The FISA Memo

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The 2017 Trump
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 POTUS TRUMP GOES NUCLEAR In Tuesday
Tweetstorm: “WITCH HUNT!”
By Jim Hoft
February 27, 2018, 7:34 Am

President Donald Trump went nuclear

on the ongoing Deep State witch hunt
against him for the past year.
President Trump took to Twitter to slam
the Deep State investigation.
He also declared open season on
corrupt Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump:

“He’s got a very good point. Somebody in

the Justice Department has a treasure
trove of evidence of Mrs. Clinton’s
criminality at her own hands, or through
others, that ought to be investigated. I fully
agree with the President on that.”

@judgenapolitano on @marthamaccallum Show …

“I’ve been skeptical about the collusion and

obstruction claims for the last year. I just
don’t see the evidence….in terms of the
collusion, it’s all a bit implausible based on
the evidence we have.” Jonathan Turley on
@FoxNews … “We’ve seen NO
EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION….I have
seen nothing, the firing of James Comey
and all of the aftermath, that suggests that
the President has obstructed justice
because he’s exercising his power as the
President of the U.S. I just don’t see it.”
Judge Ken Starr
WITCH HUNT!

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 WATCH: Judge Napolitano Captured Trump’s Attention
When He Talked About Clinton ‘Criminality’
Thomas Phippen - Reporter
8:02 AM 02/27/2018
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures
next to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly during a
briefing with senior military leaders at the White House in
Washington, DC, U.S., October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri
Gripas/File Photo
President Donald Trump hinted Tuesday at the existence
of hidden files on former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton at the Department of Justice, quoting Fox News
commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano.
“Somebody in the Justice Department has
a treasure trove of evidence of Mrs.
Clinton’s criminality at her own hands, or
through others, that ought to be
investigated,” Napolitano said Monday
evening on the “The Story With Martha
MacCallum.”
Trump tweeted early Tuesday morning:
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During an interview with Judge Jeanine Saturday, Trump
said there should be an investigation into Clinton’s
campaign, that someone should
“Look into it because what they did is really
fraudulent.” Trump added that, “By
somebody, I’m talking about, you know
who,” but wouldn’t say whether he was
referring to his own attorney general or
someone else.
Napolitano suggested that when Trump said “you know
who” in an interview with MacCallum Saturday should
investigate Clinton’s misdeeds, he was referring to special
counsel Robert Mueller, not Attorney General Jeff
Sessions.
Mueller has been investigating Russian attempts to
influence the 2016 presidential election, and Trump has
insisted that there was no collusion between his campaign
and the Kremlin.
In later tweets Tuesday, Trump quoted other figures who
have said that there was no evidence of collusion.
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 ‘WITCH HUNT!’ Donald Trump
Back To Blasting The Russia Investigation
By Charlie Spiering
27 Feb 2018
President Donald Trump again criticized
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into the possibility that the
Trump campaign colluded with Russia,
calling it a “witch hunt.”
The president expressed his thoughts on Twitter, quoting
Judge Ken Starr and Jonathan Turley on the Russia
investigation to bolster his case.
“I have seen nothing, the firing of James Comey and all of
the aftermath, that suggests that the President has
obstructed justice because he’s exercising his power as the
President of the U.S.,” Starr said. “I just don’t see it.”
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Turley said he was skeptical about the investigation.
“I just don’t see the evidence….in terms of
the collusion, it’s all a bit implausible based
on the evidence we have,” he said on Fox
News.
The president also quoted Judge Andrew Napolitano for
saying in an interview that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton was guilty of criminal behavior.
“Somebody in the Justice Department has
a treasure trove of evidence of Mrs.
Clinton’s criminality at her own hands, or
through others, that ought to be
investigated,” he said on Fox News. “I fully
agree with the President on that.”
Trump’s conclusion was again that the investigation was a
“witch hunt.”
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2018
 Nunes WARNS: ‘Slew Of Subpoenas’ Coming
For State Dept. Regarding BOGUS Anti-Trump Dossier
Posted On February 27, 2018
(National Sentinel) Wider Net: House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes warned on Monday
that there is a “slew of subpoenas” coming for current and
former State Department officials regarding the unverified
“Russia dossier” the panel says was improperly used to
obtain a FISA court surveillance warrant to spy on the
president’s campaign.
Former and current officials will be “hauled into
Congress” next week to “answer publicly” questions about
the “salacious and unverified” anti-Trump dossier written
by former British spy Christopher Steele as opposition
research for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee, Nunes told Fox News‘
Laura Ingraham.
“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,” Nunes, R-
Calif., told the host.
“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, as reported by Lifezette.
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“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,” he continued.
Earlier this month, Nunes and Republicans on the panel
released a “FISA memo” documenting serial abuses of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by ranking
members of the FBI and Justice Department under
President Obama.
The memo accuses officials of misrepresenting the dossier
as legitimate intelligence that had been verified without
informing FISA court judges it was a political document.
Democrats, who have released their own version of a FISA
memo, counter that the court was informed but
Republicans said the FISA application only mentioned the
dossier in a buried footnote that did not clarify its true
background.
What’s more, the Democratic memo contradicts previous
sworn Senate testimony by former FBI Director James
Comey. The Democrat memo claimed a significant portion
of the dossier had been confirmed but Comey testified that
three months after a FISA court warrant on former Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page was issued that he still
considered the dossier “unverified” and “salacious” when
he briefed incoming President Trump in January 2017 at
Trump Tower.
Nunes, in his interview with Ingraham, also slammed the
legacy media for failing to follow through on his memo’s
explosive claims.
He said that “what happens here in the Beltway” is that
most current and former State Department officials
read The Washington Post and The New York Times while
watching CNN and MSNBC. He said they don’t watch
right-leaning outlets which means they are missing key
components of the Trump campaign spying scandal in
what many are calling “Obamagate.”
“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 told the Fox News host.
“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.”
He also said that there is an “ongoing investigation” that
has entered “Phase two” which is focusing primarily on the
State Department, which at the time was being run by
former U.S. senator and Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Nunes accused Democrats and the legacy media of
obfuscating the real crimes here.
“The point of our memo was to say that the
FISA 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.”
 DRUDGE EXCLUSIVE: POTUS Trump Set To
‘Stun The Political World’ – Reveal 2020 Re-Election Plans
By Joshua Caplan
February 27, 2018, 9:24 Am

Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report campaign manager, DRUDGE

revealed Tuesday that President Trump REPORT has learned... MORE...
is set to make an announcement that The bold move comes 980 days
will ‘stun the political world.’ before Election Day, a historical
record. Obama announced 582
days out... MORE...

“TRUMP SET FOR SHOCK

ANNOUNCEMENT,” tweeted Drudge. Who is Brad Parscale?

Brad creates web marketing strategies and oversees all

technical and functional aspects of these strategies.
Originally from Kansas, Brad spent five years in California
before moving to San Antonio in 2004 to establish
Parscale Media, a successful web marketing firm. His
2011 partnership with Jill Giles formed Giles-Parscale,
Inc. In 2016 Brad was named Digital Director for the
Donald J. Trump presidential campaign.
Via The Drudge Report:
In political and marketing circles, Parscale is widely
**WORLD EXCLUSIVE** TUE credited as “the genius who won Trump’s campaign.”
FEB 27 2018 10:05 AM ET**
Just one year into his “An October 2017 story about Parscale by
presidency, Trump will stun the “60 Minutes” about Parscale called him
political world TODAY by that campaign’s “secret weapon” for his
announcing he is running for re- use of Facebook to promote Trump’s
election in 2020. Digital guru candidacy,” reports CNBC.
Brad Parscale will be named
DEVELOPING…
.

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 Trump Comes Through — Saves
$1.4 Billion On New Air Force One
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:42 AM 02/27/2018

President Donald Trump has reached an agreement with for the air force one program. Thanks to the
the Boeing corporation to reduce the U.S. government president’s negotiations the contract will
purchasing price for the next generation of Air Force One save the taxpayers more than $1.4 billion,”
aircrafts, Fox News Reports. deputy White House press secretary
Hogan Gidley told Fox News.
EXCLUSIVE to @FoxNews …New Air
Force One’s coming… @realDonaldTrump Trump made the issue of lowering the price of the next
reached an informal deal with Boeing for 2 generation of Air Force One airplanes an issue in the early
new AF-1s. Fixed price deal is for $3.9 days of his transition period.
million. WH says this is a savings of $1.4
billion on total original cost estimates of
more than $5billion
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox)
February 27, 2018

“The plane is totally out of control. It’s going

to be over $4 billion for Air Force One
program. I think it’s ridiculous, I think
Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We
want Boeing to make a lot of money, but
not that much money,” he told reporters in
December 2016.

“President Trump has reached an informal

deal with Boeing on a fixed price contract
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 Schiff Hints Mueller's Next
Indictment To Implicate Trump Team
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 02/27/2018 - 09:45
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian
nationals earlier this month can only mean one
thing according to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): there's more
to come.
Speaking with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Schiff - the ranking
minority leader on the House Intelligence Committee,
suggested that because Mueller was so extraordinarily
detailed in his indictment of the 13 Russians, the Special
Counsel's office must be saving all the evidence of
collusion pertaining to the DNC hack for
the next indictment.
Schiff points to the fact that there was "ample evidence" of
Russia hacking the DNC, which - because Mueller didn't
include any of it in the "troll farm" indictment, obviously
means things are just heating up.
"And the key question there is:
Is that going to involve Russian figures
alone or are there going to be U.S.
persons implicated as well?" posits
Schiff.
Earlier this month, Schiff told reporters at a newsmaker
breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor
"There is already, in my view, ample
evidence in the public domain on the issue
of collusion if you're willing to see it." Schiff
also said there is evidence — heard by
the committee behind closed doors —
that he can't talk about publicly because
it remains classified.
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One thing I found striking about the
indictment of these 13 Russians, aside
from the fact of the extraordinary detail,
and that is what is not included in the
indictment. And that is the whole Russian
hacking of these documents, the dumping
of this information was not a part of that
indictment. Now there is ample evidence
for Bob Mueller to have included it. I can
only conclude from the fact it was left out
that Bob Mueller wants that to be part of a
separate indictment. And the key question
there is: Is that going to involve Russian
figures alone or are there going to be U.S.
persons implicated as well? -Adam Schiff
Of course, the evidence of all that Russian hacking was
compiled by discredited cybersecurity firm, Crowdstrike,
which was the only group allowed to analyze the hacked
servers - while the FBI was told to buzz off. Perhaps
Mueller's team doesn't feel confident using the
independent report. One would think, however, that
perhaps just one of the "17 intelligence agencies" which
Hillary Clinton claims verified the hack could provide
Mueller's team with a little assist - or not, considering that
it turns out only three agencies were involved in that
assessment.
 Also, you can't transfer files at 23 MB/s over the internet -
at least not in the United States. That's more of an "insider
with a memory stick" kinda thing.

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Perhaps Mueller doesn't want to open that can of worms?
Shiff also failed to mention Mueller's takedown of Paul
Manafort and his right hand man Rick Gates on money
laundering and fraud charges unrelated to the Trump
campaign. Gates flipped on Manafort last week, changing
his plea from not guilty to guilty on two charges; lying to
.
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Mueller's team, and "impeding, impairing, obstructing and
defeating" the DOJ and Treasury.
Thus, it seems that Mueller having gone from indicting
Trump's campaign manager, to indicting 13 Russian
internet trolls "with a shaky grasp of English and a
rudimentary understanding of U.S. politics shitposting on
Facebook," doesn't bode well for Schiff's prediction.
 Trump Announces He’s IN For 2020;
Names Brad Parscale, Digital Guru, Campaign Manager
Posted On February 27, 2018
(National Sentinel) Trump/Pence 2020: President Donald
J. Trump made a major announcement Tuesday, saying he
definitely will run for reelection in 2020, proving
naysayers wrong who claimed he was just a one-term
POTUS.
The announcement was made exclusively by The Drudge
Report, which teased the announcement for about an hour
before releasing details.
The site noted that Trump’s announcement comes a
historic 980 days before Election Day 2020; President
Obama, meanwhile, announced he would seek a second
term 582 days out.
Trump will reportedly name digital mogul Brad Parscale to
be his campaign manager.
The president has barely been in office for a year during
which he has faced unprecedented criticism from the
establishment media as well as a special counsel
investigation that appears to have been based on political
motivations rather than evidence of an alleged crime.
Critics of the president have often said they did not believe
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he would run again in 2020. Just two days ago Newsweek
ran a story with this headline: “Will Trump Run in 2020?
Kasich May Challenge President for Republican
Nomination” — a headline referring to Ohio Gov. John
Kasich, who challenged Trump during the 2016 GOP
primaries.
“Outgoing Ohio Governor John Kasich and
his team reportedly have a 2020
presidential run in their sights, either as an
independent or by launching a surprise
primary challenge to President Donald
Trump. And there’s one other consideration
said to be in Kasich’s thoughts: the
prospect that Trump does not run at all in
two years’ time,” the troubled political
magazine reported.
Trump’s announcement appears to have put those rumors
to bed.
Perhaps sensing a strong challenge from another
Republican, Trump’s historically early announcement will
give the party direction and stability and likely give him a
huge jump on fundraising.
 Carter Page Talks Interrogation On CNN
And Says The Truth Is Finally Coming Out
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:50 AM 02/27/2018

Page also believes the government thought former

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was going to win the
election when they authorized surveillance on him and
thought the truth would never come out.

WATCH:

Carter Page Talks Interrogation On CNN And Says The

Truth Is Finally Coming Out - 2-27-18

President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter

Page spoke out about his situation Tuesday on CNN’s
“New Day,” detailing his interrogation by the federal
government and expressing relief about the truth finally
coming out.

“I’m not concerned about a record because

the more the record comes out as we’ve
seen over recent weeks and months, the
better,” Page told host Chris Cuomo. “Now
that we’re starting to learn the truth, it
couldn’t get any better for me.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) put Page under
surveillance while former President Barack Obama was
still in office after the government requested a warrant
from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
court.
Page discussed his interrogation at the hands of the
government and said he was questioned for over 30 hours.
“All I will say, Chris, is I’ve been
interrogated over 30 hours in total by both
the executive branch and legislative branch
of government,” Page said. “Someone
leaked that I talked for ten hours to the FBI
last March.”
.
“I think it’s a cleanup act a little bit,” he
said. “They went down this path thinking
that Mrs. Clinton was going to win. And so
now they’ve got to find something.”
Page said he is a private person and hopes to return to a
quiet life after his legal issues are concluded, but not
before making up for the “damage that was done” to
democracy.
“I’m a private figure. I seem quite
outspoken now. I’m hoping to go into the
woods some day after this is all said and
done,” Page said. “I’m just trying to get the
truth out to make up for the terrible damage
that was done for our democracy.”
“All the evidence I’ve seen so far, Chris,
indicates that there was much more
interference by the U.S. government
compared to the Russian government,” he
concluded.

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 Obama Admin Official Who Helped
Anti-Trump Dossier Author Was Exec At Lobbying Firm
For Russians Who Bought Uranium One
By Aaron Klein
27 Feb 2018

authored a Washington Post oped in which he conceded

that while working at the State Department he exchanged
documents and information with dossier author and former
British spy Christopher Steele.

Winer further acknowledged that while he was working at

the State Department, he shared with Steele anti-Trump
material passed to him by longtime Clinton confidant
Sidney Blumenthal, whom Winer described as an “old
friend.” Winer wrote that the material from Blumenthal –
which Winer in turn gave to Steele — originated with
Cody Shearer, who is a controversial figure long tied to
various Clinton scandals.

While writing in the Washington Post of his concerns

about Russian influence in the U.S., Winer failed to
NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the disclose that he worked for a firm that did lobby work for a
Obama State Department official who nuclear company whose parent is owned by the Russian
acknowledged regularly interfacing with government.
the author of the controversial, largely
discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier,
Steele was commissioned to produce the dossier by
served as senior vice president of a firm
the Fusion GPS opposition research firm, which was in
that did lobbying work for Tenex, the
turn paid for its anti-Trump work by Hillary Clinton’s
U.S. subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian
2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National
state corporation headquartered in
Committee.
Moscow.
The Steele dossier was reportedly utilized by the FBI as
In 2010, Rosatom infamously purchased a controlling
part of its probe into Trump and unsubstantiated claims of
stake in Uranium One, the Canadian uranium mining
Russia collusion. According to House Intelligence
company with operations in the U.S. The purchase was
Committee documents, the questionable dossier was also
approved by the Obama administration in a decision that is
used by Obama-era federal agencies to obtain a FISA
currently being probed by the House Permanent Select
warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, who
Committee on Intelligence.
briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy adviser to
Trump’s campaign. The political origins of the dossier and
In a statement to Breitbart News, APCO Worldwide, issues relating to Steele’s credibility as a source were kept
where Winer served as senior vice president from 2008 to from the FISA court, a House Intelligence Committee
2013, denied that the firm’s work for Rosatom’s subsidiary memo documents.
Tenex was related to the purchase of Uranium One or to
the acquisition of uranium in general. Instead, APCO said
From 2008 to 2013, Winer worked at APCO Worldwide,
its work for Tenex, which took place in 2010 and 2011,
where he served as senior vice president.
focused on sales of fuel to the U.S. energy market. APCO
also denied that Winer did any work related to Tenex.
A contract previously obtained by Circa shows that from
2010 to 2011, APCO was paid roughly $3 million by
After his name surfaced in news media reports related to
Tenex, the U.S. subsidiary of Rosatom.
probes by House Republicans into the dossier, Winer
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Circa reported that it saw the contract between Tenex and
APCO, which agreed that the
“total fee is comprised of the fixed quarterly
fee which shall be $750,000 per each of
the four three-month periods of rendering
Services here under during the validity
period of this contract, including the 18
percent Russian VAT payable in the
territory of the Russian Federation.”
Asked to clarify its work for Tenex, APCO sent Breitbart
News a statement that
“as clearly reported in APCO’s public filings
from 2010 and 2011, available to anyone
online, APCO’s work for Tenex focused
entirely on the company’s interest in
continuing sales of fuel to the U.S. energy
market.”
“At the time, Tenex provided half of the fuel
used by U.S. nuclear energy producers
under a Bush administration program,” the
APCO statement continued. “Any claim that
APCO was involved in the Uranium One
transaction or any related CIFIUS matter is
completely false.”
As Breitbart News reported, in addition to its work for
Tenex, APCO did extensive pro bono work for the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI) from 2007 until 2016.
APCO Worldwide recently faced controversy when The
Hill reported that paid FBI informant Douglas Campbell,
who infiltrated the Russian nuclear business world,
claimed to three separate congressional committees in a
written statement that Russia hired APCO to influence the
Obama administration, singling out Hillary Clinton.
Campbell claimed he was told by Russian nuclear
executives that there was a connection between APCO’s
CGI volunteer efforts and work that APCO did for Tenex.
In a statement to Breitbart News, APCO Worldwide
strongly denied that its work for CGI was in any way
related to work the firm did for Tenex. The statement
added that
“Winer had no involvement on any matters
related to Tenex or the Clinton Global
Initiative. In fact, the four senior staff on the
Tenex project included two former Bush
administration officials and a former staff
member for a Republican member of the
Senate.”
“APCO’s pro bono work for the Clinton
Global Initiative is a matter of public record
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as part of our giving commitment reported
to the UN Global Compact,” the statement
added. “This volunteer work began in 2007,
three years before any discussion with
Tenex, and continued until 2016, five years
after the Tenex engagement ended. These
engagements were unrelated and any
suggestion that they were connected is a
deliberate falsehood. APCO’s work on
each of these projects was transparent,
publicly documented and entirely proper.”
Campbell, the FBI informant, however, claimed that
Russian nuclear officials “told me at various times that
they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million
annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to
provide in-kind support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative.
“The contract called for four payments of
$750,000 over twelve months. 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
U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
agreement.”
In a separate statement on the matter to Circa last October,
APCO Worldwide Inc. stated,
“APCO was not involved in any aspect of
Uranium One.”
Winer, meanwhile, served under Bill Clinton’s
administration as the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of
state for international law enforcement. He wrote in his
recent Washington Post oped that he rejoined the State
Department in 2013 at the insistence of John Kerry.
“In 2013, I returned to the State
Department at the request of Secretary of
State John F. Kerry, whom I had previously
served as Senate counsel,” he said.
In the Post piece, Winer related that while he was at the
State Department, he repeatedly passed documents from
Steele related to Russia to State officials, including to
Victoria Nuland, a career diplomat who worked under the
Clintons and served as assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian affairs under Kerry.
“Over the next two years, I shared more
than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia
experts at the State Department, who
continued to find them useful,” he wrote.
Winer wrote that in the summer of 2016, Steele
“told me that he had learned of disturbing
information regarding possible ties between
Donald Trump, his campaign and senior
Russian officials.”
Winer says that he met with Steele in September 2016 to
discuss details that would later become known as the anti-
Trump dossier. Winer wrote that he prepared a two-page
summary of Steele’s information and
“shared it with Nuland, who indicated that,
like me, she felt that the secretary of state
needed to be made aware of this material.”
Besides bringing Steele’s dossier information to the State
Department, Winer conceded that he also passed
information from Blumenthal to Steele, specifically
charges about Trump that originated with Shearer.
Winer described what he claimed was the evolution of his
contacts with Blumenthal regarding Shearer’s information:
In late September, I spoke with an old friend, Sidney
Blumenthal, whom I met 30 years ago when I was
investigating the Iran-Contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and
Blumenthal was a reporter at the Post. At the time, Russian
hacking was at the front and center in the 2016 presidential
campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who had a long
.
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association with Bill and Hillary Clinton, had been hacked
in 2013 through a Russian server.
While talking about that hacking, Blumenthal and I
discussed Steele’s reports. He showed me notes gathered
by a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, that alleged
the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a
sexual and financial nature.
What struck me was how some of the material echoed
Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources.
Shearer has numerous close personal and family
connections to the Clintons and has reportedly been
involved in numerous antics tied to them. National
Review previously dubbed Shearer a “Creepy Clinton
Confidante” and “The Strangest Character in Hillary’s
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.”
In his Washington Post oped, Winer does not say whether
he knew at the time that he interfaced with Steele that the
ex-British spy was working for Fusion GPS, or that Fusion
was being paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign via the Perkins Coie law firm.
In the Post piece, Winer also failed to mention his work
for APCO as well as the firm’s ties to the Clinton Global
Initiative and to the company whose parent purchased
Uranium One.
 Carter Page: ‘No Fear Whatsoever’
About FISA Warrant Intel [VIDEO]
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:52 AM 02/27/2018

WATCH:

Carter Page, former foreign policy adviser for the Trump

campaign, speaks to the media after testifying before the
House Intelligence Committee on November 2, 2017 in
Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
 Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page
appeared on Fox News Monday
 The U.S. government surveilled Page for nearly a
year
 Page is accused of being the Trump campaign’s
liaison to the Kremlin in a collusion scheme
The U.S. government surveilled Carter Page for nearly a
year until September, but the former Trump campaign
adviser says he has “no fear whatsoever” that his
intercepted emails and phone calls will implicate him in
the collusion investigation.
Page, President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser,
appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News on
Monday to discuss a Democratic memo released Saturday
that attempted to justify the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants taken out against him.
The FBI and Justice Department extensively cited the
unverified Steele dossier in its applications for the four
warrants, the first was granted on Oct. 21, 2016. The last
was taken out in June and stretched through September,
well into the timeframe of Robert Mueller’s special
counsel investigation. (RELATED: What The
Democrats Left Out Of Their Memo)
“The government … spied on you, four
different warrants for a full year,” Hannity
said to Page, who joined the Trump
campaign in March 2016.”You know what
they have on you. You know the emails
that they were able to get. Is there anything
that in any way that would implicate you in
any way to associate yourself with
Russians to impact the elections in this
country?”
“I have no fear whatsoever,” Page replied.
Hannity also made the point that if Page was involved in a
collusion conspiracy as the dossier alleges, it is likely that
authorities would have charged him with a crime by now.
If he was a cooperating witness, he would not be giving
TV interviews to discuss the dossier and the allegations
against him, Hannity claimed.
“Do you think you would have been
charged by the special counsel now if they
had any evidence?” asked Hannity.
ALSO WATCH:

Page is accused in the dossier of being the Trump

campaign’s liaison to the Kremlin for the collusion
scheme. The energy consultant, who has been interviewed
extensively by the FBI and has reportedly appeared before
Mueller’s grand jury, has vehemently denied the
allegations.

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Page declined to go into detail, but said that he has Page directly denied the allegations when Hannity asked
about them.
“never been given any information” that
he’s “under any serious consideration over “Did anybody in Russia ever suggest to you
recent months.” that they had negative information on
Hillary?” the host said.
In the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele “Not one word. Nothing whatsoever. Not
alleges that during a well-publicized trip to Moscow in even a glimpse of an offer,” said Page.
July 2016, Page met secretly with two Kremlin insiders,
Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin.
If anything about him in the dossier is accurate, Page
replied:
In the alleged Diveykin meeting, Steele claims that Page
was told of “kompromot” that the Russian government had
“Absolutely not a word.”
on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Another part
of the dossier claims that Page came up with the idea to “It’s a laughable joke,” he added.
direct stolen Democratic and Clinton emails to WikiLeaks
in order to drive a wedge between Clinton and Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters.

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 Trump Derangement Syndrome:
Morning Joe Panelists Long for a Hero
By Bill D'Agostino
February 27, 2018 11:05 AM EST
“A hero comes from need.”
So said MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday, during a
bizarre Morning Joe segment in which panelists exchanged
heartfelt soliloquies and longed for a savior to deliver them
from the “disaster” of President Donald Trump.
On an otherwise normal Tuesday, a conversation about
author Jon Meacham’s new book abruptly transformed into
a deep and emotional exchange. The book, “The Soul of
America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,” catalyzed a
discussion of great leaders who had risen from unassuming
origins during a time of need. Among those named and
celebrated for their accomplishments were Ulysses S.
Grant, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and
others.
MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle observed a “common
thread” among the leaders in question, which he described
thusly:
They arrive like a miracle, like a flash of
sunlight on a stormy day in this country,
and they are, almost to a person, people
who understand several elements of life
that affect everyone who is normal in this
country. They understand loss. They
understand what it's like to be hurt, to be
damaged within their own lives, within the
frameworks of their own existence.
In a word, messianic.
“And oh my God, do we need someone like
that today,” Barnicle concluded with
unanimous agreement from the panel.
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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan picked up
the reins and continued the grandiose rhetoric. She recited
a line from a famous letter that Jacqueline Kennedy
received after President Kennedy’s death:
The hero comes when he is needed. When
our belief gets pale and weak there comes
a man out of that need who is bright and
shining, and everyone around him reflects
some of that glow and stores some up
against the day that he is gone. A hero
comes from need.
“Isn’t that pretty?” she prompted.
Scarborough nodded solemnly in
agreement: “A hero comes from need.”
The reverie came to a screeching halt when irreverent
jokester Jonathan Lemire interjected,
“A hero comes from need, which is why
Melania Trump is here to talk about cyber
bullying right now.”
Both conservative and left-wing journalists have written
extensively about so-called “Trump derangement
syndrome,” a phenomenon wherein Democrats and their
ilk are driven by an all-consuming disdain for the President
to do and say irrational things. Newsweek’s Walter E.
Williams even wrote a helpful column which advised
readers on how to live with the affliction. Incidentally,
Williams suggested cutting back on the consumption of
network news as a potential strategy.
While numerous regulars on Morning Joe have displayed
the telltale signs of this ailment – especially Mika
Brzezinski – Tuesday’s panel appeared to be coping in a
heretofore unseen manner: they found religion. No names
were floated as potential candidates for the next American
messiah. Thus, it appears that Scarborough and company
are holding out hope that one will arrive when they least
expect it. For Brzezinski’s sake, let’s hope this individual
comes soon.
 Mueller And Trump Star In A
Shakespearean Drama That Grips US
By Brent Budowsky, Opinion Contributor
02/27/18 11:15 AM EST
Robert Mueller and Donald Trump are joined, along with
every American, in a gripping Shakespearean drama that
will powerfully impact the future of America.
Special counsel Mueller, a hero during the Vietnam War
who is now leading the investigation of the Russian attack
against American democracy, and President Trump, who
was decidedly not a hero during the Vietnam War and is
not leading the fight against the Russian attack against
America, are the star protagonists in an epic drama that
will change the course of history.
In “As You Like It," William Shakespeare wrote,
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men
and women merely players.”
In the great democratic drama that is now unfolding,
Trump is a player, Mueller is a player and all Americans
are players every time we answer a question in a poll,
exercise our right to vote or ask our representatives in
Washington hard questions at town meetings.
It is possible that Mueller indicts Trump for one or more
criminal offenses. It is possible he does not indict Trump
but sends a detailed report to Congress that would justify
impeachment, whether House Republicans respect these
findings or not.
It is also possible that Mueller clears Trump, telling that
nation that no offense was committed by the president,
which would give his presidency a significant boost.
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Ernest Hemingway advised writers to write one true
sentence. One true sentence about Mueller is that he will
make his decisions based on the facts, the truth and the
law, whether they lead to innocence or guilt.
One true sentence about Trump is that persistent reports
suggest his lawyers are advising him to not testify before
Mueller because they fear he would be caught telling a lie,
which would be a crime.
Sunday, the Washington Post ran a front-page story that
discussed at length how Mueller and Trump both grew up
with privileged backgrounds but ended up in very different
places, having made vastly different choices.
Mueller is the epitome of the ethic of duty, honor and
country in public service. He is a pillar of integrity and
justice in public life.
Like others of his generation, such as Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) and former Secretary of State John Kerry,
Mueller could have began his career living comfortably
after a first-rate education but chose, instead, to risk his
life serving our country. He continued his service with a
brilliant and honorable career in public life.
Trump, by contrast, throughout his career, appears to have
asked himself one question: “What’s in it for me?” One of
the most dastardly things Trump ever said was in response
to the question of whether McCain is a hero. He said he
prefers troops who were never captured.
In the Shakespearean drama that is unfolding today,
Americans are gripped by regular news of Mueller
achieving more indictments, plea bargains and evidence
about the scandal of the Russian attack against America
that continues today.
In the Shakespearean drama that is unfolding, a Russian
dictator continues his attack against American democracy
and now aims to corrupt our midterm elections.
Meanwhile, the special counsel continues his investigation,
and the American president stands by idly, at best, and
fearful of the truth, at worst.
In an upcoming scene of this Shakespearean drama, the
president will agree to testify before the special counsel or,
more likely, will be compelled by subpoena to testify
under oath before a grand jury without his lawyers
president.
In another upcoming scene in this Shakespearean drama,
the president may try again to fire another prosecutor who
is investigating the Russian crimes or pardon those guilty
or suspected of being a party to them.
In yet another future scene reminiscent of Macbeth, the
president will again spew venom against his presidential
predecessors while his allies in Congress continue their
attacks against the FBI or the special counsel who believes
in duty, honor and country.
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This will force every Republican to take a stand on a
defining issue of the 21st century, i.e., whether a foreign
dictator should have the power to use covert means to
choose America’s leaders.
In this Shakespearean drama, the leaders of our
intelligence and law enforcement agencies are virtually
pleading with the president to lead the nation, but they are
met with presidential eyes that do not see and ears that do
not hear the facts about the foreign attack against us.
How will this Shakespearean drama end? Most likely
when the special counsel achieves the words that
Shakespeare wrote in the Merchant of Venice, wherever
they may lead: “truth will out.”
 Former Attorney General Says
FBI ‘Very Irresponsible’ On FISA Application
Michael Mukasey Said The Bureau Messed Up If It Didn't Disclose The
Steele Dossier's Complete Background When Seeking Surveillance
Warrants For Carter Page
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 27 Feb 2018 At 1:14 PM

Sechin and [Igor] Divyekin who were

actually big shots. He denies that meeting,”
Mukasey continued.
“The claim that he also went to Russia in
July 2016, nobody denies that, it was
disclosed. He denies meeting with these
hot shots. And we need to know whether
there’s anything other than that that was
used to get the warrant on him.”

Claims that Page met with Sechin and Divyekin appear in

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the FBI’s
apparent failure to completely disclose the anti-Trump
dossier’s role in seeking surveillance warrants was “very
irresponsible,” speaking during an interview Tuesday on
“The Laura Ingraham Show.”
the Steele dossier, Mukasey said, noting that the GOP
lawmakers claimed the dossier “was really the ingredient
that resulted in the issuance of the warrant” to surveil
Page. “And if that’s true and its background was not
completely disclosed, that’s very irresponsible.”

President Donald Trump declassified a memo from GOP

members of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence alleging that the FBI relied on the dossier,
written by former British spy Christopher Steele, to justify
spying on former Trump campaign official Carter Page.

The GOP lawmakers claimed that the FBI did not disclose
key information to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court about the dossier, which
Page told Ingraham on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle"
was funded by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
earlier in February that he had
and the Democratic National Committee, which she
controlled as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee.
"never met Sechin in my life."
“I think it’s important … for us to find out "That was the money claim, that there were
what that application, what that FISA these two people — Sechin and Divyekin,
application warrant on Carter Page actually the other one who he also says he did not
said,” Mukasey, a member of former meet — who supposedly, they were the
President George W. Bush’s administration people that might provide a basis for a
and former U.S. District Judge for the claim that there was some sort of Russian
Southern District of New York, told host influence on the campaign," Mukasey said.
Laura Ingraham. "Yet [Page] has a credible denial."
“The money claim against [Page] was that
he met with two people named [Igor]
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Trump issued a series of tweets Tuesday morning quoting
various pieces of evidence revealing
"NO COLLUSION" between himself and
the Russians during the 2016 U.S.
presidential campaign. When Ingraham
asked Mukasey if he believed Trump's
tweets were irrelevant or unwise,
.
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Mukasey answered, "Between not smart
and irrelevant."
"The tweet storms I don't think are helpful,"
Mukasey said. "And to say that there
wasn't any collusion is by and large
irrelevant. He wasn't the one who it was
claimed colluded, but rather people in his
campaign. So, again — his tweets don't
weigh one way or another in my view."
 Mueller Dismisses Bank Fraud Charges Against
Manafort’s Business Associate Rick Gates
By Cristina Laila
February 27, 2018, 2:19 Pm

They avoided paying taxes by disguising their payments as

On Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s team moved to officially dismiss
bank fraud charges against Paul Manafort’s
business associate Rick Gates after he
pleaded guilty of tax fraud and money
laundering, reports WaPo.
loans, according to the grand jury, hid money in foreign
bank accounts and made false claims to banks to get real
estate loans.
As part of the plea, Gates agreed to cooperate with special
counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe regarding “any and
all matters” deemed relevant to his investigation.

“Under the terms of the plea agreement, the

government agreed that it would ‘move
promptly to dismiss without prejudice the
charges brought against [Gates] in the Eastern
District of Virginia and [Gates] waives venue as
to such charges in the event he breaches this
Agreement,’” attorneys for the special counsel
wrote in a court filing Tuesday.

Rick Gates joined the Trump campaign in early 2016 after

Paul Manafort was brought on as Chairman.

Last week, Mueller hit Paul Manafort with a second

indictment. Of course the charges brought against
Manafort and Gates have NOTHING to do with Trump-
The Washington Post reports:
Russia collusion during the 2016 presidential election.
The special counsel investigating Russia’s
Robert Mueller and his team of liberal hack lawyers are
interference in the 2016 election has moved to
collecting fat paychecks off the backs of taxpayers to hunt
drop 22 tax and bank fraud charges against
for a crime that doesn’t even exist. Russian collusion isn’t
Rick Gates, a former top official in President
even a crime.
Trump’s campaign.
Furthermore, Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians who ran
The move was part of Gates’s agreement to
an online troll farm was all a publicity stunt to justify his
plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United
salary and existence. The Russians will never even see the
States and lying to the FBI.
inside of a US court (if they even exist).
The day before he admitted to the two charges
Mueller’s operation needs to be shut down and a Special
in D.C. federal court, Gates was indicted in the
Counsel needs to be appointed to investigate Mueller and
Eastern District of Virginia along with former
the criminal cabal in the DOJ and FBI who promoted
business partner Paul J. Manafort. The cases
Hillary’s phony dossier.
center around what prosecutors allege was a
multi-year scheme by the pair to hide money
from their work for a Ukrainian political party
from American authorities.

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 AG SESSIONS: DOJ Will Open
Official Investigation Into Obama’s FISA Abuse
By Cristina Laila
February 27, 2018, 3:13 Pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told
reporters on Tuesday the Department of
Justice will open an investigation into FISA
abuses after Obama’s FBI, DOJ used
Hillary’s phony dossier to obtain a FISA
warrant to spy on Trump’s camp during the
2016 election.
Sessions said Inspector General Michael Horowitz will be
taking on the investigation.
On February 2nd, the House Intel Committee led by
Chairman Nunes released their classified FISA memo.
The 4-page FISA memo revealed the phony dossier
formed an essential part to obtaining the original FISA
warrant and the three subsequent renewals.
We also found out the political origins of the dossier were
known to the FBI and DOJ yet kept from the FISA court.
Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe also
testified that if not for the dossier, the FBI would never
have sought the FISA warrant on former Trump campaign
advisor Carter Page.

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam

Schiff has been in panic mode since Chairman Nunes
discovered the FISA abuses and unmasking scandal.

On Saturday, Schiff released his Dem spin memo only to

have Chairman Nunes crush him with a point by point
refutation.

The investigation into the FISA abuses better not be a

sham like the FBI’s pathetic investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private server.
Via The Washington Examiner:

“Yes, it will be investigated,” Sessions told

reporters at the court that oversees FISA
warrants.

Sessions said an investigation it is the

“appropriate thing” to do so, and that his
department’s inspector general “will take that as
one of the matters he’ll deal
with.”Sessions told Fox News on Sunday the
FISA process will be investigated, and White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders said Tuesday that this move will be Mitchell failed to mention that Fant was running for
supported. Florida Attorney General in 2018 until her next guest,
former Democratic Mayor Philip Levine, was on the air,
“I think that’s the role of the Department of and even then she did so only as an afterthought. By
Justice, and we’re glad that they’re fulfilling that contrast, she made note of Levine’s ongoing campaign for
job,” she said. the Florida Governorship while introducing him, after
which she casually acknowledged Fant’s campaign.
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Levine had the following to say about Fant’s assertions:
It’s a shame. You know, you see the puppet strings behind
him. They’re being actually coordinated by the NRA. You
should have had a disclaimer running across the bottom.
That’s just double talk, he doesn’t want to do the right
thing. We understand what’s going on.
Of course, Mitchell offered no pushback, instead allowing
Levine to give what essentially mounted to a campaign
speech. Her participation in the interview was minimal,
amounting to a single question about what made him a
superior candidate to fellow Democratic politician Gwen
Graham, one of his primary challengers.
Little needs to be said of the stark disparity in treatment
that Fant and Levine received. At this point, even casual
viewers of cable news have come to expect the sort of bias
that Mitchell demonstrated. However, it is rare that we are
presented with so clear a juxtaposition as the two
successive interviews that Ms. Mitchell conducted on
Tuesday.
A full transcript of the segment can be found below. Click
"expand" for more:
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports
02/27/2018
12:21 p.m. EST
ANDREA MITCHELL: Thank you very much for joining us today.
Give me your thinking about why you wouldn't want TO ban
assault weapons given their – semiautomatic assault weapons,
given the role that AR-15s and other weapons of this type have
played in not just Parkland but other killings.
FL REP. JAY FANT: Andrea, remember my first obligation as an
elected official is to defend the Constitution and make sure we
don't trample on Constitutional rights when emotions are high
and as that last video showed, emotions are high. Families are
still in Tallahassee grieving and talking to us about their losses.
But ultimately, semiautomatic rifles are included in the family of
firearms that Americans hold dear as Second Amendment right.
And it is my obligation to make sure that right is preserved, as
well as move to solutions that wil actually defend the children at
the schools. Of which the house and Senate bills have good
measures on.
MITCHELL: Let me ask you about that Second Amendment right,
because there’s plenty of legal analysis that the Second
Amendment, in Heller even the Late Justice Scalia wrote, that the
Second Amendment is not an absolute. They certainly upheld the
handguns, but the fact that there could be reasonable restrictions
on these kinds of weapons has been upheld by many courts.
FANT: Well, remember also that there are very many reasonable
restrictions already in place in Florida. I'll make two points.
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Preventing 18 to 21-year-olds from possessing or purchasing any
firearm whatsoever, which is major Constitutional infringement
from the Bill of Rights, still doesn't prevent a criminal of any age
from obtaining a weapon of any kind on the street or through
theft, or through borrowing, or what have you. So we come down
to this, Andrea, how do we protect the kids? If we somehow
waved a wand and said no law-abiding citizen should have a
firearm, these crimes will not stop. And I can't sleep at night
knowing that's the case. That's why we’re looking at sentinels
and marshals in our schools to protect the kids.
MITCHELL: At the same time though, if the guns were not
available to an 18 or 19-year-old, that could be one step. If the
guns did not exist you would not have had the terror, the
massacre that you had. You can talk about mental health and
other restrictions, and everything is part of this mosaic but the
guns are the differentiator here. If these weapons were not so
available on the streets, and easily purchased by someone with
the terrible mental problems of Nicholas Cruz, this would not
have happened.
FANT: I know you're very well read on these matters, Andrea, but
I will point you to the past federal ban on semiautomatic rifles.
There were still plenty of heinous crimes that occurred during
time, including Columbine. What we need to do is harden the
schools so that when I drop my children off, I know that if
someone comes in to do harm, they will be met with force. Not a
policy that may or may not have an effect. S what we are looking
for now are real-life solutions, realtime.
MITCHELL: Thank you very much. I know this debate will
continue in Tallahassee and around the nation and we appreciate
very much your coming on today. Thank you.
FANT: My pleasure.
MITCHELL: And while at the same time, more a thousand gun
control activists, including students from Parkland, Florida, are
rallying at the state capitol, pushing for tighter gun laws. One of
the leaders of that rally is former Democratic mayor Philip Levine,
who is now running for the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Thank you. Let me ask you to respond a to what you just heard
from Representative Fant, who is running for Attorney General, I
should say.
MAYOR PHILIP LEVINE: It’s a shame. You know, you see the
puppet strings behind him. They’re being actually coordinated by
the NRA. You should have had a disclaimer running across the
bottom. That’s just double talk, he doesn’t want to do the right
thing. We understand what’s going on. I led, with the Women’s
March of Florida, a massive rally yesterday in Tallahassee. The
students that came up, the teachers that came up, they all have
one mission: to make our schools as safe as possible.
Unfortunately the Senate sided with the NRA, like with this
gentleman, that he just talked about right there. But it is
unfortunate. Andrea, we delivered about 7,000 petitions from
Floridians that want sensible gun reform. I'm a gun owner. I have
a concealed weapons permit. But we know we must ban those
AR-15s. But I can tell you, Andrea, what you happens in Florida
will effect the whole country. Let's just hope that people around
the country that are watching this will come on to our website,
PhilipLevine2018, and sign a petition so we get these petitions, to
let these people in Tallahassee know that we mean business.
MITCHELL: One of the other people in your race is Gwen
Graham, former Member of Congress. She is also in favor of
some gun restrictions. So why would you be a better candidate
than she?
LEVINE: I can only speak for myself, Andrea. I'm a successful
entrepreneur who started with $500 and built a company, and
became a successful two-term mayor. I’ve reformed a police
department. We’ve done a lot. All I know is I’m somebody who
can get things done. But more importantly, it is not about me. It is
.
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about Floridians. It is about making our state safe. It’s about
actually everybody coming together. An AR-15, a bullet, it’s not a
Republican or Democratic issue. Gun reform is a human safety
issue. That's what is so sad about this whole situation. These
kids go back it school tomorrow. What a shame they have to go
back it school knowing that these folks in Tallahassee sided with
special interests and NRA, and not doing the right thing for the
people of Florida.
MITCHELL: We should point out that same situation is taking
hold in Congress that despite all of the passion, the marches, the
protests. Right now at least, Congress seems hopelessly
gridlocked on this issue. Mr. Levine, thank you for coming.
Thanks for being on. And we are of course reaching out to
others in that race, including Gwen Graham.
 Sessions: DOJ To Open Probe Into
Obama-Era FISA Court ABUSES By Deep State
Posted On February 28, 2018
(National Sentinel) Light of Day: Attorney General Jeff
Sessions on Monday confirmed that the Justice
Department was launching an investigation into alleged
abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by
the Obama administration.
In particular, Sessions wants to know if the FISC was
provided false or misleading information by ranking
members of the FBI and DoJ in order to obtain a
surveillance warrant so they could spy on members of the
Trump campaign.
“Yes, it will be investigated,” Sessions told
reporters at the court that oversees FISA
warrants.
He added that an investigation it is the “appropriate thing”
to do, and that his department’s inspector general
“will take that as one of the matters he’ll deal
with.”
Sessions told Fox News on Sunday the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process will be
.
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investigated, and White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that this move will be
supported.
“I think that’s the role of the Department of
Justice, and we’re glad that they’re fulfilling that
job,” she said.
Earlier this month Republicans on the House Intelligence
Committee released a “FISA memo” documenting serial
abuses of the FISA process so that Obama-era officials
could spy on Team Trump.
Republicans also want to know what former President
Obama knew about the spying scandal and when.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael
Horowitz is expected to wrap up an investigation that he’s
been conducting quietly in the background regarding the
FBI’s so-called investigation into Hillary Clinton’s
mishandling of classified emails.
That report is due this spring.
 James Comey Promotes His New Audio Book – Trolls
Trump ‘This Time There Will Be A Tape’
By Cristina Laila
February 27, 2018, 4:52 Pm

Former FBI Director James Comey took a

swipe at President Trump from his Twitter
account Tuesday as he promoted his new
memoir set to be released April 17th.

On Tuesday, James Comey posted a picture of himself

recording his voice for his audio book ‘A Higher Loyalty
– Truth, Lie and Leadership’.

Comey trolled Trump by saying ‘this time there will be a

tape’ referring to President Trump previously taunting
Comey about possible tapes of their conversations.

James Comey tweeted,

“Lordy, this time there will be a tape. Audio

book almost finished.”

Just a few days after President Trump fired FBI Director

James Comey, the President hammered Comey from his
Twitter account about possible tapes of their
conversations.

James Comey told President Trump that he was not under

investigation however the former FBI Director didn’t
confirm that to the press.

On May 12th, Trump tweeted,

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 “James Comey better hope that there are no Comey ended up giving contents of memos he kept of his
“tapes” of our conversations before he starts conversations with President Trump to a friend to leak to
leaking to the press!” The New York Times.

Comey claimed President Trump asked him for his loyalty

and also asked him to end the Flynn investigation.

This leak prompted the appointment of a Special Counsel

which Comey admitted was his goal.

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 Trump Appears To Push For
DOJ Probe Into Hillary Clinton Scandals
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
February 27, 2018

In the wake of his election, Trump backed down on his

campaign call to have the DOJ investigate Clinton, but he
has returned to the “lock her up” theme since then -- and
has repeatedly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions
for not investigating Clinton more aggressively.

In his tweets Tuesday, Trump also branded FBI Special

Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe a witch hunt,
quoting experts who appeared on “Fox & Friends” to
support his long-standing argument that the probe is
President Trump branded Robert Mueller's baseless and that there was no collusion between members
Russia probe a "witch hunt." (AP) of his team and Russian-linked individuals in the 2016
election.
President Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to promote calls
for the Justice Department to investigate alleged criminal
activity by his former Democratic presidential rival Hillary
Clinton -- citing a Fox News analyst who suggested that
the DOJ may be sitting on a "treasure trove" of evidence.

Trump quoted Fox News' Senior Judicial Analyst Judge

Andrew Napolitano, who suggested on "The Story with
Martha MacCallum" that someone at the department may
have evidence of criminality from Clinton or her camp that
should be investigated.

Ken Starr, the independent counsel tasked with

investigating Clinton administration controversies in the
1990s, said on Sunday that there has been “no evidence of
Napolitano was, in turn, reacting to an interview Trump collusion” so far from the Mueller team, prompting a tweet
gave to Fox's "Justice with Judge Jeanine" on Saturday from the president’s account.
night when he suggested that someone should look into the
Clinton campaign's "fraudulent actions" during the 2016
presidential run in relation to the funding of a controversial
anti-Trump dossier that was used by the FBI and DOJ to
obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide
Carter Page.

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 Trump then tweeted in all caps:
Trump quoted constitutional law professor Jonathan
Turley, who also downplayed the probe on Sunday, noting
that collusion was implausible based on evidence seen so
far.

Trump’s tweets come after the release of a Democratic

rebuttal to a GOP memo that found that intelligence
agencies had used a Democratic-funded dossier as the
basis to get a warrant to spy on Page.

Trump branded the Dem memo a “total political

and legal bust.”

Trump has repeatedly said there was no collusion from his

team and has claimed that the investigation is politically
motivated and pushed by Democrats upset by Trump’s
win.

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 WINNING! President Trump
Saves $1.4 Billion In Boeing Air Force One Deal
By Jim Hoft
February 27, 2018, 4:59 Pm

Donald Trump Jr. celebrated his father’s latest success

today.

President Trump reached a deal with Boeing

Corporation on the development of two new
Air Force One planes.

The president reportedly saved the country $1.4 billion on

the deal.

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 FBI Informant In Uranium One Deal Says Russians
BRAGGED That The Clinton’s Would SEAL The DEAL
Posted On February 28, 2018
(National Sentinel) Treasonous: A report on Monday
claims that an FBI informant has told Congress that
Russian operatives involved in the Uranium One deal were
convinced that Bill and Hillary Clinton could be
manipulated into helping them “seal” the agreement with
the Obama administration.
As reported by political operative Dick Morris, writing in
The Western Journal, the attorney for FBI informant
William D. Campbell said her client informed
congressional committees that the Russians
“bragged that [Bill and Hillary Clinton’s)
influence in the Obama administration would
ensure CIFUS (Committee on Foreign
Investments in the United States) approval for
[the= Uranium One deal.”
And, Campbell attorney Victoria Toensing noted further,
he “was right.”
Morris noted that before CIFUS — a panel on which
Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, sat — could approve
the Uranium One deal, nine investors in the company gave
a total of $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
He noted further:
The deal called for the United States to allow
Russia to purchase 20 percent of our uranium
reserves, giving Russia access to vastly more
uranium than we have.
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Campbell testified that Russia’s goal was to
achieve global hegemony over the supply of
uranium.
The Russians sought the Uranium One deal
very aggressively.
Morris goes on to state that according to Campbell, in the
years before the approval process by the U.S. government
came up, Russia placed 10 spies in the United States with a
singular mission, and that was go get close to Hillary
Clinton so she would help approve the deal.
He said the FBI managed to uncover the gaggle of spies
about a year before the deal was set to be approved. “The
Bureau acted to arrest the spies when it did because one of
them had risen to a high position in a company owned by
Hillary’s finance chairman,” Morris wrote.
In addition to the foundation, Bill Clinton himself also
profited handsomely during this period. Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Morris writes,
“arranged for [him] to address the Renaissance
Bank in Moscow, an institution closely
connected to the Kremlin.”
For that the ex-POTUS was paid a fee — which was
personal income for him and his then-Secretary of State
wife — of $500,000.
Morris adds other players involved in this scandal:
To try to keep word of the Uranium One deal
under wraps and to bury the story about the
Russian spies, FBI Director Robert Mueller
arranged for the suspects to take plea bargains
admitting to minor offenses and then spirited
them out of the country quickly — in a prisoner
exchange with Russia — before the media
could interrogate them.
Earlier this month investigative reporter Sara A. Carter
said Campbell “broke his silence” and provided testimony
to at least three congressional committees regarding the
Uranium One deal and the alleged targeting of the Clintons
in order to get the deal approved.
And The Hill‘s John Solomon reported Feb. 7 that
Campbell provided a written statement to the committees
saying “that Moscow routed millions of dollars to America
with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill
Clinton‘s charitable efforts while Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton quarterbacked a ‘reset’ in U.S.-Russian relations.”
He added:
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“The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in the
statement obtained by The Hill that he was told
by Russian nuclear executives that Moscow
had hired the American lobbying firm APCO
Worldwide specifically because it was in
position to influence the Obama administration,
and more specifically Hillary Clinton.”
 Donald Trump Jr. Zings
Obama And Liberals In Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
February 27, 2018, 5:45 Pm

Everyone magically becomes experts on guns after a mass

Donald Trump Jr. is on a roll! shooting, including lawmakers.

The President’s oldest son hammered liberals from his On Tuesday, Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said we need
Twitter account Tuesday. to ban “machine gun magazines”. Brilliant. Just Brilliant.

Don Jr. zinged Rep. Maloney and said,

“Well, I for one am glad to see that our decision

makers have absolutely no knowledge about
what they are talking about. Very comforting.”

Don Jr. laughed at Obama’s ridiculous claim of “We

didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us.”

Liberals were also mocking President Trump for saying he

would have confronted the Parkland shooter in a Monday
press conference.

Donald Trump Jr. re-tweeted a New York Daily News

article from 1991 wherien Donald Trump stopped a bat
wielding mugger.
On Tuesday, Trump reached a deal with Boeing
corporation on the development of two new Air Force One “People are mocking Trump for saying he’d run
planes and reportedly saved the country $1.4 billion on the into the school to stop the shooter today…BUT
deal. in 1991, he had his driver pull over his car to
run out of it to stop a mugging.”
Trump Jr responded to the news by saying, “It’s amazing
what can happen when you actually bother to negotiate.
No more waste. #maga”

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 The Trumpian Rorschach Test Never Ends
By Roger L Simon
February 27, 2018

Joseph Epstein begins his Tuesday Wall Street Journal
oped, "The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is
All His Policies," in a manner similar to his subject -- by
praising a family member.
My son Mark, whose mind is more capacious, objective
and generous than mine, nicely formulated the Donald
Trump problem for thoughtful conservatives.
“I approve of almost everything he has done,”
my son remarked, “and I disapprove of almost
everything he has said.”
Second the motion. I approve of the Neil Gorsuch
appointment, the moving of the U.S. Embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem, the removal of often-strangling
regulations from much commerce, the opening of the
Keystone pipeline, the tax-reform law, and more.
I disapprove of the bragging tweets, the touchiness, the
crude put-downs of anyone who disagrees with him
(“Little Marco, ” “insecure Oprah, ” “Sloppy Steve, ” and
the rest), the unrestrained vulgarity. America has had
ignorant, corrupt, vain, lazy presidents before, but in
Donald Trump we have the first president who is a genuine
boor.
Now I must either not be a "thoughtful conservative" or
have an affinity for boors (or even be one) because I
disagree emphatically with the Epsteins, père et fils
(French employed to differentiate me from the common
horde of, well, boors). In fact, I would go so far as to say
that it is Trump's very boorishness, if you want to call it
that, that has allowed him to succeed to such a degree, i. e.
to the point that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (no
boor he) was able to avow
"2017 was the best year for conservatives in the
30 years that I've been here. The best year. On
all fronts."
Trump wouldn't have won without being a boor. We would
have had President Hillary -- who is even more boorish, to
tell the truth. And you wouldn't have the Democrats
walking into walls, calling thousand-dollar bonuses
"crumbs" as the mega-boorish Nancy Pelosi did and does.
And how about cameraholic Adam Schiff when it comes to
boors? And then there's Bernie with his warmed over
1930s socialist gasbaggery. How boorish is that? Maybe
we have an epidemic.
.
Despite all this, I'm not about to accuse Joseph Epstein of
snobbery. I don't know him and I respect his writing.
Something else is going on here and we all have been
living through it since Donald marched down those golden
stairs.
He is our Rorschach test, our mirror. He tells us as much,
if not more, about ourselves as we do about him. Those
who cherish good manners and a certain measure of
formality and protocol despise the man. Those who call
themselves progressive and, usually, don't pay much
attention to good manners and certainly not formality (cf.
pussy hats) despise him even more. They see in him what
they want, like that Rorschach ink blot.
Then there are those of us who are contrarian by nature.
We enjoy Donald just because he wants to shake things
up. (Yes, like it or not, I have that trait.) Others like him
because they feel as if they were neglected for a long time,
the forgotten men and women.
Most of this is only tangentially related to policies. It's
about our personalities and our culture. That is why
someone like Epstein who agrees with virtually everything
Trump has done can be so squeamish.
I can identify. I used to feel somewhat that way. While
covering the campaign, I wrote "Is There a Cure for
Trumpophrenia?" to express my ambivalence and also to
signal, I am not proud to admit, that I didn't want to
associate myself with Donald's vulgarities.
I've changed about all that for some time now. I regard his
tweets as a feature, not a bug. I can't imagine a world
without them at this point. Yes, he changes his mind and
contradicts himself on occasion, but somehow I, and I
suspect you, dear reader, have a sense of what he really
means and where he's going to end up. Even Epstein
clearly agrees that the destination -- what he actually does
-- is almost always pretty good or even excellent.
So what we get with the tweets is a look at presidential
process that we rarely see. If they were read as that,
instead of as "gotchas," as the mainstream media
invariably does, it could be a fascinating and even
revealing journey with positive implications for the
country.
But since Trump is such a Rorschach test, since he evinces
such powerful emotions, that is unlikely to happen -- at
least not until the last months of his eighth year.

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 Gregg Jarrett Rips AWOL Jeff Sessions: Did He Approve
His Announcement With Rod Rosenstein First? (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 27, 2018, 9:02 Pm

Gregg Jarrett:

I was astonished as I’m sure you were that Jeff

Sessions stated the obvious, we’re going to
investigate wrongdoing. I wonder if he checked
with the guy who really runs the Department of
Justice Rod Rosenstein to make sure it was OK
with him.

Gregg Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

On Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions

shocked the world when he told reporters
the Department of Justice will open an
investigation into FISA abuses after
Obama’s FBI, DOJ used Hillary’s phony
dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on
the Trump campaign.

On Tuesday night Gregg Jarrett asked if

Sessions OK’ed the announcement with his
boss Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein.
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 REPORT: Uranium One Informant
Reveals Russians “Bragged About Bribing Clintons”
(VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 27, 2018, 9:55 Pm
In a video report released Monday,
veteran political pollster Dick Morris,
revealed FBI informant William
Campbell told congressional
investigators that Russians involved in
the Uranium One deal bragged about
bribing the Clintons.
Credit: Dick Morris
Morris reports:
The lawyer for FBI informant William
Campbell said that her client has told
congressional committees that the
Russians “bragged that the Clintons’
influence in the Obama Administration
would ensure CIFUS (Committee on
Foreign Investments in the United States)
approval for [the] Uranium One deal.” […]
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Before CIFUS, on which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
sat, approved the Uranium One deal, nine investors in
Uranium One gave the Clinton Foundation a combined
total of $145 million.
The deal called for the United States to allow Russia to
purchase 20 percent of our uranium reserves, giving Russia
access to vastly more uranium than we have.
The Hill’s John Solomon recently reported Campbell broke
his silence on a Russia plot to steer millions of dollars to
the U.S. in an effort to benefit the Clinton Foundation.
John Solomon reports:
An FBI informant connected to the Uranium
One controversy told three congressional
committees in written testimony that
Moscow routed millions of dollars to
America with the expectation it would be
used to benefit Bill Clinton‘s charitable
efforts while Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-
Russian relations.
The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in
the testimony obtained by The Hill that he
was told by Russian nuclear executives
that Moscow had hired the American
lobbying firm APCO Worldwide specifically
because it was in position to influence the
Obama administration, and more
specifically Hillary Clinton. […]
Campbell said Russian nuclear officials
“told me at various times that they
expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3
million annual lobbying fee it was receiving
from the Russians to provide in-kind
support for the Clinton’s Global Initiative,”
he added in the testimony.
Things have been relativity quiet on the Uranium-One
front since Justice Department officials in the District of
Maryland announced Mark Lambert of Mount Airy,
Maryland would be indicted on 11 counts related to
foreign bribery. The charges stem from an alleged scheme
by Lambert to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at
JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX).
Circa reporter Sara Carter previously reported on the
background of APCO Worldwide Inc., the consulting firm
with ties to the Clinton family that lobbied on behalf of
Russian nuclear giant TENEX in relation to the Uranium
One deal.
Circa reports:
Roughly $3 million in payments from 2010
to 2011 were made to APCO Worldwide
Inc., which is described on their website as
the second largest lobbying firm in the
United States.
Long-time Clinton supporter and APCO
CEO, Margery Kraus signed the continuing
contract on April, 12, 2010, with TENEX, as
the Russian company’s top executive
Russian businessman Vadim Milkerin was
being investigated by the FBI for kickbacks
and bribery involving American companies,
according to the APCO TENEX contract
.
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and court documents obtained by Circa.
TENEX is a subsidiary of the the Russian
state owned nuclear giant Rosatom,
according to financial filings of the
company.
In a head-scratching statement, APCO Worldwide Inc.
claimed it had nothing to do with the Clinton-Uranium
One scandal.
In a statement to Circa, APCO Worldwide Inc. said,
“APCO was not involved on any aspect of
Uranium One, or the CFIUS process
relating to it. APCO Worldwide undertook
activities on behalf of Tenex in 2010 and
2011 relating to civil nuclear cooperation,
which APCO properly disclosed in detail at
the time in public filings. Separately, since
2007-2008, APCO provided services in
kind to the Clinton Global Initiative. APCO’s
work for Tenex and APCO’s work for the
Clinton Global Initiative were separate and
unconnected, publicly documented from
the outset, and fully consistent with all
regulations and US law.”
 Threat Or Bad Word Choice? John Podesta
Warns Jared Kushner To Wear Kevlar Vest
By Kristinn Taylor
February 27, 2018, 11:39 Pm

John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s failed

2016 presidential campaign. posted a tweet Tuesday
evening warning senior Trump administration advisor–and
presidential son-in-law–Jared Kushner that he “better start
wearing his kevlar on his back.”

John Podesta, official White House photo via Wikipedia.

Podesta made the comment about a Washington Post

article hit piece on Kushner published Tuesday. Podesta’s
full comment reads, “Seems like those “unnamed sources A sample of the milder reactions:
peddling second-hand hearsay with rank speculation that
continue to leak inaccurate information,” came straight
from 1600 Penn. Jared better start wearing his kevlar on
his back.”

In normal times Podesta’s Kevlar comment would be seen

as a way of talking about someone being undermined by
White House colleagues–‘backstabbed’ would be the
proper term.
Is this a threat against Jared Kushner?
However, given the current climate of political violence,
@DHSgov @FBI @SecretService
murder and mass shootings, some online are taking
If Podesta had any brains he would STFU
Podesta’s comment as something sinister in the wake of
already… h/t @AulonaBC
repeated violent attacks on Trump supporters, the unsolved
pic.twitter.com/tFFhJN2JON
murder of DNC worker Seth Rich, the mass shooting
attack on GOP congressmen and the recent mass shootings — Social Claude (@SocialClaude)
in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida. February 28, 2018

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 A Republican who warned a senior Obama official he
“better start wearing his kevlar on his back” would be
hounded by Democrats and their media allies no matter the
context.

Being that he is a well connected Democrat who served in

high ranking positions in the Bill Clinton and Barack
Obama administrations, Podesta will likely be given a pass
by the media for what at best is an incedibly bad choice of
words in the current violent political climate.
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 Dinner With Deep State: Former Top DOJ Official Tells
All On Mueller, Comey, Mccabe And Punk Peter Strzok
By Jim Hoft
February 28, 2018, 6:30 Am
Introduction: This interview took place this
week between a Gateway Pundit reporter
and a former Department head in the
Department of Justice. The names were
withheld due to privacy concerns.
A former Department Head in the DOJ expressed his anger
and shame with his former agency in an exclusive
discussion with The Gateway Pundit. We were told that
current and former agents throughout the FBI feel the same
way. They are repulsed by the corruption of the recent
leadership in the Department of Justice.
We interviewed a former Head of a major department
under the Justice Department. We’ve kept the identity of
the individual anonymous and will refer to this person as
“Mr. DOJ”. Here are the notes from our discussion.
Mr. DOJ started off by commenting that former leaders in
the FBI are ‘pissed’ and ‘ashamed’ of the recent actions
taken by the corrupt leadership at the FBI. Both current
and past leaders within and retired from the FBI are very
upset with the current leaders within the FBI who
committed what they describe as criminal acts.
Hillary Clinton
We spoke to Mr. DOJ in 2016 after Former FBI Director
James Comey announced that he was not going to
recommend charges for Hillary Clinton in the email
scandal. Mr. DOJ said at the time that Comey let Hillary
off because Comey wanted to get out the information on
Hillary’s crimes before the election and the only way to do
this was to announce them and then let her off easy. Mr.
DOJ stated then that if Comey had pressed charges, he
thought that all of this would be buried until after the
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election and the American people would never know. Mr.
DOJ implied that he spoke with Comey directly about
Comey’s actions but this was not verified at the time.
Now Mr. DOJ says that it appears that Comey was
contacting leaders within the Justice Department both
current and retired to share the narrative noted above. Mr.
DOJ mentioned he has a picture signed by Comey with
himself which he took down and will no longer put on his
wall. Mr. DOJ can’t stand Comey and is very angry about
the actions that Comey and others at the DOJ and FBI took
that he sees as criminal.
Former and current DOJ leadership are very discouraged,
angered and ashamed of James Comey’s actions. Mr. DOJ
says Comey’s actions to leak information to the press were
“criminal.” Comey is no longer respected in any way by
the current and former leaders in the FBI.
Mr. DOJ said that if he had done what Hillary Clinton did
with classified information he’d be in prison. The
information Hillary stored on her server included
extremely classified material. Some of the items were so
classified that for anyone to see them they would have to
go into a special room at a special location and leave their
phone behind. Also, Mr. DOJ said that anyone with the
ability to see the classified information that Clinton had
access to is constantly reminded by the DOJ that classified
information should be handled appropriately and with care.
Hillary lied when she said that she didn’t know the
information was classified.
FISA
Mr. DOJ stated that he prepared and presented FISA
applications to the FISA Court. The reason that the rate of
applications approved is so high is because the standards
are so high with the court. Mr. DOJ knows that
applications have to be well written and cover all the bases
before being provided to the court. He reviewed
applications for a time and was responsible for reviewing
them. They had to be perfect when they went to the court.
When the FISA applications were sent to the FISA Court
to spy on President Trump, the fact that any information
was omitted or hidden from the court, was a criminal act.
Inspector General
Mr. DOJ believes that the report coming out from the IG
will detail many criminal acts. The reason he believes this
is because the key individuals who are involved in the
FISA and Hillary scandals (e.g. McCabe and Strzok) are
all lawyering up.
We asked what about the IG finding the texts between
Strzok and Page and notifying Mueller and not the
Congress. Mr. DOJ stated that that is standard protocol. If
the IG finds someone doing criminal activity the proper
action would be to inform the related party’s supervisor
ASAP.
We also asked why did the IG turn the 5 months of lost
Strzok and Page text messages over to the FBI and not
Congress after the DOJ had said they lost these text
messages. Again, according to Mr. DOJ, this was proper
procedure and the IG had no duty to hand these over to
Congress as the IG works for the DOJ and not Congress.
Also, Mr. DOJ said that it was lie when the FBI said they
lost the text messages.
“The FBI doesn’t lose anything.”
Congress can request these text messages from the IG if
they wish.
Overall, Mr. DOJ believes that the IG report will be very
damning to current and former DOJ employees.
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Trump and Mueller
Mr. DOJ said that that President Trump
should never sit for an interview with
Mueller.
He said that he and Mueller’s team could easily get the
President or anyone to lie when in a question and answer
session. It is easy. Often times the FBI and DOJ would get
those they were interrogating to lie and then state that it’s 5
years in prison for lying under oath and use this as a
measure to get people to talk.
Mr. DOJ knows Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and all
the leadership at the FBI and DOJ in the news. McCabe
was always trying to move ahead. Strzok was a punk. Lisa
Page was a slut. It is sick what they were doing. He is
disgusted with Comey.
He doesn’t know why Mueller ever took the case. He has
many reasons to recuse himself. The investigation is
tainted because of this. Overall, Mr. DOJ doesn’t believe
anyone will get charged. His significant other disagrees.
We mentioned that we believe that the Manafort suit of
Mueller, Rosenstein and the DOJ will shut down the
Mueller investigation. We also hope that the real crooks
will then be investigated and thrown in prison.
 Why Did The FBI Let A Congressional
Hacking Suspect Leave The Country?
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
9:02 PM 02/27/2018
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: U.S. Attorney
General Jeff Sessions holds a news conference at the
Department of Justice on December 15, 2017 in
Washington, DC. Sessions called the question-and-answer
session with reporters to highlight his department's fight to
reduce violent crime. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Images)
 FBI agents apprehended Hina Alvi at an airport in
2017
 She was suspected of hacking Congress and is the
wife of Imran Awan
 Awan and his family members allegedly logged into
servers of congressmen for whom they did not
work
In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of
Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress,
and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty
exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a
search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal
amount of cash.
The FBI allowed Hina Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, to board
the plane anyway — then filed paperwork saying agents
believed she had no intention of returning to the U.S.
For nearly a year since, the case has lingered despite the
House Office of Inspector General (OIG) determining that
the family of Pakistanis made “unauthorized access” to
Congress’s data shortly before the election.
Following revelations about the FBI’s actions in
the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s email server and Department of Justice
officials’ handling of the Trump dossier, attention has
turned to the agencies’ apparently lax attitude toward the
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congressional cyber breach case as perhaps the most
jarring failure to enforce laws in cases that overlap politics.
The OIG alleged Imran Awan and his family members
logged into servers of congressmen for whom they did not
work, logged in using members’ personal usernames,
covered their tracks, and continued to access data after
they’d been fired.
Though the findings place the case squarely into the
category of political cyber-crimes that have otherwise been
high-profile priorities, the lead FBI agent assigned to the
Awan case was a first-year agent, and not from one of the
FBI’s big-guns divisions. The charges brought by
prosecutors are so minor that Awan’s own lawyer
speculated they could be a “placeholder” for future
charges.
Server logs of government computers backed up the OIG’s
findings. Yet six months after the initial charges, no
additional counts have been brought, raising the question
of whether the DOJ is seriously investigating the potential
national security breach.
From the FBI affidavit:
On March 5, 2017, your Affiant, along with
agents from the FBI and U.S. Capitol
Police, approached Alvi at Dulles
International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia. Alvi
was about to board Qatar Airlines, Flight
708, to Doha, Qatar, on her way to Lahore,
Pakistan. Alvi was with her three children,
who your Affiant later learned were abruptly
taken out of school without notifying the
Fairfax County Public School System.
Alvi had numerous pieces of luggage with her, including
cardboard boxes. A secondary search of those items
revealed that the boxes contained household goods,
clothing, and food items. US Customs and Border
Protection conducted a search of Alvi’s bags immediately
prior to boarding the plane and located a total of $12,400
in US cash inside. Alvi was permitted to board the flight to
Qatar and she and her daughters have not returned to the
United States. Alvi has a return flight booked for a date in
September 2017.
Based on your Affiant’s observations at Dulles Airport,
and upon his experience and training, your Affiant does
not believe that Alvi has any intention to return to the
United States.
The FBI affidavit was filed in July 2017 after Awan also
attempted to board a flight to Pakistan — this time with
$9,000. Unlike Alvi, the FBI arrested Awan. Both were
indicted on charges of lying to the government to cash out
their congressional retirement fund and lying to a bank to
secure a loan.
Prosecutors said in court papers that they believe rounding
up that money and wiring it overseas was part of a plan to
flee from the underlying investigation.
“Based on the suspicious timing of that
transaction, Awan and Alvi likely knew they
were under investigation at that time,”
prosecutors later wrote. In other words, the
case isn’t actually about bank fraud, as
some Democrats claimed, because the
alleged fraud didn’t even occur until after
the investigation had begun. Yet they have
not charged them with anything in the
underlying investigation.
“We don’t use surveillance assets for loan
fraud,” Michael Sharkey, a retired FBI
agent with 24 years experience, said. “The
bureau doesn’t just do physical surveillance
willy-nilly. It’s a lot of manpower; they only
do it when its a serious case. I was thinking
they just didn’t have anything to hold her
on. But when they found that $12,000 in
cash, that changed.”
Anyone
“transporting more than USD $10,000 or its
equivalent” must declare it on a form before
going through customs, according to U.S.
Code Title 31 section 5361. Penalties
include “not only forfeiture of the money,
but a fine ranging from $250,000 to
$500,000 and jail time from 5 to 10 years.”
Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director, said the
agent on the case is “getting marginalized on the thing, he
doesn’t have the bigger picture.” He said the facts in the
case plainly call for the resources of both the FBI’s
counterintelligence division and the public corruption unit.
Peter Strzok, who sought to close down the investigation
into Clinton’s emails before the intelligence community IG
found classified materials, and who repeatedly voiced his
support for Democrats, was deputy assistant director of the
FBI’s counterintelligence division.
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Former U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy observed that
prosecutors waited until Alvi left the country to indict her
— even though the alleged fraud occurred weeks before
she left.
“The office is low-keying the Awan
prosecution,” McCarthy wrote. “The
indictment itself is drawn very narrowly. All
four charges flow from a financial-fraud
conspiracy of short duration. Only Imran
Awan and his wife are named as
defendants. There is no reference to Awan
family perfidy in connection with the House
communications system.”
(The IG report named others as suspects: brothers Abid
and Jamal Awan and friend Rao Abbas. None has been
charged with any crimes.)
The indictment also made no mention of the airport
encounters.
“Did prosecutors fail to mention the flight
evidence in hope of diverting attention from
the government’s decision to let Alvi flee?”
McCarthy asked. “Again, one would hope
not; but if not, what could the explanation
be?”
Alvi returned to the U.S. in October to be arraigned,
leading GOP Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona to speculate
Alvi had some reason to believe she would never face
serious charges. When it came time for the dual citizen to
turn herself in and surrender her passports, Alvi shook her
head “no” to say she didn’t have a Pakistani passport.
After whispered discussion with her attorney, she clarified
that she had a Pakistani passport but hadn’t brought it. The
court requested Alvi have her Pakistani passport mailed to
authorities if she could. Prosecutors not only didn’t ask for
jail, they didn’t request a GPS monitor. Awan has a GPS,
but Judge Tanya Chutkan — who was also the judge in the
Fusion GPS case until she recused herself — said she is
inclined to have the device removed, given the nature of
the current charges.
If prosecutors had any doubt the IG’s findings on Awan fit
into a troubling pattern of allegations, they need go no
further than to ask Alvi herself. After landing in Pakistan
in March, she filed a lawsuit against her husband, alleging
he was a fraudster who controlled her with violent threats.
Prosecutors in the U.S. never mentioned this, and she was
seated as a co-defendant directly across from her husband,
whom she refused to look at.
Starkey said defendants that may be under duress should
be separated. He pointed out that the DOJ missed out on an
obvious opportunity to “flip” Alvi, and they may be
placing her in danger. (Two other women romantically
linked to Awan called Virginia police on him in 2015, and
authorities discovered both women bloodied.)
The IG report called attention to suspicions that multiple
members’ data was being funneled onto one server — that
of the House Democratic Caucus. The entire server was
physically stolen soon after, three senior government
officials said.
That should have set the nation’s primary law enforcement
and intelligence bodies into full gear, Sharkey said.
“I cannot fathom that there’s not some
major investigation going on. It’s
outrageous the things that have happened
in this case,” he said.
As the FBI appeared to dedicate resources not
commensurate with the gravity of the findings, the case
seemed to shrink even further once it got to prosecutors.
Some apparent crimes depicted in the FBI’s affidavit were
missing from the indictment. The affidavit claims Alvi’s
tax returns show she did not pay taxes on income from a
different rental property for multiple years. It says Alvi
then falsely claimed the house wasn’t being rented out and
provided a supposed lease showing her mother lived there.
Agents talked to the real tenants and determined there was
rental income, but prosecutors didn’t charge her with tax
evasion.
If the server theft was designed to make the case harder to
prosecute, members of Congress who seemed to be wary
of another cybersecurity scandal appear to have joined in.
A Capitol Hill Republican involved with oversight on the
case said Democrats were refusing to press charges and
asserting the “Speech and Debate Clause” of the
Constitution, which protects lawmakers’ legislative
comments, to block prosecutors from evidence.
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of
Florida threatened the Capitol Police chief with
“consequences” if he didn’t return a key piece of evidence
and said Imran was being “persecuted.” Wasserman
Schultz’s brother is an assistant U.S. attorney at the office
handling the case, the U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia.
The legislative branch’s continued influence on the case is
apparent in several ways, including the presence of Capitol
Police officers at both airport encounters. Speaker of the
House Paul Ryan painted the FBI as merely offering
“assistance” to the Capitol Police, who report to the House
and whose evidence prosecutors cannot automatically
obtain.
Sharkey said when
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“you’ve got Congress involved, DOJ freaks
out, because those cases are very
sensitive.”
The FBI told numerous people it had hundreds of pages of
Suspicious Activity Reports detailing the Awans’ cash
transfers– reports that frequently lead to money laundering
or tax evasion charges.
Public records show the family ran suspicious limited
liability companies while they worked on Capitol Hill, and
those entities were not listed on their House financial
disclosure reports. Former Democratic Rep. Corrine
Brown of Florida went to prison in January for lying on
those same forms, yet prosecutors have not charged the
Awans.
The OIG report also claimed the Awans submitted
manipulated invoices for computer equipment to Congress,
the falsification of which no one disputes, and which DOJ
reportedly subpoenaed from vendors, but no one has been
charged for that.
Hosko said six months in, DOJ has all the tools it needs
and cannot blame the House, and inaction can only
indicate a lack of desire to pursue the case.
“I would hope the Capitol Police are being
forthcoming with the U.S. attorney, not just
telling them a part of what’s gone on here,”
Hosko said, alluding to the House’s
characterization of the incident as a “theft”
case. “But with these circumstances, [DOJ]
can’t put their head in the sand. You can’t
just say, ‘Well, someone on the Hill said it’s
Speech and Debate.’ There’s certainly a
way around it. This is [ Attorney General
Jeff] Sessions, and there’s a new mindset
in DOJ.”
(Michael Marando is the prosecutor. Since the case began,
President Donald Trump appointed a new U.S. attorney,
Jessie Liu.)
“I don’t see it as [members] having the
opportunity to press charges — the
government is the victim,” Hosko said.
If prosecutors don’t act, Hosko said, higher-level officials
could consider moving the case. “It could be the Eastern
District of Virginia has jurisdiction as well,” he said.
Their next court date is March 8.
 Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative
Group Series
 Court docs
 Intel Committee Dems ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Negligent’ In
Handling Of Breach By Their Own IT Aide
 Internal Probe Reported 'Unauthorized Access' To
Data, Logging In As Congressmen; Officials
Misrepresented Findings As 'Theft'
 House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings
Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
 Becerra Tried To Block Awan From House
Democratic Caucus Server, But Logins Continued;
He Didn't Go To Cops
 Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz Is Central
To Imran Awan Case
 18 Months In, Dem IT Aides Not Charged With Hill
Crimes Despite Evidence
 Used Political Influence To Have Fraud Charges
Dropped In Pakistan
 Own Wife Turns, Accuses Him Of Fraud, Violent
Threats
 Imran Awan 'Very Strongly' Wants To Block Review
Of Hard Drive, Was Using Alias
 Lawyer Says Congressmen Wanted Invoices
Falsified
 Sending Money To Police Officer In Pakistan
 Funneling 'Massive' Data Off Congressional Server,
Dems Claim It's Child's Homework
 'Like a Slave': Three Muslim Women, At Least One
Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran
 Had Secret Server, Caught Falsifying Evidence To
Cover It Up
 Imran Still Has Copy Of House Laptop DWS Said
Has Sensitive Leg-Branch Info
 DWS Laptop Found at 3AM In Phone Booth With
Letter To Prosecutors
 Awan Asks Judge To Remove GPS, Citing Possible
Emergency With Kids--Who Are In Pakistan
 Has Secret, Still-Active House Account--
123@mail.house.gov--Linked To Intelligence
Specialist
 DWS 'Islamophobia' Claim Prompts Angered
Witnesses To Go Public
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 Rep. Yvette Clarke Quietly Signed Away $120,000 In
Missing Equipment
 Imran, Hina Indicted For Conspiracy Against U.S.
 DWS Now Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From
Police Was Awan's, Not Hers
 Liquidating $1.8M In Real Estate When Arrested,
Some Still Pending
 DWS Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even
While He Lived In Pakistan
 Lawyer Is Longtime Clinton Associate
 Arrested At Airport After Wiring $300k To Pakistan
 FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Home
 Ex-DNC Head 'Negotiating' With Police Over Letting
Them See Evidence
 Dems Tying Themselves Into Knots To Ignore
Criminal Probe
 'You'd Like Him:' Associates Describe 'Cunning,'
Charismatic Con Artist
 In Personal Lives, Evidence Of Massive Cons
 House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald's Worker As
Email Administrator
 DWS Admits To Violating Network Security, Blames
House
 Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For
Gathering Evidence
 Suspect Has Fled To Pakistan, Relative Says
 House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are
Blackmailing Members
 Read the Court Docs Detailing Their Greed,
Ruthlessness
 Paul Ryan: Capitol Police Getting 'Assistance' On
Criminal Investigation
 Brothers Could Read Every Email Of Dozens Of
Congressmen
 ...Also Had Access To DNC Emails
 ...Allegedly Kept Stepmom In 'Captivity' To Access
Offshore Cash
 ...Received $4 Million From Dem Reps
 ...Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive
 ...Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money
 Brothers Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious
Activity
 House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee
Members IT Compromised
 Boom! POTUS Trump Slams AWOL
AG Jeff Sessions For Asking IG To Investigate FISA Abuse
– “Will Take Forever”
By Jim Hoft
February 28, 2018, 9:11 Am

President Trump slammed his AWOL Judge Anthony Napolitano joined

Attorney General Jeff Sessions for President Trump in condemning Jeff
neglecting his responsibilities as US Sessions for vacating his
Attorney General. responsibilities as Attorney General.

President lashed out at Sessions for Via FOX Business Network:

asking the Inspector General to look
into Obama era FISA abuse. Trump
correctly states it “will take forever.”
We have no Attorney General.

Jeff Sessions went AWOL the day after he was sworn in.
What the hell does the deep state have on him?

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 Senior White House Official Accuses
John Podesta Of Threatening Jared Kushner
By Kristinn Taylor
February 28, 2018, 9:19 Am

Senior White House official Dan Scavino, Jr. accused Penn. Jared better start wearing his kevlar
former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta of on his back.”
threatening Jared Kushner, a fellow senior White House
official and also President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

Podesta wrote on Twitter Tuesday night that Kushner

“better start wearing his kevlar on his

back.”

John Podesta, official White House photo via Wikipedia.

Scavino, using his personal Twitter account, responded

early Wednesday morning,
“Creepy John Podesta with a threat
directed at the Presidents son-in-
law….disgraceful. Not surprised!”
In normal times Podesta’s Kevlar comment would be seen
as a way of talking about someone being undermined by
White House colleagues–‘backstabbed’ would be the
proper term.

However, given the current climate of political violence,

murder and mass shootings, some online are taking
Podesta’s comment as something sinister in the wake of
repeated violent attacks on Trump supporters, the unsolved
murder of DNC worker Seth Rich, the mass shooting
attack on GOP congressmen and the recent mass shootings
in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida.

Podesta made the comment about a Washington Post A sample of the milder reactions:
article hit piece on Kushner published Tuesday. Podesta’s
full comment reads,

“Seems like those “unnamed sources

peddling second-hand hearsay with rank
speculation that continue to leak inaccurate
information,” came straight from 1600
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 A Republican who warned a senior Obama official he
“better start wearing his kevlar on his back” would be
hounded by Democrats and their media allies no matter the
context.

Being that he is a well connected Democrat who served in

high ranking positions in the Bill Clinton and Barack
Obama administrations, Podesta will likely be given a pass
by the media for what at best is an incedibly bad choice of
words in the current violent political climate.

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 Gaetz Reintroduces Schiff’s 2013 Bill
Granting President Authority To Appoint FISA Judges
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
10:03 AM 02/28/2018

Congressman Matt Gaetz spent Tuesday poking fun at

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam
Schiff by filing the Presidential Appointment of FISA
Court Judges Act, legislation Schiff orginally introduced in
2013.

Schiff’s bill would have amended the Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Act of 1978 and granted the president
authority to handpick all 11 FISA court judges.

WATCH:

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 05: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA),

ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, answers brief questions from the media while boarding
an elevator at the U.S. Capitol February 5, 2018 in Washington, DC.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is scheduled
to meet later today to vote on the release of the minority rebuttal of a
memo released last week by their Republican counterparts relating
the committee’s investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“I’d encourage the gentleman from

California to join me as a co-sponsor so
“Cash and a political party should never be that we can find bipartisan solutions to
convertible to a warrant to spy on American improve the FISA process,” Gaetz added,
citizens,” Gaetz stated in a Tuesday barely hiding a smile. “If it was good
speech on the House floor. “Because I enough to give President Obama these
expect Republicans and Democrats to both powers, it’s good enough to give President
be in power at some point in the future, we Trump these powers.”
should be looking for bipartisan solutions to
revise the FISA process so that what Schiff’s bill never made it out of committee.
happened to President Trump never
happens to another American president.”
“So I went looking for solutions,” the Florida
Republican continued. “Schiff wanted to
give the president of the United States the
power to appoint FISA judges. He argued
that judges would then be more
ideologically diverse. they’d come from
different areas of the United States.”

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 Manafort Pleads Not Guilty To New Charges,
Judge Sets Trial Date For September
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:56 AM 02/28/2018
Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, in
June 2016. Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded
not guilty Wednesday to new charges brought last week by
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
During a hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C.,
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set a Sept. 17
date for Manafort’s trial.
The longtime Republican consultant faces a slew of
conspiracy, money laundering, and bank fraud charges,
largely related to his work as a consultant for a Ukrainian
political party years before joining the Trump campaign.
Manafort pleaded not guilty in October to 12 counts of
fraud and money laundering, but Mueller filed a
superseding indictment last Thursday against him and his
former business partner Rick Gates.
WATCH:
.
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Gates, who also worked on the Trump campaign, entered a
plea deal with Mueller on Friday. He will seemingly
cooperate with Mueller at Manafort’s trial.
Mueller’s focus on flipping Gates has led to speculation
that prosecutors hope to force Manafort to turn against
President Donald Trump, perhaps to share secrets about
activities on the campaign. But so far, Mueller has not
disclosed any evidence related to Trump campaign
activities.
The indictments largely point to Manafort and Gates’ work
for a Ukrainian political party liked to Viktor Yanukovych,
the former prime minister of Ukraine and an ally of
Vladimir Putin.
Mueller alleges that Manafort laundered millions of dollars
in payments from the Ukrainian group into the U.S.
through numerous shell companies he set up.
Manafort, like Trump, has denied that the campaign
coordinated with the Russian government.
 Is She Drinking Again? Hillary Clinton
Sounds The Alarm ‘The Russians Are Coming’
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 11:13 Am

The Russians are coming!

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton sounded

the alarm Wednesday from her Twitter account like a
modern day Paul Revere.

Russians under every bed!

Hillary Clinton thinks the Russians are so dangerous that
her State Department approved the sale of 20% of our
Uranium reserves to the Russians after the Clinton
Foundation received $145 million dollars from many
people connected to the Uranium deal.
Hillary Clinton tweeted,
“I say this as a former Secretary of State
and as an American: the Russians are still
coming. Our intelligence professionals are
imploring Trump to act. Will he continue to
ignore & surrender, or protect our country?”
Hillary linked to a Washington Post article titled, ‘Cyber
chief says Trump has given him no new authority to strike
at Russian interference threat.’
The head of U.S. Cyber Command warned lawmakers that
penalties and other measures have not “changed the
calculus or the behavior” of Russia as it seeks to interfere
with this year’s midterm elections.
“We’re taking steps, but we’re probably not
doing enough,” Adm. Michael S. Rogers,
who also directs the National Security
Agency, said in testimony before the
Senate Armed Services Committee.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, he
added, “has clearly come to the conclusion
that ‘there’s little price to pay here and
therefore I can continue this activity.’ ”
“If we don’t change the dynamic here, this
is going to continue,” Rogers said.
He said that President Trump has given him no new
authorities or capabilities to strike at Russian cyber-
operations ahead of the midterms, but Rogers has directed
Cybercom’s National Mission Force, which protects the
U.S. homeland from foreign cyberthreats,
“to begin some specific work.”
He did not elaborate.

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Obama and his crooked administration did nothing about Hillary Clinton and the delusional left just can’t admit
the Russian troll farm that set up shop in the U.S. in 2014. Hillary was a horrible candidate and was rejected by the
Perhaps because the ‘threat level’ was low? American people; she lost because of the Russians.

The left has now shifted the narrative since the Russian Crooked Hillary, the FBI and DOJ are the only ones who
collusion hoax is unraveling; they want Trump to put colluded with the Russians with the phony dossier
sanctions on Russia over the online trolls. compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

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 Former Special Counsel Ken Starr Kills Chris Cuomo’s
Spirit After Saying There Was No Collusion With Russia
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:18 AM 02/28/2018
Former Special Counsel Ken Starr Kills
Chris Cuomo's Spirit After Saying There
Was No Collusion With Russia 2-28-18
Former special prosecutor Ken Starr broke Chris Cuomo’s
spirit when he said he didn’t think there was any proof of
collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s
campaign, Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day.”
“I think that the indictment almost two
weeks ago of the 13 Russian nationals
and three companies suggests there
was no collusion,” Starr said. “Because
the Russians developed this enormous
operation out of St. Petersburg and sent
operatives into the United States to sow
discord and spend millions of dollars.
They didn’t collude with anyone.”
Cuomo couldn’t let the point go and had to chime in to say
collusion was still a possibility.
“But manifesting one tool does not exclude
the possibility of others,” Cuomo said.
.
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WATCH:
“Absolutely,” Starr replied. “I’m not
over-arguing the point, I’m just saying it
suggests there’s not a hint in that 40
page indictment that there was any
collusion.”
Starr said it was incumbent upon the Department of Justice
to find out if there was collusion and to be responsible for
reigning special counsel Robert Mueller in if he loses sight
of his mandate.
“The American people, I think, want to
know was there collusion. Let’s get that
answered, would be my sense if I was the
Justice Department,” Starr concluded. “My
sense would be, but I don’t have all the
facts — Bob, I love you, but let’s just stay
focused on what the issue is. And that’s
collusion in the campaign.”
 WOW! ‘Foreign Government’ Hacked Obama’s
Campaign – He Didn’t Do A Damn Thing About It
By Joshua Caplan
February 28, 2018, 12:04 Pm

On February 16th, 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.”
Reports of Russian meddling insensed the Democrats and
mainstream media talking heads. These are the same
people who were outraged to learn in 2009 that a ‘foreign’
government’ hacked the Obama campaign. Remember?
No? Neither do we.
Yet the sitting president appeared uninterested in
combating these emerging threats. Instead, he seemed
more inclined to appease these nations. When it came to
Russia, Obama was focused on promising “more
flexibility” during his second term and presenting an actual
reset button to the Kremlin.
This week, NBC News reported U.S. intelligence agencies
possessed “substantial evidence” that Russia “comprised”
electoral systems in 7 states during the 2016 presidential
election.
NBC News also reported the Obama administration failed
to notify the states about Russia’s hacking activities.

Jordan Schachtel of Conservative Review reports:

…Many may not recall, but the Obama

campaign was actually hacked by a foreign
actor. A foreign government (or multiple
countries) hacked into the Obama
campaign and stole troves of private
information.
President Obama confirmed the shocking
news in a May 2009 cybersecurity speech.
“What isn’t widely known is that during the
general election hackers managed to
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Tyler Q.
penetrate our computer systems,”
Houlton, denied NBC News’ report.
President Obama revealed. […]

The former president did not attribute the attack to a

particular country. However, later in the speech, he did call
attention to Russia’s cyber sophistication, while leaving
out any mention of China’s equally advanced cyber
program.

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 EPIC=> GOP Rep Gaetz Trolls Adam Schiff
From House Floor #Fullofschiff (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 12:15 Pm

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) trolled the heck
outta Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the
House floor Tuesday evening by filing
the Presidential Appointment of FISA
Court Judges Act, a piece of legislation
Schiff previously introduced in 2013.
to give Obama these powers, it’s good
enough to give Trump these powers,”
Gaetz said.
“I’d encourage the gentleman from
California to join me as a co-sponsor so
that we can find bipartisan solutions to
improve the FISA process,” Gaetz said.

VIDEO:

Rep Gaetz gave a speech from the House floor Tuesday

evening with a smile on his face as he called ranking
member of the House Intel Committee, Adam Schiff to
join him to advance bipartisan legislation giving the Wednesday morning Donald Trump Jr. responded to
President power to appoint FISA judges. Gaetz,

How can Schiff say no? He’s the one who originally “I think this is a fantastic idea
introduced this bill in 2013. Checkmate. @RepMattGaetz. I guess we will find out if
Adam is #FullofSchiff”
Adam Schiff’s bill would have given the President
authority to appoint all of the FISC judges.

“In 2013, Rep. Adam Schiff wanted to give

the President power to appoint FISA
judges. Today, I filed that legislation &
would encourage him to join me to advance
bipartisan legislation. If it was good enough
.

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GOP Rep Sends Letter To AWOL AG Sessions Urging Him
To Appoint A Special Counsel To Investigate FISA Abuses,
Hillary’s Sham Investigation
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 1:06 Pm
Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Wednesday urging him appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
On Tuesday, AG Sessions told reporters the Department of
Justice would investigate Obama’s FISA abuses. He then
elaborated and said Inspector General Horowitz would be
in charge of the investigation. The IG has no prosecutorial
power so what is the point? Americans want justice!
President Trump lashed out at Sessions for asking the
Inspector General to look into Obama era FISA abuse.
Trump correctly states it “will take forever.”
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Rep Zeldin posted the letter to his Twitter account and
said,
“Just sent letter asking Jeff Sessions to
appoint Special Counsel to investigate
decisions/activities re FISA abuse, &
how/why Clinton probe ended, & Trump-
Russia probe began. TY to @Jim_Jordan,
@RepRooney @RepTedBudd
@RepMattGaetz @RepMarkMeadows
@replouiegohmert & other signers!”
The letter reads (partial transcript):
As you know, evidence has come to light
that raises serious concerns about
decisions and activities by leadership at the
highest levels of the DOJ and FBI
regarding how and why the Clinton probe
ended and how and why the Trump Russia
probe began. Additionally, important
questions have been raised with regards to
FISA warrants targeting U.S. citizen Carter
Page. We write you to urge you today to
appoint a Special Counsel to investigate
these decisions and activities.
[Screenshot of full letter on next page]
Signatures from GOP Reps Gaetz, Gohmert, Gosar, Meadows and more:
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Zeldin tweeted the letter:

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 The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private server was a total sham.

Crooked Comey drafted the exoneration letter before

interviewing 17 witnesses, including Hillary Clinton.

We have no Attorney General.

AG Sessions went AWOL the day he was sworn in.

We need a serious investigation into Obama’s DOJ, FBI

and the FISA abuses.

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 Grassley Sees ‘Lots Of Questions’
On FBI Abuses Against Trump
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Determined To Get To The
Bottom Of What Happened At DOJ During 2016 Presidential Campaign
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 28 Feb 2018 At 1:39 PM

December 2017 the FISA application would not have been

submitted without the dossier.

Grassley noted that the FISA court “is very,

very important” and “there’s a lot of
questions to be answered” about the FBI’s
potential abuse of the surveillance system.

Sen. Charles Grassley asked Wednesday on “The Laura
Ingraham Show” why FBI officials requested approval
from a secret U.S. court in 2016 to spy on volunteer Trump
campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page when the
bureau had already been watching him for three years.
“I think I’d have to raise the question of
what’s the big deal about the dossier and
Carter when the FBI was already having
him under surveillance since, I think, the
year 2013?” Grassley told host Laura
Ingraham.
Grassley is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that
the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
(DOJIG) is investigating the FISA abuse allegations.
President Trump took to Twitter Wednesday to slam the
move, writing,
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”

“The other thing is … I think that if people

needed an excuse and … want[ed] to
wiretap people and listen in on them, did
they get the FISA thing and use Carter
Page as an example to follow Carter
Page’s conversations so they could then
learn something about the Trump
campaign?” Grassley said.

The dossier he mentioned was a collection of unfounded

allegations about President Donald Trump, assembled by
former British spy and FBI asset Christopher Steele.
Steele’s work was paid for by 2016 Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the Democratic
National Committee.
The dossier was used to secure the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court’s approval, but the judge
wasn’t told of the document’s funding source. Former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told Congress in
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But Grassley told Ingraham he has "good faith, great faith"
in the DOJIG.
"I really think that he is independent, trying
to do his job," Grassley said.
"We should make all of the people's
business public because it is the people's
business, except when it harms national
security," Grassley said. "And sometimes in
 my many decades in Congress, I felt that
national security has been a lame excuse
when people just want to cover up things."
Grassley also addressed Democratic criticism against him
for asking questions about the dossier, which was funded
by Trump's political opponents: former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National
Committee (DNC). Clinton supporters also criticized him
for looking into the Clinton State Department's and the
Clinton Foundation's ties to the controversial Obama-era
Uranium One deal, along with potential pro-Clinton bias
during the FBI's investigation into her use of a private
email server while she served as secretary of state.
"A lot of Democrats want to make the case
that everything I'm asking about Uranium
.
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One or about the Clinton emails is just to
distract people's attention away from
[special counsel Robert] Mueller and other
congressional investigations," Grassley
said. "What I do all the time is follow the
facts."
"When you get into Trump-Russia, you
follow the facts. And if it leads you to
Uranium One, if it leads you to the Clinton
emails, that's just the way you investigate,"
Grassley said. "And the reason this all
started is because we want to make sure
there's not political [interference] and
political pressure on the Justice
Department and the FBI."
The senator added that Page
"appears to be very harmless. Now I know
people that appear to be harmless can be a
threat, I suppose. But that's the way I see
him, and I think he takes great pride in the
fact that he wants to be transparent."
But "people that are in his business — if he
wanted to hurt America, I don't think he'd
be as transparent as he tends to be."
 In Rare Move, AG Sessions Issues
Response To Trump’s Twitter Fury
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 1:47 Pm
On Wednesday, President Trump
slammed his AWOL Attorney General
Jeff Sessions for neglecting his
responsibilities as US Attorney General.
President Trump lashed out at Sessions
for asking the Inspector General to look
into Obama era FISA abuse. Trump
correctly states it “will take forever.”
In a rare move, AG Sessions responded to President
Trump’s Twitter fury Wednesday afternoon.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at the Justice Department in Washington.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded to President
Trump’s fury Wednesday afternoon.
CNN reporter Adam Levine tweeted Sessions’ response.
Levine tweeted: AG SESSIONS STATEMENT:
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“We have initiated the appropriate process
that will ensure complaints against this
Department will be fully and fairly acted
upon if necessary….” (1/2)
Levine then tweeted part two of Sessions’ response: AG
SESSIONS STATEMENT CT’D:
“As long as I am the Attorney General, I will
continue to discharge my duties with
integrity and honor, and this Department
will continue to do its work in a fair and
impartial manner according to the law and
Constitution. “ (2/2)
Inspector General Horowitz has done a fair job so far,
however; many people have concerns with him since he is
an Obama appointee.
The FISA abuses committed by Obama’s DOJ and FBI are
serious crimes and we need a serious investigation. We
need a Special Counsel to look into Obama’s crimes and
Hillary’s phony dossier.
Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Wednesday urging him appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
Senator Grassley has previously stated the Senate will not
confirm another Attorney General if Sessions is fired so at
this point he must unrecuse himself and clean house if he
wants to carry out his duties with honor.
 Loretta Lynch Used Fake Name As Attorney General
'How Many Other Government Officials Did This?'
Bob Unruh
February 28, 2018
Judicial Watch said that in the records it received, the
Justice Department explained it as necessary to
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President
Obama
The watchdog said it raises the question of
A prominent Washington watchdog is asking just how
many Obama administration officials hid behind fake
names while they worked for the U.S. government, after
discovering that Loretta Lynch sometimes wasn’t Loretta
Lynch – for email purposes – while she was attorney
general.
She was Elizabeth Carlisle.
Judicial Watch said Lynch’s actions illustrate “how
government hides information from the American public.”
The group was pursuing information about the United
Nations’ questionable Strong Cities Network when senior
counsel Vanessa Brinkman of the Department of Justice
responded with some information and an explanation.
“For your information, emails in the
enclosed documents which use the
account name ‘Elizabeth Carlisle’ denote
emails to or from former Attorney General
Loretta Lynch’s official Department of
Justice email account. Mrs. Lynch’s official
email account did not use her name, in
order to protect her security and privacy
and enable her to conduct department
business efficiently via email,” the letter
said.
Judicial Watch said that as the nation’s chief law
enforcement officer, Lynch, Barack Obama’s second
attorney general,
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“skirted public-records laws by using the
alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent
from her official DOJ account.”
“protect her security and privacy and
enable her to conduct department business
efficiently via email.”
“how many other government officials use
fake names and whether those aliases are
searched when agencies process Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) requests.”
“Besides Lynch, we have only discovered
the use of such aliases among government
operatives to conduct official business at
the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa
Jackson, famously used the alias Richard
Windsor in a government email account to
conduct official business and communicate
with staff. Jackson even took required EPA
computer training under the fake identity
with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.gov.
She eventually resigned over the scandal,
which brought to light the agency’s
violations of federal open-records laws,”
Judicial Watch said.
“In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested
the records as part of an investigation into
the Obama administration’s involvement in
a United Nations’ international law
enforcement coalition called Strong Cities
Network. The purported mission of the
global coalition was to build social cohesion
and community resilience to counter violent
extremism,” the organization said.
“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 records indicate that using an alias was common in the
Obama camp. WND reported in 2017 that Obama,
according to former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew
McCarthy, knew that he had communicated with Hillary
Clinton over her non-secure, private communication
system “using an alias.”
FBI Director James Comey concluded Clinton was
“extremely careless” but said there would be no charges
for her mishandling of classified information.
WND columnist Ellen Ratner asked whether or not Obama
and Lynch were using aliases
“to throw off FOIA requests?”
“Did Obama and Lynch share their alias
emails with FOIA officers? If they didn’t,
how would those who are handling these
FOIA requests know what to look for?” she
wrote.
“Laws exist for a reason, and using an alias
is a clear attempt to thwart people looking
for your records. How many times have you
heard people say, ‘Send the information to
my private email account and not my work
email account’? There’s a reason for that.”
She noted,
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“I may be a liberal, but I believe justice is
for all, and that includes President Trump,
President Obama and Secretary Hillary
Clinton.”
In March 2015, the London Daily Mail reported Chelsea
Clinton was known as Diane Reynolds when Hillary
Clinton used the same email account that she used for her
State Department work to plan her daughter’s wedding.
Hillary Clinton’s alias at that point was
HRD22@Clintonemail.
Judicial Watch said it’s latest confirmation of Lynch’s
decision to hide her identity came while it was trying to get
information about the Strong Cities Network.
“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,” the watchdog reported.
 “Unleash The Dogs Of War”: James Woods Weighs In
After POTUS Trump Shreds AG Sessions
By Joshua Caplan
February 28, 2018, 2:11 Pm

On Wednesday morning, President In response to Trump’s criticism, Sessions issued his own
Trump slammed Attorney General Jeff statement, affirming
Sessions for directing Justice
Department Inspector General Michael
Horowitz to probe Obama-era FISA “As long as I am the Attorney General, I will
abuses. continue to discharge my duties with
integrity and honor.”

Soon after, Hollywood star James Woods weighed in on

Trump’s criticism of Sessions.
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially “Dear Mr. President, when will you get a
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has Department of Justice with teeth? Voter
no prosecutorial power and already late fraud, criminal “sanctuary” hideouts, mass
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an illegal invasion, the opioid epidemic, gang
Obama guy? Why not use Justice murders, drug cartels are all rotting the soul
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!” of our blessed America. Unleash the dogs
tweeted Trump. of war, sir. It is time,” tweeted Woods.

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 Political Twitter Wildly Speculates Over Report Mueller’s
Asking About Trump Link TO Dnc Hack: ‘Big Trouble’
BY Joe Depaolo
3:17 PM, February 28TH, 2018

The political world is buzzing about a new report out

Wednesday afternoon from NBC News which states that
special counsel Robert Mueller‘s team has been asking
witnesses specific questions about whether President
Donald Trump knew about the stolen DNC emails prior
to their publication by Wikileaks.

Many pundits, politicians, and Washington observers have

begun speculating wildly about the ramifications of this
report. Here’s a sampling of the social media reaction:

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 LEAK: Mueller Asking If Trump Knew About ‘Stolen’
Podesta Emails Before Wikileaks Released To Public
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 3:30 Pm
Another day, another leak from team
Mueller.
Mueller’s team of liberal hack lawyers are asking
witnesses if Donald Trump knew Hillary’s campaign
emails were stolen before they were released to the public
and if Trump was involved in the release.
NBC News reports:
Mueller’s investigators have asked
witnesses whether Trump was aware of
plans for WikiLeaks to publish the emails.
They have also asked about the
relationship between GOP operative Roger
Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange, and why Trump took policy
positions favorable to Russia.
The line of questioning suggests the special counsel, who
is tasked with examining whether there was
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during
the 2016 election, is looking into possible coordination
between WikiLeaks and Trump associates in disseminating
the emails, which U.S. intelligence officials say were
stolen by Russia.
In one line of questioning, investigators have focused on
Trump’s public comments in July 2016 asking Russia to
find emails that were deleted by his then-opponent Hillary
Clinton from a private server she maintained while
secretary of state. The comments came at a news
conference on July 27, 2016, just days after WikiLeaks
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began publishing the Democratic National Committee
emails.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re
able to find the 30,000 emails that are
missing,” Trump said.
Witnesses have been asked whether Trump himself
knew then that Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta,
whose emails were released several months later, had
already been targeted. They were also asked if Trump was
advised to make the statement about Clinton’s emails from
someone outside his campaign, and if the witnesses had
reason to believe Trump tried to coordinate the release of
the DNC emails to do the most damage to Clinton, the
people familiar with the matter said.
The President fiercely denies any collusion with Russia
during the 2016 election and calls the investigation a witch
hunt.
“Russians had no compromising
information on Donald Trump” @FoxNews
Of course not, because there is none, and
never was. This whole Witch Hunt is an
illegal disgrace…and Obama did nothing
about Russia!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 24, 2018
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 27, 2018
NBC reports investigators are also asking questions about
Trump operative, Roger Stone and his relationship with
WikiLeaks. They want to know if he ever met with Julian
Assange.
Investigators were interested in statements Stone made in
the final month of the 2016 campaign that strongly
suggested he was aware of information the group had
before it became public and when it might be released. In
one instance, he wrote on Twitter that
“it would soon be Podesta’s time in the
barrel.”
Weeks later Podesta’s stolen emails were released by
WikiLeaks.
To this date, the FBI has not investigated the DNC servers
nor have they questioned WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange.
Julian Assange has stated many time publicly that Russia
did not give him the Podesta emails.
House Intel investigators are now looking into whether the
joint Intelligence report relied on Hillary’s phony dossier.
It appears every so-called Russia report is one big echo
chamber of Hillary’s phony dossier, media hacks and
crooked deep state operatives within the intelligence
community.
Paul Sperry of The New York Post previously 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
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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.
If Mueller was serious about getting to the bottom of the
Podesta email ‘hack’, he would have investigated the
DNC’s servers and interviewed Julian Assange.
The Russia probe is a huge sham and should be shut down
immediately.
 ‘Russiagate’ Is Revealing Alarming
Truths About America’s Political-Media Elites
Its Allegations And Practices Suggest Disdain For American Institutions,
Principles, Best Interests, And Indeed For The American People
Stephen F. COHEN
28.02.2018
Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian Studies
and Politics at NYU and Princeton, and John Batchelor
continue their (usually) weekly discussions of the new US-
Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their
fourth year, are at TheNation.com.)
The nearly two-year-long series of allegations and
investigations now known as “Russiagate” were instigated
by top American political, media, and (probably)
intelligence elites (mostly Democratic or pro-Democratic,
but not only). What they have wrought suggests
profoundly disturbing characteristics of people who play a
very large role in governing this country. Cohen specifies
six such barely concealed truths, which he and Batchelor
then discuss.
1. Russiagate promoters evidently have little regard for
the current or future institution of the American
presidency. At the center of their many allegations is
the claim that the current president, Donald Trump,
achieved the office in 2016 because of a conspiracy
(“collusion”) with the Kremlin; or as a result of some
dark secret the Kremlin uses to control him; or due to
“Russian interference” in the election; or to all three.
Which means, they say outright or imply daily, that he
is some kind of Kremlin agent or “puppet” and thus
“treasonous.”
Such allegations are unprecedented in American history.
They have already deformed Trump’s presidency, but no
consideration is given to how they may affect the
institution in the future. Unless actual proof is provided in
the specific case of Trump—thus far, there is none—they
are likely to leave a stain of suspicion (or similar
allegations) on future presidents. If the Kremlin is believed
to have made Trump president and corrupted him, even if
this is not proven, why not future presidents as well?
That is, Russiagate zealots seek to delegitimize Trump’s
presidency, but risk leaving a long-term cloud over the
institution itself. And not only the presidency. They now
clamor that the Kremlin is targeting the 2018
congressional elections, thereby projecting the same dark
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cloud over Congress, as some embittered losers are likely
to blame Putin’s Kremlin.
2. These same Russiagate promoters clearly also have
no regard for America’s national security. This is
revealed in three ways:
§ By loudly and regularly proclaiming that Russia’s
“meddling” in the 2016 US presidential election was “an
attack on American democracy” and thus “an act of
war,” comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, as
recently inventoried by Glenn Greenwald, they are
literally practicing the dictionary meaning of
“warmongering.” Can this mean anything less than that
Washington must respond with “an act of war” against
Russia? Tellingly, Russiagaters rarely if ever mention
the potentially apocalyptic consequences of war
between these two nuclear superpowers.
§ Still more, by their Russiagate accusations against
Trump, whom they characterize as a “mentally unstable
president,” they risk prodding or provoking the
president to undertake just such a war against Russia
in order to demonstrate that he is not the “Kremlin’s
puppet.”
§ Meanwhile, by repeatedly stating they do not trust
Trump to negotiate with Russian President Putin,
Russiagate zealots severely limit his capacity,
possessed by all American presidents since the onset
of the atomic age, to resolve potential nuclear crises
through diplomatic means rather than by military action,
as President John F. Kennedy did in the 1962 Cuban
missile crisis. (Imagine, Cohen adds, the outcome had
Kennedy been so assailed by the allegations being
leveled against Trump today.)
3. In short, as Cohen has argued previously, Russiagate
and its elite adherents are now the number-one threat
to American national security, not Russia itself.
§ Having found no factual evidence of such a plot,
promoters of Russiagate have shifted their focus from
 the Kremlin’s alleged hacking of e-mails at the
Democratic National Committee to Russia’s social-
media “attack on our democracy.” In so doing, they
reveal something bordering on contempt for American
voters, for the American people.
§ A foundational principle of theories of democratic
representative government is that voters make rational
and legitimate decisions. But Russiagate advocates
strongly imply—even state outright—that American
voters are easily duped by “Russian disinformation,”
zombie-like awaiting a signal as how to act and vote.
The allegation is reminiscent of, for people old enough
to remember, the classic Cold War film “Invasion of the
Body Snatchers.” But, Cohen proposes, let the
following representatives of America’s elite media
speak for themselves:
§ According to Washington Post columnist Kathleen
Parker, Russia social-media intrusions
“manipulated American thought.… The minds of social
media users are likely becoming more, not less,
malleable.” And this, she goes on, is especially true of
“older, nonwhite, less-educated people.” New York
Times columnist Charles Blow adds that this was true
of “black folks.” Times reporter Scott Shane is
entirely straightforward, writing about “Americans
duped by the Russian trolls.” And Evan Osnos of The
New Yorker spells it out without nuance: “At the heart
of the Russian fraud is an essential, embarrassing
insight into American life: large numbers of Americans
are ill-equipped to assess the credibility of the things
they read.”
§ Cohen emphasizes (though this is hardly necessary)
that these are lead writers for some of America’s most
elite publications. He adds, their apparent contempt for
“ordinary” Americans is not unlike a centuries-old trait
of the Russian intelligentsia, which held the
Russian narod(people) in similar contempt, while
maintaining that it therefore must lead them, and not
always in democratic ways.
5.
4. Russiagate was initiated by political actors, but the elite
establishment media gave it traction, inflated it, and
promoted it to what it is today. These most
“respectable” media include The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The
New Yorker, and, of course, CNN and MSNBC, among
others. These media outlets constantly proclaim
themselves to be factual, unbiased, balanced, and thus
another essential component of American
democracy—a “fourth branch of government.”
§ But that has been far from the case in their reporting
and commentary on Russiagate. Their combined
loathing for Trump and “Putin’s Russia” has produced
one of the worst episodes of media malpractice in the
history of American journalism. This requires a special
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detailed study, though no media critics or journalism
schools seem interested. But a somewhat close reader
of these mainstream newspapers, and television
“news” viewer, will note their selective, disproportionate
coverage of some stories to the exclusion of others; the
prejudicial language and prosecutorial slant often
employed; the systematic violation of journalistic due
process and presumption of innocence; the equal
exclusion of contrary “sources” and “expert” opinions in
their pages and on their televised panels; and other
disregard for long-established journalistic standards.
§ Nor are these elite media outlets above slurring the
reputations of people who dissent from their
prosecutorial coverage of Russiagate. Very recently,
for example, The New York Times traduced a
Facebook vice president whose own
study suggested that “that swaying the election was
*NOT* the main goal” of Russian use of Facebook.
Even more revealing, a brand name of the liberal-
progressive MSNBC, John Heilemann, suggested on
air, referring to Congressman Devin Nunes, “that we
actually have a Russian agent running the House Intel
Committee on the Republican side.” The Democratic
senator being interviewed, Chris Murphy, was less than
categorical in brushing aside the “question.”
§ And not to be overlooked, these mainstream media
have done little if anything to protest the creeping Big
Brother censorship programs now being assiduously
promoted by government and private institutions in
order to ferret out and ban “Russian disinformation,”
something of which any American dissenter from the
orthodox Russiagate narrative might be “guilty” entirely
on his or her own. Indeed, leading media have abetted
and legitimized these undemocratic undertakings by
citing them as legitimate sources.
§ Cohen leaves to others to decide what the
Russiagate role of establishment media reveals about
the elites who run them.
Briefly regarding the obvious role being played by the
Democratic Party, or at least by its leading members, in
Russiagate, whatever the serious commissions and
omissions of the Republican Party may be: In a word,
as it looks ahead to congressional elections in 2018,
this essential component of the American (perhaps
lamentably) two-party democratic system is now less a
vehicle of positive domestic and foreign-policy
alternatives than a party promoting conspiracy theories,
Cold War, and neo-McCarthyism. (According to
conversations with a number of local candidates, these
electoral approaches are less their initiatives than cues,
or directives, coming from high party levels—that is,
from the Democratic elite.) And this leaves aside the
Russiagate social-media narrative that blames the
Kremlin for “divisions” in America that have pitted
American citizens, and Democrats and Republicans,
 against each other for decades, often in “exacerbated”
ways, not merely since 2016.
6. Finally, but no less revealing, American elites have
long professed to be people of civic courage and
honor. But Russiagate has produced very few “profiles
in courage”—people who use their privileged positions
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of political or media influence to protest the abuses
itemized above. Hence another revelation, if it is really
that: America’s elites are composed overwhelmingly
not of “rugged individualists” but of conformists—
whether that is due to ambition, fear, or ignorance
hardly matters.
 Adam Schiff’s Latest Attack On Nunes’ FISA Memo
Proves It’s Time To Declassify The FISA Applications
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 5:10 Pm
On Wednesday, President Trump
slammed his AWOL Attorney General
Jeff Sessions for neglecting his
responsibilities as US Attorney General.
President Trump lashed out at Sessions
for asking the Inspector General to look
into Obama era FISA abuse. Trump
correctly states it “will take forever.”
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam
Schiff (D-CA) is desperate to stop any further
investigations into Obama’s FISA abuse because it will put
an end to Mueller’s sham investigation.
We have no Attorney General.
Jeff Sessions went AWOL the day after he was sworn in.
What the hell does the deep state have on him?
Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 28, 2018
Adam Schiff responded to Trump’s tweet Wednesday
afternoon showing he’s just a desperate political hack.
Schiff tweeted,
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“More important question:
Why is the AG asking for a FISA
investigation at all? DOJ and FBI already
said the Nunes memo was inaccurate,
misleading and extraordinarily reckless.
With no evidence of abuse, only
explanation is political pressure.”
More important question: Why is the AG
asking for a FISA investigation at all? DOJ
and FBI already said the Nunes memo was
inaccurate, misleading and extraordinarily
reckless. With no evidence of abuse, only
explanation is political pressure.
https://t.co/4zz9HcwrY5
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff)
February 28, 2018
If you read Adam Schiff’s tweet, he’s actually describing
the Mueller witch hunt. This is a classic move by liberals
like Schiff; they always project.
Mueller’s investigation is pressing on even though there is
ZERO evidence of ‘Trump-Russia collusion’; it’s a
political hit.
In contrast, we have massive amount of evidence that the
FISA process was abused by Obama’s henchmen.
Chairman Nunes’ damning 4-page FISA memo clearly
points out the FISA court was misled by Comey, Sally
Yates, Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe.
GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) are
calling for the FISA applications relating to the phony
dossier be declassified.
On February 2nd Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the
DOJ for the underlying documents regarding the FISA
warrant application submitted to the FISC related to
‘Trump-Russia’.
It’s time to stop the bickering and dueling memos,
declassify the FISA warrant applications and let the chips
fall where they may.
 Dirty Cop Mueller’s Latest Leak Shows
His Desperation As Witch Hunt Turns Into National Joke
By Jim Hoft
February 28, 2018, 6:10 Pm

In July 2016, Republican candidate Donald Trump joked It was a good joke.
at a campaign event that Russia should release Hillary
Clinton’s missing emails. Today Dirty Cop Robert Mueller leaked a report to his
comrades in the liberal media that they are now focusing
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re their witch hunt on this 2016 joke by Trump.
able to find the 30,000 emails that are
missing.” This is all they got.
The emails were missing because The Mueller Witch Hunt officially turned
Hillary Clinton destroyed them which the corner this week.
was a criminal act.
These crooked clowns are a joke.
Trump was right.
“Russians had no compromising
information on Donald Trump” @FoxNews
Of course not, because there is none, and
never was. This whole Witch Hunt is an
illegal disgrace…and Obama did nothing
about Russia!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 24, 2018

It was a joke.
The crowd loved it.
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SHUT IT DOWN=> Robert Mueller Investigating Whether
Trump Tried To Oust AG Sessions Last Summer: Report
By Cristina Laila
February 28, 2018, 7:12 Pm
A new report reveals dirty cop Mueller is
investigating whether President Trump
tried to oust Attorney General Jeff
Sessions last summer.
What the hell does this have to do with Trump-Russia
collusion during the 2016 election?
Mueller is out of control. He’s afraid if Sessions is
replaced with someone who isn’t afraid of the Deep State,
Rosenstein’s head will roll and the Special Counsel will be
shut down.
The Washington Post reports:
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has
been investigating a period of time last
summer when President Trump seemed
determined to drive Attorney General Jeff
Sessions from his job, according to people
familiar with the matter who said that a key
area of interest for the inquiry is whether
those efforts were part of a months-long
pattern of attempted obstruction of justice.
In recent months, Mueller’s team has questioned witnesses
in detail about Trump’s private comments and state of
mind in late July and early August of last year, around the
time he issued a series of tweets belittling his
“beleaguered” attorney general, these people said. The
thrust of the questions was to determine whether the
president’s goal was to oust Sessions in order to pick a
replacement who would exercise control over the
investigation into possible coordination between Russia
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and Trump associates during the 2016 election, these
people said.
On July 24th Trump publicly slammed the AWOL Jeff
Sessions on Twitter.
Trump tweeted,
“So why aren’t the Committees and
investigators, and of course our
beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked
Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?”
So why aren’t the Committees and
investigators, and of course our
beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked
Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
July 24, 2017
Trump also told the New York Times in an interview in late
July he wished Sessions didn’t recuse himself.
“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,” Trump said.
“How do you take a job and then recuse
yourself? If he would have recused himself
before the job, I would have said ‘thanks,
Jeff, but I’m not going to take you,” he
continued. “It’s extremely unfair — and
that’s a mild word — to the president.”
President Trump lashed out at AWOL AG Sessions again
on Wednesday morning.
President Trump lashed out at Sessions for asking the
Inspector General to look into Obama era FISA abuse.
Trump correctly states it “will take forever.”
In a rare move, AG Sessions responded to President
Trump’s Twitter fury Wednesday afternoon.
SESSIONS said in a statement:
 “We have initiated the appropriate process
that will ensure complaints against this
Department will be fully and fairly acted
upon if necessary. As long as I am the
Attorney General, I will continue to
discharge my duties with integrity and
honor, and this Department will continue to
do its work in a fair and impartial manner
according to the law and Constitution.”
Mueller and his team of liberal hack lawyers need to be
shut down and a Special Counsel needs to investigate
Mueller, Rosentein and other corrupt operatives from
Obama’s DOJ and FBI.
.
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On Wednesday, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
sent a letter to AWOL Attorney General
Jeff Sessions urging him appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton reacted to the new
report by WaPo:
Mueller is out of control. Shut it down.
https://t.co/Fn93owqkOQ
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 1, 2018
 “Today Feels Different”: Sources Say POTUS
Trump Fury Against AG Sessions May Lead To Firing
By Joshua Caplan
February 28, 2018, 7:43 Pm

On Wednesday morning, President Axios got their hands on a picture of

Trump slammed Attorney General Jeff
Sessions for directing Justice
Department Inspector General Michael
Horowitz to probe Obama-era FISA
abuses.
Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 28, 2018
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”
tweeted Trump.
Sessions, Rosenstein, and Francisco at
dinner tonight. Sources are telling Axios
that Trump’s anger with Sessions is
different this time; may lead to his firing.
https://t.co/YQZEKEHYzO
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman)
March 1, 2018
Axios reports:
The concept: Fire Sessions, then what
next? Are you going to fire Rosenstein too?
And then what after that?
Sources close to the situation say today
feels different than Trump’s usual rages.
Sessions’ allies are deeply concerned and
Trump is totally fed up with his AG.
In a show of solidarity, AG Sessions, Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein and Solicitor General Noel Francisco, had
dinner tonight at a “high-end” D.C. eatery.

In response to Trump’s criticism, Sessions issued his own

statement, affirming

“As long as I am the Attorney General, I will

continue to discharge my duties with
integrity and honor.”

SESSIONS responds to @realDonaldTrump's complaints

about him this morning —>
Axios reporters Johnathan Swan and Alayna Treene say
"As long as I am the Attorney General, I will
continue to discharge my duties with “the symbolism was unmistakable.”
integrity and honor."
pic.twitter.com/8lUAiW2qq0 Picture is…
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February
28, 2018 The three top ranking officials in the Justice
Department appearing together in a show
of solidarity on the same day Trump is
Allies of the embattled Attorney General worry Trump
publicly and privately raging about
may fire Sessions.
Sessions.

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When Trump sees this photo he’ll have to absorb a concept him for nearly a year, since he first began telling them he
that some of his aides have been trying to impress upon wanted to get rid of Sessions.

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 BREAKING: DOJ Crooks Refuse Request To Hand Over
Transcripts From FISA Court Hearings On Carter Page
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 28, 2018, 8:49 Pm

Sara Carter:

The Department of Justice can easily give

Investigative journalist and FOX News
contributor Sarah Carter joined Sean
Hannity tonight to discuss the latest
developments in the growing Deep State
spying scandal on Donald Trump and
his campaign by Barack Obama and the
Democrat Party.
you the same documents that we have.
This has never been requested before by
the FISA Court. So this is a new thing for
them. They have to review everything,
decide whether or not they can hand over
these documents. But she said that the
court would not reject to the fact that the
Department of Justice can hand them over.
Well I confirm tonight that Nunes and
Goodlatte did request those documents
from the Department of Justice and the
Department of Justice never responded to
them.
Via Hannity:

Sarah Carter told Sean the Department

of Justice refused and ignored
Congressional requests to turn over the
transcripts of the FISA court hearings
on Carter Page.

Obama Deep State operatives lied to the FISA court in

order to spy on campaign volunteer Carter Page and the
entire Trump campaign.

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 CONFIRMED: Algorithm Change Causes POTUS
Trump’s Facebook Traffic To Plummet 45%
– Sanders, Warren Traffic UNCHANGED!
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 28, 2018, 9:34 Pm

A recent algorithm change has caused via Breitbart Tech

President Donald Trump’s engagement
on Facebook posts to plummet a
whopping 45%. “In the 13 days prior to Facebook’s
algorithm change (28 Dec – 10 Jan),
Trump made 67 posts, with no significant
The change announced earlier this drop in engagement. After the change,
month has severely hurt Facebook Trump posted at roughly the same rate –
traffic at top conservative sites – between 59 and 67 posts in each 13-day
including this one. period, but was still met with the dramatic
However, liberal websites are reportedly decline in engagement seen above,”
not seeing a drop in traffic! Breitbart reports.

(In 2016 Facebook traffic accounted for roughly one-third The changes in the algorithm came following extreme
of our TGP traffic. Today, although our traffic continues to pressure on the platform from Democrats who blame
grow our Facebook traffic continues to decline.) social media for Hillary Clinton’s election loss.

According to a stunning report by Breitbart Tech’s Allum “You’ve created these platforms, and
Bokhari, the decline in engagement on Trump’s Facebook now they’re being misused, and you
cannot be attributed to a drop in posting frequency on the have to be the ones to do something
part of Trump. about it … or we will,” Democrat
Senator Dianne Feinstein threatened
Facebook prior to their changes.

In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren

(D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not
appear to have suffered a comparable
decline in Facebook engagement,
reports Bokhari.

Facebook and other social media platforms, such as

YouTube and Twitter, have been disproportionately
censoring the right — and it seems that even the President
of the United States of America is not exempt from Silicon
Valley’s Orwellian agenda.

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 Devin Nunes On Press Reaction
To Dems' Memo: 'The Media Is Dead'
By Tom Blumer
February 28, 2018 9:40 PM EST
On Sunday's Fox & Friends, House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes assessed that
committee's Democratic minority memo issued Saturday in
response to the Republican memo published in early
February as "scary." He also had harsh words for the
establishment press, which has dishonestly pretended that
the Dems' memo refutes the GOP's effort: "The media in
this country is dead."
In the full interview, Nunes described the Democrats'
response as "scary" because:
... you have a political party in this country
actually saying, "Don’t worry, American
public, it’s okay. We do this all the time.
We’re going to go dig up dirt on our
opponent, get it from Russians, get it
from the Brits and we’re going to take to
it the FBI and open up an investigation
into another campaign."
Per Nunes, Democrats led by Congressman Adam Schiff
want America to believe that this is how business is
normally conducted in Washington. Maybe they're right, if
they're referring to standard operating procedures during
the Obama administration.
Fox's Ed Henry asked Nunes about the press's reaction to
the Democrats' memo. The congressman, after describing
additional phases he expects in the investigation, answered
with a harsh critique:
Transcript:
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ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: Mr. Chairman,
you faced an unrelenting assault ever since
you went down this road. Look at the
headlines just overnight: New York
Magazine, "The Nunes Memo Is Fake and
the Russia Scandal Is Very Real"; Vox:
"The Democrats rebuttal to the Nunes FISA
memo Is Utterly Devastating"; Daily News
here in New York, "Democrats Blast holes
in Nunes Memo With Volley of Facts,
Logic." I want to give you a chance to
respond to that.
The New York Times, according to an
Investor's Business Daily editorial,
characterized the Democrats' memo as a
"forceful rebuttal." The full IBD editorial
concisely rebuts that fantasy, accurately
contending that it "ends up confirming
the most damaging claims made by
critics."
Here is Nunes' media-related answer:
DEVIN NUNES: ... The one thing that’s
clear in this whole Russia fiasco is that
the media is dead. There is no — and I
apologize to you guys that are in the
media.
PETE HEGSETH: I separate myself.
NUNES: But the media in this country,
the fair and balanced media is for the
most part — I mean 90% of them are
hard left. They rely on clicks to make a
living. So when they attack people like me,
it actually means that I’m over the target,
and I’m getting to them because they have
to attack me in order, number one, to
please their masters, their billionaire
masters, and number two, they also have
to do it because they’re in on this. Don’t
forget, many of the people that criticize
me were shown the ... dossier. They
were shown the Christopher Steele
dossier in, you know, back — during the
2016 election.
 Five Reasons Trump’s Reelection
Announcement Was Politically Smart
By Matt Margolis
February 28, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform during an event at
the Harrisburg International Airport, Wednesday Oct. 11, 2017, in
Middletown, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
On Tuesday, President Trump confirmed that he will run
for reelection in 2020. This announcement comes a mere
month into his second year in office, a whopping 980 days
before the election. With Trump all in for 2020, he’s also
hired Brad Parscale, his former digital media director, as
his new campaign manager. My initial reaction to the news
was this was a silly idea that carried political risks, but it
turns out this was a good move on his part. Here are five
reasons Trump’s super early announcement was politically
smart.
1. It Ends All Speculation
Not seeking a second term is rare, but not unprecedented.
Only three presidents (Polk, Buchanan, and Hayes) chose
not to run for president a second time. Sure, most people
likely assumed Trump would run for reelection, but the
man can be unpredictable and some on the left quietly held
out hope that he’d tire of this job and leave of his own
accord. So, there was reason to believe he might end his
unconventional presidency prematurely—Trump’s first
wife, Ivana, thought he would. There’s also been media
speculation that Trump doesn’t even like being president
and misses his life in the private sector.
Even some Republican leaders considered Trump not
seeking reelection a real possibility. Last year, Chris
Christie suggested that Trump might want to return to the
private sector after one term.
“Four years is a long time, and especially
for someone who has not spent a lifetime in
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politics, so I think those years affect him
differently.”
Senator Rand Paul suggested it wasn’t a done deal when
asked about it on MSNBC. According to Paul,
Republicans
“need to know [if] President Trump [is]
running for re-election.”
Well, everyone knows now.
2. It Wards Off Republican Challengers
If Republicans are speculating if Trump might seek
reelection, it opens the door to speculative Republican
presidential bids, even a primary. Senator Rand Paul even
said, “There could well be a primary” in 2020. By
announcing this early, Trump has now shut the door on
that possibility. Any potential Republican candidate with a
real future who thought his or her opportunity for a White
House bid might come early will now hang up the gloves
until 2024.
Sure, an anti-Trump Republican might wage an
inconsequential campaign with the real goal of securing a
gig as a contributor on Fox News or at some other network,
but Trump establishing his reelection intentions early
means no serious Republican will consider challenging
him. Trump will be the Republican presidential candidate
in 2020, and any Republicans entertaining the possibility
of a 2020 bid for the presidency just had their dreams
crushed.
3. It May Help Republicans in the 2018 Midterms
Trump’s approval numbers aren’t looking too shabby right
now. In fact, according to Rasmussen, he’s doing better at
this point in his presidency than Obama—who may have
won reelection but lost big in the 2010 midterms. But, his
recent statements in the wake of the Parkland shooting put
him at odds with the NRA. And that’s not a good thing
during a midterm election year. He doesn’t need his base
thinking he’s gone soft on gun control. The gun control
debate only benefits Trump and the Republican Party
when the debate is with Democrats who are advocating
massive gun confiscation. He needs to get the media
talking about something else and, by declaring himself a
candidate this early, he fires up his base during a crucial
midterm election year by assuring them that he is in this
for the long haul. They know the best chance to advance
the Trump agenda for the next six years is to keep and
expand Republican majorities in Congress.
Right now, Democrats appear more energized to vote in
November, but their lack of a cohesive agenda beyond
“Oppose Trump” gives the GOP an opportunity to buck
the historical trend. Trump’s announcement will energize
his base, and any boost in his approval ratings—even in
the short term—can increase the chances of a positive
outcome in November. His best hope of buoying his
chances of accomplishing anything of note legislatively is
to keep Republicans focused on elections and not on the
media’s biased coverage of his off-the-cuff remarks.
4. It May Force Opponents to Jump in Early
The chatter surrounding Democratic contenders in 2020
includes an enormous list of prospects, most of whom
seem bleak: Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Joe Biden,
Terry McAuliffe, Andrew Cuomo, Deval Patrick, Kamala
Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Cuban, Oprah Winfrey,
Michelle Obama—the roster expands every week it seems.
We don’t know for sure who will jump in hoping to face
Trump in 2020 but it will be a crowded Democratic
primary slate. Contentious primaries can get ugly and sow
division in the party trying to unseat an incumbent who
loves to campaign and doesn’t have to face any primary
challengers.
It’s worth noting that history is on Trump’s side for
winning reelection. Only five incumbent presidents have
lost their reelection bids since 1900: William Taft in 1912,
Herbert Hoover in 1932, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy
Carter in 1980, and George H. W. Bush 1992. Historically,
incumbents are tough to beat. Even Barack Obama was
.
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reelected despite an economy that hadn’t recovered yet and
his unpopular health care law.
But, Trump is no ordinary president, media coverage of
him is overwhelmingly negative, and any advantage he can
get is worth taking. Democrats looking to challenge him
might feel pressure to lay the groundwork for their
campaigns earlier than planned to begin fundraising and
seek endorsements, paving the way for an extra long
primary that could drain Democrat enthusiasm and turn off
crucial independent voters.
5. He’s Moved On from the Russia Collusion Story
No issue has dogged Trump’s campaign more than the
endless investigation into alleged collusion between his
campaign and Russia. It’s been a never-ending, costly
distraction. Many on the left still believe there was
collusion, that it somehow tipped the 2016 election to
Trump, and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will find
a smoking gun, resulting in Trump’s impeachment, then
some bizarre and unconstitutional line of succession
fantasy that will miraculously result in Hillary being
installed as president. Trump has sent a very clear message
that the Russia investigation, despite some minor
indictments, is not a concern of his. He’s moved passed it,
and looking toward his next election and beyond, not
worrying about what Robert Mueller might dig up.
All of these reasons point to the simple truth that Trump is
looking toward the future. His first State of the Union
Speech rang with the same optimistic, forward-looking
message. Democrats sat on their keisters and glared angrily
as he led cheers for America’s virtues and for her untapped
potential. So, as the left continues to stew over a past
election and #resist, Trump looks to tomorrow and
embraces it. He’s started the 2020 campaign season on his
terms. He’s welcoming an election that’s a referendum on
his agenda. He might be a political novice, but he
understands branding and messaging. That’s what we have
here.
 Washpost Reporter Insinuates Russian Trolls Caused
Hillary To Lose The Election, Win It For Trump
By Curtis Houck
February 28, 2018 4:03 PM EST
Whenever someone from the liberal media footnotes in a
Trump-Russia story that there’s no evidence that votes
were changed, remember segments like this one from
Tuesday’s Hardball that showed why, deep down, they’re
still convinced that Russians were why Hillary Clinton lost
the election.
During the Hardball Roundtable block on MSNBC,
Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott dumped his
supposed objectivity to join with former Clinton campaign
official Adrienne Elrod in boisterously rejecting GOP
strategist John Brabender, who argued that Russian
hacking and social media trolls didn’t change one vote.
Host Chris Matthews tried to throw down with Brabender,
but he offered nothing of substance besides the general
notion that the evidence could change depending on the
Mueller probe’s findings.
“No one's going to convince me a billion
dollar was spent on this campaigns and
with some — and with some memes
they changed the outcome,” Brabender
argued as Matthews shouted at him.
Brabender was eventually able to continue after more
squabbling:
“Look, here’s what the argument has
been, what Russia has done to influence
the election the argument is to release
e-mails where Hillary Clinton was trying
to scam the election from Bernie
Sanders. That's what we're using as
what the Russians successfully did?”
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Elrod shouted that “[t]here was a lot more than just
that” and Scott also joined in with the asinine connotation
that Russian-backed social media trolls swung the election
by depressing turnout:
EUGENE SCOTT: Yeah. There’s a lot
more than —
BRABENDER: Okay, so —
SCOTT: — than what’s being said about.
BRABENDER: Okay, so —
SCOTT: One of the things that has been
said is that through the factories — the troll
factories, fake accounts have been put out
that have — that were aimed at increasing,
I'm sorry, decreasing turnout amongst
particular demographics and that we do
have data that some demographics did not
vote especially in some of those swings
states.
BRABENDER: Yeah, but you’re combining
those two. So, what you're basically saying,
despite a billion dollars worth of
advertising, despite all the network
coverage and all the debates, some
Russians somewhere put a meme on
Facebook and —
SCOTT: Not a meme. Lots of trolls —
BRABENDER: — okay, that’s — that’s —
SCOTT: — lots of memes, lots of tweets —
BRABENDER: — that’s insulting.
ELROD: No.
SCOTT: — lots of fake news articles.
Brabender reiterated just how “insulting” that is “to
voters” and halfheartedly wondered allowed how much
Russian trolls spent on Facebook compared to the billions
spent in the 2016 election.
Nonetheless, Elrod and Scott kept pushing
with the former emphatically stating that
they “absolutely impacted the election”
 while Scott lashed out: “Did you see the
memes? Did you see them?”
“The Democrats are right now like this
sort of group where they need a drug to
get — how did we lose this election and
Russia — Russia is that drug. Russia is
that drug,” Brabender responded.
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
February 27, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s Hardball
February 27, 2018
7:43 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, there's two issues. There’s
one is the Democrats and the special counsel and everybody
else have the enough on Trump to begin to impeach him. That’s
one issue of great interest to many of our viewers. The other is,
what is the question of Russia's involvement clearly established
in the 2016 election? Whatever effect it had? Did it turn it against
Hillary? Did it just make a marginal effect? Whatever it was, it
was there. The American people know it was there and most
people believe it's coming back at us in '18. How is that going to
affect this administration's history in the books? Adrienne?
ADRIENNE ELROD: Well, I think it's going to down —
MATTHEWS: That they’re not fighting the Russians.
ELROD: Yeah, I think it’s going to affect — very negatively affect
President Trump's history. I mean, look, it is infuriating as an
American that our President does not seem to care about this,
despite collusion or not, the fact that he doesn't seem to care
about this, the fact that he's had two major intelligence officials
testify in the last two weeks he has not directed them to do
anything about this, so I think it's going to have a dismal impact
on this.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of that? Christopher Wray, the
FBI Director, the NSA, Mike Rogers all of them saying he's never
told me to do anything about the Russians.
JOHN BRABENDER: Well, the bigger problem is we’re taking —
MATTHEWS: Isn't that a problem?
BRABENDER: — no. Here's the bigger problem. We're taking the
whole Russian thing and we’re throwing it into one category
when there’s three. Number one, did they interfere? Yes.
Everybody should agree.
MATTHEWS: He won't say that.
BRABENDER: Everybody should say that. Now, he would say —
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MATTHEWS: He said it was a 400-pound guy lying in a bed
somewhere.
BRABENDER: Number two, was there collusion and the
President's right. So far, there’s been absolutely no proof that
there was collusion. Number three, did it impact the election?
And I would tell you as an election expert who's done this for 30
years, it did not have an impact on the election. So, I do believe
my advice to —
MATTHEWS: You mean it didn't have an impact on who won.
BRABENDER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Who won? Okay.
BRABENDER: Okay. My advice to the President —
MATTHEWS: We now know they accessed — they penetrated
seven states for sure into their election process.
BRABENDER: Yeah. They tried to. We don't know that they
successfully did.
MATTHEWS: Well, they caked the joint. They penetrated them.
BRABENDER: They caked the joint. That’s different.
MATTHEWS: Okay.
BRABENDER: We don’t know one vote was changed
MATTHEWS: They could have done it [INAUDIBLE]
BRABENDER: No one's going to convince me a billion dollar was
spent on this campaigns —
MATTHEWS: Okay, and by the way, I wanna — before you go
past —
BRABENDER: — and with some — and with some memes they
changed the outcome.
MATTHEWS: — before you go past the crown jewels here. There
are three people I could think of: Papadopoulos, Flynn, and now
Rick Gates who have all been basically involved in plea bargains
to give stuff to Trump on Trump to Mueller. What do you think
that is? It has nothing to do with Russia?
BRABENDER: I don't think that has anything to do —
MATTHEWS: You’re saying there’s nothing there.
BRABENDER: — with Russia and the campaign, absolutely. No,
I don't. First of all, tell me what Russia could have done.
MATTHEWS: That's what he's investigating. BRABENDER: How much did they spend? And how much did
they spend on Facebook? How much did they spend.
BRABENDER: Look, here’s what the argument has been, what
Russia has done to influence the election the argument is to ELROD: We don’t know. That's what we're trying to figure out.
release e-mails where Hillary Clinton was trying to scam the
election from Bernie Sanders. That's what we're using as what SCOTT: That’s where the investigation is going.
the Russians successfully did?
BRABENDER: We know — we know it was minimal.
ELROD: There were a lot more than that. I mean, there was a lot
more than just that.
ELROD: It absolutely impacted the election.

EUGENE SCOTT: Yeah. There’s a lot more than —

SCOTT: It’s still ongoing.

BRABENDER: Okay, so —
BRABENDER: Memes and posts on Facebook by some
Russians influenced the election? that's insulting to voters.
SCOTT: — than what’s being said about.
SCOTT: Did you see the memes? Did you see them?
BRABENDER: Okay, so —
ELROD: [INAUDIBLE]
SCOTT: One of the things that has been said is that through the
factories — the troll factories, fake accounts have been put out
MATTHEWS: If the Republicans had lost the presidential
that have — that were aimed at increasing, I'm sorry, decreasing
election, would you be as unconcerned about the degree to
turnout amongst particular demographics and that we do have
which they interfered?
data that some demographics did not vote especially in some of
those swings states.
BRABENDER: Here's the thing.
BRABENDER: Yeah, but you’re combining those two. So, what
you're basically saying, despite a billion dollars worth of ELROD: Yeah.
advertising, despite all the network coverage and all the debates,
some Russians somewhere put a meme on Facebook and — MATTHEWS: You're saying this is a matter of degree to which
they influenced the election?
SCOTT: Not a meme. Lots of trolls —
BRABENDER: The Democrats are right now like this sort of
BRABENDER: --- okay, that’s — that’s — group where they need a drug to get — how did we lose this
election and Russia —
SCOTT: — lots of memes, lots of tweets —
MATTHEWS: That’s the Trump —
BRABENDER: — that’s insulting.
BRABENDER: — Russia is that drug.
ELROD: No.
MATTHEWS: — that is the Trump argument. That's the Trump
argument.
SCOTT: — lots of fake news articles.
BRABENDER: Russia is that drug.
BRABENDER: And that's insulting to voters.
MATTHEWS: I don't believe it.
ELROD: There’s a lot more than that.

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 Top White House Staff React In
Apparent Disbelief To Hope Hicks Resignation
Christian Datoc - Breaking News and Engagement Editor
8:38 PM 02/28/2018

Top White House staffers, including press secretary Sarah Neither statement gave any details on what caused Hicks
Sanders and counselor to the president Kellyanne to resign.
Conway, were apparently caught off guard by
communications director Hope Hicks’ abrupt resignation
Fox News’ Ed Henry added that staffers were seen crying
Wednesday afternoon.
in the West Wing offices after the Hicks news broke.

WATCH:

Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks, Sarah Sanders (Getty Images)

“There is no one that can fill the void Hope

Hicks will leave behind,” Sanders tweeted.
“She is in a league of her own and no one
can replace her. Far and away one of the
most talented and skilled people I’ve ever
met and coming to work won’t be the same
without her.”
“After this story broke late this afternoon
Hope Hicks was seen crying as were some
other communications staffers here in the
West Wing of the White House,” he told
Fox host and Daily Caller co-founder
Tucker Carlson. “What that tells us is she
has been somebody very popular around
here, particularly with the president, but
also with top aides and that this was very
unexpected.”

CNN reported Wednesday that President Trump did not

approve of Hicks’ Tuesday testimony before the House
Conway’s response was much briefer:
Intelligence Committee.

“I love you and will miss you, Hope Hicks.”

Hicks reportedly admitted to lawmakers she would tell
“white lies” to cover for Trump, over which POTUS
allegedly berated her at the White House on Wednesday.

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 Now They Like Him:
Nets Tout Trump Siding With Dems On Gun Control
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 28, 2018 8:56 PM EST
In a nationally televised negotiation with Republican and
Democratic leaders at the White House Wednesday,
President Trump appeared to back many liberal gun
control proposals much to the delight of the liberal media.
During their evening broadcasts ABC, CBS, and NBC
touted how the President “stood up to the National Rifle
Association” and pushed back against Republicans.
The report on NBC Nightly News was arguably the most
vicious against gun rights advocates.
“Under pressure after Parkland,
President Trump taking on his own
party and the National Rifle Association
today,” hyped White House correspondent
Kristen Welker. “Mr. Trump, at a
freewheeling hour-long meeting with a
group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to
get something, anything done, appeared
to embrace nearly everything he heard
in the meeting[.]”
Welker noted that Trump wanted to “confiscat[e] guns
from those deemed dangerous,” but slimed folks on the
right by insinuating they didn’t care who had weapons,
saying “a move opposed by many conservatives.” She
then played a clip of Trump arguing that government
should “take the guns first, go through due process
second,” but she failed to mention such an act was
unconstitutional.
“Even taking on red-state Democrat Joe
Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey
for not including an age limit increase in
their background check bill,”
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Welker reported with glee. And she seemed impressed that
Trump
“even push[ed] back against fellow
Republican Steve Scalise, shot and
nearly killed during a baseball practice
last summer.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, they seemed ecstatic.
“He was sitting with Republicans and
Democrats on guns and school safety,
saying he supports what many of the
Democrats support, universal
background checks, among other
things, pushed by the students and
families in Parkland, Florida,” announced
anchor David Muir as he led into the report
by Chief White House Correspondent Jon
Karl.
Karl was brimming with energy as he was delivering his
report:
“Before the television cameras at the
White House, the most pro-NRA
President in history gathered together a
group including some of Congress's
most forceful advocates of gun control.”
“And sitting in that room, the President
repeatedly took positions that put
himself at odds with the NRA and
Republican leaders in Congress,” he
added.
The ABC reporter also boasted about how Trump appeared
to opposed Vice President Pence in wanting to “take the
guns first, go through due process second.” He too failed
to mention the illegality of the move.
“The President told the bipartisan group,
he wants more than action. He wants
bold action. A comprehensive bill on
guns and school safety,” he exclaimed.
Meanwhile, on CBS Evening News, Chief Congressional
Correspondent Nancy Cordes was the only one to note that
what Trump wanted would be “skirting the law.”
But CBS promoted Trump’s apparent gun control push,
with anchor Jeff Glor stating:
“The President gathered members of
Congress, Democrats and Republicans,
at the White House today and said, it's
time to end the nonsense and do
something about gun violence.”
“President Trump scrambled the
partisan divide on guns today, siding
with Democrats on dramatically
expanding background checks and
raising the purchasing age for semi-
automatic weapons,” Cordes added.
The liberal media are such big anti-gun advocates that they
appear to be willing to side with Trump to push their
agenda.
The relevant parts of the transcripts are below, expand to
read each one:
NBC Nightly News
February 28, 2018
7:04:14 PM Eastern [1 minute 42 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: And two weeks after the mass shooting at a
Florida high school, the President stood up to the National Rifle
Association today. At least on some points. As he met with
members of Congress from both parties, Mr. Trump appeared to
embrace new gun restrictions as he told them to come up with
legislation aimed at preventing more school shootings. NBC's
Kristen Welker now with that story.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: Under pressure after Parkland, President
Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle Association
today.
(…)
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WELKER: Mr. Trump, at a freewheeling hour-long meeting with a
group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to get something, anything
done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the
meeting from confiscating guns from those deemed dangerous, a
move opposed by many conservatives.
DONALD TRUMP: Take the guns first, go through due process
second.
WELKER: And embracing long-held Democratic ideas like
universal background checks, and increasing the minimum age
to 21 to buy some weapons. Even taking on red-state Democrat
Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey for not including an
age limit increase in their background check bill.
(…)
WELKER: At times, Wheeling and dealing in real-time.
(…)
WELKER: Even pushing back against fellow Republican Steve
Scalise, shot and nearly killed during a baseball practice last
summer, when Scalise suggested adding a measure involving a
concealed weapons permit to a bill aimed at strengthening
background checks.
(…)
ABC
World News Tonight
February 28, 2018
6:35:15 PM Eastern [2 minutes 45 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: As you know, the other firestorm tonight,
Republicans reacting at this hour to what they saw from the
President today at the White House. He was sitting with
Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying
he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal
background checks, among other things, pushed by the students
and families in Parkland, Florida. But tonight, many in his own
party are now livid. ABC's Chief White House Correspondent
Jonathan Karl.
[Cuts to video]
JON KARL: Before the television cameras at the White House,
the most pro-NRA President in history gathered together a group
including some of Congress's most forceful advocates of gun
control.
(…)
KARL: And sitting in that room, the President repeatedly took
positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican
leaders in Congress. He embraced Connecticut Democrat Chris
Murphy's call for background checks on all gun purchases. An
idea Republicans have voted down again and again.
(…)
KARL: Trump even seemed to oppose his own vice president on
how to take guns from someone identified as a possible threat.
(…)
KARL: And the President brought up an idea the NRA says it
firmly opposes: raising the age to buy assault weapons, like the
AR-15 used in the Parkland shooting, to 21 years old.
(…)
KARL: The President told the bipartisan group, he wants more
than action. He wants bold action. A comprehensive bill on guns
and school safety. He told one Republican leader to put aside a
controversial pro-gun measure and to concentrate on something
Democrats will support.
(…)
CBS Evening News
February 28, 2018
6:34:41 PM Eastern [1 minute 7 seconds]
JEFF GLOR: The President gathered members of Congress,
Democrats and Republicans, at the White House today and said,
it's time to end the nonsense and do something about gun
.
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violence. Here's Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy
Cordes.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: I'm not into popularity. I'm into getting
something done that's good.
NANCY CORDES: President Trump scrambled the partisan
divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically
expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for
semi-automatic weapons.
TRUMP: It doesn't make sense that I have to wait until I'm 21 to
get handgun, but I can get this weapon at 18. Just curious as to
what you did in your bill?
(…)
CORDES: President Trump also clashed with Republicans,
including recent shoot shooting victim Steve Scalise when they
argued gun owners need the right the carry concealed weapons
across state lines.
(…)
CORDES: Those weapons, he argued, should have been
confiscated from the Florida shooter, even if it meant skirting the
law.
(…)
 Florida Congressman Backs
Trump’s Blast At Sessions On IG Probe
Rep. Ron Desantis Echoes President’s Observation That Inspector
General Has No Power To Prosecute, Takes Long
Time To Complete Investigations
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 01 Mar 2018 At 6:24 AM
A Florida congressman took President Donald Trump’s
side Wednesday night on Fox News’ “The Ingraham
Angle” regarding the chief executive’s latest public
drubbing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Trump used his favorite medium — Twitter — to roast
Sessions for turning over to the Department of Justice
inspector general (IG) questions about the FBI’s conduct
while investigating one of the president’s volunteer
foreign-policy advisers during the 2016 campaign.
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse,” he tweeted. “Will
take forever, has no prosecutorial power
and already late with reports on Comey etc.
Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use
Justice Department lawyers?
DISGRACEFUL!”
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) told host Laura Ingraham the
president is right to critique the IG.
“The IG is just not going to cut it,” he said.
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DeSantis (pictured above right) echoed Trump's
observation that the IG has no authority to file criminal
charges.
"He can't hold anyone accountable. He'll
take a year-and-a-half to write a report and
offer recommendations," he said. "There's
a time and a place for that. But from what
we've seen over the last six or seven
months — just the scores of people who
have been demoted or have had to leave
these agencies, a bunch of different
potential offenses, ranging from false
statements to disclosure of classified
information — you need a special counsel
who can actually pursue those matters."
But Fox News contributor Brit Hume, who also appeared
on the show, defended Sessions.
"If you're looking for a quick investigation
that won't take very long, as the
congressman suggests he'd like to see, the
last thing on earth that you need is another
special counsel," Hume said. "They
famously take forever. They build up huge
staffs. And they run far afield from their
original purpose."
Hume said Trump expected Sessions to be his "political
protector" when he appointed him to the office.
 "And as you and I both know, Laura, that is
absolutely not what the attorney general is
supposed to do … He is not supposed to
run the Justice Department, use the Justice
Department to run interference, politically
or legally, for the president," he said. "And
the president has been disappointed from
the jump with Sessions because he thought
Sessions would be helping him out in
dealing with the Russian matter and so on."
Hume said,
"The president is clearly off-base here, and
I think the nation's been well-served by Jeff
Sessions, and we all should hope Sessions
stays on the job despite this hazing."
Addressing the other major political story of the day,
Trump's endorsement of several gun control measures,
DeSantis turned the conversation back to the FBI's failures
in the weeks leading up to a February 14 mass shooting at
.
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a high school in Florida. He noted that accused shooter
Nikolas Cruz had had dozens of encounters with law
enforcement authorities.
"So you had all these red flags, and, of
course, the FBI was given a specific tip that
he was going to commit a school shooting,
and yet they were, they fell down on the
job," he said. "That is the number-one
issue that comes out of this."
DeSantis said certain proposals — improving security in
schools and addressing deficiencies in the mental health
system — enjoy widespread bipartisan support. But he said
banning certain classes of semi-automatic guns, the
proposal offered by gun control advocates like Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) and others, is a non-starter.
"When you start going into waters that
Dianne Feinstein wants to go down, that is
just not gonna — that dog's not gonna hunt
in the Congress," he said.
 MSNBC Crank: Trump Will Win 2020
In A Landslide If He’s Not ‘Removed’ From Office
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 1, 2018, 7:39 Am

approval ratings, but Hunter and Deutsch

The folks at MSNBC are pretty depressed about Trump’s
excellent chances for reelection in 2020. Frequent guest
Donny Deutsch recently said Trump will win in 2020 in a
landslide unless he is removed from office. This explains a
lot about the left’s behavior, doesn’t it?
argued that it didn’t matter because of the
loyalty of Trump’s supporters.
“His approval rating is at an all-time low,
and yet the people who support him still
support him, and they think this is all a
hoax and this is a scam,” Hunter said.
Wallace talked about voting Trump out of
office, but Deutsch and Hunter maintained
that Trump must be removed before 2020.
“I’ll go one better than you,” Deutsch told
Hunter. “And this scares me. If he is not
taken out of office—”…
“He will win again in a landslide,” Deutsch
finished, talking about Trump in 2020.
“Because people vote with their
pocketbooks, and that’s what’s scary to
me.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported: Watch the video:

MSNBC Guest Predicts Trump Will Be

Reelected in Landslide if He Isn’t
Removed From Office
Deutsch then lambasted the “absurdity”
and “obscenity” of the way the Trump
administration has functioned, but Sirius
XM radio host Karen Hunter said the
administration’s problems will not matter to
voters.
“We can have these conversations all day
long, and all the punditry can be absolutely
correct, but it’s not going to show up in the
voting booths,” Hunter said. They still just don’t get it.
Wallace pushed back on Hunter’s
contention by mentioning Trump’s low
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 Kellyanne Conway Tells All On Hope Hicks
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:45 AM 03/01/2018

president’s inner circle from the early days of the 2016

presidential campaign and was considered one of his
closest confidants inside the West Wing.

Conway said her departure, announced Wednesday

evening, is really a matter of exhaustion.

“Its very simple. Hope has been doing this

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway explained
departing communications director Hope Hicks decision to
resign in a Thursday morning interview on “Fox &
Friends.”
WATCH:
three years, non-stop,” she said, adding
that her departure did not mean she was
leaving Trump’s service permanently. “As
the president says, she’ll probably be back
in his orbit at some time, some day, to help
yet again.”
“Hope is outstanding and has done great
work for the last three years. She is as
smart and thoughtful as they come — a
truly great person. I will miss having her by
my side, but when she approached me
about pursuing other opportunities, I totally
understood. I am sure we will work together
again in the future,” Trump said in a
statement following news of Hicks’
departure.

Hicks herself issued a rare on-the-record statement saying,

“There are no words to adequately express

Hicks’ resignation came just one day after she testified my gratitude to President Trump. I wish the
before the House Intelligence Committee on alleged President and his administration the very
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and best as he continues to lead our country.”
the departure of her ex-boyfriend, former White House
staff secretary Rob Porter after his two ex-wives re-raised
allegations of spousal abuse. She was a member of the
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 Sharyl Attkisson Accuses Obama DOJ
Of Secretly Swapping Out Her Computer Hard Drive
By Paula Bolyard
March 1, 2018
(Rex Features via AP Images)
Former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson accused the
Department of Justice (DOJ) of monkeying around with
her hard drive while her computer was in their possession.
She tweeted on Thursday,
"What would you think if I told you the hard
drive of one of my personal computers was
secretly switched out w/another while in
custody of the Justice Dept. Inspector
General-- before they gave it back to me?"
You may recall that Attkisson's computer was hacked back
in 2012 while she was working for CBS and reporting on
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the Benghazi scandal. CBS News spokeswoman Sonya
McNair said at the time that a cybersecurity firm hired by
CBS News "has determined through forensic analysis" that
"Attkisson's computer was accessed by an
unauthorized, external, unknown party on
multiple occasions in late 2012."
"Evidence suggests this party performed all
access remotely using Attkisson's
accounts," McNair said. "While no
malicious code was found, forensic
analysis revealed an intruder had executed
commands that appeared to involve search
and exfiltration of data. This party also
used sophisticated methods to remove all
possible indications of unauthorized
activity, and alter system times to cause
further confusion. CBS News is taking
steps to identify the responsible party and
their method of access."
In her memoir, Attkisson recalled that a source connected
to a government agency implicated
“a sophisticated entity that used
commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s
proprietary to a government agency: either
the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence
Agency or the National Security Agency" in
the breach.
She's suing the Justice Department, accusing the Obama
administration of illegally surveilling her computers, and
seeking $35 million in damages. An excerpt from an
affidavit in the case claims:
In several subsequent tweets, Atkisson revealed more
details about the DOJ's handling of her computer while it
was in the inspector general's possession.
"I asked them to look at one of them some
years ago after the govt intrusion," she
tweeted. "Not the main one but one of my
personal computers involved to see if they
might come up with more info. Instead,
they... withheld the report from me, did a lot
of weird stuff." Attkisson says that her team
of forensic experts discovered the replaced
hard drive and said they have "the forensic
record and chain of custody documents" to
prove it.
Attkisson wrote on her blog last August:
The IG investigators found and described
to me significant suspicious anomalies in
that system much like the CBS laptop,
unearthing similar efforts by someone to
erase data and evidence. However, when
the IG computer experts finished their
review, the findings went to higher ups and
the resulting report was inexplicably
withheld from me in its entirety.
describing the suspicious activity found on my personal
computer. However, the IG has stonewalled my Freedom
of Information (FOI) requests for these documents for
several years. If the Department of Justice won’t comply
with FOI law, then what recourse does a citizen have?
"The Justice Departement is fighting us,"
she tweeted today, singling out Inspector
General Michael Horowitz, an Obama
administration holdover who still holds the
position. This is the same Michael Horowitz
who was appointed by Attorney General
Jeff Sessions to oversee the FISA abuses
investigation.
Attkisson tweeted that career attorneys at
DOJ "are getting orders from higher up. "I
don't know the names of exactly who," she
said.
This new information about her hard drive will become
part of her lawsuit against the Departement of Justice, she
said. Last month Attkisson gave an update on the case.
You can watch it here:

I was shut out.

Many months later, under pressure from Congress, the IG

eventually released a very different-sounding summary of
its forensics report to the press. It recast or excluded much
of what the investigators had told me they’d found. I
attempted to obtain the full report and original notes, some
of which I reviewed while the investigation was underway,
.

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 Ron Desantis: Leaker Adam Schiff Leaked
Hope Hicks Testimony To Liberal Media (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 1, 2018, 9:23 Am

Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis joined Laura

Ingraham on Wednesday to discuss the
resignation of White House
Communications Director Hope Hicks.
On Wednesday the liberal media ran
headlines that Hope admitted to telling
white lies.

Rep. Ron DeSantis blamed leaker Adam

Shiff for the latest leak too.

Rep. Ron DeSantis:

Yeah, those are Schiff leaks about her
testimony. Take it for what it’s worth.
Via The Ingraham Angle:
Leaking has its benefits.
Liberal news organizations has had
Schiff on TV for over 22 hours this past
year.

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 Ben Sasse Said What Everyone Is Thinking
About Trump’s Second Amendment Flip-Flop
Anders Hagstrom Justice Reporter
10:00 AM 03/01/2018

“Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then

go to court,” Trump replied, much to the
delight of the woman sitting next to him,
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of
California.

Also WATCH:

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) questions Supreme Court nominee judge

Neil Gorsuch during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation
hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2017.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1B5AAEEB00

Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse had harsh words for

President Donald Trump Wednesday after he called for the
confiscation of guns without due process.

“Take the guns first, go through due

process second,” Trump said at a gun
control meeting Wednesday. The call
induced rage in his base, and Sasse was
similarly frustrated. “That’s another system,” the president
continued. “A lot of times by the time you
“Strong leaders don’t automatically agree go to court, it takes so long to go to court to
with the last thing that was said to them. get the due process procedures. I like
We have the Second Amendment and due taking the guns early.”
process of law for a reason,” Sasse said in
a statement. “We’re not ditching any
Trump argued that Nikolas Cruz, the school shooter who
Constitutional protections simply because
killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla., had so many issues that
the last person the president talked to
it would have taken a “long time” to get him through court.
today doesn’t like them.”
“You can do what you’re saying but take
Trump’s comments were particularly surprising given their
the guns first, go through due process
context, spoken just after Vice President Mike Pence
second,” he concluded.
called for lawmakers to remember gun owners’ due
process rights.
Pence didn’t challenge Trump’s assertion, instead
reiterating that he wanted a system to remove firearms
“Allow due process so no one’s rights are
from people with red flags for a “set period of time or
trampled, but the ability to go to court,
longer.”
obtain an order and then collect not only
the firearms but any weapons,” Pence said.
.

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 Five Years After Obama-Hillary Sell 20%
Of US Uranium To Russia – Putin Threatens West
With ‘Unstoppable’ Nuke Bomb
By Jim Hoft
March 1, 2018, 10:02 Am

effort to benefit the Clinton Foundation. Campbell braved

“35 intense radiation treatments after being diagnosed with
cancer during his time with the FBI.

Mr. Campbell also accused the Obama administration of

making decisions that ended up benefitting the Russian
nuclear industry, which he said was seeking to build a
monopoly in the global uranium market

Obama was briefed at least twice on the

corrupt deal to sell US uranium to
Russia and did nothing.
The US turned over 20% of its uranium
In October 2017 an FBI informant stepped forward and reserves in the deal.
said there was “on-the-record quid pro quo” surrounding On Wednesday Russian leader Vladimir
the Uranium One scandal with the Clintons. Putin threatened the West with
unstoppable nuclear missiles.
Bill Clinton received a $500,000 speaking fee from a
Russian backed bank and the Clinton Foundation received Putin boasts Russia has developed an intercontinental
millions of dollars from people involved with the Uranium nuclear missile that can’t be stopped or shot down by any
One deal. country’s defence system.

The informant, Douglas Campbell, broke his silence on a Vladimir Putin said the rocket travels 20 times the speed of
Russia plot to steer millions of dollars to the U.S. in an sound and has unlimited range.

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 'Fox And Friends' Touts MRC’s ‘Conservatives
Fight Back’ Campaign Against 'View'
By NB Staff
March 1, 2018 10:10 AM EST

way she mocked and got a laugh from the

entire panel and the audience when she
made her comments a few weeks back?”
he posed.
“Should we place bets?” Doocy joked
before Ainsley Earhardt added, doubtfully,
“She is not going to say anything.”
But Doocy added that ABC “has pretty
much not responded.”
“She said once she was kidding. I don't
think she is going to touch it with a 10-foot
pole,” he agreed with Earhardt.
On Thursday, Fox and Friends blasted View host Joy
Behar’s hypocrisy in calling conservative Vice President “Rush Limbaugh calls it a double standard,”
Mike Pence “mentally ill” for confessing he talked to God, Earhardt added, playing a segment from
while ignoring liberal Democrat Oprah Winfrey admitting the radio host’s show yesterday.
she does so as well.

Fox and Friends and Fox and Friends First both noted the
backlash against the network on their March 1 shows.

Host Heather Childers credited the MRC for holding ABC

accountable for its host’s behavior, on Fox and Friends
First :

Since those comments, media watchdog

group Media Research Center started a
campaign to hold the View co-host
Kilmeade then cited the MRC’s campaign against the
accountable for anti-Christian
show’s advertisers, noting the sheer number of calls ABC
comments but it looks like the network
received, and wondering if combined with Oprah’s
isn't taking any action and Behar isn’t
comments, Behar would come out and apologize:
changing her tune. Just this week she
said ‘conservatives have a penchant for
Nazis.’ She wasn't getting much love at the
ABC switchboard. 30,000 calls came to
complain about her comments, which
An hour later on Fox and Friends, host Steve Doocy
made the next day, she came back and
wondered how Behar would react now that Oprah has
said ‘I was basically only kidding.’ So,
come out several times in the past few weeks saying she
here's the question: Oprah Winfrey will-- do
was waiting on God to tell her if she should run for
you in fact feel as though she will be called
president.
out today by Joy Behar? Will she actually
acknowledge it? Will Joy use this as an
“We're wondering how she is going to opportunity to say, you know, ‘The more I
respond,” Doocy pointed out. Brian think about it, I really shouldn't have said
Kilmeade wondered if Behar would mock that two weeks ago. I have a live show for
Oprah as well. an hour and, you know, we interact and
“Is Joy Behar, when her show goes live sometimes things happen.’
today, going to mock Oprah Winfrey the
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 “Will it be the same standard? Will she say
that Oprah Winfrey is mentally ill as she
said Mike Pence was mentally ill?” Doocy
asked skeptically.
FNC Fox and Friends
3/1/2018
6:31:56-6:36:45 AM
STEVE DOOCY: Okay. So she is saying Mike Pence is mentally
ill for talking to God.
BRIAN KILMEADE: And she is not correct.
AINSLEY EARHARDT: We talked to Mike Pence about it and he
said basically I get criticized all the time. I'm used to that. But
when you criticize the majority of America and you criticize my
God for saying that, I stand up. I have to reprimand her for doing
that.
DOOCY: Mike Pence is a conservative. She doesn't like
conservatives. So it's ironic. We're wondering how she is going to
respond to the new cover story in "People" magazine where
Oprah Winfrey reveals she talks to God, too.
OPRAH WINFREY: Billionaires calling me up, saying, ‘I can get
you a billion dollars. I can run your campaign.’ I actually went into
prayer about it like, god, if you think I'm supposed to run, you
have you got to tell me. And it has to be so clear that not even I
could miss it.
KILMEADE: As clear as when George Burns played God that
was obviously God. It’s got to be something as transparent and
flagrant as that. Is Joy Behar when her show goes live today
going to mock Oprah Winfrey the way she mocked and got a
laugh from the entire panel and the audience when she made her
comments a few weeks back.
DOOCY: Should we place bets?
EARHARDT: She is not going to say anything.
KILMEADE: I wonder if she will address it we are laying the
groundwork here and we're powerful.
DOOCY: ABC has pretty much not responded. She said once
she was kidding. I don't think she is going to touch it with a 10-
foot pole.
.
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EARHARDT: Rush Limbaugh calls it a double standard. Listen to
this.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: A liberal Democrat is gonna talk to God and
God is gonna talk back. Now, isn't that what they have been
making fun of Mike Pence for for about a week?
It was Maud Behar on The View. Mike Pence is mentally ill
because Jesus talks to him. That’s a big enough risk for Oprah
as a Democrat to acknowledge God, number one, and then she
says she will not move forward unless she hears from God in
such a clear way that she couldn't miss it. So she's expecting
God to talk to her. Anybody else see the contradictions here?
EARHARDT: Ok several things came to mind. When I heard
Oprah say that I was like -- see, I love Oprah. I love that she is
willing to talk about that and talk about her faith. And when you
watched her show, she was always so generous and talked
about her faith a lot and was giving away cars and everything.
DOOCY: You get a car. You get a car.
EARHARDT: She always talks about how she appreciates where
she came and what her story has been. I think she is just a
powerful woman. Clearly she has done a lot for other people and
for herself for this country and has a great story. So, I thought
that was wonderful. Joy Behar, as a Christian it makes me sad
that she was making fun of him and doesn't have that
experience. So, it's hard for me to criticize her because she just
doesn't know -- she doesn't know the love of what it is like to
have faith and to have a higher supreme being, it seems.
KILMEADE: She wasn't getting much love at the ABC
switchboard. 30,000 calls came to complain about her comments
which made the next day she came back and said I was basically
only kidding. So, here's the question: Oprah Winfrey will-- do you
in fact feel as though she will be called out today by Joy Behar?
Will she actually acknowledge it? Will Joy use this as an
opportunity to say, you know, ‘The more I think about it, I really
shouldn't have said that two weeks ago. I have a live show for an
hour and, you know, we interact and sometimes things happen.’
DOOCY: Will it be the same standard? Will she say that Oprah
Winfrey is mentally ill as she said Mike Pence was mentally ill?
Oh yeah I'm just kidding.
EARHARDT: There are a lot of people who are not sure about
their faith and they would love to hear from God and they're very
confused and they don't know what's happening. I have a good
friend who talks to me about this all the time. She would love to
have the assurance in Heaven and all of that I understanding
maybe she hasn't gotten there yet. Maybe joy hasn't but to
equate it to mental illness? That's what I had a problem with.
 WaPo Report: Trump
Nicknames Jeff Sessions ‘Mr. Magoo’
Amber Randall - Civil Rights Reporter
10:41 PM 02/28/2018

to resign, as the special counsel is looking to figure out

whether that move was part of a coordinated effort to
obstruct justice, sources told WaPo.

Trump also criticized Sessions Wednesday for his handling

of the investigation in to potential FISA abuses.

ALSO WATCH:

The president reportedly refers to Attorney General Jeff

Sessions as “Mr. Magoo,” according to a Wednesday
report.

President Donald Trump has given Sessions his own

nickname, “Mr. Magoo,” after a short, white cartoon
character best known for his nearsightedness, The
Washington Post reported after speaking with people close
to the president.

The president has also complained that while he has hired

the best lawyers during the course of his life, he doesn’t
feel that Sessions is particularly loyal to him, according to
the WaPo report.

As the president continues to air his frustrations with the

attorney general, several senior aides reportedly bought
him a bullet proof vest to honor the anniversary of his
confirmation.

The president’s displeasure with Sessions comes as special

counsel Robert Mueller is also trying to investigate the
time period last summer when Trump tried to get Sessions .

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 Indicted Russians. That's It?
The Real News Is That The Swamp Is Everywhere.
By Michael Ledeen
March 1, 2018
In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert
Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016
election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting in
Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
So that’s it?
The Russians spent some money buying Americans to
demonstrate? Or just found kindred spirits online to do it
free? Or, horror of horrors, Russians lied on their visa
applications? Or, Americans cheated on their tax returns?
Or, Americans made “false statements” to FBI
investigators when, as in the Flynn debacle, the bureau had
already said there were no lies?
That’s the output thus far from Team Mueller with regard
to their mission to investigate whether there was Russian
meddling in our presidential election in 2016, and whether
Americans “colluded” with the Russians in such
endeavors. So far, we haven’t seen anyone indicted for
such matters, but we do see truly shocking and genuinely
dangerous corruption among the investigators and the
enforcers.
The corruption is widespread throughout our society; it
runs from the top of the FBI in Washington to the Broward
County police in south Florida. Sometimes it seems tied to
payoffs and other times it’s rooted in the political
corruption that we can easily see. It doesn’t require special
prosecutors to show it, and it’s unquestionably the greatest
threat we face. Often it takes the form of our “leaders”
ignoring real crimes, and alleging “process crimes.”
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That is seemingly the Mueller story. Instead of charging
collusion, the Mueller team is cracking down on tax
evasion. It’s the Al Capone model: when Eliot Ness
couldn’t convict Capone and his mob for their terrible
crimes, they got him on taxes. The Mueller charges may
turn out to be legitimate, but do not fit the official mission
statement nor address the serious question of Russian
espionage and disinformation.
What’s going on? Reading their private correspondence, it
seems that the FBI officials from James Comey and
Andrew McCabe on down were primarily interested in the
defeat of Trump, both before and after the election, rather
than in thwarting Russians. Why? I think primarily
because that was the best way to advance, although in time
we may find that money was involved. There certainly is
money involved in another case where the Justice
Department and the FBI failed to act as they clearly should
have: the Awan family, which worked for Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, gained access to seemingly endless
Congressional files and was paid handsomely by
Wasserman Schultz and the Democratic Party. One
member of the group was astonishingly permitted to leave
the country with illegal amounts of cash.
Coincidentally, the Florida school massacre occurred in
the congressional district of Wasserman Schultz, and the
local police, under criticism for their failure to prevent the
bloodletting, are facing dozens of investigations for
criminal misconduct.
Lots of corruption. Hard to track it all.
The school massacre fits the pattern of inaction. There was
abundant evidence the killer was going to do some terrible
thing, but no preventive action was taken. Then the attack
took place, and the protectors did nothing. They stayed
outside. Are you surprised? Not I. It seems like only
yesterday, following the bloodshed in places like
Baltimore and Ferguson, that there was a mini-mass
movement aimed at the cops who tried to maintain order.
Cops and armed guards “learned a lesson.” Don’t
intervene, and above all, don’t shoot. Anyone. You may
well be punished, at a minimum you’ll likely to be
prosecuted, and depending on your good or bad luck, you
may be unemployed. Can you say “unpaid leave?”
So when the Florida cops stayed away, I wasn’t surprised.
I’m surprised when someone does the tough, good thing.
In some cases, they’ve been ordered to stay away. Nearly
thirty years ago, Rael Jean Isaac and Virginia Hurt wrote a
very important book, Madness in the Streets,
documenting the movement that made it all but impossible
to place deranged people in mental institutions. But that
isn’t what happened in the Broward case. The cops were
called to save schoolchildren and they didn’t.
This is corruption. The cops know they are supposed to act
(for a while, they were supposed to wait for the SWAT
team to arrive, but that is pretty much ancient history).
They don’t act, primarily because they dread the
consequences of their actions. What if they make a
mistake? What if they hit the wrong target and wound or
kill a student, say?
Over and over again, we see the same pattern: our leaders
have abundant information, but they do not act. Often they
act a la the Al Capone model: don’t go after the prime
targets for the damage they are doing to us, but for some
violation that can be safely prosecuted.
Now go to the top: the highest levels of the FBI, the best of
our best. As in Florida, our law-enforcement authorities
ignored abundant evidence. We know, from public
accounts, that Hillary used a private server for classified
government communications. We know that President
Obama was in the loop, using a pseudonym. But Obama
was the president, and Hillary was in line to succeed him.
So if you move against Hillary and she wins, you can kiss
goodbye to that bonus, or promotion.
.
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You know you’re supposed to find out what that private
server was being used for. It’s a virtual certainty that
secrets were sent and received. You’re supposed to say
that to the Justice Department, which is supposed to
prosecute such violations of national security. Yet, as the
cops in Florida, the FBI top brass did nothing of the sort.
Why? In part, surely, because of politics (wherever you
look, you find Hillary supporters). But also because the
whole system is corrupt. In many ways.
Do you want a job in the next administration? Then you
should shut up about such matters. Which they (mostly)
did. You don’t have to be a Democratic loyalist to behave
this way. You have only to be ambitious. And once
ambition, personal ambition, becomes a central driving
force, all sorts of corruption is enabled.
Richard Pollock has found a strikingly high level of sexual
malfeasance in Comey’s FBI, suggesting that the
Hollywood pattern extends from entertainment into law
enforcement. Remember that the Lisa Page-Peter Strock
text messages, which have provided an unexpected
window into the FBI’s anti-Trump schemes, were part of
an adulterous affair. I’ll bet we’ll find plenty of sexual
corruption in Broward County before it’s over. There are
66 pending cases of misconduct against Sheriff Israel’s
minions. Some of them are heavy favorites to be part of
the broader corruption.
Bottom line: As Machiavelli wrote, you can
replace a corrupt leader or even a corrupt
ruling class. But what do we do if the whole
society goes rotten?
That’s our problem.
 Bull-Schiff
House Intel Dems Are Accused Of Inaccurate
Leaks Of Hope Hicks Testimony
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:55 PM 02/28/2018
 Florida Republican Rep. Tom Rooney blamed
Democrats for leaking snippets of White House
communications director Hope Hicks’
congressional testimony.
 Hicks testified Tuesday before the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
 “We’re literally bringing people in for nine hours
just so the Democrats can leak to the press
something as ridiculous as ‘white lies,'” Rooney
told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence are being accused once again of leaking
inaccurate information about the panel’s Russia
investigation, this time from testimony given on Tuesday
by White House communications director Hope Hicks.
In an interview on CNN on Wednesday, Rep. Tom
Rooney, a Florida Republican, accused Democrats of
leaking Hicks’ comment in her nine-hour interview that
she has told “white lies” on behalf of President Donald
Trump.
WATCH:
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Hicks’ remarks were first reported by The New York
Times. Numerous other outlets picked up the story, touting
it as a bombshell.
But Rooney told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Hicks’
comments — as reported by the press — were innocuous.
He also asserted that Hicks fell victim to “a trap” set by
Democrats. The White House aide tendered her resignation
on Wednesday, and it is unknown whether her testimony
had anything to do with the decision.
“We’ve interviewed scores of witnesses
and now we’ve gotten to the point now
where we’re literally bringing people in for
nine hours just so the Democrats can leak
to the press something as ridiculous as
‘white lies,'” said Rooney, who was in the
room when Hicks was being interviewed.
Rooney told Burnett that Hicks was initially asked whether
she has ever lied on behalf of Trump. He said he chimed in
at that point and asked for more specification on whether
she was being asked if she has lied for Trump about the
Russia investigation or her testimony.
“To that she said she has not lied with
regard to any of those things,” said
Rooney, who added that Hicks was not the
first person in the room to use the term
“white lies.”
“So then the question is, so you are talking
about white lies, and she repeated that. It
wasn’t exactly in that time frame, but that’s
how the term white lies came out,” said
Rooney.
“It was a trap, Erin. It was a trap and that is
what our investigation has become,” he
added.
CNN also reported on Wednesday that Hicks said that the
white lies she has told for Trump were about small matters,
such as saying that Trump was in a meeting when he
actually was not.
Rooney also said that because of the leaks, he asked Texas
Rep. Mike Conaway, who is chairing the House panel’s
Russia investigation, to end the probe.
Democrats on the committee have been accused of being
behind several inaccurate leaks throughout the Russia
probe.
Trump has also accused California Rep. Adam Schiff, the
top Democrat on the committee, of “illegally” leaking
confidential committee information.
Democrats have been accused of being behind a false leak
to CNN shortly after Donald Trump Jr. testified before the
committee.
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CNN reported that Donald Trump Jr. was sent an email on
Sept. 4, 2016 with a link to hacked Wikileaks documents
that had not been made public at the time. It turned out that
the email was actually sent on Sept. 14, 2016, a day after
the underlying documents were publicly released.
(RELATED: Donald Trump Jr. Wants Investigation
Of ‘Wildly Inaccurate’ Leaks To CNN)
Trump Jr. called for an investigation of committee
Democrats over the leak.
Democrats were also behind the inaccurate leak last month
that California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the
committee, refused to say in a closed-door meeting
whether he had coordinated with the White House on the
release of a memo accusing the FBI and Justice
Department of misleading the FISA court to obtain a spy
warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Daily Beast, which received the leak, initially reported
that Nunes would not say whether he worked with the
White House. But a transcript of the meeting showed that
he did make the denial.
 ‘A Bullsh*T Question’: GOP Rep. Says Hope Hicks
TRICKED Into Claiming She Tells
‘White Lies’ For Trump
By Joshua Caplan
March 1, 2018, 11:15 Am

Outgoing White House aide Hope Hicks situation where Trump asked Hicks to tell someone he was
was tricked into admitting in front of the busy, or to answer:
House Intelligence Committee
Wednesday that she tells ‘white lies’ to ‘Does this suit make me fat?’
protect President Trump, says Rep. Tom
Rooney (R-FL). The 29-year-old Hicks announced Wednesday that she
would be resigning from her role as White House
Communications Director.

The New York Times reported:

Ms. Hicks had been considering leaving for

several months. She told colleagues that
she had accomplished what she felt she
could with a job that made her one of the
most powerful people in Washington, and
that there would never be a perfect
moment to leave, according to White
House aides.

According to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times,

Daily Mail UK reports: Hicks’ resignation is not linked to yesterday’s hearing.

‘The whole line of questioning was a trap,’ “Hope Hicks departure is NOT about
vented GOP Rep. Tom Rooney of Florida, yesterday’s hearing, per multiple sources.
who admits he wasn’t there at the top of She had planned it before, had been
the session. thinking about it for months. She had
‘They sent her down a rabbit hole that she informed a very small number of people
could not get out of. And it was completely prior to Hill hearing that she planned to
unfair,’ Rooney told CBS. leave,” tweeted Haberman.
‘I think the fair representation is that it was
a setup: Use an extremely gratuitously
broad question to make her look bad and
ignore the rest of the nine hours that we
were down there,’ he said, calling it a
‘bulls*** question.’
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of
California, who questioned Hicks, defended
the inquiry – and argued that if you need to
consult your lawyer when asked if you’ve
After news broke of Hicks’ imminent departure, former
been truthful, you may have a problem. […]
White House Communications Director Anthony
Scaramucci praised the outgoing Trump official.
According to the accounts, Rooney then complained about
the broad question, asking whether that would apply to a
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 “She’s a wonderful person. She’s one of
the least malicious people I’ve ever met in
my life,” Scaramucci told Fox News host
Sean Hannity.
“She’s dedicated, she’s charming, she’s
thoughtful, at the end of the day she’s
going to have an unbelievable career.”
“Hope, if you’re watching, my agent has
called me and said, ‘Please, let me
represent Hope Hicks. I will give her a
call,” Scaramucci added.

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 Trump Was RIGHT: New Lawsuit Claims 100,000 Illegal
Alien Voters In Pennsylvania; As Group Demands Answers
By JD Heyes
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Shortly before the November 2016 election, then-GOP
candidate Donald J. Trump was asked if he would accept
the results of the election, and his answer shocked —
shocked! — his political opponents in the media and, most
notably his presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.
Essentially, Trump said he wouldn’t if he believed that the
election was “rigged against him,” The New York Times
reported, calling it a “remarkable statement that seemed to
cast doubt on American democracy” [before the same
paper began accusing President-elect Trump of ‘rigging’
the election with Russian help].
The Times sniffed:
Every losing presidential candidate in
modern times has accepted the will of the
voters, even in extraordinarily close races,
such as when John F. Kennedy narrowly
defeated Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and
George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida to
win the presidency in 2000.
Clinton called Trump’s refusal “horrifying,” but of course,
that was before she lost and she began questioning the
election results because, you know, Russia.
While Clinton and others sore about her loss saw nefarious
Kremlin influence, Trump was actually talking about
something much more real — voter fraud which,
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according to a newly-filed lawsuit has been happening for
decades in at least one state.
As reported by the Washington Times, the suit filed by the
Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) charges that more
than 100,000 non-citizens in Pennsylvania alone are
registered to vote and have been voting in U.S. elections,
and the group wants state officials to reveal the extent of
the problem.
The organization has already found similar instances of
voter fraud — despite constant claims from Democrats and
Marxist Left-wing groups (and more than a few
Republicans as well) that there is no such thing in
American politics.
PILF, which has found similar voting irregularities in
studies of Virginia and New Jersey, said in its court filing
that Pennsylvania election officials have even admitted
that non-citizens have been registering and voting there
“for decades.”
Sounds like Trump has been right all along.
The group said it is going to court because Pennsylvania
officials refuse to grant access to voter registration data
that would very likely expose the problem.
“For months, Pennsylvania bureaucrats
have concealed facts about non-citizens
registering and voting — that ends today,”
said PILF president and General Counsel
J. Christian Adams, the Times reported.
(Related: Voter fraud may have handed
New Hampshire to Hillary Clinton.)
Side note:
In case you don’t remember, Adams quit
his job at Obama’s Justice Department
after then-Attorney General Eric Holder
ordered the department to drop its voter-
intimidation case against members of the
New Black Panther Party in 2010 — he
believes for racially motivated reasons, Fox
News reported.
As for the Pennsylvania case, Adams said that state
officials have admitted already that a “glitch” dating back
to the 1990s allowed non-citizens who sought driver’s
licenses an opportunity to register to vote. Adams said he
would like to find out just how widespread the problem is
— in Pennsylvania and beyond.
The Times noted further:
The 100,000 number cited in the lawsuit
comes from testimony given by
Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt,
who revealed the glitch in the state motor
vehicle bureau’s systems that prompted
noncitizens to register to vote. …
While Pennsylvania refused PILF record
requests, the group did manage to obtain
.
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data from some counties, and found
several curious cases.
In one case a man named Felipe Rojas-Orta canceled his
voter registration last year, saying in a handwritten note
that he wasn’t a citizen. But he had registered — as a
Democrat — and had voted in three separate elections
including the 2016 election cycle. PILF found other
examples as well, the Times reported.
For the record, Trump won Pennsylvania
48.2 percent to Clinton’s 47.5 percent, or
2,970,733 votes to her 2,926,441, or a
difference of 44,292, according to a New
York Times final analysis.
How close did non-citizen voting make the race? One
group at least is trying to find out.
In Explosive Accusation, Sharyl Attkisson Says Obama
DOJ Secretly Switched Her Computer Hard Drive
By Joshua Caplan
March 1, 2018, 11:34 Am
This week, ‘Full Measure’ host and
former CBS correspondent Sharyl
Attkisson, accused the Obama Justice
Department of secretly switching out
her computer hard drive.
“Re: My govt. computer intrusions…What
would you think if I told you the hard drive
of one of my personal computers was
secretly switched out w/another while in
custody of the Justice Dept. Inspector
General– before they gave it back to me?
(Tick-tock.)” tweeted Attkisson.
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PJ Media reports:
You may recall that Attkisson’s computer
was hacked back in 2012 while she
was working for CBS and reporting on the
Benghazi scandal. CBS News
spokeswoman Sonya McNair said at the
time that a cybersecurity firm hired by CBS
News “has determined through forensic
analysis” that “Attkisson’s computer was
accessed by an unauthorized, external,
unknown party on multiple occasions in late
2012.”
“Evidence suggests this party performed all
access remotely using Attkisson’s
accounts,” McNair said. “While no
malicious code was found, forensic
analysis revealed an intruder had executed
commands that appeared to involve search
and exfiltration of data. This party also
used sophisticated methods to remove all
possible indications of unauthorized
activity, and alter system times to cause
further confusion. CBS News is taking
steps to identify the responsible party and
their method of access.”
The investigative reporter is currently “seeking $35 million
in damages,” after the Obama administration allegedly
spied on her computer.
Screenshot of affidavit: PJ Media
When asked who and why the Trump Justice Department
would be fighting against her for things the previous
administration allegedly did, the reporter said, “I only
know the names of the career attorneys at DOJ (same
under Obama as Trump). They are getting orders from
higher up. I don’t know the names of exactly who.”

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 CBS, ABC Giddy Over Anti-Gun Dem
‘Cheering’ Trump In White House Meeting
By Kyle Drennen
March 1, 2018 11:42 AM EST
After all three network evening newscasts Wednesday
night praised President Trump for repeatedly siding with
Democrats on gun control measures during a White House
meeting earlier in the day, on Thursday, CBS This Morning
and ABC’s Good Morning America gushed over anti-gun
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein “cheering” the
President on during the gathering.
The CBS morning show played a clip of Trump calling on
Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey to allow Feinstein
to add amendments to their 2013 gun control legislation,
prompting an overjoyed reaction from the liberal
lawmaker. Co-host John Dickerson proclaimed:
“It was amazing to see Dianne Feinstein
there, lifelong advocate for banning or
limiting assault-style weapons, on the
President’s side, cheering for the
President.”
Fill-in co-host Alex Wagner excitedly chimed in:
“Yeah, clapping her hands with glee.
Yeah, you don’t see that often.”
Co-host Gayle King hailed the President for scolding his
fellow Republicans over their support for the National
Rifle Association:
“It was interesting for him to say, ‘They may
have power over you guys. They don’t
have power over me.’ I thought that was
very interesting.”
On ABC’s GMA, correspondent Jon Karl declared:
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“As a candidate, Trump famously promised
he would never let the NRA down. And
while he once again praised them as ‘true
patriots,’ he repeatedly took positions that
put him at odds with both the NRA and
Republican leaders in Congress.”
“[Trump] said one of the NRA’s top
positions, allowing concealed weapons
to be carried across state lines, was a
no-go,” the reporter highlighted. Karl
touted how “That got a fist bump from
Senator Dianne Feinstein.”
Senator Feinstein apparently wasn’t the only one full of
“glee” in response to President’s support for gun
restrictions, journalists were equally delighted.
Here is a full transcript March 1 segment on CBS This
Morning:
8:02 AM ET
ALEX WAGNER: The President will host a White House meeting
on school safety after calling for quick and substantial changes to
federal gun laws. In a meeting with lawmakers carried on live TV,
the President said he favors a comprehensive approach to gun
control. Other Republicans are suggesting more narrow
legislation. Mr. Trump dismissed NRA opposition to new gun
laws and even called for a measure to let police take guns away
from people considered dangerous.
DONALD TRUMP: Take the guns first. Go through due process
second.
SEN. PAT TOOMEY [R-PA]: We didn’t address it, Mr. President.
Look, I think we –
TRUMP: You know why? Because you’re afraid of the NRA.
They have great power over you people. They have less power
over me.
WAGNER: The President said he will sign a bill if congress
passes one, and made it clear he is open to compromise.
TRUMP: If you could add that to this bill, that would be great.
Dianne, if you could add what you have also, and I think you can,
into the bill.
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN [D-CA]: Joe, are you ready?
TRUMP: Can you do that? Joe, can you do that? Pat, can you
add some of the things?
WAGNER: The President tweeted this morning that the meeting
produced “Many ideas, some good & some not so good.” He also
wrote, “After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd
Amendment.
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JOHN DICKERSON: It was amazing to see Dianne Feinstein
there, lifelong advocate for banning or limiting assault-style
weapons, on the President’s side, cheering for the President.
WAGNER: Yeah, clapping her hands with glee. Yeah, you don’t
see that often.
DICKERSON: Yeah, that’s not something you see, ever.
GAYLE KING: It was interesting for him to say, “They may have
power over you guys. They don’t have power over me.”
WAGNER: Yeah.
KING: I thought that was very interesting.
WAGNER: We’ll see, we’ll see.
 How To Read Trump’s
Wednesday Tweet About Jeff Sessions
Talking Heads In The Mainstream Media Think Attorney General
Is In President's Doghouse Again, But Maybe Both Men Know
Exactly What They Are Doing
By David Blackmon
Updated 01 Mar 2018 At 3:24 PM
President Donald Trump had a very interesting exchange
with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday.
The Trump tweet and the Sessions statement in response
give the untrained eye the impression that Sessions is on
the outs with the White House, an impression we’ve been
encouraged to adopt on several other occasions since
Sessions assumed the AG post 13 months ago.
But I don’t think that’s what is going on here at all, and
will explain why.
First, here is the text of the presidential tweet in question:
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”
And here is the response Sessions issued a bit later in the
day:
“We have initiated the appropriate process
that will ensure complaints against this
department will be fully and fairly acted
upon if necessary. As long as I am the
attorney general, I will continue to
discharge my duties with integrity and
honor, and this department will continue to
do its work in a fair and impartial manner
according to the law and Constitution.”
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That all seems fairly straightforward, doesn’t it? The
media want you to believe the president just burped that
tweet out in a fit of pique, and that Sessions, irritated about
being once again attacked publicly, just fired off that terse
reply to his boss.
But we have seen repeatedly over the past three years that
the president doesn’t just toss this stuff up on his Twitter
feed for no reason — there is almost always a method
behind the seeming madness. To understand what that
method is, you have to read between the lines.
So, why not use Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers to
investigate the … well, the Justice Department? After all,
that’s who was abusing the FISA process. Don’t you think
the president, who spent 50 years in the business world,
understands the conflict of interest that would create? Of
course, he does.
Those DOJ lawyers already have a pretty big investigation
load going on related to abuses during the Obama era.
Remember, over a three-week period in December and
January, Sessions announced his DOJ lawyers would be
investigating Uranium One, the FBI’s sham investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, the Clinton
Foundation, and the Project Cassandra scandal. It’s safe to
assume the president is fully aware of all of these ongoing
investigations.
The president is also very much aware that Department of
Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz is already
investigating FBI and DOJ abuses in the investigation of
the Clinton email scandal. That email scandal is directly
linked to the FISA abuse scandal, given that both involve
several of the same players at FBI, guys with names like
Strzok, McCabe and Comey.
It is extremely likely that, during the course of his year-
long investigation, Horowitz has already been
investigating the abuse of the FISA process — he could
hardly help coming across evidence of wrongdoing in that
case.
The president correctly states that the IG does not have
prosecutorial powers. But he does have the power to make
criminal referrals to the Attorney General. What is going
to have more public credibility, indictments issued by the
Republican DOJ attorneys working for a Republican AG,
or indictments sought by the Republican AG on the advice
of an IG who, as Trump also reminds us, was appointed by Why? Well, because it’s likely that we are about to see the
former President Barack Obama? release of the IG’s report related to his 14-month
investigation, and by that, I mean within the next week. It
Then there is this passage from the Sessions statement: is likely that that report is going to contain numerous
findings of criminal wrongdoing, not only related to the
FBI’s fake investigation of the Clinton email server, but to
“… this Department will continue to do its
related scandals like Uranium One and the Clinton
work in a fair and impartial manner
Foundation. The report will likely also include numerous
according to the law and Constitution.”
referrals to the attorney general and his staff for
What could be more fair and impartial than
prosecution of Obama-era officials.
relying on an Obama appointee with a
spotless reputation for fairness and
impartiality to conduct these investigations? The news media, which is just the propaganda arm of the
And who, by the way, every Democrat Democrat Party, will have an initial knee-jerk response to
talking head on TV will spend the next go after Horowitz and try to destroy him personally, but
week defending, precisely because of the that’s going to be pretty hard to do, given that they will
president’s exchange with his attorney have just spent a week praising him to the rafters in their
general today. never-ending efforts to try to harm Trump.

I think that what we saw on Wednesday from the president
and his AG is a bit of Kabuki theater. That exchange was
designed to produce exactly the reaction in the
Establishment news media that ended up taking place, i.e.,
a knee jerk among all the Democrat talking heads to
defend and praise IG Horowitz as an upright and impartial
arbiter of the facts.
.
That’s a lot of expectations out of a single tweet and a one-
paragraph response, but as I said above, the president
really doesn’t just toss stuff like this out onto his Twitter
account for no reason. There is a method here, and we will
find out soon enough what it is.

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 More #Fakenews: Liberal Media Trashes Trump With
Sessions Dinner Meeting Pic …That Was
Planned Weeks Ago!
By Jim Hoft
March 1, 2018, 12:08 Pm

“the symbolism was unmistakable.”

On Wednesday morning, President
Trump slammed Attorney General Jeff Picture is…
Sessions for directing Justice
Department Inspector General Michael The three top ranking officials in the Justice
Horowitz to probe Obama-era FISA Department appearing together in a show
abuses. of solidarity on the same day Trump is
publicly and privately raging about
Sessions.

When Trump sees this photo he’ll have to absorb a concept

that some of his aides have been trying to impress upon
him for nearly a year, since he first began telling them he
wanted to get rid of Sessions.

But this was fake news.

However, it was not until the end of the

Axios article that they reported this
Later in the day the liberal media slammed President nugget:
Trump after a photo was released of Jeff Sessions at dinner
with Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and Solicitor General A source close to Sessions, who has
Noel Francisco spoken with him, says that this meeting
was “in no way planned as pushback or an
act of solidarity against the president.” The
source said Solicitor General Noel
Francisco requested the meeting some
time ago to talk about carrying out various
aspects of the department’s and
administration’s agenda.
And yet they hyped it up as a slam on
President Trump.

Axios reporters Johnathan Swan and Alayna Treene said

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 REPORT: White House Considering Replacing H.R.
Mcmaster As Early As Next Month **Updated**
By Cristina Laila
March 1, 2018, 4:23 Pm

According to a new report by NBC, the tank event he was convinced Biegun would be a good fit
White House is preparing to replace for the national security adviser role, the associate said
National Security Advisor H.R.
McMaster as early as next month. H.R. McMaster has been heavily criticized by Trump
supporters for his soft stance on Islamic terrorism.

McMaster replaced General Flynn as NatSec Advisor after

Flynn was fired in early 2017.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, H.R.

McMaster was purging anyone who mentions Obama
holdovers or criticizes Islam. McMaster refuses to use the
term ‘Islamic terrorism’ and believes jihadists are
perverting Islam.

We should be happy McMaster is being replaced only if

another globalist doesn’t take his spot.
NBC reports:
Some of the reaction from Trump supporters:
The White House is preparing to replace
H.R. McMaster as national security adviser
as early as next month in a move
orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly
and Defense Secretary James Mattis,
according to five people familiar with the
discussions.
The move would be the latest in a long
string of staff shakeups at the White House
over the past year and comes after months
of strained relations between the president
and McMaster.

A leading candidate to become President Donald Trump’s

third national security adviser is the auto industry
executive Stephen Biegun, according to the officials.

Biegun, who currently serves as vice president of

international governmental affairs for the Ford Motor
Company, is no stranger to the White House. He served on
the National Security Council staff from 2001 to 2003,
including as a senior staffer for then-national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Rice introduced Biegun to Mattis, recommending him for a

position in the administration, according to a close
associate of Rice. After Mattis met with Biegun at a think
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 Update: President Trump says the NBC story about H.R.
McMaster being replaced is ‘fake news’.

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 RUMBLINGS: Mueller Readying Criminal Charges
Against Hackers Responsible For Leaking
DNC/Podesta Emails
By Joshua Caplan
March 1, 2018, 4:40 Pm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is
readying criminal charges against
Russian hackers allegedly responsible
for leaking damaging emails “designed
to hurt Democrats in the 2016 election.”
NBC News reports:
Much like the indictment Mueller filed last
month charging a different group of
Russians in a social media trolling and
illegal-ad-buying scheme, the possible new
charges are expected to rely heavily on
secret intelligence gathered by the CIA, the
FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA)
and the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), several of the officials say.
[…] Mueller’s consideration of charges
accusing Russians in the hacking case has
not been reported previously. Sources say
he has long had sufficient evidence to
make a case, but strategic issues could
dictate the timing. Potential charges include
violations of statutes on conspiracy,
election law as well as the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act.
The sources say the possible new indictment — or more
than one, if that’s how Mueller’s office decides to proceed
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— would delve into the details of, and the people behind,
the Russian intelligence operation that used hackers to
penetrate computer networks and steal emails of both the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta.
Several political pundits and tech
analysts have long said the DNC “hack”
was not a hack, but rather a leak from
someone inside the organization.
Earlier this month, internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom took
to Twitter to once again attempt to dispel the mainstream
narrative surrounding the Democratic National Committee
hacking scandal.
“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!” tweeted Dotcom.
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
involved in the leaked emails released by WikiLeaks.
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.
A mysterious IT specialist, who goes by the name
The Forensicator, published a detailed report last July that
appears to disprove the theory that the DNC was hacked
by Russia.
The documents were copied on July 5th, five days before
Seth Rich was murdered.
The Forensicator summarized the complex report into 10
bullet points.
The report as laid out by The Forensicator:
Based on the analysis that is detailed below, the following
key findings are presented:
 On 7/5/2016 at approximately 6:45 PM Eastern time,
someone copied the data that eventually appears on
the “NGP VAN” 7zip file (the subject of this analysis).
This 7zip file was published by a persona named
Guccifer 2, two months later on September 13, 2016.
 Due to the estimated speed of transfer (23 MB/s)
calculated in this study, it is unlikely that this initial data
transfer could have been done remotely over the
Internet.
 The initial copying activity was likely done from a
computer system that had direct access to the data.
By “direct access” we mean that the individual who was
collecting the data either had physical access to the
computer where the data was stored, or the data was
copied over a local high speed network (LAN).
 They may have copied a much larger collection of data
than the data present in the NGP VAN 7zip. This
larger collection of data may have been as large as 19
GB. In that scenario the NGP VAN 7zip file represents
only 1/10th of the total amount of material taken.
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 This initial copying activity was done on a system
where Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) settings were in
force. Most likely, the computer used to initially copy
the data was located somewhere on the East Coast.
 The data was likely initially copied to a computer
running Linux, because the file last modified times all
reflect the apparent time of the copy and this is a
characteristic of the the Linux ‘cp’ command (using
default options).
 A Linux OS may have been booted from a USB flash
drive and the data may have been copied back to the
same flash drive, which will likely have been formatted
with the Linux (ext4) file system.
 On September 1, 2016, two months after copying the
initial large collection of (alleged) DNC related content
(the so-called NGP/VAN data), a subset was
transferred to working directories on a system running
Windows. The .rar files included in the final 7zip file
were built from those working directories.
 The computer system where the working directories
were built had Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) settings in
force. Most likely, this system was located somewhere
on the East Coast.
 The .rar files and plain files that eventually end up in
the “NGP VAN” 7zip file disclosed by Guccifer 2.0 on
9/13/2016 were likely first copied to a USB flash drive,
which served as the source data for the final 7zip file.
There is no information to determine when or where the
final 7zip file was built.
The most important aspect of the report is the “estimated
speed of transfer (23 MB/s)” at which the documents were
copied. It’s inconceivable DNC documents could have
been copied at such speed from a remote location.
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 John Roberts Slams CNN’s Don Lemon
For Claiming FNC Ignored Hicks News
By Randy Hall
March 1, 2018 5:22 PM EST

As NewsBusters has often reported, people in President

Donald Trump’s administration are not fond of the “Fake Despite having been caught peddling legitimately fake
News” produced by CNN. Judging from a statement made news, Lemon attempted to weasel his way out of the
by CNN Tonight host Don Lemon on Wednesday's show, matter by tweeting:
that feeling is mutual and even extends to the Fox News
Channel.
"FYI. Last night, in an attempt to make a
broader point about Fox News prime time, I
Lemon asserted that FNC, which he called “Trump TV or misspoke. I should have been more
state-run TV” and is “not even reporting” about the White specific."
House resignation of Hope Hicks, but Chief White House
correspondent John Roberts responded the following day During the following morning, Roberts struck back in all-
with a post on Twitter in which he noted in all capital caps:
letters that the cable TV channel had reported on it
multiple times.
WE REPORTED IT MULTIPLE TIMES. I
REPORTED IT ON NEIL CAVUTO’S
After an interview with CNN Political Analyst and Devil's SHOW -- AND ON THE FIVE. AND AGAIN
Bargain author Joshua Green regarding Hicks's departure,
AT THE TOP OF THE 6PM SHOW. AND
Lemon took delight in hammering the rival cable channel: WE DID IT AT THE TOP OF THE 7PM
SHOW.
I was sitting in my office and was watching all the news
channels, right -- Trump TV or state-run TV, CLEARLY SOMEONE IS NOT
WATCHING FOX BUT SAYING THEY
ARE.
they’re not even reporting this.
According to Mediaite's Aidan McLaughlin:
So Trump supporters, they don’t even know about these
stories. It doesn’t even register; that’s the amazing thing.
“For the record, Roberts first covered news
of the Hicks resignation at 4:40 p.m. EST,
“We cover all of these things every day,” some ten minutes after New York Times
he continued. “The White House [is] reporter Maggie Haberman first broke the
imploding behind him, and he’s standing news.
there going: ‘nothing to see here.'”
“His supporters probably don’t even realize When Wednesday’s edition of Special Report with Bret
the extent of it,” Lemon added. Baier kicked in at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, the lead story dealt
with Hicks’ resignation, when Roberts stated:

I think [President Trump] is losing “hope”

in the form of a person, not necessarily in
the form of an idea.
I would say that other than the president’s
immediate family -- Melania, Ivanka and
Jared Kushner -- Hope is probably the
person who’s been closest to him, has
been literally by his side for the past three
years working 24 hours a day, seven days
a week, 365 days a year.

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Roberts then noted that Hicks In mid-January, the CNN anchor rehashed
his “s***hole” comment while asserting
“was embroiled in controversy not of her “those comments are, frankly, disgusting.”
own making recently when the man that
she was dating -- Bob Porter -- succumbed After the shooting on Valentine's Day that killed 14 people
to allegations of domestic abuse and was in Florida,
told to leave the White House.”
“She testified yesterday for some 10 hours Lemon hammered the idea of training
before the House Intelligence Committee volunteer teachers how to handle a gun,
about what she knew about potential referring to the concept as “nonsensical.”
collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia,” he continued.
“In that testimony, she admitted to at times
telling quote white lies on behalf of the
president,” though she did say under
questioning that none of those things had
any kind of bearing on the Russia
investigation, at least not” substantially.

Roberts then continued on with the rest of the Hicks

segment.

This isn’t the first time Lemon has attacked Trump and
conservative Republicans.
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 Condoleezza Rice Blames
Press For Perception Trump Is Racist
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:46 PM 03/01/2018

Obviously with the situation in Charlottesville, that was

unconscionable. Good people don’t actually carry torches
at night in a very bad reminiscence pf a time in our country
which actually is as a child I experienced. We need to
focus on these broader trends that are tearing us apart, not
just what the president says on any given day.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went on MSNBC Wallace then asked about an Associated Press poll
Thursday afternoon to discuss a broad range of issues. showing that 57 percent of respondents thought the
president was racist.
Midway through the conversation, host Nicolle Wallace
began to press Rice, who is a Republican, on claims that Condi floored with her response, blaming the press for
President Trump is a racist. Wallace specifically used repeating the accusation time and time again.
comments from Rice’s former boss, George W. Bush, who
said that under Trump “bigotry has been emboldened.”
“I think you hear this in the press over and
over and over again…”
Rice said that America is going “through a
period of time where we are labeling each
The host was flabbergasted and attempted to interrupt
other and calling each other names,”
when Condi said bluntly,
before being interrupted by the anchor
asking if Trump is calling people names.
“I have met the president. I can’t know
“Nicolle, I will tell you this started a long his heart, but I do know that this is
time before this president,” Rice said of the somebody who treated me very well
name calling. when we met. I think he believes he’s
doing what’s right for the country.”
The MSNBC host asked if Trump is “making it worse
calling out good people on both sides of a KKK rally,” WATCH:
referring to Trump’s comments about the violence in
Charlottesville.

Rice had a measured, thoughtful response:

I think we have to look at this broadly. We

as a country have become a country of
grievance. We as a country have become a
country where ‘My grievance is superior to
your grievance.’ And that’s not in the last
year – that’s over the last several years.

So, everybody needs to look in the mirror and say,

‘Why are divisions so deep and what part

am I playing in making those divisions
deep?’
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 PAPER: In New Plot Against Trump, Ben Rhodes
Establishing “Shadow” National Security Council
By Joshua Caplan
March 1, 2018, 6:56 Pm
Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National
Security Advisor for President Obama,
has launched what is being described
as a “shadow” National Security
Council “to serve as a ready-made
foreign policy team, no matter which
Democrat is elected,” writes Monica
Showalter of the American Thinker.
American Thinker reports:
His latest scheme is launching a “shadow”
National Security Council, called “National
Security Action,” co-chairing the operation
with Jake Sullivan. Showing that he was
always the one running things in the
Obama White House, despite his creative
writing major, his past career as a failed
novelist, and his lack of national security
experience, he’s herded a whole slew of
top Obama-era national security officials,
including former national security adviser
Susan Rice, former national security
adviser Tom Donilon, former United
.
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Nations ambassador Samantha Power,
and socialist former Defense Department
official Rosa Brooks, into his little shadow
operation, as if these people somehow had
a divine right to control national security
and President Trump’s current officials are
somehow illegitimate. […]
Shadow cabinets are hardly an American
tradition – they are British – but Rhodes,
possibly in consultation with a guy like
Marxist U.K. Labor Party leader Jeremy
Corbyn, probably learned the use of them
as a counter-cabinet in the wings in the
event of a fall of the existing government,
which happens a lot in parliamentary
systems. […]
According to the group’s website, the National Security
Action is “dedicated to advancing American global
leadership and opposing the reckless policies of the Trump
administration that endanger our national security and
undermine U.S. strength in the world.”
“Building a strong, unified, progressive
opposition to the Trump administration’s
dangerous policies, which are making the
United States less safe and diminishing our
standing and influence in the world,” is one
of the group‘s core objectives.
As reported by Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter,
Rhodes is a “person of interest” in the House Intelligence
Committee’s unmasking investigation.
House Intelligence Committee members met with Rhodes
in July amid suspicions that former Obama officials were
leaking classified information from the Trump
administration to the press.
 Nicolle Wallace Gets Shut Down By
Condoleezza Rice For Implying Trump Is Racist
By Bill D'Agostino
March 1, 2018 7:02 PM EST

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace delivered another
hour of breathless panic about Trump’s America, including
a segment in which she repeatedly tried and failed to bait
former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice into
disparaging the President.
Rice appeared on Wallace’s show, Deadline: White
House, to discuss the current state of the Trump
Administration. Throughout the interview, she poured cold
water on Wallace’s exaggerated portrayals of the White
House as a maelstrom of confusion, rebuking speculative
reports that National Security Advisor McMaster would
resign and defending the President’s firing of career State
Department officials.
Wallace changed her strategy, thus far having been
unsuccessful in eliciting an attack on the President from
her guest. With reference their time together under
President Bush, she asked:
Our boss spent eight years of the Obama Presidency
painting, hanging out with you, hanging out with his
family. He didn’t speak out very much. In his first eight
months of the Trump Presidency, he gave a speech that
was largely viewed – it wasn’t his intention, but drawing a
lot of attention to what he described as,
“Do you think the President is making it
worse calling out 'good people on both
sides' of a KKK rally?” she prodded.
Rice capitulated to a degree, insofar as admitting that she
had said during the 2016 election that she “would prefer” a
President who had never worked in government before.
However, she rejected Wallace’s implied premise that the
President was to blame for the aforementioned bigotry.
“I think we have to look at this broadly,” she
insisted, claiming that the United States
had become “a country of grievance... of
‘my grievance is bigger than your
grievance.'” She went on to suggest that
many of those contributing to the growing
divisions in the country may not even be
aware of their role. “We need to focus on
these broader trends that are tearing us
apart, not just what the President says on
any given day,” she concluded.

“Bigotry has been emboldened.” Do you

worry, do you agree with George W. Bush
that bigotry has been emboldened?

Rice agreed in general terms:

“I do think we are going through a period of

time where we are labeling each other and
calling each other names.”
Wallace interrupted,
“Well, are we doing that, or is the President
doing that?”
“Nicolle,” Rice intoned, “this started a long
time before this President,”
Frustrated, Wallace continued to focus on Trump.
Wallace would not be satisfied until she had her sound
byte. Ignoring the points Rice had made, she instead
challenged her to explain a recent AP poll, in which 57
percent of respondents had identified President Trump as
racist.
“Well, because I think, you hear this in the
press over and over and over again,” Rice
sighed.
This answer did not please Wallace.

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 “You think it’s just the press?” she
snapped. “You don’t think it’s what he
says?”
Her dogged insistence finally paid slight dividends, and
Rice admitted that some of the President's past comments
had included language which she "would rather not see
reemerge in our country." However, she prefaced her
answer with the a caveat:
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“I will tell you something, all right? I have
met the President. And I can’t know his
heart, but I do know this is somebody who
treated me very well when we met. And I
think he believes he’s doing what’s right for
the country.”
Ms. Wallace changed the topic shortly thereafter.
 Chairman Nunes Sends Blistering Letter To AG Sessions:
FBI May Have Violated Multiple Criminal
Statutes In FISA Application
By Cristina Laila
March 1, 2018, 7:13 Pm
On Thursday, Chairman Nunes sent a
letter to AG Sessions stating the FBI
may have violated criminal statutes by
using unverified information to obtain a
FISA warrant on Trump campaign
advisor Carter Page, reports Fox News’
Catherine Herridge.
Catherine Herridge reports:
The FBI may have violated criminal
statutes, as well as its own strict internal
procedures, by using unverified information
during the 2016 election to obtain a
surveillance warrant onetime Trump
campaign aide Carter Page, the chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee
charged Thursday in a letter obtained by
Fox News.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., wrote in his letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions
that
“in this instance, it’s clear that basic
operating guidance was violated.”
Nunes cited the Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide (DIOG), which was created by the bureau and
approved by the Justice Department, to say he believed the
FBI violated procedures requiring verified and
documented evidence in applications to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court.
An Oct. 2011 version of the operations guide states that the
“accuracy of information contained within
FISA applications is of utmost
importance… Only documented and
verified information may be used to support
FBI applications to the court.”
The guidance also states that information in a FISA
application must be
“thoroughly vetted and confirmed.”
Nunes’ letter to Sessions (the letter was cc’d to FBI
Director Christopher Wray and Inspector General Michael
Horowitz)
Nunes to Sessions: FBI may have violated criminal
statutes in Carter Page FISA application by Fox News on
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statutes that were possibly violated: IG Horowitz.
Nunes listed five criminal statues that
were possibly violated, including The Department of Justice has until March 8th to respond
conspiracy, obstruction of justice, to Nunes’ letter.
contempt of court.
Watch Catherine Herridge report on this breaking story.
It also cites statues that make it a crime to willfully deprive (video via Fox News)
a person of a right protected by the Constitution and
another preventing unauthorized electronic surveillance.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters this week

that IG Horowitz would be investigating the FISA abuses
which occurred during the 2016 election.

We need a Special Counsel who can

actually prosecute, not another dog and
pony show. The President fiercely
criticized Sessions this week for

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 Nunes: FBI May Have Violated Criminal Statutes In FISA
Application To Spy On Trump Adviser Carter Page
By Catherine Herridge, Alex Pappas | Fox News
March 1, 2018

The FBI may have violated criminal statutes, as well as its

own strict internal procedures, by using unverified
information during the 2016 election to obtain a
surveillance warrant on onetime Trump campaign aide
Carter Page, the chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee charged Thursday in a letter obtained by Fox
News.
Nunes listed five criminal statutes that were possibly
violated, including conspiracy, obstruction of justice,
contempt of court. It also cites statutes that make it a crime
to willfully deprive a person of a right protected by the
Constitution and another preventing unauthorized
electronic surveillance.

House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Chairman Devin In the letter, Nunes asks Sessions whether these protocols
Nunes, R-Calif., wrote in his letter to Attorney General requiring verified information have changed, and if not,
Jeff Sessions that what steps the DOJ or FBI taken to hold officials behind
the Page application accountable.
“in this instance, it’s clear that basic
operating guidance was violated.” The letter is carbon copied to FBI Director Christopher
Wray and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Nunes cited the Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide (DIOG), which was created by the bureau and
approved by the Justice Department, to say he believed the
FBI violated procedures requiring verified and
documented evidence in applications to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court.

An Oct. 2011 version of the operations guide states that the

“accuracy of information contained within

FISA applications is of utmost importance...
Only documented and verified information
may be used to support FBI applications to
the court.”
The guidance also states that information in a FISA
application must be “thoroughly vetted and confirmed.”
A memo released by the intelligence committee last month
stated that the FBI and DOJ sought surveillance warrants
to spy on Page by using an infamous, Democrat-funded
anti-Trump dossier that included salacious and unverified
allegations about Trump's connections to Russia.
“Former and current DOJ and FBI
leadership have confirmed to the
committee that unverified information from
the Steele dossier comprised an essential
part of the FISA applications related to
Carter Page,” Nunes wrote Thursday.
“In his latest letter to an Attorney General
recused on the matter, Chairman Nunes
continues his effort to attack and malign the
honorable men and women of the FBI and
the Department of Justice,” the committee's
ranking member, California Democrat
Adam Schiff, responded. “The Republican
memo having been discredited, this new
attempt to roil the Department is little more
than another transparent effort to defend
President Trump by trying to discredit and
distract from the Special Counsel and
Congressional investigations.”
“The Inspector General will handle the
matter appropriately,” DOJ spokesman Ian
Prior told Fox News.
“The extraordinarily productive results of
HPSCI's ongoing investigation and

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 associated legal analyses offers a positive
role model for both the U.S. Intelligence
Community and the Justice Department as
that part of the executive branch begins
work toward urgent reputational repair and
basic standards of integrity within their
federal agencies after the unprecedented
FISA abuses of 2016,” Page told Fox
News. “Just as Chairman Nunes effectively
fought back against frivolously partisan
political attacks and cleared his name
through competent Congressional
oversight bodies following false allegations That admission, though, put Sessions back in President
regarding possible conflicts of interest last Trump’s crosshairs Wednesday, with the president
year, I hope that the Justice Department's referring to Horowitz as an “Obama guy” and calling
ethics officials give the Attorney General’s Sessions’ decision “disgraceful.”
stellar record and benign relationship with
the President an unbiased look as well.” House Intelligence Committee Republicans and Democrats
have argued over whether the dossier was a primary or
The FBI had no comment. secondary element of the surveillance application.

Sessions acknowledged this week that Horowitz is probing Democrats released a rebuttal memo on Sunday, saying the
the circumstances of the surveillance of Page. dossier was corroborated by multiple sources.

“We believe the Department of Justice But in his June 2017 testimony to the Senate Intelligence
must adhere to the high standards in the Committee, then-FBI Director Jim Comey said he still
FISA court,” Sessions said during a news considered the dossier “unverified” and “salacious” three
conference Tuesday. “Yes it will be months after the October 2016 surveillance warrant was
investigated. And I think that's just the granted.
appropriate thing the inspector general will
take that as one of the matters he'll deal
with.”
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 Gregg Jarrett: Jeff Sessions Is Not The Attorney General –
Sessions Is Kept In The Dark, Out Of Major Decisions
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 1, 2018, 9:01 Pm

FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett told the Hannity
audience what we already knew.
Jeff Sessions is not the Attorney General – He’s kept in the
dark at the Department of Justice.
This was one of the most honest assessments of the
AWOL AG this year.
good honorable person but he’s not up to
the job. He doesn’t have the guts to get
what needs to be done. He’s recused
himself out of everything. You don’t need a
special counsel if you have an Attorney
General who can actually move the ball
forward.
Gregg Jarrett: Jeff Sessions is not the
Attorney General. He’s the AG in name
only. It is being run by other people.
Largely Rod Rosenstein. Sessions is kept
in the dark, out of major decisions. He
doesn’t have a clue what’s going on there.

Via Hannity:

Gregg Jarrett: Jeff Sessions has been

utterly feckless in his responses.
Jason Chaffetz: Look you have an
Attorney General who’s recused himself
out of the very job. I’ve been saying for a
few months, I’m sorry, Jeff Sessions is a
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 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Denies Secret Comey-Obama Meeting
Raises Integrity And Public Trust Issues
Richard Pollock - Reporter
9:09 PM 03/01/2018
 The FBI will not expedite the release of documents
about secret meetings between Comey and Obama
 Comey held a secret Oval Office meeting with
Obama on Jan. 5, 2017
 TheDCNF requested records of all meetings
between the two
The FBI states it will not expedite the release of
documents about secret meetings between FBI Director
James Comey and former President Barack Obama,
according to a letter the bureau sent to The Daily Caller
News Foundation.
Such information is not
“a matter of widespread and exceptional
media interest in which there exists
possible questions about the government’s
integrity which affects public
confidence,” David Hardy,
the section chief for the bureau’s Record/Information
Dissemination Section, told TheDCNF in a Feb. 26 letter.
TheDCNF, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),
requested records of all meetings between Comey and
Obama and sought an “expedited process” as provided
under the act when issues are of great interest to the media
and the records address issues pertaining to government
integrity. TheDCNF FOIA request was filed Feb. 16, 2018.
The issue prompting the FOIA request was the disclosure
Comey held a secret Oval Office meeting with Obama on
Jan. 5, 2017. Comey never divulged the meeting to
Congress. (RELATED: Comey Held Secret Obama
White House Meeting Before Inauguration)
Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, former
deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Vice
President Joe Biden also attended the meeting.
The National Archives revealed the existence of the
meeting and released a declassified version of an email
Rice sent to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Rice
wrote an email to herself about the secret Jan. 5 meeting
with Comey on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2017, as
President Donald Trump was being sworn into office. The
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email suggested Comey may have misled Congress and
was attempting to cover up the extent of his relationship
with Obama.
Christopher Bedford, TheDCNF’s editor-in-chief, called
the FBI denial “shameful.”
“The FBI just told us that Director James
Comey potentially lying to Congress should
not be of interest to us, that it doesn’t
speak to their ‘integrity,’ and that it
shouldn’t impact America’s ‘confidence’ in
them,” Bedford said. “They said this with a
straight face. We disagree, we think the
American people disagree, and we think it’s
absolutely shameful.”
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and subcommittee chairman, and
Lindsey Graham released the Rice email after they
received it from the National Archives.
“President Obama had a brief follow-on
conversation with FBI Director Comey and
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the
Oval Office,” Rice stated in the email on
Jan. 5.
The President urged Comey to proceed “by the book” on
the Russian investigation, according to Rice.
Grassley of Iowa and Graham of South Carolina wrote to
Rice in a Feb. 8 letter saying the email seemed “odd” to
them.
“It strikes us as odd that, among your
activities in the final moments on the final
day of the Obama administration, you
would feel the need to send yourself such
an unusual email purporting to document a
conversation involving President Obama,”
the two wrote.
“Despite your claim that President Obama
repeatedly told Mr. Comey to proceed ‘by
the book,’ substantial questions have
arisen about whether officials at the FBI, as
well as at the Justice Department and the
 State Department, actually did proceed ‘by
the book,'” the two senators continued.
Comey claimed in June 8, 2017, testimony before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence he had only two
face-to-face meetings with the president in which they
were alone.
“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’s
opening statement read.
The qualifier that he had meetings with Obama “alone”
permitted the former director to suggest he only met with
the former president on two occasions.
TheDCNF filed its FOIA request before the bureau
“seeking records that identify and describe
all meetings between former FBI Director
James Comey and President Barack
Obama. This records request is for all
meetings with President Obama alone or
with meetings with the President in the
company of other administration officials.”
TheDCNF requested records to include all Comey
.
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“logs, director appointment schedules,
emails and memos outlining the meetings
with the former President along
with administration officials,” adding, the
records “should list the date of the meeting,
location, topic and meeting participants.”
TheDCNF stated it sought an “expedited request” for
producing the records.
“The issue of Director Comey’s meetings
with President Obama is a key troubling
issue for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck
Grassley,”
TheDCNF wrote in its application for the expedited
processing. TheDCNF attached to Grassly-Graham letter to
Rice in the FOIA request for expediting handling.
Hardy said TheDCNF failed to meet its standards for
expedited processing as provided under 28 CFR 16.5
(e)(1)(iv).
“You have not provided enough information
concerning the statutory requirements
permitting expedition: therefore your
request is denied,” he told TheDCNF.
 Report: Andrew McCabe Authorized
Media Leaks, Misled Investigators
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:54 AM 03/02/2018
 DOJ’s internal watchdog to criticize former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
 McCabe authorized leaks to the media, according
to new reports
 The former deputy director also reportedly misled
watchdog investigators about the media
disclosures
 McCabe stepped down from his position in January
The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog will
criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for
authorizing leaks to the media and giving misleading
statements to investigators about doing so, according to
two new reports.
McCabe, 49, authorized FBI officials to speak to the media
for articles prior to the 2016 election, including one about
an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation,
according to a report being prepared by Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
The FBI No. 2 also misled watchdog investigators when
they initially asked about the media disclosures, according
to The Washington Post.
The New York Times also reported details of Horowitz’s
report, which is expected to be released in March or April.
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McCabe stepped down as deputy director in January after
FBI Director Christopher Wray was briefed on Horowitz’s
findings. An Obama appointee, Horowitz has been
investigating the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email
investigation since Jan. 2017.
Among the leaks authorized by McCabe was one to The
Wall Street Journal for an Oct. 30, 2016, article detailing
an internal FBI and Justice Department battle over the
Clinton Foundation investigation.
Some sources for the article suggested that McCabe issued
a “stand down” order on the investigation. Other pro-
McCabe sources portrayed him in a more positive light.
One source described an August 2016 conversation that
McCabe had with a Justice Department official who
thought the Clinton Foundation probe was a dead end.
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down
a validly predicated investigation?” McCabe
asked the official, according to the source.
The sources for the article have not been identified, but
one McCabe subordinate was in contact with Devlin
Barrett, the reporter who wrote the article for the WSJ.
Lisa Page, an FBI attorney, sent text messages to FBI
agent Peter Strzok discussing her conversations with
Barrett. Horowitz discovered Strzok and Page’s text
messages as part of his investigation. The discovery led to
Strzok’s removal from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia investigation.
While McCabe’s position allowed him to speak with the
media, Horowitz seemingly deemed it problematic that he
authorized surrogates to discuss an ongoing investigation.
As for misleading statements about the leaks, The Post
reports that McCabe claims that he did not intentionally
mislead investigators.
President Donald Trump will likely be pleased with the
report, given his public spats with McCabe. Trump has
criticized McCabe over campaign contributions that his
wife, Jill McCabe, received for a Virginia state Senate race
in 2015 from then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
McAuliffe, a staunch ally of the Clintons, directed
hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to McCabe’s
unsuccessful campaign. The donations drew attention, in
part, because McAuliffe was under FBI investigation over
campaign contributions he received from a Chinese
billionaire.
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McCabe recused himself from that investigation. He also
recused himself from the Clinton probe shortly before the
2016 election, after TheWSJ reported the McAuliffe
donations. McCabe became involved in the Clinton
investigation in February 2016, after his wife’s campaign
had ended.
 Dems Delay Trump’s Judicial
Nominees By Running Out The Clock
Led By Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Requires 30 Hours Of 'Debate'
For Each Nominee, Including Those With Near-Unanimous Support
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 02 Mar 2018 At 7:00 AM
President Donald Trump has nominated 84 people for
federal judgeships. Yet despite Republicans’ enjoying total
control of the federal government, the judiciary has more
vacancies than when the president took office.
Trump inherited 112 vacancies when he took the oath of
office in January 2017. That has grown to 148, a 32
percent increase, according to the Administrative Office of
the U.S. Courts.
The reason for the growing backlog has less to do with the
pace of Trump’s nominations, which has been steady, than
with obstruction techniques by Democrats. Despite having
a minority in the Senate and less favorable rules than
Senate minorities have had in the past, legal experts said
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has used
every tool at his disposal to gum up the works.
The result is that the Senate has confirmed just 26 of
Trump’s 84 nominees, including Supreme Court Justice
Neil Gorsuch. With 30 more judges having announced
plans to step down from full-time service, the number of
vacancies is all but certain to grow.
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Trump's allies express exasperation over the situation and
what it means for the rest of his presidency.
"Trump would leave office with more
vacancies than he started with," said Carrie
Severino, chief counsel and policy director
at the Judicial Crisis Network.
The Senate on Thursday made a tiny dent in the empty
judgeships — which now stand at about 17 percent of the
federal bench — by confirming A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.
to serve as a District Court judge in South Carolina over
the objections of 28 Democratic senators. Schumer
explained his "no" vote as a protest against a lack of
diversity in the judiciary.
Quattlebaum, who is white, replaced a black nominee
whom Barack Obama had selected for the post before
leaving office.
"The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum
speaks to the overall lack of diversity in
President Trump's selections for the federal
judiciary," Schumer said. "Quattlebaum
replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama
nominees who were African-American."
"Political correctness run amok." Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blasted Schumer
on Thursday.
"This is political correctness run amok," he
said in a statement. "Voting against a
highly qualified nominee because of the
color of his skin does nothing to bring our
country and nation together. Frankly, it is a
massive step backward."
While Quattlebaum drew sizable opposition, however,
other judicial nominees have been subjected to delaying
tactics despite near-unanimous support. In the past, a
minority of senators could block a nomination by staging a
filibuster, but former Senate Democratic Leader Harry
Reid took that option off the table by changing Senate
rules to prohibit filibusters for district and appellate
nominees.

Without that tool, Democrats have engaged in a systematic
slow-roll of all judicial nominees, demanding 30 hours of
debate before a vote can be taken.
Severino, whose organization promotes conservative
nominees to the bench, said it mostly is a sham because
senators rarely ever even debate the merits of the
nominees. Instead, they give speeches about other matters
while they burn 30 hours of valuable time.
"This is unheard of. This used to be
required for someone who is controversial,"
she said. "What we are seeing is just
running the clock on this … It gums up the
works for the executive branch nominees
as well."
Consider the 10 most recent district judges to be confirmed
before Quattlebaum. None received more than 16 "no"
votes, and seven got two or fewer dissenting votes. Five of
them, in fact, had been Obama nominees that Trump
renominated.
Nonetheless, Democrats forced the Senate to spend 30
hours on each one.
"It can't actually stop the majority of the
Senate from confirming the judges they
want to," said Elizabeth Slattery, a legal
fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Meese
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. "It
just takes up time and slows [the process]
down."
Liberal base "wants resistance."
Slattery said Democrats may intend to run out the clock on
2018 — and hope the midterm elections put them in a
position to outright kill future nominations they dislike. It
also sends a signal to hardcore liberal activists, she added.
"They have a base they need to please,
and the base wants resistance," she said.
But Rachel Bovard, former policy director for the
conservative Senate Steering Committee and an expert on
..
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Senate procedure, said Democrats do not deserve all of the
blame.
"Republicans are letting them do it,
basically," she told LifeZette. "Republicans
could make it painful for them each time
they do it."
Bovard, currently senior policy director at the
Conservative Partnership Institute, said Republicans could
compel Democrats to carry out a real 30 hours of debate
rather than just delay the vote on each nominee.
"They would be forcing Democrats to talk,"
she said.
In 2013, a bipartisan group of senators worked out a deal
to limit debate on presidential nominees. Experts said
senators could strike a similar deal or adopt a proposal by
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to formalize it in the
Senate rules. Under his proposal, debate would be cut off
after two hours for district court nominees, eight hours for
most executive branch nominees and 30 hours for
appellate court and Cabinet nominees.
Or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
could simply call his Democratic colleagues' bluff — and
force them remain in the chamber late at night and on
weekends to consume the 30 hours of debate.
McConnell threatened this one week for a batch of
nominees, and Democrats quickly folded.
"They value their long weekends at home
much more than they do delaying these
judges," Severino said.
Bovard said she does not know why McConnell does not
employ the same hardball tactic with all nominees.
"Democrats are going to continue to do this
if they can get away with it without
consequences," she said.
 Sarah Sanders: ‘General McMaster
Is Not Going Anywhere’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:20 AM 03/02/2018

military. We are rebuilding the judiciary,

remaking what that looks like. The
economy is strong. We have a lot of
positive things happening in this country.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

smacked down an NBC News Thursday report that
National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will be
forced out soon, in a Friday morning interview with “Fox
and Friends.”

“General McMaster is not going anywhere,”

Sanders declared, adding

“As the president said yesterday in the

Oval Office to a number of the people, he
thinks he is doing a great job and glad he is
here.”

She continued that accusations that the White House is in White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah issued a
chaos are misguided. similarly dismissive statement, saying,

“If this is chaos, I think the American
people are glad for it. Because we just
passed the biggest tax cuts in history. ISIS
is on the run. We are rebuilding our
.
“We frequently face rumor and innuendo
about senior administration officials. There
are no personnel announcements at this
time.”

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 Hah! President Trump Slams Far Left Hack Alec Baldwin
For His ‘Terrible Impersonation Of Me’ –
‘It Was Agony’ Watching
By Jim Hoft
March 2, 2018, 8:54 Am

For the last year-and-a-half Alec President Trump:

Baldwin has played the role of Donald
Trump on Saturday Night Live.
His character is neither believable or
funny.
Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre
career was saved by his terrible
impersonation of me on SNL, now says
playing me was agony. Alec, it was agony
for those who were forced to watch. Bring
back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far
greater talent!
Trump wants Darrell Hammond back to
play his character.

Hah-Hah!

But they keep rolling with it.

SNL has not figured out that NOBODY

does Donald Trump better than Donald
Trump.

On Friday President Trump panned Alec Baldwin’s

portrayal and his “dying mediocre career.”

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 Following Asian Stock Market, Drop President Trump
Declares “Trade Wars Are Good, And Easy To Win”
By Lucian Wintrich
March 2, 2018, 11:06 Am

On Thursday, President Trump announced that the United

Despite the sharp drop in Asian and European stocks as a
States would impose a 25% tariff on steel imports and a
result of fears over Trump’s proposed tariffs, the president
10% tariff on imported aluminum; Asian and European
attempted to put those in doubt at ease this morning via
markets took a sharp tumble shortly after. The President’s
Twitter.
moves are meant to counteract the current saturation of
imported aluminum and steel in the US.
“When a country (USA) is losing many
billions of dollars on trade with virtually
These new measures are meant to rebuild US steel and
every country it does business with, trade
manufacturing industries, both of which have been in sharp
wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump
declines.
tweeted out early this morning.
“Example, when we are down $100 billion
with a certain country and they get cute,
don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!”

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 Has The Dossier Been ‘Corroborated,’
As The Democratic Memo Claims?
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:07 AM 03/02/2018
House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin
Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speak
with the media about the ongoing Russia investigation on Capitol Hill
in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P.
Bernstein
 Democratic memo claims Justice Department
corroborated some the Steele dossier’s allegations
 Public has not seen the corroborating information
because it is hidden behind black redaction boxes
in the memo
 Democrats heavily touted the section claiming
corroboration
One of the most startling claims made in the rebuttal
memo released by Democrats last weekend is that the
Justice Department had corroborated some of the Steele
dossier’s allegations about former Trump campaign
adviser Carter Page.
The 10-page memo, which was made available to
Congress in February and released on Saturday, asserts
that in renewal applications for FISA warrants against
Page, the Justice Department
“provided additional information obtained
through multiple independent sources that
corroborated Steele’s reporting.”
Corroboration of any of the major allegations in the dossier
would be a major coup for Democrats and Trump critics.
The biggest knock against the dossier, which was written
by former British spy Christopher Steele, is that none of its
core claims — including that Page was the Trump
campaign’s liaison to the Kremlin — have been verified.
(RELATED: House Intel Releases Democratic Memo)
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The public has not seen the corroborating information
because it is hidden behind black redaction boxes in the
memo.
The section claiming corroboration was initially touted
heavily by Trump opponents. Jennifer Rubin, an anti-
Trump conservative columnist at The Washington Post,
wrote that “the prospect of ample corroboration of the
dossier’s allegations (salacious or not) should be extremely
troubling to the Trump team.” (RELATED: What The
Democrats Left Out Of Their Memo)
But Democrats have said little over the past week about
dossier corroboration, suggesting that there’s less to the
claims of validation than their memo suggests.
And sources who have seen the unredacted version of the
document tell The Daily Caller News Foundation that
that’s exactly the case.
“There was nothing there that actually
corroborated anything that was specifically
said in the Steele dossier,” a source who
has seen the memo told TheDCNF.
“There is no corroboration,” the source
emphasized.
Sources who have seen the full memo were unable to
discuss what was redacted because the information is
classified. But one Republican lawmaker who viewed the
document several weeks ago said they recall nothing that
corroborates the dossier’s allegations about Page, an
energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign in
March 2016.
The dossier makes several claims about the former
campaign volunteer. First, it alleges that he worked with
then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a “well-
developed conspiracy” involving Russian government
leaders.
Steele also cites a source who claimed that Page met
secretly with Kremlin insiders Igor Sechin and Igor
Diveykin. During the alleged meeting with Sechin, Page
expressed support for the Trump administration relaxing
sanctions against Russia in exchange for a brokerage stake
in a deal involving oil giant Rosneft, which Sechin
controls.
Diveykin allegedly told Page about “kompromot” on
Hillary Clinton and perhaps on Donald Trump.
The dossier also claims that it was Page’s idea to leak the
hacked DNC emails to WikiLeaks in order to drive a
wedge between Bernie Sanders supporters and the
Democratic party.
Passage from Democratic rebuttal memo
The paragraph just after the redactions refers to Russian
deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich, though only by
his last name.
“This information contradicts Page’s
November 2, 2017 testimony to the
Committee, in which he initially denied any
such meetings and then was forced to
admit speaking with Dvorkovich and
meeting with Rosneft’s Sechin-tied investor
relations chief, Andrey Baranov.”
The mention of Dvorkovich by his last name suggests that
his full name was mentioned in the redactions. But Page’s
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Page has vehemently denied all of the allegations. Page
claimed in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on
Monday that all of the dossier allegations about him are
“entirely false.”
He also noted the Democratic memo and the section
claiming to have corroboration about the dossier.
“Whatever’s underneath in these blacked
out boxes [is] crazy,” said Page, who
compared the document to the word game
“Mad Libs.”
The claim about corroboration is made on page four of the
Democratic memo, which was a rebuttal to a GOP-
authored document alleging that the FBI and Justice
Department misled the FISA court by failing to disclose
key information about the dossier.
There are some clues, though not many, as to what’s
behind the black boxes in the redacted Democratic memo.
encounter with Dvorkovich was no secret, and it was not
mentioned in the dossier. Page told reporters as early as
August 2016 that he spoke briefly to Dvorkovich
following a speech he gave during his trip to Moscow.
Republicans have speculated for some time that Democrats
put sources and methods into their dossier deliberately to
spark redactions. The FBI and Justice Department
requested some of those redactions, just as they did for the
Republican memo, which was released in January.
The Democratic side of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence did not respond to a request for
comment.
 GOP Senator Demands Answers: Why Did FBI Wait
Weeks To Act On Weiner Laptop In
Clinton Corruption Probe?
By Jim Hoft
March 2, 2018, 11:30 Am
In early February the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee released a majority staff
report titled “The Clinton Email Scandal And The FBI’s
Investigation Of It.” The committee also released
thousands of text messages between two agents and
lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that shed light on the
criminal intent of deep state players to avoid prosecution
of Hillary Clinton and to block and destroy a Trump
presidency.
One text message exchange is making the rounds on the
internet today.
Peter Strzok was the Chief of the Counterespionage
Section during the FBI’s investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a personal email server. He also hated
Donald Trump, as did his lover Lisa Page.
In this exchange posted online Peter Strzok admits the
DOJ was forced to tell Congress about the Weiner laptop
emails only because George Toscas at the DOJ found out
about them.
The FBI sat on this evidence for a month before turning it
over to Congress and only because they couldn’t hide it
from George Toscas.
.
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On Thursday Senator Ron Johnson sent
a letter to the FBI demanding answers
on why the Deep State waited a month
before acting on the Weiner laptop
findings in the Hillary Clinton
investigation.
FOX News reported:
A Republican senator is pressing for
answers on why the FBI waited weeks to
act after the 2016 discovery of thousands
of emails on ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s
laptop that potentially were relevant to the
Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Senate Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a
letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein asking about the timeline,
citing texts between two key FBI
investigators.
The messages, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in
late January, indicate that top bureau officials were aware
of the discovery of thousands of emails from Weiner well
before the FBI sought a search warrant in late October, and
effectively revived the Clinton probe right before the
election.
“The cryptic and disjointed nature of the
text messages, in addition to heavy
redactions applied to other FBI documents,
make it difficult to understand fully the
sequence of events,” Johnson wrote to
Rosenstein, giving him a deadline of March
15 to provide information to the committee.
 GOP Rep. Gaetz: ‘If Jeff Sessions
Does Not Appoint A Second Special Counsel,
Then We Need A New Attorney General’
By Jeff Poor
2 Mar 2018
charges would be brought by the Justice Department
against wrongdoers.
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-FL) told fill-in host Jeanine Pirro that if Attorney
General Jeff Sessions declines to appoint a second special
counsel to investigate wrongdoing within his Department
of Justice, then he should be removed from that post.
According to Gaetz, an Inspector General’s report would
be insufficient given the report doesn’t necessarily mean
.
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“If Jeff Sessions does not appoint a second
special counsel, then we need a new
Attorney General, judge,” he said.
“Because you’re right — even if we learn
more horrifying things from the Inspector
General, we can’t actually prosecute
somebody for those things because we
would need somebody to be able to bring
that case. And the Department of Justice
and FBI obviously won’t be bringing a case
against themselves. So, Jeff Sessions
needs to get rid of this mindset that is a
dereliction of duty, and he needs to do
what Congress has called for and appoint a
second special counsel to get to the bottom
of this.”
 MYSTERY: Did Fusion GPS’s Nellie Ohr Evade NSA
Surveillance With A Ham Radio?
By Joshua Caplan
March 2, 2018, 12:03 Pm
Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice
Department official Bruce Ohr, was
hired by Fusion GPS for the purpose of
digging up dirt on then-
presidential candidate Donald Trump.
One curious detail about Mrs. Ohr is
that she obtained an amateur radio
license on May 23th, 2016. Was evading
NSA surveillance the motivation behind
obtaining the license?
‘
George Parry of The Federalist writes:
Ohr is a member of Women in International
Security, which describes itself as
supporting “research projects and policy
engagement initiatives on critical
international security issues, including the
nexus between gender and security.” She
has done cybersecurity consulting for
Accenture, a politically connected firm, for
which she gave a presentation on “Ties
Between Government Intelligence Services
and Cyber Criminals – Closer Than You
Think?” […]
It is apparent that, between her own
professional experience and her marriage
to a top DOJ official, she was well aware of
the ability of the National Security Agency
to intercept and store every communication
on the Internet. Did this knowledge have
anything to do with her mid-life decision to
become a ham radio operator and
communicate outside cyberspace? […]
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On May 23, 2016, she received a technician-level amateur
radio license. The timing is significant. The presidential
campaign was underway and she and her employer, Fusion
GPS, were digging for dirt in Russia to use against Trump.
Given her cybersecurity knowledge, was Nellie Ohr
hoping to use non-cyber short wave communications to
hide her participation in that nefarious effort from the
NSA?
Recall that, in early 2016, NSA head Admiral Mike Rogers
became aware of “ongoing” and “intentional” violations
and abuse of FISA surveillance, which he subsequently
exposed in testimony before Congress. Thereafter,
pressure mounted within the Obama administration to fire
him.
Another unanswered question is did Fusion GPS use Ms.
Ohr to influence top government officials? If the answer is
“no,” then why did the recently demoted Ohr hide his
wife’s Fusion GPS compensation from ethics officials?
Daily Caller reports:
Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice
official who brought opposition research on
President Donald Trump to the FBI, did not
disclose that Fusion GPS, which performed
that research at the Democratic National
Committee’s behest, was paying his wife,
and did not obtain a conflict of interest
waiver from his superiors at the Justice
Department, documents obtained by The
Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his
post as associate deputy attorney general after the
relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged
and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting
with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can
carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion
GPS to gather and disseminate damning info about Trump,
and they in turn paid Nellie Ohr, a former CIA employee
with expertise in Russia, for an unknown role related to the
“dossier.” Bruce Ohr then brought the information to the
FBI, kicking off a probe and a media firestorm.
“Payments from Fusion GPS to Bruce
Ohr’s family, funded by the DNC, have the
appearance of a ‘government for hire,’ i.e.
bribing a DOJ official to push the
case,” says the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak.
“That’s the collusion,” added Fitton.
“Bruce Ohr is the first indication that we
have that the Justice Department was
involved in this dossier that’s been so
controversial.”
Video credit: Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said more attention

should be paid to Bruce Ohr in relation to the dossier
drama.

“The fact that the Senate Intelligence

Committee is bringing in Bruce Ohr, this
Justice Department official involved with
Fusion GPS and the Clinton dossier, shows
you where the collusion scandal is,” Fitton
told OANN‘s John Hines last December.
“It’s with the Clinton campaign, the DNC,
the FBI, the Justice Department,” said Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson recently
Fitton before asking, “how did they use this admitted in a court document that his firm hired Nellie
dossier?” Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr to investigate then-candidate
“How did they use this dossier? Was Donald Trump.
Mueller using this dossier? Was it used to
justify to a court to get warrants to spy on
Trump and his team?”
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 Nunes: FBI ‘May Have Violated Criminal Statutes’ In
Alleged FISA Court ABUSES
Posted On March 2, 2018
(NationalSentinel) High Crimes: House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has sent a letter to
the Department of Justice in which he said the FBI may
have violated criminal statutes and strict internal
procedures in pursuit of a surveillance warrant against the
Trump campaign.
As reported by Fox News, FBI officials used an
unsubstantiated “Trump dossier” — a political opposition
research document — to obtain a warrant from the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on one-time Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page.
Nunes, California Republican, wrote in his letter to
Attorney General Jeff Sessions that “in this instance, it’s
clear that basic operating guidance was violated.”
Fox News reported further:
Nunes cited the Domestic Investigations
and Operations Guide (DIOG), which was
created by the bureau and approved by the
Justice Department, to say he believed the
FBI violated procedures requiring verified
and documented evidence in applications
to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court.
An Oct. 2011 version of the operations
guide states that the “accuracy of
information contained within FISA
applications is of utmost importance… Only
documented and verified information may
be used to support FBI applications to the
court.”
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In addition, the guidance says that information in a FISA
application must be “thoroughly vetted and confirmed.”
Nunes to Sessions:
FBI may have violated criminal statutes in
Carter Page FISA application.
The letter is addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Last month the Intelligence Committee released a FISA
memo containing evidence that the dossier was the
primary document used by the Obama FBI and Justice
Department to obtain the warrant as part of an alleged
counterintelligence investigation.
“Former and current DOJ and FBI
leadership have confirmed to the
committee that unverified information from
the Steele dossier comprised an essential
part of the FISA applications related to
Carter Page,” Nunes wrote Thursday.
The chairman listed five criminal statutes that may have
been violated. They include obstruction of justice,
conspiracy, and contempt of court.
In addition, the letter cites more statutes that make it a
crime to willfully deprive someone of a right that is
protected by the Constitution as well as another that
prevents unauthorized electronic surveillance.
Nunes asks Sessions in his letter whether these protocols
requiring verified information have changed, and if not,
what steps the Justice Department and FBI have taken to
hold officials behind the Page application accountable.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and DOJ Inspector General
Michael Horowitz also received copies of the letter.
Sessions confirmed earlier this week that Horowitz is
investigating the origins of the Page warrant, though
President Donald J. Trump and others are critical of
Sessions’ referral of the matter to the IG rather than a
special counsel.
“The extraordinarily productive results of
HPSCI’s ongoing investigation and
associated legal analyses offers a positive
role model for both the U.S. Intelligence
Community and the Justice Department as
that part of the executive branch begins
work toward urgent reputational repair and
basic standards of integrity within their
federal agencies after the unprecedented
FISA abuses of 2016,” Page told Fox
News.
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“Just as Chairman Nunes effectively fought
back against frivolously partisan political
attacks and cleared his name through
competent Congressional oversight bodies
following false allegations regarding
possible conflicts of interest last year, I
hope that the Justice Department’s ethics
officials give the Attorney General’s stellar
record and benign relationship with the
President an unbiased look as well,” he
continued, according to the network.
 BREAKING=> Former AG Alberto Gonzales:
I Would Resign If I Was Jeff Sessions (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 2, 2018, 12:06 Pm
President Trump slammed his AWOL
Attorney General Jeff Sessions for
neglecting his responsibilities as US
Attorney General.
On Wednesday President lashed out at
Sessions for asking the Inspector
General to look into Obama era FISA
abuse. Trump correctly states it “will
take forever.”
Jeff Sessions went AWOL the day after he was sworn in
when he recused himself from the Russia witch hunt.
What the hell does the deep state have on him?
Several top conservative pundits have called on Jeff
Sessions to resign recently.
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On Friday former Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales told Neil Cavuto he
would resign if he was Jeff Sessions.
Gonzales says he would definitely
resign at this point.
Alberto Gonzales:
Well I think if President Bush had made
that kind of public comment that would
indicate to me that he no longer had
pleasure in my service. And, people like the
Attorney General and all cabinet officials
serve at the pleasure of the president.
Neil Cavuto:
Would you offer your resignation?
Alberto Gonzales: Y
es, yes, of course I would. Because to me I
had the relationship with President Bush
that I could ask him, “Hey, do you want for
me to resign? I’ll submit my resignation.”
Because that kind of statement would lead
me to believe he had extreme displeasure.
Via Neil Cavuto Coast-to-Coast:
 Joy Behar On The Trump Family —
‘They’re All Going To End Up Together In Prison,
And Maybe That’s A Good Thing’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
12:19 PM 03/02/2018

CNN’s Ana Navarro also appeared on “The View” Friday.

Navarro said,

“I wonder why they don’t look at

Joy Behar of “The View” said Friday that
President Trump’s family are all “going to
end up together in prison. And maybe
that’s a good thing.”
WATCH:
themselves in the mirror — Ivanka and
Jared — and realize they have become a
liability, not an asset.” (RELATED: CNN’s
Ana Navarro Compares Trump To
Someone With Alzheimer’s Or Dementia
[VIDEO])
“Wait a second. Trump is a liability to the
country,” Behar responded. “I said to my
husband this morning, ‘Why is he still
there?’ He said, ‘Because he was
elected.'” (RELATED: CNN Commentator
Ana Navarro’s Wackiest Moments Of
2017 [VIDEO])

“The View” has been a hotbed of Trump criticism in

recent months. Behar said in December,

“I’m not so sure I want him to succeed at

destroying the environment, playing
chicken with Kim Jong-Un. So, I don’t want
him to succeed at a lot of things.”

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 FBI Is Refusing To Release Documents
About Secret Meeting Between Comey, Obama Because
You Don’t Need To Know
Posted On March 2, 2018

(National Sentinel) NOversight: The FBI is refusing to
speed up release of documents pertaining to secret
meetings between fired FBI Director James Comey and
former President Obama, according to a letter sent to The
Daily Caller by the bureau.
That’s because the information is not “a matter of
widespread and exceptional media interest in which there
exists some possible questions about the government’s
integrity which affects public confidence,” wrote David
Hardy, the section chief for the FBI’s Record/Information
Dissemination Section, in the Feb. 26 letter.
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The news site requested the records under the Freedom of
Information Act. Specifically, the news site wanted all
records pertaining to all meetings between Obama and
Comey and looked to obtain them under an “expedited
precess” as provided for within the act when issues are of
great importance or interest to the media.
The Daily Caller filed its FOIA request Feb. 16.
The FOIA request was prompted by
Comey’s disclosure that he held a secret
meeting with Obama in the Oval Office on
Jan. 5, 2017, just weeks before President
Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.
Comey never told Congress about that
meeting in congresional testimony.
Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, former
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Vice
President Joe Biden also attended the meeting.
As further reported by Western Journal:
The National Archives revealed the
existence of the meeting and released a
.
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declassified version of an email Rice sent
to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Rice wrote an email to herself about the
secret Jan. 5 meeting with Comey on
Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2017, as
President Donald Trump was being sworn
into office. The email suggested Comey
may have misled Congress and was
attempting to cover up the extent of his
relationship with Obama.
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Christopher Bedford called the
FBI’s refusal to hand over the requested documents
“shameful.”
“The FBI just told us that Director James
Comey potentially lying to Congress should
not be of interest to us, that it doesn’t
speak to their ‘integrity,’ and that it
shouldn’t impact America’s ‘confidence’ in
them,” he said, as reported by the Western
Journal.
“They said this with a straight face. We
disagree, we think the American people
disagree, and we think it’s absolutely
shameful.”
 FBI Interviewed Huma Abedin About
Clinton Emails Even After Investigation Was Closed
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:19 PM 03/02/2018

Huma Abedin leaves husband Anthony Weiner Huma Abedin (C),

aide to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
returns to a meeting with the House Select Committee on Benghazi
after a break, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington October 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
FBI agents interviewed Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin
in December 2016, more than a month after the official
close of the Clinton email probe and much more recently
than previously believed.
The Washington Post reports that agents were interested in
how Abedin and Clinton emails wound up on a laptop used
by Abedin’s husband, Anthony Weiner.
The FBI discovered Abedin and Clinton emails on the
laptop while conducting an investigation into Weiner’s
contact with an underaged girl in September 2016. The
Clinton email probe, which had been closed in July 2016,
was reopened on Oct. 28. It was closed again on Nov. 6,
two days before the election, after FBI officials determined
that none of the emails on the laptop would warrant
criminal charges. (RELATED: Strzok Texts Suggest
Discussions About Giving Huma Abedin Immunity)
Agents considered their investigation complete but they
wanted to find out whether Abedin should have disclosed
the laptop emails sooner, according to The Post. She was
considered a witness in the initial investigation, rather than
a target. That didn’t change after the interview, which was
conducted around Christmas 2016, as investigators found
no reason to charge the longtime Clinton aide.
WATCH:
An interview with Abedin was hinted at in text messages
exchanged between former FBI counterintelligence official
Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
As The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported in
February, Strzok told Page on Dec. 13, 2016 about a
conversation he had with the Department of Justice about
an interview with Abedin.
“Told them we had to interview, no
immunity,” he wrote.
“They said they thought that would get counsel to the point
of saying she’s either taking the 5th in the [grand jury] or
you need to give her immunity. I said that’s fine, please
have discussions to get the decision to that point and I
would run it up the chain.”
The Post confirmed that an interview did occur but that no
immunity was granted.
“There was never any suggestion by the
government that Huma had done anything
wrong,” Karen Dunn, Abedin’s lawyer, told
The Post.
“To the contrary, she was told that her full
and voluntary cooperation as a witness in
their investigation was appreciated. Having
done her part to assist the government,
Huma is a private citizen now and should
be left to live her life in peace.”

Abedin was first interviewed as part of the Clinton email

investigation in April 2016. As one of the top FBI

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investigators on the probe, Strzok conducted the interview Aides Faced No Charges After Making False
along with Justice Department lawyer David Laufman. Statements To FBI)

In the interview, Abedin may have given misleading
statements about when she first learned about Clinton’s
use of a private email server while serving as secretary of
state. Emails showed that Abedin was aware of Clinton’s
server use, yet she said in the FBI interview that she did
not learn that Clinton used a private server until after they
left the State Department. (RELATED: Top Clinton
.
Cheryl Mills, another Clinton aide, also denied knowing
about the server while at the State Department. But Mills
was also included on email exchanges where the server
was discussed. Mills, unlike Abedin, received partial
immunity from the Justice Department. She also served as
Clinton’s attorney.

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 Could Robert Mueller Be
Giving Up On Russia-Trump Collusion?
There's Been A Continuing Lack Of Evidence, As 'The
Ingraham Angle' Made Clear — And It Raises
Questions About Former FBI Supervisor
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 02 Mar 2018 At 12:45 PM
Responding to a congressional Republican’s call to end the
House investigation into Russian election meddling,
former Whitewater prosecutor Solomon Wisenberg noted
Thursday night on “The Ingraham Angle” that the probe
appears no closer to implicating President Donald Trump
than when it first began.
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), a member of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Fox
News earlier in the day that the panel has
“gone completely off the rails and that this
investigation needs to end.”
Wisenberg, who served on the team that investigated then-
President Bill Clinton, said on the Fox News nighttime
show that independent counsel Robert Mueller has more
power than congressional committees and that the public
does not know what he does.
“Now having said that, what we do know
publicly right now, including what people
have said about how they were questioned
by Mueller — we still don’t have on the
public record any evidence of collusion by
Trump or people closely affiliated with
Trump,” he said. “That’s just the way it is.”
Wisenberg (shown above, far right) said Mueller has
moved beyond the scope of his mandate by indicting
Trump campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on
conduct that predates the campaign. This indicates that
Mueller has received specific permission from Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to do so, Wisenberg
said.
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"We know from the Manafort indictment
and the Gates indictment — all you have to
do is look at it — that he got authorization
long ago to go beyond the four corners, at
least these specific things he's supposed to
be looking at," he said. "And I'm surprised it
hadn't ... been commented on much
earlier."
Wisenberg also questioned whether Justice Department
officials and the FBI violated procedures — and possibly
broke the law — in seeking a warrant to eavesdrop on
Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. The Justice
Department, in the application to a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court, cited an unverified dossier
on Trump prepared by former British spy Christopher
Steele. He was working for an opposition research firm
paid by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
and the Democratic National Committee.
Wisenberg faulted former Deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe, who testified behind closed doors before the
House intelligence panel in December that the dossier was
key to obtaining the FISA warrant, according to a memo
prepared by GOP staffers on the committee.
"He was responsible for that FISA warrant,
and that FISA warrant, he has admitted —
and the [Rep. Adam] Schiff memo did not
contradict this — that if they had not had
the Steele dossier, they would not even
 have submitted that," he said. "And that's a
shocking thing."
But Democratic lawyer Scott Bolden (pictured above left),
who also appeared on "The Ingraham Angle," told Fox
News host Laura Ingraham that Republicans are
exaggerating the impact of the dossier.
"It seems to me the fundamental difference
between the Democrats and Republicans,
obviously, is [that] the Republicans think
that it was the heart of the FISA warrant,
and the Democrats think it was part of it,"
he said.
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Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican National Committee
member from California (pictured above, second from
right), said the latest revelations are "one more brushstroke
in a painting" that points to a lack of respect for conflict of
interest rules and ethics. She agreed with House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.),
who suggested in a letter Thursday to Attorney General
Jeff Sessions the FBI may have broken the law.
"It's not just lying to the FISA court," she
said. "But it is obstruction of justice. It is
conspiracy to violate the rights of American
citizens. It is criminal and civil rights
violations."
 Nets Fret: Trump ‘About Face’ On
Gun Control After ‘Secret Meeting’ With NRA
By Kyle Drennen
March 2, 2018 1:14 PM EST
Only a couple days after hailing the President for siding
with Democrats on gun restrictions, on Friday morning,
the broadcast networks feared that Trump may be taking
an “about face” on the issue after a “secret” “late-night
meeting” with officials from the National Rifle
Association. The disappointment of the liberal media was
palpable as anchors and correspondents bemoaned the
development.
“About-face? A late-night meeting
behind closed doors between President
Trump and the NRA. Did the President
change his mind about new gun control
ideas he had supported?,” worried co-
host Savannah Guthrie at the top of NBC’s
Today show. Teeing up the story minutes
later, fellow co-host Hoda Kotb fretted:
“President Trump has pushed publicly
for tougher new gun laws this week, but
after a late-night meeting with the NRA,
could that all be changing?”
Correspondent Peter Alexander lamented:
Barely 24 hours after President Trump
stunned lawmakers from both parties by
publicly embracing several strict measures
to limit access to guns, the NRA is now
disputing that’s where the President
stands....Overnight, the President tweeting,
“Great meeting in the Oval Office tonight
with the NRA!” But the White House not
putting out any other information about
what was discussed or promised.
Leading off ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host
George Stephanopoulos warned:
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“Changing course. President Trump
meets with the NRA late last night. The
group’s top lobbyist tweets that Trump
now does not want gun control, just a
day after that stunning bipartisan
meeting.”
Introducing a report minutes later, his hand-wringing
continued:
“President Trump held a late-night meeting
with the National Rifle Association. The
group’s top lobbyist then tweeted that the
President does not want gun control. Just a
day after the President told bipartisan
lawmakers he wanted comprehensive new
legislation.”
Correspondent Jon Karl was exasperated:
“At this point, it’s anybody’s guess
where the President stands on guns and
school safety, all part of a topsy-turvy
couple of days here at the White
House...”
The reporter declared:
“A day after shocking his closest allies by
seeming to embrace new gun measures,
President Trump revealed his secret
meeting last night with the NRA’s top
lobbyist, tweeting, ‘It was a Good
(Great) meeting in the Oval Office.’”
How exactly can a meeting that everyone is talking about
be a “secret”?
“Just a day earlier, the President met with
lawmakers in the White House and called
for action on multiple gun measures
opposed by the NRA. Telling the group
they shouldn’t be afraid to take the NRA
on,” Karl reminded viewers.
Returning to the story at the top of the 8:00 a.m. ET hour,
Stephanopoulos described “confusion” at the White House
over the President’s position and fretted to Karl that gun
restrictions may not happen:
“Jon, as you know, if the President is
not clear, is not leading with a clear
package, unlikely that anything’s gonna
get through this Congress.” Karl agreed:
“No way any of it happens unless he
forces it through.”
“The NRA’s chief lobbyist says
President Trump doesn’t want new gun
control after a late-night Oval Office
meeting,” proclaimed co-host John
Dickerson at the start of CBS This Morning.
Minutes later, fellow co-host Gayle King portrayed the
change as a sign of a White House in turmoil:
“Well, it’s been a chaotic week at the
White House and it’s ending with more
mixed signals on major policy issues.
The NRA suggested overnight that
President Trump may now be walking
back his comments about stricter gun
laws.”
Correspondent Major Garrett explained:
President Trump’s position on gun control
has been evolving, and evolving in public,
leaning in toward gun restrictions earlier
this week. And then, last night, something
of an intervention as top officials of the
National Rifle Association met here at the
White House with the President.
Subsequent tweets then indicated both
sides were back on the same page.
After noting that Trump
“gave gun control advocates hope” during a
bipartisan White House meeting on
Wednesday, Garrett concluded: “But last
night, the NRA said Mr. Trump wanted the
opposite.”
At the top of the 8:00 a.m. ET hour anti-gun co-host Alex
Wagner lectured:
President Trump may be backing off a
pledge to tighten gun safety laws. In a
tweet, the President says he had a “great”
Oval Office meeting last night with the
NRA’s chief lobbyist Chris Cox....That was
not Mr. Trump’s message earlier this
week, when he challenged lawmakers to
defy the NRA and “get tough” in disarming
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people thought to be dangerous....The
group reportedly gave $31 million to the
2016 Trump campaign.
Just 24 hours earlier, Wagner was overjoyed at Democratic
Senator Dianne Feinstein “clapping her hands with glee”
during Wednesday’s White House meeting at the prospect
of new gun regulations.
When the media thought Trump was on the verge of
selling out gun rights supporters they were giddy. After the
President reaffirmed his commitment to Second
Amendment Thursday night, the press suddenly became
much more negative in their coverage.
Here are transcript of the March 2 reporting on the NBC,
ABC, and CBS broadcasts:
Today
7:11 AM ET
HODA KOTB: Also on this busy Friday morning, some headline-
making developments in the heated debate over guns. President
Trump has pushed publicly for tougher new gun laws this week,
but after a late-night meeting with the NRA, could that all be
changing? NBC National Correspondent Peter Alexander is at
the White House with this story. Hey, Peter, good morning.
PETER ALEXANDER: Hey, Hoda, good morning to you. Barely
24 hours after President Trump stunned lawmakers from both
parties by publicly embracing several strict measures to limit
access to guns, the NRA is now disputing that’s where the
President stands. After that late-night powwow with the President
right here at the White House.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump & Pence “Don’t Want Gun
Control”; NRA Official Tweets After White House Meeting]
President Trump and Vice President Pence holding a late-night
meeting at the White House with a top NRA lobbyist. Overnight,
the President tweeting, “Great meeting in the Oval Office tonight
with the NRA!” But the White House not putting out any other
information about what was discussed or promised.
The third man in the room, the NRA’s Chris Cox, also tweeting,
“We all want safe schools, mental health reform, and to keep
guns away from dangerous people. But adding that Trump and
Pence “support the Second Amendment, support strong due
process, and don’t want gun control.” That and a apparent
attempt to put a different spin on the President’s words from one
day earlier, when he indicated he supported confiscating firearms
from those deemed a danger to society.
DONALD TRUMP: Take the guns first, go through due process
second.
(...)
Good Morning America
7:08 AM ET
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Okay, we’re going to go to the
White House now, Robin, where President Trump held a late-
night meeting with the National Rifle Association. The group’s top
lobbyist then tweeted that the President does not want gun
control. Just a day after the President told bipartisan lawmakers
he wanted comprehensive new legislation. Our chief White
House correspondent Jon Karl has the latest. Good morning,
Jon.
JON KARL: Good morning, George. At this point, it’s anybody’s
guess where the President stands on guns and school safety, all
part of a topsy-turvy couple of days here at the White House,
where the President also rattled financial markets with an
announcement that caught his own economic team by surprise.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump’s Surprise Meeting With NRA;
Has President Changed Tune Again on Gun Control?]
A day after shocking his closest allies by seeming to embrace
new gun measures, President Trump revealed his secret meeting
last night with the NRA’s top lobbyist, tweeting, “It was a Good
(Great) meeting in the Oval Office.” The NRA’s Chris Cox, who
met with Trump and Vice President Pence, suggested the
President may have once again changed his tone on gun control.
“POTUS and VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support
strong due process, and don’t want gun control.”
Just a day earlier, the President met with lawmakers in the White
House and called for action on multiple gun measures opposed
by the NRA. Telling the group they shouldn’t be afraid to take the
NRA on.
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DONALD TRUMP: Some of you people are petrified of the NRA.
You can’t be petrified.
KARL: One thing he embraced, taking guns away from people
considered a threat, even without a hearing.
TRUMP: I like taking the guns early. Take the guns first, go
through due possess second.
KARL: That put the President at odds with the NRA and his
Republican base.
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA]: I still support him, but he and I
are just gonna have to disagree on this idea of due process.
(...)
7:30 AM ET
STEPHANOPOULOS: Also right now, new questions about
where President Trump stands on gun control after he held a
late-night meeting with the NRA last night. The group’s top
lobbyist tweeted that the President does not want gun control.
That comes just a day after the President held that bipartisan
meeting with lawmakers where he seemed to back a
comprehensive gun control package.
(...)
8:04 AM ET
STEPHANOPOULOS: We’re going to got to the White House
right now, some confusion there. The President had a late-night
meeting with the NRA. The NRA came out of the meeting saying
the president does not support gun control. Of course that’s a flip
from just 24 hours before, where the President met with
bipartisan lawmakers, said he was for comprehensive gun
control. Want to get the latest from our Chief White House
Correspondent Jon Karl.
JON KARL: George, it’s not exactly clear where the President
stands on the gun issue right now. He did, as you mention, shock
the NRA and Republicans in Congress by coming out and
suggesting that he supports multiple gun measures that the NRA
has opposed for years. In announcing this meeting, though, the
President said, quote, “Good, (Great) meeting in the Oval Office
tonight with the NRA!”
And the NRA’s top lobbyist, who he met with, Chris Cox,
described the meeting this way, “I had a great meeting tonight
with Donald Trump and the VP. POTUS and VPOTUS support
the Second Amendment, support strong due process, and don’t
want gun control.”
So where does the President stand right now? Well, I just a few
moments ago spoke with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the press
secretary. She suggested that perhaps he doesn’t support
universal background checks, just supporting the background
check system. That would be a change from what he said earlier
this week. And as for raising the age for the purchase of assault
weapons, she said the President still supports that conceptually,
but thinks it might be a better issue handled by the states. That is
a change too, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And, Jon, as you know, if the President is
not clear, is not leading with a clear package, unlikely that
anything’s gonna get through this Congress.
KARL: No way any of it happens unless he forces it through. And
even with his support, that’s an open question whether or not it
will pass.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Jon Karl, thanks very much.
CBS This Morning
7:09 AM ET
GAYLE KING: Well, it’s been a chaotic week at the White House
and it’s ending with more mixed signals on major policy issues.
The NRA suggested overnight that President Trump may now be
walking back his comments about stricter gun laws. Those
remarks left Republicans reeling yesterday. Many were also
stunned by the President’s surprise announcement on steel and
aluminum tariffs, which then sent global stock markets tumbling.
Major Garrett is in the White House now with the latest on all of
these stories. Major, good morning.
MAJOR GARRETT: Good morning. President Trump’s position
on gun control has been evolving, and evolving in public, leaning
in toward gun restrictions earlier this week. And then, last night,
something of an intervention as top officials of the National Rifle
Association met here at the White House with the President.
Subsequent tweets then indicated both sides were back on the
same page.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: West Wing Chaos; NRA Claims
President Doesn’t Want “Gun Control” After Meeting]
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President Trump gave gun control advocates hope when he said
this on Wednesday.
DONALD TRUMP: You have to look at the age of 21 for certain
types of weapons. Take the guns first, go through due process
second.
GARRETT: But last night, the NRA said Mr. Trump wanted the
opposite. Following an Oval Office meeting, NRA executive
lobbyist Chris Cox tweeted that Mr. Trump and Vice President
Pence, quote, “Support strong due process and don’t want gun
control.” An hour later, Mr. Trump tweeted that the meeting went
“great.”
(...)
8:03 AM ET
ALEX WAGNER: President Trump may be backing off a pledge
to tighten gun safety laws. In a tweet, the President says he had
a “great” Oval Office meeting last night with the NRA’s chief
lobbyist Chris Cox. But Cox tweeted that the President and Vice
President, quote, “support the Second Amendment, support
strong due process, and don’t want gun control.”
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Gun Control Confusion; POTUS’
Meeting With NRA Muddies Gun Control Debate]
WAGNER: That was not Mr. Trump’s message earlier this week,
when he challenged lawmakers to defy the NRA and “get tough”
in disarming people thought to be dangerous.
TRUMP: Don’t worry about the NRA, they’re on our side. You
guys, half of you are so afraid of the NRA. There’s nothing to be
afraid of. And you know what? If they’re not with you, we have to
fight them every once in a while, that’s okay.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: The President still supports
raising the age limit to 21 for the purchase of certain firearms. He
knows that everybody doesn’t necessarily agree.
SEN. PAT TOOMEY [R-PA]: We didn’t address it, Mr. President.
Look, I think we –
TRUMP: You know why? Because you’re afraid of the NRA.
They have great power over you people. They have less power
over me. Take the guns first, go through due process second.
WAGNER: And this morning, the White House Press Secretary
said the NRA does not have concerns with the President. The
group reportedly gave $31 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.
 Developing: Here Are Two Of The FISA Court Judges
Who Rubber-Stamped Illegal Warrants To
Spy On Trump’s Camp
By Cristina Laila
March 2, 2018, 12:42 Pm
Developing: Here Are Two of the FISA
Court Judges Who Rubber-Stamped
Illegal Warrants to Spy on Trump’s
Camp
Two FISA court judges who rubber-
stamped the illegal surveillance
warrants signed by Comey, McCabe and
Sally Yates to spy on Trump’s campaign
have been revealed.
Paul Sperry of the New York Post reported:
“DEVELOPING: US Judge Anne C.
Conway and US Judge Raymond J. Dearie
among the 4 FISA court judges who
rubber-stamped illegal FISA surveillance
warrants signed by Comey, McCabe and
Yates to spy on Trump campaign”
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Chief Justice John Roberts (George W. Bush nominee)
appointed Judge Conway to the FISC (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court) for a term that began in May of 2016.
Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Judge Raymond
Dearie of New York to the FISC in 2010. Dearie is a
veteran prosecutor who is described as fair with “no
leanings.”
On February 2nd, the House Intel Committee released their
declassified 4-page FISA memo outlining abuses of
surveillance by Obama’s DOJ and FBI.
The memo revealed Hillary’s phony dossier formed an
essential part of initially obtaining a FISA warrant and all
three subsequent renewals.
Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe
testified that if not for the dossier, the FBI would have
never sought a FISA warrant on Carter Page.
The political origins of Hillary’s dossier were known to
senior DOJ and FBI officials, however; they were
excluded from the FISA applications.
Were these judges really duped? What did they know?
Why haven’t the judges taken action knowing they were
misled?
On Thursday, Chairman Nunes sent a blistering letter to
AG Sessions stating the FBI may have violated criminal
statutes by using unverified information to obtain a FISA
warrant on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
This is why a Special Counsel needs to be appointed to
investigate everything and everyone surrounding the FISA
abuse and Hillary’s dossier.
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
 GOP Senator DEMANDS To Know Why FBI Waited
Weeks To Act On Weiner Laptop During
Clinton Email Probe
Posted On March 2, 2018
(National Sentinel) Deep State: GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of
Wisconsin is demanding answers from the FBI as to why
the bureau waited for weeks after discovering thousands of
emails on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop in 2016
that were pertinent to the Hillary Clinton email probe.
As reported by Fox News, Johnson, chairman of the Senate
Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter to Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seeking information
regarding the timeline, citing texts exchanged between two
key FBI officials.
Fox News reported further:
The messages, first reported by The Wall
Street Journal in late January, indicate that
top bureau officials were aware of the
discovery of thousands of emails from
Weiner well before the FBI sought a search
warrant in late October, and effectively
revived the Clinton probe right before the
election.
“The cryptic and disjointed nature of the
text messages, in addition to heavy
redactions applied to other FBI documents,
make it difficult to understand fully the
sequence of events,” Johnson wrote, giving
him a deadline of March 15 to provide
information to the committee.
The messages were exchanged between top FBI
counterterrorism investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer
Lisa Page. Both have expressed hostile sentiments towards
President Donald J. Trump.
In his letter, Johnson said that the texts appear to indicate
that they and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
was aware of the existence of the emails on Weiner’s
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laptop, having found them during the bureau’s
investigation of him sending illicit texts and pictures to an
underage female, Fox News reported.
“Got called up to Andy’s earlier …
hundreds of thousands of emails turned
over by Weiner’s atty to sdny, includes a
ton of material from spouse. Sending team
up tomorrow to review … this will never
end…” Strzok wrote in a text message to
Page.
The “spouse” Strzok was referring to was
Huma Abedin, a longtime top aide and
confidante of Clinton’s.
“Turned over to them why?” Page replied.
“Apparently one of his recent texting
partners may not have been 18 … don’t
have the details yet,” Strzok wrote. Page
replied, noting that news reports said the
young woman “was 15.”
But apparently, then-FBI Director James Comey was not
briefed about the emails until late October 2016, about 10
days before the Nov. 8 election.
Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28, 2016,
notifying members that about the “recent developments”
regarding the discovery of Clinton-related emails on
Weiner’s laptop. The email led to a brief reopening of
Clinton’s email case, which had been closed in July of that
year.
“Months later, in December 2016, Strzok
and Page texted about the possibility that
the FBI would conduct an interview with
Abedin, and discussed her potential
‘immunity,'” Fox News reported.
 Prosecutors File Papers Postponing Imran Awan Court
Date For Fourth Time As Parties “Assess Their Options”
About Wasserman Schultz Laptop
By Joshua Caplan
March 2, 2018, 1:04 Pm

On Friday, prosecutors filed papers

postponing former Democrat IT aide
Imran Awan’s court case, reports Luke
Rosiak of the Daily Caller.

“Prosecutors filed papers today postponing Daily Caller reports:

the #ImranAwan court date for a fourth
time, to May 4, while the parties “assess
“The government has been in discussions
their options” about Wasserman Schultz’s
with counsel for the defendants regarding
laptop, which he had after being banned
complex discovery issues and other legal
from the House network. The media thinks
issues in this case, in particular issues
this case is about mortgage fraud,” tweeted
surrounding claims of attorney-client
Rosiak.
privilege being raised by defendant Imran
Awan,” court papers filed Tuesday say. […]

Chris Gowen, Awan’s attorney, said at the last hearing:

“We do expect there being an attorney-

“New court date is on a Friday. As usual —
that or right before a holiday. Good way to
suppress media coverage,” Rosiak added.
Attorneys for both Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and
former Democrat IT aide Imran Awan are fighting to keep
a government laptop linked to the lawmaker from being
used as evidence. The Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak believes
the laptop’s mystery hard drive is set to take center stage in
the Awan case.
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client privilege issue in this case… What
occurred is a backpack from my client was
found, he was trying to get a better signal,
there was a note that said attorney client
privilege and a hard drive. We feel very
strongly about this.” […]
Wasserman Schultz fought to prevent law enforcement
from looking at the laptop, threatening a police chief with
“consequences” and implying it was “a member’s” laptop.
She hired an outside lawyer, Bill Pittard, who specializes
in the “speech and debate” clause of the Constitution that
is designed to protect lawmakers from persecution for
political stances, but lawmakers have used to try to stymie
criminal probes in the past.
Recently, The Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak floated the idea
that Imran Awan may have planted Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz’s laptop for Capitol Police to find.
Per Rosiak:
A laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz has frantically fought to keep
prosecutors from examining may have
been planted for police to find by her since-
indicted staffer, Imran Awan, along with a
letter to the U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Capitol Police found the laptop after
midnight April 6, 2017, in a tiny room that
formerly served as a phone booth in the
Rayburn House Office Building, according
to a Capitol Police report reviewed by The
Daily Caller News Foundation’s
Investigative Group. […]
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The laptop had the username “RepDWS,” even though the
Florida Democrat and former Democratic National
Committee chairman previously said it was Awan’s
computer and that she had never even seen it.
Pakistani IT staffer Imran Awan is accused of stealing
hardware from ranking Democrats and sending sensitive
intel to foreign groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Awan
was reportedly
“sending money and gifts to government
officials in Pakistan and received protection
from the Pakistani police, multiple relatives
claim.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz kept Imran Awan on the pay
roll up to the day he got arrested for bank fraud after trying
to flee the country.
 Trump Drops BOMB On “Sanctuary State” California;
Threatens To Pull Out All ICE Agents, Leaving “Crime
Mess” For Locals To Deal With
By JD Heyes
03/02/2018
Fed up with California’s insolence regarding the state’s
all-out effort to harbor people in the United States
illegally, President Donald J. Trump on Friday threatened
to pull out every single Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agent currently stationed there.
“Frankly it’s a disgrace, the sanctuary city
situation,” Trump said at a White House
meeting Thursday, as reported by The Hill.
Noting that the Golden State’s Marxist Democrat
legislators and governor, Jerry Brown, have recently
declared the whole of California a destination where illegal
aliens can live without fear of being deported, Trump said
the state has steadfastly refused to cooperate with federal
immigration authorities.
Now, it may seem that California’s arrogance would cause
the president to double the number of federal immigration
authorities there, or even triple them.
But he’s looking at this another way and, dare I say, the
right way.
“If we ever pulled our ICE out, if we ever
said, ‘Hey, let California alone, let them
figure it out for themselves,’ in two months
they’d be begging for us to come back,
they would be begging,” Trump said.
“And you know what, I’m thinking about
doing it,” he added. (Related: Trump
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administration to sanctuary cities: Comply
with immigration laws or lose grant funds.)
CBS News reporter Mark Knoller tweeted out Trump’s
comments and threat.
Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said last month that
California ought to “hold on tight” as ICE was set to ramp
up operations in the state.
This week he was facing accusations from the American
Pravda media that his agency was politicizing raids on
behalf of the White House. He told Fox News,
“We don’t conduct raids. We conduct
targeted enforcement operations.”
You know, raids. But whatever; as long as people who are
in the country illegally are found and removed, which is
what federal law requires.
“We don’t go into neighborhoods, knock on
a bunch of doors looking for people
different than us,” Homan said on Fox
News. “Every person we arrest, we know
exactly who we’re going to arrest, we know
exactly when we’re going to arrest them.”
The National Sentinel reported in January that the
administration was planning the largest roundup of illegal
aliens in California in decades:
The Trump administration is planning to
send hundreds of immigration agents to
California as part of a massive operation to
locate and deport people in the country
illegally.
Homan criticized the state’s sanctuary law that Brown
signed last fall. It forbids state and local law enforcement
officials from cooperating with federal immigration
authorities; it took effect Jan. 1.
The acting ICE director has also called on the Justice
Department to begin looking into ways that local officials
of sanctuary jurisdictions can be held legally and
criminally liable for shielding people in the country
illegally.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen
Nielson confirmed during a Senate hearing last month that
her agency had indeed been in contact with federal
prosecutors to see what legal actions could be taken
against local officials who implement and uphold
sanctuary laws.
“The Department of Justice is reviewing
what avenues may be available,” Nielsen
revealed to Senate Judiciary Committee
members.
Homan told Fox News that sanctuary jurisdictions are not
actually protecting immigrant communities like they claim.
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“If I can’t arrest a bad guy in the safety of a
county jail, then I have to go to his home or
his place of business, and that’s an officer
safety concern. Number two, when I go to
that home I may find others, others that
were not on my radar that now I have to
take action against,” he said.
“And thirdly, they’re releasing the criminal
aliens back into their communities. The
very communities in which they live are the
communities they victimize,” he added.
As for the president, he was complimentary of Attorney
General Jeff Sessions who he said was
“doing a great job on the gangs.”
 HR McMaster Is Being Pushed
Out Of The Trump Administration
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 17:22
Two senior White House staffers, including
communications director Hope Hicks - have announced
their departures from the West Wing this week, and now
NBC is reporting that National Security Advisor HR
McMaster is on the verge of being pushed out.
According to NBC, Chief of Staff John Kelly and Defense
Secretary James Mattis have orchestrated McMaster's
ouster, even going so far as to select a leading candidate
for the job, whom they will presumably recommend to the
president.
McMaster could be handing in his resignation as early as
next month.
McMaster - who recently elicited an angry tweet from his
boss after telling the audience at a forum in Germany that
evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 race was
"incontrovertible" - has never fit in with the rest of the
administration. He was tapped to step in for Mike Flynn
when he resigned after only 24 days on the job. McMaster
had no previous connection to the Trump campaign, and
refused to retire from the Army upon taking the job,
maintaining his rank of active duty lieutenant general.
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The leading candidate to replace McMaster is the auto
industry executive Stephen Biegun. Biegun, a former
National Security Council staffer who was introduced to
Mattis and Kelly by Condoleezza Rice, has reportedly
been vetted by both Kelly and Mattis. Biegun needs a few
weeks to get his finances in order, allowing him to take the
job.
Biegun, who currently serves as vice
president of international governmental
affairs for the Ford Motor Company, is
no stranger to the White House.
He served on the National Security Council staff from
2001 to 2003, including as a senior staffer for then-
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Rice introduced Biegun to Mattis, recommending him for a
position in the administration, according to a close
associate of Rice. After Mattis met with Biegun at a think
tank event he was convinced Biegun would be a good fit
for the national security adviser role, the associate said.
Two people close to Biegun said he would need several
weeks to get his financial affairs in order to be able to join
the administration this spring.
Mr. Biegun did not respond himself to a
request for comment, but Ford Motor
Company spokesperson Christin Baker
said, "Steve has no plans to leave Ford."
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Mattis has reportedly assured Kelly that he would offer
McMaster either another three-star job in the Army or even
a promotion after he leaves the administration.
As an Army major, he turned his Ph.D. dissertation into a
best-selling book that became mandatory reading inside
the halls of the Pentagon and on military bases around the
world. “Dereliction of Duty” held military leaders
responsible for the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, arguing that
they quietly acquiesced to the demands of President
Lyndon S. Johnson rather than providing their best
counsel.
 He earned a Silver Star as a tank
commander during the Gulf War. During
McMaster's promotion to lieutenant
general, retired Lt. Gen. David Barno called
him “the rarest of soldiers,” admiring his
ability to repeatedly “buck the system and
survive to join its senior ranks.”
McMaster took over command of U.S. Army Training and
Doctrine Command in 2012 and was planning to retire last
summer until he got a surprise call from the White House
in February 2017.
Now, a year later, a source close to Mattis said the
Pentagon chief assured Kelly that he would offer
McMaster a graceful landing,
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either another three-star job in the Army
or even a promotion to a four-star
general.
To be sure, this isn't the first report claiming McMaster's
days in the administration were numbered. He has
somehow managed to hang on this long despite a torrent of
criticism from Trump, his supporters and political allies.
He has also committed the gravest sin of all - in Trump's
mind, at least: Disloyalty.
Could McMaster, by all accounts a widely respected
commander in the Army who turned his PhD thesis into a
book that is now required reading at the Pentagon, find a
way to hang on? Perhaps.
But maybe the real question is, does he even want to stay?
 Rep. Gaetz Trolls Schiff With Letter Asking Him To
Cosponsor His ORIGINAL Bill From 2013 Which Would
Give POTUS Authority To Appoint FISA Judges
By Cristina Laila
March 2, 2018, 5:56 Pm
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is on a roll.
Earlier this week, Gaetz called out Adam
Schiff from the House floor by filing the
same bill Schiff previously introduced in
2013.
Gaetz then sent Schiff a letter asking
him to cosponsor the legislation.
GOP Rep Matt Gaetz Twitter avatar
On Tuesday evening, Rep. Matt Gaetz
(R-FL) trolled the heck outta Rep. Adam
Schiff (D-CA) from the House floor by
filing the Presidential Appointment of
FISA Court Judges Act, a piece of
legislation Schiff previously introduced
in 2013.
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Rep Gaetz gave a speech from the House floor Tuesday
evening with a smile on his face as he called ranking
member of the House Intel Committee, Adam Schiff to
join him to advance bipartisan legislation giving the
President power to appoint FISA judges.
How can Schiff say no? He’s the one who originally
introduced this bill in 2013. Checkmate.
Adam Schiff’s bill would have given the President
authority to appoint all of the FISC judges.
“In 2013, Rep. Adam Schiff wanted to give
the President power to appoint FISA
judges. Today, I filed that legislation &
would encourage him to join me to advance
bipartisan legislation. If it was good enough
to give Obama these powers, it’s good
enough to give Trump these powers,”
Gaetz said.
“I’d encourage the gentleman from
California to join me as a co-sponsor so
that we can find bipartisan solutions to
improve the FISA process,” Gaetz said.
On Thursday, Rep. Gaetz sent Rep. Schiff an official letter
asking him to cosponsor his original bill from 2013.
Gaetz tweeted the letter with a caption,
I am calling on @RepAdamSchiff, in my
letter today, to cosponsor his ORIGINAL
bill from 2013, which would grant the
President authority to appoint FISA Judges.
If it was good enough to give President
Obama these powers, it’s good enough to
give President Trump these powers!
pic.twitter.com/G6Bxtvr5he
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz)
March 1, 2018
And another…
 Will @AdamSchiffCA join me in — CAM (@CAM373737) March 1, 2018
cosponsoring his former legislation??? Making Schiff not accept his own
pic.twitter.com/qkAPSm3lNN
recommendation… Priceless!
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) — Joey Bag ‘a Donuts (@HeadingSouthxx)
March 1, 2018
March 2, 2018

Some of the reaction from conservatives… I call this well played.

— RJ (@Rhonj86) March 2, 2018
Atta way, Matt! Give them a good ol’ taste
of their own medicine!
pic.twitter.com/hJihF3l6xF

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 Jeff Sessions: DOJ Investigating Illegal Leak Of Michael
Flynn’s Phone Call
By Kristina Wong
2 Mar 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a
recent interview that he was
investigating who illegally leaked former
National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn’s phone calls to the media.
Asked specifically by Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo if
his office was investigating the leak, he responded:
“That is a violation of the law, to leak
classified documents, and it is being
investigated.”
Those comments were overshadowed by his remarks that
alleged FBI abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act were being investigated. Sessions later said it was
actually the Justice Department Inspector General
investigating that matter, not DOJ prosecutors, prompting
a strong rebuke from President Trump earlier this week.
However, it appears that the Flynn leak is being handled
by the Justice Department. Breitbart News asked Justice
Department Press Secretary Sarah Isgur Flores about
Sessions’ comments and whether the leak is being
investigated by the DOJ or the DOJ IG. Flores indicated
the former.
“Criminal unauthorized disclosures of
classified material are investigated by the
national security division,” she said.
Last August, Sessions stood up a task force dedicated to
investigating leaks. He did not indicate during the recent
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interview when anything might be announced, but said the
leaks are being investigated “aggressively.”
“I will say this, the last two years before I
became Attorney General there were –
each year there were three open
investigations of classified leaks. Now we
have 27, we’re going after this
aggressively. I am directing it personally.
Some of the matters involve this matter and
some of it is a matter I am not recused on
and we’re pursuing it aggressively,” he said
during the interview earlier this month.
In December 2016, Flynn, then the incoming national
security adviser, spoke with U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Sergei Kislyak via phone, to discuss sanctions the Obama
administration had just enacted on Moscow, in response to
election interference.
A “senior U.S. government official” then told the
Washington Post’s David Ignatius that Flynn had phoned
Kislyak several times on December 29, 2016.
The January 12, 2017, article asked:
“What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the
U.S. sanctions?” It then questioned
whether Flynn had violated the “spirit” of
“the Logan Act,” a never-enforced law that
bars U.S. citizens from discussing U.S.
disputes with a foreign government.
“Current and former U.S. officials” then
illegally leaked the contents of that call —
which was classified intelligence — to the
Post, which ran another story two weeks
later, on February 9, 2017. In that story,
they told the Post that Flynn “privately
discussed” the Obama sanctions, contrary
to what Trump officials had said publicly.
Although the FBI reportedly concluded he did nothing
wrong during his calls, Flynn’s alleged lying to other
Trump administration officials purportedly led to his
firing.
 Trump Wants Ivanka, Kushner
Removed From White House: Report
Fri Mar 2, 2018 06:15PM

developer from New York and was also appointed as a

senior White House adviser by the president. Neither have
previous government experience.

US media reported this week that Kushner's security

clearance had been downgraded from Top Secret level to
Secret level due to procedural changes made by Kelly.

This photo taken on March 3, 2017 shows Senior Advisor to the

President, Jared Kushner (L), walking with his wife Ivanka Trump
to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC. (By
AFP)

A leading American paper claims that

US President Donald Trump has
“privately asked” his chief of staff John
Kelly for help in ousting daughter
Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared
Kushner from their advisory roles at the
White House.
The claim was made in a report published by The New
York Times on Friday.
The media outlet said the move was prompted after a
number of Trump’s aides “expressed frustration” with the
fact that Kushner and Ivanka still had their jobs despite the
president indicating that they should resign.
Ivanka and his husband believe that the chief of staff is
against their presence in the White House, according to the
newspaper.
The daily paper also claims that Trump has spoken to the
pair and called on them to stay on at the White House, but
has privately stated they “never should have come” to
work there.
PressTV-Jared Kushner loses top security clearance
Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and other aides
have lost their top-level security clearance.
Commenting on the issue, White House spokeswoman
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump's son-in-law
would continue to play a significant role in the presidential
administration.
Trump, who has the ability to grant Kushner a permanent
clearance, had earlier said that any decision about whether
he can be exempted would depend on Kelly.
Kelly and other top White House aides are currently
grappling with the fallout of a scandal involving former
White House staff secretary Rob Porter, which disclosed
that dozens of White House aides had yet to receive
permanent clearances but nonetheless could access some
of the national deepest secrets.

Ivanka worked for her billionaire father's company before
Trump was elected president and is now an unpaid White
House adviser. Her 36-year-old husband is a real estate
.
Kushner is also in the spotlight after investigations led by
the US Justice Department and several congressional
committees about the alleged Russian interference in the
2016 US presidential election.

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 REPORT: Inspector General Horowitz To Accuse Andrew
Mccabe Of Improper Leaks To Media,
Misleading Investigators
By Cristina Laila
March 2, 2018, 7:03 Pm
Outgoing Deputy Director of the FBI
Andrew McCabe will be called out for
leaking to the media and misleading
investigators in the much-anticipated
Inspector General’s report set to be
released late March or April.
Inspector General Horowitz is investigating the FBI’s
mishandling of Hillary Clinton’s email probe.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pauses in Washington, U.S.,
June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files
According to a reports by The New York Times and the
Washington Post, IG Michael Horowitz will accuse
outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of leaking
to the media and misleading Horowitz’s investigators.
The New York Times reported:
A Justice Department review is expected
to criticize the former F.B.I. deputy director,
Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the
disclosure of information about a continuing
investigation to journalists, according to
four people familiar with the inquiry.
According to the Times, McCabe authorized a leak to the
Wall Street Journal which led to an October 2016 article
that revealed an internal dispute between the FBI and DOJ
about how to handle Hillary Clinton’s email investigation
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that had just been reopened after classified emails were
found on Weiner’s laptop.
The Times claims McCabe’s leak to the Wall Street
Journal led to a “negative article” about Hillary Clinton,
not Trump but they also admit that some agents believe
McCabe put the brakes on an investigation into the Clinton
Foundation.
In October 2016, The Wall Street Journal revealed a
dispute between F.B.I. and Justice Department officials
over how to proceed in an investigation into the financial
dealings of the Clinton family’s foundation. The article
revealed a closed-door meeting during which senior Justice
Department officials were dismissive of the evidence and
declined to authorize subpoenas or grand jury activity.
Some F.B.I. agents, the article said, believed that Mr.
McCabe had put the brakes on the investigation.
Others rejected that notion. The Journal, citing sources
including “one person close to Mr. McCabe,” revealed a
tense conversation with a senior Justice Department
official in which Mr. McCabe insisted that the F.B.I. had
the authority to press ahead with the investigation into the
Clinton Foundation.
The inspector general has concluded that Mr. McCabe
authorized F.B.I. officials to provide information for that
article, according to the four people, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized
to discuss the report before it is published. The public
affairs office had arranged a phone call to discuss the case,
the people said. Mr. McCabe, as deputy director, had the
authority to engage the news media.
The Washington Post then reported McCabe will be
accused of misleading Inspector General Horowitz’s
investigators.
Washington Post reports:
The Justice Department inspector general
is preparing a damaging report on former
FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe,
alleging he was responsible for approving
 an improper media disclosure, two people
familiar with the matter said. One of the
people said McCabe will also be accused
of misleading investigators about his
actions.
During that work, inspector general investigators found
that McCabe had authorized the disclosure of information
to the Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 story that
examined feuding inside the FBI and Justice Department
around the handling of a separate investigation into
Clinton’s family foundation, two people familiar with the
case said.
Those probing the matter say McCabe, who stepped down
in January, misled them when they initially inquired about
the subject, though one person familiar with the
forthcoming report said McCabe disputes that he
intentionally misled investigators.
The Post also reports McCabe may have leaked to the Wall
Street Journal through Peter Strzok’s mistress Lisa Page.
.
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The Journal’s story was written by Devlin Barrett, now a
reporter at The Washington Post. Spokesmen for the
Journal did not return an email message. Recently released
text messages from an FBI agent and FBI lawyer involved
in the Clinton email case show that two days before the
story was published, the lawyer, Lisa Page, and the FBI’s
top spokesman, Michael Kortan, were on the phone with
Barrett for an extended conversation.
Andrew McCabe didn’t recuse himself from Hillary
Clinton’s email investigation until one week before the
2016 presidential election despite his obvious conflicts of
interest.
McCabe recently left the FBI on ‘terminal leave’ amid
pressure for him to be fired for misconduct.
We are way past due for a second Special Counsel to
investigate Obama’s FBI, DOJ and the FISA abuses.
The Inspector General doesn’t have prosecutorial power
which is why President Trump unleashed on AG Sessions
earlier this week for handing over the FISA abuse
investigation to Horowitz.
 Rep. Matt Gaetz Accuses AG Sessions Of ‘Dereliction Of
Duty’ — Urges He Appoint Second Special
Counsel Or Resign (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 2, 2018, 9:26 Pm
Joining Judge Jeanine Pirro on
“Hannity” Friday evening, Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-FL) urged Attorney General
Jeff Sessions to get rid of his
‘dereliction of duty’ mindset and appoint
a second special counsel — or resign
immediately.
.@RepMattGaetz: “If Jeff Sessions does
not appoint a second special counsel, then
we need a new Attorney General.”
#Hannity pic.twitter.com/eb4U7WqSgk
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2018
GAETZ:
“If Jeff Sessions does not appoint a second
special counsel, then we need a new
Attorney General, Judge. You are
absolutely right. Even if we learn more
horrifying things from the Inspector
General, we can’t actually
prosecute somebody for those things
because we would need somebody to be
able to bring that case and the Department
of Justice and FBI obviously won’t be
bringing a case against themselves. So Jeff
Sessions needs to get rid of this mindset
.
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that is a dereliction of duty and he needs to
do what Congress has called for and
appoint a second special counsel to get to
the bottom of this.”
On Wednesday morning, President Trump slammed
Attorney General Jeff Sessions for directing Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to probe
Obama-era FISA abuses.
Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 28, 2018
In response to Trump’s criticism, Sessions issued his own
statement, affirming
“As long as I am the Attorney General, I will
continue to discharge my duties with
integrity and honor.”
SESSIONS responds to @realDonaldTrump's complaints
about him this morning —>
"As long as I am the Attorney General, I will
continue to discharge my duties with
integrity and honor."
pic.twitter.com/8lUAiW2qq0
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February
28, 2018
 Devin Nunes Asks Jeff Sessions What
He’s Doing About FBI Violations Of FISA Protocols
By Kristina Wong
2 Mar 2018
The Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), is
asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions
whether the Justice Department is doing
anything what appears to be a “clear
violation” of FBI protocols.
In a letter sent on Thursday, Nunes laid out the protocols
that FBI agents appear to have violated in using the Steele
dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant on a Trump
campaign member under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA).
He cited FBI guidelines that officials must follow when
requesting FISA warrants, including that
“Only document and verified information
may be used to support FBI applications
[FISA] to the court [FISC].”
Nunes said in his letter that
“former and current DOJ and FBI
leadership have confirmed to the
Committee that unverified information from
the Steele dossier comprised an essential
part of the FISA applications related to
Carter Page.”
As the committee’s memo laid out last month, head of the
FBI’s counterintelligence division Assistant Director Bill
Priestap said corroboration of the dossier was in its
“infancy” at the time of the FBI’s initial warrant
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application on former Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page in October 2016.
In addition, then-FBI Director James Comey told
lawmakers in June 2017 that he briefed President-elect
Trump on the dossier in January 2017, even though it was
“salacious and unverified.”
Nunes asked Sessions to respond by March 8, 2018,
whether those protocols requiring “verified information”
have changed, and if not, what steps is the Justice
Department taking to hold officials accountable who
violated the protocols?
Nunes said in addition, the presentation of false and/or
unverified information to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court could entail the following violations of
criminal statutes of:
— 18 USC 242
— 50 USC 1809
— Conspiracy
— Obstruction of Justice
— Contempt of Court.
Nunes concluded in his letter that the FBI guidelines
provides internal oversight and controls over FBI
activities.
“However, in this instance, it’s clear that
basic operating guidance was violated,” he
said.
So far, several FBI officials involved in the investigation
have been removed from their jobs and reassigned within
the FBI, such as Peter Strzok. Former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe abruptly resigned from his role last
month, but is still at the FBI awaiting retirement in March.
Nunes’ letter comes as Sessions is facing increasing
pressure on what steps he is taking regarding potential
FISA abuse by FBI officials who were investigating the
Trump campaign in the leadup to and after the 2016
elections. Sessions recently said the Justice Department
Inspector General was looking into FISA abuse, not his
prosecutors.
GOP Lawmaker: Jeff Sessions Won’t Answer Questions At
Meetings – Defers To Rosenstein’s Aides (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 2, 2018, 10:14 Pm

Rep. Matt Gaetz:

I did sit down with the Attorney General

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined Judge
Jeanine Pirro on Hannity on Friday to
discuss AWOL Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and the deep state corruption.
along with Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte
and many others and I was disappointed
that the Attorney General didn’t seem to be
very engaged on any of these issues
regarding existential threats to the Trump
administration. He was deferring to a team
that answers to Rod Rosenstein for
goodness sakes.
Sessions needs to leave office.
Via Hannity:

Gaetz told Judge Jeanine that Jeff Sessions needs to get rid
of his “dereliction of duty” mindset and appoint a second
special counsel.

Later in the interview Rep. Gaetz told

Judge Jeanine that Jeff Sessions won’t
even answer questions when with
House members and defers everything
to Rod Rosenstein or Rosenstein’s
aides.

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FLASHBACK Donald Trump: “Listen You Motherf*ckers,
We’re Going To Tax You 25%!” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 2, 2018, 11:52 Pm

The US is currently the world’s largest steel importer.

But this was not the first time President

Trump talked about taxing foreign
products.

In 2011 Donald Trump went on a profanity-laced speech in

Las Vegas where he promised to tax China imports by
25% if they continued to manipulate their currency.

Donald Trump:

“Listen you motherf*ckers, we’re going to

On Thursday President Donald Trump tax you 25 percent!”
proposed 25% tariffs on foreign-made
steel and 10% on foreign-made
aluminum.

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Via Reddit The Donald: Warning on Language–
Mother Jones posted on the full exchange.
In a Thursday night speech in Las Vegas, Trump railed
against lawmakers that he described as “blood suckers,”
bouncing from subjects like gas prices, Iraq, and foreign
trade.
“We have weak, pathetic leadership,”
Trump said of the Obama administration.
“Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid
people.”
.
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But that paled in comparison to his expletive-laden zingers
on foreign policy and trade. Speaking about America’s
military presence abroad, he said:
We build a school, we build a road, they
blow up the school, we build another
school, we build another road they blow
them up, we build again, in the meantime
we can’t get a fucking school in Brooklyn.
Then, on the issue of oil prices and OPEC, the coalition
with control on much of the world’s oil supply, he
quipped:
We have nobody in Washington that sits
back and said, you’re not going to raise
that fucking price.
And despite the fact that some of his clothing is made in
China, Trump bashed the Middle Kingdom. If elected
president, what would his message for China be?
“Listen you motherfuckers, we’re going to
tax you 25 percent!”
 Leaker Adam Schiff Finally Concedes,
Says Still Zero Proof Of Trump Russia Collusion (Video)
Guest Post By John S. Roberts At Right Observer
March 3, 2018, 7:56 Am

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered a

blunt message to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) when both
appeared on “The View” Thursday.

Rice expressed the hope that the House Intelligence

Committee will soon conclude its investigation into
Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.

Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff has been a key

figure behind the Trump/Russia witch hunt since day one.

While on “The View,” Schiff admitted what everyone has

known for quite a while – there is no evidence of
collusion!

From The Federalist:

"I appreciate what you're doing for the
country — but I really hope you can wrap it
Rep. Adam Schiff conceded Thursday
up," @CondoleezzaRice tells
there is still no evidence President Trump
@RepAdamSchiff her hopes for the Russia
or his campaign colluded with Russia to
probe: "The country needs to get back to
win the election, and made a point of
business, so… my greatest hope is that
distancing himself from any charges of
this gets done." https://t.co/f8u2wc159S
treason against the president.
pic.twitter.com/WSb4KZkAqJ
Schiff has been driving the Trump-Russia collusion — The View (@TheView) March 2, 2018
narrative on behalf of his party for months from his seat on “I appreciate what you’re doing for the
the House Intelligence Committee, claiming recently he country, but I really hope you can wrap it
has seen “more than circumstantial” evidence of collusion. up. The country needs to get back to
But he offered nothing substantial to back up his claim business, so that’s my greatest hope is that
when pressed on “The View” to get specific, and this gets done,” she told Schiff.
acknowledged hard proof of collusion may never
materialize, even after an intensive and months-long What now, Schiff?
investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Time to move on, yes?
Fox News Insider has more:
More pressing matters at hand?

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 ‘Leaker’ Adam Schiff CONCEDES (Finally):
‘No Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion’
Posted on March 3, 2018
(National Sentinel) ‘Intelligence’ Committee: The
minority ranking member of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence has finally conceded that the
panel he co-chairs has seen no evidence at all that the
Trump campaign “colluded” with the Russian government
during the 2016 election.
During an appearance on ABC‘s “The View,” Schiff was
questioned about his long-running claims that there is
evidence of Trump-Russia collusion by one of the
program’s co-hosts, Megan McCain, daughter of ailing
Sen. John McCain.
Under direct assault, Schiff was forced to admit that the
committee has yet to uncover any proof or evidence said
collusion took place.
As reported by The Federalist:
Rep. Adam Schiff conceded Thursday
there is still no evidence President Trump
or his campaign colluded with Russia to
win the election, and made a point of
distancing himself from any charges of
treason against the president.
Schiff has been driving the Trump-Russia
collusion narrative on behalf of his party for
months from his seat on the House
Intelligence Committee, claiming recently
he has seen “more than circumstantial”
evidence of collusion. But he offered
nothing substantial to back up his claim
when pressed on “The View” to get
specific, and acknowledged hard proof of
collusion may never materialize, even after
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an intensive and months-long investigation
by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I’ve never used the word treason,” said
Schiff after ticking of a number of what he
called “damning” pieces of evidence that
amount to no more than efforts by Russian
operatives to contact the Trump campaign.
“Is it enough for Mueller to bring charges?”
host Meghan McCain asked Schiff.
“Because if it isn’t enough for Mueller to
bring charges, what does that mean?
Charges of collusion.”
Schiff responded by saying it wasn’t his job to bring
charges but to provide a narrative to the American people
— which he has done in the form of claims of collusion
that, thus far, neither his committee or others throughout
Congress has been able to prove.
“Bob Mueller will make the decision
whether there is proof beyond a reasonable
doubt to indict and convict people,” said
Schiff.
“It is not his responsibility to tell the country
what happened, and indeed there’s no
guarantee that the country will ever learn
what Bob Mueller finds apart from an
indictment,” he continued.
“It’s the job of the Congress to tell the
American people what happened, whether
it reaches the standard beyond a
reasonable doubt or we merely find clear
and convincing evidence of collusion.”
Noted The Federalist:
Translation: If Mueller can’t turn up hard
evidence to indict someone, Democrats in
Congress will have to rely on a much softer
standard of evidence to persuade the
public that collusion happened.
“I just think if Mueller doesn’t end up
charging him, it’s a lot of smoke and
mirrors,” McCain said.
Schiff has been accused of leaking information regarding Trump assistant Dan Scavino has also intimated that Schiff
the Intelligence Committee’s investigation throughout its has leaked politically advantageous information to the
Trump-Russia collusion probe. media.

President Trump and his White House staff have called

Schiff out for his alleged leaking. So have Republicans in
Congress, including retiring Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

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 AMAZING! President Trump’s Approval Rating
Holds At 49% – 2 Points Better Than Barack Obama
At Same Time In His Presidency
By Jim Hoft
March 3, 2018, 8:06 Am

Rasmussen reported:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential

Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 49% of
Likely U.S. Voters approve of President
Trump’s job performance. Fifty percent
(50%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 33% who Strongly Approve of

the way Trump is performing and 39% who Strongly
Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index
rating of -6. (see trends).

Trump’s approval rating is two points

The Drudge Report higher than the media golden boy
Barack Obama (47% approval) at the
Despite 90% negative media reports and same time in his presidency.
a year of Russian conspiracies
President Trump holds a 49% approval
rating with likely voters.
.

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 Trump Extends Russia Sanctions
For Another Year – White House
Published Time: 2 Mar, 2018 18:33 Edited Time: 3 Mar, 2018 09:20
President Donald Trump has extended the sanctions
against Russia and Russian individuals by another year.
The sanctions were imposed by former President Barack
Obama in March 2014, in response to the political crisis in
Ukraine.
In a letter required under the National Emergencies Act,
Trump notified Congress that the White House will
continue treating the situation in Ukraine as
“an unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the
United States,” as defined by Obama’s
Executive Order 13660, dated March 6,
2014.
The US has been gradually expanding the list of people
and entities under its Russia sanctions over the years. The
latest addition of 21 individuals and nine companies was
announced in January 2016.
Trump's letter also notes that without a notification from
the White House the sanctions would have automatically
expired on the anniversary of the original executive order.
This is the second time this week that policy decisions
made by the Trump administration were aimed at Russia.
.
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On Thursday, the State Department approved the sale of
Javelin anti-tank missiles to Kiev, pending approval by
Congress.
The original sanctions restricted travel of certain Russian
individuals and officials to the US. The sanctions were
later expanded to prohibit business dealings between any
US persons and those individuals, as well as Russian
financial services, energy, and defense industries.
Executive Order 13685, dated December 19, 2014, further
expanded the sanctions to address the “Russian occupation
of the Crimea region of Ukraine,” and prohibited any US
persons, “wherever located,” from investing in Crimea. It
also banned imports and exports of goods, services and
technology to and from the region.
Following the Ukrainian coup in February 2014, Crimea
held an independence referendum and asked to rejoin
Russia, which it was separated from in 1954 by a decree
from Soviet authorities. The reunion became official on
March 18, 2014. However, Washington has accused
Russia of “invading” Ukraine and illegally occupying
Crimea.
Residents of several other regions refused to accept the
new government. The Donetsk and Lugansk regions
declared independence, but were not recognized by any
sovereign state. In several other regions, Kiev crushed
dissent by force. In May 2014, protesters in Odessa were
attacked and herded into an office building, which was
then set on fire. Around 40 people were killed. No one was
ever prosecuted for the attack.
Relations between Washington and Moscow further
deteriorated in 2016, when the Obama administration
accused Russia of interfering in the US presidential
elections and expelled a number of Russian diplomats.
Moscow has denied all allegations.
 Judge Jeanine Unleashes On AG Sessions:
‘He Lost His Prosecutorial Balls?!’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 3, 2018, 1:46 Pm

Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro “I’m a big fan of Jeff Sessions,” Bruce
ripped into Attorney General Jeff continued. “Thank goodness for the
Sessions Friday, suggesting the president, that he has got an eye on this,
nation’s top law enforcement officer has publicly making sure individuals know how
‘lost his prosecutorial balls.’ serious this is.”

Pirro wasn’t the only one urging Sessions to spring into

action. On the same program, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
urged Sessions to get rid of his ‘dereliction of duty’
mindset and appoint a second special counsel — or resign
immediately.

The Hill reports:

During a segment on her show, “Justice

with Judge Jeanine,” Pirro interviewed Fox
News contributors Tammy Bruce and Lisa
Boothe over whether Sessions should
GAETZ:
appoint a second special counsel to
investigate Hillary Clinton. […]
“If Jeff Sessions does not appoint a second
special counsel, then we need a new
During the interview, Bruce suggested that Sessions’s time
Attorney General, Judge. You are
in the Senate could be a reason that he was not “shocked”
absolutely right. Even if we learn more
over the story.
horrifying things from the Inspector
General, we can’t actually
“His body was the Senate and he moved prosecute somebody for those things
through it for an innumerable length of because we would need somebody to be
time,” Bruce said. “And we can’t dismiss able to bring that case and the Department
the impact of living in that bubble.” of Justice and FBI obviously won’t be
“So he lost his prosecutorial balls,” Pirro bringing a case against themselves. So Jeff
suggested. Sessions needs to get rid of this mindset
that is a dereliction of duty and he needs to
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 do what Congress has called for and Obama guy? Why not use Justice
appoint a second special counsel to get to Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”
the bottom of this.” tweeted Trump.

On Wednesday morning, President Trump slammed

Attorney General Jeff Sessions for directing Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to probe
Obama-era FISA abuses.

“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the

Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an

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 Mueller’s Focus On Adviser To
Emirates Suggests Broader Investigation
By Mark Mazzetti, David D. Kirkpatrick And Maggie Haberman
March 3, 2018
George Nader, an adviser to the leader of the United Arab Emirates,
has been questioned in the special counsel investigation, according to
people with knowledge of the discussion. Credit via C-Span
WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American
businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international
diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel
negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration,
reinvented himself as an adviser to the de facto ruler of the
United Arab Emirates, and last year was a frequent visitor
to President Trump’s White House.
Mr. Nader is now a focus of the investigation by Robert S.
Mueller III, the special counsel. In recent weeks, Mr.
Mueller’s investigators have questioned Mr. Nader and
have pressed witnesses for information about any possible
attempts by the Emiratis to buy political influence by
directing money to support Mr. Trump during the
presidential campaign, according to people with
knowledge of the discussions.
The investigators have also asked about Mr. Nader’s role
in White House policymaking, those people said,
suggesting that the special counsel investigation has
broadened beyond Russian election meddling to include
Emirati influence on the Trump administration. The focus
on Mr. Nader could also prompt an examination of how
money from multiple countries has flowed through and
influenced Washington during the Trump era.
How much this line of inquiry is connected to Mr.
Mueller’s original task of investigating contacts between
Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia is unclear. The
examination of the U.A.E. comes amid a flurry of recent
activity by Mr. Mueller.
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Last month, investigators negotiated a plea agreement with
Rick Gates, Mr. Trump’s deputy campaign manager, and
indicted 13 Russians on charges related to a scheme to
incite political discord in the United States before the 2016
election.
In one example of Mr. Nader’s influential connections,
which has not been previously reported, last fall he
received a detailed report from a top Trump fund-raiser,
Elliott Broidy, about a private meeting with the president
in the Oval Office.
Mr. Broidy owns a private security company with
hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with the United
Arab Emirates, and he extolled to Mr. Trump a
paramilitary force that his company was developing for the
country. He also lobbied the president to meet privately “in
an informal setting” with the Emirates’ military
commander and de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Zayed al-Nahyan; to back the U.A.E.’s hawkish
policies in the region; and to fire Secretary of State Rex W.
Tillerson.
A copy of Mr. Broidy’s memorandum about the meeting
was provided to The New York Times by someone critical
of the Emirati influence in Washington.
Mr. Trump has closely allied himself with the Emiratis,
endorsing their strong support for the new heir to the
throne in Saudi Arabia, as well as their confrontational
approaches toward Iran and their neighbor Qatar. In the
case of Qatar, which is the host to a major United States
military base, Mr. Trump’s endorsement of an Emirati-
and Saudi-led blockade against that country has put him
openly at odds with his secretary of state — as well as with
years of American policy.
Mr. Nader, 58, made frequent trips to the White House
during the early months of the Trump administration,
meeting with Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner to
discuss American policy toward the Persian Gulf states in
advance of Mr. Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2017,
according to people familiar with the meetings. By some
accounts, it was Mr. Bannon who pushed for him to gain
access to White House policymakers. Others said Mr.
Kushner backed him.
Reached by phone last month, Mr. Nader said he had
dinner guests and would call back. He did not, and
attempts to reach him over several weeks were
unsuccessful. Mr. Nader’s lawyer did not respond to
messages seeking comment.
said Frederic Hof, a former top American
diplomat who knew Mr. Nader in the 1990s.
Late in that decade, Mr. Nader convinced the Clinton
administration that he had valuable contacts in the Syrian
government and took on a secretive role trying to broker a
peace deal between Israel and Syria. Working with Ronald
S. Lauder, the American cosmetics magnate and prominent
donor to Jewish causes, Mr. Nader shuttled between
Damascus and Jerusalem, using his contacts in both
capitals to try to negotiate a truce.

President Trump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-

Nahyan of Abu Dhabi at the White House last year. Credit Al Drago
for The New York Times

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Broidy said his
memorandum had been stolen through sophisticated
hacking.
“We have reason to believe this hack was
sponsored and carried out by registered
and unregistered agents of Qatar seeking
to punish Mr. Broidy for his strong
opposition to state-sponsored terrorism,”
said the spokesman, adding that Mr. Broidy
had also made the accusation in a letter to
the Qatari ambassador in Washington.
Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fund-raiser, with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in 2008. Credit David
Carp/Wallenberg Committee, via Associated Press
“In the 1990s, George was a very effective
under-the-radar operator in the peace
process,” said Martin S. Indyk, a former
American ambassador to Israel and a
member of a team put together by
President Bill Clinton to negotiate peace
deals between Israel and its neighbors.
“Then, he disappeared.”

Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the United

Indeed, a man with a once very public profile in
States, declined to comment. Axios first reported Mr.
Washington effectively vanished from the capital’s policy
Mueller’s questioning of Mr. Nader.
scene, and his magazine ceased publication in 2002.

Mr. Nader has long been a mysterious figure. In the 1990s,

During the middle part of the last decade, Mr. Nader
he presided over an unusual Washington magazine, Middle
appears to have spent most of his time in the Middle East,
East Insight, which sometimes provided a platform for
especially in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. He developed
Arab, Israeli and Iranian officials to express their views to
close ties to national security officials in the Bush White
a Washington audience.
House.

On the magazine’s 15th anniversary, in 1996, a West

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, the private
Virginia congressman praised Mr. Nader on the floor of
security company now known as Academi, at one point
the House, calling him a “recognized expert on the region”
hired Mr. Nader to help the company generate business
and pointing out that the magazine had been a showcase
deals in Iraq. In a 2010 deposition that Mr. Prince gave as
for prominent figures such as President Hosni Mubarak of
part of a lawsuit against the company, Mr. Prince
Egypt, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, and Yasir
described Mr. Nader as a “business development
Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
consultant that we retained in Iraq” because the company
was looking for contracts with the Iraqi government.
“He always struck me as a person who
really thought he should be in the eye of
the storm trying to make things happen,”

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Mr. Prince said that Mr. Nader was unsuccessful in getting
contracts, and that senior Blackwater officials did not work
directly with him.
“George pretty much worked on his own,”
he said.
At the beginning of the Obama era, Mr. Nader tried to
parlay his ties to the Syrian government into access to
senior members of President Barack Obama’s foreign
policy team, while also seeking to advance business deals
with former advisers to President George W. Bush.
By the time of the 2016 election, he had become an adviser
to Prince Mohammed of the U.A.E. According to people
familiar with the relationship, it was around Mr. Trump’s
inauguration that Mr. Nader first met Mr. Broidy, the
Republican fund-raiser, who is a California-based investor
with a strong interest in the Middle East.
Mr. Broidy’s security company, Circinus, provides
services to both United States agencies and foreign
governments. Run by former American military officers,
Circinus promises on its website that it
“can employ personnel worldwide to
provide physical force protection to
individuals, groups or facilities within
austere, hostile environments,” as well as
conducting “specialized operations,
infrastructure protection and training.”
Mr. Broidy, 60, had once stumbled into legal trouble over
payments to a political figure. In 2009, he agreed to plead
guilty to a misdemeanor charge for providing $1 million in
illegal gifts to New York State pension authorities,
including trips, payouts and a secret investment in a film
called “Chooch” that was produced by an official’s
brother. In exchange for the gifts, the state pension fund
invested $250 million with an Israeli-based investment
management firm that Mr. Broidy had founded. He
reimbursed the pension fund for $18 million in fees.
Mr. Nader played host to a talk with Mr. Netanyahu in 1996.
Credit via C-Span
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After the inauguration, Mr. Nader became friendly with
Mr. Broidy and introduced him to Prince Mohammed.
Circinus then signed contracts with the United Arab
Emirates worth several hundred million dollars, according
to people familiar with the arrangement.
By Oct. 6, Mr. Broidy had evidently become close enough
to both the prince and Mr. Nader to send a detailed
memorandum to an encrypted email address used by Mr.
Nader recounting his advocacy on the U.A.E.’s behalf
during the meeting with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office
amid an afternoon of stops throughout the White House.
An ally of the White House involved in one of the
initiatives discussed — a counterterrorism task force —
said Mr. Broidy sent the memorandum because he had
been asked by the crown prince to seek the president’s
views on the idea. Mr. Broidy believed that the creation of
the task force would aid American security, this person
said.
According to the memo, Mr. Broidy repeatedly pressed
Mr. Trump to meet privately with Prince Mohammed,
preferably in an informal setting outside the White House.
“I offered that M.B.Z. is available to come
to the U.S. very soon and preferred a quiet
meeting in New York or New Jersey,” Mr.
Broidy wrote to Mr. Nader, using the crown
prince’s initials. “President Trump agreed
that a meeting with M.B.Z. was a good
idea.”
Mr. Broidy wrote that he had twice told Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, the national security adviser, that the crown
prince “preferred an informal setting to meet one on one
with President Trump.” But General McMaster resisted.
“LTG McMaster smiled and replied that
heads of state usually meet in the White
House,” as “protocol dictates.”
In his memorandum, Mr. Broidy recounted that he had told
Mr. Trump that he recently returned from meeting with the
crown prince about Circinus work for the U.A.E. Mr.
Broidy had explained
“the exciting and transformational plan
being constructed by M.B.Z. to develop a
counterterrorism task force,” which Mr.
Broidy told the president was “inspired” by
his speech at a conference in Riyadh.
Mr. Broidy was harshly critical of the crown prince’s
neighbor and nemesis, Qatar. The U.A.E. has accused
Qatar, an American ally, of using its satellite network Al
Jazeera to promote political Islam, among other
allegations.
Mr. Trump also asked about Mr. Tillerson — who had
publicly criticized the isolation of Qatar — and Mr. Broidy
said that the secretary of state should be fired.
“Rex was performing poorly,” Mr. Broidy
said, according to the memorandum.
“spoke for several minutes about politics
and the fund-raising efforts for the midterm
elections as well as the state of affairs at
the R.N.C.,”
or the Republican National Committee.

In between the discussions of diplomacy, business and

statecraft, Mr. Broidy wrote, he and the president

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 Lou Dobbs Calls For AG Sessions To
Resign ‘For The Good Of The Country’
By Cristina Laila
March 3, 2018, 2:13 Pm

On Friday evening, Rep. Gaetz (R-FL) #MAGA @realDonaldTrump #TrumpTrain

told Judge Jeanine Pirro that Jeff #AmericaFirst”
Sessions won’t even answer questions
when with House members and defers
everything to Rod Rosenstein or
Rosenstein’s aides.

Gaetz also told Judge Jeanine that Jeff Sessions needs to

get rid of his “dereliction of duty” mindset and appoint a
second special counsel.

On Saturday morning, Fox Business Network heavyweight

Lou Dobbs called for AG Sessions to resign.

What does the Deep State have on Sessions?

President Trump is also frustrated with Jeff Sessions.

President Trump lashed out at Sessions this week for

asking the Inspector General to look into Obama era FISA
abuse.

Trump correctly states it “will take forever.”

The FISA abuses committed by Obama’s DOJ and FBI are

serious crimes and we need a serious investigation. We
Jeff Sessions has pretty much been AWOL since be was sworn in as need a Special Counsel to look into Obama’s crimes and
Attorney General. Hillary’s phony dossier.

Swamp creature Rod Rosenstein is really in charge. It’s Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to
time Sessions unrecused himself and cleaned house or step AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions
aside so someone else can come in and get the Justice Wednesday urging him appoint a
Department under control. Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
Dobbs tweeted, ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
“Sessions has fallen ill, he’s incapacitated
in some fashion, or he’s been coopted or Senator Grassley has previously stated the Senate will not
captured: to preserve any dignity, for the confirm another Attorney General if Sessions is fired so at
good of the country he needs to resign. this point he must unrecuse himself and clean house if he
wants to carry out his duties with honor.
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 Former GOP Rep To Brother Of Slain Border Patrol
Agent: ‘I Met With AG Sessions To Get Fast &
Furious Documents And He Said NO’
By Cristina Laila
March 3, 2018, 3:14 Pm

On Saturday, former Utah GOP Rep.

Jason Chaffetz told Kent Terry, the
brother of slain border patrol agent
Brian Terry he asked AG Sessions for
the Fast & Furious documents and the
Attorney General said NO.

Brian Terry was a border patrol agent who was killed on

December 14, 2010 because of former AG Eric Holder’s
‘Fast and Furious’ criminal gun running operation.

Fox News contributor and former Utah GOP Rep Jason

Chaffetz responded to Kent Terry and said he met with AG
Jeff Sessions to get the Fast and Furious documents and
Sessions said NO.

Chaffetz responded:

I met with AG Sessions to get the Fast &

Furious documents. He said NO and
decided to let it continue to play out in
court. Frustrating and disappointing to say
the least. @realDonaldTrump
#FastAndFurious

On Saturday, Kent Terry, brother of murdered border

patrol agent Brian Terry pleaded with President Trump to
reopen Obama’s criminal gun running scandal.

Kent Terry tweeted:

#FastAndFurious @realDonaldTrump Sir

it’s been 7 yrs .my family ask you reopen
Obama’s gun scandal that cost my brother
his life..I talk to you back on the campaign
trail here in Michigan and you offered to
reopen the books into this senseless As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, on December
scandal .thank you.God bless 14, 2010 Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was gunned
down in Peck Canyon along the Mexican border by
Mexican drug cartel.

The gun used to kill Terry was supplied by Eric Holder’s

Operation Fast and Furious while Terry was forced to
defend himself with bean bags.
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Holder’s Fast and Furious is responsible for over 200
murders including the death of a Mexican police chief Luis
Lucio Rosales Astorga.
After the public and family member of Agent Brian Terry
demanded answers from the Obama administration, in
2011 the courts decided to seal the records detailing his
death. Agent Terry’s family then filed a $25 million
lawsuit against the ATF for wrongdoing.
On June 29th, 2012, the GOP-led House voted to hold
then-Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of
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Congress for failing to provide answers on Operation Fast
and Furious.
Since Holder’s DOJ employees refused to prosecute their
boss, it is time for Trump’s DOJ to reopen the Fast and
Furious investigation.
Calls for Sessions to resign are growing.
Lou Dobbs and Judge Pirro both hammered Sessions this
week calling for his resignation and harshly criticizing him
for his inaction to prosecute in the face of overwhelming
criminal activity by Obama’s DOJ and FBI.
 Huckabee: Nobody Would Know Better
Than Hillary That The Russians Are Still Coming
By Trent Baker
3 Mar 2018

Huckabee said that nobody would know that the Russians

are coming better than Hillary Clinton because she is the
one who colluded with them in the 2016 election.
During a Saturday appearance on Fox News Channel’s
“Justice,” former Arkansas Governor Mike
“[W]hen Hillary says the Russians are
Huckabee reacted to former Secretary of State Hillary
coming, nobody would know that better
Clinton tweeting this week that
than her,” said Huckabee. “She’s the one
that’s colluded with them. She’s the one
“the Russians are still coming.” who sold them the uranium. It was her,
I say this as a former Secretary of State judge, that after all, paid those lawyers a
and as an American: the Russians are still bunch of money at Fusion GPS so that
coming. Our intelligence professionals are they could make up a phony dossier. Of
imploring Trump to act. Will he continue to course, she knows about the Russians
ignore & surrender, or protect our coming. They’re coming for her. And right
country?https://t.co/Z6uaSCgdF6 after they come, the little men in the white
coats are going to come, and they’ll pick
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)
her up and retrieve her from the woods
February 28, 2018
near Chappaqua.”
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 Trump Collusion With Russia?
By Stephen Lendman (Stephenlendman.Org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
March 3rd, 2018
Not shred of credible evidence suggests it – nothing
despite months of investigation and millions of dollars
spent, trying to link him and/or his team to Russia.
I’ll repeat what I’ve said many times. Russiagate witch-
hunt investigations are a colossal hoax, a scheme to invent
illegal or improper behavior – aiming to remove Trump
from office, a thinly veiled coup d’etat attempt.
Law Professor Jonathan Turley put it this way:
“After more than a year of intensive
investigation by both the special counsel
and multiple congressional committees,
there is no direct evidence of Trump
colluding with Russians.”
“After roughly 100 criminal counts against
19 defendants and five plea deals with
cooperating witnesses, there is no direct
evidence.”
“After dozens of pages of ‘speaking
indictments’ by Robert Mueller (claiming)
Russian operatives tr(ied) to influence the
election and false statements from former
Trump aides, there is no direct evidence.”
There’s nothing because there’s nothing to find. “It takes
willful blindness not to acknowledge either the lack of
direct evidence of collusion or the implausibility of many
of the theories abounding on cable news programs,” Turley
added.
Clear evidence of extensive Russiagate FISA abuses exists
– FISA court warrants gotten solely because of fabricated
claims in Christopher Steele’s doggy dossier, financed by
Hillary and the DNC.
Without it, they’d be no special counsel investigation – at
most utterly weak and disreputable allegations of improper
or illegal Trump dealings with Russia.
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On Wednesday, he criticized Attorney General Jeff
Sessions for failure to appoint a special prosecutor to
investigate unjustifiably obtained FISA court warrants.
In requesting them, the FBI under former director James
Comey failed to disclose Hillary and DNC funding of
Steele’s dossier, a scheme to delegitimize Trump.
Separately by letter to AG Sessions, House Intelligence
Committee chairman Devin Nunes demanded a Justice
Department investigation of FBI abuses, clear violations of
its protocols, likely criminality under federal law, Nunes
saying:
“(P)resentation of false and/or misleading
unverified information to the (FISA court)
could entail violations of the following
criminal statutes:
• 18 USC 242
• 50 USC 1809
• conspiracy
• obstruction of justice
• contempt of court”
Obtaining FISA court warrants without credible
justification clearly crosses the line to wrongdoing.
Nunes asked “what steps (have) the DOJ
and FBI taken to hold accountable those
officials who violated (FBI) protocols?”
He requested a DOJ response to the House Intelligence
Committee no later than March 8.
Nunes deserves credit for exposing the Russiagate hoax.
Will Trump’s Justice Department hold former and current
high-level DOJ and FBI officials accountable for
wrongdoing?
Not so far!
 Eric Holder Predicts Mueller
Already Has Charges Prepared Against Trump
Chris White - Energy Reporter
5:13 PM 03/03/2018

“You cannot charge a president with

obstruction of justice for exercising his
constitutional power to fire Comey and
his constitutional authority to tell the
Justice Department who to investigate,
who not to investigate,” Harvard Law
professor Alan Dershowitz said last
year.

Trump has recently chided Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Former Attorney General Eric Holder believes special for going out of his way to ensure the investigation into
counsel Robert Mueller already has plans to charge collusion lingered in the public. The president even
President Donald Trump with obstructing justice. suggested at one time that Holder defended Obama from
accusations of wrong-doing.
Mueller is holding back on charging Trump until he can
make sure he has the president dead-to-rights, Holder, who Holder pushed back against Trump’s characterization of
served under former President Barack Obama, said Friday his role as AG.
night on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” He has
made similar arguments in the past regarding Trump’s
“The difference between me and Jeff
behavior.
Sessions is that I had a president I didn’t
have to protect,” he told Maher,
“I’ve known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years;
my guess is he’s just trying to make the
adding that Sessions should consider stepping down to
case as good as he possibly can. So, I
avoid taking any more barbs from his boss.
think that we have to be patient in that
regard,”
“At some point, though, you would hope
that you would have the intestinal fortitude
Holder said. He has long-suggested that Trump should be
or the pride to simply say, you know, ‘I
held criminally liable for ousting former FBI Director
wanted this job all my life, but it’s not worth
James Comey during the midst of an investigation into
it, and I’m not going to take that kind of
Russian meddling.
abuse, and I’m simply going to tell you, you
know, go screw yourself, and I’m out,'”
Some of Trump’s supporters argue that the U.S. Holder said.
Constitution gives the president authority to fire the FBI
director at any time and for any reason.

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 Justice Department Quietly Investigating ‘Illegal Leak’ Of
Gen. Michael Flynn’s Phone Calls
By Joshua Caplan
March 3, 2018, 5:34 Pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently
told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo
that the Justice Department is
investigating the ‘illegal leak’ of former
National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn’s telephone calls.
Breitbart News reports:
Asked specifically by Fox News anchor
Maria Bartiromo if his office was
investigating the leak, he responded: “That
is a violation of the law, to leak classified
documents, and it is being investigated.”
Those comments were overshadowed by
his remarks that alleged FBI abuse of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were
being investigated. Sessions later said it
was actually the Justice Department
Inspector General investigating that matter,
not DOJ prosecutors, prompting a strong
rebuke from President Trump earlier this
week.
However, it appears that the Flynn leak is
being handled by the Justice Department.
Breitbart News asked Justice Department
Press Secretary Sarah Isgur Flores about
Sessions’ comments and whether the leak
is being investigated by the DOJ or the
DOJ IG. Flores indicated the former. […]
In December 2016, Flynn, then the incoming national
security adviser, spoke with U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Sergei Kislyak via phone, to discuss sanctions the Obama
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administration had just enacted on Moscow, in response to
election interference.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, then-FBI
Director James Comey told lawmakers last year that
bureau agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that
the ex-Trump official had lied to them.
The FBI’s Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok blindsided
Flynn on January 24, 2017, with an unannounced
questioning of the Trump official. Typically, a lawyer for
the National Security Council would be informed of such a
meeting and be present for it. The unannounced meeting
took Flynn by surprise.
Flynn was later charged by special counsel Robert Mueller
for allegedlying making false statements to the FBI.
With each passing day, more evidence suggests the
indictment of 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, 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
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.
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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.
According to veteran political operative and Infowars
correspondent, Roger Stone, lawyers for Flynn
are preparing legal action to have all charges against him
dropped.
 ABC Hack Desperately Tries To Get Dolly Parton
To Label Trump A Sexist… Dolly Declines (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 3, 2018, 5:42 Pm

The liberal media hates Trump. sexism. Talking to the entertainer about her role in the
iconic film 9 to 5, Wright played a clip of Jane Fonda
This is nothing new.
deriding her character’s boss as a “sexist, egotistical, lying,
hypocritical bigot.”
And they want everyone to agree with their far left identity
politics.
Wright sneered,
ABC hack David Wright tried to lure
superstar Dolly Parton into their hate “The sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical
club this week. portrayed so effectively in that movie by
actor Dabney Coleman hasn’t exactly
Wright prodded Dolly to denounce disappeared from the culture. We have a
President Trump. president of the United States who said the
She declined. things on that bus.”

Accusations of sexual harassment and abuse certainly have

surrounded Donald Trump. But they’ve also been plagued
Bill Clinton for decades. Somehow, his name never came
up as one of Wright’s examples. Parton shut the journalist
down, refusing to get political:

I’m not addressing that. I do not get into

that. Of course I have my opinion about
everybody and everything. But I learned a
long time ago, keep your damn mouth shut
if you want to stay in show business. I’m
not in politics. I am an entertainer.
NewsBusters reported:
The ABC correspondent whined,
Nightline correspondent David Wright on Thursday night
desperately attempted to get actress and singer Dolly
Parton to label Donald Trump as the face of 21st century “And yet you’re also a role model.”
.

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 NYT: Robert Mueller Now Investigating
Whether Advisor To UAE Is Influencing US Policy
By Cristina Laila
March 3, 2018, 9:05 Pm
Mueller is on the march.
A new piece by the New York Times claims Robert
Mueller is broadening his investigation yet again.
The Special Counsel is now investigating whether an
advisor to the United Arab Emirates, George Nader, is
influencing U.S. policy.
The New York Times reported:
George Nader, a Lebanese-American
businessman, has hovered on the fringes
of international diplomacy for three
decades. He was a back-channel
negotiator with Syria during the Clinton
administration, reinvented himself as an
adviser to the de facto ruler of the United
Arab Emirates, and last year was a
frequent visitor to President Trump’s White
House.
Mr. Nader is now a focus of the investigation by Robert S.
Mueller III, the special counsel. In recent weeks, Mr.
Mueller’s investigators have questioned Mr. Nader and
have pressed witnesses for information about any possible
attempts by the Emiratis to buy political influence by
directing money to support Mr. Trump during the
presidential campaign, according to people with
knowledge of the discussions.
The investigators have also asked about Mr. Nader’s role
in White House policymaking, those people said,
suggesting that the special counsel investigation has
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broadened beyond Russian election meddling to include
Emirati influence on the Trump administration. The focus
on Mr. Nader could also prompt an examination of how
money from multiple countries has flowed through and
influenced Washington during the Trump era.
President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton reacted to the NY
Times article,
“Shut it down.”
Robert Mueller is out of control. He has nothing on
President Trump so he continues to rove around with
infinite resources.
Mueller recently rolled out a 37-page indictment
implicating 13 Russian nationals which was one big fat
nothingburger.
Following the indictment, 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.
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.
It is way past time to shut down Mueller and his team of
liberal hacks and open an investigation into Mueller,
Rosenstein and the other crooked officials from Obama’s
DOJ and FBI.
 TRUMP At Gridiron Media Dinner:
“This Might Be The Most Fun I’ve Had Since Watching
Your Faces On Election Night”
By Jim Hoft
March 4, 2018, 12:29 Am

President Donald Trump killed it tonight Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
at the annual media’s Gridiron Dinner. attended the annual dinner tonight.

The event was closed to cameras- It was a media dinner(?)

But at least one person took a picture of the president.

(Daily Mail)

Trump addressed the crowd and did not hold back. He told
the media elites he and The New York Times are both New
York City icons —

“the only difference is I still own my

buildings.”

Having turned down press dinners last year,

Trump told journalists who belong to

the Gridiron Club that he wanted to
come this year and “ruin your evening
in person.”

President Trump closed by saying:

“I just want to say this, this is one of the

best times I’ve had with the media — this
might be the most fun I’ve had since
watching your faces on election night.”
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This Is What The Media Is Hiding Behind The Distractions
- Major Developments On FISA Abuse Scandal Emerge
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
March 4, 2018
While the direct attacks against Americans' constitutional
rights, from gun-grabbers attempting to violate the Second
Amendment and Internet social media giants and
Google/YouTube actively attacking our First Amendment
right of free speech, are both critical issues, there is also
some very big news on another front that should not be
ignored.
ANP readers have noted that recent events has knocked
this growing scandal off the front pages of the major
newspapers, buried beneath an avalanche of other issues,
many of which more important to the MSM than to
ordinary, everyday Americans.
DOJ INVESTIGATION INTO FISA ABUSE
SCANDAL
Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that
the DOJ would be investigating potential Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the Obama
administration, specifically in relation to charges that
information contained in the unverified, Kremlin sourced,
Steele dossier was used to obtain FISA warrants to surveil
Trump campaign team members.
The reaction to the announcement, especially that it would
be the DOJ Inspector General that would be spearheading
the investigation, has been mixed, with President Trump
stating
"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
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massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has
no prosecutorial power and already late
with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an
Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"
On the flip side of the coin, House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes, publicly came out in favor of the
Inspector General's help in investigating wrongdoing by
top FBI and DOJ officials during Barack Obama's
presidency. Nunes stated
"I welcome anybody to help come
investigate because so far it's only the
House Intelligence Committee Republicans
who are actually doing anything to get to
the bottom of who was colluding with
Russia.
In a letter sent to Attorney General Jeff
Sessions on Thursday, Nunes wrote that
the apparent use of the controversial
"Trump dossier" to make the case for
spying on Page suggests a "clear violation"
of FBI protocols because it contained
unverified information and such a breach of
protocol may have violated five criminal
statutes, including conspiracy, obstruction
of justice, and contempt of court. He asked
Sessions to answer questions about DOJ
protocol and any actions performed to "hold
accountable those officials who violated
these protocols," and asked for an answer
next week. (Source)
Nunes did not stop there as he then claimed there is "clear
evidence" that it was Democrats that actively colluded
with Russia.
Both men are correct.
President Trump is correct that the DOJ Office of
Inspector General report of IG Michael Horowitz's year-
long plus investigation into the FBI/DOJ actions in regards
to the Hillary Clinton private server, classified email
scandal, has not been issued yet. He is also correct that
Hororwitz is an Obama nominee, but considering
Horowitz's history in battling the Obama administration
since the day he was confirmed to the position, just to
discover that Obama's AG, Eric Holder, had effectively
neutered his ability to investigate the agencies it was his
job to expose mismanagement and wrongdoing within, he
may just be the perfect man for the job.
Director Andrew McCabe improperly leaked information
to the press and deliberately misled DOJ-IG investigators.
Those are just a few examples of what the IG has exposed,
even before his final report has been released.
Multiple agencies have told Congress, repeatedly, that they
would be determining what, if any, charges to bring up
against the senior level FBI/DOJ officials who have been
exposed, based on the final IG report.

We have had our reservations about some of AG Sessions'

decisions and actions as many Trump supporters do, but in
this matter, handing the investigatorial process over to the
IG, rather than asking DOJ officials to investigate their
own department, may be the only way to offer any type of
confidence in the integrity of the new investigation into
FISA abuses, which implicates members of multiple
intelligence agencies, including the DOJ itself.

Horowitz won that war against the Obama administration, Below Hannity discusses some of the newer developments
which some claimed was a battle for independence and his in the FISA abuse scandal.
ability to do his job without being hindered by agencies
refusing to provide the documentation he needed to
investigate them, with the passage of the Inspector General
Empowerment Act of 2016.

Read more about his 4 year-plus battle with the Obama

administration.

President Trump is also correct that Horowitz has no

prosecutorial power, but Nunes has it right as well, as
Hororwitz has already shown he is more than willing to
dig deeply and expose wrongdoing, seemingly without
regard to politics, as some of the senior FBI and DOJ
officials that have been exposed, was a direct result of
Hororwitz's investigation. Those include, but are not
limited to; Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie's association and
collusion with Fusion GPS, who hired Steele to create the
On March 1, 2018 House Intelligence Committee
dossier that was used by the FBI to obtain the FISA
Chairman Devin Nunes sent a letter to AG Sessions, and
warrant. That dossier was funded in part by the Hillary
copied in IG Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher
Clinton campaign and the DNC, but the FISA application
Wray, detailing the FISA abuses, as well as possible FBI
never informed the FISA court of the Hillary Clinton/DNC
violation of specific criminal federal statutes, including
funding.
conspiracy, obstruction of justice, contempt of court, 18
U.S. Code § 242 (Deprivation of rights under color of
Horowitz's ongoing investigation is also what exposed FBI law), and 50 U.S. Code § 1809 (Criminal Sanctions).
senior agent Peter Strzok's texts with his lover, FBI lawyer
Lisa Page. Those texts showed plotting to help Hillary BOTTOM LINE
Clinton avoid charges and changing the wording of the
exoneration statement made by former FBI director James The media has relegated the FISA abuses conducted
Comey. Those texts also exposed Strzok and Page as being during the Obama administration to the back-burner, and
leakers to the MSM, and creating an "insurance policy" with attacks against Americans' constitutional rights
(The Russia investigation) in the event that Donald Trump coming from every direction, there has been no shortage of
won the 2016 election. updates on those issues by Independent Media, but the new
developments in the FISA abuse scandal which implicate a
It has recently been reported that the IG's investigation and number of former and possibly current intelligence
upcoming report will also show that former FBI Deputy community senior members, is a topic everyone should be
watching carefully as well.
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While we share readers, and President Trump's frustration growing FISA abuse scandal and the DOJ investigation
over how long these investigations have taken, we do feel into those abuses. LANGUAGE ALERT.
it is only fair to point out that the Office of Inspector
General fought with the Obama administration for over
four years to obtain his right to simply do his job, and the
Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016 passed by
Congress, was not signed until December 2016, and within
one month, his investigation into the FBI/DOJ wrongdoing
regarding the Clinton investigation began.

In other words, Obama's politicized intelligence agencies

had nearly five years to run rampant and unchecked, so
Horowitz has quite a bit to catch up in regards to oversight
and investigating.

Below, liberal comedian Bill Maher, highlights some of

the "news" that the media found more important than the

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 Rep. Trey Gowdy Warns Second Special Counsel
‘May Be Unavoidable’ To Probe FISA Abuse (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 4, 2018, 12:55 Pm
In an interview with Fox News’ Maria
Bartiromo Sunday, outgoing Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) said that he believes the
appointment of a second special
counsel, tasked with probing
widespread FISA abuse, ‘may be
unavoidable.’
Partial transcript via Daily Caller:
“You know, Maria, this Democrat memo
makes me smile. If it were up to Adam
Schiff, if it were up to him it would
have been a haiku, and not a memo
because he did everything he could to keep
us from finding out any of the information
that was in either one of those memos,” he
said.
“So Congress has proven itself incapable
of investigating this FISA abuse. DOJ
should not be looking into it. We need an
independent arbiter that’s either
the inspector general or special counsel.”
[…]
“You need an independent arbiter, and the
Department of Justice cannot investigate
itself. Horowitz can– Horowitz is a fair guy,
but when there are two dozen witnesses
that have left the department or worked for
another agency, someone else has to do it
and I am reluctant to call for special
counsel, but I think it may be unavoidable
in this fact pattern.”
Gowdy’s colleagues, such as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL),
believe the appointment of a second special counsel is a
foregone conclusion.
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Joining Judge Jeanine Pirro on “Hannity” Friday evening,
Gaetz urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to get rid of
his ‘dereliction of duty’ mindset and appoint a second
special counsel — or resign immediately.
GAETZ:
“If Jeff Sessions does not appoint a second
special counsel, then we need a new
Attorney General, Judge. You are
absolutely right. Even if we learn more
horrifying things from the Inspector
General, we can’t actually
prosecute somebody for those things
because we would need somebody to be
able to bring that case and the Department
of Justice and FBI obviously won’t be
bringing a case against themselves. So Jeff
Sessions needs to get rid of this mindset
that is a dereliction of duty and he needs to
do what Congress has called for and
appoint a second special counsel to get to
the bottom of this.”
Earlier this month, Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told
reporters on Air Force One that President Trump’s lawyers
have approved the idea of appointing a second special
counsel to investigate the FBI and DOJ’s actions during
the 2016 Presidential election, reported Axios.
 Devin Nunes Drops The BOMB:
‘There Is CLEAR Evidence Of Collusion’ But….
Posted On March 4, 2018
(National Sentinel) On Target: House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes criticized the legacy
media for failing to adequately cover what he and
Republicans on the committee say is a scandal of
gargantuan proportion: Obama-era spying on the campaign
of President Donald J. Trump.
During an interview with Fox Business‘ Neil Cavuto,
Nunes, California Republican, said most of the
Washington media isn’t interested in the story because it
involves favored political figures.
Nunes told Cavuto he favors more investigators into
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court abuses
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laid out in his “FISA memo” that he released last month.
He also said he is glad the Inspector General is getting
involved.
“We have a media that pretty much refuses
to cover this issue at all. We have serious
abuses that occurred in the FISA court
against the Trump campaign,” Nunes said.
“We continue to get facts. We will bring
those facts forward as we see them.”
And he also said that the committee has found clear
evidence of collusion between Russia and a 2016
presidential campaign: Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“I welcome anybody to come help
investigate because so far it’s only the
House Intelligence Committee Republicans
who are actually doing anything to get to
the bottom of who was colluding with
Russia,” he said.
“The more we peel this back, we have clear
evidence of collusion but it’s not between
the Trump campaign, it’s between the
Democratic party and the Hillary campaign
and the Russians.”
 Richard Grenell Drops Truth Bomb After Ben Rhodes
Foolishly Slams President Trump’s Foreign Policy
By Joshua Caplan
March 4, 2018, 2:47 Pm

Richard Grenell, President Trump’s pick

for U.S. Ambassador to Germany,
dropped a truth bomb after Ben Rhodes
slammed the Trump White House’s
foreign policy.

Grenell showed Rhodes who’s boss after he praised Colin

Kahl’s thread warning against Trump’s ‘militarization of
US policy.’

Kahl was the former National Security Advisor to Vice

President Joe Biden.

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 dismissing diplomacy, Trump is militarizing
foreign policy and risking more wars.”

That’s when Richard Grenell shredded

team Obama’s foreign policy with one
simple tweet.
“Fact: Team Obama’s style of diplomacy
helped turn Syria into a genocide, allowed
DPRK to launch 16 missile tests in 2017 &
gave Iran a plane full of cash.”

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported this

week, Sarah Huckabee Sanders highlighted Richard
Grenell who is the Trump nominee for Ambassador to
Germany. Grenell has been waiting for months for his
confirmation by the US Senate.

Praising the thread, Rhodes tweeted,

“By escalating conflicts, hollowing out

State, pulling out of agreements, alienating
allies who could share burdens, and

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
Half of President Trump’s nominees are
still waiting for confirmation in the Senate.
The obstruction is so out of control even
some senate Democrats believe it’s
inappropriate. Senator Amy Klobacher, a
senator from Minnesota, said,
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“I don’t believe we should be holding
nominees hostage. Enough is enough.”
We need people who are qualified to fill
these important positions in our
government. in the coming days we will be
highlighting specific nominees who as the
senator said, are being held hostage by
Senator Schumer.
Take for instance, Ric Grenell, the president’s nominee to
serve as the ambassador to Germany. Mr. Grenell, a
Harvard educated experienced diplomat was the longest
serving US spokesperson at the United Nations. He was
nominated last year. He was reported out of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee with bi-partisan support. He
is waiting to represent America’s interests and be our
country’s top voice in a G7 country. In short Senator
Schumer’s hyper-political delay on Mr. Grenell puts our
national security and America’s foreign policy in jeopardy.
We need all conservatives to start pressuring Mitch
McConnell to do his job. The White House just said
“confirm Ric”. What is Mitch waiting for?
He can call the vote anytime. He doesn’t do it because he
is required to use 30 hrs of floor debate In order to force a
vote. But he should do it.
Dems can’t stop a vote from being scheduled. It’s time for
McConnell to get to work.
GOP Rep: POTUS And His Family Are Being Put Through
Hell For Winning An Election – There’s No Evidence They
Committed Any Crime (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
March 4, 2018, 4:13 Pm

Thank God for upstanding GOP Reps.

such as Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Ron
DeSantis (R-FL) and Devin Nunes (R-
CA) fighting in President Trump’s
corner as the Deep State bureaucracy
hunts the First Family down for the
‘crime’ of winning the 2016 election.

Rep Zeldin and Rep DeSantis also appeared on Fox News

Saturday evening to discuss the witch hunt of President
Trump with Judge Pirro.

Judge Pirro is furious a special counsel is investigating

Earlier this week, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a letter to
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to
appoint a Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuses and
how/why Hillary’s probe ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
Zeldin’s letter came after Sessions told reporters he would
have IG Horowitz investigate the FISA abuses. We need a
special counsel; the Inspector General does not have
prosecutorial power.
At the time of this publication, thirteen GOP Reps. have
signed Zeldin’s letter.
President Trump while Obama’s corrupt DOJ and FBI
officials who misled a FISA court to spy on Trump’s camp
are freely walking around and still employed!
“While the president’s hand was on the
Bible taking the oath of office the inaugural
parade route was full of people calling for
his impeachment right away…they’re
putting the president and his family though
hell with no evidence of any crime,” Zeldin
said.
VIDEO:

On Sunday, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said from his Twitter

account,

“.@realDonaldTrump & family being

investigated for winning election w/no
evidence they committed any crime to win
the election. Sick, crazy & wrong!”

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is out of

control.

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In January, it was reported Mueller was investigating
Ivanka Trump for saying hello to Russians in an elevator
lobby.
Donald Trump Jr. has been harassed because of leaker
Adam Schiff running off to CNN with leaks of Don Jr.’s
closed-door House Intel testimony.
President Trump has been on the receiving end of non-stop
lies from the Democrat mouthpieces AKA the mainstream
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media about his so-called ‘Russian collusion’ to win the
election.
The Russia witch hunt is unconstitutional. The special
counsel hasn’t even named the crime Trump has
committed.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton used a phony Russia dossier to
spy on her political opponent with illegally obtained FISA
warrants with the help of Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe,
Yates and others.
 Here Is Robert Mueller’s Hit List
And What He’s Asking For
By Cristina Laila
March 4, 2018, 5:15 Pm

Axios reviewed a Grand Jury subpoena 8. Rick Gates

that Mueller’s team sent a witness
recently; it revealed the special
counsel’s hit list and what the team of
liberal hack lawyers is asking for.
9. Roger Stone
10. Steve Bannon
The subpoena asks for all communications from November
1, 2015, to the present. Notably, Trump announced his
campaign for president five months earlier — on June 16,
2015.

Not only is Mueller’s witch hunt a way to delegitimize

President Trump and a way to recommend impeachment
charges, it’s also one big oppo research campaign.

Mueller and his team of Obama/Hillary donors are able to

peek into the underbelly of how Trump won the 2016
election by reviewing all of their communications.

Americans are watching in horror as an innocent president

and his family are put through hell for the ‘crime’ of
Here is what Mueller is asking for according to a report by winning the election.
Jonathan Swan of Axios:
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton actually committed multiple
Mueller is subpoenaing all communications crimes during the election including using a fraudulent
— meaning emails, texts, handwritten dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on her political
notes, etc. — that this witness sent and opponent.
received regarding the following people:
Why aren’t investigators issuing subpoenas to Hillary
1. Carter Page Clinton and her cronies for their emails, texts and
2. Corey Lewandowski handwritten notes?
3. Donald J. Trump
4. Hope Hicks Mueller is out of control and must be shut down. After
5. Keith Schiller Mueller’s witch hunt is shut down, he should be
6. Michael Cohen investigated by a special counsel.
7. Paul Manafort
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 President Trump’s Debt Increase Is Half Obama’s Debt
Increase At Same Time In Their Respective Presidencies
By Jim Hoft
March 5, 2018, 7:44 Am
In spite of the fact that President Trump
took over with nearly $20 trillion of debt
and the related interest payments on the
debt, and in spite of the Federal Reserve
(FED) increasing interest rates by a full
one percent since the 2016 election,
President Donald Trump’s debt is half
that of Obama’s.
The US Debt since President Trump was inaugurated on
January 20th, 2016 through March 1, 2018, increased
by $927 billion. On inauguration day the debt was at $19.9
trillion and on March 1, 2018 the debt stood at $20.8
trillion.
Although $927 billion is a lot of money
added to the debt, it is half of what
President Obama added during the
same time frame in his first year plus in
office.
Where President Trump increased the
Debt to date by only 4.6% , Obama
increased the debt by 17.7% or 13.1%
more than President Trump.
President Obama inherited a US Debt amount of $10.6
trillion on his inauguration and increased it by almost $1.9
trillion by March 1, 2010.
Obama increased the US Debt amount
by $954 billion more than President
Trump in the same respective time in
office. In addition, President Trump has
been able to limit the amount of new
debt in spite of the massive increase in
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debt from Obama ($10 trillion) and the
rising interest rates initiated by the Fed.
Right after Barack Obama was elected President, on
December 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed)
lowered the Fed Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1%
down to 0% . The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate
by such a large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if
ever. The Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight
years in office.
CNBC reported in December 2015 that
President Obama oversaw “seven years
of the most accommodative monetary
policy in U.S. history” (from the Fed).
The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time
in office. Finally, in December 2015 the Fed announced its
first increase in the Fed Funds rate during the Obama
Presidency.
The only Fed Funds Rate increases since 2015 were after
President Trump was elected President. The Fed increased
the Fed Funds Rate on December 14, 2016, March 15th,
2017, June 14, 2017 and again on December 13, 2017.
Four times the Fed has increased rates
on President Trump after doing so only
once on President Obama late in his 2nd
term.
Increases in the Fed Funds Rate increase the cost of
borrowing. With $20 trillion in debt, a 1% increase in
interest payments equals $200 billion in annual interest
payment increases.
President Obama benefited from the lowest possible
interest rates possible for most of his eight years and in
spite of this, nearly doubled the US Debt from $10 trillion
to nearly $20 trillion.
The MSM won’t tell you but President
Trump has increased the US debt by
half of that of Obama in their first few
months in office. As a result America is
moving in the right direction for the first
time in at least a decade.
 'Get Back In the Woods': Pirro Blasts Hillary for Claiming
Trump Is Blind to Russian Threat
March 5, 2018

She said Clinton couldn't even know for sure if Trump is

not acting against the Russian threat, saying the 2016
Democratic candidate no longer has the security clearance
to know such things.

In her tweet, Clinton linked to a story about NSA Director

Adm. Mike Rogers, and Pirro said Rogers confirmed that
Trump is indeed taking defensive steps against Russian
interference.

Pirro said Clinton was being hypocritical because she and

her husband allegedly sold a sizable stake in American
In her Opening Statement, Judge Jeanine Pirro criticized Uranium to Russians.
Hillary Clinton for attacking President Trump on Twitter.

Clinton said "the Russians are still coming"

and that Trump appears to be doing
nothing about that while "intelligence
professionals are imploring [him] to act."

She added that Clinton also stood by as then-President

Obama was caught telling then-Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev that he will be "more flexible" to Vladimir
Putin's demands after "my last election [in 2012]."

"Who do you think you're kidding? Unlike

you and Bill, Donald Trump can't be
bought," Pirro said, referring explicitly to a
"Will he continue to ignore and surrender - large payment the Clinton administration
or protect our country?" Clinton asked. made to the North Korean regime of Kim
Jong Il.
Pirro said Clinton was showing rank hypocrisy with the
statement, calling the former first lady "even dumber than I
thought."
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Email Encryption Pioneer: Why The FBI’s Secret Warrant
To Spy On Carter Page Should Scare All Americans
By Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 10:14 Am
As laid out in the Nunes memo, the
Justice Department was granted a FISA
warrant to surveil former Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page during
the 2016 presidential election. The initial
application, along with the extension,
relied in part, on unverified information
compiled by former British intelligence
agent Christopher Steele.
In a thought-provoking piece for NBC THINK, Ladar
Levison, the founder of the encrypted email service
Lavabit, explains why a
“secret, non-adversarial system of judicial
review is an insufficient check to our
intelligence agencies and law
enforcement.”
Notably, Lavabit was once the email service of choice for
Edward Snowden.
Via NBC THINK
In the case of Carter Page, his private life
was monitored, for almost a year, without
his knowledge, and then placed on
display for strangers at the FBI to peruse,
all based on a suspicion that he was
colluding with Russia. […] And yet, Page
was never officially charged — suggesting
that, even given the ability to surveil him in
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ways that might make the general public
cringe, the FBI was never able to find
enough evidence for a single crime.
It has become clear that a secret, non-adversarial system of
judicial review is an insufficient check to our intelligence
agencies and law enforcement.
When express disagreement on a
foreign policy issue — namely the
current sanctions against Russia —
form even part of the basis of an
allegation which meets the bar for a
probable cause warrant, there is
something terribly wrong with the
current system. […]
To date, the FBI and the FISC have
failed to justify their surveillance of
Carter Page. The Sixth Amendment
guarantees the right of the accused to face
their accuser, particularly when a court, like
the FISC, has affirmed the accusation by
granting a probable cause warrant. […]
These documents also tell us the FISC
routinely includes authorization in their
warrants for the government to surveil
people in contact with their target, and
people in contact with the contact; in a
scheme referred to as “chaining,” these
authorizations will include 2 or 3
“hops.”
Here’s the latest on Page…
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported,
Fox News contributor Sarah Carter recently revealed to
host Sean Hannity that the Department of Justice ignored
Congressional requests to turn over the transcripts of the
FISA court hearings on Carter Page.
CARTER: The Department of Justice can
easily give you the same documents that
we have. This has never been requested
before by the FISA Court. So this is a new
thing for them. They have to review
everything, decide whether or not they can
hand over these documents. But she said
 that the court would not reject to the fact
that the Department of Justice can hand
them over. Well, I confirm tonight that
Nunes and Goodlatte did request those
documents from the Department of Justice
and the Department of Justice never
responded to them.

Credit: Hannity
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 CNN Panelist Condemns President Trump
For 'Expressing Admiration For An Authoritarian'
By Ryan Foley
March 5, 2018 10:29 AM EST
During an appearance on CNN's New Day Monday
morning, panelist John Avlon said that President Trump's
joke suggesting that he should try becoming President for
life like China's Xi Jinping proved that he was "expressing
admiration for an authoritarian."
In front of a crowd of supporters, President Trump
weighed in on the Chinese Parliament’s decision to end
term limits, saying
“Don’t forget China’s great and Xi is a great
gentleman. He’s now President for life.
President for life. No, he’s great. And look,
he was able to do that. I think it’s great.
Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some
day.”
The media did not see any humor in President Trump’s
comments. According to CNN political analyst John
Avlon,
“You can deliver it like Shecky Greene but
it’s still expressing admiration for an
authoritarian and this is the biggest story in
the world we’re not talking about.” He went
on to cast President Trump’s actions as
“demeaning to our democracy.”
Speaking of expressing admiration for authoritarians, the
media and the left have repeatedly expressed admiration
for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, the textbook definition of
an authoritarian. While covering President Obama’s visit
to the communist country during his final year in office,
New Day co-host Chris Cuomo wore a shirt given by
Castro to his father, former New York Governor Mario
Cuomo, as a gift. While reporting in Cuba, Cuomo seemed
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to romanticize the idea of the communist regime, arguing
that the intention was to
“truly make everyone equal – not at the
lowest level, not by demoralizing everyone;
but lifting everyone up.”
Half a century into this communist experiment, when will
the media and the left finally admit that it has been a
massive failure? Let’s also not forget about President
Obama’s decision to attend a baseball game with Castro’s
brother, Raul, who took over as Oppressor-in-Chief of the
Cuban people in the wake of his elder sibling’s
deteriorating health. The former President earned himself a
lot of negative publicity as he chose to do “the wave”
while terror struck in Brussels.
While the media hammered President Trump for his
controversial remark, they have routinely given liberals a
pass when they make equally controversial comments.
When President Obama made his infamous “guns and
religion” comments when first running for President nearly
a decade ago, CNN analysts defended the comments as
“factually accurate”, even if they were “inartful.” Panelist
Jack Cafferty even went as far to compare disaffected rust
belt voters to economically insecure “folks like that in the
Middle East” who “go to places like al Qaeda training
camps.” One can never stress enough the left’s distaste for
the folks who live on Main Street, USA.
The media will continue to play up the narrative that a
dangerous dictator lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
CNN New Day
03/05/18
06:16 AM
ERICA HILL: China’s parliament is voting on a measure that
would end term limits, effectively making Xi Jinping President for
life, a position that certainly got the President’s attention here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Don’t forget China’s great and Xi is a great
gentleman. He’s now President for life.
(Laughter and Applause)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: President for life. No, he’s great. And look,
he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give
that a shot some day.
HILL: Let’s bring back now CNN Political Analysts John Avlon
and David Gregory. John Avlon shaking his head at that. You
know, he’s making a joke, John.
JOHN AVLON: You know what, you can deliver it like Shecky
Greene but it’s still expressing admiration for an authoritarian and
this is the biggest story in the world we’re not talking about. The
world’s biggest strategic competitor appointing him leader,
appointing himself, you know, leader for life. And that is a huge
deal for the direction this century is going. And for the President
to joke about it, joke about it admiringly off the record with
supporters, basically, is demeaning to our democracy when the
President of the United States does that. It is not, you can’t
simply write it off as a joke. It’s something a lot trickier. You
know, someone said humor is about that vicinity between
someone’s aspirations and their limitations. If that’s where his
head and heart goes, that’s not a good sign.
CHRIS CUOMO: David Gregory, you be the judge. John Avlon
and I were arguing about this this morning in our capes getting
our makeup, like men. And the, my point was, look, I get it. But
he was joking, as, as Erica introduced this. And is this taking a
joke too far and opening yourself up to criticism of, you know, not
just being a snowflake but, you know giving the President a hard
time where he doesn’t deserve it? You decide.
AVLON: You decide.
DAVID GREGORY: Yeah, I, I mean, I come out a little softer than
John does on this. I think it was a joke.
CUOMO: So I win then? What he’s saying is, I win. Continue.
AVLON: Let the man finish his sentence.
CUOMO: All right, I’m sorry. No, that’s enough. Let’s go to
another topic.
GREGORY: But here...I do, what I do agree with is the idea that
yeah, I mean, he was joking here. We can appreciate that. But
we’ve seen in very serious moments all of this admiration for
strong men and here’s, I think, a larger point. You know, we’ve
seen someone who was better prepared for the job, who had a
stronger team around him, and here I’m talking about President
George W. Bush, who I think history will show misread Putin from
Russia in the beginning and what the consequences of that
were. And what I worry about in Trump is someone who is
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woefully unprepared for the office and comes in making
pronouncements about leaders showing his naivety about them,
that I think can be exploited and I think the relationship with
China is a, is a perfect example right now and I think that’s the
window that we get into here and it could play out in other areas
that are really damaging.
HILL: And well, and picking up on actually points that both of you
made is this, of course, editorial in The New York Times today
that is, that is questioning whether the President has a problem
with democracy and pointing specifically to calling out some of
those leaders as you’re pointing out too, David. But here’s part of
that: “Mr. Trump was surely joking about becoming President for
life himself. But there can be little doubt now that he truly sees no
danger in Mr. Xi’s ‘great’ decision to extend his own rule until
death.” Going on to say, “the craven reaction”, I think, here’s
really why it, where the meat of this lies, “in line with Mr. Trump’s
consistent support and even admiration for men ruling with
increasing brutal and autocratic methods”, and mentions Putin,
mentions Erdogan, Duterte and so when we look at all of that,
there is a question of, yes, this is making a joke. And it’s good
that the President, over the weekend, we know that he’s still
poking fun at himself, as John mentioned earlier. But is there a
broader concern there even in terms of, as the Times brings up,
the President not promoting democracy and its importance in the
way that we have seen from past Presidents.
AVLON: This is not a freedom agenda administration folks.
That’s not on the menu, and, and, you know, if in humor, you’re
telling the truth at the heart of it. Imagine whether Obama would
make this joke, imagine if W would make this joke, or Ronald
Reagan. No, not really. Especially given the fact that China is
moving in this authoritarian direction, especially given the fact
that Trump really seems to admire instinctively these strong men
around the world at a time when the world is moving away from
liberal democracy toward soft authoritarianism. That’s why it’s
serious. That’s why it matters. That’s why you can’t simply
dismiss it as a joke.
GREGORY: No, and I think that John makes an essential point. I
mean, imagine Reagan saying instead of tear down this wall, Mr.
Gorbachev, maybe we’ll build our own wall. Maybe this is a pretty
good idea. He would lose a certain amount of moral authority,
which this President certainly doesn’t have. And I think that’s,
that’s the key point, which is this, again, what we talk about so
often on this program, what’s the role of the Presidency? What is
the role of the President of the United States, no matter who he
or she is, to set an agenda, to speak out for Democratic values?
That’s what’s important and the President undermines that. Both
when he’s serious and when he’s kidding because at this
particular moment is an opportunity to stand up for American
Democratic values, in the face of what China’s doing, not to
make light of it.
 Skipped Again: Revised 4th Quarter
GDP Greeted With Network Silence
By Julia A. Seymour
March 5, 2018 11:20 AM EST
Economic growth updates continue to be minimized or
ignored entirely by ABC, NBC and CBS evening
newscasts.
When the expected revision to 2.5 percent growth during
the fourth-quarter of 2017 was announced February 28,
2018, all three programs failed to inform their viewers.
CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News did have time
to talk about an interview the two British royal couples did
together while ABC's World News Tonight spent time
reporting on the Oscars which were still days away. The
royals also got more coverage than GDP in December.
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The month prior, Evening News also skipped the initial
read of the economic growth rate (2.6 percent), while
World News Tonight and Nightly News spent a total of 30
seconds combined on the story.
Total combined coverage of GDP on
announcement days in 2017 was 91
seconds or 1 minute 31 seconds (World
News Tonight: 26 seconds, Nightly News:
22 seconds, Evening News: 43 seconds).
BEA announcements of economic growth have been
frequently ignored by all three broadcasts. There was zero
time spent on growth estimates on May 26, June 29, Aug.
30, Sept. 28, Oct. 27 and Nov. 29, 2017 — even in some
cases of upward revisions to previously reported figures.
For example, Evening News covered the 2.6 percent initial
estimate of Q2 growth on July 28. But did not cover the
revisions in August or September, even though the final
reading in September was 3.1 percent.
The networks ignored many good economic stories and
downplayed others including stock market record highs,
and good news about the impact of the tax cuts since
Donald Trump became president.
 Nate Silver Throws Cold Water On
Theory That Dems Have The House In 2018
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
11:41 AM 03/05/2018

House, but not particularly heavy ones;

less than Clinton was in Nobember 2016,
and that race was much more competitive
than news accounts implied.”

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential

nominee Hillary Clinton takes the stage during the LA Promise
Fund's Girls Build Leadership summit in Los Angeles, California,
U.S., December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver picked apart a

theory that Democrats have already won the House
majority in 2018, arguing Monday that many pollsters
predicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would
beat President Donald Trump in a landslide in 2016. Silver was referencing an article in Axios with the
headline:
“Seems like people haven’t learned too
much from 2016,” Silver tweeted Monday. “Democrats May Have Already Won The
“Democrats are modest favorites to win the House.”
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 Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows Calls For
Second Special Counsel “It’s Time To
Investigate The Investigators”
By Cristina Lail
March 5, 2018, 11:50 Am

Last week, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a
letter to AWOL Attorney General Jeff
Sessions urging him to appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
Americans deserve to know whether the
previous administration weaponized the
Department of Justice for political
purposes.
The choice is clear: it’s time to investigate the
investigators. It’s time for a second special counsel.

Zeldin’s letter came after Sessions told reporters he would

have IG Horowitz investigate Obama’s FISA abuses. We
need a special counsel; the Inspector General does not
have prosecutorial power.

At the time of this publication, thirteen GOP Reps. have

signed Zeldin’s letter.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) is one

of the lawmakers who signed the letter and Monday he
said, “it’s time to investigate the investigators.”

GOP Reps Lee Zeldin and Ron DeSantis told Judge Pirro
On Monday, Rep. Mark Meadows said what we are all this weekend it is time for a special counsel to investigate
thinking–it’s time to investigate the investigators. They are the Obama’s DOJ, FBI and Hillary Clinton.
corrupt.
Shut down Mueller and investigate his entire team.
Meadows:

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 Mueller Has Already Decided To Charge
Trump With Obstruction, Says Former AG Holder
By JD Heyes
Monday, March 05, 2018
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder says it’s
very likely that special counsel Robert Mueller has already
made a decision to charge President Donald J. Trump with
obstruction of justice over his firing of FBI Director James
Comey — which means that the fix was in all along to
‘get’ Trump.
As reported by The Daily Caller, Holder, in an appearance
on the Alt-Left host Bill Maher’s HBO program Friday,
says that Mueller hasn’t actually charged Trump yet
because he’s holding off until he has him dead to rights.
Holder has made similar statements in the past, The DC
noted.
“I’ve known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years,”
said Holder. “My guess is he’s just trying to
make the case as good as he possibly can.
So I think that we have to be patient in that
regard.”
Holder is one of those Trump haters who has long
suggested that the president should be held criminally
liable for firing Comey during an FBI investigation into
alleged ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ — of which there has
never been any evidence. Indeed, House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said that the
only “Russian collusion” his committee has found is
between Moscow and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
As for Holder’s prediction, real constitutional experts
dispute it outright because it has no legal basis.
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“You cannot charge a president with
obstruction of justice for exercising his
constitutional power to fire Comey and his
constitutional authority to tell the Justice
Department who to investigate, who not to
investigate,” said Harvard Law Prof. Alan
Dershowitz in an interview in December.
In an earlier interview with CNN in May 2017, Dershowitz
said there are are two remedies for those who are outraged
over Trump’s firing of Comey after the president
reportedly pressed Comey to drop his investigation of
Flynn –
“amend the Constitution, [or] don’t vote for
him.”
“But don’t try to expand the existing
criminal law in violation of civil liberties to
do what Stalin did, where [secret police
chief Lavrentiy] Beria said, ‘Show me the
man, I’ll give you the crime,’” Dershowitz
said. “That’s not America.”
As for impeaching Trump, that’s a political solution,
Dershowitz stressed.
However, he added,
“there’s not that much new that would
warrant either an impeachment, certainly
not a criminal prosecution” by Mueller.
And nothing has changed since then — except that
Congress is a lot closer to the truth of what really
happened between an American presidential campaign and
the Russians, and as many suspected, Hillary Clinton’s
fingerprints are all over it.
Still, one other expert believes that Mueller’s ultimate goal
is the impeachment of Trump. Former national security
federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has written that it’s
impossible to claim that Trump ‘obstructed’ the FBI’s
Russian collusion probe because it is a counterintelligence
investigation, not a criminal probe — and
counterintelligence investigations are done specifically to
inform the president of outside threats.
As such, he believes Mueller’s probe all along has been
designed to provide a Democrat-controlled Congress
(should that happen) with a reason to impeach Trump.
(Related: Is Mueller timing release of his findings to
SABOTAGE the GOP and Trump in time for 2018
elections?)
“Since there is no collusion case, we can
safely assume Mueller is primarily
scrutinizing President Trump with an eye
toward making a case of obstructing an FBI
investigation. This also makes sense in
light of the pleas that have been taken,” he
wrote.
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“I continue to believe that this is the real
danger for President Trump: A report by
the special counsel, either through the
grand jury or some other vehicle,
concluding (a) that the president had
obstructed the FBI’s investigation of [former
national security advisor Michael] Flynn
and of Trump-campaign collusion with
Russia, and (b) recommending that the
matter be referred to Congress for
consideration of next steps, potentially
including impeachment and removal,” he
added.
Regardless of whether he’s factually correct or not,
consider Holder’s latest proclamation about the president’s
political future a warning that the Deep State remains
engaged in its operation to deep six his administration.
 Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department For Documents
On Bruce And Nellie Ohr Related To Steele Dossier
By Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 12:04 Pm
Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch
is suing the Justice Department for
records connecting Bruce and Nellie
Ohr to Fusion GPS and the Steele
dossier.
Fox News reports:
The suit was filed Monday, following the
Justice Department’s failure to respond to
Judicial Watch’s December 2017 Freedom
of Information Act requests about the
couple and their connection to research
firm Fusion GPS.
Judicial Watch’s first lawsuit, related to their FOIA
request from Dec. 7, 2017, seeks records of contact or
communications between Ohr, Steele, and Fusion GPS co-
founder Glenn Simpson, along with any other Fusion GPS
employees; calendar entries, and travel requests for Ohr.
The second suit is connected to the group’s Dec. 12, 2017
FOIA request, seeking emails, text messages and chats
between Justice Department officials in the Attorney
General’s office and Nellie Ohr.
Bruce Ohr, who has since been demoted from a top post at
the Justice Department, was a close contact for British ex-
intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who compiled the
dossier on behalf of Fusion GPS.
Recently, experts have begun to ask if Fusion GPS used
Mrs. Ohr to influence top government officials. If the
answer is “no,” then why did the recently demoted Ohr
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hide his wife’s Fusion GPS compensation from ethics
officials?
Daily Caller reports:
Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice
official who brought opposition research on
President Donald Trump to the FBI, did not
disclose that Fusion GPS, which performed
that research at the Democratic National
Committee’s behest, was paying his wife,
and did not obtain a conflict of interest
waiver from his superiors at the Justice
Department, documents obtained by The
Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his
post as associate deputy attorney general after the
relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged
and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting
with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can
carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion
GPS to gather and disseminate damning info about Trump,
and they in turn paid Nellie Ohr, a former CIA employee
with expertise in Russia, for an unknown role related to the
“dossier.” Bruce Ohr then brought the information to the
FBI, kicking off a probe and a media firestorm.
“Payments from Fusion GPS to Bruce
Ohr’s family, funded by the DNC, have the
appearance of a ‘government for hire,’ i.e.
bribing a DOJ official to push the
case,” says the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said more attention
should be paid to Bruce Ohr in relation to the dossier
drama.
“The fact that the Senate Intelligence
Committee is bringing in Bruce Ohr, this
Justice Department official involved with
Fusion GPS and the Clinton dossier, shows
you where the collusion scandal is,” Fitton
told OANN‘s John Hines last December.
 “It’s with the Clinton campaign, the DNC,
the FBI, the Justice Department,” said
Fitton before asking, “how did they use this
dossier?”
“How did they use this dossier? Was
Mueller using this dossier? Was it used to
justify to a court to get warrants to spy on
Trump and his team?”
“That’s the collusion,” added Fitton.
“Bruce Ohr is the first indication that we
have that the Justice Department was Video credit: Judicial Watch
involved in this dossier that’s been so
controversial.” 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
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 “Bigger Than Watergate!”
POTUS Trump Unleashes On Obama And Crooked Hillary
For Illegally Spying On His Campaign
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 12:28 Pm
President Trump brought the pain from
his Twitter account Monday morning.
The president unleashed on Obama’s
criminal administration for investigating
him with “zero proof of wrongdoing” in
an effort to discredit him so Crooked H
could win the election.
Please Mr. President, don’t stop tweeting!
President Trump tweeted,
“Why did the Obama Administration start
an investigation into the Trump Campaign
(with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before
the Election in November? Wanted to
discredit so Crooked H would win.
Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate!
Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian
meddling.”
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President Trump is correct.
This is worse than Watergate, not only because of the
crimes committed by Obama’s admin and Hillary Clinton
but because the victim of the crime is being investigated
rather than the criminals.
Last week, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a
letter to AWOL Attorney General Jeff
Sessions urging him to appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
At the time of this publication, thirteen GOP Reps. have
signed Zeldin’s letter.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) is one
of the lawmakers who signed the letter and Monday he
said,
“it’s time to investigate the investigators.”
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel without
even naming a crime. Even worse, Rosenstein gave him a
broad jurisdiction to go on a fishing expedition.
Mueller and his entire team of liberal hack lawyers needs
to be shut down and a special counsel should unleash fury
on the corrupt investigators who hunted down President
Trump.
 Trump’s Tariffs Said To ‘Fulfill His
Campaign Promises’ To Put ‘America First’
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Defends President's Decision
To Boost U.S. Steel, Aluminum Industries In Bid For Fair Trade Deals
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 05 Mar 2018 At 12:40 PM
President Donald Trump’s new steel and aluminum tariffs
are being imposed because he wants to
“fulfill his campaign promises to the
American people and defend American
workers,”
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on the “Fox
News Sunday” television program.
Director of the White House National Trade Council,
Navarro praised Trump’s decision to impose a 25 percent
tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported
aluminum — an action immediately met with outrage from
U.S. trading partners and concern from U.S. lawmakers.
Navarro, who also advises Trump on trade and industrial
policy, dismissed those worries, however, and emphasized
that Trump defeated his political opponents in the 2016
presidential election because of his “America First”
policies.
“In terms of the Republican Party, let’s
remember this: Donald Trump ran against
16 Republicans. None of those
Republicans supported Donald Trump’s
positions on trade. He beat every one of
them,” he said. “And then Donald Trump
went on [against] a Democratic opponent
who didn’t support his positions on trade,
and he beat [her], too.”
“What Donald Trump wants to do is fulfill
his campaign promises to the American
people and defend American workers,”
Navarro continued. “The reason why the
president is doing this is because if he
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doesn’t do this, we will lose our …
aluminum industry very quickly, and our
steel industry very quickly thereafter.”
The trade adviser said the White House’s mission is “to
defend our steel and aluminum industries so that they
survive.” Noting that the U.S. has been one of the most
pro-free trade nations in the world, Navarro said it is time
for the country to reinvent itself as a pro-fair trade country
that protects U.S. workers and industries above all others.
“We are the free trading-est [sic] nation in
the world. And what do we get for that? We
don’t get fair and reciprocal trade. We get
every year a half-a-trillion-dollar trade
deficit that transfers our wealth to other
countries and basically ‘offshores’ our jobs
and our factories,” Navarro said. “And all
we are asking for is fair and reciprocal
trade.”
“All the president is doing — he’s been
saying this for two years now, actually for
20 … America first. We want [a] fair deal.
We want reciprocal trade.”
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace
pointed to concerns among American
lawmakers in both parties that the
proposed tariffs would raise prices on
products for American consumers. Navarro
insisted that the "downstream price effects
on our industries" due to the tariffs would
be "insignificant."
 "And the mission here is to preserve our "What I love about this president is he
steel and aluminum industries for national listens to all points of view, both within his
security and economic security," Navarro government and outside, and then he
said. makes the tough decisions."
"And in this case, he made the decision to
When asked if some of the United States' key allies would go with 25 percent tariffs on steel, 10
be exempt from the tariffs, Navarro said he expects no percent on aluminum, across the board
exceptions. with no country exclusions," he said. "This
is a measured, targeted approach."
"As soon as [Trump] starts exempting
countries, he has to raise the tariffs on
everybody else," he said. "What we need to
do here is keep the rhetoric down. It would
be helpful if the media didn't have all these
crazy headlines about trade wars and just
[looked] at the facts."

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union,"

Navarro also said,

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 DOJ Is Sued For Records
Of Official Linked To Dossier
Chuck Ross - Reporter
1:27 PM 03/05/2018
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing
the Department of Justice for records regarding Bruce Ohr,
the recently-demoted DOJ official who met with dossier
author Christopher Steele prior to the 2016 election.
Judicial Watch seeks records of Ohr’s contacts with Steele
as well as with employees of Fusion GPS, the opposition
research firm that commissioned the dossier. Fusion
worked during the presidential campaign for the Clinton
campaign and DNC.
Ohr’s links to Steele and Fusion GPS are one of the
strangest wrinkles in the saga over the salacious and
unverified dossier.
In September 2016, while serving as associate deputy
attorney general, Ohr met with Steele to discuss his
investigation of Donald Trump and the Trump
campaign. He also met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson several weeks after the election at a Washington,
D.C. coffee shop. (RELATED: DOJ Official Bruce Ohr
Hid Wife’s Fusion GPS Payments From Ethics
Officials)
Ohr was also connected to the dossier through his wife, a
Russia expert named Nellie Ohr. She worked on the
Fusion GPS research team investigating Trump.
WATCH:
The Ohrs’ connection to the dossier was kept secret for
nearly a year after the dossier’s publication. Bruce Ohr
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also failed to disclose Nellie’s work for Fusion on his
annual financial disclosure forms.
Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, did not
mention his meeting with Bruce Ohr during testimony he
gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee last August. He
did acknowledge the meeting during an interview in
November with the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. But in that testimony, Simpson did not reveal
that Nellie Ohr worked for his firm. He said that he knew
Bruce Ohr through Steele. (RELATED: Revelations
From Glenn Simpson’s House Intel Testimony)
“[Steele] had told Bruce about what
happened, and that Bruce wanted more
information, and suggested that I speak
with Bruce,” Simpson testified.
Nellie Ohr’s work for Fusion was revealed only after the
House panel obtained Fusion GPS’s bank records.
Ohr told the FBI about his meetings with Steele and
Simpson in late Nov. 2016. He said that during a Sept.
2016 meeting, Steele said that he
“was desperate that Donald Trump not get
elected and was passionate about him not
being president.”
Ohr shared that statement with the FBI, but the bureau did
not include it in applications for renewals of surveillance
warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page. The applications relied heavily on Steele’s dossier.
It is still not clear why Ohr was demoted at the Justice
Department. In addition to being removed as deputy
associate attorney general in December, he was removed
as director of the agency’s Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement Task Force.
In addition to Bruce Ohr’s communications with Steele
and Simpson, Judicial Watch seeks Ohr’s calendar entries
and all communications between the attorney general’s
office and Fusion GPS and Nellie Ohr.
 Dossier Author Christopher Steele Claims
Russia Blocked Mitt Romney As Secretary Of State
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 1:48 Pm
Former British spy and author of the
Hillary-funded phony Russia dossier,
Christopher Steele is back in the
headlines this week.
Steele, who is being accused of lying to
the FBI claims he has another memo
based on one source that a “senior
Russian official” persuaded President
Trump to walk away from Mitt Romney
as his choice for Secretary of State.
The New Yorker reports Christopher Steele has an
unpublished memo with claims the Russians told Trump to
pass up Mitt Romney as his choice for Secretary of State:
One subject that Steele is believed to have
discussed with Mueller’s investigators is a
memo that he wrote in late November,
2016, after his contract with Fusion had
ended. This memo, which did not surface
publicly with the others, is shorter than the
rest, and is based on one source,
described as “a senior Russian official.”
The official said that he was merely
relaying talk circulating in the Russian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what he’d
heard was astonishing: people were saying
that the Kremlin had intervened to block
Trump’s initial choice for Secretary of
State, Mitt Romney. (During Romney’s run
for the White House in 2012, he was
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notably hawkish on Russia, calling it the
single greatest threat to the U.S.) The
memo said that the Kremlin, through
unspecified channels, had asked Trump to
appoint someone who would be prepared
to lift Ukraine-related sanctions, and who
would coöperate on security issues of
interest to Russia, such as the conflict in
Syria. If what the source heard was true,
then a foreign power was exercising pivotal
influence over U.S. foreign policy—and an
incoming President.
On January 5th, Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter to
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray demanding they investigate if Christopher Steele lied
to federal authorities.
The letter was the first criminal referral from Congress to
the DOJ in this case.
In early February, Senator Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) released a “much-less
redacted,” version of the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s criminal
referral of dossier author Christopher
Steele.
According to the Senate Judiciary criminal referral, Steele
lied to the FBI about his contacts with the media such as
Yahoo News and Mother Jones. Steele previously told the
FBI that he had not spoken to the media.
Grassley reveals the FBI KNEW Steele lied about his
contact with media outlets, yet they DID NOT disclose
this very pertinent information to the FISA court.
Also, a footnote in the unredacted
Grassley memo states the FBI failed to
provide the Committee with 1023’s [FBI
form to document meetings with
sources] documenting Steele’s
statements to the FBI so the Committee
had to rely on the accuracy of the FBI’s
representation to the FISC regarding
those statements.
Christopher Steele is not a reliable witness. The only
foreign collusion we have seen during the presidential
election was between Hillary’s camp and the Russians
through Steele.
.
Bernie Sanders also colluded with the Australian Labor
Party and his campaign was fined over $14,000.
Why isn’t Mueller hunting down Hillary
and Bernie for ‘collusion’?

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 Think Sessions Is Bad?
Wait Until You See Who Trump Nominated
For The Sentencing Commission
The Daily Sheeple
March 5, 2018

If you think Attorney General Jeff Sessions is freedom-

trampling, liberty-loathing tyrant, just wait until you see
who fellow tyrant Donald Trump nominated for the
Sentencing Commission. Bill Otis is possibly the worst
selection that Trump could have possibly made.

“Two facts about crime and sentencing

dwarf everything else we’ve learned for the
last 50 years,” Otis said at a 2014
Federalist Society gathering. “When we
have more prison, we have less crime.
And when we have less prison, we have
more crime.” Keep in mind, according to
the government, many victimless crimes
carry minimum sentences, and because of
that, we’ve got a major prison over-
crowding population in “the land of the
free.” Otis has been a vocal proponent of
mandatory sentencing for such “crimes.”

Below is a helpful image for everyone who seems to have

trouble grasping the concept that in order to have a crime,
there must be a victim.

According to Reason, Otis’ appointment to the U.S.

Sentencing Commission—a bipartisan, independent
agency within the judiciary responsible for articulating
federal sentencing guidelines—drew reactions of horror “Really, anyone who approaches criminal
and condemnation from criminal justice advocates. “Bill justice policy with an antiquated worldview
Otis is a terrible choice,” says Jason Pye, the vice president is a bad choice for such an important post.”
of legislative affairs at FreedomWorks, a conservative
organization that has supported criminal justice reform.
Jonathan Blanks, a research associate at the Cato
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nomination of Otis “signals another step back into the
discredited ‘tough on crime’ policies of the 1980s.” Blanks
continued saying,
“Otis’s support of lengthy mandatory
minimum sentences is outdated and
counterproductive to effective criminal
justice policy,” Blanks continues. “If
confirmed, my hope is that Mr. Otis makes
himself familiar with the reams of data that
undermine his previously expressed
positions on the efficacy of mandatory
minimum sentencing.”
Adding more confusion to this choice is Otis’ previous
statements that the Sentencing Commission, for which he’s
just been nominated, be abolished entirely.
“Pending repeal and replacement of the
[Sentencing Reform Act of 1984], Congress
should abolish the Sentencing
Commission,” Otis testified at a 2011
House Judiciary Committee hearing. “By
far the most important purpose for which it
was created no longer exists—to write
binding rules for district courts to use in
sentencing. It does have some secondary
functions—for example, to study possible
statutory improvements, as well as gather
and publish statistics about sentencing
practices—but when its core function has
been demoted to making increasingly
ignored non-rules, it’s time to turn the
page.”
As a lengthy 2015 Slate profile explained, Otis believes
that giving judges leeway to depart from mandatory
minimum sentences is just a way to coddle violent
criminals. And when that happens, his tyrannical logic
goes, crime rises.
Reason pointed out that Otis has warned time and time
again over his career that criminal justice reforms would
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lead to chaos in the streets. However, Julie Stewart, the
founder of Families Against Mandatory
Minimums, wrote in Reason in 2015, that he has been
wrong over and over again. For example, when Congress
reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and
powder cocaine,
Otis predicted the bill, which he dubbed the
“Crack Dealers Relief Act,” would result in
“misery” once thousands of crack dealers
would be “put back on the street
prematurely.”
Stewart writes:
Fortunately for those of us concerned
about public safety, Otis was wrong
again—amazingly wrong. Since passage of
the [Fair Sentencing Act (FSA)], the crime
rate, the prison population, and crack
usage are all down! It bears repeating. Otis
said the changes would cause “misery” and
“inevitably lead to more crime.” Instead,
while thousands of offenders have received
fairer sentences, the crime rate has fallen,
crack use is down, and taxpayers have
saved millions from being wasted on
unnecessary prison costs.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that crack
offenders who got shorter sentences because of the FSA
reoffended at slightly lower rates than crack offenders who
served their full-length sentences. Again: less prison time,
more public safety.
“Otis is impervious to facts and evidence,”
Warren concluded.
Isn’t Jeff Sessions enough of an authoritarian? Apparently,
not for the Trump administration, as this guy is on his way
to actually enact even harsher punishments for “crimes.”
Does anyone really still believe they are free?
 The Plot Thickens=> Christopher Steele Says DNC ‘Hack’
Involved Agents ‘Within The Democratic Party’
By Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 2:08 Pm
Former British spy and anti-Trump
dossier author Christopher Steele once
alleged that agents “within the
Democratic Party” were involved in
hacking the Democratic National
Committee.
The New Yorker reports:
On July 26, 2016, after WikiLeaks
disseminated the D.N.C. e-mails, Steele
filed yet another memo, this time claiming
that the Kremlin was “behind” the hacking,
which was part of a Russian cyber war
against Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Many of
the details seemed far-fetched: Steele’s
sources claimed that the digital attack
involved agents “within the Democratic
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Party structure itself,” as well as Russian
émigrés in the U.S. and “associated
offensive cyber operators.”
The explosive claim comes amid reports
that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is
readying criminal charges against Russian
hackers allegedly responsible for leaking
damaging emails “designed to hurt
Democrats in the 2016 election.”
NBC News reports:
Much like the indictment Mueller filed last
month charging a different group of
Russians in a social media trolling and
illegal-ad-buying scheme, the possible new
charges are expected to rely heavily on
secret intelligence gathered by the CIA, the
FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA)
and the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), several of the officials say.
[…] Mueller’s consideration of charges
accusing Russians in the hacking case has
not been reported previously. Sources say
he has long had sufficient evidence to
make a case, but strategic issues could
dictate the timing. Potential charges include
violations of statutes on conspiracy,
election law as well as the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act.
The sources say the possible new indictment — or more
than one, if that’s how Mueller’s office decides to proceed
— would delve into the details of, and the people behind,
the Russian intelligence operation that used hackers to
penetrate computer networks and steal emails of both the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta.
Several political pundits and tech analysts have long said
the DNC “hack” was not a hack, but rather a leak from
someone inside the organization.
Earlier this month, internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom took
to Twitter to once again attempt to dispel the mainstream
narrative surrounding the Democratic National Committee
hacking scandal.
 “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!” tweeted
Dotcom.
In new book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins
and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White
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House,” Democrat operative Donna Brazile admits the
DNC allowed alleged Russian hackers to steal data from
the party’s servers.
Brazile claims the only way to have blocked Russian
hackers from DNC servers was to rebuild them. This is
impossible to do, as it would have impacted the party’s
ability to ‘manage the primaries.’
Daily Caller reports:
Donna Brazile says in her new book the
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
went against professional advice and sat
idly for a month while Russians stole data
because primaries were still underway in a
number of states.
In May, when CrowdStrike recommended
that we take down our system and rebuild
it, the DNC told them to wait a month,
because the state primaries for the
presidential election were still underway,
and the party and the staff needed to be at
their computers to manage these efforts,”
Brazile wrote in her new book, “Hacks.”
“For a whole month, CrowdStrike watched
Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear operating. Cozy
Bear was the hacking force that had been
in the DNC system for nearly a year.”
Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear are cybersecurity firms that
have reported ties with Russian hackers. Both groups are
blamed for the hacks on the DNC in 2016. CrowdStrike is
a private U.S. cybersecurity firm that oversaw the
protection of the DNC’s servers.
 CNN Guest: President Trump
'Believes The Russian Activity Benefits Him Politically'
By Ryan Foley
March 5, 2018 2:21 PM EST
During an appearance on CNN's New Day Monday
morning, counterterrorism analyst Richard Clarke argued
that President Trump has not imposed sanctions on Russia
in retaliation for their interference in the 2016 election
because
"he believes the Russian activity benefits
him politically."
Clarke, who has worked in both Republican and
Democratic administrations, apparently also believes that
President Trump could not have gotten elected President
without help from the Russians, saying
“The very same bots that helped get him
elected are still out there. The organization
that did it is still out there. And they are still
supporting his causes.” According to
Clarke, these bots are “still making dissent,
likely in the United States, pretending to be
Black Lives Matter groups, pretending to be
pro-gun groups. They’re whipping up
dissent, they’re whipping up discord.”
Perhaps it never occurred to liberals that these kinds of
divisions existed in America long before 2016.
During his tenure as Good Morning America’s news
anchor, New Day co-host Chris Cuomo had previously
given a gushing interview to Clarke, who had just
published a book critical of the Bush administration.
During this interview, which took place during the final
year of the George W. Bush presidency, Clarke brought up
the importance of global warming, which has basically
become a religion on the left, and criticized the Bush
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Administration’s handling of the war in Iraq. In the decade
since the interview took place, Clarke’s opinion of
Republicans has not changed very much, neither has the
media embrace of his anti-GOP rhetoric.
Clarke closed his interview on New Day by warning that
America may find itself on a “very dangerous path”
because President Trump has refused to talk with North
Korea unless they agree to give up their nuclear weapons.
Clarke warned that “we need to find some compromise”
with North Korea in order to avoid “a war in which
perhaps millions of people would die.”
CNN New Day
03/05/18
07:35 AM
CHRIS CUOMO: All right. So we keep hearing, and please tell
me what’s not true in any of the premise here. That nothing’s
being done. The Congressional committees are looking at it. Yes,
the NSA and different parts of the intelligence community are
always in an ongoing battle that takes place digitally as well as in
different for fighting against America’s enemies, that that’s
always going on. But that specific to the election meddling, there
is no program in place, there is no strategy. What’s your take?
RICHARD CLARKE: Well Chris, for any of the Presidents I
worked for, if there were a major threat to the United States, to
our democracy, the President would have asked for and
personally gotten involved in crafting a comprehensive program.
This President hasn’t done that. And yeah, the government does
sort of work on automatic pilot on some issues but for some
things, the President has to give an order. And for NSA and
Cyber command and CIA to do some things covertly in
cyberspace to stop the kind of attacks that are still ongoing with
the Russian bots and Russian trolls trying to make America
argue against itself, trying to create discord in the United States.
For that kind of counter program to happen, the President has to
give an order. He hasn’t done it. I think there is a very clear
reason why he hasn’t done it and why, after Congress
overwhelmingly approved new sanctions on Russia, he refuses
to implement them. And the reason, I think, is inescapable. It is
that he believes the Russian activity benefits him politically.
CUOMO: How so?
CLARKE: Well, the very same bots that helped get him elected
are still out there. The organization that did it is still out there.
And they are still supporting his causes. They are still making
dissent, likely in the United States, pretending to be Black Lives
Matter groups, pretending to be pro-gun groups. They’re
whipping up dissent, they’re whipping up discord. And on every
issue in cyberspace and the social media forums, these Russian
bots are still backing him. Why are they still allowed to do that?
Why hasn’t NSA or Cyber command attacked their computers
which they could do with existing technology? They could do it
easily. They could fry all of those computers. They could take
down the so-called internet research agency in St. Petersburg
but they haven’t because they need an order to do so, and that
order has not been forthcoming.
CUOMO: So, let’s, let’s take a step further down that road. You
know, we saw Vladimir Putin come out with a video presentation
last week where the supposed missiles they have that can go
anywhere in the world. And the target he chose was Florida, and
it looked like they were headed right for Mar-a-lago and the
President said nothing about that. Why would Putin antagonize a
guy that he’s trying to help and why would the President say
nothing when he’s so easily provoked and he goes after our allies
with such a low standard but nothing when the guy targets his
house with missiles?
CLARKE: Well, I think you can guess. The President has never
really criticized Putin. He likes Putin, he says he admires Putin.
You’re not going to hear him criticize Putin no matter what he
does. Imagine any other President, imagine Ronald Reagan or
George Herbert Walker Bush, if the leader of Russia gave an
.
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Anti-American speech with pictures of missiles attacking the
United States. Could you imagine them being silent under those
circumstances? But this President is silent.
CUOMO: North Korea. We have word that South Korean officials
are up there. There is parlay with North Korean officials in North
Korea. Supposedly, the goal is to bring the United States into
dialogue with the North. Then, there’s this political intrigue where
the President said North Korea reached out to me to want to talk.
I said “you’ve got to de-nuke first” and North Korea laughs off that
suggestion. What’s your take on the state of play?
CLARKE: Chris, of all the issues the President is dealing with,
this is the most dangerous. This could, if mishandled, result in a
war, a war in which perhaps millions of people would die. And
perhaps even people in the United States, certainly Americans in
Korea. So we have to be very, very careful how we handle this.
And for the President to say I’m not going to talk unless you
completely capitulate before the talks even begin is a very
dangerous path. We need to be in discussion with North Korea.
We need to find some compromise because two weeks ago, in
Pearl Harbor, the American Military Commanders conducted
what was called a tabletop exercise for war in Korea. And they
were horrified by what they saw would happen. It’s a terrible
outcome out there and it could happen this year if we’re not
careful. We have to do everything we can to avoid that and
talking without precondition is one of those things. And so far, the
President has said he will only talk if North Korea says “yeah,
we’ll give in, we’ll give up our nuclear weapons program. Now,
let’s talk.” They’re not going to do that.
 “Let Him Arrest Me”: Former Trump Aide To
Refuse Mueller Subpoena To Appear Before Grand Jury
By Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 2:24 Pm

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg is “Let him arrest me,” Nunberg said. “Mr.
refusing to appear before a grand jury at Mueller should understand I am not going
the request of special counsel Robert in on Friday.”
Mueller, reports the Washington Post.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported via Axios,
Mueller is “subpoenaing all communications,” of the
following former and current Trump aides (including the
President, himself):

1. Carter Page
2. Corey Lewandowski
3. Donald J. Trump
4. Hope Hicks
5. Keith Schiller
6. Michael Cohen
7. Paul Manafort
8. Rick Gates
9. Roger Stone
Washington Post reports: 10. Steve Bannon

In an interview with The Washington Post,
Nunberg said he was asked to come to
Washington to appear before the grand jury
on Friday. He also provided a copy of what
appears to be his two-page grand jury
subpoena seeking documents related to
President Trump and nine other people,
including emails, correspondence, invoices,
telephone logs, calendars and “records of
any kind.” […]
The subpoena asks for all communications from November
1, 2015, to the present. Notably, Trump announced his
campaign for president five months earlier — on June 16,
2015.
In addition to subpoenaing all communications of select
former and current Trump aides, the New York
Times reports Mueller is now probing whether Lebanese-
American businessman and United Arab Emirates
advisor, George Nader, is influencing U.S. policy.

Nunberg said he does not plan to comply with the

subpoena, including either testimony or providing
documents.

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 OUTRAGEOUS: Critics Of Security Clearance Process
For Trump Team See A POLITICIZED Process
Posted On March 5, 2018
(National Sentinel) No Secret: Supporters of President
Donald J. Trump say the process for granting members of
his administration security clearances has been politically
weaponized and intentionally troublesome for the White
House, according to a lawyer battling the bureaucracy.
The Washington Times reports that the problem lies
primarily with a small group of federal careerists in the
Old Executive Office Building who have turned security
reviews into roadblocks designed to ensnare Trump’s
team, according to Sean M. Bigley, a federal security
clearance attorney who represents a number of senior
White House officials who are caught up in the nightmare.
“The security clearance process is being
weaponized by anti-Trump bureaucrats
who are using it as a tool to not only thwart
the president’s agenda but to prevent him
from installing appointees who will execute
it,” Bigley told the paper.
His recounting of the obstruction and stall tactics lends
credence to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s
critiques of the security office, the Times noted, while
highlighting recent incidents regarding security clearances
that have proven embarrassing to the president.
Included in such incidents is the downgrading of a top-
secret security clearance for senior White House advisor
and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The slow-walking of clearances is occurring throughout
the administration, including at the Pentagon. However,
the problem is most visible and remarkable at the White
House, Bigley told the Times.
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The paper noted:
The completed FBI background checks
routinely get snagged by the office, also
known as EOP Security, that is manned by
fewer than a dozen career officials. The
office has a reputation for bureaucratic
inefficiency stretching back several
administrations, but it now has adopted an
adversarial stance toward Mr. Trump.
“There really is a hostility and there seems
to be almost an institutional arrogance in
lack of willingness to engage,” Bigley told
the Times.
“I literally cannot get a phone call returned,
and I am representing senior people in the
administration who are just asking for basic
answers as to why EOP Security is still
sitting on their background investigation a
year after it has been completed,” he
continued.
Several White House officials are currently working off of
interim security clearances after being with the
administration for more than a year.
Security clearances at the highest levels typically only take
about six months.
Kelly has issued new instructions regarding security
clearances, which are typically delivered to the EOP
Security office by the FBI.
The chief of staff has ordered the bureau to bypass the
EOP office and bring background investigation files
directly to the White House.
“The FBI official who delivers these files
should verbally brief the White House
Counsel on any information in those files
they deem to be significantly derogatory.
The White House Counsel will then deliver
the [background investigation] to the
Personnel Security Office for adjudication,”
Kelly wrote in the Feb. 16 memo.
 What A Surprise: Globalist Paul Ryan Slams
President Trump For Pushing Tariffs On
Foreign Steel And Aluminum
By Jim Hoft
March 5, 2018, 2:27 Pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing back

on President Donald Trump’s
announcement that he will impose hefty
tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, his
spokeswoman said on Monday.
“We are extremely worried about the
consequences of a trade war and are
urging the White House to not advance
with this plan,” Ryan’s spokeswoman,
AshLee Strong, said in a statement.

The disagreement comes after Trump suddenly announced

H3>Speaker Paul Ryan pushed back against President far-reaching tariffs during a meeting with steel and
Donald Trump’s announcement to place tariffs on foreign aluminum executives last Thursday. Foreign steel will face
aluminum and steel. a 25 percent tax, and foreign aluminum will be under a 10
percent tax. It appears no countries will be exempt from
Paul Ryan, a renowned globalist who the tariffs.
joined President Obama in pushing the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, attacked Speaker Ryan’s spokesperson Rachael
President Trump on Monday for his Blade tweeted this out:
announcement to place tariffs on
foreign steel and aluminum.
Paul Ryan still has NO INTENTION of
passing the Trump agenda more than a
year after his stunning win over Hillary
Clinton.

The Weekly Standard reported:

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 ‘Morning Joe’ Meltdown
Paints Trump As ‘Unglued President’
Co-Hosts Joe Scarborough And Mika Brzezinski Engaged In Unhinged
Speculation About The Chief Executive's Mental Health,
China Comments And Tariff Decision
By Kathryn Blackhurst
05 Mar 2018 At 3:13 PM

“So, there are many people who say, ‘Oh,

the president was just joking.’ I could give
you a list of the thousands things where
they claim the president was joking
afterwards,” Scarborough said.

Attendees in the room when Trump made his comment

reportedly laughed and clapped, taking it as a joke.
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and
Mika Brzezinski went off Monday speculating wildly
about President Donald Trump’s mental health, sounding
alarms about his term limit quip and questioning his steel
and aluminum tariffs decision.

It’s nothing unusual for “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe

Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to go off the deep end
on Trump’s fitness for office, dubbing the president’s
“America first” policies “authoritarian” and worrying that
Trump is carrying out “the destruction of a democracy.”
Such scaremongering is par for the “Morning Joe” course.
“When Republicans … are just saying, ‘It’s
just a joke,’ or when Republicans ignore
the fact that this man is talking about being
president for life, if they think that Donald
Trump is joking, then they’re fools,”
Scarborough said. “And I don’t think they’re
fools. I think they know exactly what he’s
saying.”
Trump could be overheard commenting on China’s
decision to eliminate presidential term limits during a
private Republican fundraiser, according to a recording
obtained by CNN.
“[Xi’s] now president for life. President for
life. And he’s great. And look, he was able
to do that. I think it’s great,” Trump said.
“Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.”
The “Morning Joe” panel took Trump’s comments very
seriously.
But Brzezinski claimed that Trump
"wants to bring us back in time" by
removing presidential term limits, saying,
"The people in the room clapping and
laughing? At this point, who would clap and
laugh at that? I mean, I would be stone-
faced."
The "Morning Joe" co-hosts also explored other news
items from last week, pointing to the resignation of White
House Communications Director Hope Hicks.
"If there was a moderating force in this
White House, it might have been Hope
Hicks," Brzezinski said, bemoaning the
"increasing pace of chaos at the Trump
White House."
Brzezinski pointed to an weekend Washington Post article
in which Trump's advisers and officials reportedly
expressed their concerns about his mental health
anonymously.

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 "Trump’s friends are increasingly Director of the White House National Trade Council Peter
concerned about his well-being, worried Navarro defending the president's decision.
that the president’s obsession with cable
commentary and perceived slights is taking Related: ‘Morning Joe’s’ Mika Brzezinski Says Trump’s
a toll on the 71-year-old. 'Pure madness,' Health Is ‘Actually Truly Frightening’
lamented one exasperated ally," The Post
reported.
"Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, one of
the wealthiest people in America who built
part of his fortune from steel interests ...
shrugs off concerns about the potential
economic fallout from an increased tariff on
steel," Brzezinski said. "It’s a policy
reportedly launched by an unglued
president deflecting his anger in unchecked
ways."

Scarborough said,

"George H. W. Bush accused Ronald

Reagan of voodoo economics in 1979 and
The "Morning Joe" co-hosts also pointed to Trump's 1980. This is economic witchcraft. There’s
decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel nobody in the mainstream of economic
and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum as evidence thought that thinks that way."
of what they consider an unhinged president.
Brzezinski said she couldn't believe this was "real life."
The two mocked appearances on Sunday morning news
shows by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and
.

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 White House Clarifies Trump’s
Due Process Comments
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
3:40 PM 03/05/2018

Sarah Sanders clarified comments President Trump made to have a gun without us being able to
last week about suspending due process to confiscate guns expedite that process.”
from criminals during Monday’s White House press
“That’s what he’d like to see us do.”
briefing.

“The president thinks that we need to

expedite the process,” the White House
press secretary stated when asked by a
reporter if POTUS wants to “take guns from
people who are dangerous before due
process.”

WATCH:

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 5: (AFP OUT) U.S. President

Donald Trump during a meeting with Israel Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House March 5,
2018 in Washington, DC. The prime minister is on an official visit to
the US until the end of the week. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-
Pool/Getty Images)

Trump appeared to undermine due process while speaking

at a meeting with congressional lawmakers last
Wednesday. (RELATED: Trump — ‘Guns First, Go
Through Due Process Second’)
“He wants to make sure that if somebody is
potentially harmful to themselves or other “A lot of times by the time you go to court, it
people, that we have the ability to expedite takes so long to go to court to get the due
that process,” she continued. “We certainly process procedures. I like taking the guns
still want to have due process, but we want early,” POTUS stated. “You can do what
to make sure that it’s not tied up for months you’re saying but take the guns first, go
and months and months and someone that through due process second.”
could potentially be dangerous is allowed
.

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 White House Disputes Former
Campaign Aide’s Collusion Claims
By Jonathan Easley
03/05/18 03:48 PM EST
The White House on Monday blasted back at a former
campaign aide who sent Washington into a frenzy by
saying that he’d rather go to jail than comply with a
subpoena from the special counsel.
Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, who was
fired for posting racially-charged remarks on social media
and was later sued by President Trump for breaking a
nondisclosure agreement, said in an interview on NBC that
he thinks Trump “may” have done something illegal
during the campaign.
Nunberg said the special counsel’s line of
questioning “insinuated to me that [Trump]
may have done something” wrong.
White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders responded, saying
Nunberg is “incorrect.”
“I definitely think he doesn't know that for
sure because he's incorrect,” Sanders said.
“As we said many times before, there was
no collusion with the Trump
campaign. Anything further on what
his actions are — he hasn't worked at the
.
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White House. I can't speak to him or the
lack of knowledge that he clearly has.”
Nunberg has in the past bragged about peddling fake
stories to news outlets.
On Monday, he told The Washington Post that he would
not comply with a subpoena from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s office seeking his correspondences with senior
Trump campaign and administration officials.
"When I got the subpoena it was ridiculous
to me,” Nunberg said in an interview on
MSNBC. “Why should I hand them over
every email I’ve had with Steve Bannon
or Roger Stone since November. Since
November of 2015?"
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg said of
Mueller to the Post.
The White House said it is up to Nunberg whether to
comply with the subpoena, but that it’s doing everything it
can to work with the special counsel to bring the
investigation to a close.
“I'm not going to weigh in to somebody that
doesn't work at the White House,” Sanders
said. “From our perspective, we're fully
cooperating with the office of the special
counsel. We'll continue to do so. I'll
reiterate once again the reason we are so
comfortable doing so: There's absolutely no
collusion within the Trump campaign in
any foreign government.”
 Acosta Whines That CNN Doesn’t Get Questions
At White House, Sanders’ Response Is Cold As Ice
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
3:59 PM 03/05/2018

Sarah Sanders took to the press podium Monday afternoon

to answer a diverse range of questions from a multitude of
news outlets. One outlet that was not called upon was
CNN. CNN’s White House reporter, Jim Acosta, shouted
at Sanders as she said her salutations to the room.
“Sarah, this is the third briefing that you’ve
not taken a question from CNN,” Acosta
whined, before shouting something
unintelligible about the Justice Department.
Sanders responded to Acosta in the simplest fashion
possible.
By turning her back on the CNN correspondent and
walking out of the room.
Acosta has a long history of shouting questions at
members of the administration. They typically do not turn
out well.

Watch below:

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 11: CNN’s Jim Acosta attends

the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts 2017 Noche de Gala at
The Mayflower Hotel on September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images for National Hispanic
Foundation For The Arts)
.

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 Former Trump Aide Who Spoke With Mueller’s Team:
“Mueller Thinks Trump Is The Manchurian
Candidate” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 3:40 Pm

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg is
refusing to appear before a grand jury at
the request of special counsel Robert
Mueller, reports the Washington Post.
Nunberg spoke to CNN on Monday and he said,
“Mueller thinks Trump is the Manchurian
candidate.” WOW.
“Have you talked to them [Mueller’s team]
about the general direction, without naming
names, about the general direction you
think Mueller is going in?”
“Yes Mueller thinks that Trump is the
Manchurian candidate…and I will tell you I
disagree with that,” Nunberg told CNN.
VIDEO:

In an interview with the Washington Post, Nunberg says

Of course Donald Trump and his supporters have been
he refuses to appear before a Grand Jury even though he
right the entire time about this unconstitutional Russian
has been issued a subpoena.
collusion witch hunt.
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg said. “Mr.
Mueller’s entire team is comprised of liberal hack lawyers
Mueller should understand I am not going
who are hunting down Trump without even naming the
in on Friday.”
crime he committed.
Nunberg also said to CNN that President Trump is right
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has been saying all
when he calls it a witch hunt.
along about Mueller’s operation:
CNN asked Nunberg,
SHUT IT DOWN!
.

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 Megan Mccain To “Leaker” Adam Schiff:
Put Up Evidence Of Collusion Or Shut Up
By JD Heyes
Monday, March 05, 2018
Normally I don’t have much to say about ABC’s “The
View” because I find that its hosts — especially Joy Behar
and Whoopi Goldberg — are banal, empty-headed Leftists
who have the brain power of an amoeba when it comes to
discussing our nation’s most pressing social and political
issues.
But sometimes — just sometimes — the show serves a
public interest and Thursday March 1st’s episode was one
of those rare exceptions.
There were two guests on the program — Condoleezza
Rice, former national security advisor to President George
W. Bush; and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the minority
leader on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.
The subject, as always on these broadcast network Left-
wing pseudo-news programs these days, was
“Trump collusion with Russia.”
As you probably know, Schiff’s committee — led by the
very capable and competent Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
— is one of a few other congressional committees (and the
Justice Department…and special counsel Robert Mueller)
investigating this massive nothing burger.
I say nothing burger because there hasn’t been any
evidence yet found of actual Trump-Russia collusion; and
that’s because there isn’t any (as emphasized by Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s announcement to Russian
leaders last week that his country now possesses a nuclear-
tipped ICBM that can defeat all U.S. missile defenses).
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Trust me — if such evidence did exist it
would have been leaked mightily to the
American Pravda media by now, and quite
likely by Schiff himself.
And yet, Schiff — like other Democrats —
continues to insist that there was collusion,
by golly, and he’s aware of plenty of
evidence that proves as much.
Well, Ms. McCain — the only one on The View who has
any semblance of political or common sense (as well she
should given her father has been in Washington, D.C. for
decades) — challenged Adam’s ‘Bull-Schiff’ and, as she
likely suspected, caught him flat-footed.
As reported by The Daily Caller, McCain wanted to know
why Schiff continues to say there is evidence when he
can’t produce any and his committee hasn’t, either (for the
record Nunes says the committee hasn’t seen any).
Schiff answered with many words — none of which
substantiated his claim.
“I think, at this time, it’s difficult for me and
many Americans to differentiate between
what is overhype and what isn’t,” McCain
said.
“You have said on more than one occasion
you have seen ample evidence of the
Trump campaign’s Russia collusion. Last
March you said you had more than
circumstantial evidence of collusion with
Russia. What were you referring to and
please be specific because if it’s true
Americans have a right to know a year later
what that is?”
“I certainly said there’s ample evidence of
collusion,” he said. “I never used the word
treason. Only Steve Bannon used that
word. If you look at the facts that are
already in the public domain, they’re pretty
damning starting with George
Papadopoulos,” Schiff said. (Related:
House Intel Chair: DEMS involved in
 massive cover-up of Obama admin spying
on Trump campaign.)
“We know that Papadopoulos was
approached by the Russians and told back
in April of the election year before the
Clinton campaign knew that the Russians
had stolen and DNC e-mails and we also
know they previewed their anonymous
dissemination of those e-mails with
Papadopoulos back in April,” he continued.
Yeah. And?
“Now it was only weeks later that the
Russians made a second approach to the
Trump campaign, this time at the highest
levels at Trump Tower in a meeting that
they previewed by saying that they wanted
to offer incriminating information about
Hillary,” he said.
.
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“The Russians” amounted to a Russian lawyer, Natalia
Veselnitskaya, who, by the way, met with Fusion GPS co-
founder Glenn Simpson before and after that Trump
Tower meeting (which was brief at best).
Fusion GPS commissioned the bogus
“Trump dossier” written by former British
spy Christopher Steele, who was fed BS by
Russian operatives.
The dossier was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign
and the Democratic National Committee.
Conclusion:
There was ‘Russian collusion’ during
the 2016 election cycle — between
Clinton and the DNC, Schiff’s party.
That’s why he keeps deflecting the
attention back to Trump.
 Jim Acosta Whines On Live TV After Sarah Sanders
Ignores Him “That’s The 3rd Briefing You’ve Not Taken A
Question From CNN” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 4:31 Pm

On Monday, CNN’s resident clown Jim Acosta then complained on his Twitter account which led
Acosta whined on live T.V. after White to him being trolled by Trump supporters.
House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
refused to take a question from him.

On Monday, Sarah Sanders brought two wounded veterans

to the White House press briefing room.
At the end of the briefing, Sarah Sanders wrapped things
up by thanking the press pool and turned to the veterans
and said,
“I’m gonna let these guys take a break,
thanks guys.”
As Sarah Sanders was exiting the briefing room, Jim
Acosta rudely shouted,
“Sarah, that’s the third briefing you’ve not
taken a question from CNN.”
VIDEO:

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 What A Bitter, Sad Man:
CNN’s Jim Acosta Complains Sanders
Didn’t Call On Him At WH Briefing
By Curtis Houck
March 5, 2018 5:01 PM EST

As we’ve learned since the beginning of the 2016 election,

CNN’s Jim Acosta has emerged as perhaps the most
melodramatic and self-centered liberal journalists to ever
grace the airwaves. Monday’s 20-minute White House
press briefing saw a new installment of his temper
tantrums as he bewailed Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders not calling on him.
Unfortunately for Acosta, his CNN colleagues didn’t seem
that interested in this whining. CNN Newsroom host
Brooke Baldwin responded that we heard
“Jim Acosta there at the end trying to
get a question in”

Sanders ended the briefing by answering a question from
CNN political analyst, Playboy correspondent, and
Sentinel Newspapers editor Brian Karem about morale in
the White House. She then bid the media farewell despite
Karem’s pleas for a follow-up.
before shifting gears to the absolutely insane Sam Nunberg
media tour about his role in the Robert Mueller
investigation.
As this writer reminded Acosta on Twitter, he’s once again
shown that he’s not able to realize that the world doesn’t
revolve around him.

Here’s the relevant transcript from March 5's White House

press briefing:

White House press briefing

March 5, 2018
3:25 p.m. Eastern

As Sanders walked away, and after adding that she was

going to let wheelchair-bound veterans flanking her “take
a break,” Acosta had a conniption while the CNN
cameras panned over to him:
“Sarah, can I ask you a question? The
Justice Department — hey, Sarah! This
is the third briefing you have not taken a
question from CNN. Do you expect the
Justice Department to enforce all
subpoenas, Sarah?”
BRIAN KAREM: And a quick follow-up —
Acosta then tweeted as such about this supposed injustice:
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Thanks.

KAREM: — just a real quick follow-up?

SANDERS: Thanks, Brian.

KAREM: Just a quick —

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KAREM: I'm going to let these guys take a break. Thanks, guys. BROOKE BALDWIN: Alright. Jim Acosta there at the end trying
to get a question in. So you heard it, a lot of topics covered but
JIM ACOSTA: Sarah, can I ask you a question? The Justice we really want to hone in on this Sam Nunberg story.
Department — hey, Sarah! This is the third briefing you have not
taken a question from CNN. Do you expect the Justice
Department to enforce all subpoenas, Sarah?

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 MSNBC Host To DNC Chair:
Should Dems Demand Trump Impeachment?
By Kyle Drennen
March 5, 2018 6:03 PM EST
In a softball interview with Democratic National
Committee chairman Tom Perez on Monday afternoon,
MSNBC anchor Kasie Hunt asked if the Democratic Party
should make the impeachment of President Trump part of
its platform. She also invited the liberal leader to wildly
speculate on whether Trump was guilty of colluding with
Russia during the 2016 campaign.
Noting that Perez was “the perfect person” to talk to about
the ongoing Russia investigation since “it was the DNC
that was partly the victim here” with regard to the
organization’s emails being hacked,
Hunt urged him to “explore the hack
itself and your view of – did the
President know before the DNC did that
these e-mails were hacked?”
Without possibly having evidence to back his claims,
Perez launched into a rant of conjecture and left-wing
talking points:
...you know, there was a term we used to
use a lot when I was a prosecutor, and that
was the term of consciousness of guilt.
There’s a lot of people acting like
they’ve been involved in wrongdoing....
And why he continues to be Putin’s
poodle. You know, he says he's a tough
guy, but he’s really Putin’s lap dog. And
the only reason I can think of is because
Putin has something on him, and that, to
me, is becoming clearer and clearer with
every indictment, with every guilty plea.
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Rather than challenge any of the DNC head’s
unsubstantiated assertions, Hunt instead teed him up to
respond to calls on the left to remove the President from
office:
Sir, one topic that has come up
repeatedly as the campaign season has
unfolded and some of your donors have
been pushing, this idea that President
Trump has already, essentially,
committed offenses that are
impeachable and that he should be
impeached. Do you think, based on
what you know now, and all of what you
just ticked through about the President
being, quote, unquote, “Putin’s poodle,”
does that amount to an impeachable
offense and should the Democratic
Party hold the official position that this
president should be impeached?
Perez replied:
“Well, listen, I think he’s the most
dangerous president in American
history.”
Without directly answering the question, he proclaimed
that “the most important thing that I believe that I can do is
to win elections.” Moments later, he reiterated that Trump
was “undeniably the most dangerous president in
American history” and concluded that
“we have to make sure that his tenure is
as short as possible.”
Whether that effort included impeachment remained
unclear.
Perhaps Hunt should have pressed Perez on where the
Democratic Party stands on important policy issues
heading into the 2018 midterm elections, rather than just
give him a platform to hurl accusations and invective.
Here is a transcript of the March 5 exchange:
3:48 PM ET
KASIE HUNT: And we now have the chairman of the Democratic
National Committee with us, Mr. Tom Perez. Thank you so much,
sir, for being with us.
TOM PEREZ [DNC CHAIR]: Hi, Kasie.
HUNT: You are in many ways the perfect person to continue our
discussion of this, because of course it was the DNC that was
partly the victim here, in addition to John Podesta, of course, who
was with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Do you – first of all, can I
ask to you react to what Sam Nunberg is saying and doing here
in taking this action. But also explore the hack itself and your
view of – did the President know before the DNC did that these
e-mails were hacked?
PEREZ: Right. Well, I also come to you as someone who spent
over a decade at the Department of Justice. I worked there under
Republican and Democratic administrations as a career
prosecutor. And I’ll tell you, I watched the statements that you
just made, and you know, from time to time, when we were doing
investigations, somebody would try to stonewall us, and you
know, Director Mueller is a big boy.
HUNT: So what would you do?
He understands what to do and he’ll go to court. You go to court.
You enforce the subpoena. And you get them to come in. And I’m
quite confident that he has the factual basis that will enable him
to require him to come in.
Now, what I don’t know is whether or not he’ll go in and take the
Fifth Amendment because frankly when I read about what he
was saying, my first question was, is he – does he have
exposure on his own? So he’s trying to beat his chest a little bit.
Because there are so many people that have been involved in
this.
And to answer your other question, you know, there was a term
we used to use a lot when I was a prosecutor, and that was the
term of consciousness of guilt. There’s a lot of people acting like
they’ve been involved in wrongdoing. And the actions of this
president, whether it’s firing the former head of the FBI, whether
it’s trying to pierce that bright line between the Department of
Justice and the White House, so many things he’s doing.
And why he continues to be Putin’s poodle. You know, he says
he's a tough guy, but he’s really Putin’s lap dog. And the only
reason I can think of is because Putin has something on him, and
that, to me, is becoming clearer and clearer with every
indictment, with every guilty plea.
.
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And as it relates to the DNC, this had a remarkably adverse
impact, as you all know. Because this wasn’t simply an attack on
the DNC, it was an attack on our democracy.
HUNT: Sir, one topic that has come up repeatedly as the
campaign season has unfolded and some of your donors have
been pushing, this idea that President Trump has already,
essentially, committed offenses that are impeachable and that he
should be impeached. Do you think, based on what you know
now, and all of what you just ticked through about the President
being, quote, unquote, “Putin’s poodle,” does that amount to an
impeachable offense and should the Democratic Party hold the
official position that this president should be impeached?
PEREZ: Well, listen, I think he’s the most dangerous president in
American history. And not only because of his refusal to take
actions against Russia. I mean, the most serious threat to the
integrity of the elections is Russia.
I think he’s the most dangerous president in history is because
he’s hurting workers, because he’s dividing America. And for me,
as the head of the Democratic Party, the most important thing
that I believe that I can do is to win elections. And that’s exactly
what we’ve been doing over the last year. Winning elections in
places like Oklahoma, Doug Jones in Alabama, the elections in
Virginia and elsewhere.
I’m out here in Washington state right now because we’ve got
tremendous opportunity to pickup congressional seats. We’ve
seen what happens when you take over the state senate.
Washington state just enacted a wide array of voting rights
reforms to make it easier for people to vote. They did so because
the Democrats finally took over the state senate.
So, I feel like my role is to make sure we are electing Democrats
everywhere. He’s undeniably the most dangerous president in
American history and we have to make sure that his tenure is as
short as possible.
(...)
 Former CIA Director John Brennan Comes Unhinged –
Calls POTUS Trump A Paranoid Charlatan
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 6:12 Pm
Former CIA Director John Brennan has
been reduced to a pathetic Twitter troll.
Brennan, who may have perjured himself in a May 2017
testimony to the House Intel Committee spends his days
attacking President Trump and his allies on Twitter.
On Monday morning President Trump unleashed fury from
his Twitter account.
Trump tweeted:
“Why did the Obama Administration start
an investigation into the Trump Campaign
(with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before
the Election in November? Wanted to
discredit so Crooked H would win.
Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate!
Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian
meddling.”
Brennan called President Trump a paranoid charlatan in
response.
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“This tweet is a great example of your
paranoia, constant misrepresentation of the
facts, and increased anxiety and panic
(rightly so) about the Mueller investigation.
When will those in Congress and the 30
percent of Americans who still support you
realize you are a charlatan?”
Perhaps it is John Brennan who is
panicking since President Trump is
exposing the Deep State and illegal spying
carried out by Obama’s crooked Intel
agencies.
As previously reported, Chairman of the House Intel
Committee, Devin Nunes plans to investigate former CIA
Director John Brennan and other Obama officials for their
role in promoting Hillary’s phony dossier.
According to investigative reporter, Paul Sperry, Chairman
Nunes is also investigating whether Brennan perjured
himself in a public testimony about the dossier.
Brennan is also furious with Nunes and previously lashed
out at the Chairman from Twitter after the FISA memo
was released.
The demons always scream the loudest when they are
being exorcised.
 Sam Nunberg Calls Sarah Sanders A ‘Fat Slob’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
6:34 PM 03/05/2018

Former Trump associate Sam Nunberg called White House
press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “fat slob”
during an interview on Spectrum News Monday.
WATCH:
she’s not attractive, she’s a fat slob, okay
fine. But that’s irrelevant. Her–the person
she works for has a thirty percent approval
rating. Okay? So, if she wants to start
attacking me, she can do that, that’s fine.
But we know it’s a joke.”

Nunberg had a bizarre day Monday.

He appeared on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper”

and dared federal authorities to arrest him.

“I’m not going to the grand jury,” Nunberg

said. “I’m not going to spend 30 hours
going over my e-mails. I’m not doing it.
Why do I have to do it?”
“You know what, you know what, if Sarah
Huckabee wants to start debasing me–
she’s a joke,” he said. “Okay fine yeah,
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 Sarah Sanders Lights Up
Grandstanding Jim Acosta
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
6:37 PM 03/05/2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

struck back Monday at CNN White House correspondent
Jim Acosta for chiding her about not getting questions at
the press briefing.

CNN’s Jim @Acosta loses it when Sarah

Sanders refuses to call on him: “Sarah, can
Sanders referenced the two wounded combat veterans by I ask a question? Sarah, that’s the third
her side during the briefing, introduced as those advocating briefing you’ve not taken a question from
to make it easier for wounded veterans to receive funding CNN.” pic.twitter.com/I0AqDjowOU
for experimental treatments.
— Ryan Saavedra
Acosta furiously shouted at Sanders at the end of the
briefing that it was the third White House press briefing in
a row in which she did not call on CNN for a question.

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 Sarah Sanders ABSOLUTELY CRUSHES
Jim Acosta In Response To His Whining
By Cristina Laila
March 5, 2018, 7:31 Pm

CNN’s resident clown Jim Acosta

whined on live T.V. Monday after White
House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
refused to take a question from him.

Fearless warrior Sarah Sanders broke the internet with a

On Monday, Sarah Sanders brought two wounded veterans viral tweet when she responded to Jim Acosta.
to the White House press briefing room, Sgt. Peck and
Staff Sgt. Dwyer .
Sanders tweeted in response,

The two men were wheelchair bound after having their

“Courage isn’t taking “a question from
legs amputated. God Bless them.
CNN,” Jim. Courage is combat veterans
Sgt. Peck and Staff Sgt. Dwyer – the two
At the end of the briefing, Sarah Sanders wrapped things heroes at the briefing. #itsnotaboutyou”
up by thanking the press pool and turned to the veterans
and said,

“I’m gonna let these guys take a break,

thanks guys.”

As Sarah Sanders was exiting the briefing room, Jim

Acosta rudely shouted,

“Sarah, that’s the third briefing you’ve not

taken a question from CNN.”

VIDEO:

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 JOHN SOLOMON: FBI Never Told Congress Aussie
Diplomat Whose Tip Triggered Russia Probe Is Linked To
Clinton Foundation
By Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 7:49 Pm
According to a new report, the FBI failed
to brief Congressional investigators on
ties between former Australian Foreign
Minister Alexander Downer, the
diplomat whose tip prompted the Russia
probe, with the Clinton Foundation.
John Solomon of The Hill reports:
Former Australian Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25
million in aid from his country to help the
Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled
in decade-old government memos archived
on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.
Downer and former President Clinton jointly
signed a Memorandum of Understanding in
February 2006 that spread out the grant
money over four years for a project to
provide screening and drug treatment to
AIDS patients in Asia. [..]
Downer, now Australia’s ambassador to London, provided
the account of a conversation with Trump campaign
adviser George Papadopoulos at a London bar in 2016 that
became the official reason the FBI opened the Russia
counterintelligence probe.
But lawmakers say the FBI didn’t tell Congress about
Downer’s prior connection to the Clinton Foundation.
Republicans say they are concerned the new information
means nearly all of the early evidence the FBI used to
justify its election-year probe of Trump came from sources
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supportive of the Clintons, including the controversial
Steele dossier.
According to reports, the FBI is investigating millions of
“mishandled taxpayer” dollars funneled to the dubious
non-profit from Australian taxpayers.
Zerohedge reports via LifeZette:
The FBI has asked retired Australian
policeman-turned investigative journalist,
Michael Smith, to provide information he
has gathered detailing multiple
allegations of the Clinton Foundation
receiving tens of millions of mishandled
taxpayer funds, according to LifeZette.
“I have been asked to provide the FBI with
further and better particulars about
allegations regarding improper donations to
the CF funded by Australian
taxpayers,” Smith told LifeZette.
Of note, the Clinton Foundation received some $88
million from Australian taxpayers between 2006 and 2014,
reaching its peak in 2012-2013 – which was coincidentally
(we’re sure) Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s last
year in office.
Smith names several key figures in his complaints of
malfeasance, including Bill and Hillary Clinton
and multiple Australian government officials – including
senior diplomat Alexander Downer, whose conversation
with Trump aide George Papadopoulos that Russia had
‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton allegedly launched the Trump-
Russia investigation (as opposed to the Fusion GPS
dossier, of course).
The news comes amid a recent report by Solomon alleging
the FBI is launching a new investigation into the Clinton
Foundation. Is this the probe Solomon was referring to?
As The Gateway Pundit previously reports, one witness,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity has already been
interviewed by the FBI. The witness described the
interview to The Hill as “extremely professional and
unquestionably thorough” and focused on questions about
whether donors to Clinton charitable efforts received any
favorable treatment from the Obama administration on a
policy decision.
One report after another from various media outlets have
shown strange coincidences involving the Clinton
Foundation.
The Clinton Foundation would receive huge donations
from donor X only to have donor X magically get
favorable decisions by Hillary Clinton’s State Department
around the same time.
The Australian reports on the so-called tip from Downer:
The New York Times reported
overnight that Mr Downer, the Australian
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,
had a heavy night of drinking with Mr
Papadopoulos at the Kensington Wine
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Rooms in May 2016 when Mr
Papadopoulos mentioned that Russia was
shopping dirt on Mr Trump’s rival, Hillary
Clinton.
Mr Papadopoulos had been told the
information about three weeks earlier that
Moscow had thousands of emails that
would embarrass Mrs Clinton, stolen in an
effort to damage her run for the US
presidency. He had learned the information
from a Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud,
who had many high level Russian contacts.
When he met Mr Downer he then opened
up about the Mrs Clinton dossiers.
The New York Times claims that Australian intelligence
officials passed on Mr Downer’s information to their
American counterparts when leaked Democratic Party
emails emerged some two months later. That sparked the
FBI investigation about Russia’s interference in the
election, which has developed into the inquiry led by
special counsel Robert Mueller.
 EXCLUSIVE: Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Defends Roger
Stone: Just Because Mueller Team Doesn’t Like
Roger, “TOUGH SHIT!”
By Jim Hoft
March 5, 2018, 7:59 Pm

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg told the Washington
Post today he will refuse to appear before a grand jury at
the request of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Sam went on,
“And I want to know if why they never
asked Hillary Clinton’s people for sit-
down interviews on her lost emails?”
Sam says they’re “not going to do shit.”

Mueller obviously doesn’t know what hit him here. Sam

Nunberg just through a wrench into the witch hunt.

Earlier today CNN’s Erin Burnett

accused Sam of having alcohol on his
breath.
Unreal.

Sam Nunberg later asked Jake Tapper on CNN why he

should have to compile dozens of emails he exchanged
with the likes of former White House strategist Stephen
Bannon and Roger Stone during his time on the campaign.

Tonight Sam Nunberg spoke with The

Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft.

Sam Nunberg told Gateway Pundit he is

not going to be part of any witch hunt
against his close acquaintance against
Roger Stone.
“Roger is a father to me and I’m not
going to be a part of it. And just
because they don’t like Roger, tough
shit!”

Sam said referring to Mueller and his team of leftwing

attorneys.
.

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 Former Trump Adviser Hammered
On Live Television [VIDEO]
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
8:33 PM 03/05/2018

“No. Besides my anti-depressants. Is that

okay,” Nunberg said.

Nunberg did a number of interviews Monday after special

Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg appeared to be drunk
in a live television interview on CNN Monday evening.
(Screenshot/CNN)
Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg appeared to
be drunk in a live television interview on CNN Monday
evening.
CNN’s Erin Burnett told Nunberg she smelled alcohol on
his breath and confronted him about whether or not he had
anything to drink before the interview. Nunberg
completely denied the accusations, but did say he had
taken some “antidepressant” medication earlier.
counsel Robert Mueller issued him a subpoena in his
ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.
President Donald Trump’s former aide told CNN he will
not comply with Mueller’s investigation and does not plan
on appearing before a grand jury.
“Screw that,” Nunberg said in response to
whether or not he will comply. “Why do I
have to go? Why? For what?”
WATCH:

“Sam, I have to ask you one other thing.

It’s an awkward question to ask. You’re
sitting very close to me. We talked earlier
about what people in the White House
were saying to you. Talking about whether
you were drinking or on drugs. Talking to
you, I have smelled alcohol on your
breath,” Burnett said.
“I have not had a drink,” Nunberg
responded. “My answer is ‘no.'”

Burnett pressed Nunberg, but he continued to deny

drinking before the interview.

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 Nets Go Gaga For Wild Nunberg
Speculation About Trump Collusion
By Nicholas Fondacaro
March 5, 2018 9:23 PM EST
Monday was marked by the rolling train wreck that was
former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg’s seemingly
non-stop appearances on cable news shows
taunting Special Counsel Robert Mueller for subpoenaing
him. During his wild interviews (which lasted from mid-
afternoon into the night), Nunberg made numerous
suggestions that federal investigators may have some kind
of case against President Trump. And that was all the
liberal network news outlets needed to run with it.
Both CBS Evening News and ABC’s World News Tonight
kicked off their programs with the jaw-dropping spectacle.
On CBS, anchor Jeff Glor even announced that they were
pushing back another big story so they could get to
Nunberg first:
Good evening. Frightening pictures you saw in our
headlines of that scare in the air. We will have that story in
just a few minutes. But we begin here tonight with a wild
series of statements from a man under subpoena in the
investigation of Russian meddling. Former Trump
campaign aide Sam Nunberg said today he will not comply
with the special counsel and dared Robert Mueller to have
him arrested.
“The former Trump campaign aide
believes investigators have evidence
that the Trump campaign may have
colluded with the Russians, but
Nunberg refuses to appear before a
federal grand jury,” hyped CBS Justice
reporter Paula Reid. She also played audio
of Nunberg suggesting “Trump may have
very well done something during the
election with the Russians.”
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ABC anchor David Muir wasted little time in getting to the
sensationalist nature of the report:
Sam Nunberg today on live TV saying he will burn the
grand jury subpoena he received from Mueller, rather than
turn over the documents he has demanded, saying, “let him
arrest me.” But Nunberg then went on to make those bold
suggestions about his former boss. What he says Donald
Trump allegedly knew.
The network’s Chief Justice Correspondent
Pierre Thomas also hyped Nunberg’s
“stunning suggestion” about Trump and
collusion. “Nunberg suggesting on yet
another cable show that he believes the
President knew about the Trump Tower
meeting with the Russians,” the ABC
reporter added before playing a clip of his
phone interview on CNN’s The Lead with
Jake Tapper.
Meanwhile, on NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt
described the off the wall interviews and phone calls as
“a fascinating twist in the Russia
investigation.”
And NBC White House Correspondent Kristen Welker
touted Nunberg’s antics:
“Tonight, defiant and digging in. Sam
Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide
turned Trump antagonist dropping this
bombshell, becoming the first former
adviser to publically suggest candidate
 Trump may have done something
wrong.”
According to a piece published by the left-leaning Daily
Beast before the networks went live, close friends of
Nunberg were worried for him and were afraid he had
been “drinking again.” After the networks had wrapped up
in the Eastern and Central time zones, CNN’s Erin Burnett
confronted him while he was on her show and said she
could smell alcohol on his breath.
Nunberg had a rough time when he was on the Trump
campaign, including claims that Corey Lewandowski had
it out for him prior to being fired for racist Facebook posts.
Clearly, Nunberg was bitter and held a ton of resentment
towards the President. But it was a wild show that the nets
couldn’t ignore, especially since it involved slimming
Trump.
The relevant portions of the transcripts are below:
CBS Evening News
March 5, 2018
6:31:18 PM Eastern [2 minutes 7 seconds]
JEFF GLOR: Good evening. Frightening pictures you saw in our
headlines of that scare in the air. We will have that story in just a
few minutes. But we begin here tonight with a wild series of
statements from a man under subpoena in the investigation of
Russian meddling. Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg
said today he will not comply with the special counsel and dared
Robert Mueller to have him arrested. Here's Justice Reporter
Paula Reid.
[Cuts to video]
SAM NUNBERG: Mueller thinks that Trump is the Manchurian
candidate.
PAULA REID: The former Trump campaign aide believes
investigators have evidence that the Trump campaign may have
colluded with the Russians, but Nunberg refuses to appear
before a federal grand jury. He called several media outlets this
afternoon to explain why he will defy a subpoena from special
counsel Robert Mueller.
(…)
REID: Nunberg was part of the Trump campaign before it was
officially launched in June 2015. He was fired for offensive social
media posts just two months later. He says he's not trying to
protect the President.
NUNBERG: I'm not a fan of Donald Trump, and you well know.
REID: Nunberg says he's spent five and a half hours being
interviewed by federal investigators, and based on their
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questions, he believes the special counsel may have evidence
against President Trump.
NUNBERG: Trump may have very well done something during
the election with the Russians. If he did that, you know what, it's
inexcusable. If he did that.
REID: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
pushed back.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: I definitely think he doesn't
know that for sure, because he's incorrect, as we've said many
times before. There was no collusion with the Trump campaign.
[Cuts back to live]
GLOR: Paula, what's next for Sam Nunberg?
REID: Well, Mueller wouldn't try to put Nunberg before a grand
jury unless will he thought that he had some valuable evidence to
present. So if Nunberg does not cooperate, he could be held in
contempt and be looking at possible jail time. Jeff?
GLOR: Paula Reid in our D.C. bureau. Paula, thank you.
ABC
World News Tonight
March 5, 2018
6:31:41 PM Eastern [4 minutes 16 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: Good evening. And it's great to have you with us
to start another week. And we begin tonight with defiance from a
former Trump campaign aide, refusing to cooperate with Robert
Mueller, refusing to testify before the grand jury. Sam Nunberg
today on live TV saying he will burn the grand jury subpoena he
received from Mueller, rather than turn over the documents he
has demanded, saying, “let him arrest me.” But Nunberg then
went on to make those bold suggestions about his former boss.
What he says Donald Trump allegedly knew. We begin with
ABC's Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas tonight.
[Cuts to video]
PIERRE THOMAS: Tonight, a former Trump campaign adviser,
Sam Nunberg, is defying the special counsel, going on cable
television today to say he will not comply with a subpoena to
appear before a grand jury in Robert Mueller's investigation.
(…)
THOMAS: But Sam Nunberg went on to make a stunning
suggestion about Robert Mueller and his team. When asked if he
thinks they found something on his former boss, Donald Trump –
[Clip from MSNBC of Nunberg suggesting Muller has evidence
against Trump]
(…)
THOMAS: Nunberg suggesting on yet another cable show that
he believes the President knew about the Trump Tower meeting
with the Russians, a meeting with a foreign adversary to get dirt
on an American candidate, Hillary Clinton, something the White
House has denied.
(…)
THOMAS: Nunberg said he's already been interviewed for five
and a half hours by the special counsel, and he is questioning
why he has to turn over more information.
(…)
THOMAS: Nunberg, who was fired from the Trump campaign
team, even asked if he ever heard people speaking Russian in
the Trump Tower.
(…)
THOMAS: Late today, the White House was pressed about
Nurnberg’s bold suggestion that the special counsel may, quote,
“have something on the president.”
(…)
[Cuts back to live]
MUIR: Bold claims about the President tonight. Pierre Thomas
with us now live. And just now, Nunberg going on cable TV yet
again to say he was also offered immunity by the special
counsel, apparently turning it down and now refusing to
cooperate, Pierre?
THOMAS: That's right, David. He just talked about being offered
immunity, but he's still saying he won testify. That means he
could be held in contempt of court and, David, could face jail
time.
MUIR: Pierre Thomas leading us off on a Monday night.
NBC Nightly News
March 5, 2018
7:06:50 PM Eastern [2 minutes 19 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: There is a fascinating twist in the Russia
investigation tonight, and it comes from a man who worked on
President Trump's campaign. He is refusing to comply with a
.
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subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller and speaking out
about the investigation. Let's get more from White House
Correspondent Kristen Welker.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: Tonight, defiant and digging in. Sam
Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide turned Trump
antagonist dropping this bombshell, becoming the first former
adviser to publically suggest candidate Trump may have done
something wrong. Nunberg spoke with Katy Tur live on MSNBC.
(…)
WELKER: But in the same interview, at times siding with the
President.
(…)
WELKER: The White House firing back noting Nunberg only
served on the campaign in the early days.
(…)
WELKER: Nunberg was fired from the campaign in 2015 after
racist social media posts. The President later sued him for
violating a confidential agreement. Despite that, he says he won't
comply with a subpoena by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to
appear before a grand jury.
(…)
WELKER: It’s the latest development in the intensifying Russia
probe. Nunberg is among those who were subpoenaed for e-
mails, texts, and other documents related to the campaign.
(…)
[Cuts back to live]
WELKER: Witnesses can refuse to answer questions by pleading
the Fifth Amendment, but if for some other reason simply refuse
to answers questions they can be thrown in jail until they
cooperate or until the grand jury expires. Lester?
HOLT: Kristen Welker, at the White House. Thank you.
 WOW! FBI Agent Peter Strzok Knew About Potential
Breach Into Hillary Clinton’s Server
— But Never Followed Up
by Joshua Caplan
March 5, 2018, 10:07 pm
Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok was
notified of a potential breach into Hillary
Clinton’s server, but failed to follow up
in a ‘significant way,’ reports FOX
News.
Fox News reported:
During the final months of the Clinton email
investigation, FBI agent Peter Strzok was
advised of an irregularity in the metadata of
Hillary Clinton’s server that suggested a
possible breach, but there was no
significant follow up, according to two
sources with knowledge of the matter.
Sources told Fox News that Strzok, who
sent anti-Trump text messages that got him
removed from the ongoing Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, was told
about the metadata anomaly in 2016, but
Strzok did not support a formal damage
assessment.
One source said:
“Nothing happened.”
Fox News is told the Justice Department Inspector General,
Michael E. Horowitz, is aware of the allegations.
According to intelligence community directive 732,
damage assessments are done
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“in response to unauthorized disclosure or
compromise of classified national
intelligence.”
In a letter recently sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray,
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles E. Grassley
(R-IA) demanded to know if the FBI refused to charge
Hillary Clinton because agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
committed similar crimes.
Grassley raises the prospect that Strzok and Page could
have engaged in the “alienation or destruction of federal
records,” and asked Wray if the agents’ handling of federal
records using private communications may have motivated
them to shy away from finding evidence of Hillary Clinton
engaging in similar acts.
Part of Grassley’s letter reads:
It appears that Strzok and Page
transmitted federal records pertaining to
the Clinton investigation on private,
non-government services. It is
important to determine whether their
own similar conduct was a factor in not
focusing on and developing evidence of
similar violations by Secretary Clinton
and her aides.
“Electronic records show Peter Strzok, who
led the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
private email server as the No. 2 official in
the counterintelligence division, changed
Comey’s earlier draft language describing
Clinton’s actions as “grossly negligent” to
“extremely careless,”” reported CNN in
December.
In what was a major blow to Mueller’s investigation into
alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
election, the special counsel was forced to fire Strzok after
anti-Trump text messages were discovered.
 US District Judge Rules Trump Admin Can Withhold $1
Million Funding To Rogue Sanctuary State Of California
By Jim Hoft
March 5, 2018, 11:54 Pm
U.S. District Judge William Orrick
refused to order President Trump to pay
California $1 million in delayed law
enforcement funding over their
sanctuary state policies.
The Trump administration has withheld $1 million to the
Golden State over its rogue illegal immigrant policies.
The Washington Times reported:
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The Trump administration will not immediately have to
award California a grant being withheld over concerns the
state is a sanctuary for people in the country illegally, a
federal judge said Monday.
The amount of money at issue – $1 million – was
relatively small and was at this point only delayed, not
denied, U.S. District Judge William Orrick said. While he
rejected the state’s request for a preliminary injunction to
turn over the money, he also rejected a request by the U.S.
Department of Justice to dismiss California’s lawsuit.
The judge said the suit raised “weighty and novel
constitutional issues” that would benefit from additional
argument.
Many cities in the U.S., and some states, have
implemented so-called sanctuary laws encouraging law
enforcement to focus resources on local crime rather than
detaining people suspected of being in the country
illegally. Defenders of the practices say they improve
public safety by promoting trust among law enforcement
and immigrant communities and reserve scarce police
resources for urgent crime-fighting needs.
 Aussie Whose Outlandish Tip Reportedly Helped
Launch Deep State Probe on Trump is a Clinton Associate
By Jim Hoft
March 6, 2018, 12:12 am
Aussie diplomate Alexander Downer’s
rumored meeting with low level Trump
volunteer George Papadopoulos at a
London bar in 2014 reportedly started
the Deep State probe on Donald Trump.
This guy.
Downer was best known for agreeing to pose for a photo
wearing a pair of fishnet stockings and high heels for a
charity promotion in 1996.
According to the far left New York
Times, the former foreign minister’s
decision to tip off US intelligence about
his conversation with Papadopoulos –
not the bogus Russia dossier inspired
the FBI probe.
This, of course, is pure fantasy.
The dossier was the only “evidence”
used by Obama and Hillary lackeys to
spy on Donald Trump during the
election, during the transition and
during his administration.
It is clear to most Americans at this point that FBI-DOJ
Deep State operatives are corrupt as the day is long.
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And now there is a report that Alexander
Downer is a former Clinton associate.
John Solomon and Alison Spann reported at The Hill:
The Australian diplomat whose tip in 2016
prompted the Russia-Trump investigation
previously arranged one of the largest
foreign donations to Bill and Hillary
Clinton’s charitable efforts, documents
show.
Former Australian Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25
million in aid from his country to help the
Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled
in decade-old government memos archived
on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.
Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a
Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that
spread out the grant money over four years for a project to
provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in
Asia.
…Downer, now Australia’s ambassador to London,
provided the account of a conversation with Trump
campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a London bar in
2016 that became the official reason the FBI opened the
Russia counterintelligence probe.
But lawmakers say the FBI didn’t tell Congress about
Downer’s prior connection to the Clinton Foundation.
Republicans say they are concerned the new information
means nearly all of the early evidence the FBI used to
justify its election-year probe of Trump came from sources
supportive of the Clintons, including the controversial
Steele dossier.
[Clinton Downer Feb 2006 Mou by JohnSolomon from
Scribd on next page]
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 TV vs. Trump in 2018: Lots of Russia,
And 91% Negative Coverage (Again!)
By Rich Noyes
March 6, 2018 8:40 AM EST
So far, 2018 looks an awful lot like 2017 — at least when
it comes to the broadcast networks’ hostile approach to
Donald Trump. A Media Research Center analysis of the
ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts in January and
February found ten times more negative comments about
the President than positive statements, and found the
ongoing Russia investigation once again swamped all other
topics.
For this study, MRC analysts looked at all 505 evening
news stories that mentioned President Trump or his
administration in January and February. Out of 851 total
minutes of airtime devoted to the administration, the
networks spent almost one-fourth of it (204 minutes, or
24%) on the Russia investigation, eclipsing other major
topics such as the economy, immigration reform, and even
the gun debate.
Since Trump took office on January 20, 2017, the three
broadcast evening newscasts have spent a combined 1,438
minutes on the Russia investigation, accounting for more
than one out of every five minutes (21%) of coverage of
the Trump presidency.
Network coverage has also emphasized the drama of
Trump’s presidency while giving short shrift to its
substance. In January and February, nearly 63 percent of
news coverage was devoted to scandals like the Russia
investigation, plus tabloid fodder such as the domestic
abuse scandal involving White House aide Rob Porter (54
minutes), the fallout from Michael Wolff’s book about the
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Trump White House (53 minutes), reports that the
President made disparaging comments about African
nations in a closed-door meeting (31 minutes), along with
dozens of other controversies the networks deemed worthy
of airtime.
During those same months, coverage of policy issues such
as immigration reform (100 minutes), the government
shutdown (84 minutes), and gun control (63 minutes)
amounted to just 37 percent of Trump’s coverage. Among
the important substantive issues getting relatively little
coverage so far this year: the continued strong economy
and jobs (12 minutes); the positive impact of the big tax
cuts passed in December (9 minutes); and the fight against
al Qaeda and ISIS (a mere 1 minute, 23 seconds).
Our analysts also measured the spin of coverage by
tallying all evaluative statements about the President and
his top officials uttered by anchor, reporters or non-
partisan news sources such as experts or voters. Out of a
total of 712 such evaluative comments, only 65 were
positive (9%) vs. 647 which were negative, or 91 percent.
(Neutral statements, as well as the comments of partisans,
were excluded from this measure).
This is essentially unchanged from the 90 percent negative
coverage we documented for all of 2017, and matches the
91 percent negative coverage we tallied during the 2016
general election campaign. Without question, no
President has ever been on the receiving end of such
hostile coverage, for such a sustained period of time, as
has Trump — and the midterm elections are still eight
months away.
Thanks to MRC intern Bill D’Agostino and former MRC
research analyst Mike Ciandella for assisting with this
report.
 Trump Gets In One Final Shot At The Oscars
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:44 AM 03/06/2018

The 26.5 million figure demonstrates a stunning drop in

Oscar viewership the tens of millions of viewers it used to
garner as early as the late 2000’s. Trump has long been a
critic of the Oscars saying in the past:

US President Donald Trump displays an executive order on the

Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives he signed in
the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June
15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should
read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump took a swipe at the lowest rated

Oscars ceremony in history, hinting that they might have
been a greater attraction if he was still involved in the
entertainment industry.

The TV ratings for the 90th Academy Awards ceremony

dropped to a record low of 26.5 million people, according
to the Associated Press. The AP noted that this drop
constituted a 20 percent loss from last year’s viewership of
33 million people.

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 Robert Mueller And His 'Vacuum-Activities'
By Roger Kimball
March 6, 2018
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
I gotta get one man till I die,
Can't help nabbin’ dat man of mine. --
Adapted from Showboat
Anyone who has read the document appointing Robert
Mueller as special counsel to investigate “any links and/or
coordination between the Russian government and
individuals associated with the campaign of President
Donald Trump” knows how far-reaching and
indiscriminate that Bill of Attainder -- er, that enabling
order is. Generally, prosecutors -- which manner of beast a
special counsel essentially is -- are mustered when there is
a crime to be investigated.
In this case, however, there was no identifiable crime.
There was only suspicion -- and hard feelings, very hard
feelings.
So Mr. Mueller -- who everyone, from Trey Gowdy on
down, has repeatedly assured us is the straightest of
straight arrows -- was given carte blanche. He was
empowered to investigate not just “any links and/or
coordination between the Russian government and
individuals associated with the campaign of President
Donald Trump” -- “links” as in golf courses? Who knows?
-- but also “any matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation” (my emphasis). And “any other
matters (my emphasis) within the scope of” the relevant
statute.
Then, the concluding nudge/incentive: “If the Special
Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the
Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes
arising from the investigation of these matters.”
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To appreciate what a wide mandate Robert “straight-
arrow” Mueller has been given, just cast your mind back
over the nearly twenty people he has indicted so far, and
consider especially what they have been indicted for. The
stated rationale for this investigation, remember, was
possible “collusion” -- it was the word of the moment
several months ago -- between Donald Trump (or at least
his campaign) and Vladimir Putin (or at least nefarious
Russian actors standing in for Putin). But so far, we have:
 General Michael Flynn, President Trump’s first national
security advisor, who was indicted for lying to the FBI
during a set-up interview even though the agents
conducting the interview concluded that he was telling
the truth. That indictment is now under review.
 George Papadopoulos, a young policy advisor to the
Trump campaign, who was also indicted for lying to the
FBI. Before he was associated with the campaign,
Papadopoulos had encountered a Russian professor
who told him the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton,
something he boasted about to an Australian diplomat
during a night of drinking.
 Then there was Paul Manafort, briefly Trump’s
campaign manager, and his associate Rick Gates.
They were indicted for money laundering and related
activities that took place long before the 2016
campaign. (“Any other matters,” you see.)
 Then there are the 13 Russian nationals who bought
Facebook ads, set up bogus Twitter accounts, etc., in
order to sow confusion and division during the 2016
campaign. Some of their activities were aimed at Hillary
Clinton, some at Bernie Sanders, some at Donald
Trump and other candidates. Their aim was the same
as in previous elections going back to the 1920s: to
create doubt and suspicion about the integrity of the
democratic process.
 Finally (well, not “finally,” really, but finally to date)
there is the case of George Nader, a Lebanese-
American businessman with ties to the United Arab
Emirates whom Mr. Mueller and his pack of
prosecutors (16 at last count, all Democrats) are
questioning about “any possible attempts by the
Emiratis to buy political influence by directing money to
support Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign.”
Meanwhile, CNN has dispatched reporters to Thailand to
interview prostitutes who claim to have dirt on Donald
Trump.
Yes, really.
What are we to make of all this sound and fury? Partly, I
believe, it is simply partisan rage. Donald Trump was not
supposed to win the election. It was declared to be
impossible. And yet he did win. Ergo, he must have done
so illicitly -- at least, there must be some way to make it
seem illicit. Hence the advent of Robert Mueller, special
counsel.
The problem thus far has been that the only “Russian
collusion” to be uncovered is the surreptitious collusion
between the Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee with Christopher Steele, who
assembled the infamous “Dossier” from a congeries of
unnamed Russian sources said to have ties the Russian
government.
So the “Russian collusion” meme has turned out to be an
unprofitable avenue of inquiry. Hence the score of
indictments on other matters -- any other matters. As
Andrew McCarthy has argued in a brilliant series of
articles, the Mueller investigation is now focused not on
whether Trump “colluded” with the Russians to win the
election -- it is clear to everyone except the lunatic
NeverTrump fringe (here’s looking at you Gabe!) that he
didn’t -- but rather to spread like manure a blanket of
suspicion that can be mobilized to institute impeachment
proceedings should the Democrats retake the House in
November.
I am not sure it is widely appreciated just how bizarre this
situation is. The conventional wisdom is that, should the
Democrats take control of the House in the midterm
elections, they would endeavor to impeach a duly elected
president. I have no idea whether that conventional
wisdom is true, but if it is true, it is a shocking indictment
of the Democrats.
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But let me finally get to Konrad Lorenz, the great Austrian
ethologist. I suspect that his book Studies in Animal and
Human Behavior contains a key to Robert Mueller’s
behavior. For the sake of argument, I will take it as granted
that Mr. Mueller is, as everyone says, a by-the-book
straight-arrow honest man. But like the fish and birds of
which Julie sings in Showboat, Robert Mueller, qua special
counsel -- that is, qua prosecutor, can’t help himself.
Prosecuting is what he does.
In this respect, his behavior resembles that described by
Konrad Lorenz under the category of “vacuum-activities.”
Certain breeds of dogs, long deprived of bones and dirt,
will act out burying a non-existent bone in non-existent
dirt, in the corner of a room, say. Bone-burying is innate
behavior in dogs. Take away the proper objects -- real
bones and real dirt -- and the behavior will “discharge”
itself in the make-believe activity. As the philosopher
David Stove observed, commenting on Lorenz:
“After a certain point, bone-free life is just
too boring for dogs.”
I believe we see something similar in Robert Mueller’s
behavior. Prosecutors, like humans, are animals, and they,
too, display innate behavior patterns. Mueller has been
given a task that might have stymied Hercules. The
commandment was clear: uncover and prosecute the
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Ruskies.
But there was no such collusion. So there he is, digging,
digging, digging, burying all those imaginary bones in the
corner of the room and getting appreciative pats on the
head from the New York Times and CNN whenever he
gnaws on the leg of another hapless victim of his vacuum-
activity.
 Trump: ‘No Chaos’ But There Are
Some People In The White House I Want To Fire
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:00 AM 03/06/2018

The president’s tweet follows several staff turnover

announcements including key aides to his son-in-law Jared
Kushner and his communications director Hope Hicks.
The President frequently embraces periods in which there
is high staff turnover to tout his difference from previous
presidents and business experience.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: U.S. President Donald Trump
greets attendees while arriving at a White House Opioid Summit
March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered brief remarks at
the conclusion of the summit aimed at addressing the opioid
addiction problems in the U.S. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty
Images)
President Donald Trump rebutted media accusations that
chaos has engulfed the White House in recent days and
revealed that there are still some staffers he would like to
get rid of, in a Tuesday morning tweet.
Trump famously declared in February 2017 that the White
House is “is running like a fine-tuned machine” just days
after his former national security advisor Mike Flynn was
fired. Trump recently poked fun at this statement at the
Gridiron dinner saying Saturday
“It’s been really another calm week at the
White House. We finally have it running like
a fine-tuned machine. It’s fine-tuned. It’s a
beautiful piece of work.”

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 All Roads Lead To Clinton Crime Family: All 4 Initiators
Of Trump Collusion Probe Were Paid By Hillary Or
Donors To Clinton Foundation
By Jim Hoft
March 6, 2018, 9:12 Am

On February 5th this story broke by Ryan Saavedra at

The Daily Wire: The Deep State FBI didn’t tell congress that the Australian
who initiated the Russia probe is connected to the
Clintons.

Hillary’s spokesparrot “she didn’t know” – see the pic.

with Bill Clinton, in the first thread, above

Today it is clear that all of the Trump-

Russian collusion propaganda was tied
to the Deep State and Clinton Crime
Family:

On Monday The Hill reported that Alexander Downer is a 1. The anti-Trump dossier was bought and paid
former Clinton associate. for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC
2. Hillary’s crooked confidant, Sidney
Rep. Devin Nunes tweeted about this Blumenthal, was a source for Christopher
development on Monday night. Steele’s anti-Trump dossier.
3. Bill’s crooked friend Alexander Downer was
source for the bar room discussions with
George Papadopoulos that was fed to the
Deep State FBI.
4. We now know ALL FOUR initiators of the
Trump-Russia Collusion investigation were
paid by Hillary Clinton or were donors to the
Clinton Foundation.

What is new is that the Australian gave

the Clintons $25 million.

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 Former Obama Aide Predicts ‘Prisons
Will Be Full Of’ Trump Associates
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
9:18 AM 03/06/2018

Former President Barack Obama’s ethics chief is

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott
Pruitt gives a thumbs up across the House chamber floor as he passes
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (R) after U.S. President Donald
Trump delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of
the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 30,
2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
referencing the Trump administration’s move to allow
Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt’s aide
to work for private clients on the side while serving at
agency. The aide serves as the EPA’s deputy associate
administrator for public affairs, which puts him in charge,
among other things, of signing off on hundreds of millions
of federal grants.
Federal regulations bar the aide from receiving in excess of
$27,765 from his outside role.
ALSO WATCH:

Former Obama White House Ethics Czar Norm Eisen said

Tuesday morning that he predicts prisons will be filled
with President Donald Trump’s associates by the time
Trump finishes his tenure as president.

“This is insane. In the Obama White

House, I even made people quit
uncompensated non-profit outside
positions because of conflicts risks. This is
FOR profit work that could conflict with
official duties. Prediction: by end of Trump
admin, prisons will be full of his
associates,” Eisen tweeted Tuesday.
Working at a federal agency while also working in the
private sector isn’t completely uncommon.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma

Abedin spent months at the State Department working
part-time as a consultant at the agency while also working
with outside clients.

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 Flynn Forced To Sell
His House To Pay His Legal Bills
By Mark Moore
March 6, 2018 | 9:24am
Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security
adviser, has put his Virginia home on the market to help
pay his mounting legal bills after pleading guilty to lying
to FBI agents about his Russia contacts, according to a
report Tuesday.
Flynn, who was fired from the White House last February,
put his 13-year-old, three-bedroom home in Old Town
Alexandria on the market in December with an asking
price of $895,000, his brother Joe Flynn told ABC News.
The retired Army general bought the house three years ago
for $774,000.
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Flynn moved to his hometown of Middletown, RI, last July
to evade the spotlight of the Russia investigation.
He pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents and is cooperating
with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump
campaign officials colluded.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it, this has been
a trying experience” for Flynn and his wife,
Lori, his brother told ABC News. “It has
been a crucible and it’s not over.”
Joe Flynn said he and other family members created a
defense fund for his brother.
He wouldn’t say how much has been raised, but said none
of the donations came from foreign nationals or from
Trump.
Flynn’s lawyer declined comment Monday, ABC News
said.
Flynn was fired from his White House post after reports
revealed he had met with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak during the campaign and misled members of the
administration about it.
 Fair Media ‘Is Dead’ In America
– House Intel Chair Nunes
Published Time: 5 Mar, 2018 16:35 Edited Time: 6 Mar, 2018 09:24
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes © Joshua
Roberts / Reuters
Chairman of the House Intel Committee Devin Nunes (R-
California) believes fair media in the US “no longer exists”
and that 90 percent of it is “far left” – even calling the
media “part of the Democratic Party’s network.”
Nunes made the comments during a lengthy interview on
the Fox News Channel Sunday show Life, Liberty & Levin
with conservative host Mark Levin.
“The media in this country is dead,” he
said. “It no longer exists and the American
people need to understand this.”
Nunes made the criticism when Levin asked him about the
media’s coverage of a controversial GOP memo written by
Nunes and published last month. It contained accusations
of bias against President Donald Trump within the FBI and
raised doubts about the Democrats’ favored narrative of
“collusion” between Trump and Russia.
The memo focused on an FBI surveillance warrant
obtained in 2016 to monitor Trump foreign policy advisor
Carter Page. In the memo, Nunes claimed that the FBI
relied on information contained in the hotly disputed
.
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‘Steele dossier’ – a document paid for partly by Hillary
Clinton’s campaign – to obtain the warrant.
Nunes went on to say that the “liberal
owners” of the media demand coverage
sympathetic to the Democrats. He berated
media organizations for being “totally
reliant on getting clicks, and playing to their
base and to their owners to support what
their owners want.”
In the past, Nunes said, newspapers like the Washington
Post did “historic work” but that they “no longer do that”
and instead focus on protecting one party over the other.
Host Levin agreed with Nunes’ assertions, adding that in
the age of Trump, the media was still working to
“protect the Obama administration no
matter what.”
Nunes was the butt of comedian Stephen Colbert’s jokes
last week, when he traveled to Washington DC and handed
out memos that read “Devin Nunes is a [redacted]” during
a sketch on the Late Show.
The intel committee chairman was not amused by the
sketch, however, calling Colbert and his jokes a “danger”
to the country.
“The left controls not only the universities in
this country, but they also control
Hollywood in this country, and the
mainstream media, so conservatives in this
country are under attack, and I think this is
a great example of it,” he said.
 6 Revelations In That
Christopher Steele Puff Piece
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:23 AM 03/06/2018

“Several months after Steele signed the

deal, he learned that, through this chain,
his research was being jointly subsidized
by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C.,”
Mayer reported.

Also WATCH:

Former British spy Christopher Steele wrote the Steele

dossier. (YouTube screen capture/CBS News)

 A New Yorker profile of dossier author Christopher

Steele provided several new revelations
 MSNBC host Rachel Maddow touted it as a
“staggering piece of reporting”
 Trump has denied the dossier claim, calling it
“disgusting”

A new profile of dossier author Christopher Steele
provided several new revelations about the creation of the
salacious and unverified dossier.
The piece, from New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, was
widely hailed by mainstream and left-leaning journalists.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow touted it as a “staggering
piece of reporting,” citing it as the biggest bombshell in the
revelation that Steele wrote a memo alleging the Kremlin
intervened to block President Donald Trump from
selecting Mitt Romney as his secretary of state.
The piece does reveal numerous previously unknown facts
about Steele and the dossier. Not all of the facts are
favorable to the former MI6 officer and his infamous
report.
1. Steele likely knew who funded the dossier
Steele learned months after being hired by Fusion GPS
that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign
and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were
funding his investigation, according to Mayer. That is a
new revelation and raises even more questions about why
the FBI failed to disclose the dossier’s funding sources in
applications for spy warrants against former Trump
campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Republicans have accused the FBI and Justice Department
of abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) process by failing to disclose that the Clinton
campaign and DNC funded the dossier.
Instead, the application stated only that Fusion GPS, the
opposition research firm that hired Steele, told him its
client had a political bias against Trump.
“The identified U.S. Person never advised
Source #1 as to the motivation behind the
research into Candidate #1’s ties to
Russia,” reads the FISA application.
2. Steele used dozens of paid confidential “collectors”
One of the burning questions of the dossier is whether
Steele and his firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, paid
sources and sub-sources to gather information about
Trump.
Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, testified
before Congress that Steele did not, but Mayer’s reporting
suggests he did pay intermediaries for his information.
“To serve its clients, Orbis employs dozens
of confidential ‘collectors’ around the world,
whom it pays as contract associates,”
 Mayer reported. “Some of the collectors are
private investigators at smaller firms; others
are investigative reporters or highly placed
experts in strategically useful jobs.
Depending on the task and the length of
engagement, the fee for collectors can be
as much as two thousand dollars a day.”
(RELATED: Former CIA Official Says No Evidence Of
Trump Campaign Collusion)
The prospect of Steele paying intermediaries has been
cause for concern for some former intelligence officials.
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell was
concerned about Steele paying for information because
sources
“are going to tell you truth and innuendo
and rumor, and they’re going to call you up
and say, ‘Hey, let’s have another meeting, I
have more information for you,’ because
they want to get paid some more,” he said
in 2017.
3. Work for Kremlin-connected oligarch?
Mayer’s report briefly touches on possible links between
Steele and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close
ties to Vladimir Putin.
It recently emerged that Steele may have worked in the
past for Deripaska. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a
Republican, raised questions about any ties between the
two, in a letter to Adam Waldman, an American lobbyist
who has worked for Deripaska on visa issues since 2009.
Waldman exchanged text messages with Virginia Sen.
Mark Warner, a Democrat, to set up a meeting with Steele.
In those texts, published by Fox News, Waldman also
mentioned possible immunity for Deripaska in exchange
for his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence.
Mayer suggests there is likely a connection between
Deripaska and Steele. If so, it will likely raise questions
about the former spy.
“If a financial trail between Deripaska and
Orbis can be established, it is likely to raise
even more questions about Steele,
because Deripaska has already figured in
the Russia investigation, in an unsavory
light,” Mayer reported.
(RELATED: Russian Oligarch May Have Links To
Christopher Steele)
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Deripaska is a former business partner of Paul Manafort,
the former Trump campaign chairman who special counsel
Robert Mueller recently indicted. Manafort sent emails
during the campaign offering briefings to Deripaska, to
whom he reportedly owed nearly $20 million from a failed
business venture.
4. Salacious claims were based on secondhand
information
The most shocking allegation in the dossier is that the
Kremlin is blackmailing Trump with video footage of a
tryst he had in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes
during a trip there in 2013. Steele makes the allegation in
the first memo of the dossier, dated June 20, 2016.
None of Steele’s sources for that claim had direct
knowledge of the incident, Mayer reported.
“The allegation was attributed to four
sources, but their reports were secondhand
— nobody had witnessed the event or
tracked down a prostitute, and one spoke
generally about ’embarrassing material,'”
she noted.
Trump has denied the dossier claim, calling it
“disgusting.”
5. Steele briefed Jane Mayer during the campaign
It is perhaps no surprise that Mayer offered up a glowing
profile of Steele. That’s because the veteran reporter
was one of a handful of journalists handpicked by Fusion
GPS to receive a briefing by Steele prior to the election.
Steele has acknowledged in a London court, where he’s
being sued over the dossier, that in September 2016, he
briefed reporters from The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Yahoo! News, and The New Yorker.
Only Yahoo!’s Michael Isikoff published an article about
Page based on Steele’s unverified allegations about that
the campaign adviser’s activities in Moscow in July 2016.
That article was cited in FISA applications against Page.
“These encounters were surely sanctioned
in some way by Fusion’s client, the Clinton
campaign,” Mayer wrote of her briefing
from Steele and Fusion GPS. “The
sessions were off the record, but because
Steele has since disclosed having
participated in them I can confirm that I
attended one of them.”
Steele did not distribute the dossier, provide evidence or
identify his sources, Mayer said.
6. McCain associate wanted to use dossier to force
Trump to resign
David Kramer, a former State Department official and
associate of GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona, had a plan
for the dossier, according to Mayer.
“A former national-security official who
spoke with Kramer at the time told me that
one of Kramer’s ideas was to have McCain
confront Trump with the evidence, in the
hope that Trump would resign,” she
reported.
“He would tell Trump, ‘The Russians have
got you,'” Mayer claimed.
An attorney for Kramer, who until recently served as a
director for the McCain Institute,
“maintains that Kramer never considered
getting Trump to resign and never
promised to show the dossier only to
McCain,” Mayer added.
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Kramer and McCain were first told about the dossier on
Nov. 18, 2016, during a conversation with Sir Andrew
Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia and Steele
associate.
McCain dispatched Kramer to England after the meeting to
meet with Steele. There he was briefed on the dossier and
later provided a copy to McCain. The Republican shared
the document with then-FBI Director James Comey during
a brief meeting on Dec. 9, 2016. (RELATED: McCain
Associate Invokes Fifth To Avoid Revealing Dossier
Sources)
Four days later, Steele provided Kramer and McCain with
his final memo of what is now known as the dossier.
Kramer is the only person known to have handled the final
version of the dossier who has not denied providing it to
BuzzFeed. Fusion GPS, Steele and McCain have all denied
being the website’s source.
 Dem Rep. Admits Trump-Russia Probe
Is “Running Joke” With Fellow Dem Lawmaker,
Says Voters Never Ask About It (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 6, 2018, 10:32 Am

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Tuesday While on “The View,” Schiff admitted

morning, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) what everyone has known for quite a
admitted that the Trump-Russia probe is while – there is no evidence of
a “running joke,” with a fellow Democrat collusion!
lawmaker, later saying his colleague’s
voters never ask about it.

From The Federalist:

When asked by Robert Costa of the Washington Post about
why Democrats are not campaigning on the probe, the
lawmaker had this to say…
HIMES:
“…Here’s the thing. My good friend [Dem
Rep.] Cheri Bustos who represents a very
tough district in Illinois, we have sort of a
running joke going in the mornings, which
is, she’s got a district very different from
mine and I represent Fairfield County,
Connecticut. She’s in the heartland in a
distinct that we need to figure out how to
win again. Every Monday morning when I
see Cheri and we come up there’s a little
bit of laughter and she says, ‘you know
what? My constituents are still not asking
me about Russia.
Rep. Adam Schiff conceded Thursday
there is still no evidence President Trump
or his campaign colluded with Russia to
win the election, and made a point of
distancing himself from any charges of
treason against the president.
Schiff has been driving the Trump-Russia
collusion narrative on behalf of his party for
months from his seat on the House
Intelligence Committee, claiming recently
he has seen “more than circumstantial”
evidence of collusion. But he offered
nothing substantial to back up his claim
when pressed on “The View” to get
specific, and acknowledged hard proof of
collusion may never materialize, even after
an intensive and months-long investigation
by special counsel Robert Mueller.

While Democrats joke about the probe being a nothing

burger, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) recently admitted that
zero evidence of collusion has been found.

Schiff has been a key figure behind the Trump/Russia

witch hunt since day one, writes John S. Roberts at Right
Observer.

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 Rice expressed the hope that the House
Intelligence Committee will soon conclude
its investigation into Russia’s meddling in
the 2016 election.

https://twitter.com/TheView/status/969377375476637696

“I appreciate what you’re doing for the

country, but I really hope you can wrap it
up. The country needs to get back to
business, so that’s my greatest hope is that
this gets done,” she told Schiff.
Fox News Insider has more: What now, Schiff?

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Time to move on, yes?

Rice delivered a blunt message to Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-Calif) when both appeared More pressing matters at hand?
on “The View” Thursday.
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 Congress Wasn’t Told Of Clinton
Foundation Ties To FBI’s Australian Informant
Bureau Omitted Key Info About Alexander Downer, Whose Tip Allegedly
Instigated Massive Trump-Russia Special Counsel Investigation
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 06 Mar 2018 At 11:40 AM
Top FBI leaders kept from Congress key information
about deep ties between an Australian diplomat and the
Clinton Foundation, even though the official’s tip helped
spark the investigation of allegations of collusion between
President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian
interests.
“We talked to [Rep.] Jim Jordan [R-Ohio]
for our story, and he was shocked when he
heard this information,” journalist Alison
Spann of The Hill told Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle” on Monday night. “So we
actually brought this information to these
congressional committees, who are
investigating this case. They had no idea
the FBI did not disclose this information to
them.”
“So they’re shocked. And they want this to
be investigated,” Spann continued. “In fact,
Jordan said that he wants a second special
counsel because, as he says, the FBI
cannot investigate themselves.”
Jordan, chairman of the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, told The Hill,
“The Clintons’ tentacles go everywhere. So
that’s why it’s important. We continue to get
new information every week, it seems, that
sort of underscores the fact that the FBI
hasn’t been square with us.”
Spann and The Hill’s John Solomon reported Monday that
Downer helped direct $25 million from the Australian
government to the Clinton Foundation in 2006. The funds
were to be used in the foundation’s anti-HIV/AIDS efforts.
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Downer also tipped off the FBI about his 2016
conversation with former Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos at a London bar in 2016, which
“became the official reason the FBI opened
the Russia counterintelligence probe,”
Spann and Solomon reported.
Ingraham noted this information “is one more example” of
the anti-Trump bias that fueled the Trump-Russia
investigation and led to the surveillance of former
volunteer Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Trump
was widely expected to lose the 2016 contest to the
Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton.
A four-page summary of classified information composed
by Republican staffers of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence was made public in February. It
said the FBI failed to tell the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court that the bureau's application
for approval to spy on Page in 2016 was based mainly on
an unverified anti-Trump dossier written by former British
spy Christopher Steele. Steele's work was paid for by
Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
"First you have the dossier being funded by
Hillary Clinton and the [Democratic
National Committee]. That wasn't revealed
to the FISA judge. And now you have this,"
Ingraham said.
Spann noted
"there's actually four pieces of information"
that the FBI "didn't reveal."
"The dossier was funded by the DNC and
Clinton. Sidney Blumenthal, who is a close
Clinton supporter, was funneling
information to Christopher Steele through
the State Department. And you had the
Yahoo article that was quoted in the [FBI's]
FISA application written by Michael Isikoff,
who got his information from Christopher
 Steele," Spann said. "Then now we have
this connection between Alexander Downer
and the Clintons."
"So [Downer's] the one that actually gave
that information to his government. The
Australian government gave it to the U.S.
government and that launched the whole
Russia probe into Trump-Russia collusion,"
Spann said. "Well, now we find out that
Alexander Downer has a tie to the
Clintons."
Said Ingraham,
"The more important thing is why wasn't
this revealed" to congressional
investigators. "That's a big grant that's a
connection to the opposition candidate to
Donald Trump. [Downer] happens to be in
.
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this bar. He happens to meet this
Papadopoulos guy. He happens to funnel
the information. And he's not a minor
figure. He's a well-known liberal politician in
Australia who's buddies with the Clintons."
Spann told Ingraham an audit conducted three years after
Australia donated the $25 million to the Clinton
Foundation found money mismanagement, which raised
further questions.
"But there were some questions about the
money in that case and whether it was
handled properly," Spann said. "And, in
fact, the report goes on to say that it was
so mishandled it was actually detrimental to
the project. And they were given a score of
two out of six for handling the money."
Australian Amb. Who Prompted Trump-Russia Probe Has
Decade Long Relationship To Clintons – Jim Jordan Wants
Answers (And A Second Special Counsel)
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
10:50 AM 03/06/2018

Congressman Jim Jordan says this new revelation shoots

down claims made by House Intelligence ranking member
Adam Schiff. He added the news further necessitates
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special
counsel to probe the FBI and Justice Department’s
handling of the initial counterintelligence investigation
into the Trump campaign.

“Schiff made a big point of this in his memo

and comments he’s made, where he said
The Australian diplomat whose account of a 2016 ‘the dossier wasn’t the most important thing
conversation with embattled Trump campaign staffer they were investigating, and the catalyst for
George Papadopoulos prompted the FBI to formally open the Russian investigation was this
its Russia collusion probe has a decade-long, multi-million Papadopoulos meeting,” the Ohio
dollar connection to the Clinton Foundation. Republican told The Daily Caller. “Now
we’ve learned, the thing they kept hanging
The Hill reported that Alexander Downer — who at the their hat on was the Papadopoulos meeting
time served as Australia’s foreign minister — helped with Ambassador Downer, and it turns out
launch a $25 million partnership between Australia and that Mr. Downer now had ties to the
The Clinton Foundation to help fight AIDS back in 2006. Clintons as well.”
“He arranged $25 million in contributions to
The Clinton Foundation, and I believe that
Downer arranged the meeting with
Papadopoulos. It wasn’t just, ‘oh shazam,
we’re in the same bar and this guy is just
shooting his mouth off.’ It wasn’t a
coincidence.”

Additionally, Jordan noted that the Downer news mirrors

the same “pattern” of revelations pertaining to Fusion
GPS’ infamous Trump dossier, compiled by ex-British spy
Christopher Steele.
Australia’s foreign minister Alexander Downer (L) speaks as his
Mexican counterpart Luis Ernesto Derbez listens during a joint news
conference at the foreign ministry in Mexico City January 6, 2005.
The ministers announced that a committee of experts will be set up to
research the possibility of a free trade agreement between the two
countries. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Not only was the initiative one of the single, largest

charitable endeavors undertaken in The Clinton
Foundation’s 21 year history — Australia was one of only
four countries to pledge $25 million to The Clinton
Foundation — but Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan now
says that the FBI failed to alert Congress of Downer’s
connection to the Clintons.

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Republican US Representative from Ohio Jim Jordan questions
former US Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton as she testifies before the House Select Committee on
Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2015
(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Most importantly, Jordan suggested that the new

information raises questions about what exactly the Obama
White House knew about the FBI’s investigation and when
they knew it.

“We learned in July that the FBI had the

dossier. And then we subsequently learned
it wasn’t just the FBI who had the dossier, it
was also the Justice Department, mainly
Bruce Ohr. So it’s, like wait. The obvious
question is now did the White House have
it? Did Obama know? We don’t know the
answer to that question. But the pattern
suggests that those 10 questions that
Devin [Nunes] sent to those 24 people a
couple of weeks ago, and he got those first
responses back on Friday, those 10
questions on the dossier are so important.”
(RELATED: Nunes Presses Obama Officials On Steel
Dossier)
Jordan also told TheDC that Sessions
should appoint “someone outside the
swamp” to serve as the second special
counsel.
“Just pick someone from Oklahoma, Iowa,
somewhere from the middle of the country.
A well-respected, retired federal judge or
some prosecutor who’s well respected to
assemble a team and let them do it. I don’t
see any other remedy. Mueller can’t
expand his probe into this because he
would be compromised,” he added. “It
seems to me the only remedy is a second
special counsel and then if you pick the
right person there’s a chance at the
conclusion there can be some type of
closure and acceptance on the part of the
American people. They want people held
accountable”
Jordan and other Republican lawmakers have previously
called for a second special counsel to investigate FISA
court abuses used to obtain warrants for members of the
Trump campaign. (RELATED: Jordan Demands
Sessions Appoint Second Special Counsel)
WATCH:
“Remember this too,” he said during a Fox
News interview last week. “Comey is gone.
McCabe has left the FBI. Rybicki has left
the FBI, former chief of staff. Jim Baker,
general counsel at the FBI, has been
demoted and reassigned. Lisa Page, has
been demoted and reassigned Peter
Strzok, former deputy head of
counterintelligence, has been demoted and
reassigned.”
“But we’re supposed to believe those top
people at the FBI can investigate
themselves?”
“It can’t work,” Jordan added. “So, appoint
the second special counsel, Mr. Attorney
General, and let’s get on with this and get
answers to the American people.”
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: Former Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (L) and former President Bill
Clinton arrive on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20,
2017 in Washington, DC. In today’s inauguration ceremony Donald
J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by
Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Downer — now Australia’s ambassador to the United
Kingdom — originally reached out to the FBI in July
2016, two months after his meeting with Papadopoulos,
when WikiLeaks released hacked emails obtained from the
Democratic National Committee.
(RELATED: Trump’s Aide’s Drunken Conversation
Sparked Russia Probe)

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The FBI formally opened its counterintelligence
investigation into possible collusion between the Trump
campaign in Russia shortly after Downer contacted the
bureau.

WATCH:

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 'You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape':
Morning Joe Panelists Worship Robert Mueller
By Bill D'Agostino
March 6, 2018 11:51 AM EST
On Tuesday, the Robert Mueller devotees on MSNBC’s
Morning Joe broke out the pom-poms for their champion,
gleefully speculating about the various ways in which the
Special Counsel could ruin ex-Trump campaign operative
Sam Nunberg.
It’s no secret that the media are among President Trump’s
harshest critics; their hysterical coverage of him began
almost immediately after he announced his candidacy in
2015, and it has not let up one iota since then. This wall-
to-wall coverage has caused many in the media to be
stricken with acute cases of Trump derangement
syndrome. For these individuals, the appointment of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller signified the coming of a
hero who might deliver them from the horror of the Trump
administration.
Thus when Sam Nunberg deigned to defy a subpoena from
Mueller's investigative team, the media were
understandably outraged. Morning Joe ran several
segments on Tuesday covering a bizarre series television
appearances by Nunberg the day before, and each time
host Joe Scarborough could not help but extol the
awesome power of Mueller.
“You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you
don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the
mask off the old Lone Ranger,”
Scarborough intoned ominously. “And you
don’t defy a subpoena by Robert Mueller
The Third.”
Later, he added,
“If Ken Starr sent Susan Mcdougal to
prison for a year and a half, Bob Mueller
would bury Nunberg underneath a federal
penitentiary somewhere.”
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The panel shared Scarborough’s indignation that Nunberg
had been so insolent as to dismiss the Mueller subpoena.
Over the course of the first hour, the image of Mueller was
gradually distorted from one of a particularly savvy
prosecutor into the likeness of a vengeful super hero.
“I’ve likened him to shark,” author David
Ignatius remarked thoughtfully. “You only
see him when the fin breaks the surface,
just before the strike.”
Several grandiose epithets later, he dropped the following
line:
He knows exactly what you’re lying about
and what you’re telling the truth on, and
then he strikes. And I can imagine if you’re
Sam Nunberg, suddenly you’re face to face
with the toughest prosecutor of our
generation.
Hours later, Scarborough echoed Ignatius’s sentiment:
“We may find out that Robert Mueller is one
of the most effective prosecutors of our
generation.” The pair eagerly heaped
praise on the Special Counsel for the
remainder of the show, reflecting that he
“has so much more” information than
anyone had previously suspected, and
celebrating how “brilliantly” he had
managed his office.
In the show’s third hour, Scarborough raised the bar for
lofty metaphors with this gem:
Robert Mueller’s investigation is like death and taxes. It’s
coming at you – and I’m not saying this to be glib. It’s
coming at you. It cannot be avoided. And if you try to be
cute, you will learn what Mr. Gates learned last week: that
Bob Mueller knows when you’re lying to him.
David Ignatius would not be outdone. Before signing off,
he evoked the image of "a cyclone swirling around the
calmest man on the planet: Robert Mueller."
 HISTORIC BIAS: Study Finds 91% Broadcast
Coverage Of President Trump Negative
By Lucian Wintrich
March 6, 2018, 11:58 Am
We’ve all seen the coverage of President Trump since he
took office, from Kimmel and the late night morons
to regularMSM anchors, it seemed that nearly all reporting
on the president and this administration has involved
baseless attacks and fake news. In a shocking predictable
new study released, the Media Research Center found that
on the “Big Three” broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and
NBC) there were
“ten times more negative comments about
the President than positive statements, and
found the ongoing Russia investigation
once again swamped all other topics.”
This pattern has been witnessed, and tracked by Media
Research Center, since then-candidate Donald Trump ran
in 2016. According to analysis, this media trend has never
been seen before with any sitting president.
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More via CNS:
[…] One out of every three minutes of
broadcast evening news coverage was
devoted to the Trump story last year, a
new Media Research Center (MRC)
study shows.
Investigation into alleged Russia “collusion” was the top
item covered (1,234 minutes) – getting more than ten times
the attention of the second-most covered topic: response to
the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia (104 minutes).
As a proxy for the larger establishment media, the MRC
analyzed every moment of coverage of President Trump
last year on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts,
usually seen by more than 25 million
people each night.
The major findings:
 The Trump presidency was the biggest story
of the year, accounting for one out of every
three minutes of evening news airtime —
nearly 100 hours in total.
 The tone of coverage has been incessantly
hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10%
positive (These percentages do not include
neutral statements).
 There were only three months in 2017 when
Trump’s level of good press rose above 10
percent on the evening news
More than two-fifths of evening news
coverage of the President (43%) focused on
controversies, not policies, with the Russia
investigation alone accounting for one-fifth of
all Trump coverage (1,234 minutes).
 Despite their massive coverage of Russia,
the networks had almost no airtime for
questions about how the investigation began,
or whether special counsel Robert Mueller’s
current investigation is biased.
 MSNBC, CNN Blur Journalism Ethics Lines With
‘Irresponsible’ Sam Nunberg ‘Scandal Porn’ Interviews
By Brian Flood | Fox News
March 6, 2018

Allen called it “awful scandal porn” and pointed out that

one of Nunberg’s friends is “furious” because the former
Trump aide was being taken advantage of by an assortment
of cable news anchors.

Liberal news organizations feasted Monday on Sam

Nunberg, a clearly distressed, possibly drunk bit player
from the early days of the Trump campaign, as multiple
interviews went off the rails and media members took
advantage of a clearly fragile man.
The Society of Professional Journalists ethics chair
“This is one of the reasons America hates Andrew Seaman penned a blog entry about the
the media,” Axios’ Mike Allen wrote. “Our situation and said it’s “complicated” but “it may have been
entire industry lit itself on fire because a best and more responsible to tape an interview with
troubled Trump hanger-on made an ass of Nunberg instead of airing it on live television.”
himself — live.”
“In many cases -- including this one, I think
journalists can do better,” he said.

Nunberg’s wild day kicked off when he called into

MSNBC to chat with Katy Tur, who allowed him to
embarrass himself for an extended period without
wrapping the phone interview. Instead, Tur allowed the
combative interview to linger uncomfortably as she
attempted to find a smoking gun regarding alleged
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Media analyst and journalism ethics guru Jeffrey McCall

told Fox News that Nunberg's appearances on cable news
channels “might have made for sensational and dramatic
Nunberg, who was fired by the Trump campaign back in
television,” but they were “not helpful in terms of
2015, made numerous appearances throughout the day on
providing viewers with information of substance” and
both CNN and MSNBC in which he claimed he wouldn’t
“causes credibility problems” for networks that went all-in
cooperate with a subpoena sent by Robert Mueller's office.
on a questionable source.
During the media blitz, Nunberg was allowed to spew
distasteful and insensitive remarks about Press Secretary
Sarah Sanders, accuse Trump surrogates of extramarital “Producers should have simply done a
affairs and even refer to Trump as an “idiot.” recorded interview with Nunberg and then
taken the time to sort things out in the edit
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 room to determine if his comments could now in having a drunk or drugged person
really add anything to the story,” McCall on air on national TV like this? None.”
said. “Instead, the producers sought the
excitement of live television and this is the
result.”

Political consultant Philippe Reines said Burnett should

have ended the interview and predicted that Trump and the
GOP will eventually mock CNN for the stunt,
The Daily Beast reported that “several” friends of Nunberg
were concerned that he had been drinking “prior to dialing “They admit they put drunks on. Drunk
in to MSNBC and CNN.” News!”

Ironically, CNN’s self-appointed ombudsman to the world

Brian Stelter pondered in his “Reliable Sources” newsletter
whether or not it was ethical to put Nunberg on television.

Nunberg went on to speak with NY1’s Josh Robin,

MSNBC’s Ari Melber, CNN’s Gloria Borger and CNN’s
Jake Tapper before CNN’s Erin Burnett finally had a
come-to-Jesus moment. On live TV, Burnett told viewers
that she smelled alcohol on Nunberg’s breath and that
White House officials have speculated that he was
drinking or “on drugs” during the chaotic media
appearances.
"I haven't had a drink," Nunberg replied.
“Anti-depressants, is that OK?”
While MSNBC essentially sat back and enjoyed the show,
CNN’s Burnett at least confronted Nunberg with the fact
that he smelled like alcohol. But that didn’t stop viewers
from ripping Jeff Zucker’s network for the “irresponsible”
interview.
Shareblue media’s Oliver Willis tweeted,
“If your source seems drunk or drugged or
just plain out of his mind, what is your
responsibility?” he asked.
“Regardless of whether Nunberg might
have been under the influence, his
comments didn't have to be aired live and
should have been scrutinized more
carefully before dissemination," McCall
said. "This episode gives fuel to the
narrative that some news outlets are so
determined to churn the Trump-Russia
story that they will put a fringe source on
live television in the hopes that it somehow
can be a newsy scoop.

“This is extremely irresponsible from CNN

and Burnett… What news value is there

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 “Nobody knows how credible Nunberg
really is, but this kind of news broadcasting
no doubt causes credibility problems for the
channels that went all-in on a questionable
source,” he added.

CNN and MSNBC did not respond to separate requests for

comment.

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 Liberals Go Ballistic After President Trump Zings
Hollywood For Lowest Rated Oscars In History
By Cristina Laila
March 6, 2018, 12:05 Pm

The telecast, nearly four hours long, stumbled 19 percent

from the previous year to 26.5 million viewers. That’s
easily the least-watched Oscars in history, trailing 2008 by
more than 5 million. Overnight returns had the lengthy
ABC telecast averaging a 18.9 rating among households
between 8 and 11 p.m. ET. Compared to the same stat for
2017, the night the wrong best picture winner was named,
that was down a more modest 16 percent.

Here’s a look at the last ten Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel opened the Oscars like a 2018: 26.5 million viewers
far left political rally urging viewers to 2017: 32.9 million viewers
march for gun control and lobbing 2016: 34.4 million viewers
insults at Vice President Mike Pence. 2015: 37.3 million viewers
2014: 43.7 million viewers
2013: 40.4 million viewers
2012: 39.5 million viewers
2011: 37.9 million viewers
2010: 41.6 million viewers
2009: 36.9 million viewers
2008: 31.8 million Viewers*

President Trump zinged Hollywood Tuesday morning for

their low-rated awards show and triggered the liberals with
a little joke.

POTUS Trump: Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY.

Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore – except your
President (just kidding, of course)!

The 2018 Hollywood Awards shot stumbled to its worst

viewership in history on Sunday night.

Guess most Americans don’t want to be

lectured by sex-crazed hypocrites?

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

Of course the libs went ballistic.
A comparatively uneventful Oscar telecast
led the way on TV Sunday night — though
There is something satisfying about watching liberals in
updated numbers have the telecast
agony over the fact that Donald Trump is indeed their
somewhat predictably stumbling to an all-
president.
time low.

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 GLOBALIST PAUL RYAN Hits Trump Again On
Proposed Tariffs — Defends Foreign Manufacturers With
Inferior Product (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 6, 2018, 1:23 Pm

Paul Ryan is supporting foreign

companies with inferior product and
fraudulent practices.

On Tuesday Kobe Steel from Japan

admitted it was putting out inferior
product for five decades.

Reuters reported:

Speaker Paul Ryan pushed back against
President Donald Trump’s announce-
ment to place tariffs on foreign
aluminum and steel.
Paul Ryan, a renowned globalist who
joined President Obama in pushing the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, attacked
President Trump on Monday for his
announcement to place tariffs on
foreign steel and aluminum.
Paul Ryan still has NO INTENTION of
passing the Trump agenda more than a
year after his stunning win over Hillary
Clinton.
Paul Ryan came out again on Tuesday and slammed
President Trump’s plan to tax aluminum and steel imports.
Kobe Steel Ltd admitted on Tuesday its
data fraud has been going on nearly five
decades and also revealed new cases of
cheating, highlighting the challenges facing
the 112-year-old company mired in
compliance failures and malfeasance.
Japan’s third-biggest steelmaker said its
CEO will step down to take responsibility
for the widespread data fraud scandal that
came to light last year, although doubts
remain over its corporate culture and the
possibility of future fines.
Kobe Steel, which supplies steel parts to
manufacturers of cars, planes and trains
around the world, admitted last year to
supplying products with falsified
specifications to about 500 customers,
throwing global supply chains into turmoil.

The company, in announcing the results from a four-

month-long investigation by an external committee, said it
had also found new cases of impropriety, widening the
total of affected clients to 605, including 222 customers
overseas.

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REPORT: AG Sessions To Make ‘MAJOR’ Announcement
About Sanctuary Cities Tomorrow
By Joshua Caplan
March 6, 2018, 2:00 Pm
On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions is scheduled to appear before
the California Peace Officers’ Associa-
tion in Sacramento to make a “major”
announcement about Sanctuary Cities.
Mercury News reports:
Sessions will make the “major sanctuary jurisdiction”
announcement at the 26th Annual Law Enforcement
Legislative Day, according to a news release from the
Department of Justice.
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The announcement comes after Oakland Mayor Libby
Schaaf warned residents of an imminent raid by federal
immigration agents last week that led to the ICE director
saying the mayor tipped off criminals. The White House
and ICE Director Thomas Homan also announced that the
Department of Justice would launch a “review” of the
mayor’s actions. A department spokesperson declined to
comment when asked this week whether a probe was
underway.
News of the announcement follows the Justice
Department issuing a “final warning,” to various sanctuary
cities around the country. Cook County, Illinois, Chicago,
Illinois, New Orleans, Louisiana, New York, New York
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are on the Justice
Department’s hit list for failing to enforce federal
immigration laws.
The cities had until October 27th to provide additional
evidence that the interpretation and application of their
laws, policies, or practices comply with the statute.
Perhaps the announcement is a follow-up?
 Stone Distances Himself From
Former Trump Aide Nunberg’s ‘Car Crash’
Former Adviser To President Claims On 'The Laura Ingraham Show' He
Never Met Face-To-Face With Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 06 Mar 2018 At 2:11 PM
Veteran Republican political operative Roger Stone
distanced himself Tuesday morning from Sam Nunberg,
who raised eyebrows in a series of TV interviews
prompted by his brief stint as a minor adviser to President
Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“It was certainly riveting to watch, kind of
like a car crash,” Stone said on “The Laura
Ingraham Show” during an interview with
host Laura Ingraham. “Sam is very much
his own man, marches to his own drummer
— certainly [was] not acting at my behest
or direction.”
Nunberg, who worked briefly for the Trump campaign in
2015 before he was let go as a result of a racially charged
Facebook post, appeared on numerous news shows
Monday to trumpet his vow to ignore a subpoena from
special counsel Robert Mueller, a stance he since has
reversed.
Nunberg made a number of assertions, speculated that the
Russians “have something” on Trump and — at one point
during an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett — denied he
had been drinking alcohol before coming on air.
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Stone, whom Trump also fired during the campaign but
who has remained in touch with the president, called
Nunberg a brilliant writer and researcher. But he said he
did not ask him to resist Mueller's inquiries.
Stone said information contained in the subpoena sent to
Nunberg offers clues about Mueller's approach.
"Evidently, according to what his lawyer
told my attorneys, among the many, many,
many questions they asked him was
whether I had met Julian Assange of
WikiLeaks during the 2016 election," said
Stone. "The answer to that, which I can
give you right now on 'The Laura
Ingraham Show,' is 'no.'"
Stone said Assange is a "courageous journalist" but added
that his passport proves he did not leave the country during
the campaign. That means Stone could not have met face-
to-face with the WikiLeaks founder, who has been holed
up for more than five years in London's Ecuadorian
embassy.
Stone also said he never has discussed WikiLeaks or
Assange with Trump — either during or after the election.
Stone noted that the subpoena apparently asks many
detailed questions about a number of Trump aides.
"The only thing I can imagine here is that
he [Nunberg] just was overwhelmed by
this," he said.
Stone said Nunberg has no knowledge of the inner
workings of the Trump campaign or the administration.
 "That all sounded like speculation to me,"
he said. "I don't know on what he bases
that speculation."
Stone said the massive coverage of Nunberg is curious,
given the much bigger story of abuse by Trump's
predecessor.
"The media emphasis on this is an attempt
to distract from the fact that we now know
that the FBI and the DOJ [Department of
Justice] under Barack Obama used a
fabricated dossier; they used fabricated
evidence as [an] underlying legal rationale
for this surveillance of the Republican
candidate for [the] president's campaign,"
he said.
"This makes Watergate look like small
potatoes. This is an abuse of power that
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involves the actual function and authority of
government," Stone claimed.
Stone urged Trump to take action against Attorney General
Jeff Sessions, whom the president's supporters blame for
the chain of events that led to Mueller's appointment.
"What I really don't understand is why the
president — instead of tweeting [about] Jeff
Sessions [that] he's unhappy — doesn't
just fire him," he said. "He [Sessions] is
clearly not committed to the rule of law."
In his CNN interview Monday, Nunberg said if he and
Stone were at the White House, Trump's approval rating
would be at 55 percent. Stone found little fault with that.
"That may be the one thing Sam said that
was absolutely correct," he said.
 Separated At Birth:
Gossipy Author Michael Wolff
Betsy Rothstein - Reporter
2:44 PM 03/07/2018

Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff has received

worldwide attention for the juicy gossip unleashed on
Washington in his bombshell book.

He has also had completely bizarre moments — like in

London when he played dumb and walked off a Australian
TV set. Wolff pretended to not hear a question about his
now retracted claim that President Trump had engaged in
an extramarital affair while serving in the White House.
Wolff/Getty.
Even the newscaster knew Wolff was full of shit about not
being able to hear him.
There’s no walking away from this one.
The President’s alleged sexual extracurriculars aside,
Even Wolff would have to acknowledge the uncanny
what’s unmistakable is Wolff’s doppelgänger: Dr. Evil
similarity.
from the Austin Powers flicks portrayed by comedian
Mike Myers.

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 Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Received Inside Info From Russia Probe
Closed-Door Testimony Before The House Russia Probe Is Supposed To Stay Behind
Closed Doors. Somehow, It Got Into The Hands Of Another Witness—
And Key Trump Confidant—Instead.
Betsy Woodruff & Spencer Ackerman
03.06.18 1:56 PM ET

On Dec. 19, 2017, a former staffer for Sen. John McCain

named David Kramer testified before the House
intelligence committee behind closed doors. He’d played a
role in bringing the salacious and unverified Steele dossier
to the FBI’s attention, and members peppered him with
questions about it.
Then something unusual happened. Word of Kramer's
testimony got out—to the lawyer of another witness.
The following, based on conversations with multiple
sources familiar with the matter, illuminates the
extraordinary breakdown of trust between committee
investigators and the witnesses they call. It also suggests
that some people working on the committee investigation
may be trying to covertly assist one of the president’s
closest allies—when the president’s inner circle is
ostensibly a focus of their probe.
A few days after Kramer’s testimony, his lawyer, Larry
Robbins, got a strange call. The call was from Stephen
Ryan, a lawyer who represents Trump’s longtime personal
attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen is facing scrutiny from
special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional
investigators regarding potential coordination between
Trump’s team and the Kremlin. He featured prominently in
the Steele dossier—the document that Kramer handled—
and is suing BuzzFeed for publishing it.
Ryan told Robbins he reached out because someone from
the House told him that Robbins’ client, Kramer, had
information about the Steele dossier that could help Cohen.
Robbins declined to help. Ryan then asked Robbins not to
tell the House intel committee about their conversation.
Robbins told the committee anyway. CNN reported in
February that Robbins wrote a letter to the committee
complaining about leaks to another client’s lawyer. The
Daily Beast can now confirm that this letter was regarding
Stephen Ryan and Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen is both the president’s longtime personal
attorney and one of his most unflagging loyal admirers. He
has a history of using every trick in the book—from
intimidation to hush-money—to keep negative stories
about Trump from coming to light, as The New York Times
detailed last month. Cohen personally paid porn star
Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her commitment
not to discuss an affair she allegedly had with Trump.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the future president
did not reimburse Cohen for his efforts.
Emily Hytha, a spokesperson for Rep. Michael Conaway,
who is supervising the probe, said witness testimony was
not shared improperly. (The testimony was deemed

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committee-sensitive, according to a committee source, but
not classified.)
“Any accusation that a witness's testimony
was shared with another witness or their
lawyer is unequivocally false,” she said.
Robbins and Kramer declined to comment for this story.
Ryan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Witnesses who voluntarily testify before the House
intelligence committee generally do so under assurances
that members and staff will not share their testimony with
the public or with other witnesses. Many witnesses are less
likely to cooperate with sensitive congressional
investigations if they believe the information they share
will get out publicly.
“Any time information leaks out that’s given
to the committee behind closed doors—
whether it’s classified or committee-
sensitive or otherwise protected from public
disclosure—it makes it harder for the
committee to do its investigative job and
get honest and open testimony from the
witnesses before it,” said Jamil Jaffer, a
visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and
former senior counsel on the House
intelligence committee.
This isn’t the only leak accusation leveled against House
intelligence committee officials. The president has
repeatedly skewered the top Democrat on the panel, Rep.
Adam Schiff of California, for supposedly sharing
sensitive information with reporters; it’s a charge that
Schiff denies. Last week, The New York Times reported
that leaders of the Senate intelligence committee believe
House investigators leaked text messages that Sen. Mark
Warner sent. Warner and Sen. Richard Burr, the Democrat
and Republican who lead the Senate committee, met with
Speaker Paul Ryan to share their concerns. Accusations of
improper coordination with the White House have dogged
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-
CA), who was part of Trump’s presidential transition team,
since the investigation’s inception.
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Last March, Nunes suggested a whistleblower from within
the intelligence agencies informed him that the name of
Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser
who subsequently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was
improperly “unmasked” in internal reports. It subsequently
emerged that Nunes was fed that story not by any
whistleblower, but by White House officials close to both
Nunes and Flynn—prompting an ethics inquiry into Nunes
himself that briefly derailed his leadership of the Russia
probe.
More recently, Nunes gave an evasive and equivocal
answer to committee Democrats who asked if Nunes or his
staff collaborated in any way with the White House on his
memo, which presented a counternarrative on Russia
highly convenient for Trump.
And committee Democrats have signaled that they still
seek to verify Cohen’s testimony.
At a closed-door committee meeting on Feb. 5, a
discussion of the Steele dossier pivoted to an aspect of it
concerning Cohen—specifically, ex-MI6 spy Christopher
Steele’s claim that Cohen had visited Prague to meet with
a Russian operative during the summer of 2016.
“All the evidence we have seen is that
Michael Cohen has never been in Prague,
never in the Czech Republic, and indeed,
was in California with his son at a campus
in California at a time when he was
supposed to be meeting with this Russian
agent,” said Peter King, a Long Island
Republican, according to a hearing
transcript. (PDF)
Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat and former
prosecutor, shot back:
“Would you support subpoenaing Mr.
Cohen’s bank records, travel records,
communications logs, so we are not just
taking him at his word but we could actually
verify that through a third party?”
King said he would, but
“when Mr. Cohen was here, he was under
oath, and you had your opportunity to ask
him then.”
Schiff replied, “Yes, he did testify, and yes,
we actually had the opportunity to ask him
those questions. What we have not had the
opportunity to do is determine whether he
was telling us the truth, because we have
made requests to get documents, the
subpoenaed documents, and the majority
 has been unwilling to support those The exchange happened weeks after Ryan contacted
requests to subpoena documents. When Robbins concerning Cohen’s testimony.
that is the case, then we have no way of
verifying or disproving information.” (Schiff
declined comment for this piece.)
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 FBI’s Aussie Trump-Russia Tipster Linked
To Firm U.S. Intel Chiefs Have Distrusted For Years
Former Foreign Minister Was On The Board Of Huawei Australia And Aggressively
Denied Its Cyberwarfare Involvement
By Mark Tapscott
Updated 06 Mar 2018 At 3:30 PM
Alexander Downer — the Australian diplomat whose tip to
the FBI about a London pub conversation led to the
massive probe of allegations of collusions between the
2016 Trump campaign and Russia — is himself closely
tied to a Chinese firm experts say is deeply involved in
espionage against America.
Just last month, all six top U.S. intelligence bosses warned
Americans against using digital telecommunications
equipment produced by Chinese smartphone producer
Huawei.
“We’re deeply concerned about the risks of
allowing any company or entity that is
beholden to foreign governments that don’t
share our values to gain positions of power
inside our telecommunications networks,”
FBI Director Chris Wray told members of
the Senate Intelligence Committee during a
Feb. 13, 2018, hearing.
“That provides the capacity to exert
pressure or control over our
telecommunications infrastructure,” Wray
said. “It provides the capacity to maliciously
modify or steal information. And it provides
the capacity to conduct undetected
espionage.”
Wray’s warning was seconded by CIA Director Micheal
Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats,
National Security Agency Director Adm. Micheal Rogers,
Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert
Ashley, and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Director Robert Cardillo.
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Huawei was also the subject of cybersecurity warnings
issued in a 2012 report by the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence.
Downer is an especially odd choice as an FBI source,
given Wray’s warnings about the Chinese firm, because
Downer joined the board of directors of Huawei’s
Australian subsidiary in June 2011, according to The
Australian newspaper.
Not long after joining the board, Downer was a visible
advocate on behalf of the Chinese firm in the Australian
press, warning, for example, in April 2012 that his country
should be wary about
“transmitting a message that somehow we
are paranoid about Chinese investment.”
In a separate interview at the time, Downer said,
“This sort of whole concept of Huawei
being involved in cyberwarfare, presumably
that would just be based on the fact that
the company comes from China. This is
just completely absurd.”
Downer’s comments followed a government decision to
ban the Chinese company from bidding on contracts for
work on Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN).
The Huawei Australia website no longer lists Downer as a
member of the board, but his appointment reportedly was
renewed at least once. William Plummer, Huawei’s
Washington spokesman, responded to a LifeZette request
for additional information to say that Downer left the
Huawei Australia board four years ago.
Downer, who is now Australia’s ambassador to Great
Britain in London, told FBI officials of a conversation he
had with then-Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos in a London bar in 2016, in which the latter
claimed the Russians had damaging information about
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The FBI’s probe of the Trump-Russia collusion allegations
was launched shortly thereafter.
.
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LifeZette detailed Downer’s connection to the Clinton
Foundation in posts published January 16 and January 19.
He was a key factor in the Australian government’s $25
million grant to the Clinton Foundation for anti-HIV/AIDs
activities, which a subsequent audit could not document as
having been completed.
The Hill reported Monday that Congress was never told by
the FBI about Downer’s tip.
 AUDIO: Congressman Matt Gaetz On Rose Unplugged:
‘There’s More To Come’ Regarding Obama’s
State Department
By Carter
March 6, 2018, 3:51 Pm
According to Congressman Gaetz,
Obama’s State Department functioned
as if it were an arm of Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign.
Appearing on Monday morning’s edition of “Rose
Unplugged”, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spoke at
great lengths about the information to be revealed.
Congressman Gaetz noted that more revelations would
come to light regarding the State Department under
President Obama.
.
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Congressman Gaetz asserts the Obama-run State
Department functioned as if they were a branch of the
Clinton presidential campaign.
Individuals like Cody Shearer and Sydney Blumenthal,
major players in Hillary Clinton’s circle of corruption,
moved things
“in and out of the State Department to try to
influence investigations and decisions.”
The reaches of the Clinton’s network of corruption is
evidenced primarily by the fact that Hillary has yet to see
an indictment. Despite being one of the most corrupt and
reprehensible politicians in American history, Clinton
continues to exist with freedom, much like Obama and the
many other names associated to the rampant crime and
corruption found in D.C.
Rep. Gaetz noted that “there’s more”.
Congressman Gaetz also stated that he
hopes that this situation doesn’t end up like
Benghazi, wherein we know all of the “bad
acts” but nothing ever happens to anyone.
He says Washington cannot simply “move
down the trail” after this, as they did with
Benghazi.
 Hannity Pummels Fake News CNN For Interviewing
Hooker In Thailand Claiming To Have ‘Trump-Russia
Dirt’ While Ignoring Julian Assange
By Cristina Laila
March 6, 2018, 4:31 Pm

The Trump-Russia witch hunt is taking Grabien News reported on CNN:

fake news CNN on a wild goose chase.
CNN previously traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to
dumpster dive outside of the online troll farm headquarters
looking for ‘Trump-Russia’ collusion.
Now CNN is in Thailand investigating a Belarus-born
hooker who claims she has dirt on Trump.
Sean Hannity hammered CNN and Mueller late Monday
evening.
Hannity first took a swipe at CNN for traveling to
Thailand to investigate a hooker from Belarus rather than
speak to Julian Assange who actually knows where the
DNC emails came from.
Hannity also hammered dirty cop Mueller.
Today CNN sent a reporter to Bangkok to
speak with a prostitute who claims to have
the goods on the Trump camp’s alleged
collusion with Russia. The woman,
Anastasia Vashukevich, who is also a self-
described “sex coach,” is currently
imprisoned, and hopes that America will
offer her asylum in exchange for her story.
CNN apparently found this tale credible enough to send a
reporter to cover.
Hannity then responded to hacker Kim Dotcom:
If CNN is now investigating Hookers, lets
head to NZ and ask Kim what he wants to
give Mueller.

Hannity tweeted:

Fake news hooker desperation. First

interview people in the middle of a
meltdown, now this? Maybe fake news
@CNN should try @Wikileaks since
@JulianAssange knows where the DNC
emails r from. If Mueller wanted the truth he
should have started there also.
Another truth bomb from Hannity:

Julian released the DNC emails, Mueller

needs to interview @JulianAssange Let’s
forensically test where the emails came
from. What is Mueller afraid of? @wikileaks
(like them or not) has not been wrong in 11
years. Can @CNN @NBCNews @nytimes
@washingtonpost say the same?

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 Nor has WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange been
interviewed by Mueller or any of his hack lawyers.

Julian Assange has said many times on the record that

Russia did not give him the Podesta emails.

The Mueller witch hunt is a complete sham. It is

unconstitutional and must be shut down.

CNN is literally digging through Russian trashcans and

interviewing a desperate prostitute just to keep the words
‘Trump-Russia’ in their headlines. WOW.
To this date, the FBI has not inspected the DNC’s servers
to confirm the Russians hacked them and gave the Podesta
emails to WikiLeaks.
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 BREAKING: Gary Cohn To Resign As POTUS Trump’s
Top Economic Advisor
By Cristina Laila
March 6, 2018, 4:39 Pm

BREAKING on the Drudge Report: GARY COHN OUT process over Mr. Trump’s plan to impose large tariffs on
steel and aluminum imports.

“Gary has been my chief economic adviser

and did a superb job in driving our agenda,
helping to deliver historic tax cuts and
reforms and unleashing the American
economy once again,” Mr. Trump said in a
statement to The New York Times. “He is a
rare talent, and I thank him for his
dedicated service to the American people.”

Mr. Cohn is expected to leave in the coming weeks. He

BREAKING NEWS: Gary Cohn to resign
as Chief Economic Advisor to President
Trump.
will join a string of recent departures by senior White
House officials, including Mr. Trump’s communications
director and a powerful staff secretary.
Story developing…

Update: President Trump has released a

statement following the news of Cohn’s
resignation via Fox Business:

The New York Times reported:

Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s top

economic adviser, plans to resign,
becoming the latest in a series of high-
profile departures from the Trump
administration, White House officials said
on Tuesday.

The officials insisted there was no single factor behind the

departure of Mr. Cohn, who heads the National Economic
Council. But his decision to leave came after he seemed
poised to lose an internal struggle amid a Wild West-style
.

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 MSNBC Demands ‘Truth Teller’
At All Trump Events: ‘Nothing He Says Is True’
By Scott Whitlock
March 6, 2018 4:58 PM EST

MSNBC journalists suffered another meltdown on A partial transcript is below:

Tuesday. This time, Deadline: White House host Nicolle
Wallace demanded that a “truth teller” be placed at every
Donald Trump event to combat his "lies." Reacting to the
President’s briefing with the Prime Minister of Sweden,
Wallace excoriated:

“Nothing he says is true.”

Don't MSNBC reporters already exist as Trump’s official

opposition? The host continued her freak out:

“You know how there's always a signer at

any event, someone signs for the deaf? I
think there should be a truth teller in the Deadline: White House
corner of every Trump event who is sort of 3/6/18
holding a scroll and sort of saying ‘lie.’” 4:25

[Reacting to Trump press conference.]

WALLACE: You almost need, like, the bottom third sort of with
the flashing red light. “Nothing he says is true, nothing he says is
true.” We are not combating Russian meddling. He lied to a
Swedish reporter today. I don't know if that ends up at the ICC or
not. We are not some global leader in steel production. You
looked it up, you know, before the show. We make five percent of
the steel -- I mean, you know, the '80s are calling and they want
all their political fights back.

She demanded, ...

“Hold up the gymnastics scores. Lie. I
mean, literally, I’ve never seen anything
like it.” Earlier, she offered this variation:
“You almost need the bottom third sort of
with the flashing red light. ‘Nothing he says
is true, nothing he says is true.’”
WALLACE: You know how there's always a signer at any event,
someone signs for the deaf? I think there should be a truth teller
in the corner of every Trump event who is, you know, sort of
holding a scroll and sort of saying ‘lie.’ Or, you know, like, he
wants everything in handwriting. Hold up the gymnastics scores.
Lie. I mean, literally, I’ve never seen anything like it!

Last week, MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle

freaked out that “lying” Trump’s “strange” speech to
CPAC was like dictators from Cuba and Venezuela.

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 Trump: I’m The Reason
North Korea’s Willing To Talk
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
5:15 PM 03/06/2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump credited his
own diplomatic work for North Korea’s willingness to
hold nuclear talks with the U.S., in a joint press conference
with the prime minister of Sweden Tuesday.
Asked what he believed was the impetus for North Korea’s
Tuesday offer to hold nuclear talks, he replied, “Me.”
When his remark received only a few chuckles, he
remarked,
“Nobody got that.”
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“I think they are sincere, but I think they’re
sincere also because the sanctions and
what we’re doing with respect to North
Korea, including, you know, the great help
that we’ve been given with China. And they
can do more, but I think they have done
more than certainly they’ve ever done for
our country before. So China has been a
big help. I think that’s been a factor. But the
sanctions have been very, very strong.
Very biting. And we don’t want that to
happen. I really believe they are sincere. I
hope they are sincere. We’re going to soon
find out.”
 SARA CARTER: John Kerry Officially Under
Investigation As Dossier Probe Targets
Obama State Department
By Joshua Caplan
March 6, 2018, 5:24 Pm

Fox News c0ntributor Sara A. Carter
reports that former Secretary of State
John Kerry’s “possible role,” in the
Steele dossier is officially under
investigation.
also under several congressional and Senate investigations.
[…]
Jonathan Winer, a long-time colleague of Kerry and who
served as the former envoy for Libya during his tenure at
the Department, wrote an opinion piece in the Washington
Post on Feb. 8, defending his relationship with Steele and
his role in the infamous dossier.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) recently revealed to Fox News

host Laura Ingraham that Kerry had been briefed on a
‘second dossier’.

”There were comments over the weekend

from people from within the State
Department that said John Kerry had been
briefed on the dossier–the new dossier
Carter reports: whatever this new dossier is and that they
also provided it to the FBI,” Nunes
The House Select Committee on told Ingraham.
Intelligence is now investigating former
Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s possible
role into the unverified dossier paid for by
the Democratic National Committee and
Hillary Clinton Campaign, this reporter has
learned. The dossier, assembled by a
former British spy, laid the foundation for
the FBI’s investigation into alleged
collusion between President Trump and
Russia and was the essential piece of
evidence used by the FBI to get a warrant
to spy on a former volunteer for the Trump
campaign.

For more than a month, the committee has been in its

second phase of investigations focused on former Obama
State Department officials and their role in either
transmitting information or using information provided by
former British spy and investigator Christopher Steele.
Steele was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS,
.

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 Nunes: New Yorker Steele Expose A
'Rehabilitation Project' From A 'Left-Wing Magazine'
By Debra Heine
March 6, 2018
On Monday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes shot down the New Yorker's
"bombshell" expose on Trump-Russia dossier author
Christopher Steele. Nunes called it "more evidence about
how dirty this dossier is," and "a rehabilitation project" put
out by a "left-wing magazine."
The author of the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer, is a
longtime left-wing political operative. In 1994, she
coauthored a project to "rehabilitate" Anita Hill, after the
former EEOC staffer almost succeeded in derailing
Clarence Thomas' appointment to the Supreme Court with
spurious accusations of sexual harassment. In 2016, Mayer
wrote another bombshell condemning the Koch
Brothers: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the
Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
In her New Yorker piece, Mayer wrote that President
Barack Obama was sent an "intelligence bombshell" by
CIA brass alleging that the Russians were cyber-
campaigning against a presidential candidate, and that it
included an illicit stream between the Trump team and
Moscow.
On Fox News with Martha MacCallum, Nunes said that
the New Yorker is a reliably left-wing magazine that has
gotten a lot of things wrong without ever issuing
corrections. But the congressman also pointed out that if
parts of the story are true, then they corroborate what
Republicans have been saying for years.
"Stating the obvious -- that the Russians
were trying to interfere with our elections --
that was myself and Republicans who
warned of that way before the election," he
told MacCallum.
"We knew what the Russians were up to,"
Nunes continued. "This is nothing new and
that's why people are going a little bit
overboard with this, but they're taking
things totally out of context. The Russians
had an operation against us, but they've
always had an operation against the United
States of America, going back for many,
many years and many elections."
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Nunes added:
"I just think this [New Yorker article] is just
more evidence of how dirty the dossier is."
He characterized the piece as "a
rehabilitation project to rehabilitate
Christopher Steele," pointing out that
Steele had been working with the Russians
to get the dirt on Trump.
"This is what continues to perplex me,"
Nunes said. "We know exactly who was
getting information from the Russians. It
was the Hillary Clinton campaign. They
were getting information from the Russians
-- dirt on Trump to use in a campaign."
He pointed out that Trump is being investigated for doing
the very same thing -- finding dirt on Clinton from the
Russians to use in his campaign.
However, "we have no evidence of that,"
Nunes declared.
"The dossier, on the face of it, is
ridiculous," he exclaimed, pointing out the
document had alleged that Carter Page
was going to receive billions of dollars for
his collusion efforts. "If the FBI really
believed that, we've got a bigger problem
then just basic credibility," Nunes said.
Earlier in the interview, Nunes gave a progress report on
his committee's effort to get answers from 11 current and
former high-ranking government officials pertaining to the
unverified Steele dossier.
"Thankfully ... most of the people have
responded, giving the information back to
us promptly and on time," Nunes said.
"There are a few people who have asked
for an additional week which we went
ahead and granted ... there are a few
people though that are not responding.
They seem to have went dark, however if
they do not respond shortly, they will be
 getting subpoenaed to appear before
Congress to be treated with a deposition."

A deadline of March 2 was initially given to the recipients

of the letters.

Former DNI chief James Clapper and CIA Director John

Brennan have both responded, Nunes said.

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 Trumpocrats Victorious As Gary Cohn Exits White House:
He Should ‘Go Home To The Hamptons’
And ‘Have A Martini’
By John Binder
6 Mar 2018
The “Trumpocrats,” the group of
working and middle-class Democrat
voters who supported President Trump
in the 2016 presidential election, have
won a victory, as their nemesis in the
White House, Gary Cohn has resigned.
On Tuesday, White House economic adviser and the leader
of the globalist pack inside the West Wing, Gary Cohn,
announced he would resign from his position after failing
to stop Trump’s economic nationalist agenda on trade.
One of the leading Trumpocrats, Billy Bova, told Breitbart
News Political Editor Matt Boyle in an interview on
Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM that he hoped Cohn
would leave the Trump administration and “go home to the
Hamptons” to “have a martini.”
Bova told Breitbart News:
You know what I’ve got to say to Gary
Cohn, he might be a great guy and God
bless him. But, he’s a Wall Streeter,
investment banker, multi-multi-multi-
millionaire. You know, if he disagrees with
a president that he ran as a economic
fairness, economic nationalist, a put
‘America First’ jobs wise, industry wise,
money wise, wealth wise, if he disagrees
with him like that, I think a great thing for
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Gary Cohn would be to go home to the
Hamptons and sit by his swimming pool
with his millions of dollars and have a
martini and just get out of the White
House. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News reported, Cohn has been working
against Trump’s economic nationalist agenda on trade for
months now, failing to stop the president from moving
forward with a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a ten
percent tariff on imported aluminum.
The Trumpocrats — who helped deliver the rust belt for
Trump after failing to be represented by decades of pro-
free-trade Republican and Democrat administrations — are
excited about the White House’s tariffs on steel and
aluminum, noting how they are designed to level the
playing field for American industries and protect U.S. jobs.
Bova said:
I think these tariffs are spot on too.
Look, I don’t understand all the bedwetters
at the banks, the globalists, the hedge-
funders, the traders on the floor, why
they’re panicking, why they’re freeking out.
Because the fundamentals of our economy
right now have not been better in decades.
[Emphasis added]
It’s just like our borders, you don’t have secure borders,
you don’t have a secure country.
10 percent on something that we’re importing 90 percent
of, I mean… if I had to take 10 cents a can for every Coca-
Cola I drank to rejuvenate our metal industry and our
aluminum industry in America, I’d gladly do it and I think
most patriotic Americans who care about our country and
our jobs and our national security would gladly do it also.
Breitbart News has reported extensively on the
Trumpocrats and their allegiance to Trump, many of whom
voted for the populist over candidate Hillary Clinton solely
for his economic nationalist agenda on trade.
In August 2016, Christian Rickers, the leader of the
Trumpocrats PAC, told Breitbart News:
I’m a lifelong Democrat, really since I was a
little kid, and I still am a Democrat. But the
Clintons—for instance, where I am from,
my hometown, when I was a kid we had
15 manufacturing plants and we now
have one.
Nobody does anything there anymore, and
that’s the same thing happening in a lot of
small towns across the country really.
The Clintons are really the cause of this,
the cause of manufacturing going
overseas with NAFTA and the trade
deals and all of that.
Donald Trump, he says a lot of crazy sh*t,
but the one thing that he does say, that he
really does want to do something about
that and that he wants to protect our
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people with better trade policies and
new trade policies. [Emphasis added]
The Trumpocrats have already won a slew of victories
with the Trump administration, including:
 Trump getting the U.S. out of the middle America-
crushing Paris Climate Agreement
 Trump killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which
would have eliminated millions of U.S. jobs
 Trump securing higher wages for American workers
through increased immigration enforcement
 Trump’s commitment to renegotiating NAFTA or
removing the U.S. from the free trade deal
Now, the victory for the Trumpocrats comes in the form of
Cohn’s resignation at the White House, upping the
influence that Trumpocrat allies and economic nationalists
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro will
have in the administration.
 BREAKING: Gowdy, Goodlatte Send Blistering Letter To
DOJ DEMANDING A Second Special
Counsel Investigate FISA Abuses
By Cristina Laila
March 6, 2018, 5:30 Pm
On Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) demanded the
appointment of a second special
counsel to investigate FISA abuses
Gowdy on left; Goodlatte on right – photo via Fox News
Fox News reported:
Gowdy, R-S.C., and Goodlatte, R-Va.,
penned a letter Tuesday to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein.
“Matters have arisen—both recently and
otherwise—which necessitate the
appointment of a Special Counsel. We do
not make this observation and attendant
request lightly,” Gowdy and Goodlatte
wrote.
They pointed, specifically, toward the use of the infamous
anti-Trump dossier used in the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on former
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“There is evidence of bias, trending toward
animus, among those charged with
investigating serious cases,” they wrote.
“There is evidence political opposition
research was used in court filings. There is
evidence this political opposition research
was neither vetted before it was used nor
fully revealed to the relevant tribunal.”
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They added:
“Questions have arisen with the FISA
process and these questions and concerns
threaten to impugn both public and
congressional confidence in significant
counterintelligence program processes and
those charged with overseeing and
implementing these counterintelligence
processes.”
Gowdy and Goodlatte wrote that because the
“decisions of both former and current
Department of Justice and FBI officials are
at issue,” they do not believe the DOJ is
“capable” of investigating the “fact patterns
in a fashion likely to garner public
confidence.”
Rod Rosenstein will never let this fly. His signature is on
the FISA application which approved the illegal spy
warrant on Carter Page.
Rosenstein isn’t going to let a special counsel investigate
his criminality.
Last Tuesday, AG Sessions told reporters he was going to
have Inspector General Horowitz investigate Obama’s
FISA abuses.
Trump blasted Sessions because IG Horowitz doesn’t have
prosecutorial power. Furthermore, Horowitz is an Obama
appointee-can we trust him?
WE NEED A SPECIAL COUNSEL.
Last week, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a
letter to AWOL Attorney General Jeff
Sessions urging him to appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
 Sleazy CNN Airs Unproven Election-Meddling
Claims Of Jailed Russian 'Sex Coach'
By Tim Graham
March 6, 2018 5:37 PM EST
In 2007, CNN sent reporters to Indonesia to defend
presidential candidate Barack Obama against charges he
attended a Muslim madrassa in grade school. Their screen
read “DEBUNKING A SMEAR.” While growing up in
Jakarta, Obama attended a Catholic school for two years,
and a Muslim school for two years, but was listed as
Muslim because his stepfather Lolo Soetoro was Muslim.
But in 2018, CNN sent a reporter to Thailand to spread
sleazy, unproven gossip: a “self-described sex coach”/sex
worker offering “inside information on Russia’s election
meddling” in 2016. What proof does she have? CNN didn't
need any. She was pictured with Russian billionaire Oleg
Deripaska, who knew Paul Manafort, so...there's your
Trump conspiracy theory.
In the last five minutes of The Situation Room on Monday,
they offered this tabloid tale:
WOLF BLITZER: New tonight, a self-described sex coach
is offering inside information on Russia's election
meddling. The woman is currently imprisoned in Thailand
but says she's willing to trade what she knows for asylum
in the United States. Our senior international
correspondent Ivan Watson actually met with the woman.
He's joining us now live from Bangkok. Ivan, tell us how
that went.
IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENT: Yes. I mean, this is a story that the
headline pretty much says it all. This young woman who
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described herself as a sex coach offering U.S. investigators
information she claimed she has about Russian meddling
in the U.S. election in exchange for her freedom from this
Thai jail and not be deported back to Russia. It is a very
strange story.
WATSON (voice-over): She described herself as a
seductress, a relentlessly self-promoting 21-year-old
named Anastasia Vashukevich, with a social media stage
name Nastya Rybka. This Belarus-born woman claims to
have evidence of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
The question, is this a desperate ploy to get out of jail or as
her friend claims, is this young woman truly in danger
because she knows too much?...
I just came out of this detention center where I spoke with
Anastasia Vashukevich. It was loud and hot and chaotic.
And talking through the bars, she says she witnessed
meetings between the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska
and at least three Americans who she refused to name. He
claims they discussed plans to effect the U.S. elections but
she wouldn't give any further information, because she
fears she could be deported back to Russia.
The sum total of CNN's evidence from the Russian "sex
coach" -- zero -- became clear at the segment's end:
BLITZER: And very quickly, any way to
assess the validity of the evidence she
says she has?
WATSON: Impossible, because she
hasn't offered any of that evidence.
CNN apparently doesn't think you should sit on a story
until you've actually proven something. They offered at
least five Sex Coach segments with Moscow
correspondent Matthew Chance on Friday night into
Saturday, and then another five Sex Coach segments with
Ivan Watson from Monday morning into early Tuesday
morning. They all speculate about the anti-Trump
collusion dirt, but they don't have any actual facts....at the
#FactsFirst network.
 Bill Kristol Thinks That
President Trump Is ‘Very Rattled’ By Mueller
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
5:37 PM 03/06/2018

The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol said on MSNBC
Tuesday that he thinks President Trump is “very rattled”
by special counsel Robert Mueller.
WATCH:
People love working here. I have the
choice of the ten best people for every job.’
He knows people are leaving, knows they
can’t recruit good people. He knows he has
a White House in deep trouble, and an
administration in trouble. I think the Mueller
news has him very rattled. Mueller is
getting close. Roger Stone is sort of next
up.”

(RELATED: Bill Kristol Unleashes Tweet Storm

Apparently Endorsing Oprah For President)

“He’s going after Cohen. The people who

“You played the clip,” he told Nicolle
Wallace. “‘People really want to work here.
.
actually may have been involved in
genuine collusion are the people who
clearly are in Mueller’s crosshairs now. He
did not look to me like a president who’s
feeling cocky about what’s happening, but
quite the opposite.”

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 Trump Derangement Syndrome? Dem Governor Admits
Trump’s Tweets Are Causing Him To Have Mental Health
Issues (AUDIO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
March 6, 2018, 5:44 Pm

Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D.) said that President

Donald Trump’s tweets are causing him to have a mental
health problem that is leading him to paint “vitriolic”
volcanoes.

In an appearance on Politico‘s “Off Message” podcast on

Tuesday, Inslee discussed how he paints to cope with what
many mockingly refer to as “Trump Derangement
Syndrome.”

Inslee went on to say that his painting is more “vitriolic”

now that Trump is in office.

“I used to do dormant volcanoes. Now, I

do active volcanoes to respond to the
White House at the moment,” he said.
“I have not yet heard of somebody
translating their view of politics at the
moment into pastels,“ the host replied.

Inslee admits that sometimes he goes into such an

unhinged fit that he rips up newspapers… then paints polar
bears on them.

“I’ll show you the latest I did of a polar bear

on a collage of torn up New York Times,”
Inslee said. “So you get mad reading the
newspaper, you tear up the paper, you
make it a collage, and then paint bears on
top.”

“Something comes out of the White House,

a tweet that drives me to distraction, and I
turn it into a picture of Mt. Rainier,” he said.
“So, it’s a mental health issue.”
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 Lefties Melt Down Over Trump Calling On Daily Caller
Reporter At Press Conference
By Curtis Houck
March 6, 2018 5:46 PM EST

President Trump hosted Swedish Prime Minister Stefan

Löfven Tuesday at the White House and, like with most
foreign dignitary appearances, the two held a joint press
conference featuring two reporters from each of their
countries. Right on cue, some liberals turned into
snowflakes upon seeing Trump call on the Daily Caller’s
Saagar Enjeti.
And just as they’ve done in the past (here, here, here, and
here), it didn’t matter what these non-establishment
journalists asked the President or if the questions were
solid. What mattered to them was that they’re from
conservative or right-of-center outlets, which meant they're
Trump sycophants.
For Löfven, Enjeti went where most liberal journalists
wouldn’t go, which is mention the country’s struggles with
the influx of Middle Eastern refugees. To bolster his case,
Enjeti brought up The New York Times:
Mr. Prime Minister, last year, you criticized
the President for drawing a link between
immigrant crime and the recent arrivals of
refugees. This week, one of our own
flagship papers, The New York Times,
actually profiled a link between hand
grenade violence and immigrant gang
violence in your country. Do you stand by
your criticism the President?

And now it’s time for the bitter journalists. Here’s Esquire
writer and frequent MSNBC guest Charlie Pierce:

Before going to the petulant left, let’s look at what Enjeti

actually asked the Löfven and Trump. First, he asked
Trump if he

“believe[s] that North Korea's recent

willingness to talk is sincere or is it an
effort to buy time for the nuclear
program and to what do you owe this Perhaps the saltiest person on Twitter about this was
recent openness to talk?” Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale:

North Korea is a big news story, so that’s a perfectly fine

question. Enjeti then shifted to domestic news with well-
documented White House turmoil:

“Also, sir, you tweeted today that you

would like to see some change in the
people around you. Does that include
your Attorney General Jeff Sessions or
either of your cabinet secretaries?”

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Taking a more subtle route was NPR’s Domenico
Montanaro and Pod Save America’s Tommy Vietor:

Here’s the relevant transcript from the White House joint

press conference on March 6:

Presidential press conference

March 6, 2018
3:58 p.m. Eastern
For good measure, another liberal Twitter users were more
direct: SAAGAR ENJETI: Thank you Mr. President. Since it’s my first
time before you, I thought you might indulge me with two
questions. First, sir, do you believe that North Korea's recent
willingness to talk is sincere or is it an effort to buy time for the
nuclear program and to what do you owe this recent openness to
talk?
(....)
3:59 p.m. Eastern
ENJETI: Also, sir, you tweeted today that you would like to see
some change in the people around you. Does that include your
Attorney General Jeff Sessions or either of your cabinet
secretaries?
(....)
4:01 p.m. Eastern
ENJETI: Mr. Prime Minister, last year, you criticized the President
for drawing a link between immigrant crime and the recent
arrivals of refugees. This week, one of our own flagship papers,
The New York Times, actually profiled a link between hand
grenade violence and immigrant gang violence in your country.
Do you stand by your criticism the President?

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 Religious Leaders Join MRC Campaign
Against ‘Juvenile’ Anti-Christian Bigotry
Of Joy Behar On ‘The View’
By NB Staff
March 6, 2018 6:03 PM EST
RESTON, Va. — On Tuesday, religious leaders joined a
growing wave of conservative leaders led by Media
Research Center President and Founder Brent Bozell
against The View’s Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin in light of
the ABC show’s anti-Christian bigotry.
Since The View’s vile remarks on
February 13 against Vice President Mike
Pence and Christians as “dangerous”
and “mentally ill,”
MRC supporters have made over 30,000 calls to ABC
demanding the network apologize for this smear.
On February 21, the MRC launched a campaign against
The View’s advertisers. Supporters can visit
http://stopattackingchristians.com/ to find out how they
can contact top sponsors like Clorox, Gerber, Oreo and
Home Advisor to let them know what you think of Joy
Behar and Sunny Hostin’s comments.
Below are statements from Bozell and religious leaders
praising the MRC’s campaign:
“Anti-Christian bigotry as displayed by The
View’s Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin should
not have a place on ABC News or any
news network. More than 30,000 phone
calls have been placed to ABC News
President James Goldston, yet zero
response has been issued. This silence is
not going unnoticed by Christians across
the country. In their lack of response, ABC
News is signaling to Christians that
statements of religious intolerance are
permissible on their network’s programs.
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Perhaps ABC should be renamed the
‘American Bigotry Company’ if this kind of
hateful speech is tolerated. If ABC and
James Goldston respect their Christian
viewership in the slightest, they would
apologize for the despicable comments
made about Vice President Pence’s faith.”
Brent Bozell,
President and Founder,
Media Research Center,
“The constant anti-Christian rhetoric from
the media is unacceptable and must stop.
This behavior is aimed at desensitizing the
American public regarding the
marginalization of people of faith. At what
point does the American public demand
that the mockery of Christians end?”
Tim Wildmon,
President,
American Family Association
“Our friends at the Media Research Center
are asking viewers to call out ABC on their
‘wildly hypocritical’ behavior. The hosts of
The View and everyone at ABC would
denounce any disparaging comments
about Islam. However, their tolerance
never seems to extend to Christianity. You
can join MRC in hitting the view where it
hurts – their corporate sponsorships.
Check out their site —
stopattackingchristians.com — and take a
few minutes to demand better from brands
like Clorox, Gerber, Oreo, and
HomeAdvisor. No company should keep
company with intolerant shows like this
one.”
Tony Perkins,
President,
Family Research Council
 “For years, The View has disparaged
Christians, and now it has decided to mock
the sincerely held beliefs of the Vice
President of the United States. Make no
mistake about it, this is an assault on the
sensibilities of all Christians. No advertiser
can justify supporting this show any
longer.”
Bill Donohue
President,
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
“Apparently Joy Behar thinks God only
speaks to liberals. There is no other
explanation for her total silence when it
came to Oprah saying she is waiting to
hear from God before deciding to run for
president while attacking Vice President
Pence over his statement regarding
hearing from Jesus. Our Vice President is
mentally ill, according to Behar, but it's
hands off media maven and liberal darling,
Oprah. Both claim to seek God's guidance
but only one is allowed that privilege. This
is why Christians need to contact
advertisers of The View. Enough is
enough. Consulting with God is an act of
great humility and wisdom. We greatly
endorse taking a decision to prayer and we
applaud anyone who publicly admits taking
the time to hear God speak.”
Janet Morana, Elna Rodriguez, Teresa Tomeo
Co-hosts, The Catholic View for Women on EWTN
EWTN
“When Hillary Clinton called half the
country ‘deplorable’ and ‘irredeemable,’
she revealed what the left really thinks
about values voters. When Joy Behar and
others mock the faith of Mike Pence, they
are using him as a stand in for the rest of
us in Middle America. It is outrageous.
Such bigotry against the values of millions
of Americans should not be tolerated by
ABC.”
Gary Bauer
American Values
“Attacks on and persecution of Christians
is an ancient phenomenon. Indeed, Jesus
warned his followers: ‘You will be hated by
everyone because of me, but the one who
stands firm to the end will be saved.’
Matthew 10:22. In fact, our organization
was formed precisely to answer such
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attacks. As Christians, we are commanded
to not seek revenge on our oppressors. So
we instead solicit the principled executives
at ABC for answers to the following
questions: How does ABC justify the
irresponsible and uninformed anti-Christian
bigotry exhibited by Joy Behar and Sunny
Hostin at your network? And why, in light of
such bigotry, should anyone support your
programming with our patronage?”
Austin Ruse,
President,
Center for Family & Human Rights
“People of all religions should
unequivocally condemn the anti-religious
rant expressed on the View. Ignoring and
disrespecting the ability of a person to
receive moral guidance from the Divine
perfectly illustrates a reason for the moral
chaos prevalent today. By disrespecting
the role of the Divine in human affairs and
ignoring the basic communication between
G-d and Man, the ‘entertainers’ on The
View are mocking a Believers' spiritual and
ethical impulse.”
Arthur Goldberg,
Co-director,
Jewish Institute for Global Awareness
“Christianity has long been a target of the
news and entertainment industries, but in
this #MeToo moment, we Christians do not
have to tolerate it. The cast of The
View has gone way too far suggesting that
those of us who talk to God in prayer are
suffering from mental illness, and we need
to make sure that ABC and the show’s
advertisers understand there will be
financial consequences for spewing this
kind of hatred.”
Father Frank Pavone,
National Director,
Priests for Life
Christianity is fair game for media elites.
I’m not offended because Christianity,
outside of a national tragedy, has often
been mocked by The View and the
intolerant mainstream media. Persecution
is part of being a Christian and Christians
aren’t entitled to approval from the media.
We are entitled, however, to decency as
human beings who have contributed
greatly to America and have fought moral
 injustices from slavery to the civil rights what the commentators at The View need:
movement. a break from the air and a lesson in
religious tolerance. ABC executives should
Shawn Carney, join them."
CEO & President,
40 Days for Life Patrick Reilly,

"In the Catholic schools we work with, such President,

boorish behavior would earn a student
detention and a lecture on virtue The Cardinal Newman Society
and respect for others. That's precisely
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 REVEALED: Trey Gowdy Calls For Second Special
Counsel Because IG Horowitz CANNOT ‘ACCESS’
Comey & McCabe (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 6, 2018, 6:05 Pm

On Tuesday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)

and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) called for a
second special counsel to investigate
FISA abuse committed by the FBI and
DOJ.
Shortly after sending the letter to Sessions, Gowdy
revealed to FOX News’ Bill Hemmer that he reached the
conclusion a second special counsel is required after
learning Inspector General Horowitz doesn’t have
the subpoena power to use on former FBI Director James
Comey and outgoing Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as
witnesses.

FOX News reports:

Gowdy, R-S.C., and Goodlatte, R-Va.,

penned a letter Tuesday to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein.
“Matters have arisen—both recently and
otherwise—which necessitate the
appointment of a Special Counsel. We do
not make this observation and attendant
request lightly,” Gowdy and Goodlatte
wrote. When asked “what matters have arisen,” that now require a
second special counsel to investigate, Gowdy had this to
They pointed, specifically, toward the use of the infamous say…
anti-Trump dossier used in the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on former GOWDY:
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“What changed for me was the knowledge
“There is evidence of bias, trending toward that there are two dozen witnesses that
animus, among those charged with Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General,
investigating serious cases,” they wrote. would not have access to. So, your options
“There is evidence political opposition are DOJ investigating themselves – they
research was used in court filings. There is can’t do that because of conflict of interest.
evidence this political opposition research [Second,] Let the Inspector General do it.
was neither vetted before it was used nor Now I’m a big fan of Mike Horowitz, but he
fully revealed to the relevant tribunal.” has no jurisdiction over witnesses that have
either left the department or never worked

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 there. So, when I counted up 24 witnesses
that he would not be able to access, were
he to investigate it, you have only one
conclusion – that’s a special counsel.
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When asked by Hemmer who Horowitz does not have
access to, Gowdy revealed former FBI Director James
Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, along with
Clinton hatchetmen Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer
are all on the list.
 BREAKING: House Oversight Committee Calls For
Special Counsel To Investigate Crimes At Obama's DOJ
By Ryan Saavedra - @RealSaavedra
March 6, 2018
On Tuesday, House Oversight Committee members called
for a new special counsel to be appointed to investigate
crimes involving bias and FISA abuse at the Obama
Department of Justice.
Making the official request to the DOJ were Republican
Reps. Trey Gowdy (SC) and Bob Goodlatte (VA), the
chairmen of the oversight and judiciary committees
respectively.
"Matters have arisen — both recently and
otherwise — which necessitate the
appointment of a Special Counsel. We do
not make this observation and attendant
.
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lightly," the letter addressed to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein begins.
"We believe that, in the case of certain
decisions made and not made by the
Department of Justice and FBI in 2016 and
2017, both an actual conflict of interest
exists and separately, but equally
significant, the public interest requires the
appointment of a special counsel," the
letter continues.
The letter cites the anti-Trump dossier, paid for by the
Democrats and Hillary Clinton, as being strong evidence
of bias at the FBI and DOJ, considering the fact that the
dossier was never vetted and was a politically-motivated
document which was used in court filings.
“There is evidence of bias, trending toward
animus, among those charged with
investigating serious cases,” they wrote.
“There is evidence political opposition
research was used in court filings. There is
evidence this political opposition research
was neither vetted before it was used nor
fully revealed to the relevant tribunal.”
Gowdy told Fox News that a special counsel is needed
because “Congress doesn’t have the tools to investigate
this. ... We leak like the Gossip Girls.”
The letter also made mention of Inspector General Michael
Horowitz, who is expected to be releasing a new report at
any time over the next several weeks.
“While we have confidence in the Inspector
General for the Department of Justice, the
DOJ IG does not have the authority to
investigate other governmental entities or
former employees of the Department, the
Bureau, or other agencies,” the letter
states.
 Paul Ryan Will Hate This=> US Aluminum Manufacturer
Announces 300 New Jobs In Kentucky Following Trump’s
Tariff Announcement
By Jim Hoft
March 6, 2018, 6:15 Pm

Paul Ryan came out again on Tuesday and slammed

President Trump’s plan to tax aluminum and steel imports.

Now this…

On Tuesday Jesse Gary, the Executive Vice President at

Century Aluminum, told Trish Regan on FOX Business
Network that Century Aluminum will hire 300 new
employees in western Kentucky thanks to Donald
Trump’s announcement on tariffs this past week.

Speaker Paul Ryan pushed back against Jesse Gary also told Trish that Century
President Donald Trump’s Aluminum jobs in western Kentucky pay
announcement to place tariffs on an average of $90,000 a year.
foreign aluminum and steel. Globalist Paul Ryan hates this.
Paul Ryan, a renowned globalist who
joined President Obama in pushing the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, attacked
President Trump on Monday for his
announcement to place tariffs on
foreign steel and aluminum.
Paul Ryan still has NO INTENTION of
passing the Trump agenda more than a
year after his stunning win over Hillary
Clinton.

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 DESPERATE: CNN Meets With Jailed 'Sex Coach' In
Thailand To Prove Russian Collusion
Byryan Saavedra @Realsaavedra
March 6, 2018

woman truly in danger because she knows

too much?"

CNN hyped her credibility because she was photographed

one time with a Russian billionaire that was associated
with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Last month, CNN visited Russia so they could dig through

trash dumpsters trying to prove Russian collusion and later
doxed and harassed an elderly Trump supporter living in
Florida who received vicious threats because of CNN's
report.
On Monday, CNN aired an embarrassing segment in which
they traveled to Thailand to meet with an alleged prostitute This is CNN.
who claims to be a "sex coach" and says she has evidence
of the Trump campaign colluding with Russian officials in WATCH:
the 2016 presidential election.

CNN met with Anastasia Vashukevich, a self-described

"seductress," who is seeking asylum in the United States in
exchange for her story about her alleged "evidence" of
Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

"She described herself as a seductress,"

CNN’s Ivan Watson reported. "This woman
claims to have evidence of Russian
meddling in the U.S. election. The
question, is this a desperate ploy to get out
of jail, or as her friend claims, is this young
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 GOP Lawmaker Who Never Supported Second Special
Counsel Now Says One Is “Essential” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 6, 2018, 7:30 Pm

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who has never
supported the idea of a second special
counsel to probe FISA abuse by
Obama’s FBI and DOJ, now believes
one is “essential.”
KING:
“And that’s why, very reluctantly on my
party, because I’ve never supported a
special counsel before — in this case it is
essential that there be one. I agree with
Trey Gowdy, I agree with John Ratcliffe,
because there’s so much interconnection
here. There’s so many potential conflicts of
interest and there’s so many people
beyond the scope of the Inspector General,
and we can’t expect the FBI and the
Justice Department to investigate
themselves.
Gowdy, R-S.C., and Goodlatte, R-Va., penned a letter
Tuesday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
“Matters have arisen—both recently and
otherwise—which necessitate the
appointment of a Special Counsel. We do
not make this observation and attendant
request lightly,” Gowdy and Goodlatte
wrote.
They pointed, specifically, toward the use of the infamous
anti-Trump dossier used in the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on former
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“There is evidence of bias, trending toward
animus, among those charged with
investigating serious cases,” they wrote.
“There is evidence political opposition
research was used in court filings. There is
evidence this political opposition research
was neither vetted before it was used nor
fully revealed to the relevant tribunal.”
Shortly after sending the letter to Sessions, Gowdy
revealed to FOX News’ Bill Hemmer that he reached the
conclusion a second special counsel is required after
learning Inspector General Horowitz doesn’t have
the subpoena power to use on former FBI Director James
Comey and outgoing Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as
witnesses.

On Tuesday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Trey

Gowdy (R-SC) called for a second special counsel to
investigate FISA abuse committed by the FBI and DOJ.

FOX News reports:

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 When asked “what matters have arisen,”
that now require a second special counsel
to investigate, Gowdy had this to say…
GOWDY:
“What changed for me was the knowledge
that there are two dozen witnesses that
Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General,
would not have access to. So, your options
are DOJ investigating themselves – they
can’t do that because of conflict of interest.
[Second,] Let the Inspector General do it.
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Now I’m a big fan of Mike Horowitz, but he
has no jurisdiction over witnesses that have
either left the department or never worked
there. So, when I counted up 24 witnesses
that he would not be able to access, were
he to investigate it, you have only one
conclusion – that’s a special counsel.
When asked by Hemmer who Horowitz does not have
access to, Gowdy revealed former FBI Director James
Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, along with
Clinton hatchetmen Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer
are all on the list.
 Press Release
Goodlatte & Gowdy Call For Special Counsel To
Investigate Crimes Involving Bias And FISA Abuse At DOJ
Published: Mar 6, 2018
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy
today called for the appointment of a Special Counsel to
investigate potential bias and potential conflicts of interest
and decisions made or not made by the Department of
Justice in 2016 and 2017.
In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Chairmen Goodlatte
and Gowdy request the appointment of a Special
Counsel to review evidence of bias by any employee or
agent of the DOJ, FBI, or other agencies; the decisions to
charge or not charge and whether those decisions were
made consistent with the applicable facts, the applicable
law, and traditional investigative and prosecutorial policies
and procedures; and whether the FISA process employed
in the fall of 2016 and continuing into 2017 was lawful and
pursuant to all relevant policies and procedures.
The text of the letter is below and the signed copy can be
found here.
March 6, 2018
Dear Attorney General Sessions and Deputy Attorney General
Rosenstein:
Matters have arisen – both recently and otherwise – which
necessitate the appointment of a Special Counsel. We do not
make this observation and attendant request lightly. We have
tremendous respect for the women and men of federal law
enforcement and federal prosecution. In the vast majority of fact
patterns, the Department of Justice, the career prosecutors and
law enforcement professionals who serve there, and the U.S.
Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country are fully capable of
investigating, evaluating, charging where appropriate, and
prosecuting matters for which there is federal jurisdiction.
Nevertheless, there are instances in which an actual or potential
conflict of interest exists or appears to exist, or there are matters
in which the public good would be furthered, and an independent
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Special Counsel is warranted as the relevant Federal regulations
provide.
We believe that, in the case of certain decisions made and not
made by the Department of Justice and FBI in 2016 and 2017,
both an actual conflict of interest exists and separately, but
equally significantly, the public interest requires the appointment
of a Special Counsel.
With respect to potential and actual conflicts of interest,
decisions made and not made by both former and current
Department of Justice and FBI officials have led to legitimate
questions and concerns from the people whom we all serve.
There is evidence of bias, trending toward animus, among those
charged with investigating serious cases. There is evidence
political opposition research was used in court filings. There is
evidence this political opposition research was neither vetted
before it was used nor fully revealed to the relevant tribunal.
Questions have arisen with the FISA process and these
questions and concerns threaten to impugn both public and
congressional confidence in significant counterintelligence
program processes and those charged with overseeing and
implementing these counterintelligence processes.
Because the decisions of both former and current Department of
Justice and FBI officials are at issue, we do not believe the
Department of Justice is capable of investigating and evaluating
these fact patterns in a fashion likely to garner public confidence.
In addition, while we have confidence in the Inspector General for
the Department of Justice, the DOJ IG does not have the
authority to investigate other governmental entities or former
employees of the Department, the Bureau, or other agencies.
Some have been reluctant to call for the appointment of a Special
Counsel because such an appointment should be reserved for
those unusual cases where existing investigative and
prosecutorial entities cannot adequately discharge those duties.
We believe this is just such a case.
Accordingly, we request that you appoint a Special Counsel to
review decisions made and not made by the Department of
Justice and the FBI in 2016 and 2017, including but not limited to
evidence of bias by any employee or agent of the DOJ, FBI, or Bob Goodlatte
other agencies involved in the investigation; the decisions to
charge or not charge and whether those decisions were made Chairman
consistent with the applicable facts, the applicable law, and
traditional investigative and prosecutorial policies and
House Judiciary Committee
procedures; and whether the FISA process employed in the fall
of 2016 was appropriate and devoid of extraneous influence.
Trey Gowdy
Thank you for your prompt attention to this important request.
Chairman
Sincerely,
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

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 Washed Up Porn Star Stormy Daniels Sues Donald Trump
Over Unsigned Hush Agreement
By Jim Hoft
March 6, 2018, 7:40 pm

A lawyer for the Trump Organization,

Michael D. Cohen admitted in a
statement to the New York Times he
paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000
in hush money out of his own pocket in
2016.

It has been alleged Donald Trump had an affair with

Stephanie Clifford AKA Stormy Daniels in 2006.

President Trump has denied the affair.

And Stormy Daniels denied the affair way back in January

– less than two months ago.

But that was January.

On Tuesday porn star Stormy Daniels
sued President Donald Trump over their
hush agreement.

NBC reported:

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 Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald
Trump Tuesday, alleging that he never
signed the nondisclosure agreement that
his lawyer had arranged with her.
The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior
Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges
that her agreement not to disclose her
“intimate” relationship with Trump is not
valid because while both Daniels and
Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen signed it,
Trump never did.
Each document includes a blank where “DD” is supposed
to sign, but neither blank is signed.
According to the lawsuit, which attorney Michael Avenatti
announced in a tweet, Clifford and Trump had an intimate
relationship that lasted from summer 2006 “well into the
year 2007.” The relationship allegedly included meetings
in Lake Tahoe and at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy

Daniels, signed both the agreement and a side letter
agreement using her professional name on October 28,
2016, just days before the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen signed the document the same day. Both
agreements are appended to the lawsuit as Exhibit 1 and
Exhibit 2.

The “hush agreement,” as it’s called in the suit, refers to

Trump throughout as David Dennison, and Clifford as
Peggy Peterson. The side letter agreement reveals the true
identities of the parties as Clifford and Trump.
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 BOMBSHELL: FBI Agent Strzok Was Told
Of Possible Breach Into Clinton's Server, Didn't Follow Up
Byryan Saavedra @Realsaavedra
March 6, 2018
On Monday, Fox News exclusively reported that anti-
Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok was notified in the final
months of the criminal investigation into former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server that
there was a possible breach but chose to not follow up on
it.
Two sources who are directly familiar with the matter told
Fox News that Strzok was specifically informed of an
"irregularity in the metadata" of Clinton’s server that
suggested that an unauthorized party had breached the
server. Despite the obvious national security implications,
Strzok did not support taking the recommended course of
action, completing a formal damage assessment. Fox News
noted:
Fox News is told the Justice Department Inspector
General, Michael E. Horowitz, is aware of the allegations.
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According to intelligence community directive 732,
damage assessments are done “in response to unauthorized
disclosure or compromise of classified national
intelligence.”
Intelligence beyond top secret was identified on the
Clinton server. As secretary of state, Clinton chose to use a
private, non-secure server for government business.
The revelation is significant as James Comey said in July
2016, at the conclusion of the investigation, that hostile
actors gained access to Clinton's email account. According
to remarks prepared for delivery at Comey's press briefing,
the former FBI director stated:
With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile
actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary
Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But,
given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially
involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such
direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained
access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people
with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from
her personal account.
As Fox News notes, it was Strozk who changed the
language in the FBI's report on Clinton to describe her
actions as “extremely careless” instead of “grossly
negligent,” which is a felony under the federal criminal
statute 18 USC 793.
 Senator: 'Clinton's Tentacles Go Everywhere' From
Dossier To Deep State In Manufactured Russia Probe
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
March 6, 2018
Every time a new report emerges regarding the Russia
"Collusion" narrative the media has been shoving down
Americans' throats for the past year, following the trail
always leads back to the Clinton's, their allies or Deep
State members of the Obama administration that actively
tried to meddle in the U.S. election process to get Hillary
Clinton elected.
Every. Single. Time.
In late December 2017, as the FBI/DOJ was being
engulfed in in the growing "deep state" scandals, which
included how the agencies senior officials used the
unverified, Kremlin sourced, Steele dossier that was
funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, in
order to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil a former Trump
campaign member. It was later revealed that the
intelligence members that used the dossier, did so without
informing the FISA that 1) It was unverified, and; 2) That
the Clinton campaign and DNC funded it.
Enter the NYT with a piece which attempted to distract
from those scandals by claiming that the Russian inquiry
began because George Papadopoulos, a former foreign
policy advisor for the Trump presidential campaign had
drinks at a bar with an Australian diplomat in
Britain, Alexander Downer, and told him that Russia had
"political dirt" on Hillary Clinton. Two months later
Wikileaks started publishing leaked emails from the DNC,
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then later the Podesta emails from Clinton's campaign.
That was when Australia passed along the Downer's claims
of what Papadopoulos said and voila! The Russian inquiry
began........ according to the NYT.
In December when that NYT piece came out there was
enough holes in their "reporting" to drive trucks through,
such as what proof did they have that Papadopoulos
actually said anything of the kind? Were their recordings
or a transcript? Nope, they admitted in their story
"Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said
that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms
with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is
unclear."
Another obvious question was whether the "political dirt"
on Hillary Clinton that Russia was said to have, had
anything to do with emails at all?
Did they name any source that could confirm or verify this
narrative? Nope again, they claimed the information came
from "four current and former American and foreign
officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role."
Hmmmmmm. Were any of them those in the news since
December, found to have been leaking to the press like
FBI agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in initiating
the Russia probe as an "insurance policy" in case Donald
Trump won the presidential election. Or FBI lawyer Lisa
Page, whose texts with Strzok showed they liked to leak
information to the press? Or former FBI deputy Director
Andrew McCabe who is now accused of approving leaks
to the press and misleading Inspector General
investigators?
The point here is that the NYT offered great click bait, but
nothing they reported could be confirmed, which brings us
to another assertion in that piece, that when looked at in
light of the information that has just been revealed, has
some very disturbing implications.
It was not, as Mr. Trump and other
politicians have alleged, a dossier compiled
by a former British spy hired by a rival
campaign. Instead, it was firsthand
 information from one of America’s closest
intelligence allies.
That is a reference to Australia, but where did Australia's
intelligence agency get that information? From Downer,
which brings us to the blockbuster report by John Solomon
and Alison Spann, who uncovered a huge Clinton
connection with Downer. Documents embedded at The
Hill article show that Mr. Downer arrange "one of the
largest foreign donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s
charitable efforts," to aid the Clinton Foundation. To the
tune of $25 million. According to that same report, the FBI
never informed congress of Downer's connection to the
Clinton Foundation.
“The Clintons’ tentacles go everywhere.
So, that’s why it’s important,” said Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio) chairman of a House
Oversight and Government Reform
subcommittee that has been taking an
increasingly visible role defending the
Trump administration in the Russia probe.
“We continue to get new information every
week it seems that sort of underscores the
fact that the FBI hasn’t been square with
us.”
Read the entire article at The Hill.
With this new revelation we see those Clinton
tentacles are entwined with every aspect of the
Russian investigation, from inception.
1) The Australian "source" of Papadopoulos' alleged
comments at the bar, was a Clinton Foundation ally.
2) Clinton campaign and DNC funded Steele dossier
which was used in FISA applications to obtain
warrants to surveil Carter Page, without telling the
FISA court about the Clinton/DNC connection.
3) Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal exchanged
information with former State Department official
Jonathan Winer, who admits to consorting with
Christopher Steele. Winer worked with the State
Department from 2009 until 2017, resigning amidst the
scandal that he was part of the Russia "insurance
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policy," plot against President Trump. That means
Winer was employed by the State Department while
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
4) Strzok was behind the "insurance policy" (Russian
probe), and via his texts with his lover FBI lawyer Lisa
Page, both were virulently anti-Trump and pro-Clinton
according to their own text messages. Strzok was also
responsible to some key changes in the language of
former FBI director James Comey's exoneration
statement of Clinton in the private server/email
scandal, changing the term "grossly negligent," which
was the statutory language that would have led to
legal consequences, to "extremely careless," which
helped her bypass charges.
Strzok also participated in the FBI interview with
Michael Flynn, who was indicted as part of the Mueller
probe, for lying to the FBI, in an interview struck was
part of. Coincidence?
Related: McCabe May Have Asked FBI Agents to
Change 302 Forms
Another new report now indicates that Strzok was
also informed of a "irregularity in the metadata of
Hillary Clinton’s server that suggested a possible
breach," but he did not follow up on the information as
intelligence community directives demanded.
Knowing all of the above about Strzok, it is safe to call
him a deep state Clinton ally.
John Solomon and Sara Carter joined Sean Hannity to
discuss these latest revelations, and how every aspect
of the Russia investigation began and ended with
people paid by Hillary Clinton or were donors to the
Clinton Foundation. Then we have Peter Strzok, who
by his own words sent in thousands of texts made it
very clear he was a Clinton ally and vehemently
against Donald Trump.
All roads to and from the Russia investigation appear
to lead right to Hillary Clinton.
 Trump Meets With Former
U.N. Ambassador Bolton At The White House
By Hank Berrien
March 6, 2018
On Tuesday, former U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations John Bolton met with President Trump.
Rumors have been swirling that national security advisor
H.R. McMaster may leave his post, and Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson is rumored to be on tenuous ground. Bolton
tweeted on Tuesday:
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Trump is seemingly ready to jettison the Iran nuclear deal,
as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at the
AIPAC conference on Tuesday. Netanyahu said,
“President Trump has made it clear that his
administration will not accept Iran's
aggression in the region. The President
has also made it clear that the flaws of the
nuclear deal are not fixed, he will walk
away from the deal and restore sanctions."
Bolton is considered a true hawk on foreign policy; he has
served as Assistant Secretary for International
Organization Affairs at the State Department from 1989-
1993, where he coordinated the effort to rescind the United
Nations resolution from the 1970s that equated Zionism
with racism, and also was key in the efforts of the U.S.
Mission to obtain U.N. resolutions endorsing the use of
force to fight Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Between 1985-
1989 he served as Assistant Attorney General at the
Department of Justice.
 Mike Flynn Jr Sends Message To Supporters Following
Report General Flynn Selling Virginia Home To Pay
Mounting Legal Fees
By Cristina Laila
March 6, 2018, 7:51 Pm

President Trump’s former National Flynn Jr. tweeted: To all supporters of the Flynn family…
Security Advisor, General Flynn was
forced to put one of his homes up for Compared to the suffering many others in this world go
sale in order to pay for mounting legal through, we’ll certainly get through this….not easy by any
fees stemming from dirty cop Mueller’s means.
Russia witch hunt.
Houses are material. Having a strong family is all we need.
This shows just how evil Deep State operatives are. They
are willing to destroy a three-star General in order to cover
up their life of crimes.

On Tuesday, General Flynn’s son Michael Flynn Jr. sent a

message to supporters following the news his father is
selling one his homes to fight the Deep State.

Please continue to pray for the Flynn family.

On Monday, ABC News reported:

Michael Flynn, the retired Army general

and ex-Trump national security adviser
who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents
about his Russian contacts, has put his
Virginia home up for sale to pay mounting
legal fees.
Flynn’s 13-year-old, three-bedroom
townhouse in Old Town Alexandria outside
Washington, which he bought three years
ago, was listed for sale in December with
an asking price of $895,000 — money he
General Flynn’s phone call with Russian Ambassador
will use to pay his high legal defense debts,
Kislyak during the Trump transition was illegally leaked to
his brother Joe Flynn said Monday.
the liberal media.
On Tuesday, Mike Flynn Jr sent a message to supporters.

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Dirty cop Andrew McCabe and disgraced FBI agent Peters
Strzok worked in coordination to take out General Flynn.
Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok then ambushed
General Flynn and interviewed him on January 24th 2017
without his lawyer present.
On December 1st 2017 it was reported General Michael
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI deep state
operatives in the ongoing Trump witch hunt.
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At the end of January, Special Counsel Robert
Mueller requested the postponement of former National
Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn’s sentencing.
General Flynn should be pardoned and reimbursed for all
of his legal fees.
You can donate to Lieutenant General (Retired) Michael T.
Flynn’s legal defense fund by clicking here.
 AP Calls Trump's Texas Supporters 'Diehards,' Uses
Cooked Poll To Lowball His Popularity
By Tom Blumer
March 6, 2018 9:13 PM EST
On Monday, the day before primary elections in
Texas, Paul J. Weber at the Associated Press characterized
Donald Trump's Texas supporters as "diehards," and cited
a cooked Trump approval poll published by Quinnipiac to
understate the President's popularity.
Weber did not hide his disdain for what he described as
"the Trump effect" in his AP report:
In Texas GOP primary, it’s who can love
Trump the most
... Texas holds the nation’s first 2018
primary elections Tuesday, and the
campaign is providing a vivid exhibition of
the Trump effect in GOP politics. Some
races are playing out in a roadshow of
one-upping emulation of the combative
president, in which there’s no such thing
as cozying up too close or too ardently,
regardless of his rough edges or low
approval ratings nationwide.
After this ridicule of Trump-supporting politicians, Weber
aimed his fire at Trump voters:
... Texas candidates aren’t alone in
courting Trump diehards who make up
the GOP base —
and who can be counted on to show up in typically low-
turnout primary elections.
The dictionary defines a diehard as "a
person who vigorously maintains or
defends a seemingly hopeless position,
outdated attitude, lost cause, or the
like."
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That characterization of Trump supporters is ridiculous,
given the fervor with which GOP candidates are
associating themselves with the President and the fact, as
Weber himself conceded, that
"Democrats haven’t won a statewide race
since 1994."
Weber then presented the cooked poll:
The impression of a Trump White House at
war with its enemies is stoking the
atmosphere. “It’s about he’s our
Republican president and if we don’t stand
together and we don’t defend the party and
conservative ideas, no one is,” said
Brendan Steinhauser, an Austin-based
Republican strategist. A Quinnipiac
University survey in late February put
Trump’s approval rating at 86 percent
among Republicans but just 37 percent
overall.
Readers who are strong at math will quickly discern that
the coexistence of the two Trump popularity numbers
presented — 86 percent among Republicans and 37
percent overall — is almost statistically impossible. That's
correct, unless one cooks the poll participation
percentages, which is what Quinnipiac did.
As seen below, the poll included 33 percent Democrats
and 22 percent Republicans, despite the latest Gallup
nationwide party affiliation poll showing a slight GOP
advantage of 28 percent to 27 percent. If the Quinnipiac
poll had been weighted with Gallup's percentages, Trump's
approval result would have increased by 5 points to 42
percent:
Meanwhile, the presidential approval tracking poll at
Rasmussen, which had the best performance among all
major pollsters in the 2016 presidential election, had
Trump at 47 percent approval nationwide from February
16-19, the days Quinnipiac conducted its poll.
.
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It's also reasonable to believe the Trump's overall
popularity in Texas would be higher because of nearly a
quarter-century of Republican electoral successes there.
Weber's dispatch is all in a day's work at AP, the nation's
hopelessly biased, Trump-despising, gatekeeping news
service.
 Lindsey Graham Says Trump Deserves
‘Lion’s Share’ Of Credit If North Korean Deal Is Reached
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:08 PM 03/06/2018

Lindsey Graham has certainly never been shy about @realDonaldTrump for his strong stand,”
criticizing President Trump, but when it comes to the issue Graham tweeted.
of North Korea the South Carolina senator is willing to
give the president “the lion’s share” of the credit if a
denuclearization deal is reached.

In a series of Tuesday tweets, Graham expressed

appreciation for Trump’s “strong and unequivocal
position,” which he hopes will “lead to a major
breakthrough” with Pyongyang.

The tweets seem to have been sparked by South Korean

President Moon Jae-in’s Tuesday announcement that its
northern neighbor is willing to negotiate with the United
States about potentially ending its nuclear weapons
program, a move welcomed by Trump as “possible
progress.”

“For the first time in many years, a serious

effort is being made by all parties
“I hope the strong and unequivocal position
concerned,” tweeted Trump. “The World is
by the President will lead to a major
watching and waiting! May be false hope,
breakthrough that would be beneficial to
but the U.S. is ready to go hard in either
the world at large,” wrote Graham.
direction!”
“President Trump has been steadfast in his
commitment to deny the North Korean
regime the ability to strike the U.S. with a Just last weekend, North Korea called the Trump
nuclear weapon.” administration’s insistence that it abandon its nuclear
program as a precondition for negotiations “preposterous”
in a statement sent to CBS News.
The South Carolina senator’s first tweet in the series
acknowledged that Trump deserves the “lion’s share of
credit” if a denuclearization is reached. “The U.S. is taking preposterous action by
continuing to trumpet an insistence that it
will not have dialogue unless a right
“If there is an agreement reached between
condition is met and that it will keep
the United States, North Korea and the rest
watching if we have intention to abandon
of the world regarding the denuclearization
nuclear weapons and missiles and so on,”
of the Korean peninsula, the lion’s share of
the statement said.
credit will go to President
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 Peter Strzok Ignored
Evidence Of Clinton Server Breach
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 03/06/2018 - 23:20

FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok reportedly

ignored "an irregularity in the metadata" indicating that
Hillary Clinton's server may had been breached, while FBI
top brass made significant edits to former Director James
Comey's statement specifically minimizing how likely it
was that hostile actors had gained access.

Sources told Fox News that Strzok, who sent anti-Trump

text messages that got him removed from the ongoing
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, was told
about the metadata anomaly in 2016, but Strzok did
not support a formal damage assessment. One source
said: “Nothing happened.”

In December, a letter from Senate Homeland Security
Committee Chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) revealed that
Strzok and other FBI officials effectively "decriminalized"
Clinton's behavior through a series of edits to James
Comey's original statement.
It was already known that Strzok - who was demoted to the
FBI's HR department for sending anti-Trump text
messages to his mistress - downgraded the language
describing Clinton's conduct from the criminal charge of
"gross negligence" to "extremely careless."

The letter described how outgoing Deputy Notably, "Gross negligence" is a legal term of art in
Director Andrew McCabe exchanged criminal law often associated with recklessness. According
drafts of Comey's statement with senior to Black's Law Dictionary, it is defined as
FBI officials, including Strzok, Strzok's
direct supervisor, E.W. "Bill" “A severe degree of negligence taken as
Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an reckless disregard," and "Blatant
unnamed employee from the Office of indifference to one's legal duty, other's
General Counsel (identified safety, or their rights.” "Extremely
by Newsweek as DOJ Deputy General careless," on the other hand, is not a legal
Counsel Trisha Anderson) - in term of art.
a coordinated conspiracy among top
FBI brass.
18 U.S. Code § 793 "Gathering, transmitting or losing
defense information" specifically uses the phrase "gross
negligence." Had Comey used the phrase, he would have
essentially declared that Hillary had broken the law.

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In order to justify downgrading Clinton's behavior to
"extremely careless," however, FBI officials also needed to
minimize the impact of her crimes. As revealed in the
letter from Rep. Johnson, the FBI downgraded the
probability that Clinton's server was hacked by hostile
actors from "reasonably likely" to "possible."
By doing so, the FBI downgraded Clinton's negligence -
thus supporting the "extremely careless" language.
The FBI also edited Clinton's exoneration letter to remove
a reference to the "sheer volume" of classified material on
the private server, which - according to the original draft
"supports an inference that the participants were grossly
negligent in their handling of that information."
Furthermore, all references to the Intelligence
Community's involvement in investigating Clinton's
private email server were removed as well.
Director Comey's original statement acknowledged the
FBI had worked with its partners in the Intelligence
Community to assess potential damage from Secretary
Clinton's use of a private email server. The original
statement read:
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“Given that combination of factors, we
assess it is possible that hostile actors
gained access to Secretary Clinton’s
personal e-mail account,” Comey said in
his statement.
W]e have done extensive work with the assistance of our
colleagues elsewhere in the Intelligence Community to
understand what indications there might be of compromise
by hostile actors in connection with the private email
operation.
In summary; the FBI launched an investigation into Hillary
Clinton's private server, ignored evidence it may have been
hacked, downgraded the language in Comey's draft to
decriminalize her behavior, and then exonerated her by
recommending the DOJ not prosecute.
Meanwhile, a tip submitted by an Australian diplomat tied
to a major Clinton Foundation deal launched the FBI's
counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign
- initially spearheaded by the same Peter Strzok who
worked so hard to get Hillary off the hook.
And Strzok still collects a taxpayer-funded paycheck.
 LAWSUIT: The 2 Most Shocking Allegations
From Stormy Daniels' Lawsuit Against Trump
Byryan Saavedra @Realsaavedra
March 7, 2018

#2. Trump never signed the "hush" agreement. Law &

Crime notes:
The lawsuit reads, “On or about October
28,2016, only days before the election, two
of the parties signed the Hush Agreement –
Ms. Clifford and Mr. Cohen (on behalf of
EC). Mr. Trump, however, did not sign the
agreement, thus rendering it legally null
and void and of no consequence.” Clifford
further asserts that Trump knew of the
agreement and purposely did not sign the
contract so he could later, if need be,
On Tuesday, adult film star Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit
against President Donald Trump, claiming that he never “publicly disavow any knowledge of the
signed a nondisclosure agreement that she says his lawyer Hush agreement, and Ms. Clifford.”
arranged for her. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Cohen
NBC News reports: had allegedly complained to friends that he had not been
reimbursed for the alleged six-figure payout to Daniels,
The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior although, on the record, Cohen previously stated that he
Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges used his "personal funds to facilitate a payment of
that her agreement not to disclose her $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford," which he says did
"intimate" relationship with Trump is not not involve the Trump Organization or the campaign in
valid because while both Daniels and any manner.
Trump's attorney Michael Cohen signed it,
Trump never did.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and her
attorney, Michael Avenatti, are requesting that the Los
Angeles County Superior Court declare that the agreement
was
"never formed, and therefore do not exist,
because, among other things, Mr. Trump
never signed the agreements."
The most shocking allegations made in the lawsuit are:
#1. Donald Trump's name is not used, rather the
pseudonym David Dennison is used. Law & Crime notes:
Several times the lawsuit makes reference to Trump (aka
David Dennison). In fact, Dennison is a named plaintiff in
the lawsuit. In the apparent ‘Hush Agreement’ that
Clifford signed, in order to disguise the fact that it was
Trump involved in the story, Cohen only referred to
Trump as “David Dennison” or “DD” and Daniels as
“Peggy Peterson” and “PP.” Clifford believed this was so
Trump would have plausible deniability about the affair
and the pay arrangement.
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 Trump Trade Wars A Perfect
Smokescreen For A Market Crash
Brandon Smith
Wednesday, 07 March 2018 07:18
First, I would like to say that the timing of Donald
Trump’s announcement on expansive trade tariffs is
unusual if not impeccable. I say this only IF Trump’s plan
was to benefit establishment globalists by giving them
perfect cover for their continued demolition of the market
bubbles that they have engineered since the crash of 2008.
If this was not his plan, then I am a bit bewildered by what
he hopes to accomplish. It is certainly not the end of trade
deficits and the return of American industry. But let’s
explore the situation for a moment…
Trump is in my view a modern day Herbert Hoover. One
of Hoover’s first actions as president in response to fiscal
tensions of 1929 was to support increased tax cuts,
primarily for corporations (this was then followed in 1932
by extensive tax increases in the midst of the depression,
so let’s see what Trump does in the next couple of years).
Then, he instituted tariffs through the Smoot-Hawley Act.
His hyperfocus on massive infrastructure spending resulted
in U.S. debt expansion and did nothing to dig the U.S. out
of its unemployment abyss. In fact, infrastructure projects
like the Hoover Dam, which were launched in 1931, were
not paid off for over 50 years. Hoover oversaw the
beginning of the Great Depression and ended up as a
single-term Republican president who paved the way
socially for Franklin D. Roosevelt, an essential communist
and perhaps the worst president in American history.
This is not to say Hoover was responsible for the Great
Depression. That distinction goes to the Federal Reserve,
which had artificially lowered interest rates and then
suddenly raised them going into the economic downturn
causing an aggressive bubble implosion (just like the
central bank is doing right now). But Hoover did actually
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aid the Fed in their undermining of economic stability by
pursuing policies which were poorly timed.
I’m hitting readers with all of this because I am growing
rather tired of the contingent of Trump apologists in the
liberty movement scrambling to defend every single
Trump action no matter how illogical. These people should
know better. Sorry, but Trump is not "playing 4D chess"
against the globalists. His primary initiatives have only
served so far to create a useful distraction away from the
globalists.
The disturbing key to all of this is the fact that many of
Trump’s policies are things that I and many others have
argued for in the past. The problem is, he is implementing
them out of order and with bad timing, which will only
make such policies appear destructive in the end, rather
than constructive.
In terms of the implementation of tariffs, the people who
are defending this action at this time do not seem to
understand the basics of international trade. Tariffs can
only be enacted from a position of economic strength and
resource development. This strength comes from internal
self-sufficiency in production; meaning, in order for the
U.S. to force a trade balance (which is what tariffs are
supposed to do) the U.S. must have a strong industrial base
and MUST be capable of producing most if not all
necessary goods and goods in broad demand.
The fact is, U.S. manufacturing has been utterly
outsourced by the very corporations Trump just gave a
10% tax cut to, and rebuilding that industrial base would
take decades. Why? Because there are no incentives for
corporations to bring manufacturing back.
As I already stated, Trump is instituting potentially solid
policies but he is doing so out of order. Tax cuts for
corporations should have been enacted only as an incentive
for manufacturing jobs to be returned to America. Instead,
corporations got tax cuts for absolutely nothing. And will
those tax cuts go towards more jobs or innovation? Nope.
They will be going to pay off unprecedented corporate
debts, and stock buybacks, most of which were accrued
through borrowing from the Federal Reserve.
Will this stock buyback bonanza even generate new highs
in the Dow? Probably not. But I’ll explain why that is
later.
If Trump had given tax incentives for corporations to bring
manufacturing back into the U.S., and then given those
corporations a few years to make the shift, only then would
tariffs have been an effective action. But as the situation
stands now, we have minimal tangible production in this
country, and, historic debts held by the same overseas
competitors that Trump is now seeking to “teach a lesson.”
Debt is the next issue which needs to be addressed before
tariffs can ever be implemented in a practical way. In
terms of national debt, rather than setting up a plan to
reduce U.S. debt expenditures, Trump is increasing debt by
reducing taxes while at the same time increasing spending.
Trump did not take a hard stand on the debt ceiling debate
as he originally claimed he would, and so, the debt train
continues unabated.
Who is going to purchase this debt, I wonder? Over the
past several years the largest buyer of U.S. treasury debt
was the Federal Reserve through fiat money creation.
Now, the Fed has tapered quantitative easing and is
dumping their balance sheet at a rate faster than anyone
expected. The Fed is pulling the plug on its artificial
support of the economy.
The next largest buyers are major foreign central banks in
countries like China, Japan and to some extent the
supranational EU. If the debt buyers of last resort are now
the very same countries Trump is seeking to enact tariffs
over, how do you think this little theater will end? Yes,
with a dump of U.S. treasury bonds and perhaps the dollar
as world reserve by those nations.
But what about the U.S. consumer? Isn’t the consumer
market in America so enticing that nations like China
would “never dare” dump U.S. debt or the dollar? No, not
really. If we are talking about a trade “war,” then a country
like China, which has a vast manufacturing base and which
has also been building up its own domestic consumer
market, would be willing to make the sacrifice. America
would be hurt far more by the threat of debt default and the
loss of the dollar’s international buying power than China
ever would be by the loss of American consumers. With
tariffs being implemented, they may lose the American
consumer anyway.
Our retail market is hardly as appetizing as it was 10 years
ago given the decade of drudgery Americans have
endured, with the largest number ever of working age
citizens no longer participating in the jobs market, as well
as real worker wages in continued decline while the
American consumer is now more indebted than at any
other time in history.
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All of these negative effects are weighing down our
economy while the Federal Reserve is quickly deflating
the fraudulent markets that the establishment used during
the Obama administration to argue that America was “in
recovery.” Of course, alternative economists have known
since the beginning that this was a lie, and that the only
thing propping up the economy and stock markets was
central bank manipulation.
The Fed under Jerome Powell has made it crystal clear that
they WILL be raising interest rates and cutting the Fed
balance sheet, perhaps more than their dot plots had
indicated in the past. Without low rates and a steadily
rising balance sheet we have already seen the results.
Stocks in particular have gone crazy compared to the past
few years, dumping nearly 10% one week, spiking about
half that the next week. One thing is certain, the
supposedly endless bull market induced by the Fed years
ago is now over. Stocks are in heart attack mode.
It is no coincidence that the first two times the Fed reduced
its balance sheet the Dow plunged over 1,000 points. The
latest dump of $23 billion at the end of February resulted
in a drop of around 1,500 points. It is too early in this
process to know what the trend will be, but it seems to me
that stocks are being steam valved down every month.
With a marked decline just after a balance sheet dump,
followed by a less impressive dead cat bounce the week
after.
In the meantime, Trump’s “trade war” is now being
blamed in the mainstream for the decline in stocks that the
Fed is actually responsible for. As I have always said,
Trump is the ideal scapegoat for the inevitable economic
crisis the central bankers have staged. Trump's tariffs
might exacerbate the problem, just as Hoover's policies did
in the beginning of the Great Depression, but the blame
rests squarely on the Federal Reserve and central banks
around the world. Will the average person understand this
dynamic once the dust settles on our financial system?
Probably not.
So, to summarize, while Trump has indeed set in motion
policies that conservatives in general tend to approve of,
he has done so in an impractical way that will ultimately
be blamed for a market crash the Fed created. If
conservative ideals such as limited government and
sovereign trade protection get the blame for an
unprecedented economic crisis then this could sabotage
conservatism for generations to come. If elections are still
even a factor as this crisis unfolds, the chances of the
public accepting a socialistic nightmare regime after
Trump exits the White House are high. And, the banking
elites that conjured the whole mess will escape once again
without any punishment.
The question we must ask is this - Is Trump aware that his
policies are creating a perfect distraction for those same
banking elites? I believe we will know for certain the
answer to that before 2018 is over.
 Tucker Carlson Brilliantly Mocks Joy Reid For Claiming
Trump Is ‘Racist’ Over Joke About Nancy Pelosi
By Cassandra Fairbanks
March 7, 2018, 7:19 Am

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson blasted MSNBC’s Joy Reid on

Tuesday evening after she demanded that President Donald
Trump was “racist” for making a joke about Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi has recently been claiming that mowing the grass

around the Mexican border will help to secure it without a
wall. In response, Trump joked that her new campaign
slogan could be “mow the grass.”

Naturally, Reid decided that the joke was racist.

“Most cable new shows are pretty

varied, they cover a lot of topics,”
Tucker said. “But over on MSNBC, Joy
Reid’s show is the exception. Her show
has only one topic — how everyone who
disagrees with her is a racist. She’s not
a civil rights advocate, she’s just a
monomaniac. Take a look.” “So is Pelosi the secret Grand Wizard?”
Carlson laughed.
The show then cut to a montage of Reid calling things
racist.

“That’s the whole show really, every week

— so no need to watch,” Carlson asserted
before cutting to the clip of her claiming the
Pelosi joke was racist.

Reid claimed that the joke was a “slap at Mexican

Americans.”

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 New York Times: If GOP Wins Midterms,
Democrats Will Rage At Russian Meddling
By P.J. Gladnick
March 7, 2018 7:44 AM EST
Historically, the party that occupies the White House loses
seats in the midterm elections although there have been
several notable exceptions to this rule. And if 2018 proves
to be one of those exceptions and the Republicans gain
seats in the midterms, Charlie Savage of the New York
Times already has an excuse at hand: Russian meddling.
Savage provided this excuse to the potential sore losers a
full eight months before the midterms in his March 3
article, What if Republicans Win the Midterms?
A sizable portion of the American population has been
convulsing with outrage at President Trump for more than
a year. Millions of people who previously took only mild
interest in politics have participated in protests, fumed as
they stayed riveted to news out of Washington and filled
social media accounts once devoted to family updates and
funny videos with furious political commentary.
Yet public life on the whole has remained surprisingly
calm.
A significant factor in keeping the peace
has surely been anticipatory catharsis:
The widespread expectations of a big
Democratic wave in the coming midterm
elections are containing and channeling
that indignation, helping to maintain
order.
So the Democrats would have gone completely berserk but
for the fact that they think Democrat victories this
November will spell the beginning of the end for the
Trumpocalypse.
What will happen if no such wave
materializes and that pressure-relief
valve jams shut?
They freak out:
...But the relative calm may be like an
unexploded bomb, its volatility not so much
defused as contained by the thought that
Trump Republicans will be punished in the
Nov. 6 midterm elections. These
expectations are widespread.
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Those expectations were also in place in 1998, when Bill
Clinton was caught cheating with a college-age intern and
lying in sworn testimony. A Republican wave did not
occur.
But a significant Democratic wave may not materialize.
Good economic news, for example, tends to blunt anti-
incumbent sentiments. The country is still mostly using
House districts that were redrawn after the 2010 census,
just as Republicans’ big 2010 midterm wave victory gave
them an unusual degree of control over state legislatures.
Beyond deliberate partisan gerrymandering, the impact of
a Democratic turnout surge would be partly diluted by
their voters’ disproportionate concentration in cities, piling
up extra votes in districts Republicans would have lost
anyway.
Uh-oh! Time now for Mr. Savage to give us the ultimate
fallback excuse:
But inevitably, many eyes would turn to
Russia. It appears to still be covertly
spreading disinformation and amplifying
tensions on American social media with the
intention of having “an impact on the next
election cycle,” Mike Pompeo, the Central
Intelligence Agency director, told Congress
last month.
He continued:
Another poll-defying election night surprise,
like 2016’s, would further fuel suspicions of
unseen manipulation. After all, the public
only later found out — apparently thanks to
the National Security Agency contractor
Reality Winner, whom the Justice
Department is prosecuting for leaking —
that shortly before the 2016 election,
Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of
an elections systems software supplier and
tried to trick 122 state elections officials into
downloading malware. While there is no
evidence that Russian hackers tampered
with Election Day results last time, the
government has disclosed that it thinks
 they probed elections systems in 21 states
and penetrated several.
And according to Savage's reality check, the key phrase in
that excuse-making paragraph is "no evidence."
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Against that backdrop, disappointed Trump opponents will
be primed to believe the worst: that Russia rigged two
elections in a row for Republicans. And if their
anticipatory catharsis and faith in the democratic process
evaporates, the anger could seek a different outlet — in
turn risking a backlash from Trump supporters and a
downward spiral.
Rush: More Evidence That The Only Real Russia Collusion
Was Democratic Collusion To Take Down Trump
Byjames Barrett
March 7, 2018
On his radio program Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh hammered
home a point about a topic he's addressed several times
over the past year: the Trump-Russia collusion
investigation, which after a year still hasn't produced any
evidence of anything resembling the conspiracy that
Democrats have alleged took place. In fact, said
Limbaugh, more evidence now suggests that the only
collusion with Russia was Hillary Clinton and the DNC's
collusion with Russian sources to take down Trump.
Limbaugh began the segment by pointing to information
revealed Monday night on Fox News by Republican
Congressman Devin Nunes (CA), the author of the
declassified intelligence memo that sent shockwaves
throughout D.C. with its allegations that the FBI used the
notorious Clinton and DNC-funded anti-Trump "Steele
dossier" without fully revealing its funding sources in an
attempt to spy on Team Trump. Here's the quote that
Limbaugh focused in on (video below):
Nunes: We know exactly who was getting
information from the Russians. It was the
Hillary Clinton campaign. They were getting
information from the Russians, dirt on
Trump to use in a campaign. That’s the
very thing that for a year and a half we’ve
been trying to investigate — whether or not
the Trump campaign was trying to get dirt
against Hillary Clinton from the Russians?
We have no evidence of that.
"We have evidence that the Hillary
campaign was being fed 'information from
Russians to use against the Trump
campaign,' and the clearest, the No. 1
exhibit is the Steele dossier! " said
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Limbaugh. "The Steele dossier is Exhibit A
in Clinton getting information from the
Russians to damage Trump! And they paid
for it — $10 million — through the law firm."
Limbaugh noted that the argument he was making wasn't
new: We've known this for months, yet the media
continues to act as if we don't.
"You know the drill now. Nunes just had a
new way of expressing it last night. It really
isn’t a new revelation or new discovery,"
said Limbaugh. "We know that the Clinton
campaign hired Steele — well, Fusion GPS
hired Steele — under orders from the
Clinton campaign with a law firm in there as
a cutout to actually handle the transaction,
giving the Clinton campaign a couple layers
of plausible deniability and invisibility."
Limbaugh also took a moment to sum up what we've
learned about the nature of the Steele dossier, which is
simply a
"political opposition research document."
"It’s made up. None of it’s true, either," said
Rush. "The Russians and the Clintons were
colluding."
Limbaugh added that Alexander Downer, one of the
informants who told the FBI about Papaopoulos, was a
former Australian foreign minister who had allegedly
"steer[ed] money from the Australian government" to the
Clinton Foundation.
"This guy was in the tank for the Clintons,
and this is the guy who Papadopoulos just
happened to accidentally start spilling his
guts to while drunk, and this is what Adam
Schiff says really got the investigation
going as far as the FISA warrant," said
Limbaugh.
"Folks, we’re being lied to like you can’t
believe and understand and even keep
track of here," he continued. "There are
real culprits who have committed real
criminal acts, and they’re in plain sight, and "to rehab Steele’s broken reputation and
they’re being ignored and protected and image and build him back up to heroic
shielded at the same time. Meanwhile, status."
people who haven’t had a thing to do with
the premise of Trump colluding with Russia Here's the video of Nunes' interview with Fox (quoted
— because there hasn’t been any — are comments begin around the 4:20 mark):
having their lives ruined!"
"There is no Trump-Russia collusion,"
Rush stressed. "There is Hillary and
Democrat Russian collusion. And yet
people are being pursued, they’re being
bankrupted, they’re being wrung out on a
false premise while the real culprits are
sitting there in plain sight, getting away with
it each and every day."
As for The New Yorker piece on Steele and
the dossier referenced by Nunes,
Limbaugh said its author, Jane Mayor, is a
left-wing partisan hack who is overtly trying
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 Former U.S. Attorney: James Clapper & Peter Strzok
Ignored Possible Hack Of Hillary’s Server ‘With Consent
Of Obama’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 9:55 Am
Former U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia Joe diGenova told Fox News
host Tucker Carlson Tuesday evening
that he believes FBI agent Peter Strzok
and then-Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper ignored a
possible hack of Hillary Clinton’s email
server with the ‘consent,’ of former
President Barack Obama.
FOX News Insider:
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DiGenova said that not only did FBI Agent Peter Strzok
and then-Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper
ignore the possible hack, but that they did so “with the
consent of the president (Obama).”
Tucker Carlson said technicians found discrepancies in
metadata contained in the email server, which may indicate
it was hacked or tampered with.
DiGenova said that when Clapper found out the server
may have been compromised, he was required by law to do
a “damage assessment” to ascertain whether hacking
occurred.
The former prosecutor said Clapper did no such thing, and
that such action may have provided cover for Strzok – who
was working on the related FBI investigation – to decline
to investigate further as well.
Asked if he agreed with the decision for Republican
lawmakers to call for a special counsel to investigation
FISA abuse, diGenova said he believes the move is the
correct one.
On Tuesday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) called for a second special counsel to
investigate FISA abuse committed by the FBI and DOJ.
Shortly after sending the letter to Sessions, Gowdy
revealed to FOX News’ Bill Hemmer that he reached the
conclusion a second special counsel is required after
learning Inspector General Horowitz doesn’t have
the subpoena power to use on former FBI Director James
Comey and outgoing Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as
witnesses.
 DNC Hack Involved Russian Agents "Within The
Democratic Party": Unreleased Steele Memo
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 03/07/2018 - 10:11
Shortly after WikiLeaks released emails from the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) on July 26, 2016,
former UK spy Christopher Steele filed a memo with his
employer, Fusion GPS,
claiming that the DNC "hack" during the
2016 election involved Russian agents
"within the Democratic Party structure
itself," The New Yorker reports.
On July 26, 2016,
after WikiLeaks disseminated the D.N.C. e-
mails, Steele filed yet another memo, this
time claiming that the Kremlin was “behind”
the hacking, which was part of a Russian
cyber war against Hillary Clinton’s
campaign. Many of the details seemed far-
fetched: Steele’s sources claimed that
the digital attack involved agents
“within the Democratic Party structure
itself,” as well as Russian émigrés in the
U.S. and “associated offensive cyber
operators.”
The unverified claim was contained within a multitude
of memos compiled by Steele on behalf of Fusion GPS,
which was conducting opposition research on then-
candidate Donald Trump for Hillary Clinton and the
DNC.
Of note, the 35-page "Trump-Russia" dossier used in part
by the FBI to obtain a FISA warrant on one-time Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page was comprised of seventeen
of Steele's memos - including one which alleged that
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Trump had paid "a number of prostitutes to perform a
‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him," which
would defile a bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had
slept in during a state visit - an allegation attributed to four
individuals' second-hand reporting.
The shocking claim comes amid recent reports that Special
Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing criminal charges
against Russian hackers allegedly behind the breaches of
both the DNC and John Podesta's email.
NBC News reports:
Much like the indictment Mueller filed last
month charging a different group of
Russians in a social media trolling and
illegal-ad-buying scheme, the possible
new charges are expected to rely
heavily on secret intelligence gathered
by the CIA, the FBI, the National
Security Agency (NSA) and the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), several of the officials say.
[…] Mueller’s consideration of charges
accusing Russians in the hacking case
has not been reported previously.
Sources say he has long had sufficient
evidence to make a case, but strategic
issues could dictate the timing. Potential
charges include violations of statutes on
conspiracy, election law as well as the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The sources say the possible new indictment — or more
than one, if that’s how Mueller’s office decides to proceed
— would delve into the details of, and the people behind,
the Russian intelligence operation that used hackers to
penetrate computer networks and steal emails of both the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta.
Meanwhile, as we have been reporting, Mueller has yet to
even reach out to Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, or New
Zealand entrepreneur Kim Dotcom - who clearly knew of
the upcoming email leaks before they were dropped. While
Assange has heavily insinuated it was DNC staffer Seth
Rich, Dotcom has gone "all in" over the last few months -
tweeting that he knows Seth Rich was Wikileaks' source,
Rich used a memory stick, and that Dotcom himself was
involved.
As Josh Caplan of TGP notes, In Donna Brazile's book,
“Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and
Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White
House,” the Democrat operative admits the DNC allowed
alleged Russian hackers to steal data from the party’s
servers. From the Daily Caller:

Donna Brazile says in her new book the Democratic

National Committee (DNC) went against professional
advice and sat idly for a month while Russians stole data
because primaries were still underway in a number of
states.

In May, when CrowdStrike

recommended that we take down our
system and rebuild it, the DNC told them
to wait a month, because the state
primaries for the presidential election
were still underway, and the party and the
staff needed to be at their computers to
manage these efforts,” Brazile wrote in her
new book, “Hacks.”
“For a whole month, CrowdStrike watched
Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear operating. Cozy
Bear was the hacking force that had been
in the DNC system for nearly a year.”

Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear are cybersecurity firms that

have reported ties with Russian hackers. Both groups are
blamed for the hacks on the DNC in 2016. CrowdStrike is
a private U.S. cybersecurity firm that oversaw the
protection of the DNC’s servers.

Nothing to see here folks - just Trump's enemies using

Steele's unverified memos with info from high level
Kremlin officials when it benefits them, while ignoring the
ones which suggest "insiders" was involved in the DNC
hack.

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 Porn Star Joke Brings CNN Panel
To A Cringe-Inducing Halt
Benny Johnson –Reporter At Large
10:13 AM 03/07/2018

CNN’s Don Lemon oversaw one of the cringiest moments The four other people on the panel responded with silence.
in the latest news cycle Tuesday night.
You could hear a cough and the shuffling of papers for
Lemon’s panel was discussing the most recent accusations what seemed like an eternity.
by porn star Stormy Daniels against President Donald
Trump. Daniels recently filed a lawsuit against Trump, WATCH below:
claiming that her non-disclosure agreement with him is
invalid.

On the panel, Lemon asked political strategist Kevin

Madden about the affair, to which Madden said the White
House will claim that she is trying to get “attention” before
saying Daniels does have some “very credible claims.”
Madden eventually admitted that “discussing a sitting
president being sued by a porn star” is a “routine part of
today’s news cycle.”

To which conservative Stephen Moore from the Heritage

Foundation quipped “Kevin, are you saying that a porn
star would try to call attention to herself? Shocking,
right?”

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 Mueller Continues To Ignore REAL “Collusion” With
Russia Committed By The Hillary Clinton Campaign;
Where Is Jeff Sessions?
By JD Heyes
03/07/2018
Nearly one year into his investigation of alleged
“collusion” between the campaign of President Donald J.
Trump and Russia, special counsel Robert Mueller has
found no evidence to support the allegations.
Not that ‘collusion’ would have been a crime anyway,
mind you. It isn’t, at least not in any sense that the term
applies to Trump and his campaign and the government of
Russia.
But more to the point, there won’t be any charges of
“collusion” because there wasn’t any to begin with. To
emphasize the point, let’s examine who Mueller has
indicted in his year-long probe:
Former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn for “lying”* to FBI
investigators.
Former Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort (from June to August 2016) on
32 counts of (among other charges)
falsifying income tax returns; failing to file
reports of foreign accounts; bank fraud
conspiracy; and bank fraud.
Former Manafort business partner Rick
Gates on 32 counts involving charges
similar to those of Manafort.
Former Trump foreign policy advisor
George Papadopoulos for lying to the
FBI.
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Associate of former Trump advisor
Gates, Alex Van Der Zwaan, for lying to
the FBI.
13 Russian nationals and three Russian
entities who were allegedly working in
cahoots with the Trump campaign during
the 2016 election cycle.
Richard Pinedo, a Californian who
allegedly sold bank accounts to Russian
agents, for one count of identity fraud.
That’s it. No one close to the president and certainly not
the president himself. And with the exception of the
Russians, none of the charges have anything at all to do
with ‘collusion’ or any criminal or treasonous acts
involving interactions with Russian government agents
working to “subvert our democracy.”
But that doesn’t mean there is no evidence
at all of Russian collusion. There is; plenty
of it, in fact.
And every bit of it is tied to the campaign of
Hillary Clinton as well as the Democratic
Party.
Using other actors — political opposition research firm
Fusion GPS and the law firm of Perkins Coie — the DNC
and Clinton campaign paid $1,024,408 between May 24,
2016, and Dec. 28, 2016, for the infamous “Trump
dossier,” according to bank records unsealed via court
order in November.
“While most of the records are redacted,
there is evidence of transactions between a
pair of law firms that Fusion GPS worked
with last year involving Russia-related
projects,” The National Sentinel reported.
Fast-forward to February. Republicans on the House
Intelligence Committee released a “FISA memo”
indicating that the FBI used the phony, unsubstantiated
dossier to repeatedly obtain a warrant from the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Trump campaign
figure Carter Page who, by the way, remains free and sans
of charges by Mueller — which is itself suspicious.
Later in the month committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes,
R-Calif., came out and said directly that the panel had
discovered clear evidence that the DNC and the Clinton
campaign were working in conjunction with the Russians
in order to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.
“We have a media that pretty much refuses
to cover this issue at all. We have serious
abuses that occurred in the FISA court
against the Trump campaign,” Nunes said.
“We continue to get facts. We will bring
those facts forward as we see them.
He added:
“The more we peel this back, we have clear
evidence of collusion but it’s not between
the Trump campaign, it’s between the
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Democratic party and the Hillary campaign
and the Russians.”
And this week we learn that a former Australian foreign
minister, Alexander Downing, who allegedly spurred the
Trump-Russia collusion investigation, has ties to — wait
for it — the Clintons.
Yet Robert Mueller seems about as interested in these clear
connections and likely lawbreaking as the “mainstream
media.”
Anyone who believes that the Mueller
probe is anything other than what Trump
says it is — an open-ended “witch hunt” —
is not being serious. But Attorney General
Jeff Sessions has recused himself from all
of it.
Is there anyone in the Justice Department on the
president’s side?
 Chris Bedford Peels Back
The Onion On Capitol Hill IT Scandal
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:22 AM 03/07/2018
Chris Bedford Peels Back Onion On Capitol Hill IT Scandal
The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Editor in chief Chris
Bedford discussed the Capitol Hill IT scandal involving
the Awan family Wednesday on Fox Business and said the
corruption may go all the way to the top.
Bedford said the Awan brothers — who worked as IT
aides for many Democratic members of Congress
including Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — have
multiple lawsuits pending against them by members of
their own family. He believes there is a pattern of
nefarious behavior.
“They’re appearing in civil court today as
you mentioned at 10:00 in the morning.
One of the many sordid cases they’ve been
kind of involved in here where they are in
trouble with their stepmother who accused
them of kidnapping her, of
wiretapping,” Bedford said. “They have
lawsuits out with many members of the
family. Women who have been involved
with Awan, his wife, his girlfriend have all
accused him of different kinds of sordid
activity — some of which involved police
activity.”
WATCH:
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Bedford referenced an ethics complaint a group lodged
against Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver who gave
Awan access to his IT network while paying another
person for the work.
“We also have some news coming out
today, The Foundation for Accountability
And Civic Trust is bringing an ethics
complaint against Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
potentially for paying people who weren’t
members of his staff and giving Awan as
well, access to his IT networks without
paying him and these things could be pretty
serious for Rep. Cleaver,” Bedford added.
The Foundation and Accountability and Civic Trust is
claiming the payment scheme represents a ghost employee
scheme that allowed Awan to defraud Congress.
“So far people have been slow walking this
and Democrats in Congress have refused
to bring complaints. They’re the victims
since members of Congress actually own
the information inside of their offices, but
what they don’t own is the money they
used to pay their staff,” Bedford said. “If
this goes onward then it will be referred to
the ethics committee and they’re going to
have to investigate whether or not [Cleaver]
broke House law.”
“I think it’s slowly, slowly, slowly starting to
roll,” he concluded. “Slowly people are
starting to pick up and there’s just too much
there, there to ignore it.”
 Justice Department To Hand Over New Documents On
‘Fast And Furious’ To Congressional Investigators
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 11:43 Am

In a statement Wednesday, the Justice with the House Committee on Oversight

Department announced it officially
entered into a “conditional settlement
agreement” to “begin to produce
additional documents related to
Operation Fast and Furious” to the
House Oversight Committee.
and Government Reform and will begin to
produce additional documents related to
Operation Fast and Furious. The
conditional settlement agreement, filed in
federal court in Washington D.C., would
end six years of litigation arising out of the
previous administration’s refusal to produce
documents requested by the Committee.

In announcing the settlement, Attorney General Sessions

said:

“The Department of Justice under my

watch is committed to transparency and the
rule of law. This settlement agreement is
an important step to make sure that the
public finally receives all the facts related to
Operation Fast and Furious.”

The development is especially newsworthy as former

Congressman Jason Chaffetz recently revealed that
Sessions denied his request for additional documents on
the Obama-era gun-running scheme.

On Saturday, Kent Terry, the brother of murdered border

patrol agent Brian Terry, pleaded with President Trump to
reexamine the gun-running scheme.

“#FastAndFurious @realDonaldTrump Sir

it’s been 7 yrs .my family ask you reopen
Obama’s gun scandal that cost my brother
his life..I talk to you back on the campaign
trail here in Michigan and you offered to
reopen the books into this senseless
scandal .thank you.God bless,” Terry
tweeted.

The statement reads:

Today, the Department of Justice entered

into a conditional settlement agreement
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In response, Chaffetz said,

“I met with AG Sessions to get the Fast &

Furious documents. He said NO and
decided to let it continue to play out in
court. Frustrating and disappointing to say
the least.”

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 White House Press Secretary Hits Back At Fake News
Reports Of “Chaos” In The Trump White House; Says
McMaster Departure Report WRONG
By JD Heyes
03/07/2018
It is well past the point that I believe anything advertised
as a “bombshell” story by the disgustingly dishonest
“mainstream” media involving the Trump administration
when it first hits the wires.
Why? Because in the vast majority of cases such stories
turn out not to be bombshells but rather big, fat duds.
Those that aren’t wrong outright are misleading or, in
many cases, published to ‘create’ a controversy where
none exists or existed.
The latest example of this was breathless reporting last
week that President Donald J. Trump’s national security
advisor, Gen. H.R. McMaster, was on his way out the
door.
The reporting — this time by NBC News — claimed:
The White House is preparing to replace
H.R. McMaster as national security adviser
as early as next month in a move
orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly
and Defense Secretary James Mattis,
according to five people familiar with the
discussions.
The move would be the latest in a long
string of staff shake-ups at the White
House over the past year and comes after
months of strained relations between the
president and McMaster.
A leading candidate to become President
Donald Trump’s third national security
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adviser is the auto industry executive
Stephen Biegun, according to the officials.
Well, as usual, that was ‘news’ to the White House. In an
interview the following day with Fox News’ “Fox &
Friends” morning show White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders flatly denied the reports and said that
McMaster “is not going anywhere.”
“As the president said yesterday in the
Oval Office to a number of the people, he
thinks he is doing a great job and glad he is
here,” she said.
Next, Sanders was asked about the alleged “chaos” within
the White House, which is nothing more than the
continuation of the same narrative we heard all during
Trump’s first year in office — chaos, chaos, chaos!
“If this is chaos, I think the American
people are glad for it. Because we just
passed the biggest tax cuts in history. ISIS
is on the run. We are rebuilding our
military. We are rebuilding the judiciary,
remaking what that looks like. The
economy is strong. We have a lot of
positive things happening in this country,”
Sanders insisted. (Related: Father of girl
killed in Florida school shooting BLASTS
the American Pravda media for singular
“solution” — gun control.)
White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah issued a
similarly dismissive statement, saying, “We frequently
face rumor and innuendo about senior administration
officials. There are no personnel announcements at this
time,” The Daily Caller reported.
The Washington Press Corps would love to believe their
own reporting but so often the “chaos” that is attributed to
the White House is nothing more than a media-driven,
media-generated facade. Think about it:
The only time we hear about ‘chaos’ in the
Trump administration is when we’re being
 told that by the same Pravda media that
continues to lie about this president and get
reporting wrong.
If McMaster does go anywhere, he would still answer to
the president; Herbert Raymond McMaster (who has a
Ph.D., by the way) is still an active-duty Army lieutenant
general, so he’d be back at the Pentagon doing exactly
what he’s doing now — helping the president make and
carry out national security policy. Or he’d be given a new
.
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command. Either way, the White House is claiming the
story is, again, wrong, as so many before it have been.
This kind of irresponsible activism-journalism is killing
whatever small amount of trust remained among the
electorate in the press prior to Trump’s victory. If we
cannot rely on the media to properly inform our decisions,
then we are in dire jeopardy of losing our country to
authoritarians and malcontents.
 US Steel CEO: We're Reopening An Idled
Plant And Bringing Back 500 Jobs Due To Trump Tariffs
 We're Excited "To Tell Our Employees In The Community In Granite City, Illinois, That We
Will Be Calling Back 500 Employees," Says CEO David Burritt.
 Burritt Says The Facility Had Been Idle Since December 2015 Because Of What He Called
Unfair Trade Practices.
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | @Berkeleyjr
Published 11:32 AM ET Wed, 7 March 2018 Updated 12:07 PM ET Wed, 7 March 2018
U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt told CNBC on Wednesday
his company will reopen a steel plant in the United States
due to President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum
tariffs.
"We're really excited to be able to tell our
employees in the community in Granite
City, Illinois, that we will be calling back
500 employees," Burritt said during an
interview with "Squawk Box."
The company will restart two blast furnaces and the
steelmaking facilities at its Granite City Works integrated
plant in Illinois. The restart process could take up to four
months.
Burritt said the facility had been idle since December 2015
because of what he called unfair trade practices.
"If you don't have customers here to sell to
and you can't make money, you have to
shut them down," he contended.
Some on Wall Street and in Washington remain skeptical
on whether Trump's tariffs would indeed bring back steel
jobs in force. They've been in a steady decline for years.
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Burritt thanked Trump for "courageous leadership" on
tariffs.
Last Thursday, the president proposed a plan for import
tariffs of 25 percent steel and 10 percent on aluminum, a
move seen as a contributing factor to top White House
economic advisor Gary Cohn's decision to resign. Cohn, a
former No. 2 executive at Goldman Sachs, was against
imposing tariffs.
On Wednesday, appearing with Burritt on CNBC,
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the White House is
not trying to "blow up the world" with its tariffs, and
indicated that Trump would be open to exempting U.S.
trading partners Canada and Mexico if a reworked NAFTA
can be reached.
"This feels like the beginning of a
renaissance for us," said Burritt, a former
chief financial officer at heavy equipment
maker Caterpillar. "It's really important that
we get this right, and now it's finally
happening."
Burritt said the strength of the U.S. depended on the tariffs.
"You've got to be able to make stuff in the
United States. If you take away our ability
to make things, you don't really have a
society."
"Just think about the way the U.K. used to
have a big manufacturing base. It went
away. If you don't make stuff, you can't
have a strong country. You can't protect
yourself and you go by the way of Greece
or maybe Puerto Rico," he added.
'View' Whines About Obama ‘Double Standard:’ Would’ve
Been ‘Impeached’ Over Stormy Daniels
By Kristine Marsh
March 7, 2018 12:24 PM EST

As they’ve done before, the women at The View used the

latest controversy over President Trump as a way to But Welteroth made the comparison to Obama again.
complain that President Obama had it worse. As news
broke that porn star Stormy Daniels was back in the news “Not for a black man in America who
again, suing President Trump, the View hosts whined that made it to presidency!” she gushed.
this story was just more proof of how Trump got away
with everything, yet Obama faced unfair scrutiny.

On the March 7 show, guest host Elaine Welteroth, former

editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, joined the table and
immediately took over the usual Whoopi take of
comparing Trump to Obama, complaining Obama
would’ve been “impeached” already.

On the whole Stormy Daniels scandal, Welteroth was in

disbelief that this conversation was even being had about
the sitting president.

“I can't help but think about the double
standard. If Obama were president--” she
began to say.
Host Sunny Hostin immediately gushed in agreement,“Oh,
forget it!” as Welteroth continued:
“-- and was accused of a percentage of
what we know about President Trump,
we would not even -- it would be straight
to impeachment. The double standard of
that infuriates me and I just think we can't
normalize this conversation,” Welteroth
said in frustration.
Surprisingly, Whoopi and host Joy Behar didn’t find the
news that surprising, saying affairs in the White House
were normal. Whoopi crassly joked that if the carpets in
the Oval Office were vacuumed, enough DNA would’ve
been found to form six whole people, while Behar cracked
that adultery was as American as “apple pie.”
Host Meghan McCain went on to argue that Trump
supporters did not care about this story.
“They don't care about this affair. They
know who he is... They know that he’s a
philanderer. For whatever reason, I can't
pretend to explain it. I'm not a psychologist.
But I know that his supporters do not care.
This will not make a difference,” she
offered.
“All the evangelicals in this country say
they don't care? All bets are off on sex?”
Behar snarked.
The panel ended the segment with Whoopi and McCain
coming to agreement that they had a far greater interest in
seeing how the Russia investigation plays out than any of
these stories about affairs with the president.
Read the full transcript below:

“This is not the first relationship that we ABC’s The View

have been made aware of in time. This
is the first time that you have it
instantaneously,” Whoopi stated.
“Adultery in the White House is as
American as apple pie, honey,” Behar
cracked.
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ELAINE WELTEROTH: The fact that we are even talking about a
porn star engaging with our president and that we are -- that this
is normalized is blowing my mind. [ Applause ] I can't help but
think about the double standard. If Obama were president and
was accused of a percentage of what we know about President
Trump, we would not even -- it would be straight to impeachment.
The double standard of that infuriates me and I think we can't
normalize this conversation.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I'm just going to say, presidents-- if you
were to vacuum that rug in the Oval Office, you could build six
people from the DNA. This is not -- this is not new for the
presidency. The difference -- I'm sorry. The difference is that in
a cycle that we live in now where everything is known, everything
is seen, I mean, think about all the presidents that have been
through there. This is not the first relationship that we have
been made aware of in time. This is the first time that you
have it instantaneously.
JOY BEHAR: Adultery in the White House is as American as
apple pie, honey.
ELAINE WELTEROTH: Not for a black man in America who
made it to presidency.
he’s a philanderer. For whatever reason, I can't pretend to
explain it. I'm not a psychologist. But I know that his supporters
do not care. This will not make a difference.
BEHAR: All the evangelicals in this country say they don't care?
All bets are off on sex.
[cross-talk]
MCCAIN, HOSTIN: It's fascinating.
MCCAIN: We’ve discussed this so many times on this show.
HOSTIN: What's interesting to me, if you read part of the dossier,
the Michael Steele dossier, it says in there that Donald Trump
may have had affairs with prostitutes in Russia and that that's
some of the leverage that Russia uses --
MCCAIN: Allegedly.

BEHAR: He’s the only black person who made it to that position. HOSTIN: Allegedly. And that's some of the leverage. Aren't we
more likely to believe that that is true given stormy Daniels'
story and the playmate's story? That should matter.
WHOOPI: He wasn’t even born in America, don’t forget that!
MCCAIN: The problem is now is Occam's razor--the most likely
MEGHAN MCCAIN: There's been an absolute paradigm shift in
scenario probably is the one that happened but the American
the last election for a lot of different reasons but one of them is
public doesn't care. I don't know what it means going forward for
people don't care. They don't care about this affair. They know
our morality, I don’t know what it means for our impressions of
who he is. The grab them by the blank tape that happened,
what marriage units are.
people know that this man cheated on his wives. They know that
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 Obama’s CIA Chief Attacks President Trump On
Economics …(Obama Had Worst Economic
Numbers Since 1949)
By Jim Hoft
March 7, 2018, 12:53 Pm
Barack Obama was the worst economic
president since World War II.
It’s common knowledge that Barack
Obama was the worst economic
president since at least 1949.
Barack Obama was the only President to have not had
even one year of 3% GDP growth.
Here is the complete list of average annual real GDP
growth by postwar president (in descending order):
Johnson (1964-68), 5.3%
Kennedy (1961-63), 4.3%
Clinton (1993-2000), 3.9%
Reagan (1981-88), 3.5%
Carter (1977-80), 3.3%
Eisenhower (1953-60), 3.0%
(Post-WWII average: 2.9%)
Nixon (1969-74), 2.8%
Ford (1975-76), 2.6%
G. H. W. Bush (1989-92), 2.3%
G. W. Bush (2001-08), 2.1%
Truman (1946-52), 1.7%
Obama (2009-15), 1.5%
Barack Obama’s best year of GDP growth was 2.6 in 2015
(a year in which the stock market decreased in value).
2009 — -2.8
2010 — 2.5
2011 — 1.6
2012 — 2.2
2013 — 1.7
2014 — 2.4
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2015 — 2.6
2016 — 1.5
Despite these facts the former Obama administration has
no hesitation in attacking President Trump on the
economy.
Former CIA Director John Brennan was
the bitter leftist to lecture Trump on his
latest move to save the US steel and
aluminum industries.
Former CIA chief John Brennan made a rare appearance
on Twitter Wednesday to lash out at President Donald
Trump over “ignorance” that threatens U.S. prosperity.
The commander in chief’s recent talk of possible steel and
aluminum tariffs prompted a social-media jab by Mr.
Brennan this week. The post — 1 of 18 total tweets, with
the vast majority related to Mr. Trump or the U.S. Russia
probe — questioned the president’s economic acumen.
“You show an amazing albeit unsurprising
ignorance of how technology, automation,
and the attendant evolution of economics
and societies have transformed the world,”
Mr. Brennan, who served under former
President Obama, wrote. “Your simple
minded policies — imposition of tariffs —
have the potential to seriously damage our
future prosperity.”
US steel and aluminum manufacturers
announced plans to hire 800 new
employees this week.
 “People Will Not Be Bowed,” Pelosi Explodes After Trump
Admin Drops Hammer On California Lawmakers
Protecting Illegal Aliens
By Cristina Laila
March 7, 2018, 1:13 Pm

Trump’s DOJ filed a lawsuit against Pelosi tweeted:

California late Tuesday evening over
their dangerous and unlawful sanctuary
city policy being enforced by politicians
such as Governor Jerry Brown.
Speaking in Sacramento
Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions blasted California lawmakers
for protecting illegal aliens in their
‘sanctuary cities.’
“The people of California will not be bowed
by the Trump Administration’s brazen
aggression and intimidation tactics. We will
fight this sham lawsuit and will fight all
cowardly attacks on our immigrant
communities. #ProtectDREAMers”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) immediately

fired back at the Trump administration’s move to finally
put an end to the insanity of sanctuary cities.

The Democrats don’t even try to hide it anymore. They

openly fight for the invaders who are leeching, killing and
raping American citizens.

Immigrant communities? Illegal aliens aren’t immigrants,

they are invaders.

Have you ever seen a Democrat or even a politician for

that matter fight this hard for law-abiding, taxpaying
American citizens?

If politicians like Jerry Brown were arrested for breaking

federal laws, sanctuary cities would quickly disappear.

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 Trump Campaign Manager @Parscale Warns Facebook:
“We Are Watching – Make Sure The Playing Field Is
Level” …(But Is It Too Late?)
By Jim Hoft
March 7, 2018, 2:34 Pm

Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative

Treehouse. We are proud of our efforts to report the truth
that led to Trump’s historic win.

In2017 Harvard and Columbia

Tech Giants Google and Facebook are
currently purging conservative content
from Facebook and YouTube — They
are hiding conservative stories on
Google — They are shadow-banning
conservative news on all social media.
In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure
that conservative news would not spread on the social
media platform.
This was after Facebook announced it
was losing 50,000,000 user hours a day
in the previous quarter.
The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s
engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping
45%.
Journalism Review found that The
Gateway Pundit was the 4th most
influential conservative news source in
the 2016 election.
Because of this we were targeted and
have seen our numbers related to
Facebook and Twitter decline
dramatically.
The Gateway Pundit does not rely on Facebook for our
traffic numbers.
Still, we saw a significant drop in
Facebook traffic in the last month.
And this past weekend Facebook shut
down our traffic stream from the social
media platform.
This is corrupt, if not criminal, behavior.
Meanwhile, liberal sites are doing fine.
On Wednesday Trump 2020 Campaign
Manager Brad Parscale warned
Facebook to keep the playing field level.

In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a
comparable decline in Facebook engagement.

Top conservative Facebook pages with daily traffic in the

millions have seen 75% to 95% drop in traffic.
Young Cons, Western Journalism, SarahPalin.com,
Independent Journal Review, Right Wing News, and
several others have seen dramatic loss in traffic.

In 2016 we were one of the few conservative sites that

supported candidate Trump – along with Breitbart, The

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 Without online voices it is doubtful that Republicans can
win.

If the Trump administration and clueless

Republicans care about the future of the
party and the country they will act now
before all conservative voices are wiped
out by the tech giants.
But it may be too late.

Dozens of conservative websites have been banned and

shutdown by Facebook and YouTube.
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 Sarah Sanders Says Trump ‘Already Won Case In
Arbitration’ Against Stormy Daniels After CNN Reporter
Obsesses Over Porn Star (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
March 7, 2018, 2:44 Pm

A lawyer for the Trump Organization,
Michael D. Cohen admitted in a
statement to the New York Times he
paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000
in hush money out of his own pocket in
2016.
It has been alleged Donald Trump had
an affair with Stephanie Clifford AKA
Stormy Daniels in 2006.
President Trump has denied the affair.
“Was president Trump aware of the
payment made to Stormy Daniels?” asked
Zeleny.
“The President has addressed these
directly and made very well clear that none
of these allegations are true. This case has
already been won in arbitration…anything
beyond that I would refer you to his outside
counsel,” Sanders said.
CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny was not satisfied with Sarah
Sanders’ response so he kept obsessively repeating himself
and asked several questions about the porn star.

There are much bigger fish to fry such as Hillary’s phony

dossier being used to spy on her political opponent with
the help of Obama’s corrupt DOJ and FBI, but CNN isn’t
interested in real news.

CNN has reduced themselves to digging in Russian

dumpsters looking for leads and traveling to Thailand to
investigate a Belarus-born prostitute claiming to have ‘dirt’
on Trump.

VIDEO:

And Stormy Daniels denied the affair way back in January

– less than two months ago.

On Tuesday porn star Stormy Daniels

sued President Donald Trump over their
hush agreement.

On Wednesday, CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny obsessively

asked Press Secretary Sarah Sanders about porn star
Stormy Daniels.

As if Americans care about a washed up, attention-seeking

porn star–but this is CNN.

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 DOJ Releases ‘Fast And Furious’ Documents, Previously
Blocked By Obama Admin, To Oversight Committee
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
3:02 PM 03/07/2018
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it would
hand over documents related to the Obama-era Fast and
Furious gun scandal to the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform.
Former President Obama and former Attorney General
Eric Holder had previously refused to produce documents
requested by Oversight, documents which former
Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz at the time called
“critical” to pursuing the investigation.
US President Barack Obama (R) talks to outgoing Attorney General
Eric Holder at the portrait unveiling ceremony at the Justice
Department in Washington, DC on February 27, 2015. The event
marks Holder’s anticipated departure after more than six years of
service. (YURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images)
The original Fast and Furious operation — conducted by
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
— somehow allowed nearly 2,000 firearms to find their
way into the hands of Mexican cartel members.
Firearms connected to the program were found at multiple
crime scenes in both the United States and Mexico,
including the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian
Terry.
“The Department of Justice under my
watch is committed to transparency and the
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rule of law,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions
said in Wednesday a statement
accompanying the announcement. “This
settlement agreement is an important step
to make sure that the public finally receives
all the facts related to Operation Fast and
Furious.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MARCH 20: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
speaks a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing
concerning Russian meddling in the 2016 United States election, on
Capitol Hill, March 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. While both the
Senate and House Intelligence committees have received private
intelligence briefings in recent months, Monday’s hearing is the first
public hearing on alleged Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016
election. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
Amanda Gonzalez, Gowdy’s communications
director, told The Daily Caller the Oversight Committee
“seeks all relevant facts so we can learn
from the mistakes made by the Justice
Department.”
“We have a responsibility to uncover why
they worked so hard to hide this
information from the Committee, the family
of Brian Terry, and the American people,”
she added.
 LEAK: Hope Hicks Revealed To House Intel Committee
Her Old Email Account Was HACKED
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 4:25 Pm

In yet another leak from the House The 29-year-old Hicks recently announced that she would
Intelligence Committee, outgoing Trump be resigning from her role as White House
aide Hope Hicks revealed to Communications Director.
Congressional investigators that her
email account was hacked. “Her The New York Times reported:
assertion of a hack raises the questions
of who might have compromised her
Ms. Hicks had been considering leaving for
account, when, why and what
several months. She told colleagues that
information could have been obtained,”
she had accomplished what she felt she
reports NBC News.
could with a job that made her one of the
most powerful people in Washington, and
that there would never be a perfect
moment to leave, according to White
House aides.

According to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times,

Hicks’ resignation was not linked to her testimony before
the House Intelligence Committee.

“Hope Hicks departure is NOT about

yesterday’s hearing, per multiple sources.
She had planned it before, had been
thinking about it for months. She had
informed a very small number of people
prior to Hill hearing that she planned to
Hope Hicks told the House Intelligence Committee last leave,” tweeted Haberman.
week that one of her email accounts was hacked, according
to people who were present for the former White House
communications director’s testimony in the panel’s Russia
probe.

Under relatively routine questioning from Rep. Jim Himes,

D-Conn., about her correspondence, Hicks indicated that
she could no longer access two accounts: One she used as
a member of President Donald Trump’s campaign team
and a personal account, according to four people who
spoke on the condition of anonymity because the closed UPDATE: It was her old email account:
meeting of the Intelligence Committee was supposed to
remain private.

Hicks, who portrayed herself as not savvy in matters of

technology, told lawmakers that one of the accounts was
hacked, according to two sources who were in the room. It
is unclear if Hicks was referring to a campaign or personal
account.

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 Is Something Brewing? Sessions Says He Appointed
Someone “Outside Of Washington” To Look At Allegations
House Judiciary Committee Sent DOJ
By Cristina Laila
March 7, 2018, 5:48 Pm

Attorney General Jeff Session sat down

with Fox News’ Shannon Bream for an
exclusive interview set to air
Wednesday evening at 11 PM EST.

Fox News’ Jake Gibson gave a sneak peek into the

interview prior to the release.

Shannon Bream tweeted out a preview of what we should

expect from her interview with AG Sessions.

From sanctuary cities to whether we’ll get to see those

FISA applications – plus his response to the
Gowdy/Goodlatte call for a new Special Counsel 11p
@foxnewsnight @FoxNews

Attorney General Jeff Session sat down

with Fox News’ Shannon Bream for an
exclusive interview set to air
Wednesday evening at 11 PM EST.

Fox News’ Jake Gibson gave a sneak peek into the

interview prior to the release.
Stay tuned. The Gateway Pundit will be reporting on this
On Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman development.
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) demanded the Video clip of Sessions telling Bream he’s going to
appointment of a second special seriously consider their recommendations for a second
counsel to investigate FISA abuses special counsel:
Last week, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a
letter to AWOL Attorney General Jeff
Sessions urging him to appoint a
Special Counsel to investigate FISA
abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe
ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.

At the time of this publication, thirteen GOP Reps. have

signed Zeldin’s letter.

Will Sessions reveal he appointed a special counsel tonight

in his interview with Shannon Bream?
Some of the reaction from Trump supporters:
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 HANNITY To Drop BOMBSHELL Involving The FBI,
FISA Judges And Spy Warrant Targeting Carter Page
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 6:30 Pm
Sean Hannity is set to drop a bombshell
on his program Wednesday evening.
According to the Fox News host, the
‘FBI lied to the FISA judge in order to
get a warrant to spy on Carter Page.’
As laid out in the Nunes memo, the Justice Department
was granted a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page during the 2016 presidential
election. The initial application, along with the renewals,
relied in part, on unverified information compiled by
former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported,
Fox News contributor Sarah Carter recently revealed to
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Hannity that the Department of Justice ignored
Congressional requests to turn over the transcripts of the
FISA court hearings on Carter Page.
Credit: Hannity
CARTER:
The Department of Justice can easily give
you the same documents that we have.
This has never been requested before by
the FISA Court. So this is a new thing for
them. They have to review everything,
decide whether or not they can hand over
these documents. But she said that the
court would not reject to the fact that the
Department of Justice can hand them over.
Well, I confirm tonight that Nunes and
Goodlatte did request those documents
from the Department of Justice and the
Department of Justice never responded to
them.
 Tucker Carlson Launches New Series
— ‘American Men Are In Crisis’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
9:02 PM 03/07/2018
Tucker Carlson debuted a new series on his Fox News
program Wednesday night:
“American men are in crisis.”
Carlson, a Daily Caller co-founder, will feature a new
segment in the series every Wednesday in March, and the
first featured Canadian professor Dr. Jordan Peterson.
Carlson opened by highlighting society’s attempts to
demonize and ostracize masculinity before pointing out the
serious problems prevalent among American males.
“This is a crisis. Yet our leaders pretend it’s
not happening,” he stated. “Ignoring the
decline of men does not help anyone. Men
and women need each other. One cannot
exist without the other. That is elemental
biology, but it’s also the reality each one of
us has lived, with our parents and siblings
and friends. When men fail, all of us suffer.”
WATCH:
You can read Carlson’s monologue in its entirety and
watch his interview with Peterson below.
WATCH:
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The signs are everywhere. If you’re a middle aged man, you
probably know a peer who has killed himself in recent years. At
least one. If you’re a parent, you may have noticed that your
daughter’s friends seem a little more on the ball than your son’s.
They get better grades. They smoke much less marijuana. They
go to more prestigious colleges. If you’re an employer, you may
have noticed that your female employees show up on time, the
young men don’t. And of course if you live in this country, you’ve
just seen a horrifying series of mass shootings, far more than
we’ve ever had. Women didn’t do that. In every case, the shooter
was a man.
Something ominous is happening to men in America. Everyone
who pays attention knows that. What’s odd is how rarely you
hear it publicly acknowledged. Our leaders pledge to create more
opportunities for women and girls, whom they imply are failing.
Men don’t need help. They’re the patriarchy. They’re fine. More
than fine.
But are they fine? Here are the numbers:
Start with the most basic, life and death. The average American
man will die five years before the average American woman. One
of the reasons for this is addiction. Men are more than twice as
likely as women to become alcoholics. They’re also twice as
likely to die of a drug OD. In New Hampshire, one of the states
hit hardest by the opioid crisis, 73 percent of overdose deaths
were men.
But the saddest reason for shortened life spans is suicide.
Seventy-seven percent of all suicides in America are committed
by men. The overall rate is increasing at a dramatic pace.
Between 1997 and 2014, there was a 43 percent rise in suicide
deaths among middle-aged American men. The rates are highest
among American Indian and white men, who kill themselves at
about ten times the rate of Hispanic and black women.
You often hear of America’s incarceration crisis. Well that’s
almost exclusively a male problem too. Over 90 percent of
inmates are men.
Now these problems are complex, and we know they start young.
Relative to girls, boys are failing in school. More girls than boys
graduate high school. Considerably more go to and graduate
from college. In schools at every level boys account for the
overwhelming majority of school discipline cases. One study
found that fully one in five high school boys had been diagnosed
with hyperactivity disorder, that’s compared with just one in 11
girls. Many of them were medicated for it. The long term health
effects of those medications, not fully understood, but they do
appear to include depression in later life.
Women now decisively outnumber men in graduate school. They
earn the majority of doctoral degrees. They are now the majority
of new enrollees in both law and medical schools.
For men, the consequences of failing in school are longterm and
profound. Between 1979-2010, working age men with only high
school degrees saw their real hourly wages drop about 20
percent. Over the same period, high school educated women
saw their wages rise. The decline of the industrial economy
disproportionately hurt men.
There are now seven million working age American men who are
no longer in the labor force. They’ve dropped out. Nearly half of
them take pain medication on any given day. That’s by far
highest rate in the world.
Far fewer young men get married than did just a few decades
ago, and fewer stay married. About one in five American children
live with only their mothers. That’s double the rate in 1970.
Millions more boys are growing up without fathers. Young adult
men are now more likely to live with a parent than with a spouse
or partner. That is not the case for young women. Single women
buy their own homes at more than twice the rate of single men.
More women than men now have drivers licenses.
Whenever gender differences come up in public debate, the so-
called wage gap dominates the conversation. A woman makes
77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That’s the statistic you’ll
hear. It’s repeated everywhere. But that number compares all
American men to all American women across all professions. No
legitimate social scientist would consider that a valid measure.
The number is both meaningless and intentionally misleading. It’s
a talking point.
Once you compare men and women with similar experience
working the same hours in similar jobs for the same period of
time — and that’s the only way you can measure it — the gap all
but disappears. In fact it may invert. One study using census data
found that single women in their 20s living in metropolitan areas
now earn eight percent more on average than their male
counterparts. By the way, the majority of managers in the
workplace are now women. Women on average are now scoring
higher on IQ tests than men are.
Men are even falling behind physically. A recent study found that
almost half of young men failed the Army’s entry-level physical
.
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fitness test during basic training. Fully seventy percent of
American men are now overweight or obese. That’s compared to
59 percent of American women.
Perhaps most bafflingly or terrifyingly, men seem to be becoming
less male. Sperm counts across the west have plummeted,
they’re down almost 60 percent since the early 1970s. Scientists
don’t know why this is. Testosterone levels in men have also
fallen precipitously. One study found that the average levels of
male testosterone dropped by one percent every year after 1987.
And it’s not unrelated to age. The average 40-year-old-man in
2017 would have testosterone levels 30 percent lower than the
average 40-year-old man in 1987.
There is no upside to this. Lower testosterone levels in men are
associated with depression, lethargy, weight gain and decreased
cognitive ability. Nothing like this has ever happened to a
population this big. You’d think we’d want to know why and how
to fix it. But the media ignore the story. It’s considered a fringe
topic.
Nor is it a priority in the scientific research establishment. We
checked and couldn’t find a single NIH-funded study on why
testosterone levels are falling. We did find a study on, ‘Pubic Hair
Grooming Prevalence and Motivation Among Women in the US.’
This is a crisis. Yet our leaders pretend it’s not happening. They
tell us the opposite is true: Women are victims, men are
oppressors. To question that assumption is to risk punishment.
Even as women far outpace men in higher education for
example, virtually every college campus supports a women’s
studies department, whose core goal is to attack male power.
Our politicians and business leaders internalize and amplify that
message. Men are privileged. Women are oppressed. Hire and
promote and reward accordingly.
Now that would be fine if it were true. But it’s not true. At best, it’s
an outdated view of an America that no longer exists. At worst,
it’s a pernicious lie.
Either way, ignoring the decline of men does not help anyone.
Men and women need each other. One cannot exist without the
other. That is elemental biology, but it’s also the reality each one
of us has lived, with our parents and siblings and friends. When
men fail, all of us suffer. How did this happen? How can we fix it?
We hope this series answers those questions.
 Ex-Russian Double Agent Skripal & Daughter Were
Exposed To Nerve Agent, Police Confirm
Published Time: 7 Mar, 2018 17:50 Edited Time: 8 Mar, 2018 09:26
Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are
currently in a serious but stable condition in hospital © Reuters/
Toby Melville
Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his
daughter Yulia, 33, were exposed to a nerve agent, UK
police have confirmed. The police are investigating their
attempted murder.
Assistant police commissioner for the Metropolitan Police
Mark Rowley said “hundreds of detectives” are working
on the case, after confirming an unnamed nerve agent has
been identified in the case. The pair are currently in a
serious but stable condition in hospital.
The pair were found slumped on a bench outside a
shopping center in Wiltshire. It is believed they were
exposed to a substance, but there are no facts as yet
established as to what it was or how the pair came into
contact with the substance
Rowley, who has just weeks left in his role as head of
national counter-terrorism policing, said an officer has also
been taken seriously ill.
“This is being treated as a major incident
involving attempted murder by
administration of a nerve agent,” he said.
“These two people remain critically ill in
hospital. Sadly, in addition a police officer
who was one of the first to attend the scene
in response to the incident is now also in a
serious condition in hospital. Wiltshire
Police are providing every support to his
family.”
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A police investigation has focused on a number of
properties, including Sarum House next door to the Zizzi
Zizzi restaurant. The Home Secretary warned this morning
against speculation as rumors began to fly. Amber Rudd
said police and the nation
“has to respond to evidence not rumor.”
“We do know more about the substance
and the police will be making a further
statement this afternoon in order to share
some of that. We must let the police carry
on their work,” Rudd told the BBC. Earlier
today, Rowley said: “Working alongside
Wiltshire police and partner agencies, we
continue to carry out extensive inquiries.
This investigation is at the early stages and
any speculation is unhelpful at this time.
“The focus at this time is to establish what
has caused these people to become
critically ill. We would like to reassure
members of the public that this incident is
being taken extremely seriously and we
currently do not believe there is any risk to
the wider public.
“The two people taken ill were in Salisbury
centre from around 1.30pm. Did you see
anything out of the ordinary? It may be that
at the time, nothing appeared out of place
or untoward, but with what you now know,
you remember something that might be of
significance. Your memory of that
afternoon and your movements alone could
help us with missing pieces of the
investigation. The weather was poor that
day, so there were not as many people out
and about. Every statement we can take is
important.”
An emergency meeting of the government’s crisis team,
COBRA, has been chaired by Rudd while Counter
Terrorism cops were called in.
Skripal worked as a double agent for the UK intelligence
agency MI6 and was jailed in Russia in 2006 for spying for
Britain, having passed on the names of undercover Russian
intelligence agents. He was later part of a “spy swap” in
which Russia released four spies in exchange for 10
Russian agents.

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 GOP Rep. Zeldin Slams House Intel Dems For ‘Out Of
Control’ Leaks Amid Report Of Hope Hicks Email Hack
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 9:32 Pm

In yet another leak from the House “Holy cow. The leaks coming from Dems
Intelligence Committee, outgoing Trump on @HouseIntelComm are out of control!
aide Hope Hicks revealed to Witnesses come in for hours of testimony
Congressional investigators that her at a time & then Dems instantly leak their
email account was hacked. “Her version of 1 question & that’s that. Do
assertion of a hack raises the questions rules, confidentiality & process matter at all
of who might have compromised her anymore?” tweeted Zeldin.
account, when, why and what
information could have been
obtained,” reports NBC News.

Hope Hicks told the House Intelligence Committee last

week that one of her email accounts was hacked, according
to people who were present for the former White House
communications director’s testimony in the panel’s Russia
probe.

Under relatively routine questioning from Rep. Jim Himes,

D-Conn., about her correspondence, Hicks indicated that
she could no longer access two accounts: One she used as
a member of President Donald Trump’s campaign team
and a personal account, according to four people who In response to Zeldin, GOP insider Arthur Schwartz
spoke on the condition of anonymity because the closed suggested Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was behind the leak.
meeting of the Intelligence Committee was supposed to
remain private.

Hicks, who portrayed herself as not savvy in matters of

technology, told lawmakers that one of the accounts was
hacked, according to two sources who were in the room. It
is unclear if Hicks was referring to a campaign or personal
account.

In response to the leak, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) slammed The 29-year-old Hicks recently announced that she would
his Democrat colleagues sitting on the House Intelligence be resigning from her role as White House
Committee. Communications Director.

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 Trump 2020 Manager Brad Parscale
Warns Big Tech: ‘We Are Watching’
By Allum Bokhari
7 Mar 2018
Brad Parscale, who was recently
appointed as campaign manager for
Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid, has
warned Google, Facebook, and Twitter
to maintain a “level playing field,”
following a month of high-profile
revelations of bias at big tech.
Hey @facebook @Twitter @Google we are
watching. ὄThis is your opportunity to make
sure the playing field is level. #MAGA
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) March 7,
2018
Brad Parscale’s comment came on the same day as the
results of primaries for the Texas senatorial race in
November were released. Google and Facebook both have
the ability to significantly influence elections. Facebook
has previously boosted voter registration and turnout by
significant margins, while research on search engine
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manipulation shows that services like Google Search have
the potential to change the preferences of undecided voters
by 20 percent or more.
Brad Parscale, current campaign manager for the
president’s 2020 re-election bid, previously managed
Trump’s digital campaign in 2016. In public interviews,
Parscale has argued that social media, not traditional
media, was the key to Trump’s victory in 2016, and
identified Facebook as particularly critical to the
president’s success. His selection suggests that the digital
campaigning will be given even greater emphasis in 2020.
His comment follows weeks of high-profile revelations
about Silicon Valley openly limiting the reach of
conservatives. Last week, we reported that algorithm
changes at Facebook have caused the President’s
engagement on the platform to fall by 45 percent. The
same change has hit engagement on the pages of
conservative news websites, while leaving the mainstream
media’s pages virtually unchanged.
During the same week, YouTube launched a massive
crackdown against conservatives and alternative media
channels, taking down videos and banning channels. The
channel for Alex Jones’ InfoWars, which interviewed the
President during his 2016 election campaign, is now one
strike away from a permanent ban on the platform.
Twitter also continues to be caught up in bias scandals: we
recently reported that the platform is hiding tweets from
President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. The platform also
conducted a recent mass-lockout of Trump supporters, and
has refused to apply their terms of service evenly, allowing
a campaign of harassment against Pamela Geller’s
daughters while banning right-wingers for stating facts.
 Dems Hunt Down Erik Prince – Mueller Gathers Evidence
That 2017 Seychelles Meeting Was Effort To Set
Up Back Channel To Kremlin
By Cristina Laila
March 7, 2018, 9:41 Pm
Mueller is on the march.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller is now investigating if founder
of the security firm Blackwater, Erik Prince misled the
House Intel Panel over a meeting he had in the Seychelles
islands in January of 2017.
That’s right. Mueller is investigating a meeting that took
place during the Trump transition which of course has
nothing to do with the DNC server being hacked during
the election.
Erik Prince is being accused of trying to set up a secret
back channel with Russia during this meeting in the
Seychelles.
Erik Prince
CNN reported:
In testimony last November before the
panel, Erik Prince was questioned
extensively about the January 2017
Seychelles meeting and whether it was an
attempt to set up secret communications
between the Trump administration and
Russia. As Prince furiously denied that was
the case, he also did not reveal that
George Nader — a Lebanese-American
businessman and Middle East specialist
with ties to the Trump team — also
attended at least one meeting there, raising
fresh questions among Democrats about
whether Prince misled the panel when
testifying under oath.
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Prince, a Trump associate and brother of Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos, disclosed to the committee that he
had met with United Arab Emirates officials and a Russian
banker, Kirill Dmitriev, during that trip.
But according to a new report from CNN, another
individual also was present in the Seychelles at that time:
Nader, who also is cooperating with special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016
election. According to sources familiar with the matter,
Nader attended the January 2017 Seychelles meeting
between UAE officials and Prince. Nader was also present
at a bar when Prince met separately with Dmitriev, the
chief executive of the state-run Russian Direct Investment
Fund, although it is unclear whether Nader was involved in
the conversation, sources said.
And guess who is running to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer with
concern? None other than leaker Adam Schiff.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that
reports about Nader are “inconsistent” with Prince’s
testimony before his committee.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said, “it’s all bull
sh*t.”
Once again Mueller’s team is attempting to trap a Trump
associate in an inconsistent statement because ‘Russian
collusion’ is not a crime.
The Trump transition period is none of Mueller’s damn
business anyway. Trump already won the election and was
about to be sworn into office when this meeting took place.
It’s also strange how Trump supposedly had deep ties to
Russia, the Kremlin and Putin the entire election yet Erik
Prince had to set up a secret back channel to communicate
with Russia after the election.
The meeting in the Seychelles has come under scrutiny
because Democrats and some intelligence sources
suspected it was a way to set up a back channel between
the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin.
Prince has strongly denied that was the case, and he denied
to the House panel last year that anyone on Trump’s team
had asked him to take the meeting.
 Poisoned Russian Spy
Linked To Trump Dossier Author: Reports
By Nick Miller
8 March 2018 — 9:48pm

including a claim the Russians had cultivated Mr Trump

and traded favours with him for at least five years, and
handed him intelligence from the Kremlin on Hillary
Clinton and other political rivals.

The Telegraph reported that if the Kremlin believed

Skripal helped compile the Trump dossier, it could provide
a motive for the assassination attempt in Salisbury.

A former Russian construction magnate told Channel 4

The former Russian double agent poisoned with a nerve
agent in an attempted murder last weekend was linked to
the company that compiled the infamous ‘Trump dossier’
alleging the US President had compromising Russian
connections, British media have reported.
Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were in
critical but stable condition in intensive care after the
attack in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon, UK time. There
are reportedly fears that Skripal was unlikely to recover,
though his daughter has a better chance.
Skripal was convicted of treason and imprisoned in 2006
in Russia for passing intelligence to MI6. In 2010 he was
pardoned and sent to the UK as part of a spy swap deal.
The London Telegraph reported that he moved to
Salisbury and became close to a security consultant
employed by Christopher Steele, a former spy who
founded an investigative research firm called Orbis
Business Intelligence.
News Skripal was “working in cyber-security and every
month going to the [Russian] embassy to meet military
intelligence officers”.
The Telegraph said a “hit squad” was dispatched by the
Kremlin to assassinate Skripal, to send a message that
traitors were not tolerated.
UK intelligence services suspect the attack was delayed by
the snowstorm that enveloped Britain last week, which
kept Skripal and his daughters indoors and made the
assassination squad’s escape from the country more
problematic.
“By Sunday afternoon, with Miss Skripal on the brink of
returning to Moscow, the assassination squad had little
room for manoeuvre and were forced into action in broad
daylight in the middle of a busy shopping precinct,” the
Telegraph reported.

The consultant, who is based in Salisbury, listed work with

Orbis on his LinkedIn account, the Telegraph said.

Steele worked for MI6 at the British Embassy in Moscow

in the 1990s, and from 2006 to 2009 ran MI6’s Russia
desk in London, The New Yorker reported this week.

In 2016 Orbis was subcontracted to investigate Donald

Trump’s links to Russia.

Steele compiled a dossier containing astonishing Head of counter-terrorism policing Assistant

allegations against the then presidential candidate, Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks about the
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assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter
Yulia.
The Trump dossier – a series of memoranda sent by Steele
to his contractor in the US - alleged the Russian secret
services possessed compromising material that could be
used to blackmail Trump, such as a video of him engaging
in “perverted sexual acts” in a Russian hotel.
The sources were described in a report in The New Yorker
as hotel staff, a close Trump associate, and a former top-
level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the
Kremlin.
Steele redacted his sources from the dossier, fearing
exposure would be a death sentence.
In 2016 he briefed some US reporters about the contents of
the dossier. In early 2017 Buzzfeed published the dossier in
full.
Last year a lawyer for Glenn Simpson, head of the
company that commissioned Steele’s investigation of
Trump, told the US Senate Judiciary Committee that
“somebody’s already been killed as a result
of the publication of this dossier”.
Media speculated this was Oleg Erovinkin, a former
Russian intelligence officer and chief of staff to the
president of oil giant Rosneft. Erovinkin was found dead in
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his car in December 2016, and it was later claimed he died
of a heart attack.
Around the same time that Erovinkin died, The New
Yorker said, Russian authorities charged a cybersecurity
expert and two FSB officers with treason.
British police said Skripal and his daughter were
deliberately targeted by an unknown assailant armed with
a deadly toxin.
"Having established that they were
exposed to a nerve agent we are now
treating this as a major incident involving
an attempted murder by the administration
of a nerve agent," the head of Counter
Terrorism Policing Mark Rowley said.
A policeman was also hospitalised and was in a serious
condition after exposure to the agent. On Thursday he was
said to be “talking and engaging” with doctors.
British media have speculated the toxin may have been
sarin or VX.
The BBC reported, however, that it was neither of these
chemicals, but something “more rare”.
Scientists at the UK's secret weapons research facility at
Porton Down, near Salisbury, are looking for chemical
clues that may identify its origin.
Devin Nunes: Deep State FBI and DOJ Fought Hard to Hide from Congress that Hillary
and DNC Paid for Crap Dossier
March 7, 2018, 10:40 pm by Jim Hoft

House Intel Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Lou Dobbs on
Wednesday to discuss the unprecedented resistance by Deep State FBI and DOJ to
hide the truth about the Russian dossier.

For months the deep state refused to cooperate with Congressional leaders on who
funded the poorly written Russian hit-piece on Donald Trump.

Rep. Devin Nunes: We had a pretty good idea that the dossier was connected to the Clinton campaign
because who else would get that kind of dirt. And it was so outrageous anybody at first glance would look
at that and just reject it out of hand because nobody is going to give any American 19% of the Russian gas
company. It would be worth billions and billions of dollars. So just on the face of it, it looks totally
phony. But I will tell you what did amaze us was the fight that the FBI and DOJ knew about it because
they told us otherwise and the fight that they put up in oder for us not to find the truth. We had to
eventually, as you know, take Fusion GPS to court in order to get their bank records so we could figure
out who in fact was paying them to put together the dossier.

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 Sara Carter: Former Sec. Of State John Kerry
OFFICIALLY Under Investigation By
House Intel Committee
Posted On March 7, 2018
(National Sentinel) Expanding Probe: The House
Intelligence Committee is examining former Obama
Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s possible role regarding
use of the unverified “Trump dossier” that was used to
obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant to
spy on a member of President Donald J. Trump’s
campaign, reports investigative journalist Sara A. Carter.
The Fox News contributor noted that the dossier, which
was paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the
Democratic National Committee, was the foundation for
the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into alleged
collusion between the Trump camp and Russia.
The intel panel revealed in its “FISA memo” released last
month that FBI and Justice Department officials have
admitted that were it not for the dossier, they could not
have obtained the FISA court warrant to spy on Trump
campaign official Carter Page.
Carter notes further:
For more than a month, the committee has
been in its second phase of investigations
focused on former Obama State
Department officials and their role in either
transmitting information or using
information provided by a former British spy
and investigator Christopher Steele. Steele
was hired by embattled research firm
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Fusion GPS, also under several
congressional and Senate investigations.
But it was in February when questions
surfaced regarding Kerry’s possible
involvement or knowledge of the dossier.
Jonathan Winer is a long-time colleague of Kerry’s and
served as the former envoy for Libya when he worked at
the State Department. He penned an op-ed in
the Washington Post on Feb. 8 defending his relationship
with Steele and his role in the creation of the
unsubstantiated dossier.
Winer sought to pre-empt questions from the Intelligence
Committee about his role by admitting in his op-ed that he
had been a friend of Steele’s for a long time.
He also established his bona-fides in working with Kerry,
writing that
“in 2013, I returned to the State
Department”
at Kerry’s request,
“whome I had previously served as Senate
counsel.”
Carter noted:
But information uncovered by the Senate
Judiciary Committee and revealed in its
criminal referral of Steele to the
Department of Justice that several Clinton
allies were also connected to the State
Department and the dossier. Sidney
Blumenthal, a close confidant of Hillary
Clinton, and Cody Shearer, a former
journalist who went on to work for the
Clintons, appeared to be feeding Steele
information.
Winer wrote in his op-ed that
 “in late September, I spoke with an old
friend, Sidney Blumenthal, whom I met 30
years ago when I was investigating the
Iran-contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and
Blumenthal was a reporter at The Post. At
the time, Russian hacking was at the front
and center in the 2016 presidential
campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who
had a long association with Bill and Hillary
Clinton, had been hacked in 2013 through
a Russian server.
“While talking about that hacking,
Blumenthal and I discussed Steele’s
reports. He showed me notes gathered by
a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer,
that alleged the Russians had
compromising information on Trump of a
sexual and financial nature,” he wrote.
Last month Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., announced he had sent letters of inquiry
.
“Fuck!”
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to scores of current and former Justice and Intelligence
officials including former FBI Director James Comey.
Also included: Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan
and former Obama Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper.
The letters were sent out with a threat of subpoena if the
recipients failed to respond. Some have.
Nunes said this week that he’s received responses
from Clapper, Comey and Brennan, but others “have gone
dark.” It’s not yet clear if Kerry was one of those officials
who received the panel’s letter.
“There are a few people though that are not
responding – they seem to have gone
dark,” Nunes told Martha McCallum.
“However, if they don’t respond here
shortly they will be getting subpoenaed to
appear before Congress to be treated with
a deposition.”
 Lou Dobbs: If Ryan And McConnell Continue To Battle
Trump – They Will See Largest Loss Of Seats By
Majority Party In A Century
By Jim Hoft
March 7, 2018, 10:58 Pm

Lou Dobbs: If GOP Leaders Ryan and
McConnell Continue to Battle Trump
They Will See Largest Loss of Seats by
Majority Party in a Century
Lou Dobbs slammed Republican Congressional leaders
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for fighting President
Trump on trade.
According to Lou, RINOs who reject President Trump’s
tariff plan care more about the Chamber of Commerce and
Business Roundtable than hard working, middle class
Americans and small businesses.
Lou Dobbs warned Republican leaders and fellow RINOs
that if they continue to stand against this president they
will suffer historic losses in November.
Lou Dobbs:
If republicans continue to battle this
president on these policies Ryan and
McConnell will be responsible for the
largest loss of seats by a majority party in a
century. And most likely the 107
Republicans who have put their names
down in opposition to the president’s
decision to impose tariffs on steel and on
aluminum will be among the unemployed
come next year.

107 Republican (Globalist) lawmakers

signed a letter to President Trump on
Wednesday expressing concern over
steel and aluminum tariffs.
The list included Speaker Paul Ryan who has repeatedly
attacked the Republican president this week for standing
up for working Americans.

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 MYSTERY: Kim Jong Un To Have ‘Very Unconventional
& Unusual’ Message Delivered To POTUS Trump
By Joshua Caplan
March 7, 2018, 11:14 Pm

A day after North Korea signaled it is
willing to discuss giving up its nuclear
weapons, the South China Morning Post
reports that South Korea officials will
deliver a “very unconventional”
message from Kim Jong Un to the
Trump administration.
Morning Post, speaking on the condition of
anonymity.
“Kim Jong-un has a certain message,
which is not publicised to be delivered
directly to the Trump administration. It’s
something very unconventional and
something very unusual. I don’t know if the
US will disclose this message to the
public.”

Chung will deliver “conditions from the North Korean side

to start some bilateral dialogue with the United States,” the
source said.

On Thursday, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi called on

the U.S. and North Korea to hold diplomatic talks as soon
as possible.

“History tells us that whenever tensions

SCMP reports:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may
propose sending his sister, Kim Yo-jong, to
the US as part of efforts to launch direct
talks between Washington and Pyongyang,
according to a South Korean diplomatic
source.
That may be one of a number of possible
messages South Korean envoy Chung Eui-
yong will deliver to US National Security
Adviser H.R. McMaster in Washington this
week, the source told the South China
.
over the Korean peninsula subside, the
situation will be clouded by various
interferences,” Wang said in Beijing.
“We have now again come to a crucial
moment for testing whether the parties
involved are truly sincere in resolving the
Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.”
“The United States and North Korea must
engage in dialogue as soon as
possible,” Wang added.

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 Jeff Sessions ‘Seriously’
Considering Second Special Counsel
Christian Datoc - Breaking News and Engagement Editor
11:55 PM 03/07/2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News’ Shannon
Bream Wednesday that he “will consider” naming a
second special counsel to probe the FBI and Justice
Department’s investigations into possible collusion
between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
WATCH:
“Well, I have great respect for Mr. Gowdy
and Chairman Goodlatte, and we are going
to consider seriously their
recommendations,” Sessions told Bream in
an interview that ran late Wednesday night.
“I have appointed a person outside of
Washington — many years at the
Department of Justice — to look at all of
the allegations that the House Judiciary
Committee members sent to us and we are
conducting that investigation.” (RELATED:
Goodlatte, Gowdy Formally Call For
Second Special Counsel)
He also stated he is
“well aware that we have a responsibility to
ensure the integrity of the FISA process.”
“We are not afraid to look at that,” the
former Alabama senator explained. “The
inspector general, something that our
inspector general is not very strong, but he
has almost 500 employees, most of which
are lawyers and prosecutors, and they are
looking at the FISA process.”
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(RELATED: Jim Jordan Demands Answers On FISA
Abuses Used To Procure Warrants For Trump
Campaign Officials)
SACRAMENTO, CA – MARCH 07: Attorney General Jeff Sessions
gestures as he speaks at the California Peace Officers’ Association
26th Annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day on March 7, 2018 in
Sacramento, California. The attorney general is expected to reveal a
major sanctuary jurisdiction announcement as the Justice
Department sued California over its sanctuary policies. (Photo by
Stephen Lam/Getty Images)
“We must make sure it is done properly,
and we are going to do that, and I will
consider the request.”
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan told The Daily Caller
earlier in the week that the second special counsel should
be
“someone from Oklahoma, Iowa,
somewhere from the middle of the country.”
“A well-respected, retired federal judge or
some prosecutor who’s well respected to
assemble a team and let them do it,” he
explained. “I don’t see any other remedy.”
Jordan added that “if you pick the right
person there’s a chance at the conclusion
there can be some type of closure and
acceptance on the part of the American
people. They want people held
accountable.”
 North Korea Willing To Denuclearize?
By Stephen Lendman (Stephenlendman.Org)
March 7, 2018
North Korea pursued nuclear and ballistic missiles
development because Washington threatens its security.
US policy has been unchanged since WW II – notably
today in bipartisan hawkish/neocon-infested Washington.
On Monday, South Korean officials led by the country’s
National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong and Vice
Unification Minister Kim Sang-gyun held talks with
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and other North Korean
officials in Pyongyang for the first time since he assumed
power in 2011 – day one of a two-day visit.
It’s the first high-level talks between both countries in over
a decade. North Korea’s KCNA news agency said a
summit between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in was
agreed on to be held in April – no further details provided.
On Monday, officials from both countries agreed on
continuing the thawed spirit of national reconciliation
begun during the February Winter Games.
Both countries want peace, not war, Washington’s imperial
agenda the obstacle, including enormous pressure on
Moon not to deviate from longstanding US policy, wanting
adversarial relations maintained with Pyongyang, not
reconciliation and recognition of its sovereignty.
On Tuesday, North Korea’s Chung said
“(t)he North made clear its willingness for
the denuclearization of the Korean
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peninsula, and made clear that there is no
reason to own nuclear (programs) if military
threats towards the North are cleared and
the security of its government is
guaranteed.”
A hotline between both countries will be established, both
leaders to speak by phone before meeting for the first time
in April.
Positive results were achieved during 2000 and 2007
summits, cooperative projects agreed on, abandoned by
later hardline South Korean governments.
The problem with following through on denuclearization is
Washington’s threatening posture toward Pyongyang, its
provocative military exercises with South Korea and Japan
the DPRK considers rehearsals for war, its longstanding
history of targeting sovereign independent nations for
regime change, and its history of reneging on treaties,
conventions and other deals agreed on.
Every US president from Truman to Trump has been
hostile toward the DPRK, none more threatening than the
current administration.
It’s why Pyongyang is justifiably reluctant to deal with
Washington. History clearly shows US administrations can
never be trusted.
They consistently promise one thing, do then another.
Betraying negotiating partners is longstanding
longstanding US policy.
 The Top Five Obama Administration
Officials Who Used Secret Email Accounts
By Matt Margolis
March 7, 2018
(Rex Features via AP Images)
Last year, David Usborne of The Independent said of the
Trump administration,
“This may, in fact, be the most transparent
White House ever – and the most
transparent President.” A few days ago,
Reuters gave Trump kudos for “bringing
television cameras into normally private
White House talks with lawmakers that
feature sharp debates and, seemingly,
policy-making on the fly.”
Trump’s transparency is not universally lauded, and there
are certainly some things that earn legitimate criticism,
but, while the results may vary, Trump’s approach to
transparency is a welcome change from the overwhelming
secrecy that plagued the Obama administration. This was
after Obama promised transparency.
“This is the most transparent administration
in history,” Obama said back in 2013.
Yeah, well, not really.
Hillary Clinton’s private email scandal alone would be
enough to prove that transparency simply wasn’t a core
value of the Obama administration. But, Hillary’s trouble
with her email is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes
to Obama administration officials looking to skirt federal
disclosure laws.
This issue first became a big problem for the Obama
administration when his former Environmental Protection
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Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson was caught using a
secret email account under the alias of Richard Windsor to
conduct official business. Richard Windsor, despite being
a fictional EPA official, earned training certificates; he was
even recognized, ironically, as a “scholar of ethical
behavior.” Jackson ultimately resigned due to the scandal,
but the Obama administration’s troubles with phony email
aliases persisted, without any accountability.
And it wasn’t just Hillary Clinton and Lisa Jackson having
all the secret email fun. Using secret accounts was, in fact,
standard operating procedure. I’ve compiled a list of five
other high-level Obama administration officials who were
using secret accounts that you might not know about.
5. Kathleen Sebelius
We all knew that negotiations over Obamacare were
conducted behind closed doors, but did you also know that
Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s Health and Human Services
secretary, used three different email accounts, one of
which the department tried to keep secret. The email
addresses were discovered during an Associated Press
investigation in the wake of the EPA email scandal. That’s
not to say the Obama administration didn’t fight hard to
keep these emails under wraps. According to the AP,
Obama’s Labor Department tried to charge them $1
million for the email addresses! The AP’s investigation
revealed that secret and private emails were a common
practice in the Obama administration and experts say the
practice significantly complicates the process of disclosure
for lawsuits and investigations—making full transparency
very difficult to achieve.
And Sebelius is certainly one who would want to thwart
federal disclosure requirements. Her tenure as HHS
secretary was controversial from the start. From tax
troubles that cast a dark cloud over her nomination, to a
major violation of the Hatch Act, to overseeing the
implementation of Obamacare, including the disastrous
rollout, she spent her entire term embroiled in
embarrassing scandals. She also got into some trouble for
soliciting support and money from companies for
Obamacare—possibly to circumvent congressional
spending limits.
4. Lois Lerner, alias Toby Miles
Few can forget the IRS Scandal that exploded in 2013, but
most probably don’t remember that Lois Lerner, the
director of the exempt organizations unit at the IRS, used a
separate private email account while handling documents
connected to the scandal involving discrimination against
conservative and Tea Party groups. This secret email
account was revealed a whopping two years after the
scandal first broke. Lerner’s secret alias was named Toby
Miles, a combination of her dog’s and her husband’s
names. According to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton,
the Obama Justice Department and the IRS were aware of
this private account, but chose not to disclose it. Lerner
herself warned IRS staffers not to reveal “too much
information” to Congress. Transparency, indeed!
3. Eric Holder, alias Henry Yearwood, David
Kendricks, and Lew Alcindor
Eric Holder was Obama’s first attorney general, but
Obama actually got four for the price of one since Holder
used three separate aliases. To conduct business on the QT,
Holder used the aliases “Henry Yearwood,” “David
Kendricks,” and “Lew Alcindor” — the latter alias being
the birth name of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Holder used that identity for sending and receiving emails
related to the Senate investigation into the CIA spying on
U.S. senators tasked with monitoring the CIA, making the
basketball legend an ideal candidate to receive a
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Of course, the Obama
administration claimed everything was above board, that
aliases were used for screening purposes. So, why did it
take years of FOIA lawsuits to get these emails?
2. Loretta Lynch, alias Elizabeth Carlisle
In February 2016, the Department of Justice confirmed
that Attorney General Loretta Lynch was using an email
alias. It took more than a year, multiple Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests, and a new
administration to reveal the alias as “Elizabeth Carlisle.”
What was the fake identity used for? The fake persona hid
emails regarding the Clinton email investigation.
According to Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller,
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“Lynch corresponded with DOJ press
officials to hammer out talking points in
response to”
media inquiries about her infamous meeting with Bill
Clinton on the tarmac at a Phoenix airport in 2016 while
Hillary was under investigation—shortly before then FBI
Director James Comey declared the FBI would not
recommend charges against Hillary for mishandling
classified information.
1. Barack Obama, alias unknown
You read that correctly. Barack Obama himself was using
a secret email account and alias to communicate. We know
this because it was revealed during the Hillary Clinton
email investigation, just over a month before the 2016
election. Hillary’s top aide Huma Abedin had been
interviewed by the FBI, and was shown email exchanges
between Hillary and an unknown sender. Upon learning
that the pseudonymous sender was believed to be Barack
Obama, Abedin was floored:
“How is this not classified?” Naturally, the
State Department refused to make these
emails public, citing “presidential
communications privilege.”
According to Andrew McCarthy of National Review, this
is why Hillary Clinton was never at risk of being indicted.
Her repeated communication with Obama on her private
and unsecure email made Obama guilty of a federal crime.
“If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s
culpable involvement would have been
patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the
Clinton–Obama emails would have been in
the spotlight,” McCarthy explained.
So, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb in saying that
Trump’s transparency record so far is better than his
predecessor’s. I know that’s a pretty low bar, but, after
eight years unprecedented secrecy from Obama, almost
anything looks like an improvement.
 Remember ‘Fast And Furious’ Scandal?
Gowdy’s About To BUST It Wide Open
Posted On March 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Gunwalking: The Justice Department
has agreed to provide the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform with long-sought documents
pertaining to “Operation Fast and Furious” which became
one of the Obama administration’s first major scandals.
As reported by The Daily Caller, former President Barack
Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder
steadfastly refused to produce the documents which former
Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, had called
“critical” to the panel’s investigation at the time.
Fast and Furious was the codename for an operation
conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives. In involved allowing some 2,000 assault-
style guns and other firearms to be ‘walked’ into Mexico,
where they were delivered to members of drug cartels.
The agency was supposed to track the back to the cartels,
but BATF and Justice Department officials assigned to
monitor the weapons lost track of most of them, reports
later said.
Republicans investigating the operation at the time
suggested that the operation was part of a larger Obama
administration push for more gun control, a claim
supported by documents obtained in December 2011 by
CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson.
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Guns connected to the operation have since been
discovered at multiple crime scenes north and south of the
border. One of the guns was used by a suspected cartel
member to murder U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
“The Department of Justice under my
watch is committed to transparency and the
rule of law,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions
said in Wednesday a statement
accompanying the announcement. “This
settlement agreement is an important step
to make sure that the public finally receives
all the facts related to Operation Fast and
Furious.”
Amanda Gonzales, a spokeswoman for committee
chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told The Daily Caller
that the panel
“seeks all relevant facts so we can learn
from the mistakes made by the Justice
Department.”
“We have a responsibility to uncover why
they worked so hard to hide this
information from the Committee, the family
of Brian Terry, and the American people,”
she continued.
 Was Poisoning In Retaliation To Trump 'Dirty Dossier'?
Kremlin Double Agent 'Was Close To Consultant Employed
By Former MI6 Spy Christopher Steele'
 Conflicting Reports Over Whether Nerve Agent Victim Was Still Working With Spies
 It Was Reported Today That He Was Close To A Consultant Who Worked For Steele
 Ex-Russian Agent Would Have Had Excellent Contacts In Intelligence Circles
 The Russian Embassy Have Denied Claims He Visited Officials And Diplomats
By Mark Duell And Richard Spillett For Mailonline
Published: 04:25 EST, 8 March 2018 | Updated: 06:35 EST, 8 March 2018

The Russian double agent attacked with a nerve agent in

Salisbury was close to a consultant who worked with the
firm of former British spy Christopher Steele, it was
reported today.

Sergei Skripal, who is fighting for his life in hospital after

the incident on Sunday, is said to have been close to an
unnamed intelligence expert who carried out work for
independent security firm Orbis Business Intelligence.

Orbis was founded by former British intelligence officer

Christopher Steele, who was behind a notorious and
controversial dossier on Donald Trump, which claimed
Moscow had compromising information on the US
President.

Russian double agent Sergei Skripal (left) was close to a

consultant who had worked for Orbis Business
Intelligence, the firm of former British spy Christopher
Steele (right), it was reported

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Police remain in the park in Salisbury where Mr Skripal
and has daughter were found after being attacked with a
powerful nerve agent on Sunday

Mr Skripal and the Orbis consultant had become close and

were both based in the south of England, the Daily
Telegraph reported.

The paper suggested that Skripal's association with Orbis

and, indirectly, the Trump dossier could have been a
motivation behind the attack on him.

There are conflicting reports about whether Skripal was

retired from the world of espionage.

From his time in Russia's military intelligence apparatus, Yulia Skripal is understood to be a businesswoman who
he would have excellent knowledge of the country's tactics has worked for Nike and Pepsico
and potential contacts.

The Times reported this week that he was still giving

lectures on KGB tactics.

And another Russian exile, Valery Morozov, told Channel

4 News last night that Skripal remained in contact with
military intelligence officers at the Russian Embassy.

A spokesman for the Russian Embassy said they are not

aware of communication between Skripal and staff.

Skripal is a former colonel in Russian military intelligence

and was responsible for unmasking dozens of Russian
secret agents undercover in Europe.
In 2006, he was sentenced to 13 years in a Russian labour
camp after being convicted of passing invaluable Russian
secrets to the UK.
Russian exile Valery Morozov told Channel 4 News he
met Sergei Skripal several times and claims he was in
regular contact with military intelligence officers at the
Russian Embassy

In July 2010, he was one of four spies exchanged for ten
Russian agents deported from the US in an historic swap
involving red-headed 'femme fatale' Anna Chapman.
Since then, he has moved to Salisbury and lived an
apparently unremarkable life in Wiltshire cathedral city,
joining a £10-a-year Railway Social Club, drinking in local
pubs and spending a reported £40-a-week on lottery
scratchcards.
Police yesterday revealed he and his daughter Yulia, who
was visiting from Moscow, were attacked with a nerve
agent on Sunday. Both remain in the critical condition.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, the head of
counter-terrorism policing, revealed on Wednesday that
the incident was being treated as attempted murder and the
pair had been 'targeted specifically'.
He declined to specify the nerve agent or how it was
administered.
He said: 'Having established that a nerve agent was the
cause of the symptoms, leading us to treat this as attempted
murder, I can also confirm that we believe the two people
who originally became unwell were targeted specifically.
'Our role now of course is to establish who is behind this
and why they carried out this act.'

Hundreds of detectives, forensic officers and analysts are

working on the case, which has drawn comparisons to the
poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander
Litvinenko on British soil in 2006.
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Police seen putting on protective suits and gas masks in
preparation to carry out further investigation work, in
Salisbury
Who is ex-British agent Christopher Steele?
Christopher Steele was one of MI6's top Russia experts,
having spent a number of years working in Moscow.
During his years in the Russian capital, he had established
personal contacts with KGB agents, and operatives of its
successor agency the FSB.
Mr Steele quit MI6 in 2009 to set up his own so-called
'spies-for-hire' firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.
It was through this firm that he is understood to have
worked on a dossier on President's Trump alleged links to
Russia, which included explosive allegations including
lurid sex claims and claims the Kremlin had sought to
'cultivate' Mr Trump.
It is likely that during his time working in Russia, Steele
would have got to know Skripal, it was claimed this week.
It was reported that Mr Steele may be helping police with
their investigation.
What was Trump 'dirty dossier' and what did it say?
The 35-page dossier on Trump caused an international
scandal when it emerged just over a year ago.
It made unsubstantiated and far-fetched claims that the
President watched prostitutes perform a 'golden shower'
urination show in the Presidential Suite of a Moscow hotel
and that the bizarre footage was allegedly held by the
Kremlin's blackmail unit.
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The dossier on Trump caused an international scandal last
January
Lurid sex claims
The report states that in 2013 Trump hired prostitutes to
urinate on the bed of the Presidential Suite at the Moscow
Ritz Carlton, where he knew Barack and Michelle Obama
had previously stayed.
It says: 'Trump's unorthodox behavior in Russia over the
years had provided the authorities there with enough
embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential
candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished.'
Trump ridiculed the idea, pointing out that Russian hotel
rooms are known to be rigged with cameras and describing
himself as a 'germophobe'.
Property 'sweeteners'
The document states that Trump had declined 'sweetener'
real estate deals in Russia that the Kremlin lined up in
order to cultivate him.
The business proposals were said to be 'in relation to the
ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament'.
Russia 'cultivated' Trump for five years
The dossier claimed that the Russian regime had been
'cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least
five years'.
According to the document, one source even claimed that
'the Trump operation was both supported and directed by
Russian President Vladimir Putin' with the aim being to
'sow discord'.
A dossier on Hillary Clinton
At one point the memo suggests Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov 'controlled' another dossier containing
compromising material on Hillary Clinton compiled over
'many years'.
Elsewhere in the document, it is claimed that Putin was
'motivated by fear and hatred of Hillary Clinton.'
Peskov poured scorn on the claims today and said they
were 'pulp fiction'.
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Clandestine meetings
At one point the memo says there were reports of
'clandestine meetings' between Donald Trump's lawyer
Michael Cohen and Kremlin representatives in August last
year in Prague.
However, Trump's counsel Michael Cohen today spoke out
against allegations that he secretly met with Kremlin
officials - saying that he had never been to Prague.
It has now emerged that the dossier was referring to a
different person of the same name.
 GOP Rep SLAMS Democrats On House Intel Committee
Over Hope Hicks Leak; ‘Does Process, Accountability
MATTER Anymore?’
Posted On March 8, 2018

Zeldin was responding to an NBC News report claiming

that Hicks, in testimony before the intelligence panel, her
email was hacked the day before she left the Trump
administration.

The news report quoted “people who were present for her
testimony in the panel’s Russia probe,” leading Zeldin and
others to suspect Democrats.

The report noted:

(National Sentinel) Leaks, Leaks: An outraged New York
Republican slammed Democrats on the House Intelligence
Committee on Wednesday after details were leaked to the
media that former Trump White House communications
director Hope Hicks’ email account was hacked.
“Holy cow. The leaks coming from Dems
on @HouseIntelComm are out of control!
Witnesses come in for hours of testimony
at a time & then Dems instantly leak their
version of 1 question & that’s that. Do
rules, confidentiality & process matter at all
anymore?” Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is not a
member of the Intelligence Committee,
tweeted.
Under relatively routine questioning from
Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., about her
correspondence, Hicks indicated that she
could no longer access two accounts: one
she used as a member of President Donald
Trump’s campaign team and the other a
personal account, according to four people
who spoke on the condition of anonymity
because the closed meeting of the
Intelligence Committee was supposed to
remain private.
Hicks, who portrayed herself as not savvy
in matters of technology, told lawmakers
that one of the accounts was hacked,
according to two sources who were in the
room. It is unclear if Hicks was referring to
the campaign or the personal account.

The assertion of a hack “raises the questions of who might

have compromised her account, as well as when, why and
what information could have been obtained,” NBC News
reported further.

In the past, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the committee’s

ranking minority member, has been accused of leaking
information to the media — including President Donald J.
Trump and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee
Sanders.

Republican insider Arthur Schwartz implicated Schiff in a

tweeted response to Zeldin.

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 “Shots fired. At leaky @RepAdamSchiff,”
he wrote.

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 Poll: Five Senate Democrats Would Lose Re-Election
Today Including Skunk McCaskill
By Jim Hoft
March 8, 2018, 8:36 Am

If elections were held today Democrats would lose at least
five senate seats according to a recent poll by
SurveyMonkey.
These Democrats are in big trouble come November.
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Jon Tester (D-Mont.)
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)
Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)
Claire McCaskill has consistently voted with coastal
elites and against the people of Missouri.
It’s doubtful she’ll be able to squeak a win out this year as
her Democrat party becomes more and more like the
Marxists in Venezuela by the day.
Five Senate Democrats trail their GOP
challengers and would lose their bids for
reelection were the 2018 midterms held
today, according to polls from
SurveyMonkey.
New polls published Thursday morning in
Axios show Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.),
Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Joe Manchin (D-
W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), and Heidi
Heitkamp (D-N.D.) would all lose reelection
to GOP challengers if voters were heading
to the polls this week.
With the exception of McCaskill, who is squaring off
against Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R), the
senators were polled against generic, unnamed GOP
challengers.

And this was not a conservative poll — so it’s much worse President Trump’s approval rating hovers above 50 percent
than they are reporting. in those states, all states he won in 2016, while the five
Democrats all suffer from approval ratings below the 50
The Hill reported: percent line.

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 Divided Are WE? Sure,
But Thank The Democrats For That
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On March 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Divided States of America: It’s no
longer a secret: America is a very divided country, and
without a doubt in the age of Obama and Trump, our
divisions have only grown wider and deeper.
Here’s a little secret: It’s all by design.
The American Left is no different than the Marxist Left in
any other country on the planet, in the past or present day:
Their goal is to create divisions and then exploit them to
their advantage. It’s how they can get “converts” to their
cause. They create straw men, create boogeymen, then
demonize individuals who oppose them or their political
beliefs as well as their cultural values and mores.
Here are just a few of the most recent examples that I’ve
found in the past few weeks that prove my point that
Democrats, not supporters of President Donald J. Trump,
are the real reason why Americans remain hopelessly
divided and barreling down the path to another civil war:
The Oakland mayor: In recent days the mayor of
Oakland, Calif., Libby Schaaf, took the unprecedented step
of tipping off illegal aliens living in the city and
surrounding areas that Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents were preparing a sweep. Justifying her
obstruction of justice and disclosure of classified
information, Schaaf actually called the men and women of
ICE — who’s job it is to arrest people in the country
illegally — racists. Update: The Trump Justice
Department is considering charges against her.
The Senate Minority Leader: Last week Sen. Chuck
Schumer, D-N.Y., declared he could not vote for one of
Trump’s picks to fill a vacant U.S. District Court seat in
South Carolina. The reason? Trump’s pick was a white
man. “The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to
the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s
selections for the federal judiciary,” Schumer complained.
“Quattlebaum replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama
nominees who were African American,” he continued.
(Related: Anti-white racism is becoming blatant on college
campuses)
Translation: President Trump is a racist, a charge Schumer
has made often, most recently in January on late-night TV.
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The Parkland, Fla., school shooting: Democrats and
their sycophantic allies in the American Pravda media
completely politicized the tragedy to push for gun control
and blame the NRA.
Translation: The Democratic Party doesn’t really care
about securing schools; they want to disarm Americans on
the false premise that guns, not shooters, are responsible
for such events.
The Fake News: Without question, one of the most
divisive forces in America today is the Pravda media. In
the age of Trump, journalistic integrity — what was left of
it — in the so-called “Mainstream media” has been
completely destroyed after more than a year’s worth of
fake news, baseless allegations, and constant, non-stop
Trump hate. It’d be one thing if the breathless reporting of
Trump included real instances and examples, along with
proof of “corruption” and law-breaking, but there’s been
none that so far has been tied to the President.
The House Minority Leader: One of the most dishonest
claims thus far by Democrats are those made in relation to
the massive tax-cut and reform legislation Republicans and
Trump passed. They are designed to reduce the tax burden
for as many as 93 percent of Middle-Class earners, but
Democrats on the state and national level have outright
lied about its benefits (because they know Americans who
get those cuts will have to credit Trump and the GOP for
giving them more money at the end of each month).
The worst offender has been House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. On more than one occasion she has
claimed the tax reductions are mere “crumbs” to American
earners (which, even if true — and it isn’t — “crumbs” in
return are always better than endless tax increases under
Democratic rule).
Today’s Democratic Party is no different than the Marxists
who run Cuba and Venezuela. They divide their people in
order to empower themselves. The result is a broken and
broke country that is constantly restive but never
improving.
 Pence: Kim Jong Un Wants To
Talk Because Trump Stood Firm [VIDEO]
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
9:58 AM 03/09/2018

forward to the denuclearization of North

Korea. In the meantime, all sanctions and
maximum pressure must remain.”

WATCH:

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence addresses members of U.S. military

services and Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) before he departs for
South Korea, at U.S. Air Force Yokota base in Fussa, on the outskirts
of Tokyo, Japan February 8, 2018. REUTERS/Shizuo
Kambayashi/Pool

Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un’s offer to meet with President Donald
Trump is clear evidence that the president’s North Korea
strategy is achieving results.
“North Korea’s desire to meet to discuss
denuclearization — while suspending all
ballistic missile and nuclear testing — is
evidence that President Trump’s strategy to
isolate the Kim regime is working,” Pence
said in an official statement.
Praising the president’s leadership, South Korean National
Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong, who recently led a
delegation to Pyongyang for talks with senior North
Korean leadership revealed Thursday evening that Kim
Jong Un is eager to meet “Trump as soon as possible.”
“President Trump greatly appreciates the
nice words of the South Korean delegation
and President Moon,” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders responded in an
official statement, “He will accept the
invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un at a
place and time to be determined. We look
.
Pence emphasized that
“the North Koreans are coming to the table
despite the United States making zero
concessions,”
as past U.S. presidents have done to appease the Kim
regime. Instead of concessions, the U.S. has continued to
ratchet up the pressure on North Korea, urging it to pursue
a path of peace instead of destruction.
The elevation of Kim’s status to a nuclear-armed equal
could be considered a type of concession. However, the
U.S. is committed to maintaining its maximum pressure
campaign until North Korea denuclearizes.
“Our resolve is undeterred and our police
remains the same,” Pence explained,
adding, “All sanctions remain in place and
the maximum pressure campaign will
continue until North Korea takes concrete,
permanent, and verifiable steps to end their
nuclear program.”

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 Red Wave: Poll Shows
Five Senate Democrats In Serious Trouble
By John Nolte
8 Mar 2018
Polls done in 10 states show very bad
news for at least five Senate Democrats
up for re-election in 2018, according to
Axios.
In November, a total of 33 Senators are up for re-election.
The good news for Republicans, is that 23 of those are
Democrats. The better news for Republicans is that 10 of
those 23 Democrats hail from states won by President
Trump in 2016.
Axios and Survey Monkey polled all ten of those states
and found that at least five Democrats are in real trouble.
Montana: Sen. Jon Tester loses to his unnamed Republican
challenger 42 percent to 55 percent.
West Virginia: Sen. Joe Manchin loses to his unnamed
Republican challenger 43 percent to 52 percent.
Missouri: Sen. Claire McCaskill loses to Republican
challenger Josh Hawley 44 percent to 52 percent.
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Indiana: Sen. Joe Donnelly loses to his unnamed
Republican challenger 45 percent to 51 percent.
North Dakota: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp loses to her unnamed
Republican challenger 47 percent to 49 percent.
Moreover, in all five of those states, President Trump’s job
approval rating is in better shape than the Democrat’s: MT:
58 percent; WV: 65 percent; MO: 55 percent; IN: 53
percent; ND: 60 percent.
In Wisconsin and Michigan, both incumbent Democrat
Senators (Tammy Baldwin and Debbie Stabenow) are
below 50 percent — both at 49 percent, and just barely
ahead of Trump’s job approval, which sits at 48 percent
and 47 percent, respectively.
While Trump’s job approval in Ohio is at a very healthy 54
percent, incumbent Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown is
polling ahead of his Republican challenger (Jim Renacci)
50 percent to 45 percent.
In Pennsylvania and Florida, both Democrat Senators
enjoy leads of nine and ten percent, respectively; while
Trump’s job approval holds at 46 percent.
Currently, Republicans hold a narrow majority of 51
Senators in the upper chamber and only have one or two
incumbent Senators in any real danger of losing re-
election.
With nearly eight months and a million more news cycles
between now and Election Day, a lot can happen, but as of
now that Big Blue Wave is not aimed at the U.S. Senate.
 Chris Cuomo Grills GOP Senator
For Pushing ‘False Notion Of Secret Societies’
By Avery Anapol
03/08/18 10:26 AM EST

GOP lawmakers earlier this year pointed to a series of text

messages between the two officials, including one that
referenced a “secret society,” as evidence of anti-Trump
bias in the FBI.

Amid the uproar, Johnson said in January that he had an

informant who had told Congress about secret “off-site”
meetings of the supposed “secret society.” He later
acknowledged that it was a “real possibility” that the
reference in the text messages had been a joke.

Cuomo again pressed Johnson on Thursday, who stopped

CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday confronted Sen. Ron
short of saying that he did not believe in the secret society
Johnson (R-Wis.) for pushing a conspiracy theory that an
theory.
FBI agent and a bureau lawyer with whom he shared texts
about President Trump were part of a “secret society.”
“There may have been off-site meetings, I
have information that there were. That’s
“Do you have any regrets about getting
almost beside the point,” he said, adding
caught up in all those false notions about
that his “main concern” is whether the FBI’s
secret societies and the like?” Cuomo
investigation into former Secretary of State
asked Johnson on "New Day."
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email
“No,” Johnson replied. “What I asked server was meant to “cover up and
everybody to do is read our very detailed exonerate.”
report on our investigation in the Hillary
“The truth has to be the side that we all
Clinton email scandal and the FBI’s
decide to join,” Cuomo responded. “But you
investigation of that. Very detailed. An
don’t want to smear the intelligence
awful lot of questions that have been raised
community without cause. We know it
as a result.”
seems to work for the president, but we
“I hear you on that and I read it, but there’s hope that people will be better than that.”
no secret society,” Cuomo shot back. “You
“I’m just trying to get to the facts,”
know that.”
Johnson said. “The American people
“Not my phrase,” Johnson said, saying that deserve the truth.”
he only commented on the issue “one time”
and that “others blew it out of proportion.”
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 Swing State Polls Show Trump
In Solid Shape To Win Second Term
By John Nolte
8 Mar 2018

Wisconsin: 48 percent.
Michigan: 47 percent.
Ohio: 54 percent.
Pennsylvania: 46 percent.
Florida: 46 percent.

As of now, Trump’s national job approval ratings sits at

around 40 percent.

Nevertheless, those states above are the five Trump will

need to win a second term in 2020. The most surprising
number is Ohio’s 54 percent, which is where every
presidential campaign starting in 2000 has been so bitterly
and closely fought. The president is in excellent shape
there.

A series of swing state polls show that As an incumbent, he is also well within the norm to retake
President Trump is in much better re- Wisconsin and Michigan, two states that were considered
election shape than our disgraced safely in the Democrat column until the night before
media would lead you to believe. Trump’s upset win in 2016.

Pennsylvania and Florida are a little further out of reach,

Axios commissioned 10 Survey Monkey polls to look at
but Trump would only need to win one of those to win re-
the upcoming Senate races in those states Trump won in
election with 270 electoral votes, and that approval rating
2016. While there is plenty of bad news for Senate
of 46 percent is with Trump standing all alone in the
Democrats, a potential loss of five to six seats, the good
middle of an anti-Trump media tsunami.
news for Trump is that his job approval rating in the key
swing states he will need to win a second term, is well
above his national rating. Being up against an actual opponent, especially one as far-
left as the Democrats are sure to nominate, can only help.

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 Sessions: "I Have Appointed A Person Outside Of
Washington" To Investigate FISA Abuse
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/08/2018 - 11:15
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News Host
Shannon Bream that he "will consider" naming a second
special counsel to investigate the conduct of the FBI and
Justice department during the 2016 election.
On Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
VA) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) wrote a letter to
Sessions demanding the appointment of a second Special
Counsel.
“Matters have arisen—both recently and
otherwise—which necessitate the
appointment of a Special Counsel. We do
not make this observation and attendant
request lightly,” wrote the Congressmen.
“What changed for me was the
knowledge that there are two dozen
witnesses that Michael Horowitz, the
[DOJ] Inspector General, would not
have access to,” Gowdy said. “When I
counted up 24 witnesses that he would not
be able to access were he to investigate it,
yeah only one conclusion, that’s special
counsel.” -Fox News
Instead of a second Special Counsel, Sessions says he's
appointed "a person outside of Washington" to look into
the allegations.
“Well, I have great respect for Mr. Gowdy
and Chairman Goodlatte, and we are going
to consider seriously their
recommendations,” Sessions told Bream in
a Wednesday night interview. “I have
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appointed a person outside of
Washington — many years at the
Department of Justice — to look at all of
the allegations that the House Judiciary
Committee members sent to us and we
are conducting that investigation.”
Sessions also noted that he is
"well aware that we have a responsibility to
ensure the integrity of the FISA process."
“We are not afraid to look at that,” the AG
explained. “The inspector general,
something that our inspector general is not
very strong, but he has almost 500
employees, most of which are lawyers and
prosecutors, and they are looking at the
FISA process.... ...We must make sure it
is done properly, and we are going to do
that, and I will consider the request.”
Trump Has Already Approved
As we reported on Monday, Deputy Press Secretary Raj
Shah said that President Trump's attorneys have
already approved the idea of appointing a second
special counsel to investigate the FBI and Justice
Department's actions during the 2016 presidential
campaign, according to White House pool reports.
The excerpt from the pool in question:
*FISA warrant should it be released? and
what about a second special counsel?*
**
Presidents attorneys have addressed
this and said yes to a second special
counsel.
FISA: That document along with any other that the House
Intelligence Committee chooses to vote out of its
committee through its process and all the House
procedures, we would entertain like anything else.
President Trump was critical of Sessions refusal to appoint
a second special counsel, tweeting
 "Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the
Inspector General to investigate potentially
massive FISA abuse," adding "Will take
forever, has no prosecutorial power and
already late with reports on [former FBI
Director James] Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G.
an Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"

Sessions released a statement shortly afterwards defending

what he considers an "appropriate process," and that he
will continue to do his job with "integrity and honor."

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 TRUMP WARNS CRACKPOT OAKLAND MAYOR:
She’s “Protecting Criminals” – We’re Looking At Response
To Her “Dangerous Act” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
March 8, 2018, 11:16 Am
Last week Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned the illegal
immigrant community of upcoming raids just hours before
the agency began knocking on doors, which Thomas
Homan, acting director of ICE has likened to a “gang
lookout yelling ‘police.’
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
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“She warned them all, “Scatter.” So instead
of taking in a 1,000 they took in a fraction
of that. What the mayor of Oakland did the
other day was a disgrace.. They had close
to 1,000 people..ready to be taken off the
streets,” 80% w criminal records. After her
warning, “they took in about 150… With
respect to her, what she did is incredible.
It’s dangerous in respect to ICE and border
patrol. She made law enforcement much
more dangerous than it had to be. So
we’re looking at that situation very
carefully. “
 Peter Thiel: Donald Trump "Still Better"
Than Clinton Or "The Republican Zombies"
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/08/2018 - 11:35
In what appears to be his second New York Times profile in
the span of a year, Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder,
Facebook board member and venture capitalist, defends
his support for President Donald Trump, saying that
although Trump hadn't yet followed through with
everything he'd promised (notably Trump has made no
effort to reduce American involvement in Iraq and
Afghanistan) he's still been way better than Clinton or a
moderate Republican would've been.
Thiel, who recently decided to move his company and his
primary place of residence to Los Angeles to avoid the
"groupthink" in Silicon Valley, told the Times that he's
support for the president is undiminished, and that he still
has access to Trump, whom he famously impressed with
his speech at the Republican National Convention,
"any time I want."
The investor said he had last spoken to the president
"a few months ago."
"We don't talk that often but i have
access to him any time I want," Thiel
said.
The Trump whom Mr. Thiel touted at the Republican
convention was a candidate who would "end the era of
stupid wars and rebuild our country," move us past "fake
culture wars" and start projects the equivalent of the
Apollo space program. That does not seem ot be the
president he got.
"There are all these ways that things
have fallen short," Mr. Thiel said. But he
said he had no regrets about his
endorsement. "It's still better than Hillary
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Clinton or the Republican zombies," he
said, referring to the other candidates.
Thiel said he isn't planning on leaving Facebook's board,
and that he has no plans to quit. Facebook chief executive
Mark Zuckerberg hasn't asked Thiel to resign, adding that
the anger being turned on Facebook today is reminiscent
of the anger that bubbled up during the campaign - it's an
anger directed at what Thiel called "tech arrogance."
He added that the Trump campaign slogan
- "Make America Great Again" - was one of
the greatest political slogans ever.
"Remember when Trump said the election
was going to be rigged" People said that
was crazy 0 'How dare you question the
integrity of the electoral process?' That was
the view of most of the people working at
Facebook, too," he said. "They did not
think things were so hackable. It was a
mistake, but an understandable
mistake." Facebook declined to comment.
...
"The Trump campaign slogan, 'Make
America Great Again,' was perhaps the
single most offensive thing you could
say to Silicon Valley," he said "Silicon
Valley says the future is going to be better
than the past. That is the propaganda, if
you will."
Typically, it benefits society when companies have
priorities aside from just earning money, Thiel said. But in
Silicon Valley, the do-gooder instinct has run amok, and is
arguably doing more harm than good now.
"Having some ambition that transcends
just making money is a critical thing for
a company," he said. "But there is some
point where it gets crazy and self-
delusional." He added that the companies
are probably in some trouble - maybe it's a
little, maybe it's a lot." The prospect of
government regulation looms.
Circling back to his recent move to Los Angeles, Thiel
once again employed this too-much-of-a-good-thing logic.
"Networks effects are very positive
things, but there's a tipping point where
they fall over into the madness of crowds,"
he said.
When asked about his pursuit of Gawker, Thiel defended
his financing of Hulk Hogan's lethal lawsuit against the
.
company. When asked if it's true that he's still trying to get
Gawker's archives removed from the Internet, he answered
that this isn't his goal - he's simply trying to help Hogan
recover all of his award.
"I don't want the archives. I don't think it
makes sense to destroy them. Preserve
them, study them instead."

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 Nunes: Operatives In DOJ, FBI, Fought Congress
To Hide Fact That Hillary, DNC Paid For Bogus Dossier
Posted On March 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Deep State: Careerists in the FBI and
Justice Department pushed back hard against
congressional investigators for months trying to hide the
fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic
National Committee paid for the infamous and
unsubstantiated “Trump dossier,” according to House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
The California Republican joined Fox Business‘ Lou
Dobbs Wednesday evening to discuss the unprecedented
pushback from Deep State operatives against a
congressional intelligence committee that has oversight
over elements of both the DoJ and FBI.
“We had a pretty good idea that the dossier
was connected to the Clinton campaign
.
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because…who else would get that kind of
dirt? And it was so outrageous anybody at
first glance would look at that and just
reject it out of hand because nobody is
going to give any American 19 percent of
the Russian gas company,” Nunes
explained.
“It would be worth billions and billions of
dollars. So just on the face of it, it looks
totally phony,” he continued.
“But I will tell you what did amaze us was
the fight that the FBI and DOJ knew about
it because they told us otherwise and the
fight that they put up in order for us not to
find the truth,” he said.
“We had to eventually, as you know, take
Fusion GPS to court in order to get their
bank records so we could figure out who in
fact was paying them to put together the
dossier.”
The dossier was commissioned by political opposition
research firm Fusion GPS. Payment for the dossier, which
was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele,
was made through high-powered law firm Perkins Coie, to
give the Clinton campaign and the DNC some separation
from the document itself.
 Trump: NASA Bringing Back ‘Space Flight’ Program And
Going To Mars ‘In The Very Near Future’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
12:13 PM 03/08/2018

President Donald Trump announced during a Thursday

cabinet meeting that NASA is “bringing back that whole
space flight” program and would be sending “something
very beautiful to Mars in the very near future.”

Before pivoting to Mars, POTUS praised the recent work

of Elon Musk and SpaceX on the Falcon rocket program.

WATCH:

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 07: U.S. President

“You haven’t seen that from this country in
a long time,” Trump stated. “Many the jobs
we’re doing, Mike Pence is the chairman,
many of the jobs are privately financed.
We’re letting them use the Kennedy Space
Center for a fee. Rich guys, they love
rocket ship. That’s good. That’s better than
us paying for it. I notice the price of the last
one, they said it cost $80 million. If the
government would’ve done it, it would’ve
cost 40-50 times that, literally.”
.
Donald Trump delivers remarks during the Lation
Coalition’s Legislative Summit at the J.W. Marriott March
7, 2018 in Washington, DC. This was Trump’s first time to
address the organization of conservative Latino business
owners, which is under the leadership of former George
W. Bush administration Small Business Administraiton
head Hector Barreto. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Images)
“At the same time, NASA is very much
involved in doing their own projects,” he
continued. “We’re bringing that whole
space flight back. We’ll be sending
something very beautiful to Mars in the
very near future. We’re going to areas
nobody thought possible, and we’re doing it
very quickly, so we’re very proud.”

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 Obama State Dept Official Who Aided
Dossier Author Was Key Player In Dubai Ports Scandal
By Aaron Klein
8 Mar 2018
NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the
Obama State Department official who
acknowledged regularly interfacing and
exchanging information with the author
of the largely discredited 35-page anti-
Trump dossier, headed a firm that
helped the company owned by the
United Arab Emirates government in its
controversial failed bid to take over
some terminal operations at major
American ports.
The events known as the Dubai Ports World controversy
saw DP World, the holding company owned by the United
Arab Emirates, face backlash when their attempted ports
takeover prompted an American national security debate in
2006. DP World hired Winer’s company to help them
purchase Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, which
had the contract to operate some of America’s biggest
ports.
Involvement in the deal represents another possible link
between Winer and the Clintons. Breitbart News first
reported that Winer served as senior vice president of
another firm that did extensive pro bono work for the
Clinton Global Initiative. Breitbart News also first
reported that the firm where Winer worked in a senior
capacity lobbied for the U.S. subsidiary of a Russian state
company that purchased a controlling stake in Uranium
One, the Canadian uranium mining company with
operations in the U.S. The purchase was approved by the
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Obama administration in a decision that is currently being
probed by the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.
In the Dubai ports scandal, Hillary Clinton, then a New
York senator, vigorously attacked then-President George
W. Bush for supporting the ports deal. This while her
husband Bill Clinton was reportedly strategizing with
Dubai on how to save the deal and temper domestic
opposition. Clinton also reportedly attempted to broker a
gig for his former White House press secretary, Joe
Lockhart, to serve as spokesperson for DP World at the
height of the scandal.
The Clintons have deep financial ties to the UAE. Bill
Clinton gave speeches in Dubai in 2002 and 2005,
reportedly for $300,000 each. Some reports said Clinton
earned $1,175,000 for speeches in the UAE. The UAE
contributed to the Clinton Presidential Library, and is
listed as a donor to the Clinton Foundation in the $1
million to $5 million range. Separately, the UAE is listed
as having pledged funds for a $50 million Clinton
Foundation “commitment to action” plan to “establish a
new biomedical center” called Abu Dhabi Bio City.
Winer, Sidney Blumenthal and the dossier
After his name surfaced in news media reports related to
probes by House Republicans into the dossier, Winer
authored a Washington Post oped in which he conceded
that while he was working at the State Department he
exchanged documents and information with dossier author
and former British spy Christopher Steele.
Winer further acknowledged that while at the State
Department, he shared anti-Trump material with Steele
passed to him by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney
Blumenthal, whom Winer described as an “old friend.”
Winer wrote that the material from Blumenthal – which
Winer in turn gave to Steele – originated with Cody
Shearer, who is a controversial figure long tied to various
Clinton scandals.
Steele was commissioned to produce the dossier by
the Fusion GPS opposition research firm, which
was paid for its anti-Trump work by Hillary Clinton’s
2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
The Steele dossier was reportedly utilized by the FBI in
part to conduct its probe into Trump over unsubstantiated
claims of collusion with Russia. According to House
Intelligence Committee documents, the questionable
dossier was also used by Obama administration officials to
obtain a FISA warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter
Page, who briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy
adviser to Trump’s campaign. The political origins of the
dossier and issues relating to Steele’s credibility as a
source were kept from the FISA court, a House Republican
memo documents.
Winer and the Dubai ports deal
The Bush administration initially approved the deal, which
would have seen the Dubai-owned DP World lease the
management of port operations in some of America’s
busiest sea terminals, including in New York, Newark,
Baltimore and Miami. This after DP World outbid other
firms to purchase British-based Peninsular & Oriental
Steam Navigation, or P&O, which already had the
contracts to manage those ports. The issue exploded into
domestic controversy due to national security concerns
regarding the prospects of a foreign-owned company
overseeing ports where a large volume of cargo enters the
United States, with many of incoming containers not
subject to inspection.
President Bush defended the deal and even threatened to
veto any legislation attempting to block the transaction,
pitting the White House against some Republicans and
Democrats who opposed the port operations lease. “It
would send a terrible signal to friends and allies not to let
this transaction go through,” Bush said at the time.
Winer at the time was a partner at the law firm of Alston &
Bird, which was hired in 2005 by DP World to help it
purchase P&O.
Winer’s name and signature were on Alston & Bird’s
application for two of its employees to register as lobbyists
on behalf of DP World.
Hillary Clinton took a lead role in publicly opposing the
deal.
“In a post-9/11 world, we cannot afford to
surrender our port operations to foreign
governments,” Clinton said. “Port security
is national security and national security is
port security.”
At the same time, Bill Clinton was reportedly huddling
with Dubai to help them save the deal. The Financial
Times broke the story on Clinton’s behind-the-scenes
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efforts, getting a comment from his spokesperson
admitting that he advised Dubai’s leaders to, as the
newspaper characterized it, “propose a 45-day delay to
allow for an intensive investigation of the acquisition.”
The delay was meant to soothe opposition to the deal. The
suggestion came in a phone conversation with Dubai
officials.
Hillary Clinton supported the 45-day delay to allow time
for an investigation. She denied talking with her husband
about his conversation with UAE officials where he
reportedly proposed the delay.
Robert D. Novak, writing in the Washington Post, reported
that while Hillary Clinton was opposing the deal, Bill
Clinton was not only busy advising Dubai on the
transaction, but also was “pushing for one of his favorite
White House aides to be hired to defend the deal.”
Novak reported:
The former president proposed to the
United Arab Emirates his onetime press
secretary Joe Lockhart, as Washington
spokesman for the UAE-owned company,
Dubai Ports World.
…
According to well-placed UAE sources, the
former president made the suggestion at
the very highest level of the oil-rich state.
His relationship with the UAE is far from
casual. The sheikdom has contributed to
the Clinton presidential library and brought
Clinton to Dubai in 2002 and 2005 for
highly paid speeches (reportedly $300,000
each). He was there in 2003 to announce a
scholarship program for American students
traveling to Dubai.
…
Lockhart did not flatly deny to me that
Clinton had made a pitch for him; instead
he said he did not know whether the former
president was involved. Lockhart said he
was recommended by another Clintonite:
Carol Browner, the former Environmental
Protection Agency chief who is now a
principal in the Albright Group lobbying
firm. The company, headed by former
secretary of state Madeleine Albright, is
representing DP World. Lockhart told me
“money was not the problem” as he turned
down the offer.
Eventually, the deal fell apart and DP World announced it
was withdrawing and instead transferring the port leases to
an American company.
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Russians who bought Uranium One
The failed Dubai ports deal is not Winer’s only tie to
controversial deals that have U.S. national security
considerations. He also served as senior vice president of a
firm that did lobbying work for Tenex, the U.S. subsidiary
of Rosatom, the Russian state corporation headquartered in
Moscow that purchased a controlling stake in Uranium
One.
In a statement to Breitbart News, APCO Worldwide,
where Winer served as senior vice president from 2008 to
2013, denied that the firm’s work for Rosatom’s subsidiary
Tenex was related to the purchase of Uranium One or to
the acquisition of uranium in general. Instead, APCO said
its work for Tenex, which took place in 2010 and 2011,
focused on sales of fuel to the U.S. energy market. APCO
also denied that Winer did any work related to Tenex.
A contract previously obtained by Circa shows that from
2010 to 2011, APCO was paid roughly $3 million by
Tenex, the U.S. subsidiary of Rosatom.
Circa reported that it saw the contract between Tenex and
APCO, which agreed that the
“total fee is comprised of the fixed quarterly
fee which shall be $750,000 per each of
the four three-month periods of rendering
Services here under during the validity
period of this contract, including the 18
percent Russian VAT payable in the
territory of the Russian Federation.”
Asked to clarify its work for Tenex, APCO last month sent
Breitbart News a statement that
“as clearly reported in APCO’s public filings
from 2010 and 2011, available to anyone
online, APCO’s work for Tenex focused
entirely on the company’s interest in
continuing sales of fuel to the U.S. energy
market.”
“At the time, Tenex provided half of the fuel
used by U.S. nuclear energy producers
under a Bush administration program,” the
APCO statement continued. “Any claim that
APCO was involved in the Uranium One
transaction or any related CIFIUS matter is
completely false.”
As Breitbart News reported, in addition to its work for
Tenex, APCO did extensive pro bono work for the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI) from 2007 until 2016.
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APCO Worldwide recently faced controversy when The
Hill reported that paid FBI informant Douglas Campbell,
who infiltrated the Russian nuclear business world,
claimed to three separate congressional committees in a
written statement that Russia hired APCO to influence the
Obama administration, singling out Hillary Clinton.
Campbell claimed he was told by Russian nuclear
executives that there was a connection between APCO’s
CGI volunteer efforts and work that APCO did for Tenex.
In a statement to Breitbart News, APCO Worldwide
strongly denied that its work for CGI was in any way
related to work the firm did for Tenex. The statement
added that
“Winer had no involvement on any matters
related to Tenex or the Clinton Global
Initiative. In fact, the four senior staff on the
Tenex project included two former Bush
administration officials and a former staff
member for a Republican member of the
Senate.”
“APCO’s pro bono work for the Clinton
Global Initiative is a matter of public record
as part of our giving commitment reported
to the UN Global Compact,” the statement
added. “This volunteer work began in 2007,
three years before any discussion with
Tenex, and continued until 2016, five years
after the Tenex engagement ended. These
engagements were unrelated and any
suggestion that they were connected is a
deliberate falsehood. APCO’s work on
each of these projects was transparent,
publicly documented and entirely proper.”
Campbell, the FBI informant, however, claimed that
Russian nuclear officials
“told me at various times that they
expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3
million annual lobbying fee it was receiving
from the Russians to provide in-kind
support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative.
“The contract called for four payments of
$750,000 over twelve months. 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
U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
agreement.”
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APCO Worldwide Inc. stated,
“APCO was not involved in any aspect of
Uranium One.”
‘Creepy Clinton Confidante’
Winer, meanwhile, served under Bill Clinton’s
administration as the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of
state for international law enforcement. He wrote in his
recent Washington Post op-ed that he rejoined the State
Department in 2013 at the insistence of John Kerry.
“In 2013, I returned to the State
Department at the request of Secretary of
State John F. Kerry, whom I had previously
served as Senate counsel,” he wrote.
In the Post piece, Winer related that while he was at the
State Department, he repeatedly passed documents from
Steele related to Russia to State officials, including to
Victoria Nuland, a career diplomat who worked under the
Clintons and served as assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian affairs under Kerry. “Over the next
two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with
the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued
to find them useful,” he wrote.
Winer wrote that in the summer of 2016, Steele
“told me that he had learned of disturbing
information regarding possible ties between
Donald Trump, his campaign and senior
Russian officials.”
Winer says that he met with Steele in September 2016 to
discuss details that would later become known as the anti-
Trump dossier. Winer wrote that he prepared a two-page
summary of Steele’s information and
“shared it with Nuland, who indicated that,
like me, she felt that the secretary of state
needed to be made aware of this material.”
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Besides bringing Steele’s dossier information to the State
Department, Winer conceded that he also passed
information from Blumenthal to Steele, specifically
charges about Trump that originated with Shearer.
Winer described what he claimed was the evolution of his
contacts with Blumenthal regarding Shearer’s information:
In late September, I spoke with an old friend, Sidney
Blumenthal, whom I met 30 years ago when I was
investigating the Iran-Contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and
Blumenthal was a reporter at the Post. At the time, Russian
hacking was at the front and center in the 2016 presidential
campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who had a long
association with Bill and Hillary Clinton, had been hacked
in 2013 through a Russian server.
While talking about that hacking, Blumenthal and I
discussed Steele’s reports. He showed me notes gathered
by a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, that alleged
the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a
sexual and financial nature.
What struck me was how some of the material echoed
Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources.
Shearer has numerous close personal and family
connections to the Clintons and has reportedly been
involved in numerous antics tied to them. National
Review previously dubbed Shearer a “Creepy Clinton
Confidante” and “The Strangest Character in Hillary’s
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.”
In his Washington Post op-ed, Winer does not say whether
he knew at the time he interfaced with Steele that the ex-
British spy was working for Fusion GPS, or that Fusion
was being paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign via the Perkins Coie law firm.
In the Post piece, Winer also failed to mention his work
for APCO as well as the firm’s ties to the Clinton Global
Initiative and to the company whose parent purchased
Uranium One.
 Remember ‘Fast And Furious’ Scandal?
Gowdy’s About To BUST It Wide Open
Posted On March 8, 2018
(National Sentinel) Gunwalking: The Justice Department
has agreed to provide the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform with long-sought documents
pertaining to “Operation Fast and Furious” which became
one of the Obama administration’s first major scandals.
As reported by The Daily Caller, former President Barack
Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder
steadfastly refused to produce the documents which former
Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, had called
“critical” to the panel’s investigation at the time.
Fast and Furious was the codename for an operation
conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives. In involved allowing some 2,000 assault-
style guns and other firearms to be ‘walked’ into Mexico,
where they were delivered to members of drug cartels.
The agency was supposed to track the back to the cartels,
but BATF and Justice Department officials assigned to
monitor the weapons lost track of most of them, reports
later said.
Republicans investigating the operation at the time
suggested that the operation was part of a larger Obama
administration push for more gun control, a claim
supported by documents obtained in December 2011 by
CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson.
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Guns connected to the operation have since been
discovered at multiple crime scenes north and south of the
border. One of the guns was used by a suspected cartel
member to murder U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
“The Department of Justice under my
watch is committed to transparency and the
rule of law,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions
said in Wednesday a statement
accompanying the announcement. “This
settlement agreement is an important step
to make sure that the public finally receives
all the facts related to Operation Fast and
Furious.”
Amanda Gonzales, a spokeswoman for committee
chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told The Daily Caller
that the panel
“seeks all relevant facts so we can learn
from the mistakes made by the Justice
Department.”
“We have a responsibility to uncover why
they worked so hard to hide this
information from the Committee, the family
of Brian Terry, and the American people,”
she continued.
 Republican Lawmaker:
Robert Mueller Is Running Out Of Time
By Joshua Caplan
March 8, 2018, 12:19 Pm

Is special counsel Robert Mueller “He hasn’t found collusion or successful

running out of time to prove President
Trump colluded with Russia to win the
White House? While many argue the
probe should have never existed, one
Republican Congressman is saying he
believes Mueller’s time is nearly up.
interference, he has just found that the
Russian’s tried, and I think we need to
have these sanctions that the president
signed and the House and Senate passed
last summer show them that there is a
price to pay for that,” he said.

As calls for Mueller to wrap up his probe grow louder due

to a lack of evidence, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) recently
admitted that zero proof of collusion has been found.

Schiff has been a key figure in the Trump/Russia witch

hunt since day one, writes John S. Roberts at Right
Observer.

While on “The View,” Schiff admitted what everyone has

known for quite a while – there is no evidence of
collusion.

From The Federalist:

Rep. Adam Schiff conceded Thursday

Washington Times reports:
Rep. Francis Rooney said Thursday he
believes it could soon be time for special
counselor Robert Mueller to bring an end to
his Russian probe. […]
“Unfortunately for Mr. Mueller, despite his
great reputation, he hasn’t found anything
that we know about yet, so if they don’t find
something they need to wrap it up,” Mr.
Rooney, a member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, said on CNN.
Pressed on the fact that Mr. Mueller indicted 13 Russians
for meddling in the election, has filed charges against
former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and
received a guilty plea with former Trump campaign aide
Rick Gates, Mr. Rooney said that
there is still no evidence President Trump
or his campaign colluded with Russia to
win the election, and made a point of
distancing himself from any charges of
treason against the president.
Schiff has been driving the Trump-Russia
collusion narrative on behalf of his party for
months from his seat on the House
Intelligence Committee, claiming recently
he has seen “more than circumstantial”
evidence of collusion. But he offered
nothing substantial to back up his claim
when pressed on “The View” to get
specific, and acknowledged hard proof of
collusion may never materialize, even after
an intensive and months-long investigation
by special counsel Robert Mueller.

“is not nothing, but it is not what the

investigation was set up to do.”

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 “I appreciate what you’re doing for the
country, but I really hope you can wrap it
up. The country needs to get back to
business, so that’s my greatest hope is that
this gets done,” she told Schiff.

Time to move on, yes?

More pressing matters at hand?

Yet, it’s difficult to imagine the probe will come to an end

anytime soon.
Fox News Insider has more:
CNN reported Wednesday that investigators are attempting
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza to determine whether former Blackwater chief Erik Prince
Rice delivered a blunt message to Rep. misled the House Intelligence Committee about a meeting
Adam Schiff (D-Calif) when both appeared he had in Seychelles in January of 2017.
on “The View” Thursday.
Rice expressed the hope that the House Prince is accused of using the meeting as an opportunity to
Intelligence Committee will soon conclude establish a secret back channel with Russia.
its investigation into Russia’s meddling in
the 2016 election.
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 This Globalist Just Resigned From The White House —
Trump Made Fun Of Him One Last Time On TV
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
12:26 PM 03/08/2018

“This is Gary Cohn’s last cabinet meeting.

He may be a globalist, but I still like him,”
Trump cracked.

The president continued,

“In his own way he’s a nationalist because

President Donald Trump looks back at his outgoing economic
he loves our country.”
adviser Gary Cohn during a cabinet meeting at the White House in
Washington, March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump took a friendly swipe at outgoing

economic advisor Gary Cohn in his last cabinet meeting
Thursday at the White House.

Cohn resigned Tuesday from the White House after

spending nearly 14 months advising the president and
playing a key role in the passage of the December tax
reform legislation.

Cohn was reportedly considering resigning for weeks and

led the fight against Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on
imported steel and aluminum. Trump announced the tariffs
in late last week and Cohn resigned days later.
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 Project Veritas Action Seeks DOJ Criminal Investigation
Into Bernie Sanders Campaign For Colluding
With Australian Labor Party
By Cristina Laila
March 8, 2018, 12:45 Pm

conspired to “defraud the U.S. government” and allowed

“foreign national interference with U.S. elections.”

The request for an investigation of the Sanders campaign

and the Australian Labor Party is based on the belief that
there was a “conspiracy to defraud the United States
government,” as well as the likelihood of “false statements
to the United States government.”

It is well documented that the Australian

Labor Party sent staffers to work
against Donald Trump in the 2016
campaign.

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.

Bernie Sanders campaign was fined $14,500 by the FEC

for accepting illegal, foreign contributions.
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe tweeted out a
recap of the undercover video of Australian Labor Party
operatives:
Project Veritas has more on their criminal complaint and
investigation into the Sanders campaign:
Project Veritas Action Fund has requested a criminal
investigation by the US Department of Justice into the
Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign to determine if
the Sanders campaign and the Australian Labor Party
Project Veritas Action Fund’s legal counsel and author of
the complaint Benjamin Barr compared the findings to the
popular Russian Collusion scandal:
“Given the unusual breadth and depth of
likely foreign involvement in America’s
2016 presidential election, we request a
thorough criminal investigation of the
matters described herein.
Barr goes on to point out that like this complaint about 13
foreign nationals assisting one federal campaign the Grand
Jury in Washington DC recently indicted 13 Russians for
interfering in a Federal election.*

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Additionally, the former Speaker of the New Hampshire
House of Representatives William O’Brien is sending a
letter to the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section as well as the
U.S. Attorney’s office in Concord, New Hampshire asking
for an investigation.
In his letter, the former Speaker requests
an investigation into “additional potential
criminal violations stemming from an
apparent conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
government.”
According to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)
as quoted in O’Brien’s letter:
“[p]ersons who knowingly and willfully
engage in these activities may be subject
to an FEC enforcement action, criminal
prosecution or both.”
This comes in the wake of the Sanders Campaign agreeing
to pay a civil penalty of $14,500 to the Federal Election
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Commission for accepting “prohibited foreign
contributions,” although the campaign agreed to do so
“without admitting liability.”
This fine was a result of an initial complaint filed by
O’Brien, citing Project Veritas Action Fund’s hidden-
camera videos from 2016 which exposed Australian
nationals who were sent by the Australian Labor Party and
financed by the Australian Labor Party to assist the the
Sanders Presidential campaign.
The Project Veritas Action Fund 2016 videos that exposed
the foreign collusion with the Sanders campaign initially
got very little coverage from the mainstream media in the
US, but were widely covered by the Australian Media.
Will Robert Mueller indict this foreign interference with
US elections? Probably not since his operation is a witch
hunt with a goal to remove President Trump.
[Read the 14-page complaint from Project Veritas starting
on next page]
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 Trump On Gary Cohn:
‘He’s Seriously A Globalist,
There’s No Question’ (VIDEO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
March 8, 2018, 1:35 Pm

Trump also said that he thinks Cohn will return to the

administration at some point.

“He’s gonna go out and make another

couple of hundred million, and you might
come back,” Trump said. “We’ll be here for
another seven years, and I have a feeling
you may be back.”

Cohn previously described Antifa as “standing up for

During Gary Cohn’s final White House meeting, President
Donald Trump drew big laughs after he stated that while
he
“still likes him,” he’s “seriously a globalist.”
“There’s no question,” the president added.
equality and freedom” in an interview with the Financial
Times.
“Citizens standing up for equality and
freedom can never be equated with white
supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK,”
Cohn said Antifa after the tragic death in
Charlottesville. “I believe this administration
can and must do better in consistently and
unequivocally condemning these groups
and do everything we can to heal the deep
divisions that exist in our communities.”

Cohn was formerly the president and chief operating

officer of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2017. He served as
Trump’s chief economic adviser since the beginning of the
administration.

While many establishment Republicans were worried over

the news of Cohn’s departure, none of the populists that
helped bring Trump to victory shed any tears.

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 Trump Sticks With Tariffs Despite
Opposition From Republican Party
By Jim Hoft
March 8, 2018, 1:41 Pm

Last weekend President Trump dropped a bomb

that the US would place a tariff on steel and
aluminum imports.<.h3>

On Tuesday Jesse Gary, the Executive Vice

President at Century Aluminum, told Trish Regan
on FOX Business Network that Century Aluminum
will hire 300 new employees in western Kentucky
thanks to Donald Trump’s announcement on But President Trump is sticking to his
tariffs this past week. plan.

US Steel announced on Wednesday they will
restart two blast furnaces and recall 500
employees in Granite City, Illinois following
President Trump’s decision to tax steel and
aluminum imports.
A total of 800 new US steel and aluminum jobs
were announced in the last two days.
But the globalists don’t care.
At the beginning of a meeting with his cabinet, President
Trump was asked by a member of the media what he was
going to do with his tariffs. He replied,
“I’m sticking with 10 and 25 initially. I’ll have
a right to go up or down depending on the
country. And I’ll have a right to drop out
countries or add countries. We just want
fairness because we have not been treated
fairly by other countries.”

They want to give other countries an advantage

over US workers.

107 Republican (Globalist) lawmakers signed a

letter to President Trump on Wednesday
expressing concern over steel and aluminum
tariffs. [see letter below]

The list included Speaker Paul Ryan who has repeatedly

attacked the Republican president this week for standing
up for working Americans.

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 ‘View’’s Behar: We ‘Need’ ‘Smoking Gun’
To ‘Impeach’ Trump Over Stormy Daniels!
By Kristine Marsh
March 8, 2018 2:30 PM EST
ABC’s The View started off their show, March 8, by
blasting White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders as an
incompetent liar, and eagerly hoping the Stormy Daniels
lawsuit would produce physical evidence to impeach
President Trump.
For the second day in a row, the talk show hosts obsessed
over the scandal and eagerly speculated how it could be
used to oust Trump from office.
“Is this going to change anything? Do
people care?” host Whoopi Goldberg led
the discussion.
Referring to the name President Trump allegedly used in
the settlement, Joy Behar joked,
“At least we could impeach David
Dennison. Let's go after him.”
The hosts went on to bash the White House’s handling of
the lawsuit. Behar slammed Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders for not being a natural liar like Trump
was.
“That girl is an amateur liar. Her boss is
a professional,”
Behar quipped. At Meghan McCain’s frustrated sigh,
Whoopi stepped in to save Behar.
“She's not a good liar is what you're
saying,” she tried to get Behar to clarify.
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The host willingly obliged.
“She's not good enough of a liar. Like
out of the mouths of babes comes the
truth, you know. It was like almost like
painful to watch that,” Behar snarked.
Guest host, ABC News journalist Deborah Roberts agreed
it was “painful” to “even talk about” because of the “ick
factor:”
“When my son is having breakfast in the
morning and we're hearing ‘the
president and the porn star’ it just
makes me feel icky. And I feel like as a
journalist too, having to wallow in the
mud in this tabloid story is just so
uncomfortable. But I get it,” she
grimaced.
But McCain reminded the table that Trump wasn’t the first
president to have these kinds of allegations brought against
him and put the White House in a disreputable light.
“Not to gross you out, Deborah, but as
I’ve seen on this show, I found out what
oral sex was because of Bill Clinton so I
don't think it's exactly new territory on
how tawdry things are,” McCain
slammed.
But host Sunny Hostin hoped there would be physical
proof of an affair between the president and the porn star.
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perhaps, some images that they still have. I
think people will start to care when they
see perhaps…” she began to say.
“Images come out, all bets are off!” Whoopi
gushed.
Behar revealed she hoped there would be images because
those would be the “smoking gun” needed to impeach
Trump:
What you need is a smoking gun of
some sort. Adam Schiff, I was telling
you in the makeup room, Adam Schiff
was here last week and I said ‘Are we
going to get this guy?’ and he said
‘Remember it took the tapes to get
Nixon and it took a blue dress to get
Clinton’ so it's not that easy to get.
Behar has talked about finding ways to impeach the
president many times before in the past two years on The
View.
In April of last year, Behar went on a rant, comparing
Trump to North Korea’s dictator, calling for “the menace”
to be impeached. Again that month, she compared
Trump’s actions to Obama’s, complaining that the former
president would’ve been impeached already if he acted in
the same way.
Read the full transcript below:
ABC’s The View
3/8/2018
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, is this going to change anything? Do
people care? Where are we?
JOY BEHAR: I think -- at least we could impeach David
Dennison. Let's go after him.
SUNNY HOSTIN: It's been reported that Trump was very, very
upset with Sarah Sanders for basically confirming the fact that an
arbitration happened and that this NDA does exist. I think people
are starting to care more about this because Stormy Daniels has
become somewhat of a character, somewhat of a personality. I
think people are following the story and, let's face it, if she got the
$130,000 and she's allowed to talk, does that mean that illegal
campaign finance laws are going to be brought into this, was this
an illegal transaction?
BEHAR: And he was involved in hush money.
HOSTIN: And that he was involved in it. I think people are
starting to care a little bit.
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BEHAR: Can I just say one thing about her? That girl is an
amateur liar. Her boss is a professional. You know, she can't
--
WHOOPI: She's not a good liar is what you're saying.
BEHAR: She's not good enough of a liar. Like out of the
mouths of babes comes the truth, you know. It was like
almost like painful to watch that.
DEBORAH ROBERTS: But it also is just sort of painful to
even talk about it. I feel like the ick factor. You're saying
people are starting to care and I wonder though. When my
son is having breakfast in the morning and we're hearing the
president and the porn star it just makes me feel icky. And I
feel like as a journalist too, having to wallow in the mud in
this tabloid story is just so uncomfortable. But I get it.
HOSTIN: But its his mud.
MEGHAN MCCAIN: Not to gross you out, Deborah, but as
I’ve seen on this show, I found out what oral sex was
because of Bill Clinton so I don't think it's exactly new
territory on how tawdry things are.
BEHAR: Just as bad.
ROBERTS: That's true.
MCCAIN: I will say going forward, the $64,000 question is does
his base care. I'm still hedging on no until it starts impacting the
bottom line of the economy or the Second Amendment. I will say
that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, I really always liked her because
she did a really good job for her father's campaign, she actually
did the ground game in Iowa when he ended up ultimately
winning in 2008. I always thought she was really smart. I do think
there are a lot of tenants she's not living by, never complain,
never explain, control the narrative. All of these things she's not
doing and she’s making it worse.
[cross-talk]
MCCAIN: I do think that there's someone out there that can
control the narrative better than what they’re doing right now.
ROBERTS: She goes on and on and she digs herself in deeper.
WHOOPI: She’s tired because how many times can you say, ‘I
didn't know. He said no, no -- did he cross the street? I don't think
so!’ I think she's now just like -- she needs a vacation.
HOSTIN: Is it the tip of the iceberg because if you read the legal
documents, they allege that there are some emails perhaps,
some images that they still have. I think people will start to care
when they see perhaps --
WHOOPI: Images come out, all bets are off.
MCCAIN: If images come out this show is going to be a real
interesting place for me that day. I'm probably going to faint on
camera and be like, you know what, it's been a great run here on
this show.
HOSTIN: Still images and/or text messages.
BEHAR: What you need is a smoking gun of some sort.
Adam Schiff, I was telling you in the makeup room, Adam
Schiff was here last week and I said ‘Are we going to get this
guy?’ and he said ‘Remember it took the tapes to get Nixon
and it took a blue dress to get Clinton’ so it's not that easy to
get.
WHOOPI: Also you have to do it within the law. You have to do it
within the law.
MCCAIN: Read your sweatshirt. It's Mueller time. Let him take
care of it.
[Whoopi stands up to show her sweatshirt. Cheers and applause
]
MCCAIN: Let the investigation play out. The final thing I will say
though is any chance of Republicans and conservatives putting
anything out policy-wise that in any other administration would
take the attention away from these types of scandals, these
scandals are just getting worse and worse and is you said we're
talking about the hypothetical idea that there are images out
there, this is getting worse and worse and they have to start
controlling some of this which they do have the power to do.
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WHOOPI: The question also then becomes so now that Stormy's
in the midst of a storm, what's next? Is she on "Dancing with the
Stars"? Does he become a correspondent on ABC or CNN? I
mean, where do you see her?
BEHAR: Run for congress, hey.
ROBERTS: That's the thing that's so upsetting about this
because at the end of the day it does give a lot of air to her and
she is going to probably milk this. She's probably going to get a
book deal. She's probably going to start hitting the talk show
circuits.
WHOOPI: Who does that sound like? Maybe she'll be on "Big
Brother".
ROBERTS: We've seen somebody from the Trump
administration on "Big brother".
HOSTIN: Should she be vilified though or made fun of? I mean,
yes --
BEHAR: She was a working woman.
HOSTIN: She was a porn star, had this liaison with Donald
Trump. I think that people should care that the President of the
United States during the campaign allegedly paid hush money
right before his election and he had this affair with this woman
when his wife had just had their child. Where are the
evangelicals? Where are the people of faith, where are the
people of family values saying this matters? This matters!
 Lara Trump Hits Back At Rumors
Trump Campaign Is Scared Of Biden Run
Amber Randall - Civil Rights Reporter
2:36 PM 03/08/2018

Lara Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S.

January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Trump campaign spokesperson Lara Trump brushed aside

reports Thursday that the Trump team is worried about a
potential run against former vice president Joe Biden.
Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, appeared on Fox
News’ “Outnumbered” to talk about rumblings that the
campaign is concerned about Biden running for president
in 2020.
WATCH:
.
“Well, it’s interesting to me that they said
that. That’s news to me. The only thing
we’re worried about is that Joe Biden has
been living off the swamp for five decades
now. And if that’s the person that the
Democrats want to run, that they think the
American people want, I wish them a lot of
luck with that,” Trump said.

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 Rep. Bob Goodlatte Renews
Call For Second Special Counsel
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Says New Outside Investigator
Would Have Authority Department Of Justice Inspector General Lacks
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 08 Mar 2018 At 2:43 PM

"We need to have a special counsel with

prosecutorial powers to able to look into
this matter," said Goodlatte. "And it extends
beyond the Department of Justice, which is
also the purview of Mr. Horowitz. There are
allegations about activities that took place
at the State Department."

Republicans have been irked at revelations that 2016

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's
Va.) reiterated Thursday his call for the appointment of a
campaign organization and the Democratic National
second special counsel to investigate apparent abuses in
Committee, which she then controlled, paid for opposition
the FBI and Department of Justice during the Trump-
research used by the FBI to justify a warrant application to
Russia collusion probe.
conduct surveillance of a low-level volunteer on President
Donald Trump's campaign.
Goodlatte (pictured above) and a number of other House
Republicans have called for a special investigator.
Lawyers for the Justice Department did not fully disclose
Goodlatte, who is retiring at the end of the year, said on
the source of the opposition research when they sought the
“The Laura Ingraham Show” Thursday morning that
warrant from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
leaving the task to the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General
(FISA) court.
(IG) is insufficient.
The IG certainly can conduct a review as well, Goodlatte
Goodlatte said he has great respect for IG Michael
said.
Horowitz.
On worries that special counsels tend to run amok, delving
“But the scope of what he can look at is not
into matters far outside their original mandate, Goodlatte
broad enough because he cannot call
noted it is the job of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
witnesses who are outside of the
maintain a tight leash.
Department of Justice,” he said.
"The attorney general has control over
that," he said. "He sets the terms in the
appointment. If the special counsel comes
back and says, 'Well, I want to also look at
this,' you have to get approval from within
the Justice Department."

Goodlatte added that a special counsel would avoid

obvious conflicts of interest associated with an internal
investigation.

A partial list of those potential witnesses includes former

FBI Director James Comey, former FBI chief of staff
James Rybicki and former Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, who soon will retire.

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 "You also have the advantage of a situation
where you're not having people in the
department that has this cloud over it
conducting the investigation," he said. "You
have the advantage that you don't have a
leaky sieve like you have when you have
the kind of partisan back-and-forth we've
had over this issue in the Congress."
Goodlatte sidestepped the question of whether he has
confidence in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
who has come under fire from conservatives for appointing
Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the Russia
probe.
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Goodlatte said it would not be appropriate for him to
comment because Rosenstein's conduct is part of what a
second independent counsel would investigate.
Rosenstein gave authorization to seek renewal of the FISA
warrants. Goodlatte said the Judiciary Committee would
continue to exercise its oversight responsibilities, but he
added there is no adequate substitute for a special counsel.
"We think that a special counsel can dig
deeper and has more authority to call
witnesses, grant immunity where
necessary, and do other things looking at
this," he said.
 Trump Hits His Highest Approval Yet In Marist Poll
Despite Improvement, However, The President Remains Underwater
And The Survey Suggests Relentlessly Negative
Russia Coverage Has Taken Toll
By Brendan Kirby | 08 Mar 2018 At 3:28 PM
President Donald Trump’s approval rating is at a record
high in the The Marist Poll, according to a survey released
Thursday.
The poll of registered voters, which has produced among
the worst results for Trump of any of the major national
surveys, pegged his approval rating at 42 percent. With a
disapproval rating of 50 percent, the president remains
under water in the Marist poll and most other surveys.
But the approval rating is up 4 percentage points since late
February. The share of respondents who strongly approve
of Trump’s performance, 24 percent, is up from 21 percent
in its previous polls and ties an all-time high set in early
February.
While the poll overall is not great by historical standards, it
does show regional improvement. For instance, more
people in the South approve than disapprove — a reversal
from late February when the president’s approval rating
was 8 points lower than his disapproval rating.
The results come across the backdrop of widely reported
“chaos” in the White House and departures of key aides.
Trump’s standing with voters also improved at a time of
unprecedented negative news coverage.
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What’s more, the Marist poll did not find widespread
support for Trump’s policies. On trade, for instance, 42
percent said imposing tariffs on imported steel and
aluminum would hurt the economy. Only 27 percent said it
would help.
So what explains Trump’s rising support?
Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion, pointed to refocusing attention from
scandals to policies.
“Even if President Trump’s policies are not
initially popular, he benefits from focusing
discussion on the issues,” he said in a
statement. “If the White House chatter
distracts and overshadows the president’s
agenda, his standing suffers.”
Based on historical precedent, Republicans stand to suffer
significant losses in the November midterm elections if
Trump cannot improve his approval rating.
The survey also suggests that massive coverage of Russian
meddling in the 2016 election and independent counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion with
the Trump campaign has had an impact.
A majority, 51 percent, think Mueller’s probe has been
fair. And 53 percent believe Trump has done something
either illegal —26 percent — or unethical — 27 percent —
in connection with Russia.
 OLEG DERIPASKA OP-ED:
The Ever-Changing ‘Russia Narrative’ Is
False Public Manipulation
Oleg Deripaska - Founder Of UC Rusal, A Large Russian Aluminum Company
3:33 PM 03/08/2018
Putin and Obama Getty Images/WPA/Pool,
Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla
In the comedy movie “Wag the Dog,” a fictitious U.S.
president is on the cusp of losing an election over a real
scandal. So a political spin doctor and Hollywood producer
hired by his campaign instead distract the public by
manufacturing “the appearance of a war” with Albania.
The spin doctor explains:
“It’s not a war, it’s a pageant. We need a
theme, a song — some visuals.” The
producer ascribes Albania a false motive
against the United States: “They want to
destroy our way of life!”
The story line keeps changing to explain away emerging,
inconvenient realities.
The ever-changing “Russia narrative” in American politics
is today’s “Wag the Dog” scenario. Technology and the
disintegration of evidence-based journalism permit a
surprisingly small number of individuals to destroy
bilateral or multilateral relations. Their motivation in
shifting from an inconvenient reality into their desired
reality is power and military-industrial commercial
interests.
When I attended the Munich Security Conference in
February, the extraordinary, coordinated message of a
panel of U.S. senators was summarized by moderator
Victoria Nuland, former assistant secretary of state under
President Barack Obama, as:
“Deep State-proud loyalists giv[ing] broad
reassurance about continuity.” One of the
panelists, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-
R.I.), said: “What the Breitbart crowd would
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call the ‘Deep State’ is what many of us
would call ‘knowledgeable professionals.’”
The panel’s uniform message was
essentially: Ignore Donald Trump and
increase your defense budget to 2 percent,
because the generals who are
‘operationalizing policy’ remain in charge.
When you owe the world $18 trillion, the only way to get
them to “pay 2 percent for defense” is to manufacture a
boogeyman. Russian novelist and pacifist Leo Tolstoy
observed:
“There is no war which was not hatched by
the governments, the governments alone,
independent of the interests of the people.”
What has been inelegantly termed the “Deep State” is
really this: shadow power exercised by a small number of
individuals from media, business, government and the
intelligence community, foisting provocative and cynically
false manipulations on the public. Out of these
manipulations, an agenda of these architects’ own design is
born.
Unfortunately, I am personally familiar with this group.
Before they moved to their current, bigger ambitions of
reversing the U.S. presidential election results, they
scurrilously attacked me and others from the shadows for
two decades. The various story lines and roles they have
created for me don’t survive close scrutiny and are
internally inconsistent, yet they simply follow the
“Wag the Dog” playbook: We don’t need it
to prove to be true. We need it to distract
them.
President Theodore Roosevelt once cautioned:
“Behind the ostensible government sits
enthroned an invisible government owing
no allegiance and acknowledging no
responsibility to the people. To destroy this
invisible government, to befoul the unholy
alliance between corrupt business and
corrupt politics, is the first task.”
The distractions no longer can mask these “unholy
alliances.” The wife of a central architect of the
Department of Justice’s “Russia narrative” secretly worked
for the dossier-peddling Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS founder
Glenn Simpson attempted — according to his own
congressional admissions — to influence the 2016 U.S.
presidential election and its aftermath, to attack Russia and
to “embarrass” me and cause trouble for the company I
founded.
This inconvenient disclosure necessitated a new story line.
Former Democratic National Committee chairwoman and
CNN commentator Donna Brazile attacked the memo
prepared by House Intelligence Committee chairman
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on television as “the
weaponization of classified information.” It is ironic that
someone who once ran the organization that allegedly
rigged the primary nomination process and who was fired
from CNN for allegedly rigging a presidential debate is
now producing “Russian-rigging” stories.
World War II hero and former U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-
Hawaii) once observed, in a different context:
“There exists a shadowy government with
… its own fundraising mechanism.”
Wagging the dog costs money. So, who is
the “funding mechanism” of this “shadowy
government?”
Fusion GPS’s Simpson, in a New York Times op-ed
describing his own Judiciary Committee testimony,
claimed a neoconservative website “and the Clinton
campaign” were “the Republican and Democratic funders
of our Trump research.” The Judiciary Committee’s Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) then unilaterally released, over
the objection of committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley
.
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(R-Iowa), Simpson’s testimony to “set the record straight.”
Fusion GPS “commended Senator Feinstein for her
courage.”
Yet on March 16, 2017, Daniel Jones — himself a team
member of Fusion GPS, self-described former FBI agent
and, as we now know from the media, an ex-Feinstein
staffer — met with my lawyer, Adam Waldman, and
described Fusion as a “shadow media organization helping
the government,” funded by a “group of Silicon Valley
billionaires and George Soros.” My lawyer testified these
facts to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Nov. 3. Mr.
Soros is, not coincidentally, also the funder of two “ethics
watchdog” NGOs (Democracy 21 and CREW) attacking
Rep. Nunes’ committee memo.
A former Obama State Department official, Nuland, has
been recently outed as another shadow player, reviewing
and disseminating Fusion’s dossier, and reportedly,
hundreds of other dossiers over a period of years. “Deep
State-proud loyalists” apparently was a Freudian slip, not a
joke.
Invented narratives — not “of the people, by the people,
for the people,” but rather just from a couple of people,
cloaked in the very same hypocritical rhetoric of
“freedom” and “democracy” that those are actively
undermining — impede internationally shared efforts on
the world’s most pressing, real issues, like global health,
climate change and the future of energy. My own “Mother
Russia” has many problems and challenges, and my
country is still in transition from the Soviet regime — a
transition some clearly wish us to remain in indefinitely.
But we need to stop this old movie.
 Surprise! Yet Another Example Of Anti-Trump FBI Agent
Peter Strzok Making Sure Hillary Clinton Got A
Pass Over Her Email Scandal
By JD Heyes
03/08/2018
By now it should have been obvious to any reasonable,
thinking person that through her use of a home-brew
private email server during her tenure as secretary of state,
Hillary Clinton not only violated a slew of rules and
regulations but also put U.S. national security at grave risk.
If it wasn’t obvious, however, perhaps this latest
development will finally prove to be convincing.
As reported by Fox News, anti-Trump FBI counter-
terrorism investigator Peter Strzok was made aware of
likely breaches of Clinton’s unsecured server while she
served as Barack Obama’s top diplomat but he failed to
follow up on them.
Sources told the news network that in the final months of
the investigation into Clinton’s criminal mishandling of
classified emails, Strzok was told about an irregularity in
the metadata of her server suggesting it had been breached.
However, there was “no significant follow-up,” Fox News
reported, citing two sources familiar with the situation.
Sources also told the network that Strzok, whose anti-
Trump text messages led to his removal from the staff of
special counsel Robert Mueller, was advised about the
metadata irregularity in 2016 but he never supported a
formal forensic damage assessment.
Said one source: “Nothing happened.”
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The network said that Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz is aware of the failure to follow
up, though it’s not clear where that leaves the matter.
Intelligence community directive 732 says that damage
assessments are to be done “in response to unauthorized
disclosure or compromise of classified national
intelligence,” but so much of this “probe” into Clinton was
either done sloppily, half-heartedly, or — in this case, not
at all — it’s hard to know how many directives were
violated in Obama’s quest to ensure she could survive to
succeed him (oops!).
It’s important to put this revelation into context. For one,
the FBI has said that intelligence beyond the classification
of “top secret” was found on Clinton’s email server; that
alone should have gotten her at least 10 years in a federal
slammer.
(Related: Obama AG Loretta Lynch KNEW
that Hillary wouldn’t be recommended for
indictment by corrupt COMEY before she
‘RECUSED’ herself.)
But also, let’s not forget that then-FBI Director James
Comey said during his bizarre, unorthodox press
conference in July 2016 — the one in which he laid out all
of Clinton’s crimes but then said “no reasonable
prosecutor” would take the case — that it was a near-
certainty that her server had been breached:
With respect to potential computer intrusion
by hostile actors, we did not find direct
evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal
e-mail domain, in its various configurations
since 2009, was successfully hacked. But,
given the nature of the system and of the
actors potentially involved, we assess that
we would be unlikely to see such direct
evidence. We do assess that hostile actors
gained access to the private commercial e-
mail accounts of people with whom
Secretary Clinton was in regular contact
from her personal account. We also assess
that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal
 e-mail domain was both known by a large
number of people and readily apparent.
She also used her personal e-mail
extensively while outside the United States,
including sending and receiving work-
related e-mails in the territory of
sophisticated adversaries. Given that
combination of factors, we assess it is
possible that hostile actors gained access
to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail
account.
Later, two sources familiar with the investigation would
say the FBI was “99 percent” certain that her server was
breached.
Apparently, the principal counterterrorism investigator on
the case knew it as well but chose not to pursue the matter.
Because doing so would have further sealed the case
against Clinton, and as we already know, Comey planned
to exonerate her months before that July presser — even
though he also knew her emails had been hacked.
Face it; this is further proof that the
investigation into Clinton’s illegal handling
of classified emails was never serious
because everyone involved wanted her, not
Donald J. Trump, in the White House.

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 Here’s Why Jeff Sessions May Be Washington’s Slyest Fox
All This Time, People Have Thought The Attorney General's Recusal Put
Him On The Sidelines Of The Trump-Russia Collusion Investigation
By Mark Tapscott
Updated 08 Mar 2018 At 3:41 PM

and we’re going to do that. And I’ll consider

their request.”

President Donald Trump reportedly called him “Mr.

Magoo” in a recent private conversation — but a little-
noticed comment by the embattled attorney general
provides strong evidence Jeff Sessions just may be
Washington’s slyest fox.

The comment came in an interview with Fox News’

Shannon Bream the same day Sessions announced the
Department of Justice is suing the state of California for
unconstitutionally interfering with federal immigration law
enforcement officials.
When Bream asked about the recent request for
appointment of a second special counsel from House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), here’s what Sessions
said:
“Well, I have great respect for Mr. Gowdy
and Chairman Goodlatte, and we are going
to consider seriously their
recommendations. I have appointed a
person outside of Washington, many years
in the Department of Justice (DOJ), to look
at all the allegations that the House
Judiciary Committee members sent to us;
and we’re conducting that
investigation” (emphasis added).
"Also, I am well aware we have a
responsibility to insure the integrity of the
FISA process. We’re not afraid to look at
that. The inspector general — some think
that our inspector general is not very
strong; but he has almost 500 [employees],
most of which are lawyers and prosecutors;
and they are looking at the FISA process.
We must make sure that it’s done properly,
Note that Sessions appointed "a person outside of
Washington," an individual with "many years in the
Department of Justice," but he doesn't say when he did so.
"Sundance," a blogger on The Last Refuge, explains why
this is immensely important:
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions is noting
the existence of an outside prosecutor who
has been in place for quite a while ... All the
evidence of this was/is clear if you follow
the granular details closely," Sundance
wrote.
The Last Refuge blog describes itself as "a ragtag bunch of
conservative misfits," but no response was offered when
LifeZette requested additional "about us" details. Even so,
the analysis offered by Sundance is compelling, including
these six reasons Sessions appears to have been ahead of
the game almost from the earliest days of the Trump
administration:
1.) Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael
Horowitz "has an obligation to notify his superiors when
he/she discovers illegal activity, or conduct that is likely
unlawful, while conducting an internal investigation,"
according to Sundance. This is why Horowitz told
Mueller last summer about the potentially illegal

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 conduct of FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney
Lisa Page.
2.) Key DOJ and FBI employees must be cooperating with
the IG. "That cooperation, in combination with a
likelihood of unlawful conduct, would require a DOJ
official (prosecutor) to be assigned to negotiate and
outline the DOJ legal terms of investigative
compliance," Sundance observes.
3.) Strzok, Page, former DOJ Deputy Associate Attorney
General Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie, and the FBI's Bill
Priestap must be among those cooperating with the IG
because they are quoted in that four-page summary
memo produced by Republican staff working for House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). "Those quotes come from
investigative interviews; no congressional committee
has interviewed those persons," Sundance writes.
4.) Trump runs the executive branch as president, but he's
also potentially a victim of crimes being investigated by
the Sessions-appointed prosecutor. "That’s why
[Trump] doesn’t know and [Attorney General] Sessions
must keep distance from any discussion with the
executive due to this separation," according to
Sundance.
.
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5.) Like Trump, Congress also doesn't know about the
Sessions prosecutor's investigation because "the
prosecutor works parallel with, but separate from, the
IG investigation. Congress would know of the IG, but
not the prosecutor."
6.) Finally, Sundance contends that "the most transparent
reason why we know there’s a DOJ prosecutor already
on the case is because Jeff Sessions just said there
was" during his interview with Bream.
The next question, then, is:
When did Sessions appoint this mystery
prosecutor?
Sundance explains:
"Likely since the time when IG Horowitz
informed the AG and AAG that he may
have discovered significant evidence of
unlawful conduct within the DOJ and FBI.
That would be around July/August 2017."
 Epic! Steelworkers Thank President Trump At White
House Announcement On Steel And
Aluminum Tariffs (Video)
By Jim Hoft
March 8, 2018, 3:48 Pm

The list included Speaker Paul Ryan who has repeatedly

attacked the Republican president this week for standing
up for working Americans.

Last weekend President Trump dropped

a bomb. The president announced the
US would place a tariff on steel and
aluminum imports.

On Tuesday Jesse Gary, the Executive Vice President at

Century Aluminum, told Trish Regan on FOX Business
Network that Century Aluminum will hire 300 new
employees in western Kentucky thanks to Donald Trump’s
announcement on tariffs this past week.
But President Trump stuck to his plan.
US Steel announced on Wednesday
they will restart two blast furnaces and
On Thursday afternoon President Trump announced tariffs
recall 500 employees in Granite City,
on foreign steel and aluminum.
Illinois following President Trump’s
decision to tax steel and aluminum
imports. Several steelworkers then thanked the
president after his speech.
A total of 800 new US steel and It was epic!
aluminum jobs were announced in the
last two days.

But the globalists don’t care.

They want to give other countries an

advantage over US workers.

107 Republican (Globalist) lawmakers

signed a letter to President Trump on
Wednesday expressing concern over
steel and aluminum tariffs.
.

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 CNN's Jones: 'If Barack Obama Had Done Just Half Of
What Trump Did Last Week', 'He'd Be In Guantanamo'
By Ryan Foley
March 8, 2018 4:13 PM EST
During an appearance on CNN's New Day Thursday
morning, Van Jones suggested that
"if Barack Obama had done half of what
Trump did last week, he wouldn't be
impeached, he'd be in Guantanamo."
The New Day co-hosts had brought on Jones, a former
Obama Administration official and host of CNN’s The Van
Jones Show to discuss the controversy surrounding
President Trump and adult film star Stormy Daniels, who
alleged that the two had an illicit affair a decade ago and
was paid $130,000 in “hush money” right before the
election by Trump’s personal attorney.
When asked by co-host Alisyn Camerota if the “tawdry
stuff” qualified as significant, Jones replied: “the fact that
we’re asking if it’s significant is significant.” Camerota
then decided to invoke Obama. According to Jones,
“if Barack Obama had done just half of
what Trump did last week, he wouldn’t
have been impeached, he’d be in
Guantanamo.”
The conversation then turned to Wednesday’s White
House press briefing, where Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said that the President had won his case
against Stormy Daniels in arbitration. Jones then referred
to Sanders as a “spin master”:
“She’s tap dancing on marbles all day. At
same point, you’re going to slip.” Jones did
not seem all that surprised by the Stormy
Daniels controversy, saying “This is just
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bad behavior from a bad person who got
elected to the Presidency of the United
States possibly in a bad way with bad guys
from Russia.”
Meanwhile, co-host Chris Cuomo said that President
Trump’s “problems with the truth” will make it far less
likely that he will comply with a subpoena and testify in
front of a grand jury. Jones then opined:
“he can’t get in an elevator and out of an
elevator without saying 12 things that aren’t
true. I mean, the guy, he would tell 20 lies
before he got into the room.”
The media and the left desperately want the Stormy
Daniels affair to snowball as part of their effort to remove
Trump from office. Their past schemes of “Russia-Gate”
and using the 25th Amendment have failed to bear any
fruit, so they have latched onto the Stormy Daniels
controversy as their last best hope to #Impeach45. While
they enthusiastically cheered for President Clinton’s
acquittal close to twenty years ago, the media will find
themselves rooting for the opposite outcome in the event
of a Trump impeachment.
CNN's New Day
03/08/18
08:47 AM
CHRIS CUOMO: The White House is caught in the storm named
Daniels. It is a scandal. They have to deal with it. They are not
handling it well. The President’s alleged affair with the porn star
giving late night comics plenty of fodder. You wanted some. Here
it is.
SETH MEYERS: Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued President
Trump yesterday, alleging that their non-disclosure agreement is
not valid because he never signed it. And that sound you just
heard was Melania dumping out her desk drawer looking for the
marriage certificate. Maybe he didn’t, maybe he didn’t, maybe he
didn’t, maybe he didn’t, maybe he didn’t, maybe he didn’t.
JIMMY KIMMEL: This is a big deal because if Stormy wins this
lawsuit, not only will she be able to talk, not only will she be able
to tell everything, she will immediately be sworn in as President
of the United States.
MEYERS: Law experts are saying that some of the language in
adult film star Stormy Daniels’ non-disclosure agreement
suggests that she may have some lurid photos that were taken
during their sexual encounters. Said Trump, fake nudes.
STEPHEN COLBERT: But the bombshell news is that after Mr.
Trump’s victory, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet
to be reimbursed for the payment to Ms. Clifford. Well, Mr.
Cohen, maybe now you’ll sympathize with Stormy Daniels,
because Donald Trump has screwed you both.
CUOMO: All right.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: Let’s bring in, on that note, let’s bring in
Van Jones, shall we? Let’s get “the bottom line” from him. He is
the host of The Van Jones Show here on CNN. So listen Van,
this is tawdry stuff. Is it significant?
VAN JONES: The fact that it may not be as significant in itself,
the fact that you can have this low level of a standard for the
President of the United States, the person we used to call the
leader of the free world. The fact that we have to ask the
question, is it significant that maybe he paid off a porn star right
before he was going to be elected President so the porn star
wouldn’t tell the world that he was cheating on his wife right after
his last son was born, is that significant? The fact that we’re
asking if it’s significant is significant.
CAMEROTA: Isn’t it fun to play the what if Barack Obama did this
game?
JONES: Well, listen, If Barack, I’ve said it many times. If Barack
Obama had done just half of what Trump did last week, he
wouldn’t have been impeached, he’d be in Guantanamo. They
would have said, listen, something’s wrong with this guy, he’s no
longer here, Biden’s the President, no, you saw it, nobody say
anything, we’re moving on. If you, if you reverse position on 12
different issues, you lose half your staff, you can’t be President.
There would have been no discussion. Obama would have
literally just be disappeared. Biden would be President and we
would never mention his name again. But we’re just rolling on
along.
CUOMO: He was never a morality play, not even for people who
make morality their cause, right? Even the evangelicals with all of
their political history of what they find intolerant, whether it’s the,
you know, the idea of giving him a mulligan or a thousand
mulligans, or whatever, they’ve bought into not buying into him as
a person. So then, you have to look at the next level of
significance, which is lying is troubling for a Presidency. And on
that level, Sarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday, saying this.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: The President has addressed
these directly and made very well clear that none of these
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allegations are true. This case has already been won in
arbitration, and anything beyond that, I would refer you to the
President’s outside counsel.
STEVEN PORTNOY: You said that there’s arbitration that’s
already been won? By whom and when?
SANDERS: By the President’s personal attorneys. And for details
on that, I would refer you to them.
PORTNOY: But you’re aware of them, so what more can you
share with us?
SANDERS: I can share that, that the arbitration was won in the
President’s favor and I would refer you to the President’s outside
counsel on any details beyond that.
CUOMO: Key distinction. The first part, she was reading from
something. The second part, she was not. It is in the second part
where she said something that is bad because the theory of the
case, Van, is Michael Cohen did this, he did this because he
cares deeply about the President, he did it with his own money.
And saying that the President won the arbitration puts him in the
dynamic as opposed to just a third party beneficiary of it. Fair
point?
JONES: Fair point but, you know, even as talented a spin master
as her, she’s tap dancing on marbles all day. At some point,
you’re going to slip. The marbles are not coming from Sarah
Huckabee. The marbles are coming from the Oval Office, from
the President, from his conduct, from the fact that he has all
these sleazy people around him trying to cover up for the sleazy
stuff he does in a sleazy way. And so when you have that much
sleaze, I mean, when literally one word, you know, Bill Clinton,
well what’s the definition of is, he’s still getting beaten up for that
25 years later. This is just bad behavior from a bad person who
got elected to the Presidency of the United States possibly in a
bad way with bad guys from Russia. This is bad and she’s doing
the best she can with bad.
CUOMO: But to your point, it makes it much less likely that we
ever see him do what Bill Clinton did, which is comply with a
subpoena and testify in front of a grand jury or anywhere. I don’t
see how it happens when they have this kind of problems with
the truth.
JONES: I mean, he can’t, he can’t get in an elevator and out of
an elevator without saying 12 things that aren’t true. I mean, the
guy, he would tell 20 lies before he got into the room. So I don’t
understand, for me, it is so heartbreaking, part of the reason why
I’m doing my show the way I’m doing it, is, you know, I’ve got this
show called The Van Jones Show and we’re trying to have, you
know, some meaningful conversations with people frankly
outside of politics because those people don’t have to lie, they
don’t have to spin, they don’t have to try to polish up all this stuff
and they can speak a little bit more honestly, a little bit more
truthfully.
 STUNNING=> Sara Carter Connects The Dots In Scandal
Involving FBI, FISA Judges And Spy
Warrant For Carter Page
By Joshua Caplan
March 8, 2018, 4:18 Pm

Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter private research firm in Washington,”

reports former British intelligence
officer Christopher Steele knew that the
Clinton campaign was footing the bill
for the anti-Trump dossier, yet the FBI
never included this information in its
FISA court application for Carter Page.
according to the article. “Fusion, in turn,
had been contracted by a law firm, Perkins
Coie, which represented both Hillary
Clinton’s Presidential campaign and the
Democratic National Committee. Several
months after Steele signed the deal, he
learned that, through this chain, his
research was being jointly subsidized by
the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. In all,
Steele was paid a hundred and sixty-eight
thousand dollars for his work.”

In a footnote on the warrant application to the court, the

FBI stated that the “identified U.S. Person never advised
Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into
Candidate #1’s ties to Russia.” Meaning that now
embattled Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to
conduct the research, never advised him of who was
paying his bill.
Carter reports:
Sean Hannity hinted last night that he was dropping
Former British spy Christopher Steele was a bombshell on his program. According to the Fox News
informed months after accepting the job to host, the
compile a dossier on then-candidate
Donald J. Trump that the Hillary Clinton
‘FBI lied to the FISA judge in order to get a
Campaign and the Democratic National
warrant to spy on Carter Page.’
Committee were paying the bills but that’s
not what the FBI told the secret FISA court
when it sought a warrant to spy on one of
Trump’s campaign volunteers.

This bit of explosive information was revealed in an

expose on Steele by The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer but the
implications for the FBI are profound. Why? Because the
bureau explicitly stated in its Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Application to the secret court that Steele was
unaware of who backed Fusion GPS, the firm which hired
him, for the research.
As laid out in the Nunes memo, the Justice Department
Steele, however, claimed in the expose titled Christopher was granted a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump
Steele, The Man Behind the Trump Dossier that he did campaign advisor Carter Page during the 2016 presidential
know who was paying his bill. election. The initial application, along with the renewals,
relied in part, on unverified information compiled by
“Under the arrangement, Orbis was a former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
subcontractor working for Fusion GPS, a
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As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported,
Fox News contributor Sarah Carter recently revealed to
Hannity that the Department of Justice ignored
Congressional requests to turn over the transcripts of the
FISA court hearings on Carter Page.
Credit: Hannity
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CARTER:
The Department of Justice can easily give
you the same documents that we have.
This has never been requested before by
the FISA Court. So this is a new thing for
them. They have to review everything,
decide whether or not they can hand over
these documents. But she said that the
court would not reject to the fact that the
Department of Justice can hand them over.
Well, I confirm tonight that Nunes and
Goodlatte did request those documents
from the Department of Justice and the
Department of Justice never responded to
them.
 Trump 'Gestapo' And 'Cesspool Of Mendacity'?
PBS Allows Jerry Brown To Rage At Sessions
By Tim Graham
March 8, 2018 4:34 PM EST

“I’m just going to read something that

Attorney General Sessions said in
California today, in your state. He sald ‘I
can’t sit idly by when the lawful authority of
federal officers is being blocked by
legislative acts’ of politicians in your state.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is suing the state of

California for its state immigration laws. The PBS
NewsHour gave California’s top Democrats almost nine
minutes on Wednesday night to attack President Trump
and Attorney General Jeff Sessions as liars in a “cesspool
of mendacity,” suggesting Sessions was an "authoritarian"
using “Gestapo” tactics. Woodruff didn’t protest at any
moment in this set of attacks that Brown was too uncivil
for the taxpayer-subsidized network.
Becerra protested:

In an interview last September, NewsHour executive

producer Sara Just boasted
“We aim for more light than heat,” and
“We’re not trying to set up a false sense of
combativeness." To borrow from Orwell,
this was a Nine Minutes Hate.
“That’s not true. As the governor said, we
don’t block it. We allow the federal
government to do immigration
enforcement, because that’s their role.
That’s their province. We don’t get in the
way.” What? PBS could use a fact-checker
on this one. Power Line provides context.

Woodruff began with Gov. Jerry Brown: “The Trump Woodruff turned back to Brown and quoted Sessions
administration is saying basically that the state of again.
California is protecting lawbreakers. Is that what you’re
doing?” Brown said “No. That’s absolutely untrue,” and
“‘The good people of this country are right
that Sessions is “going after men, women, and children,
to insist that we end — that we create a
some who have worked 10 or 20 years picking our food,
rational immigration flow and protect the
washing our dishes, building houses. And, yes, we need an
country from criminal aliens.’ He is focused
immigration reform for the whole nation.
on people who he says are breaking the
law who he says your state, again, is
We don’t need a Gestapo-kind of tactic protecting.”
with vitriol spewing out of Jeff
Sessions’ mouth.” Brown jumped back into hyperbole:

Woodruff didn’t even blink at the Gestapo reference.

BROWN: That is a lie. I’m choosing my
words very carefully. The law explicitly
She turned to the state’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra. recognizes the supremacy of federal law.

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 We have explicit statutes of cooperation.
We don’t want to protect any criminals. But
we do want to make sure we are a country
of law and order, and not some kind of
authoritarian coming out here for a 10-
minute speech, and then running back to
Washington, and then sending it out
through the Trump campaign political wire.
He demanded that Trump and Sessions
“act like Americans, act like the good
Christians they claim to be, and work
with us to get a good immigration law, and
not to try to just hyperbolically scare the
hell out of people.”
Later, he added:
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"Look, the Trump people have a record —
I think it’s — what is it — 1,114 lies and
misrepresentations coming out of the White
House. Sessions is in a cesspool of
deception and mendacity."
Woodruff failed to ask Brown and Sessions about
Californians dying at the hands of illegal immigrants, like
Jamiel Shaw or Kate Steinle. But a quick Nexis search
shows the PBS NewsHour never cared to cover those
crimes when they occurred. The names came up in PBS
coverage when Republicans cited them at the 2016
Republican convention. PBS finally aired a single segment
on the trial of Steinle's killer on December 1, 2017.