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 More Than Two-Thirds Of Americans Credit President
Trump With Record Economy – Employment
Optimism At 17 Year High
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 2:16 Pm

And… 67% of Americans believe now is a good time to

find a quality job. This is the highest percentage in 17
years of Gallup polling.

Optimism about availability of good jobs

is up 25 percentage points since Trump
was elected president.

Via Robert Barnes and Charles Payne:

More than two-thirds of Americans

credit President Donald Trump with the
record economy.

A new CBS poll shows 68% of Americans rightly credit

Trump with the record economy.

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 FEC Records Show DNC Issued Checks TO
Crowdstrike Day After Murder OF
Seth Rich, Shawn Lucas
BY Alicia Powe
May 21, 2018, 2:25 PM
The series of emails revealed that high-ranking DNC
officials and the Clinton team sabotaged Sanders’
candidacy, used racist, anti-gay and sexist slurs when
referring to constituents. The emails, indicating the party
was manipulating the primary race in favor of Clinton, led
to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation as DNC
chair.
Seth Rich had just accepted a job with Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign before he was killed near his
apartment in an affluent Washington, D.C. neighborhood.
In the summer of 2016, in the heat of a
highly contentious presidential
campaign, Rich was fatally shot twice in
the back, and his wallet, credit cards,
watch and phone were left in his
possession. Still, the Metropolitan Police
Department has described his murder as a
“botched robbery.”
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Federal Election Commission records show that
CrowdStrike, an FBI contractor and private cyber security
firm, received a $98,849.84 check from the Democratic
National Committee the day after slain DNC staffer Seth
Rich was murdered.
Rich, 27, worked as the voter expansion data director at
the DNC for two years. Rich had been working for the
DNC at a time when emails from the organization were
provided to WikiLeaks for publication.
Private investigators, however, have previously claimed
Rich was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain thousands
of DNC emails released on the eve of the party’s
presidential nominating convention last July.
Less than a month after Rich was murdered, attorney
Shawn Lucas, 38, was found dead in his bathroom on Aug.
2nd, 2016.
The next day, CrowdStrike received a
check for $113,645.77 from the DNC.
Lucas delivered a lawsuit to DNC headquarters for a local
court in early July 2016. The suit alleged the Democratic
Party committed fraud by rigging their primary election in
favor of Hillary Clinton.
The source of the checks is the Federal Election
Commission (FEC).
According to Heavy, the Office of Chief Medical
Examiner of Washington, D.C., said in November 2016
that Lucas’ Aug. 2 death was accidental and was caused by
the “combined adverse effects of fentanyl [a synthetic
opioid pain medication], cyclobenzaprine [a muscle
relaxant], and mitragynine [better known as kraton].”
CrowdStrike’s computer software customers include
Congress, the White House, the State Department,
Democratic National Committee, SONY, and Google.
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CrowdStrike was the only one to access the DNC’s
computer systems. DNC officials refused to avail to the
FBI.
Google, which gave millions of dollars to the Clinton
campaign and was under fire during the election for
manipulating and suppressing negative search results for
Clinton, is one of CrowdStrike’s primary investors.
Rich and Lucas are among 33 people associated with the
Clintons who have died mysterious and often violent
deaths.
 Jon Meacham Predicts A Democrat House
Will Impeach Trump As 'Season Finale'
By P.J. Gladnick
May 21, 2018 2:36 PM EDT
Psst! Hey Jon Meacham! Haven't you gotten the liberal
message that you are not supposed to mention
impeachment (for now) in case the Democrats win back
the House this November?
Perhaps historian and failed Newsweek editor Meacham is
so eager for that impeachment that he just couldn't hold
back on Monday's Morning Joe. They were discussing the
horror of President Donald Trump wanting the DOJ to
investigate intelligence agencies spying on his 2016
presidential campaign which led to Meacham eagerly
invoking the I-word that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
prefer to not be mentioned (for now).
If you earn a dollar for every time host Joe Scarborough
and Meacham say "Nixon" or "Nixonian" in the following
video culminating in Meacham's impeachment fantasy,
you will end up with a nice bit of spending money. Here's
the exchange:
SCARBOROUGH: I do wonder if there is
any other description for what happened
this past weekend than suggesting that it's
Nixonian. Suggesting that it appears at
least to be, we appear to be on the eve of
where Nixon was before he launched a
Saturday Night Massacre.
MEACHAM: I think we are. I think that's
right. I don't think that's hyperbolic when
you have a president who's basically
engaging the Justice Department at this
level of political detail and calling on
investigating his predecessors. You know
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one Nixonian element here that hasn't
gotten a whole lot of attention actually at
least explicitly is both Nixon and Trump
have an ongoing obsession with their
former opponents in a way that [inaudible]
what they do in deleterious ways to say the
least. Remember Nixon was always
thinking about... One of the reasons he
justified the taping is FDR had done it, LBJ
had done it, he was always obsessed with
what President Kennedy had gotten away
with in his view and remember of course
that's clearly true with with President Trump
with an obsession with both Obama and
with Secretary Clinton.
Did Nixon tape his opponents via a FISA warrant based on
opposition research paid for by a political party? Here's
more from Meacham:
My own sense is, and this may sound kind
of League of Women Voters-y, but the
most important political story in the
country right now in many ways are
those 435 House races. Because I've
been skeptical of this but I would now bet
a good bit of money this is gonna end
up in the House with some kind of
impeachment proceeding and the
makeup of that body and then ultimately
the reaction of the United States Senate
which is supposed to be the great
deliberative check and the great final
hammer on these things is... I think we're
gonna end up. That's gonna be the
season finale of this.
Will Jon Meacham bet the same amount of money on
impeachment that Newsweek lost when he was editor-in-
chief there when he introduced a novel "counterintuitive"
economic concept by thinking he could increase its
revenue by purposely slashing it's circulation in half? How
did that work out, Jon? Well, I think we know because
after he left Newsweek, it sold for only a buck. Not a dollar
per issue. The entire Newsweek company sold for a buck.
 Eric Holder Lashes Out At Trump For
Calling On DOJ To Investigate FBI Campaign Spies
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 2:51 Pm
Former Attorney General Eric ‘Fast and
Furious’ Holder lashed out at Trump on
Monday after the President called on the
DOJ to investigate the FBI’s infiltration
of his 2016 campaign.
The Deep State corruptors and criminals have come
unhinged since Trump called on the Justice Department to
investigate Obama’s illegal spy campaign.
Trump tweeted Sunday: I hereby demand, and will do so
officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look
into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled
the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any
such demands or requests were made by people within the
Obama Administration!
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The most corrupt Attorney General in US history, Eric
Holder came out swinging and called Trump’s move
“dangerous” and a threat to our democracy.
We have never seen members of the prior administration
protest the current administration like this; it is
unprecedented.
Holder tweeted: Trump demand for DOJ investigation is
dangerous/democracy threatening. DOJ response is
disappointing.There is no basis/no predicate for an
http://inquiry. It ’s time to stand for time honored DOJ
independence.That separation from White House is a
critical part of our system.
Perhaps Eric Holder should take his
own advice because in 2011, on
Obama’s orders the DOJ stopped
defending the Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA):
 On Sunday evening, hours after Trump’s tweet, the Justice
Department asked Inspector General Horowitz to
investigate whether there was “impropriety or political
motivation” into the FBI’s infiltration of Trump’s
campaign.

Rep. Mark Meadows and other members of the Freedom

Caucus turned up the heat on the Deep State and
demanded Rosenstein hand over pertinent, unredacted
documents because the DOJ cannot be trusted to
investigate themselves.

Trump supporters blasted Eric Holder…

CBS reported in 2011,

President Obama has instructed the

Justice Department to no longer defend
the constitutionality of the Defense of
Marriage Act, or DOMA, the legal
prohibition on federal recognition of same-
sex marriages.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that the

department will stop defending the policy because it has
now been challenged in the Second Circuit,

“which has no established or binding

standard for how laws concerning sexual
orientation should be treated.”
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 Chris Wray And Rod Rosenstein Look Somber As They
Arrive At White House For Trump Meeting On Deep
State Spies In Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 3:15 Pm

President Donald Trump held a meeting

at the White House today with Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and
FBI Director Chris Wray.
DNI Director Dan Coats was also
expected to attend the meeting.

Chris Wray and Rod Rosenstein looked

somber as they entered the White
House today.

The meeting at the White House comes the day after

Trump shook the Capital with his demand that alleged
spying on his presidential campaign by the Obama
administration be investigated.

FOX Business says they will discuss

Obama Deep State spying on the Trump
campaign during the 2016 election.

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 Keith Ellison: Republicans Doing
Bible Studies In Jails Are Making It Harder
For Dems To Win
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
4:31 PM 05/21/2018

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison said at a Democratic event

“You know, back when I was in Minnesota
Monday that Republicans doing “Bible studies” in prisons
State Legislature, I got the impression that
is hurting Democrats’ chances at winning voters.
maybe Democrats could possibly have an
advantage with folks in this area who might
WATCH: vote for us,” Ellison said. “Not true. We will
have to fight for their vote like we do with
every other vote because I learned that a
lot of Republicans will go to jails and do
Bible studies and other things.”
“So my caveat to Dems is that if we win
here, we have to court this electorate the
same way we would any other electorate.
There’s no just, ‘Oh, yeah, they’re going to
vote for us.’ Not necessarily. And there’s a
lot of folks in rural Georgia, a lot of white
people, a lot of people of all different
backgrounds who are disenfranchised
because of this,” he added.
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 JUST IN: DOJ Agrees To Allow Congress To Review
Requested Classified Docs After Trump Meets With
Rosenstein, Wray
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 4:20 Pm

DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional

President Donald Trump held a meeting at Leaders to review highly classified and other
the White House today with Deputy Attorney information they have requested,” White House
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director says.
Chris Wray.

DNI Director Dan Coats was also expected

to attend the meeting.

After meeting with Rosenstein and Wray, the White House

asked the Inspector General to investigate any
irregularities with the FBI’s or DOJ’s tactics concerning
Trump’s campaign.

The DOJ also agreed to allow Congress to review the

requested documents relating to the FBI’s infiltration into
Trump’s campaign.

President Trump has had enough of the stonewalling and

took matters into his own hands Monday.

AG Session is AWOL so it’s Trump and a handful of GOP

lawmakers versus the Deep State.

The Department of Justice finally acquiesced and agreed to

hand over pertinent documents Congress has been
requesting for months.
DOJ Spox said there will be no readout on their end about
ABC reported: Monday’s meeting with Trump, Rosenstein and Wray.

ABC also reported Congressional leaders will be able to

review the highly classified documents.

“White House Chief of Staff Kelly will

immediately set up a meeting with the FBI,

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 DOJ Agrees To Allow
Congress To Review Requested Documents
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
4:47 PM 05/21/2018
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks at Freedom Forum
Institute, May 1, 2018. (YouTube screen capture/Freedom Forum
Institute)
The Department of Justice will allow Congress to review
highly classified requested documents relating to the FBI’s
investigation into the Trump 2016 campaign in
conjunction with the White House and other agencies,
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said
Monday.
“Based on the meeting with the President,
the Department of Justice has asked the
Inspector General to expand its current
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investigation to include any irregularities
with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
or the Department of Justice’s tactics
concerning the Trump Campaign,” Sanders
said.
“It was also agreed that White House Chief
of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a
meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI
together with Congressional Leaders to
review highly classified and other
information they have requested,” she
continued.
President Donald Trump met with Director of National
Intelligence Dan Coates, FBI Director Wray, and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Monday afternoon to
discuss congressional requests. Conservative lawmakers
have pressed the DOJ for weeks to turn over highly
classified documents relating to the FBI’s 2016
investigation, particularly to discern abuse of power or the
use of a confidential informant to infiltrate the campaign.
 ‘SCUSE US? Donna Brazile Must Have ‘A HUGE Set Of
Balls’ If She Thinks She Can Get Away With THIS
By Sarah D.
Posted At 4:58 Pm On May 21, 2018

Donna Brazile has never struck us as terribly self-aware,

but this is sad, even for her:

Donna. Donna.

No kidding!

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FBI ‘Informant’ Stefan Halper Pitched Himself For Senior
Position In Trump White House
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 5:21 Pm
It has been widely reported that the Obama
administration had a spy working inside the
Trump campaign.
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work
with the US government that included
spying on the Trump campaign.
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.
A new report on Monday revealed Halper
pitched himself for a senior Trump admin
position.
Stefan Halper
According to a new scoop from Jonathan Swan at far left
Axios, Stefan Halper was pushed for a senior position in
the Trump administration by Trump’s top trade advisor,
Peter Navarro.
In December of 2016, President-elect Trump tapped Peter
Navarro, an economic adviser to his campaign, to lead a
newly formed White House National Trade Council.
Peter Navarro is a staunch Trump supporter so certainly
there has to be more to this story.
Did someone from the swamp tell Navarro to
recommend Stefan Halper be appointed to a
senior position in Trump’s administration?
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Via Axios:
President Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter
Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan
Halper, an academic and suspected FBI
informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior
role in the Trump administration, Axios has
learned.
Behind the scenes: During the presidential transition
Navarro recommended Halper, among other people, for
ambassador roles in Asia. A White House official said
Halper visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
last August for a meeting about China.
Context: During the transition everyone involved in
Trump’s presidential campaign were asked to submit
resumes for administration positions.
Halper, who already knew Navarro in the
context of being a China scholar and
interviewing for his anti-China book and
film, pitched himself for an ambassadorship
in Asia, according to a source briefed on
their interactions.
Navarro says he submitted Halper’s name for the Asian
ambassadorship — we have not been able to confirm the
country — along with around a dozen other people for
roles in the region.
Also, as previously reported, it looks like
Halper was still working for the Deep State
well into 2017 after President Trump was in
office.
Carter Page, who was spied on by the
Obama DOJ and FBI, published an email he
received from Stefan Halper in July 2017.
Halper was still reaching out to Carter Page
well into 2017.
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 Chris Bedford Rips Apart DOJ,
FBI For Spying On Trump Campaign [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
6:14 PM 05/21/2018

someone [who] went out there fishing,”

Bedford said.

WATCH:

Chris Bedford:Mornings With Maria:Fox Business News:Screen

Shot | Chris Bedford Rips DOJ Spying On Trump

The Daily Caller News Foundation Editor-in-Chief Chris

Bedford blasted the FBI and DOJ in a Monday morning
interview for allowing a top-secret CIA and FBI source to
spy on two campaign advisers for President Donald
Trump.
Bedford’s comments come as news broke Friday the
informant is said to be Cambridge University Professor
Stefan Halper, who reportedly contacted Trump advisers
Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis during
the 2016 campaign, as an informant for the CIA and FBI.
On Fox Business News’ “Mornings With Maria,”
Bedford called out Halper for spying on the Trump
campaign, mentioning Halper was not just an informant;
he was someone “searching for questions” and even
invited Page to his Virginia farm.
“What’s interesting about that is he seems
to have done more than simply inform; he
wasn’t somebody [who] was quietly present
and then said, ‘you know, I saw some
suspicious activity.’ He reached out to
Carter Page; he reached out to George
Papadopoulos; he asked searching
questions; he invited them back to his farm.
He wasn’t just a fly on the wall; he was
.
“That sounds like a spy, Christopher. You
mention this goes all the way up the latter
potentially up to President Obama calling
the shots. We know for a fact that Sally
Yates and Loretta Lynch were briefed. A
couple of months later, we learned of a
dossier; then we learned that Loretta Lynch
told Jim Comey to refer to the investigation
as a matter, not as a criminal investigation;
it was all coordinated,” Maria Bartiromo
responded.
Trump has since commented on the news, saying Halper
was “implanted” on the campaign “for political
purposes.” It still remains unclear when Halper started
surveillance on the Trump campaign, if he was paid for his
work, and who directed him to build information on the
Trump team.
“It stinks all the way up to the very top,”
Bedford added.

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 Byron York: When Did Trump-Russia Probe Begin?
Investigators Focus On Mystery Months
By Byron York
May 21, 2018 06:30 PM
Revelations that an FBI informant insinuated himself into
the Trump campaign have led some congressional
investigators to rethink their theories on how and why
former President Barack Obama's Justice Department
began investigating the 2016 Trump presidential effort.
Most reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation
of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI
counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign.
The document, known as the electronic communication, or
EC, is said to have focused on the case of George
Papadopoulos, the peripheral Trump adviser who has
pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller
about his contacts with people connected to Russia.
Most of the key events of the Trump-Russia investigation
— the Carter Page wiretap, the wiretap of Michael Flynn's
conversations, the presentation of Trump dossier
allegations to the president-elect — took place after the
formal start of the FBI counterintelligence investigation.
But now comes word of the FBI informant, described in
various accounts as a retired American professor living in
England. The Washington Post reported that, "The
professor's interactions with Trump advisers began a few
weeks before the opening of the investigation, when Page
met the professor at the British symposium."
A few weeks before the opening of the investigation —
those are the words that have raised eyebrows among Hill
investigators. If it was before the investigation, then what
was an FBI informant doing gathering undercover
information when there was not yet an investigation?
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The question has pointed investigators back to the issue of
when the probe began — not when a piece of paper was
formally signed but when the FBI, and perhaps other U.S.
intelligence agencies, began investigating the Trump
campaign.
And that has taken them back to March 21, 2016, when
candidate Donald Trump met with the editorial board of
the Washington Post.
At the time of that meeting, Trump had been under
criticism for not having the sort of lists of distinguished
advisers that most top-level campaigns routinely assemble.
That was particularly true in the area of foreign policy. A
frustrated Trump ordered his team to compile a list of
foreign-affairs advisers.
Trump was preparing to announce his advisory board
when he met with the Post. The paper's publisher asked
Trump if he would reveal the names of his new team.
"Well, I hadn't thought of doing it, but if you want I can
give you some of the names," Trump said. He then read a
brief list, among them Page and Papadopoulos.
Trump's announcement did not go unnoticed at the FBI
and Justice Department. The bureau knew Page from a
previous episode in which Russian agents had tried,
unsuccessfully, to recruit him. It's not clear what the FBI
knew about the others. But then-Director James Comey
and number-two Andrew McCabe personally briefed
Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the list of newly-
named Trump foreign policy advisers, including Page,
according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Lynch told the House Intelligence Committee that she,
Comey, and McCabe discussed whether to provide a
"defensive briefing" to the Trump campaign. That would
entail having an FBI official meet with a senior campaign
official "to alert them to the fact that … there may be
efforts to compromise someone with their campaign,"
Lynch said.
It didn't happen, even though it was discussed again when
Comey briefed the National Security Council principals
committee about Page in the "late spring" of 2016,
according to Lynch's testimony. (The principals committee
includes some of the highest-ranking officials in the
government, including the secretaries of State, Treasury,
Defense, and Homeland Security, the attorney general, the
head of the CIA, the White House chief of staff, U.N.
ambassador, and more.)
So the nation's top political appointees, law enforcement,
and intelligence agencies were watching Trump campaign
figures in the spring and early summer of 2016.
In early July, Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, the
former British spy, approached the FBI with the first
installment of the dossier. (It was the part that alleged
Trump took part in a kinky sex scene with prostitutes in a
Moscow hotel in 2013.) Also in early July — just a few
days later — Page made a much-watched trip to deliver a
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speech in Moscow. Also in July, FBI officials say they
learned about Papadopoulos' meeting a few months earlier
with a Russian-connected professor. And still in July,
hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee
were released.
Somewhere around the time all that was happening,
according to the latest reporting, the FBI informant began
his work.
And that was all before what is called the formal beginning
of the Trump-Russia investigation. It is in those mystery
months — late March, April, May, June, and early July of
2016 — with the presidential campaign going at full force,
that the Obama administration's surveillance of the
Republican candidate geared up.
 Grassley Turns Up The Heat – Sends Letter To DOJ
Demanding Communications Between Bruce Ohr And
Dossier Author Christopher Steele
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 6:44 Pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) sent a letter to the Department of
Justice Monday afternoon demanding
communications between former Associate
Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and
dossier author, former British spy,
Christopher Steele.
In addition to asking for communications
from Bruce Ohr, Grassley requested the
DOJ arrange for the former Associate
Deputy AG to be interviewed by Committee
staff.
Bruce Ohr
Grassley asked for the following communications:
The documents previously reviewed by the
Committee raised a number of important
questions. One set of those questions concern
the role played by Associate Deputy Attorney
General Bruce Ohr in communicating with
dossier author Christopher Steele and
continuing to funnel information from Steele to
the FBI after the FBI had terminated Steele as a
source for his failure to abide by FBI
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instructions to avoid contact with the press
about his work.
Accordingly,
please provide all records related to Mr. Ohr’s
communications about these matters, including:
(1) emails from Mr. Ohr’s personal and work accounts,
(2) phone logs,
(3) handwritten notes, and
(4) text messages from personal and work accounts.
Additionally, within one week after the
complete production of all relevant
documents, please have your staff contact
the Committee to schedule Mr. Ohr for a
transcribed interview with Committee staff.
Bruce Ohr was demoted in December of
2017 following an investigation into his
suspicious contact with opposition research
firm Fusion GPS.
Bruce Ohr’s wife was also involved in the Fusion GPS-
dossier scandal.
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.
Also, Nellie Ohr is listed as working for the CIA’s Open
Source Works department in a 2010 DOJ report.
On Friday, Grassley sent a scathing letter to the
Department of Justice demanding Rosenstein’s unredacted
memo detailing Mueller’s scope and other pertinent
classified documents.
Screenshot of Grassley’s letter:
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 Senator Wants Bruce Ohr Records, Interview
Chuck Ross - Reporter
7:05 PM 05/21/2018
Bruce Ohr (Youtube screen capture) | Grassley Asks For Bruce Ohr
Records
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking
the Justice Department for a trove of records regarding a
former top agency official’s contacts with Christopher
Steele, the former British spy who wrote the salacious and
unverified dossier alleging collusion between President
Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s government.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is also asking Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein to make the official, former
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, available
for a transcribed interview following the production of the
documents.
Grassley, a Republican, wants Ohr’s personal and work
emails, phone logs, handwritten notes and text messages
related to his interactions with Steele.
Ohr met with Steele numerous times before and after the
2016 election regarding the ex-MI6 officer’s investigation
of Trump. He also met after the election with Glenn
Simpson, the founder of the opposition research firm that
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commissioned the dossier on behalf of the Clinton
campaign and DNC.
Simpson had another connection to Ohr. Nellie Ohr, the
wife of the DOJ official, worked for Simpson’s firm,
Fusion GPS, on the team investigating Trump’s campaign.
Grassley is questioning Ohr’s contacts with Steele because
the FBI has claimed it cut ties with Steele in October 2016
because of unauthorized disclosures he made to the media
in September 2016.
Steele and Simpson briefed several reporters that month
about some of the allegations in the dossier. Yahoo! News’
Michael Isikoff published one article on Sept. 23, 2016
laying out some of the unfounded claims in Steele’s report.
Steele’s FBI contacts were upset by his media contacts and
decided to part ways.
“One set of those questions concern the
role played by Associate Deputy Attorney
General Bruce Ohr in communicating with
dossier author Christopher Steele and
continuing to funnel information from Steele
to the FBI after the FBI had terminated
Steele as a source for his failure to abide
by FBI instructions to avoid contact with the
press about his work,” Grassley wrote to
Rosenstein.
The FBI and Justice Department relied heavily on the
dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
warrants to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign
adviser. The agencies used the document, even though the
allegations about Page were unverified. They also did not
disclose Clinton’s campaign and DNC paid for the dossier.
 Chuck Schumer Blasts Trump For
‘Autocratic Behavior We’d Expect In
A Banana Republic’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
7:11 PM 05/21/2018

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer accused President Trump

of “autocratic behavior we’d expect in a Banana Republic”
on Monday.

The Washington Examiner reports that Schumer said at the

Senate,

“President Trump seems to have the

terribly misguided view that the Department
of Justice is there to protect his political
interests and prosecute his enemies. Well, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at the
it’s not.” Milken Institute 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California,
U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake – RC1C6918C690
“The president’s demand is a blatant abuse
of executive power, an ill-informed, sloppy
attempt to discredit the duly-constituted President Trump tweeted Sunday that he would order the
investigation led by the special counsel,” he Department of Justice to investigate possible spying on his
added. “The president’s behavior is the campaign.
kind of grossly autocratic behavior we’d
expect in a banana republic, not a mature
democracy.

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 Watchdog Report Blames Comey
And FBI For Slow-Walking Clinton Probe
Before Election
Chris White - Energy Reporter
7:48 PM 05/21/2018

Department. Democrats believe Clinton’s chances would

have improved had the FBI acted quicker.

The IG report is expected to hit Comey and others in the

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate
Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in
the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington,
U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst | DOJ Dings Comey
Over Clinton Emails
Federal officials are expected to criticize former FBI
Director James Comey for delaying a review of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails two weeks prior
to the election, The Associated Press reported Monday.
agency for not moving fast enough to examine the trove of
emails on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop, sources
familiar with the matter told The AP on the condition of
anonymity because they are not authorized to speak
publicly about the report.
The FBI discovered Clinton’s emails while conducting an
investigation into Weiner’s contact with an under-aged girl
in September 2016. The 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 none of the emails on the
laptop would warrant criminal charges.

Comey wrote in his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” that he

Clinton supporters blamed Comey’s announcement of a
learned in early October, not September, Weiner’s laptop
review of emails discovered before the election for her
might hold a connection to the Clinton email investigation.
loss. The FBI’s review in November and subsequent
It wasn’t until Oct. 27 when FBI officials asked his
decision not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton
permission to seek a warrant for the Clinton emails,
were disclosed two days before voters were set to make
Comey said.
their decision.

He regained some of his standing among Democrats

Agency officials knew in September 2016 of the emails,
shortly after President Donald Trump fired the former FBI
but the bureau did not obtain a warrant until a month later,
director.
according to an inspector general report from the Justice
.

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 Rep. Meadows SLAMS Rosenstein’s Referral To Inspector
General ‘He Knows Exactly What The FBI Did,
This Is A Ruse’
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 8:44 Pm

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows
(R-NC) ripped Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein on
Monday for requesting the Inspector
General investigate irregularities with the
FBI’s and DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s
campaign.
It’s a “ruse”, says Chairman Meadows.
Rosenstein has known all along what is in
these documents so his belated referral to
the Inspector General is not news.
Rosenstein knows what’s in these documents, says
Meadows.
Meadows tweeted: Rod Rosenstein knows exactly what
happened and what is in the documents requested by
Congress. Either the matter warranted investigation long
ago and he did nothing, or he’s seen the facts and believes
nothing is wrong.
His belated referral to the IG is not news… it is a ruse

Earlier Monday, President Trump held a

meeting at the White House with Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Chris Wray.

DNI Director Dan Coats also attended the

meeting.

After the meeting, Rosenstein bent the knee and asked the
Inspector General to investigate any irregularities with the
FBI’s or DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s campaign.

The DOJ also agreed to allow Congress to review the

requested documents relating to the FBI’s infiltration into
Trump’s campaign.

Chairman Meadows was not impressed.

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 Of course Rosenstein knows what is in
these documents. He signed off on the
fourth FISA application renewal to spy on
Carter Page and penned the memo detailing
Mueller’s scope.
Concealed FISA docs may hold the key to Trump’s
surveillance, says investigative reporter, Sara Carter:
 The most crucial aspect of the meeting will be the
House Intelligence Committee’s request for classified
documents connected to the FISA application to spy on
Carter Page and whether the President will demand the
DOJ turn them over
 Rosenstein signed off on the fourth FISA warrant, he
should know what evidence they used to continue the
surveillance on Page
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It’s also important to note the Inspector General has no
subpoena power.
Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova: Here’s the problem
with Mr. Horowitz. He cannot interview any of the people
who have left the Department of Justice or FBI. He has no
subpoena authority. So all of the people who were part of
the plot and were in DOJ and FBI are gone. He can’t talk
to them.
Any criminal findings from the Inspector General are sent
to the Obama-appointed special prosecutor John Huber.
AG Sessions is AWOL; we need a real Attorney General
who is ready and willing to go to battle.
 Witness Said Awan Wiretapped Her,
Then Bank Account She Controlled Was Drained
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
8:56 Pm 05/21/2018
 Former Democratic IT aides Imran, Abid and Jamal
Awan are suspected of committing a cyber-breach
and theft on Congress
 While the investigation continues, a potential
witness in the case said Abid stole nearly $6,000
from a bank account she controls
 Her email account is being accessed by third
parties, and Abid’s attorney knew she emailed the
FBI on specific dates
After former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan allegedly
threatened his stepmother not to talk to police, her email
account was accessed in suspicious ways and a lawyer for
one of Awan’s brothers found out she emailed the FBI on
specific dates and lashed out at her:
“You’re a liar, aren’t you?”
Days after that, a bank account the stepmother controlled
was almost completely drained through a payment to
Imran’s brother, Abid Awan, bank records show — but she
said she is too afraid to press criminal charges because she
claims he has threatened her. The stepmother, Samina
Gilani, also previously said Imran stole two laptops from
her.
Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan — along with Imran’s wife,
Hina Alvi, and a friend — worked as IT administrators for
1 out of every 5 House Democrats and could read all their
emails and files until police banned them from the network
in February 2017 for
“numerous violations of House security
policies.”
Months later, none of the family is in jail, and the
stepmother and other witnesses have said Imran and Abid
have used their freedom to try to steer the outcome of the
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case since, including by threatening them not to cooperate
with authorities, TheDCNF previously reported.
In April 2016, the House’s Chief Administrative Officer
(CAO) detected allegedly falsified purchase orders, and
the Inspector General quickly expanded the scope to
investigate cyber violations, finding that members of the
Awan family improperly accessed congressmen’s servers
and the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of
times.
Though House officials suspected that equipment was
being stolen, the Capitol Police did not search their homes,
The Daily Caller News Foundation learned, and did not
ban them from the network until nearly a year later. In the
meantime, evidence appears to have been compromised: In
December 2016, the CAO notified congressmen that the
caucus server had physically disappeared.
Though Abid played a prominent role in the late-2016 IG
report, he has not been arrested, with congressmen saying
a criminal investigation is ongoing.
In January 2017, in the days around his father’s death,
Abid removed Gilani as the beneficiary of his father’s life
insurance and replaced her with himself, which led to a
lawsuit, TheDCNF previously reported.
Abid’s attorney, Jim Bacon, used the life insurance lawsuit
to force Gilani to sit for a sworn deposition Oct. 4, 2017 in
which he told her to reveal what she told the FBI about the
congressional criminal probe and tried to get her to find
out details from investigators.
In one exchange, Bacon knew that she had emailed with
the FBI.
BACON Q: [redacted] is your email
address, isn’t it? And you send emails from
that address including two emails to the
FBI, didn’t you?
GILANI A: Yes, a long time ago.
Q: No, not a long time ago. March 5th,
2017. March 6th, 2017. Ma’am, you lied to
me, didn’t you? You lied to me, didn’t you?
You’re a liar, aren’t you?
 A: I forgot about that. It was not in my mind.
BACON: Ah. I think we need to take a
break before I explode.
Bacon did not respond to questions from the TheDCNF
about how he knew Gilani had emailed the FBI on those
dates.
Gilani previously said in court documents that
“Imran Awan threatened that he is very
powerful and if I ever call the police again
[he] will do harm to me and my family
members back in Pakistan.”
Gilani testified in the deposition for that lawsuit that Imran
wiretapped her.
“He has connected my phone, my house
phone, with his own phone,” Gilani testified.
“Whenever I talked to someone in
Pakistan, he told me later on that ‘you told
this, you said this.'”
Those allegations underscored fellow House IT aides’
concerns that the Awans could have used House members’
emails for blackmail.
Gilani said in court documents that Imran acknowledged
surveilling her, that she saw him remove a device from
behind her printer and that Imran took two laptops from
her.
To test whether surveillance might also extend to her
email, TheDCNF sent emails to Gilani with a tracker that
reported where the messages were opened. The emails
were opened in London, Pakistan and Texas.
Gilani’s sister, who lives in Pakistan, said she manages
Gilani’s email since Gilani does not speak English.
Gilani’s sister also said there is no reason the emails
should have been opened in the other locations.
TheDCNF later emailed Gilani to ask for comment on this
story, but she did not respond. The email was opened in
London and Independence, Kansas, but never in Virginia
or Lahore, Pakistan.
Two weeks after the deposition, on Oct. 19, 2017, an
account Gilani controlled was drained of $5,952 — nearly
its entire balance — via a transfer to Abid Awan, bank
statements obtained by TheDCNF show. On Feb. 21, 2018,
Bank of America credited the amount back to the account
as a “claims processing transaction” — phrasing banks
typically use when returning fraudulent transfers.
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Gilani’s attorney, Michael Hadeed, said that was because
the bank recognized that Abid had taken the money
without authorization.
Gilani told TheDCNF that Abid used a computer to make
the transfer.
“He used the online method and the PIN,”
she said. “It is another fraud of Abid Awan.”
“Abid Awan is threatening me,” Gilani
continued, noting that she was too afraid to
press criminal charges. “They can hurt my
relatives in Pakistan.”
The account is registered to a nonprofit, the International
Sufi Educational Organization, and only Gilani and her
deceased husband were authorized to make withdrawals,
according to bank account documents. The transaction
occurred after Abid’s lawyer forced Gilani to disclose
personal details, including her Social Security number, in
the deposition.
Bacon did not respond to questions about the email usage
or the funds drained from the bank account.
Imran was arrested at Dulles airport in July 2017 and he
and Alvi — who both worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz — were indicted for bank fraud for money moves
that allegedly occurred six months earlier. Prosecutors said
they believe the dual Pakistani-American citizens had
learned of the House investigation shortly before they
made the money transfers and that given Imran’s
“attempt to depart to Pakistan while
knowing he was under investigation, the
government asserts that Awan is a flight
risk.”
Imran’s attorney said at the time that he thought the bank
fraud charges were a “placeholder.” But no additional
charges have been brought.
Even as Democrats have frequently talked about the
important of enforcing cybersecurity and dedicated
significant monies for that purpose, prosecutors said this
month that they are negotiating a possible “resolution”
with Awan and for months have said they are turning over
“voluminous discovery” to Imran’s attorney, despite his
not having been charged with anything related to the
House investigation.
Meanwhile, House IT aides have told TheDCNF they have
knowledge of misconduct but fear retaliation from
Democrats if they come forward to law enforcement, and
tenants of a rental property Alvi owns who were
mentioned in an FBI affidavit told TheDCNF Imran
ordered them not to cooperate with police.
Another witness who turned over hard drives to the FBI,
Andre Taggart, received a letter from Imran’s
attorney demanding money, and Alvi filed a lawsuit in
Pakistan saying her husband threatened her with violence,
TheDCNF previously reported.
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In April 2017, police found a laptop with the
username RepDWS that Imran left in a phone
booth. Wasserman Schultz subsequently threatened the
Capitol Police chief with “consequences” if he didn’t
relinquish the evidence. Imran is in possession of a copy of
the laptop’s hard drive.
 HUGE!! IG Has NO POWER TO SUBPOENA Former
Obama Employees — That’s Why Rosenstein Asked Him
To Investigate Spying On Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 8:56 Pm

Now we know why Rosenstein gave this investigation to

the Inspector General.

Rosenstein knew the IG investigation could take months to

complete.

And… Rosenstein knew the IG has no power to subpoena

former Obama employees involved in the scandal.

Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova:

On Sunday evening, Justice Department Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein asked Inspector General Horowitz
to investigate whether there was “impropriety or political
motivation” into the FBI’s infiltration of Trump’s
campaign.
This came just hours after President Trump demanded a
review of whether Obama’s Deep State FBI did indeed spy
on his campaign.
Here’s the problem with Mr. Horowitz. He
cannot interview any of the people who have
left the Department of Justice or FBI. He has no
subpoena authority. So all of the people who
were part of the plot and were in DOJ and FBI
are gone. He can’t talk to them.
Via Hannity:

Rod Rosenstein asked Inspector General

Horowitz to investigate the spying on the
Trump campaign.

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 The Pentagon Is About To Do Something Stupid
Derek Hunter - Contributor
9:12 PM 05/21/2018

everything by accessing one system. Well, they used to

have a decentralized system, but in a boneheaded move
only the government could concoct, the Pentagon is
looking to create a single, giant database for our nation’s
secrets in the cloud.

Being the government, they don’t have the ability to create

A combination photo shows Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (L) in New
York and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in
Washington, DC, U.S. on December 14, 2016 and on December 20,
2017 respectively. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (L) Jonathan Ernst
(R) | Oracle Lobbies Trump Against Amazon
their own cloud; they’re farming it out. Just imagine: the
most important bits of intelligence our nation gathers —
names, dates, spy satellite photos, bank accounts,
everything required for our intelligence agencies to keep
us one step ahead of our enemies, to keep us safe — all
entrusted to one company.

By now, there’s a fairly good chance your personal And which company? Amazon. It’s not yet official, but the
information has been exposed, to one degree or another, to Pentagon has a “winner-takes-all” bidding process they’re
hackers. Personally, I’ve received notifications from advancing that even the other competitors for the contract
several companies and my college about hacking attempts admit Amazon will win.
they’ve suffered that made my personal information
vulnerable to identity thieves, and you or someone know
This decision is, quite simply, crazy. Why would the
likely has, too. It’s the reality of living in the 21st century
government award a contract, this contract, to a company
— hackers are constantly attempting to access our
the president routinely puts in his crosshairs? As it turns
information, which requires us to take extra precautions to
out, you can thank President Barack Obama for that.
protect our important information. If only government
were so concerned.
“To reward tech companies that supported
his campaign, Obama populated the
In 2013, 40 million customers of Target stores had their
government’s digital services with their
credit and debit card information stolen. The Equifax hack
flunkies,” the Weekly Standard reported,
exposed nearly half the country, almost 150 million
including the fact that the Defense
people’s personal information to hackers. Even the federal
Innovation Board is “chaired by Bezos’s
government suffered a breach when, in 2015, it was
partner and fellow Clinton supporter Eric
announced that the records of 21.5 million government
Schmidt.”
employees and others who had gone through background
checks for security clearances for the Office of Personnel
Management had been stolen, likely by Chinese hackers. The swamp didn’t become so swampy by itself. As the
Standard put it, this situation
If it’s digital, it vulnerable.
“created an environment where political
enemies of President Donald Trump can
That truth presents the federal government with a special
continue to give kickbacks to the groups
problem. The feds amass more data than just about anyone.
and individuals who opposed him,
And, more importantly, more sensitive data than anyone.
undermining his ability to lead our national
And that sensitive data is a prime target for hackers, both
security efforts.”
from hostile states and anyone willing to sell to them. The
potential rewards for bad actors are limitless, which makes
the danger limitless as well. So, we have a national security system on the verge of
consolidating all of its intelligence in one place, making it
a prime target for hacking. And the company set to get the
The federal government is left scrambling to stay one step
multi-billion-dollar, multi-year contract to house all of
ahead of the hoard seeking to breach those secrets. This
those secrets is owned by the richest man in the world,
race had led to some necessary innovations and strategic
who just happens to be one of President Trump’s targets
thinking, like a decentralized system so no one can access
for criticism. Add to that the fact that the government
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bureaucracy that set this in motion is populated with
people loyal to the previous administration and you begin
to see the scope of this mess.
With all that has come to light about the intelligence
community in the past month, the exposure of the Obama
administration’s spying on the Trump campaign, the idea
of trusting his appointees with protecting our nation’s
secrets seems, at a minimum, ill-advised. And putting them
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all under one umbrella while trusting Amazon with them
makes even less sense.
This is the swamp President Trump promised to drain.
The president, at a minimum, needs to stop the centralizing
of our national security data. Unless and until we can
protect our personal data and our credit card transactions,
we should not put the biggest prize in international
intelligence in one place. That would just be stupid.
 CNN’s Van Jones Praises Trump’s
Prison Reform Plans, Takes Jab At Obama
Scott Morefield - Reporter
9:33 PM 05/21/2018

are saying if we can’t get everything …

President Trump’s endorsement of a bi-partisan prison
reform plan has made an unlikely, albeit temporary, ally in
CNN’s Van Jones.
Jones, a frequent Trump critic, reportedly visited President
Trump and Jared Kushner at the White House on Friday to
discuss the proposed bill, which would, among other
things, improve prison conditions as well as the reentry
process for prisoners getting released.
During an interview on CNN Monday morning, Jones
called the experience of meeting and even getting teased
by the president “surreal” after disagreeing with him on 99
percent of issues. And yet, on this issue, they have
managed to find common ground.
“On this issue, he has been tough,” said
Jones, noting that the president showed
compassion for prisoners “that most liberal
Democrat would have agreed with.”
“If we can’t get together for liberty and
justice for all, something’s wrong with this
country,” Jones said on Friday, according
to CNN. “We’ll do something on this issue;
we’ll fight about everything else, but on this
issue, let’s get together.”
we’ll just take nothing,” Jones said. “Well,
the problem is, we’ve been saying that now
for eight years. We said everything or
nothing under Obama and we wound up
with nothing. And so I think continuing
to do the same thing [and] expecting a
different outcome is the definition of
insanity.”
“Prison reform is an issue that unites
people from across our political spectrum,”
Trump said Friday. “It’s an amazing thing.
Our whole nation benefits if former inmates
are able to re-enter our society as
productive, law-abiding citizens.”
“Send a bill to my desk,” the president said.
“I will sign it.”
A group consisting of 48 lawmakers from both parties
called the Problem Solvers Caucus has endorsed the First
Step Act, which the House Judiciary Committee approved
last week by a 25–5 margin, according to CNN.
“And wouldn’t it be amazing, if the one area
of bipartisan thought and cooperation in the
entire country was to help the least of
these…?” Jones said.
WATCH:

Jones was asked Monday whether it was a problem that

sentencing reform, another issue he’s passionate about,
wasn’t included in this bill.

“I think the civil rights community right now

is actually a little bit divided. Some people
.

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 ‘I Hate To Inject Common Sense Into This…’
— Tucker Embarrasses Dem Who Claims
To Have Evidence Of Collusion
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:37 PM 05/21/2018
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson got into it with Democratic
California Rep. Eric Swalwell Monday night over Russian
collusion.
WATCH:
Tucker played a clip from July 2016 where Trump joked
about Russia finding Hillary Clinton’s emails that she
deleted.
“Do we have the 30,000 emails, did Russia
ever come up with those? Oh, no they, they
didn’t actually,” The Daily Caller co-founder
said.
“Do you know that for a fact?” Swalwell
said.
“Well, we haven’t seen them,” Carlson said.
.
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“Well, let’s let the Mueller investigation
continue,” Swalwell said.
“Okay, maybe Mueller’s in contact with the
Russians, but Trump didn’t come up with
those from the Russians, so that didn’t
happen,” Carlson said.
“There is still an attempt there, right? You
can attempt to do something and fail, and it
can still be a crime,” Swalwell said.
“I hate to inject common sense into this…”
Tucker joked. “If you’re trying to make
secret contact with Russia, your handlers
back in Moscow, wouldn’t you dial them up
on the short wave in the basement? Would
you really sent a coded message in the
middle of a joke at a press conference?”
“I’m not saying he’s the smartest guy in the
world, Tucker. Never accused him of
that,” Swalwell said.
“So that’s — that’s the smoking gun right
there?” Carlson said.
“No, it’s part of the evidence. An invitation
made by the candidate, telling them it’s
okay. He’s not the smartest guy in the
world,” Swalwell replied
“Okay so, he’s both a secret agent for
Putin but he’s so dumb he spills his secrets
at a press conference on TV.”
 Alan Dershowitz Asks The Key Question:
What If This Had Happened To Hillary?
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:27 PM 05/21/2018

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and Harvard professor
emeritus Alan Dershowitz went head to head over the FBI
allegedly spying on the Trump campaign on “Anderson
Cooper 360” Monday.
WATCH:
“I have to tell you, if this had happened to
Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be jumping
up and down the way they did when I was
on the board of the ACLU, when
undercover agents were put into the anti-
war movement, into Civil Rights
movement,” Dershowitz said.
“All they were there was to listen–into
Muslim churches. Civil libertarians are
generally a little bit suspicious when
undercover agents go ‘just to ask
questions.’ And I think we as civil
libertarians ought to be suspicious of this.
Allay our suspicions, and then we’ll be
fine,” Dershowitz said.

Trump tweeted Sunday that he wanted to investigate

FBI/DOJ spying into his 2016 campaign.

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Carter Page Says Obama Spy Stefan Halper Didn’t Groom
Him But He Doesn’t Remember How They Met (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 10:40 Pm

He then added this.

Laura Ingraham:

Question, who started the conversation?

Did he approach you? Did he mention
Russia collusion first? How did it go down?

Carter Page:

You know we had, it was a multi-day

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page joined Laura
Ingraham on Monday to discuss his interactions with
Obama Deep State spy Stefan Halper. Halper is accused of
infiltrating and spying on the Trump Campaign during the
2016 election.
Carter Page told Laura Ingraham he was not sure when he
met Stefan Halper. But Page did tweet out this exchange
with Halper in July 2016.
conference and there were scholars and
people from government and both from the
United Kingdom…
Laura Ingraham:
I know but stay focused with me. Did he
approach you first? Did you approach him?
How did you first start speaking?
Carter Page:

See, I don’t even recall. We spent a couple

days together and…

Laura Ingraham:

Couple days together?

Carter Page:

Yeah, it was a long event. Over several

days and… I didn’t feel groomed.

On July 11-12, 2016 Carter Page was invited to the Carter Page then said he did not remember who mentioned
conference: the Russia issue first.

2016’s Race to Change the World: How the That’s interesting.

U.S. Presidential Campaign Can Reshape
Global Politics and Foreign Policy at Most people would remember who made the initial contact
Cambridge University. Stefan Halper was a with a speaker at a conference — especially if it was less
speaker at the conference. than two years ago.

Carter Page told Laura he was invited to participate in the Hmm.

conference – but he was not slated to speak at the event.
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 Either Carter Page was a very soft target
— or he was lying.

Via The Ingraham Angle:

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 BREAKING=> Former Trump Aide Michael Caputo
Drops Bombshell: ‘I Was Approached By SECOND
Informant’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 10:41 Pm

Former Trump campaign aide Michael

Caputo appeared on Fox News’ VIDEO:
Ingraham Angle Monday evening and
dropped a bombshell–he says he was
approached by a SECOND informant
during the 2016 election.
Caputo said he’s waiting for clearance
from his attorney before he offers more
details.

The stenographers at the New York Times are in spin mode

ahead of the damning IG report which is due to be released
to the public in a few weeks.

The New York Times claimed the spy embedded in

Trump’s camp wasn’t spying; he was there to protect
Trump from the Russians. Unbelievable.
Michael Caputo unleashed on Obama’s Deep State spy
campaign Monday night. In the very same New York Times FBI puff piece, it is
revealed the Deep State informant spy [Stefan Halper]
FIREWORKS! lured in George Papadopoulos with cash–$3,000 and a trip
to London.
“Let me tell you something that I know for a
fact, this informant, this person that
planted, that they tried to plant into the The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a total of $411,575
campaign and even into the administration, in 2016 and 2017 for work with the US government that
if you believe Axios–he’s not the only included spying on the Trump campaign.
person who came into the campaign!”
Caputo exclaimed. “And the FBI is not the A new report on Monday revealed Halper pitched himself
only Obama agency who came into the for a senior Trump admin position.
campaign,” Caputo continued.
“I know because they came at me. And I’m Certainly other spies infiltrated Trump’s campaign; Caputo
looking for clearance from my attorney to is right, this is only the beginning.
reveal this to the public. This is just the
beginning and I’ll tell ya, when we finally The Deep State lies and lies and lies… And then lies some
find out the truth about this–Director more.
Clapper and the rest of them are gonna be
wearing some orange suits,” Michael
Caputo said as he concluded his rant.
.
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 Special Report: John Brennan’s Plot
To Infiltrate The Trump Campaign
George Neumayr
May 22, 2018, 12:05 Am
It came out of his “inter-agency
taskforce” at Langley.
As Trump won primary after primary in 2016, a rattled
John Brennan started claiming to colleagues at the CIA
that Estonia’s intelligence agency had alerted him to an
intercepted phone call suggesting Putin was pouring
money into the Trump campaign. The tip was bogus, but
Brennan bit on it with opportunistic relish.
Out of Brennan’s alarmist chatter about the bogus tip came
an extraordinary leak to the BBC:
That Brennan had used it, along with later
half-baked tips from British intelligence, as
the justification to form a multi-agency spy
operation (given the Orwellian designation
of an “inter-agency taskforce”) on the
Trump campaign, which he was running
right out of CIA headquarters.
The CIA was furious about the leak, but never denied the
BBC’s story. To Congress earlier this year, Brennan
acknowledged the existence of the group, but cast his role
in it as the mere conduit of tips about Trump-Russia
collusion:
“It was well beyond my mandate as director
of CIA to follow on any of those leads that
involved U.S. persons. But I made sure that
anything that was involving U.S. persons,
including anything involving the individuals
involved in the Trump campaign, was
shared with the bureau.”
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But if his role had truly been passive, the “inter-agency
taskforce” wouldn’t have been meeting at CIA
headquarters. By keeping its discussions at Langley,
Brennan could keep his finger wedged in the pie. Both
before and after the FBI’s official probe began in late July
2016, Brennan was bringing together into the same room
at CIA headquarters a cast of Trump haters across the
Obama administration whose activities he could direct —
from Peter Strzok, the FBI liaison to Brennan, to the
doltish Jim Clapper, Brennan’s errand boy, to an
assortment of Brennan’s buddies at the Treasury
Department, Justice Department, and White House.
The bogus tip from Estonia led the group into its first
cock-up: sending FBI agents to sniff around the computer
server connected to Trump Tower. After that effort
flopped, Brennan’s group had to go back to the drawing
board (on the electronic intelligence front, it had already
hatched plans for national security letters and FISA
warrants). Someone in the group must have proposed
blasting a swampy old CIA source and Hillary supporter,
Stefan Halper, into the Trump campaign orbit to see if he
could catch a couple of minor campaign volunteers out in
collusion.
Halper had entered the Deep State through a door opened
by his father-in-law, Ray Cline, whose work for the CIA
was legendary. Behind that door Halper found a treasure
trove of jobs and government contracts, making his life as
a transatlantic jet-setting academic possible. Brennan’s
Langley group had access to Halper’s file and sized him up
as the perfect embed: a Republican-oriented foreign policy
scholar who could plausibly interact with Trump officials
while serving as a nexus between the CIA and Brennan’s
friends in British intelligence. Halper’s ties to Richard
Dearlove, a former head of British intelligence, are well
known, and Halper knows Alexander Downer, the pub-
crawling Aussie diplomat, through a mutual association
with Cambridge University.
That Halper came out of the brainstorming of Brennan’s
group is clear from the fact that his first known meeting
with Carter Page preceded the formal opening of the FBI’s
probe. The Washington Post hinted at the role of
Brennan’s group in hatching Halper:
 Many questions about the informant’s role
in the Russia investigation remain
unanswered. It is unclear how he first
became involved in the case, the extent of
the information he provided and the actions
he took to obtain intelligence for the FBI. It
is also unknown whether his July 2016
interaction with [Carter] Page was brokered
by the FBI or another intelligence agency
[italics added].
The FBI commonly uses sources and
informants to gather evidence and its
regulations allow for use of informants even
before a formal investigation has been
opened. In many law enforcement
investigations, the use of sources and
informants precedes more invasive
techniques such as electronic surveillance.
A veteran of the intelligence community tells TAS that
Brennan’s CIA was full of Hillary supporters, some of
whom decorated their desks with her campaign
paraphernalia. Brennan, whom the press noted would walk
the halls of the CIA in an LGBT rainbow lanyard,
encouraged this open political atmosphere. While Brennan
knew his spying operation on the Trump campaign was an
“exceptionally, exceptionally sensitive” matter (as reported
by journalists David Corn and Michael Isikoff), he
assumed its machinations would never come to light.
The members of Brennan’s working group at Langley
“were just a bunch of out-of-control idiots,” says a former
high-ranking CIA official to TAS. He finds it
flabbergasting that Brennan would bring CIA officials and
FBI officials into the same room to cook up schemes to
send a spy into the Trump campaign’s ranks. One of those
schemes involved money (Halper paid George
Papadopoulos $3,000 for a phony research paper as a way
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of luring him into a London meeting); another involved
sex (Halper’s assistant, with a name out of a bad spy novel,
Azra Turk, tried to coax information from Papadopoulos at
flirty bar outings, according to the Daily Caller’s Chuck
Ross).
Like Brennan, Halper didn’t bother to hide his support for
Hillary even as he conducted this infiltration. He told the
press that he feared a Trump presidency, as it could harm
the “special relationship” between the United States and
Great Britain. That rationale must have figured into
Alexander Downer’s motivation for working with
Brennan’s Langley group too. Downer traveled in the same
elitist circles as Christopher Steele, Halper, and John
Kerry. It appears he sent word of his boozy evening with
Papadopoulos back to Brennan’s group through these
circles — either through Hillary partisans at the State
Department or through Clinton Foundation channels, for
whom he had worked as a kind of bag man.
Halper had come up empty, so Brennan’s group at Langley
went with Downer’s tale, as feeble as it was. But it at least
had the advantage of coming from a “diplomat.” Yet if
Congressman Nunes is right and the originating document
for the FBI probe doesn’t even contain a reference to an
official intelligence product passed to Brennan from the
Australian government, Downer’s hearsay must have been
exceedingly flaky, so flaky no one would want to be on the
record treating it as “evidence” for something as
momentous as a probe into a presidential campaign.
According to press accounts, Downer’s bumptiousness
caused a diplomatic row of sorts between the two
countries. Who resolved it? John Kerry? Susan Rice? Or
was this another case of Obama leading from behind —
behind a CIA director briefing him daily on “Russian
interference” while running an anti-Trump spy ring out of
Langley.
 UNETHICAL LEADERSHIP: How James Comey’s
Disloyal Subversion Has Severely Damaged
Our Justice System
John D. O'Connor - The Attorney Who Revealed Mark Felt As Watergate's Deep Throat
12:06 AM 05/22/2018
We should all agree with James Comey’s assertions in A
Higher Loyalty that our system of justice needs to
maintain a reservoir of public trust in the independence of
the Department of Justice, especially its investigative
branch, the FBI. Unfortunately, Comey’s book
demonstrates that, both as deputy attorney general in the
Bush administration and as FBI director during the Obama
and Trump presidencies, he has played underhanded,
partisan games which have drained that reservoir dry.
In a January 22, 2017 dinner with President Trump, when
Trump asked Comey if he could count on him to be
“reliable,” Comey replied,
“I didn’t do sneaky things… and I don’t
leak.” In fact, those are two of Comey’s
favorite activities.
In the tumultuous, finger-pointing aftermath of the 2003
Iraq Invasion, no one did more to throw the country into
partisan turmoil than Deputy Attorney General Comey, by
his dishonestly causing the Special Counsel’s investigation
and conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President
Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff.
While Comey was perjury-trapping Libby in a crimeless
investigation, he cleverly threw monkey wrenches into
various anti-terrorist programs supported by Cheney, as to
whom, to gain appointment, he had previously disguised
his partisan disgust.
During the Obama administration, as director of the FBI,
Comey whitewashed the egregious harassment by the IRS,
via Lois Lerner, of conservative groups (p. 186, A Higher
Loyalty) seeking to support causes of which the White
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House disapproved. He soft-soaped Clinton Foundation
corruption, apparently not examining thousands of Clinton
emails, then sanctioned the destruction of 30,000 of them
in the later, more public Hillary Clinton email
investigation. He then threw the FBI’s strong tradition of
independence behind his partisan, legally questionable
exoneration of Clinton, certainly to gain the winking
approval of a woman he thought would be the incoming
president.
Disappointed with the election of Donald Trump, a man he
clearly loathed before ever meeting him, Comey set up
Trump for a leak of the horrid Steele Dossier, while
churning up a phony “Russian Collusion” investigation
that roils our country to this day. He then, he admits,
sneakily caused the appointment of a Special Counsel to
carry out the Russian collusion investigation he had
knowingly trumped (please excuse) up.
His biggest deception is his self-description as an
independent, down-the-middle FBI law enforcer without,
he pains to tell us, a “Democratic pedigree.” In fact, he
conceals from the reader that he was at the time of his
appointment in 2013 a registered Democrat, along with his
ardent Obama-supporting family, and had taken strong
partisan, anti-conservative positions since 2003. There is
nothing wrong with that, if he had not concealed his
partisan views from the Bush administration when
appointed deputy attorney general in 2003, and now
conceals his partisan affiliation from the readers of his
book. Radical transparency? It doesn’t seem so. The Bush
White House, Comey proudly admits, came to view him as
a “loaded gun,” after Comey spent his tenure undermining
the anti-terrorist policies of the administration he was
supposedly serving.
Throughout his book, Comey dissembles, very cleverly,
about the substance of his key actions. He tells us six
times, for example, that Valerie Plame, the CIA agent
involved in the Libby prosecution, was a “covert agent,”
from a layman’s point of view perhaps arguably correct,
since she had assumed false identities on several postings.
But, as the Special Prosecutor eventually admitted, Plame
was not a covert agent as defined by the Intelligence
Identities Protection Act, on which the crimeless
investigation was falsely premised by Comey.
Such crimeless investigations, of which Comey is a
devious master, were clearly designed as perjury traps.
Libby was motivated to falsely deny speaking to reporters
about Plame because he thought that was a crime, which it
wasn’t. Michael Flynn when questioned by Comey’s FBI
agents in December 2016 ostensibly about possible
violations of the Logan Act (private parties pursuing
foreign policy), Flynn falsely denied discussing sanctions
with the Russian Ambassador, even though this was not
illegal, and the Logan Act was a dead letter. Minor Trump
Campaign official George Papadopoulos, similarly, denied
speaking to Kremlin-connected Russians, likely for fear of
admitting to “Russian collusion,” an amorphous non-crime
if unconnected to an otherwise truly illegal scheme.
In contrast to his work with Bush, Comey pulled his
punches on the investigations in which he, as FBI Director,
exonerated Obama/Clinton officials. But what, if anything,
did Comey do in these investigations that was provably
unethical? For one, the FBI should not be making charging
decisions, because they can be seen as political, and
therefore are clearly the province of DOJ prosecutors, not
an independent FBI. For another, he recommended no
Special Counsel for any of them, even though the conflicts
were clear. He even admits in his book that he should have
recommended one for the Clinton email investigation,
marred by the Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton tarmac meeting.
If so, why didn’t he? Because, he tells us, continuing the
investigation through a Special Counsel might cause some
to think the presidential candidate was guilty, which would
be, he said, “a lie.” Wasn’t this a partisan, not apolitical,
judgment?
He did not apply the same standards to his subversion of
conservative administrations. He appointed his child’s
godfather, Patrick Fitzgerald, as special counsel in the
Plame/Libby investigation (explaining to his readers that
Fitzgerald had “independence” because he lived in
Chicago) even though Comey knew there was no crime,
which, by the way, he concealed from the readers of his
book. Years later, he importuned Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel (the
unimpeachable Robert Mueller), even though he knew
there was no crime causing a potential conflict, that is, no
Russian electoral interference collusion, and that the Steele
Dossier was opposition research rubbish. The partisan
provenance of this dossier he concealed from President
Trump as he sought seeming “leverage” (which he denies)
over Trump. So, to Comey, special counsel appointments
are appropriate, even with no crime, if used to investigate
Republicans, but inappropriate where there was probable
criminality causing a conflict with Clinton/Obama
officials.
Comey snarkily refused President Trump’s several
requests for a public FBI statement exonerating him,
explaining to the reader that the requests reminded him of
Mafia doings. But to justify his public exoneration of
Hillary Clinton, Comey gives his readers several similar
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examples, such as the public exoneration of Lois Lerner,
which were, he claims, in the public interest. Simple logic
therefore shows that he was encouraging, by his refusal to
exonerate Trump, the false public inference of Trump’s
guilt, refusing the same public exoneration afforded
seeming perpetrators Clinton and Lerner.
There is much more evidence in Comey’s book of his
devious spinning of webs. For example, his leak of his
Trump conversation memos were neither, he claims, FBI
documents (even though he put them in FBI files and
discussed them with his FBI team), nor classified (even
though they concerned national security conversations
with the sitting president, protected by the president’s
executive privilege). You know, the executive privilege
frequently invoked, with Comey’s approval, by President
Obama.
Comey contends that the ostensibly leaked Steele Dossier
story was not a leak because Buzzfeed could have obtained
the document from non-government sources. But he
conceals from the reader that there was a leak to CNN of
the private Comey-Trump meeting about the same
salacious allegations and that Comey and DNI James
Clapper were obvious sources. Likely suspecting Comey,
Trump thereafter asked Comey if he could have his
loyalty, a reasonable request given this breach of
confidentiality.
While Comey also portrays that request as Mafia-like, he
should know that all government and corporate employees
owe duties of loyalty to their organizations. Not only is
demanding organizational loyalty not criminal, it is highly
appropriate, especially of a leaking subordinate. But rather
than give Trump due institutional loyalty as the Chief
Executive of his country, Comey sneakily prepared memos
of his confidential conversation with the president,
discussed them with his team, and later leaked them.
Apropos of Mafia-like loyalty, does anyone on the planet
believe, as Comey claims, that he did not tell Attorney
General Loretta Lynch or Deputy Attorney General Sally
Yates of his planned exoneration of Hillary Clinton? Are
we to believe that he was free to reach a prosecutorial
decision, not his to make, without coordinating with the
prosecutors who did have that authority? So, yes, Comey
reveals a dishonest Mob loyalty. But its practitioners
include various Clinton, Obama and FBI officials who
likely conspired with Comey to exonerate Clinton and
wrongly pursue Trump, while concealing this likely
coordination.
Throughout his book, Comey unintentionally reveals his
unethical loyalty to this partisan cabal, while publicly
denying anything other than loyalty to an exalted higher
truth. So, at bottom, A Higher Loyalty is an unctuous
defense of his many years of subversion of our most
valued governmental institutions. Comey, like a clever
Mafioso, will likely not be convicted for his deviousness “sneaky things” and leaking. His supposedly higher
because, as a mob soldier might boast, the case against him loyalty, it turns out, was in fact a lower loyalty to his own
is only circumstantial. personal agenda, causing harm to the system of justice he
was sworn to uphold.
But we can convict him in the court of public opinion of
taking the actions he flatly denied to the president: doing
.

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 Trump Economy Sets More Records: 1st Quarter Profits,
Earnings Reach All-Time Highs – Largest Monthly Surplus
In History – Far Left Media Silent
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 7:22 Am
The biggest lies from the Mainstream
Media are not only what they tell us, the
biggest lies are what they don’t tell us!
The liberal MSM is obsessed with the fake “Trump-Russia
Collusion” story and have been for nearly two years. They
love everything about this sham story because it keeps the
truth about President Trump from being told.
The President has many success stories under his belt
already in less than a year and a half in office, but probably
no story is as important and stunning as the Trump
Economy.
Under President Trump the economy is
on fire and set for more record earnings
and results.
Yesterday, on May 21, 2018, the Russell 2000 hit a new
all-time high –
The Russell 2000 index of small-
capitalization stocks rose on Monday,
advancing to its latest in a series of records
as investors cheered an easing of U.S.-
China trade tensions. While smaller
companies are seen as having less
exposure to trade issues, due to their
higher concentration of U.S. revenue
exposure, the market segment has rallied
consistently for weeks, easily
outperforming its larger-cap peers.
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The Russell 2000 and other market indices have good
reasons for reaching all-time highs.
Corporate earnings have never been
higher!
The 1st Quarter results for the companies in the S&P 500
increased more than 25% over the same period in the prior
year. S&P 500 Aggregate Estimates and Revisions are
reported as follows –
 First quarter earnings are expected to
increase 25.7% from Q1 2017. Excluding the energy
sector, the earnings growth estimate declines to 23.7%.
 Of the 409 companies in the S&P 500 that have
reported earnings to date for Q1 2018, 79.2%
have reported earnings above analyst
expectations. This is above the long-term average of
64% and above the prior four quarter average of 72%
 The Q1 2018 blended revenue growth estimate is
8.4%. Excluding the energy sector, the revenue growth
estimate declines to 8.0%.
 75.9% of companies have reported Q1 2018
revenue above analyst expectations. This is
above the long-term average of 60% and above the
prior four quarter average of 69%.
These numbers are even understated.
500 of the largest US Companies’ profits
are 25% greater than prior year in the 1st
Quarter. This is unheard of in US
history! When, if ever, have the 500
largest companies in the US increased
their ‘bottom line’ earnings by 25%.
This is simply record breaking!
Even before the 2016 Presidential election, the MSM
claimed that if Trump were to be elected President, the
markets would collapse as a result of trade wars instigated
by President Trump who was running on free trade but
fair trade. This too turned out to be a farce.
According to reports today, the President has renegotiated
trade deals with China that will result in a reduction of the
trade deficit with China by $380 Billion.

This is the largest annual trade deficit

reduction in US history.

On top of all this, the CBO reported the largest monthly

surplus in history in April –

The Congressional Budget Office is reporting that the

federal government took in $515 billion in April. With
outlays of only $218 billion, the $190-billion surplus
represents the largest in history.

Because of President Trump, American optimism is at an

Although the MSM will not tell you, we
all-time high –
are currently enjoying arguably the best
US economy and outlook in US history!
Corporate profits are at all-time highs
(by far) and the economic outlook keeps
getting better and better every day!

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 Manafort’s Lawyers Suggest
Key Mueller Deputy Is Leaking To Media
Richard Pollock - Reporter
7:27 Am 05/22/2018

disclosing alleged money laundering made

by the former and now-embattled Trump
campaign chairman.” Manafort’s attorneys
finger Weissmann as the leaker to the AP
meeting.

Downing reported in the filing that “the meeting did not go

over well with FBI officials, who issued a complaint to the
Justice Department suggesting that the attorney did not
follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.”
Federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann speaks to the press
REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell On May 14, Mueller personally rejected Manafort’s
request for a hearing on media leaks, charging that the
A senior assistant special counsel to Robert Mueller’s April 30 motion did not address any media leaks regarding
investigation is facing allegations he leaked information to secret grand jury testimony. However, they did not address
reporters concerning the Russian collusion leaks that disclosed internal deliberations by his staff or
investigation, according to a Monday court filing. any other Special Counsel discoveries.

Paul Manafort’s defense attorney Kevin Downing Weissmann’s political loyalty has been scrutinized. He
officially leveled the leaking allegation against key “attended Hillary Clinton’s election-night party at the
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann as part of a new legal Jacob K. Javits Center in New York,” according to The
offensive against Mueller’s indictment of Manafort, who Wall Street Journal, for example.
served briefly as Trump’s campaign manager. Downing
charges that a flood of media leaks has prevented his client The lawyer also supported acting Attorney General Sally
from getting a fair trial. Downing asked presiding federal Yates’ opposition to Trump’s initial immigration ban.
Judge T.S. Ellis III on April 30 to convene a hearing on
media leaks. The judge has yet to rule on the request.
“I am so proud,” Weissmann wrote about
Yates in an email the conservative group
In the latest filing, Downing charged that a senior Justice Judicial Watch uncovered. “And in awe.
Department official — identified as Weissmann in exhibits Thank you so much.”
attached to the filing — briefed Associated Press reporters
in spring 2017, which led to four breaking stories about the
Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and chairman
government’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russian
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
collusion and Manafort.
has asked the Justice Department to provide information
on the claim Weissmann met with news reporters.
“There is strong evidence that the highest-
level FBI and intelligence officials
When he met with the reporters, Weissmann headed the
authorized leaks to the press and, in fact,
fraud section of the Justice Department’s Criminal
leaked themselves,” Manafort’s filing
Division. He was one of the first attorneys Mueller hand-
asserted.
picked to join the special counsel team in May 2017.
According to the filing, a
Weissmann has a reputation for pushing the boundaries on
prosecutions. The New York Times last October called him
“senior Justice Department prosecutor” met a “pit bull” who used “scorched-earth tactics” against
with the AP reporters “last spring to discuss opponents.
an investigation into Paul Manafort’s
financial records, a day before the wire
service published a major exposé
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Weissmann was also Mueller’s attorney on the ground
who oversaw the pre-dawn raid on Manafort’s home.
In the 1990’s, Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton
reprimanded Weissmann as “reprehensible” during a trial
regarding the Colombo crime family for withholding
evidence.
“The judge described then [Assistant U.S.
Attorney] Weissmann’s conduct as the
‘myopic withholding of information’ and
‘reprehensible and subject, perhaps, to
appropriate disciplinary
measures,'” according to a February 2018
article by investigative reporter Sara Carter.
Weissmann also has allies within the Justice Department
and in the federal court system. Weissmann became
friends with Loretta Lynch who then headed the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District for New York.
“He was very friendly with Loretta,” a
former federal prosecutor who worked in
Brooklyn while Weissmann was there
told the Daily Beast. “They were all part of
a little gang together – they would go out
for lunch, they would go out for dinner.”
Weissmann also became friends with fellow attorney Beryl
Howell who later joined the federal bench as a judge.
.
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Howell now oversees Mueller’s grand jury in Washington,
D.C. It was Howell’s chambers that approved the raid on
the home and law office for Trump’s personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen.
Manafort’s lawyers claim the multitude of leaks coming
from Mueller’s office
“constitute outrageous government conduct
intended to deprive Mr. Manafort of his
Fifth and Sixth Amendment Constitutional
rights to due process and a trial by an
unbiased jury of his peers.”
They charge that Manafort could never get a fair trial due
to the leaks.
“In light of the mass media coverage of
these leaks in print, on television, radio and
the internet, it seems unlikely that there is a
jury questionnaire, instruction or change of
venue that could cure the irreparable harm
to Mr. Manafort’s Constitutional rights
resulting from leaks by the highest-level
government officials,” Downing wrote.
The FBI and the Special Counsel’s office both declined to
comment.
 Sen. Ron Johnson Sends Letter To FBI –
Discovers Secret Deep State “Sensitive Matter Team”
Behind Phony Dossier
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 7:59 Am

aware of the phony dossier used to spy

on candidate Trump.

FBI has a hell of a lot of explaining to do.

On Monday Senator Ron Johnson (R-

WI) sent a letter to the FBI Director
regarding phony Steele Russia dossier.

Explosive new e-mails show FBI brass

discussed dossier briefing details with
CNN.

Senator Johnson accused the FBI of having a “sensitive

matter team” as reference by FBI Chief of Staff Jim
Rybicki in an January 6, 2017 email to unspecified
recipients.

Johnson wants to know the members of See complete letter on next page.
the “sensitive matter team” who were
.

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 Trump, McConnell Conspired
To Force Blankenship Out In West Virginia
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
8:36 AM 05/22/2018
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President
Donald Trump teamed up to ensure GOP Senate candidate
Don Blankenship did not make it through the Republican
primary earlier in May.
“And so he said, ‘Well what if I just make
the case that Blankenship would lose in
November?'” McConnell told The
Washington Post Tuesday. “And I said,
‘That’d be great.'”
The play wasn’t necessarily a secret after Trump took an
eleventh-hour swipe at Blankenship on Twitter the day
before West Virginia Republican voters headed to the
ballot box. He called out Blankenship for exactly what he
reportedly told McConnell leading up to the election.
“To the great people of West Virginia we
have, together, a really great chance to
keep making a big difference. Problem is,
Don Blankenship, currently running for
Senate, can’t win the General Election in
your State…No way! Remember Alabama.
Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!”
Trump tweeted the day before the primary,
May 7.
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Blankenship ultimately came in third and Trump’s
endorsement, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick
Morrisey, won the Republican nomination. Morrisey will
take on Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in November.
The failed candidate attributes his loss to Trump, claiming
he lost as much as 10 percent of the vote after Trump sent
out the tweet. Blankenship is also not a fan of McConnell.
He called him “Cocaine Mitch,” “Swamp Captain” and
made a campaign out of attacking the majority leader. For
his part, McConnell mostly laughed it off, saying after
Blankenship lost that “didn’t seem to work out well.”
Blankenship is now running as a third-party candidate in
the race, announcing Monday he will run as the
representative of the Constitution Party. West Virginia
laws have it that a candidate who failed to win the
nomination in one of the two major parties cannot enter the
race as a third-party candidate, but Blankenship claims he
is ready to challenge the court.
Trump and McConnell understand that maintaining the
majority, and potentially picking up more seats to add to
their slim 51-seat majority, is key to pushing the
Republican agenda in Congress. While the House has been
able to pass nearly every facet of the president’s agenda
(tax reform, repealing and replacing Obamacare and
deregulation), the Senate has had a more difficult time
with little-to-no wiggle room for losing Republican votes.
 Deep State James Clapper: Embedding Spy Inside Trump
Campaign Is “Standard Investigative Practices –
Goes On All The Time”
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 8:38 Am

The Deep State got caught spying on
Candidate Trump — Now they’re
spinning this as a good thing and
normal procedure.
On Monday Clapper doubled-down saying spying on the
opposition candidate is “standard investigative practices.”
Via The New York Times:
James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director
of national intelligence under President
Barack Obama, said that Mr. Trump is
trying to distort standard investigatory
practices to insinuate wrongdoing.
“I didn’t know about this informant,” said
Mr. Clapper, whose memoir, “Facts and
Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in
Intelligence,” will be published Tuesday.
“No one in the White House knew.
Certainly the president didn’t know. This is
a routine thing that goes on all the time.
We’re making a huge mountain out of a
molehill. The purpose was to understand
what the Russians were doing.”

Obama’s former DNI Chief James

Clapper said Thursday evening on CNN,
“It’s a good thing,” the Deep State FBI
was spying on Trump’s campaign.

This was after Clapper initially denied the intelligence

community was spying on Donald Trump.

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 Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe Warns
Dems Pushing Trump Impeachment:
‘You Have To Shoot To Kill’
By Aidan Mclaughlin
9:00 Am, May 22nd, 2018

Tribe explained that the impeachment is not about “garden

variety crime,” but “abusing the authority that we give to
high officials like the president.” The professor went on to
give examples of offenses that Trump could commit that
would not constitute crimes, but would be impeachable,
including failing to protect the country in favor of
enriching himself personally.

“But it will be available only if we don’t use

Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe appeared on
CNN’s New Day to discuss his new book, To End a
Presidency: The Power of Impeachment, and the
#Resistance Twitter influencer warned Democrats against
throwing down the impeachment card too hastily.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo noted that Tribe’s book
“comes with a note of political caution,” that
“Democrats shouldn’t be rushing down the
road of impeachment.”
Watch above, via CNN.
.
it loosely, and ring the bell every time
something looks amiss,” Tribe said. “You
can’t be the boy who cried wolf and have a
viable impeachment power. You can’t use it
over and over again against the same
president.”
“If you’re going to shoot him, you have to
shoot to kill,” Tribe said. “And that requires
an overwhelming majority of a bipartisan
kind. Otherwise you’re just going to nick the
guy, and make him feel empowered and
vindicated.”

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 EXCLUSIVE: Human Rights Activist
Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:19 AM 05/22/2018
Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen. (YouTube
screen capture/Fox Business)
 President of the Human Rights Foundation is suing
two founders of Fusion GPS under the RICO
statute.
 Thor Halvorssen claims two reporters who founded
Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate
against him for blowing the whistle on one of
Fusion’s clients.
 The Fusion founders were hired to produce a
dossier and a media campaign to depict Halvorrsen
as a pedophile and addict, according to the lawsuit.
A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the
founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan
businessmen under a statute usually associated with the
Mafia.
Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights
Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch,
two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded
Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for
blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a
Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick
Associates.
The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier
and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a
pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the
Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which
he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act (RICO) statute.
Mostly linked to organized crime cases, RICO can also be
used in civil cases against legitimate businesses.
Halvorssen’s case rests on the theory that Derwick and
Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate a
whistleblower, which Halvorssen considers himself to be
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because he has provided information about an alleged
Derwick bribery scheme to federal authorities.
“Thor’s got a righteous case,” G. Robert
Blakey, a former federal prosecutor who
drafted RICO back in 1970, told The Daily
Caller News Foundation.
Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor, said that the
approach of Halvorssen’s lawyer to the RICO case is a
novel one that hasn’t been tested much in federal court.
But he noted that the attorney, Howard Foster, is one of the
top-five RICO attorneys in the country.
“It’s a good case,” said Blakey.
Under a civil RICO cases, plaintiffs must show that
defendants engaged in two incidents of racketeering within
10 years of each other. To support that element of the case
against Fusion, Halvorssen’s lawsuit cites the oppo firm’s
work against himself and two other men, Alek Boyd and
Bill Browder.
Fusion went after Browder, the leading force behind the
Magnitsky Act, on behalf of a Russian businessman who
faced penalties because of the sanctions law. Fusion GPS
technically worked BakerHostetler, a law firm that
represented a Russian businessman named Denis Katsyv.
As part of its work, Fusion produced research alleging that
Browder laundered money out of Russia and evaded taxes.
In a bizarre twist, some of Fusion’s research was taken into
the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald
Trump Jr. and a group of Russians. Fusion was working at
the time with two of the Russian attendees, Natalia
Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.
Halvorssen’s suit does not mention Fusion GPS’s most
infamous project:
The Steele dossier. Working for the Clinton
campaign and DNC, Fusion hired former
British spy Christopher Steele in June 2016
to investigate Donald Trump and members
of his campaign.
The result is a 35-page report full of salacious allegations,
the most serious of yet have yet to be proven.
Boyd was allegedly targeted by Fusion GPS because of his
investigations against Derwick. A former Halvorssen
associate, Boyd has claimed that Fusion passed around a
dossier that, similar to the one against Halvorssen, accused
him of rampant drug use and pedophilia.
Both Browder and Boyd have publicly blasted Fusion GPS
and Simpson.
Browder has called Simpson a “professional smear
campaigner.”
“Fusion is basically a pen-for-hire shop,
whose owners are prepared to concoct
completely spurious stories that are fed to
media contacts developed over years of
legitimate work in reputable outlets,” Boyd
told The Daily Caller last year.
Halvorssen claims that Fusion GPS targeted him on behalf
of Derwick because of an investigation he started in 2011
into Derwick’s contracts with the Venezuelan government.
Halvorssen, who was born in Venezuela, says he
uncovered a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme
involving Derwick executives and Venezuelan officials.
He claims in the lawsuit that Francisco D’Agostino, a
Derwick executive, described the bribery operation to him
in 2013.
Halvorssen brought the alleged bribery operation to the
attention of the U.S. government in 2013, leading to
several federal investigations, he says.
As retaliation, Halvorssen says that Derwick tapped
Fusion GPS to wage a smear campaign against him.
“Simpson and Fritsch promised to pass
along the dossier to friendly journalists who
would use the negative information, even if
the information came from hostile sources
and not for attribution, into a profile of
Halvorrsen for wide publication in the
media and particularly on the internet,” the
lawsuit alleges.
Halvorssen points to an article and social media postings
written by independent journalist Ken Silverstein.
Silverstein wrote the Sept. 28, 2015 article for the website,
Shadowproof.com.
Though Shadowproof is a small website, the article about
Halvorssen pops up on the first page of a Google search
for his name. Halvorssen claims that Fusion GPS used
search engine optimization, known as SEO, to ensure that
article’s prominent placement.
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The goal, according to Halvorssen, was to force his
removal from the Human Rights Foundation. He claims
that he lost $5 million in business deals because of the
allegations against him.
“It’s time Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch and
the Venezuelans who own Derwick pay for
what they did to Thor Halvorssen. Fusion
GPS is a smear operation which tried to
ruin his career,” Foster, the lead attorney
for Halvorssen, said in a statement.
“It has consistently tried to destroy others
while it hides behind reporters and its
clients’ law firms. Our hope is that this
litigation will bring it all to light.”
Halvorssen says that Fusion GPS struggled to put together
its dossier on him because
“nobody would provide such information for
attribution because the allegations Fusion
GPS wanted to publicize were false.”
He alleges that sources were promised anonymity “and
encouraged to exaggerate and speculate.”
“Fusion GPS either found someone who
invented a story that Halvorssen regularly
used heroin, had been in rehab, and was
high at Foundation events, or it invented
the story out of whole cloth.”
The firm also fabricated allegations that Halvorssen
embezzled money from the Human Rights Foundation and
had sex with minors, he says.
Halvorssen suggests in the lawsuit that he has evidence
that Derwick’s D’Agostino made contact with Simpson
and Fritsch to discuss the smear campaign against him.
The lawsuit refers to a “series of calls” that D’Agostino
placed in Aug. 2015 to discuss the hit-job.
Joshua A. Levy, a lawyer for Fusion GPS,
says that the lawsuit is “a farce.”
In a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation, Levy
claimed that the suit “repeats false allegations Mr.
Halvorssen has peddled unsuccessfully for more than a
year.”
“Mr. Halvorssen has well-documented ties
to Peter Thiel, Erik Prince and Rebekah
Mercer, three of Donald Trump’s biggest
supporters. This bogus lawsuit is yet
another desperate attempt by the
President’s allies to retaliate against Fusion
GPS for exposing Trump’s ties to Russia,”
he continued.
 FBI Not Only ‘Obama Agency’ Spying On Trump In 2016?
Former Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Told Laura Ingraham He Knows Others
Did — 'They Came At Me' — While Carter Page Wants DOJ 'To Own Up'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 22 May 2018 At 9:20 AM

DOJ. Yates said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that

Trump

“has taken his all-out assault of the rule of

law to a new level, and this time he is
ordering up an investigation of the
investigators who are examining his own
campaign.”
Former President Barack Obama’s FBI wasn’t “the only
Obama agency that came at” President Donald Trump’s Clapper said Monday on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump is
2016 campaign, one of his former aides warned Monday leading
on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“a very disturbing assault on the
“Let me tell you something that I know for a independence of the Department of
fact — that this informant, that this person Justice.”
that they planted, tried to plant into the
campaign … he’s not the only person that
came at the campaign,” Michael Caputo
told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “And
the FBI is not the only Obama agency that
came at the campaign. I know because
they came at me.”

Caputo said he was “looking for clearance” from his

attorney before he reveals what he knows to the public.

“This is just the beginning,” he warned.

“And I’ll tell you, when we finally find out
the truth about this, [former CIA] Director
[James] Clapper and the rest of them are
going to be wearing some orange suits.”
Caputo’s comments followed Trump’s weekend tweets on
multiple media reports that the FBI had an informant in his
presidential campaign, including his demand that the
Department of Justice (DOJ) open an official investigation
to determine whether the Obama administration
“infiltrated or surveilled” his campaign.
"So you see a pattern here?" Ingraham
asked Caputo. "Former Obama
administration officials justifying spying on
— surveilling, whatever you want to call it,
putting a mole in — on an opposing
campaign in a hotly contested election
year."
Caputo said that the Obama administration's surveillance
of the Trump campaign mirrored the Russian government's
own

The DOJ swiftly responded by tasking DOJ Inspector
General (IG) Michael Horowitz with examining whether
inappropriate political bias fueled the FBI’s
counterintelligence investigation.
Ingraham played clips showing Clapper and former
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates ripping Trump for
demanding a review of the FBI’s surveillance from the
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"national security leadership that secretly
spies on the entire citizenry of Russia."
"And here we are in the United States with
our own" government-sanctioned spying
"underneath President Obama," Caputo
lamented. "This is really sick and twisted
stuff."
Ingraham and Caputo were joined by former Trump
campaign adviser Carter Page (shown in the article image
above). The FBI used the infamous Trump-Russia dossier,
compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and funded
by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on behalf
of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's
campaign, to justify and renew surveillance warrants
against Page.
"President Trump, during the campaign,
would often say, 'This is not about me. This
is about us,'" Page said, predicting that "all
of the terrible things that have happened to
so many" Trump campaign officials will
come to light.
.
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Page also claimed he
"never knew anything about" the FBI
informant he spoke to, "who was a
university professor at Cambridge in the
U.K. at the time," noting that "everything
seemed totally normal."
"Part of why I'm somewhat open about my
communications with [the FBI informant] is
that it will lead to some truth, finally, from
the Department of Justice," Page said. "I've
been asking for, you know, DOJ to own up
to these things."
 Trump Advisor Eric Bolling Attacks Jeff Sessions
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:39 AM 05/22/2018

unwillingness to curb or assist conservative lawmaker’s

efforts to shed more light on the probe.

Judge Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality and

presidential advisor, similarly blasted Sessions Saturday
night calling him

“the most dangerous man in America,”

saying,
“The most of powerful prosecutor in the
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 26: Co-host Eric Bolling attends world, the man who holds the scales of
FOX News' "The Five" at FOX Studios on February 26, 2014 in New justice in his hands, hides behind the coat
York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
tails of a Rod Rosenstein.”

Former Fox News host and close presidential advisor Eric

Bolling took aim at Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a
tweet Tuesday.

Bolling’s direct shot at Sessions is the latest in a series of

attacks from close presidential advisors in the media
directed at the attorney general. The anger of these
advisors centers on Sessions’ original recusal from the
investigation of the 2016 presidential election and his
.

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Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows SLAMS Rosenstein’s Doj
IG Referral; ‘He KNOWS What FBI Did; This Is A Ruse’
Posted On May 22, 2018

But Meadows was not having it.

He tweeted:

“Rod Rosenstein knows exactly what

happened and what is in the documents
requested by Congress. Either the matter
warranted investigation long ago and he
did nothing, or he’s seen the facts and
believes nothing is wrong. His belated
referral to the IG is not news… it is a ruse.”
(National Sentinel) Not Fooled: House Freedom Caucus
chairman Mark Meadows is not at all happy about Deputy
AG Rod Rosenstein’s decision to refer to the Justice
Department inspector general an investigation into DoJ’s
and the FBI’s involvement in the Team Trump spying
scandal.

He’s angry because he believes Rosenstein is just trying to

play everyone.

That’s because while DoJ Inspector General Michael

Horowitz is a fair and honest man — and is preparing to
drop a bombshell report about how the bureau and DoJ
intentionally tanked the Hillary Clinton email investigation
— he can’t indict anyone or call them to appear before a
grand jury.
So, the North Carolina Republican believes the referral “is
just a ruse” to placate an angry President Donald Trump.
What’s more, Meadows says Rosenstein knows all the
secrets already. He knows what the DoJ and FBI did.
But he’s making a BS referral to the IG instead of talking.
On Monday, the president summoned Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray to the White House to officially
order an investigation into the Obama-era spy scandal.
Reports said that Director of National Intelligence Dan
Coats also attended the meeting.
In addition to agreeing to refer the matter to the IG,
Rosenstein also agreed to give lawmakers a look at
requested documents related to the FBI’s attempts to
infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Of course, that’s true. Let’s remember that Rosenstein
signed off on the fourth FISA court application allowing
the FBI and DoJ to continue spying on Team Trump even
after the president was sworn into office.
Some believe the keys to this mystery lie in the FISA court
applications.
Others, like House Intelligence Committee chairman
Devin Nunes, R-Calif., believe that the key lies in the
document that originally launched the entire operation
sometime in the spring of 2016, and he wants it.
Rosenstein’s got it. Trump should order him to turn it
over.
As for Horowitz, he — like all IG’s — may not have the
power to indict. But he has the authority to make criminal
referrals, and he’s reportedly already done that.
The Deep State gets more desperate by the day, but
Trump’s not going to be denied.

Mark Meadows will make sure of that.

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 Jimmy Carter Would Endorse A Nobel Peace Prize
For Trump Over North Korea Talks
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
10:01 AM 05/22/2018
Former President Jimmy Carter said he would endorse a
Nobel Peace Prize for President Trump Tuesday if all goes
well with North Korean peace talks.
“If President Trump is successful in getting
a peace treaty that is acceptable to both
sides with North Korea, I think he certainly
ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace
Prize,” Carter told Politico.
Carter took aim at Trump’s morals and truthfulness,
saying,
“I’m not here to criticize, but I think that,
you know, telling the truth is one of the
basic moral values that’s important,” and
added, “obeying the law is an oath that all
of us take before we assume public office.”
Carter also said that the U.S. has withheld potentially
helpful aid from North Koreans, especially in aiding them
with food supplies.
“If they’re under constant belief that the
United States wants to attack them, even
using nuclear weapons — which many
Democrats and Republican leaders in our
country have mentioned as a possibility,”
Carter said, “and that we are destroying
their economy, and they know that they’re
.
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starving to death primarily because the
United States withholds food aid, for
instance, just giving them surplus food that
we can’t ever use, then I can understand
how they feel.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has recently met with
Kim Jong Un twice, and earlier in May, Pompeo brought
home three Americans held in a North Korean prison.
They first landed in Alaska, and Trump met them as they
landed in Washington, D.C. The peace negotiations
between North Korea and South Korea with the U.S. as an
intermediary has recently slowed and almost backfired as
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un threatened to
withdraw from an upcoming summit with President Trump
over U.S. military activity in South Korea.
“I think that the next mediator, next
negotiator — maybe President Trump, I
hope — will reassure them that we’re
willing to give up some of those things —
the threat of attack on them and to lift the
embargo. That would be a cheap price, in
my opinion, to pay for a cessation of their
nuclear program,” Carter said of U.S.
negotiations with North Korea.
Mixed reports from North Korean state media have alleged
that Kim Jong Un is willing to denuclearize, only later to
say he is not willing to denuclearize, providing a fickle
display of diplomacy by the North Koreans.
“I think it would be a worthy and a
momentous accomplishment that no
previous president has been able to
realize,” Carter said of Trump’s potential to
received a Nobel Peace Prize.
Though Kim Jong Un threatened not to meet with Trump
for peace talks, the date is still set for a meeting between
the two on June 12th in Singapore.
 Exclusive — Roger Stone: ‘John Brennan
Should Pop The Glass Capsule And Take The Cyanide
Now; He’s Going To Die In A Federal Penitentiary’
Kristina Wong
22 May 2018

Recently, Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper was outed

by former and current officials leaking to the Washington
Post and the New York Times as an FBI and CIA informant
who approached and befriended several members of the
Trump campaign.

Halper had reached out to members of the campaign weeks

before FBI officials said they first learned of allegations of
collusion — calling into question why the Obama
administration was surveilling the Trump campaign.

Brennan, now an NBC News contributor, was deeply

involved in fueling the allegations of collusion with Russia
while in office, as Breitbart News has covered.

Roger Stone, veteran political strategist The former CIA director has since been active on Twitter
and longtime confidant of President attacking the president. Stone suggested he already knows
Trump, said in an exclusive interview much of what Mueller could find.
with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily on
Tuesday morning that former CIA
“He goes on Twitter and threatens the
Director John Brennan will “die in a
President of the United States. He’s
federal penitentiary.”
constantly foreshadowing what Robert
“John Brennan should pop the glass Mueller has,” Stone said.
capsule and take the cyanide now,” Stone
“Mr. Brennan, you’re out of government.
told host Amanda House, Breitbart News’s
How would you know? John Brennan is the
deputy political editor. “He’s the perp who
number one criminal perp in this entire
started the entire Russian dossier matter.
matter, and it’s only a matter of time before
He’s lied about it under oath. He’s going to
justice catches up with him,” he said.
die in a federal penitentiary.”
Brennan and the Obama intelligence community’s roles in
the investigation of the Trump campaign have come under
increasing scrutiny.
.

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 Napolitano Says FBI Spying
On Trump Is An Unprecedented Crime Of
‘Enormous Magnitude’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:08 AM 05/22/2018

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew

Napolitano expressed concern about the FBI possibly
spying on the Trump presidential campaign and said it
would be a crime of “enormous magnitude.”

“If the FBI and we have the texts from

[Peter] Strzok and his friend, so we know
the attitude that some of them had about
Donald Trump, used the power of the
government’s law enforcement facilities to
interfere with or frustrate the Trump
campaign, that would be a crime of
enormous magnitude,” Napolitano said on Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida claimed he
“Fox & Friends” Tuesday. “The like of might have discovered the identity of the mole within the
which I don’t believe we have never seen in campaign on May 14, but called for a full investigation and
American history”. the appointment of a special counsel to discover the truth.

WATCH:
.

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 Poll Shock: GOP Takes Lead In 2018
Generic Poll By 6 Points —
Nine Point Reversal In One Week!
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 10:12 Am

campaign with at least one informant

spy.

For all the media hype about the upcoming ‘Blue Wave’
sweeping Republicans from power in November, a
comprehensive Morning Consult poll last week showed a
Republican wave in the making in U.S. Senate elections
across the country with five Democrat incumbents
decisively losing by at least five percent and four other
Democrat incumbents in statistical ties.

Democrats are hoping for a blue wave to

take down Republicans in the 2018
midterm elections.

Then they can focus on impeaching President Trump over

his mean tweets.

But the latest Reuters generic poll

shows Republicans suddenly with a 6
point lead!

That’s a 9 point swing in one week.

This comes after more record economic
news (ignored by the liberal mainstream
media).
And this week’s dip also occurred after
news broke that the Obama intelligence
community had infiltrated the Trump
FYI – Poll updated with correct date.
.

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 Major Paper: We’ve Got Proof Obama
Spying On Trump Began Months Before FBI Admits
By Ben Marquis
May 22, 2018 At 10:27am
For the past 18 months, the liberal media has dismissively
mocked claims that then-candidate Donald Trump’s
campaign was spied upon during the 2016 election for
alleged contacts and collusion with Russians, even as
they’ve constantly hyped reports of alleged contacts and
collusion.
That suddenly changed in recent weeks after it was
revealed via FBI leaks that the bureau utilized an
“informant” to question a handful of marginal campaign
figures — George Papadopoulos and Carter Page — about
their contacts with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
That revelation initially seemed to align with evidence of
an “electronic communication” discovered by House
Intelligence Committee investigators dated July 31, 2016,
which appeared to mark the official beginning of the FBI’s
counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
But Byron York of the Washington Examiner conducted a
review of the timeline of all that has been made known
about that investigation over the past year or so, and
reached the conclusion that the FBI’s investigation actually
appears to have begun, perhaps unofficially, several
months prior to that official communication in late July.
A recent story in The Washington Post asserted that the
informant — a professor living in London named Stefan
Halper — began to interact with Trump advisers “a few
weeks before the opening of the investigation, when Page
met the professor at the British symposium.”
If that meeting and intelligence gathering occurred prior to
the official opening of the investigation, that would
indicate some sort of unofficial investigation was already
underway, in York’s assessment.
York, following the work of Congressional investigators,
traced steps back to March 21, 2016, when then-candidate
Trump met with the editorial board of The Post and
revealed to them a list of his foreign policy advisers — an
admittedly thin list, given how the Republican
establishment collective of foreign policy experts had
largely shunned Trump’s campaign — which included the
names of Papadopoulos and Page.
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It would appear that the list of names was then noticed by
the FBI, Department of Justice and broader Obama
administration, as it is believed that then-Director James
Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe briefed
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch about that list shortly
thereafter.
York reported that Lynch informed the House Intelligence
Committee that she had discussed with Comey and
McCabe holding a “defensive briefing” with the Trump
campaign to “alert them” that the campaign may have been
compromised, but that briefing never took place.
Such a briefing was reportedly even discussed and
dismissed again among broader company in the “late
spring” of 2016 during a meeting of the Obama
administration’s National Security principals committee,
which included the likes of the attorney general and the
heads of the CIA, Defense Department, Homeland
Security, State Department, Treasury Department, U.N.
ambassador, White House chief of staff and more.
Thus, we can deduce that no later than the “late spring” of
2016 — which would essentially encompass the months of
March through the “official” opening of the investigation
in late July — the highest levels of the Obama
administration were already keeping a close eye on the
Trump campaign.
It wasn’t until some point in July that the infamous anti-
Trump dossier complied by former British spy Christopher
Steele — on behalf of Democrat-funded opposition
research firm Fusion GPS — was initially submitted to the
FBI.
It was also allegedly at some point in July that the FBI was
made aware of a drunken conversation Papadopoulos
allegedly had with an Australian diplomat in London in
late May with regard to Russia’s supposed possession of
Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The dossier, the Papadopoulos conversation, as well as a
speech delivered in Moscow by Page in July, had all
previously been pointed to as the foundational impetus for
the investigation into the Trump campaign. But as York
pointed out, the investigation appears to have begun prior
to all of that.
Given how much the timeline of when the investigation
into Trump started has already shifted so much over the
past year, it would not be out of the question to wonder if
it unofficially began even prior to the date pinpointed by
York in March 2016.
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In other words, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising —
though still quite shocking and scandalous — if we
eventually learn that Obama’s people were using the
powerful tools of the government to spy on Trump and his
campaign from the get-go in 2015, if not earlier.
 DRAIN THE SWAMP=>
Sinkhole Appears In White House Lawn
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 11:47 Am

We President Trump was a man of action but we never

would have expected this…

President Trump campaigned on Draining the DC Swamp.

Trump wasn’t kidding.

A sinkhole appeared in the White House lawn overnight.

Via Charlie Spiering:

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 Dem Lawmaker: We Will
Impeach Trump If We Retake The House
By Aris Folley
05/22/18 11:56 Am Edt
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is promising that Democrats will
impeach President Trump if the party wins the House in
November.
"There’s a good likelihood there will be
articles of impeachment” brought against
Trump, Green said Tuesday while
appearing on C-SPAN.
When asked about the likelihood that House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would introduce articles of
impeachment against the president, Green pushed back,
saying that
“every member of the House is accorded
the opportunity to bring up impeachment.”
“This is not something the Constitution has
bestowed upon leadership,” said Green,
who previously introduced two articles of
impeachment that failed on the House
floor. “It’s something every member has the
right and privilege of doing. I am not sure
.
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that there will be members who are going
to wait for someone else if that someone
else, doesn’t matter who it is, is declining to
do it.”
Last week, Green doubled down on his push to impeach
Trump against the wishes of Democratic leadership,
arguing there is "bigotry emanating from the presidency.”
During an impassioned floor speech last week, the Texas
Democrat cited the president’s travel ban, his opposition to
transgender people serving in the military and his
immigration policy as reasons to impeach Trump.
Some House Democrats have signed on to an effort to
introduce articles of impeachment against Trump, but the
movement has yet to gain traction with Democratic
leadership.
Pelosi has tried to dismiss efforts to pursue impeachment
proceedings. In April, Pelosi called Democrats' efforts to
impeach Trump a "gift" for Republicans ahead of
November's midterm elections.
“I don’t think we should be talking about
impeachment. I’ve been very clear right
from the start,” Pelosi said during a press
briefing last month.
“On the political side I think it’s a gift to the
Republicans,” she added. “We want to talk
about what they’re doing to undermine
working families in our country and what
we are doing to increase their payrolls and
lower their costs.”
 Watch Alan Dershowitz Smackdown CNN Legal Analyst
Over FBI Spying On Trump Campaign
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 22, 2018, 11:59 Am

Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz defended
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice demand
while appearing on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on
Monday.
“civil libertarians are generally a little bit
suspicious when undercover agents go
‘just to ask questions.’ And I think we as
civil libertarians ought to be suspicious of
this. Allay our suspicions, and then we’ll be
fine,.”

Toobin asserted that

“this was a legitimate investigation”

and Dershowitz shot him down saying that he does not

actually know that.

“You have no evidence that it wasn’t,”

Toobin said.

Dershowitz faced off against CNN legal analyst Jeffrey “Let’s find out,” Dershowitz fired back.
Toobin regarding the FBI spying on the Trump campaign.
Dershowitz went on to remind CNN that when agents were
sent in to spy on Martin Luther King Jr. they claimed that
“I have to tell you, if this had happened
it was to protect him.
to Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be
jumping up and down the way they did
when I was on the board of the ACLU, “They always say they’re doing it to protect
when undercover agents were put into the good people from the bad
the anti-war movement, into Civil Rights people,” Dershowitz said.
movement,” Dershowitz said.

He added that

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 MANAFORT FIGHTS BACK:
Drops “Strong Evidence” Exposing
FBI Leaker [Video]
May 22, 2018
According to a court filing, a key deputy in the Mueller
investigation is facing allegations he leaked information to
reporters concerning the Russian collusion investigation:
Paul Manafort’s defense attorney Kevin Downing
officially leveled the leaking allegation against key
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann (photo below) as part
of a new legal offensive against Mueller’s indictment of
Manafort, who served briefly as Trump’s campaign
manager.
Downing charges that a flood of media leaks has prevented
his client from getting a fair trial.
Downing presiding federal Judge T.S. Ellis III on April 30
to convene a hearing on media leaks. The judge has yet to
rule on the request.
DC reports:
In the latest filing, Downing charged that a
senior Justice Department official —
identified as Weissmann in exhibits
attached to the filing — briefed Associated
Press reporters in spring 2017, which led to
four breaking stories about the
government’s investigation into alleged
Trump-Russian collusion and Manafort.
“There is strong evidence that the highest-
level FBI and intelligence officials
authorized leaks to the press and, in fact,
leaked themselves,” Manafort’s filing
asserted.
According to the filing, a “senior Justice
Department prosecutor” met with the AP
reporters “last spring to discuss an
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investigation into Paul Manafort’s financial
records, a day before the wire service
published a major exposé disclosing
alleged money laundering made by the
former and now-embattled Trump
campaign chairman.” Manafort’s attorneys
finger Weissmann as the leaker to the AP
meeting.
Downing reported in the filing that “the meeting did not go
over well with FBI officials, who issued a complaint to the
Justice Department suggesting that the attorney did not
follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.”
On May 14, Mueller personally rejected Manafort’s
request for a hearing on media leaks, charging that the
April 30 motion did not address any media leaks regarding
secret grand jury testimony. However, they did not address
leaks that disclosed internal deliberations by his staff or
any other special counsel discoveries.
POLITICAL LOYALTY…CLINTON CRONY:
Weissmann’s political loyalty has been
scrutinized. He attended Hillary Clinton’s
election night party in New York City, for
example.
SUPPORTED ANTI-TRUMP AG SALLY YATES:
The lawyer also supported then-acting
Attorney General Sally Yates’ opposition to
Trump’s initial immigration ban.
“I am so proud,” Weissmann wrote about
Yates in an email the conservative group
Judicial Watch uncovered. “And in awe.
Thank you so much.”
Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and chairman
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
has asked the Justice Department to provide information
on the claim Weissmann met with news reporters.
When he met with the reporters, Weissmann headed the
fraud section of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division. He was one of the first attorneys Mueller hand- Just how rough special counsel Robert
picked to join the special counsel team in May 2017. Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes
back before this week’s indictment — to
Weissmann has a reputation for pushing the boundaries on the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.
prosecutions. The New York Times last October called him
a “pit bull” who used “scorched-earth tactics” against It has been reported that the agents checked Mr.
opponents. Manafort and wife Kathleen for guns as they broke into the
Alexandria condo pre-dawn by picking the lock.
Weissmann was also Mueller’s attorney on the ground
who oversaw the pre-dawn raid on Manafort’s home. A source familiar with the case told The Washington Times
the search was even more intrusive:
Weissmann also has allies within the Justice Department
and in the federal court system. Weissmann became An agent patted down Mrs. Manafort before she was
friends with Loretta Lynch who then headed the U.S. allowed to get out of bed.
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District for New York.
“Agents felt up Mrs. Manafort lying in bed
DEEP STATE CRONYISM: to see if she had guns,” the source said of
the intimidation.
“He was very friendly with Loretta,” a
former federal prosecutor who worked
in Brooklyn while Weissmann was there
told the Daily Beast. “They were all part
of a little gang together – they would go
out for lunch, they would go out for
dinner.”

Weissmann also became friends with fellow attorney Beryl

Howell who later joined the federal bench as a judge.
Howell now oversees Mueller’s grand jury in Washington,
D.C. It was Howell’s chambers that approved the raid on
the home and law office for Trump’s personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen.

Manafort’s lawyers claim the multitude of leaks coming In all, 12 FBI agents entered the home, guns drawn, and
from Mueller’s office stayed for hours.

“constitute outrageous government conduct
intended to deprive Mr. Manafort of his
Fifth and Sixth Amendment Constitutional
rights to due process and a trial by an
unbiased jury of his peers.”
Weissman’s reputation precedes him…he’s known to be a
slippery lawyer. We have to agree!
THERE IS A QUESTION REGARDING
THE ROUGH TREATMENT OF THE
MANAFORTS – WAS THE INTIMIDATION
TACTIC TO SEND A MESSAGE TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP?
The aggressive search of a prone sleepy woman is, the
source said, a hallmark of Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutor,
Andrew Weissmann. A former mob prosecutor in New
York, he specializes in turning witnesses against bigger
prey and is not afraid to make things rough for spouses,
too.
“Weissmann will want to maximize the
trauma to his family,” said Sidney Powell, a
Dallas appeals attorney critical of his
tactics.
A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to
comment.

The intimidation tactics of Mueller’s FBI are way off base

according to reports that claim Mrs. Manafort was
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 Weiner Laptop Comes Back To
Haunt FBI Brass In IG Report On Hillary Case
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 12:20 Pm

The Inspector General is set to release
his much-anticipated report on the FBI’s
handling of Hillary Clinton’s email
investigation and Weiner’s laptop has
come back to haunt the FBI brass.
As previously reported, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe knew about Hillary’s emails on Weiner’s laptop
as early as September of 2016 and didn’t alert the bureau
for an entire MONTH.
The FBI waited over a month to obtain a warrant to review
emails on Weiner’s laptop.

After the State Department released the latest round of

Weiner emails in January showing Huma Abedin
completely disregarded basic security protocols, President
Trump said Hillary’s aide should go to jail.

According to the Associate Press, inside sources say

Inspector General Horowitz’s much-anticipated report set
to be released in the next couple of weeks will fault the
FBI brass for sitting on the emails found on Weiner’s
laptop.

FBI agents found a trove of emails on Anthony Weiner’s
laptop as they were conducting an investigation into lewd
text messages the disgraced politician exchanged with an
underage teenager.
Judicial Watch counted over a dozen classified emails on
Weiner’s laptop, including the name of a CIA official.
Inspector General Horowitz announced to lawmakers on
Capitol Hill last week he completed a draft of his report on
the FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation.
The report was given to lawyers to prepare rebuttals;
according to Sara Carter, the final IG report should be
released in the next two weeks.

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 Democrats Yesterday:
Trump’s Claim Of Embedded Spy Is Nonsense…
Democrats Today:
The Use Of Embedded Spy Is A Vital Technique
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 12:54 Pm

The use of informants is vital for

counterintelligence.

This sure moved fast…

Democrats Yesterday–
Former DNI Chief James Clapper:
Rep. Adam Shiff tweeted this on
Sunday: Embedding spies is “a standard
investigative practice.”
Trump’s claim of an embedded “spy” is
nonsense.

Washington Post:
If the FBI was spying on Trump “It was to
protect him.”

Democrats Today–
Rep. Ted Lieu:
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 It’s True, Democratic Midterm Advantage Nearly Gone
The Latest Polls Confirm Trend Indicating Earlier Advantage In 'Generic
Ballot' Has Shrunk, While Republicans Appear To
Be On The Upswing
By Brendan Kirby
22 May 2018 At 12:56 PM
Fresh polls this week confirm a trend that is getting harder
to deny — the Democrats’ once-formidable lead in the so-
called generic congressional ballot has shriveled to a single
point in one survey half a year before midterm elections.
The latest evidence comes from Reuters/Ipos, which
published a poll Monday indicating that Democrats lead by
a single percentage point on the question of which party
voters favor for Congress. An Economist/YouGov survey
released Monday pegged the Democrats’ lead at 5 points.
That’s a far cry from the winter, when some polls were
forecasting a double-digit lead for the donkeys. A lead that
big, if it held up on Election Day, would produce a
wipeout of historic proportions.
Polling, the historical performance of the party in the
White House during midterms, numerous Republican
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incumbent retirements, and the results of special elections
had created a consensus that a blue wave would crest over
the country from sea to shining sea.
The main thing in doubt was whether Democrats would
regain a House majority by large or small margins.
To counter the trend, the Republican National Committee
(RNC) has set fundraising records on the way toward a
midterm election goal of $250 million. That gives the GOP
a significant advantage over the cash-strapped Democratic
National Committee (DNC).
"The Republican National Committee
knows what we're up against this
November," party Chairwoman Ronna
McDaniel wrote in The Hill Sunday. "We
know we're facing tough historical trends,
and many in the mainstream media have
all but called this election a loss for
Republicans. But we've defied history
before, and the Republican Party is in
prime position to do it again in 2018."
Much can happen in six months, but the latest round of
polling must have Republicans feeling better about their
prospects than they were earlier this year. Consider:
 The 5-point advantage for Democrats in the
Economist/YouGov poll compares with 9 points in a
previous survey released the first week of May.
 The 1-point advantage in the Reuters/Ipsos poll is
down from 6 points in a survey conducted the last week
of April.
 A Rasmussen Reports poll in early May, showing a 6-
point lead, was up 1 point from one the company
conducted the previous month. But Rasmussen on
Monday pegged President Donald Trump's approval
rating at 50 percent.
 A CNN poll in early May showed Democrats with a 3-
point lead, half of the party's advantage in March and
down from 16 points in February.
A Gallup poll on Monday also provided a boost to
Republicans who hope to run on an improving economy
since Trump took office. The venerable polling
organization reported that 67 percent of respondents
indicated that they believe now is a good time to find a
quality job in the United States.
That is the most optimistic response Gallup has gotten
since it first started asking the question in 2001. Never
before, in fact, had it reached even 15 percent. It has
improved 25 points since Trump won the 2016 presidential
election.
Majorities of both men and women and all age, income
and education groups expressed optimism.
Even as the unemployment rate started to tumble toward
the end of Barack Obama's presidency, according to
Gallup, many people remained skeptical about whether the
newly created jobs were good ones.
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"However, with Trump's election,
Republicans gained confidence that the
economy would produce quality jobs, and a
sizable percentage of Democrats held onto
the belief that decisions made during
Obama's presidency created the conditions
needed for the economy to prosper,"
Gallup contributor Jim Norman wrote on
the company's website.
"With unemployment continuing to drop,"
he continued, "Americans now survey the
job market with a higher level of confidence
that jobs are available and that the jobs are
ones worth having."
 GOP Lawmakers Unveil Resolution Officially Calling For
Second Special Counsel To Investigate The Investigators
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 1:02 Pm

On Tuesday, House Republicans
unveiled a resolution officially calling
for a second special counsel to
investigate misconduct at the highest
levels of the DOJ and FBI.
House Republicans also want a second special counsel to
investigate the FBI’s decision to end Hillary’s email
investigation and how and why the Trump-Russia probe
began.
On Monday, President Trump met with Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss
the FBI’s infiltration of his campaign.

Following the meeting, the DOJ agreed to allow

Congressional leaders to review pertinent classified
documents they have been requesting for months.

Rosenstein also requested Inspector General Horowitz

probe any irregularities in the FBI’s and DOJ’s tactics on
Trump’s campaign.

The Inspector General does not have subpoena power to

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) stands at the lectern flanked by House
Republicans
Fearless warriors in the Freedom Caucus are demanding a
second special counsel to investigate the FBI and DOJ
because the Justice Department cannot be trusted to
investigate themselves.
interview DOJ and FBI officials and he would also have to
refer findings to the Obama-appointed prosecutor, John
Huber.
We need a second special counsel or independent
prosecutor with subpoena power to conduct a real
investigation.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) led the charge Tuesday as he was

surrounded by approximately a dozen GOP lawmakers
during a press conference Tuesday.

“The Justice Department cannot be

expected to investigate itself,” Zeldin said,
echoing fellow members of the Freedom
Caucus.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, Reps. Ron Read the 12-page resolution on next page.
DeSantis, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Jody Hice, Jim
Jordan and others were present at the press conference.
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 ‘Bias’ Of NY Times Editors
Is So Obvious Even CBS Notices
By Scott Whitlock
May 22, 2018 1:09 PM EDT
The aggressive, biased coverage of The New York Times
against Donald Trump is so obvious that even the liberal
journalists at CBS noticed it. On Tuesday, CBS This
Morning hosts talked to Times Executive Editor Dean
Baquet and Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller
about their appearance in the new Showtime documentary
series The Fourth Estate.
Asked why the paper would allow cameras inside the
Times’s operation, Baquet insisted the program will show:
“...That we have a mission, that we make
mistakes. But that we work extremely
hard, that we're not biased.” This is the
same man who once insisted it was
important to call Trump a liar, but that
Hillary Clinton merely “exaggerates.”
CBS This Morning co-host John Dickerson didn’t seem to
buy Baquet’s claims of neutrality. Regarding the
Showtime documentary series, Dickerson described:
This series opens up on inauguration day, it's a cloudy day.
But it opens up with clouds over the White House and the
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editor staring at the screen as if they're watching a funeral.
Won't people watching this think this confirms every
feeling I have about The New York Times being biased
about this president?
Baquet casually replied that, of course, everyone was in a
bad mood:
“First off, it was a grim inaugural speech. It
was meant to be grim. It's hard not to have
had a grim reaction.”
This Morning co-host Gayle King — who donates to
Democrats and has encouraged her liberal friend
Oprah Winfrey to run for president — seemed to think
that the Times hiring new journalists means the paper isn’t
out to get Trump:
If you listen to President Trump, it would
seem that The New York Times tries on a
daily basis just to take him down, to try to
find things that are negative about him, to
take him down. In fact, you've expanded
the bureau to get it right.
Bureau chief Bumiller proudly touted the beefed up Times
effort:
The bureau's now almost 100 people. On
election day, 2016, it was 70. So, you can
see what we've done..... There's six White
House reporters now. There used to be
four. We've added an investigations team.
We've added more editors, more visual
journalists.
Question: Where was this investigative, curious zeal
during the Obama administration? Why, only now, does
the Times want to hold truth to power? Could it be the
same reason that The Washington Post waited for the
Trump era to add “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to the
front page?
A partial transcript of the segment is below.
CBS This Morning
5/22/18
8:32AM ET
JOHN DICKERSON: The New York Times coverage of
President Trump is the subject of a new documentary series. In
The Fourth Estate, viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at
Times journalists investigating and reporting the biggest
headlines of the administration's first year. The preview features
Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller editing with a D.C..-
based correspondent as they face a changing news cycle and a
tight deadline.
[Clip from The Fourth Estate]
DICKERSON: A calling from New York with suggestions for
Washington. Familiar to anybody? Elisabeth Bumiller joins us
now along with executive director Dean Baquet, who is also
featured in the series. The Fourth Estate airing will air on
Showtime, a division of CBS. Welcome to both of you. New York
and Washington, that great tension at the heart of any journalistic
enterprise. Dean Baquet, why did you let cameras into The New
York Times?
DEAN BAQUET (NYT executive editor): Because I thought if
people got a glimpse inside a newsroom, a modern newsroom
they would understand that we're human beings, that we have a
mission, that we make mistakes. But that we work extremely
hard, that we're not biased. I thought that the days when we
would not allow people to see that process should be over. I
thought it would help us.
DICKERSON: I want to get to the idea of human beings in a
second. But as you both know, any good story starts with a
strong lead. This series opens up on inauguration day, it's a
cloudy day. But it opens up with clouds over the White House
and the editor staring at the screen as if they're watching a
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funeral. Won't people watching this think this confirms every
feeling I have about The New York Times being biased about this
president?
BAQUET: Except right after that scene, as I recall — and it was
unrehearsed — I sort of break into a grin and just acknowledge
how big a story it is. I mean, I really don't think so. I really don't
think so. First off it was a grim inaugural speech. It was meant to
be grim. It's hard not to have had a grim reaction.
DICKERSON: The actual text of the speech and how it was
delivered.
BAQUET: Yes. That's right. I mean, this was the “American
Carnage” speech. But I also think people saw a newsroom
suddenly sort of turn up the volume and get ready to cover it and
see the joy in reporting.
GAYLE KING: And say we're going to get it right. The thing that
struck me — to follow up on what you said, Dean. A, you show
how hard it is to work. And at one point, I think it was Mazetti who
said we want to be first, but more importantly, we want to be
right. And there were times a story was delayed while you were
working hard to make sure you get it right.
ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT Washington bureau chief): Right. I
think that was one of the Michael Flynn stories. And we delayed,
and the Post beat us on that story. And we — I think we came
back really strongly the rest of the year and right after that. You
see the tension that we have and the competition. There's just a
lot of stresses on us.
KING: Because if you listen to President Trump, it would seem
that The New York Times tries on a daily basis just to take him
down, to try to find things that are negative about him, to take him
down. In fact, you've expanded the bureau to get it right.
BUMILLER: Right. The bureau's now almost 100 people. On
election day, 2016, it was 70. So, you can see what we’ve done.
We've added — There’s six White House reporters now. There
used to be four. We've added an investigations team. We've
added more editors, more visual journalists. We're out of desks in
the bureau basically.
...
NORAH O’DONNELL: Elisabeth, you've been a longtime
Washington reporter. We've worked together, covering
campaigns in the White House and Pentagon together. Now
you're editing. For many who say where do the sources come
from? And the term leaking from the White House, it always
suggests that someone has an agenda. Explain how you get
information from the White House and the administration.
BUMILLER: Well, there's a lot of different ways, as you know.
You cover it -- outside-in strategy. You cover the hill. You cover
the agencies, and then you check with the White House. The
idea that leaking is sort of this passive thing, that we sit there and
receive information — this is not true. These reporters — one of
the things I've learned as an editor is to watch so many reporters
work so many sources in different ways. They're amazing. It's a
lot of hard work. It's a lot of getting people to trust you. It's
digging and putting stories together.
O’DONNELL: And different white houses have treated — all
treated the press antagonistically. George W. Bush, Clinton -- the
Obama administration was extremely antagonistic.
BAQUET: This one, of course is —
O’DONNELL: Is publicly antagonistic
BAQUET: And more antagonistic.
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O’DONNELL: Yes. How in terms of sourcing do you find your
reporters find it?
BUMILLER: It's hard because you hear the exact opposite from
senior people at the White House in the same hour. You've got to
balance out what is true and what is not. It's a much bigger
reporting challenge. That said, I was saying we're not passive
recipients of leaks. The federal bureaucracy is very leaky right
now because it's — it's a bureaucracy that's been there for a
long time. And many of them are not happy with what Trump is
doing. So we're finding that — also at the White House, there's a
lot of different agendas and different -- different people fighting
with each other. So that creates —
O’DONNELL: Game of Thrones.
BUMILLER: A lot of information.
...
 Scrambling Holder Pushes DOJ
To Defy President’s Order To Investigate FBI
By Ben Marquis
May 22, 2018 At 1:15pm
As the Donald Trump-Russia collusion narrative designed
to smear and stymie the Trump presidency continues to
unravel, some members of the previous administration
have become even more outspoken and shrill in their
condemnations of how things are being run than they
already were.
The latest to do so publicly is former Obama
administration Attorney General Eric Holder, who took to
Twitter to express his grave concern over Trump’s demand
that the Department of Justice look into whether former
President Barack Obama’s FBI/DOJ investigated his 2016
campaign for “political purposes.”
However, Holder urged the DOJ to “simply say no” to
what he viewed as a demand from Trump that was outside
“DOJ norms.”
Trump had tweeted Sunday,
“I hereby demand, and will do so officially
tomorrow, that the Department of Justice
look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ
infiltrated or surveilled the Trump
Campaign for Political Purposes – and if
any such demands or requests were made
by people within the Obama
Administration!”
On Monday, Trump hosted a meeting at the White House
with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray, according to The Hill. The
meeting’s goal was to no doubt discuss the specifics of the
order from the president.
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Trump’s tweeted order on Sunday and subsequent White
House meeting led to Holder’s Monday evening tweet.
“More DOJ norms being eroded. Trump-a
SUBJECT of the investigation-wants
access to material related to the inquiry,”
the former attorney general tweeted.
“His Congressional supporters want
evidence connected to an ongoing
investigation. Time for DOJ/FBI to simply
say no-protect the institutions and time
tested norms,” Holder added.
Holder, who served as head of the DOJ from 2009-2015,
has been an especially vocal critic of Trump since the 2016
campaign season, and has even intimated that he is
considering mounting a presidential challenge against
Trump in 2020.
This most recent criticism of Trump came on the heels of
revelations via FBI leaks that the bureau had utilized at
least one “informant” during the election season to “spy”
on the Trump campaign and dig up dirt on alleged
connections to and collusion with Russia.
Unfortunately for Holder and his urging of the DOJ to
disobey an order from the president, White House press
secretary Sarah Sanders announced following the Monday
meeting that the DOJ had asked Inspector General Michael
Horowitz’s office to “expand its current investigation to
include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics
concerning the Trump Campaign.”
Furthermore, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was
set to arrange a meeting involving top law enforcement
officials and top members of Congress to “review” certain
“highly classified materials” related to the FBI’s
investigation of the Trump campaign that have been
sought by lawmakers, Sanders said.
The question that must be asked, given the shrill tweet by
Holder and others in recent days and weeks, is that if the
actions of the DOJ and FBI under Obama were entirely
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above board and beyond reproach, as has been insisted,
why are they protesting any inquiry into those actions so
much? Surely they have nothing to hide, right?
To paraphrase a line from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” that
seems particularly relevant at this point, the former
attorney general doth protest too much, methinks.
 Clapper Was ‘Thinking Of Something
Else’ When He Lied To Congress
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
1:19 PM 05/22/2018

When co-host Meghan McCain pressed him on whether it

was a lie, he doubled back on his first answer.

“No, it isn’t a lie. I was thinking about

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper something else, another program” —
claimed Tuesday that he “made a mistake,” but that he Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
didn’t lie when he told Sen. Ron Wyden in 2013 that the Surveillance Act, he said.
National Security Agency doesn’t collect data on
Americans.
He added that Sen. Wyden asked the question in a
“euphemistic way”:
Clapper was defending himself on “The View” after
President Donald Trump called him a “lying machine.”
“I didn’t break the code.”
WATCH:
Clapper continued,

“Had I still been on the same page with him

and understood what he was asking me, I
would have still been at a bad place
because at the time that program was
classified.”

A report from The Guardian later that year showed that

Clapper’s statement was false, that the NSA does collect
phone metadata on millions of Americans.

Trump tweeted in April:

“He was asking me about one [thing], and I
was thinking about another,” Clapper said
of Wyden. “So, I made a mistake, but I
didn’t lie.” Wyden’s question, however, was simple and clear:

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“Does the NSA collect any type of data at
all on millions or hundreds of millions of
Americans?”
“No, sir,” Clapper responded at the time.
“Not wittingly. There are cases where they
could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but
not wittingly.”
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Clapper has this week defended an FBI informant nested in
the Trump campaign. The former Director of National
Intelligence said last week that the informant was “a good
thing.” During his interview with “The View” Tuesday, he
said Trump should be glad that an FBI informant was
secretly observing his 2016 campaign for possible Russian
interference.
 FBI’s Anti-Trump Spying Was ‘Running Out Of Gas’
Sam Clovis, Target Of Agency’s Attempt To Penetrate Campaign, Describes His
Four Interactions With The FBI's Mole, Said Talks Were Strictly Academic
By Brendan Kirby
22 May 2018 At 1:29 PM
Increasingly desperate efforts by the FBI to penetrate
President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign indicate the
bureau was getting desperate to keep the
counterintelligence operation going, according to an
adviser who was the target of a government informant.
Sam Clovis, who joined the Trump campaign as an adviser
in 2015, recounted Tuesday his interactions with Stefan
Halper — the man reported to be working as an FBI
informant.
Clovis (pictured above) said on “The Laura Ingraham
Show” that he views the FBI’s use of Halper as a sign that
a “small cabal” of agents and Department of Justice (DOJ)
officials were trying to avoid failure after months of
fruitless efforts to identify a conspiracy involving the
campaign.
The FBI hoped Halper’s interactions with the campaign
would produce probable cause to keep surveillance
operations going, Clovis said.
“They were running out of steam,” he said.
“September [2016] — if you remember,
September’s only six weeks or eight weeks
away from the election, and they were
running out of gas.”
Clovis recalled that Halper, who had served in previous
Republican administrations and had been a CIA source in
the past, contacted him during the campaign. He said the
two men set up a September 1 meeting over coffee.
Clovis described the ensuring conversation as a high-
minded back and forth between two academics that had
little to do with the campaign. He said Halper talked about
his academic research and offered it to the campaign.
Clovis said he thought little of the meeting at the time.
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“It was an academic discussion,” he said.
“It wasn’t anything substantive. It wasn’t
anything mechanical about the campaign. It
was like two faculty members in the lounge
talking about research.”
Clovis said he believes Halper used the meeting to gain
access to Carter Page and later George Papadopoulos, two
low-level Trump advisers who have come under suspicion
for their contacts with Russians.
Papadopoulos last year pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
about those contacts. And Page, though he has not been
charged with a crime, was the subject of a surveillance
warrant granted under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA).
Clovis said he and Halper exchanged about four emails.
One of those messages had attachments that Clovis claims
not to have read.
“To this day, I’ve not opened those
attachments,” he said. “I have no idea
what’s in ’em. And I never reported on my
meeting.” to superiors in the campaign.
Clovis said he believes Halper was trying to find a
“weakness or a soft spot” in the campaign in order to
create an “audit trail” back to the emails of Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton that the Russians supposedly
had.
Halper was the key to keeping a sputtering investigation
going, Clovis said.
“I think they were scrambling even at this
point in time, trying to find justification for
furthering the investigation,” he said. “And I
really think this is the doing of a very small
cabal of people at the FBI and the DOJ,
who isolated themselves, who created
circumstances to create this investigation.”
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), in a separate appearance on
the radio show, said Halper’s role seems almost to cross
the line on entrapment. He said Congress needs to see
precisely how Department of Justice officials directed him.
 “It seems to me that some of his
interactions, it was almost as if he was
trying to manufacture additional quote-
unquote ‘contacts’ between these kind of
tangential figures of the Trump campaign
and people who may be affiliated with
Russia somehow,” he said.
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Despite a string of indictments and guilty pleas racked up
by independent counsel Robert Mueller, DeSantis said the
probe has failed to produce evidence of collusion.
“He’s gotten convictions about things
having nothing to do with the underlying
reason that he was appointed,” he said.
 Liberals Are Curiously Incurious
About This Part Of The Russia Investigation
Derek Hunter - Contributor
1:46 PM 05/22/2018
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton hugs U.S. President
Barack Obama as she arrives onstage at the end of his speech on the
third night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia, July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young
On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast…
Isn’t it odd how liberals have no desire to see any evidence
as to why the entire Russian collusion investigation started
in the first place? They simply don’t care to know what
caused the Obama administration to launch a spying
operation against the Trump campaign or use the system
created to spy on foreigners against American citizens.
They’re cool with all of it because it’s against their
political enemies. But what if it had been turned on Hillary
Clinton? That’s a question Alan Dershowitz had for CNN
hack Jeffrey Toobin. To no one’s surprise, Toobin dodged
the question, preferring to toe the party line rather than be
intellectually honest.
Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz debate on CNN. CNN
screenshot
But the question must be asked
— if the concern from the
Obama administration was that
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the Russians were trying to
mess with the election, so
much so that they felt the need
to spy on the Trump campaign,
why didn’t they spy on the
Clinton campaign for the same
reason?
The answer seems pretty clear, and we dissect it.
Was there a second informant? Did the Obama
administration attempt to send more spies into the Trump
campaign? A former campaign aide says they did.
Why don’t liberals care?
We tell you why.
What the hell is happening with people? A man was
arrested for urinating on the back of a seat on a flight from
Colorado to South Carolina because, well, we don’t know
but have to assume (or hope) he was drunk out of his mind.
How does something like this come about? It’s because
people have become selfish monsters in the age of social
media. When you obliterate the line between being famous
and infamous the only thing that matters is getting
attention. And when that happens, social norms get
destroyed. Maybe these jerks were always around and we
didn’t notice before, but it seems more likely society is
changing for the worse. We explain.
Finally, Starbucks has transformed itself into America’s
bathroom. A new company policy allows anyone,
customer or not, to use their bathrooms and hang out in
their stores. What could go wrong? Who wouldn’t want to
buy an $8 latte where homeless junkies shower in the
bathroom sink? How long until people using their tables
and free wifi start ordering food to be delivered to their
“mobile office”? This is weapons-grade stupid.
The Daily Daily Caller Podcast is a daily look and
mocking of the news from a conservative perspective.
Hosted by Derek Hunter, it is available in audio form
Monday-Thursday and will have a video option on
Fridays.
 Why Hasn't Mueller
Indicted Anybody For The DNC Hack?
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 05/22/2018 - 14:32
During his one year leading the probe into the alleged
misdeeds of President Trump and his associates, Special
Counsel Robert Mueller has issued a number of
indictments, including against 13 Russian nationals who
will likely never find their way into US custody. But as the
Hill pointed out Tuesday, there's one election-related crime
that Mueller has apparently been reluctant to pursue: That
is, the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's
emails by Guccifur 2.0, a hacker who has been tenuously
linked to the Russian GRU.
Some legal experts say Mueller could be
holding off on an indictment for the end
of the investigation because going
public would be too damaging. It's
possible that it could reveal "the
information they might posses to prove
the case," said Mark Zaid, a Washington
attorney specializing in national security
issues.
Others said an indictment for the DNC hack could've been
filed under seal so the target wouldn't be aware of the
charges - and thus might unwittingly travel to a jurisdiction
where they could be extradited to the US.
And for what it's worth, Roger Stone, an early Trump
political advisor who once bragged about his direct
contact with Wikileaks, has been saying that he expects
to be indicted by Mueller. One of the major unanswered
questions when it comes to the DNC hack is whether
Mueller can link it to an American suspect or suspects.
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"If there are Americans involved, whether
or not they have anything to do with the
campaign, then I would expect an
indictment," said Steven Cash, a lawyer at
Day Pitney.
While leaks in recent months have suggested that Mueller
does, in fact, have enough evidence to bring charges
related to the DNC hack, the DOJ hasn't produced
anything conclusive to link Russia to the incident.
Furthermore, the sophisticated Russian "disinformation
campaign" carried out through Facebook and other social
media through the placement of "fraudulent" ads bearing
controversial messages has also been exposed as a gross
exaggeration.
Even if Mueller had an iron-clad case, pursuing charges
against a Russian national - Russia is not obligated to
extradite its citizens - would be a futile exercise, since they
would likely just modify their behavior to avoid traveling
to jurisdictions where they'd be vulnerable.
Still, rumors persist that Mueller has
identified senior Russian officials who
were somehow involved in the hack. US
media reported that Guccifer 2.0, the
hacker responsible for the attack, was
working for Russia's GRU.
Of course, there has been plenty of suspicious activity by
Democrats that might deter Mueller from looking too
closely. If the Democrats were, in fact, victimized by
Russians, why did they refuse the FBI access to their
servers?
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee, which
famously found no conclusive evidence of
collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia, said he expects Mueller to
indict the people behind the DNC hack.
The only question, Schiff says, is whether the indictment
will be limited to Russians, or will also include US
citizens.
 "Flood Is Coming": New Comey-McCabe
Emails Suggest CNN And FBI Coordination
Over Steele Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:11
Several new strings have been tacked across the corkboard
in the rapidly unraveling 2016 election scandal. Recently
obtained FBI emails shed light on what appears to have
been high-level coordination between the FBI and CNN
surrounding the release of the infamous "Steele" dossier.
In an April leak of the Comey memos, we learned that the
former FBI Director briefed then-President-Elect Donald
Trump on the dossier on January 6, 2017 after he wrote in
a memo that various news outlets - "CNN in particular" -
were "looking for a news hook," and would soon be
reporting on it.
“I said media like CNN had [the dossier]
and were looking for a news hook,” Comey
wrote of his interaction with Trump.
CNN, on the other hand, considered
Comey's meeting with Trump to have
legitimized the document - making it
their journalistic responsibility to report
on it.
Thus - any coordination between the FBI
and CNN surrounding its report on the
Steele dossier is highly relevant,
since the Jan. 10, 2017 release of the dossier by
Buzzfeed immediately after CNN's report - along with the
subsequent firing of James Comey on May 9,
prompted the launch of special counsel
Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation.
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CNN's bombshell report on Jan. 10 of last year includes a
claim that Comey gave Trump a two-page summary of the
dossier - which Comey denies. Regardless,
the fact that CNN knew about the
Comey-Trump briefing and a specific
claim about a two-page memo begs the
question; who leaked to CNN?
New FBI emails obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
provide a look behind the scenes surrounding Comey's
briefing of Trump, as well as what was discussed after the
CNN report - suggesting that former Deputy
director Andrew McCabe - who was fired for leaking to
the press,
had specific knowledge of CNN's plans
to publish.
Hours before Comey briefed Trump,
FBI chief of staff James Rybicki e-
mailed staff that Comey “is coming into
HQ briefly now for an update from the
sensitive matter team.”
Just as the same officials dubbed the Clinton e-mail
investigation the “mid-year exam” and the anti-Trump
counterintelligence investigation “Crossfire Hurricane,”
they also used various phrases using “sensitive” to refer
obliquely to the dossier.
Two days after the briefing, on January 8, 2017,
former FBI deputy director Andrew
McCabe, who earlier this year was fired
and then referred for criminal prosecution
by the DOJ inspector general for
repeatedly lying about media leaks, wrote
an e-mail to top FBI officials with the
subject, “Flood is coming.” -The
Federalist
“CNN is close to going forward with the
sensitive story,” McCabe wrote in an
 email to Comey, Rybicki, and two others. "first learned that media outlets,
“The trigger for them is they know the including CNN, may have possessed the
material was discussed in the brief and Steele dossier. "
presented in an attachment.”
As The Federalist notes,
McCabe does not reveal how he knew CNN’s “trigger”
was Comey's briefing to Trump. "To date, there is no public evidence that
the FBI ever investigated the leaks to
McCabe shot off a second email shortly thereafter to media about the briefing between Trump
then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates along with her and Comey. When asked in a recent
deputy, Matthew Alexrod, with the subject line "News." interview by Fox News Channel’s Bret
Baier, Comey scoffed at the idea that the
“Just as an FYI, and as expected,” FBI would even need to investigate the
McCabe wrote, “it seems CNN is close to leak of a secret briefing with the incoming
running a story about the sensitive president."
reporting.” Again, how McCabe knew this “Did you or your subordinates leak that?”
is unclear and begs investigation. Baier asked.
“No,” Comey responded. “I don’t know who
In a Monday letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Sen.
leaked it.”
Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, provides a timeline of “Did you ever try to find out?” Baier asked.
events which correspond to the newly obtained FBI emails, “Who leaked an unclassified public
and asks the agency to provide a list of all the members of document?” Comey said, even though
the "sensitive matter" team referenced in Rybicki's January Baier’s question was about leaking details
6 email. of a briefing of the incoming president, not
the dossier. “No,” Comey said.
Johnson also wants to know when FBI officials
Johnson's letter can be seen below. He has requested a
response by Wray no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 4.

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 POTUS Trump Smacks Down Reporter Asking About Rod
Rosenstein “What’s Your Next Question, Please?”
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 3:07 Pm

VIDEO:
On Tuesday, President Trump hosted South
Korean President Moon Jae-In at the White
House and took questions from reporters.

One reporter decided that it was a good time

to ask a question about Rod Rosenstein
which prompted President Trump to scold
her.

Earlier Monday, President Trump held a

“Do you have confidence in Rod Rosenstein?” a
meeting at the White House with Deputy
reporter rudely asked the President while
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
ignoring Moon Jae-In.
Director Chris Wray.
President Trump, visibly annoyed, looked away
After the meeting, Rosenstein bent the knee and asked the
and said, “Uh, what’s your next question,
Inspector General to investigate any irregularities with the
please?”
FBI’s or DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s campaign.
The reporter attempted to repeat her question so Trump
The DOJ also agreed to allow Congress to review the
scolded her.
requested documents relating to the FBI’s infiltration into
Trump’s campaign.
“No, excuse me, I have the President of South
Korea here, okay? He doesn’t want to hear
Rosenstein knows what is in these documents. He signed
these questions,” Trump said to the reporter
off on the fourth FISA application renewal to spy on
who continued to shout out her question.
Carter Page and penned the memo detailing Mueller’s
scope.
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 Sarah Sanders Nukes
The Press Over Reporting On Iran Deal
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
3:30 PM 05/22/2018

Iran strategy yesterday. POTUS will ensure

Iran has no path to a nuclear weapon.”
Sanders was referring to the plan unveiled Monday by the
Secretary of State Pompeo. In a speech to the Heritage
Foundation, Pompeo said that the administration would
bring Iran to its knees with “unprecedented financial
pressure on the leaders of the regime,” and sanctions.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders hit back at

reports that the administration had no plan after the Iran
nuclear deal was terminated.

Sanders tweeted Tuesday that the

“Iran deal was one of the worst deals in

history and didn’t guarantee the safety of
Americans,”
There were multiple criticisms in the press that the Trump
administration had no plan. The Nation published this
and stated that that was why Trump terminated it.
month that Trump has no plan on Iran other than “war.”

“Media said we had no plan,” Sanders said,

“Wrong! Sec Pompeo unveiled our new
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 ‘The Last One We Would Call On To Make A Deal’ —
Sarah Sanders Blasts Chuck Schumer Into Orbit
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
3:59 PM 05/22/2018
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during the
briefing Tuesday.
WATCH:
A reporter asked about Schumer’s comments that ripped
Trump over recent negotiations with China.
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Sanders’ response held nothing back.
“Like I said before, Senator Schumer is not
somebody that this White House will ever
take advice from on how to negotiate or get
a good deal on anything based on his track
record and his weakness when it comes to
China.”
“We finally have a president that is actually
calling out China on their unfair trade
practices and not just calling them out but
actually doing something about it. And
aggressively pushing forward in
negotiations. Something we haven’t seen in
decades. Senator Schumer is probably the
last one we would call on to make a deal.”
 Rep. Matt Gaetz: There Was
No “Legal Or Factual Basis” For
Jeff Sessions Recusal (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 4:15 Pm

He betrayed the president. He knew when he

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Jake Tapper
Tuesday afternoon there was no “factual
basis” for Jeff Sessions recusal.
Gaetz also said Sessions is essentially
confined to a corner of the Justice
Department because he’s being played by
Rosenstein.
was sworn in that he was going to recuse
himself and the very next day he put the recusal
in motion. He never told the president about
that. And by the way he cited the regulation in
his recusal… He cited the wrong law. It didn’t
apply.
The DOJ regulation Sessions cited — 28 CFR 45.2— says

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Congressman Gaetz to elaborate “no DOJ employee may participate in a criminal
on his criticism of Jeff Sessions and his decision to recuse investigation or prosecution if he has a personal
himself from his duties as Attorney General. or political relationship with any person or
organization substantially involved in the
Gaetz slammed Jeff Sessions. conduct that is the subject of the investigation
or prosecution, or who would be directly
“I think Mr. Rosenstein is deeply conflicted. I affected by the outcome.”
think that in many cases he is playing Jeff
Sessions. I think Jeff Sessions has been VIDEO:
functionally set off into a corner of the Justice
Department on these critical issues. I don’t think
there was a legal or factual basis for his recusal
and I think that it has really hurt the country,”
Gaetz said.

Congressman Gaetz is correct. In fact, Jeff

Sessions cited the wrong law when he
recused himself from the Russia witch hunt.

In March 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions

announced he will recuse himself from investigations
related to the 2016 presidential campaign including the
alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Sessions made the announcement the day after he was

sworn in as Attorney General after advice from Obama
lawyers in the Department of Justice.

FOX News contributor and legal expert Gregg Jarrett told

Sean Hannity recently that Sessions used the WRONG
LAW when announcing his recusal. He took advice from
OBAMA OFFICIALS and they misled him.
Sessions’ decision to recuse himself allowed Rod
Gregg Jarrett: Rosenstein to takeover which ultimately led to Mueller’s
appointment.
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 FACT CHECK: CNN Claims There
Aren’t 13 Democrats On The Mueller Probe
David Sivak | Fact Check Editor
May 22, 2018
Chris Cillizza, editor-at-large for CNN, fact-checked a
series of “untruths” and “exaggerations” tweeted by
President Donald Trump Sunday.
In one of those tweets, Trump claimed that there are “13
Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats” on special
counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers.
Cillizza disputed the tweet.
“Trump’s claim that there are 13 Democrats
on Mueller’s team is also false,” he
asserted.
Verdict: False
Cillizza cites incomplete and outdated findings. The Daily
Caller News Foundation first reported that there were 13
registered Democrats and zero Republicans known to work
for Mueller in February. The probe brought on a 14th
Democrat in May.
Fact Check:
Since the early days of the Russia probe, conservatives
have questioned whether members of the investigation
were politically conflicted.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December that one of
the lawyers, Andrew Weissmann, attended the election
night party for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Revelations that FBI agent Peter Strozk, a former member
of the team, exchanged anti-Trump text messages with
another FBI employee fueled further speculation.
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Republicans like Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy began to say
that many of Mueller’s hires were Democratic donors,
leading fact checking websites to evaluate the claim.
Politifact found that while Mueller himself is a registered
Republican, nine of the publicly-known lawyers had
donated to Democratic candidates, according to filings
with the Federal Elections Commission.
In February, TheDCNF found two additional Democratic
donors by searching through campaign finance records at
the state level. (All told, we found nearly $74,000 in
contributions to Democratic candidates and $2,750 to
Republican candidates.)
As part of this analysis, TheDCNF also identified the voter
registration status of all 16 publicly-known lawyers, the
first time the full composition of the team had been
reported. Thirteen were registered Democrats, three were
registered as independents and zero were registered
Republicans.
Trump began tweeting about “13 hardened Democrats”
weeks later, prompting The Washington Post, The New
York Times and others to fact check the claim.
Cillizza relies on these outlets to dispute Trump, but he
cherry picks sentences from their articles that imply there
are fewer than 13 Democrats on the Russia probe.
He cites WaPo, for example, writing,
“According to The Washington Post’s Fact
Checker, five of the 16 known members of
Mueller’s team donated to Hillary Clinton’s
2016 campaign.”
But this finding only deals with a small subset of the
lawyers – those who donated specifically to Clinton.
More importantly, Cillizza overlooks a key sentence in the
WaPo article that supports Trump’s claim:
“The Daily Caller said voter registration
records indicate that 13 of the attorneys are
Democrats and three have no party
affiliation.”
A subsequent fact check by WaPo substantiates the “13
Democrats” claim as well.
Cillizza makes the same oversight with a fact check from
the Times.
“The New York Times says that nine of the
17 known lawyers on Mueller’s team have
donated to Democratic campaigns in the
past,” he writes.
But the NYT goes on to say that an additional four lawyers
are either registered Democrats or have identified as one
online, for a total of 13 Democrats.
Trump has at times exaggerated the political leanings of
the team; he once claimed that
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“the people that have been hired are all
Hillary Clinton supporters.”
And defenders of the special counsel investigation point
out that Mueller may not legally consider political
affiliation when making hiring decisions.
But the basic claim that Mueller brought on 13 registered
Democrats is not only true – Trump actually understates
the number.
Since TheDCNF first reported the registration status of the
lawyers, another attorney has been added:
Uzo Asonye, a registered Democrat who donated to
Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign.
 Secret FBI Team That Coordinated Set-Up Of Trump
Was Pressured By CNN – Guess Who Was
CNN DOJ Reporter At The Time?
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 4:28 Pm

Director Comey memorialized his discussion

with President-elect Trump via an email to
senior FBI leadership. Director Comey wrote, “I
said there was something that Clapper wanted
me to speak to PE [President Elect] about alone
or in a very small group.” Director Comey wrote,
“I then executed the sessions exactly as I had
planned,” and “I said media like CNN had them
and were looking for a news hook.”

4. January 8, 2017, 12:08 p.m.

On Monday Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sent
sent a letter to the FBI Director regarding an email to senior FBI leadership with the
phony Steele Russia dossier. subject line “Flood is coming.” Mr. McCabe
wrote, “CNN is close to going forward with
Explosive new e-mails show FBI the sensitive story. … The trigger for them
brass discussed dossier briefing [CNN] is they know the material was discussed
details with CNN. in the brief and presented in an attachment.”

Senator Johnson accused the FBI of having a “sensitive
matter team” as reference by FBI Chief of Staff Jim
Rybicki in an January 6, 2017 email to unspecified
recipients.
Senator Johnson outlined the time line of
events and communications between FBI
officials, President-elect Trump and CNN.
5. January 8, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
Mr. McCabe emailed then-Deputy Attorney
General Sally Yates and then-Principal Deputy
Attorney General Matthew Axelrod with the
subject line “News.” Mr. McCabe wrote, “Just an
FYI, and as expected, it seems CNN is close to
running a story about the sensitive reporting.”

1. January 6, 2017, 9:44 a.m.
FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki sent an email
to unspecified recipients stating, “the director is
coming into HQ briefly now for an update from
the sensitive matter team.”
2. January 6, 2017, afternoon.
Two days later on January 10, 2017, CNN ran the story
about the unverified and salacious allegations made in the
anti-Trump dossier with BuzzFeed publishing the dossier
within a couple hours of CNN’s report.
So how do you suppose James Comey knew
that CNN was about to run the salacious
anti-Trump dossier back in January 2017?

Director Comey met with President-elect And who could have been pressuring leaker
Trump. James Comey with the discredited dossier?

3. January 7, 2017. Guess who started working at CNN covering

the DOJ around this time?

Valerie Jarrett’s daughter Laura!

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 Laura Jarrett was hired by CNN in the fall of
2016 to cover the Justice Department.
CNN made the announcement in January 2017.
Via American Lookout:
CNN Hires Valerie Jarrett’s Daughter
CNN has assigned the daughter of one of
President Obama’s top advisers to cover the
Department of Justice.
.
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The network announced in a press release that
Valerie Jarrett’s daughter Laura would be one
of four reporters to cover the Justice
Department in 2017. The New York Post broke
the news that Jarrett had been hired in
September, though a formal announcement
about her beat did not come until Thursday.
Jarrett has long wanted to work in television news, though
being an objective reporter was not her original goal. She
told Vanity Fair in a 2009 “Bright Young Things” profile
that her chief ambition was to “work as a TV-news legal
analyst.” Her favorite cause was “promoting civil rights
and social equality for women and minorities.”
 BREAKING: Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Flips –
Dirty Cop Mueller Hopes To Use Him
To Squeeze Trump Lawyer
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 4:52 Pm
Evgeny A. Freidman, Michael Cohen’s
business partner in a taxi cab venture
quietly decided to cooperate with the
government as a potential witness to avoid
jail time.
Robert Mueller could then use this as
leverage to pressure Trump’s personal
lawyer, Michael Cohen to work with the
Special Counsel investigation into ‘Russian
interference.’
The New York Times reports:
A significant business partner of Michael D.
Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has
quietly agreed to cooperate with the
government as a potential witness, a
development that could be used as leverage to
pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special
counsel examining Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election.
Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A.
Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known
as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will
assist government prosecutors in state or
federal investigations, according to a person
briefed on the matter.
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FBI agents raided Michael Cohen’s office and residence
recently looking for ways to get Trump’s lawyer to flip.
Since the raid, Cohen’s bank records have leaked to the
public through Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti.
Others in Cohen’s inner circle have been a target of
investigators in an effort to get Cohen to cooperate with
Robert Mueller.
Mr. Freidman has been Mr. Cohen’s partner in
the taxi business for years, managing cabs for
him even after New York City regulators barred
Mr. Freidman last year from continuing to
manage medallions.
Mr. Freidman, who was disbarred earlier this
month, had been accused of failing to pay more
than $5 million in taxes and faced four counts of
criminal tax fraud and one of grand larceny —
all B felonies. Each carries a maximum prison
sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
Instead, he appeared in court in Albany on
Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a single count of
evading only $50,000 worth of taxes; he faces
five years of probation if he fulfills the terms of
his agreement, the judge, Patrick Lynch of
Albany County court, said during the roughly
20-minute proceeding.
Since Mueller has nothing on President Trump and his so-
called collusion with the Russians, his team of hack
lawyers have focused on anyone connected to Trump in an
effort to destroy people’s lives.
 Rep. Gaetz Fact Checks
CNN’s Tapper On FISA Abuse
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
5:33 PM 05/22/2018

Republican congressman Matt Gaetz fact checked CNN
anchor Jake Tapper Tuesday over alleged FISA warrant
abuses by the Department of Justice.
WATCH:
“We have received briefings from the FBI
regarding the elements of their application,”
Gaetz said. “We’ve also read the memo from
the House Intelligence Committee…and that
memo laid out pretty clearly that the principle
piece of evidence, the first piece of evidence,
was this dossier that was paid for by the DNC.”

Tapper shot back that George Papadopoulos’ meeting with

an Australian diplomat was the impetus for the
investigation into the Trump campaign.

“No, that was a memo from Peter Strzok that

did initially launch the investigation but that
didn’t lead to the application before the FISA
court,” Gaetz explained.

Gaetz added of the FISA application,

Gaetz is alleging that the DOJ improperly obtained a FISA
warrant to spy on the Trump campaign using the
unverified Steele dossier.
Tapper asked how Gaetz knows that anything improper
occurred before the FISA court since he is not a member of
the House Intelligence Committee.
.
“They gave no indication that the DNC was
involved in paying for [the Steele dossier], no
indication that Christopher Steele was involved,
there was only a vague reference to Glenn
Simpson.”

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 Mike Flynn Jr. Lights Up Twitter With Cryptic Tweet
“You’re All Going Down”
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 5:34 Pm
General Flynn’s son, Mike Flynn Jr. lit up
Twitter after he fired off a cryptic tweet this
week.
“You’re all going down,” Flynn Jr. said. “Mark
my word”
Mike Flynn Jr. sent a message to the Deep State criminals
on Monday.
Flynn Jr.’s hard hitting tweet went viral and galvanized his
family’s supporters.
Mike Flynn Jr. tweeted: You’re all going down. You
know who you are. Mark my word….
The gloves are off.
President Trump knows he has to take matters into his own
hands since AG Sessions is AWOL.
On Sunday, Trump unleashed and demanded the DOJ
investigate the FBI’s infiltration of his campaign.
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Things moved quickly.
On Monday, President Trump held a meeting
at the White House with Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director
Chris Wray.
After the meeting, Rosenstein bent the knee and asked the
Inspector General to investigate any irregularities with the
FBI’s or DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s campaign.
The DOJ also agreed to allow Congress to review the
requested documents relating to the FBI’s infiltration into
Trump’s campaign.
Monday evening, Trump’s former campaign aide Michael
Caputo dropped another bombshell and revealed a
SECOND informant approached him during the 2016
election.
Caputo said another agency besides Obama’s FBI planted
a spy inside of Trump’s campaign then immediately called
out former DNI Chief James Clapper.
Deep State corruptors and criminals such as Brennan and
Clapper have gone into panic mode as their crimes bubble
up to the surface.
It was recently revealed former FBI Director
James Comey and former acting Attorney
General Sally Yates targeted General Flynn
with a counterintel investigation ONE YEAR
before his December 2016 phone call to
Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the
Trump transition.
Obama’s corrupt agencies had a counterintelligence
operation open on General Flynn during the Trump
transition and kept it going because of an illegal media
leak about his call to Russian Ambassador Kislyak.
Mike Flynn Jr. is right; they’re all going down.
 Clapper Goes After Ryan And McConnell In New Book,
Says They Didn’t Care About Russian Interference
Julia Cohen
5:42 PM 05/22/2018
James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence for
former President Obama, claims in his new book Speaker
Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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refused to sign a statement condemning foreign
interference in elections.
In his book, “Facts and Fears, Hard Truths from a Life
in Intelligence,” Clapper claims the two Republican
leaders did not want to sign anything that would hurt their
party’s nominee. Clapper was “disappointed, but not
surprised,” he also wrote. Ryan and McConell have not
responded to the claims.
During his appearance on “The View,” Clapper insisted
the FBI was not spying on President Donald Trump’s
campaign rather “on what the Russians were doing.” This
was in response to Trump’s recent tweet calling for a
Department of Justice investigation into whether or not his
campaign was under unethical surveillance by the FBI and
the Department of Justice.
 BOOM! Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo:
Federal Agency Attempted To GIVE ME
HILLARY EMAILS! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 6:00 Pm

Neil Cavuto: So when you say May of 2016 you have the
Former Trump campaign aide Michael discovery of somebody penetrating the campaign or what?
Caputo dropped a bomb on the Ingraham
Angle Monday night. Michael Caputo:

Caputo told Ingraham: “I was approached by a SECOND Actually I was approached by an

government informant.” intermediary who had been talking to a
government official, a former government
Michael Caputo said he’s waiting for clearance from his official who told him that they had Hillary
attorney before he offers more details. Clinton related emails at that government
organization.
On Tuesday Michael Caputo joined Neil
Cavuto on FOX News. Oh my!

Caputo told Neil a SECOND FEDERAL This does not look good for the Obama
AGENCY offered to give him HILLARY Deep State hacks!
CLINTON EMAILS!
It’s time to drag out the paddy wagon.

** Conservative Treehouse has more… Including this:

“The intermediary is willing to go on record

explaining the contact from the government
agency and the contractor therein.”

Via Neil Cavuto:

Neil Cavuto: So you’re convinced there was more than

one individual?

Michael Caputo: Absolutely, mostly because I was

approached as well. But this time, what’s remarkable here
to my approach is it happened in the first week of May in
2016. Very far off the timeline very far off the timeline
that the Mueller investigation and others are trying to hold
to when the investigation into the Trump campaign
actually began.
.

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 Bitter Scarborough: ‘Change The Channel’
If You Don't Want The Truth
By Randy Hall
May 22, 2018 6:07 PM EDT

During Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, MSNBC co-

host Joe Scarborough had a surprising recommendation for Before going to a commercial, Scarborough felt the need
viewers: to state:

“If you don’t want to hear the truth, you can
change the channel!”
Scarborough made the remark after fiancé and fellow co-
host Mika Brzezinski finished an interview with anti-
Trump Republican Max Boot, who noted in a Washington
Post opinion column “
the five political norms that President
Trump violated in just the past week.”
Of course, the discussion centered around items boldly
displayed on the TV screen for all to see. The first one was
“revealing intelligence sources,” which
Brzezinski stated “involves Congressman
Devin Nunes demanding the name of an
FBI informant.”
If you’re thinking it’s just one note. Morning
Joe is just one note. Yeah! Yeah, guess
what? A fire department has one focus
when there’s a four-alarm fire, alright? So if
you don’t want to hear the truth, you
can change the channel!
It didn’t take long for former NewsBusters colleague Mark
Finkelstein to call the outburst an example of
“One-Note Trump Hatred.”
Finkelstein also noted that the MSNBC co-host “surely had
in mind” columns like one from Republican strategist Alex
Castellanos entitled
“IT’S OFFICIAL: Morning Joe Is Dead.”

By the end of the segment, the list had expanded to include

politically motivated prosecutions, mixing private and
government business, foreign interference in U.S. elections
and undermining the First Amendment.

“You can’t get used to this,” Brzezinski said

before asserting: “You see shock, and
you see horror in our voices. It’s
because we love this country, and we’re
not going to get used to this.”
In that column, Castellanos noted that Morning Joe used to
It apparently didn’t dawn on her that no one sees anything
be “great television,” and the co-hosts’ “clashing views”
in another person’s voice, but the co-host nevertheless
gave the show “dramatic power.” Now, however, the
continued:
program “has become a sea of sameness,” he stated.
“Coming up: how to rig an election. Brian
“The performers play indistinguishable
Klaas will take us through his new book
parts, predictable bobble-head dolls that
and why he compares elections to a game
hate Donald John Trump.”
of Whac-A-Mole, and [Presidential
historian] Jon Meacham joins the “Castellanos is anything but a big Trump
conversation” to predict that Trump’s fan,” Finkelstein noted. “He’s co-founder,
administration will reach its “season finale” with Dem strategist Steve McMahon, of a
with impeachment. consulting group called Purple Strategies,

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 which, as its name suggests, is a middle-
of-the-road outfit.”
NewsBusters has followed the MSNBC program since
2007, when Scarborough said he wanted to “write a
campaign check” for former Senator Bob Kerrey because
“we need” the Nebraska Democrat “in Washington very
badly.”
Of course, it doesn’t take long to find examples of liberal
bias from the Morning Joe co-hosts.
In early April, Scarborough attempted to take President
Donald Trump to task by reciting a slew of negative words
that had appeared in his Twitter posts over the previous 24
hours, after which he suffered a full-scale meltdown over
Trump’s most recent tweet storm.
Soon after that, the former Republican claimed that Trump
supporters should not handle
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“anything sharp because you will hurt
yourself because you are too incompetent
actually to use any basic household
appliances.”
However, it’s still hard to top Scarborough when it comes
to slamming the President. On May 18, the MSNBC co-
host almost seemed happy that the President’s planned
summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un might not
pan out because Trump is “allergic to complexity” and
“contemptuous of history.”
Perhaps the MSNBC co-host could have a part in a remake
of A Few Good Men since Jack Nicholson’s character in
that movie was also fond of a similar phrase
“[y]ou can’t handle the truth!”
 Jack Posobiec At OANN: Second Deep State
Government “Informant” Claimed To Be With NSA
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 6:22 Pm

the beginning and I’ll tell ya, when we finally

Former Trump campaign aide Michael find out the truth about this–Director
Caputo dropped a bomb on the Ingraham Clapper and the rest of them are gonna be
Angle Monday night. wearing some orange suits.”

Caputo told Ingraham: “I was approached by
a SECOND government informant.”
On Tuesday, Caputo revealed to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto a
second federal agency offered him Hillary’s emails.
The second informant claimed to be from the NSA,
reported OANN’s Jack Posobiec.
Michael Caputo confirmed to One America
News reporter, Jack Posobiec the second
informant claimed to be from the NSA.
Posobiec tweeted: SCOOP: Fmr Trump Advisor Michael
Caputo confirms to @OANN that the second informant
who reached out to him and offered Hillary’s missing
emails claimed to be from the NSA.

Posobiec followed up with: Key read: Claimed to be

NSA. Typically NSA does not run informants, FBI/CIA
Neil Cavuto: So you’re convinced there was more than does
one individual?

Michael Caputo: Absolutely, mostly because I was

approached as well. But this time, what’s remarkable here
to my approach is it happened in the first week of May in
2016. Very far off the timeline very far off the timeline
that the Mueller investigation and others are trying to hold
to when the investigation into the Trump campaign
actually began.
Here again is the video of Michael Caputo on
Neil Cavuto: So when you say May of 2016 you have the Neil Cavuto this afternoon:
discovery of somebody penetrating the campaign or what?

Michael Caputo: Actually I was approached

by an intermediary who had been talking to
a government official, a former government
official who told him that they had Hillary
Clinton related emails at that government
organization.

Caputo called out former DNI Chief James

Clapper Monday night and said, “this is just
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 Chicken Little Talk: Chuck Todd Panics Over
‘Constitutional Crisis,’ ‘Fatal Distraction’ By Republicans
By Curtis Houck
May 22, 2018 6:46 PM EDT
Deep breaths, people. Leading off Tuesday’s MTP Daily
on MSNBC, moderator Chuck Todd let loose on some
hyperbole and self-righteous speculation that America is
amidst a “constitutional crisis” and “fatal” attack on
“the rule of law” caused by Republicans demanding an
investigation into alleged spying of the Trump campaign in
the early stages of the Russia probe.
“If it's Tuesday, the constitutional crisis
alarm bells are ringing, but is anybody
listening? Tonight, fatal distraction. Are
the President's systemic attacks on the
Justice Department undermining the
rule of law as we know it,” stated the
smug NBC political director at the top of the
show with the accompanying chyron “Fatal
Distraction?”
He added that
“[w]e begin tonight with a politically
motivated investigation, which is out to
prove that Bob Mueller's investigation is
politically motivated” and he implored
viewers to “wrap your head around that
for a moment.”
Todd rhetorically wagging his finger at Republicans and
dismissed the merit of their questions
Folks, right now the President and his allies in Congress
continue their campaign to distract from the Russia
investigation and they hope, discredit it. A group of House
Republicans today introduced legislation to appoint a
special counsel to investigate essentially any number of the
president's political enemies, from leaders in the Justice
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Department to Hillary Clinton. The Republican chairman
of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Ron
Johnson, is trying to dig up more dirt about the FBI's
handling of the Steele dossier.
As a reminder, the liberal media were hellbent on truly
undermining the Ken Starr investigation of then-President
Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It’s quite a change to 2017 and
2018 where even asking for oversight is seen as a betrayal
of American values.
Following spin about an FBI informant working to
infiltrate the Trump campaign, Todd unleashed a tangent
about this
“constitutional crisis”:
Folks, if this was happening in another
country, what would we say? If a country's
ruling party was being investigated for
potential election corruption and responded
by attacking that investigation, launched its
own counter investigation into the Justice
Department itself, called for the
imprisonment of those in the minority party
and pressured leaders in law enforcement
to lock them up. If that were happening in
any other country, we'd probably call it a
constitutional crisis for said country. What
do we call it here, other than Tuesday?
Not sure about any of you, but America seems to be
humming along just fine.
Of course, this is the person who’s wife made over a $1
million off the Bernie Sanders campaign and donated to
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (VA) but Todd has refused
to disclose that to viewers. Talk about a journalism ethics
problem!
Following all that, Todd showed where his true allegiances
lie by bringing on former Obama administration counsel
Bob Bauer for a friendly interview. Thankfully, Louisiana
Republican Senator John Kennedy came next and talked
some sense into Todd.
Kennedy first explained that, contrary to what many
(including the liberal media) are arguing,
 “the President has the right to request Since Trump took office, NewsBusters has documented
an investigation” just as any of the many numerous instances where the word “constitutional crisis”
people who’ve “ask[ed] the FBI to look has appeared. Links to examples can be found here, here,
into the activities and behavior of the here, here, and here.
shooter in Parkland in Florida have the
right.” To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily
on May 22:
The Louisiana Senator then made the crucial distinction,
which is that MSNBC’s MTP Daily
July 22, 2018
“[n]one of us have the right, including 5:00 p.m. Eastern
the President, to influence an
investigation and try to tell the FBI and
the Justice Department how the results
should be of an investigation.”

Moments later, Kennedy dropped a truth bomb aimed

directly at Todd and his apocalyptic language:

I want to see the facts and here's what we

know, or here's what I think I know. Russia
tried to influence the 2016 elections. Did
they succeed? We don't know yet. So we
have a member of the FBI, he's specially-
appointed, Mueller, who is supposed to get CHUCK TODD: If it's Tuesday, the constitutional crisis alarm
the facts. We also know we have Mr. bells are ringing, but is anybody listening? Tonight, fatal
Horowitz, the Inspector General at Justice, distraction.
looking into it as well. Everything else is
just spin and rumor and speculation and
innuendo, on both sides, including the [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Fatal Distraction?]
President, but he's got the right to his
opinion, just like those who hate him have Are the President's systemic attacks on the Justice Department
the right to their and I'm prepared to wait undermining the rule of law as we know it?
for the facts. I don't think Mr. Mueller ought
to be fired. I don't think he's a bad guy. I (....)
have confidence in the Inspector General. I
just want the facts and then, I'll let the [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Headed for a
American people decide. They're smart Constitutional Crisis]
enough to figure this out. They're plenty
smart. They will figure this out, but
TODD: We begin tonight with a politically motivated investigation,
everything else, Chuck, is just —
which is out to prove that Bob Mueller's investigation is politically
sometimes it's — it’s interesting to listen to
motivated. So wrap your head around that for a moment. Folks,
and I'm not saying anybody's wrong to do
right now the President and his allies in Congress continue their
it, but it's all speculation. You know, the
campaign to distract from the Russia investigation and they hope,
gentlemen that you just had on, I don't
discredit it. A group of House Republicans today introduced
remember his name. He seemed to be very
legislation to appoint a special counsel to investigate essentially
intelligent, but, you know, talking about this
any number of the president's political enemies, from leaders in
has provoked a constitutional crisis, I don't
the Justice Department to Hillary Clinton. The Republican
see it, you know? I just don't see it. But we
chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Ron
don't have any facts yet.
Johnson, is trying to dig up more dirt about the FBI's handling of
the Steele dossier. Now, this all follows the President's recent
To be clear, it’s only a constitutional crisis for outlets like move ordering the Justice Department to investigate parts of the
CNN and MSNBC when someone (e.g. Republicans) are Russia investigation that, of course, is looking into him. The
not in lockstep with what they want investigated to President has seized on reports that the FBI used an informant to
advance the Resistance. And, don’t try and argue that make contact with members of his campaign, and he's hyping
they’re not on one side of the aisle. that revelation with what you might call Trumpian levels of
hyperbole.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Congress would like to see
documents opened up. A lot of people are saying they had spies
in my campaign. If they had spies in my campaign, that would be
a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest
insults that anybody's ever seen and that would be very illegal,
aside from everything else. It would make every political event
ever make look like small potatoes.
TODD: We're scratching our head on the biggest insult comment.
Everything else sort of made sense there in Trumperbole. But
there was no evidence that this was trying to spy on the
campaign. But there is evidence that this alleged informant was
part of an effort by the Justice Department's effort to spy on the
campaign and infiltrate. But there is evidence that this alleged
informant who worked for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush was
part of the Justice Department’s effort to spy on what Russia was
doing to protect the Trump campaign from being infiltrated by
Russians. Now, the White House yesterday brokered an
agreement through its Chief of Staff, John Kelly, which would
allow House Republicans, but not Democratic counterparts, mind
you, to view highly classified information related to the Russia
investigation. That meeting is now planned for Thursday. The
President's Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, has
resisted those efforts so far. By the way, in case you're
wondering what the president's view of him is. By the way, in
case you're wondering what the President's view of him is. Take
a listen.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Do you have confidence
in Rod Rosenstein?
TRUMP: What's your next question, please?
TODD: Wow. Make it a bit more obvious. Folks, if this was
happening in another country, what would we say? If a country's
ruling party was being investigated for potential election
corruption and responded by attacking that investigation,
launched its own counter investigation into the Justice
Department itself, called for the imprisonment of those in the
minority party and pressured leaders in law enforcement to lock
them up. If that were happening in any other country, we'd
probably call it a constitutional crisis for said country. What do we
call it here, other than Tuesday?
(....)
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REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY (LA): Well, you
either trust Rod Rosenstein and Chris Wray or you don't. What I
said on Scarborough's show this morning, and I'll say it again, the
President has the right to request an investigation. You have the
right to request an investigation. I have the right. The people who
ask the FBI to look into the activities and behavior of the shooter
in Parkland in Florida have the right. None of us have the right,
including the President, to influence an investigation and try to
tell the FBI and the Justice Department how the results should be
of an investigation. I don't see any evidence that the President
has done that. He didn't try to hide his meeting. I think
Rosenstein and Wray were both there. If he does try to influence
it, I will speak out against it, but he has the right to ask for an
investigation and I don't — honestly, Chris, I realize there are
always two sides to every story — or, Chuck —
TODD: That's alright.
KENNEDY: But that's his prerogative. Now, you may not like the
way he does it, and you may not like the tweets that he uses,
Chuck, about it, but that's a separate issue from whether he has
the right to say, okay, the FBI or the Justice Department or
somebody sent an informant into my campaign and, hey, I would
like to know what's going on. I would kind of like to know myself.
(....)
KENNEDY: Well, I can only give you my point of view. I mean, I
don't hate anybody. I know that's rare up here, but I really don't. I
want to see the facts and here's what we know, or here's what I
think I know. Russia tried to influence the 2016 elections. Did
they succeed? We don't know yet. So we have a member of the
FBI, he's specially-appointed, Mueller, who is supposed to get
the facts. We also know we have Mr. Horowitz, the Inspector
General at Justice, looking into it as well. Everything else is just
spin and rumor and speculation and innuendo, on both sides,
including the President, but he's got the right to his opinion, just
like those who hate him have the right to their and I'm prepared
to wait for the facts. I don't think Mr. Mueller ought to be fired. I
don't think he's a bad guy. I have confidence in the Inspector
General. I just want the facts and then, I'll let the American
people decide. They're smart enough to figure this out. They're
plenty smart. They will figure this out, but everything else, Chuck,
is just — sometimes it's — it’s interesting to listen to and I'm not
saying anybody's wrong to do it, but it's all speculation. You
know, the gentlemen that you just had on, I don't remember his
name. He seemed to be very intelligent, but, you know, talking
about this has provoked a constitutional crisis, I don't see it, you
know? I just don't see it.
TODD: Fair enough.
KENNEDY: But we don't have any facts yet.
TODD: But I think your warning about let the investigators finish
their investigation before we question their investigation.
.
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KENNEDY: I mean, wish they would —
TODD: I know that's a crazy idea.
KENNEDY: — I do wish they would hurry up. I think all
Americans who are in good faith would like to see these
investigations concluded sooner rather than later. They're
important, but they do suck up a lot of oxygen. I mean, there are
times up here on the Hill that that's all folks want to talk about.
That's okay, except there are other important issues, too. I'm not
saying that the investigation is not important, but it is — it does
take up a lot of oxygen.
Targeted Trump Aide Sam Clovis Speaks Out: Obama Spy
Stefan Halper Used Trump Camp To Build
Fraudulent Russia Case (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 8:19 Pm

And Clovis said Stefan Halper was probing

Trump Campaign aide Sam Clovis spoke out
for the first time tonight since being targeted
by Obama spy Stefan Halper during the 2016
campaign.
Clovis believes Obama spy Stefan Halper
used him in his quest to build an espionage
trail for the corrupt Obama deep state.
to find a weak spot in the campaign.
Sam Clovis: I really believe that is what his task was to
create an audit trail back to those emails from someone in
the campaign or someone associated with the campaign so
that they could build a stronger case of probable cause to
continue to issue warrants and to further an investigation.
I really felt after hearing all these other
things and listening to the reports that I read
that this truly was an effort to build
something that did not exist. And I really
think that is what his mission was.

Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

Sam Clovis told Tucker Stefan Halper sent him several

emails and said he wanted to come in and discuss foreign
policy. His research was focused mostly on China. Clovis
goes on to say he believes Halper used his meeting as a
bona fides to contact George Papadopoulos.

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 NYT Columnist Worries Mueller
Investigation Actually Helping Trump
Peter Hasson - Reporter
8:30 PM 05/22/2018
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni expressed his
alarm on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into Russian meddling could actually be
helping President Donald Trump.
The Mueller investigation, Bruni argued, is dominating
media coverage to the extent it’s crowding out coverage of
what Trump and his administration are actually doing.
“Maybe the just-published Politico report of
Trump’s deliberate, cavalier use of a
cellphone that doesn’t have strict security
safeguards would be getting extra
attention” if not for the Mueller
investigation, Bruni pondered.
.
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“Without Mueller and Russia, Scott Pruitt
would be closer to center stage, with an
even brighter, harsher spotlight on him,”
the liberal columnist continued.
“He’s not exactly evading scrutiny, but he’s
being spared the relentless top-of-the-
screen, start-of-the-newscast treatment
that he would likely endure if lawmakers,
journalists and other watchdogs weren’t so
mesmerized by the convoluted twists of
Mueller v. Trump.”
Bruni also expressed his concern the Mueller investigation
might not find evidence of collusion between Trump and
Russia.
Trump “knows that if he sets the bar at
incontrovertible evidence of him and Putin
huddled over a Hillary Clinton voodoo doll,
he just might clear it,” the columnist wrote.
“And he knows that if Americans are
fixated on collusion, they aren’t
concentrating on much else. That’s good
for him and terrible for the country.”
 Trump Goes Scorched Earth On FBI Spy Campaign:
‘Follow The Money, The Spy Was Only There To
Help Crooked Hillary Win’
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 8:36 Pm
President Trump unleashed on the FBI’s
infiltration of his campaign Tuesday evening
in a pair of tweets.
The President said, “Follow the money!” the
spy wasn’t there to find ‘Russian collusion,’
he was there to help Crooked Hillary win the
election!
President Trump, please never stop
tweeting!
President Trump lit up Twitter Tuesday evening after he
tweeted what we are all thinking–the spies infiltrated his
campaign for political purposes to help Hillary Clinton win
the election.
Trump tweeted:
If the person placed very early into my
campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the
previous Administration for political purposes,
how come such a seemingly massive amount of
money was paid for services rendered – many
times higher than normal…
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Trump then slams Crooked Hillary:
…Follow the money! The spy was there early in
the campaign and yet never reported Collusion
with Russia, because there was no Collusion.
He was only there to spy for political reasons
and to help Crooked Hillary win – just like they
did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work
with the US government that included
spying on the Trump campaign.
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.
Now the Democrats are in spin mode.
They went from ‘there was no spy inside of Trump’s
camp’ to ‘the informant was there to help protect Trump
against the Russians.’
Former DNI Chief James Clapper is claiming
embedding spies is “a standard
investigative practice.”
Hillary Clinton wanted to spy on her political opponent
and she accomplished her goal with help from Obama’s
weaponized intel agencies.
President Trump is right; Spygate is worse than Watergate.
Earlier Tuesday, President Trump told reporters,
 “If they had spies in my campaign, that would
be a disgrace to this country.”

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 NBC’s Full-Blown Panic Over
IG Investigation Into DOJ Demanded By Trump
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 22, 2018 9:20 PM EDT

question, is the President threatening

the long-standing independence of the
Justice Department,” she proclaimed as
she began her report.
“And it's not just the president,” Welker
warned, figuratively clutching pearls. “His
allies on Capitol Hill are also trying to
discredit the investigation with a group
of Republicans calling for a second
special counsel to investigate the
Justice Department and FBI.”

The Department of Justice's internal watchdog has opened For what it’s worth, NBC was the only network in the big
an investigation into the conduct of the FBI regarding their three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to mention this latest move by
reported use of an “informant” or “spy” in the Trump congressional Republicans.
campaign after the President officially demanded the
matter be looked into on Monday. Come Tuesday evening,
NBC Nightly News was in a hysterical panic over the
development with claims President Trump was trying to
“insert himself” into Russia investigation.

As anchor Lester Holt led into their hyperventilating

segment, he declared,

“while he was speaking in the Oval

Office today, President Trump also took
new aim at the Russia probe and raised
new questions about whether he is
inserting himself into the investigation.”
Welker also leaned on comments from former Director of
National Security James Clapper (made on The View of all
This was alluding to the hyperbolic liberal media assertion places) to defend the Justice Department:
that Trump is acting like a dictator by investigating his
enemies.
JOY BEHAR: Was the FBI spying on
Trump's campaign?
The only problem? Trump was not orchestrating or
running the investigation, so if they find nothing they find JAMES CLAPPER: No, they were not.
nothing. It's worth noting that the last time the Inspector They were spying on -- a term I don't
General looked into alleged misconduct by the FBI, it particularly like -- but on what the Russians
resulted in the firing of Deputy FBI Director Andrew were doing.
McCabe.
Of course, Welker failed to mention that Clapper was
But that fact didn’t stop NBC White House correspondent caught lying to Congress and the American people about
Kristen Welker from making what sounded like doomsday the NSA’s wide-reaching domestic spying program.
announcements.
The NBC reporter also talked with former Obama-era FBI
“Tonight President Trump is escalating Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi to fling speculation
his assault on the investigators who are about the President’s motives.
investigating him, prompting a critical
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 “If this continues, there will be more
than a standoff. There will be a
constitutional crisis. I believe that's
exactly what the President may want,”
he bitterly surmised.
WELKER: The fiery words come after President Trump
demanded his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein find out
whether that FBI informant was used for political purposes. Mr.
Trump even refusing to say whether he has confidence in
Rosenstein.

The liberal media was desperately trying to paint Trump’s UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you have confidence in Rod
actions in calling for an IG investigation as somehow Rosenstein.
inappropriate even though within his purview as President.
There very well could be no “there” there and the TRUMP: What's your next question, please?
investigation will end with nothing happening. But again,
the last time the FBI was investigated for misconduct,
WELKER: And it's not just the president. His allies on Capitol Hill
there was a firing. Ironically, they’re behaving in the same
are also trying to discredit the investigation with a group of
Trumpian fashion they complain the President does. Republicans calling for a second special counsel to investigate
the Justice Department and FBI.
The transcript is below:
MARK MEADOWS: It is time for transparency, and it's time to
NBC Nightly News allow the American people to know the truth.
May 22, 2018
7:06:15 PM Eastern [1 minute 49 seconds] WELKER: Former Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper insisting there was no wrongdoing by the FBI.
LESTER HOLT: And while he was speaking in the Oval Office
today, President Trump also took new aim at the Russia probe JOY BEHAR: Was the FBI spying on Trump's campaign?
and raised new questions about whether he is inserting himself
into the investigation. We get more from NBC News White House
correspondent Kristen Welker. JAMES CLAPPER: No, they were not. They were spying on -- a
term I don't particularly like -- but on what the Russians were
doing.
[Cuts to video]
WELKER: Tonight law enforcement experts warn –
KRISTEN WELKER: Tonight President Trump is escalating his
assault on the investigators who are investigating him, prompting
a critical question, is the President threatening the long-standing FRANK FIGLIUZZI: If this continues, there will be more than a
independence of the Justice Department; amid revelations an standoff. There will be a constitutional crisis. I believe that's
FBI informant had contact with his campaign during the 2016 exactly what the President may want.
election.
WELKER: Kristen Welker, NBC News, the White House.
DONALD TRUMP: If they had spies in my campaign, that would
be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest
insults that anyone's ever seen. It would be very illegal.

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 Trump: Spy Was Put In My
Campaign ‘To Help Crooked Hillary Win’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:56 PM 05/22/2018

President Trump tweeted Tuesday night that a spy was put

in his 2016 campaign to “help Crooked Hillary win.”

Trump said:

Trump said at the White House Tuesday that it would be

“very illegal” if there were spies in his campaign.

“A lot of people are saying they had spies

in my campaign. If they had spies in my
campaign, that would be a disgrace to this
country. That would be one of the biggest
insults that anyone has ever seen, it would
be very illegal aside from everything else,”
he said.
.

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 Newt Gingrich: People Like Clapper,
Brennan… “Are In Danger Of Going To Jail” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 9:57 Pm

Newt Gingrich:

People like Clapper and the former Director of

Former Speaker New Gingrich joined Laura Ingraham on
Tuesday night to discuss the ever expanding Obama Deep
State scandal. In the last week we have learned that the
Obama campaign inserted spies inside the Donald Trump
presidential campaign and used them to try to entrap
Trump campaign officials in a fake Russia conspiracy.
Now the Trump campaign officials are speaking out and it
looks like there was more than one Obama spy inside the
Trump campaign.
the Central Intelligence Agency, all these guys
thought they could get away with this… Now
you are watching people who I think in every
case are in danger of going to jail. If the system
works and people are actually tested on, “Did
you tell the truth under oath?” Clapper’s a
perfect example.
Lock them all up and throw away the key!

This is unprecedented in the history of the United States. Via The Ingraham Angle:

And, of course, these Obama hacks tried desperately to

hide this from the American people.

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From Covering Up The Crimes Of Obama, Hillary, Comey
And Comrades To Hiding The Islamic Terror Network In
America, Robert Mueller And The Corrupt Faction Of The
Highly Politicized FBI Are Indeed The 'American Gestapo'
By William B Stoecker - All News Pipeline
May 22, 2018
The Special Counsel “investigation” of whatever they are
pretending to investigate has gone on for over a year now,
wasting tens of millions of our tax dollars, and finding no
evidence of collusion (which is not a crime) between the
Trump campaign and the Russians, who are only our
enemies if we make them so.
When dear old Uncle Joe Stalin, torturer, tyrant, and mass
murderer, ruled the Soviet Union our leftists adored him
and Russia. But now that Russia is ruled by a relatively
benign nationalist, our leftists have become caricatures of
Joe McCarthy. The “investigators” are a band of partisan
Demoncraps and supporters of the Witch Hillary,
including Andrew Goldstein, a prosecutor with a long
record of overzealousness and misconduct, who has seen
several of his convictions overturned by appeals courts.
But that didn’t stop him from ruining lives and destroying
jobs, and the current “investigation” has bankrupted at
least two people (convicted of nothing) with legal fees.
Federal prosecutors usually secure convictions, whether
the accused are guilty or not, and even when their victims
are not convicted, they are harassed and stressed out and
impoverished. The “investigation” seems intended
primarily to discredit and distract President Trump and
destroy his supporters.
Leading this effort is a creature I call Herr Gestapo
Mueller, a.k.a. Robert Swan Mueller III. The head of
Hitler’s Nazi Gestapo during most of WWII was one
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Heinrich Muller, often called “Gestapo Muller.” Robert
Mueller was Director of the FBI from 9/4/2001 to9/4/2013,
and the corrupt, murderous, and highly politicized FBI is,
indeed, an American Gestapo.
If we accept the official story of his background, at first he
seems to be one of the “good guys.” He was born into a
well-to-do family in New York City. In 1968 he joined the
US Marines and went through OCS and the Basic School,
and, allegedly, graduated from the US Army’s Airborne
School and the incredibly grueling Ranger School before
leading a USMC infantry platoon in Vietnam and being
wounded and decorated.
If any of this is true, he at one time was at least an
incredibly brave, tough, and determined young man. But,
since then, he has served the NWO (New World Order
globalists) elites and has done evil and more evil. After his
USMC service Mueller attended the University of Virginia
School of Law, and, in a typical pattern, has moved ever
since between jobs with the Department of “Justice” and
private sector law firms.
In 1982 he became Assistant US Attorney in Boston, and
was there during much of the time that the murderous
gangster Whitey Bulger was being protected as an
“informant” by local FBI official John Connolly. Connolly
eventually went to prison for this. Patriot writer Kelleigh
Nelson and US Representative Louis Gohmert, also a
noted patriot, believe that Mueller knew all along what
was going on, and helped to cover up the truth, going so
far as to railroad innocent men into prison as part of the
cover-up. And this, if true, is but a small part of the evil
this creature has done.
Herr Gestapo Mueller became FBI Director one week
before the false flag known as 9/11, when honorable field
agents were trying to warn the higher ups in the FBI about
the terrorists who allegedly carried out the attacks. Their
pleas fell on deaf ears…none deafer than Mueller’s. And
Gestapo Mueller orchestrated the cover-up that followed
the attacks. For this alone he deserves the death penalty.
Herr Mueller zealously prosecuted Republicans for
imaginary crimes. Just prior to the 2008 election he
investigated Congressman Curt Weldon for influence
peddling (never proven), causing him to lose the election.
Mueller also prosecuted conservative Alaska Senator Ted
Stevens, and withheld exculpatory evidence…more
prosecutorial misconduct. Nominally a Republican,
Mueller “investigated” many (mostly conservative)
Congressmen, apparently hoping to find something he
could use to prosecute or at least discredit them.
campaign committed any crimes. So what we have here is
a gang of criminals (Mueller and his team) ignoring the
crimes of their fellow criminals and persecuting innocent
citizens. This is Luciferian inversion on steroids.
What ought to happen is an end to this farce, and real
investigations of the Witch and the other actual
criminals…including Gestapo Mueller. But it looks as
though Little Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein, who
control the “Justice” Department, will never do the right
thing. Their stonewalling Congressional requests for
information and documents gives Trump ample excuse (as
if any excuse was needed) to fire both of them and appoint
true patriots in their place to begin a thorough house
cleaning at DOJ and the FBI (and the CIA could stand a
little cleaning up as well).

He and his corrupt crony James Comey prosecuted

microbiologist Dr. Steven Hatfill for the anthrax attacks on
Congressional offices, although there was no real evidence
of his guilt (the crime may have been carried out by Dr.
Bruce Ivins and/or persons unknown, possibly Islamic
terrorists). Mueller and Comey also prosecuted “Scooter”
Libby for allegedly “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame,
even though they knew her identity had first been made
public by Richard Armitage…whom they never
prosecuted. Plame, by the way, was never undercover in a
hostile country, and never in any real danger.

And Mueller, like so many of the Western elites, simply
adores Muslims. On becoming Director of the FBI, he
stopped all training that correctly identified Islamic
terrorism as the main threat, and even formed a partnership
with CAIR (Committee for American/Islamic Relations), a
US based Islamic organization that rails against
“Islamophobia” and is closely connected to the terrorist
Muslim Brotherhood. Mueller even went so far as to
persecute “Islamophobic” FBI agents, ruining more than
one career…perhaps this behavior is only to be expected of
a creature who ignored the pre-9/11 warning signs.
But Trump appointed Little Jeff to begin with, and he has
thus far refused to remove him and Rosenstein, contenting
himself with tweets complaining about their inaction. Note
to President Trump: we elected a Commander in Chief, not
a Tweeter in Chief. Take charge and do your duty.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of ANP.

Mueller and Rod Rosenstein failed to stop the Witch

Hillary’s “Uranium One” sale of US uranium deposits to
Russia…strange behavior from people who now pretend
that Russia is our enemy. Since then, Herr Gestapo
Mueller and his comrades have carefully ignored the
crimes of the Witch (Uranium One, Benghazi, etc., etc.),
Eric Holder (Fast and Furious), Loretta Lynch (why did
she meet at the airport with Slick Willy Clinton?), and
Hussein Obama itself (all the above and more). Some of us
are becoming somewhat disillusioned with President
Trump, but there is no evidence that he or anyone in his
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 LEVIN DROPS A MOAB: New Revelation Mueller’s
Lawyers Obtained ‘Special Status’ Show Probe Is
Unconstitutional Under Article II (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 10:04 Pm
Constitutional expert Mark Levin dropped a
MOAB on Mueller’s witch hunt Tuesday
evening, arguing the ‘special status’ obtained by
the special counsel’s lawyers show the probe is
unconstitutional under Article II.
As previously reported, Robert Mueller and
his team of liberal hack lawyers know they
don’t stand a chance in Judge Ellis’ court so
they are running a shady, legal shell game
to salvage their case against Paul Manafort.
Mueller’s lawyers filed for, and obtained an
obscure special status giving them dual
roles as not only special counsel
prosecutors, but also as ‘Special
Assistant US Attorneys (SAUSAs) which
could make it difficult for Judge Ellis to hand the
case over to other prosecutors.
According to Politico’s reporting, this special status given
to Mueller’s lawyers theoretically allows them to rove
around and pursue matters outside of the special counsel’s
mandate.
This bombshell revelation may be the key to dismantling
Mueller’s entire operation, says Mark Levin.
.
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Since Mueller’s lawyers have dual status as US Attorneys,
that makes Mueller a US Attorney rather than a Special
Counsel. Only a President can appoint a US Attorney. By
appointing Mueller, Rod Rosenstein usurped the
President of the United States.
THIS IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT.
Via Fox News:
Levin said the attorneys in the case before an
Alexandria, Va. federal judge are
simultaneously considered “Special Assistant
U.S. Attorneys.”
He said that therefore, their direct supervisor —
Mueller — should be lawfully considered a
“roving” U.S. Attorney.
He said the Constitution designates the president as the
person who must nominate all “principal officers” —
including U.S. attorneys and cabinet members.
But, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and was not confirmed by the Senate, as
anyone working as a U.S. attorney should be by law,
according to Levin.
Levin said that the scenario therefore “violates the
Constitution [via] the Appointments Clause” in Article II.
“Rosenstein usurped the authority of the
president of the United States to nominate
whoever he wants as a prosecutor,” Levin said.
“Mr. Mueller is serving unconstitutionally in
violation of the Appointments Clause of the U.S.
Constitution because of the way Rod
Rosenstein appointed him.”
Watch Mark Levin break it down.
 FBI Agents Want Congress To Issue
Them Subpoenas So They Can Reveal The Bureau’s Dirt
Kerry Picket - Reporter
10:08 PM 05/22/2018
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to subpoena them
so they can reveal problems caused by both former FBI
Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director
Andrew McCabe, three people in direct contact with active
field agents tell TheDC.
“There are agents all over this country who love
the bureau and are sickened by [James]
Comey’s behavior and [Andrew] McCabe and
[Eric] Holder and [Loretta] Lynch and the thugs
like [John] Brennan–who despise the fact that
the bureau was used as a tool of political
intelligence by the Obama administration
thugs,” former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova
told The Daily Caller Tuesday. “They are just
waiting for a chance to come forward and
testify.”
Ahead of the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
inspector general report on how the FBI handled the
Clinton email investigation, TheDC spoke with Digenova,
a former Trump official who maintained contact with rank
and file FBI agents and a counter-intelligence consultant
who conducted an interview with an active special agent of
the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO).
TheDC independently confirmed the veracity of the
consultant’s position and access, and reviewed detailed
transcripts of his Q&A with the special agent, who
requested the arrangement due to internal dragnets and fear
of vicious retribution.
These agents prefer to be subpoenaed to becoming an
official government whistleblower, since they fear political
and professional backlash, the former Trump
administration official explained to TheDC.
The subpoena is preferred, he said,
“because when you are subpoenaed, Congress
then pays…for your legal counsel and the
subpoena protects [the agent] from any
organizational retaliation…. they are on their
own as whistleblowers, they get no legal
protection and there will be organizational
retaliation against them.”
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DiGenova — who along with his wife, Victoria Toensing,
has represented government whistleblowers in the past —
agreed, telling TheDC,
“It’s an intelligent approach to the situation
given the vindictive nature of the bureau under
Comey and McCabe. I have no idea how to
read Chris Wray, who is not a leader and who
has disappeared from the public eye during this
entire crisis. You know, he may be cleaning
house but if he’s doing so, he’s doing it very
quietly.”
He added,
“I don’t blame them. I don’t blame the agents
one bit. I think that the FBI is in a freefall.
James Comey has destroyed the institution he
claims to love. And it is beyond a doubt that it is
going to take a decade to restore public
confidence because of Comey and Clapper and
Brennan and Obama and Lynch.”
The special agent out of WFO alleged that rank and file
FBI agents are fed up and desperately want action from the
DOJ, according to the transcripts.
“Every special agent I have spoken to in the
Washington Field Office wants to see McCabe
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They
feel the same way about Comey,“ the special
agent said, according to transcripts provided
TheDC.
“The administrations are so politicized that any
time a Special Agent comes forward as a
whistleblower, they can expect to be thrown
under the bus by leadership. Go against the
Muslim Brotherhood, you’re crushed. Go
against the Clintons, you’re crushed. The FBI
has long been politicized to the detriment of
national security and law enforcement.”
The special agent added,
“Activity that Congress is investigating is being
stonewalled by leadership and rank-and-file FBI
employees in the periphery are just doing their
 jobs. All Congress needs to do is subpoena
involved personnel and they will tell you what
they know. These are honest people.
Leadership cannot stop anyone from
responding to a subpoena. Those subpoenaed
also get legal counsel provided by the
government to represent them.”
The former Trump administration official explained the
problems at the bureau go beyond just two people.
“They know that it wasn’t just Comey and
McCabe in this case. That’s too narrow a net to
cast over these guys. There’s a much broader
corruption that seeped into the seventh floor at
the bureau.”
“They ruined the credibility of the bureau and
the technical ability of the bureau, so
systemically, over the past several years,
they’re worried about their organizational
reputation and their professional careers,” this
former Trump administration staffer said, noting
the bureau’s difficulty in prosecuting cases
these days.
“They go to court and they’re just laughed at.”
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According to an analysis in Time Magazine earlier this
month, the FBI has struggled with conviction rates for
several years now after they send cases to the DOJ for
prosecution. In less than half the cases the FBI sent to the
Justice Department, the conviction rate was only 47
percent in 2017. This number is far below the mean of the
72 percent average for all other government agencies,
according to Time.
In the meantime, DiGenova and the others who spoke to
TheDC believe it is time for Congress to issue subpoenas
to FBI agents who are willing to talk. According to
DiGenova, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees
can issue these subpoenas.
“Either one of those [committees] would be fine.
I’m sure the committees could hold hearings in
a New York minute,” he said.
He added,
“I can assure you I’ve been approached by
agents who want to be subpoenaed for the
same reason the guys in the field,” adding, “All
over this country there are agents but the big
ones the ones that matter New York–
Washington I can assure you I’ve spoken with
agents who want to come forward.”
 Democrats Steal Trump’s Message,
Now Claim They Will ‘Drain The Swamp’
Stephanie Hamill
10:57 PM 05/22/2018
Democrats are adding the “drain the swamp” message to
their 2018 midterm messaging. Their new slogan is
“A Better Deal for Our Democracy,”
and the party pledges to implement new ethics laws,
reduce the influence of lobbyists and tighten rules around
fraud convictions.
So why the messaging shift? The Daily Caller’s Vince
Coglianese and Stephanie Hamill discuss this move and
other topics in this episode of The DC Today.
Watch:
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“Democrats want to use drain the swamp
as a part of their 2018 midterm campaign,
where have I heard this phrase before?
Who’s used this phrase before? Of course,
President Trump has used it, “ Coglianese
explained.
Coglianese added that it’s hilarious that the Democrats
think they can seize this — if anything, they’re just going
to push more people over to Trump’s side.
“You gotta love how desperate the
Democrats are. All that had to run on was
impeaching Trump, then they realized that
wasn’t going to work for them. So now
they’re stealing Trump’s message. The
Democratic Party is the swamp,” said
Hamill.
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 Robert Mueller IS The
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Bill Thomas - Writer Living In Washington, D.C.
2:35 AM 05/23/2018
Fans of 1950s horror movies have to like what they’re
seeing in Washington.
The nation’s capital, which started out as a swamp, has
produced a throwback monster from one of Hollywood’s
creepiest classics, a bottom-dwelling menace that’s had the
city on the edge of its seat for a full year and counting.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
Creature from the Black Lagoon!
It’s hard to believe no one has ever made a sequel. Maybe
the right lead actor could never be found. Until now.
Half-man, half-freak of government, Mueller has shown he
will stop at nothing to get what he’s after. At least that’s
been the storyline so far.
His style is to scare victims into submission, particularly
when he starts squeezing them for information about
someone higher up the Washington food chain. That would
be President Donald Trump, who promised to “drain the
swamp” only to be pursued by one of its most territorial
defenders.
Earlier this month a federal judge unloaded on Mueller for
going after Paul Manafort, briefly Trump’s campaign
manager, to get to the president. That’s clearly the plan,
but it will take more than a courtroom lecture to end
Mueller’s free-range Russia probe.
When it premiered in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy
era, “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” started a
nationwide fear of swamp monsters. Even though the one
in the film lived in the Amazon, kids everywhere were
afraid it was under their beds.
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The movie tells the story of a scientific expedition to South
America that encounters an amphibious humanoid. And
this should sound familiar: The “gill-man” gets angry
when outsiders intrude on its turf. This is exactly what
happened in 2016, when Trump was elected and the
largely Democratic and tactically ruthless Washington
deep state set out to get rid of him.
During the fifties, with mutually assured destruction on
everyone’s mind, Hollywood responded with a flood of
“B” movies that dramatized doomsday in every
conceivable form, from space aliens occupying small
towns to prehistoric reptiles terrorizing entire countries.
But there was something else happening that audiences
may not have noticed. Given Cold War politics at the time,
many pictures had a not so subtle Russian subtext.
Whether intended or not, another masterpiece of horror
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956) has long been
seen as a movie about what happens when commies take
over people’s minds.
It would be hard to find better all-purpose bad guys. Of
course, it helped that Russians (aka “Soviets”) were good
at causing trouble. They were also hard to catch and bring
to justice. Which made it easy to blame them for anything.
Obviously, it still is. And that’s where Robert Mueller
enters the picture.
Following in the muddy footsteps of Sen. Joseph
McCarthy, he and his assistants, most of them donors to
the losing side, have been trying for a year to prove that
candidate Trump was helped by Russians, with nothing to
show for the effort but swamp gas.
Meanwhile, there’s plenty of evidence that the Obama
administration used corrupted federal intelligence agencies
to spy on Trump during the campaign, then to undermine
his presidency after he won.
Now one of the Russian companies indicted by Mueller for
interfering with the 2016 election has spoiled everything
by actually appearing in court, where the prosecution will
have to present proof it’s never had of a crime that never
happened.
Mueller’s whole case, along with his reputation for upright
competence, is falling apart the way things often do at the
end of monster movies. Like the defeated creature in the
film who vanishes into the Black Lagoon never to be heard
.
from again, Mueller, who’s compromised up to his neck in
dirty politics and conflicted interests, is sinking fast in the
same swamp he came from.

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 Carter Throws Left For A Loop…
Trump Nobel Prize Makes Sense
By Cillian Zeal
May 23, 2018 At 6:38am
Imagine if you had gotten Vegas odds on President Donald
Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize back in January or so.
You could have had a shot at being rich — like, Steve Jobs
rich.
After all, nobody would have predicted Trump would have
won the award, not even the most MAGA-cap wearing
Trump fan there is. Now, plenty of respectable people —
people far removed from the basket of deplorables — are
tipping Trump for the award due to his efforts to secure
peace with North Korea.
And one of them is one of America’s most famous (and
liberal) winners.
In an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast,
former President Jimmy Carter — the 2002 winner of
the award — threw liberals for a loop when he said he
believed Trump could be deserving of the Nobel for his
work with Kim Jong Un’s regime.
“If President Trump is successful in getting
a peace treaty that’s acceptable to both
sides with North Korea, I think he certainly
ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace
Prize,” Carter told Politico.
“I think it would be a worthy and a
momentous accomplishment that no
previous president has been able to
realize.”
The man who negotiated the peace between Egypt and
Israel also said Pyongyang’s threats were to be expected.
“If they’re under constant belief that the
United States wants to attack them, even
using nuclear weapons — which many
Democrats and Republican leaders in our
country have mentioned as a possibility —
and that we are destroying their economy,
and they know that they’re starving to
death primarily because the United States
withholds food aid, for instance, just giving
them surplus food that we can’t ever use,
then I can understand how they feel,”
Carter said.
.
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“I think that the next mediator, next
negotiator — maybe President Trump, I
hope — will reassure them that we’re
willing to give up some of those things —
the threat of attack on them and to lift the
embargo. That would be a cheap price, in
my opinion, to pay for a cessation of their
nuclear program.”
Carter’s praise for Trump was hardly unalloyed, as was to
be expected (I don’t think Trump would particularly want
it, either, given Carter’s record of success with anything
not involving Anwar Sadat and/or Menachem Begin.)
Carter said that Trump had dealt “a damaging blow to
peace” by moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,
as required by law; given that Carter is a Palestinian
partisan this was hardly surprising.
He also said that
“(t)here’s a general feeling, on a global
basis, that democracy has reached its peak
and is declining,” when asked about
whether Trump’s election was “a challenge
to democratic ideals.”
That’s right, the democratic will of the electorate as
spelled out in the Constitution has somehow weakened
democracy.
Like so many things that come out of the mouths of
Democrats, I shall just leave that nugget of smugness out
there for summary judgment.
Nevertheless, you can almost see the suzerains of the
Democratic Party trying to surgically lift their jaws off the
floor from this. Jimmy Carter, their malaise-tinged hero,
thinks Donald Trump is Nobel material.
You could almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
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 LOL: Democrats Steal
New Campaign Message From Trump,
Want To “Drain The Swamp”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:19 Am

The strategy marks an expansion of the

Democrats’ midterm agenda, “A Better
Deal,” which up until now has focused
almost exclusively on kitchen-table
economic issues in lieu of the controversies
surrounding President Trump and a
growing list of people in his orbit.
In extending their message to include an
anti-corruption component, the Democrats
are painting the Trump administration —
and its Republican supporters on Capitol
Hill — as an unscrupulous group that’s
using power to pad its own pockets while
peddling policies to the highest corporate
bidder. The Democrats are promising
Democrats have been scrambling to find a new message
voters they’d be an alternative: The party
for the 2018 midterms. They have finally settled on
that would clean the place up.
stealing Trump’s line about draining the swamp.
Apparently, no one told Chuck Schumer that he is part of “President Trump has embraced the most
the swamp. egregious establishment Republican norms
and appointed the most conflict-of-interest-
The Hill reports: ridden Cabinet in my lifetime,” Senate
Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
said Monday at a press briefing on the
Dems expand 2018 message to ‘draining
steps of the Capitol.
the swamp’
This is the best Democrats could do?
Democrats are turning their campaign
How pathetic!
message to the many scandals swirling
around the Trump administration, betting
that vows to “drain the swamp” will attract
voters to their side in November.
.

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 CNN Water Boy Don Lemon Calls BS On Trump’s Spying
‘Conspiracy’ – Then James Clapper Tells Him
Spying On Trump “A Good Thing”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:40 Am

Life comes at you fast.

Then former DNI Chief under Obama came on and told
On Monday CNN water carrier for the water boy Don Lemon “it was a good thing” Obama spied
DNC Don Lemon called BS on Trump on Donald Trump during the election.
advisor’s “conspiracy theory” that
Obama was spying on Trump.
.

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 ‘SPYGATE:’ Trump Rails
Against FBI Informant In His Campaign
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:47 AM 05/23/2018

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers remarks during

the Prison Reform Summit at the White House in Washington, U.S.,
May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1EFB82BDD0

President Donald Trump railed against FBI efforts to

gather information on associates of his 2016 campaign in a
series of tweets Wednesday.

Trump is reacting to recent revelations that an FBI

informant made contact with several members of his
campaign and efforts by conservative lawmakers to review
documents relating to the probe. These efforts will come to
fruition Thursday when Congressman Devin Nunes and
Congressman Trey Gowdy will be allowed by the
Department of Justice to review the documents after
months of oversight efforts.

Several lawmakers have called for a second special

counsel to be appointed to investigate the FBI’s efforts
during the 2016 election along with alleged FISA abuse on
Carter Page.

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 Honest FBI Agents Step Forward:
Want To Testify Against Their Deep State Masters
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 9:19 Am
Well, what do you know? There are
honest men and women in the FBI after
all!
Several agents from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation want Congress to
subpoena them so they can rat out fired
Director James Comey and former
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
They are sick of the public stain the immoral and criminal
former leaders have placed on the FBI.
Via Kerry Picket at The Daily Caller:
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to
subpoena them so they can reveal
problems caused by former FBI Director
James Comey and former Deputy FBI
.
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Director Andrew McCabe, three people in
direct contact with active field agents tell
TheDC.
“There are agents all over this country who
love the bureau and are sickened by
[James] Comey’s behavior and [Andrew]
McCabe and [Eric] Holder and [Loretta]
Lynch and the thugs like [John] Brennan–
who despise the fact that the bureau was
used as a tool of political intelligence by the
Obama administration thugs,” former
federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova told The
Daily Caller Tuesday. “They are just waiting
for a chance to come forward and testify.”
Ahead of the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
inspector general report on how the FBI handled the
Clinton email investigation, TheDC spoke with DiGenova,
a former Trump official who maintained contact with rank
and file FBI agents and a counter-intelligence consultant
who conducted an interview with an active special agent of
the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO)…
…These agents prefer to be subpoenaed
to becoming an official government
whistleblower, since they fear political and
professional backlash, the former Trump
administration official explained to TheDC.
 Trump Hits Back At James Clapper:
‘I Am Not Happy’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:20 AM 05/23/2018

Clapper claimed in a recent interview on “The View” that

Trump should be grateful that the FBI had an informant in
his campaign. The former DNI director insisted that the
FBI was not spying on the Trump campaign, saying,

“What they were trying to do was protect

our political system and protect the
campaign.”

He then added,

“They were spying — a term I don’t

President Donald Trump struck back at former Director of
National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper’s statement
that Trump should be glad the FBI was making contact
with his campaign.
particularly like — on what the Russians
were doing, trying to understand, were the
Russians infiltrating?”
When pressed by ABC as to why Trump is not supporting
the FBI’s action, Clapper said,

“Well, he should be.”

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 President Trump Slams Nancy Pelosi For Her Embrace Of
MS-13 Gang-Bangers: “We’re Not Going To Release
Violent Criminals Into Our Country”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 9:38 Am

President Trump slammed Democrat

leader Nancy Pelosi for her embrace of Via Jack Posobiec—
MS-13 gang-bangers last night in his
speech to the Susan B. Anthony List Stronger Together
Gala.

This came after Pelosi defended the

brutal animals for their “spark of
divinity.”

President Donald Trump:

Just the other day, Nancy Pelosi came out

in favor of MS-13. That’s the first time I’ve
heard that. She wants them to be treated
with respect as do other Democrats. That’s
not going to be happening. We’re not going
to release violent criminals into our country.

Pelosi’s pals.

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 Trump Is Ready To 'Take Out The Trash' As He Green-
Lights Plan To Stop Leaks By FIRING Mid-Level
And Junior Communications Aides
 Chief Of Staff John Kelly Has Plan In-Hand To Go On Firing Spree For Trump
 President Is Impatient With Press Leaks And Angry Enough To Swing The Axe
 Senior-Level People Like Sarah Sanders And Mercedes Schlapp Appear Safe
 Stems From Controversy Over Mid-Level Aide's Insensitive Remark About John
McCain's Cancer Battle – Which Promptly Leaked
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:43 EDT, 23 May 2018 | Updated: 10:51 EDT, 23 May 2018

President Donald Trump has signaled to his top fire some of their underlings in a bid to stop leakers from
communications aides that he's ready to send some of their talking to reporters
less senior staffers packing – a move he hopes will cut
the White House's culture of leaking off at the knees.

Chief of Staff John Kelly has signed off on the plan,

according to Politico, a direct consequence of this month's
leak of an insensitive comment about Sen. John McCain's
brain-cancer battle.

That episode, a White House official told DailyMail.com,

was a public black eye that focused the president's
attention on his porous West Wing.

The president realizes that

'it's time to take out the trash,'

Massacre to come? The White House could soon be the
scene of a mass-sacking
the official said Wednesday.

'Some of these kids are more trouble than

they're worth, with all the leaks. This is the
White House, not a seventh-grade lunch
table.'

Already dressed for mourning: White House Press

Secretary Sarah Sanders' job appears safe but she's bound
to lose some of her staff
Career death warrants: President Donald Trump has
signaled to his top communications aides that he's ready to
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It's not clear when the axe will swing at mid-level and
junior employees, or how many Kelly plans to fire.
But it appears press and messaging leaders like Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders and Director of Strategic
Communications Mercedes Schlapp are safe.
Senior Trump-whisperer Kellyanne Conway said last
week, however, that the White House had identified some
secret leakers, and 'they're not all junior folks.'
The administration has suffered from a culture of leaks
since before Inauguration Day, with top-shelf officials
initially being the most sieve-like among disloyal White
House staff.
Lower-level staffers are thought to be behind more recent
breaches, however, including the embarrassing McCain
episode.
While Trump has blasted disloyal staffers, he also claims
much of the dirt they dish is false, and exaggerated by
reporters in order to paint him in a bad light
Kellyanne Conway said Monday that malicious leaks are
less common than they were in 2017, and that the White
House knows who some of the offenders are
Kellyanne Conway told 'Fox & Friends' that she
'somewhat' knows who's leaking, and
.
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'they're not all in the press and comms
[communications] shop either – and they're
not all junior folks.'
She suggested the White House is trending toward
'smaller, tighter meetings' where senior
staff are 'just telling people [information] on
a need-to-know basis.'
Conway said most leaks from inside the West Wing are
meant to hamstring rivals and settle scores, and
emphasized that
'99.8 per cent of the information that we
know, that some of us know in this place –
that never gets leaked.'
The president himself sometimes lets a proverbial cat out
of the bag himself by venting to longtime New York City
business friends who have their own motives – and vibrant
relationships with the press.
Leaking has recently become a more pedestrian sport,
however, with low- and mid-level aides throwing vicarious
shade at one another to settle scores or hobble their
internal competition for limelight and plum assignments.
The McCain scandal involved communications deputy
Kelly Sadler, who reportedly told colleagues in a closed-
door meeting that they shouldn't worry about whether
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain planned to vote
against CIA director nominee Gina Haspel.
He's 'dying anyway,' Sadler said, a suggestion that he's too
ill to cast a vote in person. That turned out to be an
accurate prediction.
McCain, a Republican Senate institution and a Vietnam-
era war hero, is recovering from brain cancer surgery.
Politico reported Wednesday that the president had
personally spoken with Sadler, and expressed frustration
with how her comment was leaked.
The White House has been tight-lipped, though, about
whether officials are angry about the jab at McCain.
 Leaker James Comey Speaks! Blasts President Trump,
DEFENDS SPIES Inside His Campaign
By Kristinn Taylor
May 23, 2018, 9:57 Am
Fired FBI Director James Comey spoke
out on Twitter Wednesday morning
about the latest developments on the
Obama administration spying on the
Trump campaign.
This was the first time Comey has
responded to the allegations of an FBI
informant inside the Trump campaign.
Comey admitted leaking FBI documents of his
conversations with President Trump to get a special
counsel appointed to investigate Trump.
Comey, as his is style, spoke in condescending platitudes:
“Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential
Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly
regulated and essential to protecting the
country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about
its work will do lasting damage to our
country. How will Republicans explain this
to their grandchildren?”
“Dangerous time when our country is led by
those who will lie about anything, backed
by those who will believe anything, based
on information from media sources that will
say anything. Americans must break out of
that bubble and seek truth.”
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Comey’s tweets came after it was reported honest FBI
agents want to come forward under protection of
subpoenas to testify about how “sickened” they were by
Comey’s behavior as director.
Via Kerry Picket at The Daily Caller:
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to
subpoena them so they can reveal
problems caused by former FBI Director
James Comey and former Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe, three people in
direct contact with active field agents tell
TheDC.
“There are agents all over this country who
love the bureau and are sickened by
[James] Comey’s behavior and [Andrew]
McCabe and [Eric] Holder and [Loretta]
Lynch and the thugs like [John] Brennan–
who despise the fact that the bureau was
used as a tool of political intelligence by the
Obama administration thugs,” former
federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova told The
Daily Caller Tuesday. “They are just waiting
for a chance to come forward and testify.”
Comey’s tweets also came after President Donald Trump
tweeted this morning on what he called “Spygate.”
“SPYGATE could be one of the biggest
political scandals in history!
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 Fmr. Comey Aide Tries To Explain
Difference Between A Spy And Confidential Informant
Former FBI Official Josh Campbell Tried To Push Back On The President's
Criticism Of The Russia Investigation.
By NTK Staff
05.23.2018 @9:59am

“It’s easy for the president to say, ‘They’re

spying. They’re spies. It’s Spygate,” he
complained. “It’s very hard to have a sober
discussion to refute those points.”
“In order to say someone’s a spy, that
conjures up images of people skulking
around in the shadows with questionable
motives,” Campell said.

He contrasted this with the image of a “confidential

informant,” someone who was

“working under the auspices of a

In an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, Josh Campbell,
predicated counterintelligence
a former aide to former FBI Director James Comey,
investigation, was working to mitigate a
attempted to explain the difference between a spy and a
national security threat.”
confidential informant. The former FBI official criticized
President Trump’s accusations that law enforcement “[It’s] a big difference,” the former FBI
placed a “spy” in his campaign. official added.
“Or it’s a semantic difference,” Cuomo shot
“There is no deep state,” he told CNN’s back.
Chris Cuomo.

Campbell said that Trump was deliberately attacking

prosecutors to distract from the Russia investigation.
.

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 Rush Limbaugh Bombshell:
DNC Hack ‘Had To Be An Inside Job’
By Alicia Powe
May 23, 2018, 10:15 Am
The Russia probe is premised on the claim that the
Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s
server during the 2016 election.
But we have never seen any evidence of it because the
server was likely deliberately breached by a DNC staffer
and never hacked, warns Rush Limbaugh.
“We still don’t know the data that was
hacked from the DNC. They haven’t even
told us that. They’ve just told us the
Russians did it and that CrowdStrike
proved it and that’s it. They’ve shown no
evidence,” Limbaugh argued. “I’m gonna
tell you who I think did hack the
Democrat server. In fact, I think we
already know. People have just
forgotten. It was Democrat National
Committee employees. People hired by
Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz. It was
the Pakistanis, folks. The Pakistanis
hacked the Democrat National
Committee servers.”
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The establishment media has strategically ignored the
months-long House IT scandal rocking congressional
Democrats. This is even after the FBI’s investigation into
the matter became public and Democratic Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz’s top IT aide Imran Awan was
arrested trying to flee to Pakistan after wiring almost
$300,000 to the country, Limbaugh pointed out.
“If you Google the Awan brothers from
Pakistan, you won’t find many stories. It’s
being totally ignored. But there were three
brothers from Pakistan, and they were hot
to trot computer specialists. They were IT
stars. Debbie ‘Blabbermouth’ Schultz hired
them and put them on the payroll,” he
continued. “The story has been completely
and totally covered up. It was very
embarrassing to the DNC when it
happened, and so the Drive-Bys have
ignored the story.”
The Awan family are likely the culprits behind the DNC
data breach, Limbaugh argued.
“I will not be surprised if it is eventually
learned that these guys did it. They’re gone
now. They are back in Pakistan. They were
fired when it was discovered what they had
done. Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz hires
them, these kids from Pakistan made off
with all kinds of computer data from all over
the DNC, and anywhere from 44 to 80
Democrat congresspeople had their data
stolen, and in some cases, even the
hardware, the computers themselves were
stolen.”
The special counsel investigation into Russian interference
in the 2016 election has entered its second year, but the
American people are still in the dark about whether the
DNC server was actually hacked.
“The important thing is that this
investigation, if you really, really want to get
back to the starting point was when
Democrats said that the Russians hacked
their servers. Same time the RNC servers
 were attacked but unsuccessfully,” he said.
“They’ve just told us the Russians did it and
that CrowdStrike proved it and that’s it.
They’ve shown no evidence…There has
yet to be — do not doubt me — there has
yet to be any evidence furnished that the
Russians did the hacking,” he said. “One of
the most telling pieces of information,
CrowdStrike was the third-party outfit that
the Democrats hired to forensically
examine their server. And CrowdStrike is
who said that it looked to them like Russia
or Guccifer 2.0, some people pretending to
be the Russians maybe did it.”
Democrats’ refusal to let the FBI forensically examine any
of the network data that would contain digital footprints
identifying who came in and hacked data, is an indication
that the server was not ever actually hacked, Limbaugh
noted.
“Not to be redundant, but the Democrats
refused to let the FBI forensically examine
any of the network data that would, you
know, have digital footprints that would
maybe identify who came in and hacked
data,” he said. “The hardware was there.
Nobody made off with the server, nobody
made off with the hardware of the network.
It was all there. Just the data had been
hacked and stolen. We’ve been told from
the get-go the Russians did the hacking,
and they did it to help Trump win. And
everybody just accepted it.”
It would have been impossible for information from the
DNC to have been hacked due to upload and download
.
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speeds, Limbaugh explained. Instead, someone with
physical access to the network must have copied them in
person to a USB drive.
“The maximum transfer speeds can be
easily calculated. Well, the transfer speeds
that were reported by CrowdStrike are
impossible over the internet. If you spend
time Googling this and delving into this, you
will stumble across this fact. The speed at
which the data that was stolen from the
server was transferred are speeds that are
impossible over the internet,” he said. “The
speeds that were reported, the speeds that
CrowdStrike reported from data transfer is
identical to the speed if you’re writing
something to a DVD or a thumb drive over
USB. You can copy massive amounts of
data very fast over USB to either a DVD or
a thumb drive. You can transfer a couple
terabytes in not very long. But over the
internet, it would take impossibly longer.”
The forensic data is there. The transfer
speed data is there. And it simply is not
possible over the internet. So what does
this mean? It means it had to be an inside
job, it had to be somebody with access to
the hardware, to the server, to computers,
it had to be somebody who could plug in a
thumb drive or an optical drive with DVD or
what have you, a CD, and write the data
that way, because if it’s over the internet,
the amount of data we’re talking about here
— and we still don’t know specifically what
was even hacked.”
 ‘Morning Joe’: You’re ‘Too Stupid To Handle Household
Appliances’ If You Think The FBI Was Against Trump
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:23 AM 05/23/2018

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said

Wednesday that if you don’t understand Trump went on a tweet storm Wednesday over the spying
how the FBI hurt Hillary Clinton and not on his campaign.
Donald Trump in the 2016 election,
you’re “too stupid to handle household
appliances.”

WATCH:

“Everything the FBI did in the home stretch

was to Donald Trump’s benefit and Hillary
Clinton’s detriment. Clinton’s detriment,
including McCabe’s leak,” Scarborough
said.

He continued,

“Now, for somebody not to understand that,

I mean, seriously, suggests only one thing
— and that is, they are either intentionally
lying or they are too stupid to handle
household appliances.”
.

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 Pres. Trump Slams Clapper, ‘Criminal Deep State’ In
Tweet Storm: ‘SPYGATE Could Be One Of The Biggest
Political Scandals In History!’
By Kristinn Taylor
May 23, 2018, 10:28 Am

President Donald Trump slammed the ‘criminal deep state’

in a series of tweets Wednesday morning, including a
mention by name of Obama DNI James Clapper, saying,
“SPYGATE could be one of the biggest
political scandals in history!”

“Look how things have turned around on

the Criminal Deep State. They go after
Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up
Scam, and end up getting caught in a
major SPY scandal the likes of which this
country may never have seen before! What
goes around, comes around!”
““It’s clear that they had eyes and ears all
over the Trump Campaign” Judge Andrew
Napolitano”
““Trump should be happy that the FBI was
SPYING on his campaign” No, James
Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a
campaign would be illegal, and a scandal
to boot!” Trump’s tweets come in the wake of reports and
allegations over the past week that the Obama
“WITCH HUNT!” administration used spies to try to infiltrate and set-up the
Trump campaign.

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 Scarborough Demands To Know
If Anti-Mueller Clinton Aide Works For Fox News
Amber Athey -
Media And Breaking News Editor
10:34 AM 05/23/2018
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough angrily demanded to know
Wednesday if a former Clinton aide is working for Fox
News because the aide published an op-ed criticizing
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
WATCH:
During Wednesday’s edition of “Morning Joe,”
Scarborough brought up Mark Penn’s recent article saying
Mueller’s Russian investigation should be stopped.
.
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“What exactly is Mark Penn selling?”
Scarborough whined. “Here’s a guy who
lost Hillary Clinton’s campaign. … He left
that campaign responsible for her loss to
Barack Obama. What is Mark Penn selling
coming to the defense of Donald J.
Trump?”
Scarborough alleged that Penn is angling for some
conservative favor and maybe a contract with Fox News.
“In Washington, D.C., often when people
do strange things like this — creatures of
the swamp — they’re doing it for a reason,”
Scarborough said. “Does he got a Fox
News contract? Does he show up on Fox
News a lot?”
Penn worked on Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign
and his op-ed was published in The Hill.
 BREAKING=> FBI Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation Is
Ready To Testify Against Mccabe, Strzok And Comey!
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 10:45 Am
On Friday May 11, 2018, Senate Judiciary Chairman
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein stating
Comey testified the FBI didn’t think General Flynn lied.
Grassley also revealed Joe Pientka was
the second FBI agent who joined Peter
Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in an
ambush style interview to take down
General Flynn.
Grassley demanded the FBI and DOJ produce the
transcript of Flynn’s intercepted calls with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak and the related 302’s by May 25th.
(302’s are reports FBI agents take to summarize an
interview with a subject.)
The recently unredacted portion of the House Intel report
revealed Comey testified to House Intel members the FBI
agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any deception.
The report also revealed the illegal leak of Flynn’s phone
call with Kislyak is what allowed the FBI/DOJ to keep a
counterintel operation open on General Flynn.
Chairman Grassley is demanding
answers from the FBI and DOJ by this
Friday the 25th.
In the last paragraph of Grassley’s letter, he requests
Special Agent Joe Pientka be available for a transcribed
interview with Committee staff:
Accordingly, no later than May 25, 2018, please provide:
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1. The information requested in our February 15, 2017
letter, including the transcripts of the reportedly
intercepted calls and any FBI reports summarizing
them; and
2. The FBI agents’ 302s memorializing their interview of
Flynn and 1A supporting docs, including the agents’
notes.
In addition, please make Special Agent Joe Pientka
available for a transcribed interview with Committee staff
no later than one week following the production of the
requested documents.
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter stated a couple weeks
ago that according to numerous law enforcement sources,
neither Strzok or Pientka believed Flynn
was lying during their interview with him, as
reported.
Special Agent Joe Pientka and another
“non-partisan” law enforcement officer
were present in the Flynn interview per
Sara Carter’s sources.
Legal expert, attorney and former special investigator, Joe
DiGenova, believes that Pientka may be a good cop based
on his actions related to the General Flynn case (see video
below at the 6:00 mark) –
Chairman Grassley quite properly wants to see the
underlying 302 forms of the FBI agents who did the
interview,
the ambush interview of Flynn,
at the White House during the transition period rather
shortly after the inauguration.
It’s pretty obvious that Comey and
McCabe got together and decided they
wanted to frame Flynn because they
believed, they believed, believe it or not,
that he was a danger to the
Constitution, not them.
He was a danger, when all he was doing was
communicating with people that he had a legitimate right
to communicate with, both as a candidate Foreign Policy
Advisor, and as the National Security Advisor Designate,
and as a National Security Advisor.

So Grassley wants to see the notes of these people and he

wants to interview the one agent who was there who was
very, very, very serious about how Flynn did not deceive.

That agent that he wants to interview is

the agent who went to the Inspector
General and complained about the
conduct of Strzok and McCabe.
.
Corrupt and fired former Heads of the
FBI Comey and McCabe can’t be in jail
soon enough!

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 President Trump Slams 'Criminal Deep State' As Spy
Scandal Blows Up In The Faces Of The Vermin Who
Fabricated It And Former Trump Advisor Warns:
'This Is Just The Beginning'
- Will Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Come To Light?
President Trump Noted Mysterious Death 5 Years Ago
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
May 23, 2018
During Barack Obama's 'reign of terror' over America I
was once asked by a friend who was a long-time US
government employee why I 'hated' the government so
much and my answer to them was clearly unexpected. "I
don't hate the government, I merely despise CORRUPT
government" I replied though this person chose not to see
the corruption that I spoke of.
But on December 12th of 2013, now President Trump saw
the corruption I saw clearly when he put out the tweet seen
below the day after a mysterious plane crash killed Loretta
Fuddy, the former Hawaii State Health Director who just
happened to have been the person who "verified" Barack
Obama's "birth certificate". Trump also mentioned the
mysteriousness of Fuddy being the only person killed in
that crash after the pilot landed the plane on the water,
getting everybody else out alive, except for the very person
who had officially declared Obama to be a US citizen.
While Fuddy's death was 'officially' determined to be an
accident, her death was also just one in a string of
mysterious deaths that surrounded Obama during his time
in office and a continuation of the seemingly never-ending
string of mysterious deaths that followed Obama's
Democratic presidential predecessor, Bill Clinton, and his
wife Hillary as has been steadfastly documented.
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From the deaths of Seal Team 6 to Andrew Breitbart to
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to former
presidential and Pentagon aide John Wheeler to Donald
Young, an openly gay friend of Obama's who was
murdered at the Trinity Church in Chicago, the 'Obama
body count' goes on and on and while not as huge yet as
the trail of dead bodies that still follow around Bill and
Hillary Clinton everywhere they go, that 'body count'
began long before Obama was a presidential thought.
And while the mainstream media will surely continue to
call the 'Clinton body count' and all of the corruption
within the Obama government a 'conspiracy theory' (as
they've been covering up Obama and Clinton corruption
for decades!), as Susan Duclos reported on May 20th on
ANP, still emerging information confirms that a major
political and legal reckoning is on the horizon. And with
even the Wall Street Journal recently putting out a story
asking where Barack Obama had been through this still
unfolding 'S' storm, one political insider has warned that
the 'S' is getting ready to 'HTF'.
And now we learn that this morning, President Trump has
quite literally called out the 'criminal deep state', putting
out a tweet saying
"Look how things have turned around on
the Criminal Deep State", directly calling
them out for falling for the phony Russian
 collusion narrative while warning them:
"What goes around comes around".
For those who think that President Trump doesn't have a
vicious but seemingly righteous revenge streak, we suggest
you watch the final video below, an audio book excerpt
from his books in which we hear about President Trump's
penchant for carrying out revenge upon those who have
wronged him. As even CNN reported back in 2017,
"President Trump's love of getting even has
come to Washington DC". One such book
excerpt: “Go for the jugular so that people
watching will not want to mess with you.”
As Owen Shroyer from Infowars reports in this story and
we hear from him in the 1st video below, we may be
closing in on the point in time where Barack Obama
worrying about his 'legacy' is the very least of his
problems.
As we had reported on ANP back on March 5th of 2018 in
our story titled "A Plague Has Been Unleashed On
America And We May Not Be Able To Survive It -
Colossal Red Alert Issued As Globalists Prepare 'Final
Event' To Complete Their 'Take Down' Of America", very
clear evidence exists that treason had been committed
against America. From that story.:
According to the definitions furnished in
this January 25th of 1861 story from the
NY Times (not a spelling error in the
date), treason against the United States
of America has been committed against
the United States over and over again in
recent years by those who had chosen
to arm our enemies and sell America
secrets to enrich themselves.
Yet as we see in this description below
that outlines Congress having the
power to declare the punishment of
treason we have a huge problem, what if
it were huge numbers of Congress
members who are also committing that
treason? From that 1861 story we see
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treason listed as the very highest crime
that can be committed in civil society,
yet they do it over and over again
unpunished.
By Section 110 of Article III of the
Constitution of the United States, it is
declared that: "Treason against the
United States shall consist only in
levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort. No
person shall be convicted of treason
unless on the testimony of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on
confession in open Court. The Congress
shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason."
Treason has ever been deemed the highest
crime which can be committed in civil society;
since its aim is an overthrow of the Government
and a public resistance by force of its just powers, its
tendency is to create universal danger and alarm, and on
this account it has often been visited with the deepest
public resentment. Hence, by the common law, the the
punishment of high treason was accompanied by all the
refinements in cruelty which were oftentimes literally and
studiously executed. But under the Constitution of the
United States the power of punishing the crime of treason
against the United States is exclusive in Congress; and
the trial of the offence belongs exclusively to the Federal
tribunals. A State cannot take cognizance or punish the
offence, whatever it may do in relation to the offence of
treason committed exclusively against itself.
While former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
recently said that the FBI having a spy (or two or three!)
 embedded within the Trump campaign is unfolding into
the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, former Trump
campaign advisor Michael Caputo recently told Fox News
that what we're learning about Obama FBI/DOJ espionage
is "just the beginning". And should this scandal lead
directly back to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as
many believe it will, might those who've committed
treason against America while arming our enemies finally
be held responsible for their actions?
places, not yet weeded out. Though investigative journalist
Sharyl Attkisson recently tweeted the "flood is coming"
with newly-examined FBI emails between high-ranking
US intel officials referencing a 'sensitive matter
team' while Front Page Mag recently reported former CIA
head John Brennan is now in a panic mode with his dirty
deeds coming to light.

According to Mark Penn, a man who previously worked

for Bill Clinton and was one of the primary architects of
his 1996 presidential campaign, Robert Mueller must be
stopped to protect us all. Warning within his story over at
The Hill that the 'deep state' is in a 'deep state of
desperation' with the Russian collusion narrative blowing
up in the faces of those who created it, these blunt words
of truth from a former 'Clintonite' are a surprising but very
welcome warning. From the Hill story.:

At this point, there is little doubt that the

highest echelons of the FBI and the
Justice Department broke their own
rules to end the Hillary Clinton “matter,”
but we can expect the inspector general
to document what was done or, more
pointedly, not done. It is hard to see
how a yearlong investigation of this
won’t come down hard on former FBI
Director James Comey and perhaps
even former Attorney General Loretta
Lynch, who definitely wasn’t playing
mahjong in a secret “no aides allowed”
meeting with former President Clinton
on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
With this report on the way and
congressional investigators beginning
to zero in on the lack of hard, verified
evidence for starting the Trump probe,
current and former intelligence and
Justice Department officials are
dumping everything they can think of to
save their reputations.
But it is backfiring.
Yet despite the fact that the entire Russia investigation is
now 'fruit from the poisonous tree' after the 'Steele Dossier'
was determined to have been a creation attributed to the
'Hillary-supporting-deep state' and paid for by Hillary
Clinton and the DNC, the sham investigation goes on and
with the 'corrupt faction of the FBI' proving themselves to
be nothing more than 'America's gestapo' as William B.
Stoecker reported in this recent ANP story.
Have we witnessed treason against America before our
very eyes under the direction of Obama and Hillary?
As we reported on ANP back on January 23rd, what has
been called 'the globalists 16-year plan to destroy America'
was progressing right on schedule with Barack Obama's 8
years coming to a close and Hillary looked at as a
guaranteed win in 2016 before President Trump and the
deplorables swept to what could only be described as
shocking victory to the elite who never thought Hillary
would lose.
While the MSM will surely call this '16-year plan' a
deranged 'conspiracy theory', just look at what the
globalists goals were and just how close we've come to
having all of them being fullfilled here before our eyes
with rogue political operatives being installed into the very
highest levels of our Justice Department, FBI, CIA, NSA
and DHS while military commanders who were loyal to
America were purged under Obama, our enemies and
terrorists were funded and armed by Obama,
Conservatives, Christians and Constitutionalists were
demonized by Obama while the middle class was
destroyed.

And while the globalists were unable to complete their
plans of destroying America during Obama's term in office
and clearly needed Hillary in office to complete the job, it's
clear that there are still 'enemies of America within' in high
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And while some still claim that President Trump hasn't
done enough, would they prefer that Hillary have been
given 8 years to complete what Obama and the globalists
before him here in America had started? Had Hillary been
elected, many changes we've witnessed would have never
happened. Certainly nobody would have ever found out
about her buddy Harvey Weinstein nor would have Back
Page been shut down, the US would have remained
cemented in the Paris climate change agreement and a
world war 3 with Russia or North Korea would possibly
have led to widespread destruction.
Also surrendering our national sovereignty to some global
government totalitarians who care nothing about the rights
of human beings, we see in the numbers being forecast for
America by Deagel.com for 2025 a look at exactly what
the globalists had envisioned America to resemble after
Obama and Hillary were done with us, a once proud
country transformed into a 3rd world nation. And as we
reported on ANP yesterday, despite the positive changes
President Trump has brought in, we're still well on our
ways there.
Yet with what could very well be one false flag after
another still being concocted by the deep state in an
attempt to take away the 2nd Amendment here in America,
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All that was left for the globalists was the 'end game' for
America that would have been guaranteed with 8 years of
Hillary, an end game that would have led to the completed
destruction of the US Constitution, the complete gutting of
both the 1st and 2nd Amendment's, and the total opening
of our borders to the 'MS-13 animals'.
and as this recent story at Esquire reported, not just some
guns but ALL guns, the danger that America faces in the
days and weeks ahead should not be underestimated and
will likely continue to increase the more the 'deep state'
tumbles.
As Real Clear Politics recently reported, the
'Constitutional crisis' long warned of is now here in
America, a crisis that many have warned could lead to
civil war in America. With Harvard Law Professor
Laurence Tribe recently imploring the Democrats to
impeach President Trump with this statement: "You have
to shoot to kill", we'll continue to pray that 'the truth'
finally emerges and cooler heads prevail and that another
civil war will be forever avoided in America.
Yet should that very corrupt faction of the deep state that
sold out America in an attempt to get Hillary elected show
that they could care less about the 'rule of law' and are
more than happy to ignore the will of the American people
in the 2016 election and commit treason against our nation,
we pray that nothing will stop 'the pain' that should be
coming to them.
And in closing, since former Clinton advisor Penn recently
warned that stopping the witchhunt of Robert Mueller is
protecting us all while its become ever more clear that
Mueller and that corrupt faction of the deep state truly are
America's gestapo here in 2018, we hope that everybody is
ready for the potential repercussions of the 'flood that is
coming'.

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 Wikileaks To Trump:
Obama Already Did It To The French, Ordered CIA To
Hack Le Pen And Other Candidates
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 23, 2018, 11:17 Am

Responding to a tweet from President Donald Trump, (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement
WikiLeaks pointed out that the Obama administration (UMP) together with current President
ordered the CIA to hack Marine Le Pen and other Francois Hollande, then President
candidates during the French election in 2012. Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one
presidential front runner Marine Le Pen,
and former presidential candidates
Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-
Khan,” the WikiLeaks release explains.
The documents released by WikiLeaks are marked as
“NoForn” which means that they are to be viewed by
people within the US intelligence community only.
The spying order was justified by the agency because it
was to “prepare key US policymakers for the post-election
French political landscape.”

On Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted that

“SPYGATE could be one of the biggest
political scandals in history!”
In response, WikiLeaks noted that his presidential
campaign wasn’t the first one to be targeted, as
“Obama already did it to the French.”

The tweet linked to a WikiLeaks release that revealed all
major French political parties were targeted for infiltration
by the CIA’s human and electronic spies. The CIA
espionage operation was active for roughly 10 months,
from November 2011 to September 2012.
“The revelations are contained within
three CIA tasking orders published
today by WikiLeaks as context for its
forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named
specifically as targets are the French
Socialist Party (PS), the National Front
“Significantly, two CIA opposition
espionage tasks, “What policies do they
promote to help boost France’s economic
growth prospects?” and “What are their
opinions on the German model of export-
led growth?” resonate with a U.S.
economic espionage order from the same
year. That order requires obtaining details
of every prospective French export contract
or deal valued at $200m or more,” the
WikiLeaks statement adds.

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 ‘NOT The Onion’: James Comey Frowns Upon Deplorable
Deep State Skeptics Living In A Bubble Of Delusion
By Doug P.
Posted At 11:41 Am On May 23, 2018

A tweet from James Comey this morning defending the Perhaps he’s a little nervous for some reason.
FBI’s use of “confidential human sources” while saying
critics of the FBI’s actions under Comey would do “lasting
damage” to the United States was dismantled by Byron
York. Not long after that, Comey published a follow-up
tweet that almost sounds like he’s taking a page from
Hillary Clinton’s notorious rhetoric about Trump
supporters:

Comey has always had a flair for the dramatic, and he also
dabbles in comedy too.

Comey’s tweet got plenty of support from The Resistance,

minus the ones still angry at him over what happened in
2016.
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 Rep. Gaetz And Hallie Jackson
Spar Over Trump Spying Allegations
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:43 AM 05/23/2018

MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson and Republican
congressman Matt Gaetz sparred on Wednesday over
allegations that the FBI planted a spy within the 2016
Trump campaign.
Gaetz argued that, regardless of whether the FBI was
spying on Trump or simply using an informant to gather
information about Russian meddling, using that type of
intelligence collection on a political campaign is a
“slippery slope.”
“The FBI should not be collecting
intelligence on a presidential campaign,” he
said. “There’s a slippery slope there, Hallie.
Once you go down the road of allowing
political opponents to weaponize the
intelligence community against each other,
that’s bad for Republicans and Democrats.”
“What evidence do you have that it was a
political rivalry, congressman? I guess
that’s what I’m getting at,” she added.
“The evidence I would have is are the text
messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page saying the White House wants to be
involved, the White House is running
everything,” Gaetz retorted. “If one of the
tools that was used was the collection of
intelligence … my concern is that that
crosses a red line.”
WATCH:

Jackson shot back that intelligence officials have called the

collection “standard procedure” and asked,

“how do you distinguish between a spy …

and an informant doing the work of an
investigation?”
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 President Trump: “I Think It’s Going To Be Pretty
Obvious” That Obama Likely Knew
About #Spygate (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 11:48 Am

President Trump spoke with the liberal White House Reporter: President Obama?
reporters this morning on his way to New York to discuss
President Trump: Would he know? I
MS-13 animals.
would certainly hope not. But I think it’s
going to be pretty obvious after awhile.
Earlier today Trump slammed the Deep State and their
“Spygate” scandal against his campaign. And that would make it the biggest
political scandal in US history.

Barack Obama has a legacy after all!

He was asked if President Obama knew about the spies

inside his campaign. Trump said it was likely he did.

Wow!

Reporter: (inaudible)
President Trump: Well I don’t want to get
into it yet but I will tell you after we look at
the proof…
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 ‘Obama White House Is Running This’ Exchange Between
FBI Lovebirds Prompts Grassley To Seek
Unredacted Strzok-Page Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 12:18 Pm
On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary
Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a
letter to the DOJ seeking the removal of
remaining redactions on Strzok-Page
text messages.
Grassley gave the Justice Department
until June 6th to hand over the
requested documents to the Committee.
An exchange between Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page quoting a redacted official
saying “the White House is running
this,” prompted Senator Grassley to
seek the removal of remaining
redactions to give more context to the
conversation.
Grassley said in a letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein:
Here is some more context of this exchange between Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page via Andrew McCarthy:
On May 1, 2018, and May 18, 2018,
Committee staff reviewed in camera less
redacted versions of the Strzok and Page
text message productions provided to the
Committee. On several occasions, my staff
have requested that the Department of
Justice provide the Committee with a
redaction key, to no avail. Thus, the
Committee is still in the dark about the
justification the Department is relying upon
to withhold that information from
Congress. As one example of redacted
material, in a text message produced to the
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Committee, the price of Andrew McCabe’s
$70,000 conference table was redacted.[1]
In another, an official’s name was
redacted in reference to a text about the
Obama White House “running” an
investigation, although it is unclear to
which investigation they were
referring.[2]
In order to see under the redactions,
Committee staff had to travel to main
Justice to review a lesser redacted
version. When viewing the still redacted
portions in context with the unredacted
material, it appeared that the redacted
portions may contain relevant information
relating to the Committee’s ongoing
investigation into the manner in which the
Department of Justice and FBI handled the
Clinton and Russia investigations.[3]
Congress, and the public, have a right to
know how the Department spends taxpayer
money. I am unaware of any legitimate
basis on which the cost of a conference
table should be redacted. Embarrassment
is not a good enough reason. The manner
in which some redactions have been used
casts doubt on whether the remaining
redactions are necessary and defensible.
‘The White House Is Running This’
Strzok was back in Washington by 7 p.m.,
in a cab headed to FBI headquarters. His
texts with Page, then and the next
afternoon, discussed the various other
high-ranking officials who had to be briefed
— including Bill Priestap and George
Toscas, the deputy attorney general in
charge of the Justice Department’s
National Security Division.
 On the afternoon of August 5, Strzok and
Page engaged in a tense conversation
which involved an imminent meeting with
“agency people” — an apparent reference
to the CIA. Strzok suggested that, for the
new case, they should conduct Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday morning meetings
“with [REDACTED]” just “like we did with
mye” — Mid Year Exam, the Clinton probe.
Finally, after some back-and-forth over who
should be invited to a major meeting about
the new case, a meeting was held. In the
aftermath, at about 4:30 p.m., Strzok and
Page had the following exchange:
Strzok: And hi. Went well, best we could
have expected. Other than [REDACTED]
quote: “the White House is running this.”
My answer, “well, maybe for you they are.”
And of course, I was planning on telling this
guy, thanks for coming, we’ve got an hour,
but with Bill [Priestap] there, I’ve got no
control….
Page: Yeah, whatever (re the WH
comment). We’ve got the emails that say
otherwise.
FBI lawyer Lisa Page recently resigned
from her post; Peter Strzok is still
employed by the FBI.
Former White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer recently brought attention to
this exchange from his Twitter account.

Screenshot of the letter on next page:

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 Irony: Brian Williams Worries
About Claims Trump Is Discrediting Journalism
By Scott Whitlock
May 23, 2018 12:20 PM EDT

Journalists are freaking out over an alleged admission by
Donald Trump that he attacks the press simply to
“discredit” reporters and so that “no one will believe you.”
CBS This Morning, CNN, ABC’s The View and MSNBC
have all fretted over the quote.
Appearing at an event in New York on Monday, journalist
Lesley Stahl recounted an alleged off-camera comment by
Trump from December of 2016. Trump told her:
“You know why I do it? I do it to discredit
you all and demean you all so when you
write negative stories about me, no one will
believe you.”
CBS This Morning's Norah O'Donnell on Wednesday
blandly recounted Stahl’s new claims and played the
video:
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl
said President Trump told her that he
attacks the press to erode the public’s trust
in journalists. Stahl spoke at an awards
ceremony, Monday, about her conversation
with then-President-Elect Trump right after
the 2016 election. She said he made the
comments during an off-camera exchange.

Hill reporter Joe Concha wondered about the timing of

Stahl’s revelation:
Now, it’s unclear why Stahl decided to not bring the
remark up at the time or why it’s coming up 17 months
later. However, it’s amusing that disgraced ex-Nightly
News anchor Brian Williams played the clip on Tuesday
night and worried about it’s impact. Naturally, he fretted
over whether it could intimidate the Robert Mueller
investigation:

Mueller, while not a monastic environment totally,

something close — they all keep their head down and do
their work. Are they likely to see, are they likely to react to
a remark like that?

Considering that Williams is the man who falsely claimed

he was shot down over Iraq in 2003 and told tales about
seeing dead bodies during Hurricane Katrina, maybe he
shouldn’t be so concerned about others trying to discredit
the press. Williams has done a good job of that himself. On The View, co-host Meghan McCain voiced skepticism:

I like Lesley Stahl. She has a 45 year career on 60 Minutes.

She actually came to my family's ranch in Sedona and did
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a whole interview with my dad. And there were parts off
the record, and we hung out with her. Off the record is off
the record.... I would assume they were maybe talking on
background. I have issues with the way Trump treats the
media. But there is also on this end, like, the breakdown of
trust and the traditions of journalism are maybe going out
the window. I don't know if this is on or off the record, but
this sounds off the record.
Partial transcripts are below.
11th Hour
5/22/18
11:15
BRIAN WILLIAMS: I want to play a piece of an interview with
Lesley Stahl. This is Lesley Stahl talking about when she first
went over to interview Donald Trump in Trump Tower. This is
December 2016, after he won the election, something he told her
then. We'll discuss it on the other side.

CBS This Morning

5/23/18
8:06

NORAH O’DONNELL: 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl

said President Trump told her that he attacks the press to erode
the public’s trust in journalists. Stahl spoke at an awards
ceremony, Monday, about her conversation with then-President-
Elect Trump right after the 2016 election. She said he made the
comments during an off-camera exchange.

LESLEY STAHL: I said, you know, “That is getting tired. Why are
you doing this? You're doing this over and over. It's boring. It's
time to end that. You've won the nomination. And why do you
keep hammering at this?” And he said, “You know why I do it? I
do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write
negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” He said that.
O’DONNELL: The White House did not respond for our request
for a comment.
[Clip]
STAHL: Lesley Stahl, as said to Judy Woodruff, two giants of the
television news business. Jill, the question to you becomes,
you're always appropriately talking about the focus of the feds.
How Mueller, while not a monastic environment totally,
something close, they all keep their head down and do their
work. Are they likely to see, are they likely to react to a remark
like that?

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 Rassley Calls For The Release Of All Strzok-Page Texts
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
12:23 PM 05/23/2018

The chairman claims one redaction covered the costs of

former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s $70,000
conference table. He also points to one text exchange
wherein an official’s name is redacted in reference to the
“Obama White House ‘running’ an investigation,” making
it unclear what investigation the FBI employees were
referencing.

The DOJ released 49 pages, or around 300 text messages,

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R- between FBI special agent Peter Strzok and FBI counsel
IA) arrives beside Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) before
Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica research director, Lisa Page, who were in an ongoing, intimate relationship.
testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, The DOJ was able to recover the text messages, which
"Cambridge Analytica and the Future of Data Privacy" on Capitol were exchanged between Dec. 16, 2017 and May 23, 2017,
Hill in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Al Drago - after they were believed to be missing from a technological
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failure on the part of FBI-issued cell phones.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called
The Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively obtained
Wednesday for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release
the texts, illustrating just how many are redacted and how
unredacted copies of the texts between two former FBI
difficult it is to ascertain meaning from them. Grassley’s
employees who were highly critical of President Donald
committee is attempting to wade through the unredacted
Trump.
copies in order to glean insight into what Strzok and Page
were discussing and any motives behind the message.
“Please provide unredacted copies of all
text messages produced to the Committee
Republican lawmakers are concerned with texts that show
no later than June, 6, 2018,” Grassley, a
Strzok texted Page to tell her that senior FBI officials
Republican from Iowa, wrote in a letter to
“water(ed) down the reference to President [Barack]
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Obama,” using “senior government official” instead. At
“Should the Department continue to refuse
the time the statement was made public, the lawmakers
to provide fully unreacted copies to
argue, references to Obama and to a “senior government
Congress, please provide a privilege log
official” were washed from the record.
describing the legal basis for withholding
that information from Congress.”
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 Wapo Columnist: Trump And Nunes Care More About
Themselves Than The American People [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
12:29 PM 05/23/2018

Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Max Boot

accused President Donald Trump and House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes of caring more about Boot said Trump is being authoritarian by scrutinizing
themselves than the American people Wednesday on “New government investigators and accused the president of
Day.” trying to derail the probe on purpose.

“As FBI director Chris Wray said, the day
that we can’t protect confidential sources is
the day that the American people start
being less safe,” Boot said. “What you’re
seeing is that people like Devin Nunes and
Donald Trump care much more about the
security of Donald Trump than they do
about the security of the American
people.”
“This week Donald Trump is trodding out
the tried-and-true authoritarian tactic of
investigate the investigators. He is trying to
impede the investigation of his campaign
by trying to launch a Department of Justice
investigation of the FBI,” Boot concluded.
“This is outrageous.”

WATCH:

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 Liberal Harvard Prof. Owns CNN
Hack Trying To Defend FBI’s Spying On Trump
By Ben Marquis
May 23, 2018 At 1:20pm
It was recently confirmed through leaks to prominent
legacy media outlets that — despite protests to the contrary
for more than a year — the Obama Justice Department and
FBI really did spy on the Trump campaign in the 2016
election.
This spying was carried out via at least one “informant”
asking probing questions of marginal campaign associates
about connections to Russia.
That revelation was the topic of discussion Monday on
CNN host Anderson Cooper’s program, where liberal
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz squared off
against CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Unsurprisingly,
the anti-Trump hack Toobin defended the surreptitious FBI
spying activity.
Dershowitz came out firing on all cylinders, stating,
“I have to tell you, if this had happened to
Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be jumping
up and down the way they did when I was
on the board of the ACLU, when
undercover agents were put into the anti-
war movement, into (the) Civil Rights
movement.”
“All they were there for was to listen,” he
continued, tongue-in-cheek. “Civil
libertarians are generally a little bit
suspicious when undercover agents go
‘just to ask questions,’ and I think we as
civil libertarians ought to be suspicious of
this. Allay our suspicions and then we’ll be
fine.”
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Toobin stated that this was a “legitimate investigation” and
asserted that there was “ample evidence of collusion”
between Russia and the Trump campaign, though he failed
to provide any examples. He insinuated that it was wrong
for President Trump to order an “investigation of the
investigators.”
Dershowitz replied,
“So you’re saying there was already
evidence of collusion so it was legitimate to
put an informer in the FBI to see if, a) there
was enough evidence to warrant further
investigation, maybe to ask some hard or
provocative questions that would get them
to give incriminating answers.”
“That does sound like a pretty fulsome
investigation,” he continued. “I want to
know what the evidence was. No judge has
found probable cause.”
“I think the American public has to be
assured that there was a basis, it’s not
enough for Jeffrey Toobin to say ‘there was
collusion already at that time.’ I want to
know what the facts were to justify that,”
added Dershowitz.
Cooper interjected and shared the new narrative from the
liberal media that the actions by the FBI were actually
intended to protect the Trump campaign and not spy on it,
a notion that Dershowitz wasn’t buying.
“When they sent agents in to Martin Luther
King during the Kennedy campaign, they
said they were doing it to protect Martin
Luther King from the influence of
communists,” Dershowitz said. “They
always say they’re doing it to protect the
good people from the bad people.”
“That may be true. Let’s get the facts,” he
continued. “I’m not willing to accept an
assumption that law enforcement is always
legitimate, that without judicial oversight,
that what they do is always correct.”
 “I want to apply the shoe on the other foot
test, if this had been an intrusion into the
Hillary Clinton campaign, would people be
saying the same thing, or is this special
lack of concern because it is Donald
Trump. I just want to be sure,” he added.
Toobin nevertheless reiterated his belief that Trump’s
directive to investigate the investigators was an effort to
destroy the initial investigation against him. Dershowitz
disagreed and said the move wouldn’t destroy the
investigation but was merely meant obtain all of the facts.
Toobin snidely stated,
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“And if your apartment has nothing to fear,
it’s OK if the FBI searches the place.”
Dershowitz flipped that right back on Toobin and
insinuated that if the investigation was all above board,
then the FBI had nothing to fear from the additional
inquiry.
Alan Dershowitz is absolutely right to question the
methods used by the FBI to investigate the Trump
campaign, particularly given the fact there is still no
evidence of collusion to provide a legitimate basis for the
investigation in the first place.
 Schumer Takes Out The Knife:
Trump Pressuring DOJ Is An ‘Unprecedented
Abuse Of Power’
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
1:30 PM 05/23/2018

Schumer added that he, along with House Minority Leader

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joins Democratic Senators
at a forum on gun violence at the CapitolVisitors Center in
Washington, DC, U.S., March 7, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday
President Donald Trump urging the Department of Justice
(DOJ) to release all documents related to an investigation
into his presidential campaign is an absolutely “gross and
unprecedented abuse of power.”
“For the President of the United States to
pressure the Justice Department to reveal
details and documents pertaining to an
active investigation of the President’s
campaign, for the purpose of denigrating it,
is a gross and unprecedented abuse of
power,” Schumer tweeted Wednesday.
“Today @NancyPelosi & I will be sending
a letter to Deputy Attorney General
Rosenstein & FBI Director Wray later today
to request they reconsider holding a
meeting at all, and if they do move forward,
to do so in a bipartisan fashion, with the
Gang of 8.”
.
Nancy Pelosi, will send a letter to Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray Wednesday afternoon requesting they hold a
meeting with Republicans and Democrats on the House
and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Trump called on the DOJ to release documents related to
the FBI or DOJ’s reported spying on his campaign in 2016.
“If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a
campaign for the benefit of another
campaign, that is a really big deal. Only the
release or review of documents that the
House Intelligence Committee (also,
Senate Judiciary) is asking for can give the
conclusive answers. Drain the Swamp!”
Trump tweeted Saturday.
House Freedom Caucus leadership is also calling on
Trump to order the DOJ to release all relevant documents
regarding potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
abuses, the impetus for the investigation into the Trump
campaign and documents that lay out the scope of the
special counsel’s probe.

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 EXCLUSIVE: Proof That Twitter’s Bot-Catching
Algorithm Targets Trump Supporters — WITH VIDEO
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 23, 2018, 1:37 Pm

Next, the user created an account with the name “Resist

Trump Tards” and used the “top liberal hashtags” to create
the bio. The account was not locked and was allowed to
tweet, follow other users and be followed.

The accounts were set up using identical methods, VPN

locations and throwaway email providers.

When asked why they decided to do this experiment,

“Brave Saint” explained that they had attempted to make
an anonymous pro-Trump account and it was instantly
locked. This sparked their curiosity and lead to them
conducting the tests.

The Gateway Pundit has been provided with additional
evidence that Twitter is specifically censoring supporters
of President Donald Trump.
In a video provided to the Gateway
Pundit, a Twitter user attempted to
create two different accounts — one for
a Trump supporter and one for a
Democrat who is “resisting” the
administration.
“So, I stumbled upon this by accident,
actually. I’m a fan of big data, analysis,
all that sort of stuff. I wanted to run
some little ‘tests’ to try and understand
how the Zeitgeist of Twitter functions on
a deeper level,” the video creator told
The Gateway Pundit.
“I made an anonymous pro-Trump
account and got immediately locked out
of my account before I was able to tweet
anything or follow anyone. I got
interested in finding out what tripped
their systems, so I did the same thing
with a liberal account.”

One of the fake liberal accounts they created was the first
to publish the fake Starbucks reparations flyers that went
viral.

“Not only did this account not get locked,

but even after being in the spotlight of a
major viral news story, that account was
still not locked down,” they explained.
The video was created and provided to The Gateway
Pundit by Twitter user who goes by “BraveSaint1.” They
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to Twitter for
have asked that we withhold their actual identity.
comment and will update this story if one is provided.
While attempting to create the first account, the person
A New York federal judge ruled on Wednesday that
doing the experiment attempted to use the name
President Trump cannot block Twitter users over their
“American Trump Supporter.” The account was
political views because it is a violation of their First
immediately locked and they were unable to even use the
Amendment rights.
platform at all.

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 REVEALED: Obama WH Emails
Plotting Strategy Two Days After Sandy Hook
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
2:10 PM 05/23/2018
Former President Barack Obama’s education secretary and
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were planning how to turn
a national tragedy into a legislative victory for the
administration two days after the 2012 mass shooting in
Newtown, Conn.
That’s according to emails obtained under a Freedom of
Information request from a reporter from the Baltimore
Post.
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man killed
his mother in their home then traveled to Sandy Hook
Elementary School — a semi-automatic rifle and two
pistols in tow. He broke into the school and killed another
26 people — 20 of them first-grade students. The gunman
committed suicide after authorities arrived on the scene.
Two days later, on the evening of Dec. 16, former-
Education Secretary Arne Duncan emailed Emanuel under
the subject line, “CT shootings,” seeking advice on
pushing gun reform legislation, according to The
Baltimore Post.
The complete exchange took place between 6:57 p.m. to
7:08 p.m. It follows as first reported by The Baltimore
Post:
Duncan: “What are your thoughts?”
.
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Emanuel: “Go for a vote this week before it
fades. Tap peoples’ emotion. Make it
simple assault weapons.”
Duncan: “Yup- thanks.”
Emanuel: “When I did Brady bill and
assault weapons for Clinton, we always
made it simple. Criminals or war weapons.”
Duncan: “Gun show loophole? Database?
Cop-killer bullets? Too complicated?”
Emanuel: “Cop killer maybe. The other
no.”
Duncan: “Got it.”
At the time of the shooting, Newtown was the second most
deadly mass shooting on a school campus after a 2007
shooting at Virginia Tech where 32 students and teachers
were killed.
Emanuel served as an advisor to former-President Bill
Clinton from 1992 to 1998. Emanuel worked with Clinton
to push Congress to pass the 1993 Brady bill that imposed
a five-day waiting period for purchasing a handgun.
Emanuel also worked in the White House when Congress
passed the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that made
illegal 18 specific firearms along with some gun features
and modifications. The weapons ban timed out after 10
years.
 Huh? Bill Clinton Nominated Judge Rules
Donald Trump Cannot Ban Liberal Trolls From His
Personal Twitter Account
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 2:12 Pm

Americans from viewing his tweets on

Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled on @realDonaldTrump.
Wednesday that Donald Trump cannot
ban liberal trolls from his Twitter The social media platform, Buchwald said, is a
account. “designated public forum” from which Trump cannot
exclude individual plaintiffs.
Buchwald was nominated by Bill
Clinton. The judge’s ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed last
July by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia
University, as well as seven other plaintiffs who said they
had been blocked on Twitter by Trump.

James O’Keefe responded to today’s

ruling.

So if Donald Trump cannot ban liberal

trolls how does Twitter get away with
banning conservative content?

CNBC reported:

President Donald Trump cannot block

users on his Twitter feed, a federal judge in
New York City ruled Wednesday.
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in her
ruling that Trump is violating the U.S.
Constitution by preventing certain

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 JUST IN: Dirty Cop Robert Mueller
Moves Towards Sentencing George Papadopoulos
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 2:21 Pm

Robert Mueller told the court

Wednesday he’s ready to move forward
with the sentencing of former Trump
campaign volunteer, George
Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos previously plead guilty to
making a false statement to the FBI.

George Papadopoulos

According to the New York Times, Papadopoulos was paid

for writing a research paper and never heard from the
informant again.

It was also reported the informant brought up Hillary’s

The Hill reported:
“The parties respectfully request that the
Court refer this case for the preparation of
a presentence investigation report,” the
filing from Mueller’s team reads.
The development shows that Mueller’s
team could be looking to kickstart the
sentencing process.
Papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the FBI
last year and has cooperated with Mueller’s
team, according to court filings cited
by ABC News.
He has also been free on bond since
pleading guilty.
It was recently revealed in a New York
Times FBI puff piece, the Deep
State informant spy [Stefan Halper]
lured in George Papadopoulos with
cash–$3,000 and a trip to London.
hacked emails and the Russians again in a separate
conversation over drinks and once again Papadopoulos
denied knowing anything about the Russians attempts to
meddle in the election.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reported on this September
2016 exchange in London between the FBI informant,
Stefan Halper and George Papadopoulos:
According to a source with knowledge of
the meeting, Halper asked Papadopoulos:
“George, you know about hacking the
emails from Russia, right?”
Papadopoulos told Halper he didn’t know
anything about emails or Russian hacking,
said the source, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity
of the investigations into Russian meddling
in the 2016 campaign. The professor did
not follow up on the line of inquiry.
The Deep State lies and lies and lies… And then lies some
more.
Because of the spy ring set up by Obama’s Deep State
FBI, anyone and everyone involved in Trump’s 2016
campaign is getting ensnared by Mueller.

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 Pompeo Sidesteps Trump Comments
On Deep State In State Department
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
2:49 PM 05/23/2018

asking Pompeo if he believed there was a “deep state” in

his department.

Pompeo said he had not seen Trump’s comments at the

time of his testimony but he commented,

“I don’t believe there is a deep state at the

State Department.”

As for his former agency, the CIA, Pompeo said,

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo testifies
during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide “Nearly uniformly we’re aimed at the
Threats" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., February 13, president’s objectives and America’s
2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo | Pompeo Promises To Fix
Busted State Dept
objectives.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that he Pompeo added,

doesn’t believe there is a “deep state” within the State
Department at a House Foreign Affairs Committee “There’s always exceptions to the rule, I’ve
hearing. never ran an organization that didn’t have
bad actors.”
WATCH:
Trump tweeted Wednesday:

California Rep. Ted Lieu extended a Trump tweet on the

“Criminal Deep State” to include the State Department,
.

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FBI Agents Spill Beans On Comey & McCabe-Era Threats
Against The President: “Trump And Friends
Better Watch Their F*Cking L…”
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On May 23, 2018
More threats against President Trump and his associates
are emerging from well-placed FBI sources who are now
coming forward to spill the beans on fired embattled
former Bureau leaders Andrew McCabe and James
Comey.
And the revelations are not pretty for the already-
embattled FBI.
In March 2017, True Pundit detailed a meeting of FBI
Brass where then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
threatened President Trump and Gen. Mike Flynn,
Trump’s national security adviser at the time. McCabe, the
second highest ranking FBI official at the time,
emphatically declared at the invite-only gathering with
raised voice:
“Fuck Flynn and then we Fuck Trump,”
according to direct sources. Many of his top lieutenants
applauded and cheered such rhetoric. A scattered few did
not.
Flynn was ultimately indicted at McCabe’s request and
now we know the FBI — at the time — was spying on
both Flynn and Trump. For months.
Now comes details of a subsequent FBI meeting where
McCabe threatened Trump and other White House
officials.
“Trump and his friends better watch their
fucking little asses,” McCabe rhetorically
warned, according to well-placed FBI
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sources during a subsequent meeting of
top FBI brass.
Many agreed.
McCabe, who had declared war previously on Trump and
Flynn, had expanded the FBI’s hit list to include any and
all of Trump’s friends, sources said.
This was one of several such meetings held in seclusion
among key FBI leaders after Trump was elected president,
FBI sources confirm. At the congregation where McCabe
went off the political rails and vowed to destroy Flynn and
Trump, there were as many as 16 top FBI officials, inside
intelligence sources said. No lower-level agents or support
personnel were present. Sources said that mix of FBI
personnel was present for McCabe’s threat against Trump
associates.
Both meetings were in early 2017.
It’s little wonder that the Deep State are guarding
McCabe’s texts and emails. And where was Comey while
these threats were being waged by his deputy director?
Comey did not attend these meetings, sources said, but he
was notified of McCabe’s threatening anti-Trump rhetoric.
“He absolutely knew about what was being
said,” a FBI source said of Comey.
McCabe was never disciplined by Comey for threatening
Trump and White House personnel, sources confirm.
Look at what has happened to Trump and his associates
since McCabe reportedly warned they
“better watch their fucking little asses:”
 Flynn resigned and plead out to a felony charge.
 Paul Manafort is under indictment
 Michael Cohen is now the target of an FBI probe
 Donald Trump Jr. has been harassed by lawmakers
and media
  Trump fired Comey
 Mueller was appointed Special Counsel to investigate
Trump
 Anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page —
McCabe disciples — worked for Mueller
 And the list goes on and on of harassed ex-Trump
staffers who have departed the White House
intelligence apparatus and FBI are working
for or against Trump, this is the first
definitive proof that the country’s once-
premiere law enforcement agency has
gone rogue.
We were never more right.

In March 2017, True Pundit wrote in the original McCabe McCabe was fired and is the target of several ongoing
“Fuck Flynn” story: investigations.

If you are among the millions of Americans

who have pondered in recent months
whether the Obama-era “Deep State”
.

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 Clapper Said Two Different Things On Russian
Interference — One Of Them Has To Be A Lie
John Wellington - Digital Content Manager
3:14 PM 05/23/2018

argue that it had profound impact and

probably turned the election.”

This bold assertion by Clapper comes only a few days after

he stated it’s “a good thing” that the Trump campaign was
being monitored by an FBI informant.

Former United States Director of Intelligence James

Clapper said he thinks Russian meddling “turned the
election” on Wednesday’s episode of “1A.”

Clapper’s idea that Russian meddling

“turned the election” contradicts the

statement he made in February, saying
Russian interference didn’t have “any
impact on the outcome of the 2016
election.” he said it “stretches
credulity.”
“Having some understanding of the
massive effort, the multi-dimensional effort,
the aggressive effort, unprecedented that
the Russians embarked on in the run-up to
our election” Clapper argued to “1A.”
“To me, and when you consider that the
election was settled on less than 80,000
votes in three key states,” he continues,
“and when you look at the volume, and the
sophistication of the messages and the
messaging that the Russians did — to me,
it stretches logic and credulity to think that
all that they did has no impact. I would
.

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 Giuliani Reverses: Trump Should
Interview With Mueller
By Jacqueline Thomsen
05/23/18 03:16 Pm Edt
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in a reversal on
Wednesday said that he now believes that Trump should
interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I guess I’d rather do the interview. It gets it
over with it, it makes my client happy,”
Giuliani told The Washington Post. “The
safe course you hear every lawyer say is
'don’t do the interview,' and that’s easy to
say in the abstract. That’s much harder
when you have a client who is the
president of the United States and wants to
be interviewed.”
Giuliani has cast doubt on Trump interviewing with
Mueller in the past. He told The Wall Street Journal in an
interview published Tuesday that if he were to make a
decision on the interview at that time, he would decide
against it.
The former New York City mayor told the Post that Trump
has vacillated over whether he wants to interview with
Mueller in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016
presidential election and possible collusion between
Trump's campaign and Moscow.
“There have been a few days where he
says, ‘maybe you guys are right,’” Giuliani
said, referring to members of Trump’s legal
team who have warned him against talking
with Mueller.
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“Then he goes right back to, ‘why shouldn’t
I?’” he added.
Giuliani also said that he is concerned that a Trump
interview with Mueller could be set up to catch the
president on a possible perjury charge because “truth is
relative.”
“They may have a different version of the
truth than we do,” Giuliani said.
The lawyer also said that he believes Mueller's team
wouldn't ask about any events that took place during
Trump's presidency. CNN reported Tuesday that the
president's lawyers are seeking to limit questions on
Trump's conduct after his inauguration and on possible
obstruction of justice.
Trump has said in the past that he would be willing to sit
down with Mueller and reportedly believes doing so would
clear his name.
“I would love to speak, but I have to find
that we’re going to be treated fairly
because everybody sees it right now and it
is a pure witch hunt,” the president told
reporters last month.
Mueller reportedly suggested to Trump's lawyers earlier
this year that he would subpoena Trump if he did not agree
to an interview.
 Gowdy Issues Warning To
Dems Who Want To Meet With Trump
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
3:19 PM 05/23/2018

“In other words, don’t leak like a sieve

when we get through with the meeting,”
Gowdy continued.

The South Carolina Republican said that many members of

the House have already moved to impeach the president
before Special Counsel Robert Mueller released any report
on his investigation.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: House Benghazi Committee
Chairman, Trey Gowdy (R-SC), participates in a news conference Gowdy added that he is willing to sit down with “a
with fellow Committee Republicans after the release of the Democrat who is serious about what our law enforcement
Committee's Benghazi report on Capitol Hill June 28, 2016 in agencies did in 2016,” but added that it’s not his meeting
Washington, DC. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others and he is not in charge of the invite list.
were killed during an attack on a U.S. outpost and CIA annex in
Libya on September 11, 2012. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WATCH:
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy issued a warning
Wednesday to Democrats who wish to attend a Thursday
meeting with President Trump and the House Intelligence
Committee.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority

Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter requesting that a
meeting between Trump and the House Intelligence
Committee be bipartisan.

Gowdy said he doesn’t care who attends the meeting, but

the only thing he would ask is

“if you’re going to show up, show up with

an open mind and closed lips.”
.

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 SEKULOW: We Have Uncovered Thousands Of Docs
Showing Pay-To-Play Between Hillary State Department
And Clinton Foundation
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 3:22 Pm
An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow
announced Wednesday the American
Center for Law and Justice uncovered
thousands of documents showing
Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with
Hillary’s State Department through a
FOIA lawsuit.
We have uncovered a ‘favor factory’ the
ACLJ reported on Wednesday.
There was no firewall between the State
Department and the Clinton Foundation
as Hillary previously claimed to the
public.
Via the ACLJ:
As part of our Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Deep State
Department, we have been informed that
the State Department has located – and
will be forced to turn over to the ACLJ –
literally thousands of documents to and
about the Clinton Foundation, its
subsidiaries, and its senior operatives
during the duration of Hillary Clinton’s time
as Secretary of State.
The shear volume alone – some 30,000
emails – debunks the specious assertion
that there was any kind of firewall
whatsoever between Clinton’s State
Department and the Clinton Foundation.
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These documents, only now being
uncovered through our FOIA request and
subsequent litigation, show extensive
communications exchanged between
Clinton or her senior staff at State
Department and Doug Band – a senior aid
at the Clinton Foundation and creatorof the
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
In recent court filings, the State Department
has revealed that more than 8,700
documents exist in Cheryl Mills’ and/or
Huma Abedin’s files which contain the
single search term, “Doug Band.” It is
possible, and indeed likely, that each
document consists of several pages
placing the number closer to 18,000 pages
or more.
The ACLJ has also learned through our
litigation that another 22,000 documents
exist in Cheryl Mills’ and Huma Abedin’s
files (not including attachments) mentioning
or referring to the Clinton Foundation or a
related term referencing the foundation.
Newly released documents show Doug Band served as a
liaison for Clinton Foundation donors looking for favors
and official acts from the Clinton-run State Department,
the ACLJ reported.
Doug Band was the ‘go-to’ guy for Clinton Foundation
donors. If they needed anything from Hillary Clinton, they
would email Doug Band and within minutes he would
forward the message to Huma Abedin and or Cheryl Mills
to help expedite the favor.
For example:
An email dated December 6, 2010 (tucked
away at the very end of the State
Department’s most recent production)
reveals that Secretary Clinton, upon
receiving information that we now know to
be classified from a State Department
employee, forwarded the classified
information via her private email account
 (HDR22@clintonemail.com) on to various “You need to read this to believe it.”
individuals outside the State Department
including senior associates at the Clinton
Foundation – Justin Cooper and Doug
Band. She writes in her email to “print for
Bill.”
Of course most of the information
contained in the email has been redacted
(and won’t be unclassified until 2025) but it
appears that the classified communications
relate to the investigation into Nobel prize
winner Muhammad Yunus’s alleged
diversion of foreign aid from the non-profit
Bank he chaired (a bank specifically
fashioned to provide loans to the poorest of
people on easy terms). It is of no surprise –
given what we know about the former
Secretary’s abuse of her office to grant
favors to Foundation donors and
supporters – that Yunus was also
a donor to the Clinton Foundation.

The ACLJ stated they will be receiving Clinton documents

at a pace of approximately 300-600 pages per month.

Jay Sekulow sounded off on Twitter.

.

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 CNN And MSNBC Skip
Trump’s Roundtable On MS-13
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
3:38 PM 05/23/2018
CNN and MSNBC opted not to cover President Donald
Trump’s Wednesday roundtable on immigration and MS-
13.
The president met with acting ICE director Thomas
Homan, Department of Homeland Security director
Kristjen Nielsen, and other members of the administration
to discuss the threat of the MS-13 gang.
Fox News carried Trump’s opening remarks at the event
and then turned away to cover other stories about 15
minutes past the start of the roundtable.
However, CNN and MSNBC chose not to show any of the
roundtable. CNN didn’t even report on any of the remarks
.
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from the roundtable, although MSNBC did briefly mention
them in a chyron.
CNN instead chose to cover Jared Kushner’s security
clearance being restored, Steve Bannon’s remarks about
MLK Jr. and Trump, Mueller preparing to sentence
George Papadopoulos, a 30-year-old man being evicted
from his parents’ home, Van Jones’ work with Trump on
prison reform, Trump’s allegations that the FBI spied on
him, Kim Jong Un reportedly being afraid of an ambush if
he meets with Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo
defending the CIA and the NFL discussing a proposal for
punishing players who kneel for the anthem.
MSNBC covered Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
defending the Department of Justice, Kushner’s security
clearance being restored, Michael Cohen’s business
partner agreeing to cooperate with the government, the
Georgia gubernatorial race and Trump’s allegations that
the government spied on him.
The entire roundtable lasted for just about an hour, but
apparently neither CNN or MSNBC could find time to
give it some coverage.
 BREAKING: FBI Spy Stefan Halper
May Have Bled Info Into Hillary’s Phony Dossier
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 4:13 Pm

FBI —> Halper —> Steele —> dossier —> FBI

BREAKING NEWS.

Hill sources are saying the FBI spy who

infiltrated Donald Trump’s campaign in
2016, Stefan Halper bled information into
Hillary’s phony dossier, reported Paul
Sperry.

President Trump was correct when he

unleashed on Obama’s spy campaign in a
pair of tweets Tuesday evening.

The President said, “Follow the money!” the

spy wasn’t there to find ‘Russian collusion,’
he was there to help Crooked Hillary win the
election!

Trump tweeted:
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work If the person placed very early into my
with the US government that included campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the
spying on the Trump campaign. previous Administration for political purposes,
how come such a seemingly massive amount of
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper. money was paid for services rendered – many
times higher than normal…
Now the Democrats are in spin mode.

They went from ‘there was no spy inside of Trump’s

camp’ to ‘the informant was there to help protect Trump
against the Russians.’

Former DNI Chief James Clapper is claiming

embedding spies is “a standard
investigative practice.”

NOW THIS…
Trump then slams Crooked Hillary: …Follow the money!
The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never
Paul Sperry tweeted: BREAKING: Hill sources say
reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no
Halper may have bled into dossier in a positive feedback
Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons
loop:

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and to help Crooked Hillary win – just like they did to
Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
If Stefan Halper bled info into Hillary’s
dossier as sources are claiming, it will
DESTROY the left’s claims the informant
was purely working to ‘protect Trump from
the Russians.’

This is a huge development.

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This Is Rich: Crooked Hillary Clinton Says If You Want To
‘Stand For Rule Of Law’ You Have To
Vote Democrat (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 4:27 Pm

On Wednesday Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced

the American Center for Law and Justice uncovered
thousands of documents showing Clinton Foundation pay-
to-play with Hillary’s State Department through a FOIA
lawsuit.

Also on Wednesday Hillary Clinton told New

York Democrats if you want to stand for the
rule of law you must vote Democrat.

The irony was lost on the far left crowd.

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 James Comey Lashes Out At Republicans:
‘Dangerous Time’ For America
Peter Hasson - Reporter
4:31 PM 05/23/2018

A combination of file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump in

the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. April 9, 2018 and former
FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June
8, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria, Jonathan Ernst/File Photos

Former FBI Director James Comey lashed out at

congressional Republicans on Wednesday and defended
the FBI’s use of a confidential informant to spy on
members of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Republican congressional leaders are expected to meet
with current FBI Director Christopher Wray and
Department of Justice officials on Thursday to review
classified information regarding the informant, Cambridge
University professor Stefan Halper. Some Republicans
have been critical of the FBI’s decision to spy on members
of the Trump campaign.
Comey on Wednesday accused congressional Republicans
of “lying” about the FBI’s work.
Screenshot/Twitter
“Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential
Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly
regulated and essential to protecting the
country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about
its work will do lasting damage to our
country,” Comey wrote in a pair of blistering
tweets. “How will Republicans explain this
to their grandchildren?”
“Dangerous time when our country is led by
those who will lie about anything, backed
by those who will believe anything, based
on information from media sources that will
say anything,” he continued.
“Americans must break out of that bubble
and seek truth.”

Screenshot/Twitter
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 Mueller Rejects Speedy Trial
Law To Delay Russian Collusion Trial
Richard Pollock - Reporter
5:20 PM 05/23/2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of
the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion between
Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
U.S. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
 Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested his
Russian collusion trial be delayed indefinitely
 This is the second time Mueller has requested a
delay
 Mueller previously flooded the court with two
terabytes of Russian social media
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal
judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old speedy trial
law in the case against 13 Russians and three Russian
companies and has asked for an indefinite delay to the
Russian collusion trial.
It is the second time Mueller tried to delay the trial. Judge
Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected the
earlier request without comment and ordered the case to go
forward.
One of the Russian companies — Concord Management
and Consulting — entered the U.S., hired American
lawyers, and demanded a speedy trial. The Speedy Trial
Act is a 44-year old federal law that dictates that a federal
criminal case must begin within 70 days from the date of
the indictment.
The “complexity” of the case warrants excluding the
speedy trial law and delaying the trial, Mueller argued in
Tuesday’s court filing.
A “district court can, on its own motion or at the request of
a party, grant an excludable continuance if ‘the ends of
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justice served by taking such action outweigh the best
interest of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial,'”
Mueller wrote.
“This case also warrants a continuance and
exclusion of time to accommodate the
voluminous discovery at issue and to allow
sufficient time for the Court to resolve
certain outstanding procedural issues
unique to discovery in this case,” he
continued.
Former federal prosecutor and National Review
Contributing Editor Andrew C. McCarthy told
TheDCNF it was too late for Mueller to claim that the
complexity of the case warranted a delay.
“Speedy trial rights belong to the
defendant, and if the defendant pushes for
a trial within the 70 days, the government
has little cause to complain,” McCarthy
said. “If the case was too complex, the
government had the option of holding off on
seeking an indictment until it was ready to
proceed to trial. When a prosecutor files an
indictment, it is tantamount to saying, ‘We
are ready to go.'”
Mueller originally filed the indictment against the Russians
on Feb. 16, charging that they “engaged in a multi-year
conspiracy” to interfere with the 2016 presidential
election. Because none of the defendants were U.S.
citizens, law experts said it appeared unlikely that the case
would ever go to trial.
McCarthy called the indictment “more
theater than prosecution.”
On May 9, Eric A. Dubelier, a partner with Reed Smith, a
prestigious American law firm that represents Concord,
entered a not guilty plea in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. He also repeated his client’s interest
for a speedy trial.
Dubelier has repeatedly notified the court he would insist
on using “discovery” to review the “evidence” the special
counsel had accumulated about their charge of Russian
collusion. His use of discovery would compel Mueller to
turn over the U.S. intelligence about Russian activities.
In response, Mueller informed the court on May 16 his
office was prepared to enter two terabytes of Russian
social media into the record, thereby flooding the docket
with a huge amount of evidence, all of it in Russian. The
volume could fill 3,000 CD-ROM discs.
It’s “inappropriate for a prosecutor to
manufacture complexity and then contend
that things are too complex,” McCarthy told
TheDCNF. “If a prosecutor is disclosing
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mountains of foreign language materials
without an understanding or explanation of
their relevance to the case, that is a
delaying tactic and an attempt to chew up
the defendant’s resources.”
The tactic “is apt to make the presiding
judge very angry,” he added.
Dubelier contended the voluminous evidence against the
13 Russians did not apply to Concord.
Friedrich has yet to rule on Mueller’s request for a delay.
 Smackdown: Jim Jordan Destroys Chris Cuomo Over
Claims There’s ‘Tons Of Proof’ Of ‘Potential Collusion’
By Curtis Houck
May 23, 2018 5:31 PM EDT
Wednesday saw the latest edition of CNN’s New Day co-
host Chris Cuomo throwing down with Ohio Republican
Congressman Jim Jordan as the topics du jour featured
calls for a second special counsel, Russian collusion, and a
Thursday meeting of congressional Republicans having
access to some of the most sensitive documents related to
the Trump-Russia probe.
Cuomo kept trying to shout down Jordan, telling him that
some of his points were “demonstrably false” and there’s
“tons of proof of potential collusion” between Russia
and the Trump campaign but has been clouded by
“partisans” (read: Republicans). Alas, Jordan reacted as
most viewers would at this lunacy.
Cuomo stacked the deck prior to Jordan by mocking the
assertions offered by the President and Jordan in that
“there’s a nefarious group of officials
that are out to spy on you and do you
harm” and pled with him for “help”
explaining why his position matters.
Jordan asserted that, on the surveillance claim,
“if you read The New York Times piece
they talk about this individual, give all
kinds of details about this individual”
and Thursday’s meeting involving House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) will hopefully
provide more information on that subject. He continued
(click “expand” to read more):
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But Chris, when you couple it with what we do know they
did, five of the top people at the FBI have been fired, like
James Comey or Andrew McCabe. Andrew McCabe
actually faces a criminal referral. Three, like Jim Baker,
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page has been demoted and
reassigned and two of the three retired in just the last three
weeks. So, when you have five of the top people who oh
by the way, happen to be the same people who ran the
Clinton investigation and then launched the Trump-Russia
investigation, that should be pause for concern[.]
The first two of tense exchanges surfaced when Jordan
included in his rationale for a second special counsel that
the intelligence community used
“a disproven, salacious dossier to a
secret court to get a secret warrant to
spy on a fellow American citizen and
when they go to the court, they don't tell
them two important facts, namely who
paid for it.”
Cuomo smugly shot back that Jordan was simply
“flooding the zone” (presumably to distract viewers) and
implored him to tell the truth that Christopher Steele was
trustworthy, it was disclosed where the dossier came from,
and the dossier isn’t false.
When Jordan told Cuomo that,
“a year and a half later,” there’s “not one
bit of evidence” of “any type of
collusion” or “any type of coordination
between the Trump campaign and
Russia,”
Cuomo lost it:
CUOMO: Jim, that is demonstrably false.
We have tons of proof.
JORDAN: What do you mean
demonstrably false? Even Democrats are
saying —
CUOMO: We have tons of proof.
 JORDAN: — even The New York Times
said that last week, Chris. You know that’s
the case.
CUOMO: Listen, talking over me does not
silence the points. They have to come out.
We have to have this conversation, so
people who think independently can make
decisions. There is tons of proof of
potential collusion.
So, to be clear, Cuomo is parroting claims from CNN
buddy and Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (CA)
that there’s evidence of collusion. And thus we’re in a
guilty until proven guilty scenario with the Trump
campaign. There is or there isn’t collusion, so anything in
between is hyperbole. That, of course, is not how any of
this works.
Jordan responded that “potential
collusion is not collusion” but Cuomo
countered:
“There are no conclusions of collusion.
The investigation is not over, but there’s
plenty of proof of it. I see proof as
potential. I don't see dispositive
crimes.”
Later, Cuomo flashed his partisan stripes when, first, he
told Jordan point blank that he doesn’t trust him or his
Republican colleagues to tell him the truth about
documents related to the Russia investigation. Following
that, he bemoaned the country’s partisanship while
knocking Jordan’s colleague Trey Gowdy as “Captain
Benghazi.” Again, Jordan was ready:
CUOMO: We can’t have more partisanship
than we have right now. The chasm would
swallow us both up, and we're capable
guys. How do you go in there tomorrow
with just Nunes, who is so compromised
and Trey Gowdy who for, despite his recent
rhetoric of being fair and disgusted with
everything, is known as Captain Benghazi
to the Democrats and they don't have
anyone from the other side. How can this
help what happens tomorrow? How can it
help.
JORDAN: The question, Chris, is real
simple. We want to know if, in fact — and it
sure looks like this was the case — if, in
fact, there were informants around the
edges of the Trump campaign talking to
people loosely affiliated with the Trump
campaign, if it was some kind of spy, some
kind of informant, some kind of plant, we
want to know.
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CUOMO: But we know it wasn't an implant.
You know already. They told you it wasn't.
JORDAN: They told — the same
Department of Justice who — when they
gave us documents, had redacted —
between Page and Strzok text messages
had redacted the fact that Peter Strzok was
friends with one of the FISA court judges
who also happened to be the same judge
who heard Michael Flynn's case. We're
supposed to start trusting that Department
of Justice who was trying to hide that —
trying to hide that information from us?
See the full transcript of the Cuomo vs. Jordan debate from
CNN’s New Day on May 23.
CNN’s New Day
May 23, 2018
7:19 a.m. Eastern
CHRIS CUOMO: Alright, got to keep checking Twitter. So far, no
new tweet in the last seven minutes. But we do know this — the
context of why we’re seeing the president kind of gin up into high
gear this notion that there’s a nefarious group of officials that are
out to spy on you and do you harm. The context is we have more
than a dozen house Republicans calling for the appointment of a
second special counsel. Why? To take a closer look at alleged
abuses carried out by the FBI into the Trump campaign and
Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, one of the people making the case
is House Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio. Jim, always good to
see you and I need your help this morning.
OHIO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN: Alright. I’ll
try to provide some help here this morning.
CUOMO: Always a plus. So, let’s use the President’s tweets as a
spine for the discussion —
JORDAN: Alright.
CUOMO: — and you answer in context any way you want.
JORDAN: Alright.
CUOMO: The President is now calling the use of this confidential
source who apparently contacted people in the campaign or
related to, as satellites of the campaign Spygate. Do you believe
that we have any factual basis for saying there was a spy in the
Trump campaign?
JORDAN: Well, if you read The New York Times piece they talk
about this individual, give all kinds of details about this individual.
That he —
CUOMO: Not as a spy.
JORDAN: — that, well, and he met with all kinds of folks on the
kind of periphery of the trump campaign. But I think — so it sure
looks like that was the case. But we're going to wait and see.
That's why Chairman Nunes has been requesting information to
actually show this took place and the Department of Justice has
been reluctant to give it to him. So, let's hope that actually
happens. But Chris, when you couple it with what we do know
they did, five of the top people at the FBI have been fired, like
James Comey or Andrew McCabe. Andrew McCabe actually
faces a criminal referral. Three, like Jim Baker, Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page has been demoted and reassigned and two of the
three retired in just the last three weeks. So, when you have five
of the top people who oh by the way, happen to be the same
people who ran the Clinton investigation and then launched the
Trump-Russia investigation, that should be pause for concern
and, again, when you couple it with what we know about the
dossier and how that was used, I think all of this points to why we
need information and why, months ago, we called for a second
special counsel to get to the bottom of all of this and why now we
have 25 individuals in the House of Representatives who
supported Mr. Zeldin's resolution.
CUOMO: Alright. Now, I wanted you to be able to get out your full
case there. Thank you for doing so. One, 25, not an impressive
number, especially with how many people you have who are
trying to support the President's theories, no matter how wild they
are. It seems to me — Jim, if you were right about this —
CUOMO: So they can do the job. Why —
JORDAN: But they can’t prosecute
CUOMO: — try to create another politicized mess? Why?
JORDAN: Because — cause, according to the attorney general,
when you have extraordinary circumstances, that's when you
name special counsel. If this is extraordinary circumstance where
five people of the top people at the FBI, have been, as I said,
fired or demoted and many of them have retired. And when you
have all of that going on and you have those people, the FBI take
a disproven, salacious dossier to a secret court to get a secret
warrant to spy on a fellow American citizen and when they go to
the court, they don't tell them two important facts, namely who
paid for it? The Democratic National Committee. And the author
of the dossier, Christopher Steele, had been fired by the FBI
because he was out leaking information. They didn’t tell the court
those two important pieces of information.
CUOMO: Alright.

JORDAN: Chris, the chairman of the Judiciary has called for it,
the chair of the Oversight Committee.
CUOMO: — right but you only have 25 people.
JORDAN: We just introduced it yesterday. Majority Whip has
called for it. The Majority Leader has called for it. So, this is —
this is a number of people who have real influence in the House
of Representatives are calling for a second special counsel to get
into this.
JORDAN: Chris, you go to the court, I go to court —
CUOMO: You’re flooding the zone.
JORDAN: — we got to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth and the FBI should have to do the same darn thing.
CUOMO: Well, you’re flooding the zone and if you want to tell the
whole truth —
JORDAN: I’m telling the truth.

CUOMO: But the rank and file is slow on it because they know it CUOMO: — then don't shade everything. They did trust Steele.
seems to be something that would take us down the road of more They didn’t like that he went out. That severed the relationship,
of the same in terms of politicized nonsense. But this is why I say but it wasn't that they didn't trust his sourcing or his work. They
that, Jim. Let me give you a chance to respond to this. If what did disclose where the dossier came from. It is not all false
you said was not true, that these people hadn't been removed, allegations in that dossier. You know this to be the case even
people who were identified as being in this way negative though you have never seen a FISA application yourself.
influences on the administration of justice, if they hadn’t been
dealed with — if they were still there, then you would have
something, my friend. You’d be able to say how is McCabe still
there? How are Strzok and Page and Brennan and these other
ones — how are they still in office? How can you say they're
there and this is fair? But none is there. They’ve all been moved
away and you have an inspector general who’s got way more
staff —
JORDAN: Chris —
CUOMO: — than you will ever be able to put together for a
special counsel —
JORDAN: Chris, here we are, a year and a half later —
JORDAN: But he didn’t have the —
CUOMO: Hold on.
CUOMO: who outed McCabe —
JORDAN: — not one bit of evidence —
JORDAN: — I understand.
CUOMO: FISA —
CUOMO: — who has done a review with what happened with the
Clinton e-mail schedule which you guys keep saying is damning JORDAN: — any type of collusion —
—
CUOMO: Hold on.
JORDAN: And he’s the guy who gave us the Strzok/Page text
JORDAN: — any type of coordination between the Trump
messages. You’re right. The Inspector General has done good
campaign and Russia, but we know that the Democratic National
work.
Committee —
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CUOMO: Jim, that is demonstrably false. We have tons of proof.
JORDAN: What do you mean demonstrably false? Even
Democrats are saying —
CUOMO: We have tons of proof.
JORDAN: — even The New York Times said that last week,
Chris. You know that’s the case.
CUOMO: Listen, talking over me does not silence the points.
They have to come out. We have to have this conversation, so
people who think independently can make decisions. There is
tons of proof of potential collusion. We don’t know —
JORDAN: Oh, I lost Chris. Oh, I lost you for a second. I got you
back.
CUOMO: Sure you did. No.
JORDAN: Yeah, I did. I did. Say it again?
CUOMO: No. I believe you, brother. I believe you. There’s tons of
proof of potential collusion. The things that were said, the things
that were done were in bad discretion, bad choices and then you
have to look at what the motivations are. We don't know the
conclusions on those by this special counsel to get ahead of the
conclusions is misleading.
JORDAN: Chris —
CUOMO: — but FISA, as a tool, was created by Congress to
make sure you don't have secret, that it must be vetted by a
judge. So that process in and of itself is a safeguard and what I
don't get about special counsel is what he said in the memo,
Rosenstein. I read it five times last night to try to understand
where you guys were coming from. The extraordinary
circumstance was that the DOJ couldn't properly investigate this
President because of what was clear in the dynamic. He got rid
of Comey. He was asking questions about the investigation.
Sessions had to recuse himself. That is what triggered
Rosenstein to bring in the Special Counsel. You don't have that
here because you have all your own people in charge, Jim.
JORDAN: Here’s — here’s — here’s —
CUOMO: The attorney general, the head of the FBI, all the
people there are your people.
JORDAN: — a couple things. Now you're filibustering. A couple
things.
CUOMO: Just respond. Go ahead.
JORDAN: When you use the word collusion, you use potential in
front of it. That — Potential collusion is not collusion. That’s
proving my point. There is no collusion. There’s been no
evidence of that.
CUOMO: There are no conclusions of collusion
JORDAN: Second —
CUOMO: — because the investigation is not over, but there’s
plenty of proof of it. I see proof as potential. I don't see
dispositive crimes.
JORDAN: Chris, how about this fact. Here’s the reason you need
a second special counsel. I don’t like ‘em. I wish we didn’t have
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to have them, but I see no other remedy here. Here's the reason.
Can Rod Rosenstein oversee an investigation of potential
obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey when he’s the
one who wrote the memo for firing James Comey? I mean, that's
where we're at.
CUOMO: So you're bothered by the fact that he's on your side of
an argument —
JORDAN: No.
CUOMO: — so you don't want him to do the investigation?
JORDAN: I'm bothered by what I just stated. Can he really do
that? So, that’s just one of many reasons why you — I believe
you need this remedy, a second special counsel. It’s why we
called for it ten months ago. Chris, I’ve been on your show —
CUOMO: But you're not asking for anybody to look into why
Trump fired Comey, are you?
JORDAN: I’m looking into — I’m asking — no, no, no. But that's
what the special — Mueller has said he's looking into potential
obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey.
CUOMO: So that’s why you have Mueller.
JORDAN: Rosenstein oversees that investigation and he's the
one who wrote the memo
CUOMO: But Mueller is the one who draw —
JORDAN — saying why it’s appropriate to fire James Comey.
CUOMO: — Mueller is the one who draws the conclusions about
it. That's why Rosenstein is insulated. He oversees. He does not
conduct and Mueller will do the investigating, the man who was
celebrated by so many in your party.
JORDAN: Chris, think about this. Chris, think about this. If he’s
so insulated, why did he write a second memo on August 2nd
changing the parameters, modifying the parameters of the
investigation and why won't he show that memo to the American
people? May 17, one year ago, we had the memo outlining
here’s the framework work for Bob Mueller's investigation into the
President that the American people elected. That was the
framework and it was modified on August 2nd and — and Rod
Rosenstein won't show us that — that modification —
CUOMO: Modified how?
JORDAN: — and a federal — we don't know. We haven't seen it.
CUOMO: But what do you want to assume about the
modification?
JORDAN: Because the American people have the right to know.
The parameters of any —
CUOMO: — I agree. Look, I'm all about transparency.
JORDAN: I am too.
CUOMO: The American people show know everything because,
clearly, the partisans can't be trusted to tell them the full truth
about this.
JORDAN: We want transparency.
CUOMO: You can't have any political oversight right now. That’s
clear.
JORDAN: Tomorrow, Devin Nun — Chairman Nunes is to DOJ to
get transparency.
CUOMO: With no Democrats.
JORDAN: I want to see — well, you know what? I — if they want
to come, let them come. I’m all for transparency.
CUOMO: With Why weren't they invited?
JORDAN: I don't know. You’d have to ask them.
CUOMO: You don't know, Jim?
JORDAN: I don’t know if Adam Schiff goes. I’m not chairman of
the Intelligence Committee. But I do know is that — that Rod
Rosenstein wrote a memo August 2nd that a federal judge four
weeks ago said he wanted to see and he got to see it.
CUOMO: But you don’t even know what it says. You're
speculating on what it might mean, when it could just be a pro
forma procedural indication of expanding the probe as the facts
and issues arise.
JORDAN: Why — come on, Chris.
CUOMO: You don’t know what it means.
JORDAN: You just — you just — you just said you want
transparency. I want transparency.
CUOMO: I want to see it. Don't get me wrong.
JORDAN: More importantly —
CUOMO: I certainly don't want to hear from you guys what it
says. I certainly don’t want to have two of your guys go into a
meeting —
JORDAN: — I’m not — I’m not saying — Chris — I’m not saying
what it says.
CUOMO: — with the feds and come out and tell me what it
means. I certainly don't want that.
JORDAN: I'm not saying what it says. All I want — all I’m saying
is I want to see it. We’ve asked. I asked Rod Rosenstein in
person to see it. We’ve sent him a letter and they sent us a letter
back saying, sorry we're not going to show to you, but a federal
judge wants to see it and he got to see it.
CUOMO: Alright, Jim, I hear you on that. I believe there should
be transparency. I’ve never argued differently to you. I’ve never
even asked you a question against those kinds of intentions in
encouraging transparency, assuming it doesn’t reveal sources
and methods or anything that compromise anybody’s life or the
integrity of the investigation.
JORDAN: Of course, of course.
CUOMO: But this is the last point. I don't get what's going to
happen tomorrow. We can’t have more partisanship than we
have right now. The chasm would swallow us both up, and we're
capable guys. How do you go in there tomorrow with just Nunes,
who is so compromised and Trey Gowdy who for, despite his
recent rhetoric of being fair and disgusted with everything, is
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known as Captain Benghazi to the Democrats and they don't
have anyone from the other side. How can this help what
happens tomorrow? How can it help.
JORDAN: The question, Chris, is real simple. We want to know if,
in fact — and it sure looks like this was the case — if, in fact,
there were informants around the edges of the Trump campaign
talking to people loosely affiliated with the Trump campaign, if it
was some kind of spy, some kind of informant, some kind of
plant, we want to know.
CUOMO: But we know it wasn't an implant. You know already.
They told you it wasn't.
JORDAN: They told — the same Department of Justice who —
when they gave us documents, had redacted — between Page
and Strzok text messages had redacted the fact that Peter Strzok
was friends with one of the FISA court judges who also
happened to be the same judge who heard Michael Flynn's case.
We're supposed to start trusting that Department of Justice who
was trying to hide that — trying to hide that information from us?
CUOMO: It’s run by your guy, Christopher Wray. It's overseen by
your guy, Jeff Sessions, and Rod Rosenstein. These are all your
people.
JORDAN: All I’m — Chris — all I’m saying, Chris, is the
Department of Justice — the credibility of the Department of
Justice, in light of that fact, the fact that they’re dragged their feet
to get us the information we’re entitled to as a separate and
equal branch of government. They tried to hide the fact that Peter
Strzok had a relationship with one of the FISA judges who was
the same judge who heard Michael Flynn's case and recused
himself, by the way after — after —
CUOMO: But you only know that because of what the I.G. has
been figuring out. That's my point, Jim, is you have the inspector
general.
JORDAN: He figured it out —
CUOMO: You know that they can do this job. They have a big,
capable staff.
JORDAN: — Chris, you're missing the point.
CUOMO: Why politicize it? That was what my question was.
JORDAN: Of course, the I.G. — the I.G. found the text messages
but when the Department of Justice gave us those copies of the
text messages, they redacted what I just described as —
CUOMO: That's not unusual and you know that.
JORDAN: Well —
CUOMO: It's not true proof of perfidy.
JORDAN: But why would you redact that? It had nothing to do
with an ongoing investigation, it wasn't classified information.
CUOMO: Because they have intelligence considerations.
JORDAN: No, because it was —
.
CUOMO: We've had this struggle with them my entire career.
JORDAN: — no, it was embarrassing to them.
CUOMO: It doesn't mean that it's necessarily —
JORDAN: Come on.
CUOMO: — perfidious — that it's dishonest. Look, we'll have to
know more. It's just about the mechanism and you know we'll
keep talking about this with you. I'm anxious for you to make the
case and I don't know how tomorrow's going to make anything
better but let's see what happens. Let's be almost irrationally
optimistic about it and then let's come back together and figure
out what we know. Jim Jordan —
JORDAN: We'll do it.
CUOMO: — thank you for making the case.
JORDAN: You bet.
CUOMO: I appreciate it.
JORDAN: You bet, thanks.

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 Trump: I Did A ‘Service’
To Country By Firing Comey
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:58 PM 05/23/2018

President Trump took questions on his way to Marine One “then let’s see what James Comey has to
Wednesday as he departed the White House for New York. say.”

A gaggle of reporters asked a number of questions about
Trump’s recent revelations that there was a spy monitoring
his campaign for the FBI.
Trump was asked if the use of the word “spy” was
appropriate.
“Former FBI Director, James Comey, said
to use the word ‘spy’ is the wrong word,” a
reporter shouted.
Trump did not hesitate, saying
“I think James Comey has got a lot of
problems.” The president continued, “If you
look at what at he did, if you look at all of
the lies — the tremendous lies — if you
look at all that’s going on, I think James
Comey has got a lot of problems.”
The president claimed that he
“did a great service to this country by firing
James Comey.”
At that point, a reporter attempted to interrupt Trump, who
was having none of it.
“Excuse me,” Trump said. “A lot of people
have said it. And you go into the FBI, and a
lot of those great people working in the FBI,
they will tell you, I did a great service to our
country by firing James Comey.”
Trump went on to call the controversy “Spygate,” saying,
“We now call it ‘Spygate.’ You’re calling it
“Spygate.” A lot of bad things have
happened.”

WATCH:

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump noted an Inspector General report will be released

on Comey,

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 Exclusive: Bannon Says
Rosenstein Could Be Fired 'Very Shortly'
By Niall Stanage
05/23/18 06:00 AM EDT

President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen Bannon “Martin Luther King would be proud of him
predicts that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — what he’s done for the black and
could be fired “very shortly,” in an interview that will be Hispanic community for jobs.”
broadcast Wednesday evening in the United Kingdom.
And Bannon blamed the media for boosting the profile of
the kind of white nationalist figures with whom the former
strategist has sometimes — wrongly, he insisted — been
said to harbor sympathy.
“These guys don’t exist unless you make
them a big deal,” Bannon told Maitlis. “First
off, they’re all cranks … [Richard] Spencer
and [David] Duke — these guys are cranks.
The only reason they exist is because
MSNBC and BBC is down there with a
camera, giving them a platform. If you cut
them off, nobody would ever hear from
them.”

Bannon said that Rosenstein Bannon’s remarks on Rosenstein and the Mueller probe
will be closely parsed because he and other Trump
loyalists have been reported, by The Washington Post
“either … is going to take the direct order of among others, to be pressing the president to adopt a more
the president of the United States or I think aggressive strategy.
Rosenstein will be fired.”
One of the most combative defenders of Trump has been
Bannon also said that the president should give evidence in
his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York
writing — but not in person — to special counsel Robert
City. But Giuliani has also caused consternation, even
Mueller. Bannon praised Mueller as an “honorable guy.”
among White House staff, with some of his television
The comments, which come amid increasing pressure on interviews.
Rosenstein from Trump and his allies, were made in a
“Rudy’s had some media hits that are
wide-ranging interview with the BBC's "Newsnight,"
better than others, right?” Bannon said in
which was conducted on Tuesday in Prague.
his BBC interview.
The Hill obtained an audio recording of the unedited
But he went on to confirm long-standing rumors that
interview between Bannon and the BBC's Emily Maitlis.
Trump had once been interested in appointing Giuliani to
The hourlong conversation saw the strategist and former be attorney general.
Breitbart executive stepping back into the public spotlight
Bannon told Maitlis that Giuliani had declined the offer
— and stirring controversy again.
because he wanted to be secretary of State.
Bannon was exiled from Trump’s immediate orbit in
“Remember, Rudy was the guy that we first
January after he was quoted making several incendiary
went to to be attorney general before [Jeff]
comments in Michael Wolff’s best-selling book "Fire and
Sessions. … And Rudy turned us down,”
Fury: Inside the Trump White House." At the time,
Bannon said. "He says, ‘Hey it’s too much
Trump said that Bannon had "lost his mind."
for me, I don’t want to do it, I would want to
Bannon had departed from the White House before that. be Secretary of State.'”
He left the administration in August 2017, soon after John
But, Bannon added,
Kelly replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff.
“Rudy is a wartime consigliere and I think
Pushing back on charges of racism leveled against Trump,
he’s exactly what the president needs.”
Bannon insisted that
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Bannon was in the Czech capital to engage in a public
debate with Lanny Davis, who served as special counsel to
President Clinton.
During his BBC interview, he also relitigated some old
arguments, in part blaming Trump's son-in-law Jared
Kushner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-
Ky.) for the loss of a Republican Senate seat in Alabama
last year.
According to Bannon, Kushner and McConnell were
among those who “went to Trump and convinced Trump”
to back then-Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP primary.
Despite Trump’s endorsement, Strange lost the primary to
former state Chief Justice Roy Moore.
McConnell, Bannon complained,
“would rather see a Democrat in the United
States Senate. He would rather have
control of his caucus and not have a Roy
Moore.”
Moore, backed by Bannon, was dogged by allegations of
sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behavior with
teenage girls and young women.
Asked by Maitlis if he now accepted he had
backed “the wrong horse,” Bannon replied,
“Absolutely not."
Despite that setback, Bannon remained bullish about the
GOP’s chances in November’s midterm elections.
Even though Trump continues to struggle with mediocre
poll ratings, Bannon said that the best way for Republicans
to counter an energized Democratic base was to cast the
midterms as a referendum on the president — and on his
possible impeachment.
“To bring the base out, to bring the
‘deplorables' out, you’re going to have a
proposition: It’s a national election,”
Bannon said. "Donald Trump is on the
ballot in every congressional district. You’re
not voting for a congressman versus
another congressman. You’re voting for
Donald Trump versus Nancy Pelosi.
Because the first thing that she’s going to
do is impeach him.”
Bannon predicted that Republicans would hold both the
Senate and the House, despite gathering gloom among
.
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conservatives that the loss of control of the lower chamber
is increasingly likely.
Bannon has long been a difficult figure to characterize: a
wealthy former Goldman Sachs banker who often blasts
the “global elite”; a fervent Trump loyalist who lost favor
after criticizing Trump family members in Wolff’s book;
and someone who mixes hard-line stances on issues such
as immigration with the kind of pro-working class
economic arguments heard more often on the left.
To “Newsnight,” he contended that one reason why non-
white Americans were underrepresented in Silicon Valley
and in other high-paying industries was because of lax
immigration policies.
“Why in the hell should some kid in
Baltimore have to compete against a guy in
India?” he asked rhetorically.
At another point, he contended:
“Mass illegal immigration is a scam of the
globalists. … Because it is there to
suppress the wages of the black and
Hispanic working class by giving unlimited
competition on labor.”
He went on to say that it was “not right” to allow “this
unlimited immigration, illegal immigration, that comes up
from the southern border, that’s low skill. It’s just not. It
destroys the education system, it destroys the health-care
system.”
Even as he insisted that “identity politics is a dead end for
the Democratic Party,” he made a qualified defense of
Trump’s deeply controversial comments in the wake of
violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.,
last year in which one woman was killed.
Bannon called the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan supporters
who descended on Charlottesville “thugs” who were
“looking for trouble.”
“But, however, the antifa guys are just as
bad,” he said. “They come fully loaded,
they’re looking for a fight.”
Bannon insisted that he had no political ambitions of his
own.
“I am not a politician. I’m a street fighter …
I have no interest in being a politician,” he
told Maitlis.
 Pathetic. Mueller Begs Trump-Appointed Judge For
Indefinite Delay In Junk Russian Bot Case
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 6:26 Pm
On Tuesday, Robert Mueller begged a
federal judge to indefinitely delay his trial
against Concord Management and
Consulting.
This is the second time Mueller has
requested a delay in his junk Russian bot
case.
Obviously Mueller rolled out the indictment
of 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies as
a PR stunt and now it’s coming back to
haunt him.
Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump-appointee smacked
down Mueller the first time he requested a delay.
Former US Attorney, Joe DiGenova said it best,
“They did it for one reason only. Mueller
needed something Russian–like dressing on
a salad to make his investigation look good
so he indicted 13 people and corporations in
another country that he thought would never
show up and BINGO one shows up and says
‘PROVE IT MOTHER.’
The Daily Caller reported:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal
judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old
speedy trial law in the case against 13 Russians
and three Russian companies and has asked
for an indefinite delay to the Russian collusion
trial.
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One of the Russian companies — Concord
Management and Consulting — entered the
U.S., hired American lawyers, and demanded a
speedy trial. The Speedy Trial Act is a 44-year
old federal law that dictates that a federal
criminal case must begin within 70 days from
the date of the indictment.
The “complexity” of the case warrants excluding
the speedy trial law and delaying the trial,
Mueller argued in Tuesday’s court filing.
A “district court can, on its own motion or at the
request of a party, grant an excludable
continuance if ‘the ends of justice served by
taking such action outweigh the best interest of
the public and the defendant in a speedy trial,’”
Mueller wrote.
“This case also warrants a continuance and
exclusion of time to accommodate the
voluminous discovery at issue and to allow
sufficient time for the Court to resolve certain
outstanding procedural issues unique to
discovery in this case,” he continued.
Former Federal Prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy told the
Daily Caller that it’s too late for Mueller to claim that the
complexity of the case warrants a delay.
The federal judge has not yet ruled on Mueller’s second
request for a delay.
Mueller is a pathetic man and a disgrace to this country.
Another embarrassing development was watching
Mueller’s team offer to give Concord Management’s
lawyers a massive amount of social media data from those
dangerous trolls who sought to influence the US election
and the majority of it is in RUSSIAN.
Mueller’s lawyers admitted that they don’t even have
English translations for the Russian social media posts.
Concord Management’s lawyer’s previously said Mueller
indicted “the proverbial ham sandwich.”
 The reason the Concord Management Mueller begging the judge for an indefinite delay is more
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial ham proof he rolled out this indictment of Russians as a PR
sandwich’ was because one of the stunt to justify his witch hunt; his team is not prepared to
entities indicted by the Mueller try this case and it’s hilarious to watch as they struggle.
team, Concord Catering, was not in
existence at the time the crimes
were alleged to have taken place.

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 Kushner’s Lawyer: ‘There’s Nothing
That Merits Charges’ After Mueller Interview
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
6:27 PM 05/23/2018

Lowell said the terms

“witness or a subject or target of the

investigation” were in fact “words that you
guys in the media report and they make no
sense to people who are practicing
lawyers.” He added that simply doesn’t
“use those terms and never has.”
U.S. United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley (C) White House senior
adviser Jared Kushner (L) and Jason Greenblatt (R), U.S. President “Let me pin you down. Has he been told
Donald Trump's Middle East envoy wait for a meeting of the UN he’s not going be charged?” Blitzer asked.
Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February
20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson “Why would anybody ask that question?”
Lowell responded. “The Special Counsel
Abbe Lowell, lawyer for the president’s son-in-law, Jared nor any other prosecutors indicated that
Kushner, got heated Wednesday when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer they have any intention to believe that Mr.
asked about any potential charges that Kushner may be Kushner has done anything that would
facing following his interview with Special Counsel remotely merit being charged.”
Robert Mueller.
Lowell continued to sidestep the question of whether
Kushner was a target, subject, or witness, saying,
WATCH:

“Nobody has indicated they have any

intention of saying to him, you’ve done
something wrong that would merit any
charges.”

Kushner is set to regain top security clearance, and has

been interviewed by Mueller about Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential campaign.

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 Mollie Hemingway: ‘Rarely
The Case’ When James Clapper Tells The Truth
By Randy Hall
May 23, 2018 6:55 PM EDT

While a guest during Wednesday morning's Fox & “He’s right,” the Fox & Friends co-host said
Friends, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway slammed before asking Hemingway: “Where’s the
former Director of National Intelligence Director James coverage?”
Clapper by stating that it’s “rarely the case” when the
former director of national intelligence under Democratic Hemingway responded:
President Barack Obama tells the truth.
“We’re two years into a probe of
Hemingway made the comment when asked about supposedly treasonous collusion with
Clapper’s appearance on The View a day earlier, where he Russia. We have no evidence to support
said that President Donald Trump “should be happy” that that.”
the FBI was spying on his 2016 presidential campaign.
However, she added:

“We have learned, in that same period of

time -- through the dogged work of a few
investigators and a few journalists -- that
there are all sorts of problems with how the
DOJ handled that probe.”

Hemingway also stated:

This is a huge scandal, but because it goes

against that narrative that the media put
in place and really pumped for many
Co-host Steve Doocy began the morning segment by
years, I think there’s a reticence to
playing a clip of CNN commentator Carl Bernstein
investigate because it will make the media
claiming:
look bad, as well as making some people in
the Department of Justice look bad.
“What the President did today is really to
abuse his authority, as he has been doing
Their opposition is not surprising, that they don’t want
to intervene in a legitimate investigation.”
sunlight on what happened, they don’t want transparency
here.
Another video showed Clinton-era Deputy Assistant
Attorney General Harry Litman asserting that the Justice
“But you know,” Doocy noted, “you’ve
Department
heard people on talk radio and read things
online where, to some people, it looks like
“is under a shelling from the White House. the fact that they’re not covering it is
It’s like London 1941 there.” because they’re trying to cover for the
Obama administration.”
Doocy then responded by stating that
“We don’t know all the details,” Hemingway
replied, “but it does seem that the Obama
“the media is in full-blown panic mode” administration behaved in a really
before reading a Twitter post from Trump: reckless fashion.”
“SPYGATE could be one of the biggest
scandals in history!” “Spying on an opposing party’s political
campaign is something that shouldn’t be
done without really good cause,” she
continued, “and we’re not seeing any
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 evidence that there was good cause or
anything approaching it, and the manner in
which it was going about.”
The senior editor also stated:
“Obviously, the American people need to
understand what happened, why it
happened and make sure that it never
happens again.”
“We should not criminalize political
differences,” she added, “and that’s a very
important thing in order to have a Justice
Department-law enforcement-intelligence
apparatus that people can take seriously
and trust.”
Concerning Clapper, Hemingway ripped him:
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“If it’s true -- if what James Clapper is
saying is true, which is rarely the case,
but if it were true that they were really just
spying on Russia and they were doing it
through the Trump campaign, that’s
obviously problematic enough.”
“But then there should be nothing to be
fearing about a really good investigation of
what happened,” she continued.
“They say they did nothing wrong?” the
guest then asked. “Well then, let us see, let
us determine, let people who are
independent make that determination that
these intelligence chiefs have made.”
Hemingway and her commentary would not be welcome
on CNN or MSNBC. Instead, they prefer comparing
conservatives to Nazis. Is it any wonder why their
viewership keeps getting smaller?
 Tom Fitton: Comey, Clapper, Brennan, The Rest Of Them
Face Civil And Criminal Liability For
Spying On Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 6:59 Pm

Judicial Watch founder and chairman Tom Tom Fitton:

Fitton joined Lou Dobbs on Wednesday to
discuss the latest developments in the
historic Democrat #Spygate scandal.
Remember Comey or Clapper were saying they
were spying, or something like that, but it was
all done by the book. Which is kind of like what
Susan Rice wrote a few weeks after that
infamous Oval Office meeting with Barack
Obama where they were talking about using
that dossier and going after Trump with it… It
was spying but it was all by the book. So
everyone go back to sleep. That’s Comey’s
way…

Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and the rest of

them face civil and criminal liability because
of this.

Democrats went from scoffing at the idea
that the Obama administration was spying
on the Trump campaign to praising the
spies inside the Trump Campaign in a two
day period.
They’re going to have to account and there’s
got to be a process for getting them to account.
Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

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 Judge's Ruling That Trump Can't Block Twitter Trolls
Could Be A Huge Win For Right-Wingers
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 23, 2018

communicate news and information to the

public, and members of the public use the
reply function to respond to the president
and his aides and exchange views with one
another," the lawsuit said.

Justice Department lawyers countered that Trump was

within his rights to block certain people in the same way
he can ignore certain people in a crowd.

But Buchwald rejected that argument,

A liberal federal judge's ruling against President Donald
Trump in favor of liberal Twitter trolls could be a major
win for right-wingers who've been censored and banned
from social media.
From NY Daily News,
"Trump can no longer block users on
Twitter as judge declares his feed a public
forum":
President Trump can't block Twitter users
from viewing his prolific feed, a federal
judge ruled Wednesday.
saying the President's Twitter feed
amounted to a public forum and he can't
cut off those with divergent views.
"The viewpoint-based exclusion of the
individual plaintiffs from that designated
public forum is proscribed by the First
Amendment," wrote Buchwald, who was
appointed by President Clinton.
This is what right-wingers like Chuck Johnson and Jared
Taylor who are suing Twitter for banning them over their
political views have been arguing for months.

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Naomi

Buchwald ruled that Trump's Twitter
account, @realDonaldTrump, is a
"designated public forum" and
protected by the First Amendment.

But the judge stopped short of ordering

Trump to unblock his critics, saying she
did not want to "enter that legal thicket."
While liberals are cheering this ruling thinking they pulled
[...]The first-of-its-kind suit, filed last July by a group of one over on "Drumpf," ruling these heavily censored social
Trump critics blocked from reading his tweets, claimed media sites are designated public forums and must respect
that the President was violating the First Amendment by the First Amendment is what everyone on the right with a
taking such action because they expressed views he didn't brain has been pushing for months.
like.
Here's the judge's full statement:
"The @realDonaldTrump account is a kind
of digital town hall in which the president MEMORANDUM AND ORDER:
and his aides use the tweet function to
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 Granting in part and denying in part 34
Motion for Summary Judgment; granting in
part and denying in part 42 Motion for
Summary Judgment. We conclude that we
have jurisdiction to entertain this dispute.
Plaintiffs have established legal injuries
that are traceable to the conduct of the
President and Daniel Scavino and, despite
defendants' suggestions to the contrary,
their injuries are redressable by a favorable
judicial declaration. Plaintiffs lack standing,
however, to sue Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
who is dismissed as a defendant. Hope
Hicks is also dismissed as a defendant, in
light of her resignation as White House
Communications Director.

Turning to the merits of plaintiffs' First

Amendment claim, we hold that the
speech in which they seek to engage is
protected by the First Amendment and
that the President and Scavino exert
governmental control over certain
aspects of the @realDonaldTrump
account, including the interactive space
of the tweets sent from the account.
That interactive space is susceptible to
analysis under the Supreme Court's
forum doctrines, and is properly
characterized as a designated public
forum. The viewpoint-based exclusion
of the individual plaintiffs from that
designated public forum is proscribed
by the First Amendment and cannot be
justified by the President's personal
First Amendment interests.

In sum, defendants' motion for summary

judgment is granted in part and denied in
part, and plaintiffs' cross-motion for
summary judgment is granted in part and
denied in part. The Clerk of the Court is
directed to terminate the motions pending
at docket entries 34 and 42. SO
ORDERED.

(Signed by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on 5/23/2018)

(ama) (Entered: 05/23/2018)

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 BOOM! Former Trump Campaign Aide: I Told Mueller
Team About Informant Approaching Me And THEY
DIDN’T EVEN TAKE NOTES!
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:25 Pm
Former Trump campaign aide Michael
aputo dropped a bomb on the Ingraham
Angle Monday night.
Caputo told Ingraham:
“I was approached by a SECOND government
informant.”
Michael Caputo said he’s waiting for clearance from his
attorney before he offers more details.
On Tuesday Michael Caputo joined Neil
Cavuto on FOX News.
Caputo told Neil a SECOND FEDERAL
AGENCY offered to give him HILLARY
CLINTON EMAILS!
The informant was from the NSA.
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Now this…
Wednesday night on Tucker Carlson Tonight
Michael Caputo told Tucker that he told the
Mueller Team about the informant who
approached him during the 2016 election.
Michael Caputo says the Mueller team of 13
Angry Democrats didn’t even take notes!
They weren’t interested!
Michael Caputo:
I gave the information to the House Intelligence
Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee
and the Mueller invetigators, when I sat with
them two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and
they didn’t seem in the least bit interested…
The investigators weren’t interested. They
didn’t even take notes.
Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
 Lying Left-Wing Media In Total PANIC As Deep State
Conspiracy Against Trump Unravels
By Mike Adams
05/23/2018
The lying left-wing media is in a total panic over the
collapse of the Russia collusion narrative. Even worse (for
them), the media has been complicit in the conspiracy to
overthrow the election and fraudulently frame President
Trump for totally made-up “crimes” that never happened.
.
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Now, the entire house of cards is unraveling by the day,
and the complicit left-wing media — which is really just
the propaganda wing of an organized crime operation
known as “the Democratic party” — is in a complete
meltdown.
That’s because several left-wing operatives who are
pretending to be “journalists” are likely going to be
indicted for treason. And many deep state actors — such as
John Brennan and possibly even Obama himself — are
going down with them.
Here, I’m posting three podcasts that bring you a wealth of
details on this exploding story: the most outrageous
political scandal in the history of our nation. (No
wonder the lying left-wing media is desperately trying to
pretend this isn’t happening…)
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 FBI Source: Special Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation Is
Ready To Testify — Says “It Was All Comey”
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 7:29 Pm
As previously reported, Special Agent, Joe
Pientka, who was present during the
interrogation of General Flynn is ready to
testify against Comey, McCabe and Strzok.
On Wednesday, an FBI source told One
American News reporter, Jack Posobiec that
the agent Pientka says “it was all Comey.”
On Friday May 11, 2018, Senate Judiciary Chairman
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein stating
Comey testified the FBI didn’t think General Flynn lied.
Grassley also revealed
Joe Pientka was the second FBI agent who
joined Peter Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in
an ambush style interview to take down
General Flynn.
Grassley demanded the FBI and DOJ produce the
transcript of Flynn’s intercepted calls with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak and the related 302’s by May 25th.
(302’s are reports FBI agents take to summarize an
interview with a subject.)
The recently unredacted portion of the House Intel
report revealed Comey testified to House Intel members
the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any
deception. The report also revealed the illegal leak of
Flynn’s phone call with Kislyak is what allowed the
FBI/DOJ to keep a counterintel operation open on General
Flynn.
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Chairman Grassley is demanding answers
from the FBI and DOJ by this Friday the
25th.
In the last paragraph of Grassley’s letter, he
requests Special Agent Joe Pientka be available for a
transcribed interview with Committee staff.
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter stated a couple weeks
ago that according to numerous law enforcement
sources, neither Strzok or Pientka believed Flynn was lying
during their interview with him, as reported.
Special Agent Joe Pientka and another
“non-partisan” law enforcement officer
were present in the Flynn interview per
Sara Carter’s sources.
The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft previously
reported this bombshell:
Legal expert, attorney and former special investigator, Joe
DiGenova, believes that Pientka may be a good cop based
on his actions related to the General Flynn case (see video
below at the 6:00 mark) –
Chairman Grassley quite properly wants to see the
underlying 302 forms of the FBI agents who did the
interview, the ambush interview of Flynn, at the White
House during the transition period rather shortly after the
inauguration.
It’s pretty obvious that Comey and McCabe
got together and decided they wanted to
frame Flynn because they believed, they
believed, believe it or not, that he was a
danger to the Constitution, not them.
He was a danger, when all he was doing was
communicating with people that he had a legitimate right
to communicate with, both as a candidate Foreign Policy
Advisor, and as the National Security Advisor Designate,
and as a National Security Advisor.
So Grassley wants to see the notes of these people and he
wants to interview the one agent who was there who was
very, very, very serious about how Flynn did not deceive.
 That agent that he wants to interview is the
agent who went to the Inspector General
and complained about the conduct of Strzok
and McCabe.
Now this…
Comey is sweating bullets as his crimes bubble up to the
surface.
On Wednesday morning, the fired FBI Director lashed out
on his Twitter account defending #Spygate:

Posobiec tweeted:

SCOOP: FBI Source tells @OANN: FBI Agent

Joe Pientka who interviewed General Flynn
plans to testify against Comey and McCabe,
adds “It was all Comey”

Jack Posobiec followed up with:

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 Joe Digenova: Comey, Clapper, And Brennan Are
Psychotics And Can’t Stop Lying (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 8:19 Pm

Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova joined

Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night to
discuss the latest developments in the
historic Spygate Scandal.

Democrats and the liberal media went from

scoffing at the idea that the Obama
administration was spying on the Trump
campaign to praising the spies inside the
Trump Campaign in a two day period.

Joe DiGenova went off on the crooks on

Wednesday:

If they were not spying on the Trump campaign

why not just tell the Trump people the Russians
are coming after you, be careful. Because that’s
not what they’re doing. They were spying on the
Trump Campaign… Comey and Clapper and
Brennan are a group of psychotics who now
can’t stop lying.

Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

The Crossfire Hurricane has switched directions and the

deep states hacks are spinning like crazy.

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 FBI Informant Stefan Halper Accused Of Making ‘False’
And ‘Absurd’ Allegations About Russian
Infiltration At Cambridge
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:53 PM 05/23/2018
 FBI informant Stefan Halper said Russians infiltrated
the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar
 He flagged interactions between a Russian researcher
and Mike Flynn
 People involved called Halper’s claims “false” and
“absurd”
The FBI informant who made contact with members of the
Trump campaign has made allegations of Russian spy
infiltration at the University of Cambridge that people
involved in the matters have called “false” and “absurd.”
A Russian academic who worked at Cambridge with the
informant, Stefan Halper, said he made “false allegations”
about her interactions with former national security adviser
Michael Flynn at an event the Cambridge Intelligence
Seminar (CIS) hosted in February 2014.
Halper’s claim in December 2016 that Russians infiltrated
CIS has also been called “absurd” by Christopher Andrew,
the official historian for MI5 and head of CIS, the
Financial Times reported.
Halper told the Financial Times that he was resigning from
CIS because of “unacceptable Russian influence on the
group.” The evidence of Russian penetration was scant,
with news reports citing a nearly $2,700 contribution to
CIS from a Russia-based company called Veruscript.
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Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn departs after a
plea hearing at U.S. District Court, in Washington, U.S., December 1,
2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Meanwhile, Halper made contact with Trump campaign
advisers Carter Page, George Papadpoulos and Sam Clovis
during the campaign to gather intelligence about their
involvement with Russia.
It was revealed Friday that Halper, a veteran of three
Republican administrations, was a longtime CIA and FBI
source who provided information that has been used in the
FBI and special counsel’s investigation of possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
It remains unclear what information Halper provided his
FBI and CIA handlers about the campaign. He met with
Page numerous times over the course of 14 months
through September 2017. He and Papadopoulos met
several times in mid-September 2016. Halper and Clovis
met once on Sept. 1, 2016 to discuss their mutual interest
in foreign policy towards China.
Halper also asked Peter Navarro, the White House’s top
trade adviser, to submit his name for consideration for an
ambassadorship in the Trump administration.
“SPYGATE,” is what President Trump has
called the FBI and CIA’s Halper operation.
A historian and Russian intelligence researcher at
Cambridge, Svetlana Lokhova, told TheDCNF that Halper
is behind allegations made about her and Flynn during the
retired general’s visit to Cambridge in 2014, when he
served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“Stef Halper, who is currently under
[Department of Justice] investigation for his
activities, has been revealed by [The New
York Times] as the source of the false
allegations about me and General Flynn,”
said Lokhova, who was born in Russia and
has British citizenship.
Halper is not himself under a Justice Department
investigation. Instead, the agency ordered the Office of the
Inspector General to investigate the FBI’s use of Halper as
a confidential informant to make contact with Trump
campaign advisers.
The New York Times reported Friday that Halper was the
first to raise concerns about interactions Flynn had with
Lokhova at a dinner for CIS, a forum for former
intelligence officials.
According to NYT, Halper, who was not
identified by name in the report, “was
alarmed by the general’s apparent
closeness with a Russian woman who was
also in attendance.” Halper’s complaints
prompted a person close to him “to pass on
a warning to the American authorities that
Mr. Flynn could be compromised by
Russian intelligence.”
But Lokhova said Halper’s assessment of her interaction
with Flynn was inaccurate.
She also suggested on Twitter that Halper was a source for
journalists who investigated stories about her interactions
with Flynn. Her Twitter post linked to a March 18, 2017
article published by The Wall Street Journal, which made
the first allegations about Flynn’s encounter with Lokhova.
TheDCNF has also confirmed that Washington Post
columnist David Ignatius looked into the allegations but
did not run a story. On Wednesday, Ignatius published a
column defending Halper as a “middleman” in a justified
investigation of the Trump campaign.
The Journal story touched off widespread speculation
about Flynn and Lokhova. Lokhova has said that she was
widely accused of being a Russian agent and of attempting
to trap Flynn in a “honey pot” scheme.
Flynn’s interactions with Lokhova were reported to
American authorities and Flynn should have notified the
.
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Defense Intelligence Agency about his contacts with a
Russian national, according to The Journal’s news story.
The agency’s liaison in London, Dan O’Brien, dismissed
the idea that Flynn should have reported his contact with
Lokhova. O’Brien, who attended the February 2014
dinner, said “nothing rose to the level” of requiring such a
disclosure.
According to The Journal, Flynn sat next to Lokhova at the
CIS dinner. At one point, she showed Flynn an “erotic
postcard” from 1912 of a young woman with Joseph
Stalin. Flynn also mentioned hiring Lokhova as his
translator for a trip to Russia he planned to make. He and
Lokhova remained in email contact for a short time after
the Cambridge event.
There was no evidence presented that Flynn or Lokhova
did anything wrong other than arouse suspicions from a
dinner attendee now known to be Halper.
Lokhova declined Tuesday to comment about Halper
beyond her short statement. But she referred back to an
interview she gave to the BBC on May 12, 2017 in which
she denied allegations that she was a Kremlin agent or a
“honey pot,” a spy term used to describe a woman used to
seduce a target in order to gather intelligence.
“In Britain, I am now being accused of
being a Russian spy. In Russia, some think
I am a British spy. And I am
neither,” Lokhova told BBC. “I am just a
historian who writes about an area that has
become incredibly politicized.”
“I felt betrayed that suddenly I had been
turned on in such a horrible way for …
attending a dinner to help Western
intelligence services understand Russia
better,” she continued.
Other Cambridge academics appear not to have shared
Halper’s concerns about Lokhova.
Lokhova, who is the author of the forthcoming book, “The
Spy Who Changed History,” presented research at CIS
on Friday. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6
and close colleague of Halper’s, is listed as a convener of
the event.
Halper could not be reached for comment. The Cambridge
Security Initiative also did not respond to a request for
comment.
 Democrats Attempt To Block Nunes And Gowdy From
Viewing Unredacted Documents On FBI
Spying On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 8:56 Pm

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Oversight The two GOP leaders will meet with FBI Director Chris
Chairman Trey Gowdy will meet with senior Justice Wray, National Intelligence Dan Coats and Principal
Department, FBI and intelligence officials on Thursday. Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O’Callaghan.

Nunes demanded the Justice Department hand over the

unredacted memo outlining the scope of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s authority and the name of the FBI secret
informant inside Trump’s campaign in 2016.

Democrat (and leaker) Adam Schiff attacked Nunes for not

allowing Democrats into the meeting.

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the meeting

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 FINALLY! After Most Major Conservative Sites
Are Completely Throttled By Facebook —
GOP Leaders Speak Out (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 9:27 Am
Since January 2017 top conservative voices on Facebook
and social media have been targeted and silenced by tech
giants Google, Facebook and Twitter.
On Thursday RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and
President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale
wrote Facebook and Twitter and demanded answers on
targeting of conservative publishers.
McDaniel and Parscale joined FOX and Friends this morning.
RNC CHAIRWOMAN RONNA MCDANIEL: It’s a
legitimate fear. Brad and I hear it all the time as we’re
traveling the country. People are very concerned that
conservative voices are going to be suppressed on social
media. Of course, many of their users are conservatives
and so Brad and I feel preemptively, we have to get out
ahead of this, talk to Facebook, talk to Twitter, ask them
for transparency, let us know what you’re going to do to
make sure that every voice has a say on these social media
platforms especially before this critical midterm.
BRAD PARSCALE: Well I mean, main thing about the
letter is we’ve had so much incoming about Diamond and
Silk being blocked, other conservative voices. Every day I
receive thousands of messages saying, “I’m being shadow-
banned.” And what we want to do in this letter is make
sure that we understand what’s happening. We want to ask
them for transparency. I think the public deserves that
transparency and we need to know that conservative voices
have a chance to get their message out. This is a big
problem.
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Here is a copy of the GOP letter sent to
Facebook and Twitter.
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Headquarters
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Jack Dorsey
Twitter, Inc.
1355 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Dorsey,
We are writing on behalf of the Republican National
Committee and President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-
election campaign to request information about efforts
by Facebook and Twitter to prevent political bias on
the social media platforms.
Concerns have been raised in recent years about
suppression of conservative speech on Facebook and
Twitter, including censorship of conservative news
stories from news feeds and “trending” news sections.
We are alarmed by numerous allegations that
Facebook has blocked content from conservative
journalists and groups, and Twitter has hidden such
content from conservative users’ followers.
In 2016, former Facebook workers reported that they
manipulated the “trending” section to exclude news
tailored to conservative users, despite those topics
trending on their own. A former trending news curator
admitted in an interview that nearly all members of the
trending news teams identified as liberal – and had the
authority to approve topics. Moreover, some Facebook
employees in 2016 reportedly pushed to ban then-
candidate Donald Trump’s Facebook posts and label
them as hate speech.
During congressional testimony, Facebook apologized
for suppression of content from conservative bloggers
and personalities, notably “Diamond & Silk,”
entertainers who were deemed “unsafe to the
community” for no reason. In response to these
revelations, Facebook said it will use a new system
that ranks news organizations by level of user trust,
promoting the highly scored outlets on users’ news
feeds while suppressing those with lower scores. We
are concerned about potential misuse of this system.
Meanwhile, conservative Twitter users have accused
the company of unfairly targeting them, purging
thousands of their followers in an attempt to stem
“fake news” content, and unnecessarily prompting
them to confirm their identity. Twitter claims its tools
are free from political bias, but has allegedly targeted
predominantly Republicans as part of a “shadow
banning” practice, which covertly limits those
accounts’ visibility on the platform.
We recognize that Facebook and Twitter operate in
liberal corporate cultures. However, rampant political
bias is inappropriate for a widely used public forum.
What’s more, the consequences to our democratic
society are profound. This is why special attention is
necessary to address issues such as Facebook’s use
of liberal organizations to fact-check content, the
access to user profiles it gives to some employees,
and Twitter’s manipulation of content that appears for
the site’s users.
It has also come to our attention that Facebook is
working with a third party to encourage voter
registration. Though we agree that this is an admirable
task in theory, we ask for transparency over how
Facebook determines who sees these advertisements
in their news feeds. This is to make sure that the new
feature does not become essentially an in-kind
contribution to liberal candidates.
Since Facebook and Twitter are platforms used widely
by the majority of voters, we request an explanation
about how you will ensure all content is managed
equally and fairly. How will you safeguard voters’
access to fair content on your platform? How will you
guarantee that conservative voices are no longer
censored, and conservative news no longer buried or
otherwise hidden?
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As you conduct reviews to assess bias against
conservative content, we ask for your assurances that
transparency, neutrality, and protection of all speech
will be core tenets of Facebook and Twitter operations,
now and in the future.
We ask for your response by June 18, 2018, and look
forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Ronna McDaniel
Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee
Brad Parscale
Campaign Manager for President Trump’s 2020
reelection
Most top conservative publishers have
already seen their traffic eliminated or
severely diminished on Facebook and
Twitter.
As our loyal readers know — The
Gateway Pundit has been speaking
about about the elimination of
conservative content on Facebook for
over a year now.
In 2016 conservative Americans rejected
the far left and corrupt mainstream
media and fled to the internet for their
information.
In 2016 The Gateway Pundit was one of
the few conservative sites that
supported candidate Trump – along with
Breitbart, The Drudge Report, Infowars,
Zero Hedge and Conservative
Treehouse.
We were and still are proud of our efforts to report the
truth that led to Trump’s historic win.
In 2017 Harvard and Columbia Journalism
Review found that The Gateway Pundit
was the 4th most influential conservative
news source in the 2016 election among
conservative publishers.

Because of this we were targeted and
have seen our numbers related to
Facebook and Twitter decline
dramatically.
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%.
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.
This is how Democrats fight back — Not
with better ideas but with smash-mouth
fascist tactics to ruin any threats to their
total dominance.
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Young Cons, Western Journalism,
SarahPalin.com, Independent Journal
Review, Right Wing News, and several
others have seen dramatic loss in
traffic.
The Gateway Pundit does not rely on Facebook for our
traffic numbers but Facebook is a significant part of every
major publication’s strategy today.
Still, we saw a significant drop in
Facebook traffic since the beginning of
the year– And in March Facebook shut
down our traffic stream from the social
media platform.
Our Facebook traffic went from 33% of
our total traffic to 3% of our total traffic
since the beginning of 2018.
This is corrupt, if not criminal, behavior.
Meanwhile, liberal sites are doing fine.
A recent report by Outline organization confirmed the
conservative publishers were hit the hardest by the recent
Facebook news feed changes.
The study also found the The
Gateway Pundit was hit the
hardest by these changes.
Via The Outline:
Facebook’s January 12 announcement that
it would begin to de-prioritize news
publishers and their posts in users’ News
Feeds has had a surprisingly profound and
partisan impact. According to The Outline’s
analysis of Facebook engagement data
obtained from research tool BuzzSumo,
conservative and right-wing publishers
(such as Breitbart, Fox News, and Gateway
Pundit) were hit the hardest in the weeks
following the announcement, with
Facebook engagement totals for February
dropping as much as 55 percent for some,
while the engagement numbers of most
predominantly liberal publishers remained
unaffected…
…The Outline drew these conclusions after
analyzing the Facebook engagement data
of 20 publishers from March 5, 2017 to
February 28, 2018.
The Gateway Pundit published a report
in April that shows how top
conservative publishers have been
 targeted and their content eliminated on
Facebook.
The Gateway Pundit report have over
288,000 views.
In March Facebook shut down our
content. You cannot even share a
Gateway Pundit story without getting a
warning now.
And this is after we spent tens of
thousands of dollars advertising on
Facebook.
We are not alone.
It may be too late for the GOP — They should have acted
sooner.
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In March Facebook shut down our
content. You cannot even share a
Gateway Pundit story without getting a
warning now.
And this is after we spent tens of
thousands of dollars advertising on
Facebook.
We are not alone.
It may be too late for the GOP — They should have acted
sooner.
Facebook Conservative Blacklist With Traffic Graphics–
UPDATED by Jim Hoft on Scribd can be seen on next
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 North Korea Slams Pence,
Threatens To Scrap Trump-Kim Summit
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
9:32 PM 05/23/2018
North Korea is once again lashing out at senior Trump
administration officials; this time, it appears Vice
President Mike Pence is the one in the rogue regime’s
sights.
After President Donald Trump threatened North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un with violent regime change
reminiscent of the horrific fate that befell Libya’s
Muammar Gaddafi should he fail to make a nuclear deal,
the vice president doubled down Monday in an interview
with Fox News.
“As the president made clear,” Pence
explained, “This will only end like the Libya
model ended if Kim Jong Un doesn’t make
a deal.”
“As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I
cannot suppress my surprise at such
ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out
from the mouth of the U.S. vice-
president,” Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Choe Son Hui said in a statement carried
by North Korean state media Thursday.
“If he is vice president of ‘single
superpower’ as is in name, it will be proper
for him to know even a little bit about the
current state of global affairs and to sense
to a certain degree the trends in dialogue
and the climate of detente,” he added. “We
could surmise more than enough what a
political dummy he is as he is trying to
compare the DPRK, a nuclear weapon
state, to Libya that had simply installed a
few items of equipment and fiddled around
with them.”
Both White House National Security Adviser John Bolton
and Pence have made references to the so-called Libya
model, infuriating North Korea. Pyongyang objects to
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comparisons between North Korea — a nuclear-armed
state with the ability to strike the U.S. — and Libya, a
country that abandoned its nuclear weapons program early
on in the development process. Libya’s vulnerable
leadership was then overthrown and brutally executed by
rebels.
Speaking to reporters on May 17, the president threatened
Kim with the Libya model.
“That model would take place if we don’t
make a deal most likely. But if we make a
deal, I think Kim Jong un is going to be
very, very happy,” Trump said, laying out
both the carrot and the stick
“We can also make the U.S. taste an
appalling tragedy it has neither
experienced nor even imagined up to now,”
Choe explained in his statement, without
elaborating.
Interestingly, North Korean officials have not attacked
Trump the way they have other administration officials.
They have, however, threatened to cancel the Trump-Kim
summit.
“In case the U.S. offends against our
goodwill and clings to unlawful and
outrageous acts, I will put forward a
suggestion to our supreme leadership for
reconsidering the DPRK-U.S. summit,”
Choe said Thursday. “We will neither beg
the U.S. for dialogue nor take the trouble to
persuade them if they do not want to sit
together with us. Whether the U.S. will
meet us at a meeting room or encounter us
at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely
dependent upon the decision … of the
U.S.”
After weeks of increasingly peaceful rhetoric, North Korea
suddenly changed its tone last week, criticizing Trump’s
administration for certain statements — particularly those
comparing the North to Libya. Since that time, tensions
have been steadily rising between Washington and
Pyongyang, with both sides casting uncertainty over the
future of the upcoming summit.
There is a “substantial chance” the meeting may not occur,
the president said Tuesday.
 Flashback: Barack Obama Tells Stockholm Audience
“We Do Not Surveil Our Own People” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 9:48 Pm

President Barack Obama traveled to Stockholm, Sweden Via The Ingraham Angle:
before the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg back in
September 2013.

Obama told the Swedish crowd he does not spy on

Americans.

Barack Obama:

What I can say with confidence is that when it

comes to our domestic operations, concerns
that people have back home in the United
States of America, that we do not surveil the
American people or persons within the United
States. That there are a lot of checks and
balances in place designed to avoid a
surveillance state.
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 'Outrageous Abuse Of Our Intelligence Agencies':
Ingraham Blasts Clapper For Trump Spy 'Lie'
As Seen On The Ingraham Angle
May 23, 2018 – 10:27pm
In her Angle commentary, Laura Ingraham ripped Obama-
era Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for
purportedly lying about surveilling members of the Trump
presidential campaign.
Ingraham said a key exchange involving Clapper occurred
in 2013 under oath before Congress.
Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden asked Clapper if his
agency collected or retained information of private
citizens, to which Clapper answered in the negative.
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"No sir, not wittingly," Clapper said.
Ingraham said that exchange was contradicted by Clapper's
interview on "The View" where he appeared to admit to
surveilling Trump associates.
"It's amazing to me that Clapper continues
to go on national TV and... denies what we
know to be true," she said.
She called Clapper's actions, and reports a federal spy was
placed inside the Trump campaign, an
"outrageous abuse of our intelligence and
law enforcement agencies."
Ingraham said the Obama administration likely knew about
the allegations involving Trump, and were
"desperate to wrap up the Hillary [email]
probe" in order to "collect dirt on Trump."
Sedition: Former Attorney General Eric Holder Urges DOJ
Employees To Defy Trump Administration
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 11:00 Pm

Holder joined James Clapper, James Comey

and John Brennan as the latest Obama
official to freak out over the spygate
scandal.

Via The Washington Times:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder publicly

urged his former employees at the Justice
Department to defy President Trump’s request
for transparency and public disclosures of
information related to the unprecedented spy
operation launched in 2016 against the Trump
campaign.
Former Attorney General Eric ‘Fast and Furious’ Holder
Holder’s insistence that the DOJ and FBI
lashed out at Trump on Monday after the President called
“protect the institutions” rather than carry out
on the DOJ to investigate the FBI’s infiltration of his 2016
their constitutional duties and protect the
campaign.
constitution, the document they actually swear
to protect when entering their federal positions
is telling and rather frightening.

If one ever searched for a “deep state” smoking gun it

appears Holder has offered it up. Protect the “Institution”
of the Justice Department at the expense of the US
Constitution. Defy the President’s orders for the sake of
the governmental apparatus.

Intelligence expert Tony Shaffer calls this

sedition — and he’s right!

Holder followed that up with a tweet urging

Department of Justice employees to defy the
Trump administration.

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 After 17 Indictments And Five Guilty Pleas, We KNOW
The Kremlin Interfered With The 2016 Election
Jennifer Horn - Former Chairman, New Hampshire Republican Party
2:24 AM 05/24/2018
Mueller time Shutterstock/Michael F Hiatt
We recently marked the one-year anniversary of special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged
Russian collusion—an investigation that has yielded 17
indictments, five guilty pleas, and constant headaches for
Donald Trump’s presidential administration.
President Trump commemorated the occasion as only he
could, with another angry, misleading tweet intended to
rile up his base, denouncing the Russia investigation as a
“witch hunt.”
In an attempt to delegitimize the Mueller probe, the
president has tweeted about a “witch hunt” 39 times since
it began. His supporters, meanwhile, continue to levy
personal attacks against Mueller to erode the special
counsel’s longstanding support among Republicans.
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway recently
appeared on Fox and Friends with a clear threat:
“I think those who have been digging and
conjecturing for over a year should be
careful what they wish for.”
Pro-Trump journalist Sara Carter made the ludicrous
accusation that Mueller protected Mafia informant Whitey
Bulger while serving as a federal prosecutor in Boston
during the 1980s. She then shared the unfounded
allegations with Sean Hannity. Adam Gingrich, who
worked for the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania,
introduced the Twitter hashtags #RiseUp and
#FireMueller.
The conservative media — a constant thorn in President
Bill Clinton’s side during Ken Starr’s investigation in the
1990s — has been all too willing to undermine the rule of
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law two decades later. Echoing the man in the White
House, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson consistently decries the
Mueller investigation as a “partisan witch hunt,” claiming
it is “designed to topple a president.”
If Mueller is indeed a “partisan” Democrat, then he’s done
a remarkable job of hiding it. A longtime Republican,
Mueller led the Justice Department’s criminal division
under President George H.W. Bush and served as Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under his son,
President George W. Bush. He has never once criticized
President Trump on the record.
Pro-Trump Republicans should be ashamed of themselves
for slandering an honest man and smearing his
investigation to score cheap political points. For decades,
the Republican Party has stood for the rule of law,
cognizant of the need to hold our elected officials to a
higher standard of accountability. It is one of the reasons
why I myself am a Republican.
Regardless of whether the Trump campaign actually
colluded with the Russian government, the investigation
must run its course. After 17 indictments and five guilty
pleas, we know that the Kremlin interfered with the 2016
election. The special counsel must be given as much time
as necessary to determine if and to what degree the Trump
campaign may have been involved.
Republicans have always pursued the truth. After the 2012
Benghazi attack that cost four American lives, Republicans
demanded an investigation into then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s role in our failure to defend the U.S.
embassy. As Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) put it:
“I remain convinced our fellow citizens
deserve all of the facts of what happened
before, during, and after the attacks in
Benghazi and they deserve an investigative
process worthy of the memory of those
who died and worthy of the trust of our
fellow citizens.”
And he got one:
The Benghazi investigation lasted two
years and cost more than $7 million.
When Clinton’s 2016 email scandal suggested gross
negligence on her part, Republicans again demanded the
truth. At a rally in my home state, then-candidate Donald
Trump claimed Clinton’s “corruption is on a scale we have
never seen before,” describing her mishandling of 33,000
emails as “bigger than Watergate.” Even now, House
Republicans continue to probe Clinton’s use of a private
email server for State Department business years ago.
Surely the integrity of American elections is worthy of a
tireless pursuit of the truth.
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The rule of law is the rule of law. It holds no blind
allegiance to party. Our public servants must uphold the
rule of law universally with an unyielding dedication to
discovering the truth, not to protecting their fellow
Republicans or Democrats.
In fact, it is because a Republican is at the center of this
probe that it is incumbent upon Republicans to protect the
integrity of the investigation.
Democrats abandoned the moral high ground long ago.
America cannot afford to have Republicans follow suit.
 FBI Had No ‘Clear Criminal
Predicate’ For Trump Campaign Snoops
Retired Special Agent James Wedick Warned That The Bureau's Placing An
Informant In The President's 2016 Staff Was A Blatant Violation
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 24 May 2018 At 6:22 AM

But Obama-era intelligence officials such as former FBI

Director James Comey, former CIA Director John
Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence
(DNI) James Clapper blasted Trump for demanding
accountability and transparency while claiming any spying
was done for national security purposes.

The New York Times reported deep in a May 17 story that

the FBI placed an “informant” inside Trump’s campaign
Spying on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for
who “met several times with Mr. [Carter] Page and
“national security” purposes would not provide the “clear
[George] Papadopoulos,” two of Trump’s former low-level
criminal predicate” required to authorize such surveillance,
campaign advisers.
retired FBI Special Agent James Wedick said Wednesday
on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“You need to know that the guidelines say:

If you’re going to use an informant to
infiltrate a political organization, you need a
clear criminal predicate,” Wedick (pictured
above right) told Fox News host Laura
Ingraham. “National security is not a
criminal predicate.”

Wedick’s comment points to the most basic mystery of the

“Spygate” scandal — What was the original justification
Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials used to
justify spying on multiple Trump campaign staffers?
Former U.S. Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told
Ingraham that “the biggest open question” in this entire
Trump campaign surveillance controversy is,
“What was the genesis moment in this
campaign? What’s point zero?”
“Nobody can seem to explain that,”
Bongino said.
Trump demanded Sunday that the Department of Justice
investigate whether the Obama administration “infiltrated
or surveilled” his presidential campaign for “political
purposes” after multiple media reports last week claimed it
had been. The task was promptly added to the already
lengthy to-do list of the DOJ inspector general, Michael
Horowitz.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
told Ingraham,
"It doesn't take much of an imagination to
look at this and say, 'This is a setup,'"
against the Trump campaign.
"And again, when you see the [Obama]
White House is running this, 'POTUS wants
to know everything we're doing,' you have
to start putting two and two together," said
Johnson (pictured above left), referring to
anti-Trump text messages exchanged
between FBI agent Peter Strzok and former
FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Strzok was temporarily one of special counsel Robert
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became public.
Ingraham slammed the "ever-expanding
surveillance state" in the U.S. as a "threat
to our freedom," saying that "some" within
these government agencies "think that they
are omnipotent and above the law."
"They are not," Ingraham said. "We the
people and our elected officials should not
be endlessly trailed and treated like
dangers to the state. And we certainly
should not be spied upon for political
reasons."
Fox News contributor Byron York, the chief political
correspondent for the Washington Examiner, noted that
there's a pattern between the DOJ's and FBI's refusal to
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accept transparency and accountability and the
increasingly troubling revelations that have trickled out.
"Think about the [Trump-Russia] dossier.
We first hear about the dossier, it's kind of
fishy, then we find out later it was funded
by the Clinton campaign," York said. "Then
we find out later the FBI actually wanted to
hire the author of the dossier to continue
the work during the campaign. Then we
find out it was used to get a wiretap warrant
for Carter Page."
"We just find out more and more and all the
time, every step of the way the FBI and the
Justice Department are dragging their feet
and resisting efforts to find out those things
I just mentioned," York warned. "The same
thing is happening now."
 THE LIST: At Least 6 And Potentially 7
Known And Suspected Intelligence Informants Now
Known To Have Spied On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 7:51 Am
As the Russia meddling into the 2016
US election unwinds, the meddling by
the Obama Administration’s CIA and
FBI, is becoming surprisingly more and
more clear.
Internet sleuth, former D.C. Bureau Chief for Investors
Business Daily, author and Hoover Institution Media
Fellow, Paul Sperry, tweeted a list of 6 or 7 individuals
that worked for or were suspected of working for the
FBI/CIA and who were involved in spying on President
Trump.
Sperry tweeted –
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Sperry’s list includes US and foreign
agents as well.
Christopher Steel
We’ve known for over a year that the Clinton campaign
and the FBI worked with former UK MI6 spy Christopher
Steele, who authored a dossier of salacious statements
about President Trump. Steele was reportedly paid by
Fusion GPS for the document.
Steele was paid $168,000 by Glenn Simpson’s company
Fusion GPS for the series of memos containing
information that was selectively briefed to journalists
approved by Simpson and used by the FBI.
The Steele dossier was never verified and is suspected of
being a total fiction. This act alone by a spy from the UK
is troubling enough, but that is not it.
Joseph Mifsud
George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker
for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by
three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S.
Intelligence: Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan
Halper.
Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an
organization named the Centre for International Energy
and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos was
a ‘nobody’ and the Centre sketchy at best.
Mifsud vanished in early November
2017, shortly after Papadopoulos
was in the news and indicted. His
whereabouts are still unknown.
Although the common story is that
Mifsud is a Russian Agent, many ties
seem to lead [him] back to UK
Intelligence. Julian Assange put out a
Twitter Thread noting the connection
between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.
Alexander Downer
Although, not a Brit, Alexander Downer is the Australian
individual who apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk
about Trump and Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to
the story and their eventual spy program on Trump. This
story has been refuted for months.
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been portrayed as
a chance encounter in a bar. That does not appear to be the
case….
Downer has direct ties to UK
Intelligence firm Hakluyt where he
served on the Advisory Board from
2008-2014.
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer chance
encounter, Peter Strzok was in London per texts released
by the FBI.
“Strzok texts suggest he was in London on
August 3, 2016.”
The corrupt FBI’s investigation into Trump officially
started a few days earlier.
Stefan Halper
One individual all over the Internet and social media by
the name of Stefan Halper has been identified as a
potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that
some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy
on the Trump campaign). The most intriguing individual
related to Papadopoulos is Halper.
According to Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork –
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit him. A
young man, suddenly thrust into a position beyond his
experience, Papadopoulos made for an easy intelligence
target.
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed
Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the
London symposium.
It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the
identity of a “top secret intelligence source” that was part
of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation.
I think there’s a decent chance that source is Stefan Halper.
Halper had contact with both Papadopulos
and Carter Page. Halper has connections
to UK Intelligence and US Intelligence.
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Halper met with Carter Page just days after
Page’s Moscow trip.
Other Internet sleuths tied Halper to the Obama team of
crooks. Halper was paid more than $400,000 in 2016 for
his efforts to set Papadopulos up and get him to sing to the
Australia diplomat about Hillary’s emails being held by
Russia. Halper and others planted this information on
Papadopulos before he shared this with the Aussie in a
drunken London pub discussion.
Additional research shows that Halper was a classmate of
impeached President Bill Clinton. Halper apparently knew
Bill Clinton well in their days at Oxford. He later worked
as an Advisor to the Clinton Administration.
Glenn Simpson and Nellie Ohr
Nellie Ohr is in the middle of the FBI/CIA scandal –
Nellie Ohr is the “dossier” spying scandal’s woman in the
middle.
To one side of Ohr, there is the Fusion GPS team,
including fellow contractor Christopher Steele. To the
other, there is husband Bruce Ohr, who, until his
“dossier”-related demotion, was No. 4 man at the
Department of Justice, and a key contact there for Steele.
Glenn Simpson is the co-founder of the
opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
His firm is at the center of the entire
Trump-Russia fairy tale. According the
failing liberal New York Times –
From the start, he was a central casting misfire — the dark
artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a
cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former
colleagues for scratching his bare belly in plain office
view.
In a past career, Glenn R. Simpson had been a reporter’s
reporter, tenacious through two decades in journalism,
often driving the Washington story of the day —
congressional corruption, fund-raising shenanigans, sundry
misbehavior — but never becoming it himself.
“It’s not news when things go right,” he told
a group of students in 1991, describing his
craft. “When things go right, it’s boring.”
Mr. Simpson’s life has not been boring for some time now.
It has, perhaps inevitably, become news.
As investigators circle President Trump’s administration
over ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign, Mr.
Simpson, a 53-year-old Wall Street Journal veteran-
turned-master of high-dollar research, has arrived at the
biggest story of either of his careers, lurching to the center
of the Russia-tinged scandal that clouds the presidency.
Mr. Trump knows his work intimately. Mr. Simpson is the
man behind an explosive dossier — produced at his firm,
Fusion GPS, with a former British spy, Christopher Steele
— outlining possible connections between the president,
his associates and Russian officials.
Mr. Simpson’s dossier has never been proven as true. No
independent information to date supports the dossier and it
is suspected to be pure fiction. Fusion is being sued for
libel related to the dossier.
Daniel Jones
Corrupt and sneeky Jones worked with Senate Democrat
Feinstein –
A declassified congressional report confirms prior
reporting by The Federalist that Daniel Jones, a former
staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), hired Fusion
GPS and Christopher Steele after the 2016 election to push
the anti-Trump Russian collusion narrative.
.
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According to the report, Jones, who runs an investigative
outfit called the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), told the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in March of 2017
that he had retained the services of Fusion GPS and
Christopher Steele to “continue exposing Russian
interference” in the 2016 election. Steele is the former
British spy who authored the infamous unverified dossier
of allegations against President Donald Trump.
Although Jones’ name is redacted in the report, the
biographical details plus previous reporting on the matter
make clear that he is the individual referenced. The report
also revealed that Jones told federal investigators that he
had raised $50 million from “7 to 10 wealthy donors
located primarily in New York and California.”
Sperry indicates that there may be a 7th individual who
spied or manipulated the Trump campaign as well.
These people are crooks who along with
their corrupt liberal press and the
Democrat party worked diligently to
overthrow the elected President of our
good nation. They are an outrage and
need to be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law.
 Saboteur Bolton Succeeds:
Trump Cancels Nuclear Summit With Kim Jong-Un
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 24, 2018
John Bolton has succeeded in sabotaging peace talks with
North Korea.
North Korea threatened to cancel negotiations early
Thursday after Mike Pence reiterated Trump's statements
about giving Kim the Gaddafi treatment.
From Yonhap News:
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea
will reconsider the planned summit with the
United States if Washington sticks to
"unlawful and outrageous acts," its vice
foreign minister said Thursday.
In a statement carried by the Korean
Central News Agency, Choe Son-hui, a
North Korean vice foreign minister, said
that whether the June 12 summit between
its leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President
Donald Trump will happen as scheduled
entirely rests on the decision and behavior
of the U.S.
"Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting
room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear
showdown is entirely dependent upon the
decision and behavior of the United
States," Choe said.
"In case the U.S. offends against our
goodwill and clings to unlawful and
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outrageous acts, I will put forward a
suggestion to our supreme leadership for
reconsidering the DPRK-U.S. summit," she
added.
[...]Choe singled out U.S. Vice President
Mike Pence, lambasting him for mentioning
a Libya-style approach and military option
against the North in a recent media
interview.
"U.S. Vice-President Pence has made
unbridled and impudent remarks that North
Korea might end like Libya, military option
for North Korea never came off the table,
the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and
irreversible denuclearization, and so on,"
she said. "As a person involved in the U.S.
affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at
such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing
out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-
president."
Trump beat Kim to the chase and canceled the summit on
Thursday.
Sadly, I was forced to cancel the Summit
Meeting in Singapore with Kim Jung Un.
pic.twitter.com/qEoi9ymUEz
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 24, 2018
From CNBC:
President Donald Trump canceled his historic nuclear
summit with Kim Jong Un on Thursday, accusing North
Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility."
The meeting, which would have marked the first face-to-
face encounter between a sitting U.S. president and a
North Korean leader, was set for June 12 in Singapore.
"Sadly, based on the tremendous anger
and open hostility displayed in your most
recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate,
at this time, to have this long-planned
 meeting," Trump wrote in a letter to Kim, That aged well!
which was released Thursday morning.
Neocon puppet Marco Rubio similarly celebrated the
Stocks fell and gold rose after news of the cancellation move:
broke.

Much of the letter was written in seemingly friendly terms,

including praise for North Korea's recent release of three
American prisoners. In contrast, Trump also appeared to
issue a threat that conjured memories of his war of words
with Kim last year.

"You talk about your nuclear capabilities,

but ours are so massive and powerful that I
pray to God they will never have to be
used," Trump wrote.

Bolton is praying to a different god that they will be used. It's too bad Trump doesn't watch Tucker Carlson instead of
Sean Hannity or this whole debacle could have been
avoided.
Bolton's last tweet was an article from the War Street
Journal saying how Trump needs his great negotiating
skills on North Korea.

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 Liar James Clapper: Russians Not Only
Affected Outcome Of Election –
They Decided It (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:34 Am
Deep State Clapper reaches depths of
hell.
Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper went on with PBS on
Wednesday to promote his new book.
Clapper told PBS Russia decided the 2016 election.
If the GOP Congress was worth a crap they’d haul this liar
in for questioning.
Clapper told the PBS host that Trump’s questioning of the
Deep State spying on his campaign is dangerous.
James Clapper:
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Since I left government in my informed
opinion that given the massive effort the
Russians made and the number of citizens
that they touched and the variety and
multidimensional aspects of what they did
to influence opinion and affect election and
given the fact that it turned on less than
80,000 votes in three states, to me it
exceeds logic and credulity that they didn’t
affect the election. And it’s my belief that
they actually turned it.
What baloney.
This guy is lying every time he opens his mouth.
Pray for justice and pray that this crook sees his day in
court.
Via PBS Newshour:
 ‘SPYGATE’: Trump Takes
More Shots At James Clapper
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:35 AM 05/24/2018

that the FBI had an informant in his campaign. Clapper

insisted that the FBI was not spying on the Trump
campaign, saying,

“What they were trying to do was protect

our political system and protect the
campaign.”

He then added,

President Donald Trump once again took aim at former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper alleging
that he confirmed a confidential informant who was used
to gather information on his 2016 campaign.
“They were spying — a term I don’t
particularly like — on what the Russians
were doing, trying to understand, were the
Russians infiltrating?” When pressed by
ABC as to why Trump is not supporting the
FBI’s action, Clapper said, “Well, he should
be.”

Trump is generally reacting to recent revelations that an

FBI informant made contact with several members of his
campaign and efforts by conservative lawmakers to review
documents relating to the probe. These efforts will come to
fruition Thursday when several members of Congress will
be allowed by the Department of Justice to review the
documents after months of oversight efforts.

The president has been particularly incensed with Clapper

after the former DNI’s recent appearance on ABC’s “The
View,” where he claimed that Trump should be grateful
.

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Pulls Out Of North
Korean Summit In June – Thanks Regime
For Releasing Hostages
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:49 Am

BREAKING— THE TRUMP President Trump thanked the North

ADMINISTRATION PULLS OUT OF
PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT IN
SINGAPORE
Koreans for releasing the US hostages.
President Trump: Some day I look very forward to
meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the
release of the hostages who are now home with their
families.

On Wednesday North Korea said they

would not beg for a summit with
President Trump.
Now it looks like they won’t have to.

See copy of the letter on next page:

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 Trump Praises Agents Speaking Out
Against ‘Terrible And Corrupt’ Comey
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:53 AM 05/24/2018

President Donald Trump praised FBI agents speaking out

against former FBI director James Comey and former The president reacted specifically to the tweet in a
deputy director Andrew McCabe in a Thursday tweet: Thursday morning interview with “Fox & Friends,”
saying,

“How is he going to explain to his

grandchildren all of the lies, the deceit, all
of the problems he has caused for this
country. I think, of the things that I’ve done
for the country, the firing of James Comey
is going to go down as a very good thing.”

Comey appeared back in the news in recent days for

defending the FBI’s use of a confidential informant to
gather information on the Trump 2016 campaign.

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 Watch Live: Deep State On
The Run As Trump Unleashes The Hounds!
Lawmakers Begin Looking Into Intelligence Agencies Spying On Trump Campaign
Infowars.Com –
May 24, 2018

Top Republican lawmakers are set to

meet with Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein Thursday, as they begin
questioning about the FBI spying on the
2016 Trump campaign.

In world news, Kim Jong-un has allegedly followed

through with his promise to destroy a nuclear test site
ahead of his summit with President Trump.

In economics, the average U.S. home value is up 8.7% in

the last year.

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 ‘It Certainly Bothers Me’ — Sarah Sanders
Hits Back At Critics Who Accuse Her Of Lying
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
9:06 AM 05/24/2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hit
back at those who accuse her of lying in a new report.
In a New York Times article published Wednesday,
Sanders is quoted:
Donald Trump’s school safety proposal which includes ‘hardening’
schools, strengthening background checks for gun purchases and
mental health program reform but does not include raising the age
from 18 to 21 for gun purchases. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Images)

“‘It certainly bothers me,’ she said of the

‘liar’ rap. ‘Because one of the few things
you have are your integrity and reputation.'”

Sanders also told the Times,

“‘There’s a difference between misspeaking

or not knowing something than maliciously
lying.'”

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 17: White House Press Secretary

Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers questions during the daily briefing
at the White House January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. Sanders
fielded a range of questions relating to pending immigration
legislation, continued funding of the federal government, and U.S.
President Donald Trump’s recent physical examination. (Photo by
Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Despite frequent criticism of her in the establishment

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 12: White House Press Secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a news conference in the Brady
Press Briefing Room at the White House March 12, 2018 in
Washington, DC. Sanders faced many questions about President
media, Sanders’ profile and popularity with the American
people has risen dramatically.
According to one poll, she is one of the top 10 most
admired women in America.

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TRUMP Calls Off North Korean Nuclear Summit —
HOURS AFTER North Korea Blows Up
Its Nuclear Testing Tunnels
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 10:02 Am

President Trump thanked the North

Koreans for releasing the US hostages.
President Trump: Some day I look very forward to
meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the
release of the hostages who are now home with their
families.
This also comes HOURS AFTER North
Korea blew up its nuclear testing
tunnels.

BREAKING— THE TRUMP

ADMINISTRATION PULLS OUT OF
PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT IN
SINGAPORE

North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up

tunnels used for nuclear testing on Thursday.

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 SPYGATE: Trump Says Comey
Was “Terrible And Corrupt”; “Inflicted Great Pain”
“I’ve Done A Great Service For This Country By
Getting Rid Of Him, By Firing Him.”
Steve Watson | Infowars.Com
May 24, 2018

“How is [Comey] going to explain to his

grandchildren all of the lies, the deceit, all
of the problems he has caused for this
country?” Trump pondered.
“The FBI is great. I know so many people in
the FBI. The FBI is a fantastic institution,
but some of the people at the top were
rotten apples,” Trump said.
“James Comey was one of them. I’ve done
a great service for this country by getting
rid of him, by firing him.”
President Trump took to Twitter again
Thursday morning to continue his
messages regarding what he is calling
Spygate, the now documented deep
state infiltration of his 2016 presidential
campaign.

The President hit out at former FBI head James Comey,

noting that the rank and file of the FBI are eager to speak
out against the man Trump fired.

The President described Comey as “a terrible and corrupt

leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI!”
In a further tweet, Trump hit out again at former Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper:

In a separate interview with “Fox and Friends,” Trump

said that
“I think of the things that I’ve done for the
country, the firing of James Comey is going
to go down as a very good thing.”
The President slammed Clapper Wednesday, after he
appeared on The View and said Trump should be ‘happy’
that the FBI monitored his campaign.
“No, James Clapper, I am not happy,”
Trump tweeted.

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 “Spying on a campaign would be illegal,
and a scandal to boot!” he added.

Earlier in the evening Clapper appeared on CNN and

claimed that spying on Presidential candidates constitutes
“standard investigative practices”:

“A lot of people are saying they had spies

in my campaign. If they had spies in my
campaign, that would be a disgrace to this
country. That would be one of the biggest
insults that anyone has ever seen, it would
be very illegal aside from everything else,”
he said.

Trump said at the White House Tuesday that it would be

“very illegal” if there were spies in his campaign.

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 The Deep State
Gives Everyone ‘The Clapper’
Derek Hunter - Contributor
10:48 AM 05/24/2018

afraid someone is attempting something

nefarious to the point that you’d spy on
Americans to “protect” them, wouldn’t you
do the ultimate “heading them off at the
pass” and inform them so they wouldn’t
even risk accidentally falling down that
rabbit hole? Not if you wanted to gather dirt
on them, which seems to be what the
“deep state” really has as its objective.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies

about potential Russian interference in the presidential election
before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.
REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast…

Former Director of National Intelligence has

a story to sell you, more accurately, he has
a book to sell you. James “the Clap”
Clapper is on a book tour that is being
greeted by the liberal media like two other
recent book tours for James Comey and
Michael Wolfe, who were treated as
conquering heroes of the #Resistance that
were going to deliver a death blow to the
Trump administration…only to see the
wheels come off soon after hitting book
stores. Like Wolff and Comey, Clapper is
having difficulty backing up his assertions
— in this case that the intelligence
community spied on the Trump campaign
to protect it.

Listen to today’s show:

The idea that the FBI needed to spy on the
Trump campaign in order to save it is like
Nicolas Cage in “National Treasure,”
where he had to steal the Declaration of
Independence in order to save it from being
stolen by a really bad guy. Unlike “National
Treasure,” where Cage tried to warn the
National Archives of the gathering threat,
Clappy and his fellow travelers didn’t
bother to inform anyone in the Trump
campaign that the Russians, allegedly,
were trying to infiltrate them. Why? If you’re
On his book tour, The Clap is saying he believes the
Russians not only tried to interfere with the election, but
they actually flipped it and won it for Trump. Hillary
Clinton’s campaign spent nearly a billion and a half
dollars, more than 2 to 1 what Trump spent, and still lost.
Was it because of the several thousands of dollars alleged
Russian agents spends on ridiculous Facebook memes, or
was it because she was an awful candidate the public had
gotten to know over 30 years and decided they wanted no
part of? We answer that question on today’s show.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is attempting to block the Listen to find out why.
trial of Concord Management and Consulting, one of the
companies charged by him as members of the conspiracy
to influence the election. By law, they are entitled to a
speedy trial. But Mueller is trying to deny them that
because he never expected any of the 13 defendants he
charged to actually want a trial, he expected them to hide
in Russia. But Concord called his bluff, and now Mueller
is in panic mode, saying he needs more time than the
legally required 70 days after filing charges. Either he has
the goods or he doesn’t, either the indictments were
legitimate and backed up by evidence, or they were for
show so his office could claim an accomplishment and
advance a narrative. What is Mueller afraid of? We
discuss.

And the NFL thinks they’ve solved their National Anthem

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a news conference
problem. The league has introduced a fine and penalty for following the NFL owners meeting in New York City, October 17,
teams where anyone does not stand at attention for the 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
song before the start of any game. Are Roger Goodell and
the gang trying to have it both ways? Will it work, will
fans return? Probably not.

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 Rep. Louie Gohmert: The Fed Did All It Could To Help
Obama – Now Doing All It Can To Hurt Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 10:58 Am

Four times the Fed has increased rates

on President Trump in 2017 after doing
so only once during the Obama years.

The Fed Funds Rate greatly impacts the economy:

Lower interest rates usually spur the economy by making

corporate and consumer borrowing easier. Higher interest
rates are intended to slow down the economy by making
borrowing harder.

If the Federal Reserve was

political and wanted to prevent
The Federal Reserve under Janet Yellen Republican Presidents from
in December 2017 announced another successful economic growth
Fed Fund rate increase of 0.25%. This and debt decreases, then the
was the fourth such increase since Fed would increase the Fed
Donald Trump was elected President. Funds rates during Republican
The Fed increased rates only one time
Presidents’ terms while
under Obama until the 2016 election.
decreasing the Fed Funds rates
under Democratic Presidents’
After Barack Obama was elected President, on December
16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed) lowered the Fed terms. This appears to be
Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1% down to 0% . exactly what the Fed is doing.
The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate by such a Increases in the Fed Funds Rate
large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if ever. The increase the cost of borrowing and the
Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight years in largest borrower in the world is the US
office. government. With $20 trillion in debt, a
1% increase in interest payments equals
CNBC reported in December 2015 that $200 billion in annual interest payment
President Obama oversaw “seven years increases.
of the most accommodative monetary
Obama increased the US Debt
policy in U.S. history” (from the Fed).
amount by nearly $1 trillion
more than President Trump in
The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time
the first eleven months of his
in office. Finally, in December 2015 after the Fed
announced its first increase in the Fed Funds rate during Presidency.
the Obama Presidency. The Fed has increased interest rates by
1% in 2017 after President Trump’s
The only Fed Funds Rate increases election win. With no rate increases in
since 2015 were after President Trump interest rates, President Trump would
was elected President. arguably have a balanced budget to
date. (Although the short term
The Fed increased the Fed Funds Rate on December 14, implications may not dictate this, the
2016, on March 15th, 2017, on June 14, 2017 and again on long term implications are clear.)
December 13, 2017.

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 On Thursday Rep. Louie Gohmert called
out the Federal Reserve for punishing
Trump and stifling the Trump economy.
Rep. Gohmert: The Fed loved the Obama administration,
loved Obama, they kept the rates just so low and lower
than that was appropriate for one reason, to keep Obama
from looking like the worst president in history. Trump
comes in, the economy turns around because of the things
that he’s doing and so what does the Fed do as Obama’s
best friend and not being a friend of Trump? They
immediately start raising rates as things start going well.

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 POTUS Trump Takes A Blowtorch To Corrupt Liars
Comey And Clapper AGAIN Over #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 11:21 Am

scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE – a

President Trump is a fighter; this is why terrible thing!
we elected him.
On Thursday morning, President Trump
took a blowtorch to former DNI Chief
James Clapper and fired FBI Chief
James Comey.
Trump is not letting up. He keeps
bringing the punishment.

Trump then slammed Comey and McCabe:

Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men &

Women of the FBI are starting to speak out
against Comey, McCabe and all of the
political corruption and poor leadership
found within the top ranks of the FBI.
Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader
who inflicted great pain on the FBI!
#SPYGATE
James Clapper and James Comey are both corrupt leakers
and liars.

Both men continue to bash President Trump and both have

admitted there was a spy (spies) planted inside of Trump’s
campaign.

The latest whopper from Clapper? On Wednesday, he told

PBS that Russia decided the 2016 election.

Comey is also sweating bullets. He lashed out at Trump Trump is correct. Large amounts of
from his Twitter account Wednesday and defended money were spent on Obama’s and
Obama’s Deep State spy campaign. Hillary’s Spygate.
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
Trump slammed the liars in a pair of
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for
tweets Thursday morning.
work with the US government that
included spying on the Trump
Trump tweeted: campaign.
It was a lucrative business for Stefan
Clapper has now admitted that there was
Halper.
Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were
paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting
to look like one of the biggest political
.
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 CNN’s Brian Stelter’s Hypocrisy
On Trump Spying
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:30 AM 05/24/2018

reporting back to Fox News about me. She

was reporting back about what I thought of
her and about CNN and MSNBC and Fox.
Because I was a reporter on the beat, they
were actually spying on me that way.”

He added that Fox was “sending out private investigators”

to tail other reporters.

So was Stelter’s date a spy or was Fox simply using a

“confidential source to talk” to him? Interesting.

CNN’s Brian Stelter has called President Trump’s claims

that the FBI was spying on his campaign a “conspiracy
theory,” but that doesn’t square with Stelter’s own history
with spies.

Trump has suggested that the FBI was using an informant

to spy on his campaign during the 2016 election. Stelter
wrote on CNN Wednesday morning that the spying claim
is a “full-fledged conspiracy theory” and repeated the
common spin that the FBI was simply talking to Trump
advisers rather than spying on them.

Interestingly enough, as Matt Wolking pointed out on

Twitter, Stelter once lobbied his own accusations of spying
at Fox News.

In 2016, Stelter claimed that when he was merely a college

student, Fox News sent a “low-level staffer” on dates with
him so she could spy on him.

“I thought these were dates. They were not

dates,” Stelter said. “She was actually
.

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 Trump Jogs Over To Law
Enforcement, Shakes Officers’ Hands
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
11:37 AM 05/24/2018

President Trump traveled to New York Wednesday for a

series of meetings and events.

The president’s schedule was breakneck, but that did not

stop Trump from taking a detour and jogging over to a line
of local law enforcement to shake their hands. The video,
posted on Twitter by the White House social media
manager, shows the president jogging over to law
enforcement officers to salute them and shake their hands.

Screenshot/Twitter

Screenshot/Twitter

Screenshot/Twitter

In a roundtable with law enforcement and victims of the

ultra-violent gang MS-13 earlier in the day, Trump
lamented that the gang targets police officers specifically.

“Crippling loopholes in our laws have

enabled MS-13 gang members and other
criminals to infiltrate our communities, and
Screenshot/Twitter
Democrats in Congress refuse to close
these loopholes, including the disgraceful
practice known as catch and release,”
Trump said, before doubling dow on his
comments calling members of the gang
“animals.”
“I called them ‘animals’ the other day,” the
president said. “And I was met with rebuke.
They said, ‘They’re people.’ They’re not
people. These are animals.” The room filled
with families brutalized by the gang erupted
into applause and cheers.
Screenshot/Twitter
“And we have to be very, very tough,”
Trump said.

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 Judge Napolitano: Both Democrats And Republicans Will
Spin Intel Findings To Their Advantage [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:58 AM 05/24/2018

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano

said both Democrats and Republicans will find a way to
spin any intelligence findings to their political advantage
Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”

“It’s a dangerous area, and I’ll tell you

why,” Napolitano said. “It’s very unfortunate
if politicians use raw intelligence or raw law
enforcement data for political narratives.”
“So, if you were to ask me, will they get
what they’re looking for? It depends on who
they are, because the Republicans are
looking for a narrative that will undermine
the beginning of the Mueller investigation,”
he said. “The Democrats are looking for a
narrative which will justify the continued
Mueller investigation. Will they get what
they’re looking for? Probably each side
will.”
WATCH:
.
Napolitano said he believes there was more than one
confidential mole informing on the Trump campaign, but
thinks that information won’t be made public.
“If Bob Mueller has presented something or
one of his prosecutors has, to a grand jury,
it’s unlawful for them to share it with
Congress. If there’s information about a
confidential informant — whether it’s this
person we’ve been talking about all week
or somebody else, my guess is there’s
more than one confidential
informant,” Napolitano concluded.
“That information can’t be shared with
members of Congress. If you were to ask
me what’s going to be shared? That, I don’t
know. I have no idea.”

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 Deep State Spy And Trump-Basher Stefan Halper Openly
Advocated For Hillary In 2016 While Spying On Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 12:10 Pm
It has been widely reported that the
Obama administration had a spy
working inside the Trump campaign.
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for
work with the US government that
included spying on the Trump
campaign.
After the election Halper pitched
himself for a senior Trump admin
position.
Now this…
Stefan Halper was promoting Hillary
Clinton publicly while he spied on the
Trump Campaign.
Sputnik News reported:
Both US presidential candidates have
repeatedly stressed the special character
of US-UK relations, which is reflected in
.
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close military, intelligence and economic
cooperation.
“I believe [Hillary] Clinton would
be best for US-UK relations and
for relations with the European
Union. Clinton is well-known,
deeply experienced and
predictable. US-UK relations will
remain steady regardless of the
winner although Clinton will be
less disruptive over time,”
Halper, who served as deputy
assistant secretary of state for
political-military affairs and
senior adviser to the Department
of Defense and the Department
of Justice, said.
On June 24, Clinton stated that the US
respects the choice of people in the United
Kingdom to leave the European Union, and
underscored the need to make clear the
commitment of the United States to “the
special relationship” with London.
On the same day, the Republican nominee
stated that the United Kingdom and the
United States would remain great allies
regardless of Brexit, adding that
Washington never had a better ally in
history.
Both countries are members of NATO and
share intelligence through the United
Kingdom – United States of America
Agreement (UKUSA). The two countries
have also been allies in numerous conflicts,
including the two World Wars. As for
economic cooperation, the United States is
the UK’s largest source of FDI (foreign
direct investment) and vice versa.
 Polling Proves That The Longer Michael Avenatti
Speaks, The More Popular Trump Gets
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
12:29 PM 05/24/2018

A report by the LA Times reveals that a judge ordered a

law firm managed by Michael Avenatti to pay $10 million
in damages, and Avenatti is personally responsible for
millions in payments and back taxes that remain unpaid.
Reporting by the Daily Caller revealed that Avenatti lost a
sexual discrimination case to a pregnant employee and has
yet to pay the $130,000 he owes her.

A recent poll created by Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics

shows that President Donald Trump’s approval ratings
directly correlate with pornstar lawyer Michael Avenatti’s
cable TV appearances.

Avenatti has been a media darling since announcing his

lawsuit against the president.

Avanatti had a near-permanent seat in MSNBC and CNN

green rooms over the past months, racking up hundreds of
Scientific correlation? Probably not. Interesting? Yes,
cable news media hits and glamming around D.C. cocktail
indeed.
parties. Avenatti’s stardom has vanished over the past
week, however, after disturbing revelations about his past
prove he may not be the champion of bullied women and Research by Tom Bevan reveals that as Avenatti was
the free press he claimed. racking up 174 cable TV appearances, Trump’s poll
numbers were steadily rising:

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Former WH Spox: Obama Knew About #Spygate – No FBI
Director Would Put Spies Inside Of A Campaign Without
President’s AUTHORIZATION
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 12:46 Pm

He dropped this bombshell…

BREAKING: Bush press secretary Ari

Fleischer said “I guarantee the answer
is yes” to whether Obama knew Halper
& others were deployed to spy on
Trump campaign. Fleischer explained
that no FBI director would put
informants inside a presidential
campaign w/o the prez authorizing it

Obama knew; the fish rots from the

head down.
Obama knew about the spies planted
into Trump’s campaign.
Obama knew about Hillary’s phony
dossier.

On Wednesday, President Trump was

asked if President Obama knew about
the spies inside his campaign. Trump
said it was likely he did. Wow!
Reporter: (inaudible)
President Trump: Well I don’t want to get
into it yet but I will tell you after we look at
the proof…
Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush, Reporter: President Obama?
Ari Fleischer broke down why Obama must have known President Trump: Would he know? I
about the informants spies planted in Trump’s campaign. would certainly hope not. But I think it’s
going to be pretty obviousafter awhile.
In fact, Ari Fleischer says Obama AUTHORIZED it.
And that would make it the biggest
Ari Fleischer appeared on Fox News’ Outnumbered political scandal in US history.
Thursday morning to discuss #Spygate.
Barack Obama has a legacy after all!
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 DEVELOPING: Nunes Meets With Rosenstein,
Wray And Gang Of 8 To Discuss #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 1:31 Pm

House Intelligence Chairman Devin

Nunes and Oversight Chairman Trey
Gowdy headed into a meeting at 2 PM
EST with senior Justice Department, FBI
and intelligence officials on Thursday to
view classified documents and discuss
Spygate.
Fox News Senate reporter, Chad
Pergram caught Nunes walking into the
briefing. Nunes did not respond to any
questions.

Deputy AG Rosenstein heads into briefing with gang of 8; photo via

Emma Loop

The two GOP leaders will meet with FBI Director Chris
Wray, National Intelligence Dan Coats and Principal
Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O’Callaghan.

Nunes demanded the Justice Department hand over the

unredacted memo outlining the scope of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s authority and the name of the FBI secret
informant inside Trump’s campaign in 2016.

Two meetings transpired Thursday.

At noon EST, Nunes and Gowdy met

with DOJ and FBI officials as well as
Intel Chief Dan Coats.
Chairman Nunes then headed to a
second meeting with the gang of 8
which began at 2 PM; Gowdy did not
attend.
All main participants arrived, reports
Fox News:

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Buzzfeed White House reporter, Emma
Loop caught Rod Rosenstein heading
into the briefing:

Update: Gang of 8 meeting breaks at

3:30 PM EST.
Fox News reporter Chad Pergram
catches FBI Director Christopher Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray heads
leaving the briefing. Rosenstein, Nunes
into the briefing:
and Coats also left. No comment to the
press from either.

CNN reporter Manu Raju says one of

Trump’s lawyers was present at the
beginning of the meeting:

Here is the list of people attending the

gang of 8 briefing Thursday per Fox
News’ Chad Pergram:

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Editor’s note: Gowdy only attended the first meeting with
the DOJ; he did not attend the second meeting with the
gang of 8.

Only Nunes attended both meetings, reported Chad

Pergram.

This story is developing…

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For Asking About Trump’s Tax Returns
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
3:24 PM 05/24/2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went off on Democratic
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall on Thursday over what he
deemed to be an “outrageous” question about President
Trump’s tax returns.
WATCH:
Pompeo appeared in front of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee when Sen. Udall suggested Trump could have
conflicts of interest between American foreign policy and
his own business dealings.
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“Given that the president refuses to
disclose his tax returns, how can you
assure the American people that American
foreign policy is free of his personal
conflicts of interest?” Udall asked.
“Senator, I find that question bizarre,”
Pompeo responded.
“You don’t want to answer it then?” Udall
pressed. “You want to describe it as bizarre
and not give me an answer?”
“Yes I do,” Pompeo said angrily. “I think
that’s indicative of my answer, Senator. I’ve
been incredibly involved in this
administration’s policy now for some 16
months and I’ve seen literally no evidence
of what you are scurrilously suggesting.”
“It is an outrageous suggestion,” Pompeo
added.
Udall argued that “many people” have raised questions
about Trump’s business interests abroad and Pompeo shot
back that such people are only doing so because they are
politically opposed to the president.
 Adam Schiff Releases Absurd Statement After Gang Of 8
Meeting With Nunes To Discuss #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 3:47 Pm

House Intelligence Chairman Devin

Nunes and Oversight Chairman Trey Nunes’ meeting with the gang of 8 ended at 3:30 PM EST.
Gowdy headed into a meeting at 2 PM
EST with senior Justice Department, FBI Adam Schiff wasted no time releasing an absurd statement
and intelligence officials on Thursday to
after the meeting.
view classified documents and discuss
Spygate.
Schiff is spinning like a top.

Chad Pergram reported:

Schiff after Gang of 8 mtg: I won’t be able

to take any questions today, but I’ve been
asked to read a brief statement on behalf of
Senator Schumer, Leader Pelosi, Vice
Chairman Warner and myself.

Deputy AG Rosenstein heads into briefing with gang of 8; photo via

Emma Loop

Two meetings transpired Thursday.

At noon EST, Nunes and Gowdy met with DOJ and FBI
officials as well as Intel Chief Dan Coats.

Chairman Nunes then headed to a second meeting with the Schiff then claimed he has seen no
gang of 8 which began at 2 PM; Gowdy did not attend. evidence a spy was planted inside of
Trump’s camp.
The list of Democrat hacks in attendance Thursday
included: Minority ranking member of the House Intel Pergram tweeted: Schiff:
Committee, Adam Schiff, House Minority Leader, Nancy
Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer and vice Today’s Gang of 8 briefing was conducted
Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee, Mark Warner. to ensure protection of sources and
methods..Nothing we heard today has
changed our view that there is no evidence
to support any allegation that the FBI or
any intelligence agency placed a spy in the
Trump campaign

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Chad Pergram also reported it is “very Here is Shiff’s remarks to reporters after
murky” as to what was discussed in the Gang of 8 meeting today.
Thursday’s Gang of 8 and DOJ
meetings. Will there be leaks? It is
unclear whether lawmakers were briefed
on matters or were actually presented
with documents and or evidence.

It’s important to note leaker and liar

Adam Schiff went into Thursday’s
meeting hours after tweeting these
blatant lies about the Deep State spying
campaign on Trump: Someone needs to tell Schiffty that his fellow leakers and
liars, James Clapper and James Comey both admitted spies
were planted inside of Trump’s camp.

Chairman Nunes didn’t release a statement at the time of

this publication.

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 Former Trump Aide Opens Legal Fund
To Others Ensnared In Russia Probe
Chuck Ross - Reporter
3:47 PM 05/24/2018
 Michael Caputo is opening up his legal defense
fund to other campaign aides
 The former Trump aide spoke with The Daily Caller
News Foundation
 “We’re looking for people who can’t afford their
legal fees,” he said
Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo is
opening up his legal defense fund to other campaign aides
ensnared in the multiple investigations into possible
collusion with Russia.
Caputo, a longtime Republican political consultant, started
the fund to help cover $125,000 in legal bills he’s racked
up over the course of the Russia investigation, which he
considers a “witch hunt.”
The grassroots fundraising campaign has far surpassed
Caputo’s initial goal, drawing in over $330,000 from more
than 6,400 donors.
Caputo said he’s opening up the Michael Caputo Legal
Fund to witnesses interviewed by special counsel Robert
Mueller and the three congressional committees
investigating the campaign.
Military veterans and Trump associates with more limited
financial means are a priority, he said.
“We’re looking for people who can’t afford
their legal fees because we think that is in
keeping with the wishes of the people who
donated in the first place,” Caputo, a
Buffalo, N.Y., native who served on
President Donald Trump’s campaign until
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June 2016, told The Daily Caller News
Foundation.
“We’re not looking for hedge fund guys and
millionaires.”
Caputo’s focus on veterans is one reason he picked J.D.
Gordon, a former naval commander, Pentagon spokesman
and director of Trump’s national security advisory
committee.
Gordon has been interviewed by the special counsel’s
office as well as the House Intelligence, Senate
Intelligence and Senate Judiciary Committees. Though he
has been told he is not a target of the investigations, his
role on the campaign put him at the center of several of the
areas being scrutinized in the parallel probes.
The costs of document production and consultation with
attorneys has led to legal bills in the “low five-figure”
range, Gordon said.
“I’m delighted to see so many thousands of
grassroots activists from around America
answer your call to help a true patriot who
has been victimized by the witch hunt of
the century,” Gordon wrote to Ralph Lorigo,
one of the attorneys helping with Caputo’s
legal fund.
“Though my personal legal costs have
been relatively minor compared to others
also wrongly targeted for a political
inquisition, as Michael knows, these funds
are coming directly out of my military
pension as a retired Navy Commander,”
Gordon added.
In addition to raising funds for Trump associates, Caputo
and Gordon are planning to tour the country giving
speeches to grassroots organizations about their
experiences at the center of the Russia firestorm.
Their main message will be that if Democrats gain control
of Congress in November, they expect immediate
impeachment proceedings against Trump. Democrats such
as California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on
the House Intelligence Committee, have already signaled
they plan to expand the Russia investigation if they take
control of Congress.
Besides helping Trump associates avoid legal debt, Caputo
said he hopes his legal fund will help witnesses come
forward to talk more openly about the Russia
investigations.
Witnesses have been afraid of speaking out for fear of
being called back to testify before Congress or to meet the
special prosecutor, he said. Each appearance can easily
generate thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees.
The usually outspoken Caputo is a prime example of that
reticence to discuss his interactions with investigators,
especially those on the special counsel’s team.
After his interview with Mueller’s prosecutors earlier this
month, he was uncharacteristically reserved in his
comments about what was discussed in his three-hour
meeting. He praised prosecutors for their professionalism
and issued vague warnings about the seriousness of the
probe. He withheld his true thoughts about the lack of
evidence of collusion; that is, until he raised enough
money to pay his attorney, a former Justice Department
prosecutor.
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“I couldn’t afford the legal fees. Now that
people have got my back I’m able to go out
and speak freely because I don’t care if
they call me back in. I don’t care,” Caputo
told TheDCNF.
The fund is controlled by three trustees, Caputo said and
that he is only able to access funds for his own legal fight.
Caputo also revealed on Wednesday that he will offer
financial support to any FBI agents willing to speak to the
Justice Department’s inspector general, which is
investigating the bureau’s handling of the Russia
investigation.
“We’ll pay their legal fees. If they go to
the inspector general, reveal
what happened, we’ll pay their legal fees,”
Caputo said on Fox News’ “Tucker
Carlson Tonight.”
Caputo was responding to a report in The Daily Caller that
FBI agents are hoping for subpoenas from the inspector
general in order to share what they know about how top
FBI officials handled the investigation.
 Mueller Tries To Weasel Out Of Trying Russian
Companies And Russian TV Laughs At His Attempt To
Delay The Case Indefinitely
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
May 24, 2018
In mid-February 2018, the DOJ, on behalf of special
counsel Robert Mueller, announced indictments against 13
Russians and three Russian companies, with much fanfare
from the Mockingbird media. Those indictments were the
only indictments to date, by team Mueller, that related to
the 2016 election, which was his original mandate in the
DOJ's press release from May 2017.
Deputy Attorney General Rod J.
Rosenstein today announced the
appointment of former Department of
Justice official and FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III to serve as Special Counsel to
oversee the previously-confirmed FBI
investigation of Russian government
efforts to influence the 2016 presidential
election and related matters.
At the time of the announcement by the DOJ regarding the
indictment of the Russian nationals and the three Russian
companies, many considered this a optical win for Robert
Mueller to justify the millions of dollars already spent on
the Russia investigation. He finally produced actual
results that related to his initial mandate, and by choosing
individuals and companies that Mueller assumed would
never present themselves in an American court, it should
have been a slam dunk.
Then one of those Russian companies, Concord
Management and Consulting LLC, unexpectedly hired a
Washington-based law firm to represent them in court,
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forcing team Mueller to move forward with a court case
they never expected to have to argue.
The company, Concord Management and
Consulting LLC, will be represented by Eric
Dubelier and Katherine Seikaly of the law
firm Reed Smith, the filings say. Dubelier
and Seikaly both specialize in handling
government investigations.
Mueller's chosen prosecutor, Jeannie Rhee, who had
formerly represented the Clinton Foundation, filed a
motion to delay. The delay was opposed by the lawyers
representing Concord Management, and the trial
judge, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, denied Mueller's
team and scheduled the first hearing for May 9, 2018.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy told the
Daily Caller at that time
"I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie,
for sure. He thought it could make this
association (of Russian collusion) and it
would never be challenged in court."
McCarty also stated "One thing you never
want to do is to indict in a case that you’re
not prepared to try."
Related, via McCarthy: Mueller’s Tough Week in Court
On May 9th, the parties presented themselves in court,
where Concord's lawyer Eric A. Dubelier entered a not
guilty plea and imposed his client's right to a speedy trial,
which is a right provided to defendants by federal law,
which dictates a criminal trial must begin within 70 days
from the date of the indictment.
At that hearing the defense was asked if they were also
representing another Russian company named in the
indictment, Concord Catering, to which Dubelier told the
court he was not, because team Mueller had
"indicted a 'proverbial ham sandwich'
because the entity did not exist during the
 time the alleged misconduct occurred," as
reported by Reuters.
The next hearing date was set for May 16th. During that
hearing Politico reported that
"Another way to measure the quantity of
information is that Mueller’s social media
content could fill nearly 1,500 CD-ROMS."
Judge Friedrich scheduled the next hearing for June 15th.

"Eric Dubelier, complained to Friedrich that

the government hadn’t responded to or
even acknowledged more than 70
discovery requests he made last month,"

but Mueller's team did offer 1.5 to 2 terabytes of social

media data they claimed were from fake accounts set up to
influence the 2016 presidential election. The data,
according to the court transcripts, was in Russian and had
not been translated.

Via Politico:
The fireworks at Wednesday’s hearing
came after one of those defense lawyers,
Eric Dubelier, complained to Friedrich that
the government hadn’t responded to or
even acknowledged more than 70
discovery requests he made last month.
Instead, prosecutors have offered a
massive quantity of social media data from
accounts that were allegedly set up under
fake identities for the purpose of influencing
American politics.
“We had a very brief call on Friday initiated
by the government,” Dubelier said. He said
prosecutors told him much of the
information was in Russian, but they had
no translations. “I said, ‘How do you know
what’s in it?’”
“I anticipate we are going to get this
massive dump of social media accounts in
Russian. This is an American court,” the
defense attorney added. “That’s not what
we’ve asked for. What I’d like to get is
information that actually helps us defend
our client.”
Prosecutor Jeannie Rhee disputed that
prosecutors were being recalcitrant.
“We’ll get to what they asked for. … It is not
a ‘data dump,’ Your Honor,” Rhee said.
She said the social media accounts in
question were a key part of the effort to
interfere in the 2016 election.
The Daily Caller provides context of how much data Rhee
is attempting to flood the court with,
MUELLER TRIES TO WEASEL OUT OF TAKING
RUSSIAN COMPANIES TO COURT
Which brings us to the most recent attempt by Robert
Mueller to weasel out of having to actually argue the case
in court, when he has filed yet another motion to delay the
case indefinitely, asking the Judge to ignore the Speedy
Trial Act, in the name of "justice." Mueller claims the
"complexity" of the case justifies excluding the speedy
trial law.
Via Daily Caller:
The “complexity” of the case warrants
excluding the speedy trial law and delaying
the trial, Mueller argued in Tuesday’s court
filing.
A “district court can, on its own motion or at
the request of a party, grant an excludable
continuance if ‘the ends of justice served
by taking such action outweigh the best
interest of the public and the defendant in a
speedy trial,'” Mueller wrote.
“This case also warrants a continuance and
exclusion of time to accommodate the
voluminous discovery at issue and to allow
sufficient time for the Court to resolve
certain outstanding procedural issues
unique to discovery in this case,” he
continued.
Attorney Jonathan Turley, professor of law at the George
Washington University Law School, points out that
Mueller does not want to produce the discovery the
defense has demanded, as is their right under the law, so he
is attempting to delay the case, saying

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 "Thus far the defense is doing an excellent
job in setting Mueller’s team back on its
heels."
He continues on his website:
"As a general rule, the desire of the
defense for a speedy trial should carry the
day. The prosecutors control when to issue
an indictment. That triggers the Act and the
clock ticking. The danger for Mueller is that,
if he is unwilling to show the evidence or go
to trial, he could face the embarrassing
prospect of pulling the indictment.
Conversely, if he is not ready, his matinee
case could prove a flop in whole or in part
with acquittals or hung juries."
Andrew C. McCarthy is far more critical in a statement to
the Daily Caller, saying
"Speedy trial rights belong to the
defendant, and if the defendant pushes for
a trial within the 70 days, the government
has little cause to complain. If the case was
too complex, the government had the
option of holding off on seeking an
indictment until it was ready to proceed to
trial. When a prosecutor files an indictment,
it is tantamount to saying, ‘We are ready to
go.'”
delay, why they would think the judge would grant this
one, but it is clear to the legal experts quoted above, that
while Robert Mueller took a victory lap in February for
finally offering up indictments that had any relation to his
original mandate of Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election, now that they are actually being
forced to argue the case in court, against defendants that
are prepared to fight back, he is attempting to weasel out
of it.
This gives Mueller's team the appearance of incompetence,
and coming on the heels of being very publicly criticized
by another Judge in the Paul Manafort case, accused by the
judge of lying, and not caring about Manafort, but really
only caring "about what information Mr. Manafort can
give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or
whatever," shows that while Mueller has had free reign in
his investigations, the courts are not prepared to let him
walk all over them.
To show Russia's response to having called Mueller's bluff
by forcing him to argue in court with the defendants being
represented, here is a RT interview where they are literally
laughing at Mueller's latest attempt to desperately get out
of having to hand over discovery and argue the case in a
court of law.

It’s “inappropriate for a prosecutor to

manufacture complexity and then contend
that things are too complex,” McCarthy told
TheDCNF. “If a prosecutor is disclosing
mountains of foreign language materials
without an understanding or explanation of
their relevance to the case, that is a
delaying tactic and an attempt to chew up
the defendant’s resources.”

The tactic “is apt to make the presiding

judge very angry,” he added. Mueller Continuence Request May 22, 2018 by Daily
Caller News Foundation on Scribd on next page.
It is unclear, after being denied Mueller's first motion to
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 Grassley Defends Whistleblower Law,
But FBI Agents Want Assurances That Legal Fees
Are Covered If Dept. Retaliates
Kerry Picket - Reporter
4:05 PM 05/24/2018
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) arrives for the
weekly Republican party caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in
Washington, U.S., January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
disputed claims Thursday that a congressional subpoena
would be necessary in certain cases for a government
employee to give lawmakers testimony about wrongdoing
while being ensured appropriate legal protections from
their agency.
“I want to clear up a few things. I have
been seeing reports that individuals within
our federal law enforcement agencies want
to talk to Congress about problems they
have seen on the job. But, the reports say
these individuals want to be subpoenaed
by congressional committees, rather than
coming forward voluntarily,” Chairman
Grassley said in a floor speech.
He went on to say,
“There is a perception that without a
subpoena, they have no legal protection
against retaliation for cooperating with
Congress. That is nonsense and a
misperception that has been fomented by
FBI and DOJ leadership for many years.”
The Daily Caller first reported late Tuesday night that FBI
agents would be willing to testify before lawmakers on
Capitol Hill about the problems plaguing the bureau if they
receive a subpoena, arguing that Congress would have to
pay their legal fees if they are mandated to reveal what
they know.
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Grassley’s floor speech disagreed with the agents’
assumption that a subpoena would better protect them
from agency retaliation than the Whistleblower law that he
spearheaded, saying,
“I’ve worked hard to strengthen legal
protections, especially for FBI employees.
You have a right to cooperate with
Congressional inquiries, just as you have a
right to cooperate with the Inspector
General. Anyone who tells you otherwise is
lying.”
The Iowa Republican added,
“FBI agents and all federal law
enforcement are protected for providing
information to Congress. That’s true
whether it is by a subpoena or not. If
that is news to you, I encourage you to
research the law yourself. It is found at
title 5, United States Code, section
2303.”
Chairman Grassley made no mention in his remarks,
however, about the issue about attorneys’ fees that official
government whistleblowers must pay. The Daily Caller
contacted Sen. Grassley’s office about the issue related to
legal fees government workers, who step forward to reveal
wrongdoing, must pay and is waiting on a response.
Sources explained that a subpoena can serve as financial
protection for the agents, should their agency attempt to
retaliate against them and the agents require legal
representation in court to defend themselves.
“It would force whatever agency the
[government worker] is from to pay for
attorney’s fees should they retaliate,” one
congressional source said noting the
employee was called in before Congress in
the line of duty.
 Hyperbolic Jiggery-Pokery: Lemon Warns
Trump Has Caused 'An Extreme Crisis' In America
By Curtis Houck
May 24, 2018 4:10 PM EDT
For some time, it’s been evident that much of the liberal
media have come down with cases of Trump Derangement
Syndrome. One sign that it’s grown is when someone
starts throwing out words like “crisis,” “impeachment,”
“constitutional crisis,” and “conspiracy theory” to either
describe our discourse or something the President or his
supporters may have said.
Wednesday’s CNN Tonight showcased how host Don
Lemon has been grappling with it. Suffice to say, it’s not
going well as he informed viewers that
“[o]ur country is in the middle of an
extreme crisis, a crisis that threatens
our foundation, a crises that threatens
the values we all hold — hold dear, a
crisis created to blind us to the truth”
caused by Trump.
Lemon continued, staring into the camera and warning that
Trump’s working to
“destroy the very existence of a shared
truth in this country” by intentionally
“lying to us over and over and over and
over again” whether it’s on television or
Twitter.
Either way, Lemon’s melodramatic screed was only just
getting started, stating as supposed fact that Trump’s
“undermining our nation's traditions and norms in
real-time” with perhaps “the biggest lie of all” being that
the Trump campaign was spied on in the early stages of the
Russia probe during the 2016 election.
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Relying heavily on the incredibly dishonest-yet-heralded
James Clapper to refute the President, Lemon cautioned
his masses with rhetoric that could have sent people to
their doomsday shelters (click “expand” to read more):
This is not just an angry President popping
off, this is a deliberate and coordinated
effort to save his presidency, to cast doubt
on the Russian investigation by repeating a
lie. Repeating it every chance he gets and
that repetition is a key part of the strategy
here because if you hear him say the same
thing over and over and over, it gets into
your head. You may even start to wonder if
there's some truth to it and that's exactly
what the President and his allies want, to
put that question in the back of your mind.
It is a strategy he's used since he first
stormed into the national political stage
with his utterly false and racist birther
claims that President Barack Obama was
not born in this country.
Lemon read an excerpt from anti-Trump Republican and
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake again riding his high horse in a
speech at Harvard before concluding that this notion that
the country is in a “crisis” is not up for debate because,
you know, Facts First...or something.
“Very strong words, but this is not just
about talk, this is about facts. Facts do
matter, the truth matters, and the truth
is under daily assault from the President
of the United States and that is a crisis
and that is the truth,” he proclaimed.
To see the relevant transcript from May 23's CNN Tonight
with Don Lemon.”
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
May 23, 2018
10:00 p.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE #1: Don’s Take; The President Is
Lying to Us]
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE #2: Don’s Take; America is in the
middle of a crisis]
DON LEMON: An important and informative town hall with Nancy
Pelosi tonight. But I want to go to the big picture now for you.
Take a moment to do that and this is really important. Our
country is in the middle of an extreme crisis, a crisis that
threatens our foundation, a crises that threatens the values we all
hold — hold dear, a crisis created to blind us to the truth. Indeed,
to destroy the very existence of a shared truth in this country.
The President of the United States is lying to us over and over
and over and over again. We've all seen it with our very own
eyes and we heard it with our own ears. He relies on our
airwaves to play the lies to you and uses the airwaves of other
networks to amplify those lies and pile more and more upon
them. He uses Twitter to recklessly tweet them out to you, to all
of us, telegraphing his every thought, including to those who
mean this country harm, undermining our nation's traditions and
norms in real-time. But, what we've seen and heard from the
President in the past five days may be the biggest lie of all.
Repeatedly and with no facts to back him up, making the
outrageous claim that the so-called deep state spied on his
campaign, he did it again today.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE #2: Don’s Take; President’s Unproved
Claim of So-Called ‘Spies’ May Be the Biggest Lie of All]
DONALD TRUMP: When they look at the documents, I think
people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. I hope it's not
so, because if it is, there's never been anything like it in the
history of our country. I hope, I mean, if you look at Clapper, he
sort of admitted that they had spies in the campaign yesterday
inadvertently, but, I hope it's not true but it looks like it is.
LEMON: It's not true. It's a lie. James Clapper, the former
Director of National Intelligence did not — did not in any way
admit to the false charges, spies in the Trump campaign. In fact,
he said the opposite. I want you to listen to what he told Jake
Tapper today.
JAKE TAPPER: Did the intelligence community spy on President
Trump and his campaign?
JAMES CLAPPER: No, we did not and that is a distortion of what
I said. I — in fact, I had an aversion of the use of the term and I
thought I made that clear and the important thing is here what
was this all about? Well, what it was about was trying to
determine what the Russians were doing. Were they trying to
gain access, infiltrate a political campaign? Didn't matter what —
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what the — which campaign. It had nothing to do with spying on
the campaign per se, it was about the Russians, which is what
we all should be concerned about to include President Trump.
LEMON: And then there is the President’s own Secretary of
State, Mike Pompeo. Listen to what he said today when asked if
there was a so-called deep state at the State Department.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN TED LIEU: Do
you believe there's a so-called criminal deep state at the State
Department?
MIKE POMPEO: I haven't seen comments from the President. I
don't believe there's a deep state at the State Department.
LEMON: And yet, President Trump doubles down on his
baseless claims of spies and a deep state.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Don’s Take; President Is Deliberately
Repeating a Lie Hoping You’ll Believe Him]
This is not just an angry President popping off, this is a deliberate
and coordinated effort to save his presidency, to cast doubt on
the Russian investigation by repeating a lie. Repeating it every
chance he gets and that repetition is a key part of the strategy
here because if you hear him say the same thing over and over
and over, it gets into your head. You may even start to wonder if
there's some truth to it and that's exactly what the President and
his allies want, to put that question in the back of your mind. It is
a strategy he's used since he first stormed into the national
political stage with his utterly false and racist birther claims that
President Barack Obama was not born in this country.
TRUMP [on ABC’s The View, 03/23/11]: I want him to show his
birth certificate. There's something on that birth certificate that he
doesn't like.
LEMON: That was a lie. A lie he told for years. A lie he reportedly
still clings to today but it served Trump's purpose, he rose to
prominence on it. Do you think he regrets it in any way? I doubt
it. What lesson do you think he learned from it? I wonder and you
may wonder. You may have been wondering through all of this
why doesn't his own party stand up against this blatant disregard
for the truth. It's telling that the few Republicans who are
speaking out against the President are leaving Congress like
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake. In his Harvard Law School
commencement address today here is what he said. This is a
quote, “Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a
seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division and
only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works. I do
not think that the Founders could have anticipated that the
beauty of their invention might someday founder on the rocks of
reality television and that the Congress would be such willing
accomplices to this calamity.”
.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Don’s Take; The Truth Is Under Daily
Assault from the President and That Is a Crisis]
Very strong words, but this is not just about talk, this is about
facts. Facts do matter, the truth matters, and the truth is under
daily assault from the President of the United States and that is a
crisis and that is the truth.

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 MORE DEEP STATE LIES! Lawmakers Nunes And
Gowdy DID NOT RECEIVE Unredacted Documents They
Sought From DOJ-FBI Today
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 4:13 Pm
House Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunes and Oversight Chairman Trey
Gowdy headed into a meeting at 2 PM
EST with senior Justice Department, FBI
and intelligence officials on Thursday to
view classified documents and discuss
Spygate.
Devin Nunes was spotted earlier today
entering the meeting at the Department
of Justice.
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Nunes demanded the Justice
Department hand over the unredacted
memo outlining the scope of Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s authority and
the name of the FBI secret informant
inside Trump’s campaign in 2016.
There were two meetings today.
One meeting was at noon with Nunes, Gowdy and DOJ
and FBI officials.
The second meeting was with the Gang of 8 bipartisan
leaders and the FBI and DOJ.
According to Sarah Westwood, the CNN
White House reporter, Representatives
Nunes and Gowdy were not given the
documents they were promised.
 BREAKING: FBI Spy Stefan Halper And
Aussie Diplomat Alexander Downer Go Way Back
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 5:14 Pm

Stefan Halper (on left) and Alexander Downer go way back.

On October 18, 2010, the 5th William Pitt Seminar was
hosted at Emmanuel College. The speakers were Robert
Stefan Halper is the FBI spy inserted into the Trump
Cooper, Brendan Simms, Stefan Halper and Alexander
presidential campaign.
Downer.
Alexander Downer is the Australian individual who
apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk about Trump and
Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to the story and their
eventual spy program on Trump. This story has been
refuted for months.

The two have a long history.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this
week that a foreign government
meddled in the 2016 US Election. But
the government identified is the UK, not
Russia!

The War Economy Twitter page discovered the distant

links between Stefan Halper and Alexander Downer.

Via Mike Cernovich:

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 Tom Fitton: “You Can Bet” Obama Knew
About FBI “Informant” Spying On Donald Trump
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 5:50 Pm

Judicial Watch founder and president Tom Fitton went on
FOX Business Network Thursday afternoon to discuss the
Deep State spying on the Trump campaign and Transition
Team.
Tom Fitton told FBN that Barack Obama knew about the
“informants” (spies) inside the Trump campaign. And their
justification is we did it by the book. We did it by the
rules. And nobody buys this.
FBN reporter David Asman: Could the
FBI have implanted this person within a
presidential campaign without some kind of
approval or at least knowledge by a sitting
president which was Obama?
Tom Fitton: The president was briefed on
the dossier. You can bet he was briefed on
this operation against the campaign,
especially given its sensitive nature. And
President Obama should disclose what he
knew about that.
Earlier today former White House
spokesman Ari Fleitcher said the same
thing – that Obama knew about the
spying on Trump.

Tom Fitton: All of these Democrats, all of

these Obama officials are confirming, they
were running an informant, running a spy
inside the Trump campaign… The Justice
Department has been undermining the
oversight of Congress repeatedly over the
past year. A Republican Justice
Department attacks Devin Nunes and his
oversight repeatedly and I guarantee you
they didn’t give him enough information
today. There are still documents they’re
withholding.
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 Once-Curious Media That Exposed
Watergate Now Playing Role Of Co-Conspirator In
Covering Up Obama Spying On Trump
By JD Heyes
05/24/2018

investigative journalists like Sara A. Carter, John

Solomon, and Paul Sperry.

It’s not the only time the media has either lied about the
president or been in collusion with the Deep State to fool
the American people and help bring down a duly-elected
president, simply because they don’t like him.

It’s also worth noting that Comey knew the dossier was
bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign — that it was
opposition research — which the media also knew. But no
one reported that.

The now-infamous “Russia dossier” had been floating Obama ‘wiretapping’

around in establishment media circles for weeks during the
summer of 2016 when the presidential campaigns of
Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump were heating up.
But no one thought to publish the 35 pages of often
salacious claims about Russian hookers, motel rooms,
“golden showers,” and other wild allegations made against
Trump.
In a series of tweets on March 4, 2017, Trump accused the
Obama administration of “wiretapping” him at Trump
Tower. It was a clumsy, old-fashioned way of saying that
the Obama regime was ‘spying’ on him — keeping him
under surveillance.

That’s because no one could verify what was in the dossier

— or so that’s what the American people were told.

It turns out, however, that its author, Christopher Steele,

had attempted to shop the document to various media
outlets, which is what eventually got him fired by the FBI.
So the media knew the document was out there, what it
contained, and where it came from — bought and paid for
by the Clinton campaign. Mind you, president Trump is privy to all kinds of
information that 99.99 percent of Americans will never see
or even know about, so it only makes sense to take him at
When CNN first reported the existence of the ‘as yet
his word when he makes such claims.
unverified’ dossier, it was after then-Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper leaked the fact that it had been
presented to President-elect Trump by FBI Director James But few did.
Comey (Clapper would later become a paid analyst at the
network). Early on, I posited the opinion that someone in
government or the media was lying about the Trump
The American people were never told any of this. We ‘wiretapping story.’ Turns out it was both.
found out much later, thanks to honest brokers on the
House Intelligence Committee and a few good After initially reporting information that could have only
been gleaned from a counterintelligence operation against

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the Trump campaign (ergo, spying, surveillance) many in
the Pravda media began to backtrack and call the president
out (accused him of lying).
Then-White House spokesman Sean Spicer pointed out to
the media that they were the first to report it.
The media even went so far as to report that Comey called
Trump “crazy” for making the claim that he’d been
‘wiretapped’ by Obama. The New York Times reported:
After President Trump accused his
predecessor in March of wiretapping him,
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, was
flabbergasted. The president, Mr. Comey
told associates, was “outside the realm of
normal,” even “crazy.”
What a narrative. Remember that the Times was the paper
that reported the “wiretapping” in the first place — and
even used that term in a headline in print editions.
And of course, after all these months, we now know for
sure that Trump was right all along and that Comey,
Clapper, John Brennan, et. al. and the Pravda media lied
about it every step of the way.
Obama: ‘No way’ Russians could hack/steal the election
In a snarky October 2016 press conference, Obama was
asked about Trump’s comments that an outsized number of
illegal voters could shift the balance in Clinton’s favor in
states like Florida, where there is a heavy immigrant
population.
Not only did Obama criticize Trump over those remarks,
he went on to claim that no election rigging was possible
at all because of the vastly decentralized nature of the
American electoral process.
That means if illegal aliens could not affect an outcome,
neither could a few hundred Russian trolls. Or a few
thousand. Or Russia’s entire counterintelligence service.
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But yet, for more than a year the Pravda media has pushed
the story, in one form or another, that Russia did just that
— affected the outcome of the election against Hillary and
for Trump.
For months after the 2016 election the story was pushed
daily — and by all the Pravda media outlets — though
always without evidence and frequently based on fake
information spoon-fed them by Obama Deep State
holdovers and operatives.
There’s never been any evidence to prove that Russia
“hacked” the election. There never was, because, as the
44th president so vehemently stated, it’s simply impossible
(though Hillary still believes it).
But you’d be hard-pressed not to find dyed-in-the-wool
Democratic voters to this day who won’t swear to you that
it did happen, thanks to the big lie spread by the Pravda
media.
The big spy lie
In recent days it has become clear that corrupt Democrats
and their equally corrupt Pravda media are changing their
stories and narratives so fast it’s like they’ve set a new
record for lying.
Last week The New York Times and The Washington Post
published leaked information detailing how Trump’s
campaign was not only under surveillance but that it had
also been infiltrated by spies.
Naturally, the stories garnered much attention, and from
the president as well, as one can imagine.
So incensed was Trump that he summoned Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director
Christopher Wray to the White House on Monday and
ordered them to conduct an investigation into the extent of
the spying and the reason why the counterintelligence
operation was begun in the first place (since, according to
the head of the House Intelligence Committee, there was
no intelligence evidence whatsoever upon which to
launch a probe).
But some of the same media that had just reported all the
details about the spying operation then backtracked,
claiming that, no, there were no “spies” only “informants.”
As though the entire operation was legitimate in the first
place, which of course is false.
What’s another word for an unknown, undercover
“informant?”
That would be ‘spy.’
And that’s precisely the term the Democrats and their
Pravda media would be using if, say, George W. Bush had
devised a bogus “counterintelligence” operation for the
express purpose of keeping tabs on a rival (Obama)
campaign.
As The National Sentinel reported:
What’s even more grotesque about the
Times’ piece is it attempts to convince us
that the underlying counterintelligence
investigation was some real thing — as
though there really was legitimate evidence
.
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that Team Trump was doing something
nefarious with Russia.
There is no evidence to support that claim
because there was never any
collusion. The entire investigation was part
of a scheme to keep Trump out of the
White House or undermine him so badly if
he won he could be driven from office.
The Pravda media has been in on these various Obama-era
scandals involving Team Trump from the outside. What’s
sad — and dangerous — is that a large plurality of the
country will never believe, or be convinced, that they’ve
been lied to.
 JUST IN=> North Korean Regime Still Open To Talks –
Willing To Talk To US “Anytime”
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 6:04 Pm

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PULLED This also comes HOURS AFTER North
OUT OF PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT Korea blew up its nuclear testing
WITH NORTH KOREA IN SINGAPORE tunnels.

So Kim Jong Un gave up his US

hostages and destroyed his nuclear
testing tunnels… And the US gave up
nothing.

On Thursday night (Friday morning in Korea) the North

Korean government released a statement:
– North Korea is still willing to sit down at “any time”
– The U.S. decision is not in line with the “ideals of
mankind” and was unexpected by North Korea considering
the preparations
President Trump thanked the North
Koreans for releasing the US hostages. North Korea announced it was still open
to talks with the United States.
President Trump: Some day I look very forward to
meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the
release of the hostages who are now home with their
families.

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 Trump, Sylvester Stallone Spar
At The White House
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
6:41 PM 05/24/2018

President Donald Trump sparred with longtime friend “Well, no pressure here, right?” Stallone
Sylvester Stallone at the White House Thursday. joked, to laughter.

Stallone was at the White House to witness the pardon of

the first black heavyweight boxing champion, Jack
Johnson.

Johnson was convicted of transporting a white woman

across state lines for immoral purposes in 1931, violating
the Mann Act. The posthumous pardon was granted by
Trump in the Oval Office as the president was surrounded
by boxing champions and family members of Johnson.

Trump said,

“I am taking this very righteous step, I

believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in
our history, and to honor a truly legendary
boxing champion, legendary athlete and a
person that, when people got to know him,
they really liked him and they really thought
he was treated unfairly.”
In the remarks, Trump turned to Stallone to compliment
him on pushing for the pardon over many years.
“Now, you know, everybody knows Sly and
what a job he’s done,” the president said.
“But Sly is a special guy, and he’s more
shy than you would think. So I won’t even
tell him, but if you want to say a word, you
can, Sly.”
Stallone said one of the most famous characters he ever
wrote was based on Johnson:
“I want to thank you, Mr. President. It’s
incredible that you’ve done this because —
it’s one thing, I’ve been so blessed with the
‘Rocky’ situation and playing that
character. And actually, when I was writing
it, I’m thinking about inspirations for this
Apollo Creed, and that was Jack Johnson
— this bigger than life, incredible character,
and who is, you know, treated so unfairly
— his prime was taken away — but
somehow he still managed to persevere
and kept a smile on his face, and he’s truly
an inspirational character. So this has been
a long time coming. So it’s an honor to take

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 a fictional character like Rocky, and do
something in the world of reality.”

Trump chimed in, noting that a humble Stallone never

wanted the credit.

“The beautiful thing about Sly — and I’ve

known him for so long, such a great guy —
he didn’t want to have any press,” Trump
said, “He didn’t want anything. He just
wanted Jack Johnson to be recognized.”

Stallone joked,

“I have stage fright. Can you believe it?

After all these years, I just discovered it.”

“I don’t think you have any fright,” Trump

said, “I’ll tell you what.”
“I do. I do,” Stallone said.

The group then gave Trump a boxing glove and Stallone

said,

“They expect you to start training

immediately.”

Trump said,

“Yeah, we’ll start training.”

“Getting ready for a rematch,” Stallone
said.

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 SARA CARTER: FBI Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation
Ready To Testify In Defense Of Flynn
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 6:49 Pm
As previously reported, Special Agent,
Joe Pientka, who was present during
the interrogation of General Flynn, is
ready to give testimony regarding
circumstances surrounding the ambush
interview.
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter says Pientka, if issued a
subpoena,
will discuss how forthcoming Flynn was
about very specific sensitive information
that Flynn could not have possibly known
the investigators already knew, which may
give additional insight into Flynn’s veracity
and willingness to tell the truth.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter
On Friday May 11, 2018, Senate Judiciary
Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent
a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray
and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein stating
Comey testified the FBI didn’t think General
Flynn lied. Grassley also revealed Joe
Pientka was the second FBI agent who
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joined Peter Strzok on January 24th,
2017 in an ambush style interview to
take down General Flynn.
Grassley demanded the FBI and DOJ produce the
transcript of Flynn’s intercepted calls with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak and the related 302’s by May 25th.
(302’s are reports FBI agents take to summarize an
interview with a subject.)
The recently unredacted portion of the House Intel
report revealed Comey testified to House Intel members
the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any
deception. The report also revealed the illegal leak of
Flynn’s phone call with Kislyak is what allowed the
FBI/DOJ to keep a counterintel operation open on General
Flynn.
Sara Carter says Special Agent Joe Pientka is ready to
testify if issued a subpoena.
Pientka is ready to discuss a very
specific piece of sensitive information
Flynn provided during the interrogation
that will further prove Flynn is being
truthful.
Sara Carter reported:
FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka, if
subpoenaed, will provide testimony
regarding the circumstances surrounding
his interview with former National Security
Advisor Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,
sources with knowledge have been telling
this reporter for more than a year.
It’s this reporters understanding that
Pientka will account for what Flynn said in
the interview and will give context to the
FBI’s accusation that he lied during the
interview. If asked, Pientka will also give
his personal opinion as to whether or not
that was actually the case. He will also
discuss how forthcoming Flynn was about
very specific sensitive information that
Flynn could not have possibly known the
investigators already knew, which may give
 additional insight into Flynn’s veracity and Special Agent Joe Pientka isn’t the only
willingness to tell the truth. FBI official willing to testify; many
others want to come forward.
Pientka, however, will only testify about the
circumstances regarding the Flynn
interview and the issues that pertain to that Several agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
interview, according to two sources with want Congress to subpoena them so they can rat out fired
knowledge. There is no reason to believe Director James Comey and former Deputy Director
that Pientka has any information on Andrew McCabe.
Comey’s role in the Trump Russia
investigations but wants the opportunity to They are sick of the public stain the immoral and criminal
“state the truth” what has been said about former leaders have placed on the FBI.
Flynn, said the source, with direct
knowledge. General Flynn was targeted by the Deep State criminals
There was also another “non-partisan” simply because he was connected to President Trump.
law enforcement officer were present in
the Flynn interview per Grassley’s letter
to the DOJ.
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 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough
Again Slams Opponents As ‘Too Stupid'
By Randy Hall
May 24, 2018 7:06 PM EDT
Put simply, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe
Scarborough has a very nasty habit. When someone
disagrees with him, he often resorts to hammering that
person as being either “too stupid” or “too incompetent” to
be taken seriously.
That pattern of behavior continued on Wednesday, when
the former Republican stated that
“you’re too stupid to handle household
appliances”
if you believe there was a conspiracy by the Justice
Department, the FBI and the administration of former
President Barack Obama to rig the 2016 presidential
election.
Scarborough laughed while making the accusation that the
concept of planting spies in Donald Trump’s campaign is
“absolutely ludicrous.”
“If that were the case,” he noted, “and they
were all characters out of Mike Judge’s
Idiocracy” -- a science-fiction comedy
about two people who hibernate for 500
years and awake in a dystopian society --
they “probably water their grass with
Gatorade.”
The MSNBC co-host continued:
[A]fter all, the investigation into Donald
Trump’s possible contact with Russia was
kept quiet while Hillary Clinton got a letter
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from the FBI 10 days beforehand that was
absolutely devastating to her campaign.
Everything the FBI did in the home stretch was to Donald
Trump’s benefit and Hillary Clinton’s detriment.
“Now, for somebody not to understand that
-- I mean, seriously -- suggests only one
thing,” he told co-anchor Willie Geist, “and
that is they are either intentionally lying or
that you’re too stupid to handle
household appliances. I’ll leave it to you,
Willie, to decide which it is.”
“I can’t believe it’s the appliance part,”
Geist responded. “Toasters aren’t that
hard, so it has to be the willful thing.”
“I mean, these are the same people who
celebrated James Comey coming out with
that letter” stating Hillary Clinton was being
investigated over use of a private email
server while doing work for the federal
government, the co-anchor said.
“Remember, James Comey was the
boogeyman for the Clinton campaign and
the reason a lot of people around her and
supported her think she lost, and now that
narrative has been flipped on a total 180 by
the Trump White House.”
The Morning Joe staff was responding to a series of
Twitter posts made by President Trump earlier that day,
one of which read:
“Look how things have turned around on
the Criminal Deep State.”
“They go after Phony Collusion with
Russia, a made up Scam, and end up
getting caught in a major SPY scandal the
likes of which this country may never have
seen before!” the Republican official added
before noting: “What goes around, comes
around!”
However, Trump is not the only GOP president
Scarborough has criticized. In August of 2006, the MSNBC
host called George W. Bush an “idiot” and went so far as
to claim the Republican occupant of the White House
“is in a league by himself. I don't think he
has the intellectual depth as ... other
people."
As NewsBusters previously reported, Scarborough lashed
out at critics in June of 2010 for his coverage of a political
angle regarding the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Referring specifically to Twitter users, the
MSNBC anchor called them “stupid” and
“dumb,” and instructed them to “shut up.”
“The people on Twitter who are whining
about us covering a very important part of
this story are whiners and beyond that,
they’re just stupid,” he fumed.
Things hadn’t improved by early January,
when Scarborough called Trump a
“bumpkin” and “some stupid old
blubbery man” whom his staff treats “like
he’s just a fool,” making him “the weakest
leader on the planet.”
“Well, you really can’t trust anything coming
out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” the MSNBC
host said at the time.
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At the end of that month, Scarborough asserted that only
“very, very stupid” people questioned the validity of
Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into
whether Trump colluded with the Russians during the
2016 presidential campaign.
“Anybody that writes an op-ed and
suggests that Donald Trump has not put
himself directly in the target of an
obstruction charge is just fooling
themselves and some very, very stupid,
ill-informed readers,” he charged.
In mid-April, Scarborough argued that anyone who
subscribes to the idea that former FBI Director James
Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe
have an animus against President Trump should not handle
“anything sharp because you will hurt
yourself because you are too
incompetent actually to use any basic
household appliances.”
Whether the MSNBC host considers you to be
“too stupid” or “too incompetent,” that’s
a badge of honor he only reserves for
those who don’t agree with him while
resorting to name-calling as his last line of
defense.
 Clapper Said Spying On Trump A “Good Thing”…
Now #Fakenews Media Says Clapper “Has
Not Admitted FBI Was Spying”
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 7:48 Pm

Now the liberal media is working OT to persuade

Americans Clapper did not say this two days ago.

James Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the
FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.

NPR has a piece up titled: FACT CHECK: No, Clapper

Has Not ‘Admitted That There Was Spying’ On
Trump Campaign

Obama’s former DNI Chief James

Clapper told CNN last Thursday “it was
a good thing” the FBI was spying on
Trump’s campaign.
This was after he initially denied the
Intelligence Community was spying on
Donald Trump.

Clapper told CNN it was a good thing if the FBI had

someone “observing” the Trump’s campaigns interaction
with the Russians because the “

Russians posed a threat to the very basis Of course this is a complete lie — as the
of our political system.” above video clearly shows.

Liberal reporter Maggie Haberman attacked President

Trump for stating the obvious.

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 Intel expert Tony Shaffer took Maggie to The liberal mainstream media is so far
the woodshed. gone that they are now trying to refute a
man’s own words on video!
They are worse than Pravda.

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 President Trump: How Will James Comey Explain ‘All Of
The Lies’ To His Grandchildren? (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:22 Pm

Brian Kilmeade asked Trump about

Comey’s Twitter attack.
Trump threw the insult right back at
Comey.

PRESIDENT TRUMP:

“I would actually say how is he going to

explain to his grandchildren all of the lies,
the deceit, all of the problems he’s caused
for this country”
On Thursday morning President Donald
Trump joined Brian Kilmeade on FOX
Zing.
and Friends in an exclusive interview.

During the conversation Brian Kilmeade asked President

Trump about James Comey’s latest tweets.

Comey lashed out at President Trump

after the FBI was caught spying on
Trump.

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 SHUT IT DOWN=> Mueller Investigating Roger Stone’s
Finances – Including His Tax Returns
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 8:51 Pm
SHUT IT DOWN.
Robert Mueller is now reportedly
probing Roger Stone’s finances,
including his tax returns.
Mueller has zero evidence of Trump-
Russia collusion so he’s harassing
anyone and everyone connected to the
President.
It is unclear why Mueller is seeking
Stone’s finances; he may be pursuing
unrelated charges.
CNN reported:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has
been probing Roger Stone’s finances as it
summons a series of witnesses to gather
more information about one of President
Donald Trump’s longtime advisers,
according to people familiar with the
situation.
Mueller’s team has questioned
associates about Stone’s finances,
including his tax returns.
[…]
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“The special counsel having found no
evidence or proof whatsoever of Russian
collusion, trafficking in allegedly hacked
emails with WikiLeaks or advance
knowledge of the publication of (then-
Clinton campaign chair John) Podesta’s
emails now seems to be combing through
every molecule of my existence including
my personal life, political activities and
business affairs to conjure up some offense
to charge me with either to silence me or
induce me to testify against the President,”
Stone told CNN. “I have no intention of
being silenced or turning my back on
President Trump.”
Roger Stone also said Mueller’s team has contacted 8
people connected to him, however; he didn’t divulge
anymore information.
Mueller probing Stone’s finances comes after the special
counsel issued Grand Jury subpoenas to two of his
associates including Stone’s driver.
Last Wednesday it was reported Robert Mueller issued two
grand jury subpoenas to Roger Stone’s social media
consultant, Jason Sullivan.
Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s longtime advisor
Roger Stone or anyone in Trump’s inner circle had
advance knowledge of the Russians hacking Podesta’s
emails and sending them to WikiLeaks.
Roger Stone has repeatedly denied he was aware of any
collusion between Trump’s camp and the Russians.
To this date, the FBI still has not done a forensic
inspection of the DNC’s servers to confirm the Russians
even hacked the servers.
Mueller is a pathetic man and a disgrace to this country.
 Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence
To House Hacking Suspect’s Defense Attorney
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
9:06 PM 05/24/201
 The House IG said Democratic IT aides made
unauthorized access to data, but prosecutors
haven’t charged them
 Democrats appear to want to keep the case out of
court; a trial could expose their reckless IT
practices
 Capitol Police didn’t make arrests despite
numerous red flags and then ‘inadvertently’ gave
evidence to defense attorneys that was supposed
to go to prosecutors
 Prosecutors appear to be sharing info with
someone on Capitol Hill who is leaking details to
the hacking suspect’s lawyer
Imran Awan entering federal court for his arraignment Sept. 1, 2017.
(Screenshot from One America News used with permission) | Imran
Awan Explained On Fox News | Cops Accidentally Gave Evidence To
Awan
The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the
alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to
the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver
it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and
a source.
And hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation asked
prosecutors about the disclosure, Awan’s lawyer said he
had learned of the forthcoming story from a source on
Capitol Hill. TheDCNF had not told anyone other than
prosecutors about it.
“The cop came to [Awan’s defense
attorney] Chris Gowen’s office with a stack
of papers … Then he came back and said,
‘I thought you guys were the other party.’
He was very, very angry. But Gowen made
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copies,” the source, who’s familiar with The
Awans, told TheDCNF.
Awan, three relatives and a friend ran IT for one in five
House Democrats and could read all their emails and files
until they were banned on Feb. 2, 2017, for
“numerous violations of House security policies.” The
violations alleged by the House Office of Inspector
General include logging into the House Democratic
Caucus server thousands of times without authorization.
This allegedly occurred during the same period in 2016 the
DNC was hacked.
Prosecutor Michael Marando alluded to the disclosure of
evidence in court on Oct. 6, 2017.
“Earlier this week, there was
the inadvertent disclosure of law
enforcement materials to defense counsel,”
Marando told the judge. “There may be a
motion on that.”
Another disclosure may have occurred after TheDCNF
emailed the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia for comment on this story. Three hours after
spokesman Bill Miller was contacted, Gowen emailed
TheDCNF.
“I hear you are writing another article about
me — I assume you don’t want to fact
check it?” Gowen wrote. “From what I hear,
you have it totally wrong as usual.”
TheDCNF had not told anyone other than the spokesman
about an upcoming story involving Gowen. TheDCNF
followed up with Miller to ask if prosecutors had provided
that information to Gowen.
“I’m not going to get into what we do
internally,” but “I really don’t know why that
would be the case,” Miller told TheDCNF. “I
communicate with the prosecutors regularly
when I get media inquiries.”
Gowen — a former aide to failed Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton — said he learned of the story
through someone on Capitol Hill. “I have been told by my
source on the Hill,” he said.
If true, this would imply congressional staff, or possibly
even members, are feeding information to the attorney of a
hacking suspect.
Awan exclusively worked for Democrats, including Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly headed the
DNC and whose brother is an assistant U.S. attorney in the
D.C. office.
Republicans have told TheDCNF they’ve been led to
believe they must stay out of the investigation. On
Thursday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said,
“I don’t want to get into the details of a
police investigation.”
Democrats, meanwhile, have publicly underscored the
importance of cybersecurity, expressing outrage at what
they say is President Donald Trump’s involvement with
the 2016 hack on the DNC.
Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, have been charged with
bank fraud for gathering $300,000 and wiring it to
Pakistan. Prosecutors said
“based on the suspicious timing of that
transaction, Awan and Alvi likely knew they
were under investigation at” the time they
made that transfer.
It could be an offense punishable by jail time for Awan if
he sought help from members. Any former senior
congressional staffer, who “within 1 year after the
termination of that employment,” communicates with his
former office to “seek[] action by a Member, officer, or
employee” can be jailed for a year. Awan and his brothers
were among the highest-paid in Congress.
Gowen said the evidence inadvertently disclosed to his
office was a copy of a laptop Awan’s former tenant, Laurel
Everly, turned in to the Capitol Police in hopes of seeing
whether Awan had hacked her.
Everly previously complained of her landlord’s allegedly
suspicious behavior and called him an “extortionist.”
“I was told there was nothing on it and was
a giant waste of time, and the laptop was
returned,” Gowen told TheDCNF.
On Oct. 6, 2017, prosecutors wrote: “During the course of
this voluminous discovery, the Government might
inadvertently produce material that is not subject to the
Government’s discovery obligations or that was not
intended to be produced in a particular form. In such
circumstances, the Government requests that the Proposed
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Protective Order require the defendant to return all
copies of such material to the Government.”
Gowen didn’t say whether he returned all the material
when TheDCNF asked.
Nonetheless, prosecutors said in court documents filed on
May 3 that the “parties are currently exploring a possible
resolution of” the criminal charges against Imran.
Everly previously told TheDCNF that she believed Awan
was a national security threat and that she had a duty to
assist in his prosecution by providing evidence, however
small. But she also said she worried that Awan would
somehow wind up with even more information about her.
Numerous fellow IT aides in the House who say they have
knowledge of misconduct involving Awan — and in some
cases, his relationship with members — have expressed to
TheDCNF reluctance to come forward, citing similar fears.
They said they perceive that prosecutors will not pursue
the leads vigorously and that the Awans and Democrats
will learn about their allegations and become angered.
“I’d do it if the right thing would happen,”
one said. “But it’s going to be all risk, no
reward … If they actually wanted to pursue
this case, they would have approached
me.”
The director of investigations for conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch, Chris Farrell, said the disclosures
are
“disgraceful and amateurish. What were
the consequences for this misconduct?
Who was disciplined or fired?”
Capitol Police’s role appears to be “to bury, constrain and
minimize the Awan case” and points to the need for “a
legitimate, full investigation by a competent law
enforcement agency,” he continued.
The House’s Inspector General — an internationally
renowned cybersecurity expert — found that the Awans
made “unauthorized access” to House servers, were taking
data off the House network and were covering their tracks.
But the investigation now is under the purview of
prosecutors, the FBI and Capitol Police.
More than a year later, no one has been charged with
anything in the IG reports.
“The only reason you’re not seeing charges
is because the Democrats who employed
him are not cooperating,” a senior
 Republican congressional official with
direct knowledge of the probe told
TheDCNF.
Farrell said
“This matter is too serious to be left to
political operatives.”
Prosecutors have said they have turned over “voluminous
discovery” to Awan and his lawyers. A court filing shows
that documents turned over include a copy of the hard
drive of a government laptop with the username RepDWS
— placing the contents of a government computer in
Awan’s hands even though he was banned from the House
computer network as a security risk.
It is unclear why prosecutors would give over evidence in
the House matter because Awan and Alvi have not been
charged with any wrongdoing in the cyber probe.
Defendants are entitled to evidence to defend themselves
against specific charges in court.
Capitol Police declined to execute search warrants on the
Awans’ homes when the chief administrative officer
notified the Committee on House Administration in
December 2016 that the House Democratic Caucus server
— at the time a key piece of evidence in the cybersecurity
probe — had disappeared.
Police told Capitol Hill staff in June 2017 that they had no
plans to conduct any more interviews – even though
many of Awan’s colleagues in House IT told TheDCNF
that they believed they had knowledge of wrongdoing but
were never approached. Despite that, Administration
Chairman Gregg Harper continued to defer to prosecutors,
telling TheDCNF in April 2018 that “this is still in
the hands of the Department of Justice.”
Republicans on Capitol Hill said, despite Democrats
publicly saying they abhor cyberbreaches such as the DNC
hack, prosecutors may be bowing to Democrats’ wishes to
avoid a trial at which members of Congress would be
forced to testify about their relationship with the Awans
and the IG’s allegation many failed to take cybersecurity
seriously in their own offices.
An attorney for Imran’s brother, Abid Awan, previously
said there was a
.
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“shocking lack of IT and hardware security
on Capitol Hill,”
while another lawyer for Imran alleged that congressmen
wanted the Awans to falsify financial documents.
Gowen said prosecutors have repeatedly asked Imran’s
legal team to respond to TheDCNF’s reporting, according
to a May 4 Fox News article.
“We are trying to be as helpful as possible
to law enforcement to provide them any
information or access they need,” Gowen
told Fox.
After House officials flagged allegedly fraudulent financial
records and unauthorized server access, law enforcement
began monitoring the Awans in late 2016. During that
period, the following occurred, all without triggering
arrests or searches of their homes:
 A server containing evidence allegedly disappeared;
 Awan and his wife both left the country without
apprehension — his wife with $12,000 in cash and
after refusing to speak to FBI agents at the gate;
 Awan left a congressional laptop with the
username RepDWS in a phone booth two months after
he was banned from the House computer network,
according to a Capitol Police report; and
 The Awans’ stepmother called the police on the
Awans and said in court documents that Imran had
wiretapped her and was trying to use her to gain
access to money overseas.
Awan wasn’t arrested until July 2017 and was charged
only with the alleged bank fraud, which occurred six
months prior.
Farrell said the repeated delays in the case indicate that
prosecutors may be looking to make it go away as quietly
as possible — even if it means accepting a plea deal to far
more minor or even unrelated crimes — in order to keep
the case out of public court where Democratic
congressmen might have to testify.
Kendra Arnold, a lawyer with the Foundation for
Accountability & Civic Trust, said:
“If he was Joe Smith from Idaho this is not
how the prosecution would be proceeding.”
 ABC Downplays North Korea’s Role
In Sabotaging The Nuke Summit With U.S.
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 24, 2018 9:39 PM EDT
On Thursday, President Trump announced that he was
calling off the greatly anticipated U.S.-North Korea
summit because the other party was acting in bad faith
going into it, something the President promised to do
weeks ago. Of course, many in the liberal media used the
opportunity to suggest it was somehow a diplomatic
blunder on his part despite overnight nuclear threats by the
regime. ABC seemed to be in that camp as they
downplayed North Korea’s recent hostile actions.
ABC kicked off World News Tonight with a report about
these latest developments and seemed to suggest President
Trump had bad timing:
And we begin with those major
developments on North Korea and our new
reporting. President Trump calling off the
summit on its nuclear program, citing North
Korea's, quote, “tremendous anger and
open hostility.” It came just hours after
North Korea invited journalists to witness
what they say was the planned destruction
of their nuclear testing site.
The network’s chief White House correspondent, Jon Karl,
attacked Trump’s letter calling off the summit as
“wistful,” huffed about how it was addressed to “His
Excellency,” and for writing: “Dear Mr. Chairman. We
greatly appreciate your time, patient and effort." Of course,
he automatically wondered if a new war on the Korean
Peninsula was approaching.
While Karl noted the release of American hostages, he
made it sound like the U.S. was being the unreasonable
one.
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“But North Korea expressed revulsion at
demands by U.S. officials that they give
up their entire nuclear program before
getting anything in return,” he reported.
“But after Vice President Pence
suggested dire consequences if Kim
doesn't give up his nukes, North Korea
lashed out, calling pence a, quote,
‘political dummy.’”
But Karl failed to mention that in that same letter, North
Korea threatened nuclear action against the U.S., which
both of ABC’s broadcast competitors did.
“The President wrote in a letter to
dictator Kim Jong-un, the North's
‘Tremendous anger and open hostility’
scuttled the summit, a reference to
North Korea's statement last night
calling vice president pence a ‘political
dummy’ and warning of nuclear
conflict,” CBS White House correspondent
Major Garret reported on CBS Evening
News.
“A senior administration official says the
President made the decision to cancel
the summit after North Korean
statements overnight threatening the
U.S. with a nuclear-to-nuclear
showdown and referring to Vice
President Pence as a ‘political dummy,”
NBC White House correspondent Kirsten
Welker said on NBC Nightly News.
Karl also gave credit to the North for
making an effort with the “overture” of
 “blowing up a nuclear test site in the
presence of western journalists.”
But many experts suggested the gesture was hollow
because the facility might have been too damaged to be
used after their most recent nuclear test, which they
claimed was a hydrogen bomb. He also omitted how the
North Koreans had failed to show up to a planning meeting
with the U.S. in Singapore with no notice.
The ABC report also omitted China’s possible influence in
sinking the summit. Both CBS and NBC noted their
possible meddling via pressure on the North.
“They feel a break in the relationship
between themselves and North Korea if
this summit goes forward without
Chinese participation,”
Adm. James Stavridis (Ret.) told NBC chief foreign affairs
correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
Back when the prospect of a Trump-Kim summit was in its
infancy, President Trump made it clear that the summit
could be called off at any time if the North acted up in
anyway given their history. But now that Trump had made
good on the promise, many are trying to claim it was a
failure on his part.
The transcript is below:
ABC's World News Tonight
May 24, 2018
6:31:47 PM Eastern [3 minutes 35 seconds]
TOM LLAMAS: And we begin with those major developments on
North Korea and our new reporting. President Trump calling off
the summit on its nuclear program, citing North Korea's, quote,
“tremendous anger and open hostility.” It came just hours after
North Korea invited journalists to witness what they say was the
planned destruction of their nuclear testing site. These images
just coming in. And on both sides, tough talk. President Trump
reminding North Korea today of America's overwhelming nuclear
might. So tonight, the question of today’s developments, do they
increase the risk of war? ABC's Chief White House
correspondent Jonathan Karl with the President's answer.
[Curs to video]
JON KARL: President Trump warned ominously the collapse of
the summit is bad news for the entire world.
(…)
KARL: The President pulled out in a wistful letter to Kim Jong-un,
addressing the North Korean dictator as "His Excellency," writing,
"Dear Mr. Chairman. We greatly appreciate your time, patient
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and effort." But he wrote, due to North Korea's "Tremendous
anger and open hostility," "I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to
have this long-planned meeting." He also issued a dark warning -
- "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so
massive and powerful that I pray to god they will never have to
be used."
DONALD TRUMP: I've spoken to General Mattis and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and our military, which is by far the most powerful
anywhere in the world, is ready, if necessary.
KARL: I asked the president if that could mean war. Mr.
President, does the breakdown of this summit raise the risk of
war with North Korea?
TRUMP: Well, we’ll see what happens.
KARL: The breakdown comes after a mind-boggling thaw in
U.S./North Korean relations, including two meetings between
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong-un. And the
release of three American prisoners. The President even relished
talk of a Nobel peace prize.
(…)
KARL: But North Korea expressed revulsion at demands by U.S.
officials that they give up their entire nuclear program before
getting anything in return. President Trump tried to show some
flexibility on that.
TRUMP: I don't think I want to totally commit myself. But all in
one would be a lot better.
KARL: But after Vice President Pence suggested dire
consequences if Kim doesn't give up his nukes, North Korea
lashed out, calling pence a, quote, “political dummy.” But in his
letter, President Trump told Kim, quote, "I felt a wonderful
dialogue was building up between you and me."
(…)
KARL: Today, North Korea made another overture, blowing up a
nuclear test site in the presence of western journalists. And the
president is still holding out hope, writing to Kim, "If you change
your mind, please do not hesitate to call me or write." Do you
expect him to call you, Mr. President? Do you expect him to call
you?
[Cuts back to live]
LLAMAS: Jon Karl joins us from the White House. And Jon, you
were there in the room there when President Trump announced
the June 12 summit was off. But he later told the world not to be
anxious, saying, it might happen on that date after all. Is that still
realistic?
KARL: No, that's not going to happen, Tom. White House officials the President would like to see this summit get back on track at
made that clear after the President spoke. But there is no doubt some point, but it won't be on June 12.

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 Congress Must ‘Fight For Its
Rightful Role’ In Overseeing Spy Agencies
Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Warned That The Deep State Will Always
Resist Transparency Following Bipartisan Congressional Briefing
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 25 May 2018 At 7:14 AM

from the intelligence community amid highly politicized

controversies.

"We have that responsibility. Nothing

should be redacted from Congress.
[Lawmakers] need to get to the facts,"
Russell (above, second from left) said.

Congress must “fight for its rightful role in oversight” of Among Russell's major concerns is whether or not the
the intelligence community and demand unredacted lawmakers present at the classified briefings Thursday
documents it is entitled to review, former CIA official were able "to look at the information without redactions."
John Kiriakou said Thursday night on Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle.” "We see these problems where they will
redact things, withholding it from
Top Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials held Congress," he warned.
classified briefings for both GOP and Democratic
lawmakers Thursday amid escalating tensions regarding
the bureau’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign. The briefings came after
Trump demanded Sunday that the DOJ investigate whether
the FBI planted a spy within the Trump campaign.

Kiriakou, who confirmed the CIA’s waterboarding

practices during interrogations in 2007 and was sentenced
to 30 months of prison in 2013 after disclosing classified
information to the press, told Fox News host Laura
Ingraham that the deep state is resisting Congress’
constitutional oversight authority.
“That’s the deep state,” Kiriakou (pictured
above, third from left) said. “It’s there, it’s
unelected, and it’s in power forever.”
Noting that the intelligence community “pushes back on
congressional oversight” as “a part of its very nature,” he
warned that intelligence officials will “provide to Congress
as little as they can get away with.”
"That's where Congress has to fight for its
rightful role in oversight," Kiriakou said.
Rep. Steve Russell (R-Okla.), a member of the House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told
Ingraham that congressional members "have that
responsibility" to demand transparency and accountability
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Following the briefing, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the
ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
insisted in a statement that
"nothing we heard today has changed our
view, that there is no evidence to support
any allegation that the FBI, or any
intelligence agency, placed a spy in the
Trump campaign or otherwise failed to
follow appropriate procedures and
protocols."
But Robert Driscoll, the former deputy assistant attorney
general and chief of staff of the Department of Justice's
civil rights division, noted that Schiff's statement was
"very carefully worded."
 "He said 'no evidence' that they placed a
spy in the campaign. Now, that could still
mean that [the FBI] had a confidential
information contact with people in the
campaign and record their conversations,"
Driscoll (pictured above, left) noted. "But
that means they didn't have an imbed in
the campaign."
"OK, I get that, but I don't think that's
necessarily what's of most concern to
Congress," Driscoll added.
Driscoll said he finds it quite "interesting" that Trump
"could declassify all this stuff himself with the stroke of a
pen," but is instead choosing to show "a little bit of
deference to DOJ" amid heightened political tensions.
.
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"He's almost playing a mediating role
between two branches of government
rather than acting as the head of the
executive branch, saying, 'Look, Congress
has got a point. There needs to be more
transparency here. I'm not going to force
you to disclose everything because there
may be some interests that are so strong
that it's justified,'" Driscoll said.
But Ingraham warned that the U.S. has
"created a surveillance superstate in this
country."
"People at the top also think they're beyond
reproach, and they're so confident that
they're right," Ingraham said. "They want to
do what they want to do with impunity."
 EXCLUSIVE: Trump Campaign Aide
Apologizes To Papadopoulos For ‘Coffee Boy’ Jab
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:42 AM 05/25/2018
Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo is apologizing for
calling George Papadopoulos a "coffee boy." (Photo: LinkedIn)
 Michael Caputo is apologizing for calling George
Papadopoulos a “coffee boy”
 Caputo wrote in an open letter to Papadopoulos
and the former Trump campaign aide’s wife
 “Calling George a ‘coffee boy’ on national
television was uncalled for,” he wrote
Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo is
apologizing for calling George Papadopoulos a “coffee
boy.”
“Calling George a ‘coffee boy’ on national
television was uncalled for and surely hurt
you both even more after our country failed
you,” Caputo wrote Friday in an open letter
to Papadopoulos and the former Trump
campaign aide’s wife, Simona
Mangiante. “I hope history quotes my
heartfelt apology along with those two
harsh words I regret today. I’m sorry for
making this terrible chapter in our nation’s
history even worse for you and your
family.”
Caputo, who served on President Donald Trump’s
campaign until June 2016, made the “coffee boy” remark
in an interview on Oct. 31, just after Papadopoulos pleaded
guilty to lying to the FBI about his interactions with a
Maltese professor and two Russian nationals.
“He was the coffee boy,” Caputo said in an
interview on CNN. “You might have called
him a foreign policy analyst, but if he was
going to wear a wire, all we would have
known now is whether he prefers a caramel
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macchiato over a regular American coffee
in conversations with his barista.”
Caputo joined the White House and numerous other
Trump backers in downplaying Papadopoulos’s role on the
campaign, seemingly as a way to put distance between the
young adviser’s activities on the campaign and Trump.
That characterization was somewhat off base given that
Papadopoulos did make some substantive contributions to
the campaign. He helped arrange a meeting in September
2016 between Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi at the United Nations General Assembly.
Papadopoulos, 30, admitted to lying to FBI agents during a
Jan. 26, 2017 interview about the timeline of his
interactions with a Maltese professor named Joseph
Mifsud and two of his Russian associates. Mifsud told
Papadopoulos on April 26, 2016 that he had learned from
Russian government officials that the Kremlin had “dirt”
on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the form of
“thousands” of her emails.
Papadopoulos’s conversation with Australian diplomat
Alexander Downer two weeks later is said to have been the
catalyst for the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into
possible coordination between the Trump campaign and
Russian government.
Mangiante, Papadopoulos’s wife, responded aggressively
to Caputo’s remarks, suggesting in some interviews that
Papadopoulos had information that could undercut the
White House.
“He never took any initiative, as far as I
know, [that was] unauthorized. All the
initiatives had [the] blessing of the
campaign,” Mangiante told ABC News on
Dec. 8.
Mangiante said in a Jan. 22 interview:
“I believe history will remember
[Papadopoulos] like John Dean,” a
reference to the Nixon White House
counsel who exposed part of the Watergate
coverup.
Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s private remarks
have told The Daily Caller News Foundation he has told
people close to him that he was not involved in any
collusion and did not see, handle or disseminate emails
stolen by Russians.
Caputo said his assessment of Papadopoulos has changed
in the wake of revelations that an FBI informant spied on
Papadopoulos during the campaign.
“Knowing much more today about how an
FBI informant lied to you, set you up and
abused you, I know I owe you an apology,”
Caputo wrote in his letter.
The informant is Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge
professor who lured Papadopoulos to London in
September 2016 while serving as an informant for the FBI
and CIA. Halper also made contact with two other Trump
advisers, Carter Page and Sam Clovis.
“We all make mistakes, and I guess you
made a few. I’ve made my own, including
not waiting to hear the truth about what the
spy Stefan Halper did to you before I
opened my big mouth and insulted you to
all the world,” wrote Caputo, who called the
entire spy operation “sick.”
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Read Caputo’s letter in full:
Dear George and Simona:
Knowing much more today about how an FBI lied to you,
set you up and abused you, I know I owe you an apology.
Calling George a “coffee boy” on national television was
uncalled for and surely hurt you both even more after our
country failed you.
They wanted to stop President Trump at all costs, and
you were expendable. That’s sick.
We all make mistakes, and I guess you made a few. I’ve
made my own, including not waiting to hear the truth
about what the spy Stefan Halper did to you before I
opened my big mouth and insulted you to all the world.
I hope history quotes my heartfelt apology along with
those two harsh words I regret today. I’m sorry for making
this terrible chapter in our nation’s history even worse for
you and your family.
Sincerely,
Michael R. Caputo
East Aurora, NY
May 25, 2018
 Three FBI Agents Set To Testify:
Including Lead Investigator In Clinton Email Probe Who
Quit In Protest Over Sham Investigation
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 9:56 Pm

The word is that Giacalone quit the FBI

in protest over how the higher ups were
killing the investigation.

Giacalone resigned from the Hillary Clinton case and

retired from the FBI because he felt the case was going
“sideways”; that’s law enforcement jargon for “nowhere
by design.”

House Republicans are set to interview

three witnesses in early June regarding
the sham Hillary Clinton email
investigation.

According to The Hill, Bill Priestap, the assistant director

of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, and Michael
Steinbach, the former head of the FBI’s national security
division, will testify shortly after the release of the IG
report.

Bill Priestap was the FBI official who changed the

wording in the James Comey July 2016 speech to remove
the word “President” and replace it with “another senior
government official” to hide this fact from the American
public.

The third witness is John Giacalone who preceded

Steinbach as the bureau’s top national security official and
oversaw the first seven months of the Clinton probe.

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 Giuliani: Trump More Likely To Meet
With Kim Jong Un Than Robert Mueller
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:14 PM 05/24/2018
Rudy Giuliani told The Washington Post Thursday that the
chances of President Trump sitting down for a talk with
Kim Jong Un is still higher than a presidential interview
with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I think it is more inevitable than a Mueller
interview,” said the former New York City
mayor and Trump legal team member. “At
least they’re not going to try to trap him into
Korean perjury.”
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President Trump reportedly decided to cancel the
scheduled meeting with the North Korean leader after the
U.S. advance team was “stood up” for a meeting about
logistics.
“On Secretary (of State Mike) Pompeo’s
second trip to Pyongyang, North Korea
promised that the two sides would meet in
Singapore last week, to jointly work on the
logistical preparations for the summit,” said
a senior White House official to Yonhap
News reporters.
Giuliani and Trump allies believe that Mueller’s
investigation into possible collusion between Russia and
the Trump campaign has widened to include allegations
that the president may have tried to obstruct justice, and
that the president speaking with Mueller could lead to a
perjury trap.
 Columnist: ‘The DEMOCRATS
Now Have THEIR Own Watergate!’
Posted On May 25, 2018
(National Sentinel) Scandal: At a technology conference
in Las Vegas earlier this week, former President Barack
Obama actually told an audience that his administration
was scandal-free.
Never mind that it was scandal-plagued from the outset,
beginning with the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking
scandal where former AG Eric Holder oversaw the
massive export of American guns to Mexican drug cartels
with the hope they’d be used in U.S. crimes so Democrats
could pass more gun control legislation.
What sick, twisted men Holder and Obama are.
Now, however, we’re beginning to see the granddaddy of
all Obama scandals: Spygate.
And it’s beginning to shape up to be the Democrats’ own
version of a Republican scandal they love to reference: The
Nixon administration’s “Watergate” scandal.
Columnist Adriana Cohen has written about this at
the Boston Herald:
A Democratic Watergate is unfolding before our
eyes.
It’s no wonder Obama’s former CIA chief John
Brennan is tweeting like a madman, attacking
President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Brennan’s running scared because it’s starting
to look like he may have been a co-conspirator
in the biggest political scandal since, well,
Watergate.
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Yesterday, Trump met with FBI Director
Christopher Wray, Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and Director of National
Intelligence Dan Coats to inquire if Brennan’s
CIA and the FBI spied on his 2016 presidential
campaign, as reported by The New York Times
and other media last week.
If it’s confirmed that the Obama administration
used U.S. intelligence agencies and the Justice
Department to go after political opponents — to
keep Democrats in power through a presidential
election cycle — Attorney General Jeff
Sessions should immediately un-recuse himself
from the Russia “collusion” witch hunt, shut it
down and open a criminal investigation into all
parties involved.
And to think that Democrats and their puppets
in media have been calling Trump the greatest
threat to democracy all this time when their
party may have been using authoritarian tactics
against the leader of the opposition party and
his associates.
No doubt. But like Obama can say his administration was
scandal-free with a straight face, Democrats can now
pretend like nothing has happened and that Obama’s
spying on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was
perfectly legitimate.
When everyone knows it wasn’t.
There was no “Russia collusion.”
There never has been — not regarding the Trump
campaign, anyway.
But of course, the Hillary Clinton campaign bought a
bogus “Russia dossier” from a former British spook,
Christopher Steele, who got his ‘information’
from Russian sources.
Watergate? No, this scandal is much bigger than that
because it involves the politicization and utter corruption
of the FBI, Justice Department and the Deep State
intelligence community.
All Nixon did was try to cover up a burglary.
 Playing Softball With Clapper
Is All The Rage On TV
By Tim Graham
May 25, 2018 6:40 Am Edt

“Help me understand here how I should

think about that.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper had the same sympathetic, explain-

Obama’s director of national intelligence James Clapper
went on a tour of Very Supportive Liberal Networks on
Wednesday, starting with the PBS NewsHour. Judy
Woodruff threw marshmallows like
“The president, as you know, has been just
constantly critical of the intelligence
community since he’s been in
office….What is the effect of these
cumulative comments by the president?”
And “Is the intelligence community destined
to be undermined, misunderstood, not
appreciated?”
Clapper made “news” by claiming it was his “informed
opinion” that Russia “turned” the election with their
“massive effort” to influence the voters. “That’s a stunning
conclusion,” replied Soft Touch Judy. He could have told
her Ed Schultz’s show on RT did it all, and she would have
nodded and cooed.
the-wackos-to-me tone, but at least he was trying to nail
some facts down as Clapper weirdly insisted they weren't
spying on Trump, just the Russians.
“To be fair, whoever the confidential
sources were and we know of one of them
and I don't know if there were others, but
they were trying to find out not just what the
Russians were doing, but what any
members of the Trump team might have
been doing with the Russians too, right?”
This question only seemed bizarre in contrast to the rest of
The Lead, where Tapper and his panel compared the
spying-on-Trump revelations as loony. Amanda Carpenter
said it was akin to “birtherism.” Tapper worried about
eroding norms -- and the CNN norm is complete panic that
Trump was elected president.
Actually, the sap began flowing on Tuesday night on
MSNBC, on The Rachel Maddow Show.

NPR also lined up for Clapper Softball on All Things

Considered. Anchor Audie Cornish offered this:

“You had the president essentially tweeting

criticism since he's been in office. Is the
intelligence community just in a bad place
right now?” And: “Is it good enough for the
intelligence community to hunker down,
stay out of the politics, provide information
and hope it gets used in a wise way?” And:
“how does the intelligence community get
that trust back, of the American people or MADDOW, quoting the Clapper book on Trump:
the White House? "
“He has set a new low bar for ethics and
Cornish actually said this out loud: morality. He has caused damage to our
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 societal and political fabric that will be
difficult and will require time to repair. And
close to my heart, he has besmirched the
intelligence community and the FBI, pillars
of our country, and deliberately incited
many Americans to lose faith and
confidence in them.”
And it goes on from there. Joining us once again is James
Clapper, former director of national intelligence.
Sir, I wanted to quote that to you, because I
am -- I know a lot from reading the book
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about your history as a nonpartisan
intelligence and military professional,
your decades of service. It is it -- is striking
to hear the strength of your critique there of
the president. Was that a hard decision to
make?
None of these seasoned interviewers could be as tough as
Meghan McCain, who reminded the audience on The View
that Clapper lied to Congress in 2013 about domestic
spying on American citizen “metadata.” Instead, Clapper
was treated as the essence of nonpartisan wisdom and
experience.
 Obama Takes Jab At Trump:
“I Did Not Have Scandals As President”
…(Benghazi, IRS Targeting, Spygate, Fast And Furious…)
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:06 Am

screwing up as long there wasn’t malicious

intent behind it,” he said.
A federal judge awarded a $3.5 million
settlement to Tea Party groups two
weeks ago for Obama IRS targeting.

The Spygate scandal may be the largest political scandal in

US history.

Newsweek failed to correct Obama for

his lies — which goes hand-in-hand with
his “scandal free” claims.

Here’s a short list of Obama scandals and lies:

Former President Barack Obama of
Spygate fame took a swipe at President OBAMA LIES, SCANDALS & QUOTES:
Trump in a Wednesday speech. (***not a comprehensive list)

Obama bragged to an audience that he 1. "I will have the most transparent administration."
“did not have scandals” as president. 2. "I have shovel ready jobs."
3. "The IRS is not targeting anyone."
4. "If four Americans get killed…uh…. it is not optimal."
Newsweek reported: (Benghazi)
5. "ObamaCare will be good for America."
President Barack Obama took a light swing 6. "If you like your doctor, you can keep him, period."
at his successor during a tech conference 7. "Premiums will be lowered by $2500"
in Las Vegas on Wednesday. His eight 8. If you like your health insurance, you can keep it,
years in office were scandal free, he told period.
the audience. 9. "I did not say you could keep your health care."
“I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it (Regardless that 29 recorded videos show I did)
shouldn’t be something you brag about,” 10. "No one making less than $250,000 will see their taxes
Obama joked. raised one dime."
11. "Benghazi was because of a youtubevideo."
President Donald Trump’s presidency has 12. "If I had a son…"
thus far been racked with scandalous 13. "I am not a dictator."
allegations, but Obama later hedged his 14. "I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds
barb. “But actually,” he said, “if you look at division, conflict and cynicism".
the history of the modern presidency, 15. "You didn't build that."
coming out of the modern presidency 16. "I will restore trust in Government."
without anybody going to jail is really good. 17. "The Cambridge police acted stupidly."
It’s a big deal.” 18. "I am not after your guns."
The reason his presidency was relatively 19. "The fact that we are here today to debate raising
controversy free, he said, was because he America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure."
was accepting of bad news. “No one in my (Senator BO of 2006)
White House ever got in trouble for
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20. "I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it
was like Special Olympics."
21. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good
for everybody."
22. "The Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill
That Lands On My Desk"
23. "It's not my red line it is the worlds red line."
24. "Whistleblowers will be protected."
25. "We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks,
with interest."
26. "I will close Gitmo." (Guantanamo)
27. "The point I was making was not that Grandmother
harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't, -- but she is
a typical white person."
28. "I am not spying on American citizens."
29. Nelson Mandela funeral smart-phone "selfies"
30. Govnt shutdown is allll the GOP's fault
31. Still on vacation in Hawaii on the first day obamacare is
supposed to begin
32. "ObamaCare will lower costs for everyone."
33. "More Americans will be insured under obamacare"
34. "Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance….Muslims
are our friends" (then he bows to the muslim leaders)
35. “That’s thegood thing about being President, I can do
whatever I want,”
36. "my father served in WW2"
37. 2011 Arab spring FAIL
38. America's 2010 Summer of recovery FAIL
39. Hiring a known palestinian terrorist to work on
Obamacare in Illinois. Didn'tbother to check her on e-
verify
40. “I promise 100% transparency in my administration.”
41. "Buying health care insurance will be like using
Amazon."
42. “I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than
$50K a year.”
43. "I will bring ALL of our troops home within ONE year."
44. “I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so
everyone can see who is at the table!”
45. “I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration."
46. DOJ spying on the free press telephone calls
47. Blockingveterans from seeing their own WWII
memorials during shutdown
48. Allowing illegals to protest on mall during the same
govt shutdown
49. Shutting down white house (people's house)tours
50. Solyndra bankruptcy cost to taxpayer's
51. "Obamacarewill not be used to fund abortions."
52. Eric Holder -- tooooo much to list with this liar-
incompetent
53. Millions losing health care coverage
54. RECORD welfare rolls
55. RECORD hollywood parties on the taxpayer's dime
56. RECORD campaign tours on the taxpayer's dime
57. RECORD exorbitant vacations on the taxpayer's dime
58. RECORD number of golf games of any president, on
taxpayer's dime
59. RECORD secret service agents compared to ANY
other president, on the taxpayer's dime
60. Unconstitutional obama recess appointment
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61. Taking all credit for SEAL Team 6 success
62. Forcing businesses to violate their abortion religious
beliefs with obamacare
63. Obamacare website no-bid contract website-cronyism
that cost $634Mto build (and the website NEVER
worked),amazon.com cost < $50M to build
64. Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists with arms
and money in Syria, on the taxpayer's dime
65. NSA acting as Obama Gestapo, spying in ALL
AMERICAN telephone calls.
66. Proposed amnesty for illegal law breakers
67. Spying on Americans, on American soil, with drones
68. NEVER having a balanced budget
69. CONSTANTLY contracting economy under Obama
70. The Russians invaded Ukraine, (and obama does
NOTHING)
71. 6 million people losing their healthcare thanks to
obamacare.
72. "The United States maintains a 'rock-solid' commitment
to Israel"
73. Illegal fundraising for obamacare by Katherine Sebelius
(solicitation of money from the companies she
regulates) (and obama does NOTHING)
74. Katherine Sebelius TOTAL incompetence in rolling out
obamacare (and obama does NOTHING)
75. ex-IRS official Lerner takes 5th
76. Failed to fund our Nation’s military
77. Higher Spending and No Balanced Budget—EVER
78. $1.2 Trillion in Higher Taxes
79. known obama supporter appointed to investigate IRS
targeting scandal
80. Buying clothes at The Gap: "Oh wow; credit card
machines had electronic signature pads"
81. former Soviet union laughs at Obama's ukraine
sanctions.
82. >70% of obamacare signups from people who LOST
their insurance BECAUSE OF obamacare in the first
place!!
83. In Maryland: Obama celebrates 60,000 obamacare
signups…. BUT 73,000 lost insurance BECAUSE OF
Obamacare!!
84. Obama did NOTHING to prevent some 150,000 people
being killed in Syria, and he and the LIBERALS are
silent on the matter.
85. On April 6th, 2014 obama gave a speech on the 20th
anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda lecturing about
“the world’s failure to respond more quickly” and that
“we always have a choice . . . we must never be
indifferent.”
86. Obama demands "equality" but only pays women 88
percent of what it pays men
87. "We're focused like lasers on job creation!!!"
88. "Jobs are our number one priority!!!!"
89. 6 million full time US workers sustain 149 million
"benefit takers" in the USA under the "obama
recovery."
90. "Republicans still can’t bring themselves to admit that
the Affordable Care Act is working."
 91. "If Republicans want to spend all their time talking
about repealing a law that’s working, that’s their
business."
92. 169th round of golf on 4/19/14 while Putin re-
assembles the USSR and jews are being ordered to
report in the Ukraine.
93. Syria uses chemical weapons crossing obama's "red
line" and Obama is SILENT on the matter.
94. 04/21/2014 Obama delays the keystone pipeline for the
45th time.
95. China has become the #1 economy with
"ObamaNomics."
96. Iran WILL have a nuclear bomb under Obama.
97. there are 92 million unemployed (may 2014) THAT IS
51% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, including retirees
98. in 2013, under the direction of Barack Obama, The
Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody 36,000
illegal immigrants who had been convicted of murder,
sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault,
and drunk or drugged driving.
99. incompetence at the Veterans Affairs Administration.
Our veterans died…..obama hires a "coverup"
specialist Rob Nabors to assist in the White House’s
reputation for deception.
100. Almost every photo of Obama at the White house
shows obama with his feet on the historically significant
antique furniture….no respect for its historical
significance
101. >40 veteran patients die after being placed on a hidden
waiting list that could last for up to a year, while officials
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at the hospital shredded documents and faked
evidence to make it seem as if waiting times were
under control.
102. New Horizons in Presidential Dignity: President Obama
does the "Shake Shack Shimmy" during his visit to the
sandwich joint in Washington Friday May 17th 2014.
U6 unemployment rate: 17.8%
103. May 17th 2014: Greater than Fifty million working-age
Americans aren’t working, according to the labor
department, and Obama pushes immigration plan.
104. "STINKBURGER"
105. King Barry's "executive actions"
106. Russia signs a contract with Iran to build two more
nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a
broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic
state.
107. New Record: Price of Gas Above $3 Gallon for 1,245
Days…
108. Incomprehensible!! 5-30-14 ILLEGAL negotiation with
terrorists: 5 gitmo Taliban terrorist leaders ILLEGALLY
released for one American ARMY DESERTER: BOWE
BERGDAHL
109. Obama negotiates with terrorists to release an army
deserter because "we can't leave an American
Behind" but does nothing for the Marine being detained
illegally in Mexico, less than 1 mile away.
 Obama Just Lied About His Scandal-Marred Presidency
But Here’s Why He Always Gets Away With It
Posted On May 25, 2018
(National Sentinel) Liar-in-Chief: Former President
Barack Obama has such a massive problem telling the
truth he should seek treatment.
Earlier this week the liar-in-chief actually told a
technology conference in Las Vegas that his two terms in
office were “scandal-free.”
Newsweek reported:
President Barack Obama took a light swing at
his successor during a tech conference in Las
Vegas on Wednesday. His eight years in office
were scandal free, he told the audience.
“I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it
shouldn’t be something you brag about,”
Obama joked.
President Donald Trump’s presidency has thus
far been racked with scandalous allegations,
but Obama later hedged his barb. “But actually,”
he said, “if you look at the history of the modern
presidency, coming out of the modern
presidency without anybody going to jail is
really good. It’s a big deal.”
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If that made you a little nauseous, it’s because you
remember all the Obama scandals, from Fast and Furious
to Benghazi to the IRS targeting of conservative groups to
the Democrats’ own version of Watergate — Spygate.
Speaking of the IRS targeting, a federal judge just awarded
the targeted groups $3.5 million for this Obama ‘non-
scandal.’
Mind you, it’s not unusual for Obama to lie like this; he’s
very accomplished at that particular ‘skill.’
What’s pathetic is that the like-minded Left-wing liars in
the “mainstream media” keep letting him get away with it,
just like Newsweek did — again.
The reporter, Nicole Goodkind, never challenged Obama
on that massive lie. The closest she got was this passage:
The former president’s foes would disagree with
that analysis, pointing to the 2012 Benghazi
attack, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay, an
IRS plan to scrutinize tax-exempt political
groups based on the particulars of their politics
and problems with the Affordable Care Act
website.
Of course, those were scandals — and
that’s a very short list.
What’s more, there should be far more disagreement from
people other than his “foes” — like from those in the
pathetic Pravda news media who are supposed to speak
truth to power.
Obama gets away with telling these massive lies because
the adoring media let him.
 Trump Slaps Dems For
‘Rooting Against’ North Korea Summit
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:37 AM 05/25/2018

Trump appears to be referencing comments by Democratic

House leader Nancy Pelosi who remarked that the
president’s letter read “kind of like a Valentine” and

“when you got this letter from the president

saying, ‘okay, never mind,’ [Kim Jong Un]
must be having a giggle fit right there now
in North Korea.”

Pelosi also defended MS-13 gang criminals recently and

President Donald Trump hit back at his Democratic critics derided Republican-led tax cut legislation as “crumbs.”
for allegedly cheering on his cancellation of a summit
between himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Trump canceled the summit in a Thursday letter saying,

“Sadly, based on the tremendous anger

and open hostility displayed in your most
recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate,
at this time, to have this long-planned
meeting.”

Trump noted that he still hopes to meet Kim Jong-Un at

some point if their regime agrees to the terms set out by
the U.S. and said if he changes his mind that they should
not hesitate to reach out. The president thanked the North
Koreans for releasing three U.S. hostages detained by the
regime under false pretenses.
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Deep State Bill Priestap Visited London During Same Time
Period As Downer’s Meeting With Papadopoulos
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:43 Am

Bill Priestap, the FBI Assistant Director On Thursday The Hill reported that Bill
for Counterintelligence, traveled to Priestap will testify in June in front of
London in May 2016. Congress.

This was around the same time as Aussie politico and Also set to testify is John Giacalone who preceded Michael
Clinton supporter Alexander Downer met with young Steinbach as the bureau’s top national security official and
George Papadopoulos for drinks. oversaw the first seven months of the Clinton probe.

Investigative journalist Undercover Huber put this Giacalone reportedly quit the FBI in protest over how the
together— higher ups were killing the Clinton email investigation.

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SUMMARY

What was one of the FBI’s top counterintel

officers doing in London in mid-May, if the
FBI counterintel probe supposedly didn’t
open until Jul 31 2016 & the FBI didn’t
receive the Downer “tip” *until* July? At the
same time DOWNER is chatting to
PAPADOPOULOS?

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 Dear New York Times:
Call A Spy A Spy [VIDEO]
Anders Hagstrom - Justice Reporter
8:47 AM 05/25/2018

The question now is, did the FBI instruct Halper to

infiltrate the Trump administration after the election?

Trump thinks so, and if he’s right, this could be one of the
biggest political scandals in American history.

Stefan Halper was spying on President Donald Trump’s

campaign, and it’s high time The New York Times
acknowledge it.

The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Anders Hagstrom

explains the difference between a “spy” and an
“informant,” and why Halper is clearly the former, despite
claims from the Times. His actions toward Trump
campaign advisors George Papadopoulos and Carter Page
are totally disqualifying, but the Times continues pushing
the idea that the FBI was working totally above board with
no abuse of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts.
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 COLUMNIST: ‘A Democratic Watergate
Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes’
Mike LaChance
May 25, 2018, 9:06 Am
For months now, Democrats and their media allies have
been saying that Trump colluded with Russia and has
threatened American democracy. But it’s starting to look
like the opposite is true. It looks like the Democrats and
the Obama administration are the guilty ones.
Adriana Cohen has a column on the subject that is going
viral.
She writes at the Boston Herald:
Democrats’ Russia truth coming out
A Democratic Watergate is unfolding before our eyes.
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It’s no wonder Obama’s former CIA chief John Brennan is
tweeting like a madman, attacking President Trump, House
Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell.
Brennan’s running scared because it’s starting to look like he
may have been a co-conspirator in the biggest political scandal
since, well, Watergate.
Yesterday, Trump met with FBI Director Christopher Wray,
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Director of
National Intelligence Dan Coats to inquire if Brennan’s CIA and
the FBI spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, as reported by
The New York Times and other media last week.
If it’s confirmed that the Obama administration used U.S.
intelligence agencies and the Justice Department to go after
political opponents — to keep Democrats in power through a
presidential election cycle — Attorney General Jeff Sessions
should immediately un-recuse himself from the Russia “collusion”
witch hunt, shut it down and open a criminal investigation into all
parties involved.
And to think that Democrats and their puppets in media have
been calling Trump the greatest threat to democracy all this time
when their party may have been using authoritarian tactics
against the leader of the opposition party and his associates.
This could get really ugly, folks.
 Trump Points Out
Hypocrisy On ‘SPYGATE’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:18 AM 05/25/2018

Meeting of the President of the United States Donald Trump with the
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in New York -- ShutterStock
Drop Of Light

President Donald Trump once again became incensed on

Twitter Friday amid reports that a confidential informant
made contact with his 2016 campaign.

Trump is generally reacting to recent revelations that an

FBI informant made contact with several members of his
campaign and efforts by conservative lawmakers to review
documents relating to the probe.

Several lawmakers who reviewed the documents during

Thursday meetings at the Department of Justice though
Democratic lawmakers said they did not change their view
that a spy infiltrated the campaign. Republican lawmakers
did not discuss the meeting.

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 President Trump HAMMERS Democrats And Their Deep
State Partners On #Spygate Lies And Omissions
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 9:30 Am

with the expenditure of far more money,

LOST! Everyone knows there was a Spy,
and in fact the people who were involved in
the Spying are admitting that there was a
Spy…Widespread Spying involving multiple
people.” Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
Senior Editor But the corrupt Mainstream
Media hates this monster story!

President Donald Trump hammered

Democrats and their Deep State
partners in government and the media
on the Obama Spygate scandal on
Friday morning.

The president called out the Democrat-

Media Complex on their ‘spy-informant’
word games. Democrats and their
mainstream media are working
feverishly to downplay the spying inside
the Trump Camapaign in 2016.
President Trump also called out the
media for ignoring and lying about the
timing of the investigation.
It looks like all of the lies may be
catching up with the Democrats.

President Trump:

The Democrats are now alluding to the

concept that having an Informant placed in
an opposing party’s campaign is different
than having a Spy, as illegal as that may
be. But what about an “Informant” who is
paid a fortune and who “sets up” way
earlier than the Russian Hoax? Can
anyone even imagine having Spies placed
in a competing campaign, by the people
and party in absolute power, for the sole
purpose of political advantage and gain?
And to think that the party in question, even
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 Nolte: ‘Trump Hate Has
Finally Killed Off The 1960s’
Posted On May 25, 2018
(National Sentinel) Lapdog Hypocrites: You may not
have lived through the turbulent 1960s, but there is plenty
of material on YouTube, Netflix, and other platforms if
you care to research the period.
They were shape-shifting times for certain. The Vietnam
War was in full-swing and increasingly unpopular.
The old societal norms were being destroyed by Left-wing
academics and rising cultural icons revolted against “The
Establishment,” which was primarily a reference to
‘government’ in general, but the federal government in
particular, and all of its various law enforcement and
intelligence agencies which had been unleashed against
people Martin Luther King, Jr., and others.
My, how times have changed, writes Breitbart‘s John
Nolte. Yesterday’s Left-wing, establishment-hating hippies
are, today, quite content with the same establishment that
once persecuted their cultural heroes.
And President Donald Trump is the cause of their sudden
change of heart, he notes in a column:
Here is what I never thought I would see…
The children of the ’60s — you know, the
hippies — and their ideological offspring in
academia, politics, and, most especially, the
media, are now not only okay with a sitting
president’s weaponizing the intelligence
community against a rival presidential
.
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campaign; they are all rolling over like whipped
dogs to believe everything the intelligence
community tells them, most especially when it is
coming from the CIA — the CIA! — and the FBI.
Basically, Trump has driven the hippies and
their offspring so crazy they are not only A-okay
with the CIA’s spying on American citizens,
totally cool with FBI spies infiltrating a rival
campaign, and feeling warm all over about
wiretaps, unmasking, and lying to federal
judges, they do not want any of this
investigated.
The other day, Carl Bernstein of Watergate
fame was on CNN fuming over the fact that
there will now be an investigation of the Obama
administration, the Department of Justice, the
CIA, and the FBI, after it was discovered they
are all guilty of spying on the political rival of a
sitting president.
Carl freakin’ Bernstein does not want the
watchmen watched.
Bernstein, you may recall, was one half of The Washington
Post reporting team who, with partner Bob Woodward,
exposed the Watergate scandal, which led to the
indictment of some 40 White House officials and President
Nixon’s resignation.
Oh but…wait. Nixon and his staffers were Republicans.
Got it.
Nolte notes further:
After the civil rights movement, the best thing to
come out of the ’60s was a healthy skepticism
of our national intelligence apparatus and a
vigilance against its abuses. The era of the
unquestioning ’50s was finally over. But now,
because of Trump, all of that has vanished. The
hippies have become the squares, the round
haircuts, the unquestioning white bread, middle
class, Ward Cleaver 50s dads who blindly
salute their G-Men.
The more things change, the more they stay the same when
it comes to the Left.
Obama Admin Attorneys Team With Seth Rich’s Brother –
Sue Private Eye Team Investigating Seth Rich
By Alicia Powe
May 25, 2018, 9:43 Am
A team of private eyes investigating the
death of Seth Rich are facing two major
lawsuits prosecuted by high powered
Democratic establishment attorneys for
uncovering evidence that insinuates the
slain DNC staffer’s murder have been
politically motivated.
Aaron Rich, the brother of Seth Rich, filed a lawsuit in
April in US District Court in the District of Columbia,
against America First Media accusing conservative activist
Matt Couch and other individuals and media organizations
for peddling “false and unfounded claims” about him and
acting “with reckless disregard for the truth.”
The lawyer representing Aaron Rich, Michael J. Gottlieb,
recently concluded four years of service with the Obama
Administration.
He served as Special Assistant to the President and
Associate White House Counsel from 2009- 2010, where
he focused on national security law and judicial
nominations.
In January 2010, he left the White House to serve as
Senior Civilian and Deputy Director of Combined Joint
Interagency Task Force 435 in Kabul Afghanistan.
Following his time in Afghanistan, Gottlieb returned to the
White House Counsel’s Office, where he served until the
end of February 2013.
A second attorney prosecuting Aaron Rich’s case is David
Boies, chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
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Boies has been involved in various high-profile cases in
the United States, including United States v. Microsoft
Corp., Bush v. Gore and the defense of Harvey
Weinstein against sexual abuse allegations.
In an interview with Gateway Pundit, Couch questioned
how Rich, whose family couldn’t afford a private
investigator, is able to afford the high powered legal team
comprised of Obama’s White House counsel.
“This is who Aaron Rich gets to represent
against our team – can you imagine what it
would charge to hire Harvey Weinstein’s
defense lawyer? I don’t know how Rich
hired these attorneys – the Rich family
couldn’t even afford a private investigator,
that’s why Ed Butowski offered to pay for
Rod Wheeler,” he said. “But now they can
afford the most expensive and powerful
Democratic law firms in the country – how
does that happen?”
The suit is the Democratic establishment’s attempt to stifle
independent investigations, Couch argued, because if the
DNC truly wanted to justice for Rich they would have
offered reward money to find Rich’s killers and would
have availed its server to the FBI after the alleged hack.
“They thought Hillary would win and they
would move on with business as usual, and
this would never be talked about. The bike
rack – that’s the only thing they’ve ever
done.
It’s amazing, we haven’t seen anyone
from the DNC – no one – has cried out
for justice in this murder. Not one
Democratic politician has mentioned
Seth Rich, think about that,” he said.
“Out of all the Democrats in Congress,
Senate, the Department of Justice, not one
Democrat has ever mentioned wanting to
see justice done the Seth Rich case.”
Couch’s investigative team is comprised of former veteran
law enforcement officers who have longstanding
background investigator credentials, including Frank
Whalen, former head of NYPD Homicide for 23 years, Bill
Pierce, who has worked as a private investigator for 24
years in multiple states, Hannibal Moot, Investigative
researcher and editor of Bull Truth Magazine and the
current Metro SWAT Commander whose is name Couch
won’t disclose for safety.
“The DNC destroyed the servers,” he said.
“If you really thought you were hacked by a
foreign entity, would you not go to the FBI?
Why would you go to an outside firm?”
Rich was murdered July 10, 2016, near his affluent
neighborhood in Washington, D.C. He was shot in the
back with a handgun at 4:18 a.m. while he walked home,
and nothing was taken from him. He was transported to a
local hospital and was pronounced dead at 5:57 a.m.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich’s death and days before
the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia,
WikiLeaks began publishing 44,053 emails and 17,761
attachments from top DNC officials, leading to speculation
that Rich was the source of party emails turned over to
WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has not only repeatedly
denied that Russia or any “state party” was involved in the
leaking of DNC emails, he has also appeared to hint that
Rich might have been the source.
The Rich family’s insistence that
investigating whether Rich leaked emails is
“hurtful” and “defamatory,” is alarming,
Couch explained.
“They don’t want this solved – I get in
trouble for saying that, but I am a father. If
something happened to one of my kids, I
would not rest until I find out who killed
them, regardless of where it leads. Anyone
who has kids, there’s no way you would roll
over and accept a scenario of ‘we’ll never
know what happened to him,’” he said.
“They are not giving any information.”
“They wouldn’t give their [private
investigator] Rod Wheeler Seth’s phone,
the phone records, the laptop.” he
continued. “I just don’t understand why they
don’t want to know who killed their son,
their brother? Whether or not you believe
their botched robbery narrative – I don’t –
there is still a murderer on the loose.”
The mainstream media networks have ignored recent
revelations concerning Rich’s case. The little coverage
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they have spent on the investigation has been devoted to
dismissing speculation surrounding Rich’s murder as
“conspiracy.
But it’s not a conspiracy theory that the DNC issued
checks to the cyber security CrowdStrike hours after Rich
was fatally shot, Couch contends.
“We found the two large payments. One,
the day after Seth Rich was murdered and
the other the day after Shawn Lucas was
found mysteriously dead, face down, in his
bathroom at 38 years old in DC. Both
connected to the DNC, Lucas with the
DNC lawsuit and Rich was a DNC
employee. You start putting all of this
together – how am I a “conspiracy theorist”
for presenting you with the facts?”
The “hurtful conspiracies” surrounding Rich breaching
DNC data would end if law enforcement would release the
autopsy, ballistics report and medical examiner report,
documents that are typically made public in homicide
investigations, Couch argued.
“The MPD insists that they have lost all
leads. If they have exhausted all leads, why
don’t they hand investigators and
journalists he ballistics report, why don’t
they give us the autopsy, why don’t they tell
us the caliber of weapon that was used,
why don’t they give us the surveillance
video? If they really want to hush the
“conspiracy” stuff up, why are they hiding
all of this information? Where is the body
cam footage of the 4 or 6 officers.”
Couch is facing a second lawsuit that
was filed Monday by Brad Bauman, a
Democratic political crisis consultant
with the Pastorum Group and former
spokesperson for the family of Seth Rich.
According to CNN, Bauman, filed the lawsuit in US
District Court for the District of Columbia seeking
monetary relief and court-ordered solutions, known as
injunctive relief, asking for “false and defamatory
materials to be removed from any websites over which
defendants have control.”
Couch has yet to be served, he first learned about
Bauman’s lawsuit from CNN.
“How in the world does CNN have a 15 or
20 graph article up before I’ve even been
served papers?” he wondered. “Bauman is
upset that I called him a crisis management
expert, according to the CNN article – it’s
pretty remarkable. You are talking about a
 guy from the Pastorum Group, their own
website states that they are professional
crisis management – that’s what they do.
“The reason I called him a crisis expert is
because on August 11, 2016, Julian
Assange and WikiLeaks, guess what they
called him? A ‘professional crisis’ fixer. Our
team is always used the same terminology
that WikiLeaks used and Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks put that out about Brad Bauman,
that was the day after Assange first
mentioned Seth Rich on that TV show.”
He continued:
Couch denied Bauman and Rich’s claims that he is
benefitting monetarily from YouTube and Periscope by
“peddling conspiracies” about Seth.
“It’s frivolous what we are fighting here
with these lawsuits. We have a freedom
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of the press. Everything that we have
reported has been 100 percent from our
sources. Aaron claims that we doxed
where he worked – a complete fallacy. He
had a professional LinkedIn profile and it
showed where he works, Northrop
Grumman on a defense contract. It was on
Reddit, it was in the Jewish Free Press –
all of these different publications have all of
this information out there. Yet, he is suing
us for reporting where he worked and they
all put the information out first.”
“I am a conservative journalist, I was
‘permanently banned’ from monetization on
Periscope and cannot be a super
broadcaster a month or two after I started
Periscoping. We have never made a dime
on Periscope, we’ve never made a dime on
YouTube. I don’t have a platform of a Sean
Hannity or a Tucker Carlson.
How in the world is a guy from Arkansas
who has a group of 10 patriots from
around the country with no TV, no radio
platform on a national level. How are we
that big of a threat to these folks?”
 Richard Painter Desperately Trying
To Distance Himself From Bush, GOP
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
10:06 AM 05/25/2018
A longtime lawyer for former President George W. Bush
who is running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota as a
Democrat is really trying to distance himself from the
Republican party.
Richard Painter, 56, is listed a Democratic candidate for
U.S. Senate in the state of Minnesota on the
FEC website and has raised nearly $15,000 as of March
31.
Painter plays out his journey to the Senate race on his
campaign website, a journey he wants voters to see as
characterized by ethical behavior, fighting the Republican
establishment (dating back to former President Ronald
Reagan) and a commitment to public service.
The timeline dates back to 1980 while Painter was at
Harvard. In 1981, Painter says he
“spoke out against President Reagan’s aid
to the oppressive right-wing government in
El Salvador.” The following year he called
out “Reagan’s reckless deficit spending
and cuts to social programs.”
Painter goes on to say how, during his time in Illinois, he
spoke out against corruption in both political parties,
mentioning two Republican examples and one Democratic
instance.
He labels his time serving in the Bush administration as
one of public service but without a political agenda.
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“Took a leave of absence from teaching at
the University of Illinois College of Law to
serve as Associate Counsel to the
President and chief White House ethics
lawyer. The White House ethics lawyer’s
job is not a policy or political job. The fact
that Mr. Painter often disagreed with the
policy preferences of the contemporary
Republican Party was irrelevant. His
consistent theme for decades has been
that ethics is not political,” Painter’s website
states.
Painter lists a number of accomplishments since leaving
the Bush administration, like pushing for same-sex
marriage in Minnesota, fighting the NRA in a New York
Times op-ed after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook
elementary and writing another op-ed pushing for the
immediate Senate confirmation of former President Barack
Obama’s failed nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to
the United States Supreme Court.
Painter notes that he went on to become the vice chairman
of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW). Painter is on a leave of absence from CREW,
which he announced in early March, coinciding with the
launching of his exploratory committee for a potential
Senate bid.
CREW was the group behind the lawsuit against Trump in
which lawyers argued that the president violated the
Constitution’s emoluments clause when he did not sell or
put his assets behind a blind trust. The case was dismissed
in December, but the group notified the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of New York in February of its
plans to appeal.
When Painter notes his involvement with CREW, he refers
to the president as “Donald Drumpf,” a reference to a bit
on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” in which host John
Oliver started a campaign to call Trump by his reported
original family name.
In 2016, Painter
“became Vice Chair of Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a
bipartisan government ethics watchdog
 group that later filed a lawsuit against
President Donald Drumpf for his receipt of
profits and benefits from foreign
governments in violation of the
constitution,” his website states.
Painter also wants voters to know that he selflessly
contributes to major news networks, offering his best legal
takes on the current affairs of the Trump administration.
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“Without compensation, appears as an
expert on hundreds of news shows for
CNN, MSNBC, BBC, PBS, NPR, I-24,
WCCO and many other television and radio
outlets to condemn ethics violations,
obstruction of justice and constitutional
violations by President Trump and his
administration,” his website states.
 President Trump Knocks Obama Repeatedly In Annapolis
Speech: “We Are Not Going To Apologize For America.
We Are Going To Stand Up… America Is Back!”
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 10:14 Am

“We are not going to apoligize for

America. We are going to stand up for
America.”

This was an obvious knock on Barack Obama’s policy of

apologizing and appeasement.

President Trump also told the crowd,

“We’ve gained the respect that we used

to have long ago. Yes, they’re
respecting us again. America is back!“
President Donald Trump delivered the
commencement speech at the Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

President Trump took several swipes at

his predecessor Barack Obama during
his speech to the pro-military crowd.

President Trump:

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 Wild ‘Hardball’ Panel Calls Trump Presidency ‘Fake’;
Supporters ‘Buying Into A Total Hallucination’
By Curtis Houck
May 25, 2018 10:20 AM EDT
For those keeping score at home, this is the third post on
Thursday’s Hardball, so that should tell you plenty about
the straight jacket-worthy craziness that unfolded on
MSNBC from start to finish.
It began at the top with ringleader/host Chris Matthews
setting a grim picture of the country’s future down to
NBCNews.com’s Heidi Przybyla seeming to question the
intelligence of those in flyover country for not
understanding the ramifications of the Russia probe.
Matthews set the tone in his opening lines:
This week, President Trump proved he's
willing to destroy this country's law
enforcement institutions in order to protect
himself from justice. Using a conspiracy
theory to trash the Justice Department and
the FBI, he's attempting to extort
information about the investigation of him
and his campaign.
Mother Jones’s David Corn was another character of note,
first ranting about how supposedly fake every story from
unmasking to Uranium One was and concocted by
“Donald Trump and all his minions,
including people in Congress,
Republicans creating alternative
realities” that was all so reckless that “[t]o
just call it a conspiracy theory is to give
too much credit.”
Corn went on a tangent about how “Russia attacked this
country” and the Trump White House has, somehow, kept
American from getting to the bottom of what happened:
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Just fake facts to get out there to distract
from the core issue, Russia attacked this
country and while Russia was attacking this
country during the 2016 campaign, the
Trump campaign was sending out positive
signals to Russia and denying to the public
that this attack was under way and every
moment they throw up one of these, you
know, confusing narratives, it distracts and
keeps us from talking about the real thing
itself and now it's degrading the Justice
Department.
Matthews showed his habit of not realizing the irony in his
statements when he moved to Przybyla and, while
condemning the President’s ugly birtherism beliefs,
suggested that Trump
“is running a fake presidency” that
“doesn’t exist.”
The MSNBC pundit also took aim at conservatives, talk
radio, and Trump supporters by observing that, on the
claims of Trump campaign surveillance,
“they’re eating it up” and “buying into a
total hallucination and that scares me.”
Well, when you put it that way, it sounds like it’s time to
run down to an old nuclear fallout shelter.
As for Corn, behold this incredible level of hypocrisy on
the issue of civil discourse:
How had do you break through that? How
do you have a set of facts that you can talk
about and deal with them and have a true
national discourse? Trump is doing
everything possible to make sure we can't
have an honest debate because he can't
survive one.
If Corn wants to go down this road of incivility, let’s do
that. Here’s a sampling of NewsBusters headlines from
over the years with Corn playing a starring or supporting
role in spewing venom:
  April 6, 2017: Disgusting: MSNBC’s Corn, Matthews
Think Action in Syria Is Distraction from Russia
Probe
 April 4, 2017: MSNBC’s Matthews, Corn Meltdown,
Claim Susan Rice ‘Unmasking’ Controversy Is
Racist and Sexist
 May 4, 2014: David Corn: 'For Many Conservatives,'
Benghazi Like a 'Candy Store,' But 'The Bins Are
Empty'
 May 31, 2013: MSNBC's David Corn Sneers: I
Thought 'Charlton Heston Wrote' Ricin Attack
Letters
 January 11, 2013: MSNBC's David Corn: Rush
Limbaugh Is 'Calling For John Wilkes Booth'
Finally, Przyzbyla took a page from Showtime’s Alex
Wagner by lashing out at Trump having “a far-right
media echo chamber” unlike Richard Nixon with
supporters not sharing the same feelings as the liberal
media about the Russia investigation affecting our daily
lives:
Chris, I was in the heartland this past week
in Cadillac, Michigan, and every place that I
walked into had those chryons up at the
bottom of Fox News talking about spies
infiltrating the Trump campaign. No matter
what they say, 30 percent of the people are
going to believe it and this is why it's
working, Chris, because at the end of the
day, no matter what Mueller's
recommendations are, it's not up to him to
take action. Who is up to? It's up to
Congress. Congress will have to look at
those findings and decide whether or not to
impeach. You have that question out there
still about whether you can indict a sitting
president. That leaves it to Congress. So, if
they can throw up enough of a fog and just
exhaust people about what the truth is,
they've succeeded because when the
findings come out, 30 percent at least will
not believe them.
Yeesh. Tell us how you really feel.
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
May 24, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s Hardball
May 24, 2018
7:00 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Trump at his worst. Let’s play Hardball.
[HARDBALL OPENING CREDITS] Good evening. I'm Chris
Matthews up in Boston. This week, President Trump proved he's
willing to destroy this country's law enforcement institutions in
order to protect himself from justice. Using a conspiracy theory to
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trash the Justice Department and the FBI, he's attempting to
extort information about the investigation of him and his
campaign. Today, in an apparently effort to placate the President,
the Department of Justice took some steps to yield to his
demands. In two separate meetings, top Justice Department and
intelligence officials met with Trump's congressional allies and
other lawmakers to go over confidential materials about the use
of an FBI informant in the Russia probe. Afterwards, speaking on
behalf of the Democrats, Congressman Adam Schiff said there
was nothing in the briefings to support the President's conspiracy
theory.
(....)
7:03 p.m. Eastern
DAVID CORN: Well, it’s extraordinary but it's a continuation of
what we've seen for over a year now. First they said unmasking
was the real scandal. It wasn't. Then they said Obama bugging
Trump was the scandal. No, it wasn't. Then it was FISA warrant,
Uranium One and now it's this phony baloney story about a spy
on the campaign. This is Donald Trump and all his minions,
including people in Congress, Republicans creating alternative
realities. To just call it a conspiracy theory is to give too much
credit. Just fake facts to get out there to distract from the core
issue, Russia attacked this country and while Russia was
attacking this country during the 2016 campaign, the Trump
campaign was sending out positive signals to Russia and
denying to the public that this attack was under way and every
moment they throw up one of these, you know, confusing
narratives, it distracts and keeps us from talking about the real
thing itself and now it's degrading the Justice Department.
MATTHEWS: Heidi, how do you as a straight reporter keep the
focus on reality away from this bogus reality that Trump keeps
creating? He, in many ways, is running a fake presidency. This
doesn’t exist. This whole thing doesn't exist any more than the
birther thing existed. It's made-up stuff, all the stuff David just
mentioned is fabricated, fake. And yet, it's covered because the
President of the United States deserves daily press coverage.
How do you stop covering what is fake itself? Is it possible?
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: And if no one is stopping in his own party,
Chris, and that is why is this is continues to happen and now
Rosenstein is doing his level best. He’s making a calculation here
that he's going to try and in the end, save this investigation by
mollifying this President in terms of even agreeing to this meeting
in the first place. But what happened? As soon as he agreed to
the meeting, Chris, a day later is when the President began this
whole Spygate tweeting conspiracy. And so the President, what
he's doing, is taking any and every advantage when that sliver
opens in the door to throw up the fog like David said. This is
round three. We saw the wiretapping allegations, we saw the
unmasking allegations. All of it bogus. And today, now no one
coming out of that meeting and saying that there was any
credibility to these accusations there was a spy in his campaign.
On the contrary, what was confirmed by James Clapper was that
someone, an informant, was needed because of evidence-based
investigation showing that there was a need for someone to go
into the campaign and find out what the heck was going on with
the Russians trying to communicate with the potential future
President of the United States.
(....)
7:09 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: David, let's go back to something we've been
before — been through together this [sic] and that's the ability of
a president to create reality, to create something because he is
president that people begin to believe must it be sort of real. So
had you Bush getting us into the war in Iraq based upon
whatever, a cold creation of stuff he created where he never
really admitted his own motive so he came up with a motive for
the country, something called WMD and how they had it and
blah, blah, and there were meetings in Prague, blah, blah, blah
and all kinds of stuff and Cheney lied and all that and they
created a reality. Here's a President who uses words like spy and
Spygate and people out there in the talk shows, I just know
they're eating it up. They’re eating it up the columnists on the
right. They’re buying into a total hallucination and that scares me.
What are we going to do in our democracy as we move forward
to prevent presidents from not — from creating something out of
nothing just for their political survival?
CORN; Trump is doing something new here. You and I have
been through a bunch of scandals whether it was Watergate,
.
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Iran-Contra, even the Monica Lewinsky stuff and the campaign
finance scandals of the Clinton years and, of course, WMD stuff
and there never was a dispute over some basic realities. There
was a break-in at Watergate. Arms were sold to Iran and money
given to the Contras and people accepted these things once they
emerged. People tried to keep them hidden, but once they came
out, and the question was who knew what, was there a violation
of law. There time around, Donald Trump has, I guess learned
the lesson of marketing that the truth doesn't matter. So he gets
out there and says there was no attack. You know, it's all a hoax.
It's all a witch hunt and he knows 30 percent of his people, the
people who he said would stick with him even if he shot someone
on Fifth Avenue will accept his and I heard this frustration in
Heidi's voice when she spoke a few minutes ago. How had do
you break through that? How do you have a set of facts that you
can talk about and deal with them and have a true national
discourse? Trump is doing everything possible to make sure we
can't have an honest debate because he can't survive one.
(....)
7:12 p.m. Eastern
PRZYBYLA: But to the previous point of why this is different, I
want to address that, Chris. What Nixon did not have was a far-
right media echo chamber
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
PRZYBYLA: — that is allowing this to happen. Chris, I was in the
heartland this past week in Cadillac, Michigan, and every place
that I walked into had those chryons up at the bottom of Fox
News talking about spies infiltrating the Trump campaign. No
matter what they say, 30 percent of the people are going to
believe it and this is why it's working, Chris, because at the end
of the day, no matter what Mueller's recommendations are, it's
not up to him to take action. Who is up to? It's up to Congress.
Congress will have to look at those findings and decide whether
or not to impeach. You have that question out there still about
whether you can indict a sitting president. That leaves it to
Congress. So, if they can throw up enough of a fog and just
exhaust people about what the truth is, they've succeeded
because when the findings come out, 30 percent at least will not
believe them.
MATTHEWS: Well, the question arises when is the party of
Lincoln going to be represented by someone like Lincoln? And
loyal to that tradition. Asked whether the meeting today was
appropriate, House Speaker Paul Ryan backed calls to
investigate the investigators and defended Trump's actions in the
name of transparency.
 Did Trump’s NAFTA Play Just Work Itself Out?
Vandana Rambaran
10:23 AM 05/25/2018
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rolling again on North American Free Trade Agreement
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The nations have been at a standstill in coming to an
agreement on trade despite nine months of talks, because
Mexico and Canada refuse to meet America’s demand for
wage increases in the auto industry and push to expand
North American content in cars, Reuters reported
Thursday. President Donald Trump has been unwavering
on these stipulations in an effort to create jobs in the U.S.,
a promise he made to the American people during the 2016
campaign.
Trump’s “America First” trade agenda prioritizes
reclaiming American manufacturing jobs that were lost to
overseas competitors and renegotiating NAFTA to return
more auto production to the U.S.
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The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it
was launching a national security investigation into car and
truck imports that may be “weakening our internal
economy” and “impair national security,” according to
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Trudeau responded in an interview with Reuters.
“I am – even more than I was with steel
and aluminum – trying to figure out where a
possible national security connection is,” he
said.
Still, both leaders from Canada and Mexico insist they
will not reach a deal until the agreements prove they
protect the interests of each country respectively.
“If an agreement is reached, it will be one
that truly benefits Mexico. If these
conditions don’t exist, Mexico will not move
forward,” said Pena Nieto’s spokesman,
Eduardo Sanchez.
Trump’s new investigation could be the key to reach an
agreement on NAFTA.
“NAFTA is very difficult. Mexico has been
very difficult to deal with. Canada has been
very difficult to deal with … but I will tell you
that in the end we win,” Trump told
reporters at the White House on
Wednesday. “We will win, and we’ll win
big.”
 Comey On Trump Spy Claims:
‘I Know It Not To Be True’
Ian Hanchett
25 May 2018

biggest scandal since Watergate. My guess is,

two weeks from now, there will be something
different than this. But I don’t know anything
about those facts.”

Host Conan O’Brien then asked,

“[D]o you find that to be at all possible or

probable…that there was a spy inserted into his
campaign by an intelligence agency?”

Comey responded, “I don’t find it possible, and I

On Thursday’s broadcast of TBS’ “Conan,” former FBI know it not to be true.”
Director James Comey stated that he knows President
Trump’s claim that there was a spy inserted into his
He continued,
campaign is untrue.
“And the facts are knowable, and I gather today
Comey responded to the president’s tweet on the subject
there was a meeting on Capitol Hill where
by saying,
Democrats and Republicans got to see the
actual facts, which is why I’m confident that
“I — as best I can tell, it’s made up. I don’t know something else will be bigger than Watergate
where he’s getting that from, honestly. And, a next week.”
number of things he’s announced were the
.

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 Obama Brags At Tech Conference:
‘I Did Not Have Scandals As President’
Virginia Kruta
10:35 AM 05/25/2018
Former President Barack Obama called out President
Donald Trump while he spoke at a Las Vegas tech
conference on Wednesday, claiming that his time in office
had been free of scandals.
“I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it
shouldn’t be something you brag about.”
Obama later clarified the comment, admitting that a
scandal-free presidency could be a difficult
accomplishment.
“But actually, if you look at the history of
the modern presidency, coming out of the
modern presidency without anybody going
to jail is really good. It’s a big deal.”
A Fox News panel hosted by Sandra Smith and featuring
Juan Williams and Rachel Campos-Duffy addressed the
comments on Thursday morning, and Duffy quickly let
loose on the former president:
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“That’s so laughable. First of all, we’re
sitting on the mother of all scandals
spygate. When this onion is unpeeled, it
will go all the way to the top of the
resistance movement — to Valerie Jarrett
and Barack Obama himself. They will get
there if the press lets us do that in real
time. The Obama legacy is one of using the
tools of government to ruthlessly take down
opponents. That’s what he did. The IRS
Scandal. He used the DOJ And FBI, by the
way, to go after Donald Trump. Those
three institutions … [have] destroyed the
credibility of those institutions, which is a
scandal in and of itself.”
Campos-Duffy also mentioned Operation Fast and
Furious, and Smith mentioned the attack in Benghazi, but
Williams fought back in Obama’s defense:
“I’m listening with a smile. It seems to me,
amusing. What a different magnitude of
scandal we’re talking about. We have a
president in office who was revealed to be
… have knowledge and have lied about
secretly paying money to a porn star.”
Smith pointed out that Obama was referencing his time in
office, and the president’s alleged affair with Stormy
Daniels occurred over a decade ago. Williams responded
quickly, referencing the indictments of Manafort,
Papadopoulos, and Cohen and suggesting that the Trump
administration was a contrast to that.
“That’s what I’m saying. We already have
in the Mueller investigation indictments of
President Trump’s first national security
advisor. We don’t have that in the Obama
Administration.”
Campos-Duffy got the last word, saying again that
Obama’s claim was “ridiculous.”
“He knew about Hillary Clinton’s server,”
Campos-Duffy explained, “and emailed her
on it and he had his AG work to call it just a
matter and he had a compliant press.”
 Chris Matthews To Schiff Staffer:
'You've Got To Say Something That Leads To
Impeachment'
By P.J. Gladnick
May 25, 2018 11:12 AM EDT
Have you noticed how frustrated much of the liberal media
has become over the lack of any evidence of Trump-Russia
collusion? Well, Thursday's Rolling Stone devoted a long
article by Tessa Stuart giving one excuse after another why
no such collusion has been discovered, How the House
Intelligence Committee Collapsed on Adam Schiff.
The subtitle is "The Inside Story Of The California
Democrat's Failed Crusade To Investigate Donald
Trump." However the big story here is contained in the
very first paragraph in which it is revealed that Chris
Matthews, obviously frustrated by Adam Schiff's
appearances on Hardball in which nothing new is ever
revealed as to collusion, tells a Schiff staffer what is really
needed:
"Here's some advice," says Hardball host
Chris Matthews. It's 6:30 p.m. on a
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Wednesday in MSNBC's Washington, D.C.,
greenroom. Rep. Adam Schiff, who just
wrapped up an appearance on The Beat
With Ari Melber, is getting his TV makeup
wiped off, while Matthews offers some
political wisdom to Schiff's deputy
communications director. "You've got to
say something that leads to
impeachment," Matthews urges.
"Anything. That's the business we're
in."
Yeah, because for over a year, Adam Schiff has become a
repetitive borefest during his numerous appearances on
Hardball and other shows. He reveals absolutely nothing
new as to Trump-Russia collusion. This has caused Chris
Matthews to inform Schiff's communications director what
is really needed to keep the audience from tuning out:
"Something that leads to impeachment.
Anything."
Oh, and as to Tessa Stuart wondering why the House
Intelligence Committee "collapsed" on Adam Schiff,
perhaps it is the same reason that the Senate Intelligence
Committee as well as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has
found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. And that
reason is simply because there was no Trump-Russia
collusion. A shocking but sad fact for liberals such as
Chris Matthews.
 McCain Admits Iraq War Was A Mistake
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
11:14 AM 05/25/2018

Republicans to get behind it. The Arizona senator has

previously stated that his support for the Iraq War rested
with his experience during Vietnam, where he was
captured as a prisoner of war. McCain believes America
could have won.

“I will defend the decision to destroy

Saddam Hussein’s regime as I criticized
the failed tactics that were employed for too
long to establish the conditions that will
Sen. John McCain heads to the Senate floor ahead of votes on Capitol allow us to leave that country with our
Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. country’s interests secure and our honor
Bernstein
intact,” McCain said in a 2008 speech. “We
are in Iraq and our most vital security
GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona admitted Friday that interests are clearly involved there.”
the Iraq War was a mistake.
He continued to hold that opinion even years later.
“The principal reason for invading Iraq, that
Saddam had WMD, was wrong,” McCain
“I came out of the Vietnam War convinced
wrote in his new book. “The war, with its
that frankly we could have won, and we
cost in lives and treasure and security,
had it won,” McCain told Politico. “Just as I
can’t be judged as anything other than a
believed we had the Iraq conflict won after
mistake, a very serious one, and I have to
the surge—and for which I sacrificed
accept my share of the blame for it.”
everything, including my presidential
ambitions, that it would succeed.”
McCain was one of the biggest supporters of the initial
surge into Iraq in 2003 and was actually one of the first
.

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 Trump To Stick Around,
Shake Hands Of Every Naval Academy Grad
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:43 AM 05/25/2018

“I was given an option. I could make this

President Donald Trump will spend hours at the U.S.
Naval Academy shaking the hands of the nearly 1,100
graduates after delivering a commencement address, he
said Friday.
commencement address, which is a great
honor for me, and immediately leave and
wave goodbye. Or I could stay and shake
hands with just the top 100. Or I could stay
for hours and shake hands with 1,100 and
something. What should I do? What should
I do?” he jokingly posed to the crowd that
chanted, “Stay.”
“Ok, I’ll stay,” he declared.
Trump delivered a triumphant speech during the
ceremony, saying,
“We are not going to apologize for America.
We are going to stand up for America. No
more apologies. We are going to stand up
for our citizens. We are going to stand up
for our values. And we are going to stand
up for our men and women in uniform.”

The president continued to tout his record in passing a

$700 billion increase in military spending and a recall of
American accomplishments culminating the section of his
address with a simple declaration:

“America is back.”
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 ‘You’re Fired!’ — Trump Drops Classic Line,
Naval Academy Crowd Goes Wild
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
11:50 AM 05/25/2018

“Now, if you don’t do a good job, you don’t

take care of our vets, they look at you right
in the eye and they say, ‘Jim, you’re fired.
Out, out! You’re fired. Get them out of
there.'”

President Trump was talking about veterans’ issues during

his speech at the Naval Academy graduation Friday.

He dropped his classic line,

“You’re fired!” and the crowd absolutely

loved it.

WATCH: The audience burst into applause and laughter.

“We are taking care — finally, after “They all said you couldn’t get that. They
decades — we’re taking care of our tried to get it for 35 years. We just say, ‘Get
veterans. We passed V.A. Accountability. them out of here. He doesn’t take care of
Everybody said it couldn’t be done. That’s if our vets.'”
you don’t do a good job, you couldn’t get
fired.”
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 Deep State Mueller’s FBI Gave Orgy Island Billionaire
Epstein Light Sentence – And Now Suspected
Of Using Him As Informant
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 12:41 Pm

In June 2016 TGP reported that Bill Clinton visited the

infamous Orgy Island (as reported by ZeroHedge) –
If you can name it — it has likely taken place this the
lavish private island off the coast of Puerto Rico which
boasts a beautifully landscaped plush luxury estate
complete with its own helipad, privy only to certain
members of the global elite.
Owned by Jeffery Epstein, a wealthy American financier
and convicted sex offender, Little St. James Island appears
to be somewhat of a gathering place and is a well desired
hangout among key figureheads, actors and royalty to the
likes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey
and even Prince Andrew.
However, the people attending the lavish residence are
likely do not go there to discuss “cutting edge scientific
and medical research” as the Epstein VI Foundation would
like you to believe, but rather go there to experience full-
on sexual encounters with underage girls as young as
fourteen.
In 2008 Epstein was hit again, this time with a $50 million
civil suit after another victim, a woman, made a filing in a
federal court claiming that she was “recruited” by Epstein
to give him a “massage” but was essentially forced into
having sexual intercourse with him for $200, which was
payable upon completion.
Additionally it is important to point out
that Bill Clinton has been mentioned by
the press often over the years — and
not just for his controversial
relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but
rather his friendship with Jeffery
Epstein.
In fact, flight records indicate that ol’
Billy-boy would frequent the island
paradise around the 2002 and 2005 era,
while Hillary, Bill’s wife, was a Senator
in New York.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

That’s right, just like a scene out of the Hollywood Now we find out that corrupt Mueller
blockbuster film Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise, from the phony Russia – Trump hoax,
from wild parties to prostitution, orgies and even underage was the Head of the FBI at the time
sex, Little St. James reportedly has it all and is seemingly a Epstein’s case was prosecuted.
gathering point frequented by prominent jet-setters, and it
is all being exposed. The cat is out of the bag so to
speak… It looks like Mueller was even involved in the case.

Back in 2005 police conducted an 11-month-long The Epstein case was run out of DC:
undercover investigation on Jeffery Epstein and his estate
after the mother of a 14-year-old girl went to police after
suspecting her daughter was paid $300 for at least one
sexual act on the island in which she was ordered to strip,
leaving on just her panties while giving Epstein a massage.

Although police found tons of photos of

young women on the island and even
interviewed eyewitnesses, Epstein was
hit with a mere slap on the wrist after
“pleading to a single charge of
prostitution.” Epstein later served 13-
months of his 18-month service in jail.

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Five months after the plea deal was reached, FBI agents
still haven’t interviewed all the victims/witnesses. FBI
agents haven’t even seen all the physical evidence.

Mueller’s FBI required Epstein to provide information to

the FBI –

More support on Mueller corruption –

his FBI never interviewed all the victims.

Now there are questions whether Epstein was an informant

for the FBI –

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 Corrupt Mueller destroyed the FBI with
years of corruption. This man in no way
should be leading an investigation into
anything on behalf of this great country.

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 CNN Touts HBO Doc On McCain,
Says Trump Calls Him 'Traitor' To GOP
On Obamacare
By Tim Graham
May 25, 2018 12:42 PM EDT

Rubbish. As Robert Robb summarized in the Arizona

Republic:

This is one instance in which President

CNN’s New Day on Friday promoted the gushy new HBO
documentary on John McCain, with substitute host David
Briggs lamenting that President Trump “perpetuated...that
John McCain is in a sense almost a traitor to the
Republican Party.” Peter Kunhardt, the HBO film’s
creator, bizarrely claimed the hallmark of McCain’s career
is “the consistency of his message.” But he also said the
“culmination” of the film is McCain flip-flopping on the
repeal of Obamacare.
Trump's criticisms of McCain are well-
founded. McCain did run, as Trump is
drumming, on a strong repeal-and-replace
platform. In fact, it was the principal
distinction he drew with his Democratic
opponent, Ann Kirkpatrick. He would vote
to repeal Obamacare. She would not.
McCain did not say that he would vote to
repeal Obamacare, provided Democrats
agreed. If he had, his Republican primary
with Kelli Ward might have turned out
differently.
CNN began by playing gushy praise of McCain from the
film by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and David Brooks.
Then came the “traitor” passage:

In 2016, McCain ran for re-election on repealing the

health-care mandate. But in 2017, after his cancer
diagnosis, he voted against repeal. But CNN promoted
McCain as heroically unifying:

DAVID BRIGGS: All right, Peter, if you look

through John McCain's life, a pilot, a
prisoner of war who refused early release,
a congressman, a senator, a presidential
candidate, is service the common thread
throughout his life?
PETER KUNHARDT: Service and country BRIGGS: Perhaps Memorial Day will give
above party and courage. He's always had people a little perspective on what he's all
the courage to stand up to whatever the -- about. I mentioned that service throughout
whatever the issue is or the person is who his entire life, but he, Peter, has become
he's against. So he's -- one of the things probably the most divisive figure in politics,
we found most interesting is the and I don't mean Democratic politics, I
consistency of his message. You know, mean among Republicans, because of one
what he's saying today to kind of bring the thing, this thumbs down vote on health
Senate together resonates today because care.
of all the turmoil in Washington, but he's
The president has perpetuated this, that
been saying it for decades. And if you go
John McCain is in a sense almost a
back in his career, he's been very
traitor to the Republican Party. What
consistent.
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 does he make of that, being so -- a
divisive figure as he fights for his life?
KUNHARDT: You know, I think what he
makes of it -- and the thumbs down is kind
of the culmination of the film. What he
makes of it is, it's noise, and he's trying to
filter out the noise. When we first went to
Sedona to interview him, Trump was down
there for a rally and there were a lot of calls
-- catcalls against McCain. He's saddened
by it. He's put off by it. But he doesn't want
to address them point by point. He thinks
when something comes out that's highly
outrageous, he'll -- or wrong, he'll address
it.
.
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And we, as filmmakers, knew that if we didn't kind of keep
our blinders on and look at his narrative story without
getting caught up in the political noise of the day, we
would never kind of focus in on the true McCain.
They put on the "blinders" all right. The "political noise of
the day" is that McCain flip-flopped. As Politico gushed,
he
"dealt the fatal punch to the GOP’s seven-
year campaign promise to shred
Obamacare apart. He's now become a
hero for Democrats, effectively voting to
protect the chief legislative achievement of
President Barack Obama, his opponent in
the 2008 presidential campaign."
ROGER STONE EXCLUSIVE: Mueller Can Indict A Ham
Sandwich But I’m Not Interested In Being His Lunch
By Assistant Editor
May 25, 2018, 1:08 Pm
THE COMING POLITICAL LYNCHMOB
By Roger Stone
Both The Hill and CNN are now reporting that Special
Counsel Robert Mueller is interrogating at least eight of
my current and former associates and is asking questions
about my personal life, my political activities, my pro-
Trump activism, my book sales, my personal business and
even my family relationships. Wait! I thought this was
about Russian Collusion, WikiLeaks and the bogus claim
that I had advance notice of the content, source and exact
release date of the DNC emails which so rocked the 2016
Presidential race?
That the Special Counsel is now examining the minute
details of my personal finances and taxes according to The
Hill and CNN proves precisely my point; this is not about
Russian Collusion or misdeeds in 2016, this is about
fabricating any infraction in order to indict, silence and
punish me for my support for Donald Trump.
This comes on the heels of a fake news assault in which
the Wall Street Journal’s Shelby Holliday took exculpatory
e-mail I provided her that fell outside the precisely worded
scope of the House Intelligence Committee document
request which confirms my claim that I never dealt directly
with WikiLeaks or Assange but had a back-channel. My
September request that this source find out if WikiLeaks
had any information on the murder of Qadaffi is a
legitimate journalist inquiry that the WSJ tries to make
seem improper in some way.
Adam Schiff’s claim that I was obligated to turn this e-
mail exchange over to the House Intel Committee and did
not is false and if he could take a five-minute break from
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the television cameras he could read the wording of the
Committee document request and would know this. This
Shelby Holliday is the epitome of Fake News.
Having come up empty-handed in their attempt to find
evidence or proof of Russian Collusion, trafficking in
allegedly hacked emails with WikiLeaks or any advance
notice of the publication of John Podesta’s emails, the
Special Counsel is now clearly engaged in an effort to
conjure up some other offense perhaps even
mischaracterizing independent efforts that I took to
successfully elect Donald Trump, at the same time sifting
through my financial records, bank accounts and personal
and family life.
I am mindful of the Alan Dershowitz claim that the
average American inadvertently commits at least three
felonies a day and I am facing an ad hoc federal
prosecutorial juggernaut, with an unlimited budget and
apparently no effective limitations on anything it does nor
any subject matter or area of inquiry that it has not been
broadly-empowered to aggressively scrutinizing, picking
and probing through every molecule of my personal and
professional life, deploying federal agents to conduct fine
tooth microscopic review of my political and personal
activities. Including badgering at least eight of my current
or former associates.
I recognized Mr. Mueller could indict a
ham sandwich but I’m not interested in
being his lunch.
I recognized that this partisan witch hunt is very much
driven by this fake news media outlets like MSNBC,
CNBC, Huff Po, Slate, Salon, Vice, The Daily Beast and
the despicable Raw Story engaged in a constant drum beat
of misinformation in a relentless attempt to contradict what
Anderson Cooper called “total consistency” in my claims
about WikiLeaks and the 2016 election.
These people scream for my blood on a
daily basis.
Now I know how the Christians felt in the Roman
Coliseum when the crowd called for them to be fed to the
lions.
In addition to badgering my associates about my finances
they also seem focused on the most intimate aspects of my
personal life, my business and personal relationships.
Private detective services have
confirmed that my cell phone and text
messages are under surveillance and
access to my email was obtained
through an illegal FISA warrant that the
New York Times reported I was subject
to on January 20th of 2017.
Surveillance without probable cause, hoping an offense
can be confected.
The agenda of the Mueller inquisition is clear. It is to
silence me as a critic of the partisan nature of their inquiry
and the Gestapo tactics that they employ as well as their
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efforts to bankrupt me and punish me solely for the act of
being for Donald Trump. It is also to issue a report that
will serve for the basis for an impeachment drive in the
increasingly unlikely event that the rabidly Democratic
captures control of The House. The President must wake
up to the true nature of the Mueller juggernaut which has
been aided and abetted by the de facto Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein. The President’s enemies’ enmity towards
him is rank and their resolve to remove him should not be
underestimated.
Politico has introduced a new potential goal of the Mueller
team, which is to threaten to indict me unless I flip and
testify against the President who has been my friend and
who I have wanted to run for President for nearly thirty
years. Although the New York Times has reported that
President Trump is “afraid” of me, he has nothing to fear
as I am his most loyal and steadfast supporter.
 White House Lauds Three Big Wins On Capitol Hill
New Laws Will Make The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau More
Accountable, Help Veterans Get Better Care Faster And Open Access
To More Treatments For The Terminally Ill
By Connor Wolf
Updated 25 May 2018 At 3:22 PM
White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short
highlighted a long list of legislative accomplishments
Friday, including major three bills that were approved in
just the last week.
“We want to take a few minutes at the end
of a very productive work session here to
highlight a couple of bills that passed both
chambers this week and were sent to the
president’s desk,” Short said during a
conference call with reporters.
“I think often with all that’s going on
internationally and I think some of the
coverage of continuing investigations and
perhaps palace intrigue, there is a lack of
focus on what’s actually getting
accomplished legislatively,” he said.
President Donald Trump entered office with an ambitious
policy agenda and fierce resistance from Democrats, the
liberal mainstream media, non-profit advocacy community
critics and others who back or benefit from activist
government. He has promised to help struggling workers,
clamp down on illegal immigration, reduce burdensome
regulations, and make trade fairer, among much else.
Short singled out three bills passed this week that were
designed to rollback some financial sector regulations,
make available access to experimental drugs for terminally
ill patients and provide veterans with more healthcare
options.
“We want to take a few minutes at the end
of a very productive work session here to
highlight a couple of bills that passed both
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chambers this week and were sent to the
president’s desk,” Short said during the
call. “I think often with all that’s going on
internationally and I think some of the
coverage of continuing investigations and
perhaps palace intrigue, there is a lack of
focus on what’s actually getting
accomplished legislatively.”
The Dodd-Frank Act was implemented in response to the
Great Recession of 2008 and established the Consumer
Financial Protection Board (CFPB) to enforce multiple
new provisions to prevent dangerous lending practices by
major banks.
But critics have contested that the reforms went too far by
hindering smaller banks and making it harder for people
and businesses to access capital. The CFPB has also been
plagued by mismanagement, personnel problems and
excessive intrusions on consumer privacy.
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer
Protection Act was passed to ease up on regulations that
impact smaller banks and make the CFPB subject to
congressional oversight. Opponents argued the
reforms could allow for the same dangerous practices that
led to the 2008 crisis. The president signed the measure
into law Thursday.
The Veteran’s Choice Accountability Act aims to help
veterans to have private sector healthcare choices rather
than just the troubled U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The bill scraps the current choice program outright while
streaming the process and lowering barriers for veterans
seeking outside medical help.
The Right to Try Act was passed to help patients who have
been diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill allows
them to obtain unapproved drugs when they’ve exhausted
approved treatment options and are unable to participate in
a clinical trial. Critics say it undermines the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) ability to protect against bad drugs.
“I think these three big bills have given us
the chance to reflect, not just on the last
week, but what we view as a very
 productive Congress with historic tax
reform, the repeal of the individual
mandate, the largest funding increase for
the military since the Reagan years, the
first pay raise in 10 years for our troops.”
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Short added that lawmakers and the president have also
been able to get some funding for the border wall, increase
the budget for border patrol agents, rollback regulations
from the last administration, and confirm U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
 Deep State Clapper’s Latest Line: We Weren’t Spying – It
Was “Benign Information Gathering”
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 3:57 Pm

James Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the
FBI was spying on the Trump campaign — but he didn’t
like to use “that word.”

Now this…

Clapper is continuing to change his story. Today he told

Axios the deep state spying on Trump was actually

“Benign version of information gathering.”

Via Zero Hedge:

“He deliberately spun it, distorted it. I mean this

is George Orwell — up is down, black is white,
peace is war. That’s exactly what I didn’t say. I
Obama’s former DNI Chief James Clapper took aversion to the word spy, it was the most
told CNN last Thursday “it was a good benign version of information gathering. The
thing” the FBI was spying on Trump’s important thing is the whole reason the FBI was
campaign. doing this was concern over what the Russians
were doing to infiltrate the campaign, not spying
This was after he initially denied the on the campaign.
Intelligence Community was spying on
Donald Trump. So now they’re calling if “benign
information gathering.”
Clapper told CNN it was a good thing if the FBI had
someone Until Clapper’s next interview.

“observing” the Trump’s campaigns interaction

with the Russians because the “Russians
posed a threat to the very basis of our political
system.”

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 Dissecting Lies From The Deep State Media
Derek Hunter - Contributor
4:12 PM 05/25/2018

ways the media manipulate their audience by not only

what they say, but how they say it.

On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast…

The summit with North Korea is off, or is it? As the

situation is in flux, Democrats are scrambling to accuse
President Trump of dropping the ball and giving Kim
Jong-Un a victory on the international stage. They’re
cheering, actually. But this is the “Art of the Deal,” this is
what Trump does. And now North Korea is saying they
want to meet again, which makes Democrats look even
worse. In the past few weeks, liberals have sided with
Hamas against the U.S. and Israel, with MS-13 against
Trump calling them “animals,” and now the North Koreans Hillary Clinton won’t go away. After lecturing women on
against the United States. How long till Kim is declared how they disrespected themselves by voting for Donald
the Democratic Party’s nominee for 2020? We mock them Trump, and standing on stage laughing hysterically as
roundly. Madeleine Albright said,

WATCH: “There’s a special place in hell for women

who don’t support other women,” Hillary
endorsed New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo for re-election over challenger
Cynthia Nixon. Is there an extra special
place in hell for hypocrites?

Jake Tapper delivered a monologue Thursday, couched as

a report, on how members of Congress were “aghast” by
the White House sending Chief of Staff John Kelly and
deputy White House Counsel Emmet Flood attended the [ED Note:There is a special place in hell for women like hillary
Clinton]
classified briefing of the “Gang of 8” intelligence heads in
Congress. So who was “aghast”? An anonymous Democrat
staffer. But that didn’t stop CNN from framing it as if it Democrats attempted a hit-job on a Trump judicial
was the sentiment of many, if not most, people in nominee Thursday, trying to paint Wendy Vitter as a racist
attendance. We dissect it thoroughly and expose the subtle who doesn’t support Brown vs. Board of Education. It’s

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standard practice for judicial nominees to not comment on
specific cases, already decided or not, because it could
compromise their objectivity should a similar case come
before them. Democrats, knowing that, chose Vitter and
the landmark civil right case specifically to try to create
outrage over Vitter to claim a scalp. We tell you how it
happened, play you the clips from the hearing, and rip it
apart. It’s pretty disgusting.
Screen capture from CNN.com
The land down under is thinking about banning books
from school libraries that use gender-specific pronouns.
Why? Because liberals won’t stop until everyone is
wearing the same unitard, has the same bowl-cut hairdo,
and gender no longer exists. The party of science sure likes
to deny biology.
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Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the
world, was pardoned Thursday by President Trump.
Convicted of violating the Mann Act, a racist law passed
by Democrats to target inter-racial couples, Johnson served
10 months in prison. He’s now been pardoned. Since
everything is political, some liberals tried to make this
pardon about Barack Obama, saying he didn’t pardon
Johnson because he was very worried about the pardon
process being seen as political. Of course, Obama
commuted the sentences of terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
and traitor Bradley Manning for political purposes, but
why let the facts stand in the way of a good narrative?
Screen capture from Twitter
Finally, from the “don’t be an idiot” file, a man in a kayak
picked a rattle snake out of the water and swung it around,
getting bitten in the process. He nearly died. Why did he
pick up a poisonous snake? Because he thought is was an
alligator. Don’t be an idiot.
 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT:
It’s Time To Impeach The President (Obama)
By Assistant Editor
May 25, 2018, 5:51 Pm
Liberals will be shocked to hear this. Yes, I finally agree.
You’ve won over Wayne Root with evidence and common
sense. It’s time to impeach the president.
However, it’s not President Trump I’m talking about. It’s
time to impeach former President Barack Obama. And of
course, prosecute him too.
Many are starting to come to this conclusion. Tom Fitton,
the legal genius behind Judicial Watch (the number one
government watchdog in America), has come to the same
conclusion. Fitton said this week that amidst a climate of
impeachment fervor, the actual evidence points to
Obama’s actions warranting impeachment far more than
Trump. Fitton reports that ordering surveillance and
sending spies into the Trump presidential campaign are all
grounds for post-Presidency impeachment and more
importantly, prosecution.
None other than greatly respected former White House
Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said this week,
“I guarantee the answer is yes”
as to whether Obama knew the FBI had planted spies into
the Trump campaign. He says no FBI Director would dare
infiltrate a presidential campaign without the direct
approval and authorization of the sitting president.
Welcome to my world. I’ve screamed about Obama’s
illegal actions for years. Starting of course with his attempt
to use the IRS to destroy my life. But I’m just one of
thousands of victims. I have always understood the lengths
Obama would go to, to destroy his political opposition.
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Obama didn’t just authorize illegal spying, surveillance
and FISA warrants based on fraud, paid for by Hillary and
the DNC. He ordered it all.
Somehow this must all be getting through. Despite 93%
negative news coverage from the mainstream media,
President Trump is sitting pretty at 50% approval at
Rasmussen (the most accurate pollster of the 2016
election). More shockingly, Reuters generic Congressional
poll has shifted from Democrats winning by 16 points back
in February, to Republicans up by 6 points this week.
YES, I said Republicans are now leading by 6 points.
That’s a 22-point swing in a matter of months. And a 9-
point swing in a week. The supposed “blue wave” is
finished.
Why do you think this is? Because the average American
now understands what happened. It isn’t Trump who did
anything wrong. He was clearly framed by Obama, Hillary
and their minions in the DC Swamp (FBI, DOJ, CIA and
NSA).
But far worse is the reason for the framing. First, Obama
had a personal hatred and obsession with Trump- for
daring to ask questions about Obama’s birth certificate,
place of birth and college records. Second, Obama was on
the hook for his own crimes: spying, surveillance, criminal
weaponization of government agencies like the IRS. And
he was also on the hook for allowing Hillary’s crimes,
including the Uranium One deal, where the Clinton
Foundation received $140 million in donations from
Russia.
But that was only one of many corrupt deals while Hillary
served as Obama’s Secretary of State. Jay Sekulow of the
American Center for Law and Justice reported days ago his
organization has uncovered THOUSANDS of docs
showing Pay-to-Play between Hillary’s State Dept and the
Clinton Foundation. He called Hillary’s State Dept a
“favor factory.”
Sekulow found 30,000 emails between Hillary, her top
staff and the Clinton Foundation. This is crime on a
massive unprecedented scale. The State Dept became a
division of a private company (a charity scam), using
taxpayer money to dole out government contracts to
Hillary’s donors.
How much money changed hands? Billions? How many
crooked deals? Hundreds? How many other members of
Obama’s administration got cut in on the bribes? Could
President Obama have had a piece of the action? Obama
desperately needed Hillary to win, or he’d face criminal
prosecution. Remember what Truman said, “The buck
stops here.”
And then there was this news: WikiLeaks reports Obama
was a veteran of illegal spying. They claim to have proof
.
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Obama ordered the CIA to spy on all of France’s
presidential candidates.
Who else did Obama spy on? What other world leaders did
he try to frame just like Trump? How about American
politicians, like his 2012 opponent Mitt Romney? Obama
and Hillary tried to fix the 2016 election. Is it possible
Obama fixed the 2012 election with spying and
surveillance vs. Romney?
Yes, the media is right. It’s time to start talking about
impeachment and prosecution of a president…
Obama.
 Assange Reportedly Offered To Meet Adam Schiff,
Congressman Refuses ‘Unless He Is In US Custody’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 25, 2018, 6:59 Pm

“our committee would be willing to interview

Julian Assange when he is in US custody, not
before.”

In yet another example of how Rep. Adam Schiff does not

actually want to know the truth about how WikiLeaks
obtained leaked emails from the Democratic National
Committee, the Congressman has denied an invitation to
meet with Julian Assange — unless he is in US custody.

Appearing on MSNBC on Friday, Randy Credico, a

personal friend of Assange, announced that he had met
with Schiff on Wednesday to extend the offer for a
meeting.

“I had gone there with a mandate from

Assange for Mr. Schiff to go over there and
interview him,” Credico said. “I got the okay
from Assange for him to do that.”

Credico asserted that Assange had sent him on a “secret

mission” to invite Schiff so that he could clear everything
up.

“If he wants to go over there… he’s waiting for

him,” Credico said of Assange.

However, in a response to Credico’s announcement, Assange has now been without phone, internet or visitors
Schiff’s office sent Ari Melber a cowardly statement other than his lawyers for nearly two months. This is
declaring that reportedly due to pressure from the US government to
drive him out of the embassy where he has political
asylum.
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 BREAKING=> Presidential Attorney Rudy Giuliani:
Trump Legal Team Wants Briefing On FBI Spies In
Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 7:49 Pm

BREAKING: Presidential Attorney Rudy

Giuliani says the Trump legal team wants to
be briefed on the Obama FBI campaign
spying scandal.

The AP reported:

President Donald Trump’s legal team wants a

briefing on the classified information shared
with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI
investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016
presidential election and may take it to the
Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle
the ongoing special counsel probe.

Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s attorneys, told The

There were at least four Trump campaign
operatives who were approached during the
2016 campaign by FBI spies to set up the
Trump campaign.
.
Associated Press on Friday that the White House hopes to
get a readout of the information next week, particularly
about the use of a longtime government informant who
approached members of Trump’s campaign in a possible
bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the
election.
The FBI won’t be able to lie during this
briefing — if they want to stay out of prison.

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 Disgraceful. Mitch McConnell Tells
Reporters He Supports The Mueller Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:40 Pm

briefing that he continues to support special

counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential
election, including possible collusion between
the Trump campaign and Moscow.

McConnell told NPR that Mueller’s investigation and a

separate probe by the Justice Department’s inspector
general into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election will
ultimately provide answers to a number of questions
swirling around the presidential race.

Senate Majority leader is no friend of
President Trump or his supporters.
The Kentucky Republican told the media he
supports the Mueller witch hunt on
Thursday.
“The two investigations going on that I think will
give us the answers to the questions that you
raise — the [inspector general] investigation in
the Justice Department and the Mueller
investigation,” McConnell told NPR.

This was after Democrat and Republican

leaders were briefed on Thursday on the
Obama deep state spying on the Trump
campaign.

Disgraceful.

The Hill reported:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-

Ky.) said Thursday after attending a classified
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 Tucker Battles Progressive On Gas Price Hikes
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
9:43 PM 05/25/2018
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson took a progressive radio host to
task on Friday for Democratic hypocrisy on rising gas
prices.
WATCH:
The Daily Caller co-founder started the segment by noting
that Democrats have been calling for higher gas prices for
decades because they think it will “somehow help fight
global warming.” However, now that gas prices are higher
under President Donald Trump, Carlson explained that
Democrats now oppose the idea.
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Progressive radio host Chris Hahn argued,
“Trump should be attacking himself…he said [in
2011] blame the party in power for high gas
prices.”
“I think that’s fair,” Carlson conceded, “but that
doesn’t change the fact that Democrats as of
last week…are calling for gas tax increases.
They’re for a higher gas tax — it’s in the
Democratic platform.”
“What kind of sick person do you have to be to
attack someone for what you’re calling for?”
Carlson asked incredulously.
Hahn retorted that Democrats are calling for a “useful” tax
that will go to “other projects” rather than Trump’s
policies, which Carlson again noted that Democrats have
previously supported.
“He’s doing what Democrats have called on the
country to do and it’s having an effect they
agree with,” Carlson asserted. “It’s all so
dishonest. It’s mind-blowing.”
 CNN Discovers Devin Nunes
Is Well-Liked Back Home
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:06 PM 05/25/2018

his work investigating potential FISA abuses and partisan

corruption in the FBI.

However, when CNN reporter Kyung Lah got to his

district, she discovered that most of the constituents she
spoke to really appreciated the job he is doing in Congress.

“Here, all we can do is vote for someone hoping

CNN visited House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes’ district in California and found out that most
of his constituents actually like him.
WATCH:
they can do something there,” Lillian Krider
said, asserting that she thinks Nunes is the guy
who can “do something.”
“For Devin Nunes, these registered
Republicans are squarely in his corner,” Lah
said in a voice-over as the camera panned over
a group of elderly women eating in a diner.
“Especially when he’s an attack dog for Trump.”

“I like that he does stick up for our president,”

Krider added. “I mean, the president is our
leader whether we agree with him or not.”

“I appreciate his honesty and his being open

with the people,” another supporter explained.

When the report ended, anchor Jim Sciutto wondered if the

Democrat challenging Nunes for reelection would be able
to put up a close race.
CNN opened the segment by noting that Nunes is “often
accused of carrying water for President Trump” because of
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 Key Facts Of The Trump-Russia
Investigation That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Stephanie Hamill
10:35 PM 05/25/2018
Did the Obama administration take more action to stop
Donald Trump from winning the election than it did to
stop Russia from interfering in it?
That’s what former White House press secretary Ari
Fleischer thinks. On Twitter he called out the Obama
administration for the events that took place in the summer
of 2016.
WATCH:
As more and more information comes out regarding who
knew what and when, it appears that Fleischer may have a
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point. Here are just a few of the steps taken by members of
the Obama administration to stop Trump:
 Susan Rice, then-National Security Advisor, unmasked
members of the Trump transition team.
 The FBI had an information source close to the Trump
campaign.
 John Brennan, then-CIA director, had information about
the dossier and allegedly funneled it through unofficial
channels to help it get out.
 James Comey, then-FBI director, may have “slow-
walked” the Clinton investigation — and was convinced
to publicly refer to it as a “matter” rather than an
investigation — for political reasons.
 Then we have Vice President Joe Biden who admitted
that both he and President Obama were aware of
Russia’s attempts to influence the election, yet the
administration didn’t take bold action to prevent it.
One year later, investigators have come-up empty handed.
The effort to prove Donald Trump’s campaign colluded
with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election is
backfiring for the Democrats. What we are learning is that
the bigger threat to our democracy may be coming from
some in the Democratic Party and from some in our
nation’s most powerful agencies.
 President Trump Stands And Shakes Over 1,000 Navy
Graduates’ Hands For Over An Hour – Hillary Sits And
Receives Harvard Attendance Prize
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 7:43 Am

Yesterday we saw on video the difference

between President Trump and Hillary Clinton.
President Trump stood in the summer sun for
over an hour and a half to shake the hand of
every graduate from the Navy Academy. Hillary
Clinton sat for an hour while receiving an award
from Harvard for her ‘battles won and lost’.

President Trump spoke at the Navy Academy’s Graduation

Ceremony for the Class of 2018. After his speech he
stayed and honored the graduates by shaking the hand of
each and every young graduate. This required the President
to stand in the sun and shake hands for an hour and a half.
(Quite an accomplishment for anyone, yet alone a man in
his early 70’s.)
Hillary Clinton was also in the news
yesterday. She donned a winter coat while
sitting and receiving an award from Harvard
University.

Eighteen months after she lost the presidential election to

Donald Trump, Hillary Rodham Clinton received
something of a hero’s welcome Friday, as she accepted the
Radcliffe Medal, an award given annually to an individual
who has had a transformative effect on society.

“We honor her today for all of her battles, won

and lost,” said Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at
Here is the video of the President shaking all the graduates Harvard University, which presents the award.
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Hillary’s outfit is thought to cover the fact that she is
wearing a medical related back brace. Although the
temperatures were in the high 80’s, she wore the winter
coat.
There were no pictures of Hillary being carried up stairs at
this event.
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The two events yesterday show the extreme
differences between President Trump and
Presidential candidate Clinton. Healthy
President Trump honors graduates for work
well done, while sickly Hillary is given an
attendance prize from far left academics at
Harvard for losing an election. And there it
is!
 Porn Star Lawyer Avenatti Accused By Courts Of Acting
“With Malice, Fraud And Oppression” – Suddenly
Disappears From CNN
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 8:14 Am

Avenatti may not be in the news due to information he

received this week –

On Tuesday, a federal bankruptcy court judge in Southern

California ordered a law firm managed by Michael
Avenatti to pay $10 million to an attorney who claimed
that the firm stiffed him on the first installment of a $4.85
million settlement — resulting in critics labeling him a
“tax cheat” on social media.

 Maybe CNN found out that Avenatti didn’t pay taxes for
three years in spite of making $30 million. This was
uncovered by the courts who stated he acted with

There are many reasons why CNN would “malice, fraud and oppression”.
stop airing broadcasts with slimy porn star
lawyer Michael Avenatti – if CNN sincerely
wanted to set a standard for truth they never
would have had him on!

According to FOX News, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for

porn star Stormy Daniels, was a regular on CNN and other
MSM (Mainstream Media) outlets over the past two
months –

Last week, Rich Noyes and Bill D’Agostino of the Media

Research Center reported that from March 7 to May 15,
Avenatti was interviewed on national television a
whopping 147 times – with 74 of the appearances on Jeff
Zucker’s CNN.

Avenatti appeared on TV another seven times since the

study was conducted, but only one of the appearances was
on CNN – a May 22 appearance on “Anderson Cooper
360,” according to the MRC, which noted it was the
lawyer’s 22nd appearance on “AC 360.”
CNN and the MSM aired creepy Avenatti in an attempt to
disparage President Trump. Instead, this may have hurt the
MSM as many Americans see through their efforts to
attack the President. The fact that the porn star story is not
working may be the reason Avenatti is no longer the voice
of the radical left. But then again, it may be Avenatti
himself.
 Maybe CNN is not interviewing Avenatti on the air
because the state bar in California is investigating him
for taking taxes from his employees but not paying the
government with these taxes collected.
 Perhaps CNN is not putting Avenatti on the air because
he is suspected of defrauding a million dollar Newport
Beach property owner. Avenatti lived in a $12 million
home for free as a squatter while a mysterious Swiss
company brought a false claim against the owner of the
home whom was unable to remove Avenatti until the

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 fake case was over. The Swiss company never showed
for any court case after a year of Avenatti living in the
property rent free.lived in a $12M home for free as a
squatter while a mysterious Swiss company brought a
false claim against the owner of the home whom
#Avenatti welched on. While #Avenatti evaded taxes &
stiffed employees, lived in a $12M home for free as a
squatter while a mysterious Swiss company brought a
false claim against the owner of the home whom
#Avenatti welched on. While #Avenatti evaded taxes &
stiffed employees,
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 But perhaps the biggest reason CNN is not airing
creepy Avenatti is that he recently was tied to the FBI
spies in the Spygate scandal. We reported over the
weekend that there is evidence that Avenatti is
connected to the FBI spies in Spygate through a Saudi
Prince. Avenatti raced on a team with the Prince’s son
and the Prince is connected to one of the suspected
FBI spies. This may have been the relationship that
deep state most wanted to cover up about Avenatti.
CNN and the MSM never should have had
Avenatti on the air. He is creepy and has a
horrible record that includes not paying his
employees, his taxes, his childcare and his
ex-wife. But then again, maybe he is the
perfect creepy crook to represent the liberal
media and deep state.
 Trump Frees US Hostage
In Venezuela Without Exchanging Pallet Of Cash
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 9:29 Am

On January 17, 2016, a cargo plane with

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

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

US officials held the ransom cash until the

hostages were released.

L to R: Matt Trevithick (Photo Credit Robin Wright) Amir Hekmati,
Jason Rezaian (Photo Credit AP), Saeed Abedini (News 4).
Two days after Obama sent Iran the ransom cash the US
government wired 13 individual payments for
$99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling
$1,299,999,999.87.

Cash from Obama’s ransom payment to Iran

Barack Obama later told reporters this was has since been tracked to terrorist groups in
not a ransom payment. the region.

Obama lied. On Saturday President Trump announced the failed

Socialist regime in Venezuela has released US hostage
Former US Iranian Hostage Saeed Abidini Josh Holt.
told FOX Business Network the Iranian
regime WOULD NOT let his plane
leave Tehran until the ransom
plane arrived.

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 Trump Just Made It Easier
To Fire Bad Federal Employees
Thomas Phippen - Reporter
10:07 AM 05/26/2018
President Donald Trump mouths the words, "You're fired," during a
signing ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 in the East
Room of the White House June 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo:
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump issued three executive orders
Friday to prevent unions from protecting government
employees who don’t perform in their jobs.
Critics say Trump is stripping unions of their power by
changing how federal agencies approach collective
bargaining agreements, but the administration says the
goal is to protect taxpayers from overspending on labor.
“By holding poor performers accountable,
reforming the use of taxpayer-funded union
time, and focusing negotiations on issues that
matter, we are advancing our efforts to elevate
the federal workforce,” Jeff T.H. Pon, Director of
the Office of Personnel Management, said.
Each of the three executive orders address a part of federal
labor practices that conservatives have criticized for years.
The first reinforces the government’s commitment to
merit-based employment by directing agency heads to
make swifter firing decisions based on the individual’s
record, not standards of “progressive discipline.” It also
directs departments to share an employee’s disciplinary
records with other agencies, a practice that is currently
prohibited.
As an example of the kind of dismissal practice Trump
wants to change, the White House mentioned a case where
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a Postal worker was arrested and convicted of using illegal
drugs during her lunch break, after which she was fired.
The employee appealed to the Merit Systems Protection
Board, which ordered her to be reinstated with only a 90-
day suspension.
The second order restricts the amount work time
employees can use to conduct union business. Currently,
some federal employees are allowed to spend nearly all of
their time on union business — some even during a
government shutdown. Trump’s order would restrict
government employees from spend more than 25 percent
of government time on union business.
Finally, the third order calls on agencies to streamline the
collective bargaining procedures to, hopefully, save
taxpayer money. The government often pays both agency
and labor union negotiators’ salaries, and the agreements
can take years to finalize. In 2016 alone, the government
spent $16 million on union negotiator salaries.
The vast majority of our employees are dedicated public
servants who are dedicated to their missions and service to
the American people. It is essential that we honor their
commitment, and these measures reflect just that. Looking
ahead, our focus will be on continuing to leverage
technology to digitize our federal human resources
infrastructure, build modern public human resources
systems for the 21st century, and celebrate the
hardworking federal employees who serve our great
Nation each and every day.”
“These executive orders make it easier for
agencies to remove poor-performing employees
and ensure that taxpayer dollars are more
efficiently used,” Andrew Bremberg, director of
the White House Domestic Policy Council told
reporters in a briefing. Trump urged Congress
during the State of the Union address “to
empower every Cabinet secretary with the
authority to reward good workers and to remove
those that undermine the public trust or fail the
American people,” Bremberg noted.
 Cornyn: FBI’s Culture
Of Corruption Is COMEY’S Fault
Posted On May 26, 2018
(National Sentinel) Ruination: By now it’s become
obvious that under the “leadership” of Barack Obama and
attorneys general Eric Holder, Jr., and Loretta Lynch, the
Justice Department’s hierarchy was transformed into a
West Wing political operation.
And while Holder and Lynch were politicizing the DoJ,
James Comey was doing the same to the FBI, according to
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
During an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s MSNBC program
Saturday, Cornyn laid the blame for the FBI’s dramatic fall
from grace during the Obama years at the large feet of
Comey.
When asked by Hewitt if the agency had been allowed to
lapse back into a culture that existed under one of Comey’s
predecessors, J. Edgar Hoover, Cornyn said that Comey
had allowed for the creation of a “culture” within the FBI
accountable to no one.
“Now Senator, you’ve been a trial judge, you’ve
been a Texas Supreme Court justice. You’ve
been the Texas Attorney General. Can you
explain for us the difference between a
“confidential informant” and a spy?” Hewitt
asked.
“Well, it’s, you really can’t,” Cornyn responded.
“I mean, a spy is typically, I think of in terms of
foreign powers. But here, the FBI was involved
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in a counterintelligence investigation, I presume
and used somebody who had contacted various
subjects of their investigation to communicate
back to the FBI what they found out. I guess for
all practical purposes, for most people, it
wouldn’t be any different.”
Said Hewitt:
All right, now it’s a time of great controversy for
the FBI, which I’ve always held in the highest
esteem. I worked with them when I was at DOJ.
And you’ve got Director Comey, his reputation’s
in tatters in the eyes of many people.
You’ve got Andrew McCabe referred to the DOJ
for prosecution. He’s got his admirers as well.
You’ve got Page and Strzok and their texts.
You’ve got Bruce Ohr over at the DOJ.
You will remember, you’re my age, so you will
remember just reading about the dark days of
COINTELPRO and J. Edgar Hoover. Are we
back in those dark days?
“Right. Well, unfortunately, I think Director
Comey helped create a culture at the FBI that
they were accountable to no one,” Cornyn said.
“And unfortunately, that created, I believe, this
situation we find ourselves with. [Current FBI
Director [Christopher] Wray, I have to tell you, I
think is doing an outstanding job,” Cornyn
continued.
“But it’s going to be a long time before the
reputation of the FBI regains its reputation as a
law enforcement organization that has integrity
and is above politics.”
Barack Obama once said he wanted to “fundamentally
transform” our country. In many ways, he did. And none
of it for the better.
 The Important Questions About ‘Spygate’
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:38 AM 05/26/2018
 There is a debate over whether former Cambridge
professor Stefan Halper, who kept tabs on three
Trump campaign advisers, was an FBI informant or
a spy.
 One of the key questions to the debate is: Who
tasked Halper with contacting Trump campaign
advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, and George
Papadopoulos?
 Carter Page holds the key to many questions
surrounding Halper.
A battle of semantics has dominated the revelation that the
FBI used a Cambridge professor named Stefan Halper to
keep tabs on three Trump campaign advisers. The
argument is over whether Halper was a mere FBI
informant or a spy, as President Trump has asserted.
But the debate has overshadowed more important
questions about Halper’s role in “Crossfire Hurricane,” the
code name for the FBI’s investigation of possible collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The core questions are: Who tasked Halper, a former
University of Cambridge professor, with contacting Trump
campaign advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, and George
Papadopoulos? What did they tell Halper, and what did he
in turn tell his FBI/CIA handlers? And how was that
information used by government officials in their
investigation of possible Russian meddling in the 2016
election? Was Halper a credible source?
Carter Page holds the key to many of those questions.
An energy consultant and former Naval officer, Page was
the first Trump associate known to have made contact with
Halper. He also stayed in touch with the 73-year-old the
longest of any of the three Trump advisers — from July
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2016 to Sept. 2017. The pair met multiple times, including
at Cambridge and at Halper’s farm in Virginia.
That 14-month window leaves open numerous possibilities
for Halper’s intelligence-gathering activities.
But Page tells The Daily Caller News Foundation that in
his conversations with Halper, he never departed from
what he has said publicly in response to the allegations
made about him in the infamous Steele dossier.
“I never did anything even remotely wrong [or]
similar to what’s alleged in the Dodgy Dossier,”
Page says was his general message to Halper
when the subject of collusion came up in
conversation.
The dossier, written by former British spy Christopher
Steele and funded by Democrats, accuses Page of being
the Trump campaign’s main back channel to the Kremlin
for the purposes of collusion. The dossier claims that Page
met with two sanctions Kremlin insiders, Igor Sechin and
Igor Diveykin. Page has vehemently denied the
allegations.
Halper’s interactions with Clovis and Papadopoulos were
more limited than those he had with Page. Clovis, the
campaign’s national co-chairman, met with Halper once on
Sept. 1, 2016 over coffee to discuss the campaign and their
mutual interest in geopolitical issues.
The next day, Halper reached out to Papadopoulos through
email — unbeknownst to Clovis — to offer to fly the
young Trump aide to London to discuss writing an
academic paper about Mediterranean energy
issues. Papadopoulos accepted and flew to London on
Halper’s dime. He was paid $3,000 for the paper, which he
submitted in early October 2016.
During one dinner conversation, Halper asked
Papadopoulos whether he was involved in Russian hacking
of Democrats’ emails. Papadopoulos vigorously denied the
allegation, much to Halper’s frustration.
Halper’s approach to Page was much softer, Page says.
They met multiple times, and Page says he never felt that
Halper was trying to pump him for information about the
campaign.
But it is now clear that Halper was collecting
some information on Page. And there has been speculation
that whatever information he collected was provided to the
FBI for use in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) warrants granted against Page.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Speaker Paul Ryan
linked the issue of allegations about FISA abuse to the
revelation of a Trump campaign informant.
“FISA abuse is a serious issue,” Ryan said
when discussing House Republicans’ request
for information about the FBI’s top-secret
source.
The first FISA warrant authorizing surveillance on Page
was granted on Oct. 21, 2016. Three renewals were
granted in January, April and June 2017. They expired in
September 2017, the same month that Page and Halper fell
out of contact. As has been widely noted, FISA renewals
require additional evidence showing probable cause that a
surveillance target is acting as an agent of a foreign power.
What Page and Halper discussed in their encounters looms
large over those FISA warrants as well as over “Crossfire
Hurricane.”
Page says he can’t recall many details of what he and
Halper discussed over their 14 month relationship. But he
says that nothing he said would support the idea that he
was involved in collusion on behalf of the Trump
campaign with Russia.
“I’m not concerned about this other stuff,” Page
told TheDCNF, referring to the Halper angle.
Though Page says he never had conversations with Halper
in which he said anything that would support allegations in
the dossier, what Halper may have relayed to the FBI is
another matter. And Halper’s track record as an
intelligence gather has already been called into question.
As TheDCNF reported, Halper has been accused in the
past of making “absurd” and “false” claims about Russian
infiltration at Cambridge, where he oversees the
Cambridge Security Initiative, a group that brings together
academics, businesses and former intelligence officials.
As The New York Times reported on May 18, Halper was
who expressed concerns back in February 2014 about
then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael
Flynn’s interactions at a Cambridge event with a Russian
academic named Svetlana Lokhova.
Those concerns, which were that Flynn’s interactions with
Lokhova suggested that he could be compromised by
.
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Russian intelligence, were also shared with American
authorities. The entire saga was first reported on May 17,
2017 by The Wall Street Journal.
But Lokhova, a historian of Russian intelligence agencies,
says that Halper was behind the “false allegations.” She
has vigorously denied having anything close to an
improper relationship with Flynn.
In December 2016, Halper also resigned from the
Cambridge Intelligence Seminar after claiming he was
worried about Russian infiltration of that program. But
Christopher Andrew, the convener of the seminar and the
chief of historian of Britain’s MI5 intelligence service,
called Halper’s concerns “absurd.”
Asked whether Halper could have provided false
information to the FBI about him, Page was open to the
possibility.
“He may very well have,” he told TheDCNF.
“The reality is there are a lot of lies in there. So
whether it was him or whoever, they came to
the wrong conclusion.”
There is virtually no visibility into what information
Halper collected on Page or any of the other Trump
advisers. It’s also unknown what he passed to the FBI. But
there is one piece of correspondence that suggests that
Halper was sympathetic and supportive of Page and that he
presented himself as critical of the collusion allegations.
“It seems attention has shifted a bit from the
‘collusion’ investigation to the ‘contretempts’
[sic] within the White House,” Halper wrote on
July 28, 2017.
“I must assume this gives you some relief,” he
continued, signing off with “be in touch when
you have the time. Would be great to catch up.”
Page has discussed another encounter with Halper in
which he says the professor seemed to dismiss the
allegations of collusion.
It was Summer 2016 after then-Senate Minority Leader
Harry Reid sent a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey
accusing Page of being a Russian agent. The letter, it is
now known, relied heavily on allegations from the Steele
dossier.
Page said that when he and Halper discussed the letter,
Halper “rolled his eyes” as if he disapproved of the Reid
allegations.
 Angry Joe Biden Trashes Trump And His Supporters:
Trump’s “Phony Populism And Fake Nationalism” Is
Hurting Us (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 11:11 Am

Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked So maybe Joe Biden is right. Trump is “hurting us”
President Trump and his supporters Friday especially if you’re an America-hating liberal.
during a speech in support of New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo. Joe Biden:

Biden claims President Trump’s policies This is not your father’s Republican Party that is
“are hurting us.” hurting us with this phony populism and this
fake nationalism.

The US currently has the strongest economy in decades, a

shrinking Chinese trade debt, peace talks with North
Korea, record low unemployment rates, better trade deals
and respect from the international community.

Instead of “leading from behind” President

Trump is taking charge.
.

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 Clapper: ‘Obama Had No Knowledge’
Of FBI Informant In The Trump Campaign
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
11:27 AM 05/26/2018
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence,
said Friday that former President Barack Obama had “no
knowledge” of an FBI informant in the Trump campaign
during the 2016 presidential election.
WATCH:
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“I am sure President Obama had no knowledge
whatsoever of an informant,” Clapper said,
adding that the FBI has many informants who
play various roles within the department “who
provide very valuable information and do so in a
legitimate way.”
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for President George
W. Bush, asked on Fox News, “What role did Barack
Obama have, did he know that the FBI was keeping
informants there, and I’ll guarantee the answer is yes.” He
continued to say that the FBI must have gone through the
White House first before putting an FBI informant in a
presidential campaign.
Clapper has also said “it’s a good thing” there was an FBI
informant in the Trump campaign during the 2016
presidential election cycle, and that President Trump
should be glad an informant was embedded there.
 SHOCK REPORT=> MORE EVIDENCE Proves
Foreign Meddling In 2016 Election Was From
UK… NOT Russia
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 12:03 Pm

Since this tweet, the Russia fairy tale has

fallen apart! Corrupt Mueller and his team of
conflicted, biased and corrupt and angry
Democrat investigators and attorneys have
found nothing related to their target,
President Trump, and now their indictments
are unraveling.

As the Russia meddling into the 2016 US

election unwinds, the meddling by the UK, is
becoming more and more apparent.

Christopher Steel

We’ve known for over a year that the Clinton campaign

As Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reported and the FBI worked with former UK MI6 spy Christopher
earlier this week —- There is now solid Steele, who authored a dossier of salacious statements
evidence that proves a foreign government about President Trump. Steele was reportedly paid by
meddled in the 2016 US Election. But the
Fusion GPS for the document.
government identified is the UK, not Russia!
Steele was paid $168,000 by Glenn Simpson’s company
After more than a year of the Mueller investigation,
Fusion GPS for the series of memos containing
millions of dollars and the Mainstream Media’s (MSM)
information that was selectively briefed to journalists
relentless attack on President Trump, what do we have?
approved by Simpson and used by the FBI.
Nothing really.
The Steele dossier was never verified and is suspected of
President Trump tweeting in February that if the goal of
being a total fiction. This act alone by a spy from the UK
Russia was to create discord in the US then they have
is troubling enough, but that is not it.
succeeded.
Joseph Mifsud
“They are laughing their asses off in Moscow.
Get smart America!”
George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker
for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by
three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S.
Intelligence:

Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan

Halper.

Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an

organization named the Centre for International Energy
and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos was
a ‘nobody’ and the Centre sketchy at best. Mifsud
vanished in early November 2017, shortly after

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Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His
whereabouts are still unknown.
Although the common story is that Mifsud is
a Russian Agent, many ties seem to lead
[him] back to UK Intelligence. Julian
Assange put out a Twitter Thread noting the
connection between Mifsud and UK
Intelligence.
Alexander Downer
Although, not a Brit, Alexander Downer is the Australian
individual who apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk
about Trump and Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to
the story and their eventual spy program on Trump. This
story has been refuted for months.
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been portrayed as
a chance encounter in a bar. That does not appear to be the
case….
Downer has direct ties to UK Intelligence
firm Hakluyt where he served on the
Advisory Board from 2008-2014.
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer chance
encounter, Peter Strzok was in London per texts released
by the FBI.
“Strzok texts suggest he was in London on
August 3, 2016.”
The corrupt FBI’s investigation into Trump officially
started a few days earlier.
Stefan Halper
One individual all over the Internet and social media by
the name of Stefan Halper has been identified as a
potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that
some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy
on the Trump campaign). The most intriguing individual
related to Papadopoulos is Halper.
According to Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork –
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit
him. A young man, suddenly thrust into a
position beyond his experience, Papadopoulos
made for an easy intelligence target.
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed
Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the
London symposium.
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It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the
identity of a “top secret intelligence source” that was part
of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation.
I think there’s a decent chance that source is Stefan Halper.
Halper had contact with both Papadopulos and Carter
Page.
Halper has connections to UK Intelligence
and US Intelligence.
Halper met with Carter Page just days after Page’s
Moscow trip.
Other Internet sleuths tied Halper to the Obama team of
crooks. Halper was paid more than $400,000 in 2016 for
his efforts to set Papadopulos up and get him to sing to the
Australia diplomat about Hillary’s emails being held by
Russia. Halper and others planted this information on
Papadopulos before he shared this with the Aussie in a
drunken London pub discussion.
Additional research shows that Halper was a classmate of
impeached President Bill Clinton. Halper apparently knew
Bill Clinton well in their days at Oxford. He later worked
as an Advisor to the Clinton Administration.
Robert Hannigan
Hannigan had been Head of the GCHQ and he suddenly
resigned in January of this year –
Hannigan only took over at the UK’s surveillance agency
in November 2014 to oversee a more open approach after
revelations by the National Security Agency whistleblower
Edward Snowden put GCHQ on the defensive in 2013.
His sudden resignation – he informed staff
just hours before making this decision
public – prompted speculation that it might
be related to British concerns over shared
intelligence with the US in the wake of
Donald Trump becoming president.
But the GCHQ press release stressed his decision was
exclusively for family reasons. As well as his ill wife,
Hannigan has two elderly parents to look after. He will
remain in post until a successor is appointed.
It’s still not known, what, if any connection
to the Trump – Russia collusion fantasy,
Hannigan may have had.
On Friday reporter Paul Sperry posted more
evidence of the UK was meddling in the
2016 election.
The British Deep State feared Donald Trump like they
feared Brexit.
Dossier author Christopher Steele opposed
Brexit like he opposed Trump.
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And all of the Deep State hacks took turns
traveling to the UK during the election “for
business.”
In Summary
Based on information to date, the UK had
more to do with interfering with the US 2016
Presidential election than Russia. The
Obama team and the Clinton campaign
spied on the Trump Administration and used
the entire government apparatus, including
the CIA, FBI, the DOJ and others, to do so.
It appears, they also had help from the UK.
These crooks were willing to risk World War
III with Russia rather than face a Trump
Presidency. This all leads to the question –
What is so damn damning that
these many individuals would go to
such brazen lengths to remove
President Trump from office?
This is clearly 100 times worse than
Watergate!
 Tucker Hammers Lindsey Graham For ‘Lying’ About
Confidential Informant Not Being A Spy
Scott Morefield - Reporter
12:39 PM 05/26/2018

“They are liars,” said the Daily Caller founder,

Fox News host Tucker Carlson took on Lindsey Graham’s
definition of the word “spy” on his Friday night show,
saying the South Carolina senator was “prevaricating, or in
other words, lying.”
before speaking directly to recent statements by
Graham. “Senator Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina, as reliable a barometer of mindless
conventional wisdom as exists on planet Earth,
explained it this way in a recent interview,
quote, ‘a confidential informant is not a spy.’
Well Senator Graham did not explain what
exactly a confidential informant is, if not a spy,
because of course they are one and the same.
A confidential informant is someone who is
informing confidentially, in other words, spying.
Any senator who pretends otherwise is
prevaricating, or in other words, lying.”

“We’re gonna start with the FBI’s efforts to spy WATCH:

on the Trump campaign back in 2016,” Carlson
said. “That happened, and there is a lot more
evidence for it than there is for collision with
Russia, but not surprisingly the media response
has been particularly dishonest.”

Tucker then played a montage of media figures stating that

President Trump’s contention that there was a spy in his
campaign is “baseless,” a “fake issue,” and a “phony
baloney story

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 The Dummies Guide To The Russia Collusion Hoax:
Who, What, Where, When, & Why
Authored By Roger Kimball Via Spectator USA,
Sat, 05/26/2018 - 22:10
For your eyes only: A short history of
Democrat-spy collusion
How highly placed members of one
administration mobilised the intelligence
services to undermine their successors...
Who, what, where, when, why? The desiderata school
teachers drill into their charges trying to master effective
writing skills apply also in the effort to understand that
byzantine drama known to the world as the Trump-Russia-
collusion investigation.
Let’s start with “when.” When did it start? We know
that the FBI opened its official investigation on 31 July
2016. An obscure, low-level volunteer to the Trump
campaign called Carter Page was front and centre then.
He’d been the FBI’s radar for a long time. Years before, it
was known, the Russians had made some overtures to him
but 1) they concluded that he was an “idiot” not worth
recruiting and 2) he had actually aided the FBI in
prosecuting at least two Russian spies.
But we now know that the Trump-Russia investigation
began before Carter Page. In December 2017, The New
York Times excitedly reported in an article called “How the
Russia Inquiry Began” that, contrary to their reporting
during the previous year, it wasn’t Carter Page who
precipitated the inquiry. It was someone called George
Papadopoulous, an even more obscure and lower-level
factotum than Carter Page. Back in May 2016, the twenty-
something Papadopoulous had gotten outside a number of
drinks with one Alexander Downer, an Australian
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diplomat in London and had let slip that “the Russians”
had compromising information about Hillary Clinton.
When Wikileaks began releasing emails hacked from the
Democratic National Committee in June and July, news of
the conversation between Downer and Papadopoulos was
communicated to the FBI. Thus, according to the Times,
the investigation was born.
There were, however, a couple of tiny details that
the Times omitted. One was that Downer, an avid Clinton
supporter, had arranged for a $25 million donation from
the Australian government to the Clinton Foundation.
Twenty-five million of the crispest, Kemo Sabe. They also
neglected say exactly how Papadopoulos met Alexander
Downer.
As it turns out, George Papadopoulos made several new
friends in London. There was Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese
professor living in London who has ties to British
intelligence. It was Mifsud - who has since disappeared -
who told Papadopoulos in March 2016 that the Kremlin
had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
Then there is Stefan Halper, an American-born
Cambridge prof and Hillary supporter. Out of the blue,
Halper reached out to Papadopoulos in September 2016.
He invited him to meet in London and then offered
Papadopoulos $3,000 to write a paper on an unrelated
topic. He also pumped him about “Russian hacking.”
“George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia,
right?” Halper is said to have asked him. He also made
sure Papadopoulos met for drinks with his assistant, a
woman called Azra Turk, who flirted with him over the
Chardonnay while pumping him about Russia.
Halper also contacted Carter Page and Sam Clovis,
Trump’s campaign co-chair.
Is Stefan Halper, the “spy” on the Trump
campaign, at the origin of the Trump-Russia
meme?
Not really. The real fons et origo is John Brennan,
Director of the CIA under Obama. As Trump’s victories
in the primaries piled up, Brennan convened a “working
group” at CIA headquarters that included Peter Strzok, the
disgraced FBI agent, and James Clapper, then Director of
National Intelligence, in order to stymie Trump’s
campaign.
So much of this story still dwells in the
tenebrous realm of redaction. But little by
little the truth is emerging, a mosaic whose
story is gradually taking shape as one piece
after the next completes now this face, now
another.
There are details yet to come, but here is the
bottom line, the irreducible minimum...
A cabal of CIA and FBI operatives, including the
Director of the CIA, John Brennan, along with other
members of the intelligence “community,” prominently
including James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence,
and various members of the Obama administration,
colluded to undermine Donald Trump’s campaign.
Like almost everyone else, they assumed
that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in, so they
were careless about covering their tracks.
If Hillary had won, the department of Justice would have
been her Department of Justice, John Brennan would still
be head of the CIA, and the public would never have
known about the spies, the set-ups, the skulduggery.
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But Hillary did not win. For the last 16 months, we’ve
watched as that exiled cabal shifted its efforts from
stopping Trump from winning to a desperate effort to
destroy his Presidency. Thanks to the patient work of
Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, and a handful of GOP Senators, that effort is
now disintegrating.
What is being exposed is the biggest
political scandal in the history of the United
States:
the effort by highly placed - exactly how highly
placed we still do not know - members of one
administration to mobilise the intelligence
services and police power of the state to spy
upon and destroy first the candidacy and then,
when that didn’t work, the administration of a
political rival.
It is banana republic behaviour, but it looks
now as if those responsible for this effort to
undermine American democracy and repeal
the results of a free, open, and democratic
election will be exposed. Let’s hope that they
are also held to account.
 POTUS Trump Unleashes On #Spygate ‘Why Didn’t The
FBI Contact Me About The Russia Problem?’
By Cristina Laila
May 26, 2018, 3:15 Pm

President Trump brought another punishing

round to the Deep State over the FBI
infiltration of his campaign on Saturday.

The President asked a very simple yet

powerful question, “Why didn’t the crooked
highest levels of the FBI or “Justice”
contact me to tell me of the phony Russia
problem?”

Trump slammed Crooked Hillary in round

two.

Trump tweeted: This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just

an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the
Election and States that haven’t been lost in decades. 13
Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people
who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE &
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!

The answer to that is simple. The spies implanted in

Trump’s campaign were there to gather information and
pass it onto Hillary Clinton.

The notion that an informant was buzzing around Trump’s

camp to protect him as Clapper and the fake news claim is
absurd.

Trump tweeted: With Spies, or “Informants” as the

Democrats like to call them because it sounds less sinister
(but it’s not), all over my campaign, even from a very early
date, why didn’t the crooked highest levels of the FBI or
“Justice” contact me to tell me of the phony Russia
problem?
President Trump is taking the fight to the Deep State head
on demanding the DOJ hand over classified documents
relating to Spygate.
On Friday evening, President Trump’s
Attorney Rudy Giuliani says the Trump legal
team wants to be briefed on the Obama FBI
campaign spying scandal.

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 I Spy: The Media And
President Lyndon Baines....Obama?
By Jeffrey Lord
May 26, 2018 5:06 PM EDT
Hmmm. President Lyndon Obama?
So finally, someone stands up to remind the media that
when it comes to the FBI and CIA spying on a political
opponent of a president - America has in fact been here
before.
Admittedly, it helps to have been around at the time of the
Johnson-Goldwater election in 1964. Not to call attention
to age, but I was an eager-beaver eighth grader from a
Republican family who, wonderfully ignorant about the
history of the American Left, crusaded in my own fashion
for LBJ. To my parents’ eye-rolling, head-shaking
resignation. The GOP nominee, the “Mr. Conservative,”
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, was taking all kinds of
flak of a type I would later come to understand in vivid
fashion. The media of the day was ripe with suggestions
that the libertarian Goldwater was a racist (horrifically
untrue) and, but of course, had an affection for Nazis.
Indeed, the very week Goldwater was nominated in San
Francisco, CBS’s Daniel Schorr went on the air with a
report that once the GOP Convention was over, Goldwater
will be
“starting his campaign…in…..Bavaria, center of
Germany’s right wing.” Where specifically in
Bavaria? Why, but of course, “Berchtesgaden,
Hitler’s onetime stamping ground.”
The story was false from beginning to end. Goldwater
wasn’t going to Germany, much less to “Hitler’s onetime
stamping ground.” A particularly insulting attack on a man
who was not simply a senator and presidential nominee but
had served as a U.S. Army Air Force pilot in World War
II, later retiring with the rank of Major General. Be that as
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it may, CBS had said it was so until it was clear it wasn’t.
Goldwater was still fuming about this media
characterization of him as some sort Nazi decades later
when writing his memoirs.
But there was another story from that 1964 campaign - and
it comes to mind as the media goes crazy over the Trump
charge that the FBI and CIA were busy implanting spies in
his campaign - “Spygate” as the branding President has
named it. None other than the redoubtable Dr. Lee
Edwards, now of the Heritage Foundation but in 1964 a
Goldwater staffer and later the Senator’s biographer
(Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution) has
stepped forward to remind - not for the first time - that in
1964 America in fact had a president who was using both
the FBI and the CIA to spy on his opponent. Writing in the
Wall Street Journal, Dr. Edwards dips back into his
Goldwater biography to remind in his headline:
The FBI Spied for LBJ’s Campaign
On the president’s orders, the bureau wiretapped Barry
Goldwater’s plane and headquarters.
Writes Edwards:
In 1971 Robert Mardian, who had been a
regional director in the Goldwater campaign,
became (in the Nixon administration) assistant
attorney general for internal security. During a
two-hour briefing with Hoover, Mardian asked
about the procedures for electronic surveillance.
To Mardian’s amazement, Hoover confessed
that in 1964 the FBI had wired the Goldwater
campaign plane, under orders from the White
House. When Mardian asked Hoover why he
had complied, the director answered,
“You do what the president tells you to do.”
In a later conversation with Mardian, William C. Sullivan,
the bureau’s No. 2 man, verified the FBI’s spying
operation against the Goldwater campaign. In a 1992
interview, Mardian told me that Sullivan was appalled at
LBJ’s partisan use of the bureau.”
And also:
 (President) Johnson also illegally ordered the
FBI to conduct security checks of Goldwater’s
Senate staff. Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, the FBI’s
liaison with the White House and a top aide to
Director J. Edgar Hoover, denied at a 1975
Congressional hearing that the bureau had
investigated Goldwater’s staff. But through the
Freedom of Information Act, I obtained copies
of FBI memoranda detailing the results of the
bureau’s illegal file check of 15 Senate staffers.
“No derogatory information was located
concerning” any of the people in Goldwater’s
Senate office, stated one memo that bore
DeLoach’s initials.”
Of the CIA, Edwards notes:
Former intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt, best
known for his role as an orchestrator of the
Watergate bugging, told a Senate committee in
1973 that his CIA superior had ordered him to
infiltrate the Goldwater campaign. Hunt claimed
to have questioned the order, only to be told
that it had been a personal request of President
Johnson and that the information he recovered
would be delivered to a White House aide.
CIA Director William Colby confirmed the White
House’s role in the illegal surveillance while
addressing a congressional hearing in 1975.
That the CIA is prohibited by law from operating
within the U.S. didn’t matter to the Johnson
campaign. The Goldwater people never
suspected that one of them was a spy for the
Democrats.”
Now. Question. Where was the liberal media in 1964 on
this hot story? Answer, all too predictably, exactly
nowhere. Not a peep of this made the liberal media of the
day, much less did this explode into a massive scandal
along the lines of what Dr. Edwards once called, quite
accurately, “Johnson’s Watergate.” Why? The liberal
media of the day was the only media of the day.
Be that as it may, the fact that a president would use the
FBI and CIA to spy on his opponents is established. With
that in mind, where is the liberal media feeding frenzy on
this news from, yes, not 1964 - but today? Fox News (but
of course!) has done its due diligence and headlines:
This jewel of a story says, in part, this, bold print supplied:
A top Senate Republican is challenging the
Justice Department over extensive redactions
made in files showing text messages between
anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, drew particular attention to
one text that suggested the Obama ‘White
House is running this,’ in reference to an
unspecified investigation.
But, like in so many of the files, a name was
redacted and the context was unclear, though
one report suggests that was related to the
Russia probe.
In a letter sent Wednesday to Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, Grassley called for all
redactions to be removed.
‘The manner in which some redactions have
been used casts doubt on whether the
remaining redactions are necessary and
defensible,’ Grassley wrote.”
Then there was also the text from Lisa Page on September
2, 2016, which said to her lover, Strzok, that:
"potus wants to know everything we’re doing.”
“POTUS”, of course, is the acronymn for
“President of the United States.”
And the media reaction here? Ho-hum.
Here is a central fact, a fact that Dr. Edwards’ reminder
raises and should raise. America has already had a
president who used the FBI and the CIA to spy on his
political opponent. And the media of the day had not the
slightest curiosity -- then or later -- to investigate. No,
there was no such thing as Fox news or even cable news in
that time, much less talk radio and the Internet. Which
makes it all the more curious -- make that predictable --
why the mainstream media of the day didn’t investigate
LBJ’s abuse of the FBI and CIA for political purposes.
That being the case, this reminder of events from Dr.
Edwards should serve as a prod for today’s media to take a
hard look at these texts from the FBI’s star-crossed anti-
Trump-hating lovers Strozk and Page that pose the obvious
question about President Obama that was once famously
asked by the late Tennessee Republican Senator Howard
Baker during Watergate.
That question: “What did the President know-
and when did he know it?”
One can be justifiably suspicious that the reason for all the
bureaucratic foot-dragging by the Justice Department and
the FBI today is nothing more than a stall, a slow-walking
obstruction to get past a supposed “Blue Wave” election in
which Democrats will supposedly take charge and remove
the power to investigate from the Devin Nunes’ and
Charles Grassleys of the House and Senate, effectively
shutting the investigation of “Spygate” down.
With a compliant media cheering them on in a campaign
of silence surrounding any serious investigation into a
possible abuse of the FBI and CIA by the Obama White
House -not at all unlike the media silence that surrounded
.
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the LBJ use of the FBI and CIA to spy on the 1964
Goldwater campaign.
President Lyndon Obama? One way or another, the
American people have a right to know. And the media has
an obligation to report the truth.
 Fact-Checking The White House
‘Truth Seekers’ On North Korea, Mueller Probe
Stephanie Hamill
7:16 PM 05/26/2018
The Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill, Julia Nista and
Vince Coglianese are calling out some of the White House
press corps for their blatant biases against President
Donald Trump and his administration. During a recent
White House press briefing reporters took issue with
President Trump’s effort to meet with North Korean
dictator Kim Jong Un, and they also wanted to know why
Democrats weren’t invited to a meeting they never asked
to go to.
WATCH:
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“Why did the U.S. guarantee the safety of a
dictator whose regime is a serial human rights
abuser and is responsible for the recent death
of an American college student? Why is that the
morally right thing to do,” asked Pamela Brown,
CNN’s senior White House correspondent.
Hamill highlighted the stark difference between the
treatment of the Obama administration and the Trump
administration when it comes to handling dictators who
engage in horrible human rights violations.
“Where were these reporters when President
Barack Obama was cozying up to dictators?
They were around, they just weren’t asking
these types of questions. This my friends is
what I call selective outrage. Do you remember
when Obama was bending over backwards to
appease the Castros. I’ll never forget when
Obama and Michelle were caught on video
doing the wave at a baseball game with the
tyrant. Cuba’s human rights record is terrible,
apparently that didn’t matter to them at the
time,” said Hamill.
 ANOTHER HOSTAGE FREED!
Josh Holt Joins President Trump At White House –
Thank You President Trump!
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 8:11 Pm

President Trump announced on Saturday

morning that US hostage Josh Holt would
be released from prison in Venezuela.

Josh Holt was in prison for two years in

Venezuela.

Josh Holt joined President Trump on

Saturday night in the White House.

Josh Holt was joined by his parents and wife

and Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Bob
Corker and Rep. Mia Love.

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 Lindsey Graham: We’re Calling On Comey, Mccabe,
Lynch And Ohr To Testify This Summer (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 9:53 Pm

Lindsey Graham told Judge Jeanine Pirro on
Saturday the Senate will be calling Comey,
McCabe, Lynch and Ohr to testify before
committee this summer.
Judge Jeanine: When? When is this going to happen?
Sen. Lindsey Graham: It will be happening this summer.
But the bottom line is we’re not prosecutors. Some people
need to be candidates for going to jail.

Judge Jeanine: They need to be taken out in cuffs.

Via Judge Jeanine:

Judge Jeanine: When is this going to happen?

Sen. Lindsey Graham: There’s two lanes. Congress can

tell you about what happened. But we can’t prosecute
people. We’re not an adequate substitute for a Special
Counsel when it comes to DOJ corruption, FBI corruption.
I want Comey to come in. I want McCabe to come in. I
want Lynch to come in. I want all of these people, Ohr, to
come in and talk about what happened…
.

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 Juan Williams Errs On Military Spending
As He Condemns Trump's 'Wrapped
In The Flag' Navy Speech
By Tom Blumer
May 26, 2018 10:53 PM EDT
On Friday's The Five on Fox, Juan Williams sharply
criticized President Donald Trump's speech that morning at
the Naval Academy's graduation ceremony.
Williams condemned Trump's speech as
"wrapped in patriotism ... the flag, and ... the
military," and claimed that his appearance was
really about co-opting the military's "high
approval ratings among the American people to
transfer to him."
Williams's attack, though predictable, was accompanied by
a significant distortion of U.S. military spending compared
to the rest of the world which the remaining show panelists
did not challenge.
Before getting into his rant, Williams thought it necessary
to mention protesters outside of Trump's speech. Even
Michael Shear at the New York Times, who wrote a 1,250-
word story on the event, saw no reason to mention them,
likely because they numbered only "about" 10 to 20:
Transcript:
KENNEDY: (This speech was) somewhat refreshing.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: You know, a lot of people
enjoyed this, Juan. I hope you did, too.
JUAN WILLIAMS: No. (panel laughs)
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What's interesting to me is to come and listen to
you guys, and you know there were protesters
outside, a couple protesters, I don’t think a
whole lot. But people standing there —
JESSE WATTERS: Those are for you, Juan.
WILLIAMS: Okay. And then inside the kids ("Kids?" —
Ed.) were pretty respectful, but that was about it. But you
guys call it rousing. I’m interested.
But let me just say,
this speech was about America first. It was
wrapped in patriotism. He wrapped himself
in the flag. He wrapped himself in the
military.
I think that’s, Jesse, why he spent time. He
wants them and their stamp of approval and
their high approval ratings among the
American people to transfer to him.
But when you think about —
WATTERS: Do you think he's giving a
rousing patriotic speech because he wants
to boost his approval ratings?
WILLIAMS: Yes!
WATTERS: Maybe he's just proud of the country and
wants to address the cadets.
GUILFOYLE: Through the cadets?
WILLIAMS: No, because let’s look at the, let's look at the
substance of it. When he talks about oh, we’re going to
make the military stronger and all that —
Wait a minute, our military is the strongest
in the world!
WATTERS: And we’re going to make it even stronger.
What’s wrong with that?
WILLIAMS: When you suggest, when he suggests that — while the second is from the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI):
GUILFOYLE: Rebuilding it.

WILLIAMS: — somehow, oh somebody didn’t believe in

them.

Who didn’t believe in the military? Obama,

Bush, Clinton?

WATTERS: Oh, we — The last President didn't fund it

fully, Juan.

WILLIAMS: Oh please. That's not true ... (unintelligible)

... That's —

GUILFOYLE: He's right It was underfunded under

President Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize guy, that every
day he was in office we were at war.

WILLIAMS: Let me just tell you something. That is an

echo in the conservative chamber. But the fact is we have a
military that Sunday funded at 20 —

I think the top 20 other militaries in the world

don’t have as much funding as our military.
That's just a fact. The two lists differ sharply on Mainland China, partially
because of that country's weak transparency, and
partially because "Chinese official figures do not account
for a number of military-related outlays that are often
included in the budgets of other countries."

Additionally, funding is hardly the sole comparative

We can't know for sure, but when Williams referred to
"why he (Trump) spent time," he was likely referring to
Trump's decision to remain after the speech to shake hands
with every one of the 1,042 graduating cadets. If that's
true, Williams believes that Trump's much-appreciated
gesture was merely another cynical political ploy.
As to Williams's claim that "the top 20 other militaries in
the world don’t have as much funding as our military," it's
amazing how he turned an "I think" speculation into "just a
fact" in about five seconds.
Whatever you want to call it, it's wrong.
benchmark for military might. China has an active military
contingent of 2.2 million, despite having "no bases on
foreign soil" and forces which are "primarily focused
within the Asia-Pacific." That's far larger than the USA's
1.35 million active force, which maintains a global
military presence.
As to which presidents believed in the military, it's fair to
say that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not:
According to the liner notes for Dereliction of
Duty by Robert Patterson, a White House
military aide who carried the "nuclear football"
for two years, Clinton "treated our nation’s
most sensitive secrets and powerful
weapons with cavalier disregard, while his
aides regarded the military as just another
tool for domestic politics."

U.S. military spending is greater than the total of the top 7
or top 10 other nations, depending on the measuring source
referenced. The first source listed in the following table is
from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),
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Obama left his presidency with U.S. military
preparedness "at a dangerous low." Among the
many major shortcomings, in early 2017 "The
Navy’s fleet ... (was) the smallest it has been
in nearly 100 years."
 Sanctimonious 'Morning Joe'
Crew Goes Full Religion To Blast Trump
By P.J. Gladnick
May 27, 2018 6:18 AM EDT
Liberals love to lecture us about not mixing politics with
religion. Apparently this holds true for them except when
they can use religion to blast conservatives and President
Donald Trump. Especially Trump. Such was the case on
Thursday's Morning Joe, which sounded more like Holy
Joe, when they used heavy dollops of religious imagery to
slam Trump to the extent that it was suggested that you are
committing idolatry if you even dare to support him.
Holy Joe Scarborough set the tone by reading from an E.J.
Dionne column which also shamelessly used religion as a
basis to criticize Trump. He was followed by guest Eddie
Glaude, a professor of religion and African-American
studies at Prince who -- as MRC's Nicholas Fondacaro
pointed out on May 14 -- went on an extreme anti-Israel
tirade for that nation daring to defend itself against
violence organized by the Hamas terrorist organization.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: You flagged a column by EJ
Dionne in the Washington Post and it's about Christian
leaders who are calling out what they're calling the
heresy of Trumpism and it's been led in large part by the
Reverend Michael Curry who we just heard there
preaching of course for the royal couple this past weekend.
Now today a group of Christians are going to be marching
on the White House for a candlelight vigil and they've
released a joint joy declaration about the quote dangerous
crisis of moral and political leadership at the highest levels
of our government. The opening paragraph reads quote we
believe the soul of the nation and the integrity of faith are
now at stake. Let's bring in Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Jon Meacham. He's the author of the new best-
selling book The Soul of America the Battle for Our
Better Angels. And Jon, we'll get you in one moment but
Eddie there's a great find with EJ's column because it does
appear that there are some evangelical leaders that are
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willing that, well to paraphrase Jesus to be the salt and the
light of this world.
See, it's beyond political according to liberals now. It is
actually heresy and many of them, including those on the
Morning Joe set, would love to play the part of latter day
Torquemadas to rid the world of what they consider to be
political heresy.
EDDIE GLAUDE: Yeah Joe. They they are exemplifying
what you've been talking about on this show for a while
and those are those Matthew:25 Christians and so here we
have Bishop Currie and Jim Wallace of sojourners
organizing a candlelight vigil on the White House in order
to suggest that the way in which Trump has and
some evangelicals who support Trump have
enlisted, drafted Jesus and his ministry to
support his policies to support his mean-
spiritedness actually represents in some
ways a kind of idolatry
and they want to put forward a vision of Jesus, a vision of
Christianity that is really concerned with the least of these.
This really concern with matters of justice and love
because in fact justice is what love looks like in public.
Get it? The sore loser left is so upset that they lost the
election that they now mean-spiritedly brand Trump
supporters as committing idolatry. And now we have the
economics-challenged former Newsweek editor Jon
Meacham who fully agrees that supporting Trump makes
you guilty of idolatry.
JON MEACHAM: Well, to me it's a fascinating moment.
Brings up you know what what profited a man to gain the
whole world if you if you lose your soul. The broad
evangelical movement as we're describing it basically has
made a really shrewd political bet but it is a political bet.
They are playing a 40-year strategy at the expense of their
integrity for four years. They're supporting President
Trump for the Supreme Court for the judiciary and they
want to get these young appointees they want to get them
for decades and they're willing to really put their otherwise
consistent views aside for that purpose and
I think Eddie used exactly the right word. It's
idolatry. It's putting a temporal force, a
 temporal advantage ahead of spiritual
integrity.
Sheesh! Get over it, Jon! Your side lost and now you can't
accept the election results. So as whiny sore losers you
shamelessly use religion to attack Trump and lash out at
those who do support him as succumbing to idolatry.
.
The rest of the segment features Holy Joe and Glaude with
Mike Barnicle chiming in to join a hallelujah chorus in
their role as liberal dueling pastors to sanctimoniously
condemn Trump and those idolaters who dare to support
him.

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 On NPR, NR's Reihan Salam Says Democrats
See Russia Obsession As Losing Political Steam
By Tim Graham
May 27, 2018 7:31 AM EDT
On Friday night's All Things Considered, NPR anchor Ari
Shapiro broke out the euphemisms for the FBI sending a
spy (or an "informant") into the Trump campaign....just to
spy on the Russians. He called it "an FBI source who met
with Trump campaign officials early in the Russia
investigation." Reihan Salam of National Review, not
exactly a Trump booster, said the ground is shifting under
the Democrats' feet on Russia-gate:
SHAPIRO: And, Reihan, this narrative is
interesting because a lot of Democrats see the
FBI as having thrown the campaign to President
Trump...So, Reihan, how do you interpret
President Trump's attacks on the FBI that
Democrats had been attacking not long ago?
SALAM: Well, what we know is that President
Trump is a very impetuous figure. He often
reacts emotively, immediately, rashly to
criticisms and what have you. But what I'm
struck by is this – there are a number of
Democrats who now believe that this
relentless focus on the Mueller
investigation, on the possibility of collusion
with Russia, et cetera, is actually far less
advantageous for Democrats than a focus
on bread-and-butter issues – on the state of
the economy, on wage growth, on the prospects
for health care and what have you.
And I must say, when you're looking at the fact
that in the generic ballot House Democrats
seem to be doing somewhat worse than they
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had been months earlier, it doesn't seem
ridiculous to me. So perhaps President Trump
is trying to bait his opponents into focusing on
this story rather than on other stories that might
prove more damaging for Republican political
prospects. It's really hard to say.
SHAPIRO: Do you think he's that canny?
SALAM: Well, I think that he is very shrewd
about creating media firestorms and about
driving the news cycle. So in that sense, I
think...
SHAPIRO: Kimberly, you're nodding your head
yes.
SALAM: ...That he's pretty shrewd.
KIMBERLY ATKINS, Boston Herald: Yeah. He
can read polls. And he's saying that people are
losing faith in the Mueller investigation. And he's
pushing that forward.
Meanwhile, over at the PBS NewsHour, liberal analyst
Mark Shields called the spying-on-Trump facts a "total
fabrication" and complained Trump "has moved
Republicans on the FBI, Republican voters were far more
favorable toward the FBI before he started his harangue
and his canard...But I don’t think he’s moved public
opinion. I really don’t." Shields is ignoring the CBS News
poll (where a majority now see the Mueller probe as
politically motivated)....just like CBS News tried to ignore
it.
Naturally, David Brooks signed up with the liberal analysis
that this story is somehow fictional:
"The problem is, Daniel Boorstin wrote a book
in 1962 saying you can’t beat a pseudo-story
with a fact. We have facts. No, this didn’t
happen. He has got a story. And somehow
we’re stuck in this, where his story trumps our
facts."
 Corrupt Obama Appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Does It Again: Puts Politics Before Law In Manafort Case –
Should Be Removed
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 7:46 Am
It sure seems like every Obama appointed
judge is a far left radical who puts their own
distorted interpretation of reality ahead of
the US Constitution. In this respect, US
District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a
case study. This past week she again
showed that she puts politics before the law.
Her actions with Paul Manafort alone are
cause for her to be removed or impeached.
We reported two months ago and again earlier this month,
that Obama appointed liberal activist Judge, Amy Berman
Jackson, was assigned to the most important court case in
US history. Sadly, Judge Jackson has a horrible far left
record on the bench. In 2013 Judge Jackson rejected
arguments from the Catholic Church that Obamacare’s
requirements that employers provide cost free coverage to
contraceptive services is contrary to their religious beliefs
and violated their religious and free speech freedoms. This
was overturned by the Supreme Court.
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In 2017 Judge Jackson dismissed the wrongful death suit
against Hillary Clinton filed by two of the families who
lost loved ones in Benghazi. The families argued that
Clinton had done little to help their sons and then lied to
cover it up.
Then on January 19th of this year, a Paul Manafort’s case
was reassigned to Judge Jackson on January 19 th, a few
weeks after being filed.
It is unknown why she was assigned to this
case or by whom.
What is clear is that with her atrocious and slanted record
to date, the Deep State and the Mueller team certainly
wanted Judge Jackson overseeing the Manafort case and
this is supported by her record to date.
On January 3rdwe reported that Paul
Manafort filed a suit against the “Deep
State” DOJ (Jeff Sessions), Assistant AG
Rod Rosenstein and Corrupt Investigator
Robert Mueller that would possibly shut
down Mueller’s corrupt investigation!
We reported for months on the many criminal and corrupt
actions taken by numerous parties related to the Mueller
investigation. Mueller never should have taken on the job
in the first place due to numerous conflicts. He is best
friends with fired leaker and former FBI Director James
Comey. He met with Comey shortly before Comey
testified with Congress and stratigized with him. For this
alone he should have recused himself. The team Mueller
built to attack President Trump and have him removed is
all Deep State liberal attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s
record in the past is scattered with actions that let the
Clintons off scot-free on numerous occasions when they
should have been put in jail.
We now know that the FBI had an
investigation into the Clintons and moneys
they received from Russia in return for
giving Russia 20% of all US uranium.
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 handing Russia
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We also
know that Rosenstein and Mueller were the
ones who allowed the Uranium One deal to
go forward. This was the real Russia
collusion story involving the US
government.
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his
entire team should have resigned after this.
But perhaps one of the most damning
aspects of the Mueller investigation is that it
is not legal. The corrupt Mueller
investigation is tasked with finding a crime
that does not exist in the law. It is a legal
impossibility. Mueller is being asked to do
something that is manifestly unattainable.
FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett explained this in
an article last year that the entire Mueller investigation is
lawless. Jarrett argued that:
… George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single
charge of making a false statement to the FBI.
He was not charged with so-called “collusion”
because no such crime exists in American
statutory law, except in anti-trust matters. It
has no application to elections and political
campaigns.
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media
would ever understand that. They have never managed to
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely
because it does not exist in the criminal codes.
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary:
It is against the law for the Clinton campaign
and the Democratic National Committee to
funnel millions of dollars to a British spy
and to Russian sources in order to obtain
the infamous and discredited Trump
“dossier.”
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101)
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the
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true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what
Clinton and the DNC appear to have done.
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign
finance laws with impunity.
But that’s not all.
Damning new evidence appears to show
that Clinton used her office as Secretary of
State to confer benefits to Russia in
exchange for millions of dollars in donations
to her foundation and cash to her husband.
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records,
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
Hillary presided over a governing body which
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
uranium supply to Russia.
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
concluded with the following –
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue
in court that the appointment of Mueller was
illegal. The criminal charges [against Manafort
and Papadopoulos] change all that. The two
defendants will be able to argue before a judge
that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein violated the special
counsel law.
As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
Russian government and individuals associated with the
campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
finding a crime that does not exist in the
law. It is a legal impossibility. He is being
 asked to do something that is manifestly
unattainable.
Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and
Rosenstein because what they are doing is
not supported by US Law.
Manafort’s case also argued in paragraph 33 of its filing
that the special counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein
gave crooked and criminal Mueller powers that are not
permitted by law. Mueller was given the latitude to
investigate whatever he wanted to and that is not permitted
by the law. Manafort’s filing paragraph 33 stated –
But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports to
grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation.” That grant of authority is not
authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations. It is not a
“specific factual statement of the matter to be
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28 C.F.R.
§ 600.4(a).
Manafort’s case was solid but the judge was
Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge Jackson. On
April 27, 2018, Judge Jackson dismissed
Manafort’s plea.
It is very clear that Manafort’s argument was valid. There
is no crime in US law for collusion and Rosenstein’s order
allowing Mueller to look at whatever he wants was
challenged in another Manafort case that Mueller filed
against him in Virginia.
Judge T.S. Ellis blasted prosecutors, saying
he believes Robert Mueller is effectively
using the Paul Manafort case to provide
material that would lead to Trump’s
“prosecution or impeachment”. He also
condemned the investigation for having no
barriers.
Judge Jackson actually expressed concerns about Manafort
being indicted in two different courts. Far left liberal
Politico even reported in February –
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… the judge also expressed some concern
about “overlap” between the Washington case
and the Virginia one, although she said
ultimately the burden of two successive trials is
likely to fall most heavily on the defense.
“It seems the government is setting itself up to
put on the same evidence twice in different
courtrooms,” Jackson said. “There’s a risk of
inconsistent [rulings] on the motions and
evidentiary rulings and jury findings.”
Ultimately, though, Jackson said she didn’t view the
parallel cases as a big problem.
“The burden is at its least on the courts. We can
handle two trials,” she said.
Prosecutor Greg Andres stressed that Mueller’s team gave
Manafort the option to face a single case in Washington on
all the charges, but Manafort declined to waive his right to
have the tax charges brought in Virginia, which is where
he lived when he filed the tax returns at issue.
Manafort was smart in moving his case out
from under Judge Jackson to Virginia. It
looks like this move and having his case in
front of a judge not appointed by corrupt
Obama was a great move.
Judge Jackson is not only wrong in her judgements, she is
also overly abusive to Manafort. She scolded Manafort and
his team for a statement his spokesman issued maintaining
his innocence and said the comments appeared to run afoul
of the order she issued in November limiting public
statements about the case by lawyers involved and by the
defendants. Of course she says nothing about the many
leaks from the corrupt Mueller team.
Judge Jackson set the court date for Manafort’s case that
she oversees for mid-September, right before the mid-term
elections. Clearly she is trying to have this publicized and
negatively impact Republican chances in the election.
What a piece of rotten work!
On Friday of this week Judge Jackson
addressed another argument from the
Manafort team and basically threw it out as
well. (There’s no way Manafort is getting a
fair trial with Judge Jackson overseeing his
case.)
A federal judge delivered a setback to President Trump’s
former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday by
refusing to throw out some of the criminal charges against
him.
Manafort’s legal team had argued in a Washington, D.C.,
court that he was being charged twice for the same offense
of lying to federal officials. Manafort maintained that the
stacking up charges could negatively influence a jury
against him, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, however, said
in a ruling Friday that any harm or prejudice Manafort
could face would be handled by giving the jury “proper”
instructions, according to the AP.
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The judge dismissed the motion from Manafort without
prejudice, meaning he can revisit it after his trial in the
case, which is scheduled for September, the AP noted.
Obama’s Liberal Judge Jackson is a real
piece of work. Let’s hope and pray for the
sake of the Union that at some point soon,
the Mueller investigation is called out for
what it is, a corrupt attempt by an elite few
to overthrow the government.
 President Trump Hurls A SECRET WARNING To
Corrupt Mueller Team In His Saturday Tweet
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 8:11 Am
President Trump went on a tweet storm
yesterday attacking the corrupt Mueller team
for its many conflicts of interest but in doing
so he refers to a report?
As reported yesterday, the President’s first tweet referring
to the Mueller team addressed the conflicts of interest by
the associates within the team. –
“This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an
excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary
lost the Election and States that haven’t been
lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all
Dems if you include the people who worked for
Obama for 8 years.”
But in the President’s next tweet he refers to
“the Report” that the corrupt Mueller team
.
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will “indelibly be written into” due to “their
disqualifying Conflicts of Interest”… “along
with the fact that the only Collusion is with
the Dems, Justice, FBI and Russia”.
So what is President Trump saying in this tweet? And why
did he capitalize “Report”?
It’s been clear from the start that the Mueller
team has numerous conflicts of interest
starting with Mueller himself.
What is unclear is what “report” the President is referring
to. The IG report on the FBI’s actions related to the 2016
Clinton email scandal is in the final draft stages. So this
can’t be the report the President is referring to.
So what report is it that the Mueller team
could be remembered in throughout
history?
We can only hope that a report supporting
indictments for criminal actions leading to
time in prison is in the works for the corrupt
and conflicted team of Mueller misfits and
Hillary supporters.
 Wonderful! Senator Orrin Hatch Heaps Praise On
President Trump After Release Of US
Hostage Josh Holt (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 8:43 Am
President Trump announced on Saturday
morning that US hostage Josh Holt would
be released from prison in Venezuela.
Josh Holt was in prison for two years since
2016 in Venezuela.
Josh Holt joined President Trump on
Saturday night in the White House along
with his family and Senators Orrin Hatch,
Bob Corker and Steve Lee and
Representative Mia Love.
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During the remarks Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) heaped
praise on President Trump for his amazing leadership.
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Mr. President I can’t tell you how
much I appreciate you. As you know I was the one guy
who didn’t support you 100%. But I do now. I think you’re
doing a terrific job. This shows why, basically you. You
actually, these folks did a great job. I was really thrilled the
way Bob handled himself. Caleb and others did such a
good job. We have good people working with us. And the
folks in this delegation all very sincerely wanted to get
Josh out of it. And the parents are just as good of people as
I’ve ever met in my life. And you better really live a good
life… But this wouldn’t have happened without you. We
just want you to know that when you look back over your
tenure and the presidency, this is just one of the many
great things you’re doing. But it’s really a great thing. And
I know that we can rely on you and count on you and talk
to you and meet with you. These are all very important
things. We love you boy and just want to support you any
way we can.
 Deep State Confession: 2017 UK Article Indicates
Obama’s Spygate Started In 2015 – Much
Earlier Than Currently Reported
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 9:11 Am
Another Internet sleuth (REX) put together
some more pieces to Spygate over the
weekend. The sleuth’s analysis shows that
Obama’s Spygate scandal started much
earlier than expected and Deep State leaks
support this claim.
On April 13, 2017, the far left Guardian posted an article
about Trump and Russia collusion that began by making a
couple now key assertions,
1) British spies played a crucial role in the
Trump – Russia conspiracy
2) Trump – Russia scandal began in at
least 2015
3) The UK was involved
4) The UK and US worked together for the
next six months
Via The Guardian:
Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in
alerting their counterparts in Washington to
contacts between members of Donald Trump’s
campaign team and Russian intelligence
operatives, the Guardian has been told.
GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of
suspicious “interactions” between figures
connected to Trump and known or suspected
Russian agents, a source close to UK
intelligence said. This intelligence was passed
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to the US as part of a routine exchange of
information, they added.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a
number of western agencies shared further
information on contacts between Trump’s inner
circle and Russians, sources said.
GCHQ is the Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation in the
UK.
[It’s unknown who in the Trump campaign was
even remotely linked to Russia in 2015.
General Flynn visited Moscow in December
2015 but this was no reason to spy on
President Trump.]
After noting that Germany, Poland, Estonia, Australia, the
Dutch and the French were all involved in the scandal and
passing information on to the [Obama Administration in
the] US, the Guardian article pointed out that the UK spy
agency was at no point carrying out a targeted operation
against Trump or his team or proactively seeking
information. –
It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a
targeted operation against Trump or his team or
proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations
were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of
Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different
agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern
of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in
the US.
This on face value is a lie. The investigation
was a targeted hit and not something
“picked up by chance.”
The article goes on to report that President Trump’s Press
Secretary at the time, released information that Trump was
wired at Trump Tower and that it was the UK that wired
the future President –
 The issue of GCHQ’s role in the FBI’s ongoing
investigation into possible cooperation between
the Trump campaign and Moscow is highly
sensitive. In March Trump tweeted that Barack
Obama had illegally “wiretapped” him in Trump
Tower.

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer,

claimed the “British spying agency” GCHQ had
carried out the bugging. Spicer cited an
unsubstantiated report on Fox News. Fox later
distanced itself from the report.

The claims prompted an extremely unusual

rebuke from GCHQ, which generally refrains
from commenting on all intelligence matters.
The agency described the allegations first made
by a former judge turned media commentator,
Andrew Napolitano, as “nonsense”.
We also now know that a number of FBI Agents traveled
“They are utterly ridiculous and should be
to and from London in 2016. @JohnWHuber wrote an
ignored,” a spokesperson for GCHQ said.
excellent thread noting the visit of Comey’s FBI crooks to
London in May 2016 at the same time as Downer
One source called the British eavesdropping agency the (Australian) was ‘meeting’ with Papadopoulos. This is
“principal whistleblower”. consistent with the Guardian post above.

So according to the sources in the article
the UK began spying on President Trump in
late 2015 but Judge ‘Nap’ and Sean Spicer
were incorrect to say so because the UK spy
agency said this was ‘utterly ridiculous’.
We’ve been told by the MSM and even the
article above that the Trump – Russia story
started in mid-2016. But this Guardian
article pushes the spying back into 2015:
It’s now very clear that the UK spied on the
Trump team starting at least as early as
2015.
They were sharing information with the US
from at least that time going forward.
Maybe this is why former British Spy Head
Robert Hannigan resigned from the GCHQ in
January 2017. This was shortly before
Spicer’s comments about the British spying
on President Trump.

Once again, it appears the UK meddled in

the 2016 election — NOT Russia.
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 Mark Penn: Deep State
Conducted A Sting Operation On Trump
By Trent Baker
27 May 2018

Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn examined the “out of
hand” Robert Mueller investigation into President Donald
Trump, saying the
He continued,
“deep state is clearly in a deep state of
desperation.”
“Every day we discover more and more
potential abuses — that the investigation
didn’t have a foundation, that they used this
flaky dossier, you know, that was never
substantiated as part of their investigation,”
Penn told New York AM 970 radio’s “The
.
Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis
on his Sunday broadcast.
” And now, we’re finding out on top of that
… perhaps they were even setting up a
sting operation even before the
investigation to try to entrap the Trump
campaign, and you’re wondering, ‘Is that
the American government?'”

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 CHELSEA CLINTON Tells The Guardian: I’d Protest
Trump In Great Britain – He Has Mainstreamed
And Mainlined Hate
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 9:38 Am

Chelsea Clinton echoed her mother this

weekend in an article in the far left Guardian
newspaper insisting that President Trump
has “mainstreamed hate.”

Her mother Hillary Clinton used the same insult in August

2016.

And it didn’t help her mother either.

Chelsea also told The Guardian that she

would protest Trump in Great Britain if she
had the chance. What a disgrace.

Via FOX and Friends:

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 ABC Whines: Trump Getting A
‘Boost’ From Bringing Americans Home
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 27, 2018 10:04 AM EDT
During Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC News’ cast
of characters exposed just how politically petty they were
when they actually complained about President Trump
getting positive coverage when he brings American
hostages home. Between Tara Palmeri’s sympathies for
Venezuela in her report and Martha Raddatz’s huffing
about Trump getting a “boost,” their reporting was
downright obnoxious.
The American who was released Saturday was Joshua
Holt, a man imprisoned on trumped-up charges of
espionage and terrorism for two years and subjected to
inhumane conditions.
“The 26-year-old Mormon imprisoned shortly
after marrying a Venezuelan woman he met
online,” Palmeri reported.
But her tone turned skeptical when talking about
America’s reaction to the charges, saying,
“The U.S. government, however, contending
these charges were inflated.”
Using “inflated” instead of saying, “fabricated” or
“trumped-up” gives a sense there was a grain of truth to
the socialist regime’s assertions.
When co-anchor Dan Harris brought on Foreign Affairs
correspondent Martha Raddatz to discuss the political
news, he prompted her to knock how Trump was getting
positive coverage for once.
“This is the second time in a few weeks
we’ve seen Donald Trump next to Americans
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who have just been released from captivity
overseas. Before this, it was the Americans
who were freed from North Korea. How
much of a boost do these stories give to the
president,” he asked.
“Donald Trump, trumpets all of these
releases. It’s very unusual, of course, for
someone to be released and go straight to
the White House for a photo opportunity,”
Raddatz opined. But that’s not entirely accurate. President
Obama had his own press conference to “trumpet” the
release of Bowe Bergdahl, the infamous Afghanistan
deserter, which ultimately blew up in his face. Obama
actually traded five Taliban commanders for Bergdahl
while Trump gave nothing in return for Holt.
“So I would say it is pretty obvious it does
give him a boost,” Raddatz continued to
whine. “I'm not sure many Americans knew
about Joshua Holt and he was held in
Venezuela…”
It’s interesting and tragic that she would surmise how
many Americans knew about Holt because according to a
Nexis search of ABC broadcasts from 2016, they never
mentioned his capture.
Palmeri also seemed to suggest America was the one at
fault of the U.S.’s combative relationship with Venezuela:
The U.S. relationship with Venezuela has been poor, the
White House referred to Maduro’s last re-election as a
sham. The people of Venezuela are living without food
and medicine. But the U.S. just imposed more sanctions
this past week and the White House says they will stay in
place.
There was no mention of how most of the world
considered Maduro’s election as illegitimate as well or
how the government there was the cause of its people’s
problems.
Raddatz may say they're "all always happy
when Americans prisoners are released,"
but they have a bizarre way of showing it. It’s truly
disgusting that ABC would use even a second of airtime to
cry about Trump getting positive coverage from the media
when they should be focused on Holt and his family. It just
goes to show just how petty the liberal media can be.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
ABC
Good Morning America
May 27, 2018
8:08:24 AM Eastern
PAULA FARIS: In those comments from President Trump
overnight about the negotiations for the North Korean summit you
may have noticed he was sitting next to someone. That man right
there, his name is Josh Holt. And he was at the White House late
on a Saturday night under some dramatic circumstances.
(…)
TARA PALMERI: The 26-year-old Mormon imprisoned shortly
after marrying a Venezuelan woman he met online. Venezuelan
police arresting him on charges of terrorism. U.S. linked
espionage, and illegal possession of weapons including a rifle
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and grenades. The U.S. government, however, contending these
charges were inflated. Holt saying he endured inhumane
conditions without trial.
(…)
[Cuts back to live]
PALMERI: The U.S. relationship with Venezuela has been poor,
the White House referred to Maduro’s last re-election as a sham.
The people of Venezuela are living without food and medicine.
But the U.S. just imposed more sanctions this past week and the
White House says they will stay in place. Dan, Paula?
DAN HARRIS: It was amazing they were able to get him out in
this context. Tara, thank you so much.
So many political issues to talk about on this Sunday morning.
So, let's bring in ABC's Martha Raddatz in Washington, where
she is going to be hosting This Week later this morning. Martha
good morning to you. This is the second time in a few weeks
we’ve seen Donald Trump next to Americans who have just been
released from captivity overseas. Before this, it was the
Americans who were freed from North Korea. How much of a
boost do these stories give to the president?
MARTHA RADDATZ: I think you just saw there in Tara's report,
extraordinary, they're very thankful to the President, they say it
again and again. Donald Trump, trumpets all of these releases.
It’s very unusual, of course, for someone to be released and go
straight to the White House for a photo opportunity.
So I would say it is pretty obvious it does give him a boost. I'm
not sure many Americans knew about Joshua Holt and he was
held in Venezuela but we're all always happy when American
prisoners are released, all of us are.
 Giuliani: ‘I Don’t’ Believe
Mueller Probe Is Legitimate
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:04 AM 05/27/2018
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the
Union” Sunday that he no longer believes Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion is
legitimate.
WATCH:
Giuliani told CNN’s Dana Bash that he thought the probe
was legitimate before joining Trump’s legal team.
However, seeing scandals like “Spygate” and former FBI
director James Comey leaking his memos to the press
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made him believe that the impetus for the investigation
was illegitimate.
“You get the Comey thing, which is a leak of a
confidential memo, which is illegal for an FBI
official to do, and that becomes the basis for
appointing Mueller,” Giuliani explained. “I’m not
saying Mueller is illegitimate, I’m saying the
basis on which he was appointed was
illegitimate.”
“So you think the Mueller probe is legitimate?”
Bash asked for clarification.
“Not anymore,” he responded. “I don’t. I did
when I came in but now I see Spygate…”
Bash interjected to say that Spygate happened before
Mueller was appointed, to which Giuliani argued,
“but it has to inform the decision to appoint
Mueller — either it’s evidence or not.”
 Oops!… Hillary Campaign Official Accuses Trump Of
Offering Children To Human Traffickers …
But It Was An Obama Policy!
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 10:24 Am

This weekend Hillary advisor Zac Petkanas accused

President Trump of selling children to human traffickers.

Jack Posobiec captured the tweet by Petkanas.

Zac Petkanas

Zac Petkanas was the director of the “Trump

War Room” for the Democratic National
Committee during the 2016 election.

Petkanas is still very active in Democrat politics after

Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss.

This weekend liberals and their media

accused President Trump of losing track of
almost 1,500 juvenile aliens who have been
“lost” in the system.

Trump responded by noting this was a Democrat policy.

Via Zac Petkanas:

Of course, President Trump is correct. Democrats have

refused to budge on immigration reform even when
President Trump promised them DACA amnesty in
exchange for a border wall.

But that doesn’t stop Democrats from continuing to lie and

smear this president.

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 But then this happened… Jack Posobiec unearthed a Washington
Post article from 2016 that put the blame on
Obama.

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 Flake: ‘Constitutional Crisis’
If Trump Fires Rosenstein
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:27 AM 05/27/2018

Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” noted

during an interview that Flake has become “more alarmed”
with Trump’s behavior over the past year and asked why
his Republican colleagues haven’t shown the same
concern.

“I can tell you behind the scenes there is a lot of

Sen. Jeff Flake Warns Of Constitutional Crisis (NBC: May 27, 2018)
Senator Jeff Flake warned on Sunday that the country
would be thrown into a constitutional crisis if President
Donald Trump fires Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein.
WATCH:
alarm,” Flake said. “There is concern that the
president is laying the groundwork to move on
[Special Counsel] Bob Mueller or [Deputy
Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein.”
“If that were to happen obviously that would
cause a constitutional crisis,” he asserted.

Flake added that he thinks his colleagues are not stepping

up because they are worried about getting through the
primaries in their midterm elections and therefore won’t
stand for “empirical truth.”

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 Law Professor Insists Mueller ‘Has No Clothes’
Federalist Society Co-Founder Steven Calabresi Argues That Everything
The Special Counsel Has Done Is 'Null And Void'
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 27 May 2018 At 10:28 AM
A Northwestern University law professor who clerked for
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is causing a stir as
he makes the rounds of national media and lays out his
case that special counsel Robert Mueller’s entire operation
is unconstitutional.
Steven Calabresi, the Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber
professor of law and a co-founder of the Federalist
Society, reiterated that view Friday on a conference call
with reporters and legal professionals. He said the
appointment of Mueller violates the appointments clause
of the Constitution.
The consequences of that conclusion, should it prove
accurate, could be sweeping for Mueller’s open-ended
investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election and possible collusion with
President Donald Trump’s campaign.
“All actions taken by Mueller since his
appointment on May 17, 2017, are,
therefore, null and void,” he said.
That would include all the indictments Mueller has
brought, the plea bargains he has negotiated, the
controversial searches his team has conducted, and the
referral he made of records seized from the home and
offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
Calabresi predicted the courts would throw out any
evidence given to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan
as the
“fruit of a poisonous tree.”
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Whether any of that will actually come to pass is hard to
predict. It would require a target of the Mueller
investigation to challenge the constitutionality of his
appointment and then the courts — and most likely the
Supreme Court — would have to adopt Calabresi's
argument.
Several factors weigh against that, most prominently the
extreme reluctance of federal courts to issue decisions that
would be as disruptive as one that would declare Mueller's
appointment unconstitutional and invalidate every action
his team has taken over the past year.
And there is a Supreme Court precedent upholding the
constitutionality of the law allowing for the appointment of
a special prosecutor by a three-judge panel. That law,
which eventually lapsed because Congress declined to
renew it, was more suspect than the current statute because
it involved questions of separation of powers — could
another branch appoint an official of the executive branch
who is completely independent of it?
The Supreme Court answered that question in 1988, with a
7-1 ruling in a case involving a special prosecutor who
investigated possible false statements to Congress by
Theodore Olson, who at the time was an official in the
Environmental Protection Agency. (Olson later went on to
serve as solicitor general in the George W. Bush
administration, representing the federal government in
matters before the Supreme Court.)
Calabresi sees six votes on high court. But Calabresi —
who clerked for Scalia when the late justice wrote the
dissent in that case — said he believes there are five, and
possibly six, votes on the high court to strike down
Mueller's appointment.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, speaking at a Stanford
University event in 2015, called Scalia's contrary opinion
"one of the greatest dissents ever written,
and every year it gets better."
Calabresi pointed to a Supreme Court ruling in 1976
striking down a law that had allowed for the speaker of the
House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of
the Senate to make appointments to the Federal Election
Commission. Only the president could make those
appointments, the court ruled.
Under interpretation of the appointments clause, a
"principal officer" must be nominated by the president and
confirmed by the Senate. If he is an inferior officer, he can
be appointed by another government official without input
from the president or confirmation by the Senate.
Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in a 1997 case, laid
out a test for analyzing whether an officer is a principal or
an inferior. An inferior officer must have a boss who
directs and supervises his work. Rehnquist, in a separate
case, wrote that an inferior officer also must have limited
jurisdiction and a job with a fixed ending point.
Calabresi offered the example of a U.S. attorney, who
must be appointed by the president and confirmed by the
Senate. But a U.S. attorney can hire prosecutors who are
not subject to confirmation because they are working
under the direction and supervision of the principal officer.
Calabresi argued that the special counsel in the Olson case
was more like a front-line prosecutor. He said it was a
narrow matter, involving two charges against a single
subject, who by then was not even in the government
anymore.
Mueller, theoretically, has a boss in Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and is subject to supervision by
him. But in practice, Calabresi said, Mueller is a lone
operator who has no real supervision.
"Mueller is not an inferior officer." In addition,
Calabresi added, Mueller (pictured above) has an
.
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extremely broad scope with nationwide jurisdiction, a
large staff and no genuine limits on his budget. He said
that in power and prestige, Mueller greatly exceeds the 93
U.S. attorneys. The special counsel functionally is much
more like an assistant attorney general, a position that must
be nominated by the president and confirmed by the
Senate.
"It's just absolutely clear that
… Mueller is not an inferior
officer," he said. "He is a
principal officer, and since he
has not been nominated by the
president and confirmed by the
Senate, everything he has done
since May 17, 2017, has been
unconstitutional and has been
illegal."
The constitutional solution for the problem of how to
investigate potential wrongdoing by a president is for
Congress to create a standing office of special counsel
headed by an official appointed by the president and
confirmed by the Senate, Calabresi said. He said the
approach has historical roots.
In response to the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s,
Congress created two special counsel officers, one
Republican and one Democrat, who both had to agree
before charges could be brought.
Calabresi's view has not exactly caught fire in the legal
community. Although some scholars have argued that the
statute governing Mueller — and proposals in Congress to
restrict Trump's ability to fire him — are unconstitutional,
many others disagree.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson earlier this year
rejected attempts by former Trump campaign Chairman
Paul Manafort to throw out charges against him brought by
Mueller. She ruled that Mueller's efforts to prosecute him
for conduct unrelated to Russian election meddling fall
within the mandate that Rosenstein gave him.
Calabresi drew a parallel to the fable of "The Emperor's
New Clothes."
"I really think Mueller has no clothes,
and that everything he's done since May
17 of last year has been unconsti-
tutional and illegal," he said.
 Former CIA Dir. Hayden Calls Out Clapper
For ‘Unknowable’ Russia Claim
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:44 AM 05/27/2018

Clapper wrote in his new book that he has “no doubt”

Russian meddling swung the election in favor of Trump,
but during a Friday night CNN interview he all but
admitted he has no evidence for the claim.

Hayden told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” that

it is “unknowable” how much Russians influenced the
election and he knocked the former director of national
intelligence for claiming otherwise.

“I agree that the Russians affected the election

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden called out James
Clapper on Sunday for claiming to know that Russians
decided the 2016 election.
WATCH:
but how much they affected is not just unknown,
it is unknowable and so we should stop talking
about it,” Hayden asserted. “Donald Trump is
the president.”
“You invite folks like us on your show because
we’re the fact witnesses, not because we have
opinions,” he added.

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 US Officials Cross Into
North Korea For Summit Preparations
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
10:47 AM 05/27/2018
U.S. officials reportedly traveled to North Korea Sunday to
prepare for a possible summit between President Donald
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The American delegation was led by Ambassador to the
Philippines Sung Kim, the former ambassador to South
Korea and an experienced nuclear negotiator, The
Washington Post reported Sunday. The U.S. team met with
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, a
senior North Korean official who recently criticized
Trump’s administration, causing the president to cancel his
summit with Kim.
“Bringing in Sung Kim is a good idea — looks
like Pompeo is really trying to make this
happen,” North Korea expert Jeffrey Lewis
tweeted in response to the newest
development.
Trump sent a letter to Kim Thursday canceling the summit.
“I was very much looking forward to being there
with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous
anger and open hostility displayed in your most
recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this
time, to have this long-planned meeting,” the
president explained.
North Korea responded quickly, calling the move
regrettable while expressing a strong desire for dialogue.
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North Korea “would like to make known to the U.S. side
once again that we have the intent to sit with the U.S. side
to solve [the] problem regardless of ways at any time,” the
North Korean foreign ministry said in an official statement
carried in a state media report. The North’s “warm” and
“productive” response led Trump to reconsider his
decision to cancel the summit.
The U.S. and North Korea were in talks to save the
landmark summit, the president announced May 25.
“We are having very productive talks with North
Korea about reinstating the summit,” he
tweeted. The summit might still be held in
Singapore on June 12, he suggested.
“There are meetings going on as we speak,”
Trump revealed Saturday night.
News of the U.S. team’s trip to North Korea follows a
surprise inter-Korean summit between Kim and South
Korean President Moon Jae-in Saturday, marking the
second summit between the two leaders in a month and the
fourth inter-Korean summit overall. Despite recent
tensions following a decision by Pyongyang to cancel talks
with Seoul, the two Korean leaders embraced one another
as friends at the border.
Both Kim and Moon expressed a commitment to the
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a desire to
see talks between Washington and Pyongyang succeed.
 Clapper Answers Why Trump Campaign
Wasn’t Alerted To Russian Effort
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:11 AM 05/27/2018

During an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of

the Union,” Clapper seemed to argue that the Russian
threat “had [not] reached the point” where the FBI would
alert the campaign, but apparently had reached the point
where the FBI would send in an informant.

“The first thing is just to determine what was

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
tried to explain on CNN Sunday why the Trump campaign
wasn’t warned about Russian meddling efforts.
WATCH:
going on,” Clapper said. “If there wasn’t a
concern about the Russians…perhaps no
reason to do that. You know, the FBI has rules
and protocols for when they decide to do
something like that and I don’t think that at that
point it had reached the point where it would be
appropriate to engage the head of the
campaign or the nominee.”

Clapper also denied any knowledge of the operation,

explaining that it would not be “appropriate” for the DNI
to know the identities of any informants working with the
FBI.

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 Giuliani: FBI, DOJ Are Being ‘Hypocritical’
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:34 AM 05/27/2018
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that he
believes the FBI and DOJ are being “hypocritical” in the
way they are handling information about the Trump
campaign informant.
WATCH:
Giuliani told CNN’s Dana Bash during a “State of the
Union” interview that the explanations for why the
informant was placed in the campaign have
“contradictions.”
“I see contradictions,” Giuliani said. “I see
Clapper saying that there was a spy but he was
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spying on the Russian end. But spying on the
Russian end if they thought there was collusion
meant spying on the president’s campaign.”
He also noted that the FBI and DOJ have claimed that
releasing the identity of the informant would put him in
danger. Yet, Giuliani argued, the FBI and DOJ have failed
to provide the informant with protection even after his
identity was reported by the press.
“The name here has already been put out there
and I don’t know if it’s true. But if it is true and
it’s dangerous to this man, he better be
protected already,” Giuliani asserted. “I don’t
believe he’s being protected. It says to me that
maybe the FBI and the Justice Department is
being a little hypocritical here?”
Bash asked Giuliani to clarify why he thinks the FBI and
DOJ are being “hypocritical.”
“Well, they said he can’t be revealed because
it’s dangerous. Now he’s been revealed — Wall
Street Journal, several other newspapers — if
that man is the man he better be protected…I
hear he’s not. What’s going on?” Giuliani
questioned.
 Alexander Downer Describes Barroom Meeting With
Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:59 AM 05/27/2018
In a little-noticed interview in April, former Australian
diplomat Alexander Downer spoke publicly for the first
time about his barroom conversation with President
Donald Trump’s campaign adviser that would serve as a
catalyst for the FBI’s collusion investigation.
Downer, the former high commissioner to the U.K., said
he asked another Australian diplomat to contact the Trump
aide, George Papadopoulos, for the meeting, which
occurred around May 10, 2016, at London’s Kensington
Wine Room.
Over drinks, Papadopoulos mentioned Russians had
information on Hillary Clinton that could prove damaging,
Downer told The Australian in an April 28 interview.
There was no indication in the short exchange with
Papadopoulos that Trump was aware of the damaging
information, Downer also said.
“By the way, nothing [Papadopoulos] said in
that conversation indicated Trump himself had
been conspiring with the Russians to collect
information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that
this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the
Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton —
but whether Trump knew or not?” Downer
explained.
“He didn’t say Trump knew or that Trump was in
any way involved in this. He said it was about
Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn’t about
Trump,” Downer told The Australian.
Papadopoulos’s reference to Clinton material was vague,
Downer suggested.
“He didn’t say dirt; he said material that could
be damaging to her. No, he said it would be
damaging. He didn’t say what it was.”
Downer’s encounter with Papadopoulos would later
prompt the FBI to open “Crossfire Hurricane” — the
counterintelligence investigation into possible coordination
between members of Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin.
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Downer sent a cable back to Australian government
authorities within 48 hours of the Papadopoulos encounter.
The information was not provided to the FBI until months
later when Joe Hockey, Australia’s ambassador to the
U.S., passed it to American authorities in late July 2016.
He was prompted to share the information by WikiLeaks’
release of hacked DNC emails.
“Crossfire Hurricane” was officially opened on July 31,
2016. It has since folded into the investigation being
conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“During that conversation, [Papadopoulos]
mentioned the Russians might use material that
they have on Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the
election, which may be damaging,” Downer told
The Australian.
Downer said he felt the information
“seemed quite interesting” and “was worth
reporting.”
Papadopoulos, an energy consultant who joined the
campaign in March 2016, had other discussions about
Clinton information during the campaign.
He told the FBI back on Jan. 26, 2017, about a
conversation he had on April 26, 2016, with Joseph
Mifsud, a Maltese professor. Papadopoulos said Mifsud
claimed to have been in contact with Russian government
officials who said they had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of
“thousands” of her emails.
Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the special counsel’s
office for lying during that FBI interview. While he told
the truth about Mifsud’s remarks about Clinton dirt,
Papadopoulos lied about the timing of his encounters with
Mifsud and two of the professor’s Russian associates.
It is still unknown whether Papadopoulos told anyone on
the Trump campaign about Mifsud’s remarks. But sources
close to Papadopoulos have told The DCNF he believed
Mifsud was referring to 30,000 emails Clinton had deleted
from her private email server. The whereabouts of those
deleted documents was a hot topic of debate during the
campaign.
Papadopoulos has also privately denied allegations he
colluded with Russia. He has told associates he did not see,
handle or disseminate Clinton emails, according to the
source with information on the Downer meeting.
In his interview, Downer confirmed several details
TheDCNF previously reported, including about how the
Papadopoulos meeting came about and what else was
discussed.
He said Erika Thompson, a counselor to the high
commission, accompanied him.
“Downer, or Thompson at Downer’s request,
made contact with Papadopoulos through an
Israeli contact in early May 2016.”
That Israeli contact is Christian Cantor, an Israeli embassy
official.
Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s activities in London
at that time have told TheDCNF that Cantor introduced
.
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Papadopoulos to Thompson. The trio met several times in
London during April 2016.
Downer also suggested the meeting was brief and
Papadopoulos was not drunk, as has been widely reported.
According to the profile, Downer and Papadopoulos spoke
over a “single short drink.”
Downer also confirmed he confronted Papadopoulos over
his comments about then-British Prime Minister David
Cameron. Papadopoulos was quoted in the British press a
week before the Kensington Wine Room meeting, calling
on Cameron to apologize for making negative comments
about Trump.
Downer said he and Papadopoulos also discussed foreign
policy issues, including Trump’s position on the Trans-
Pacific Partnership and policy toward China.
“We didn’t know anything about Trump and
Russia, and we had no particular focus on that,”
Downer said in his interview with The
Australian.
 Here Are The 17 Prisoners
Trump Has Freed Since He Took Office
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
12:36 PM 05/27/2018

Since President Donald Trump took office, his intervened on her behalf, securing a pardon and De
administration has secured the release of 17 prisoners Sousa’s freedom in March of the same year.
foreign governments had detained.
Aya Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein:
“We’ve had 17 released, and we’re very proud
of that record. Very proud. And we have others
coming,” Trump said Saturday evening as he
welcomed home Joshua Holt, an American
citizen who had been detained in Venezuela for
two years without trial.

Unlike his predecessor, the president has managed to bring

these prisoners home without freeing terrorists or paying
millions of dollars in suspected ransom payments.

Sabrina De Sousa:

[Aya Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein, founders of

Belady, an NGO that promotes a better life for street children, talk
inside a holding cell as they face trial on charges of human trafficking
at a courthouse in Cairo, Egypt, March 23, 2017. Picture taken
March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany]

During a period of particular unrest in Egypt, authorities

raided a non-governmental organization dedicated to
helping street children in 2014 and arrested Egyptian-
American Aya Hijazi, her husband and five other activists
on false charges of human trafficking, kidnapping and
rape.

[Former CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa speaks during an interview
with Reuters in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, March 8, 2017.
REUTERS/Rafael Marchante]
Portuguese-American Sabrina De Sousa, a former CIA
agent, was arrested and detained in Portugal in 2015 after
being convicted in absentia in 2009 of kidnapping. De
Sousa was sentenced to four years in prison for her alleged
involvement in the kidnapping of radical Muslim
cleric Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu
Omar, in Milan, Italy, in 2003. Although De Sousa argued
she played no part in the abduction, failed appeals had her
on the fast track to becoming the first American
intelligence official to serve jail time for a role in former
President George W. Bush’s administration’s “War on
Terror.”
But before she could be extradited to Italy in February
2017 to serve her sentence, Trump’s administration
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Not long after Trump met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi in April 2017, an Egyptian court cleared all seven
detainees of all charges. The president personally sent a
U.S. government plane to Cairo to retrieve Hijazi and her
husband, and he greeted them both at the White House
upon their long-awaited return to the U.S.
Sandy Phan-Gillis:
China arrested Texas businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis in
2015 on charges of espionage and held her for two years
without a public trial. Her husband, Jeff Gillis, insisted the
allegations were “absolutely false.” He pleaded with the
Obama administration to bring her home. While the
administration pressed Beijing on the issue, it was
ultimately unable to secure her release.
Following a meeting between former Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson with Chinese leadership in March 2017 and
a summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi
Jinping in Mar-a-Lago in April 2018, Phan-Gillis was
finally freed from prison.
China sentenced her to three and a half years in prison but
deported her before she could serve any additional jail
time.
Otto Warmbier:
[FILE PHOTO: Otto Frederick Warmbier (C), a University of
Virginia student, who was detained in North Korea since early
January, is taken to North Korea’s top court in Pyongyang, North
Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 16, 2016. Mandatory
credit REUTERS/Kyodo/File Photo]
University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier was arrested
for allegedly pilfering a propaganda poster while on a tour
of North Korea in January 2016. The young student was
sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for his crimes at a
tearful show trial in March that same year.
Through a series of back-channel negotiations with
Pyongyang, Trump’s administration managed to secure
Warmbier’s release in June 2017. But his return home was
bitter sweet, as the Cincinnati native returned in a coma
after having suffered a traumatic brain injury — details of
which remain unclear. Warmbier passed away just one
week after his release.
Both the president and the Warmbier Family have
suggested the outcome might have been different if the
previous administration had acted more quickly to save the
now-deceased student.
Joshua Boyle, Caitlan Coleman and their three
children:
Canadian-American couple Joshua Boyle and Caitlan
Coleman were kidnapped in 2012 while backpacking
through Afghanistan and held captive by the Haqqani
network for five years. The Haqqani network, an offshoot
of the Taliban, demanded the release of prisoners in
exchange for the hostages — a demand that was not met.
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Coleman had three children during her and her husband’s
time in captivity.
In October 2017, the U.S. pressured Pakistan into rescuing
the family after they were spotted near the border.
Pakistani authorities were able to recover the five captives,
and the family returned to North America last fall.
Numerous questions continue to surround the captives,
particularly Boyle.
UCLA basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley
and Jalen Hill:
[UCLA basketball players Cody Riley, LiAngelo Ball and Jalen Hill
speak at a press conference at UCLA after flying back from China
where they were detained on suspicion of shoplifting, in Los Angeles,
California, U.S. November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson]
During a team trip to Hangzhou, China, in November
2017, three players — Li Angelo Ball, Cody Riley and
Jalen Hill — were arrested and detained for shoplifting at a
local Louis Vuitton department store, stealing
sunglasses. For their alleged crimes, the players were
reportedly facing up to 10 years in Chinese prison, but
Trump intervened. During the president’s first state visit to
China, Trump brought up the issue in talks with Chinese
President Xi, who promised to look into the situation.
The Chinese leader assured Trump the three players would
be “treated fairly and expeditiously,” and the three players
were freed shortly thereafter.
“I would like to thank President Trump and the
United States government for the help they
provided,” Ball said in a statement upon his
return to the U.S. “I am grateful to be back
home, and I will never make a mistake like this
again. I am extremely sorry for those that I let
down.”
Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-Duk:
Kim Dong-Chul, a businessman and purported Christian
missionary, was arrested in North Korea in 2015 on
charges of espionage. He was sentenced to 10 years of
hard labor for his crimes. Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-
Duk were professors at Pyongyang University of Science
and Technology before they were arrested in May and
April 2017 respectively for unspecified hostile acts.

[U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the media as he greets Josh

Holt, an American missionary released by Venezuela, in the Oval
Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2018.
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas]

[The three Americans formerly held hostage in North Korea gesture President Trump announced his administration had secured
next to U.S.President Donald Trump upon their arrival at Joint Base Holt’s release Saturday morning.
Andrews, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg]

***
Trump’s administration secured the release of these three
prisoners during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s second
trip to North Korea in early May. The three men received a More On The Way…
heroes welcome when they returned home.
“We have others coming. We’re in the midst of some very
Joshua Holt: big negotiations to get others out. In most cases, they’re
Americans, but we can try and help other countries too,
where there’s injustice. So we’ve been working very hard
Joshua Holt, a 26-year-old Utah native, and his
on it,” Trump said Saturday evening, making references to
Venezuelan wife, Thamy, along with their
four Americans held captive in Iran and a North Carolina
daughter, returned to the U.S. Saturday evening for a
pastor held hostage in Turkey.
tearful reunion with Holt’s mother and father. Holt was
arrested on charges of espionage when he traveled to
Venezuela in June 2016 to marry Thamy.
.

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 Rudy Giuliani: The Spying On Trump By The Obama
Administration “Completely Taints” The
Entire Mueller Probe (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 12:51 Pm

Rudy Giuliani made the rounds this morning

on the Sunday talk shows.

Rudy told FOX News Sunday that the spying on Trump by

the Obama administration and deep state players
completely taints the investigation.

Rudy Giuliani: The whole thing with this investigation

that was going on which we consider spying was done
before Mueller got involved but it completely taints his
investigation.

He’s right.

The Obama administration and cohorts in the British

intelligence community were spying on Trump since 2015
and never were able to find collusion between any Trump
official and the Russian government.

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Report: Top Iranian Official, John Kerry Meeting Partner,
Caught Chanting, ‘Death To America’
Peter Hasson - Reporter
2:19 PM 05/27/2018

Zarif’s call for the destruction of America came less than

two months after he secretly met with former Secretary of
State John Kerry in mid-April to try and save the Iran
nuclear deal.

Kerry’s “unusual shadow diplomacy” was ultimately

unsuccessful, as President Donald Trump announced on
May 8 the U.S. would be withdrawing from the deal.
Iranian lawmakers responded that same day by setting an
American flag on fire on the floor of parliament and
chanting,

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a key architect of the “Death to America!”
2015 Iran nuclear deal, was caught on camera chanting
“Death to America,” “Death to Britain” and “Death to Kerry and Zarif were considered to be among the
Israel,” Israeli outlet Ynetnews reported on Saturday. frontrunners for 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work
on the Iran deal.
Zarif participated in the violent chants on Thursday after
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered
a speech in Tehran, according to Ynetnews.

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 Former CIA Director Hayden DESTROYS James
Clapper’s Claims That Russia Changed Election Outcome
Posted On May 27, 2018
(National Sentinel) Flat-out False: Though he told
Congress in 2017 that there is no evidence proving that
Russian trolls affected the outcome of the 2016 election,
serial liar James Clapper is now telling everyone who will
listen that they did.
But former CIA Director Gen. Michael Haden (retired)
blasted that notion out of the water during an interview
with ABC News on Saturday.
Clapper wrote in his new book that he harbors “no doubt”
Russian meddling swung the election in favor of Trump,
but during a Friday night CNN interview he all but
admitted he has no evidence for the claim.
Hadden told ABC’s Martha Raddatz it is “unknowable”
how much Russians influenced the election and he
.
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knocked the former director of national intelligence for
claiming otherwise, The Daily Caller reported.
“I agree that the Russians affected the election
but how much they affected is not just unknown,
it is unknowable and so we should stop talking
about it,” Hayden asserted. “Donald Trump is
the president.”
“You invite folks like us on your show because
we’re the fact witnesses, not because we have
opinions,” he added.
James Clapper, James Comey, John Brennan and everyone
else asserting that POTUS Trump and his team “colluded”
with Russia are the true stooges of the Kremlin. They are
the ones doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding, which is to sow
distrust in our political processes.
That’s what they accused Trump of doing. But that’s
what they’re doing with all this running around and telling
Americans lies about what did and did not happen in the
2016 election.
The Democratic Party and its allies are now officially
aligned with the Russian government’s effort to undermine
our republic.
That makes them the true enemies of the state.
 POTUS Trump: Mueller Phony Russia Witch Hunt Has
Devastated And Destroyed Many Lives
By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2018, 2:48 Pm

The gloves are off.

President Trump slammed Robert Mueller

and his team of hack lawyers AGAIN Sunday
morning in a pair of tweets.

The President said many lives have been

devastated and destroyed by Mueller’s
phony Russian collusion witch hunt.

The President then slammed Crooked Hillary and

brought up the DNC’s servers.

Round two: Why didn’t the 13 Angry Democrats

investigate the campaign of Crooked Hillary Clinton, many
crimes, much Collusion with Russia? Why didn’t the FBI
take the Server from the DNC? Rigged Investigation!

Robert Mueller is a dirty cop.

Mueller and his team of Hillary-Obama donors have hunted

down anyone and everyone in Trump’s inner circle for the
sole purpose to destroy lives.

To this date, the FBI has not done a forensic inspection of

GENERAL MIKE FLYNN
the DNC servers to determine if they were hacked, and if
hacked, by whom?
For no legitimate reason, Mueller has made life hell for
Mike Flynn, a three-star General who served this country
Yet here we are two years later with an unconstitutional
honorably for decades.
witch hunt costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
Because of Mueller’s witch hunt, General Flynn got buried
President Trump says Mueller has destroyed
in mounting legal fees causing him to sell one of his
many lives.
homes.
Trump tweeted: Who’s going to give back the young and
CARTER PAGE
beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and
destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt?
They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in In a recent interview with the New York Post’s Paul Sperry,
their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back Carter Page says the FBI witch hunt ruined his life.
home in tatters!
FBI surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter
Page cost him business, income and even his girlfriend.

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Page tells The Post that during the media barrage he faced
in late 2016, he visited his girlfriend at her London flat,
where she was “freaking out with the fake news about me.”
MICHAEL CAPUTO
Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says Mueller has
made life hell for him and his family.
Caputo went off on the Senate Intel panel recently.
MICHAEL COHEN
One of Trump’s personal lawyers was recently raided by
the FBI on Rosenstein’s orders with Mueller’s blessing.
The only reason Cohen is being hunted down is because he
is connected to President Trump.
As a result his financial records have been leaked to the
public.

“Forget about all the death threats against my family. I Cohen has also become of target of Mueller’s investigation.
want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed
our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you ROGER STONE
lost an election,” Caputo said. “I want to know because
God damn you to hell.” Stone is one of Trump’s longtime friends and advisors and
also a target of Mueller’s witch hunt along with his aides.
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS
The Special Counsel has recently probed Stone’s finances
Papadopoulos was a Trump campaign volunteer who was including his tax returns.
enticed by cash and a trip to London by FBI informant
Stefan Halper.
In a recent op-ed for The Gateway Pundit, Roger Stone
said,
As a result he plead guilty to making a false statement to
the FBI and will receive his sentence very soon.
“Mueller can indict a ham sandwich but I’m not
interested in being his lunch.”
PAUL MANAFORT
These are just a few people who are caught up in Mueller’s
Trump’s former campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort was political witch hunt.
raided by the FBI at gunpoint last summer and indicted on
charges that have nothing to do with Russian collusion.
Many other lives have been affected including members of
Trump’s family.
As a result, Manafort has lost his freedom and is fighting
Mueller in two different cases which of course is costing Just as Tom Fitton always says, “SHUT IT DOWN!”
him a lot of money.
.

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 Rudy Fears Trump/Mueller
Interview Is A Trap [VIDEO]
Kevin Daley - Supreme Court Reporter
3:01 PM 05/27/2018

“Let me emphasize,” Giuliani added, “he wants

to explain that he did nothing wrong.”

WATCH:

Rudy Giuliani speaks on Fox News Sunday on May 27.

(Screenshot/Fox News) | Rudy Sees Perjury Trap In Trump
Interview

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who now
leads President Donald Trump’s defense team, told Fox
News Sunday Trump will not interview with special
counsel Robert Mueller if he believes the meeting is a trap
for perjury.

A perjury trap refers to a practice in which prosecutors

question witnesses under oath with the intent of catching
them in a prosecutable lie.

“The reality is we’re not going to sit him down if

it’s a trap for perjury,” Giuliani told Bill Hemmer,
who sat in for regular host Chris Wallace. “And
until we’re convinced of that … we’re just going
to have to say no.”

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 POTUS Trump Rips Obama For Doing Nothing About So-
Called Russian Meddling ‘He Thought Crooked Hillary
Was Going To Win’
By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2018, 4:49 Pm

President Trump continued to hammer the

phony Russian collusion witch hunt on
Twitter Sunday afternoon.

This time, the President called out Obama

directly.

The simple answer is any attempts by the Russians to

‘influence’ the 2016 election was so infinitesimal, Obama
didn’t act.

Very few people saw social media posts by Russian troll

farms. The notion that the Russians tipped the election in
favor of Donald Trump is laughable at best. The majority
of the Russian ads were posted after the election and they
didn’t favor any particular candidate.
Please, Mr. President, never stop tweeting.
The bottom line is Trump wasn’t supposed to win.
Trump took it straight to Obama Sunday afternoon.
What we are seeing is an attempted coup by the Deep State
Trump tweeted:
simply because Trump is a threat to business as usual in
DC.
Why didn’t President Obama do something
about the so-called Russian Meddling when he
The Russian collusion hoax was the ‘insurance policy’ the
was told about it by the FBI before the Election?
Trump-hating FBI agents were discussing in McCabe’s
Because he thought Crooked Hillary was going
office; it was created by Obama and Hillary.
to win, and he didn’t want to upset the apple
cart! He was in charge, not me, and did nothing.
Earlier Sunday, President Trump slammed the phony
Russian collusion witch hunt, accurately stating Mueller
has devastated and destroyed many people’s lives.

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 Marco Rubio Defends Deep State: I Have Seen ‘No
Evidence’ FBI Spied On Trump Campaign (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 4:50 Pm

ABC News reported:

Earlier this month Marco Rubio joined
Nancy Pelosi and trashed the Trump tax
cuts.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he sees “no evidence”
to support President Trump’s claims that the FBI used an
informant to gather information on his campaign, but that
instead the federal probe was focused on

“individuals with a history of links to Russia that

were concerning.”

“What I have seen is evidence that they were

investigating individuals with a history of links to
Russia that were concerning,” Rubio, a Florida
senator who sits on the Senate Intelligence
Committee told ABC News Chief Global Affairs
Correspondent and “This Week” Co-Anchor
Martha Raddatz on Sunday.
On Sunday Marco Rubio told ABC’s “This
Week” he has seen no proof the Obama
administration was spying on the Trump
campaign.

The Deep State was spying on the Trump

campaign since 2015 without any proof of
Russian penetration into the campaign.

Marco Rubio believes it is acceptable to use

paid government officials to spy on the
opposition campaign.
.

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 DEMOCRAT Calls For Stopping Robert Mueller And
Draining The Swamp, Or Public Faith In Government
“Justice” Will Be Shattered Forever
By JD Heyes
05/27/2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of
President Donald J. Trump and members of his 2016
campaign has dragged on for a year with nothing to show
in terms of its original stated intent: To find evidence of
criminal or nefarious behavior that involved a foreign
power — Russia.
As such, it’s time for Mueller to wrap it up or have it
wrapped up for him, according to Mark Penn, a former
pollster and adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1995-
2000, a period of time that included Clinton’s
impeachment trial.
Last Monday, in a column for The Hill, Penn — now
manager of the Harris Poll — said that ending the
investigation is the best way to save the republic and
protect not only the integrity of national elections but the
office of the presidency as well.
“The ‘deep state’ is in a deep state of
desperation,” he writes. “With little time left
before the Justice Department inspector
general’s report becomes public, and
with…Mueller having failed to bring down
Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know
a reckoning is coming.”
He writes that by now most rational Americans are well
aware that the Obama Justice Department and FBI
intentionally tanked Hillary Clinton’s email investigation
though it was rather obvious she violated statutes
governing the handling of classified information on
multiple occasions — even to the point of breaking their
own rules to clear the person they all believed would be
the next president.
Penn also notes that, as evidenced by unhinged tweets
from Obama’s CIA director, Jon Brennan, and leaked
stories to The New York Times and Washington Post
admitting that the Obama administration launched a spying
operation against Trump’s campaign, everyone involved
appears to be panicking and trying to get out in front of
what DoJ IG Michael Horowitz’s report will reveal, “to
save their reputations.”
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“But it is backfiring,” he notes.
Knock Comey Out
Instead of implicating Trump and his associates for actions
directly related to the 2016 campaign and political
subterfuge committed in concert with Moscow, more
Americans are learning by the day that Mueller’s probe is
based on a lie built on falsehoods all wrapped in fictitious
allegations.
And as such, “this process must now be stopped,
preferably long before a vote in the Senate,” he writes.
“Rather than a fair, limited and impartial
investigation, the Mueller investigation became
a partisan, open-ended inquisition that, by its
precedent, is a threat to all those who ever want
to participate in a national campaign or an
administration again.”
One of the most damning conclusions congressional
Republicans, the White House, and tens of millions of
Americans are reaching is that the entire probe of Team
Trump, which began sometime in early-to-mid 2016, was
based on an as-yet-unproven claim that Russia “hacked”
the Democratic National Committee’s email server and
nabbed every byte of information that was on it.
The public doesn’t know whether that’s true or not because
the DNC never allowed the FBI to examine its server and,
amazingly, then-FBI Director James Comey never insisted
on it, like, via a subpoena.
Despite the false premises upon which the investigation is
based, Penn acknowledges that it won’t be easy for Trump
to simply end it. So he’ll have to essentially render it moot.
“Step one here is for the Justice Department
inspector general report to knock Comey out of
the witness box. Next, the full origins of the
investigation and its lack of any real intelligence
needs to come out in the open,” Penn writes.
 “The president’s lawyers need to extend their
new aggressiveness from words to action, filing
complaints with Justice Department’s Office of
Professional Responsibility on the failure of
Mueller and Rosenstein to recuse themselves,
and going into court to question the tactics of
the special counsel” for a variety of reasons he
adds.
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Penn also believes Trump himself could prove to be the
“final stopper” — agreeing to a televised two-hour session
whereby he provides Mueller with testimony.
Stopping the probe “isn’t about one president or one
party,” it’s about “cleaning out and reforming the deep
state so that our intelligence operations are never used
against opposing campaigns without the firmest of
evidence,” Penn notes.
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 Poll: Despite Conspiracy Media’s Best Efforts – 59% Of
Americans Know Mueller Probe Is A Far Left Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 6:11 Pm
There is no collusion with Russia.
There never was any collusion with Russia by
the Trump campaign.
The only collusion with Russia was the the
Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS, and Russian
operatives.
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And yet the Democrats and their media have made the
country suffer through their mental breakdown for a year-
and-a-half now since Hillary got shellacked in the election.
A new poll finds 59% of Americans
understand the crimes uncovered by Mueller
are political hit jobs and meaningless
indictments.
Mueller even indicted a company
that didn’t even exist at time of
the alleged crimes.
This disappoints the liberal conspiracy
media.
Attorney Robert Barnes added: Media annoyed that
#Mueller unrelated indictments didn’t work to sell public
on bogus Russia collusion delusion narrative. Imagine
what happens when #Mueller gets one dismissed or jury
acquits?
 Rudy Hits Another Home Run:
Mueller’s Team Is Rigged So Bad Some Of His Team
Were “At Hillary Clinton’s Funeral!”
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 9:13 Am
Rudy – Gee, maybe they should wake up
and realize that the President is innocent.
That’s why he wants to testify, and
because of them [the Mueller team] we
don’t want him to testify because they’re
not fair.
They have rigged this
investigation against him, 13
Democrats, angry as heck, and
some of them there at Hillary
Clinton’s funeral. I mean
terrible. Wait, when she was
Former Federal Prosecutor and New
supposed to have a victory
York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on
party!
FOX News Sunday with Bill Hammer
yesterday. He again hit another home Hammer – We are a long way from an
run. No wonder the MSM is terrified of interview, aren’t we?
Rudy.
Rudy – Well, maybe we’re not a long way
from deciding we won’t have one. And then
Rudy and all of America know there is no collusion they’re going to have to go on what they
between President Trump and Russia and so Rudy again have and everybody’s going to find out
encouraged the corrupt Mueller team to wrap it up. they don’t have anything.

Rudy discussed the corrupt Mueller investigation that has

now been going on for a year. But at the beginning of the
below segment of the interview Hammer asked if President
Trump was too eager to have to North Korea summit
happen and Rudy answered by stating –

Oh sure he is and I think he’s positioned it brilliantly, even

his opponents tell you that!

Rudy then talked at length about the “totally rigged”

Mueller Special Counsel. He said it is completely tainted.
He called Former FBI Director James Comey
Boom! Rudy is outstanding again –
calling the corrupt Mueller investigation
“one of the biggest liars in the history of what it is – while doing it with a smile.
Washington”. Simply outstanding!

Rudy kept hitting the corrupt Mueller team with a smile,

and at the 8:10 minute mark of the video said this –

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 Clapper Weaves Tangled New Web On Spygate
If The FBI's Trump Campaign Informant Found Real Evidence, Shouldn't It Have
Been Used In The Bureau's FISA Warrant Applications?
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 27 May 2018 At 9:38 PM
“Well, I think the first thing is [to] determine
just what was going on.”

The FBI, according to The New York Times, placed an

informant, Professor Stefan Halper, inside Trump’s
campaign early in the spring of 2016. Halper subsequently
met with former Trump advisers Carter Page, George
Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis during the campaign.

Trump directed the Department of Justice last week to

investigate whether the Obama administration improperly
“infiltrated or surveilled” his campaign for “political
purposes.” The task quickly fell to the DOJ’s inspector
President Donald Trump’s campaign wasn’t told of the general, Michael Horowitz.
FBI’s worries about Russian efforts to influence the 2016
election because such concerns had not “reached the point
where it would be appropriate” to alert them, said James
Clapper, the former director of national intelligence (DNI).

“The FBI has rules and protocols on when

they decide to do things like that. And I
don’t think at that point that it had reached
the point where it would be appropriate to
engage with the head of the campaign, or
the nominee,” Clapper said Sunday
morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Clapper was responding to CNN’s Dana Bash, who asked

him about complaints from Trump and his attorney, former If the FBI's "concern" about the Russians "could be
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, that the FBI didn’t allayed," then perhaps there was "no reason" to alert
notify Trump or his top campaign aides about Russia’s Trump or his campaign, Clapper suggested.
efforts to influence his campaign.
Trump tweeted Saturday on the issue, asking:
“I want to ask you:
"With Spies, or 'Informants' as the
One of the things that Rudy Giuliani
Democrats like to call them because it
brought up, and that the president has
sounds less sinister (but it's not), all over
been tweeting about this weekend as well
my campaign, even from a very early date,
— which is if this was — if there was
why didn't the crooked highest levels of the
enough concern about people penetrating
FBI or 'Justice' contact me to tell me of the
the Trump campaign, why not contact
phony Russia problem?"
him?” Bash asked Clapper. “Why not
contact the campaign, instead of sending
an informant or a confidential source in?
What’s the answer to that?”

Clapper replied,

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 The FBI relied heavily upon the infamous anti-Trump
dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele
alleging collusion with Russia to renew surveillance
warrants against Page. The dossier was funded by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) she controlled.

Clapper wasn't asked, and didn't volunteer information,

about whether the FBI's informant discovered significantly
compromising information about the Trump campaign's
dealings with Russians and whether the information was
used in the FISA warrant applications.
When Bash asked Clapper if he knew about the operation
at the time, Clapper replied, When Bash asked Clapper about the Trump legal team's
request for a briefing from the FBI regarding the
informant, Clapper insisted it wouldn't be a "good idea at
"Absolutely not."
all" to grant it.
Clapper's comments are likely to intensify questions from
But Giuliani insisted during an interview on "Fox News
Trump and congressional Republicans about the
Sunday" that the FBI should have reached out to Trump
legitimacy of the FBI investigation.
and his campaign. The failure to do so "completely taints"
special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, Giuliani claimed.
If, as Clapper claimed, the reason for putting Halper in the
Trump campaign was to determine if the FBI's concerns
about Russian interference were justified, then why did the
bureau rely almost entirely on opposition research paid for
by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to justify its
application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) warrant to monitor Page? "The whole thing with this investigation that
was going on, which we consider spying,
was done before Mueller got involved. But
If no such evidence is gleaned by Halper, it suggests the it completely taints his investigation,"
possibility the FISA warrant was sought for reasons not Giuliani said.
linked to the Russian activities. Trump and congressional
Republicans have argued for months that the purpose of
the FBI investigation was to help Clinton win the election. Giuliani also said during an interview on "State of the
Union" on CNN that he no longer believes the Mueller
probe is legitimate.
But Bash failed to press Clapper for details regarding the
informant's discoveries. Clapper also didn't volunteer any
information about the nature of the informant's discoveries "I did when I came in, but now I see
and whether or not the initial infiltration and further Spygate," Giuliani said.
expansion of the FBI's Trump campaign investigation
ultimately were justified.

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 When Do Americans Say It
Isn’t Right To ‘Spy On A Campaign’?
Rep. Mark Meadows Said Dept. Of Justice Lacks The Transparency Required
To Respect Lawmakers' Constitutional Oversight Prerogatives
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 27 May 2018 At 10:37 PM
Americans should know when and “at whose direction” an
FBI informant began interacting with three of President
Donald Trump’s campaign officials, “what were they
collecting and who were they reporting to,” House
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said
Sunday.
“What we do know is that there was indeed
a confidential human source, is what the
FBI would call it, that was actually giving
intel,” Meadows said on CBS News’ “Face
the Nation,” noting that “you have to ask
the question, when did it start?”
“We know that actually they initiated the
contact between members of the Trump
campaign — and at whose direction?”
Meadows added. “And at what point do we
as Americans say it is not right to spy on a
campaign whether it’s Donald Trump’s or
[Sen.] Bernie Sanders’ [I-Vt.]? It’s not right.”
The FBI placed an informant, Cambridge University
professor Stefan Halper, inside Trump’s campaign early in
the spring of 2016, The New York Times reported earlier
in May. Halper, who has years of experience working for
the FBI and CIA, talked with former Trump advisers
Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis during
the campaign.
At Trump’s direction, the Department of Justice (DOJ)
announced last week that Inspector General Michael
Horowitz will investigate if Halper’s activities are
evidence the Obama administration improperly infiltrated
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and surveilled the chief executive’s campaign to help his
opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Although top U.S. intelligence community officials briefed
GOP and Democratic lawmakers Thursday amid escalating
tensions on the government’s actions against Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign, Meadows insisted that more
questions remain unanswered because there is too little
transparency in the DOJ.
"There was a briefing ... yet there were no
documents that were shown," Meadows
said. "We're hopeful that that will happen in
the coming days as long as we can protect
the sources and methods that are
important to all Americans."
"At the same time, we continue to see this
dragging out of a narrative, you know,
where we're not seeing documents, where
we're not getting the type of transparency
that, really, members of Congress have
requested for seven or eight months," he
added.
But there is "no question" that the FBI's "confidential
human sources" were engaging with Trump campaign
officials "prior to the official FBI investigation" into
Russia's election interference and collusion allegations,"
Meadows emphasized.
"So the question begs — at whose
direction, you know — what were they
collecting and who were they reporting to?"
he said. "Because that was happening
before the FBI actually opened an
investigation."
"There is no question that there was a spy
that was collecting information. The
definition of that — somebody who does
something in secret without the knowledge
of another person," Meadows said.
But former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James
Clapper shied away from the use of the term "spy" during
an interview Sunday on "Face the Nation."
 "I have an aversion to the use of the word
'spy,'" Clapper said. "But let's just for the
sake of discussion use that term, which
conventionally means the use of tradecraft
using a formally trained case officer who
would mask identity, who would attempt to
recruit."
"So none of the classical attributes of
spycraft, if [we] can use that term, were
present here," Clapper insisted. "This is the
most benign form of information gathering.
So to characterize it as a spy or Spygate is,
of course, part of the narrative."
Meadows rejected Democrats' attempts to label the "spy"
as a mere "informant," saying that an informant would be
someone who
.
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"had information on you and went to the
FBI and said, 'You know, listen we have
this wrongdoing, we're giving you some
information where it was not directed or
where the initiation of it was not from the
informant.'"
But if the FBI "knew what was going on," then the bureau
should have given a "defensive briefing" to Trump and his
campaign, Meadows insisted.
"Why did they not go to the nominee and
say, 'By the way, here is a problem?'"
Meadows wondered. "'We want to make
you aware of it.' Why was that never
done?"
 REVEALED: Joseph Mifsud – The Man Who Set Up
Papadopoulos – Is Member Of Soros-Funded European
Council On Foreign Relations
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 10:15 Am
Joseph Misfud with Saudi operative Tarek Obaid
Joseph Mifsud is a Maltese academic, with high level
connections to the Russian state and UK politicians.
Mifsud is a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Malta, a former principal in the London Centre
of International Law Practice, a professorial teaching
fellow at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and
director of the Diplomatic Academy of London.
Mifsud went missing after his
connections to George Papadopoulos
went public.
George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker
for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by
three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S.
Intelligence:
Again, Mifsud went missing in 2017 after
his relationship with George
Papadopoulos was exposed.
Mifsud also has connections to Saudi
operatives.
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Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and
Stefan Halper.
Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an
organization named the Centre for International Energy
and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos was
a ‘nobody’ and the Centre sketchy at best.
Mifsud vanished in early November
2017, shortly after Papadopoulos was in
the news and indicted.
His whereabouts are still unknown.
Although the common story is that Mifsud is a Russian
Agent, many ties seem to lead [him] back to UK
Intelligence. Julian Assange put out a Twitter thread noting
the connection between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.
Mifsud has many suspect relationships with British and
Russian operatives. Mifsud is a member of the European
Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
The ECFR’s top donor is the Soros Open Society
Foundation.
This Mifsud character is very
interesting. Too bad he went missing.
Brian Whitaker at Medium.com put together this map of
Mifsud’s connections and organizations.
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 Salient Facts: The Tangled Web
Around Joseph Mifsud
2 January 2018
“Professor” Joseph Mifsud was a key figure in the
Trump/Russia affair—a middleman who provided George
Papadopoulos, one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers,
with Russian contacts and told him the Russians had “dirt”
on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.
Maltese-born Mifsud,who has since disappeared, is a
puzzling figure — an active networker who had multiple
links to universities and other “educational” bodies but
appears to have done little academic work himself.
Mifsud obtained a PhD from Queens University, Belfast,
in 1995 with a thesis on “Managing educational reform”.
Although he has often been referred to as “Professor
Mifsud” it is doubtful whether he has ever held the formal
title of “Professor”. During his brief spell at Stirling
University he was described as a “professorial teaching
fellow” — which, according to the university, meant he was
employed full-time in a “teaching and advisory” capacity.
This is a compilation of established facts about Mifsud and
his connections …
Joseph Mifsud
Mifsud’s multiple roles:
● Director of London Academy of Diplomacy from 2014 until its
closure in 2016; previously described as an “external adviser”.
● “Board adviser” and “Director of International Strategic
Development” at London Centre of International Law Practice
(LCILP).
● “Professorial teaching fellow” at University of Stirling and a full-
time employee.
● “Consultant” for INTO University Partnerships, a private
company. A list of INTO’s shareholders shows “J Mifsud” owning
37,000 shares .
● Frequent visitor to Link Campus University in Italy. Link’s
website describes him as “Dean of the Bachelor of Arts degree
program in political sciences and international relations”, though
his exact role is unclear.
Other interesting connections:
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● Mifsud attended the Moscow-based Valdai Discussion Club in
2016; on his return, he informed Papadopoulos that he had met
high-level Russian officials and said the Russians had “dirt” on
Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.
● Mifsud is a “good old friend” of Prasenjit Kumar (aka Prasenjit
Kumar Singh), owner of the London School of Executive
Training. It appears to be through the Kumar connection that
Mifsud became acquainted with Alok Sharma MP and later met
Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson.
London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP)
● Mifsud was described by LCILP as its “board adviser” and
“Director of International Strategic Development”. After his
involvement in Trump/Russia became known, LCILP removed
the names and details of all staff from its website.
● Papadopoulos was head of the “Centre for International
Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security” at LCILP from
February to April 2016.
● Nagi Idris, who founded LCILP in 2014, claims to be a visiting
professor at Link Campus University in Rome.
● The first conference organised by LCILP after its formation
was held at the London Academy of Diplomacy where Mifsud
was director.
Other interesting facts:
● When LCILP came under media scrutiny the “our team” page
giving details of its staff disappeared from its website.
London Academy of Diplomacy (LAD)
● Mifsud was the academy’s director from 2014 until its closure
in 2016; he was previously described as its “external adviser”.
● Its most recent owner was INTO University Partnerships.
● From 2010 onwards, the academy was housed at a campus in
central London which had been jointly developed by the
University of East Anglia and INTO University Partnerships.
● From 2010 to 2014 the academy’s courses were validated by
the University of East Anglia and subsequently by the University
of Stirling.
Other interesting connections:
● In 2014 the academy hosted the first conference organised by
LCILP.
● In 2015 the academy hosted a lecture by Alok Sharma MP.
● The academy often received foreign visitors but one visit that
has attracted notice was by a delegation from the Lomonosov
Moscow State University, accompanied by counsellor Ernest
Chernukhin from the Russian embassy.
● Another Russian visitor to the academy was Alexey Klishin
from the International Law Faculty at Moscow State Institute of
International Relations (MGIMO) — an academic institution run by
the Russian foreign ministry. Klishin, who had been invited by
Mifsud, gave a lecture on 25 January 2016 about the relationship
between national and international law. In 2011, while head of
Emuni, Mifsud had given a presentation at MGIMO and signed a
“memorandum of understanding”.
INTO University Partnerships
INTO University Partnerships is a company that makes its
money from establishing partnerships with universities —
 helping them to “attract lucrative students from new
markets” and jointly investing in the construction of new
campus facilities. In 2013 a private equity deal valued the
business at more than £200 million.
● INTO’s first partner, in 2005, was the University of East
Anglia and together they developed a satellite campus in
central London which later housed the London Academy
of Diplomacy.
● Stirling University became a partner of INTO in 2014
and validated course at the London Academy of
Diplomacy after the University of East Anglia pulled out.
● In February 2013, Mifsud visited Malta acting as a
consultant for INTO.
● A list of INTO’s shareholders filed at Companies House
in July 2017 shows “J Mifsud” owning 37,000 shares.
Interesting fact:
In 2007, INTO acquired its second Pilatus P-12 corporate
aircraft. Company chairman Andrew Colin said: “It really
has transformed the way we can do business. In one week
we attended meetings in Glasgow and Newcastle on the
Monday, Oxford and London on the Tuesday, Exeter and
Birmingham on the Wednesday, Glasgow again on the
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Thursday and Norwich on the Friday. There was none of
the stress that is usually created by travelling. We could go
at any time we needed to, and as the aircraft can land on
short grass runways if required we often can use smaller
airfields to get closer to our destination.”
Link Campus University
Link Campus University in Rome began in 1999 as a
subsidiary of the University of Malta but is now an
independent (for-profit) institution accredited by the Italian
education ministry.
Its president is 84-year-old Vincenzo Scotti, a former
government minister and a member of the Christian
Democracy party. Another of its directors is Italian
politician Gianni Pittella.
Its website lists 25 partner universities, of which seven are
Russian:
 Lomonosov Moscow State University
 Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sport
and Tourism
 Kaliningrad State Technical University
 Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities
 Ural State University of Economics
 Baikal State University of Economics and Law
 Saint Petersburg State University of Services and
Economics
The three British institutions listed are London Academy
of Diplomacy, the University of East Anglia and LSE
Enterprise (the “business and consultancy arm” of the
London School of Economics).
Interesting connections:
● Joseph Mifsud was described on Link’s website as “Dean of
the Bachelor of Arts degree program in political sciences and
international relations”. After his involvement in Trump/Russia
became known, references to his connection with Link were
removed from the website.
● George Papadopoulos is known to have visited Link at least
once while working for Trump’s election campaign. A photograph
posted on Twitter by Nagi Idris (of LCILP) on 25 May 2016 shows
him among a LCILP delegation visiting the campus.
● Nagi Idris (of LCILP) claimed to be a “visiting professor” at
Link. He was listed on Link’s website as a “foreign teacher” of
economic history (here and here) but those mentions have since
been deleted.
● On a visit to Link (date unkown), Prasenjit Kumar of LSET (see
below) met Olga Polonskaya, the Russian woman who posed as
President Putin’s niece during one of Mifsud’s meetings with
Papadopoulos.
● On 16 February 2016, Stephan Roh, a Swiss lawyer officially
resident in Monaco, registered a new “educational activities”
company called Drake Global. Drake Global has since been
reported to be investing in Link Campus University.
London School of Executive Training (LSET)
● In 2014 LSET told inspectors from the British Accreditation
Council that it was “working in partnership” with the London
Academy of Diplomacy.
● On Facebook, LSET’s owner, Prasenjit Kumar (aka Prasenjit
Kumar Singh) described Mifsud as one of his “good old friends”
and posted a photo of himself and Mifsud in Albania, after a
dinner with the Albanian deputy prime minister and an Albanian
MP.
● One of LSET’s governors, Charles Chatterjee, was “a visiting
academic” at London Diplomatic Academy and has also spoken
at an event organised by LCILP.
● Another of LSET’s governors is Prem Sharma, father of Alok
Sharma MP.
Interesting facts:
● LSET had only five students at the time of its inspection by the
British Accreditation Council.
● After attracting media attention LSET deleted the list of
governors from its website.
University of East Anglia (UEA)
● UEA was the first university to establish a partnership with
INTO, in 2005.
● From 2010 to 2014 UEA housed the London Academy of
Diplomacy and validated its courses.
● UEA is a partner of Link Campus University in Rome.
University of Stirling
● Joseph Mifsud was a “professorial teaching fellow” at Stirling.
The university initially said he had been a full-time employee
since May 2017 but later said he had resigned on 23 November
2017.
● Stirling validated courses at the London Academy of
Diplomacy from 2014 until its closure in 2016.
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● An annual report from the university’s Institute of Aquaculture
described Mifsud as a “high profile” visitor to the institute in
2013/2014.
● On 8 April 2016 a Stirling University official circulated an email
boasting of Mifsud’s international connections, including those
with Russia. A second email, sent by the university’s deputy
principal, John Gardner, said Mifsud had “truly global contacts in
the world of diplomacy and is on first name terms with a wide
variety of ambassadors from across the globe”.
● On 13 April 2016 Mifsud gave a public lecture at the university
entitled “Controlled or uncontrolled migration — a fortress EU or a
global response?”
● A university press release in July 2017 said Mifsud’s expertise
had “helped to refine the final recommendations” in a British
Council document on Brexit.
● Stirling embarked on a partnership with INTO in 2014.
● Vincenzo Scotti, president of Link Campus University in Rome
is an honorary professor at Stirling.
Prasenjit Kumar
● Prasenjit Kumar (aka Prasenjit Kumar Singh) owns the London
School of Executive Training (LSET) which was “working in
partnership” with the London Academy of Diplomacy.
● On Facebook, Kumar described Mifsud as one of his “good old
friends” and posted a photo of himself and Mifsud in Albania,
after a dinner with the Albanian deputy prime minister and an
Albanian MP.
● On a visit to Link Campus University (date unkown), Kumar
met Olga Polonskaya, the Russian woman who posed as
President Putin’s niece during one of Mifsud’s meetings with
Papadopoulos.
● Around August/September 2017, met Polonskaya again, at the
Westfield shopping centre in London.
● Kumar has been involved in a succession of failed education
businesses. In 2009 one of these companies, Halifax College
(UK) Limited, made donations to the Conservative party in
Reading West amounting to £5,000. At the time, Reading West
was a marginal constituency held by Labour. The following year,
Alok Sharma captured it for the Conservatives.
● On 19 October 2017 Kumar and Mifsud attended a
Conservative party fundraising dinner in Sharma’s constituency
where they were photographed side by side with Boris Johnson,
the British foreign secretary. Johnson had previously denied
“knowingly” meeting Mifsud.
Interesting fact:
After attracting media attention, Kumar deleted all relevant
posts from his Facebook page.
Alok Sharma, MP
Alok Sharma has been Conservative MP for Reading West
since 2010 and briefly served as a junior minister in the
Foreign Office.
● A few months before Sharma was elected, a company in which
Kumar was involved — Halifax College (UK) Limited — made
donations to the Conservative party in Reading West amounting
to £5,000.
● In 2015 Sharma gave a public lecture at the London Academy
of Diplomacy where Mifsud was director.
● Alok Sharma’s father, Prem Sharma, is a governor of Kumar’s
London School of Executive Training.
● On 19 October 2017 Kumar and Mifsud attended a
Conservative party fundraising dinner in Sharma’s constituency
where they were photographed side by side with Boris Johnson,
.
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the British foreign secretary. Johnson had previously denied
“knowingly” meeting Mifsud.
● Sharma admits to having met Mifsud “a couple of times” and to
having “briefly greeted” Mifsud at the fundraising dinner on 19
October 2017 but says he did not introduce Mifsud to Johnson.
Nagi Idris
● Nagi Idris founded the London Centre of International Law
Practice (LCILP) where Mifsud and Papadopoulos were both
working between February and April 2016.
● Idris claims to be a visiting professor at Link Campus
University in Rome.
● On 25 May 2016 Idris posted a photo on Twitter showing
Papadopoulos among a delegation from LCILP visiting Link
Campus University.
 Film Director: ‘Buffoon’ Trump
Becoming President Is Proof ‘Deep State’
Doesn’t Exist
By Geoffrey Dickens
May 28, 2018 10:42 AM EDT

James Gunn, the director the of the blockbuster Marvel

movies Guardians of the Galaxy I and II, mocked those
who believed in an all-powerful deep state as he took to his
Twitter account to blast:

“If you believe in the Deep State, you really

think they’d let a buffoon like Trump
become President?”

Gunn, in a Twitter rant on May 23, slammed Trump as a

“nutjob” conspiracy theorist:

“We have an honest-to-goodness Tin-Foil-

Hat-John-Bircher-Sandy-Hook’s-a-Hoax-
the-Earth-Is-Flat-Is-Dead nutjob conspiracy
theorist as President of the United States.”

Gunn also ranted that Trump

“shamelessly lies on a daily basis” and is

“doing great damage to our Republic and
our Constitution.”

The following outbursts are taken from Gunn’s official

Twitter account:

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 Jonathan Turley Slams Crooked Cop Sally Yates –
President Trump Piles On (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 2:41 Pm

On Memorial Day Monday attorney Jonathan Turley President Trump piled on Sally Yates
joined FOX and Friends to discuss the ongoing Mueller before his visit to Arlington Cemetery.
witch hunt and Obama spygate scandal.

During the interview Turley ripped former DOJ official

Sally Yates who shockingly opposed the Commander in
Chief during her tenure as acting Attorney General.

Turley told Griff Jenkins:

Roughly half of this country voted for this

president. We now find out that the Obama
administration put the opposing campaign’s
presidential candidate or his campaign
under investigation… The president
deserves some answers.

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 Judge Janine Unleashed: Comey, Clapper, Obama Are ‘All
Liars’ Trying To Ruin POTUS Trump
Posted On May 29, 2018
(National Sentinel) Owned: Judge Janine Pirro slashed
and burned what was left of the reputations of several
Deep State figures and President Obama in an Opening
Statement during her weekend program.
As Fox News reported, Pirro said Americans have to come
“face to face” with recent evidence indicating very clearly
that the Obama administration sought to “destroy Donald
Trump” prior to the 2016 election.
She noted further that there is
“hard evidence that the deep state planned
to take down our duly-elected president,”
adding that those responsible go from
“President Obama, on down.”
“I for one am sick and tired of these
liars, leakers, and liberals attacking our
President when they are the ones who
tried to frame him,” she noted.
Those leakers and liars include former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John
Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and others.
In particular, Pirro noted that Comey,
Clapper, and Brennan are three “liars who
can’t get their stories straight.”
She went on to play video of Comey telling comedian
Conan O’Brien that he
“doesn’t find it possible and know[s] it not
to be true” that a spy…or ‘informant,’ as the
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Left says…was put into or made contact
with the Trump campaign.
For his part, Clapper told ABC’s “The
View” that he doesn’t even like to use the
term “spy” in the context of placing them in
Trump’s campaign — though as DNI, he
was in the business of spying for the U.S.
That was too much for Pirro.
She said Clapper
“lies whenever he opens his mouth”
and said the former DNI was guilty of leaking information
to CNN before going to work at the network as a paid
contributor.
Brennan, meanwhile, has said that by Trump labeling a
“confidential human source” a “spy” does a
“disservice to that individual.”
Right. Calling a spy a spy is…wrong.
“They’re all liars,” Pirro blasted, adding
that Obama and his administration were
“so determined to get Hillary Clinton
elected that they let [her] skate on her
criminal activity” and instead created a
“narrative” against Trump.
This is all so obviously true it’s comical to see these Left-
wing losers deny it at this point, using Orwellian language
to distort what happened.
Pirro goes on to note that we’ve not seen the limits of this
massive Spygate scandal yet. The FBI and Justice
Department continue to fight Congress over the release of
information that would finally lay out all the details and,
for some reason, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is
allowing the stonewalling of information that would not
only clear his boss, but name those responsible for this
outrage.
Hopefully, in the coming months POTUS Trump fixed the Watch the Judge:
one mistake in judgment he’s had so far: Appointing
Sessions.

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 CNN’s April Ryan DRAGGED For Tweeting Conspiracy
Theory Claiming President Trump Runs A
Child Sex-Trafficking Ring
By Lucian Wintrich
May 28, 2018, 3:28 Pm

“If you’re a journalist w many followers & a

@CNNPolitics contributor…is it ok to
retweet any headline you want, regardless
of if it’s true? Remember:
“The core purpose of a journalist is to
research, document, write, & present the
news in an honest, ethical, & unbiased
way.”

CNN’s resident crackpot “analyst”, and White House

correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, April
Ryan took a break from re-tweeting complements to post
an article alleging President Trump runs a sex-trafficking
ring. In the still up, and undeleted tweet, April Ryan linked
to an article on race-baiting site “The Root” titled “Is the
Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking
Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole”.

Fox News Media reporter Brian Flood and Fox 5 DC

reporter Britt McHenry also chimed in:

Ryan’s tweet caused outrage enough to catch the attention

of Melania Trump’s Comms Director, Stephanie Grisham Unsurprisingly, Ryan attempted to double down in
who took note of April Ryan’s more than 300k followers response to a Fox News article covering the controversial
and remarked: tweet,

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 “So apparently fox just wants to slam me
for clicks. and never read the article I
retweeted either. Lol! So sad! Hello it said
the conspiracies were unfounded. You just
need me to hate. Thank you!!”

https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1000840416533544
960

Brian Flood wasn’t having it:

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 Why Did Michael Flynn Plead Guilty? Sara Carter Says
FBI Agent Pientka Wants A Chance To ‘State The Truth’
About Fateful Interview
Posted On May 28, 2018
(National Sentinel) Testimony: For months there have
been renewed questions regarding why retired Army Lt.
Gen. Michael Flynn, POTUS Trump’s first national
security advisor pleaded guilty to one count of lying to FBI
agents.
According to various reports, the two agents who
interviewed Flynn in January 2017 as he and the rest of
Trump’s transition team were preparing to take the reins of
power never thought he was being dishonest with them
regarding conversations he had the previous month with
Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.
Reports have said that Flynn was interviewed without a
lawyer present. Some have suggested that Flynn had no
idea he was being interrogated has part of a Deep State
probe into the Trump campaign.
“According to two sources familiar with the
meetings, Comey told lawmakers that the
FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not
believe that Flynn had lied to them, or that
any inaccuracies in his answers were
intentional,” reported by the Washington
Examiner‘s Byron York in February. “As a
result, some of those in attendance came
away with the impression that Flynn would
not be charged with a crime pertaining to
the Jan. 24 interview.”
However, nine months later — with Comey having been
fired by Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller now in
charge of the Russia-Trump probe — Flynn wound up
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pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI
during his Jan. 24 questioning.
And as of yet, there are no answers as to why.
Investigative journalist Sara A. Carter writes that the agent
who accompanied Peter Strzok to interview Flynn, Joe
Pientka, may soon be able to provide some of those
answers.
She also notes that some parts of the Pientka tale as it
pertain’s to Comey’s role in all of this are not accurate.
She writes:
FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka, if
subpoenaed, will provide testimony
regarding the circumstances surrounding
his interview with former National Security
Advisor Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,
sources with knowledge have been telling
this reporter for more than a year.
And recent reports scattered across social
media and some news outlets claiming
that Pientka’s testimony will bring down
former FBI Director James Comey, are
not true. For nearly a year, I have reported
that Pientka, who at the time I addressed
as the second agent in the interview with
Flynn, would testify if subpoenaed. But so
far Pientka, has not been subpoenaed for
his testimony. Pientka and embattled FBI
Special Agent Peter Strzok, interviewed
Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017 about his
conversation with former Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, as first
reported here.
Pientka, who has never spoken to a
journalist, according to several sources
with knowledge, is expected to speak to
members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee if subpoenaed to discuss the
circumstances regarding his role in the
investigation into Flynn and the interview
that he was a part of at the White House.
Highly classified information regarding
Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak was
 leaked to columnist David Ignatius of Is he cooperating with Mueller? If so, what information is
the Washington Post in January, 2017 he providing? Mueller already has a guilty plea so it’s not
which spurred the controversy around a matter of going to court and losing.
Flynn and eventually led to his firing in
February, 2017. Is Mueller pushing back Flynn’s sentencing because he
It’s this reporters understanding that knows the accusation is bogus, and thus the plea is bogus?
Pientka will account for what Flynn said
in the interview and will give context to Time will tell.
the FBI’s accusation that he lied during
the interview. If asked, Pientka will also Fed up with stonewalling by the Justice Department and
give his personal opinion as to whether FBI, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles
or not that was actually the case. He will Grassley has demanded that the agencies comply with
also discuss how forthcoming Flynn requests made over a year ago for all documents related to
was about very specific sensitive their investigation into Flynn.
information that Flynn could not have
possibly known the investigators
The Committee has also requested that Pientka be made
already knew, which may give additional
available
insight into Flynn’s veracity and willingness
to tell the truth.
“for a transcribed interview with Committee
staff no later than one week following the
It’s worth noting that despite Flynn’s guilty plea, his court
production of the requested documents.”
date for sentencing has been pushed back on more than
one occasion, leading to even more speculation as to
what’s going on with Flynn and his case.

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 Viral “First Look” Photo Of Caged
Children At ICE Detention Center Sets Off Liberal Fire-
Storm… Only It Happened Under Obama
By Lucian Wintrich
May 28, 2018, 5:38 Pm

Sunday, liberal Twitter users including prominent far-left

figures such as Linda Sarsour, hack writer Jon Favreau,
and journalists such as CNN’s Hadas Gold set off on an
outrage campaign over a photo of two illegal immigrant
children sleeping in a cage at an ICE detention center…
there’s only one problem…

The “First Look” article published by AZ

Central was published back in 2014…
when Obama was president. It took awhile
for the liberals who were pushing the image
to realize this, with some tweets now
deleted but others still up after having been
retweeted tens of thousands of times.

Shaun King wasted no time in militarizing the Obama-era

photo against the Trump administration, tweeting

“I saw this photo floating around and didn’t

know if it was real. It is. Children of
immigrants are being held in cages, like
dogs, at ICE detention centers, sleeping on
the floor. It’s an abomination.”

Linda Sarsour kept her remarks a little simpler:

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Hadas Gold deleted her previous tweet where she used the
photo against the Trump administration before being
corrected, pretending that she merely “gave the
impression” the photos were recent:

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 Hate-Filled Liberals Attack
Ivanka Trump For Posting Picture With Her Son
By Cristina Laila
May 28, 2018, 5:57 Pm

Never mind this also happened during the Obama years.

Liberals are only outraged over this because Trump is
president and Ivanka is evil for celebrating her love for her
family.

In 2014, nearly 70,000 unaccompanied migrant children

from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala flooded the
US-Mexico border. This surge of minor migrants created a
crisis for US detention centers and overwhelmed state
municipalities. Because of the vast number of illegal
minors surging the border, many of them weren’t even
processed and the Office of Refugee Resettlement lost
track of many of them.

But only Trump is at fault when federal authorities lose

track of illegal alien children.

Liberals were also outraged this weekend over photos of

children in cages–only it happened under Obama. Again,
where was the outrage when Obama was president?

Take a look at the grotesque attacks by liberals:

Ivanka Trump posted a picture of herself

holding her youngest child on Sunday and
the liberals immediately went into attack
mode.
Ivanka Trump tweeted a picture of herself
holding her toddler son with the caption: My
♥️! #SundayMorning

Sane people would look at this picture and find it beautiful.

The hate-filled liberals on the other hand were angry with

Ivanka Trump because federal authorities lost track of
migrant children.

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.

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 Trump Mocks Dem Lawmaker
For Introducing Bill To Repeal GOP Tax Cuts
By Morgan Gstalter
05/28/18 06:02 PM EDT

President Trump took to Twitter on Monday to mock a Polis hit back at the president on Twitter, accusing the
Democratic lawmaker for introducing a bill to repeal the president and Republicans of standing up for "corporate
GOP tax cuts, writing the move was special interests" with their legislation.

“too good to be true for Republicans.”

“A Democratic lawmaker just introduced a
bill to Repeal the GOP Tax Cuts (no
chance),” Trump tweeted on Memorial Day.

His bill is the first that would move to entirely reverse the
GOP tax cuts and is unlikely to receive serious
consideration while Republicans control both chambers of
Congress.

Trump was responding to Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) who
introduced a bill Wednesday that would undo the tax cuts
passed by Republicans last year.
Polis’s legislation, titled the Students Over Special
Interests Act, would repeal the GOP tax law and redirect
the additional taxpayer money toward erasing student loan
debt and making college more affordable.
.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would eliminate a tax cut
for the top 1 percent of earners.
That money would be used to invest in pay raises for
teachers.
—Updated at 6:36 p.m.

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 Former CIA Chief Michael Hayden: Russian Impact
'Unknowable,' 'Trump Is The President'
By Tom Blumer
May 28, 2018 6:42 PM EDT
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared on
ABC's This Week on Sunday. Hayden criticized President
Donald Trump's behavior during the on-off-on North
Korean negotiations, and claimed Trump is
"trying to delegitimize the Mueller
investigation, the FBI, (and) the
Department of Justice."
Host Martha Raddatz then asked about statements made in
a new book and on TV this past week by former Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper, who wants the
public to believe that Russian influence swung the 2016
presidential election to Trump.
If Raddatz expected Hayden to confirm Clapper's
assessment — Why else would someone who couldn't hold
back her tears on Election Night 2016 ask about it? —
he forcefully disappointed her.
On Trump-Mueller, Hayden contended that Trump will
"throw almost anything against the wall" to delegitimize
Mueller. Then, in an astonishing and contradictory pair of
statements, he said in one breath that all of Trump's claims
about the Obama administration's alleged abuse of its
surveillance and spying authority are false, but in the next
breath claimed that what they're accused of doing is
"stunningly normal" anyway:
MICHAEL HAYDEN: Remember,
wiretapping Trump Tower, unmasking U.S.
identities, FISA applications that were
abused and now we have -- now we have
this.
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By the way, all of those were wrong. All
of those are incorrect. All of those are
stunningly normal in -- in -- in the
development of intelligence and law
enforcement. But you know what, I talk to a
lot of people in the country. And for a lot of
people in the country, one or another or
many of those things have already
stuck.
MARTHA RADDATZ: It -- it totally
resonates.
Hayden's argument comes across as,
"The intelligence community didn't do any
of things Trump described" (despite
substantial contrary evidence), "but even if
they did, it's all perfectly normal."
Raddatz might have believed that Hayden's North Korea
and Trump-Spygate comments meant that he would agree
with Clapper on Russian election influence. It didn't
happen. Hayden effectively said that what Clapper should
not have said what he said, and then uttered five words
which seemed to catch the host off-guard:
MARTHA RADDATZ: And just very quickly,
I want to ask you about a comment from
former director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, who did work under -
MICHAEL HAYDEN: Yes.
RADDATZ: - President Obama. Listen to
what he said on Wednesday.
JAMES CLAPPER: Knowing what I know
of what the Russians did, there's a massive
 effort that they undertook. It stretches
credulity, as I said in the book, and logic
that -- not to think that they didn’t help
swing the election given the fact that
that it turned on less than 80,000 votes
in three states.
RADDATZ: I don’t know whether you agree
with him or not.
HAYDEN: I - look. I, I agree that the
Russians affected the election. But how
much they affected it is not just
unknown, it is unknowable and so we
should stop talking about it. Donald
Trump is the President.
RADDATZ: Which I was just going to ask
you. So you think it is inappropriate from a
former --
.
HAYDEN: I, I, I do not say that.
RADDATZ: -- without, without evidence.
HAYDEN: There - Look. We are here. You
invite folks like us on your show
because we’re the fact witnesses, not
because we have opinions.
RADDATZ: OK. Thanks very much for
joining us, Director Hayden, this morning.
HAYDEN: Thank you.
While Hayden wouldn't personally call out Clapper, his
statement that "we should stop talking about it"
accomplished that task anyway.

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 GROSS. CNN Pours On The Hate – Blames Lovely Ivanka
Trump For Obama Migrant Scandal
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 6:54 Pm

And CNN even ran a segment attacking Ivanka for the

lovely photo.

As Jack Posobiec says,

“CNN connecting Ivanka’s photos to

Obama scandals is pure communist
propaganda.”

Ivanka Trump posted a picture of herself

holding her youngest child on Sunday and
the liberals immediately went into attack
mode.
Ivanka Trump tweeted a picture of herself
holding her toddler son with the caption: My
♥️! #SundayMorning

Sane people would look at this picture and find it beautiful.

The hate-filled liberals on the other hand were angry with

Ivanka Trump because federal authorities lost track of
migrant children.

Several leftists attacked Ivanka over the lovely picture

trying to tie her to an Obama immigrant scandal.
.

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 So, Who Hired Stefan Halper,
Alleged Trump Campaign ‘Informant?’
Posted On May 29, 2018
(National Sentinel) Mystery: By now, everyone who is
paying any attention at all to the Trump-Russia collusion
witch hunt and resulting “Spygate” revelations knows the
name Stefan Halper.
He’s been identified by The Washington Post as the
‘informant’ who contacted three Trump campaign officials
in 2016 before
“he began providing information to the FBI.”
The Post noted as well that Halper is a
“retired American professor and foreign
policy expert for Republican presidents.”
The paper also reported, as have others, that Trump’s
National Trade Council adviser Peter Navarro
recommended Halper for a senior administration position
such as U.S. ambassador to China (which would have been
a big deal).
The Post reported:
That Halper would be considered for a job
in a Republican administration isn’t
surprising. He worked in the Richard
Nixon and Ronald Reagan
administrations and on a George H.W.
Bush campaign. In the Reagan
administration, he was deputy assistant
secretary of state for political-military
affairs, a job that would make him a key
presidential adviser on military strategy and
international security.
In a separate profile story, the Post further noted that
Halper has been involved in ‘controversy’ before —
involving spying on a rival political campaign:
After the 1980 race, Halper was caught up
in a scandal concerning alleged political
spying. Aides to Reagan, including Halper,
were accused of having spied on Carter’s
campaign and obtaining private documents
that Carter was using to prepare for a
debate. Some Reagan White House
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officials later alleged that Halper had used
former CIA agents to run an operation
against Carter. Halper called the reports at
the time “absolutely false” and has long
denied the accusations.
According to the Post’s reporting, Halper as an FBI asset
would have been under very deep cover; the only ones
who would know he was on assignment were the few FBI
agents actually working the case — and the brass at the
time (that would very likely have included Obama).
So we know four things:
1) Halper is a Republican operative;
2) He’s likely experienced in spying on political
campaigns;
3) He’s worked for the FBI; and
4) He’s a CIA asset.
What we don’t know at this juncture is:
who tapped him to spy on or otherwise
infiltrate the Trump campaign?
Who would tap a Republican operative to spy on
a Republican presidential campaign? It would have had to
have been someone who has used Halper in the past and
who trusted him — and who, perhaps, was like-minded
and equally offended that a “rogue” like Trump could win
the GOP nomination, let alone the White House.
Was it ‘Republican’ James Comey?
‘Republican’ Rod Rosenstein? And just
how does ‘Republican’ Robert Mueller, who
would eventually be named special counsel
after Comey admitted he purposely
leaked his memos to spur a special
counsel investigation, fit into this
equation?
Comey and Mueller are long-time buds; they go way back.
They all go ‘way back.’ So does Halper. And the folks
who put together this scam would want to be familiar with
each other’s work; they wouldn’t want any ‘amateurs’ on
an operation of this magnitude. They’d only want people
they could trust, people who were part of ‘the club.’
And from our vantage point, the operation to infiltrate If we knew who tapped Halper to reprise his role as
Trump’s campaign, to launch Spygate, features a whole campaign spy, that would tell us a great deal about how
bunch of establishment Republicans who got involved at this phony operation began in the first place.
various points along the way.
We’re betting you all would recognize many of those
And that may be the biggest scandal of all: That Trump’s names.
own party functionaries were working with Obama to
conspire against him as well.
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 With The DOJ IG’s Report Forthcoming – We’ll Soon
Know If IG Horowitz Is Honest Man Or Deep State
By Jim Hoft
May 29, 2018, 8:32 Am
As we noted in January, there are a few
heroes to date in the Obamagate
scandal – the Republicans in the House
including Devin Nunez, Jim Jordan, Matt
Gaetz, and others; Senator Charles
Grassley from Iowa and his Senate
Judiciary Committee; patriots in the
media like Sean Hannity and others at
FOX News; and, the growing
conservative websites on the Internet
like this one.
We will soon know whether the DOJ IG
is a hero as well. Let’s hope this guy is
good.
In January we said that many in the media were getting
excited about the upcoming release of the IG’s report into
his investigation of abuses at the DOJ. But if it turns out
that Horowitz is part of the deep state, the report may be
disappointing.
It’s now been another five months since the above
comments were first posted and we have yet to see the
IG’s report. Some expect that the report may finally come
out this week. Once it’s released we should finally know
for sure if IG Horowitz is a good guy or just another Deep
State slug.
Is IG Horowitz a Good Guy?
There’s reason to believe that Horowitz is a good guy. In
January Horowitz announced that he located the corrupt
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former FBI Lead Inspector Peter Strzok and counterpart
Lisa Page’s text messages that the FBI said were lost –
In a letter to congressional leaders, Inspector General
Michael Horowitz said his office “succeeded in using
forensic tools” to recover messages between senior FBI
agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page during a key
five-month period ending the day special counsel Robert
Mueller III was appointed to investigate possible
coordination between the Kremlin and Trump’s campaign.
The missing messages have sparked a political firestorm in
recent days, as GOP leaders and the president have
questioned how the FBI failed to retain them.
Mueller hired both Strzok and Page on his team of corrupt
and conflicted Trump-Russia investigators. They were part
of the biased group of far left Obama and Clinton
supporters hired by Mueller. Strzok and Page were
removed from the team after his text messages were
selected in an investigation carried out by the IG. When
identified, the IG notified Mueller who then removed
Strzok and Page from his team. The claim was that they
were biased against President Trump and therefore
removed, however, this didn’t hold water because
Mueller’s whole team is that way.
Horowitz is credited with pushing for more transparency in
the government and assisted in setting up a website to
provide up to date IG report releases to the public.
Horowitz also released a report related to the 2016 election
and this was in relation to Andrew McCabe. The IG’s
report appeared fair and well written. He subsequently
recommended charges against McCabe. (But in the report
itself, the IG reported that Obama’s DOJ tried to throw
McCabe under the bus in the months leading up to the
election. So if no other corrupt government individuals are
outed for their obvious crimes in the upcoming report,
Horowitz would appear to be just another member of Deep
State.)
Is IG Horowitz a Card Carrying Member of Deep
State?
Horowitz was nominated by President Obama in July 2011
to be Inspector General of the DOJ. Before this he was at
Harvard where he was groomed by the likes of individuals Rosenstein acted as if he knew that IG Horowitz was going
like former corrupt US Representative Barney Frank. to give him and the DOJ a pass.

Prior to working in private practice, Mr. Horowitz worked

in DOJ from 1991 to 2002. In the early 1990s, he worked
for former fired FBI Director Comey while the two of
them were in the Southern District of New York.

The fact that Horowitz was IG at the DOJ

since 2012 under the Obama
Administration is concerning.

There is no evidence that he ordered an inspection into AG

Lynch when it was reported that she met with President
Clinton on a tarmac in 2016 and then a week later when
Hillary Clinton was given a pass by crooked FBI Director
Comey. We don’t know that the IG looked into any
number of Obama era crimes and corrupt actions. We
don’t know that he looked into the reasons for why the
DOJ is delaying emails and documents to Congress or
Judicial Watch concerning scandals during the Obama
years. The biggest and highest risk areas of the Obama era
were never touched or never had any issues identified and
reported to the public.
(Subsequent to our January post, many
readers commented to suggest that
Horowitz had his hand’s tied by Obama’s
former AG Holder who changed the rules
by allowing government officials to decide
which documents to hand over to the IG
and his team when requested.)
When crooked Rod Rosenstein was in front of Congress he
kept referring to the IG’s pending report into the DOJ and
.
IG Horowitz stated that he has located all the text
messages that the FBI reported as missing but we really
don’t know yet whether he has them all and what is in
them. We also don’t know what is in his report into DOJ
abuse.
In January Horowitz cancelled his meeting in front of
Congress after Congress sent the four page FISA report to
the President for release. Did the IG cancel because he
wanted to determine what was in the FISA memo so that
his investigation’s report was not materially different?
We should know soon whether the DOJ
IG is a good guy or just another member
of the Deep State. Obama was so
corrupt! There is still much to do to
drain the swamp!

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 Trump Didn’t Lose 1,500 Immigrant Kids,
But Obama ‘Lost’ 4,159
By Joe Saunders
May 29, 2018 At 8:33am
As far as media double standards go, it’s a double helping
of hypocrisy.
For the past week, the mainstream media has been filled
with headlines claiming that the Trump administration has
“lost” almost 1,500 illegal immigrant children who were
detained while crossing the border into the United States
— from a widely circulated USA Today column to the old
#Resistance standby CNN.
But in the latest media misfire aimed at making President
Donald Trump look bad, it’s the liberal hero Barack
Obama who ends up looking even worse — and the truth is
coming from surprising sources.
The basic — and completely wrong — liberal narrative is
that a Trump get-tough policy that separates children from
illegal immigrants who have been caught trying to enter
the country has ended up with authorities losing track of
1,475.
But according to The New York Times — the house organ
of the Democrat Party and chief propaganda outlet for the
anti-Trump movement — the real story is much different.
First of all, the children in this particular subset of illegal
immigrants weren’t even with their families when they
were caught. They were traveling unaccompanied by their
parents, so there was no separation.
Second, they haven’t even been “lost” in the sense the
media is implying.
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Instead, they have been placed in the custody of relatives
inside the United States who have not responded to follow-
up efforts by the Department of Health and Human
Services — often because they are illegal immigrants
themselves, who have little interest in contact with
immigration officials.
In other words, there are not 1,475 children wandering
around the U.S.-Mexico border like some kind of
dysfunctional Peter Pan story. They’ve been placed with
families in the interior of the United States.
More to the point, an even greater number of children —
almost three times as many — were “lost” in the same way
by the allegedly all-good and all-caring Obama
administration, according to The Times.
“Losing track of children who arrive at the
border alone is not a new phenomenon,”
The Times reported. “A 2016 inspector
general report showed that the federal
government was able to reach only 84
percent of children it had placed, leaving
4,159 unaccounted for.”
Does anyone remember CNN, USA TODAY or other
mainstream media outlets attacking the Obama
administration for deplorable treatment of illegal aliens?
The answer to that would be “no,” because the media and
the Democrat Party didn’t have a vested interest in
skewing the truth.
Things are different in the Trump years. And Trump’s new
“zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration — which
includes criminal charges against every adult caught trying
to enter the country illegally — is the latest front where
liberals are attacking.
And if that means making up a lie that Trump’s policy has
resulted in almost 1,500 kids being “lost,” that’s just part
of the #Resistance strategy.
As reported by The Washington Post (another mainstream
media enemy of the Trump administration):
 “As mentioned before, the 1,475 children
were not separated from their parents at
the border. However, many who have
expressed outrage online about family
separations have been appending their
tweets with the hashtags
#WhereAreTheChildren or
#MissingChildren, intentionally or
unintentionally linking the two issues.
“Some who should have been better
informed also conflated the two, implying
that federal officials had lost 1,500
immigrant children who had been taken
from their parents, when this was not the
case.”
Preet Bahara, the former United States attorney for the
Southern District of New York — a liberal hero who was
fired by Trump in 2017 — was among those who, as The
Post delicately put it, “should have known better.”
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Well, there are a couple of things more shameful than that.
Lying to the American public, like Bahara is
doing, is one of them. (For a layman to
confuse immigration policies is one thing.
For a former federal prosecutor to get a key
element of an accusation wrong almost
requires deliberate malice.)
For liberals in the media to denounce a sitting president for
alleged inhumanity toward illegal immigrants for one
problem, while ignoring a problem three times as big when
his predecessor was in office is another.
The reality is, Trump and his
administration haven’t “lost” 1,475
children in the way the media
desperately wants Americans to believe.
The other reality is that Obama officials
really did lose 4,159 children by the
current standards of the media /
Democrat industrial complex. And the
currently outraged liberals never
breathed a word about it.
Even in the Trump years, it’s a double standard that’s
tough to beat.
 Trump Worries Mueller Team
May ‘Meddle’ In Midterm Elections
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:59 AM 05/29/2018
U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White
House in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
President Donald Trump accused special counsel Robert
Mueller and his team of investigators of attempting to
meddle in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Trump referenced the number of registered Democrats and
former operatives on Mueller’s investigatory team and
singled out Andrew Weissmann in particular. Weissman is
a Mueller team investigator who attended Hillary Clinton’s
election night party at the Jacob Javits center in November
2016.
Weissman also sent congratulatory emails to former acting
Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to comply with a
presidential order to implement his travel ban order in the
early days of the Trump administration.
 Kellyanne Conway On Michelle Wolf’s Sarah Sanders
Jokes: I Remember ‘When Comedians Were Funny’
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
10:19 AM 05/29/2018

and speaking to America on what is a very

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway hit back at
Michelle Wolf after her attacks on Sarah Sanders Tuesday.
fast-moving agenda here,” Conway said.
“The sheer velocity and volume that goes
on in this White House, the things that the
president wants to work on — we just
reviewed them this morning. So, I hate to
dignify it. I would say, generally speaking,
not about that woman, but generally
speaking, I’m old enough to remember
when comedians were funny,” she added.

Conway said that she remembered “when comedians were

funny” on “Fox & Friends.”

WATCH:

Wolf used her new Netflix show to attack Sarah Sanders

for having an “ugly personality.”

“I hardly saw that, but all I can talk about is

Sarah. I love working with her every single
day here at the White House. She does a
wonderful job representing the president
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 CNN Really Soiled Their Sheets
This Weekend – The Daily Daily Caller Podcast
Derek Hunter - Contributor
11:17 AM 05/29/2018

On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast … weekend … until someone realized the pictures they were
upset about were taken during the Obama administration.
It was not a good weekend for CNN. Not ratings-wise, Suddenly, tweets by liberal activists decrying the practice
they don’t make good ratings ever, but from a journalistic started disappearing. Even former Obama administration
standpoint. officials were pretending the “outrage” they were blaming
on Trump didn’t happen at a time when they were
responsible and could have done something to stop it. You
On Sunday, James “the clap” Clapper was on State of the
can’t make this stuff up, and we mock them roundly for it.
Union with host Dana Bash and she asked the former
Director of National Intelligence a basic question – if the
intelligence community was so concerned that Russians
were attempting to infiltrate the Trump campaign, why
didn’t you warn them? Clapper was completely unprepared
for this basic question because he’d been living in a world
where even mildly challenging questions are not asked of
him.

Former DNI James Clapper gives his excuse as to why he lied to the
Senate Intelligence Committee. ABC/ Screenshot | James Clapper:
Kim Jong Un Met His Match

Clapper’s answer was pathetic, and basically boiled down

to “We had to send in spies in order to find out if we
Screen capture from Twitter
needed to send in spies.” This “logic” means any
American can be spied on to find out if there’s a reason to
spy on them, which is incredibly dangerous. Finally, CNN declared an outrage over a picture of Ivanka
Trump with her 2-year-old son because illegal alien
children are being separated from their illegal alien parents
Clapper also claimed he wasn’t told of the spying, saying
at the border. In typical CNN fashion, this “outrage” was
he shouldn’t have been told in order to “protect the
basically a few liberal activists who complain about
source.” Apparently Clapper doesn’t think he should be
anything anyone named Trump does. But that didn’t stop
trusted with the identity of spies because why? Does he
CNN from devoting an entire segment to the “backlash”
just become a fountain of information to anyone within
Ivanka was facing, even though no source for this
earshot after a couple of glasses of chardonnay? It was a
“backlash” was mentioned in the segment. Where was it
shockingly bad performance and we have all the audio for
coming from? CNN doesn’t say, because citing your own
you on the show.
newsroom doesn’t look particularly good, probably.
There was an outrage explosion over the weekend by
liberals upset at the conditions in which sweet, sweet,
nourishing illegal alien children were being held by the
Trump administration. Forced to sleep in cages, these
children became THE liberal cause of the Memorial Day
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 MITT ROMNEY Goes On NBC To Slam Trump:
He Is Not A Role Model – President Departs
“From The Truth” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 29, 2018, 11:47 Am

It’s safe to say we know what Mitt Romney will be like as

a US Senator.

He’s a #NeverTrumper to the core.

On Tuesday Mitt Romney went on NBC to slam

Republican President Donald Trump.

The Washington Times reported:

Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President

Trump is not the role model he would want
for his grandchildren.
“I don’t think I would point to the president
as a role model for my grandkids on the
basis of his personal style. He has
departed in some cases from the truth, and
has attacked in a way that I think is not
entirely appropriate,” Mr. Romney said to
NBC News. Mitt Romney is running against Utah Doctor Rep. Mike
Kennedy for the US senate seat.
The former Republican presidential candidate is running
for the Republican Senate nomination in Utah. The seat
will be vacated by longtime Sen. Orrin Hatch.

Mr. Romney said there are policy points he and Mr. Trump
agree on such as tax policy and regulatory policy, but said
he would have liked to see more effort on the Trans-
Pacific Partnership. He said some of the policies are “a
good deal better” than he expected.

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 POTUS Trump HAMMERS Mueller
And His Team Of “13 Angry Democrats”
In Epic Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
May 29, 2018, 11:55 Am

President Trump unleashed another

tweetstorm attacking Mueller and his
team of liberal hack lawyers Tuesday
morning.
The President’s attacks on the Russia
witch hunt are becoming a daily routine
at this point. It appears he’s gearing up
to make an aggressive move to fight the
unconstitutional special counsel.

Round two:

The 13 Angry Democrats (plus people who

worked 8 years for Obama) working on the
rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be
MEDDLING with the mid-term elections,
especially now that Republicans (stay
tough!) are taking the lead in Polls. There
was no Collusion, except by the
Democrats!

Over a dozen Democrat lawyers are working with Mueller

to remove President Trump from office.

Many of Mueller’s lawyers donated to Hillary Clinton and

Barack Obama yet the media refuses to report on this
blatant bias.

President Trump let them have it Tuesday morning.

Round three:
Round one:
Why aren’t the 13 Angry and heavily
“This investigation involved far more conflicted Democrats investigating the
surveillance than we ever had any idea totally Crooked Campaign of totally
about. It wasn’t just a wiretap against a Crooked Hillary Clinton. It’s a Rigged Witch
campaign aide…it was secretly gathering Hunt, that’s why! Ask them if they enjoyed
information on the Trump Campaign… her after election celebration!
people call that Spying… this is
unprecedented and scandalous.” -Mollie
Hemingway

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Round four:
Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy
on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals,
VA Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the
Military, and so much more, and not on the
Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be
investigating Clinton/ Russia/ FBI /Justice
/Obama /Comey /Lynch etc.
Round five:
The Fake Mainstream Media has, from the
time I announced I was running for
President, run the most highly
sophisticated & dishonest Disinformation
Campaign in the history of politics. No
matter how well WE do, they find fault. But
the forgotten men & women WON, I’m
President!
The Gateway Pundit relentlessly reports Mueller’s team is
a who’s who of corrupt and conflicted Obama and Hillary
.
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cronies. As we reported over the past year Mueller’s team
consists of the following:
 Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal
Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
— Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
 Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
 Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on
detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern
District of New York— Worked under Trump-basher
Preet Bharara in the liberal New York southern
district.
 Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s
Civil Division. — Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
 Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail
from the Office of the Solicitor General. -Fluent in
Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
 James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a
former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate
Special Prosecution Force. –Former assistant special
prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution
Force.
 Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and
as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia. — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation
Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney
General in the Office of Legal Counsel under
Barack Obama.
 Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the
Justice Department’s National Security Division.
— Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia
scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael
Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
 Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
the WilmerHale firm.
 Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on
detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District
of New York.
 Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former
colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
of the past two generations.
Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page were thrown off of
the investigation after Trump-hating text messages
between the two FBI agents were discovered by the IG.
Mueller’s witch hunt needs to be shut down; a special
counsel should be appointed to investigate Mueller and
Rosenstein.
 State Dept. Asks Judge For 45 Years
To Review Fake Dossier Docs
By Ben Marquis
May 29, 2018 At 12:40pm
While much has been said about the roles played by the
Obama-era Department of Justice and FBI in utilizing the
Democrat-financed anti-Donald Trump dossier compiled
by a former British spy to open a counterintelligence
investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign, less has been
said about the possible role played by State Department
officials.
The Washington Times reported in March on a book
written by two liberal authors — Yahoo News reporter
Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine founder David
Corn, who have themselves been implicated in the
formation of the dossier — titled “Russian Roulette,”
which delved deep into the Trump/Russia collusion
conspiracy theory.
That book alleged that a former top State
Department official at the time, Victoria
Nuland, granted clearance and gave the
green light for an FBI agent to meet with
dossier author Christopher Steele in Rome
in July 2016. This is believed to have been
the start of the FBI/Steele relationship in
terms of the collection of unverified anti-
Trump memos.
That book seemed to confirm suspicions that Nuland, and
other State Department officials in her orbit as well, were
involved in the effort to prevent then-candidate Trump
from winning the 2016 election, or hamstring his
administration and lead to his impeachment if he
succeeded in taking office.
Those suspicions led to the filing of a Freedom of
Information Act request with the State Department by the
group Citizens United in October 2017. The FOIA request
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seeks “All e-mails sent and received” by Nuland between
March 1, 2016 and January 25, 2017, as well as telephone
message slips and call logs — a request that has largely
been ignored by the department since that time.
The request has since transformed into a lawsuit, and a
federal judge has ordered the State Department to produce
the documents requested by Citizens United, but a recent
filing revealed that the government bureaucrats are
dragging their feet at such a slow rate that they literally
asked for several decades worth of time to comply with the
requests.
According to a Joint Status Report filed in the case on May
23, attorneys for the State Department complained that
some 104,629 documents could be considered “potentially
responsive” to the request, and even if some were excluded
using certain keywords, they’d still need to sift through
roughly 95,000 documents.
The State Department’s attorneys complained that the
department “has faced a heavy FOIA workload for some
time” and stated that they could only produce about 300
documents per month in this case, due to several other
FOIA requests they also were court-ordered to comply
with.
As an aside, maybe if the previous heads of that
department hadn’t engaged in so many shady activities —
such as using unauthorized and unsecured email servers —
they wouldn’t have such a large FOIA workload.
But attorneys for Citizens United noted in their portion of
the filed report the urgent nature of their request. It relates
not only to the prior 2016 election, but also the upcoming
2018 and 2020 federal elections, as well as the right of the
public to know about the alleged political activities of
State Department officials.
As such, they pointed out that the department’s requested
minimum production level would essentially require 45 to
66 years for them to produce less than one year’s worth of
documents from one individual at the department, an
unjustifiable request in their view.

Instead, the plaintiffs requested the judge set a deadline of
one year for the State Department to fully produce — or
adequately explain why they were withholding — the
requested documents.
The attorneys further argued that the State Department had
already breached a statutory deadline and appeared to have
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done nothing for six months since the filing of the FOIA
request other than conduct an initial search to determine
how many documents would be “potentially responsive” to
the request.
“Furthermore, as our nation approaches
the upcoming 2018 federal elections, and
then as our nation will turn to the
presidential primary season for the 2020
elections, it will be extremely important for
the American people to have a more
complete picture of the State Department’s
alleged political activities, including any role
in opposition research of a presidential
candidate during the 2016 elections,” the
Citizens United attorneys concluded.
This request by the State Department to take at least 45 to
66 years to produce less than one year’s worth of emails
from one former official is indeed entirely unacceptable.
It’s a request that should be slapped down by the judge,
and it should earn an internal rebuke, if not worse, from
current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
 Warren Says Trump Invented
‘Spygate’ Because He’s Afraid Of Mueller
Virginia Kruta
1:15 PM 05/29/2018

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
claimed that “Spygate” was an fantasy of President
Donald Trump’s invention, used to distract people from
the Mueller investigation that might be getting a little too
close for comfort.
She said he has figured out what “works” to distract the
American people, and “he’s throwing everything he can in
the road”
“You know, look, Trump is figuring out what
works, and that is the more he is afraid of
what the special prosecutor, Mueller, is
doing, the more Trump is worried about
where that investigation is going. And
remember, that investigation has already
produced 16 indictments or guilty pleas, so
this is a serious — A serious criminal
investigation. As Trump hears the hoof
beats that that’s getting closer to him, he’s
throwing everything he can in the road
including, oh, let’s undermine the FBI.”

Warren, who admitted that she wasn’t quite ready to say

that Trump should be impeached, said that her main
priority was to make sure that Mueller was allowed to
finish his investigation without political interference. She
said,

“I take this very seriously. This is a serious

constitutional move. My view on this is
protect the special prosecutor, let him finish
his work without political interference. Let
Joy Behar first raised the question of “Spygate,” saying
him make a full report to the American
that President Trump appeared to be “making it up as he
people and then collectively we can make
goes along,” and lamented that “people are believing him.”
the decision about what the appropriate
next step is.”
Warren explained that President Trump’s ability to tap into
the public conversation was working to his advantage as he
used misdirection to keep people focused on anything but
the Mueller investigation.
.

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 Is This The Biggest 'Criminal Deep State' Cover-Up In
History? Long List Of Dead Bodies And Circumstantial
Evidence Tell A Tale The 'Elite' Will Never Tell
And Harvey Weinstein And NXIVM Are
Just TheTip Of The Iceberg
By William B Stoecker - All News Pipeline
May 29, 2018
Recently a rumor has been floating on the internet that, on
the dark web, there is a snuff video of the Witch Hillary
and her longtime aide Huma Abedin torturing a little girl
to death. Bear in mind that this video may not even exist,
and, if it does, could easily be faked. There is not one atom
of proof that the Witch has ever directly harmed a child.
But, on the other hand, it is a virtual certainty that the
Witch is a lesbian, and that Huma Abedin is her girlfriend.
And it is a fact that Huma’s mother is tied to the terrorist
Muslim Brotherhood…Huma and the Witch are certainly
very, very unpleasant people.
I have always said that skeptics may dismiss this or that
piece of evidence as a hoax, mistake, or coincidence, but
when you look at the overall pattern surrounding an event
like Dallas or the OKC bombing, the truth becomes
painfully obvious. Remember that people can be convicted
in court with a pattern of circumstantial evidence. And
there is a pattern indicating that many of the NWO
globalist elites, probably including the Clintons, are,
indeed, involved in child sex and in Satanic human
sacrifice.
Anyone who at this late date doubts that the Deep State
operatives and their Luciferian masters are utterly evil,
sadistic sociopaths is willfully blind. I will not here cite the
evidence that Dallas and the other assassinations of the
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sixties, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, the first WTC
bombing, 9/11, and Benghazi were deliberately
orchestrated by our would-be masters, along with any
number of school shootings and other atrocities.
I and others, including patriots who write for ANP, have
written about these events numerous times and supported
our conclusions with hard facts. Anyone who wishes can
read of the terrible suffering of the victims of the OKC
bombing, and the row of dead babies lying on broken
glass. Either of the two WTC bombings could have killed
up to ten or even twenty thousand people; as it was, 9/11
killed nearly 3,000. Our elites are most certainly evil
enough to rape and even torture and murder small children.
Many of the “movers and shakers” in the
US and Europe belong to obviously cult-
like organizations: the Masons, the Lucis
Trust, Skull and Bones, and the
Bohemian Club, among others. The
Bohemians, at their annual event at the
Bohemian Grove in Northern California,
conduct a “mock” child sacrifice…or is it?
And these are the elites who have legalized the abortion of
nearly sixty million unborn children and forced us peasants
to help pay for it by sending our tax dollars to Planned
“Parenthood.” If this is not child sacrifice on a
monumental scale, what is? These same elites are forcing
the insane Glibbet (GLBT) agenda on us, and, especially,
on our children in the indoc centers formerly known as
schools.
Even the Washington Pest reported in 1987 on a shadowy
child sex ring called the “Finders,” operating mainly in
the DC area but also in other parts of the US and beyond.
The cult had at least 40 members and was led by a man
named Marion Pettie. Despite the fact that two men were
found with hungry, dirty, half-naked children (not their
own) the DC police and DA refused to charge them with
any crime.
It was rumored that the Department of “Justice” had
pressured the DC authorities not to charge them, citing
“national security.” Allegedly the DOJ did this at the
behest of the CIA, and even Pettie admitted that his late
wife had worked for the CIA and his son for Air America,
the CIA’s airline. The Finders performed occult rituals and
did blood sacrifice, at least of animals. The police found
photos of the animal sacrifices and nude children.
In 1992 John W. De Camp published The Franklin
Coverup, the story of what began as an investigation of
the corrupt Franklin Savings and Loan Company and led
to revelations of child sex abuse and probably murder by
many of America’s elites, including people in the military.
The manager of Franklin was one Lawrence King, a Black
Republican, and almost $40 million was missing from the
credit union, clearly stolen by King and his associates. But
soon evidence of child sex trafficking, rape, drug dealing,
child prostitution, and money laundering was found. There
were credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors by the
Omaha police chief and a local judge. King procured under
age boys from the infamous Boy’s Town, as did a
homosexual pimp in DC, one Craig Spence, who was
“suicided” in 1989.
George Bush I attended at least one of Lawrence King’s
infamous parties (Bush I and II, remember, are Bonesmen
and also attend events at the Bohemian Grove). An
investigator for the Nebraska Legislature, Gary Canadori,
who was investigating the matter, died (along with his
eight year old son) in a mysterious plane crash on 7/11/90.
There were unverified claims by children that they had
witnessed child rape, torture, mutilation, and murder, and
Satanic rituals.
Author John De Camp knew former CIA Director William
Colby and stated that Colby was trying to find and expose
the truth…but he died mysteriously in April, 1996. De
Camp’s main investigator was retired FBI agent Ted
Gunderson; I spoke with Mr. Gunderson a year or two
before his death, and he at least appeared to be sincere, and
he believed that most of the allegations were true and that
this was but the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
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Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan operated (where else?) in
San Francisco during the sixties and later. That city is a
center of occult evil. Note that the “Reverend” Jim Jones
was made Director of Public Housing in San Francisco
(despite a complete lack of qualifications for the job) by
the city’s leftist elites…who included Diane
Feinstein…and this enabled him to recruit many of his
victims. The actual Bohemian Club headquarters building
is also in San Francisco…I have myself seen the occult
symbols on its front door. One of LaVey’s followers was
an Army officer stationed at the Presidio, Michael
Aquino.
He broke away and founded his own Luciferian cult in
1975, the Temple of Set, which included a number of
other US Army officers and enlisted personnel. The Army
was notified of this by the San Francisco Police
Department…and they were okay with it. In 1987
investigators learned that a worker at the Presidio Child
Development Center (a daycare facility), one Gary Willard
Hambright, was abusing very small children of both sexes.
In fact, the Army admitted that there was credible evidence
of child sexual abuse at ten percent or more of their
daycare centers across the country. Note that witnesses had
told the Franklin investigators that Satanic child abuse also
took place at a number of US military bases, although this
has never been proven. Also unproven is the claim by one
child at the Presidio that she was sexually abused by
Michael Aquino and his wife.
Recently the public has learned of the bizarre NXIVM sex
cult, led by a man named Keith Raniere, who was assisted
by Unholywood actress Allison Mack, who branded his
female sex slaves. The cult is supported by the Bronfman
sisters in Canada, Sara and Clare, heirs to the Seagram
Seven fortune. Their grandfather had made a great deal of
that fortune by selling liquor to Detroit’s murderous Purple
Gang during Prohibition. The Bronfmans support a variety
of leftist causes in the US and Canada, including the
Clinton Global Initiative. There are rumors that the cult
sold children to the Clintons and the Rothschilds, but there
is no real evidence.
Clinton henchman Larry Nichols, some years ago, said that
the Witch Hillary often attended meetings of a witches’
coven in California. Of course, such witches always claim
that they are not Satanists, but harmless pagans, or
Wiccans. Yet these covens are where radical feminism,
lesbianism, leftist politics, and the occult are combined
into one malevolent brew. In 4/18 the Witch joined a
coven (their own description) of exclusively female
witches called “The Wing.” Their official symbol is an
inverted, Satanic pentagram, and they have posted
drawings of witches sacrificing babies to Satan, and
slogans like “Hex on NRA” and “Curse for Trump.” One
of the members has openly admitted to sacrifices and pacts
with demons, and, interestingly, leftist Senators Kristin
Gillibrand and Diane Feinstein have attended Wing events.
Washington,” a rather odd title for a pizza store owner. He
visited the Hussein White House at least five times.
And the plot continues to thicken. John Podesta’s emails
often mention Comet Ping Pong; apparently it has some
major significance for him. The Witch’s ex chief of staff,
Tamera Luzzatto, emailed John Podesta about transporting
her own underage children to the “farm in Lovettsville”
where they could swim in the pool to provide
“entertainment.” “Farm Circuit” is a code for child
trafficking and prostitution. And, again and again we see
connections to the Clintons…that charming couple with
the long trail of dead bodies behind them.

Yes, the evidence is circumstantial. But people can be

convicted in court with strong enough circumstantial
evidence. Remember that individual facts can form very
real patterns, which combine into larger patterns, and so
on. We need to wake up to the fact that we are literally
ruled by Satanists and that there is no crime too foul for
them. Things will certainly get worse before they get
better, and, at some point, we are going to have to fight for
our freedom and prosperity, for our lives…and for our
souls.

Then there is the “Lolita express” to Little St. James

Island in the Caribbean, called “Orgy Island.” The express
refers to the private jet of billionaire leftist Jeffrey Epstein,
a Clinton crony who kept a virtual harem of underage girls
on the island. Slick Willy Clinton travelled with him to the
island a number of times, and there is a rumor that the
Witch went with them at least once. Epstein was caught
and convicted, but the FBI and the DOJ got him a reduced
sentence by claiming that he was a useful
informant…right, him and Whitey Bulger. The DOJ
attorney who helped to orchestrate this sordid deal was
Alexander Acosta…and Trump made him Secretary of
Labor. So much for draining the swamp.

The Witch’s former campaign chairman (and Hussein

Obama’s counselor, and Slick Willy’s Chief of Staff) is
one John Podesta, whose brother, Tony Podesta, is a
lobbyist representing, among others, China and Saudi
Arabia. Tony’s home is decorated with pictures of naked
teenagers, and he is a close associate of the self-mutilating
witch Marina Abramovic, who practices “spirit cooking” a
mixture of blood, semen, urine, and human breast milk, a
recipe provided by the late Aleister Crowley, leader of the
Satanist OTO (Order of the Temple of the Orient). Tony
and John Podesta often hang out with well-known
Washington homosexual James Alefantis, who owns
Comet Ping Pong Pizza in DC; its storefront is decorated
with occult symbols like a star and a crescent Moon. GQ
lists Alefantis as “one of the 50 most powerful people in
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 Loyal Trump Supporters Wait In Line
For EIGHT HOURS Before Rally [VIDEO]
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
2:15 PM 05/29/2018

“President Trump’s Nashville rally isn’t

scheduled to begin for another 8.5 hours,
but people are already lining up outside,” a
reporter with The Washington Post
tweeted.

The attendees in line may be tested by heavy residual

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters at North
Side middle school in Elkhart, Indiana, U.S., May 10, 2018.
REUTERS/Leah Millis
Supporters of President Donald Trump began lining up
roughly 8.5 hours before the scheduled start time of a rally
in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday.
rainfall from Tropical Storm Alberto, which made landfall
late Monday in Florida and headed inland from the Gulf of
Mexico, Nashville’s Fox 17 reports.
The doors to the event will open at 4 p.m. and Trump is
scheduled to speak three hours later. Some people began
lining up as far out as a day before the official start time,
according to Fox 17.

Trump aims to raise money and rally support for

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for
one of Tennessee’s Senate spots against former-
Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen.

The race is tight for a state Trump won with 61 percent of

the vote. Recent polls have reflected a slight to
comfortable lead for Bredesen between 3 and 10
percentage points, NBC News reports.

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 Tom Steyer: Dems Who Don’t Back
Impeachment Crusade Are On The
Wrong Side Of History
Chris White - Energy Reporter
2:20 PM 05/29/2018
Tom Steyer, a hedge fund manager and a prominent Democratic
fundraiser who has mounted a high-profile advertising campaign
advocating the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, holds
a news conference to announce plans for his political future, in
Washington, U.S., January 8, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts |
Steyer Doesnt Know Why Dems Ignore Him
Billionaire Tom Steyer suggested Tuesday Democrats who
are hesitant to jump aboard his impeachment campaign are
at risk of normalizing what he believes is President Donald
Trump’s bad behavior.
Democrats who maintain a wide berth from campaigns to
impeach Trump are alienating a large swath of liberal
voters, Steyer told Politico on Tuesday. Rebuking the
campaign also places vulnerable Democrats on the wrong
side of history, Steyer said, responding to his crusade to
oust the president.
“If you look at the civil rights movement, the
pushback was not, ‘You’re not telling the
truth;’ the pushback was, ‘We’re dealing
with it in time. Stand down so we can deal
with it in tie [sic],” said Steyer, a former
hedge fund manager who poured tens of
millions of dollars into Democratic coffers
over the past six years.
Steyer, who often suggests without evidence Trump
conspired with Russia to win the election, used various
social media platforms in October 2017 to launch a “need
to impeach” Trump movement. More than 5 million people
have signed his petition so far, but House Democrats think
the wealthy activist is wearing out his welcome.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, for instance, called
an impeachment campaign impractical in March and
suggested it distracts from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation and could jeopardize Democratic
efforts to take back Congress in 2018.
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His tour to boot Trump kicked off less than a week after
his political group, NextGen America, announced a $30
million campaign structured around pushing young people
into voting. Steyer is forging ahead with his effort despite
lacking evidence of the president’s wrong-doing.
“The Founders gave us impeachment to
answer a reckless, lawless, and dangerous
president; and every day that his behavior
is accepted, every day that you don’t
oppose it, it becomes enshrined as the way
things are done. You have normalized this
presidency; you have normalized his
behavior,” Steyer explained.
Democratic leaders worry whispering “impeachment”
threatens to make swing House districts unwinnable while
all-but erasing their opportunity to retake control of the
House. Republicans, meanwhile, appear overjoyed with
Steyer’s push. The National Republican Campaign
Committee is licking its chops at the prospect of accusing
Democrats of overreaching ahead of the mid-term
elections in November.
“Tom Steyer is stoking the flames of this
ludicrous progressive pipe dream, further
complicating Nancy Pelosi’s plan to regain
the majority,” NRCC press secretary Jesse
Hunt said.
Hunt and his fellow Republicans might have a reason to
celebrate if Steyer keeps beating his drum, recent polls
indicate.
Nearly 47 percent of registered voters say they would
definitely oppose a candidate who promised
impeachment, while 42 percent would definitely vote for
one, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll
conducted in April. Calls for impeachment track at higher
levels among the younger voters whom Steyer has courted
over the past year, the polls showed. Young people are not
traditionally reliable voters.
Young adult voters between the ages of 18 through 24
consistently voted at lower rates than all other age groups
in every presidential election since 1962, according to a
2014 report from the U.S. Census Bureau. On average, less
than half of young voters actually make it to the polls for a
national presidential election, the bureau’s voting data also
shows.
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Control Of Russia Inquiry After His Recusal
By Michael S. Schmidt And Julie Hirschfeld Davis
May 29, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in March 2017 that he was
recusing himself from oversight of the Russia investigation and any
other campaign-related matters.CreditDoug Mills/The New York
Times
WASHINGTON — By the time Attorney General Jeff
Sessions arrived at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had
been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two
days. Mr. Sessions had flown to Florida because Mr.
Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing
decision on his travel ban.
When they met, Mr. Trump was ready to talk — but not
about the travel ban. His grievance was with Mr. Sessions:
The president objected to his decision to recuse himself
from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told
aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry,
berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his
decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request.
Mr. Sessions refused.
The confrontation, which has not been previously reported,
is being investigated by the special counsel, Robert S.
Mueller III, as are the president’s public and private
attacks on Mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign.
Mr. Trump dwelled on the recusal for months, according to
confidants and current and former administration officials
who described his behavior toward the attorney general.
The special counsel’s interest demonstrates Mr. Sessions’s
overlooked role as a key witness in the investigation into
whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the inquiry itself. It
also suggests that the obstruction investigation is broader
than it is widely understood to be — encompassing not
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only the president’s interactions with and firing of the
former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, but also his
relationship with Mr. Sessions.
Investigators have pressed current and former White
House officials about Mr. Trump’s treatment of Mr.
Sessions and whether they believe the president was trying
to impede the Russia investigation by pressuring him. The
attorney general was also interviewed at length by Mr.
Mueller’s investigators in January. And of the four dozen
or so questions Mr. Mueller wants to ask Mr. Trump, eight
relate to Mr. Sessions. Among them: What efforts did you
make to try to get him to reverse his recusal?
The president’s lead lawyer in the case, Rudolph W.
Giuliani, said that if Mr. Trump agreed to answer the
special counsel’s questions — an interview is the subject
of continuing negotiations — he should not be forced to
discuss his private deliberations with senior administration
officials. Talking about the attorney general, Mr. Giuliani
argued, would set a bad precedent for future presidents.
Mr. Trump had dinner with Mr. Sessions at his Mar-a-Lago estate in
Palm Beach, Fla., days after the recusal was
announced.CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times
Mr. Giuliani said that he had not discussed Mr. Sessions’s
recusal with Mr. Trump but that a request that Mr.
Sessions reassert control over the Russia investigation
would be within the bounds of the president’s authority.
“‘Unrecuse’ doesn’t say, ‘Bury the
investigation.’ It says on the face of it: Take
responsibility for it and handle it correctly,”
Mr. Giuliani said on Tuesday evening.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

In a Twitter post early on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he

wished he had picked another lawyer to be his attorney
general. The president was responding to remarks made
earlier by Representative Trey Gowdy, a Republican of
South Carolina, on “CBS This Morning.” Mr. Trump
quoted him as saying that the president had plenty of good
lawyers to choose from when he named his attorney
general.

“And I wish I did!” Mr. Trump wrote.

Mr. Sessions’s recusal came in the middle of public scrutiny over his
testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing.CreditDoug Mills/The
New York Times

Mr. Trump immediately recognized the potential effect of

a recusal. He had his White House counsel, Donald F.
McGahn II, lobby Mr. Sessions to retain oversight of the
inquiry.

To the president, no decision has proved more devastating
during his time in office than Mr. Sessions’s recusal. In
Mr. Trump’s view, Mr. Sessions, who had been one of his
closest political allies and earliest prominent supporter in
Washington, never would have appointed a special
counsel, as the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein,
did last May after the president abruptly fired Mr. Comey.
Before the recusal, the president and his attorney general
were friends, often sharing meals and talking on the phone.
Today, they rarely speak outside of cabinet meetings,
current and former White House officials and others
briefed on their relationship said. They even flew
separately in March from Washington to the same event in
New Hampshire. Mr. Trump complains to friends about
how much he would like to get rid of Mr. Sessions but has
demurred under pressure from Senate Republicans who
have indicated they would not confirm a new attorney
general.
Because of his recusal, Mr. Sessions has been mostly
absent from the president’s ire toward the investigation
and the Justice Department. He has enforced Mr. Trump’s
agenda more successfully than perhaps any cabinet
member, imposing conservative policies on immigration
and violent crime that are popular with Mr. Trump’s core
supporters.
Pressure on Mr. Sessions to step aside from the Russia
investigation began building almost as soon as he took
office, culminating in a Washington Post report on March
1 that he had not been forthcoming during his Senate
confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian
officials during the campaign. Career lawyers at the Justice
Department had advised Mr. Sessions to step aside, citing
ethics guidelines about impartiality and his role as a
prominent supporter of the Trump campaign.
To Justice Department officials close to Mr. Sessions, the
request by the president made through Mr. McGahn was
inappropriate, particularly because it was clear to them that
Mr. Sessions had to step aside. After Mr. Sessions told Mr.
McGahn that he would follow the Justice Department
lawyers’ advice to recuse himself from all matters related
to the election, Mr. McGahn backed down. Mr. Sessions
recused himself on March 2.
When Mr. Trump learned of the recusal, he asked advisers
whether the decision could be reversed, according to
people briefed on the matter. Told no, Mr. Trump argued
that Eric H. Holder Jr., President Barack Obama’s first
attorney general, would never have recused himself from a
case that threatened to tarnish Mr. Obama. The president
said he expected the same loyalty from Mr. Sessions.
Some people close to the president have said privately that
they believed the recusal was overly broad and done too
hastily in the middle of public scrutiny over Mr. Sessions’s
congressional testimony.
The day after the recusal, as the president prepared to
travel to Florida, Mr. Trump was seen through the
windows of the Oval Office by news cameras,
gesticulating angrily as he argued with top advisers who
had gathered to determine how to go forward with the
travel ban, which had been blocked by a federal judge.
Justice Department officials had concluded the policy must
be withdrawn and revised, a move that Mr. Trump was
resisting because he thought it was watered down.
But, preoccupied with Mr. Sessions’s decision and
determined to find a way forward, he spent the first 10
minutes of the meeting venting about it, a former White
House official said.

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The meeting ended without a resolution about the travel
ban. And after Mr. Trump flew to Florida, his advisers
decided that the only way to get the president’s signoff to
revise the immigration order — a time-sensitive matter
because of pending litigation — would be to dispatch the
attorney general to Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., retreat,
to implore him in person, the current and former
administration officials said.
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It was at Mar-a-Lago the next evening that Mr. Trump
brought up the Russia investigation with Mr. Sessions and
asked him to change his mind about stepping aside, the
people said.
days later, a Washington Post report about Mr. Sessions’s
campaign discussions with Russia’s ambassador sent Mr.
Trump into another rage. Aboard Marine One that
Saturday, the president told his chief of staff, Reince
Priebus, to get Mr. Sessions to resign by the end of the
weekend, according to a person briefed on the
conversation.
Unnerved and convinced the president wanted to install a
new attorney general who could oversee the Russia
investigation, Mr. Priebus called Mr. Sessions’s chief of
staff at the time, Jody Hunt, who said that the president
would have to ask Mr. Sessions himself to resign. Unsure
how to proceed, Mr. Priebus simply waited out the
president, who never called Mr. Sessions but did attack
him that week on Twitter.

Prosecutors rarely go back on recusals. Legal experts said

that occasionally, prosecutors who handed off a case to
colleagues over concerns about a possible financial
conflict of interest would take the decision back after
confirming none existed. But the experts said they could
think of no instance in which a prosecutor stepped aside
from a case in circumstances similar to Mr. Sessions’s.
Justice Department guidelines on recusal are in place to
prevent the sort of political meddling the president tried to Days later, Mr. Priebus was out as chief of staff. The
engage in, they said. special counsel has told the president’s lawyers that he
wants to ask Mr. Trump about those discussions with Mr.
Priebus and why he publicly criticized Mr. Sessions.
“It’s yet more behavior that tramples on the
line between law and politics,” said Samuel
W. Buell, a professor of law at Duke Mr. Trump brought up the recusal again with associates
University and former federal prosecutor. later last year, expressing a desire for Mr. Sessions to
reassert control over an investigation that has since
resulted in the indictment of his former campaign
As the months wore on, Mr. Trump returned again and
chairman and guilty pleas by two other campaign aides and
again to the recusal. his former national security adviser.

In July, he told The New York Times that he never would

have nominated Mr. Sessions if he had known that Mr.
Sessions would not oversee the Russia investigation. Two
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Credit’ For The Economy, It Was Obama [VIDEO]
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2:25 PM 05/29/2018
Meghan McCain called the tweet
and praised CNN anchor Jake Tapper for posting pictures
of fallen soldiers on his social media feed all weekend.
Joy Behar said President Donald Trump “can’t really take
credit” for the economy and that it was Barack Obama
who made it what it is today.
The comment came during a panel
discussion on “The View” Tuesday about
the tweet Trump sent out on Memorial Day
touting the accomplishments of his
presidency, noting “the best economy in
decades” and the “lowest unemployment
numbers for Blacks and Hispanics ever.”
“First of all Obama pulled the U.S. out of
the great recession and the economy has
been steadily improving since,” Joy Behar
explained. “So he can’t really take credit for
anything that he’s done. He also inherited
low unemployment numbers from Obama.
The unemployment rate for Blacks and
Hispanics declined dramatically under
Obama.”
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“so tone-deaf and so insulting to every
veteran who died”
“I think the greatest point is that we should
be talking about our fallen soldier who have
lost their lives for our country,” McCain
responded. “I actually think that — I was
actually taken aback. I was sick in bed on
my computer and when I saw it I was
actually shocked by it.”
“People like Jake Tapper were going over
the weekend posting photos and the
names of fallen soldiers and I think we
need to say the names. Matthew Stanley is
a guy who died in 2006 in Baghdad,” she
added.
“My father wears his bracelet every day. I
think we should say the names on
Memorial day. And next Memorial Day he
[Trump] should say the names of every
soldier who has been killed in Iraq and
tweet it back and forth. It was so tone-deaf
and so insulting to every veteran who died.
”
“What is so odd to me is that he calls
himself sort of this law and order president
and talks so much about his support of the
military and, you know, never talks about
the fact that he had these five deferments
because of bone spurs in the knee,” Sunny
Hostin said. “Never served, but then does
something like this that is so very tone-
deaf. He’s sort of making Memorial Day a
day about him, a day about fallen soldiers
and when he was never a soldier.”
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