost them this November!
Case in point – Claire McCaskill
According to McCaskill Social Security fraud is the most
important issue facing this nation?
Is she aware of how many immigrants
defraud the system?

Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill is running
for reelection in a state that President Trump won by
20% in the 2016 election.
She is a horrible candidate with her only actions
to vote for Obamacare and the disastrous ‘2009
stimlus’ that cost Americans $1 trillion with
nothing to show for it.
To get her message out this weekend McCaskill sent a
mailer to those on her email chain stating that she is behind
the government …… doing more to stop Social Security
Number fraud!
Not corruption in the DOJ or FBI, not the Obama team
giving billions to Iran, not military readiness, not
infrastructure improvements, not immigration reform, not
the increased racial tensions since the Obama
Administration’s eight years of destroying America, no it’s
Social Security fraud.
Let’s hope and pray McCaskill is replaced by
anyone with some common sense and moral
courage – the things clearly missing with
McCaskill!

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 Developing: Democrat House Intel
Counter-Memo ‘Likely’ To Be Released Today
By Joshua Caplan
February 24, 2018, 10:44 Am
In response to the Nunes memo, House
Intelligence Committee Democrats are
‘likely,’ to release a ‘declassified’ version of
their counter-memo on Saturday, reports
Byron York of the Washington Examiner.
Hearing the declassified Democratic House
Intel memo will likely be released today.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 24,
2018
On February 9th, White House Counsel Don
McGahn notified House Intelligence Committee
Democrats that President Trump would not approve of the
memo’s release until “sensitive details” were removed.
“Trump will not approve of releasing Dem
memo, per person with knowledge. Instead,
he will tell legislators that memo needs
changes before it could be released,”
reported Josh Dawsey of The Washington
Post.
Trump will not approve of releasing Dem memo,
per person with knowledge. Instead, he will tell
legislators that memo needs changes before it
could be released.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 10,
2018
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Soon after the announcement, Democrat House Intel
Committee Adam Schiff expressed frustration with the
decision, tweeting
After ignoring urging of FBI & DOJ not to
release misleading Nunes memo because it
omits material facts, @POTUS now expresses
concerns over sharing precisely those facts with
public and seeks to send it back to the same
Majority that produced the flawed Nunes memo
to begin with: pic.twitter.com/qNVyS99eXs
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February
10, 2018
The next morning, President Trump accused House
Intelligence Committee members of purposely including
“sources and methods,” in the counter-memo,
effectively sabotaging the document’s release.
“The Democrats sent a very political and long
response memo which they knew, because of
sources and methods (and more), would have
to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would
blame the White House for lack of
transparency,” Trump tweeted.
Told them to re-do and send back in proper form!” the
President added.
The Democrats sent a very political and long
response memo which they knew, because of
sources and methods (and more), would have
to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would
blame the White House for lack of
transparency. Told them to re-do and send back
in proper form!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2018
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 BREAKING: House Intel
Democrats Release Nunes Counter-Memo
By Joshua Caplan
February 24, 2018, 3:46 Pm

On Saturday, Democratic members of

the House Intelligence Committee
released their rebuttal to the Nunes
memo. The counter-memo claims “FBI
and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’ the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) process, omit material
information, or subvert this vital tool to
spy on the Trump campaign.”

Below are the memo’s key findings followed by the memo

itself.

Via Zerohedge:

1. The Steele Dossier was not the catalyst for

The counter-memo was released as Rep. Devin Nunes (R- launching the Trump-Russia probe
CA) was speaking at CPAC. 2. The rationale for surveilling Carter Page was
carefully weighed.
3. The Nunes memo used classified information
selectively and included distortions and
misrepresentations
4. Papadopoulos’ role as the original catalyst for
the Trump-Russia investigation outlined.
5. DOJ’s FISA application was carefully vetted
and wasn’t used to spy on Trump or his
campaign
6. Steele’s information about Page’s contacts
with Kremlin insiders like Sechin was
consistent with Papadopoulos information
7. DOJ was transparent with the court about
Steele’s role and why he had reliable
information
8. Nunes memo’s references to Ohr are
misleading and the Strzok/Page texts are
irrelevant

Some more details: as part of “correcting the record”, the

HPSCI democrats claim that:

 Christopher Steele’s raw intelligence

reporting did not inform the FBI’s
decision to initiate its counterintelligence
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 investigation in late July 2016. In fact, the
FBI’s closely-held investigative team only
received Steele’s reporting in mid-September
– more than seven weeks later. The FBI –
and, subsequently, the Special Counsel’s –
investigation into links between the Russian
government and Trump campaign
associates has been based on troubling
law enforcement and intelligence
information unrelated to the “dossier.”
 DOJ’s October 21, 2016 FISA application
and three subsequent renewals carefully Rep. Adam Schiff’s statement on releasing Democratic
outlined for the Court a multi-pronged memo:
rationale for surveilling Page, who, at the
time of the first application, was no longer “The Democratic response memo released
with the Trump campaign. DOJ detailed today should put to rest any concerns that
Page’s past relationships with Russian spies the American people might have as to the
and interaction with Russian officials during conduct of the FBI, the Justice Department
the 2016 campaign [REDACTED]. DOJ cited and the FISC.”
multiple sources to support the case for
surveilling Page — but made only narrow use
of information from Steele’s sources about
Page’s specific activities in 2016, chiefly his
suspected July 2016 meetings in Moscow
with Russian officials.[REDACTED] In
fact, the FBI interviewed Page in March
2016 about his contact with Russian
intelligence, the very month candidate
Donald Trump named him a foreign policy
advisor.

The White House issued the following statement after the

counter-memo’s release:

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 Press Release
Nunes Statement on Release of Democrat Memo
Washington, February 24, 2018

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following

statement today on the release of the Committee minority’s memo:

“The American people now clearly understand that

the FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic
Party to spy on an American citizen from the
Republican Party. Furthermore, the FISA court was
misled about Mr. Page’s past interactions with the
FBI in which he helped build a case against Russian
operatives in America who were brought to justice.
It defies belief that the Department of Justice and
FBI failed to provide information to a secret court
that they had provided to an open federal court
regarding their past interactions with Mr. Page.”
The Democrat memo, starts on the next page, Key Points On The Democrats’ Memo on page xxx, & A Point
By Point Refutation On page xxx

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 Chairman Nunes CRUSHES
Schiff’s Memo With Point By Point Refutation
By Cristina Laila
February 24, 2018, 4:26 Pm

On Saturday, Democratic members of House Intel Committee Chairman Nunes responded to the
the House Intelligence Dem spin memo on Saturday in an official statement
Committee released their rebuttal to the (screenshot below):
Nunes memo. The counter-memo claims
“FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) process, omit material
information, or subvert this vital tool to
spy on the Trump campaign.”

Nunes also refuted the Dem memo point by point with a 5

page response via the House Intelligence site. (screenshot
below):
Lights out Adam Schiff!

Some of the key points in the Dem spin memo

via Zerohedge:

1. The Steele Dossier was not the catalyst for launching

the Trump-Russia probe
2. The rationale for surveilling Carter Page was carefully
weighed.
3. The Nunes memo used classified information
selectively and included distortions and
misrepresentations
4. Papadopoulos’ role as the original catalyst for the
Trump-Russia investigation outlined.
5. DOJ’s FISA application was carefully vetted and wasn’t
used to spy on Trump or his campaign
6. Steele’s information about Page’s contacts with
Kremlin insiders like Sechin was consistent with
Papadopoulos information
7. DOJ was transparent with the court about Steele’s role
and why he had reliable information
8. Nunes memo’s references to Ohr are misleading and
the Strzok/Page texts are irrelevant.

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 Nunes Statement on Release of Democrat
Memo with point by point refutation.
https://t.co/JjXyslktSz pic.twitter.com/P7
UaGEQVsE
— Nick Short �� (@PoliticalShort) February
24, 2018

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 Israeli Organization Issues Half-Shekel Commemorative
Coin Celebrating Trump’s Decision To Recognize
Jerusalem As The Capitol
By Jim Hoft
February 24, 2018, 6:59 Pm
An Isreali organization has issued a
half-shekel coin to commemorate
President Donald Trump’s historic
decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
Capitol of Israel.
The coin features profiles of President
Trump and Cyrus the Great who
commissioned the rebuilding of the
Temple in Jerusalem.
Israel National News reported:
Temple organizations have issued a half-
shekel coin, the likes of which the Torah
mandates every Jewish male must donate
to the Temple, with a weight of 9.5 grams
in real silver.
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On the facade of the coin is a picture of the
Temple with the inscription “Half Shekel.”
On the other side is the figure of US
President Donald Trump, alongside Cyrus,
King of Persia, who made the building of
the Second Temple possible. Below them
is the inscription, “Cyrus – Balfour – Trump
– Declaration 2018.”
The producers of the coin say that it is in
high demand abroad. Prof. Hillel Weiss,
Chairman of the organization “Hamikdash
Betzion” (The Temple in Zion), says that
the motivation to embed the image of the
President of the United States on the coin
is gratitude for his support of Israel and
especially for the recognition of our
sovereignty over Jerusalem.. “This is a
historic act for which the Jewish people is
grateful,” says Weiss, who believes that the
declaration sets off a process at the height
of which the Temple will be rebuilt.
On the other hand, warns Weiss, the coin
is a reminder of what happened to those
benevolent kingdoms when they turned
back from their great declarations.
The Mikdash Center offers the coins for every donation of
at least $50.
 Adam Schiff Goes Into Spin Mode
After POTUS Trump Slams Dem Junk Memo
By Cristina Laila
February 24, 2018, 7:14 Pm

On Saturday, Democratic members of

the House Intelligence
Committee released their rebuttal to the
Nunes memo. The counter-memo claims
“FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) process, omit material
information, or subvert this vital tool to
spy on the Trump campaign.”

President Trump immediately slammed Schiff’s spin POTUS then tweeted,

memo from his Twitter account.
“Dem memo: FBI did not disclose who the
Adam Schiff just couldn’t help himself and responded to clients were – the Clinton Campaign and
President Trump with more lies. the DNC, Wow!”

POTUS then hammered Schiff and called him a phony.

President Trump called the Dem memo a ‘total political

and legal BUST’.

Trump:
“The Democrat memo response on
government surveillance abuses is a total
political and legal BUST. Just confirms all
of the terrible things that were done. SO
ILLEGAL!
Adam Schiff responded to President Trump shortly after
his mini tweetstorm and once again spread lies about
Papadopoulos’ April 2016 conversation about Hillary’s
emails. Papadopoulos had a conversation with a Russian
about Hillary’s ‘missing’ emails way before the Podesta
emails were given to Wikileaks.

Papadopoulos was referring to Hillary Clinton’s ‘missing’

emails, not Podesta’s campaign emails. Schiff always
conflates the two in order to spread misinformation.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called Schiff out
about these lies before.
Schiff tweeted,
“Wrong again, Mr. President. It confirms
the FBI acted appropriately and that
Russian agents approached two of your
advisors, and informed your campaign that
Russia was prepared to help you by
disseminating stolen Clinton emails.”
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Chairman Nunes also lit up Adam Schiff after the junk
memo was released.
Nunes crushed Schiff’s memo with a 5 page, point by
point refutation.
To this date, the FBI has not inspected the DNC’s servers
nor have they interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange.
Assange has said many times the Russians DID NOT give
him the Podesta emails, yet the Democrats continue to
push the lie without providing evidence.
 Devastating! Trump BLASTS Adam Schiff
For Leaking Testimony To Reporters:
“It’s Probably Illegal – He’s A Bad Guy” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 24, 2018, 9:16 Pm

President Donald Trump joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on
Saturday night by phone.
Well all you do is you see this Adam Schiff
he has a meeting and he leaves the
meeting and he calls up reporters and all of
the sudden they have news and you’re not
supposed to do that. And it’s probably
illegal to do it. You know he’ll have a
committee meeting and he’ll leak all sorts
of information. You know, he’s a bad guy.

Via Judge Jeanine:

President Trump started off the interview discussing the

Democrat nothing-burger memo that was released on
Saturday.

President Trump BLASTED Democrat Adam Schiff

accusing him of illegal activity:

President Donald Trump:

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 Catherine Herridge: House Dem Intel Memo Contradicts
Corrupt Former FBI Director James Comey Testimony
(Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 25, 2018, 7:00 Am

Yesterday the Democrats on the

Intelligence Committee released their
FISA memo. It includes
many contradictions, including going
against what former FBI Director James
Comey testified under oath.

The Democrats’ FISA memo claims multiple sources

corroborated elements of the anti-Trump Steele dossier;
Catherine Herridge reported at FOX News that the
Democratic memo in the least appears to contradict
testimony of James Comey.
Herridge’s piece was longer than the piece noted above. In
the below tweet, FOX news gives more than 7 minutes in
her analysis and rebuttal of the phoney Democrat FISA
Memo.
.
The Democrats have made so many lies
it is now impossible to keep them all in
order. The dike is beginning to crumble.
Now all we need is an AG who will bring
a barrage of justice on the entire Obama
– Clinton cabal.

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 Schiff: Dems' FISA Memo
Undercuts Trump 'Deep State' Claims
By Bridget Johnson
February 25, 2018
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.) speaks to the media after interviewing former White House
strategist Steve Bannon on Feb. 15, 2018, on Capitol Hill in
Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON -- House Intelligence Committee
Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said a day after
the weekend drop of the Dems' memo countering
Chairman Devin Nunes' (R-Calif.) staff that his document
underscores that the FBI is "not part of some deep state, as
the president apparently would like the public to believe."
The memo prepared by aides for Nunes stated that October
2016 FISA application to the court to monitor campaign
advisor Carter Page, as well as "any of the renewals,"
didn't "disclose or reference the role of the DNC" or
"any party/campaign in funding Steele's
efforts, even though the political origins of
the Steele dossier were then known to
senior DOJ and FBI officials."
After President Trump initially blocked the document, the
memo was cleared for release after House Intelligence
Democrats and the FBI agreed to certain redactions in a
classification review instead of a declassification request.
The Democrats' memo states that FBI and DOJ officials
"did not 'abuse' the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit
material information, or subvert this vital
tool to spy on the Trump campaign."
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"Christopher Steele's raw intelligence
reporting did not inform the FBI's decision
to initiate its counterintelligence
investigation in late July 2016. In fact, the
FBI's closely held investigative team only
received Steele's reporting in mid-
September -- more than seven weeks later.
The FBI -- and, subsequently, the Special
Counsel's -- investigation into links
between the Russian government and
Trump campaign associates has been
based on troubling law enforcement and
intelligence information unrelated to the
'dossier,'" says the Dems' memo.
The FISA applications laid out "a multi-pronged rationale"
for surveilling Page based on his "past relationships with
Russian spies and interaction with Russian officials during
the 2016 campaign" and "made only narrow use of
information from Steele's sources about Page's specific
activities in 2016, chiefly his suspected July 2016 meetings
in Moscow with Russian officials." Page was interviewed
in March 2016, the same month Trump named Page a
foreign policy advisor, about Page's "contact with Russian
intelligence."
The DOJ's FISA applications did not include the Steele
dossier's "salacious" allegations and "the FBI never paid
Steele for this reporting" but paid him for earlier work as a
confidential human source unrelated to the Russia
investigation, the memo continues.
DOJ disclosed Steele's prior relationship
with the FBI, "the fact of and reason for his
termination as a source, and the assessed
political motivation of those who hired him,"
the memo adds, quoting a DOJ disclosure
to the court that said "the FBI speculates"
the person who hired Steele "was likely
looking for information that could be used
to discredit Candidate #1's campaign."
"The Committee Majority's memorandum,
which draws selectively on highly sensitive
classified information, includes other
distortions and misrepresentations that are
 contradicted by the underlying classified
documents, which the vast majority of
members of the committee and the House
have not had the opportunity to review --
and which Chairman Nunes chose not to
read himself," says the Dems' memo.
At the time of the GOP memo release, Nunes said he had
not viewed the classified documents behind the memo.
Schiff had viewed them along with Intelligence Committee
member Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).
The Dems' memo said the FBI counterintelligence
investigation began after receiving information from
George Papadopoulos "that individuals linked to Russia,
who took interest in Papadopoulos as a Trump campaign
foreign policy adviser, informed him in late April 2016
that Russia" -- the rest is redacted.
"Papadopoulos's disclosure, moreover,
occurred against the backdrop of Russia's
aggressive covert campaign to influence
our elections, which the FBI was already
monitoring."
Steele's first disclosures to the FBI happened more than
seven weeks after the FBI opened its investigation, when
"the FBI had already opened sub-inquiries
into [redacted] individuals linked to the
Trump campaign." Name(s) in addition to
Page are redacted from the memo. "As
Committee testimony bears out, the FBI
would have continued its investigation,
including against [redacted] individuals,
even if it had never received information
from Steele, never applied for a FISA
warrant against Page, or if the FISC had
rejected the application." The memo adds
that "FISA was not used to spy on Trump
or his campaign."
The Dems' documents stresses that the FBI
"had an independent basis for investigating
Page's motivations and actions during the
campaign, transition, and following the
inauguration"; many of the details on
Page's activities are redacted.
The Nunes staff memo said Steele told then-Associate
Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr in September 2016
that the former MI6 spy
"was desperate that Donald Trump not get
elected and was passionate about him not
being president." That memo claimed the
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FISA applications left out "clear evidence of
Steele's bias ... recorded by Ohr" in the
conversation a few months after Steele told
Simpson potential evidence of Trump
campaign wrongdoing led him to disclose
his investigation's findings to the FBI. Ohr's
wife, the Nunes staff memo adds, worked
for Fusion GPS at the time, and "Ohr later
provided the FBI with all of his wife's
opposition research."
The GOP memo says that was not included in the FISA
application.
The Dems' memo said Ohr,
"whose portfolio is drugs and organized
crime, not counterintelligence" with "no
evidence that he would have known about
the Page FISA applications and their
contents," told the FBI about his
interactions with Steele in late November
2016 -- "including Steele's concern about
Trump being compromised by Russia" --
and described his wife's contract work with
Fusion GPS "weeks after the election and
more than a month after the court approved
the initial FISA application," when the FBI
"had already terminated Steele as a source
and was independently corroborating
Steele's reporting about Page's activities."
On CNN today, Schiff said he was
"not surprised, frankly, that the White
House tried to bury this memo response as
long as they could."
"But it's important for the public to see the
facts, that the FBI acted appropriately in
seeking a warrant on Carter Page," he
added.
Nunes charged during an appearance at the Conservative
Political Action Conference this past week that there is
“clear evidence that the Democrats are not
only trying to cover this up, but they’re also
colluding with parts of the government to
cover this up.”
"What you basically will read in the
Democratic memo is that they are
advocating that it's OK for the FBI and DOJ
to use political dirt paid for by one
campaign and use it against the other
campaign," he said.
Schiff said Sunday that
"this is the first time the Republicans have
ever taken an issue with any FISA
application," and "I don't think it's a
.
coincidence that it serves the president's
interests to do so here."
"But the FBI acted appropriately,"the
ranking Democrat said.

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 President Trump And Judge Jeanine
Take A Jab At AG Sessions – The Absent AG (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 25, 2018, 7:36 Am

Judge Janine:

I have a feeling I know who it is Mr.

President.

Via Judge Jeanine:

President Donald Trump joined Judge

Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night by
phone. What he and Judge Janine
didn’t say is the hottest news item in the
incredibly newsworthy interview.

President Trump started off the interview discussing the

Democrat nothing-burger memo that was released on
Saturday. As noted last night by TGP, then President
Trump BLASTED Democrat Adam Schiff accusing him
of illegal activity: Both the President and Judge
Janine were referring to AG
President Donald Trump: Jeff Sessions, of course.

Well all you do is you see this Adam Schiff
he has a meeting and he leaves the
meeting and he calls up reporters and all of
the sudden they have news and you’re not
supposed to do that. And it’s probably
illegal to do it. You know he’ll have a
committee meeting and he’ll leak all sorts
of information. You know, he’s a bad guy.
But the kicker in the entire interview is
what President Trump and Judge Janine
didn’t say –
President Donald Trump:
A lot of bad things happened on the other
side, not on this side but on the other
side, and someone should look into it
because what they did is really fraudulent,
and somebody should be looking into that.
And, by somebody, I’m talking about you
know who.
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AG Sessions has been missing in action his entire time
overseeing the Justice Department for the US
Government. He recused himself from anything Russia
and has done nothing to bring justice to the individuals
involved in the Obama – Clinton Administration who
committed numerous crimes. He is responsible for the
sham Mueller investigation.
Hillary’s email investigation was an entire fraud. The
players in the investigation who committed criminal acts
by lying to the FISA Court, hiding information, destroying
information, and more, are still employed and being paid
by US taxpayers. The DOJ and FBI continue to stall and
refuse to cooperate with Congressional oversight
investigations and when they finally do, they redact so
much that the information is illegible.
In November we at TGP referred to AG
Sessions as the greatest traitor to our
country since Benedict Arnold. Looks
like the President and Judge Janine
agree.
 Tom Fitton Unleashes On Schiff, Mueller And FBI
Corruption After Dem Memo Released (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 25, 2018, 2:05 Pm
President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton
unleashed on Adam Schiff, Mueller and
Deep State corruption after the Dem
junk memo was released Saturday.
On Saturday, Democrat members of the
House Intelligence Committee released
their rebuttal to the Nunes memo. The
counter-memo claims “FBI and DOJ
officials did not ‘abuse’ the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
process, omit material information, or
subvert this vital tool to spy on the
Trump campaign.”
Chairman Nunes immediately released a point by point
refutation, absolutely crushing Adam Schiff’s counter-
memo.
Among some of the points made in Schiff’s memo is
Hillary’s dossier was not the catalyst for launching the
Trump-Russia witch hunt, rather it was Papadopoulos’
drunk banter in a London pub.
Of course we know this is complete rubbish.
Tom Fitton was furious on Saturday and unleashed on
Schiff and corrupt FBI, DOJ officials.
“There’s no way Schiff can answer these
charges. He’s compromised as far as I’m
concerned when he continues to issue
misleading reports about what went on and
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to suggest that the court was fully apprised
that the Clinton campaign was behind an
application to spy on a Trump advisor,”
Fitton said.
“The cornerstone of the Nunes document is
without the dossier there would be no
surveillance warrant of the Trump team.
The Democrats don’t answer that. In fact
Andrew McCabe testified according to the
Nunes memo, no dossier, no FISA
warrant–this memo doesn’t answer
that,”Fitton continued.
Fitton pointed out how ridiculous it is that the FBI used the
dossier to get a FISA warrant on former Trump advisor
Carter Page after he had already been on their radar for
years.
Carter Page was cooperating with the FBI in 2013 to help
bust a Russian spy ring, yet the Democrat memo is
painting him as a spy.
“[The dossier] minimally corroborated
material and it showed Russian intelligence
was going through the Clinton campaign to
try to spread dirt about then-candidate
Trump and rather than protect him, they
used it as a pretext to go to the FISA
court,” Fitton said.
Fitton concluded, no dossier, no Special Counsel and Mr.
Mueller needs to explain why it is, because reports are he’s
still using this dossier to target Trump.
VIDEO:
 Kim Dotcom Goes Scorched Earth On Obama,
Hillary And The Deep State For Destroying
Civil Liberties In The United States
By Joshua Caplan
February 25, 2018, 6:40 Pm

On Sunday, Internet entrepreneur Kim

Dotcom accused former president
Barack Obama, ex-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and the Deep State of
bankrupting the U.S. of its civil
liberties.

“Only dumb people cheer for

@BarackObama & @HillaryClinton. They
have destroyed your liberty. You’re living in
a surveillance state with secret courts.
Everything you do is recorded. The state
knows everything about you. One day it will
be used against you. Cheer some more,
dummy,” Dotcom added.

“The deep state favored a Clinton

presidency because CIA & NSA powers
massively expanded under Democrat
leadership. They had laxity and wanted to
maintain the status quo. The first black
President did more harm to your rights than
any other President, and he did it with a
smile,” tweeted Dotcom. On Saturday, Dotcom said he believes the Deep State is a
larger foe to the American people than Russia and China.

“The biggest enemy of the US isn’t Russia,

China or Trumps effort to have good
relations with them. Your biggest enemy is
a deep state that profits from conflict. CIA
is a business. Every war, terror attack and
crisis means more money for them. So they
cause war, terror and crisis,” the internet
entrepreneur tweeted.

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 “Every Hollywood movie about heroic spies
& soldiers & the fantastic US military had
CIA support either via direct funding, tax
incentives or access to US military
machinery. Hollywood is a CIA propaganda
tool to brainwash the world into thinking the
US Govt is righteous. It’s not,” he added.
Kim Dot.Com: “I KNOW THAT SETH
RICH WAS INVOLVED IN THE DNC
LEAK.”
He admitted earlier that month that he was part of an
operation along with Seth Rich to get stolen DNC emails
to WikiLeaks.

In late May, Kim Dotcom shared that he was willing to

Dotcom made international headlines last May after come to the US and give testimony if it is required.
claiming that Democratic National Committee employee,
Seth Rich, was involved in the leaked emails released by
WikiLeaks.

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 Nunes Says Dems’ Memo Defends
‘Dirty Dossier With Their Own Dirty Dossier’
House Intelligence Panel Chairman Blasts Democrats' Rebuttal Defending
FBI's Use Of Partisan-Paid, Anti-Trump Opposition Research
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 26 Feb 2018 At 11:00 AM
Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence used their own “dirty dossier” to defend
another “dirty dossier” — by releasing their rebuttal to a
four-page Republican summary of classified information
in the Russia collusion scandal, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-
Calif.) said Sunday.
Nunes, chairman of the intelligence panel, said,
“The American people now clearly
understand that the FBI used political dirt
paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on
an American citizen from the Republican
Party.”
Democrats
“knew what they had to redact” and they
“didn’t want this out,” Nunes said. “That’s
why we wanted it out and they didn’t
because it bolsters the case that we made
… that the court wasn’t notified that the
Clinton campaign and the Democrats paid
for this dirt that ended up being phony. Just
to sum up, this is almost like you have
people defending the dirty dossier with their
own dirty dossier.”
Nunes was referring to a controversial compilation of
unfounded allegations about President Donald Trump and
his relationships with Russian business interests that was
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compiled by former British spy and FBI asset Christopher
Steele. The compilation is more popularly known as the
Steele dossier.
Steele did his work for the Fusion GPS opposition research
group and was funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and
the Democratic National Committee, which she controlled
as the party's 2016 presidential nominee.
Department of Justice and FBI officials used the Steele
dossier to justify seeking approval from the secret U.S.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court of
official spying on a volunteer Trump campaign adviser,
Carter Page. They did not specifically tell the court that
both Clinton and the DNC paid for the document.
Nunes and other intelligence panel Republicans contended
in their summary that the FISA court was purposely not
told who paid for the Steele dossier. That's because Clinton
supporters in the government were using it to justify
spying on Trump and his associates in their efforts to
ensure Clinton would be elected in November 2016.
Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the
intelligence panel's ranking Democrat, composed a
response to the GOP summary. But its release in a redacted
version was delayed until Saturday because it revealed
U.S. intelligence "sources and methods" that could
compromise U.S. national security interests.
The Democrats' document sought to justify the
government's actions in seeking the FISA court approval
and to provide a wider context without fully denying the
GOP allegations.
"In fact, DOJ and the FBI would have been
remiss in their duty to protect the country
had they not sought a FISA warrant and
repeated renewals to conduct temporary
surveillance of Carter Page, someone the
FBI assessed to be an agent of the
Russian government," the Democrats'
memo said.
 partisan opposition research from one
candidate, loaded with uncorroborated
allegations, as a basis to ask a court to
approve surveillance of a former associate
of another candidate, at the height of a
presidential campaign," Sanders said.

Trump himself took to Twitter Saturday to blast the memo,

saying,

"The Democrat memo response on

Because surveillance warrant requests must be renewed government surveillance abuses is a total
every 90 days, the Democrats argued that the Steele political and legal BUST. Just confirms all
dossier provided a justifiable basis in the FBI's renewal of the terrible things that were done. SO
requests. ILLEGAL!"

"The Democratic response memo released Trump added,

today should put to rest any concerns that
the American people might have as to the
"Dem Memo: FBI did not disclose who the
conduct of the FBI, the Justice Department
clients were — the Clinton Campaign and
and the FISC [Foreign Intelligence
the DNC. Wow!"
Surveillance Court]," Schiff said Sunday.
"Our extensive review of the initial
[surveillance] application and three
subsequent renewals failed to uncover any
evidence of illegal, unethical, or
unprofessional behavior by law
enforcement and instead revealed that both
the FBI and DOJ made extensive showings
to justify all four requests," Schiff added.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a

statement that Trump supported the release of the
Democrat memo even though they used it "to undercut the
president politically."

"This politically driven document fails to

answer serious concerns raised by the
majority's memorandum about the use of
.

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BUSTED: Anchor Releases Audio Proving Michael Wolff
Faked Earpiece Malfunction After Trump
Affair Question (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 25, 2018, 11:04 Pm

Michael Wolff, the author of ‘Fire and
Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’
walked off Australian television after
faking an earpiece malfunction when
pressed if he was “absolutely sure” that
President Trump was having an affair.
FORDHAM: “Last week, you backflipped
and said, ‘I do not know if the President is
having an affair.’ Do you owe the President
and the First Lady an apology, Mr. Wolff?”
WOLFF: “I can’t hear you. Hello?”
FORDHAM: “Just last month you said you
were absolutely sure that the President
was having an affair, and now you say he
is not.”
WOLFF: “I’m not getting anything.”
FORDHAM: “You are not hearing me, Mr.
Wolff? Mr. Wolff was hearing me before,
but he’s not hearing me anymore. So the
interview may be over.”

Later, Fordham released the audio of what Wolff heard in

his earpiece when the author claimed the anchor’s question
wasn’t coming through.

ORDHAM: “You said during a TV interview

last month that you are absolutely sure that
Donald Trump is currently having an affair,
while President, behind the back of the
Judging by the video, Wolff seemingly faked the earpiece
First Lady. I repeat, you said you were
malfunction.
absolutely sure.”
WOLFF: “Hold on, I can’t–”
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On February 1st, MSNBC’s Mike Brzezinski (no fan of
President Trump), kicked Wolff off the air after he denied
suggesting Trump was having an affair with U.N.
Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Daily Beast reported:

Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, the

controversial book about Trump’s first year
in office, denied he ever publicly suggested
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley had an affair
with the president.

To that denial, a disgusted Brzezinski replied:

“You might be having a fun time playing a

little game dancing around this, but you’re
slurring a woman. It’s disgraceful.”

When Wolff continued his denial, Brzezinski became

frustrated:

“Come on, are you kidding? You’re on the

set of Morning Joe. We don’t BS here.”

She then gave him the boot.

“I’m sorry, this is awkward, you’re here on

In a January interview, Wolff insinuated to HBO host Bill
the set with us, but we’re done. Michael
Maher that Trump’s was having an affair.
Wolff, thank you.” Mika told the camera,
“We’re gonna go to break now. Bye,
everyone,” and the show cut to
commercial.

Wolff went on a tweetstorm after the incident, claiming

Haley vehemently denied a charge she was never accused
of.

Vanity Fair reports:

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During an appearance on Real Time with Bill
Maher Friday, Wolff said that he’s “absolutely
sure” Donald Trump is currently having an extramarital
affair with someone inside the White House.
When Maher asked Wolff to tell him
According to POLITICO,
“something that the other people have not
noticed in this book,” Wolff said, “There is
something in the book that I was absolutely
sure of, but it was so incendiary that I just
didn’t have the ultimate proof.” He then
elaborated: “Well, I didn’t have the blue
dress.”
Maher asked if Wolff was talking about
somebody Trump is “f—ing now,” and Wolff
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nodded. “It is,” he said. “You just have to
read between the lines. It’s toward the end
of the book. . .You’ll know it. Now that I’ve
told you, when you hit that paragraph,
you’re gonna say, ‘Bingo.’”
“Readers quickly identified a passage in
which Wolff wrote that Haley “had become
a particular focus of Trump’s attention, and
he of hers” and another in which he wrote
“that [Haley], with requisite submission,
could be his heir apparent.”
 Rep. Devin Nunes: FISA Court Cannot Exist If
They Have “Secret” Operations “Against Political Enemies
By Lucian Wintrich
February 26, 2018, 12:45 Pm
During an appearance on the Fox Business program this
morning, Rep. Devin Nunes said that the FISA court
cannot continue to exist if it is able to be weaponized by
political parties against this opponents. This, of course,
comes after the Democratic National Committee was able
to plant the phony Steele Dossier with the FBI, and their
media contacts, which eventually lead to the infamous
Russia Investigation into Trump officials.
Mr. Nunes spoke firmly about the DNC’s weaponization
of the FBI and FISA Courts:
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“We can’t have a secret court operate like
this in America where they’re going to take
and use it against political enemies. Where
one political party can use it against
another. It’s not going to work if that’s going
to be the case.”
Rep. Devin Nunes authored the memo which went into
similar detail about the corruption between the DNC and
FBI which led to the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag on
Twitter and leaders across the country demanding its
unsealing. Nunes went on to say that during the campaign
for his memo’s release, Democrats began to leak
information regarding approval for release:
“We know for sure there were several
leaks. We think there’s about 100 leaks
from their side that leaked out to the media.
That’s roughly our count now,” Mr. Nunes
said.
 ‘Slew Of Subpoenas’ Coming
For State Department Officials, Nunes Warns
House Intel Committee Chair Blasts Mainstream Media For 'Ignoring' Questions For
Current, Former Top Employees About Anti-Trump Steele Dossier
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 26 Feb 2018 At 1:27 PM
High-ranking State Department executives — those both
current and former — will be “hauled into Congress” next
week to “answer publicly” questions about the “salacious
and unverified” anti-Trump Steele dossier, according to
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in an appearance on “The
Laura Ingraham Show.”
“A week ago we sent a letter with a
questionnaire to high-ranking former
Obama and current Trump officials, asking
them 10 questions about when they knew
about the dossier, when they knew the
dossier was used, when they knew the
dossier was used to get a warrant to spy on
an American — all questions that the public
has a right to know and that the Congress
definitely has a right to know,” said Nunes,
who is chairman of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence.
“They have ’til Friday to respond to this
questionnaire. And what’s alarming is,
Laura, that the mainstream media — the
Democratic-controlled mainstream media
— is not reporting on this questionnaire,”
Nunes continued. “So I guess they’ll be
surprised when, you know, a week from
today when we have to issue a slew of
subpoenas if these people don’t answer.”
Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress last year
that the dossier compiled by former British spy
Christopher Steele contained “salacious and unverified”
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allegations about President Donald Trump’s personal
activities and business connections in Russia.
Nunes told Ingraham that “what happens here in the
Beltway” is that current and former State Department
officials mostly read The Washington Post and The New
York Times and watch CNN and MSNBC. They ignore
conservative outlets and those outlets outside the
mainstream.
“And they think, well, just because Devin
Nunes is being attacked and Devin Nunes
is being called a Trump stooge and I’m
being just constantly — it’s a character
assassination — that somehow they’re not
going to be subpoenaed and that they think
the press is going to cover for them,”
Nunes said.
“Well, I’ve got news for them — they are
going to get subpoenaed, and they are
going to answer publicly to all 10 questions
in that questionnaire,” Nunes continued.
“And the mainstream media can continue
to ignore it all they want, but at some point
the cameras will be on and all of these
people will be hauled into Congress to
answer the questions.”
Nunes said there is an "ongoing investigation" that has
entered phase two, focusing on the State Department and
its knowledge of the anti-Trump dossier. Nunes also
defended the release of the GOP committee members'
memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the FBI and its use
of the dossier to spy on Carter Page, a volunteer foreign-
policy adviser for the Trump campaign.
The Democrats released their rebuttal Friday in which they
defended the FBI's actions and minimized the role the
dossier played in obtaining surveillance warrants.
The committee chairman argued that it's a "total
obfuscation" for Democrats to claim that the dossier wasn't
used originally to obtain the first surveillance warrant.
"That's not the point. The point of our
memo was to say that the [Federal
Intelligence Surveillance Act] system was
abused," Nunes said. "Why? To find dirt on
the Trump campaign, [on] which they
struck out. They found none. So the fact
that the Democrats say that this was not
the start of the investigation is totally
irrelevant."
"Is it OK to open an investigation — a
counterintelligence investigation, no less —
using a secret court to go after a political
campaign? Is that ever OK? I think the
answer is no," Nunes said. "It shouldn't be
done in the FISA court."
Nunes argued that the FBI should have used an open court
with due process rather than the secret FISA court system.
He also insisted that the FBI should have been more up
front with the court and emphasized that the dossier had
been funded by Trump's political opponents during the
2016 presidential election.
"So even when they found this out, they
should have [gone] immediately back and
said, 'OK, we have a problem with Steele.
We also know that this was paid for by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee,'" Nunes said. "They
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didn't go back to the court and say that,
either."
"The FBI also knew that Steele desperately
did not want Donald Trump to win. Now,
this is all exculpatory evidence that has to
be presented to the [FISA] court," Nunes
added. "It's even more important that the
court be fully informed on every single
issue because Carter Page has nobody
there to defend him."
Attorney Solomon Wisenberg, the deputy independent
counsel for Kenneth Starr's Whitewater/Lewinsky
investigation surrounding former President Bill Clinton,
agreed with Nunes when he appeared on "The Laura
Ingraham Show" afterward.
"To me, it's very significant that [the FBI
was] using opposition research from the
opposition political party to get something
as serious as a FISA warrant, and you are
not making that absolutely clear to the
FISA court," Wisenberg said. "That should
have been done. That is still a reality. It's
not enough to say somebody who might
have wanted to harm the candidacy of
Trump did it. I think that's a key fact that
should have been divulged."
Wisenberg also noted that the Democrats didn't refute the
Republicans' claim in their memo citing former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's testimony about the
dossier's use.
"What McCabe testified was, 'We wouldn't
have gone to the FISA court if it hadn't
been for the Steele dossier,'" Wisenberg
said. "And I think that's of significance."
 Fire And Fraudulent: Michael Wolff Walks Off Set After
Interviewer Drops Bomb With 1 Tough Question
By Jonathan Pincus
February 26, 2018 At 1:53pm

Controversial columnist and author Michael Wolff

abruptly ended an interview with an Australian talk show
Sunday morning.

The author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White

House” walked off the set of “The Today Show” after
being questioned about his claims that President Donald
Trump is having an affair.

“You said during a TV interview just last

month that you are ‘absolutely sure’ that
Donald Trump is currently having an affair
while president behind the back of the first “I can’t hear you,” Wolff said, before jostling
lady, and I repeat you said you were with his earpiece.
‘absolutely sure,'” host Ben Fordham
posited during the segment. Fordham then repeated his question, again to no avail.

He continued: Wolff asked for a crew member’s assistance while

“Just last week, however, you back-flipped
and said I quote, ‘I do not know if the
president is having an affair.’ Do you owe
the president and the first lady an apology,
Mr. Wolff?”
As can be seen in the clip below, Wolff didn’t answer the
question. Instead, he claimed he couldn’t hear Fordham.
However, as noted by Business Insider, the interview had
been going smoothly for roughly five minutes prior to the
incident occurring.
Fordham continued to ask the author if he could hear him.
“No, I’m not getting anything,” Wolff replied.
The “Fire and Fury” author then removed
his earpiece and exited the set while a
perplexed Fordham looked on.
“It looks like the interview may be over,”
Fordham said.
The talk show’s official Twitter account posted a video a
short while later of footage from the U.K. studio where
Wolff was speaking during the interview. The footage
revealed that audio coming from the Australia studio was
completely intact and clear, contrary to Wolff’s claims that
the audio was interrupted.

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 Wisenberg Assails Media
Exaggeration Of Latest Manafort, Gates Troubles
Former Whitewater/Lewinsky Deputy Counsel Says These 'Might Be
Important, But On The Face Of It You Certainly Can’t Say That'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 26 Feb 2018 At 2:47 PM

the 2016 presidential election against

former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Wisenberg — the former deputy independent counsel in

the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation of former
President Bill Clinton — noted Monday that many media
outlets shamelessly speculated over what implications
Friday’s news had for Mueller’s investigation into Russia
and President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“I heard a lot of stuff over the weekend

from some networks that are not Fox
[News] where people were making this out
to be enormously significant. And you just
Liberal journalists “certainly can’t say” new charges
can’t say that on the record here,”
against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by his former
Wisenberg said. “What this is, is a relatively
business associate Rick Gates are “very important,”
garden-variety kind of charge. These are
attorney Solomon Wisenberg said Monday on “The Laura
tax fraud charges, bank fraud charges.”
Ingraham Show.”
Wisenberg said the Manafort and Gates charges amounted
“There’s nothing unusual about this, these
together to a conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
kinds of charges,” Wisenberg told host
Laura Ingraham. “Now this is a big case
against Manafort and Gates. But these “But it’s conspiracy to defraud the United
kinds of charges — the conspiracy to States by interfering with the lawful
defraud the U.S. — they’re brought every governmental functions of primarily the
day by prosecutors, federal prosecutors IRS,” Wisenberg said. “So that’s a bunch of
throughout the country.” legal gobbledygook.”

Manafort and Gates were indicted last October in Wisenberg said the “key takeaway” here is that Mueller’s
connection with their business dealings with Ukrainian team is investigating things “that have nothing to do with
officials connected with Russia. Manafort received a new Mueller’s original reason for being in his original charter.”
set of charges Friday related to making false statements,
being an unregistered foreign agent, conspiracy, and
money-laundering. Gates struck a deal with special
counsel Robert Mueller that was also announced Friday.

“It might be very important, but on the face

of it you certainly can’t say that,”
Wisenberg said of Mueller’s latest actions
in his investigation of allegations that
President Donald Trump’s campaign
colluded with Russian business and
government interests to rig the outcome of
Ingraham pointed to the heightened media speculation over
what these new charges and deals could mean for key
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Trump administration officials such as senior adviser Jared
Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
"Well, it's all utterly speculative," Wisenberg
said. "So here's the real question: Does
Manafort really have any dirt on people in
the Trump campaign, on the president, on
Don Jr., on Jared Kushner? Does he have
it?"
"Is he going to fight, or is he gonna plead
guilty? Because he, too, could get
tremendous benefit by pleading guilty and
cooperating," Wisenberg continued. "But
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we have no idea if there was any criminal
conspiracy collusion and, if so, if Manafort
knew about it."
Gates received a "great deal" that significantly pertains to
Manafort, Wisenberg argued, because
"even though [Mueller's case] looked like a
strong paper case, now we've got an
insider who can say, 'We did these things
and I did these things with Paul.'"
"So it's significant for Manafort," Wisenberg
said.
 Sarah Sanders Flew Half Way Round The World, Held A
Surprise Briefing And Still Found Time To Give
NBC A Wedgie (VIDEO)
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
3:53 PM 02/26/2018

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders snuck in a shot

at NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander
at Monday’s briefing, despite the fact that Alexander
wasn’t even in the room.

WATCH:

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during the daily
briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on February
26, 2018 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Sanders flew back into Washington, D.C. Monday

“I’m dissapointed that Peter didn’t make it,”
Sanders said with a grin on her face after
calling on NBC’s Hallie Jackson. “We were
on the same travel schedule.”
“You should give him a hard time for that.”
afternoon after attending the final few days of the 2018
Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea
with Ivanka Trump.
The White House did not have a briefing originally
scheduled for Monday, and it was not announced that
Sanders would be taking questions until shortly before the
briefing.

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 SDSU Offers Course On Removing Trump From Office
Celine Ryan And Brandon Jones Campus Reform Reporter
Feb 26, 2018 At 9:06 PM EDT
 San Diego State University is offering a one-
credit course next month dedicated exclusively
to the topic of removing Donald Trump from
office.
 The only required reading for the course is a
book called "The Case for Impeachment,"
though the course description indicates that
the class will also explore the possibility of
removal under the 25th Amendment.
San Diego State University is offering a course dedicated
exclusively to the topic of removing Donald Trump from
office.
The one-unit course--“Trump: Impeachment, Removal,
or Conviction?”--will be offered in March and is set to be
taught by Professor John Joseph Cleary. The required text
for the course is Allan Lichtman's The Case for
Impeachment, a book published in response to Donald
Trump’s election that advocates for the President’s
removal from office.
“Focus will be on the two constitutional
grounds: impeachment and removal (25th
Amendment), and the possible charges of
.
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the independent counsel, the powers of the
president,” and “a history of the creation of
[the presidency] and the comparison of
divine right and rule of law leadership.”
The curriculum will also address
“grounds for impeachment, removal, or
indictment,” such as “conflict of interests,
foreign emoluments, climate change,
racism, religious bias, improper influence,
nepotism, and a host of crimes, including
conspiracy, false statements, and
obstruction of justice.”
The course will be offered through SDSU’s Criminal
Justice program which is a part of the school’s College of
Professional Studies and Fine Arts.
The course was one of four one-credit courses featured in
an email sent to students Monday, which advertised them
as a way to get the last credit necessary for a degree for
just $221. The courses do, however, require students to
attend two marathon 15-hour class sessions spaced roughly
one week apart.
Prof. Cleary did not immediately respond to Campus
Reform's request for comment. This article will be updated
if and when a reply is received.
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 Why Is CNN’s Approval Rating For Trump 15 Points
Lower Than Rasmussen’s?
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
9:09 PM 02/26/2018
 CNN claims 35 percent of American adults approve
of how Trump is performing
 Rasmussen Reports found 49 percent of
respondents approve of the president
 Some information could call CNN poll’s results into
question
CNN is skewing polling data to show the majority of
Americans disapprove of the way President Donald Trump
is handling the presidency.
The network published a poll Sunday that claims 35
percent of American adults approve of how Trump is
performing as president. Those results are in stark contrast
to a Monday Rasmussen Reports poll that found 49 percent
of respondents approved of how the president is managing
the White House.
What accounts for a roughly 15 percentage point disparity?
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a full copy of
CNN’s poll, which was conducted in conjunction with
SSRS, a survey and market research firm. The
data include a breakdown of respondents by age, party
affiliation, income and other demographic factors. It also
includes the methodologies used in conducting the poll,
although some information is missing, like how
CNN/SSRS chose to sample respondents.
After a review of the CNN data and methodologies,
TheDCNF found a number of factors that could account
for the 15 percentage point disparity between CNN’s and
Rasmussen’s results.
Oversampling Democrats And
Independents
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CNN polled a total of 1,016 adults from Feb. 20-23
nationwide and had respondents self-identify their political
affiliations. Thirty-three percent of respondents identified
as Democrats, 44 percent as Independent or members of
another party and 23 percent as Republicans.
The spread of political ideology could be a problem here,
because it might not be an accurate representation of how
U.S. adults would describe themselves politically. Looking
at the most recent Gallup polling on how Americans self-
identify politically, CNN’s figures are off as much as 14
percentage points for Republican representation.
Forty-four percent of U.S. adults self-identify as Democrat
or independents who lean Democrat, according to a
December 2017 Gallup poll. Roughly 37 percent of Gallup
respondents self-identified as Republicans.
Polling All Adults Versus ‘Likely Voters’
CNN polled the opinions of “adults,” ages 18 and up,
however, Rasmussen polled “likely voters.” Choosing one
method or the other can lead to different results.
Polling “adults” includes a significant number of
respondents in a given sample that either rarely or never
vote. Adults that are not politically active, or rarely
politically active, are less likely to follow public policy
debates as closely as those who are committed voters.
Using “likely voters,” some argue, like Kyle Kondik,
managing editor of “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” is a better
barometer for measuring presidential approval ratings.
“If I were to start doing a poll of presidential
approval, I personally would do registered
voters,” Kondik told TheDCNF in July 2017.
“If you’re looking specifically at trying to
figure out the electoral effects, you’re
probably better off doing registered voters
or likely voters.”
Historically, national polling houses use “adults” rather
than “likely voters” when polling presidential approval.
For example, Gallup polled Trump’s approval rating using
“adults” instead of “likely voters” from January 2017 to
July 2017. Gallup’s approval rating was consistently below
Rasmussen’s results, sometimes as much as 11 percentage
points.
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Reuters polled both “adults” and “likely voters” on their
approval of the president since Trump took office in
January 2017 and the results exhibit the same pattern.
Respondents who voted in the 2016 presidential election
cycle had more favorable views of the president than
respondents who chose not to vote, the news agency found.
Rasmussen, unlike CNN, also does polling on a rolling
basis, a factor the polling house argues makes their results
even more accurate. CNN polls Trump’s approval rating
every month, collecting data from respondents over a
three-day period and reports the findings.
“Our poll is ongoing. The presidential
tracking number that you see every
morning at 9:30, it is a rolling survey of
three nights,” Francis Coombs, managing
editor at Rasmussen, told TheDCNF. “That
is 500 likely U.S. voters, every night. You
tend to see continuity, or slow, incremental
ups and downs in the results.”
“These snapshots, like CNN does, where
they drop in and survey for a specific
period. You don’t see any context or
continuity. It really doesn’t give you a
measure of how the president is doing,
regardless of who is in office,” Coombs told
TheDCNF. “Polling American adults means
just anybody. Anybody who answers the
phone is included in CNN’s poll.”
Polling presidential approval in a snapshot manner can
also skew results, like following a national tragedy or big
news event.
Other Potential Errors
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CNN did not provide TheDCNF enough detail about how
they sampled respondents to provide an accurate critique
of their methods, but there is some information that could
call the poll’s results into question.
CNN and SSRS did not, independent or otherwise, respond
to multiple requests for comment regarding how they
chose to pick their random samples.
Here is everything TheDCNF was provided in terms of
methodology:
A total of 1,016 adults were interviewed by
telephone nationwide by live interviewers
calling both landline and cell phones.
Interviews were conducted in English and
Spanish. Interviews were conducted
February 20-23, 2018. Among the entire
sample, 33% described themselves as
Democrats, 23% described themselves as
Republicans, and 44% described
themselves as independents or members
of another party.
All respondents were asked questions concerning basic
demographics, and the entire sample was weighted to
reflect national Census figures for gender, race, age,
education, region of country, and telephone usage.
Results for the full sample have a margin of
sampling error of +/-3.7 percentage points.
For the sample of 909 registered voters, it
is +/-3.9 percentage points.
Crosstabs on the following pages only include results for
subgroups with enough unweighted cases to produce a
sampling error of +/-8.5 percentage points or less once
adjusted for design effect. Some subgroups represent too
small a share of the national population to produce
crosstabs with an acceptable sampling error. Interviews
were conducted among these subgroups, but results for
groups with a design-effect adjusted sampling error larger
than +/-8.5 percentage points are not displayed and instead
are denoted with “N/A.”
The CNN poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7
percentage points, which is nearly one percent higher than
a typical margin of error for a poll with a sample size of
1,000 and a 95 percent confidence interval. Typically, a
sample of a similar size with the same confidence interval
will have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage
points.
Other potential errors include the use of “live
interviewers.” If an interviewer’s intonation or inflection
was different, some of the results could be called into
question. Similar errors could stem from a question being
worded differently in an interview.
Another point of concern with having a live interviewer, as
opposed to a recorded, robotic interview like Rasmussen
uses, is that respondents might feel the need to curb their
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responses or lie. FiveThirtyEight has pointed out a number
of reasons using live interviewers can cause varying results
between polls.
CNN and SSRS did not respond to requests for comment
as to how they guarded against interviewer biases.
 House Intel Chair: DEMS Involved In Massive Cover-Up
Of Obama Admin Spying On Trump Campaign
Posted On February 26, 2018
Politically Incorrect: House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes accused his Democratic
counterparts of engaging in a massive cover-up of
improper spying on President Donald J. Trump’s campaign
by the Obama administration.
In an interview with The Daily Signal just moments after
panel Democrats released their own version of a “FISA
memo,” the California Republican said he was happy to
see it in public because it proves what the committee’s
investigation has shown all along: Obama-era corruption
within the Justice Department and FBI among senior
leaders.
Nunes also said the Democratic memo proves collusion
with elements of the FBI and DoJ to perpetuate the
unsubstantiated allegations that Trump and Russia worked
together to ‘steal’ the election from Hillary Clinton.
“We really wanted it out because it’s clear
evidence that the Democrats are trying to
actually not only collude, but they’re
colluding with a cover-up. And they’re
trying to cover up the fact that the
Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid
for dirt and it was used by the FBI,” Nunes
told the website after speaking at the
Conservative Political Action Conference.
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“It’s amazing they’re actually willing to write
a memo that actually says that—as if it’s
OK for that to happen. Because it’s simply
not OK,” he added.
Republicans released a memo earlier this month
documenting serial abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court by FBI and DoJ operatives who used an
unsubstantiated “Russia dossier” to obtain a surveillance
warrant for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
is how we go and track terrorists down,
which I’m in favor of and I want to do,”
Nunes said. “It’s critically important.
“But when they opened counterintelligence
investigation into a presidential campaign—
so you’re talking about the highest levels of
our government—it should scare the hell
out of a lot of people,” he added.
In remarks to CPAC attendees, Nunes explained why it
took so long for Democrats to put out their memo.
“The FBI and [Department of Justice] right
away had told the Democrats what was
wrong with their response to our memo.
And they waited for two weeks before they
actually did the redactions that were
necessary to get this out,” Nunes said at
CPAC.
“We think it is clear evidence that the
Democrats are not only trying to cover this
up, but they are also colluding with parts of
the government to help cover this up,” he
added.
“The point of our memo was for one
purpose only,” Nunes said, “and that was to
show that FISA abuse had occurred. To
have a secret court that gets abused like
this is totally unacceptable.”
 Chuck Grassley Connects Dossier Dots
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:45 PM 02/26/2018

of the committee, but negotiations fell through because

Steele wanted a bi-partisan letter requesting an interview.

In the texts, Waldman also discussed visa issues related to

FILE PHOTO: Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks with reporters on
Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017.
REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
 Sen. Chuck Grassley is requesting an interview
with lobbyist Adam Waldman
 Waldman emerged as a key figure in the Russia
investigation
 Grassley posed 11 questions to Waldman
regarding his connections with dossier author
Christopher Steele
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is
requesting an interview with a Washington-based lobbyist
who served as an intermediary between a Democratic
senator and two key figures in the Russia investigation,
dossier author Christopher Steele and Russian oligarch
Oleg Deripaska.
Deripsaka, an aluminum magnate and close ally of Russian
President Vladimir Putin. (RELATED: Steele’s Back
Channel To Democratic Senator Was A Lobbyist For
Russia’s Foreign Minister)
Waldman’s connection to both Steele and Deripaska has
raised interesting possibilities for the Russia investigation
and Steele’s dossier, which he wrote on behalf of
opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asked
Waldman to appear before the panel for a closed-door
interview by next month.
Waldman has lobbied for Deripaska since 2009, mostly on
visa issues. He was also counsel for Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov from 2010 to May 2017,
according to documents filed with the Department of
Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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“The nature and extent of the relationship

between Mr. Steele, Mr. Deripaska, and
you are of potential relevance to the
Committee’s work,” Iowa Sen. Chuck
Grassley, a Republican, wrote Monday to
the lobbyist, Adam Waldman.

Waldman emerged earlier this month as a figure in the

Russia investigation after it was revealed that he
exchanged text messages last year with Virginia Sen. Mark
Warner regarding Steele and Deripaska.

Warner is the top Democrat on the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, which is also investigation
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
(RELATED: New Names Emerge In GOP-Led Dossier
Investigation)
Waldman and Warner exchanged text messages beginning
February 2017 discussing how to make Steele available for
an interview with the Intelligence panel. Warner at first
attempted to speak to Steele separate from other members
Grassley posed 11 questions in his letter to Waldman
regarding his connections to Steele, Deripaska and the
infamous dossier.
The possibility of links between Steele and Deripaska are a
surprise given that the former British spy’s work on the
dossier was an exposé of sorts of Kremlin activities.
The dossier, which was funded by former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic

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National Committee, alleges that President Donald
Trump’s campaign conspired with Russian government
officials to influence the 2016 election. The core
allegations in the 35-page document remain unverified and
have been hotly contested by the White House and Trump
associates.
In his letter, Grassley asked Waldman if he has ever hired
or worked with Steele or any his London-based private
intelligence firm, Orbis Business Intelligence. He also
questioned whether Waldman is aware of any work that
Steele has done for Paul Hauser, Deripaska’s London-
based lawyer. Grassley sent a letter to Hauser earlier this
month asking similar questions about links to Steele.
Grassley’s letter to Waldman also points to Daniel Jones,
another name that has emerged in the dossier saga.
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Waldman’s text messages to Warner referred to Jones and
suggested that he was in touch with the Democrat and with
Steele.
Jones is a Washington-based consultant who served as a
top staffer to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a
Democrat, when she chaired the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence. He left the committee in 2015 to open his
own consulting firm.
The Federalist reported Feb. 20 that Jones has worked for
Fusion GPS to help verify the dossier since its publication.
Lastly, Grassley asked Waldman when and how he became
aware of Steele’s work on the dossier project and whether
he knows when Deripaska first became aware of it.
Waldman has not responded to several requests from The
Daily Caller News Foundation for comment.
 Senator Grassley Publishes New Letter –
Signals New Leads In Steele Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 26, 2018, 10:32 Pm

The Senate Judiciary Committee Hauser, on behalf of Mr. Deripaska or businesses

released a letter Monday to Adam associated with Mr. Deripaska? If so, when has such
Waldman from the Endearvor Group. work occurred?
4. Are you otherwise aware of any business or financial
Senator Grassley called for a transcribed interview with relationships between Mr. Steele and Russian
Waldman. government officials, Russian oligarchs, or Russian
businesses?
The Endeavor Group is linked to Fusion GPS. 5. Other than the potential relationships described above,
what is the nature and extent of your relationship with
Mr. Steele? Has Mr. Steele ever hired your firm, the
Endeavor Group? If so, when, and what was the nature
of that arrangement?
6. Please provide copies of all communications you have
had with Mr. Steele from April of 2016 to the present.
7. Have you had any communications, whether directly or
indirectly, with Fusion GPS since September of 2015?
Please provided all related documents.
8. Have you ever hired or otherwise worked with Fusion
GPS? If so, when, and what was the nature of the
arrangement? Please provided all related documents.
9. Have you had any interactions with Mr. Daniel Jones
relating to Mr. Steele’s dossier, Fusion GPS’s work, or
any other attempts to investigate or disseminate
allegations of collusion between associates of Mr.
Trump and the Russian government? If so, please
Adam waldman
describe the context and content of those interactions.
And the Judiciary Committee asked him to complete this
Please provide all related documents.
list of questions.

10. When and how did you first become aware of Mr.
1. As noted above, public reports and government
Steele’s work involving allegations of collusion between
records indicate that you are an attorney and lobbyist
associates of Mr. Trump and the Russian government?
for Mr. Oleg Deripaska. Have you ever hired or
Do you know how and when Mr. Deripaska first
otherwise worked with Mr. Christopher Steele, Orbis
became aware?
Business Intelligence Limited, Orbis Business
11. Please describe all interactions you have had with the
International Limited, Walsingham Training Limited, or
United States Government, regardless of branch,
Walsingham Partners Limited? If so, when, and what
relating to investigations of Russian efforts in the 2016
was the nature of the arrangement?
U.S. presidential election. Please provide all related
documents.
Please provide all related documents.
The Donald Reddit reported:
2. Is it the case that Mr. Steele, through you, works or has
worked on behalf of Mr. Deripaska or businesses
Grassley knows more than he is letting on. This is apparent
associated with him? If so, when has such work
in a new letter sent to Adam Waldmann (a lawyer,
occurred?
naturally) of Endeavour Group.
3. Are you aware of any work Mr. Steele has conducted
for Mr. Deripaska’s London-based attorney, Mr. Paul

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In this letter, Chuck seems to call out Steele and his
relationship with the Russian Oligarch Deripaska. It seems
that Grassley is implying that Steele was actually working
for the Russians when he compiled his unsubstantiated and
phony dossier. It seems the Russians played Steele like a
fiddle, while he was getting paid by the DNC. He was so
eager to believe the bullshit he threw out all common sense
and reported exactly what they told him without verifying
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anything (Trump Derangement Syndrome is real!)
Considering how his phony dossier was the impetus for the
FISA warrant (and abuse) it would seem that Chuck is
really onto something here and knows the whole story but
wants to get people on record.
[See letter on next page]
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 Are You A Russian Troll?
Take This Quiz And Find Out!
A. Barton Hinkle
February 26, 2018

The federal indictments special counsel Robert Mueller (c) pause to enjoy the sweet, sweet dopamine hit that comes
handed down a few days ago confirmed that Russian from having your existing beliefs confirmed; or
agents did, indeed, use social media to interfere with the
2016 presidential election—and, even more than that, to (d) immediately share it with everybody you can think of.
sow political animosity, heighten divisions, and pit
Americans against one another. Several workers at a
(2) When you read something that makes you mad, you
Russian "troll farm" have now confirmed the thrust of the
indictment.
(a) pause to consider the possibility that the author is right and
you are wrong;
As Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said when
the indictments were announced,
(b) forget it and move on;
"the Russian conspirators want to promote
discord in the United States and undermine (c) stop reading immediately to avoid being exposed to ideas you
public confidence in democracy. We must dislike; or
not allow them to succeed."
(d) leave a comment pointing out that the author is a despicable
Absolutely right. But how to stop them? Lyudmilla excuse for a human being who should die a slow and wretched
Savchuk—a worker at the troll farm—has explained how death.
Russian agents take pains to hide their true identity:
(3) Terms such as "libtard" and "rethuglican" are
"The most important principle of the work is
to have an account like a real person. They (a) demeaning insults that inhibit the open exchange of ideas and
create real characters, choosing a gender, prevent learning from others;
a name, a place of living and an
occupation. Therefore, it's hard to tell that (b) kind of juvenile;
the account was made for the
propaganda." (c) pretty witty, actually;

That ability to blend in with online communities raises (d) literally true.
several troubling questions, the most disturbing of which
might be: What if YOU are a Russian troll who sows
(4) An article about a person of the opposing political tribe
animosity, heightens division, and pits Americans against
who has said or done something really stupid and
one another—and you don't even know it?
embarrassing is
The following quiz has been developed to help answer that
(a) nothing but partisan clickbait;
very question. Let's play!
(b) not surprising;
(1) When you see a post online that supports your political
tribe, you
(c) further proof that all members of the opposing tribe are stupid;
(a) treat it skeptically until its assertions can be independently
confirmed; (d) going up on your social-media account in 3... 2....

(b) nod sagely and move on;

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(5) A politician of your own political tribe has just done (c) scorn;
something really stupid and embarrassing. You
(d) to burn in hell for all eternity.
(a) find this dismaying, and say so;
(7) Online memes are
(b) explain why it's not so bad;
(a) superficial and usually inaccurate characterizations of the
(c) attack the opposing tribe for being jerks and making a big fat opposing tribe's views;
deal out of it;
(b) occasionally sharp critiques of the tensions inherent in any
(d) point out that it's not half as bad as all the stupid, belief system;
embarrassing things members of the opposing tribe have done.
(c) hilarious;
(5) As a member in good standing of your political tribe, you
have always believed X. The leader of your political tribe has (d) stupid if they're about your side and brilliant if they're about
just come out against X. You the other side.

(a) call him or her to account for abandoning your tribe's SCORING:
principles;
Give yourself one point for each (a), two points for each
(b) try not to notice; (b), three points for each (c), and four points for each (d).

(c) change your mind about X; 7-10 points: America. Love it or leave it.

(d) change your mind about X and attempt to excommunicate
any member of your political tribe who still has the audacity to
think X is even defensible.
(6) People who disagree with you deserve
11-15 points: Both sides were equally to blame for the
Cold War.
16-20: Hey, who doesn't get goosebumps listening to the
Song of the Volga Boatmen?

(a) an honest hearing; 21+: You live under a bridge and eat Vladimir Putin's table
scraps.
(b) pity;

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