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 Dumpster Fire At Axios:
'The Public Case Against Trump'
By Tom Blumer
May 14, 2018 10:02 AM EDT
Axios is yet another leftist website which promised "vital,
trustworthy news and analysis" with "no bias" and "no
nonsense" but has subsequently descended into parody.
Saturday, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, two of the site's
founders, posted "The Public Case Against
Trump," allegedly a list of "known knowns" about "a
damning tale that would sink most leaders." It's a
colossal example of fake news.
The "Axios Manifesto" pledges that it will
"deliver the cleanest, smartest, most
efficient and trust-worthy experience for
readers and advertisers alike."
"The Public Case Against Trump" delivers
a hot mess which is a dumb waste of
readers' time promoting a pack of
falsehoods.
Though Allen and VandeHei have a combined 50-plus
years in establishment press journalism, their effort (h/t
Powerline) is chock-full of rookie mistakes, stunning
ignorance, and blatant omissions, starting with its opening
paragraphs:
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Trump-Russia has yet to qualify as a Trump campaign or
Trump administration "scandal."
As of the article's Saturday evening post time, Kimberley
Strassel's bombshell Wall Street Journal column credibly
contending
"that the FBI secretly had a person on the
payroll who used his or her non-FBI
credentials to interact in some capacity with
the Trump campaign" — i.e., was "spying
... to infiltrate the Trump campaign" — had
gone through two overnight news cycles.
In other words, it had just become even more evident —
with ample evidence going as far back as March 2017 —
that "major" scandalous conduct occurred within the
Obama administration's Department of Justice and FBI
during and after the 2016 presidential election. The
agenda-driven pair deliberately ignored this ever-growing,
"damning" accumulation.
Many of the supposedly undeniable "known facts" Allen
and VandeHei cited don't survive cursory scrutiny,
beginning with their opening assertion:
It is "known" that Manafort's indictment has no direct link
to collusion or obstruction, the potential long-shot charges
against Trump.
As to the alleged platform change, Byron York at the
Washington Free Beacon shattered this contention months
ago, reminding the Axios pair of that inconvenient fact
Saturday morning:

Specifically, as York wrote in November:
... an already-tough portion of the
Republican platform dealing with Russia
was strengthened, not weakened, at the
GOP convention.
... with Trump's approval, the platform
was made tougher with language pledging
ongoing and possibly increased sanctions.
The pair's second claim:
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The Associated Press, New York Times, and others have
acknowledged that only 4 of 17 agencies reached the
conclusion, while several center-right outlets have found
that the related report was "rigged", i.e., not subjected to
normal selection and review procedures.
The Axios pair's remaining bullet points are also decidedly
non-compelling, and their post utterly fails to present a
"public case against Trump." But hey, it has a nice
clickbait headline.
Sunday, Powerline's Scott Johnson
employed the "smart brevity" which Axios
claims to possess in a succinct
statement: "Allen and VandeHei have
coughed up a shockingly crappy piece
of work."
If this is the best two founders can produce, why should
readers pay any attention to Axios?
 CNN Analyst Says Devin Nunes
Wants To Get Intel Source Killed
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:30 AM 05/14/2018
 A CNN analyst made a shocking allegation about
Rep. Devin Nunes
 Asha Rangappa suggested that Nunes hopes to
leak the name of a top-secret intelligence source
 Rangappa was referring to a recent standoff
between Nunes and the Justice Department
A CNN analyst made a shocking allegation Monday about
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent who appears
frequently on CNN, suggested on Twitter that Nunes hopes
to leak the name of a top-secret intelligence source in
hopes of getting the person killed.
“Considering that @DevinNunes doesn’t
actually *read* any of the details he’s
given, Dr. Page, perhaps its because…he
wants to leak them, get sources killed, and
dry up the intel the FBI is getting in its
investigation? But lordy, there are still
tapes,” Rangappa tweeted Monday in an
exchange with Carter Page, a former
Trump campaign adviser who was the
target of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) warrants obtained by the Justice
Department and FBI.
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Rangappa was referring to a recent standoff between
Nunes and the Justice Department over records related to a
top-secret FBI and CIA source who has provided
information to the special counsel’s investigation.
Nunes, a Republican representative from California, issued
a subpoena in April for the records, but the Justice
Department pushed back aggressively, saying that
revealing the source would post a risk to the source’s life
and jeopardize relationships with foreign intelligence
services.
The mysterious source is an American who has long
provided information to the intelligence community, The
Washington Post reported on May 8. Ironically, the Justice
Department appears to have leaked those details to The
Post.
House Republicans say the DOJ is over-hyping its
concerns and is claiming that the source would be in
jeopardy as a way to slow document production. House
Speaker Paul Ryan said on May 10 that Nunes’ request is
“wholly appropriate.”
Rangappa’s dramatic allegation is based on the assumption
that Nunes or someone on the committee would leak
details about the source to the media. However,
undercutting that argument is the fact that the committee
already knows the name of the source, and it has yet to
leak. Committee officials have rebuffed attempts to discuss
the source. They have also refused to confirm or deny the
source’s name because it is classified.
Rangappa made another flawed argument in her exchange
with Page. Nunes is “terrified” of the applications for
FISA warrants granted against the former Trump campaign
adviser, she claimed.
Nunes must not be “terrified” of the documents since he
has led the push to force the Justice Department to release
the surveillance documents to Congress, Page noted.
“If he’s so ‘*terrified*’ of the Secret
Society’s pesky FISA, why has he been
asking to have the details disclosed for
 many months already,” Page tweeted
Monday.
The FISA applications showed the Justice Department and
FBI relied heavily on the unverified Steele dossier to
obtain four surveillance warrants against Page. The
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applications did not disclose the dossier was funded by the
Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
Page has also vehemently denied the allegations made
against him in the dossier, including that he was the Trump
campaign’s main point of contact to the Kremlin for the
purposes of collusion.
 CNN's Zakaria Frets Over Trump
Not Demanding Concessions From Israel
By Brad Wilmouth
May 14, 2018 11:09 AM EDT
On Monday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of the
day's upcoming relocation of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv
to Israel's capital, Jerusalem, CNN host and plagiarist
Fareed Zakaria repeatedly fretted over President Donald
Trump not demanding that Israel make concessions to
Palestinian Arabs in exchange for recognizing the Jewish
state's capital.
At 8:50 a.m. Eastern, after fill-in co-host Erica Hill
referred to the Palestinian protesters at the border between
Gaza and Israel, juxtaposed with Israelis in Jerusalem who
are "jubilant" over the move, she wondered what the
"bottom line" was about the day's events. Zakaria began:
"I think it was a very nonstrategic move --
by which, I mean to say, Trump is
supposed to be the master of the art of the
deal. It's very rare to make a major
concession to one side without getting
something from the other."
He soon added:
"This is a very big gift to Israel. You would
normally imagine that, if it were part of a
larger strategic plan, you would ask the
Israelis, in return, to do a certain number of
things -- settlement freezes, whatever it is.
Instead, it has been a pretty lopsided
thing."
He argued that, even though he believes Jerusalem should
be the capital, other countries have kept their embassies in
Tel Aviv because of Palestinian Arab claims to Jerusalem,
and then continued:
"Here what you've done is you've made a
very unilateral concession -- it looks very
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striking and bold -- but when you sort of
think to yourself, 'What did you get for
that?'"
Co-host Chris Cuomo then jumped in:
"Well, he got a win, right? ... And that's
what was on his mind. And Kushner really
is playing with a little act of deception here.
Many administrations wanted this easy
win."
He then added.
To be fair, what's happening on the left part
of your screen is not new and is not
motivated simply by what's happening with
the embassy today. The fence that is there,
the wall that is there, this outward symbol
of separation has been an agitating force
for since its construction. But the idea of
what comes next, it's hard to see how this
move it being contemplative of the thing
that follows.
His description of security barriers as being an "agitating
force" belies the fact that the absence of barriers would be
an even greater "agitating force" because it would be easier
for terrorists to attack Israel -- which is what happened
before barriers were erected.
Zakaria soon repeated his concerns about Trump not
demanding concessions from Israel:
"It's difficult to see, as I say, on the ground,
if you were doing this as a strategy, why
you would make a one-sided move without
getting something -- just simply
bargaining."
And moments later, he reiterated:
This was a, you know, a giveaway to one
side, and it's stunning that, if you were
going to do that, and then these guys are
supposed to be great negotiators when
they buy and sell buildings, the simple logic
would say, if you're making a huge
concession to one side, say to them:
"Here are the three things we want in
return.
 Rep. Issa: ‘DOJ, FBI Are Lying Through Their Teeth’ To
Congress About Team Trump Spying (Video)
Posted On May 14, 2018

“No, I think they’re lying though their

(National Sentinel) Deep State: An increasing number of
Republican lawmakers are becoming more vocal — and
more honest — in their assessment of the Obama-era
Justice Department and FBI.
They aren’t just discovering that both agencies had been
deeply politicized under President Obama.
They are learning that both agencies became corrupt
under Obama, overtly and covertly.
teeth,” Issa responded. “It is very clear that
we are being asked to trust the Department
of Justice who we know di, in fact,t use a
law that allows them to spy but lied to get
the warrants, lied to a federal judge under
the FISA act.
“So this is one of the challenges. Make no
bones about it. A FISA warrant is in fact a
license to spy,” he continued.
“Now the question is did you lie, cheat or
steal in order to do that and very clearly
with the information presented behind
closed doors to the federal judge the fact is
they did mislead the judge to get a warrant
multiple ability to spy and now we’re asked
to believe that you can trust the very
people, not the management for a moment,
but the very people who know this and are
covering it up,” Issa said.
Watch:

One of the newcomers to the party is Rep. Darrell Issa, R-

Calif., a member of the House Judiciary and Oversight and
Government Reform committees, both of which have been
probing DoJ and FBI spying on the Trump campaign.

Issa joined Fox Business‘ Maria Bartiromo on her

“Sunday Morning Futures” program to discuss FBI and
DoJ corruption.

“Do you believe you are getting honest

answers from the FBI and DOJ?” Bartiromo
asked.
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 Dem Leading Trump Impeachment Effort
Blasts Nancy Pelosi For Trivializing His Efforts
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 14, 2018, 12:09 Pm
A fight has broken out in the mess that is the Democratic
Party after the Congressman leading the effort to impeach
President Donald Trump blasted House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi for “trivializing” his efforts.
Rep. Al Green
Last week, Pelosi said that “being a jerk” does not rise to
the level required for an impeachment.
“Impeachment is a distraction,” Pelosi
said last week. “I’m not walking away
from impeachment for political reasons,
and I’m not walking toward it for
political reasons. I just think it’s
divisive.”
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Congressman Al Green who has been leading that charge
took massive offense to her remarks and put out a scathing
statement on Monday responding to her comments.
“It is regrettable that Leader Pelosi
would trivialize President Trump’s
hateful discrimination against Jews,
Latinos, Blacks, Women, and the
LGBTQ community by reducing the
President’s harmful bigotry to his ‘being
a jerk,’” Green said in his statement.
“Love for my country will not permit me
to allow the president’s bigotry to be
trivialized and minimized.”
Green is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus
who introduced articles of impeachment last year.
Pelosi and other party leaders have warned that
impeachment talk will only help Republicans in the
midterms.
“Green has already forced two floor votes
on the issue. The first, in December, was
supported by 58 Democrats. The number
rose to 66 in the second vote in January —
a bump attributed to Trump’s derogatory
comments about Africa made just a week
before,” the Hill reports.
 Michael Avenatti Threatens To Sue
Daily Caller News Foundation Reporters Personally
Peter Hasson & Joe Simonson
12:20 PM 05/14/2018

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film star Stormy News Foundation for writing about his legal and business
Daniels in her legal battles against President Donald history.
Trump, threatened to sue reporters at The Daily Caller

Avenatti tried to claim his uninvited email was off record,
even though TheDCNF never agreed to those terms.
“Let me be clear. If you and your
colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces
that are full of lies and defamatory
statements, I will have no choice but to sue
each of you and your publication for
defamation,” Avenatti wrote in an email to
TheDCNF.
“During that process, we will expose your
publication for what it truly is. We will also
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recover significant damages against each
of you that participated personally. So if I
were you, I would tell Mr. Trump to find
someone else to fabricate things about
me.”
“If you think I’m kidding, you really don’t
know anything about me. This is the last
warning,” he warned.
Avenatti’s threats came after TheDCNF wrote a story on
the lawyer’s questionable history.

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 Who’s The Snowflake Now?
Michael Avenatti Threatens To ‘Sue’
Daily Caller For ‘Defamation’
By Curtis Houck
May 14, 2018 12:26 PM EDT
On Monday morning, Stormy Daniels’s attorney,
provocateur, and frequent liberal cable news guest Michael
Avenatti threatened to sue our friends at the Daily Caller,
stating in an e-mail that he could move to
“sue each of you and your publication”
for “hit pieces that are full of lies and
defamatory statements.”
Avenatti’s e-mail came less than 12 hours after a Sunday
night piece by associate editor Peter Hasson and media
reporter Joe Simonson entitled
“With Avenatti In The Spotlight, His Own
Questionable Past Emerges.” In it, the
pair exposed Avenatti’s past as having
been “littered with lawsuits, jilted
business partners and bankruptcy
filings.”
Check out the full piece here because it’s a must-read,
filled with information that the liberal media has failed to
do on their own.
As for the e-mail, Avenatti sent it at 7:25 a.m. Eastern to
Hasson with the subject line “Cut is Out,” foolishly
claiming the e-mail was “Off the Record.”
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Amusingly, Avenatti revealed that he doesn’t understand
how it works because Hasson didn’t agree to those terms.
Also, Hasson noted in a tweet that the e-mail was
unsolicited so that only bolstered his case to take it public.
Avenatti put on a macho facade, first telling Hasson:
“Let me be clear. If you and your
colleagues do not stop with the hit
pieces that are full of lies and
defamatory statements, I will have no
choice but to sue each of you and your
publication for defamation.”
Clearly trying to bully journalists into not writing pieces he
dislikes, Avenatti added that, if given the chance in
discovery, he would
“expose your publication for what it
truly is” and “recover significant
damages against each of you that
participated personally.”
He concluded this actual attack on the free press by
suggesting that Hasson (and Simonson) got their
information from President Trump himself followed by
another warning:
“So if I were you, I would tell Mr. Trump
to find someone else to fabricate things
about me. If you think I’m kidding, you
really don’t know anything about me.
This is the last warning.”
Hasson later tweeted in reference to a
question from CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski
about “what evidence does Avenatti
have” that Trump was the Daily Caller’s
source that “he has none because there
is none.” Instead, “[i]t’s a weak smear
attempt on [Simonson’s] and my
reporting.”
As my colleague Bill D’Agostino reported on May 2,
Avenatti appeared on CNN 59 times from March 7 to
April 30 (so an average of more than once per day). On
May 3, the MRC’s Kyle Drennen found that Avenatti
appeared on MSNBC eight times over a four day span
from April 30 to May 3.
So, CNN Media team, you might want to get on this story
if, as you’ve repeatedly shown, you’re concerned about
what you’ve deemed destructive and unfair attacks against
the press in the age of Trump.
Thankfully, as of this post’s publication,
reporters from establishment media figures
such as New York Magazine’s Olivia
Nuzzi, CNN’s Ryan Lizza, Business
Insider’s Josh Barro, and Matt Pearce
from the Los Angeles Times have come
forward to defend Hasson and Simonson.
For all of their complaints about this being something
celebrities, Donald Trump, or even Michael Cohen would
resort to, Avenatti’s shown himself yet again to be a
complete hypocrite.
So, I ask the question — who’s the
snowflake now, Michael Avenatti?
Here’s the full text of Avenatti’s e-mail to Daily Caller
associate editor Peter Hasson:
Avenatti E-Mail
May 14, 2018
7:25 a.m. Eastern
[SUBJECT LINE: Cut it Out]
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MICHAEL AVENATTI: Off the Record
Peter:
Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues
do not stop with the hit pieces that are full
of lies and defamatory statements, I will
have no choice but to sue each of you and
your publication for defamation. During that
process, we will expose your publication for
what it truly is. We will also recover
significant damages against each of you
that participated personally. So if I were
you, I would tell Mr. Trump to find someone
else to fabricate things about me.
If you think I’m kidding, you really don’t
know anything about me. This is the last
warning.
All rights are expressly reserved.
Michael
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 Iranian Hardliner Group Offers $100,000
To Blow Up New US Embassy In Jerusalem
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 1:30 Pm

The Washington Free Beacon reported:

A hardline Iranian organization is reportedly

offering a $100,000 reward to any person
who bombs the newly opened U.S.
embassy in Jerusalem, according to a
translation of Farsi language reports.

A group known as the Iranian Justice Seeker Student

Movement is reported to have disseminated posters calling
for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, which has
been opposed by Palestinian and Iranian officials as an
affront to the holy city.

A hardliner Iranian group offered “The Student Justice Movement will

$100,000 to any Islamist willing to bomb support anybody who destroy the illegal
the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. American embassy in Jerusalem,” the
poster states in Farsi, Arabic, and English,
The Iranian Justice Seeker Student
according to an independent translation of
Movement offered the reward this
the propaganda poster provided to the Free
weekend.
Beacon.
There will be a “$100,000 dollar prize for
the person who destroys the illegal
American embassy in Jerusalem,” the
poster states.

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 Michael Savage: Did Giuliani Take Down
Serial Sex Abuser Eric Schneiderman As
Warning To Mueller?
Posted On May 14, 2018
(National Sentinel) Mystery: Conservative talk radio giant
and bestselling author Michael Savage has a theory about
why New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was
suddenly outed as a lout, a hypocrite, and a serial abuser of
women.
He thinks one of President Donald J. Trump’s newest
attorneys, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, took
Schneiderman down.
He wrote:
Who got Schneiderman to fall so fast? It’s
not that he fell, it’s the rate at which he fell.
It happened in one day. One article in The
New Yorker and he was gone by the
evening.
Was it the Trump team? Was it Weinstein’s
team? Was it Cuomo’s team or was it well
let us say another team?
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
I think that the Schneiderman fall is a direct
threat against Mueller incidentally. Don’t
assume he’s above the law. Don’t assume
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he has no skeletons in his closet;
everybody does.
Reportedly, Schneiderman was also
working with special counsel Robert
Mueller in his pursuit of Trump campaign
associates tangential to his original
mandate to find Russian collusion. And
many Democrats are worried that Trump
might pardon some of his former allies,
many of whom are from New York such as
his former lawyer. So they put their faith in
none other than Schneiderman who they
hoped would cut Trump associates down
on the state law which is not covered by
presidential pardons.
We could assume when I asked the
question who got this man to fall so fast we
could say it could be the Trump team which
means it could be Giuliani. Giuliani could
be playing the drunk on television
meanwhile behind the scenes he was
cutting down one of the internal enemies;
that’s a possibility.
One thing’s for sure:
When he fell, Schneiderman fell hard.
What’s interesting to note and what makes Savage’s
assessment as fair as anyone else’s assessment is that
Schneiderman was long known to be an abuser of women.
Which begs the question: Why was he
outed now?
Giuliani’s well-connected in New York political and social
circles. Could it be helped take out Scheiderman as a
message to Mueller?
 Iran Calls Trump ‘Feeble-Minded,’ Demands Global
Resistance To New U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem
By Simon Kent
14 May 2018

“I believe the current US president is not

capable of identifying and judging the long-
term consequences of his actions,” he
added. “Spur-of-the-moment and
uncalculated actions cannot continue in
today’s world. Feeblemindness is costly for
statesmen and they will eventually have to
pay the price.”

Speaker Larijani last week was part of a different protest

that went beyond the traditional anti-America rhetoric that
comes from Tehran.

He watched as politicians in Iran set a U.S. flag ablaze and

chanted “Death to America” after Donald Trump pulled
out of the nuclear deal.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker branded
President Donald Trump “feeble-
minded” over Monday’s transfer of the The lawmakers also torched a symbolic copy of the Iran
U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, calling for deal before vowing to increase spending on the country’s
combined resistance from the ballistic missile program.
Palestinians and the international
community to America’s move. Larijani on Monday also urged Muslim countries to take
more serious measures in response to President Donald
“America has entered a crisis of strategic
Trump’s “wrong and unwise decision” to move the
decision-making that looks at the
embassy to Jerusalem.
international arena immaturely and
adventurously,” said speaker Ali Larijani, a
key establishment figure. The U.S. “must not think that such actions… can remain
without a response,” he said.
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 Attn. MSM Firefighters! Daily Caller Reporter Shares
Emailed Lawsuit Threat From Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer
By Doug P.
Posted At 12:31 Pm On May 14, 2018

Daily Caller reporter Peter Hasson seems to have a new Will the mainstream media start circling the wagons about
fan: one of their fellow reporters any time soon?

Here’s the email:

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CNN political analyst Ryan Lizza responded this way:

Stay tuned!

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 Linda Sarsour Melts Down
Over US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem
– CANDACE OWENS MOVES IN WITH KILL SHOT
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 1:59 Pm

It’s a HISTORIC DAY in Israel and

Jerusalem — The US Embassy is
opening in Jerusalem.

And Linda Sarsour is having an epic

meltdown!

First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Trump

advisor Jared Trump are attending the historic event.

President Donald Trump spoke to the people of Israel on

Monday via a video feed at the new US Embassy in
Jerusalem.

Not a single Democrat decided to attend

this historic event.

Linda Sarsour was enraged Monday and melted down on

Twitter.

Below are screenshots of a few of her more unhinged

tweets:

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 Although Sarsour was getting a
mouthful from many people on Twitter,
Candace Owens moved in with a kill
shot:
Candace Owens tweeted: You’re
an anti-American mouthpiece that was
given a platform by people that wish
harm upon this country.
Your time is coming to an end.
Stand down.
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Linda Sarsour openly calls for Sharia law to take over
America.
She has ties to Hamas and is currently the darling leader of
the women’s movement.
Sarsour also previously called for Jihad against the Trump
administration.
Candace Owens is right–Sarsour is an anti-American
mouthpiece propped up by equally evil Democrats and her
time is coming to an end.
 Trevor Noah Compares Trump To African Dictators –
While He Ignores South African Genocide
By Andrew Meyer
May 14, 2018, 2:54 Pm

cured cancer, leftist “comedians” would demand to see his

tax returns.

Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah loves to talk about just

how racist his home country of South Africa is.

As the host of The Daily Show, Noah has lectured his

audience on why it makes sense for South Africa to
imprison a woman for racism.

On Sunday, Noah said on CNN,

“I’ve said from the very beginning that

Donald Trump reminds me of an African
dictator.”

For all of Noah’s apparent concern about racism, while he

compares President Trump to an African dictator, Noah
seems unconcerned by an issue plaguing his home country
– the genocide of white farmers.

One investigative report found 16 recorded murders in 46

gruesome farm attacks across South Africa in February
alone. WND’s Alex Newman has reported that, “Since the
early 1990s, when white South Africans voted in a
referendum to surrender power, the estimates of farm
murders range between 2,000 and 4,000.”

South African Defense Minister Julius Malema has

reportedly called for the murder of white people.

Will Trevor Noah call out actual genocide occurring in his

home country of South Africa, or continue to
preposterously compare President Trump with an African
dictator?

President Trump just helped end the Korean War, and this
is how the leftists still talk about him. If President Trump

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 Mueller May Have A Conflict —
And It Leads Directly To A Russian Oligarch
By John Solomon, Opinion Contributor
— 05/14/18 03:30 PM EDT
Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless
political attacks, many distorting his record of
distinguished government service.
But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law
enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists —
acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible
conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election
probe.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his
own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue
a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran
while working for the CIA in 2007.
Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in
Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently
sanctioned by the Trump administration.
The Levinson mission is confirmed by more than a dozen
participants inside and outside the FBI, including
Deripaska, his lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired
agent who supervised the case. Mueller was kept apprised
of the operation, officials told me.
Some aspects of Deripaska’s help were chronicled in a
2016 book by reporter Barry Meier, but sources provide
extensive new information about his role.
They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in 2009 in a series
of secret hotel meetings in Paris; Vienna; Budapest,
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Hungary, and Washington. Agents persuaded the
aluminum industry magnate to underwrite the mission. The
Russian billionaire insisted the operation neither involve
nor harm his homeland.
“We knew he was paying for his team
helping us, and that probably ran into the
millions,” a U.S. official involved in the
operation confirmed.
One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew
McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played
a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple
sources confirmed.
Deripaska’s lawyer said the Russian ultimately spent $25
million assembling a private search and rescue team that
worked with Iranian contacts under the FBI’s watchful
eye. Photos and videos indicating Levinson was alive were
uncovered.
Then in fall 2010, the operation secured an offer to free
Levinson. The deal was scuttled, however, when the State
Department become uncomfortable with Iran’s terms,
according to Deripaska’s lawyer and the Levinson family.
FBI officials confirmed State hampered their efforts.
“We tried to turn over every stone we could
to rescue Bob, but every time we started to
get close, the State Department seemed to
always get in the way,” said Robyn Gritz,
the retired agent who supervised the
Levinson case in 2009, when Deripaska
first cooperated, but who left for another
position in 2010 before the Iranian offer
arrived. “I kept Director Mueller and Deputy
Director [John] Pistole informed of the
various efforts and operations, and they
offered to intervene with State, if
necessary.”
FBI officials ended the operation in 2011, concerned that
Deripaska’s Iranian contacts couldn’t deliver with all the
U.S. infighting. Levinson was never found; his
whereabouts remain a mystery, 11 years after he
disappeared.
“Deripaska’s efforts came very close to
success,” said David McGee, a former
federal prosecutor who represents
Levinson’s family. “We were told at one
point that the terms of Levinson’s release
had been agreed to by Iran and the U.S.
and included a statement by then-
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointing a
finger away from Iran. At the last minute,
Secretary Clinton decided not to make the
agreed-on statement.”
The State Department declined comment, and a spokesman
for Clinton did not offer comment. Mueller’s spokesman,
Peter Carr, declined to answer questions. As did McCabe.
The FBI had three reasons for choosing Deripaska for a
mission worthy of a spy novel. First, his aluminum empire
had business in Iran. Second, the FBI wanted a foreigner to
fund the operation because spending money in Iran might
violate U.S. sanctions and other laws. Third, agents knew
Deripaska had been banished since 2006 from the United
States by State over reports he had ties to organized crime
and other nefarious activities. He denies the allegations,
and nothing was ever proven in court.
The FBI rewarded Deripaska for his help. In fall 2009,
according to U.S. entry records, Deripaska visited
Washington on a rare law enforcement parole visa. And
since 2011, he has been granted entry at least eight times
on a diplomatic passport, even though he doesn’t work for
the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Former FBI officials confirm they arranged the access.
Deripaska said in a statement through Adam Waldman, his
American lawyer, that FBI agents told him State’s reasons
for blocking his U.S. visa were “merely a pretext.”
“The FBI said they had undertaken a
careful background check, and if there was
any validity to the State Department
smears, they would not have reached out
to me for assistance,” the Russian said.
Then, over the past two years, evidence emerged tying him
to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the
first defendant charged by Mueller’s Russia probe with
money laundering and illegal lobbying.
Deripaska once hired Manafort as a political adviser and
invested money with him in a business venture that went
bad. Deripaska sued Manafort, alleging he stole money.
Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of
Deripaska, even though prosecutors have evidence that
Manafort contemplated inviting his old Russian client for a
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2016 Trump campaign briefing. Deripaska said he never
got the invite and investigators have found no evidence it
occurred. There’s no public evidence Deripaska had
anything to do with election meddling.
The U.S. government in April imposed sanctions on
Deripaska, one of several prominent Russians targeted to
punish Vladimir Putin — using the same sort of allegations
that State used from 2006 to 2009. Yet, between those two
episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to
ask him to fund that multimillion-dollar rescue mission
and to allow him into the country eight times.
I was alerted to Deripaska’s past FBI relationship by U.S.
officials who wondered whether the Russian’s conspicuous
absence from Mueller’s indictments might be related to his
FBI work.
They aren’t the only ones.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told me he
believes Mueller has a conflict of interest because his FBI
previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is,
at the very least, a witness in the current probe.
“The real question becomes whether it was
proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the
Manafort indictment, and whether that
omission was to avoid the kind of
transparency that is really required by the
law,” Dershowitz said.
Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department
lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog, told me a “far more
significant issue” is whether the earlier FBI operation was
even legal:
“It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement
with Mr. Deripaska violated the
Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the
government from accepting voluntary
services.”
George Washington University constitutional law
professor Jonathan Turley agreed:
“If the operation with Deripaska
contravened federal law, this figure could
be viewed as a potential embarrassment
for Mueller. The question is whether he
could implicate Mueller in an impropriety.”
Now that sources have unmasked the Deripaska story, time
will tell whether the courts, Justice, Congress or a
defendant formally questions if Mueller is conflicted.
In the meantime, the episode highlights an oft-forgotten
truism: The cat-and-mouse maneuvers between Moscow
and Washington are often portrayed in black-and-white
terms. But the truth is, the relationship is enveloped in
many shades of gray.
 Company Indicted In Mueller’s Junk Russian Bot Case
Slams The Special Counsel AGAIN In New Court Filing
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 3:31 Pm

In the filing, Concord’s attorneys suggested that

Mueller continues to take a beating from prosecutors are trying to dodge that rule, noting that DOJ
the Russian company he prematurely had indicted a foreign firm “with no presence in the United
indicted in his junk bot case. States” for not complying with “certain regulatory
requirements that are unknown even to most Americans.”
Dirty cop Mueller rolled out an
indictment of 13 Russians and 3
Lawyers asked Judge Dabney Friedrich for Mueller’s
companies as a PR stunt to justify his
prosecutors to be required to show if grand jurors were
salary, and Concord Management said
told of the ‘willful requirement.’
just that in its new court filing Monday.

Last Wednesday, a hearing took place between the corrupt

Mueller team and one of the Russian Companies they
indicted for interfering with the 2016 US election, Concord
Management. Concord Management and a sister company
Concord Catering were charged by Mueller for defrauding
the government.

During the hearing, the judge asked the attorney

representing Concord Management if he was also
representing Concord Catering. The attorney for Concord
Management explained that he is not because the
indictment contains the ‘proverbial ham sandwich’, as
noted earlier last week at TGP.
Politico reported:
What was not yet available until Friday night was the
The Justice Department, attorneys Eric transcript of the hearing.
Dubelier and Kate Seikaly wrote in a
motion filed in federal court in Washington
The reason the Concord Management
Monday, has “licensed a Special
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial
Counsel who for all practical political
ham sandwich’ was because one of the
purposes cannot be fired, to indict a
entities indicted by the Mueller team,
case that has absolutely nothing to do
Concord Catering, was not in existence
with any links or coordination between
at the time the crimes were alleged to
any candidate and the Russian
have taken place.
Government.”
“The reason is obvious, and is political: Mueller thought he was being slick by indicting Russians
to justify his own existence the Special who he thought would never show up to court.
Counsel has to indict a Russian — any
Russian,” they added.
Now one of the companies wants to play ball and Mueller
is not prepared to try the case. Even better, Concord
Aside from serving as a vehicle to attack the prosecution, Management is seeking many documents through their
the new motion complains that Mueller’s case against the discovery rights.
firm is legally flawed because it fails to allege that the
company acted “willfully” in violating U.S. law. Typically,
criminal election law violations require proof that the We’ve known Mueller’s indictment of Russians was just a
defendant knew about the legal requirement and publicity stunt to justify his witch hunt.
intentionally ignored or evaded it.

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 In fact, Fox News cited The Gateway
Pundit’s report on a scoop that
Mueller’s indictment was one big
publicity stunt:
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry spoke
with a veteran FBI official who said the
Russians named in the indictment are in
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Russia and will never be arrested or
incarcerated; the indictment was all a
public relations stunt.
According to Sperry, a veteran FBI agent said the 13
indictments by Mueller are moot and it was done for show
to solely justify the Special Counsel’s existence and salary.
 The Devil And Donald Trump: Obama Admin Led UN
Efforts To Turn Over Old Jerusalem
To Radical Islamic Groups
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 3:55 Pm
BARACK OBAMA WANTED TO TURN
JERUSALEM OVER TO RADICAL
MUSLIM GROUPS —
In May 2011 Barack Obama urged Israel to hand over half
of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, The Temple Mount, Old
Jerusalem, the tomb of Jesus Christ, and the Via Dolorosa
to radical Islamic organizations.
The Via Dolorosa is a street within the
Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the
path that Jesus walked on the way to
His crucifixion.
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In December 2013, Barack Obama again urged Israel to
hand over holiest sites of Christendom and Judaism to
Islamist groups.
On Christmas Day 2016, in a final
despicable act against Christians and
Jews, Barack Obama effectively signed
over Christendom’s and Judaism’s
holiest sites to radical Muslim groups.
And…. The Christian and Jew-hating
Obama administration HELPED WRITE
the UN draft!
Barack Obama refused to veto a Security Council
resolution condemning settlement construction in the West
Bank and east Jerusalem.
This resolution effectively turns over the
Old City to Palestinian groups. The
Palestinians are led by Hamas
terrorists in Gaza and Fatah
Islamists in the West Bank.
Obama thought this was a good move.
Jewish leaders were very upset with the
move.
Israel had hard evidence that Obama
was behind this anti-Israel, anti-
Christian UN draft.
And the holiest sites of Christendom,
according to the UN and Obama, were
no longer Israeli land.
Obama wanted to give all of this away.
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 Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama made the same
The Trump Administration changed promise but did not follow through with move once they
things– were elected.

The Trump Administration declared Today President Trump announced the

Jerusalem the capital of Israel. opening of the new US Embassy in
Jerusalem, Israel.
Trump also announced the US will move its embassy to
Jerusalem. There is a difference.

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 IT’S OFFICIAL:
‘Morning Joe’ Is Dead
Alex Castellanos - Co-Founder, Purple Strategies
4:24 PM 05/14/2018
Morning Joe and Mika YouTube screenshot/MSNBC
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and
tends to produce ferocity toward those who
are not regarded as members of the herd.
— Bertrand Russell
Belonging is a drug and we are all addicted to it. When a
“like” validates our social worth, or we ignore work to
respond to our most recent email, we confirm our identity
in a tribe. Our brains reward the recognition with a
dopamine rush.
For years, I started my day with a dopamine hit at six a.m.
from Morning Joe.
Actually, I got my fix a little later, recording the show, to
feed my craving at a more civilized hour. The debate was
fun and stimulating: This tribe was passionate, intelligent,
and slightly mutinous. I, along with other beltway viewers,
wanted to belong and be insiders, too. When Don Imus
self-immolated and left Washington suffering a painful
withdrawal, Scarborough Country, then Morning Joe,
stepped up to provide a home.
It was great television. At its best, TV is an ensemble
medium, an instrument of belonging. Whether we watch a
local TV news program, sit-com, or talk-show, we tune in
to become part of a TV family that reflects our own.
There, Morning Joe excels. Its great communal cast is
familiar to everyone who has traded political shots around
the Thanksgiving table. On Morning Joe, we could wage
intra-household electoral combat, punctuate it with
laughter, then finish with a group hug.
The cast has grown stronger over the ten years Mika and
Joe have brewed our mornings. We have enjoyed Mike
Barnicle, the grumpy uncle of the family, slightly startled
by the disruptions of the modern world but lending a wise
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eye to them. From near beginning, we’ve watched this
family raise an All-American son, Willie Geist, who looks
like he sleeps in his college letter-sweater.
There is also the bad son, Donnie Deutsch. The advertising
legend plays a loveable rogue who didn’t come home to
sleep in his bed the previous evening. As jester, he unites
the rest of the ensemble to roll their eyes but then embrace
his unsanctioned insights. Occasionally, when Deutsch is
not available, he is replaced by his teenage understudy, the
pleasantly adolescent Sam Stein. A rotating cast, evolving
from Nicole Wallace to Kristin Soltis Anderson and Kasie
Hunt, plays the perky, promising young daughter.
The kids, as well as mom and dad, have bookish and nerdy
reporter friends who bring home the day’s top stories,
casseroles of information. There are also neighbors who
drop in to provide context and connection — but this is no
ordinary community: Every neighbor is a Pulitzer Prize
winner. Peggy Noonan knocks on the door to lend melodic
perspective. John Meacham lets us see the brevity of our
furies through the longer lens of history. Eugene Robinson
defends the establishment and inclusion. More eccentric
neighbors, like Reverend Al Sharpton, drop in to enflame
outsiders. And at the center of it, radiating sexual and
political energy for over a decade, stand mom and dad,
Mika and Joe.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski used to represent
the political battle of the sexes, daddy-bear Republicans
versus the mommy-party Democrats. The couple
simmered: Mika and Joe were a flesh-and-blood version of
the age-old evolutionary conflict that drives human
progress. They fought, embraced, and respected each other
in smoldering discussions that left viewers envious of
make-up sex. Matlin and Carville could not touch them.
Their clashing views gave show dramatic power. As their
relationship grew stronger, viewers found Morning
Joe was also their home: a safe space for political conflict.
Now, that Morning Joe is no more. As our President might
tweet, #Sad. #FailingMorningJoe.
The conflict between mom and dad is gone. The
relationship that once ignited sparks has been dimmed and
homogenized. Every cast member reads the same script,
disowning differences and drama. Morning Joe has
become a sea of sameness. The performers play
indistinguishable parts, predictable bobble-head dolls that
hate Donald John Trump.
Every morning, Joe trods the same path:
“Can you believe what Trump has done?
He does not respect the institutions that
we, the establishment, have been running.
He does not understand the principles that
we, the establishment, have been
upholding. He is disrupting the status quo
that validates our superiority. When will
Republicans in the Senate say “enough”
and stand up to Donald Trump? And when
will someone pass the Grey Poupon?”
One of the show’s tedious discoveries is that Donald
Trump lies, as if the benighted, backward Americans who
elected him aren’t aware of that. This, of course, from a
TV program that would return power to an establishment
that is a palace of lies and deadly, institutionalized
deception. Ah, yes, if we could only go back to those days
when
“You can keep your doctor.” Spoiler alert:
Trump does lie, incessantly, perhaps for
sport, even when it is
unimportant. However, many of Trump’s
supporters would say Trump often gets the
facts wrong, but the truth right, unlike the
media which get the facts right but big
truths perilously wrong. Perhaps the “fake”
is real in Donald Trump’s depiction of “fake
news?”
The show’s monotone political chanting makes for
incredibly dull television. From six to nine a.m., Morning
Joe is where Washington goes to learn it need not change
at all.
On rare occasions, a contrary point of view does make it
past the bookers. These awkward moments produce
hilarity. Recently, when New York Times op-ed editor and
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writer Bari Weiss discovered, mirabile dictu, there is
another side to today’s arguments about gender, free
speech, and immigration, Joe was stun-gunned into
speechlessness. Could there be an intellectually coherent
argument that our status-quo alternative to Trump wasn’t
producing a utopian wonderland? Who knew?
I would not ask anyone in this television family to become
what they are not or defend what they find indefensible. I
would not ask that they consider what is becoming obvious
to others: Donald Trump may end up not only being a
good president but a great one, with a powerful record of
accomplishment, precisely because he is doing the
opposite of everything Morning Joe supports.
What might help is introspection:
Donald Trump was a hand grenade thrown
under Washington’s door. Millions of
Americans saw Trump, with his gargantuan
failings and excesses, and chose him
anyway over the world Morning
Joe continues to defend. Someone might
ask, “Why?”
“What have we been doing wrong? Was
our failure that majestic?” Joe might even
ask, “What should we, the family that
represents America’s establishment, learn
from this massive rejection, since our
country did risk the entire future of
humanity on Donald Trump rather than go
one more lap around the track with us.”
Of course, neither old political party is asking those
questions, so neither is this program. And that’s where we
find ourselves: This week, if you miss one Morning Joe,
don’t worry. The same show will run again tomorrow. The
Trump outrage under discussion will be different, but the
script will be identical. If you want to see a great American
family parrot the political establishment, pour yourself a
cup of Morning Joe and fit in.
This tribe is where you belong.
 MSNBC Accused Others Of Murder,
Now Claims Trump Destroyed ‘Decency’
By Scott Whitlock
May 14, 2018 4:27 PM EDT

MSNBC, the network where network journalists smeared

opponents as evil killers, has now discovered decorum and
“decency.” Anchor Katy Tur launched into a lecture on
Monday about the cost of the Donald Trump presidency to
America: “If there's one thing that's suffered because of
Trump's campaign and now his presidency, it's decency.”

While talking about obviously inappropriate things said

and done at Trump rallies in 2016, Tur declared: “Decency
has been lost with Donald Trump's ascension.” Really?
It was in 2016 that decency went down to defeat? This is
the same network that employed Keith Olbermann from
2003 to 2011. During that time, Olbermannn accused This is another example of how MSNBC shouldn’t be the
George W. Bush of “murderous deceit” and told the judge of decency. Mohyeldin in 2015 slimed Chris Kyle,
then-President to “shut the hell up!” the real life American Sniper, as a “racist” who went on
“killing sprees.”

"Murderous deceit," "killing sprees." How would Katy Tur

judge such remarks?

Considering that TV personality Kathy Griffin showed

severed head of Trump and in 2006 CNN promoted a faux
documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush,
perhaps journalists should be careful when calling out the
indecent.

A partial transcript is below. Click “expand” to read more:

Speaking of decency, it should also be pointed out that Tur

dated Olbermann from 2006 until 2009 and she didn't seem
to object to Olbermann's horrible comments. Later on
Monday, Tur asked this loaded question to MSNBC
journalist Ayman Mohyeldin about the new U.S. embassy
in Jerusalem:
KATY TUR: Is peace possible with this administration,
Ayman?
AYMAN MOHYELDIN: Look, that's a very difficult
question for me to answer. But based on what we are
seeing on the ground. If you ask the Palestinians, if you
ask even the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which is
a little different because they are the ones who actually
entered into agreements with Israel, the short answer to
that is no.
MSNBC Live
5/14/18
2:43pm ET
KATY TUR: Just one thing on the Kelly Sadler topic, If anything
— not for nothing — what I've seen in the past two and a half
years on campaign trail up until now, if one thing that's suffered
because of Trump's campaign and now his presidency, it's
decency. On the campaign trail I'd routinely see people say pretty
terrible things about the opposing candidates or terrible things to
the press. I saw men wearing shirts saying Hillary Clinton is a C-
word. I heard a man say, "Assassinate that B,"but the actual
word on Hillary Clinton in the middle of a Donald Trump rally, and
nobody said, “Hey, maybe that's a little too much.” We routinely
saw the President call out the press or tell protesters they should
get out or supporters that if they punched protesters he would
pay their legal bills.

Decency has been lost with Donald Trump's ascension. And he's
been going after John McCain now for some time. This is a man
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that's dying of cancer and the White House refuses to apologize
for what a White House advisor said.
...
AYMAN MOHYELDIN: I think a lot of Palestinians, a lot of
international human rights organizations that have been
documenting what’s been going on there on the ground in Gaza
take great offense to a comment like that coming out of the White
House. But it also really lifts the mask for Palestinians who may
think that the Trump administration can maintain a semblance of
balance and the American administration is somehow
evenhanded. A lot of people will see that comment and say,
“Look, this is a great example of how the administration is not a
balanced and honest broker in this peace process.
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TUR: Is peace possible with this administration, Ayman?
MOHYELDIN: Look, that's a very difficult question for me to
answer. But based on what we are seeing on the ground. If you
ask the Palestinians, if you ask even the Palestinian Liberation
Organization, which is a little different because they are the ones
who actually entered into agreements with Israel, the short
answer to that is no. In fact, the official statement that came out
from the PLO Wednesday, excuse me, that came out yesterday
on the events simply said that the American embassy move to
Jerusalem is a full-fledged support of Israel now becoming an
apartheid state. It also went on to say that this effectively ends
America's role as an honest broker and potentially end a two-
state solution. So, from a Palestinian perspective what we are
seeing now is perhaps the most stark departure we have ever
seen from them on the Palestinian/Israeli peace process.
 JOHN SOLOMON: Mueller May Have Huge Conflict Of
Interest That Leads Directly To Russian
Oligarch Oleg Deripaska
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 4:38 Pm
The conflicts of interest with Robert
Mueller and his unconstitutional
Russian collusion witch hunt keep
piling up, yet he keeps moving full
steam ahead.
It turns out back in 2009, Mueller’s FBI
with the help of Andrew McCabe
courted Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska for a secret mission to rescue
a retired FBI agent–yes the same
Russian who is now caught up in
Mueller’s witch hunt.
Mueller may have also broken the law
by allowing his FBI to carry out this
secret mission.
This new conflict of interest with Mueller and the Russia
witch hunt raises many legal questions over his ability to
continue as the Special Counsel.
The whole point of a Special Counsel is to avoid conflicts
of interest.
Mueller’s relationship with Comey and the fact that he was
up for consideration to be Trump’s FBI Director are other
glaring conflicts of interest.
Now this….
John Solomon of The Hill reported:
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They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in
2009 in a series of secret hotel meetings in
Paris, Vienna, Budapest and Washington.
Agents persuaded the aluminum industry
magnate to underwrite the mission. The
Russian billionaire insisted the operation
neither involve nor harm his homeland.
“We knew he was paying for his team
helping us, and that probably ran into the
millions,” a U.S. official involved in the
operation confirmed.
One agent who helped court Deripaska
was Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI
deputy director who played a seminal role
starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple
sources confirm.
Deripaska’s lawyer says the Russian
ultimately spent $25 million assembling
a private search and rescue team that
worked with Iranian contacts under the
FBI’s watchful eye. Photos and videos
indicating Levinson was alive were
uncovered.
Then in fall 2010, the operation secured an
offer to free Levinson. The deal was
scuttled, however, when the State
Department become uncomfortable with
Iran’s terms, according to Deripaska’s
lawyer and the Levinson family.
FBI officials confirmed State hampered their efforts.
Interestingly, Hillary Clinton’s State Department kept
getting in the way of any such rescue efforts.
“We tried to turn over every stone we could
to rescue Bob, but every time we started to
get close, the State Department seemed to
always get in the way,” said Robyn Gritz,
the retired agent who supervised the
Levinson case in 2009, when Deripaska
first cooperated, but who left for another
position in 2010 before the Iranian offer
arrived.
Ultimately FBI officials ended the secret mission in 2011
because of the US infighting (Hillary’s State Department)
over Deripaska’s Iranian contacts.
According to John Solomon, Deripaska was rewarded by
the FBI for his work. Solomon says Deripaska was chosen
for the secret mission by Mueller’s FBI in 2009 for three
main reasons:
The FBI had three reasons for choosing
Deripaska for a mission worthy of a spy
novel. First, his aluminum empire had
business in Iran. Second, the FBI wanted a
foreigner to fund the operation because
spending money in Iran might violate U.S.
sanctions and other laws. Third, agents
knew Deripaska had been banished since
2006 from the United States by State over
reports he had ties to organized crime and
other nefarious activities. He denies the
allegations, and nothing was ever proven in
court.
Paul Manafort was previously questioned by officials in
the Cayman Islands about his ties to billionaire Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate.
Manafort was questioned by officials from the Cayman
Islands in connection with a $26.2 million investment by
Deripaska.
Mueller, however, kept any mention of
Oleg Deripaska OUT of Manafort’s
indictment leading to another problem
of transparency.
Dirty cop Mueller may have also broken
the law by allowing his FBI to carry out
this secret mission back in 2009:
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told
me he believes Mueller has a conflict of
interest because his FBI previously
accepted financial help from a Russian that
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is, at the very least, a witness in the current
probe.
“The real question becomes whether it was
proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the
Manafort indictment, and whether that
omission was to avoid the kind of
transparency that is really required by the
law,” Dershowitz said.
Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice
Department lawyer and longtime ethics
watchdog, told me a “far more significant
issue” is whether the earlier FBI
operation was even legal: “It’s possible
the bureau’s arrangement with Mr.
Deripaska violated the Antideficiency
Act, which prohibits the government
from accepting voluntary services.”
George Washington University
constitutional law professor Jonathan
Turley agreed: “If the operation with
Deripaska contravened federal law, this
figure could be viewed as a potential
embarrassment for Mueller. The
question is whether he could implicate
Mueller in an impropriety.”
Top Dem Senator Mark Warner is also tied to Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska. He previously tried to set up a
secret meeting with dossier author Christopher Steele by
texting a lobbyist for Deripaska.
The Trump administration also recently
put sanctions on Deripaska.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist
whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI
intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal
scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in drug
experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption.
He is The Hill’s executive vice president for video.
House Leaders Devin Nunes And Trey Gowdy Accuse Deep
State DOJ Of Anonymous Media Attacks
On Top GOP Staffers
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 4:44 Pm
Senior House Republicans Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) blasted the Department of
Justice on Monday for their anonymous attacks on top
House GOP staffers
The Sessions DOJ allegedly leaked the name of House
GOP staffer Kash Patel for a hit piece in The New York
Times this past weekend.
FOX News reported:
Two senior House Republicans are
accusing the Justice Department of being
behind “anonymous attacks” in the press
targeting a House Intelligence Committee
GOP staffer who helped author the
committee’s well-publicized memo alleging
surveillance abuse by the FBI and DOJ
during the 2016 election.
The same House staffer is also a driving force behind the
latest Russia records standoff.
“I would have a lot more respect for DOJ or
House committee Democrats if they would
.
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take out their frustrations on members of
Congress, and leave staffers alone,” South
Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican
chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, told Fox News on Monday.
“The members make the final decision and
are responsible for them, not staffers.”
Citing a former federal law enforcement official, The New
York Times reported that Rosenstein, who oversees the
Russia probe, felt “misled” by Nunes’ staff over House
Intelligence Committee investigator Kash Patel’s travel to
London last year…
… the House Intelligence Committee says the staffer was
already in London on committee business.
“The story that Kash flew to London to
meet with Christopher Steele is false, no
matter how many times it’s reported,”
House Intelligence Committee staff director
Damon Nelson said.
Nelson said he asked Patel and another staffer to try to
make contact with Steele’s lawyer as part of an effort to
obtain an address to send Steele an invitation to testify to
the committee.
“Anonymous DOJ officials who imply to
reporters that Kash has ever been
dishonest about this are spreading an
outright falsehood,” Nelson said. “If the
anonymous DOJ officials want the truth,
they can talk to me.”
 On CNN, Trevor Noah Compares
Trump To African Dictator, Asteroid Shaped Like A Penis
By Ryan Foley
May 14, 2018 4:47 PM EDT
Breaking news...CNN has finally found someone to
interview besides Michael Avenatti. During Sunday's
edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter sat
down with Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The
Daily Show. Noah did not hold back when talking about
President Trump, comparing him to an African dictator
and a deadly asteroid hurtling toward Earth shaped like a
penis.
Noah, originally from South Africa, wasn't exactly famous
when he first began hosting The Daily Show in 2015;
following the departure of longtime host Jon Stewart.
While the show airs on Comedy Central, The Daily Show,
like many other late night comedy programs, has become
basically indistinguishable from an MSNBC primetime
show.
Stelter began the interview by asking Noah “is this starting
to feel like home for you?” Noah responded in the
affirmative, adding “were it not for the Trump presidency,
it may have taken me a lot longer to feel like this was
home.”
Stelter then asked Noah to weigh in on the news that
President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen had
received payments from companies including AT&T.
Noah said that the revelations did not surprise him at all: “I
said from the very beginning that Donald Trump reminds
me of an African dictator. And if you know anything about
African dictators, the first thing you have to do is follow
the money. And you follow the money with the people
closest to them, family members, business associates.”
Noah previously compared Candidate Trump to a series of
African dictators, from Idi Amin to Robert Mugabe, during
his first week as host of The Daily Show.
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After discussing how Noah selects topics to discuss on his
show and prognosticating about President Trump’s re-
election prospects, Stelter concluded the hard-hitting
interview by asking Noah if he had “a favorite joke about
the President.”
Noah responded by painting a graphic picture in the minds
of CNN viewers who don’t necessarily watch his edgy TV
program: “I wake up most days terrified at the notion that
Donald Trump is the most powerful President in the world.
I also wake up most days acknowledging that he’s also
going to make me laugh. And that’s what’s difficult for
me, is that he’s an emotional paradox. And I have come to
realize it’s like this. I think it’s almost like there is an
asteroid headed towards the Earth, but it’s shaped like a
penis. I think I’m going to die, but I know I’m going to
laugh.”
The network that organizes hours of outrage around
dismissing John McCain as irrelevant thinks it's rib-
tickling that the president is compared to a penis-shaped
asteroid of death.
Such an off-color discussion on CNN should not come as
that much of a surprise, especially considering the fact that
on-air personalities at the network uttered the word
“sh**hole” nearly 200 times on the day following
President Trump’s alleged use of the profanity to describe
impoverished countries in Africa and Latin America.
In the end, it looks like CNN and Trevor Noah have a lot
more in common than one would think. Both seem to think
that President Trump represents an existential threat to
American democracy. Noah’s program talks about many
topics that one would expect to hear about on a cable news
network while CNN has spent a lot of its on-air time
devoted to gossip and hyperbole that one would normally
expect to see on a show like Noah’s, especially with
regards to the Stormy Daniels saga. Considering the
revolving door between journalism and entertainment, it
would not come as that much of a surprise if Stelter made
an appearance on The Daily Show in the very near future.
Reliable Sources
05/13/18
11:30 AM
STELTER: It’s been a swampy week of revelations about Michael
Cohen’s consulting deals with companies like AT&T. Now, that’s
of the things I asked Trevor Noah about when I sat down with
him on the set of “The Daily Show.” He made a joke about how
Cohen was running swamp tours. Noah and I had a wide-ranging
conversation about Trump and comedy and also about what
Noah still wants to know.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
STELTER: Trevor, thanks for sitting down with me.
TREVOR NOAH: Thank you again, Brian. Good to see you.
STELTER: Is this starting to feel like home for you, now that it’s
been a few years?
NOAH: I think it’s felt like home for a while now. And I think home
has been less defined by the space and more the people. I think,
were it not for the Trump presidency, it may have taken me a lot
longer to feel like this was home.
STELTER: And in the first few months of the Trump Presidency, I
know your writers and you all were scrambling to redo the show
at the last minute. Is that still happening 16 months in?
NOAH: Yes, but we don’t scramble anymore. Now we expect it.
STELTER: Now you plan for it.
NOAH: Right. So, now we plan for the unplannable.
(LAUGHTER)
NOAH: We wait for the moment when Wolf Blitzer goes
“Breaking news.” We're waiting for that moment, because it
happens almost every single day. It’s the 5:30 curse, we call it.
And so...
STELTER: The 5:30 curse.
NOAH: Yes, the 5:30 curse. Around 5:30 every single day, that’s
when the news will break.
STELTER: The news about Michael Cohen getting payments
from companies, it did break between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. this
week.
NOAH: Right.
STELTER: You said Cohen is literally swelling swamp tours.
NOAH: Right.
STELTER: Did it surprise you?
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NOAH: No, it didn’t. I said from the very beginning that Donald
Trump reminds me of an African dictator. And if you know
anything about African dictators, the first thing you have to do is
follow the money. And you follow the money with the people
closest to them, family members, business associates. All you do
is watch for the money. And I would have been disappointed had
we not found out or had Michael Cohen not done this. I’m like,
yeah, this is following the script. This is what you were meant to
be doing as the person who rolls with Donald Trump. You are
always going to be finding a way to swindle cash. And now the
question really that remains is, did Trump know? And did these
companies really not get anything? Because I feel like that’s a
quick way for the stories to just disappear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
paid him, we didn't get anything. Let’s – let’s move along. Let’s
move on.
STELTER: When you say follow the money, you sound just like a
journalist.
(LAUGHTER)
STELTER: It sounds like you bring that idea to this.
NOAH: Well, I think you -- as a, as a person who processes
information in the world, good journalists help you think of how to
process a story. I think, as a critical thinker, you should be able to
do these things beyond journalism. You know, I think we should
be trying to build a population of people that are looking at
information, that are reading into information, people who are
asking questions that go beyond what they are just told.
STELTER: And where do you see your show fitting into that?
NOAH: Well, it's always evolved, you know? When I started “The
Daily Show,” I thought our purpose was just to make jokes about
what’s happening, because that's what the world felt like. It was a
benign existence under Barack Obama. I think, as the world
comes to change, our purpose in that world changes. And I think
that happens not just because of “The Daily Show,” but because
of how comedy changes in society, depending on what is
happening to that society. So, when society is experiencing a
boon or if it is a wonderful time for people to be alive and there's
not much strife, I generally find the comedy will be benign, and it
will be, you know, observational and, you know, really light in its
touch. As things become scarier, as the world becomes less
secure, as people question, you know, the security that they exist
within, that’s when comedy becomes more cutting, because, in
many ways, it’s the release valve to that fear or to that tension.
STELTER: You have some of the same challenges that I have.
There might be a dozen stories in a day about Trump or about
politics. How do you go about deciding which are worthy of
talking about?
NOAH: Well, I break it down into categories. I go, what's
newsworthy? What is interesting? What is entertaining? And
what is original? Because I’m going to be on “The Daily Show”
every single day of the week, four nights a week, it’s nice to vary
my material. It’s nice to switch things up. I don’t want my
audience to tune in every day and feel like they’re hearing the
exact same story. And so, you know, as much as I can do, I don’t
talk about Trump, you know. He makes it extremely difficult, as
you know...
(LAUGHTER)
NOAH: ... you know, because he -- he -- and I have heard from
many people that he purposefully wants to be in the news. So,
it’s difficult to avoid that when the person is the President of the
United States.
STELTER: I think we have had this debate privately. Maybe we
should have it publicly.
You think Trump will be reelected if he decides to run, right? You
think he’s going to be with us for a long time.
NOAH: I think people underestimate how laser-focused Trump
and his supporters are.
I think people also underestimate how many people in America
are willing to accept the adverse effects of Donald Trump as they
pertain to the general discourse in America, vs. the economy and
how people actually feel in their daily lives. So, it’s -- it goes back
to, you know, what Joe, Joe Biden was talking about, where he
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was saying affected vs. offended. And that's what's happened
with a lot of Americans. There are many people who go, I’m
offended by Donald Trump, but I’m not actually affected by him. I
think too many people take for granted the ability Democrats
have in to step in their own way and trip themselves at the finish
line. I don’t take any of that for granted.
STELTER: All right, really hard last question. Do you have a
favorite joke about the President?
NOAH: I think my favorite joke that encapsulates how I observe
and process the Donald Trump Presidency is this.
STELTER: Yes.
NOAH: I say, I wake up most days terrified at the notion that
Donald Trump is the most powerful President in the world. I also
wake up most days acknowledging that he’s also going to make
me laugh. And that’s what’s difficult for me, is that he’s an
emotional paradox. And I have come to realize it’s like this. I think
it’s almost like there is an asteroid headed towards the Earth, but
it’s shaped like a penis. I think I’m going to die, but I know I’m
going to laugh.
STELTER: You’re going to die laughing?
NOAH: Could be both.
 The Strzok-Page Texts And The Origins
Of The Trump-Russia Investigation
By Andrew C. Mccarthy
May 14, 2018 5:10 PM

Strzok was on the verge of a big promotion: to deputy

assistant director of counterintelligence.

The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Building in

Washington, D.C. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama

administration had quietly opened an FBI
counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber-
espionage — hacking attacks — to disrupt the 2016
election. And not random, general disruption; the operating
theory was that the Russians were targeting the
Democratic party, for the purpose of helping Donald
Trump win the presidency.
FBI special agent Peter Strzok was downright giddy that
day.
The Bureau had finally put to bed “Mid Year Exam.”
MYE was code for the dreaded investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s improper use of a private email system to
conduct State Department business, which resulted in the
retention and transmission of thousands of classified
emails, as well as the destruction of tens of thousands of
government business records. Strzok and other FBI vets
dreaded the case because it was a go-through-the-motions
exercise: Everyone working on it knew that no one was
going to be charged with a crime; that Mrs. Clinton was
going to be the next president of the United States; and that
the FBI’s goal was not to be tarnished in the process of
“investigating” her — to demonstrate, without calling
attention to the suffocating constraints imposed by the
Obama Justice Department, that the Bureau had done a
thorough job, and that there was a legal rationale for letting
Clinton off the hook that might pass the laugh test.
That mission was accomplished, Strzok and his colleagues
believed, with Director James Comey’s press conference
on July 5, outlining the evidence and recommending
against charges that “no reasonable prosecutor” would
bring. Now, having run the just-for-show interview of
Hillary Clinton on July 2 — long after Comey’s press
statement that there would be no charges was in the can —
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Even better: Now, he was working a real case — the
Trump-Russia case. He was about to fly to London to meet
with intelligence contacts and conduct secret interviews.
Not so secret, though, that he could contain himself.
As was his wont several times a day, Strzok texted his
paramour, Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer in the lofty position
of counsel to Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — which
made Page one of the relative handful of Bureau officials
who were in on the new probe. Late Sunday night, as he
readied for his morning flight, Strzok wrote to Page,
comparing the investigations of Clinton and Trump.
And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The
other one did, too, but that was to ensure that we didn’t F
something up. This matters because this MATTERS.
This MATTERS.
The Strzok-Page Texts: An Invaluable Narrative
As my weekend column detailed, the House Intelligence
Committee is spearheading a congressional effort to pry
disclosure from the Justice Department regarding how and
why the so-called Russia investigation was opened. With
Justice and anonymous intelligence-community leakers
having provided conflicting explanations, the latest
controversy involves the role played by a CIA and FBI
informant, based in Britain, who appears to have been
deployed against marginal Trump-campaign figures (such
as George Papadopoulos). Several bloggers began
reporting the likely identity of this source over the
weekend; I am going to follow the lead of the Wall Street
Journal’s Kim Strassel and resist mentioning the name —
I am not in the news-breaker business, and it is likely to be
confirmed soon enough.
I want to make a different point.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes is
pressing for limited disclosure of information from the
government’s closely held files. He is right to do so. No
government operations can be completely beyond the
examination of the people’s representatives in our
constitutional republic. Here, the Obama administration
took extraordinary measures to withhold information from
Congress about its Trump-Russia probe — such as not
briefing the bipartisan leaders of the both chambers and
their intelligence committees, the “Gang of Eight.” (See
transcript of Director Comey’s Testimony, March 20,
2017, questioning by Representative Elise Stefanik (R.,
N.Y.), House Intelligence Committee.) Besides, having
litigated classified-information issues under procedures
prescribed by federal law, I am confident that there are
ways to get essential information disclosed without
compromising intelligence methods and sources.
But all that aside, it may not be necessary to pry into
informant files in order to find answers to the most
pressing questions. Those answers may be found in the
thousands of Strzok-Page texts. These provide a day-to-
day narrative of the goings-on in the Clinton-emails and
Trump-Russia investigations by two of the highest, most
plugged-in officials in the government.
This fact has eluded us for months, ever since the existence
of the texts was first made known. Yes, a few explosive
messages have captured our attention, most notably,
Strzok’s “insurance policy” assertion: An account of an
August 15 discussion among top FBI officials in then-
deputy director Andrew McCabe’s office, with Strzok
observing that although it was highly unlikely “Trump gets
elected,” the government “can’t take that risk” and needed
an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. But for
the most part, the texts have been dismissed as the ravings
of star-crossed lovers whose loathing of Trump and
disdain for Trump supporters should not be thought to
reflect on the Bureau’s legions of hard-working non-
partisans.
That’s the wrong way to look at it.
Strzok and Page are singularly well-informed, central
players in the Clinton and Trump investigations. They tell
us exactly what is going on and why — or at least they
would if the Justice Department had not blacked out key
parts of their running conversation.
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Thanks mostly to the dogged work of Senator Ron Johnson
(R., Wis.), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, hundreds of pages of
the Strzok-Page texts have been released publicly — trust
me on that: I am bleary-eyed from a weekend of reading
about half of them. Even in their heavily redacted form,
they are a goldmine of insight.
But why are they so heavily redacted? The Justice
Department and FBI have blocked out passages —
sometimes, several exchanges at a time — that would
provide context for the key decisions and actions taken by
government officials. And while the names of high-
ranking FBI officials who figure constantly in the texts
have, for the most part, been revealed, the names of Justice
Department, White House, intelligence, and other
government officials have been withheld.
Late July 2016
Let me give you a small window into what we’re dealing
with, homing in on what Nunes has been inquiring about,
the start of the Trump-Russia counterintelligence
investigation. (Senator Johnson has posted the texts here.
The massive document, covering a couple of years, takes a
few seconds to load. I will be addressing the texts
beginning on what is paginated DOJ-PROD-0000199;
we’ll cover just the eight days from July 28 through
August 5, 2016.)
We now know that the investigation began in late July
2016, apparently driven by this concatenation: the hacking
of Democratic email accounts; the first reports from the
Clinton campaign-sponsored opposition-research
compilation that became known as the Steele dossier; and
information that a low-level Trump campaign adviser,
Papadopoulos, had heard the Russians had thousands of
Hillary Clinton’s emails. The Strzok-Page texts of this
period are eye-opening, combining alarm over the Putin
regime’s suspected hand in the hacking and scrutiny of
media stories about Trump ties to Russia.
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, July 28, while they
separately watched the Democratic National Convention
— cooing over Vice President Joe Biden (“he’s just a
really sincere guy”) and grousing over “stupid *ss Bernie
supporters” — Strzok and Page perused a Josh Marshall
Talking Points Memo post entitled, “Trump & Putin. Yes,
It’s really a Thing.”
It’s an interesting article. Marshall observed that Donald
Trump was deeply dependent on Russian financing. In just
the last year, his debt load had increased by $280 million
(to a staggering $630 million); he’d had trouble finding
financing because of prior bankruptcies; and thus he’d
relied heavily on Russian capital to rebuild his business.
“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section
of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son Donald Jr. had told a
real-estate conference in 2008.
Marshall pointed out that shady Russian oligarchs were
involved in Trump development ventures; that Trump’s tax
returns might reveal the depth of financial ties to Moscow,
but Trump had refused to disclose them; that Trump had
chosen to bring into his campaign Paul Manafort, who had
worked for years for a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian party,
and Carter Page, a Putin apologist with financial ties to
Gazprom, the Kremlin-controlled energy behemoth; that
Putin had “aligned all Russian state controlled media
behind Trump”; and that the Trump campaign, though
otherwise indifferent to the party platform during the
Republican convention, had intervened to water down a
provision on providing assistance to Ukraine against
Russian aggression. (That last claim has been persuasively
rebutted, by Byron York, among others.)
Just as Page urges this column on Strzok, there is a
redacted passage. Minutes later, after Strzok has read it,
there is another redacted message. Then, Strzok says,
“This article highlights the thing I mentioned to you
earlier, asking if Bill had noted it to the 7th floor. I’m
going to send it to him.”
“Bill” is Bill Priestap, at the time the assistant director of
the Counterintelligence Division, one of the Bureau’s
highest-ranking officials. It was Priestap’s division, in
which Strzok was about to become his deputy, that would
run the newly opened Trump-Russia case file. Minutes
later, over a period of 50 minutes, Strzok and Page
exchange 13 texts, some of them apparently lengthy. All of
them have been blacked out by the Justice Department.
Later that day, while they’re in the office at around 5 p.m.,
Strzok texts Page: “Hey if you discussed the new case with
Andy would appreciate any input/guidance before we talk
to Bill at 3.” “Andy,” of course, is Andrew McCabe, then
the FBI’s No. 2 official. Strzok wanted to know what
McCabe was thinking before making a plan with Priestap.
After 8 p.m., Strzok tells Page about what appear to be
Justice Department officials who will be involved in the
Trump-Russia investigation. Again, though, the Justice
Department has redacted most of these names — other
than an apparent reference to Trisha Anderson, then of the
Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. (Ms.
Anderson is married to Charles Newman, then a lawyer in
the Obama White House for the National Security
Council). Strzok texts, “Trisha mentioned to
[REDACTED] to put [REDACTED] on this new case for
seniority until she comes back from al” (“al” is “annual
leave” — vacation time in government-speak).
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Strzok’s Sudden Trip to London
By that weekend, as a result of consultations within these
government agencies, Strzok was headed to London.
While preparing, he teased Page that he’s “partial to any
woman sending articles about how nasty the Russians are”
— the rest of his text is redacted. After Page’s heavily
redacted reply about how the Russians “are probably the
worst. Very little I finding redeeming about this. Even in
history. Couple of good writers and artists I guess,” Strzok
raged in a heavily redacted reply, “f***ing conniving
cheating savages. At statecraft, athletics, you name it. I’m
glad I’m on Team USA.”
After yet more redacting, Strzok got back to the new case.
He’d been “talking with [REDACTED], who’s been great.
Going back through acting DCM. All good, and asked him
to keep quiet, [there follows some odd coding —
‘bu+H3382t’] I think he will inform main State and they
may call over to see what’s going on.” Clearly, Strzok was
in communication with a counterpart at the Obama State
Department — which, we now know, was ultimately in
communication with the Bureau about both the Steele
dossier and reporting from Clinton confederates Sidney
Blumenthal and Corey Shearer.
Page related that she would not be sent on the trip to
Britain because McCabe trusts Strzok and the
(unidentified) agent who was accompanying him. It is then
that Strzok, as noted above, exclaimed how “momentous”
this new investigation — the one that “MATTERS” —
feels to him. Interestingly though, right before this
exclamation, Strzok has something else to say, apparently
about the launch of the Trump-Russia probe, but . . . the
Justice Department has redacted it.
By Monday afternoon (Eastern Time — evening in the
U.K.), Strzok had arrived in London. He texted Page to ask
if McCabe had been able to speak with [REDACTED] yet;
Page said McCabe had been not reach “him” yet, but
would keep trying. Meantime, Page asserted, “Ho boy.
Don’t tell Moffa, but andy is cancelling their brief. And he
wants it first.”
Moffa is Jonathan Moffa, an intelligence agent who
worked closely with Strzok and Page on the Clinton-
emails investigation. Page’s news prompted Strzok to
answer, “I think that’s smart. Bill may need a little saving
from himself.” Plainly, the FBI’s deputy director wanted to
receive the first briefing on Strzok’s meetings in Britain,
even though the normal chain of command called for
Priestap to be briefed first by his direct subordinates.
By noon (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, August 2, Strzok had
had his first meeting. Page asked whether it went well, but
the Justice Department has deleted Strzok’s response — all
we get is his next text, “With the [REDACTED], yes, good
meeting.” Most of Page’s response is deleted, except for
“Whoa.”
Page, the lawyer, then counseled Strzok to be careful of
what he signs in England so that he can “lawfully protect”
the information — meaning, conceal it. As she put it, “Just
thinking about Congress, foia [the Freedom of Information
Act], etc.” Strzok replied that he had just sent a document
to Page by FBInet email; she instructed him to forward it
to two people: “[REDACTED] and Trisha too” (another
apparent reference to the Justice Department’s Trisha
Anderson). Page elaborated that Trisha “is acting Jim” —
which seems to mean she was acting temporarily in the
stead of James Baker, then the Bureau’s general counsel.
About two hours later, Strzok was pleading with Page to
get into the office to prevent “ogc” (the Bureau’s Office of
General Counsel) from making “not legally necessary”
changes to the document — he was worried that delay to
deal with nitpicking edits “will derail this thing” that he
was in Britain to do. Page replied that she was already in
the office.
While she was reviewing the document, Strzok decided to
tell her some background: “Interesting fact. Guy we’re
about to interview was –” But we learn nothing more about
who Strzok was about to interview because the Justice
Department has redacted it.
Page proceeds to relate that she had been questioned
sharply by an official whose identity is redacted, in the
nature of “what are you doing on this case” that is such a
closely held secret. But she elaborates that David
Laufman, a Justice Department counterintelligence lawyer
(who was very involved in the Clinton-emails probe) leapt
to her defense.
By the early morning hours (Eastern Time) of August 3,
Strzok prepared to head home, having conducted multiple
interviews the previous afternoon. As he thanked Page
and, derivatively, McCabe, for waiting until he returned to
hold a formal meeting with the Justice Department
regarding the new case, Page observed, “Jesus. There’s a
lot to read here. Let me call [REDACTED] check in with
andy, and I will call you.” Later, as it came time to leave
for the airport, Strzok agreed emphatically with Page’s
stress on “New case. Information flow. Control.” We
learn, despite more redactions, that Strzok planned to tell
Priestap anything he wanted to know, but would
“reinforce” the need to control the information flow when
he briefed Page, Priestap and McCabe.”
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‘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.
It would be interesting to know what is in the emails that
apparently clarify how the Obama administration divided
responsibility for running the Trump-Russia investigation.
Just like it would be interesting to know what is behind all
the many redactions in these texts about how and why the
Trump-Russia investigation got started.
On what basis has the Justice Department concealed
passages and references to government officials from these
significant conversations? Are Justice and the Bureau
claiming that the redactions are necessary because the
information is classified — even though we’re talking
about communications between highly trained intelligence
officials?
And if that is the claim, are they telling us that Hillary
Clinton was investigated — and given a pass — for the
unauthorized transmission of classified information by FBI
officials who were themselves actively engaged in the
unauthorized transmission of classified information?
The Strzok-Page texts rate a lot more attention, and a lot
more transparency.
 POTUS Trump Puts White House Leakers
On Notice “We Will Find Out Who They Are”
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 5:16 Pm

President Trump put White House
leakers on notice Monday afternoon.
“We will find out who they are,” said the
President after referring to leakers as
“traitors and cowards.”
It’s time to find out who these people are and hold them
accountable.
President Trump put the “traitors and cowards” on notice
from his Twitter account Monday.
Trump tweeted:

The so-called leaks coming out of the

White House are a massive over
exaggeration put out by the Fake News
Media in order to make us look as bad as
possible. With that being said, leakers are
traitors and cowards, and we will find out
who they are!

A recent leak from the White House about a Trump

staffer’s disparaging remarks about John McCain set
media ablaze.

Leaks from #NeverTrumpers and Obama holdovers have

plagued his administration from day one.
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 INGRAHAM WARNS TRUMP: Rinos & Dems Working
On MASS AMNESTY In The House Through A
“Discharge Petition” Supported By Speaker Ryan
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 6:13 Pm

Fox News host Laura Ingraham fired off
a warning shot to President Trump
Monday evening about an effort in the
House to push through mass amnesty
all supported by Speaker Paul Ryan.
with the clear & principled push for Kate’s Law, no
funding for sanctuary cities, MS-13 bill. Amnesty won’t
pass in Senate anyway. #NoDischargePetition

Paul Ryan is on his way out so he’s on a

kamikaze mission to push through mass
amnesty.
Laura Ingraham warned the President
Monday.
RINOs and Dems in the House are essentially forcing a
Ingraham tweeted: Warning to @realDonaldTrump: An vote on mass amnesty.
effort is underway by liberal Repubs (+Dems) on a mass
amnesty in the House thru a “discharge petition,”
WaPo reported:
supported by @SpeakerRyan. Total travesty & mid-term
turn-out killer.
More than a dozen House Republicans are
issuing a rare challenge to their own party’s
Warning to @realDonaldTrump: An effort is
leaders: Allow immigration bills to get a
underway by liberal Repubs (+Dems) on a
vote now, or we’ll force a vote.
mass amnesty in the House thru a
“discharge petition,” supported by They’re circulating a petition to do just that,
@SpeakerRyan. Total travesty & mid-term and it’s only seven signatories shy of
turn-out killer. overriding House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s
(R-Wis.) opposition and forcing votes on a
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May
variety of immigration bills to provide a path
14, 2018
to citizenship for “dreamers.” It would be
Laura Ingraham then fired off a second the first time the House has passed an
tweet clarifying her first one about immigration bill since Republicans came to
Speaker Ryan. power in 2011.

Ingraham tweeted: To clarify: @SpeakerRyan does NOT Americans don’t want mass amnesty. We voted for Trump
publicly support the discharge petition. GOP must stick to end the amnesty insanity.
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President Trump ran his 2016 presidential campaign on VIDEO:
building the wall and putting America first.

In fact, in response to ‘DREAMers’ demanding amnesty,

then-candidate Donald Trump told reporters in February of
2016,

“I want dreamers to come from the United

States.”
“I want the people in the United States that
have children, I want them to have dreams
also. We’re always talking about
‘DREAMers’ for other people. I want the
children that are growing up in the United
States to be dreamers also. They’re not
dreaming right now,” Trump continued.
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 White House Rejects Reports That
Trump Backs DOJ Obstruction Of House Intel Subpoena
White House And Congressional Officials Told The Federalist That The White House
Does Not Support DOJ Obstruction Of A Congressional Subpoena Related To The
2016 Russia Investigations.
By Mollie Hemingway
May 14, 2018
The White House does not support ongoing Department of
Justice (DOJ) efforts to obstruct a congressional inquiry
into the agency’s activities before and after the 2016
election, multiple White House and congressional officials
told The Federalist. The independent accounts of these
officials contradict news reports last week that the White
House and DOJ were aligned against Congress in the
matter.
Following the issuance of a subpoena by the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the
Justice Department started waging a fierce public relations
war in response, with Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein characterizing the congressional inquiry as
“extortion.” Last week, the Washington Post reported that
President Donald Trump backed DOJ’s refusal to comply
with a subpoena for information related to a key source
involved in multiple investigations of Russian interference
in the 2016 elections.
“Top White House officials, with the assent
of President Trump, agreed to back the
decision to withhold the information [listed
in the subpoena],” the Washington Post
claimed. “The showdown marked a rare
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moment of alignment between the Justice
Department and Trump.”
The newspaper pointedly asserted “that the White House
sided with the department’s decision to refuse the request.”
Multiple congressional and White House officials,
however, categorically denied reports that the White
House had backed DOJ’s efforts to conceal information
subpoenaed by Congress.
“No one at the White House has told the
Department of Justice or any other agency
to refuse to comply with a Congressional
subpoena,” a senior White House official
told The Federalist.
The official said the dispute was between Congress and a
handful of federal agencies and that the White House
expected the parties to find a way to satisfy the subpoena.
A senior GOP source familiar with the White House’s
posture also disputed early reports about White House
alignment with DOJ’s view on the subpoenaed
information.
“The White House has consistently told
congressional leaders that it expects
agencies to comply with Congressional
oversight requests,” the official said.
These officials say that the conversations between DOJ,
the White House, and others were full of encouragement to
comply with the subpoena. All parties agreed the
information was sensitive, leading some participants to
express frustration at leaks to the Washington Post that
included specific biographical and professional details
about the identity of the source DOJ says it wishes to
protect.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who chairs HPSCI and has
spearheaded the committee’s investigation into recent law
enforcement and intelligence community abuses, also
rejected claims that the White House backed ongoing
agency obstruction of Congress.
“Look, I just don’t believe that the White
House does not want them to comply with
a subpoena from Congress,” the lawmaker
told reporters last week.
The seemingly false report that President Donald Trump
backed DOJ’s ongoing obstruction has taken off. The New
York Times also parroted the claim, writing that Nunes’
claim
“claim pitted him against not just the
Justice Department, but also officials in the
F.B.I., the intelligence community and the
White House, who warned that disclosure
could endanger a longtime source who is
aiding the special counsel’s investigation.”
Major media outlets weren’t the only publications to latch
on to the idea that the White House sought to block
congressional investigators from conducting oversight of
agencies created by and funded through appropriations
from Congress.
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Commentary magazine published an error-
riddled attack on Nunes that claimed,
incorrectly, that he was “on the wrong side
of Donald Trump.” It incorrectly said that
DOJ’s case was so convincing “that Trump
agreed with it,” embellishing the false claim
with an unfounded assertion that “President
Trump was persuaded by the claim that the
HPSCI chairman could not be trusted with
information that is explicitly within his
purview.”
Speaker Paul Ryan has publicly encouraged DOJ to
quickly comply with the subpoena.
“I think this request is wholly appropriate
and is completely within the scope of the
investigation that has been ongoing for
awhile with respect to [the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act],” Ryan said.
“I actually think this is something that
should have been answered awhile ago.”
SLIMY: Porn Star Lawyer Michael Avenatti Threatens To
Sue Reporters Who Checked Into His Background
By Lucian Wintrich
May 14, 2018, 7:15 Pm

Michael Avenatti is threatening to sue the

Daily Caller and its reporters for
defamation. In an email sent out
Monday, Avenatti railed against the
journalists who have been uncovering his
shady past and unethical business
dealings.

Via National Review:

“Let me be clear. If you and your

As previously reported by the Gateway Pundit:
The Michael Avenatti Files — How did a
bankrupt attorney come across $8 million
after picking up porn star client Stormy
Daniels?
Porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti is a
huge hit with the Democrat-media
complex.
The attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels has held 108
interviews on cable news outlets MSNBC and CNN since
March 7th.
Avenatti is a huge hit with the liberal
elites who are unabashedly determined
to take down President Trump.
As attorney Robert Barnes has discovered Michael
Avenatti has a very disturbing and possibly criminal past.
colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces
that are full of lies and defamatory
statements, I have no choice but to sue
each of you and your publication for
defamation. During that process, we will
expose your publication for what it truly is,”
Avenatti wrote in the email. “If you think I’m
kidding, you really don’t know anything
about me. This is the last warning.”
The email came one day after the Caller reported on the
multiple bankruptcies and lawsuits in Avenatti’s past,
quoting a number of highly critical former business
partners.
Among the reported allegations was one made by Dillanos
Coffee CEO David Morris, who said on Twitter last week
that Avenatti never paid for more than $160,000 worth of
coffee supplied to Tully’s Coffee — a chain of coffee
shops Avenatti formerly owned.

Avenatti is deeply in debt — Not just

with his failed coffee company but with
his law firm which failed to even file his
law firm’s income tax returns for 2014,
2015, and 2016.

On Thursday May 10th Michael Avenatti released a

statement saying all fees and and expenses of his case with
porn star Stormy Daniels “have either been funded by our
client, Ms. Stephanie Clifford, or by donations from
our crowdjustice.com page.

Now this:
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 Former CIA Director John Brennan Blames “Messers
Trump And Netanyahu” For Deaths Of
Hamas Supporters In Gaza
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 8:39 Pm

In 2010 Barack Obama’s former CIA

Director John Brennan called Jerusalem
“al Quds” in a public speech.

Al Quds is the Muslim name given to Jerusalem.

Watch this nut.

Former IDF spokesman Avi Mayer

On Monday Brennan lashed out at
President Trump and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following
the deaths of Hamas supporters in
Gaza.
Four days ago Hamas terror chief Yahya
Sinwar announced what he hoped
would be hundreds of thousands of
protesters storming the Israeli border
with Gaza on Monday.
posted a tweet reminding readers the
violence at the Gaza border Monday was
neither spontaneous or popular.
Gaza officials reported 55 “protesters”
were killed Monday when they tried to
storm the border with Israel.
What did they expect? A welcome
wagon?
The Israel Defense Forces released
video of Hamas rebels storming the
Israeli border with Gaza.
IDF forces opened fire on the attackers as they stormed the
border.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his
country’s right to defend its border Monday on Twitter.
Netanyahu tweeted:

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 “Each country must protect its borders.
Hamas ‘ terrorist organization states that it
intends to destroy Israel and send
thousands to breach the border fence to
realize this goal. We will continue to act
firmly to protect our sovereignty and our
citizens.”
Brennan tweeted:
Deaths in Gaza result of utter disregard of
Messers Trump & Netanyahu for
Palestinian rights & homeland. By moving
Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump played
politics, destroyed US peacemaker role.
New generation of Israelis/Palestinians
need to isolate extremists to find path to
peace.

Now this…
Obama’s former CIA Director, John
Brennan lashed out at “Messers Trump
and Netanyahu” Monday. (Shocker)
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 Indicted Russian Company Asks Judge
To Dismiss Mueller’s ‘Make-Believe’ Charges
Chris White - Energy Reporter
9:02 PM 05/14/2018
FILE PHOTO: 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., June 21, 2017.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
One of the Russian companies special counsel Robert
Mueller accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential
election is asking a federal judge to determine if he is
engaging in a sham criminal case.
Foreign interference in the presidential election is a
“make-believe crime,” Concord Management and
Consulting said in a court filing Monday. The company
argues the case is an example of Mueller attempting to
“justify his own existence” by indicting “a Russian — any
Russian.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has
“rejected the history and integrity of the
DOJ and instead licensed a Special
Counsel who for all practical political
purposes cannot be fired, to indict a case
that has absolutely nothing to do with any
links or coordination between any
candidate and the Russian Government,”
Concord wrote in the court filing.
Concord’s lawyers also petitioned the judge to review the
instructions Mueller’s team gave the grand jury in securing
the indictment.
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The company is the only one among three Russian
companies Mueller indicted in February that has responded
to the charges in court. Concord Management pleaded not
guilty to a conspiracy charge related to creating a so-called
troll farm to goad people into voting for President Donald
Trump. Mueller has been unable to reach the other
defendants in the case — most of which reside overseas.
Mueller’s team must prove Concord purposely disrupted
the functioning of the Federal Election Commission and
was aware of the illegality of their actions, attorneys argue.
The company’s lawyers attached an indictment from 1998
against a California fundraiser accused of disguising
contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. One of
the lawyers who worked the case is now the judge
presiding over Mueller’s charges.
Concord Management, Internet Research Agency and
Concord Catering enacted a so-called “translator project,”
which began in April 2014 and employed hundreds of
Russian operatives tasked with using fictitious online
personas to sow discord on social media
platforms, Mueller’s indictment asserts.
The goal of the project was “information warfare against
the United States of America,” the indictment asserts. The
scheme involved intelligence gathering activities inside the
U.S. as well as interactions with U.S. political activists.
Concord’s goal was ultimately to tilt the election away
from former Secretary Hillary Clinton and toward Trump,
according to the indictment.
The operation advanced in several stages over the two-plus
years leading up to the election. Many of the efforts were
aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton’s election chances by
boosting her opponents, including Trump, Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the
indictment suggests.
 Developing… FBI Chief Wray REFUSED To Answer If
Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska Was Involved
In Russia Dossier (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 9:48 Pm

Here is that exchange between Sen.

Tom Cotton (R-AR) asking Christopher
Wray about Deripaska:

Keep your eye on Russian oligarch Oleg

Deripaska…
In 2009, according to The Hill, when
Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to Tonight Rep. Gaetz reminded Sean
spend millions of his own dollars Hannity of the exchange back in
funding an FBI-supervised operation to February 2018.
rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert
Levinson, who is a captive of the Iranian
regime for ten years now.

In 2017 Mueller tied the same Russian oligarch Oleg

Deripaska to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort for
previous work they did together.

Robert Mueller never mentioned in his Special Counsel

findings that he had worked with Deripaska in the past.

Monday night on Hannity Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)

reminded Sean that FBI Director Chris Wray would not
tell Congress if Derispaska was involved with the Russian
dossier. ** The Hill reporter John Solomon then told Sean
Hannity that a report is coming out on Tuesday
morning regarding Deripaska and the Russian Dossier.
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 Vox Writer Has Mental Meltdown
Over Possible Trump Korea Success
By P.J. Gladnick
May 14, 2018 10:09 PM EDT
The big fear of liberals isn't that President Donald Trump
will fail. What really gnaws at them is their extreme fear
that Trump will be successful. In the case of Vox's senior
correspondent, Matthew Yglesias, the specific possibility
that Trump's policy towards North Korea could prove to be
a success has inspired a Trump deranged horror in him.
You can see the symptoms of his derangement in the very
first two paragraphs of his May 14 mental meltdown
known as Why are we taking Donald Trump’s Korea
diplomacy seriously?
Donald Trump is a liar. More than that, he’s a fraud. Not
just a person who makes factual misstatements but a
person who has gotten ahead in life through extensive use
of bullshit, leaving in his wake a trail of broken promises.
From his unpaid bills to contractors to his scam university
to his brief period ripping off the shareholders of his
eponymous company, this is what Trump does — he
exploits normal human nature to sucker people into
trusting him, and then he exploits his own ever-growing
fame and power to get away with breaking the rules.
And now his mental meltdown flows into the area of
policy towards North Korea:
A good clue that we are being set up for some bullshit is
that not only is the Trump administration’s North Korea
policy being headed up by Donald Trump, but it has been
conducted so far like you would expect a bullshitter to
conduct policy.
The key turnabout in the region, after all, has come from
the fact that Trump decided to make a large, unilateral
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concession to the North Koreans. As Josh Smith and David
Brunnstrom reported for Reuters in March, “for at least
two decades, leaders in North Korea have been seeking a
personal meeting with an American president,” and across
all that time American presidents have been saying no.
And yet we got the three American prisoners back with no
concessions.
Back in the real world, meanwhile, Trump isn’t a master
strategist keeping the North Koreans off balance. He’s an
erratic guy with poor impulse control and little
understanding of issues who does things like blurt out that
Americans held captive in North Korea and sentenced to
serve in labor camps received “excellent” treatment from
the regime that used them as hostages.
Maybe he should have denounced their treatment to enrage
North Korea so we go back to square one with North
Korea again threatening to launch its nukes?
And there are at least three big ways this could end up
going badly:
Which liberals desperately hope will
happen. The possibility of nuclear war is
less frightening for them than having to live
in a tragic reality in which Trump is
successful in bringing peace to the Korean
peninsula.
Trump could make a big show of a
decisive diplomatic breakthrough at
some strategically opportune moment in
the fall to try to gain the upper hand in the
midterm elections, only for the actual
details to prove meaningless when there’s
time for analysis later.
Trump could sell out American interests
by agreeing to an unfavorable deal,
simply for the sake of the positive PR of a
major breakthrough — with Republicans in
Congress backing him up out of
partisanship and nobody able to do
anything about it for years.
Trump could show up in Singapore,
discover that Kim is not in fact
interested in the kind of thorough
 disarmament that Trump has in mind, and
then, feeling miffed by the North Koreans,
embrace National Security Adviser John
Bolton’s preference for an unprovoked
American military strike.
Or...Trump could show up in Singapore
and discover that Kim is wearing a
"Make Korea Great Again Cap."
I’m happy to admit that it is, at least in theory, possible
that a vainglorious, dishonest, ignorant, and corrupt
president who is already lying about his own diplomatic
initiatives will shock the world by delivering something
.
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fantastic. But Trump has been in the public eye for
decades, has a well-deserved reputation as a braggart and a
liar, and deserves to be met with nothing but skepticism.
Translation:
A Trump success in Korea and
elsewhere will cause severe liberal
depression to such a great extent as to
result in either permanent occupancy of
the Rubber Room or a trip to the
Heaven's Gate Mother Ship.
Russian Oligarch Helped FBI To Rescue American In Iran
– But HILLARY Nixed The Entire Mission – Today Robert
Levinson Rots In Secret Iranian Prison
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 10:24 Pm
How evil is Hillary Clinton?
This evil…
Photos of Robert Levinson were published in 2013 after five years in
captivity in Iran.
Robert Levinson, a private investigator, disappeared in
2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. The Iranian
government has repeatedly denied knowing anything about
his disappearance.
In 2010 and again in 2013 the Iranian regime released
photos of Levinson. He looks thin and haggard.
Today John Solomon at The Hill
reported on the rescue attempt of
Robert Levinson back in 2009-2010 that
never happened.
Hillary Clinton called it off.
They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in 2009 in a series
of secret hotel meetings in Paris, Vienna, Budapest and
Washington. Agents persuaded the aluminum industry
magnate to underwrite the mission. The Russian billionaire
insisted the operation neither involve nor harm his
homeland.
“We knew he was paying for his team
helping us, and that probably ran into the
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millions,” a U.S. official involved in the
operation confirmed.
One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew
McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played
a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple
sources confirm.
Deripaska’s lawyer says the Russian ultimately spent $25
million assembling a private search and rescue team that
worked with Iranian contacts under the FBI’s watchful
eye. Photos and videos indicating Levinson was alive were
uncovered.
Then in fall 2010, the operation secured an offer to free
Levinson. The deal was scuttled, however, when the State
Department become uncomfortable with Iran’s terms,
according to Deripaska’s lawyer and the Levinson family.
FBI officials confirmed State hampered their efforts.
Tonight on The Ingraham Angle John Solomon explained
what happened when the deal fell apart.
John Solomon: The lawyer for the family told me they
had a deal. Deripaska came back. We were sending a plane
to the tarmac, we’re going to rescue him. There’s a
statement that the Iranian government wanted saying, “We
really weren’t involved.” And Hillary Clinton was
unwilling to give them that, a sort of absolution. So the
deal fell apart. The plane left and he was never rescued.
Did you get that?
 The Russian oligarch helped secure the release of
US prisoner Robert Levinson from the Iranian
regime using HIS OWN MONEY.
 The oligarch Deripaska secures the release of the
American Robert Levinson.
 And then Hillary Clinton refuses to read the Iranian
statement and so the entire rescue was nixed.
Then in 2016 when Obama signed the ridiculous nuclear
deal with Iran and gave them billions and billions of US
dollars — He also did not get Levinson back.
 Today Levinson rots in an Iranian jail
while Hillary Clinton continues with her
lavish lifestyle.

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 Michael Avenatti Hasn’t Corrected
False Allegations Made Against
The Wrong Michael Cohens
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:05 PM 05/14/2018
Attorney Michael Avenatti on "Morning Joe," May 9, 2018.
(YouTube screen capture/MSNBC) | Avenatti Yet To Correct False
Cohen Claim
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, has yet
to correct false claims he made last week about two men
who happen to share the same name as President Donald
Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen.
In a seven-page dossier released May 8, Avenatti listed
details of “possible fraudulent and illegal” payments to
two Michael Cohens who are not the Trump attorney. One
of the men lives in Israel; the other lives in Canada. The
dossier included other legitimate payments made to the
actual Trump attorney, who lives in New York City.
Avenatti’s Twitter feed still includes a link to his dossier. It
includes no corrections about the payments.
The Canadian Michael Cohen sent an email to Avenatti
asking him to publicly correct the “scurrilous rumors”
.
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about his payment, which he says was for consulting work
he did for a company called Actuarial Partners.
“I would greatly appreciate it if you were to
correct this error forthwith and make it
known publicly that there is no connection
between myself and Actuarial Partners and
your action against the New York attorney
with whom I share a name,” Cohen, who
lives in Ottawa, said in an email to Avenatti.
“You are surely aware of the fact that this is
an extremely common name and would
request that you take care before involving
innocent parries [sic] in this sordid affair,”
Cohen continued, asking Avenatti to
acknowledge receipt of his request.
But reached Monday, Cohen told The Daily Caller News
Foundation he has heard “nothing at all” from Avenatti.
Avenatti has not addressed the errors in TV appearances he
has made since releasing his report.
The lawyer did not respond to an emailed request for
comment on the matter. Earlier on Monday, he threatened
to sue two DCNF reporters who published an article about
him on Sunday. Avenatti attempted to issue the threat “off
the record” but did not secure the agreement of DCNF
reporter Peter Hasson.
JOHN SOLOMON BOMBSHELL: Russian Oligarch Oleg
Deripaska Visited By Three FBI Agents Pitching ‘Trump-
Russia Collusion’ Weeks Before 2016 Election
By Cristina Laila
May 14, 2018, 11:31 Pm

said, ‘we think Trump’s campaign and

Keep your eye on Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska…
In 2009, according to John Solomon
of The Hill, when Mueller ran the FBI, the
bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska to spend millions of his own
dollars funding an FBI-supervised
operation to rescue a retired FBI agent,
Robert Levinson, who is a captive of the
Iranian regime for ten years now.
Russia are colluding on the election’ and
he let out a big laugh,” John Solomon said
to Laura Ingraham.
That’s right–the same FBI agents who brought Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska to the US pitched him on the idea
that Trump colluded with the Russians.
John Solomon further explains that Oleg Deripaska and
Paul Manafort previously had a falling out therefore
became enemies.

Deripaska hates Paul Manafort and he still told FBI agents

their Russian collusion theory is “preposterous.”

This happened two months before the election and before

the FISA application on Carter Page, John Solomon points
out.

VIDEO:

In 2017 Mueller tied the same Russian oligarch Oleg

Deripaska to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort for
previous work they did together.

Robert Mueller never mentioned in his Special Counsel

findings that he had worked with Deripaska in the past.

Then John Solomon dropped another

bombshell while speaking with Fox
News host Laura Ingraham Monday
night…
FBI agents knocked on Oleg Deripaska’s door just weeks
before the 2016 election to pitch the ‘Trump-Russia
collusion’ narrative to him and he wasn’t buying it!
“Two months before the election he’s
[Deripaska] asleep in his apartment in New
York and he gets a knock on the door by
some of the same FBI agents who worked
with him on the earlier operation and they
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Paul Manafort was previously questioned by officials in
the Cayman Islands about his ties to billionaire Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate.
Manafort was questioned by officials from the Cayman
Islands in connection with a $26.2 million investment by
Deripaska.
Mueller, however, kept any mention of
Oleg Deripaska OUT of Manafort’s
indictment leading to another problem
of transparency.
 Dirty cop Mueller may have also broken
the law by allowing his FBI to carry out
this secret mission back in 2009.
Deripaska also volunteered to testify and did not ask for
immunity, reports Laura Ingraham.
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Obama’s corrupt FBI was literally selling the Trump-
Russia collusion to a Russian.
Perhaps the FBI needed to bolster their sources before they
took the phony dossier to the FISA court?
Rosenstein and Mueller need to be fired and investigated
for their attempt to overthrow a duly elected president.
 The Michael Avenatti Files: Porn Star Attorney Avenatti
“Acted With Malice, Fraud And Oppression” –
Paid No Payroll Taxes For Years
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 11:45 Pm

Stormy Daniels creepy lawyer Michael

Avenatti reportedly paid no taxes for
years in a row in spite of making over
$30 million in income. This was
uncovered by a former employee who Barnes followed this up with:
brought a case against him for
defrauding the employee. “#Avenatti law firm tax evasion was
uncovered when a former employee
Legal expert and attorney Robert Barnes tweeted this on brought an arbitration claim against him for
Sunday: “In December 2014, Avenatti decided to quit defrauding the employee, and the 3-Judge
paying most taxes. He failed to even file his law firm’s panel of the Arbitration committee found
income tax returns for 2014, 2015, and 2016, though a Avenatti acted with malice, fraud and
lawyer’s detailed filings in his bankruptcy court report his oppression by hiding its tax returns.”
firm made over $30M in income in that time. IRS records
confirm.”

Barnes also noted that Avenatti was unsatisfied w/ evading

income taxes, and so he “also decided to quit paying his
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time in December 2014, stiffing them and the IRS in a the IRS file showing no payroll taxes being
seven-figure tax bill, while diverting millions in income to paid for years on the law firm.
himself. IRS records confirm.”
The law firm did not even file returns for years.

On Sunday TGP reported that court

documents show Michael Avenatti
reported an $8 million windfall earlier
this year around the time he took on
Stormy Daniels as a client.

Now we have information from IRS documents that shows

that Michael Avenatti did not pay payroll taxes for years.

We have more information to be released…

IRS Filings Show Michael Avenatti paid no payroll taxes

for years by Jim Hoft from Scribd on next page.

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To NY Times Columnist: 'I'm a Trump Addict'
By Ryan Foley
May 15, 2018 6:29 AM EDT
During an appearance on Sunday's edition of CNN's
Reliable Sources, New York Times columnist Nicholas
Kristof admitted that the media has an addiction to
covering President Trump, leading them to avoid covering
other newsworthy topics. He flushed this argument out
further in a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Our
Addiction to Trump.”
Host Brian Stelter appeared to agree with Kristof,
declaring that
“I'm a Trump addict. I think I’m willing to
admit that.
I think all roads lead to Trump right now.”
Kristof then admitted that he also suffered from Trump
Addiction:
“My wife and I, we find ourselves, our
pillow talk is sometimes about Trump.”
Kristof acknowledged that many in the media saw Trump
as an antidote to their old business model:
“As long as we have our cameras focused
on him, then audiences will follow.” Kristof
also admitted that the media breathed a
sigh of relief that “there was somebody we
could cover that could generate these
subscriptions.”
Stelter and Kristof then played footage of President
Trump’s recent rally in Elkhart, Indiana, where he argued
that despite their intense hatred for him, the “fake news
media” does not want President Trump to sail off into the
sunset, telling the enthusiastic crowd
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“when I’m not here, their ratings are going
to sink.” While Stelter stated that “I don’t
think that’s entirely true,”
he did mention that The New York Times and other
publications have seen increases in subscriptions in the age
of Trump.
In his column, Kristof wrote:
“I'm not arguing that we avert our eyes from
Trump or mute our criticism. Far from it.
But we have to figure out how to spare
bandwidth for the genocide in Myanmar,
opioids in America, and so on.” Kristof said
that this task might be easier said than
done because any network that decided to
abandon their round-the-clock coverage of
President Trump to cover one of these less
appetizing and less scandalous stories
would risk losing viewership to “a rival
network that puts a Democrat and a
Republican in a studio and has them yell at
each other.”
Towards the end of Kristof’s appearance on Reliable
Sources, he pointed out that
“as a nation, we tend to have our worst
policies towards issues that are difficult to
talk about or that are invisible. We can be
part of the solution. We can help leverage
these issues and, you know, put them on
the agenda. And it's hard, and we have to
figure out how to build a business model for
that kind of thing. But maybe a starting
point is to have a conversation about that.”
Kristof cited the decline of American life expectancy as a
result of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse and crises in
work, self-esteem, employment, and living standards as
examples of “difficult” and “invisible” issues.
By and large, it does not look like the media will take
Kristof’s advice to dial down their coverage of President
Trump and focus on the issues that affect “invisible
America.” The love-hate relationship between President
Trump and the legacy media will continue for the
foreseeable future. It remains to be seen how many more
journalists will follow Kristof’s lead and admit to their
Trump addiction.
Reliable Sources
05/13/18
11:48 AM
BRIAN STELTER: Is the news media addicted to Trump news?
Is it time for an intervention?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
STELTER: Joining me now, Nick Kristof, an op-ed columnist for
The New York Times. Great to see you in person here.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Good to be with you.
STELTER: I am a Trump addict. I think I'm willing to admit that. I
think all roads lead to Trump right now. But you pointed out in a
recent column that that can be a problem. How so?
KRISTOF: So, I mean -- and let me express my own addiction as
well.
(LAUGHTER)
KRISTOF: You know, my, my wife and I, we find ourselves, our
pillow talk is sometimes about Trump.
STELTER: Oh, terrible.
KRISTOF: But I do think that we have to acknowledge that there
is so much more happening in the world than Donald Trump. And
we in the media are essentially all Trump all the time. And,
frankly, it's a little rude to say, this, but I think cable television is --
it's particularly true of cable TV.
STELTER: It is. Yeah. Yeah.
KRISTOF: And the upshot is that we risk not covering a lot of
really important things at home and around the world. And we
complain that President Trump is, you know, is parochial, isn't
paying attention to important things around the world, and we're
absolutely right. But that can also be said about us.
STELTER: Well, there's always been a critique of the American
press that it's too focused on politics, Washington inside
baseball, and not focused enough on real world issues that affect
communities. And I guess the point is, that's even more true now,
because Trump sucks up all the oxygen.
KRISTOF: I think that's part of it. And, also, I think, frankly, that
there is obviously a crisis in journalism, and our old business
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model has been collapsing. And then along came Trump, and
he's a bit of the solution to our, to our business model. As long as
we have cameras focused on him, then audiences will follow.
STELTER: Now, that's interesting that you said that. He brought
up something similar at his rally a few days ago. Here's what he
said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So I said, unless they give me an
extension for the presidency...
(LAUGHTER)
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: ... which I don't think the fake news media would be too
happy about.
(BOOING)
TRUMP: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Actually, they would be
happy, because, when I'm not here, their ratings are going to
sink.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STELTER: Now, I don't think that's entirely true, but there is a
Trump bump that we have seen in television ratings, in "New
York Times" subscriptions, et cetera.
KRISTOF: Absolutely.
STELTER: So I suppose, on an individual and an institutional
basis, we have to reckon with this.
KRISTOF: Yeah. And I think we have to acknowledge it. You
know, in 2016, frankly, I think we in the media to some extent
blew a historic election because we were so relieved that there
was somebody we could cover that would generate these
subscriptions. And then, as you, as you remember, there was
some anxiety in newsrooms that Hillary Clinton was going to be
elected and government would be boring again, and our
audiences would desert us. Well, I mean, that did not happen.
STELTER: Isn't this really about proportionality? Here is part of
the column you wrote. "I'm not arguing that we avert our eyes
from Trump or mute our criticism. Far from it. But we have to
figure out how to spare bandwidth for the genocide in Myanmar,
opioids in America, and so on."
KRISTOF: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we're focused on one
conflict, which is basically the Washington conflict. And that's
important. And we have got to cover that. But there are all these
others out there as well, and that I don't think we're adequately
covering those, and, you know, for very understandable reasons.
If -- it's easy for me to write this as a columnist, because, you
know, I don't -- I'm far enough out of the game, I can write
columns that only my mother will read, and that's fine.
(LAUGHTER)
KRISTOF: But if I were executive producer of a TV show, I can
understand that if I sent a camera crew off to Myanmar to write
about the genocide against the Rohingya, then my audience is
going to drop compared to a rival network that puts a Democrat
and a Republican in a studio together and has them yell at each
other. And that's a real problem. And I don't really have a solution
to that.
STELTER: You also wrote in the column -- quote -- "The biggest
Trump scandals aren't those unfolding in Washington, but those
devastating the lives of poor and vulnerable people in distant
American towns." Again, that's harder to cover, and the
resources are not always there. But I really like the way you
framed the scandal, the real scandal, being outside Washington.
KRISTOF: That's right. I mean, I come from a part of Oregon that
has -- that is indeed pro- Trump in part because it did get
neglected and because there has been a real crisis.
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You know, American life expectancy has gone down two years in
a row, whereas, in the rest of the industrialized world, it's gone
up. And this -- if this were happening because of terrorism, we
would be all over it. But it's happening in really boring,
nondramatic ways, through suicide, alcohol abuse, through
drugs, because of a crisis in work, a crisis in self-esteem, a crisis
in employment, in living standards. And I think we have kind of
dropped the ball on that. And it helped elect President Trump, I
believe. And I think, in turn, his policies are going to magnify that
problem.
STELTER: What a thought, that if these people were dying from
terrorism, there would be wall-to-wall coverage right here. But
because it happens in the shadows, one at a time, it's almost
invisible to us.
KRISTOF: Yes. And that invisible America, if you will, I think, is
one that, because we don't cover it adequately, because we don't
talk about it, we don't develop good policies to address it. I think
that, as a nation, we tend to have our worst policies towards
issues that are difficult to talk about or that are invisible. We can
be part of the solution. We can help leverage these issues and,
you know, put them on the agenda. And it's hard, and we have to
figure out how to build a business model for that kind of thing. But
maybe a starting point is to have a conversation about that.
 Oligarch Laughed At FBI’s
Trump-Russia Collusion Theory
Veteran Reporter Discovered Three FBI Officials Approached Oleg Deripaska
In 2016 About Trump's Presumed Moscow Links
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 15 May 2018 At 6:34 AM
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska scoffed when FBI agents
asked him in September 2016 if he believed former Trump
campaign manager Paul Manafort colluded with the
Russians, veteran investigative journalist John Solomon
said Monday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
Solomon, an editorial contributor to The Hill, claimed in a
bombshell report Monday that “Mueller may have a
conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch.”
Deripaska, who had a “tortured” relationship with
Manafort, once hired him as a political adviser and
invested in a failed Manafort venture.
The Russian oligarch later sued Manafort, whose business
dealings with Ukrainian officials connected with Russia
and false statements to the FBI earned him indictments
from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Deripaska was familiar to the FBI because he spent $25
million of his own money in 2009-2010, trying to obtain
release of a retired bureau agent being held captive by Iran.
In September 2016 — just two months before Election
Day — three FBI officials visited Deripaska and told him,
“We think Trump’s campaign and Russia
are colluding on the election,” Solomon
(pictured left above) told Fox News host
Laura Ingraham, noting that the FBI
officials mentioned Manafort.
“And he lets out a big laugh,” Solomon
said. “So the guy they go to is an enemy of
Paul Manafort, and they say, ‘Well, can you
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help us prove that maybe Manafort’s
colluding with [Russian President Vladimir]
Putin to throw the whole election to Donald
Trump?'”
"And he laughs, he breaks out in laughter,
saying, 'It's preposterous.' And they said,
'No, seriously, take this seriously,'"
Solomon continued.
According to Solomon, Deripaska told the FBI officials,
"'No, I'm telling you, it's not true. I don't like
the guy. Listen — I'd love to smear him. I'm
telling you, there's no chance that Russia is
using Paul Manafort to coordinate an
election.'"
Ingraham responded, asking,
"They go to [Deripaska] and they say, 'We
have a collusion idea.' And he says, 'Well
that's ridiculous.' And they then say, 'Keep
an open mind,' I understand?"
"That's exactly what they said," Solomon
insisted. "They're trying to keep him going.
'Keep an open mind. We'll stay in touch.'"
Ingraham said the FBI officials
"were actually trying to collude with the
Russian billionaire to push the Russian
collusion theory."
There are multiple reasons this information is important,
Solomon told Ingraham, noting that this conversation
occurred two months before the U.S. presidential election
between President Donald Trump and Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The conversation also occurred before FBI officials
requested Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page, Solomon said.
The FBI used the infamous Trump-Russia dossier,
authored by Christopher Steele and funded by the Clinton
campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
the campaign controlled. It did so to obtain and then renew
the FISA surveillance warrants three times, according to a
report from GOP members of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence.
The conversation took place
"before the FISA application" between FBI
officials and "someone that the FBI trusted
previously to give them reliable information,
spend his own money doing FBI work,"
Solomon noted.
Solomon was referring to another revelation in his piece in
The Hill, that during Mueller's tenure as FBI director in
2009, the FBI asked Deripaska
"to spend millions of his own dollars
funding an FBI-supervised operation to
rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert
Levinson, captured in Iran while working for
the CIA in 2007."
The rescue attempt ultimately was unsuccessful.
"So [Deripaska's] already been very helpful
to the FBI. He spent $25 million of his own
money trying to help them rescue one of
their captured agents in Iran. So he has
their trust," Solomon told Ingraham.
Robyn Gritz, a former FBI agent who supervised the
Levinson case, told Ingraham that
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"it's outrageous that all this was going on."
"It's like — it's stuff you see in the movies,"
said Gritz (picture above right). "And to see
that people that were working for the
release of Robert Levinson have now
switched and are actually pushing a
political agenda."
Solomon noted in his piece that Mueller's indictment of
Manafort
"makes no mention of Deripaska, even
though prosecutors have evidence that
Manafort contemplated inviting his old
Russian client for a 2016 Trump campaign
briefing."
"Deripaska also appears to be one of the
first Russians the FBI asked for help when
it began investigating the now-infamous
Fusion GPS 'Steele Dossier,'" Solomon
wrote.
Attorney Harmeet Dhillon told Ingraham that Mueller's
ties to Deripaska appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
"You haven't even talked about the fact that
the $25 million violates the Antideficiency
Act of our government, where the
government's not allowed to take volunteer
support from citizens if it's not authorized
by Congress," said Dhillon, the founder of
the Dhillon Law Group Inc. and the
Republican National Committeewoman for
California.
"Mueller may be trying to cover that up
because it is embarrassing to him that he
violated the law," Dhillon added.
 3-D Chess: North Korea’s Nuclear Test Site Wiped Out
Last Year Leading To Next Month’s Summit
– Experts Point To Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 8:10 Am
The reason North Koreans are coming
to the table now may be because their
nuclear missile capabilities were
destroyed last year.
And experts believe the Trump
administration may have been behind
the attack!
FOX News reported over the weekend that in September
of 2017 during a nuclear test a mountain in North Korea
where the test was performed was totally wiped out.
According to FOX,
“Experts say the underground nuclear blast
pushed the surface of Mt. Mantap outward
by as much as 11 feet and left the
mountain about 20 inches shorter.”
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Two days ago the Japan Times reported that North Korea
says its going to blow up its nuclear test site before the
meeting between their leader and President Trump in June
in Singapore –
North Korea wants the world to watch as it blows up its
Punggye-ri nuclear test site, the country has said,
announcing that it will hold a “ceremony” between May 23
and May 25, inviting foreign journalists to witness what it
said would be a “transparent” event.
Some experts believe that the reason
North Korea is doing this and meeting
President Trump in Singapore in June is
because the President destroyed North
Korea’s nuclear testing ability during
the explosion last year.
Newsweek reported on a new book, Striking Power: How
Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules
of War, by international law professors John Yoo
(University of California, Berkeley) and Jeremy Rabkin
(George Mason University). In the article Newsweek states
the following –
…Yoo suggests, the U.S. should go on the
offense with cyberweapons designed to do
things like make missiles
malfunction (which maybe it
has already done, but shh!), erase
data from military computers, wipe out the
country’s bank accounts or even steal and
publicize Kim’s smoochy emails to
Dennis Rodman. It might send out tiny,
barely detectable, AI-driven drones that
work together like swarms of bees to take
out key assets or people. In the longer run,
Yoo says, it’s feasible to develop satellite-
based anti-missile technology armed with
AI that could watch other nations, learn
what an impending missile launch looks
like and immediately fry the thing with
lasers.
In addition to the article above, after North Korea’s
mountain collapse in September 2017, President Trump
became bold in his tweets towards the Hermit Kingdom.
One tweet will go down in history as perhaps the greatest
tweet ever when the President shared he would

“NEVER call him [Kim Jong-un] short and

fat”.

Now it looks like the President knew

what many in the media who were
calling him a ‘mad-man who was going
to start a nuclear war’ did not know.
Trump knew that North Korea’s nuclear
bomb capabilities had been destroyed.

Although not yet verified, it is suspected

In January of this year, President Trump was even more that perhaps President Trump knew
bold in his tweets toward Kim Jong-un sharing that his North Korea had no nuclear capabilities
[Trump’s] button is much bigger than the North Korean’s because Trump himself had them
– destroyed.

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 Disgusting! NY Daily News On First Daughter Ivanka
Trump: “Daddy’s Little Ghoul”
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 8:31 Am

The New York Daily News has been a

leading Trump critic since his run for Ivanka Trump had no way of knowing
president began in 2015. this was happening at the Gaza-Israel
border.
It’s safe to say The Daily News HATES President Trump.

But the Daily News trashed the First Daughter anyway.

This cover reached a new low for the leftist rag.

This was really disgusting.

The Daily News hates Trump and mocks President Trump
regularly. Remember:

These are the same people attacking the Trump

But today’s cover went too far.
administration for a comment made at a closed meeting
with White House officials about John McCain.
On Monday First Daughter Ivanka
Trump was in Israel to open the US
They are total hypocrites.
Embassy in Jerusalem.
Miles away in Gaza Hamas supporters [see next page]
stormed the Israeli border. 60 Hamas
supporters were reportedly killed.

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Michael Avenatti Accuses The Daily Caller News Foundation
Of ‘Unethical’ Journalism On CNN [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:35 AM 05/15/2018

Hasson tweeted a message Avenatti sent him Monday,

threatening to sue TheDCNF and its reporters for writing
“lies” and “defamatory statements” about him.

“If you think I’m kidding you really don’t

know anything about me. This is the last
warning,” the email read.
Michael Avenatti CNN_05-14-2018 Don Lemon - Lawsuit Against
The Daily Caller News Foundation

Michael Avenatti, attorney for adult film star Stormy

Daniels, appeared on “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon”
Monday and accused The Daily Caller News Foundation
of engaging in “character assassination” for running a
story about his personal past.

The article in question was written by reporters Peter

Hasson and Joe Simonson and is entitled: “With Avenatti
In The Spotlight, His Own Questionable Past
Emerges.”

It describes Avenatti’s business dealings as chaotic and

claims he was embroiled in various lawsuits and
bankruptcy issues throughout his career. Avenatti
reportedly owed over $160,000 to a coffee wholesaler for
supplying Avenatti’s coffee business with product and was
ultimately sued by his former business partner and actor
Patrick Dempsey. The article also referenced people Lemon referenced Hasson’s tweet and asked Avenatti why
who’ve “worked with Avenatti,” who described him as he sent the message and requested it be off the record.
being obsessed with success.
WATCH:
“They want to argue about the legal issues
related to the cases, fantastic. But let me
tell you what’s not appropriate. What’s not
appropriate is to engage in character
assassination attempts aimed at either me
or my client or our families, because you
don’t like the facts and the evidence in the
underlying cases and you don’t know how
to address it,” Avenatti told Lemon. “So
what you try to do is, you try to create
diversions by mucking up the record and by
bringing up all sorts of nonsense about our
personal histories, our families, et cetera.
That has no place in any of this.”
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 “All journalists are not ethical just because
they’re journalists,” Avenatti replied.
“There’s good journalists and there’s bad
journalists. There’s ethical journalists and
unethical journalists … If we encounter
journalists who don’t get their facts straight
by design, don’t follow basic standards of
journalism, purposely skew stories to fit
their own political dialogue and what they
want their message to be, we’re going to
continue to call them out on that.”
Lemon asked if it was hypocritical for Avenatti to criticize
Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen for trying to intimidate a
reporter after he sent the threatening email, but Avenatti
thinks it would be absurd to compare his actions to
Cohen’s.
“I think you’re talking apples and oranges,”
Avenatti said. “My e-mail is no different
than a cease and desist or retraction type
e-mail or letter that is received by
numerous media organizations on a
consistent basis, and there’s nothing wrong
.
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with that. Let me tell you — the reason why
I put off the record was because I was
concerned that they were going to actually
print it and I don’t think it has anything to do
with the underlying case or the underlying
facts or evidence of the case.”
“There’s nothing wrong with that e-mail that
I sent,” Avenatti concluded. “And it is far
different if you look at the level of
communication and the dialogue, the words
that are chosen — It’s far different than
what we’ve seen from Michael Cohen,
beyond threatening people’s families,
threatening physical harm on them. You
can’t compare what I sent to that.”
Despite accusing TheDCNF of unethical journalism and
dishonesty, Avenatti didn’t specifically point out which
aspects of the article were false.
TheDCNF reached out to Avenatti for comment, but did
not receive a response in time for publication.
 EXCLUSIVE: Read The Note That
A Military Mom Handed To President Trump
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:04 AM 05/15/2018

A military mom and spouse handed a special note to

President Trump at a Mother’s Day event last week.

The note was shared with The Daily Caller by a family

member, and it is more than heartwarming.

Air Force mom and wife Lisa Stalford wrote to President

Trump:

“President and Mrs. Trump,

A military mom/spouse hands a special note to President
I wish to express to you my gratitude for
Trump.
the invitation to the Mother’s Day reception
at the White House on May 9th. It is such
an honor to be invited and recognized as a WATCH:
mother of a military member. I would like to
take this opportunity and tell you a little bit
about my Air Force Family”
Stalford shared details about her husband
who served in the Air Force for 23 years.
She also shared details about her four sons
who have all either served or are
committed to serving in the United States
Air Force.
“As you can imagine, the receipt of this
invitation to recognize mothers and
spouses of military members means a lot to
me. I am, without a doubt, a proud military At the event, Trump told the military spouses and moms,
wife and mother!” she also wrote.
“Your love, resilience and courage uplifts
At the event, Stalford handed a note to Trump as he our heroes and indeed our nation.”
walked out.
“We are forever in your debt. I also want to
thank all of the spouses here today who
are serving in uniform. You are an
inspiration to us all, a great inspiration.”

Military Mom Letter by Justin Caruso on Scribd is on next

page.

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 #MAGA Tuesday: President Trump Thumps
Failing #Fakenews Media For Lack Of Credibility
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 9:43 Am

But that has not affected President

Trump’s approval ratings.
47% of Americans approve of
President Trump’s performance despite
the constant drubbing by the liberal
elitist media.
On Tuesday President Trump slammed
the mainstream media for failing to take
him down.
This was group.

Despite the liberal mainstream media’s

best efforts — President Trump
continues to enjoy improving poll
numbers.
The Media Research Center (MRC)
announced last week that mainstream
media coverage of President Trump
continues to be negative. In fact, 90% of
the coverage by liberal mainstream
outlets was negative.
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 Devin Nunes Says Trump Campaign Might
Have Been Set Up, Predicts Embarrassing Outcome For
FBI And DOJ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:00 AM 05/15/2018

House Intel Chair Devin Nunes Thinks Trump Campaign May Have
Been Setup, Predicts Embarrassing Outcome For FBI And DOJ -
Fox & Friends 5-15-18

“Glenn Simpson said that in what was

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes of
California said the Trump campaign might have been set
up by the federal government back in 2016.
“Let’s talk about how did this get started?
You had Fusion GPS that was hired by the
Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign
to draw up a dossier on the president — or
as the president was running for
president,” Nunes said Tuesday on “Fox &
Friends.” “What happened with that is that
in [Glen Simpson’s] testimony he
mentioned that there was a source within
the campaign.”
closed testimony. Then it became public.
Now he’s confirmed that he was telling
Congress the truth, which is probably a
good idea,” Nunes continued. “We believe
he was telling the truth. And what we’re
trying to do is get the documents to figure
out — did they actually have, what
methods were used to open this counter
intelligence investigation?”
“I think what it really means, I think it will
look badly on the Department of Justice
and the FBI on how they conducted this
investigation,” Nunes said.

He also said the entire investigation into President Donald

Nunes said Glenn Simpson, the head of Fusion GPS, told
Trump lacked credibility from the start.
Congress he was being truthful about a mole within the
Trump campaign and predicted the fallout would tarnish
the FBI and DOJ. “I think if the campaign was somehow set
up, I think that would be a problem. Right?
If they were somehow meetings that
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occurred and all of this was a setup,”
Nunes said. “Because we have yet to see
any credible evidence or intelligence that
led to the opening of this investigation.”
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 Melania Trump And Harry Reid Both Had Surgery On
Monday, Guess Who John McCain Offered His
‘Prayers And Best Wishes’ To?
By Kristinn Taylor
May 15, 2018, 10:18 Am

to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a

successful surgery”

First Lady Melania Trump had surgery on Monday for a
benign kidney problem that will keep her hospitalized for
several days. Also on Monday, retired Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had surgery to treat pancreatic
cancer.
McCain did not send get well wishes to the First Lady.
McCain’s snub comes after it was reported he does not
want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral, but has
invited former Presidents Barack Obama and George W.
Bush to attend.
When McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer last
summer, President Trump sent get well wishes to McCain
on behalf of himself and Melania,

“Melania and I send our thoughts and

prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and
their entire family. Get well soon.”

First Lady Melania Trump from last Christmas season at the White
House.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who has been at the center of a
Beltway controversy over an insensitive comment about
his ill health made in a private meeting by a White House
staffer that was leaked to the press, posted his ‘prayers and
best wishes’ to only one of the two:
“From one cantankerous senator to
another, sending my prayers & best wishes
A statement released by the White House earlier on July
19, 2017 read,
“Senator John McCain has always been a
fighter. Melania and I send our thoughts
and prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and
their entire family. Get well soon.”

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McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain has also been silent
on Melania Trump but she retweeted her father’s best
wishes for Reid.
A statement from Reid’s family on his surgery was posted
to Twitter on Monday.
White House aide Kelley Sadler said at a recent private
meeting in comments that were leaked to the press about
McCain’s opposition to the nomination of Gina Haspel to
be CIA Director
“It doesn’t matter. He’s dying anyway.”
.
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The White House has declined to apologize for Sadler’s
remark, Sadler has reportedly apologized privately in a
phone call to the Meghan McCain.
Amy Kremer, Women for Trump co-chair, appeared on
CNN’s New Day Tuesday morning where she criticized
McCain for snubbing Melania, reported Mediaite.
“Yesterday when the news broke about
Melania, two minutes before I had a
breaking news alert about Harry Reid on
my phone. Two minutes later the news
alert came about Melania being in the
hospital,” Kremer said. “As of this morning
right before we went on air, John McCain
had tweeted to Harry Reid to get better.
Not one tweet to Melania. So the bad blood
goes both ways. Don’t pretend that this is
only going one way because it’s not.”
(Note to the grammarians, the headline, …
”Guess Who John McCain Offered His
‘Prayers and Best Wishes’ To?” should
have read “Guess to Whom John McCain
Offered His ‘Prayers and Best Wishes'” but
it sounds stodgy that way. Sorry.)
 NYU Law Professor Hammers Stormy
Lawyer Avenatti For Making Himself The Story
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:52 AM 05/15/2018
New York University law professor Stephen Gillers
believes Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti has
“catapulted himself to be the story” through
his “multiple television appearances.”
“Nothing [Avenatti] has been doing in the
last four to six weeks with his multiple
television appearances advances the
interests of his client in the California
action,” Gillers told The Washington Post.
“He’s catapulted himself to be the story.
There are dangers when a lawyer becomes
so publicly vocal.”
The Washington Post story by Emma Brown and Beth
Reinhard, published Monday night, is entitled “Michael
Avenatti Is Using Trump Tactics To Battle Trump, A
Strategy That Comes With Risks.”
It describes how Avenatti went from class-action lawsuit
success to a nationally known figure “through an
extraordinarily aggressive media campaign” based on his
lawsuit against President Trump on behalf of Stormy
Daniels.
In his path to becoming “a darling of the political left,”
Avenatti has taken what the authors see as “a Trumpian
path.”
.
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“He taunts his opponents. He uses Twitter
to make explosive accusations. And he is
omnipresent on cable news.”
But it’s not a strategy without risk.
Yet Avenatti’s tactics and visibility may carry risks that
could undermine his ability to represent his client, who is
suing longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen and the
president to be released from a non-disclosure agreement.
Scrutiny of his business record and of his motives has
provided grist for distracting headlines in recent days. And
his publication last week of Cohen’s banking history —
hard-to-get information touching on some of the most
sensitive issues before the White House — could
jeopardize his ability to represent Daniels in court, some
experts say.
Gillers told the Post that he “cannot think of an
equivalent” to Avenatti’s high profile as a lawyer, both for
his many appearances on television and the fact that the
arguments he makes are, according to the Post, “more
sweeping than his client’s narrow complaint.”
The attention has drawn scrutiny to Avenatti’s past,
particularly in a story published Sunday by The Daily
Caller News Foundation.
While Avenatti threatened to sue reporters at The Daily
Caller News Foundation for publishing the piece, he also
downplayed the questions about his past by appealing to
his position as a lawyer.
“I’m not a candidate for public office or a
party to the lawsuits against Mr. Trump,”
Avenatti told the Post. “Who cares?”
 Liberal Logic: Bette Midler Blames A**Hole Trump For
Deaths Of 52 Hamas Supporters Storming Israeli Border
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 10:53 Am

The liberal Western media blamed President Trump for the

dead Hamas supporters.

This is why liberals CAN NEVER hold

power.
Their minds are not capable of
processing events with a rational
thought.

Bette Midler is the latest example of liberal Democrat

insanity: Reporter Laura Loomer responded to Ms. Midler:

Hamas terrorists stormed the Israeli

border on Monday in an attack that was
planned for several days.
52 people were killed.

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 Journos Mock Trump
For Font Size On U.S. Embassy Plaque
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:04 AM 05/15/2018

Others quickly pounced on the minor detail and tied it to

Trump’s ego and brand.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 14: White House senior advisor

Ivanka Trump and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrive to
the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 in
Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images,)

Unwilling to let President Donald Trump take credit for

anything, journalists and verified Twitter users are
currently mocking the president for the font sizes on the
new plaque on the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

The plaque was unveiled during the opening ceremony of

the new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.

Josh Rogin, a Washington Post columnist, first noticed that

Trump’s name is larger than “Jerusalem, Israel” on the
plaque.

The “story” is reminiscent of CNN’s report that Trump got

two scoops of ice cream at White House meetings while
everyone else got one.

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Robbin Simmons, an Emmy-award winning TV anchor,
even seemed to make a joke about the size of Trump’s
genitalia.

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 John Barrasso Predicts Big Gains For GOP
In November If Trump Keeps Beating The Drum On
Booming Economy [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:16 AM 05/15/2018

paid. So it’s not just in one location. It’s all

across the country.'”

WATCH:

Senator John Barrasso Predicts Big Gains For GOP In November If

Trump Keeps Beating The Drum On Booming Economy - Fox &
Friends 5-15-18

Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said the GOP

can expect big gains in November’s midterm elections if
President Donald Trump continues to tout the country’s
strong economic growth.

“Well, people are looking at the
economy,” Barrasso said on “Fox &
Friends” Tuesday. “Sixty-six percent of
Americans, according to one new poll said
the economy is doing very well. People see
it in their paycheck.”
“They see it in their home communities. I
saw it Wyoming this past weekend. You go
and talk to small business owners who say
‘we’re hiring.’ People are getting to keep
more of their money. Bonuses are being
.
Barrasso said as long as Trump sticks to his guns and
highlights the administration’s economic success,
Republicans will be hard to beat at the ballot box.
“That’s why this is so strong and I think it’s
going to help us in November as long as
the president keeps telling the story,”
Barrasso concluded. “Because it’s such
good story to tell. Because of the impact at
home.”

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 Congress Is Taking Fresh Look
At Fusion GPS Founder’s Testimony
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:49 AM 05/15/2018
Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. (YouTube screen capture
/MSNBC)
 Congressional investigators are taking a new look
at Glenn Simpson’s testimony
 Simpson founded Fusion GPS and testified “a
human source from inside the Trump organization”
provided information to the FBI
 Sources close to Fusion GPS backpedaled from
Simpson’s statement
Congressional investigators are taking a fresh look at
testimony provided in 2017 by Glenn Simpson, the
founder of the opposition firm that commissioned the
Steele dossier.
In particular, investigators are looking at Simpson’s claim
in an Aug. 22 interview that he had learned from dossier
author Christopher Steele that the FBI had corroborated
parts of the dossier with information from a source within
President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Simpson, who runs Fusion GPS, told the panel that “a
human source from inside the Trump organization” had
provided information to the FBI that backed up some of
the dossier. The person was “someone like us who decided
to pick up the phone and report something,” he said.
Sources close to Fusion GPS quickly backpedaled from
Simpson’s statement when a transcript of his testimony
was released in January.
The sources told news outlets Simpson was mistaken.
There was no mole inside the Trump campaign. Instead, he
was referring to George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign
adviser whose encounter with an Australian diplomat in
May 2016 was reportedly the catalyst for the FBI’s
counterintelligence investigation. The diplomat, Alexander
Downer, reportedly claimed that Papadopoulos discussed
Russian dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence
Committee are looking again at Simpson’s claims and
questioning whether he was actually telling the truth
during his testimony last summer.
One indication that Simpson’s initial testimony was
accurate is a letter his lawyer sent to the Senate Judiciary
Committee in January, shortly after the release of
Simpson’s interview transcript.
“Mr. Simpson stands by his testimony,”
Joshua Levy, the lawyer for Fusion, wrote
to the committee on Jan. 18. The lawyer
had been asked in a Jan. 11 letter whether
Simpson’s testimony about the secret
source was a mischaracterization, as news
reports claimed.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is also
revisiting the Simpson testimony.
“Glenn Simpson said that in what was
closed testimony. Then it became public.
Now he’s confirmed that he was telling
Congress the truth, which is probably a
good idea,” California Rep. Devin Nunes
said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday. “We
believe he was telling the truth. And what
we’re trying to do is get the documents to
figure out — did they actually have, what
methods were used to open this counter
intelligence investigation?”
“I think if the campaign was somehow set
up, I think that would be a problem. Right?
If they were somehow meetings that
occurred and all of this was a setup,”
Nunes, a Republican, added. “Because we
have yet to see any credible evidence or
intelligence that led to the opening of this
investigation.”
Andrew McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review
Institute, wrote Saturday in National Review that he now
believes Simpson’s initial testimony was not a mistake.
McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, thinks Simpson
realized the significance of his statement and walked it
back after the testimony was released.
McCarthy noted the heated battle between the House
Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department over
documents related to a top-secret FBI and CIA source
whose existence was revealed on May 8. The source, who
is American, has provided information about the Trump
campaign to the special counsel’s office, The Washington
Post reported.
.
The DOJ is resisting efforts to provide information about
the source, saying that doing so would endanger their life.
Levy did not respond to a request for comment.

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 BRENNAN IN HOT WATER=>
Two Top Officials Contradict Ex-CIA Director’s
SWORN Denial Of Reliance On Dossier
By Cristina Laila
May 15, 2018, 12:24 Pm
John Brennan is in hot water.
Two of Brennan’s colleagues are now
contradicting the former CIA Director’s
sworn denial the phony dossier played a
role in the IC Assessment on Russian
interference of the 2016 election.
John Brennan claimed in May 2017 testimony Hillary’s
phony dossier didn’t factor into the Intelligence
Community’s Assessment report on Russian interference
of the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan then went on to repeatedly insist these claims to
the public in various interviews with the media.
Two top officials are now contradicting Brennan’s
testimony.
From Paul Sperry via Real Clear Investigations:
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Former CIA Director John Brennan’s
insistence that the salacious and
unverified Steele dossier was not part of
the official Intelligence Community
Assessment on Russian interference in the
2016 election is being contradicted by two
top former officials.
Recently retired National Security Agency
Director Michael Rogers stated in a
classified letter to Congress that the Clinton
campaign-funded memos did factor into the
ICA. And James Clapper, Director of
National Intelligence under President
Obama, conceded in a recent CNN
interview that the assessment was based
on “some of the substantive content of the
dossier.” Without elaborating, he
maintained that “we were able to
corroborate” certain allegations.
[…]
In a March 5, 2018, letter to House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, Adm. Rogers informed the
committee that a two-page summary of the
dossier — described as “the Christopher
Steele information” — was “added” as an
“appendix to the ICA draft,” and that
consideration of that appendix was “part of
the overall ICA review/approval process.”
It’s important to note that former DNI chief James Clapper
limited the IC report for review to only 3 agencies rather
than send the report out to all 17 agencies for review. This
way he was able to control what was put into the report.
In fact, Clapper left out the relevant agencies with
expertise on Russia such as the DHS and the State
Department’s intelligence bureau.
Paul Sperry also spoke with Fred Fleitz,
who worked as a CIA analyst for 19
years who said certain players were
chosen from select agencies as well,
including Peter Strzok:
Fleitz suggests that the Obama administration limited the
number of players involved in the analysis to skew the
results. He believes the process was “manipulated” to
reach a “predetermined political conclusion” that the
incoming Republican president was compromised by the
Russians.
House investigation. “But they never
corroborated his sources.”
The much-anticipated House Intel Russia report revealed
former DNI Chief, James Clapper leaked the dossier
briefing to CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“I’ve never viewed the ICA as credible,” the
CIA veteran added.
A source close to the House investigation
said Brennan himself selected the CIA and
FBI analysts who worked on the ICA, and
that they included former FBI
counterespionage chief Peter Strzok.
“Strzok was the intermediary between
Brennan and [former FBI Director
James] Comey, and he was one of the
authors of the ICA,” according to the
source.
Both Brennan and Clapper are stuck in perjury traps.
On January 10th, 2017, CNN reported then-President elect
Trump had been briefed on January 6th about the salacious
yet unverified dossier, compiled by Steele.
This story was precisely the ‘news hook’ Buzzfeed needed
to usher in the dossier which they published in full later
on.
The Russian collusion story was now in full swing thanks
to the Clapper-Tapper leak.
Everyone relied on Hillary’s phony
dossier and Brennan and Clapper lied
about it under oath.

The ICA report and the phony dossier are one big echo
chamber.

The core of the ICA report matches the central findings in

Hillary’s phony dossier. For Brennan to claim the dossier
wasn’t used for their findings is absurd, it’s a blatant lie.

Brennan even put parts of the dossier into Obama’s daily

briefing according to Sperry’s report:

“Brennan put some of the dossier material

into the PDB [presidential daily briefing] for
Obama and described it as coming from a
‘credible source,’ which is how they viewed
Steele,” said the source familiar with the
.

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 Anti-Trump Hack And Serial Liar John Brennan
CONTRADICTED Over Sworn Statements
Regarding Bogus ‘Russia Dossier’
Posted On May 15, 2018

But the agency’s inspector general found evidence to the

contrary, declaring that the CIA indeed “improperly” spied
on Senate staffers.

“The facts will come out,” Brennan

told NBC News a couple of months earlier,
in March. “Let me assure you the CIA was
in no way spying on [the committee] or the
Senate.”

Later, according to reports at the time, Brennan was forced

to “privately” apologize to the intelligence committee
chairs in the House and Senate, but Sen. Ron Wyden, D-
Ore., didn’t let him off the hook. He tweeted:
(National Sentinel) Perjury: Trevor Timm of the Left-
leaning Guardian website once called then-CIA Director “@CIA broke into Senate computer files.
John Brennan “the most talented liar in Washington.” Then tried to have Senate staff prosecuted.
Absolutely unacceptable in a democracy.”
And for good reason.

It was July 2014, and Brennan had said the CIA never
spied on U.S. Senate staffers who were looking into the
agency’s sordid history of torture.
.

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 CNN Weakly Challenges Avenatti's Threatening of
Journalists: ‘What’s That About?’
By Scott Whitlock
May 15, 2018 12:51 PM EDT
Given how CNN views Donald Trump as a “grave and
existential threat” to the survival of a free press, one
would think that the network would aggressively challenge
Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti over his attempt
to bully and threaten the conservative Daily Caller. Yet
when Don Lemon talked to Avenatti on Monday night, he
only gently brought up the intimidating e-mail sent by the
lawyer.
As reported yesterday, Avenatti sent a threatening e-mail
to the Caller, attempting to intimidate the journalists
there into stopping the reporting the site has done on him.
The subject headline was “Cut It Out” and the e-mail
included sentences like this one:
“Let me be clear. If you and your
colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces
that are full of lies and defamatory
statements, I will have no choice but to sue
each of you and your publication for
defamation.”
Lemon quoted Avenatti saying,
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“This is the last warning.” But he only mildly
wondered, “What's that about?” How
would CNN react if Donald Trump wrote
such an e-mail?
Avenatti spat back:
“All journalists are not ethical. Just because
they are journalists, there's good journalists
and there's bad journalists.” Lemon
accepted this, saying, “I get that.”
He finally, haltingly, wondered:
And in this interview, I challenged you. And
I challenge you in other interviews and
other people do as well. I think that is
perfect. I mean, that you should be able to
do that. But also people criticize -- and I
think you guys did for Michael Cohen for
threatening a reporter or threatening
someone. Do you think that behavior is
similar, that you are threatening a
reporter?
On Sunday, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour warned that
Trump represented “a grave and existential threat to
reporters. White House correspondent Jim Acosta in
January said it would take “dead journalists on the
highway” to shake off the Trump “spell.”
Apparently CNN’s concern for journalists only goes so far
though.
A partial transcript is below:
CNN Tonight
5/15/18
11:08
DON LEMON: OK. So let us — so when you talked about —
you know, I think the -- did you call it character assassination or
whatever trying to get you? Were you talking about The Daily
Caller? Do you put them in that, because you know, they
released, you know, Peter Hasson tweeted out your e-mail that
you sent to him, right? And he said, you said, “We will expose
your publications for what it truly is. We will also recover
significant damages against each of you that participated
personally. So, if I were you, I would tell Mr. Trump to find
someone else to fabricate things about me. If you think I'm
kidding, you really don't know anything about me. This is the last
warning.” What's that about?
MICHAEL AVENATTI: Don, I will tell you exactly what it is about,
okay. All attorneys are not ethical. All because you're an attorney
doesn't mean you're ethical and you do what you're supposed to
do. All journalists are not ethical. Just because they are
journalist, there's good journalists and there's bad journalists.
There's ethical journalists and there is unethical journalists. And
you know what Don, if we encounter journalists that don't get
their facts straight by designed, don't follow the basic standards
of journalism, purposely skews stories to fit their own political
dialogue and what they want the message to be, we are going to
continue to call them out on that. And there is nothing wrong with
that, in anyway shape or form. Just like when individuals
encounter unethical attorneys, there is nothing wrong with calling
attorneys out on that.
LEMON: I get that. And in this interview, I challenged you. And I
challenge you in other interviews and other people do as well. I
think that is perfect. I mean, that you should be able to do that.
But also people criticize -- and I think you guys did for Michael
Cohen for threatening a reporter or threatening someone. Do you
think that behavior is similar, that you are threatening a reporter?
AVENATTI: No, I think you're talking apples and oranges.
LEMON: Why is that?
AVENATTI: For the following reason. My e-mail is no different
than a cease and desist or retraction type e-mail or rather that is
received by numerous media organizations on a consistent basis,
and there is nothing wrong with that.
LEMON: Why did you put it on the record on that?
.
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AVENATTI: Well, let me tell you — let me tell you — the reason
why I put off the record was, because I was concerned that they
were going to actually print it and I don't think it has anything to
do with the underlying case or the underlying facts or evidence of
the case. That is why, there's nothing unusual about that.
But let me say this, and that is, there's nothing wrong with that e-
mail that I sent, and it's far different if you look at the level of
communication and the dialogue, the words that are chosen. It's
far different than what we have seen from Michael Cohen
threatening people's families, threatening physical harm on them.
You can't compare what I sent to that.
LEMON: Mmmhmm. I do have to say it's interesting that in the
last, I guess, six weeks or so, much of the information — I've
said this to other guests, but I've never said it to you -- much of
the information like AT&T, Novartis and all that, I don't know if we
would have known about it. I know the Special Counsel knows
about that, but I don't know if the Special Counsel would have
revealed that. Do you understand what I'm saying?
AVENATTI: Yes.
LEMON: When you pull a string, you don't know when it's
coming, but I just wonder, where does it end? How far do you go
with it?
AVENATTI: Look, I think that we have disclosed, in fact I know
that we've disclose a significant amount of information, and we
have at least started the dialogue on a lot of these issues that I
think are very important to the American people to know exactly
what Mr. Trump was doing, what he knew, what Mr. Cohen was
doing, what was he selling, meaning Mr. Cohen, how much
money was he getting? We still don't know where all this money
went. These are very important questions that the American
people deserve answers to. And if by disclosing information we
have assisted in starting that dialogue and getting the American
people answers, so be it.
 Conspiracy To Frame Trump
‘Unraveling,’ Ex-Prosecutor Says
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph Digenova Points To Unexpected And Potentially
Damaging Revelations About Mueller's Alleged Conflict Of Interest
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 15 May 2018 At 1:06 PM
New revelations that FBI agents pressed a Russian
oligarch with ties to independent counsel Robert Mueller
to help build an election collusion narrative only reinforce
the likelihood of a conspiracy to frame President Donald
Trump, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Joseph diGenova, who served as U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia under Ronald Reagan, reacted to a
report in The Hill that FBI agents met with Oleg Deripaska
in September 2016. They were in search of information
that Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort was conspiring
with the Russian government to throw the presidential
election to the Republican nominee.
Despite an ongoing legal dispute with Manafort, Deripaska
reportedly laughed at the notion.
“What’s going on now is the unraveling of a
very substantial plot that had two goals —
to exonerate Hillary Clinton illegally and, if
she lost the presidency, to frame Donald
Trump and his associates of crimes they
did not commit,” he said Tuesday on “The
Laura Ingraham Show.”
“Robert Mueller has produced not a scintilla
of evidence that anybody in the Trump
campaign engaged in any illegal activity
regarding illegal contact with Russian
officials.”
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After a year on the case, it is fair to ask what Mueller is
investigating, diGenova said.
"The answer seems to be — anything but
that," he said.
DiGenova (pictured above) said the FBI
agents who talked to Deripaska most likely
"crossed a number of lines."
According to The Hill's report, Mueller was FBI director
when the agency persuaded Deripaska to put up millions of
dollars of his own money to try to free a CIA agent held
captive in Iran.
That history creates a definite conflict of interest for
Mueller, diGenova said. He noted that the indictment
charging Manafort with a number of financial crimes
involves activities involving the aluminum industry
magnate.
"And yet, Bob Mueller kept Deripaska's
name out of the indictment completely," he
said. "There was no reason to do that.
There was no reason to keep his name out,
other than to cover up the fact that Mueller
had been dealing with him for years."
DiGenova spread blame around but directed the majority
of it at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the man
who appointed Mueller. DiGenova accused Rosenstein of
acting not based on a legal judgment but out of a pique of
anger because the president undercut the official
justification for the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Rosenstein had prepared a memo outlining Comey's
violations of Department of Justice (DOJ) policy during
his handling of the FBI's investigation of former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for
official government business. But then Trump told "NBC
Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt that the real reason was
the Russia investigation.
"At that point, that is when Rod Rosenstein,
I am told by people in the department, got
mad, was embarrassed by what the
president had said — and, therefore, made
him look like a fool — and it was that day
he decided to appoint Mueller, whom he
had interviewed the day before, to be the
next FBI director [for a second tour] to
replace James Comey," he said.
DiGenova called Rosenstein "an incompetent liar." He said
his sources indicate that neither Rosenstein nor Attorney
General Jeff Sessions are secure in their jobs.
.
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"Jeff Sessions — a man who I love dearly
and have known for years — is clueless,"
he said.
Former CIA Director John Brennan is the worst director
that agency ever has had, diGenova said. Not only has he
"denigrated" the agency, diGenova added, but it also has
become clear that he lied about the genesis of the
counterintelligence investigation that morphed into the
Mueller probe.
Part of the justification was a dossier prepared by a retired
British spy working for an opposition research firm hired
by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
DOJ officials used that dossier — filled with salacious
allegations against Trump — to obtain a warrant to
conduct surveillance on his associates. But the Justice
Department evidently did not specify the source of the
material when it asked a judge on the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court for the warrant.
"This is without a doubt the greatest
political scandal in American history,"
diGenova said.
 CHAIRMAN NUNES: We’ve Seen No ‘Credible Evidence’
To Warrant Russia Investigation As We Enter Second
Year Of Witch Hunt (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 15, 2018, 2:18 Pm

House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes (R-
CA) said Tuesday morning on Fox &
Friends there is still no ‘credible
evidence’ to warrant the Russia
investigation yet here we are entering
the second year of the witch hunt.
What a disgrace.
months which revealed there was no official intelligence
used when the DOJ started spying on Trump.
Nunes is now trying to get to the bottom of an FBI source
reportedly inside of the Trump campaign.
Gowdy and Nunes will be meeting with DOJ officials this
week to view the unredacted document revealing who this
source was.

Internet sleuths have determined 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.

Mueller continues to rove around unchecked, harassing

Americans and raiding people in Trump’s inner circle
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed because no one has the guts to shut him down.
Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate ‘Trump-
Russia’ collusion on May 17, 2017 without any real VIDEO:
intelligence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to
hack the DNC’s servers.

There was already a counterintelligence investigation into

several people in Trump’s campaign prior to Mueller’s
appointment last May, so here we are entering year
NUMBER TWO and the investigators still have
NOTHING.

“We have yet to see any credible evidence

or intelligence that led to the opening of this
investigation,” said Nunes.

Chairman Nunes finally received the 2-page ‘electronic

communication’ document he had been requesting for
.

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 Judge: Ballots In Wasserman Schultz
Race Illegally Destroyed
By Alicia Powe
May 15, 2018, 2:25 Pm

elections to monitor the administration of upcoming

elections in the county and “ensure that all laws are
followed.”

The Broward County Supervisor of Elections broke state

and federal law by illegally destroying ballots cast in the
2016 Democratic congressional primary when Tim Canova
faced off against incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schulz, a circuit court judge ruled Friday.

Canova, an independent candidate for Congress and

founder of Progress for All, alleged in a 2017 lawsuit that
Supervisor Brenda Snipes illegally obstructed his request
to copy and inspect ballots, then improperly discarded
thousands of ballots that made inspection of voting
irregularities impossible.

Snipes signed a Sept. 1 document to destroy the ballots,

without informing Canova or the court. Snipes contends
her office made high-quality copies of the ballots.

Paper ballots should have been preserved by the office

until 22 months after the election, according to
longstanding federal election law and state public records
law. Under state law, a public record sought in a court case
is not permitted to be destroyed without a judge’s order.
Wasserman Schultz’s office contends it had nothing to do
Canova argued Scott should suspend Snipes for destroying with Snipes’ decision to destroy the ballots.
the paper ballots while his lawsuit was ongoing.
Canova is also urging the FBI to investigate the results of
Broward Circuit Judge Raag Singhal agreed with Canova, the election, arguing that federal examination of the
ruling that Snipes ignored and illegally obstructed his Democrat establishment’s corruption would potentially
request to copy and inspect the ballots. Florida’s Secretary nullify the election that he believes was stolen.
of State plans to send an elections expert to Broward, the
state’s second-largest county, during the upcoming

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 “We’re trying to get the FBI to investigate
but they seem uninterested at this point
even though the ballot destruction violated
federal law punishable by prison. I guess
they’d rather chase Russian phantoms,”
Canova told GWP in February. “Congress
could investigate and the House could
possibly nullify the stolen election, but I
would not hold my breath waiting for that to
happen.”
A Nova Southeastern University law professor, Canova
ran against Wasserman Schultz as Democrat in 2014 and is
running again for the scandal ridden former DNC chair’s
seat in 2018 as an independent.
in the integrity of the system, to me it just
became intolerable.”
Canova has been slammed by left-leaning media outlets
for calling attention to the unusual circumstances
surrounding the July 10, 2016, murder of Seth Rich, the
DNC voter-expansion data director who is rumored to
have leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
Wasserman Schultz resigned as chairwoman of the
Democratic National Committee following revelations that
she and other Democratic party officials were
“conspiring to sabotage the campaign of
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.”

His decision to drop his Democratic Party affiliation was

The DNC and Wasserman Schultz are currently facing a
influenced by the actions of local and state Democratic
class-action lawsuit filed by attorneys Elizabeth and Jared
Parties.
Beck on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters who claim
they sought to rig the election.
“It reached a tipping point dealing with the
ballot destruction from my previous primary
The scandal plagued Florida Democratic congresswoman
against [Wasserman Schultz]. We
is also the most forceful advocate and longtime employer
discovered during the course of litigating in
of disgraced IT aide Imran Awan, who was busted trying
our efforts to inspect the ballots…that the
to leave the country after defrauding the federal
Broward Supervisor of Elections completely
government and allegedly stealing data from an untold
destroyed all of the paper ballots while the
Democratic House members who hired him. Awan is
litigation was pending, and in violation of
currently on trial before a federal jury for conspiracy to
federal law,” Canova told IVN. “When the
commit bank fraud; false statements on a loan or credit
party could not be bothered with
application; unlawful monetary transactions; and engaging
investigating ballot destruction that has
in unlawful monetary transactions.
undermined people’s faith and confidence
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 CNN Panel: Democrats ‘Nervous’
About 2018 Right Now, Only United By
Being Anti-Trump
BY: David Rutz
May 15, 2018 2:32 Pm
Panelists on CNN's "Inside Politics" Tuesday said
Democrats were "nervous" about their political hopes in
2018 and are united only in their opposition to President
Donald Trump.
They reacted to Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D., Minn.)
statement Tuesday that voters are more interested in the
economy and health care than in the Russia investigation.
Host John King asked about the significance of her
statement in the context of being successful in November,
as Democrats try to win back Congress in what should be a
favorable year since they are out of the White House.
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New York Times reporter Carl Hulse said it was partly
about Klobuchar, a potential 2020 White House contender,
differentiating herself from other progressive Democrats,
but it was also reminding her party not to take victory for
granted.
"‘Hey, this can't be just totally about Trump.
We have to do some other things,'" Hulse
said. "They're seeing Trump's numbers go
up a little bit. They're nervous right now,
maybe that the environment isn't going to
be quite what they thought it was going to
be, and I think that's a warning from her."
Politico reporter Eliana Johnson said she'd heard that
before from Democrats.
"I haven't heard anything from them that's
not anti-Trump," she said.
"That's the only thing that unites them as a
party right now," Bloomberg reporter Sahil
Kapur said.
Kapur said the Russia investigation and personal attacks
on Trump did not move voters.
 Figures. Russian Bots Scooped US Media –
Broward County Democrats Were Destroying Ballots
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 2:51 Pm
You know your reporting sucks when
you’re getting scooped by Russian
bots!
In early November 2016 the Gateway Pundit posted an
article alleging voter fraud in Broward County Florida.
The GOP even released a statement on the alleged voter
fraud.
These attempts by Florida Democrats to alter the election
did not sway the election and Donald Trump won in an
electoral landslide.
Then in February of 2018 — in the midst of the Russia-
Collusion hysteria — the media accused The Gateway
Pundit of falling for the fake news of a Russian troll
internet bots.
The Washington Times even attacked The Gateway Pundit:
The article cited a tweet published earlier in
the day by @Ten_GOP, a Twitter account
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purportedly managed by members of the
Tennessee Republican Party but actually
operated by the Internet Research Agency,
a Russian “troll farm” at the center of a
sprawling indictment unsealed Friday as
part of Mr. Mueller’s investigation into the
2016 race.
“BREAKING,” the bogus GOP account
tweeted. “#VoterFraud by counting tens of
thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes
being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
That precise tweet was among a handful attributed to
Internet Research Agency accounts and included in
Friday’s indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and
three companies, including the aforementioned troll farm
and its employees, for allegedly defrauding the United
States and interfering in the 2016 race using “information
warfare.”
Brenda Snipes (Local 10)
Earlier today a Florida judge ruled that Broward County
Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes violated state and
federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016
congressional race while they were the subject of a lawsuit
against her office.
It looks like the Russian bots were right.
So was The Gateway Pundit.
Broward County Democrats were
destroying ballots.
It must suck when Russian bots are
more dependable than the liberal media.
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 THANK GOD:
Pope Francis Hints At Retirement
By Lucian Wintrich
May 15, 2018, 3:24 Pm
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis
remained one of the more controversial far-
left liberal popes in the history of the
Catholic Church.
You may remember his continuous endorsements of
socialism and socialist ‘ideals’. You may also remember
when TGP reported Francis told believers that Muslim
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terrorism does not exist and the dangers of radicalism
exists equally in all religions. While it may seem far-
fetched, the Pope also instructed the Vatican newspaper to
praise Karl Marx…
Well, all things *may* be reverting back to normal soon,
as it has just come out that the Pope is exploring
retirement. THANK GOD.
During the Pope’s Tuesday homily,
Pope Francis made the remark, “When I
read this, I think about myself, because
I’m a bishop and I’ll have to take my
leave.”
He went further to say that Pope Benedict XVI’s
retirement “opened the door” to the resignation of future
popes.
Pope Francis has yet to directly say if he definitively will
retire and what that timeline would look like.
 CNN Crank Posts Trump Assassination GIF
– Blames Default Gif Generator
By Kristinn Taylo
May 15, 2018, 3:42 Pm

CNN’s Chris Cillizza posted, and later deleted, a GIF of
President Donald Trump that appeared to show Trump in
the cross hairs of a sniper rifle scope as he spoke Tuesday
morning at the annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial
Service held on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington,
D.C.
Cillizza captioned the image with the line
“killed in the line of duty”
“Donald Trump, pointing to heavens to
commemorate police officers killed in
the line of duty”
Cillizza deleted the Trump assassination image and posted
a ‘who me?’ explanation blaming a default GIF generator
image,
“I’ve deleted a GIF about President Trump.
We use @GifGrabber to make our GIFs
and it defaults to the image below as a first
frame. To clear up any unintended
confusion, I’ve removed the tweet.”

The image was captured by Sundance at the Conservative

Treehouse.

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 Karem, Ryan Hijack Segment On Melania’s Surgery
To Bemoan President’s Tweets,
Lack Of Press Conferences
By Curtis Houck
May 15, 2018 4:21 PM EDT
Trump Derangement Syndrome can really take a toll on
people. Unfortunately, that was evident on Monday’s CNN
Tonight as CNN political analysts and White House
Briefing Room rabble-rousers Brian Karem and April
Ryan hijacked a segment meant to discuss First Lady
Melania Trump’s surgery to whine about the President’s
tweeting habits and his refusal to hold press conferences.
Most telling throughout this segment were the facial
expressions from chief medical correspondent Sanjay
Gupta and White House reporter Kate Bennett with both
seemingly somewhere between mortified and
uncomfortable at the callous behavior from their
colleagues.
Host Don Lemon initially wasn’t that interested either, not
so much offering a question to Ryan as making an attempt
to cast doubt on how much the President cared about the
First Lady. Lemon observed that he tweeted about
Melania’s procedure
“after first taking time to send a tweet
trashing leakers” and only “going to
Walter Reed following the procedure.”
Ryan noted how the First Lady’s office only put out word
at 3:11 p.m. Eastern because, all the while, the President
was having a seemingly normal day with a full agenda.
That led Ryan to tacitly call into question his commitment
and concern for the First Lady (click “expand” to see the
nonsense):
Well, you know, we received the e-mail from the First
Lady's office at 3:11 p.m. and I'm sure everyone, like
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myself, and I heard Kate say it, we were all kind of
shocked. But, you know, this President this morning, today
he watched the unveiling of the U.S. Embassy in
Jerusalem. He called James Shaw, Jr., the hero from the
Nashville Waffle House and, you know, he did all that and
we didn't know anything and then he was tweeting, he was
being normal. He was being the normal President that we
know. Tweeting, trashing the leakers and stuff and then
when it comes out, that's when we hear! This President is
unique in the way he handles things, but he does things. I
mean, he's unique but he also stays true to himself. You
know, I mean, anything can happen and it's like he focuses
— he has a laser focus on that and we’ve heard he did call
the First Lady this morning and he checked in with
doctors. But still the day was going on, and then after it
was announced he focused attention. It's just he's very
interesting. We've never seen anything like this before. But
he did go, he did go to see her.
Thankfully, Lemon and Bennett stepped in
to put Ryan in her place. Lemon first
emphasized that Monday included “the
opening of an embassy” so the President
had a lot of “things he had to do” since,
“he's the president of the United States”
and thus a “very busy” guy.
Bennett had more to say, pointing out that
everyone should think about this story
“from the First Lady’s perspective”
because, based on her best guess, the
surgery “was her call” and “[m]aybe she
didn't want him there in terms of what
that would bring, and more motorcade,
and a press pool, and way more security
because she is intensely private.”
“Certainly, I would imagine this is
something especially as it was
preplanned and not an emergency, the
family, including the President has been
well aware of, and I would imagine he
would, whether he liked it or not,
respect her wishes not to be there for
the surgery, not to draw more attention,
but it is,” she added.
Despite that, Karem still didn’t get the
message. He briefly offered his “best and
 prayers with the First Lady” because
“she has weathered quite a few storms
and her office reacts quite
professionally most days.”
From there, however, he dispatched with the First Lady
and got on his high horse about how the President is not
only the White House’s biggest leaker, but has no interest
in bringing the American people together or telling the
truth.
Here’s portions of Karem’s deranged and out-of-place
rant:
[Y]ou saw the contrast in the two offices
and how they react to the things today and
you go back to the President's tweet before
he tweeted about his wife about leakers
and such, and how he’s going to — look,
the biggest leaker is the President of the
United States and that has shown in
everything he's done...[T]he very first
promise this President made was to bring
this country together at a very divisive time,
and he has not done that and why?
Because he won't tell us the truth. He will
not tell the American people the truth.
Some people are fine with that, and some
people are not fine with that.....You can't
even deal with the politics of this President
because you can't get past the fact he
won't tell the truth and secondly and
probably the most important thing I have to
ask is, will the President of the United
States have the courage to show up in his
own pressroom and take questions from
the press? He's had one open press
conference in a year and a half, and he
needs to be accountable to the American
people, and he needs to answer our
questions.
To see the relevant transcript from May 14's CNN Tonight,
click “expand.”
CNN Tonight
May 14, 2018
10:08 p.m. Eastern
DON LEMON: April to you now. I want to put up one of the
President's tweets he tweeted today. He said, “Heading over to
the Walter Reed Medical Center to see our great First Lady,
Melania. Successful procedure, she is in good spirits. Thank you
to all of the well-wishers.” So, he tweeted that after first taking
time to send a tweet trashing leakers and I want to your reaction
to today’s news and the President going to Walter Reed following
the procedure.
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APRIL RYAN: Well, you know, we received the e-mail from the
First Lady's office at 3:11 p.m. and I'm sure everyone, like myself,
and I heard Kate say it, we were all kind of shocked. But, you
know, this President this morning, today he watched the unveiling
of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. He called James Shaw, Jr.,
the hero from the Nashville Waffle House and, you know, he did
all that and we didn't know anything and then he was tweeting,
he was being normal. He was being the normal President that we
know. Tweeting, trashing the leakers and stuff and then when it
comes out, that's when we hear! This President is unique in the
way he handles things, but he does things. I mean, he's unique
but he also stays true to himself. You know, I mean, anything can
happen and it's like he focuses — he has a laser focus on that
and we’ve heard he did call the First Lady this morning and he
checked in with doctors. But still the day was going on, and then
after it was announced he focused attention. It's just he's very
interesting. We've never seen anything like this before.
LEMON: But listen —
RYAN: But he did go, he did go to see her.
LEMON: — yeah, the opening of an embassy and the things he
had to do today. I mean, listen, he's the president of the United
States, he’s very busy. And also, Kate —
RYAN: But that is the First Lady of the United States as well.
LEMON: — yes. Before I get to Brian, though, but Kate, she’s
intensely private and the West Wing and the East Wing, they
operate completely separately and completely differently. The
East Wing did not leak. No one told us until it was released.
KATE BENNETT: Right, exactly. I think it's an important point we
maybe think about this from the First Lady's perspective, not just
the President's perspective. This very well — and I believe from
the actions we’ve seen from her before have been, this was her
call. Maybe she didn't want him there in terms of what that would
bring, and more motorcade, and a press pool, and way more
security because she is intensely private. Certainly, I would
imagine this is something especially as it was preplanned and not
an emergency, the family, including the President has been well
aware of, and I would imagine he would, whether he liked it or
not, respect her wishes not to be there for the surgery, not to
draw more attention, but it is. She is intensely private and
certainly it's amazing when you think about it, the First Lady of
the United States had a medical procedure that allowed her to be
hospitalized and no one said a peep about it until after she was
out of this procedure. I find that — in the juxtaposition of the two
sides of the building pretty remarkable.
LEMON: Go ahead Brian, what did you want to say?
RYAN: But Don, she’s — real quick —
LEMON: Hold on here, April. I need to get Brian in, sorry.
RYAN: Okay.
BRIAM KAREM: I’m sorry, look. First of all, our best and prayers
with the First Lady. She has weathered quite a few storms, and
her office reacts quite professionally on most days. Much more
so than I would say the West Wing does and so, you saw the
contrast in the two offices and how they react to the things today
and you go back to the President's tweet before he tweeted
about his wife about leakers and such, and how he’s going to —
look, the biggest leaker is the President of the United States and
that has shown in everything he's done and at this point in time,
Don, I really just have two questions left for the President of the
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United States in that pressroom. One, you know, like, Jared
came out today and, of course, I believe Raj also from the
pressroom said: “This President keeps his promises.” That's not
true. On this very level, he — the very first promise this President
made was to bring this country together at a very divisive time,
and he has not done that and why? Because he won't tell us the
truth. He will not tell the American people the truth. Some people
are fine with that, and some people are not fine with that. So my
question to the President of the United States, the one I have is:
Will you please just tell us the truth? I feel like I'm talking to my
child. I'm back trying to raise my children, saying: “Don't pour
water in my ear and tell me it's raining. Everything is okay if you
tell me the truth and we can deal with it there.” You can't even
deal with the politics of this President because you can't get past
the fact he won't tell the truth and secondly and probably the
most important thing I have to ask is, will the President of the
United States have the courage to show up in his own pressroom
and take questions from the press? He's had one open press
conference in a year and a half, and he needs to be accountable
to the American people, and he needs to answer our questions.
LEMON: Well, let's discuss that more. We're going to have Brian
and April back. Sanjay, thank you. Kate, thank you. I appreciate
your time. Thanks for your expertise. Brian, and April, again stick
around.
 Corrupt Obama-Appointed Deep State Judge Upholds
Mueller’s Authority To Prosecute Paul Manafort
By Cristina Laila
May 15, 2018, 5:12 Pm
US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson
upheld Mueller’s authority to prosecute
Paul Manafort after she dismissed a
motion filed by Manafort’s lawyers
Tuesday.
Amy Berman Jackson is an far left radical, Obama-
appointed judge who is on Paul Manafort’s case involving
charges of money laundering and failing to register as a
foreign agent for a Ukrainian political party.
There is a second, separate case against Paul Manafort
involving allegations of bank fraud stemming from a bail
package Manafort submitted after his first indictment.
Judge T.S. Ellis is on the bank fraud case and has not yet
issued a ruling on a similar motion filed by Manafort’s
legal team.
Judge Ellis recently lost his temper on Mueller’s legal
team, calling them liars and accusing them of using the
case against Manafort to ‘get Trump ousted from office.’
Far left Politico reported:
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected former
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s
attempt to get an indictment against him
dismissed by claiming that special counsel
Robert Mueller’s appointment was flawed.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman
Jackson ruled that Mueller’s prosecution of
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Manafort on charges of money laundering
and failing to register as a foreign agent for
a Ukrainian political party fell “squarely”
within the authority Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein granted Mueller
last May.
Here is more on the corrupt, Obama-
appointed, Judge Amy Berman Jackson
via TGP’s Joe Hoft:
TGP reported two months ago that Obama
appointed liberal activist Judge, Amy
Berman Jackson, was assigned to the most
important court case in US history. 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.
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 19th, 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.
Read more about Obama’s corrupt Deep State Judge
Amy Berman Jackson on page 454 in Book #33.
 Senator Rand Paul Sends Letter To CIA Inquiring About
Haspel’s Involvement In Trump Campaign Surveillance
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 15, 2018, 5:45 Pm

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, John Kasich, Ted Cruz,

Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and himself.

Senator Paul’s letter goes on to directly ask Haspel if she,

or anyone else at the CIA, are aware of any US
government or non-government agency being involved in
the surveillance of presidential candidates while they were
travelling outside of the US.

“Have you, or anyone else at the CIA, ever

cooperated with any foreign intelligence
services to surveil, monitor, or collect any
information on candidate Trump during his
travels outside the United States in the
preceeding five years? Specifically, was
Senator Rand Paul has sent a formal letter to the Central
candidate Trump ever under any
Intelligence Agency inquiring about Gina Haspel’s
surveillance or of interest to the CIA during
involvement or coordination in possible surveillance of the
his previous visits in Europe?” Senator
Trump campaign.
Paul asks.

The letter concludes by specifically asking if surveillance

was conducted during Trump’s visit to Great Britain in
November, 2016.

See letter on next page.

Speaking to The Gateway Pundit about the letter, Senator

Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Doug Stafford explained that
Haspel is a “John Brennan acolyte.”

“Gina Haspel is a John Brennan acolyte.

Brennan is a now-visible and public
opponent of President Trump. He is part
of the deep state that opposed and now
works against the President,” Stafford
told TGP. “She should not be in charge
of the CIA.”

The letter asks for clarification about under what

circumstances the CIA will trail, monitor or otherwise
collect information on the communications and
movements of US presidential candidates. Senator Paul
asked for a response relating to candidates Donald Trump,

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 The Michael Avenatti Files: Porn Star Attorney Avenatti
Suspected Of Defrauding Million Dollar Newport
Beach Property Owner
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 6:30 Pm

When it comes time for discovery in the case with the

Newport Beach property, the Swiss company never shows
up for a deposition.

When it comes time for mediation, the Swiss company

never shows up for that.

When it comes time for court, the Swiss company doesn’t

appear.

In fact, nobody ever appears for this phantom Swiss

company. The former home owner denies owing any
money to any Swiss company. Finally, the suit is
According to public records, creepy dismissed, and the home owner can pursue eviction of
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn Avenatti.
star Stormy Daniels, defrauded a million
dollar home owner in Newport Beach The Swiss company suit was a pure fraud on the court, and
while continuing to live in the owner’s the only logical explanation is it was a fraud by Avenatti.
property. This guy is beyond rebuke!
Legal expert and attorney Robert Barnes tweeted the
According to public records, creepy porn star attorney following related to this nightmare –
Michael Avenatti entered into an agreement to buy a $12
million home in Newport Beach, California. He agreed to
pay $100,000 a month in lease payments for nine months
while he gathered the cash to close on the property. The
problem was, that come the time that his escrow was due,
Avenatti didn’t have the cash to cover the escrow or even
his rent.

So what did Avenatti do? At this same exact time,

magically and mysteriously, a Swiss company appeared
out of the blue, sues the home owner, and tries to take the
house from him.

How did this happen? The mysterious Swiss company

claims that the prior home owner owed $8 million on a
home loan that came due magically right when Avenatti
was supposed to pay escrow or vacate. Avenatti at this
same time quits paying rent, while the homeowner has to
fight this new ‘lis pendens’ suit from the Swiss company Michael Avenatti, corrupt and creepy
claiming to own the home that prevents the homeowner attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, is
from selling it to anyone else as well. the epitome of the criminal deep state.
He is a dishonest fraudster and a liberal
Democrat.

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 Judicial Watch Lead Investigator: ‘It’s Time For Trump’s
Team To Fight Like Hell Because Mueller’s Witch Hunt Is
A Slow-Motion Political Coup’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 15, 2018, 7:49 Pm

Judicial Watch’s Director of

Investigations, Chris Farrell told Lou
Dobbs Tuesday evening Trump needs to
fight like hell because Mueller’s witch
hunt is a slow-motion political coup.

Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs expressed his

frustration and anger over the never ending Russia witch
hunt.
“Truly our government is a captive of a
corrupt legal system, a corrupt Justice
Department, a corrupt set of judges, a
corrupt government Deep State and the
obstructionism of RINOs and Dems…what
in the world will we tolerate next?” Lou
Dobbs asked Chris Farrell.
Chris Farrell began by firing a warning shot to the
President.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed
Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate ‘Trump-
Russia’ collusion on May 17, 2017 without any real
intelligence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to
hack the DNC’s servers.
There was already a counterintelligence investigation into
several people in Trump’s campaign prior to Mueller’s
appointment last May, so here we are entering year
NUMBER TWO and the investigators still have
NOTHING.

“It’s now time to fight like hell,” Farrell said
as a warning to Trump’s team.
“This kind of sitting back and letting it play
out and letting all these characters run the
tables, make their various declarations,
moving the ball. Look, this is really not a
legal investigation. This is a slow-motion
political coup that’s being carried out by
legal processes,” Farrell continued.
VIDEO:
Mueller continues to rove around unchecked, harassing
Americans and raiding people in Trump’s inner circle
because no one has the guts to shut him down.
Chris Farrell is correct; it is time for Trump’s team to take
the gloves off and fight like hell because Mueller and co
are moving full steam ahead with their efforts to remove
Trump.
They won’t back down until they are stopped by force.

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Liberal Late Night Comedians Trash President Trump And
His Family After Opening Of US Embassy
In Jerusalem (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 8:11 Pm
Via The Hollywood Reporter:

What a surprise!

The far left late night hosts tried to

outdo each other on Monday night after
the US opened its new embassy in
Jerusalem.
Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama all
promised to move the US Embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Only Trump followed through with his
promise.

The late night hosts mock President

Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner
and his daughter Ivanka Trump.
Such courage and originality.
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 'The View' Crew Objects To Trump Calling Disloyal
Leakers 'Traitors And Cowards'
By Tim Graham
May 15, 2018 9:10 PM EDT
Tuesday’s edition of The View once again zombie-walked
through the outrage that the White House has yet to issue a
public apology to John McCain for White House aide
Kelly Sadler suggesting his political stances don’t matter
because “he’s dying anyway.”
No one in the middle of this circle of supportive sisters
asks Meghan McCain why Sadler’s private apology isn’t
enough, especially when the public has been aware of the
private apology for days now. Clearly they know this
routine is getting tired. They only spent a few minutes on
it.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Still no apology
from the White House for that disgusting
comment about Meghan's dad, but You-
Know-Who did tweet about it, saying, “So-
called leaks are a massive
overexaggeration put out by the Fake
Media.” But then he added, “with that being
said, leakers are traitors and cowards and
we'll find out who they are.”
So which is it? Are the leakers, the leaks
are fake? Or the traitors are leaking and
cowards? I'm confused!...
MEGHAN McCAIN: I read this like, four or
five times last night. I was like, okay, I don't
understand. Like, the leaking is fake,
leakers are cowards but the leaking didn't
happen. Whatever. Let me tell you, as a
person involved with this and got the phone
call, she said it, she admitted to it, so that
part is 100 percent right, and I know
because she called me and told me. So
let's start with that.
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They should read Trump tweets in code. If you leak to the
destroy-Trump media, you are helping the "fake media."
You are "traitors" because you're leaking to the president's
enemies, and you're "cowards" if you leak anonymously
and nobody knows it's you. It's not that complicated. If
someone inside The View leaked embarassing material
about nasty insults from stars in the makeup chair, the stars
would surely be angry at the disloyalty.
The outrage machine continued:
JOY BEHAR: But she can't apologize in
public because if she apologizes in public,
then Trump has to apologize to your father
in public, and he can't do that either. That's
why there's no apology coming down the
pike!...
McCAIN: But I will say one thing that I'm so
proud of. My family -- my dad's office, they
never had a leaking problem and you have
leaking problems when you don't have
loyalty to the principal, when you're not
inspiring loyalty.
BEHAR: Why do they continue to work
there? Why don't they find some balls and
quit?
McCAIN: I don't know. That's between
them and their conscience. [Applause] I
don't know, but it's fascinating to me
because it's always a sign of a bad
campaign or a bad candidate or a bad
politician when you have rampant leaking
problems because it shows that you don't
have loyalty to the principal or the message
and clearly, you have to look in your own
house on that one.
As to McCain never having a leaking/loyalty problem,
let’s revisit The New York Times on July 8, 2008:
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s
campaigns have long been defined by
internal squabbling and power plays,
zigzagging lines of command and a
penchant by the candidate for
consulting with former advisers without
alerting current ones, always a recipe
for disquiet.
After a period of relative calm on that
score, it is becoming clear that his
campaign is once again a swirl of
competing spheres of influence, clusters of
friends, consultants and media advisers
who represent a matrix of clashing
ambitions and festering feuds....
All of this intrigue breeds discouragement
among even those former McCain
associates who do not dispute the notion
that voters now might be getting an early
glimpse of the messy, unstructured way in
which a McCain White House might be
.
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managed. They are hard-pressed to
explain why Mr. McCain tolerates this — or
encourages this — or why he has trouble
cutting ties with people who have not
served him well over the years.
Meghan McCain may not remember this well, but it's clear
that if her father had defeated Obama, there would have
been great encouragement from these liberal media organs
to leak. The fact that her father's top advisers, like Steve
Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace, now bash the Republicans
daily on MSNBC suggest loyalty might have been a very
serious problem if only he had actually won the White
House. If McCain was not a "bad candidate" with a "bad
campaign," why didn't he win?
 Joe Digenova: Former CIA Chief John Brennan Was
Leading The Counter Intelligence Operation
Against Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 15, 2018, 10:16 Pm
Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova
joined Laura Ingraham Tuesday night on
The Ingraham Angle to discuss the
latest developments in Mueller Special
Counsel witch hunt.
Joe DiGenova told Laura that former
CIA Chief John Brennan was the head of
the group of people who were creating
the fake counter intelligence
investigation of Donald Trump.
That may explain John Brennan’s continued threats against
this president.
On Monday Brennan blamed President Trump for Hamas
terror operations.
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From Tonight’s Interview:
Joe DiGenova: It was abundantly clear
that there was no legitimate basis even for
a counter intelligence investigation, let
alone a criminal investigation. It is quite
obvious that John Brennan was at the head
of the group of people who were going to
create a counter intelligence investigation
against Trump by creating false information
that was going to be fed through Carter
Page and fed through George
Papadopoulos so that it would be picked
up, reported back to Washington and
provide the basis for a counter, a fake,
counter intelligence investigation and it was
all Brennan’s doing. And that is why the
Justice Department is viciously fighting,
revealing everything they can about the
source in London who everybody knows
the identity of.
Laura Ingraham: Explain the source in
London.
Joe DiGenova: The source in London was
another person who was feeding false
information to George Papadopoulos and
others about collusion which did not exist.
Via The Ingraham Angle:
 The 'Deep State' Takes Some Serious Hits - The Russian
Oligarch & Mueller, CIA Lies Exposed, And Revelations
From More Strzok-Page Texts
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
May 15, 2018
Three well-written, detailed, investigative reports have
been issued by three different sources, which has dropped
the hammer on a number a "deep state" heads as more and
more dots are being connected, showing a true, vast
conspiracy, involving a number of individuals, spanning
multiple intelligence agencies, to take down president
Trump.
One by John Solomon over at The Hill showing that
Robert Mueller has some serious conflicts of interest in his
being in charge of any investigation that involves Russia.
The second comes from the Real Clear Investigations
website, showing that two former intelligence agency
officials have contradicted Former CIA Director John
Brennan’s congressional testimony regarding the use of the
Steele Dossier.
Last but not least, Andrew McCarthy, former Justice
Department prosecutor, digs deep into the thousands of
text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI
lawyer Lisa Page to break down how the Trump-Russia
investigation began.
OBAMA CIA DIRECTOR LIED ABOUT DOSSIER
Former CIA Director John Brennan has been publicly
contradicted by two former intelligence community
members, regarding testimony he presented before
congress in May 2017.
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Brennan had denied, in no uncertain terms, that the
Kremlin sourced Steele Dossier, which was funded by the
Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, played any part in
"the intelligence community’s publicly
released conclusion last year that Russia
meddled in the 2016 election 'to help
Trump’s chances of victory'."
Many may remember at the time the media, which later
corrected itself, claimed that all 17 intelligence agencies
had agreed with that assessment, when the Director of
National Intelligence report itself stated that only three
Intelligence agencies, The Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The
National Security Agency (NSA), contributed to the report.
A report that asserted at the very beginning that they
would offer their assessment, but would not provide any
evidence or basis to support those assessments.
Via Real Clear Investigation:
Recently retired National Security Agency
Director Michael Rogers stated in a
classified letter to Congress that the Clinton
campaign-funded memos did factor into the
ICA. And James Clapper, Director of
National Intelligence under President
Obama, conceded in a recent CNN
interview that the assessment was based
on “some of the substantive content of the
dossier.” Without elaborating, he
maintained that “we were able to
corroborate” certain allegations.
These accounts are at odds with Brennan’s
May 2017 testimony before the House
Intelligence Committee that the Steele
dossier was "not in any way used as the
basis for the intelligence community's
assessment" that Russia interfered in the
election to help elect Donald Trump.
Brennan has repeated this claim numerous
 times, including in February on “Meet the
Press.”
In a March 5, 2018, letter to House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, Adm. Rogers informed the
committee that a two-page summary of the
dossier — described as “the Christopher
Steele information” — was “added” as an
“appendix to the ICA draft,” and that
consideration of that appendix was “part of
the overall ICA review/approval process.”
His skepticism of the dossier may explain
why the NSA parted company with other
intelligence agencies and cast doubt on
one of its crucial conclusions: that Vladimir
Putin personally ordered a cyberattack on
Hillary Clinton’s campaign to help Donald
Trump win the White House.
The entire piece is definitely recommended reading, as it
shows that Clapper himself broke with precedent in how
he handled the DNI report by not allowing all agencies to
weigh in. Considering the unverified dossier was used in a
number of manners, including as part of the FISC
application to obtain a warrant for surveillance of Trump
campaign members. The fact that the other two groups that
made up the three named in the DNI report, the FBI and
the CIA, are now embroiled in scandals of their own over
possible abuses of power, brings into question the validity
of the entire "assessment" of the original DNI report on
Russia.
Flashback interview from February 2018, in regards to
Brennan's testimony and the deceit the deep state members
of the intelligence community throughout this whole
process.
THE ORIGINS OF THE TRUMP-RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION
This brings us to another one of the outstanding
investigative reports over at National Review by
Andrew McCarthy, who took it upon himself to go through
the mind-numbing amount of text messages (502 page
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PDF here) between Strzok and Page to highlight portions,
and offer a timeline of events in conjunction with the texts
themselves.
Being a former prosecutor, McCarthy first highlights how
the FBI puts the investigation into Hillary to bed in a
manner that provided a
"legal rationale for letting Clinton off the
hook that might pass the laugh test," before
delving into the Strzok-Page texts which he
specifies as "An Invaluable Narrative,"
calling the texts a "goldmine of insight."
McCarthy focuses on eight days of texts, from July 28
through August 5, 2016 because the Russia probe started
in late July, as he painstakingly shows the interactions
between Strzok and Page, as well as the mention of
coordinating with other high level senior members (at least
the members that didn't have their names redacted) of the
FBI to establish their "insurance policy," to which we all
now know was what Strzok considered the Russia
investigation to be.
There truly is no way to adequately highlight the "tone"
McCarthy captures with the texts he cites without copying
and pasting the entire piece, so please head over and read it
in full to see what the texts, and the highly questionable
redactions indicate about how the FBI, from the top down,
quite literally were preparing the Russia investigation in a
manner that was purely a political witch hunt set up for the
specific purpose of using it as an "insurance policy," in the
event that Donald Trump won the presidency.
More importantly, those texts show that it was not only the
FBI, but it went straight up to the state department and it
was the Obama White House that was running the show.
Read: The Strzok-Page Texts and the Origins of the
Trump-Russia Investigation
"He who winks his eyes does so to devise
perverse things; He who compresses his
lips brings evil to pass"- Proverbs 16:30
MUELLER'S RUSSIA CONNECTION
Last, but definitely not least, award-winning investigative
journalist John Solomon, exposes Robert Mueller, the
man selected by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
to head up the probe into Russian collusion with members
of the Trump campaign, which to date, has found none, for
the FBI's previous association with Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska back when Mueller was Director of the FBI.
But there’s one episode even Mueller’s
former law enforcement comrades — and
independent ethicists — acknowledge
raises legitimate legal issues and a
 possible conflict of interest in
overseeing the Russia election probe.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the
bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska to spend millions of his own
dollars funding an FBI-supervised
operation to rescue a retired FBI agent,
Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while
working for the CIA in 2007.
his be viewed as a potential embarrassment
for Mueller. The question is whether he
could implicate Mueller in an impropriety,"
Turley is quoted as saying.
Solomon joined Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle
on May 14th to discuss his article and findings.

Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has

surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation
and who was recently sanctioned by the
Trump administration.

The Levinson mission is confirmed by more

than a dozen participants inside and
outside the FBI, including Deripaska, his
lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired
agent who supervised the case. Mueller
was kept apprised of the operation, officials
told me.

Solomon goes to cite other legal experts showing the
myriad of different ways this presents a clear conflict of
interest in having Mueller play any part in the Russia
investigation, including Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz pointing out that while Mueller was the head
of the FBI, they previously accepted financial help from a
Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current
probe.
"The real question becomes whether it was
proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the
Manafort indictment, and whether that
omission was to avoid the kind of
transparency that is really required by the
law," Dershowitz said.
Solomon also quotes Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton
Justice Department lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog
in her assertion that
"It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement
with Mr. Deripaska violated the
Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the
government from accepting voluntary
services."
George Washington University constitutional law
professor Jonathan Turley agrees there could be a serious
conflict of interest:
"If the operation with Deripaska
contravened federal law, this figure could
.
BOTTOM LINE
The conspiracy to take President Trump down included
members from the very intelligence agencies that initially
signed off on the original DNI report into Russian
interference. The misconduct that has already been
exposed, from the lies told to congress, to the text
messages indicating the conspiracy went straight up to the
top of the Obama administration, indicates a level of
corruption that cannot be overstated.
While we have seen many resignations, terminations,
reassignments and demotions at the highest levels of the
FBI, we are now seeing the culmination of results from the
many investigations into the actions of multiple
intelligence agencies under the control of the Obama
administration. Many of the revelations were the result of
the DOJ's Office of Inspector General who has been tasked
with investigating a variety of issues, from how the
Clinton investigation was handled, to the misconduct on
the part of the Intel agencies senior members.
The first IG report exposed the former FBI deputy director
for lying multiple times under oath and unauthorized
leaking of information to the press, and that is considered
to be "Just the tip of the iceberg." Another IG report is
expected to be released this month.
The so-called "deep state," is taking some seriously hard
hits right now.

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 DOJ Finally Responds To Request From Goodlatte,
Gowdy For Info On Comey’s Memo-Leaking
‘Friend’ Daniel Richman
By Cristina Laila
May 15, 2018, 11:28 Pm
The DOJ finally responded to GOP
lawmakers’ request for information on
Comey’s memo-leaking ‘friend’ Daniel
Richman.
The Justice Department is reportedly handing over
requested documents on Daniel Richman to the House
Judiciary and House Oversight Committees on Thursday.
Daniel Richman, James Comey: Image via Fox News
Comey’s ‘friend’ Daniel Richman also happened to have
FBI clearance even though Comey never described him as
a ‘special government employee’ in his testimony to
Congress.
Lawmakers have requested records on this peculiar and
convenient arrangement between Comey and Richman.
“To assist the committees in their oversight
of this matter, please provide a copy of any
nondisclosure agreement(s) signed by
Richman with FBI, DOJ or any other entity
of the federal government,” Gowdy and
Goodlatte previously wrote in a letter to AG
Sessions.
Fox News reported:
The Justice Department said Tuesday it
responded to demands from Capitol Hill
Republicans to turn over documents about
former FBI Director James Comey’s law
professor friend who last year released
contents of Comey’s memos to the media.
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DOJ officials told Fox News the response
was transmitted to Capitol Hill, but it was
not immediately clear what the response
was.
The House Oversight Committee told Fox
News it did not receive any documents
from the DOJ, but did receive a verbal
response and expected to get the
documents by Thursday.
Earlier this month, House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-
Va., and House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy,
R-S.C., made the request for records on
Daniel Richman in a letter to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein.
“The committees are aware James Comey,
the former director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), shared or instructed
staff to share at least some portion of the
memos he drafted memorializing his
conversations with President Donald J.
Trump (the Comey Memos) to an individual
named Daniel Richman,” the letter read.
President Trump previously destroyed
Comey for omitting his memo-leaking friend
Daniel Richman worked for the FBI during
his testimony to Congress.
President Trump:
Look, Comey is a leaker and he’s a liar and
not only on this stuff. He’s been leaking for
years. He’s probably been using his friend
the so-called professor who now turns out
to have been FBI clearance, which he
never said. He even lied about that
because he never said that in Congress, he
said he gave it to a friend.
Comey told the Senate Intel Committee in a June 2017
testimony that he asked a ‘friend’ of his to leak to a memo
he kept regarding his conversation with President Trump
to the New York Times.
Comey admitted this after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME),
asked him why he kept the memos. She then asked if he
ever shared any of them outside the DOJ.
Daniel C. Richman confirmed to the Washington
Examiner that he was Comey’s friend at Columbia. He has
been referred to in the New York Times as a
.
“longtime confidant and friend of Mr.
Comey’s,” and his bio at Columbia’s
website lists him as an “adviser to FBI
Director James B. Comey.”
Not once did he ever disclose Daniel Richman was one of
his personal lawyers or an unpaid employee of the FBI
until recently.

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 Gohmert Says Comey Should
‘Build Himself Another Ark’ For Leaks
Texas GOP Congressman Says It's 'Time To Clean House' At Dept. Of Justice Over
The Failed Trump-Russia And Clinton Email Investigations
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 16 May 2018 At 6:27 AM
Former FBI Director James Comey leaked so much
information that he “needs to build himself another ark” to
contain the flood, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said
Tuesday on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime.”
Gohmert, an outspoken member of the House Committee
on the Judiciary, told Fox News’ Melissa Francis that he
keeps thinking about a quote from actor Wilford Brimley’s
character of fictional Assistant U.S. Attorney General
James A. Wells in the 1981 film “Absence of Malice.”
“Wilford Brimley said, ‘Last time we had a
leak like that, Noah built himself an ark,'”
Gohmert paraphrased. “I think that is what
we have going on when you have Comey
[saying] he doesn’t consider it a leak.”
Comey repeatedly defended his decision to ask his friend
Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman to
leak to the media information from memos Comey wrote
detailing his private conversations with President Donald
Trump.
Richman previously worked with the FBI on a “special
government employee” status. Comey testified that he
hoped the leaked memos would spur the appointment of a
special counsel to investigate allegations of collusion
between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia interests.
.
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“You know, in fairness to [Comey], it’s
really not a leak. It’s more of a flood, not
just a little leak. And maybe Noah needs to
build himself another ark,” Gohmert added.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017. Comey told Fox News’
Bret Baier in April, “I don’t consider what I did with Mr.
Richman a leak.” Comey also noted that he didn’t
previously reveal that he hired Richman to perform work
on a special government employee status “because it
wasn’t relevant.”
But congressional investigators are demanding information
from the Department of Justice and FBI regarding
Richman and the handling of Comey’s memos. DOJ
officials confirmed Tuesday to Fox News that the
department plans to cooperate with requests from House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to view documents
regarding Richman and the memos.
But Gohmert remained skeptical.
“Well, what we’ve seen in the past …
anything that may be damaging, they will
try to cover up,” Gohmert said. “They will
swear it is going to reveal national secrets
that put lives at risk.”
“And then once again, when we get the
information, we find out no lives were at
risk — only reputations, only potential
violations of regulations in the law,”
Gohmert continued. “So yeah — generally,
they try to cover up anything
embarrassing.”
It’s nevertheless time “to clean house,” Gohmert insisted.
 DHS Chief Staying ‘For
The Long Haul,’ Trump Right To Be ‘Frustrated’
U.S. Suffered A 203 Percent Increase In Unlawful Border Crossings, Yet Congress
Won't Put Partisanship Aside To Protect America's Borders
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 16 May 2018 At 6:18 AM
A 203 percent annual increase in illegal immigrants
happened because “they know the loopholes” and “they’re
exploiting them” thanks to Congress’ inaction, Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Fox
News host Laura Ingraham during an exclusive interview
Tuesday.
“We have a 203 percent increase in illegal
border crossings from March 2017 to
March 2018, I think by family units overall.
It’s a huge increase,” Ingraham said to
Nielsen on “The Ingraham Angle.” “Why?
What’s going on?”
Nielsen replied,
“Some of the loopholes are [that] they know
if they cross between the ports of entry that
nothing will happen. If they bring kids,
they’ll be released. The kids will be
released in 20 days under a court case,
right?”
“If they’re a criminal, they will serve a little
bit of time, but under a different court case
we have to release them in six months
back into the communities, the criminals,”
Nielsen continued. “If they’re other than
Mexican, we can’t put them in expedited
removal if there’s children involved.”
“So they know — they know better than
Congress. They know better than most of
us,” Nielsen warned. “They know the
loopholes. They’re exploiting them.”
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Although President Donald Trump elevated immigration
enforcement and border security to the forefront of
national discourse during the 2016 U.S. presidential
election, members of Congress have largely been
unwilling to cooperate with that agenda.
As a result, illegal immigrants "seeking to abuse the
system" are allowed to do so freely, Nielsen admitted.
"It's a broken system. We've got to work
with Congress. Congress has got to close
these loopholes," Nielsen pleaded.
When Ingraham asked Nielsen about reports that she
threatened to resign last week after Trump lashed out at
her for the increase in illegal immigration, the DHS
secretary admitted Trump is "frustrated, and rightly so."
"I mean, can you imagine? Here's the
president of the United States saying, 'I
want to secure this country. Americans
must come first.' And Congress is saying,'
Yeah, we don't have time. We're busy and
we've got to go on recess,'" Nielsen said.
Nielsen denied threatening to resign Tuesday after a
reporter shouted a question at her following her
appearance at a hearing before the Senate Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
During the hearing, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and
other Democratic senators grilled Nielsen about why
illegal immigrant children are separated from their parents.
Nielsen said she was just enforcing U.S. immigration laws.
"But as you know, for every sob story, we
have a 73 percent border assault increase.
We have people like Kate Steinle. I mean,
where is the compassion for the flip side of
this conversation?" Nielsen asked
Ingraham.
The 32-year-old's Steinle's death at the hands of Jose Ines
Garcia Zarate on July 1, 2015, propelled the political
debate over sanctuary city policies and immigration
enforcement measures to the forefront of national dialogue
during Trump's campaign.
Steinle died after Garcia Zarate, who had been deported
from the U.S. five times, fired a stolen .40-caliber
handgun. The bullet ricocheted off a San Francisco pier's
concrete walkway and struck her in the back.
"How sad is it that the Congress of the
United States can't pass a law to simply
increase penalties for criminals who have
been deported who come back?" Nielsen
asked. "The House passed it. We can't get
the Senate to pass it."
As it stands now, the U.S. immigration system "doesn't
work," Nielsen emphasized, noting that she shares Trump's
"frustration" with Congress' inaction on fixing loopholes.
Ingraham noted that
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"one of the other things that I think is very
frustrating to the American people" is
repeat border crossings from multiple
deportees "who have jumped the border
multiple times, have been deported, come
back into the country and yet they still get
the 'Oh my gosh, what are you going to do
about the poor immigrants? Our
communities are being shattered because
of this enforcement!'"
"But again, the media and the Democrats
are hitting you for shattering communities,"
Ingraham told Nielsen. "And I think those
who are charged with actually enforcing the
law are always made to be the bad guys.
And yet the American citizens elected
Donald Trump because they wanted that
situation reversed. It's 'America First.'"
"But that's the way that the law works.
Once [illegal immigrants] come into the
United States, we process them," Nielsen
said. "So we have asked Congress to fix
this loophole. It's a huge, gaping loophole
that we need fixed because it's so abused."
 Digenova: Deep State Snake John Brennan
Head Of Phony Operation Against Team Trump (Video)
Posted On May 16, 2018

(National Sentinel) Exposed: We know that the allegation
of criminal “collusion” between the 2016 Trump campaign
and Russia is bogus.
We know that the all of the so-called “evidence” used to
justify spying on the Trump campaign, specifically the
“Russia dossier,” is fake.
The U.S. intelligence community had no data whatsoever
to indicate that President Donald J. Trump or any of his
campaign officials were actively undermining the U.S. in
any way when the FBI launched its “counterintelligence”
investigation in July 2016.
And we know who the major players are — James Comey,
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, President Obama, Susan
Rice, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, among
others.
But who put all of this together? Who was the ringmaster?
Former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova believes former CIA
Director John Brennan, Mr. “Non-Partisan Citizen” who’s
been hyper-critical of Trump since he left office, is that
guy.
George Papadopoulos so that it would be
picked up, reported back to Washington
and provide the basis for a counter, a fake,
counterintelligence investigation and it was
all Brennan’s doing,” he continued.
“And that is why the Justice Department is
viciously fighting, revealing everything they
can about the source in London who
everybody knows the identity of,” he said.
“Explain the source in London,” Ingraham
said,
referencing someone who told Papadopoulos — for the
second time — that the Russians had Hillary Clinton’s
‘lost’ emails, in a bid to recruit him as a campaign spy.
“The source in London was another person
who was feeding false information to
George Papadopoulos and others about
collusion which did not exist,” said
diGenova.
Watch:

“It was abundantly clear that there was no

legitimate basis even for a
counterintelligence investigation, let alone
a criminal investigation,” diGenova told Fox
News‘ Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.
“It is quite obvious that John Brennan was
at the head of the group of people who
were going to create a counterintelligence
investigation against Trump by creating
false information that was going to be fed
through Carter Page and fed through
.

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 AUDIO: Suspected Obama Spy In Trump Campaign Held
Interview With BBC Radio 4 On May 17, 2017 — The
Launch Of Mueller Special Counsel
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 7:45 Am

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.

A second Internet sleuth ties Halper to the Obama team of

crooks. Jacob Wohl on Twitter identified Federal Records
It has been widely reported that the that reveal that the Obama Administration paid Stefan
Obama administration had a spy Halper $282,295 to apparently spy on the Trump
working inside the Trump campaign. campaign:

If this is true, and it is likely accurate,

the Obamagate spying scandal will
make Watergate look like a child’s
game.

As previously reported internet sleuths have determined

who the FBI spy was inside the Trump campaign.

Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a

piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan
Halper 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).

Carlson concluded his post with the following:

My guess is Papadopoulos never knew

what hit him. A young man, suddenly thrust Now this…
into a position beyond his experience,
Papadopoulos made for an easy Stefan Halper held an interview with
intelligence target. BBC Radio 4 on May 17, 2017.
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the
just completed Moscow trip with his host, This is the same day the DOJ
Stefan Halper, during the London announced Robert Mueller as the
symposium.
Special Counsel.
It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes
has learned the identity of a “top secret Halper trashed President Trump during the interview
intelligence source” that was part of the accusing him of not being up to the job of President of the
FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation. United States.
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 Rudy G. Says Enough Is Enough: Will Try To ‘Pressure’
Mueller Into Dropping Bogus Probe After
A Year Of Nothing
Posted On May 16, 2018
(National Sentinel) Shut it Down: Rudy Giuliani, many
say, was brought onto President Donald J. Trump’s legal
team because he knows special counsel Robert Mueller
well and because he was best positioned to help bring the
year-long “Russian collusion” hoax to an abrupt end.
Mueller doesn’t have anything on Trump because there’s
nothing to have. This entire probe is built on a lie — a fake
narrative created by the Deep State and the Obama White
House to ensnare Trump after he beat Hillary Clinton and
undermine his presidency from Day One.
They’ve tried everything from using a fake intelligence
“dossier” to get a FISA warrant so they could spy on the
Trump campaign to actually cultivating spies inside the
campaign. And still…nothing.
Mueller hasn’t come up empty-handed, mind you. There
have been indictments and guilty pleas. But none of those
have anything remotely to do with Mueller’s original
stated mandate: Find evidence of illegal activity involving
a Team Trump and a foreign power.
[Related: Nunes: One year into Mueller’s investigation
and STILL no proof of ‘Trump-Russia collusion’]
As Mueller’s one-year anniversary approaches, and as it
becomes glaringly obvious his appointment and
“investigation” was a political operation from the outset,
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Giuliani says enough is enough: It’s time to end this
charade.
As reported by Politico:
President Donald Trump’s attorney has an
unlikely new role model for special counsel
Robert Mueller: James Comey.
Frustrated by the open-ended nature of
Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-
year mark on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani says
Mueller should follow the example Comey
set in 2016, when the then-FBI director
investigated — and then publicly
exonerated — Hillary Clinton for her use of
a private email server.
“When Comey closed [the case] in July —
although I think it was a complete
whitewash — I’d like to have them do that
for us,” the former New York mayor said.
“Come on! They’ve had a whole year,” he
told Politico in a recent interview. “We’re
going to raise the pressure to try to get this
thing over with. It’s gone on long enough.”
[Related: Mueller is a tool of the Deep State, as his sordid
prosecutorial past PROVES]
Vice President Mike Pence agrees. “In the interest of the
country, I think it’s time to wrap it up,” he told NBC
News last week.
Of course, as long as Mueller is allowed to remain in his
post, he’ll continue his “investigation” because that’s the
real objective — to keep Trump off-balance and to
maintain the appearance of criminality, even when there’s
nothing there.
Jeff Sessions may have been Trump’s worst Cabinet pick.
But then, he doesn’t seem to have an ally in Deputy AG
Rod Rosenstein, either.
 These Senators Took Money From Iran Lobby
Before Vote On Obama’s Nuke Deal — Iran Threatens
To Out Bribed Officials
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 9:06 Am
Last week President Trump withdrew
from the sham Iranian nuclear deal.
President Trump knew the deal with the
Iranian mullahs was not working.
This was despite former Secretary of State John Kerry
working against the Trump administration to salvage the
weak deal with the Iranian regime.
Of course, the Iranian regime is very
upset with President Trump’s decision.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari
reportedly warned Western officials last week that if they
do not put pressure on the Trump administration the
Iranian regime will leak the names of all Western officials
who were bribed to pass the weak deal.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari (Press TV)
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So who are these bribed officials?
Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage.com
reported in 2015 on the Democrat senators
who took money from the Iran US lobby
before their vote to support the deal.
Senator Markey has announced his
support for the Iran deal that will let the
terrorist regime inspect its own Parchin
nuclear weapons research site, conduct
uranium enrichment, build advanced
centrifuges, buy ballistic missiles, fund
terrorism and have a near zero breakout
time to a nuclear bomb.
There was no surprise there.
Markey had topped the list of candidates supported by the
Iran Lobby. And the Iranian American Political Action
Committee (IAPAC) had maxed out its contributions to his
campaign.
After more fake suspense, Al Franken,
another IAPAC backed politician who also
benefited from Iran Lobby money, came
out for the nuke sellout.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Iran
Lobby’s third Dem senator, didn’t bother
playing coy like her colleagues. She came
out for the deal a while back even though
she only got half the IAPAC cash that
Franken and Markey received.
As did Senator Gillibrand, who had
benefited from IAPAC money back when
 she first ran for senator and whose position
on the deal should have come as no
surprise.
The Iran Lobby had even tried, and
failed, to turn Arizona Republican Jeff
Flake. Iran Lobby cash had made the
White House count on him as the
Republican who would flip, but Flake came
out against the deal. The Iran Lobby
invested a good deal of time and money
into Schumer, but that effort also failed.
Gillibrand had also picked up money from the Iran
Lobby’s Hassan Nemazee. Namazee was Hillary’s national
campaign finance director who had raised a fortune for
both her and Kerry before pleading guilty to a fraud
scheme encompassing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nemazee had been an IAPAC trustee and had helped set
up the organization.
Bill Clinton had nominated Hassan Nemazee as the US
ambassador to Argentina when he had only been a citizen
for two years.

Still these donations were only the tip of the Iran Lobby
iceberg.

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 Senate Releases Transcripts
From Don Jr.'S Trump Tower Meetings
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 05/16/2018 - 09:51

In what appears to be yet another ill-advised attempt to
revive the Russia hysteria of early 2017,
the Senate Judiciary Committee has
released more than 1,800 pages of
interview transcripts with Donald Trump
Jr.
and others who attended a June 2016 meeting at Trump
Tower that has become a key focus of the Mueller probe.
However, instead of damning the Trumps,
Putin had apparently agreed to attend a rehearsal for
Trump's Miss Universe pageant when it was held in
Moscow in 2013, but the Russian leader canceled at the
last minute.
The testimony also includes new details
about Trump’s long interest in building
business ties to Russia and a relationship
with President Vladimir Putin.

the transcripts offer more proof that

Don Jr.'s account of the meeting - that
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
used the opportunity to lobby against
the Magnitsky Act, prompting Trump,
who had been promised dirt on Hillary
Clinton, to end the meeting after 20
minutes - is, in fact, what happened.

Donald Trump Jr.

Indeed, an excerpt published by the Washington Post notes
that the attendees who answered the committee's request to
testify largely corroborated Trump's story.
The excerpted testimony shows that
attendees at the June 9, 2016 Trump
Tower meeting largely agreed with
Trump Jr.’s long-standing contention
that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, did
not transmit dirt about Clinton. She has
denied she was acting on behalf of the
Russian government.
According to the Associated Press, Trump Jr. appeared to
evade questions about discussions he'd had with the
president - including whether the two men ever discussed
the Russia probe. he also said he didn't think it was wrong
to seek "dirt" on his father's rival, Hillary Clinton, even if
the information came from Russian sources.
The Senate testimony also reaffirmed that Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin had never met in person,
despite what certain liberal conspiracy theorists would
have you believe, before Trump became president.
An Agalarov employee testified to the
committee that the Russian mogul tried to
get Trump a meeting with Putin when the
Miss Universe pageant, which Trump
owned, was held in Moscow in 2013.
The employee told the committee that Agalarov "secretly
requested" the meeting through a Russian government
official.
Putin agreed to attend a pageant rehearsal, but canceled at
the last minute. Though Trump periodically claimed
during the campaign that he knew Putin,
there is no evidence the two men met
until after Trump took office.
Trump Jr. told the Committee that he was disappointed
when Veselnitskaya failed to come through with the dirt
she had promised.
The president’s son acknowledged he too was disappointed
that the Russian lawyer did not provide more information
that could be used in the campaign:

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 "All else being equal, I wouldn’t have
wanted to waste 20 minutes hearing
about something that I wasn’t supposed
to be meeting about," he told the
committee.
Though panel Republicans conferred with their
Democratic counterparts on point-by-point issues during
the preparation of the transcripts, their release is expected
to touch off a new wave of partisan bickering.
The committee interviewed several people who had
attended the meeting eventually provided at least some
testimony to the committee. UK Publicist Rob Goldstone,
Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and Russian
businessman Ike Kaveladze all testified before the
committee. While Don Jr. testified, Jared Kushner and
Paul Manafort rebuffed the committee's requests.
Veselnitskaya only agreed to provide
written answers from Russia to the
panel’s questions.
Neither Kushner, now a top White House aide, nor
Manafort, who has been charged with a series of financial
crimes related to his work before joining the campaign, sat
for interviews. But the committee interviewed the five
other men who took part in the session, including a
Russian American lobbyist who once served in an Soviet
counterintelligence unit.
Here are Paul Manafort's notes from the meeting...
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The testimony also purportedly showed emails sent by
Goldstone, who initially organized the meeting at the
behest of Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star and
developer, saying the Trump Tower gathering was a "bad
idea."
Music publicist Rob Goldstone, who arranged the meeting
at the request of pop singer Emin Agalarov, said he
thought the meeting was a “bad idea.”
"I believed it was a bad idea and that we
shouldn’t do it. And I gave the reason for
that being that I’m a music publicist.
Politics, I knew nothing about," Goldstone
said, adding that neither did Emin Agalarov
nor his father, Aras.
Trump Jr. also said he wasn't aware of his father's role in
drafting a White House statement that said the meeting
was primarily focused on reversing Russia's restrictions on
Americans adopting Russian children. According to
Bloomberg, Trump Jr. said he also didn't tell his father
about the meeting before it happened, adding that his
"skepticism" about the "value" of the meeting was
eventually proven to be justified.
The release of the transcript marks the first time that
Trump Jr.'s account of the meeting has been released.
But mostly, the transcripts are a giant nothing burger -
which will only reinforce the public's belief that there's "no
'there' there".
* * *
See full transcript in Book #34A – Appendix
 On One Year Anniversary: A List Of 12 Of The Most
Egregious Crimes, Conflicts And Unconstitutional Acts
Committed By Mueller Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 10:04 Am
The future of our nation is at stake. The
Mueller investigation will either succeed
in its mission to unseat the President of
the United States, Donald Trump, from
his duly elected position to govern this
nation or it will not.
If Mueller succeeds the nation will no
longer be free. Rogue institutions,
government bodies and individuals will
continue to use the power behind the
US government to overthrow, imprison,
slander and control Americans. The US
will officially become a banana republic
and the world will no longer have that
shining light on a hill to look up to.
If Mueller and others in the ‘Deep State’
are brought to justice, America will
flourish as a nation and the world will
benefit from a strong America that
stands for freedom and justice.
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For months we have presented numerous articles about the
rampant and brazen abuse of justice carried out by corrupt
and criminal individuals within the US government known
as the ‘Deep State’. The Mueller team is the pinnacle of
Deep State aggression.
The Deep State continues to control the FBI, DOJ and
multiple other government agencies and judgeships.
Under President Obama the Deep State was allowed to
flourish and grow, it was fed, protected and groomed.
Deep State created a corrupt plan to prevent Hillary from
being charged for crimes before the election. Even the
casual observer knew she had committed numerous crimes
related to racketeering through the Clinton Foundation and
somehow to date has dodged any wrongdoing by the Deep
State. The crimes related to her email server were even
more apparent and yet, nearly two years since she was
exonerated by corrupt FBI Director Comey and his team of
corrupt investigators and attorneys, she still walks free.
Very few Americans who voted for
President Trump would have believed
that today we have a special
investigation into the President for
collusion with Russia during the
election and none into the many Clinton
and Obama criminal activities unearthed
over the past decade.
One year ago, on May 17, 2017, corrupt Assistant
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed a Special
Counsel to look into the phony Trump – Russia collusion
allegations, a total scam to remove Donald Trump from the
Presidency that he won.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself of
anything related to Russia during the 2016 Presidential
campaign and the Robert Mueller Special Counsel team
took over to investigate the alleged Trump crimes.
Ironically over the past year, no crimes
related to the President have been
uncovered but numerous crimes have
been uncovered related to the Deep
 State’s corruption, abuse and brazen
disregard for the rule of law through the
Trump – Russia ‘Witch Hunt’.
One of the most profound interviews that described the
events over the past few years by the corrupt and criminal
individuals in the Deep State that led to the Mueller
investigation was reported by the Daily Caller in January.
Legal expert Joe DiGenova explained the many criminal
activities by the Deep State –
A Dozen Criminal and Unconstitutional
Acts Over the Past Year
As the past year moved forward we uncovered many
crimes and corrupt acts, but to the surprise of the
mainstream media, Democrats and the Deep State, the
crimes uncovered were not related to the Trump
Administration, but rather with the Deep State and the
Mueller investigation.
Here is a list of a dozen of the more material acts –
1. Rosenstein’s special counsel order identifies
collusion as the crime but no such crime exists in
US Law.
Gregg Jarrett at FOX News wrote when Mueller initially
brought charges against Manafort that 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 because there is no such thing as
the crime of collusion with foreign countries in the US
statutory code.
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Jarrett wrote about the Trump – Russia Collusion
investigation and in his post Jarrett makes many statements
that are almost shocking, but none more than the fact that
the entire investigation is lawless.
2. Mueller’s investigation exceeds the scope of
special counsel law which requires the scope of a
special counsel to be specific. Rosenstein created
the special counsel with a scope that is so broad it
is not supported by this law.
Paul Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and Rosenstein
because what they are doing is not supported by US Law
as noted previously by Jarrett. Manafort’s plea argued in
paragraph 33 that the special counsel put in place by
crooked Rosenstein gave crooked and criminal Mueller
powers that are not permitted by law –
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).
After Rosenstein and Mueller provided additional
documentation to the court about the scope of Mueller’s
investigation, Gregg Jarrett tweeted that this was
additional support that Mueller’s investigation is
unconstitutional
Manafort argued that the Mueller investigation was
unconstitutional because it was not based on a crime and
the scope was too broad, but his plea was dismissed.
Unfortunate for Manafort (and justice) the plea was in
front of Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge Amy Berman
Jackson. Jackson had unexpectedly replaced another DC
judge to oversee the Manafort case. It is unknown why
this reassignment was made nor who made it. Regardless,
on April 27, 2018, Judge Jackson dismissed Manafort’s
plea and Deep State was able to hang on for another day.
 3. Mueller accepted the special counsel position with
known conflicts of interest and was assigned in
spite of a horribly corrupt track record.
Gregg Jarrett called for Mueller to resign in June of 2017
stating the special counsel has an egregious conflict of
interest. In a Fox News column, Jarrett stated:
CNN posted a list of the Mueller team bragging about their
credentials and prior work while ignoring their obvious
and clear conflicts. The entire team is corrupt lefties who
have represented the Clinton Foundation or let Hillary go
in her obvious crimes related to her email scandal. This
group donated to Obama and Clinton campaigns and have
no intention of looking into their crimes at all.

The Washington Post reported that that Robert Mueller is
now investigating President Trump for obstruction of
justice, examining not only the president’s alleged
statement to James Comey in their February meeting, but
also the firing of the FBI Director.
If true, this development makes the argument even more
compelling that Mueller cannot serve as special counsel.
He has an egregious conflict of interest.
5. The Investigation exceeds the scope of Jeff
Sessions’ recusal of only 2016 campaign related
matters. Mueller’s scope is much broader.
Legal expert and attorney Robert Barnes tweeted this
argument regarding the scope of the Mueller investigation
–

The special counsel statute specifically prohibits Mueller

from serving if he has

“a personal relationship with any person

substantially involved in the investigation or
prosecution.”

The language is mandatory. He “shall” disqualify himself.

Comey is substantially involved in the case. Indeed, he is
the central witness.

The two men and former colleagues have long been

friends, allies and partners. Agents have quipped that they
were joined at the hip while at the Department of Justice
and the FBI. They have a mentor-protégé relationship. The
likelihood of prejudice and favoritism is glaring and
severe. 6. Rosenstein’s original authorization to Mueller
extended to “Russia government collusion” in 2016
So, it is incomprehensible that the man who is a close campaign only. By pressing charges against
friend of the star witness against the president… will now Manafort for 2006 actions, Mueller’s scope is much
broader.
determine whether the president committed a prosecutable
crime in his dealings with Mueller’s good friend.

In addition to his many conflicts, Mueller has a seedy track

record which was uncovered by US Representative Louie
Gohmert. Gohmert released a 48 page document covering
Mueller’s past which involves amongst other things,
protecting crime bosses and throwing innocent people in
jail.

4. Rosenstein and Mueller’s entire team have known

conflicts of interest.

Rod Rosenstein signed a FISA application to spy on

Trump but he never recused himself from the Mueller
investigation. In addition, Mueller brought in a team of
Obama and Clinton lackeys to form his investigative
team who had no intention of performing an independent
and objective investigation.

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7. Rosenstein does not have authorization over tax
crimes. Only the Assistant Attorney General in
charge of Tax Division can authorize indictments of
tax crimes.
8. Rosenstein’s letter tells Mueller only to look to
Rosenstein for clarification of Mueller’s
authorization. Rosenstein is not the Attorney
General of the United States, and could not
monopolize supervision of Mueller for matters that
did not relate to Sessions’ recusal.
9. By Rosenstein issuing his expanded authorization
to Mueller in secret, Rosenstein created a secret
inquisitor, unelected and un-appointed by elected
officials, with all the powers of the federal criminal
law enforcement, but none of the democratic
checks and balances.
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10. The special counsel law requires that the Attorney
General create the special counsel when a criminal
investigation is warranted. There was no reason for
Rosenstein to create the special counsel that could
not have been addressed with other means, if
necessary.
According to the Cornell Law School, the law states that
the grounds for setting up a special counsel require the
following –
The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney
General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will
appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that
criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted.
Because President Trump had committed no crimes, there
was no reason to create the special counsel in the first
place. Some may argue this and say Rosenstein had every
right to create the special counsel but now we know that
Rosenstein created the special counsel and appointed
former FBI Head Robert Mueller to lead the investigation
because they wanted unlimited resources to investigate the
President and to remove him from power by any means
possible.
For political reasons President Trump is
not shutting down the unconstitutional
and corrupt Mueller investigation at this
time but AG Jeff Sessions has every
right and even the duty to reign in on it
or shut it down.
Robert Barnes wrote at Law and Crimes that –
Paul Manafort‘s legal team brought a
motion to dismiss on Tuesday, noting that
Rosenstein could not appoint Mueller to
any investigation outside the scope of the
 2016 campaign since Sessions did not
recuse himself for anything outside the
campaign. I agree with this take on
Mueller’s authority. If we follow that
argument that would mean Sessions
himself has exclusive authority to appoint a
special counsel for non-collusion charges,
and Sessions has taken no such action.
Sessions himself should make that clear to
Mueller, rather than await court resolution.
Doing so would remove three of the four
areas of inquiry from Mueller’s requested
interview with President Trump.
Sessions formally notifying Mueller that he does not have
authority to act outside of campaign-related cases and
cases related to obstruction of Mueller’s investigation
would be doing what the Constitution compels: enforcing
the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. Additionally,
Sessions notifying Mueller that he does not have authority
to act outside of campaign-related cases would be
exercising Sessions’ court-recognized Constitutional
obligation to “direct and supervise litigation” conducted by
the Department of Justice. Furthermore, Sessions notifying
Mueller that he does not have authority to act outside of
campaign-related cases protects against the inappropriate
use of the federal grand jury that defendant Manafort now
rightly complains about.
Sessions limiting Mueller to the 2016 campaign would
also be restoring confidence in democratic institutions, and
restore public faith that democratically elected officials.
One thing to remember about Sessions’ recusal: Sessions
only recused himself from “any existing or future
investigations of any matters related in any way to the
campaigns for President of the United States.” This recusal
letter limits the scope of Sessions’ recusal to the 2016
campaigns; it does not authorize Sessions’ recusal for
anything beyond that. Constitutionally, Sessions has a
“duty to direct and supervise litigation” conducted by the
Department of Justice. Ethically, professionally, and
legally, Sessions cannot ignore his supervisory obligations
for cases that are not related to the “campaigns for
President.”
11. The entire story of Trump – Russia collusion was a
farce. Deep State had a spy in the Trump campaign
who set up young and eager twenty-something
George Papadopoulos in England.
Rush Limbaugh shared an overview of the setup a couple
of days ago –
Now, the important thing to remember here is that
Papadopoulos was a peripheral member of the Trump
campaign. He didn’t know anything officially. He wasn’t
close enough to anybody to know anything. He’s 24, 25
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years old, whatever, but he never had day-to-day contact
with Trump. He didn’t have day-to-day contact with the
Trump campaign foreign policy team, none of that. He was
targeted because he was a young, eager beaver. He was
targeted and he was set up and he was entrapped,”
Limbaugh said in his explanation.
“It’s all trumped up, folks. No pun
intended.
None of it’s real. All of it was made up. It was simply
created to permit an investigation, just like Comey telling
Trump the dossier existed served as the mechanism to get
the media in the clear to report on the dossier. This thing is
more fake… This whole investigation is more fake and
more phony — more connived — than you could possibly
imagine,” Limbaugh said.
12. Mueller’s Special Counsel took emails and attorney
– client privileged information from the Trump
transition team and from President Trump’s
personal attorney. These egregious acts that
destroyed the attorney – client privilege between
the President of the US and his personal attorneys
are unconstitutional and perhaps the most brazen
illegal actions taken in US history.
In July 2017 Rush Limbaugh claimed the Mueller
investigation was the largest tax payer funded opposition
research campaign in US history. He was right. This was
before it was reported in December that the Mueller team
obtained the Trump transition team’s emails without
permission, taking attorney – client privileged information
with no regard for the law.
Lawyer Robert Barnes argued at the
time that the document grab “cannot
conform to either Fourth Amendment
standards or attorney-client privilege
protections.”
A few months later the crooked Mueller team stole all of
President Trump’s personal attorney’s emails in another
assault on attorney – client privilege with no regard for the
law. These guys are crooks!
Also, not noted and the most egregious
acts of the Mueller team are those
crimes that have been uncovered
related to the Hillary campaign and the
Obama Administration that go
unnoticed.
For the above reasons, we are currently
in a constitutional crisis. If AG Sessions
will not uphold the law per his duties
per the constitution, then Sessions
must be replaced! America cannot stand
with an AG that does not uphold his
 duties and obligations and who allows
this unconstitutional witch hunt to
continue!
The nation is behind President Trump
and justice. We demand integrity at all
levels in our government.
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The only remedy to preserve and
protect this great nation from the
Mueller ‘Witch Hunt’ is to charge and
imprison the Mueller Team and related
other Deep State operatives for their
attempted coup d’etat. Then and only
then will this nation heal and together
we’ll pray for protection so that this
never ever occurs in this country’s
existence again!
 UPDATE: Porn Star Lawyer
Interviewed 147 Times In 10 Weeks
By Bill D'Agostino And Rich Noyes
May 16, 2018 10:12 AM EDT

CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and MSNBC’s The Last

Word with Lawrence O’Donnell were the most smitten
with Avenatti, interviewing him the most of any program
(20 times in the case of Cooper, 16 in the case of
O’Donnell). CNN's New Day with Chris Cuomo and
Alisyn Camerota came in third with 13 inteviews, just
beating out CNN Tonight with Don Lemon and MSNBC's
Deadline: White House, which hosted Avenatti 12 and 11
times, respectively.

In the past ten weeks, lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is

representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits
against President Trump, has been interviewed a
staggering 147 times on broadcast and cable news shows.

More than half of those interviews (74) were on CNN,

which almost certainly makes Avenatti the most ubiquitous
guest in the network’s history. No guest — not Donald
Trump or Bernie Sanders in 2016, nor Adam Schiff in
2017 — received anything close to the outpouring of free
media coverage that CNN has bequeathed to Avenatti.

The media’s massive donation of publicity is obviously the
main reason why Daniels and Avenatti have been able to
use a crowd funding site to raise a whopping $500,000 to
fund their anti-Trump lawsuits, with many of the
thousands of anonymous donors citing the interviews as
they make their gifts.
The latest Media Research Center study tallied all of
Avenatti’s interviews on national news programs from
March 7 (when the publicity first began) through May 15.
While CNN has been the friendliest network, hosting the
Trump-bashing lawyer an astonishing 74 times, MSNBC
has been close behind, donating 57 segments featuring
Avenatti.
On a single day (May 3), MSNBC featured Avenatti a
stunning seven times — from 7am ET (Morning Joe)
through 10pm ET (The Last Word).
To help put CNN’s news priorities in perspective, the
network’s 73 interviews with Avenatti during those ten
weeks are vastly more than those given to any other
newsmaker during an equivalent time period. For example,
when Donald Trump was seemingly everywhere during the
2016 primaries, CNN interviewed him a total 30 times
during his busiest ten-week period (from January 4
through March 16, 2016) — barely 40 percent of what
they’ve handed Avenatti.
At his peak popularity as a CNN source, between May 3
and July 11, 2017, Representative Adam Schiff (the
ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee)
was interviewed by the network a total of 25 times, barely
one-third of Avenatti’s total. And at his high-water mark
during the 2016 primaries, left-wing presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders was booked on CNN a total of 18 times
(from January 31 through April 11, 2016).

Rounding out the tally were interviews on ABC (six), CBS

(five), NBC (four) and the Fox News Channel (just once,
on FNC’s Fox News at Night back on March 20).

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There’s no guest in CNN’s recent history who has been
given as much free media exposure by the network as
Avenatti has been granted. Based on interviews as of May
10, the Washington Free Beacon’s David Rutz estimated
that the media’s open-door policy for Avenatti would be
worth roughly $175 million if the lawyer had to pay for the
airtime himself.
But the benefits to the case are even more tangible, as
many donors to the campaign page on CrowdJustice.com
specifically cite Avenatti’s media interviews, as well as
those of Daniels herself, as a reason for their gift.
“I watch all the TV interviews you do. You
are both so amazing and I am rooting for
you every day!!!!” one donor wrote on the
site. “Just saw the 60 Minutes interview,
and I’m pledging a second week’s worth of
allowance. I believe you, Stormy,” gushed
another.
“Tell Michael to mention this
crowdjustice.org [sic] on every TV
appearance I never heard of it until May 8
on Rachel Maddow,” one patron instructed.
Another contributor who had evidently
watched the same program announced a
gift of $100: “Thought about giving before.
Michael Avenatti’s appearance on the
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Rachel Maddow show reminded us to do
just that.”
CNN viewers were also stimulated to open their wallets to
the cause:
“What a cool interview with Anderson
Cooper. I hope you’ll win the trials. Hope it
will help getting rid of Trump.”
Avenatti has apparently gotten very chummy with some
liberal anchors. On April 29, MSNBC’s The Last Word
host Lawrence O’Donnell (who’s had Avenatti on his
10pm ET program 16 times in the past ten weeks), joked
with AM Joy host Joy Reid:
“Michael Avenatti is becoming my co-host.
I’ve got to say.” Reid, who has hosted the
lawyer four times on her show, chimed in:
“He’s good.”
In one of his many appearances on CNN, Avenatti last
week crowed to host Anderson Cooper that the media’s
generous contribution of airtime was helping him:
“There’s been some criticism about our
media strategy and how often I’ve been on
CNN... Here’s the bottom line, Anderson.
It’s working. Okay? It’s working in
spades....Because we’re so out front on
this, people send us information. People
want to help our cause.”
There’s no conservative lawyer in the universe who could
ever expect to get even half as much free airtime to bash a
liberal President. The media’s massive donations to
Daniels and Avenatti can only be explained by their shared
interest in making life as miserable as possible for
President Donald Trump.
The fact that the duo have built a fund-raising scheme to
capitalize on all of this exposure should make these liberal
networks reconsider if they’re really in the news business
any longer.
 Senate Releases Transcripts Of Donald Trump Jr.’S
Trump Tower Meeting — Which Show
He Was Telling The Truth
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 10:54 Am
On June 9, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian
lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New
York City to discuss damning information she claimed she
had on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Nothing
came of the meeting as Veselnitskaya lied and was really
there to push for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act, a
bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by
President Obama in December 2012, intending to punish
Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax
accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009.
At least three of the five people at the meeting with Donald
Trump Jr. were Fusion GPS officials.
The eight people who attended the Trump Tower meeting
on June 9, 2016:
 Donald Trump Jr.
 Jared Kushner (left early)
 Paul Manafort
 Natalia Veselnitskaya (Fusion GPS)
 Anatoli Samochornov (translator and Fusion GPS)
 Rinat Akhmetshin (lobbyist – Fusion GPS)
 Rob Goldstone
 Rep. of the Agalarov Family
Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Glenn
Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS,
before and after she met with Donald
Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June.
On Wednesday the Senate Judiciary
Committee released more than 1,800
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pages of transcripts with Donald Trump,
Jr.
US senators forced Trump Jr. to testify in front of
Congress about the 20 meeting.
Zero Hedge reported:
the Senate Judiciary Committee has released
more than 1,800 pages of interview transcripts
with Donald Trump Jr. and others who attended a
June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that has become
a key focus of the Mueller probe. However, instead of
damning the Trumps, the transcripts offer more
proof that Don Jr.’s account of the meeting – that
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya used the
opportunity to lobby against the Magnitsky Act,
prompting Trump, who had been promised dirt on
Hillary Clinton, to end the meeting after 20
minutes – is, in fact, what happened.
Indeed, an excerpt published by the Washington
Post notes that the attendees who answered the
committee’s request to testify largely corroborated
Trump’s story.
The excerpted testimony shows
that attendees at the June 9, 2016 Trump
Tower meeting largely agreed with
Trump Jr.’s long-standing contention
that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, did
not transmit dirt about Clinton.She has
denied she was acting on behalf of the
Russian government.
According to the Associated Press, Trump Jr.
appeared to evade questions about discussions he’d
had with the president – including whether the two
men ever discussed the Russia probe. he also said he
didn’t think it was wrong to seek “dirt” on his father’s
rival, Hillary Clinton, even if the information came from
Russian sources.
The Senate testimony also reaffirmed that Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin had never met in
 person, despite what certain liberal conspiracy
theorists would have you believe, before Trump
became president.
Putin had apparently agreed to attend a rehearsal for
Trump’s Miss Universe pageant when it was held in
Moscow in 2013, but the Russian leader canceled at
the last minute.
The testimony also includes new details
about Trump’s long interest in building
business ties to Russia and a relationship
with President Vladimir Putin.
An Agalarov employee testified to the
committee that the Russian mogul tried to
get Trump a meeting with Putin when the
Miss Universe pageant, which Trump
owned, was held in Moscow in 2013.
The employee told the committee that
Agalarov “secretly requested” the meeting
through a Russian government official.
Putin agreed to attend a pageant rehearsal,
but canceled at the last minute. Though
Trump periodically claimed during the
campaign that he knew Putin, there is no
evidence the two men met until after
Trump took office.
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Trump Jr. told the Committee that he was
disappointed when Veselnitskaya failed to come
through with the dirt she had promised.
The president’s son acknowledged he too
was disappointed that the Russian lawyer
did not provide more information that could
be used in the campaign: “All else being
equal, I wouldn’t have wanted to waste
20 minutes hearing about something
that I wasn’t supposed to be meeting
about,” he told the committee.
Though panel Republicans conferred with
their Democratic counterparts on point-by-
point issues during the preparation of the
transcripts, their release is expected to
touch off a new wave of partisan bickering.
The transcripts mark the first time
Donald Trump Jr.’s account was
released to the public.
The documents show the meeting at Trump tower was a
big nothing-burger.
See transcript of interview in Book #34A – Appendix.
 Thank You POTUS Trump! More Americans Today
Positive About Direction Of Country Than At Anytime
During Obama’s 8 Years
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 11:18 Am

And that’s with a negative liberal press

that attacks President Trump 90% of the
time!

Is anyone else surprised that Jake Tapper was able to spit

this out?

More Americans today are positive

about the country’s outlook than at
anytime during Barack Obama’s eight
years of waste and ruin.

Amazing!
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 BREAKING: Senate Panel Backs Shady
Intel Report On Russian Meddling “On Putin’s Orders”
After Interviewing Clapper And Brennan
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 1:10 Pm
The Senate Intel Panel, led by none
other than Mark Warner and Richard
Burr, backed the shady intel report on
Russian meddling after interviewing
James Clapper and John Brennan in a
closed-door session.
This Intelligence Community
Assessment report was created on
January 6th of 2017 by Obama’s Deep
State operatives.
James Comey was a no-show
Wednesday.
The 2017 intel report is one big echo chamber of Hillary’s
phony Russia dossier, but when has integrity and honesty
ever mattered to Dem Senator Mark Warner?
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC),
accompanied by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), vice chairman of the
committee, speaks at a news conference to discuss their probe of
Russian interference in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in
Washington, D.C., U.S., March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P.
Bernstein
Senate Intel Committee leaders backed the shady
intelligence community report that accused Russia of
trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election by
boosting Trump.
They claim the Russian meddling was ordered by Vladimir
Putin himself to boost Trump and harm Hillary Clinton.
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This is unbelievable. Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians
and 3 Russian companies didn’t even mention Putin or the
Russian government.
Fox News reported:
Senate Intelligence Committee leaders on
Wednesday backed the 2017 intelligence
community report that formally accused
Russia of trying to interfere in the U.S.
presidential election to boost then-
candidate Donald Trump.
Their statements followed a final closed-
door interview on the matter with top
Obama administration officials. The
committee, led by Chairman Richard Burr,
R-N.C., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner,
D-Va., spoke Wednesday with former
Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper, former Central Intelligence
Agency Director John Brennan and former
National Security Agenda Director Michael
Rogers (who retired earlier this year).
Despite Comey’s absence, the committee
leaders announced afterward they were
able to complete the review of the
intelligence community’s Russia
assessment.
“Committee staff have spent 14 months
reviewing the sources, tradecraft, and
analytic work, and we see no reason to
dispute the conclusions,” Burr said in a
statement. “There is no doubt that Russia
undertook an unprecedented effort to
interfere with our 2016 elections. I look
forward to completing the Committee’s
inquiry and issuing our findings and
recommendations to the American people.”
Warner said, “After a thorough review, our
staff concluded that the ICA conclusions
were accurate and on point. The Russian
effort was extensive, sophisticated, and
ordered by President Putin himself for the
purpose of helping Donald Trump and
hurting Hillary Clinton.”
 Burr and Warner, who are leading the
panel in investigating Russian meddling
and coordination with Trump campaign
associates in the 2016 presidential
election, hope to wrap up their probe by the
end of summer.
The IC report is one big echo chamber
of Hillary’s phony dossier.
John Brennan claimed in May 2017 testimony Hillary’s
phony dossier didn’t factor into the Intelligence
Community’s Assessment report on Russian interference
of the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan then went on to repeatedly insist these claims to
the public in various interviews with the media.
Two top officials contradicted
Brennan’s testimony.
It’s important to note that former DNI chief James Clapper
limited the IC report for review to only 3 agencies rather
than send the report out to all 17 agencies for review. This
way he was able to control what was put into the report.
In fact, Clapper left out the relevant agencies with
expertise on Russia such as the DHS and the State
Department’s intelligence bureau.
Paul Sperry also spoke with Fred Fleitz,
who worked as a CIA analyst for 19
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years who said certain players were
chosen from select agencies as well,
including Peter Strzok.
The core of the ICA report matches the
central findings in Hillary’s phony
dossier. For Brennan to claim the
dossier wasn’t used for their findings is
absurd, it’s a blatant lie.
Brennan even put parts of the
dossier into Obama’s daily
presidential briefing according
to Sperry’s report:
“Brennan put some of the dossier material
into the PDB [presidential daily briefing] for
Obama and described it as coming from a
‘credible source,’ which is how they viewed
Steele,” said the source familiar with the
House investigation. “But they never
corroborated his sources.”
After all of this, Senators Warner and Burr still have the
gall to back Obama’s officials on their ‘Russian meddling’
report.
We shouldn’t be surprised since Mark Warner tried to set
up a secret meeting with dossier author Christopher Steel
through the lobbyist of a Russian oligarch.
On the other side of Capitol Hill, the House Intel
Committee led by Devin Nunes has concluded there was
no collusion between the Trump campaign and the
Russians.
 Meadows, Jordan, Desantis
Call On Trump To Release Justice Docs
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
2:08 PM 05/16/2018
U.S. Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Representative Jim
Jordan (R-OH) (R), leaders in the House Freedom Caucus, talk to
reporters as they walk between meetings at the U.S. Capitol in
Washington, U.S. January 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst -
RC1CB24AF870
House Freedom Caucus leadership is calling on President
Donald Trump to order the Department of Justice 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.
GOP Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Jim Jordan
of Ohio and Ron DeSantis of Florida sent a letter to the
president Wednesday asking for him to use his authority to
“instruct Attorney General Jeff Sessions to immediately
produce all documents” related to House Republicans’
investigation into “prosecutorial and investigatorial
decisions” made the DOJ and FBI made in 2016 and 2017.
“As a separate and equal branch of
government, we have a constitutional right
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to these documents,” the lawmakers wrote.
“The Department of Justice has obstructed
Congressional oversight by refusing to
supply necessary and relevant documents.”
The congressmen note that Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein told Congress in May 2017 that special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation should not impede ongoing
congressional investigations.
Despite Rosenstein’s commitment, Freedom Caucus
members and other House Republicans have repeatedly
requested the release of documents related to a host of
issues. House Republicans want DOJ documents related to
the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server, how and why the FBI first began its
probe into the Trump campaign and a 2017 Rosenstein
memo that details the scope of Mueller’s investigation.
House Republicans have requested some 1.2 million
documents thus far, but have only received a few thousand
of them, many of which have been redacted.
“We’ve been consistent from the beginning
that the American people have a right to
know the truth about what happened at the
highest levels of the Justice Department.
This letter is another step in that effort for
transparency,” Meadows told The Daily
Caller News Foundation Wednesday.
Letter on next page.
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 Freedom Caucus Chairman Sends Letter To Trump
Requesting He Use Powers To Release ALL Docs On FISA
Abuse And Un-redacted Rosenstein Memo
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 2:10 Pm

Freedom caucus Chairman Mark branch of government, we have a

Meadows (R-NC) sent President Trump constitutional right to these documents,”
a letter Wednesday afternoon Meadows said in his letter to President
requesting he use his Presidential Trump.
powers to instruct AG Sessions to
Rep. Meadows requested documents related to FISA
declassify and release ALL FISA abuse
abuses, documents related to the initial investigation into
documents and the unredacted
Trump’s camp before the Special Counsel was appointed,
Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s
and the unredacted August 2nd memo penned by Deputy
scope.
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein detailing Mueller’s
scope.
We have reached the one year
anniversary of the Mueller witch hunt The three Freedom Caucus members
and these GOP lawmakers have had sounded off on Twitter.
enough of the stonewalling from the
DOJ and FBI.

In a letter sent to President Trump on Wednesday

afternoon, Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows,
with the backing of Rep. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Jim
Jordan asked President Trump to step in to instruct the
DOJ release ALL relevant documents on FISA abuse and
Rosenstein’s August 2 memo detailing Mueller’s scope.
“In the year that has passed since these
committments were made, the Department
of Justice has failed to fully comply with
regular and repeated Congressional
requests and subpoenas. Our power as
Congress to conduct investigations is
broad, inherent and mandated by the
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 Ex-US Attorney: Obama CIA Chief
Led Operation To Frame Trump
By Ben Marquis
May 16, 2018 At 2:16pm
The Trump campaign/Russian collusion narrative —
which led to special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation — has been steadily unraveling in recent
weeks.
Despite a year long investigation into allegations of
Russian interference in the 2016 election, “no credible
evidence” of collusion with the Trump campaign has been
found, and the “evidence” and intelligence that has been
offered up appears to be false and manufactured.
Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova spoke about that and
other recent developments during an appearance on Fox
News with Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night, and cast the
blame on the operation, which he viewed as a set up to
frame President Donald Trump, on former Obama
administration CIA Director John Brennan.
“It was abundantly clear that there was no
legitimate basis even for a counter
intelligence investigation, let alone a
criminal investigation,” DiGenova said.
“It is quite obvious that John Brennan was
at the head of the group of people who
were going to create a counter intelligence
investigation against Trump by creating
false information that was going to be fed
through Carter Page, and fed through
George Papadopoulos so that it would be
picked up, reported back to Washington
and provide the basis for a counter, a fake,
counter intelligence investigation,” he
continued.
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“And it was all Brennan’s doing,” DiGenova
stated emphatically.
“And that is why the Justice Department is
viciously fighting revealing everything they
can about the source in London, who
everybody knows the identity of.”
Ingraham asked the former U.S. attorney to further explain
recent reports about an unnamed “source” in London who
allegedly provided information that was used as a basis for
the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign.
“The source in London was another person
who was feeding false information to
George Papadopoulos and others about
collusion which did not exist,” DiGenova
replied.
Another guest on the program, former federal prosecutor
Sidney Powell, spoke about another aspect of the creation
of the Trump/Russia collusion narrative and the anti-
Trump dossier compiled by former British intelligence
agent Christopher Steele on behalf of Democrat-funded
political opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
She noted how the FBI had granted access to a handful of
private contractors, likely to include Fusion GPS, to sift
through raw intelligence gathered under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act. This was then passed on to
Steele and others and recycled back to the U.S. intelligence
community with a false air of legitimacy to help form the
narrative used as the basis for the investigation into
Trump.
DiGenova picked up on what Powell had mentioned and
pointed out that there had been two opinions issued by the
FISA court in opposition to that illegal practice of allowing
private contractors access to the sensitive raw intelligence
data.
“All of that was designed for the unmasking
and the leaking of the names, and that was
all done by private contractors,” DiGenova
said. “The FISA court objected to it and it
never stopped.”
The supposition that Brennan was the ringleader of an
attempt to “frame” Trump is little more than DiGenova’s
opinion, informed however well it might be by experience
and information obtained through public and private
sources.
That said, it increasingly appears as though the entire
Trump/Russia collusion narrative was indeed created
wholly out of false, manufactured or misconstrued
information in order to provide justification for the
investigation that was likely intended to prevent Trump
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from winning the election, or at least hamstring his agenda
and lead to his impeachment once he took office.
On top of that, Brennan has made it blatantly obvious that
he loathes Trump, so it isn’t too much of a stretch to think
he may have used the powerful intelligence tools at his
disposal in order to “frame” an innocent man and destroy
him politically. Hopefully we will find out the truth soon
when the DOJ inspector general’s report is released.
 Palestinian Terror Group Kills Off
Trump In Latest Cartoon On Facebook (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 2:56 Pm

But not everyone was excited about the

move.
Palestinians stormed the Israeli border
with Gaza on Monday.

Over 50 people, including several terrorists, were

reportedly killed in the violence.

The liberal international media blamed Trump and

Netanyahu.

President Trump made history this week

when he moved the US embassy in
Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The Fatah terror group from the West

Bank released this cartoon this week
following the embassy move. The video
shows President Trump and Prime
Minister Netanyahu drowning together.
This cartoon was posted on the Fatah
Facebook page:

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 SHUT IT DOWN=> Mueller Issues
Grand Jury Subpoenas To Roger Stone’s
Social Media Consultant
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 3:21 Pm
Robert Mueller issued two grand jury
subpoenas to Roger Stone’s social
media consultant, Jason Sullivan late
last week.
One of the subpoenas requested Sullivan appear before a
grand jury on May 18th.
Jason Sullivan, who runs Cyphoon.com, a social media
company, helped amplify then-candidate Trump’s ‘Make
America Great Again’ message on Twitter during the 2016
election. So scandalous!
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.
USNews reported:
U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel
Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas
to a social media expert who worked for
longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger
Stone during the 2016 presidential election
campaign.
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The subpoenas were delivered late last week to lawyers
representing Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter
specialist Stone hired to work for an independent political
action committee he set up to support Trump, Knut
Johnson, a lawyer for Sullivan, told Reuters on Tuesday.
The subpoenas suggest that Mueller, who is probing
Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is
focusing in part on Stone and whether he might have had
advance knowledge of material allegedly hacked by
Russian intelligence and sent to WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange, who published it.
Now here’s the real scandal with Jason
Sullivan…
According to Reuters, Jason Sullivan prepared a strategy
document for Roger Stone that read, “Welcome To The
Age of Weaponized Social Media.”
Here’s an example of Sullivan’s antics that led Mueller to
issue him two subpoenas:
For example, at 6:43 a.m. local time on
Election Day in 2016, Trump tweeted,
“TODAY WE MAKE AMERICAN GREAT
AGAIN”. Trump’s message soon was
retweeted more than 343,000 times, and in
an interview last year, Sullivan told Reuters
that the swarm helped overcome a surge in
pro-Clinton social media postings and
boost voter turnout for Trump.
Mueller is a pathetic man and a disgrace to this country.
Meanwhile, Hillary’s camp paid a British man who
compiled a phony dossier from ‘Russian intelligence’
allowing her to spy on her political opponent with an
illegally obtained spy warrant.
The only people who colluded with the Russians are the
Democrats and Deep State operatives, including Mueller.
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 STILL NOT A CRIME: Trump Financial Disclosure
Shows Reimbursement To Lawyer Cohen
After Stormy Payment
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 3:33 Pm

Whatever happened to Russia

collusion???
The Daily Mail today released
information from President Trump’s
financial disclosure form that shows a
payment to Michael Cohen for a
reimbursement of $250,000 suspected
to be for his payment to porn star
Stormy Daniels.
The form notes that ‘expenses were incurred by one of
Donald J. Trump’s attorneys,’ and Trump disclosed it ‘in
the interest of transparency.’ It was contained in a line
beneath a section where large bank loans of as much as
$50 million were listed.
The disclosure comes after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani
said on television that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the
payment after Cohen made it on his own to try to keep the
Stormy Daniels claim from coming out, then walked back
the statement.

Cohen negotiated a non-disclosure agreement withe former

porn star who says she had an affair with Trump. The
agreement used pseudonyms, and required she not speak
about the alleged affair, which Trump denies. It is signed
by Cohen and Daniels, but not by Trump, although the
pseudonym David Dennison refers to him.

And officials have still not been able to

identify the man who Stormy said
threatened her because of her one night
stand with Donald Trump.
It’s not clear if they have interviewed her
However, this would STILL not be a
former partner for the crime.
crime despite the wishes of the
conspiracy media.

The Daily Mail reported:

President Donald Trump revealed in his

financial disclosure form that he
reimbursed Michael Cohen for loans of
between $100,00 and $250,000 – paying
back for ‘expenses’ the man who says he
paid porn star Stormy Daniels.

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 As California Suffers 'Trump Derangement Syndrome On
Steroids', A 2nd Trump Term To Liberals Would Be
Tantamount To A Disaster Rivaling The
Darkest Greek Tragedies
Submitted To All News Pipeline By Robert Kirk
May 16, 2018

Robert Arvay’s recent article in American Thinker stuck a

responsive chord.
"It’s Not a Debate … it’s warfare” discusses
“…the bizarre but common phenomenon of
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).”
Arvay notes that those who suffer from TDS are incapable
of rationale thought on the issues.
“Those with the syndrome have a computer-like
repertoire of ready replies for everything.”
I certainly have noted as much in my interactions with my
next door neighbor. My training and experience is to be
absolutely accurate on the facts. If you find what I am
about to relate fantastical, keep in mind one fundamental
fact when judging the veracity of the following narrative:
both mine and my neighbors homes are located in that
parallel universe in that other space-time dimension known
as California.
The only thing at variance with the truth in the following
narrative are the names which, in an abundance of caution,
I substitute with aliases.

My neighbor, “Pamela”, definitely suffers from an
advanced and irreversible stage of TDS which has grown,
in recent months, to a fever pitch with Trump’s withdrawal
from the Paris Climate Accords and his recent abrogation
of that seminal foreign policy achievement which was to
guarantee “peace in our time” – the Iran Nuclear Deal.
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I try to avoid Pamela as I’ve learned over time that there is
no reasoning with her but often times our paths will cross
on the morning walk.
My morning ritual: Arise at the crack of dawn and start the
day off with a morning hike with my trusted canine,
“Ripper.” Turns out Pamela walks many of the same trails
with her pets – a scruffy rat named “Stiletto” and her
mangy fluff ball of a mutt, “Tofu.”
Turns out “Stiletto” is aptly named as the little flea
infested rat has a piercing bark that stabs into the quiet of
the night.
Anyway, two years ago after the “Prince of Peace”
railroaded the Iran Nuclear deal, bypassing Congress and
Pamela never lets an opportunity pass to let me have it
with both barrels when she sniffs out an opportunity. Right
after I put in the wine cellar she heaped a litany of verbal
abuse my way.
“Having a nice day Prepper Bob?” “You’d better
wear you’re tin foil hat so you know when to go
underground!” “You growing any grapes to put
in your bomb shelter!!”
“Pamela”, I calmly explained. “It’s not a ‘bomb
shelter.’ Yes, it was engineered with a radiation
protection factor (PF) of 1000. Not a bad idea
given we’re downwind from one of the largest
Naval Weapons Storage facilities in the
country.”
Oh what a difference a day makes. Fast forward to that
fateful and dark day when that certain buffoon took over
the nuclear football.
It’s now rather amusing to see Pamela clutching her
Armageddon pearls as she has, since that fateful November
day, been transformed into a total prepper nut ball
paranoid basket case.
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ignoring the Constitution with the help of that science
fiction writer Ben Rhodes, I decided to put in a wine cellar.
You remember Rhodes? He was that failed fiction writer
who was brought on as Obama’s Deputy National Security
Advisor and later bragged about bullsh***ing the
American people about what a wonderful thing both
Obamacare and the Iran deal were.
Still, some things don’t change. Our paths accidentally
crossed the other day and I couldn’t help but note that
Pamela was in particularly high spirits.
“Why are you so happy?” I inquired.
Turns out Pamela has a daughter named “Florence” who is
beloved of “Rudolpho.”
“Rudolpho told me at dinner last night”, she
began. “Yes?” “Rudolpho swore he would never
eat red meat and he would never have any
children!” She chortled.
“Why is that good?” I asked, dumbfounded.
“Don’t you understand? Rudolpho will never eat
red meat and he will never have any children to
save the planet from excess carbon footprints!!”
She breathed out passionately as a tear rolled
off her cheek.
Understand. Rudolpho is Pamela’s putative son-in-law.
 “I don’t know”, I said, “I kinda like the idea of my
children having genetic clones. I would rather
“Baaaa!! [Humbug!!]” She exclaimed.
like the idea of hearing the sound of little carbon
foot prints around the tree on Christmas
morning.”

I know. You think I making this sh**t up. Again, this
conversation occurred in the unreal State of California. As
I stood there next to Ripper taking in what Pamela had just
told me, that bill that was just introduced in the California
legislature came to mind. Our California legislators want
to abrogate the celebration of George Washington’s and
Lincoln’s birthdays and in place of “President’s Day”
designate May 1st as “International Workers Day.” If this
legislative travesty goes through, my California Marxist
overseers intend it to be a “paid holiday.”
My head started to throb. A sharp tug on the leash snapped
me out of it. Ripper is a fighting machine - all muscle but
highly disciplined. He’s trained to follow my every
command. It’s a nonverbal language between us. All hand
signals and intuition. Understand, all I ever feed Ripper is
red meat. My hand was starting to involuntarily twitch.
CNN, MSNBC and NPR. So I figured there was little
danger that she would come across my article in ANP.
If she figured out that my underlying purpose for my little
movie was to get that Red Meat Eating, P*ssy Grabbing,
Climate Change denying War Mongering, Trigger Happy
Buffoon a second term so he could complete the
destruction of planet earth, she’d be coming at me with a
Stiletto. No. Nothing funny there. In her mind a Trump
second term would be tantamount to a disaster rivaling the
darkest Greek tragedy.
I gripped the leash tightly and relaxed my hand while I
commended Pamela for her good sense in approving the
end of her genetic line in furtherance of saving mother
earth.

I try to practice OPSEC at every moment and started to

think - it’s a good thing that Pamela is entirely unaware
that the underlying purpose of my silly little Sci-Fi
Comedy movie, Alien Anthropologists, is to get Trump re-
elected in 2020.

Fortunately she avoids all those toxic low brown websites

like Breitbart and ANP where knuckle dragging deplorable
fools like me go for their news and information. She only
gets her news from “trusted and reliable sources” like

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 Top Democrat Donor Tom Steyer Compares Trump To
Hitler… Then Doubles Down On Comparison (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 4:42 Pm

Tom Steyer hates President Trump because Trump does

not buy the scam.

This week Tom Steyer compared President Donald Trump

to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Then when he was confronted on the outrageous

comparison he doubled down telling liberals,

“I know there are people who are very upset

about this. I know there are people who haven’t
thought about it as intensively maybe as I have.
And so, no I understand people’s fears and
Tom Steyer is a top Democrat donor. concerns.”

Steyer made a fortune off of green energy

and the Global Warming junk science scam.

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 Mueller Wants To Flood Russian Collusion
Case With 2 Terabytes Of Russian Social Media
Content Without Translation
Richard Pollock - Reporter
5:04 PM 05/16/2018
FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary
Committee hearing on Federal Bureau of Investigation oversight on
Capitol Hill. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday revealed
his office is prepared to flood two terabytes of Russian
social media content — without any translation — into the
court record to comply with a discovery request by one of
the defendants in his collusion case.
The government’s lead attorney, Jeannie Sclafani Rhee,
confirmed her office had compiled two terabytes of
Russian-language social media content and confirmed little
of it was translated.
“The government did not translate every
single word and doesn’t have to,” she told
the court.
The tactic was denounced by Eric Dubelier, the American
attorney retained by Concord Management and Consulting
— one of the three Russian companies indicted by Mueller
last February as part of a broad indictment against 13
Russian individuals in his Russian collusion case. The
defendants are accused of “conspiracy to defraud the
United States” for interfering in the 2016 presidential
election, the indictment said.
“We are most concerned with the release
of massive amount of social media in
Russian,” Dubelier told U.S. District Court
Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump
appointee. “They had five weeks to ramp
up on discovery. There has been no, no
discovery.”
A terabyte is the equivalent of 1,024 gigabytes of
information. Another way to measure the quantity of
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information is that Mueller’s social media content could
fill nearly 1,500 CD-ROMS.
One of Concord’s chief weapons against Mueller has been
the Russian company’s request for discovery — the
examination of evidence Mueller has collected concerning
the charge of Russian collusion. The defense tactic could
be used to embarrass Mueller and the U.S. intelligence
community, as reported earlier by The Daily Caller News
Foundation.
Mueller originally filed the indictment as a high profile
case to prove Russian collusion to “interfere” with the
2016 election. His only successful case in his investigation
into Russian collusion was former Trump campaign
advisor George Papadopoulos’ guilty plea to a single-count
indictment.
Mueller’s case against the Russians was “more theater than
prosecution,” said former federal prosecutor Andrew C.
McCarthy, in describing the original indictment.
But Concord, one of the named defendants, hired an
American law firm and asked for a “speedy trial” under
federal rules. The firm notified the court the Russian
company insisted on the right of discovery.
In a related move, Dubelier filed a motion on May 14 in
which he told the court he moved
“for an in camera inspection of the legal
instructions provided to the grand jury
regarding Count One of the Indictment.” He
said the information could be used “to
determine whether the instructions
provided could support a motion to
dismiss.”
Dubelier also denounced Mueller as illegitimate. He said
in the filing that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
“licensed a Special Counsel who for all
practical political purposes cannot be fired,
to indict a case that has absolutely nothing
to do with any links or coordination
between any candidate and the Russian States purportedly by not complying with
Government.” certain regulatory requirements that are
unknown even to most Americans,” he
“The risk here is acute, that is, a foreign
continued.
corporation with no presence in the United
States is indicted in an unprecedented
case of a type never before brought by the The case resumes June 15.
DOJ for conspiring to defraud the United
.

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 CONFIRMED=> Deep State FBI Spied on Trump’s Camp
Using Informant — Obtained Trump Campaign Phone
Records Through Secret Subpoena
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 5:04 Pm
An FBI investigation dubbed “Crossfire
Hurricane” was opened into Trump’s
campaign 100 days before the Presidential
election.
Five agents, including Peter Strzok traveled
to London in the summer of 2016 to
interview with a diplomat after
Papadopoulos drunkenly claimed to
Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer
he knew who had Hillary’s emails, reports
the NY Times.
What the fake news media doesn’t want to
report on is the fact that the FBI was also
approached by Christopher Steele on July
5th, 2016 to discuss memos he penned on
Trump’s so-called Russian connections
which he eventually compiled into a 35-page
dossier.
Four men from Trump’s team were under investigation by
the FBI because of their so-called obvious ties to Russia.
General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and
George Papadopoulos, current and former officials said.
The FBI is now admitting to having obtained
Trump’s campaign phone records through
secret subpoenas and even admitted to
spying on Trump’s camp with an informant.
The New York Times reported:
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Within hours of opening an investigation into the
Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer
of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents
to London on a mission so secretive that all but
a handful of officials were kept in the dark.
Their assignment, which has not been
previously reported, was to meet the Australian
ambassador, who had evidence that one of
Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance
about Russian election meddling. After tense
deliberations between Washington and
Canberra, top Australian officials broke with
diplomatic protocol and allowed the
ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an
F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the
campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.
The agents summarized their highly unusual
interview and sent word to Washington on Aug.
2, 2016, two days after the investigation was
opened. Their report helped provide the
foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday,
became the special counsel investigation. But
at the time, a small group of F.B.I. officials knew
it by its code name: Crossfire Hurricane.
[…]
The F.B.I. obtained phone records
and other documents using
national security letters — a secret
type of subpoena — officials said.
And at least one government
informant met several times with
Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos,
current and former officials said.
That has become a politically contentious point,
with Mr. Trump’s allies questioning whether the
F.B.I. was spying on the Trump campaign or
trying to entrap campaign officials.
The FBI has no choice but to admit they spied on Trump’s
campaign.
The American public is angry and demanding answers; we DOJ.
deserve to know the truth about Obama’s corrupt FBI and

Read the full NY Times article next.

This is amazing…

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 Code Name Crossfire Hurricane:
The Secret Origins Of The Trump Investigation
By Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman And Nicholas Fandos
May 16, 2018
Days after the F.B.I. closed its investigation into Hillary Clinton in
2016, agents began scrutinizing the presidential campaign of her
Republican rival, Donald J. Trump.
WASHINGTON — Within hours of opening an
investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in
the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents
to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful
of officials were kept in the dark.
Their assignment, which has not been previously reported,
was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence
that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance
about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations
between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials
broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the
ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I.
interview to describe his meeting with the campaign
adviser, George Papadopoulos.
The agents summarized their highly unusual interview and
sent word to Washington on Aug. 2, 2016, two days after
the investigation was opened. Their report helped provide
the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday,
became the special counsel investigation. But at the time, a
small group of F.B.I. officials knew it by its code name:
Crossfire Hurricane.
The name, a reference to the Rolling Stones lyric “I was
born in a crossfire hurricane,” was an apt prediction of a
political storm that continues to tear shingles off the
bureau. Days after they closed their investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, agents
began scrutinizing the campaign of her Republican rival.
The two cases have become inextricably linked in one of
the most consequential periods in the history of the F.B.I.
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This month, the Justice Department inspector general is
expected to release the findings of its lengthy review of the
F.B.I.’s conduct in the Clinton case. The results are certain
to renew debate over decisions by the F.B.I. director at the
time, James B. Comey, to publicly chastise Mrs. Clinton in
a news conference, and then announce the reopening of the
investigation days before Election Day. Mrs. Clinton has
said those actions buried her presidential hopes.
Those decisions stand in contrast to the F.B.I.’s handling
of Crossfire Hurricane. Not only did agents in that case fall
back to their typical policy of silence, but interviews with a
dozen current and former government officials and a
review of documents show that the F.B.I. was even more
circumspect in that case than has been previously known.
Many of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to discuss the
investigation publicly.
Agents considered, then rejected, interviewing key Trump
associates, which might have sped up the investigation but
risked revealing the existence of the case. Top officials
quickly became convinced that they would not solve the
case before Election Day, which made them only more
hesitant to act. When agents did take bold investigative
steps, like interviewing the ambassador, they were
shrouded in secrecy.
Fearful of leaks, they kept details from political appointees
across the street at the Justice Department. Peter Strzok, a
senior F.B.I. agent, explained in a text that Justice
Department officials would find it too “tasty” to resist
sharing.
“I’m not worried about our side,” he wrote.
Only about five Justice Department officials knew the full
scope of the case, officials said, not the dozen or more who
might normally be briefed on a major national security
case.
The facts, had they surfaced, might have devastated the
Trump campaign: Mr. Trump’s future national security
adviser was under investigation, as was his campaign
chairman. One adviser appeared to have Russian
intelligence contacts. Another was suspected of being a
Russian agent himself.
In the Clinton case, Mr. Comey has said he erred on the
side of transparency. But in the face of questions from
Congress about the Trump campaign, the F.B.I. declined to
tip its hand. And when The New York Times tried to assess
the state of the investigation in October 2016, law
enforcement officials cautioned against drawing any
conclusions, resulting in a story that significantly played
down the case.
Mr. Comey has said it is unfair to compare the Clinton
case, which was winding down in the summer of 2016,
with the Russia case, which was in its earliest stages. He
said he did not make political considerations about who
would benefit from each decision.
“I never saw anything that resembled a witch
hunt or suggested that the bureau’s approach to
the investigation was politically driven,” said
Mary McCord, a 20-year Justice Department
veteran and the top national security prosecutor
during much of the investigation’s first nine
months.
Crossfire Hurricane spawned a case that has brought
charges against former Trump campaign officials and more
than a dozen Russians. But in the final months of 2016,
agents faced great uncertainty — about the facts, and how
to respond.

But underpinning both cases was one political calculation:

that Mrs. Clinton would win and Mr. Trump would lose.
Agents feared being seen as withholding information or
going too easy on her. And they worried that any overt
actions against Mr. Trump’s campaign would only
reinforce his claims that the election was being rigged
against him.

The F.B.I. now faces those very criticisms and more. Mr.
Trump says he is the victim of a politicized F.B.I. He says
senior agents tried to rig the election by declining to
A Trump campaign rally in August 2016 in Texas. Crossfire
prosecute Mrs. Clinton, then drummed up the Russia Hurricane began exactly 100 days before the presidential election.
investigation to undermine his presidency. He has declared
that a deeply rooted cabal — including his own appointees Anxiety at the Bureau
— is working against him.

Crossfire Hurricane began exactly 100 days before the

That argument is the heart of Mr. Trump’s grievances with
the federal investigation. In the face of bipartisan support
for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, Mr. Trump
and his allies have made a priority of questioning how the
investigation was conducted in late 2016 and trying to
discredit it.
“It’s a witch hunt,” Mr. Trump said last month on
Fox News. “And they know that, and I’ve been
able to message it.”
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Congressional Republicans, led by Representative Devin
Nunes of California, have begun to dig into F.B.I. files,
looking for evidence that could undermine the
investigation. Much remains unknown and classified. But
those who saw the investigation up close, and many of
those who have reviewed case files in the past year, say
that far from gunning for Mr. Trump, the F.B.I. could
actually have done more in the final months of 2016 to
scrutinize his campaign’s Russia ties.
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presidential election, but if agents were eager to investigate
Mr. Trump’s campaign, as the president has suggested, the
messages do not reveal it.
“I cannot believe we are seriously looking at
these allegations and the pervasive
connections,” Mr. Strzok wrote soon after
returning from London.
The mood in early meetings was anxious, former officials
recalled. Agents had just closed the Clinton investigation,
and they braced for months of Republican-led hearings
over why she was not charged. Crossfire Hurricane was
built around the same core of agents and analysts who had
investigated Mrs. Clinton. None was eager to re-enter
presidential politics, former officials said, especially when
agents did not know what would come of the Australian
information.
The question they confronted still persists:
Was anyone in the Trump campaign tied to
Russian efforts to undermine the election?
The F.B.I. investigated four unidentified Trump campaign
aides in those early months, congressional investigators
revealed in February. The four men were Michael T.
Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Mr. Papadopoulos,
current and former officials said. Each was scrutinized
because of his obvious or suspected Russian ties.

Mr. Flynn, a top adviser, was paid $45,000 by the Russian

government’s media arm for a 2015 speech and dined at
the arm of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. Mr.
Manafort, the campaign chairman, had lobbied for pro-
Russia interests in Ukraine and worked with an associate
who has been identified as having connections to Russian Andrew G. McCabe in December in Washington. Mr. McCabe, the
intelligence. former deputy F.B.I. director, was cited by internal investigators for
dishonesty, giving ammunition for Mr. Trump’s claims that the
F.B.I. cannot be trusted.CreditChip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Mr. Page, a foreign policy adviser, was well known to the
F.B.I. He had previously been recruited by Russian spies Abounding Criticism
and was suspected of meeting one in Moscow during the
campaign.
Looking back, some inside the F.B.I. and the Justice
Department say that Mr. Comey should have seen the
Lastly, there was Mr. Papadopoulos, the young and political storm coming and better sheltered the bureau.
inexperienced campaign aide whose wine-fueled They question why he consolidated the Clinton and Trump
conversation with the Australian ambassador set off the investigations at headquarters, rather than in a field office.
investigation. Before hacked Democratic emails appeared And they say he should not have relied on the same team
online, he had seemed to know that Russia had political for both cases. That put a bull’s-eye on the heart of the
dirt on Mrs. Clinton. But even if the F.B.I. had wanted to F.B.I. Any misstep in either investigation made both cases,
read his emails or intercept his calls, that evidence was not and the entire bureau, vulnerable to criticism.
enough to allow it. Many months passed, former officials
said, before the F.B.I. uncovered emails linking Mr.
And there were missteps. Andrew G. McCabe, the former
Papadopoulos to a Russian intelligence operation.
deputy F.B.I. director, was cited by internal investigators
for dishonesty about his conversations with reporters about
Mr. Trump was not under investigation, but his actions Mrs. Clinton. That gave ammunition for Mr. Trump’s
perplexed the agents. Days after the stolen Democratic claims that the F.B.I. cannot be trusted. And Mr. Strzok
emails became public, he called on Russia to uncover and Lisa Page, an F.B.I. lawyer, exchanged texts
more. Then news broke that Mr. Trump’s campaign had criticizing Mr. Trump, allowing the president to point to
pushed to change the Republican platform’s stance on evidence of bias when they became public.
Ukraine in ways favorable to Russia.
The messages were unsparing. They questioned Mr.
The F.B.I.’s thinking crystallized by mid-August, after the Trump’s intelligence, believed he promoted intolerance
C.I.A. director at the time, John O. Brennan, shared and feared he would damage the bureau.
intelligence with Mr. Comey showing that the Russian
government was behind an attack on the 2016 presidential
The inspector general’s upcoming report is expected to
election. Intelligence agencies began collaborating to
criticize those messages for giving the appearance of bias.
investigate that operation. The Crossfire Hurricane team
It is not clear, however, whether inspectors found evidence
was part of that group but largely operated independently,
supporting Mr. Trump’s assertion that agents tried to
three officials said.
protect Mrs. Clinton, a claim the F.B.I. has adamantly
denied.
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said that
after studying the investigation as a member of the Senate
Mr. Rubio, who has reviewed many of the texts and case
Intelligence Committee, he saw no evidence of political
files, said he saw no signs that the F.B.I. wanted to
motivation in the opening of the investigation.
undermine Mr. Trump.
“There was a growing body of evidence that a
“There might have been individual agents that
foreign government was attempting to interfere
had views that, in hindsight, have been
in both the process and the debate surrounding
problematic for those agents,” Mr. Rubio said.
our elections, and their job is to investigate
“But whether that was a systemic effort, I’ve
counterintelligence,” he said in an interview.
seen no evidence of it.”
“That’s what they did.”

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Mr. Trump’s daily Twitter posts, though, offer sound-bite-
sized accusations — witch hunt, hoax, deep state, rigged
system — that fan the flames of conspiracy. Capitol Hill
allies reliably echo those comments.
“It’s like the deep state all got together to try to
orchestrate a palace coup,” Representative
Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, said in
January on Fox Business Network.
The Kremlin in Moscow. Two weeks before Mr. Trump’s
inauguration, senior American intelligence officials told him that
Russia had tried to sow chaos in the election, undermine Mrs. Clinton
and ultimately help Mr. Trump win.CreditMladen Antonov/Agence
France-Presse — Getty Images
Cautious Intelligence Gathering
Counterintelligence investigations can take years, but if the
Russian government had influence over the Trump
campaign, the F.B.I. wanted to know quickly. One option
was the most direct: interview the campaign officials about
their Russian contacts.
That was discussed but not acted on, two former officials
said, because interviewing witnesses or subpoenaing
documents might thrust the investigation into public view,
exactly what F.B.I. officials were trying to avoid during
the heat of the presidential race.
“You do not take actions that will unnecessarily
impact an election,” Sally Q. Yates, the former
deputy attorney general, said in an interview.
She would not discuss details, but added,
“Folks were very careful to make sure that
actions that were being taken in connection with
that investigation did not become public.”
Mr. Comey was briefed regularly on the Russia
investigation, but one official said those briefings focused
mostly on hacking and election interference. The Crossfire
Hurricane team did not present many crucial decisions for
Mr. Comey to make.
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Top officials became convinced that there was almost no
chance they would answer the question of collusion before
Election Day. And that made agents even more cautious.
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents
using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena
— officials said. And at least one government informant
met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos,
current and former officials said. That has become a
politically contentious point, with Mr. Trump’s allies
questioning whether the F.B.I. was spying on the Trump
campaign or trying to entrap campaign officials.
Looking back, some at the Justice Department and the
F.B.I. now believe that agents could have been more
aggressive. They ultimately interviewed Mr. Papadopoulos
in January 2017 and managed to keep it a secret,
suggesting they could have done so much earlier.
“There is always a high degree of caution
before taking overt steps in a
counterintelligence investigation,” said Ms.
McCord, who would not discuss details of the
case. “And that could have worked to the
president’s benefit here.”
Such tactical discussions are reflected in one of Mr.
Strzok’s most controversial texts, sent on Aug. 15, 2016,
after a meeting in Mr. McCabe’s office.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no
way he gets elected,” Mr. Strzok wrote, “but I’m
afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an
insurance policy in the unlikely event you die
before you’re 40.”
Mr. Trump says that message revealed a secret F.B.I. plan
to respond to his election.
“‘We’ll go to Phase 2 and we’ll get this guy out
of office,’” he told The Wall Street Journal. “This
is the F.B.I. we’re talking about — that is
treason.”
But officials have told the inspector general something
quite different. They said Ms. Page and others advocated a
slower, circumspect pace, especially because polls
predicted Mr. Trump’s defeat. They said that anything the
F.B.I. did publicly would only give fodder to Mr. Trump’s
claims on the campaign trail that the election was rigged.
Mr. Strzok countered that even if Mr. Trump’s chances of
victory were low — like dying before 40 — the stakes
were too high to justify inaction.
Mr. Strzok had similarly argued for a more aggressive path
during the Clinton investigation, according to four current
and former officials. He opposed the Justice Department’s
decision to offer Mrs. Clinton’s lawyers immunity and
negotiate access to her hard drives, the officials said. Mr.
Strzok favored using search warrants or subpoenas instead.
In both cases, his argument lost.
As agents tried to corroborate information from the retired British
spy Christopher Steele, reporters began calling the F.B.I., asking
whether the accusations in his reports were accurate.Credit Al Drago
for The New York Times
Policy and Tradition
The F.B.I. bureaucracy did agents no favors. In July, a
retired British spy named Christopher Steele approached a
friend in the F.B.I. overseas and provided reports linking
Trump campaign officials to Russia. But the documents
meandered around the F.B.I. organizational chart, former
officials said. Only in mid-September, congressional
investigators say, did the records reach the Crossfire
Hurricane team.
Mr. Steele was gathering information about Mr. Trump as
a private investigator for Fusion GPS, a firm paid by
Democrats. But he was also considered highly credible,
having helped agents unravel complicated cases.
In October, agents flew to Europe to interview him. But
Mr. Steele had become frustrated by the F.B.I.’s slow
response. He began sharing his findings in September and
October with journalists at The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The New Yorker and elsewhere,
according to congressional testimony.
So as agents tried to corroborate Mr. Steele’s information,
reporters began calling the bureau, asking about his
findings. If the F.B.I. was working against Mr. Trump, as
he asserts, this was an opportunity to push embarrassing
information into the news media shortly before the
election.
That did not happen. Most news organizations did not
publish Mr. Steele’s reports or reveal the F.B.I.’s interest
in them until after Election Day.
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Congress was also increasingly asking questions. Mr.
Brennan, the C.I.A. director, had briefed top lawmakers
that summer about Russian election interference and
intelligence that Moscow supported the Trump campaign
— a finding that would not become public for months.
Lawmakers clamored for information from Mr. Comey,
who refused to answer public questions.
Many Democrats see rueful irony in this moment. Mr.
Comey, after all, broke with policy and twice publicly
discussed the Clinton investigation. Yet he refused
repeated requests to discuss the Trump investigation.
Mr. Comey has said he regrets his decision to chastise
Mrs. Clinton as “extremely careless,” even as he
announced that she should not be charged. But he stands
by his decision to alert Congress, days before the election,
that the F.B.I. was reopening the Clinton inquiry.
The result, though, is that Mr. Comey broke with both
policy and tradition in Mrs. Clinton’s case, but hewed
closely to the rules for Mr. Trump. Representative Adam
B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House
Intelligence Committee, said that alone proves Mr.
Trump’s claims of unfairness to be
“both deeply at odds with the facts, and
damaging to our democracy.”
Carter Page in December 2016. He had previously been recruited by
Russian spies and was suspected of meeting one in Moscow during
the 2016 presidential campaign.CreditPavel Golovkin/Associated
Press
Spying in Question
Crossfire Hurricane began with a focus on four campaign
officials. But by mid-fall 2016, Mr. Page’s inquiry had
progressed the furthest. Agents had known Mr. Page for
years. Russian spies tried to recruit him in 2013, and he
was dismissive when agents warned him about it, a half-
dozen current and former officials said. That warning even
made its way back to Russian intelligence, leaving agents
suspecting that Mr. Page had reported their efforts to
Moscow.
Relying on F.B.I. information and Mr. Steele’s,
prosecutors obtained court approval to eavesdrop on Mr.
Page, who was no longer with the Trump campaign.
That warrant has become deeply contentious and is crucial
to Republican arguments that intelligence agencies
improperly used Democratic research to help justify spying
on the Trump campaign. The inspector general is
reviewing that claim.
Ms. Yates, the deputy attorney general under President
Barack Obama, signed the first warrant application. But
subsequent filings were approved by members of Mr.
Trump’s own administration: the acting attorney general,
Dana J. Boente, and then Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy
attorney general.
“Folks are very, very careful and serious about
that process,” Ms. Yates said. “I don’t know of
anything that gives me any concerns.”
After months of investigation, Mr. Papadopoulos remained
largely a puzzle. And agents were nearly ready to close
their investigation of Mr. Flynn, according to three current
and former officials. (Mr. Flynn rekindled the F.B.I.’s
interest in November 2016 by signing an op-ed article that
appeared to be written on behalf of the Turkish
government, and then making phone calls to the Russian
ambassador that December.)
In late October, in response to questions from The Times,
law enforcement officials acknowledged the investigation
but urged restraint. They said they had scrutinized some of
Mr. Trump’s advisers but had found no proof of any
involvement with Russian hacking. The resulting article,
on Oct. 31, reflected that caution and said that agents had
uncovered no “conclusive or direct link between Mr.
Trump and the Russian government.”
The key fact of the article — that the F.B.I. had opened a
broad investigation into possible links between the Russian
government and the Trump campaign — was published in
the 10th paragraph.
A year and a half later, no public evidence has surfaced
connecting Mr. Trump’s advisers to the hacking or linking
Mr. Trump himself to the Russian government’s disruptive
efforts. But the article’s tone and headline —
“Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No
Clear Link to Russia” — gave an air of finality to
an investigation that was just beginning.
Democrats say that article pre-emptively
exonerated Mr. Trump, dousing chances to
raise questions about the campaign’s Russian
ties before Election Day.
Just as the F.B.I. has been criticized for its handling of the
Trump investigation, so too has The Times.
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For Mr. Steele, it dashed his confidence in American law
enforcement.
“He didn’t know what was happening inside the
F.B.I.,” Glenn R. Simpson, the founder of
Fusion GPS, testified this year. “And there was
a concern that the F.B.I. was being manipulated
for political ends by the Trump people.”
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, in January 2017. He
assured Mr. Trump, who at the time was the president-elect, that the
bureau intended to protect him as Mr. Steele’s reports were about to
be published by news outlets.CreditAl Drago/The New York Times
Assurances Amid Doubt
Two weeks before Mr. Trump’s inauguration, senior
American intelligence officials briefed him at Trump
Tower in Manhattan on Russian hacking and deception.
They reported that Mr. Putin had tried to sow chaos in the
election, undermine Mrs. Clinton and ultimately help Mr.
Trump win.
Then Mr. Comey met with Mr. Trump privately, revealing
the Steele reports and warning that journalists had obtained
them. Mr. Comey has said he feared making this
conversation a “J. Edgar Hoover-type situation,” with the
F.B.I. presenting embarrassing information to lord over a
president-elect.
In a contemporaneous memo, Mr. Comey wrote that he
assured Mr. Trump that the F.B.I. intended to protect him
on this point.
“I said media like CNN had them and were
looking for a news hook,” Mr. Comey wrote of
Mr. Steele’s documents. “I said it was important
that we not give them the excuse to write that
the F.B.I. had the material.”
Mr. Trump was not convinced — either by the Russia
briefing or by Mr. Comey’s assurances. He made up his
mind before Mr. Comey even walked in the door. Hours
earlier, Mr. Trump told The Times that stories about
Russian election interference were being pushed by his
adversaries to distract from his victory.
And he debuted what would quickly become a favorite
phrase:
“This is a political witch hunt.”
An earlier version of this article misstated that news
organizations did not report on the findings of the retired
British spy Christopher Steele about links between Trump
campaign officials and Russia. While most news
organizations whose reporters met with Mr. Steele did not
publish such reports before the 2016 election, Mother
Jones magazine did.

Correction: May 15, 2018

Reporting was contributed by Michael S. Schmidt, Sharon
LaFraniere, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosenberg.
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 IT’S A SET-UP: Mueller’s Team Tells Giuliani They
Cannot Indict A Sitting President
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 5:32 Pm
That darn Constitution!
Mueller’s team of liberal hack lawyers
admitted to Giuliani they cannot indict
President Trump.
CNN reported:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has
informed President Donald Trump’s attorneys
that they have concluded that they cannot indict
a sitting president, according to the President’s
lawyer.
“All they get to do is write a report,” Trump
lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN. “They can’t
indict. At least they acknowledged that to us
after some battling, they acknowledged that to
us.”
That conclusion is likely based on longstanding Justice
Department guidelines. It is not about any assessment of
the evidence Mueller’s team has compiled.
A lack of an indictment would not necessarily mean the
President is in the clear. Mueller could issue a report
making referrals or recommendations to the House of
Representatives.
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Giuliani tells CNN the special counsel’s
team has decided that “they have to follow
the Justice Department rules.”
The President’s lawyer also argued it’s a
constitutional rule:
“The Justice Department memos going back to
before Nixon say that you cannot indict a sitting
president, you have to impeach him. Now there
was a little time in which there was some
dispute about that, but they acknowledged to us
orally that they understand that they can’t
violate the Justice Department rules,” Giuliani
said.
“We think it’s bigger than that. We think it’s
a constitutional rule, but I don’t think you’re
ever going to confront that because
nobody’s ever going to indict a sitting
president. So, what does that leave them with?
That leaves them with writing a report,” said
Giuliani.
BUT DON’T BE FOOLED –MUELLER IS
STILL AFTER TRUMP—
Mueller is going to issue a report on his
findings, according to reports; they will
move to impeach President Trump.
This is also why House Dems want to move
towards impeachment; they know a sitting
president cannot be indicted.
Former US Attorney, Joe diGenova blasted Robert Mueller
over his presidential subpoena threat in his Fox News
appearance with Tucker Carlson recently.
Joe diGenova even taunted Mueller and told him to go
ahead and issue Trump a subpoena because it will be
unconstitutional and illegal.
“There is no authority under federal law to issue
a subpoena to a president of the United States
to get testimony from him so it can be used at
an impeachment proceeding,” diGenova
continued.
 Report: Government Informant
Spied On Two Trump Campaign Aides
Chuck Ross - Reporter
5:55 PM 05/16/2018
An unidentified government informant met multiple times
with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George
Papadopoulos, according to a report from The New York
Times.
The bombshell revelation is buried deep inside a story
about the early days of “Hurricane Crossfire,” the FBI’s
counterintelligence investigation into possible collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The Times reported:
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and
other documents using national security
letters — a secret type of subpoena —
officials said. And at least one government
informant met several times with Mr. Page
and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former
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officials said. That has become a politically
contentious point, with Mr. Trump’s allies
questioning whether the F.B.I. was spying
on the Trump campaign or trying to entrap
campaign officials.
The existence of a top secret FBI source was reported by
The Washington Post back on May 8. According to the
newspaper, an American citizen who has long provided
information to the CIA and FBI has provided information
about the Trump campaign that is now in the hands of the
special counsel’s office.
The Department of Justice has fought the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence over
documents related to the source. The agency claims that
revealing the documents could put the source’s life at risk
and jeopardize relationships with foreign intelligence
services.
Ironically, it appears that Justice Department or FBI
officials are sources for both The Post and Times articles
that revealed previously unknown details about the source.
The FBI declined a request for comment from The Daily
Caller News Foundation.
 Report: California State Bar
Investigating Michael Avenatti
Peter Hasson - Reporter
6:00 PM 05/16/2018
Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti leaves federal court
surrounded by news media in the Manhattan borough of New York
City, New York, U.S., April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson |
Michael Avenatti Under Investigation
Michael Avenatti, porn star Stormy Daniels’ attorney, is
being investigated by the California State Bar, a new
report reveals.
Seattle attorney David Nold filed a complaint against
Avenatti on March 26, as The Daily Caller News
Foundation previously reported. Nold accused Avenatti of
defrauding the state and federal government as the owner
of a Seattle coffee chain.
“In essence, he bought a company out of
bankruptcy and then used it for a ‘pump
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and dump’ scheme to deprive federal and
state taxing authorities of millions of
dollars,” Nold said in the complaint.
An April 18 letter Fox News obtained on Wednesday
shows Avenatti is now under investigation. The state bar
only launches a “full investigation” if the attorney
reviewing the complaint “sees evidence of a serious
violation,” according to its website.
“The complaint against attorney Michael J.
Avenatti has been reviewed and forwarded
to the Enforcement Unit for further
investigation and prosecution, if
warranted,” the letter states, according to
Fox News.
Avenatti previously dismissed Nold’s complaint in a
statement to the Seattle Times but has yet to provide any
evidence refuting the accusations.
The porn star’s lawyer threatened to sue TheDCNF’s
journalists on Monday for reporting on his history of shady
business dealing. Avenatti has yet to demonstrate a single
factual inaccuracy in TheDCNF’s reporting.
 Dirty Cop Steps Forward –
Admits Leaking Michael Cohen’s Bank Records
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 6:22 Pm
On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the office
of one of Trump’s personal lawyers Michael
Cohen at the request of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. Michael Cohen is President
Trump’s personal attorney. The Mueller mob
took all of his records and emails.
One month later — Cohen’s financial
documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.
The Treasury Department’s inspector general is
investigating how Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael
Avenatti obtained confidential banking records concerning
a company controlled by President Trump’s personal
attorney Michael Cohen.
Now this…
A law enforcement official has admitted to
leaking Cohen’s bank records.
The name of the leaker is being withheld
from the public.
The New Yorker reported:
In the days since [Cohen bank record leak],
there has been much speculation about who
leaked the confidential documents, and the
Treasury Department’s inspector general has
launched a probe to find the source. That
source, a law-enforcement official, is speaking
publicly for the first time, to The New Yorker, to
explain the motivation: the official had grown
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alarmed after being unable to find two important
reports on Cohen’s financial activity in a
government database. The official, worried that
the information was being withheld from law
enforcement, released the remaining
documents.
The payments to Cohen that have emerged in
the past week come primarily from a single
document, a “suspicious-activity report” filed by
First Republic Bank, where Cohen’s shell
company, Essential Consultants, L.L.C.,
maintained an account. The document detailed
sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars
paid to Cohen by the pharmaceutical company
Novartis, the telecommunications giant A.T. &
T., and an investment firm with ties to the
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
The report also refers to two previous
suspicious-activity reports, or sars, that the
bank had filed, which documented even larger
flows of questionable money into Cohen’s
account. Those two reports detail more than
three million dollars in additional transactions—
triple the amount in the report released last
week. Which individuals or corporations were
involved remains a mystery. But, according to
the official who leaked the report, these sars
were absent from the database maintained by
the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, or fincen. The official,
who has spent a career in law enforcement, told
me,
“I have never seen something pulled off the
system. . . . That system is a safeguard for the
bank. It’s a stockpile of information. When
something’s not there that should be, I
immediately became concerned.” The official
added, “That’s why I came forward.”
Read the full report by Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker
here.
Trial lawyer Robert Barnes weighed in with
his prediction:
 Others speculated the government may be
on the heels of the leaker so he’s stepping
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 Missing Files Motivated The
Leak Of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records
A Law-Enforcement Official Released The Documents After Finding That
Additional Suspicious Transactions Did Not Appear In A Government Database.
Transactions Involving Michael Cohen, President Trump’s Personal Lawyer, Were The
Subject Of Multiple Unreleased Suspicious-Activity Reports.
By Ronan Farrow
May 16, 2018, 6:17 P.M.
Last week, several news outlets obtained financial records
showing that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal
attorney, had used a shell company to receive payments
from various firms with business before the Trump
Administration. In the days since, there has been much
speculation about who leaked the confidential documents,
and the Treasury Department’s inspector general has
launched a probe to find the source. That source, a law-
enforcement official, is speaking publicly for the first time,
to The New Yorker, to explain the motivation: the official
had grown alarmed after being unable to find two
important reports on Cohen’s financial activity in a
government database. The official, worried that the
information was being withheld from law enforcement,
released the remaining documents.
The payments to Cohen that have emerged in the past
week come primarily from a single document, a
“suspicious-activity report” filed by First Republic Bank,
where Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants,
L.L.C., maintained an account. The document detailed
sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Cohen
by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, the
telecommunications giant A.T. & T., and an investment
firm with ties to the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
The report also refers to two previous suspicious-activity
reports, or SARs, that the bank had filed, which
documented even larger flows of questionable money into
Cohen’s account. Those two reports detail more than three
million dollars in additional transactions—triple the
amount in the report released last week. Which individuals
or corporations were involved remains a mystery. But,
according to the official who leaked the report, these SARs
were absent from the database maintained by the Treasury
Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or
FinCEN. The official, who has spent a career in law
enforcement, told me,
“I have never seen something pulled off the
system. . . . That system is a safeguard for the
bank. It’s a stockpile of information. When
something’s not there that should be, I
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immediately became concerned.” The official
added, “That’s why I came forward.”
Seven former government officials and other experts
familiar with the Treasury Department’s FinCEN database
expressed varying levels of concern about the missing
reports. Some speculated that FinCEN may have restricted
access to the reports due to the sensitivity of their content,
which they said would be nearly unprecedented. One
called the possibility “explosive.” A record-retention
policy on FinCEN’s Web site notes that false documents
or those “deemed highly sensitive” and “requiring strict
limitations on access” may be transferred out of its master
file. Nevertheless, a former prosecutor who spent years
working with the FinCEN database said that she knew of
no mechanism for restricting access to SARs. She
speculated that FinCEN may have taken the extraordinary
step of restricting access “because of the highly sensitive
nature of a potential investigation. It may be that someone
reached out to FinCEN to ask to limit disclosure of certain
SARs related to an investigation, whether it was the special
counsel or the Southern District of New York.” (The
special counsel, Robert Mueller, is investigating Russian
interference in the 2016 Presidential election. The
Southern District is investigating Cohen, and the F.B.I.
raided his office and hotel room last month.)
Whatever the explanation for the missing reports, the
appearance that some, but not all, had been removed or
restricted troubled the official who released the report last
week.
“Why just those two missing?” the official, who
feared that the contents of those two reports
might be permanently withheld, said. “That’s
what alarms me the most.”
FinCEN said in a statement that it protects the
confidentiality of SARs “in order to protect both filers and
potentially named individuals.” The statement added,
“FinCEN neither confirms nor denies the existence of
purported SARs.” Spokespeople for the special counsel’s
office and the Southern District of New York declined to
comment. Michael Cohen and his lawyer did not respond
to requests for comment.
Banks are legally mandated to file suspicious-activity
reports with the government in order to call attention to
activity that resembles money laundering, fraud, and other
criminal conduct. These reports are routed to a permanent
database maintained by FinCEN, which can be searched by
tens of thousands of law-enforcement and other federal
government personnel. The reports are a routine response
to any financial activity that appears suspicious. They are
not proof of criminal activity, and often do not result in
criminal charges, though the information in them can be
used in law-enforcement proceedings.
“This is a permanent record. They should be
there,” the official, who described an exhaustive
search for the reports, said. “And there is
nothing there.”
Cohen set up the First Republic account for Essential
Consultants in October, 2016, shortly before the
Presidential election, in order to pay the adult-film actress
Stephanie Clifford, who performs under the name Stormy
Daniels, a hundred and thirty thousand dollars in return for
signing a nondisclosure agreement about her alleged affair
with Donald Trump. First Republic’s compliance officers
later began flagging Cohen’s transactions in the account as
possible signs of money laundering. Among other potential
violations, the documents cite “suspicion concerning the
source of funds,” “suspicious EFT/ wire transfers,”
“suspicious use of multiple accounts,” and “transaction
with no apparent economic, business, or lawful purpose.”
(A spokesperson for First Republic Bank declined to
comment.)
By January of this year, First Republic had filed the three
suspicious-activity reports about Cohen’s account. The
most recent report—the only one made public so far—
examined Cohen’s transactions from September of 2017 to
January of 2018, and included activity totalling almost a
million dollars. It alludes to the two previous reports that
the official could not find in the FinCEN database. The
first report that the official was unable to locate, which
covered almost seven months, appears to have listed a little
over a million dollars in activity. The second report that
the official was unable to locate, which investigated a
three-month period between June and September of 2017,
found suspect transfers totalling more than two million
dollars.
A substantial portion of this money seems to have ended
up in Cohen’s personal accounts. Morgan Stanley Smith
Barney filed a separate SAR showing that, during that same
three-month period, Cohen set up two accounts with the
firm, into which he deposited three checks from his
Essential Consultants account, two in the amount of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one in the amount
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of five hundred and five thousand dollars. Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney marked those transactions, which added up
to more than a million dollars, as possible signs of “bribery
or gratuity” and “suspicious use of third-party transactors
(straw-man).”
Cohen appears to have misled First Republic repeatedly
regarding the purpose of the Essential Consultants account.
In paperwork filed with the bank, he said that the company
would be devoted to using “his experience in real estate to
consult on commercial and residential” deals. Cohen told
the bank that his transactions would be modest, and based
within the United States. In fact, the compliance officers
wrote, “a significant portion of the target account deposits
continue to originate from entities that have no apparent
connection to real estate or apparent need to engage Cohen
as a real estate consultant.” Likewise, “a significant
portion of the deposits continues to be derived from
foreign entities.” David Murray, a former Treasury official
focussed on illicit finance, told me,
“There are a ton of red flags here. The pattern
of activity has indicators that are inherently
suspicious, and the volume and source of funds
do not match the account profile that was built
when the account was opened.”
The report released last week highlights a payment from
Cohen’s account to Demeter Direct, Inc. In publicly filed
paperwork, Demeter Direct represents itself as a Korean
food company. However, a Web site, since taken down,
suggested that it was a global consulting firm. After the
press began scrutinizing Cohen’s accounts, a man listed as
Demeter Direct’s C.E.O., Mark Ko, told CNN that he
served as an intermediary and translator in Cohen’s
dealings with an aviation firm, majority-owned by South
Korea’s government, called Korea Aerospace Industries.
According to the First Republic report, the aerospace
company paid Cohen a hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in November of 2017, the same month President Trump
visited South Korea. At the time, the company was
lobbying for a controversial multibillion-dollar contract
with the U.S. Air Force.
The report also shows how Cohen apparently used the
Essential Consultants account for personal expenses. He
seems to have used it to pay his American Express, A.T. &
T., and Mercedes Benz bills, marking account numbers on
the memo lines of his checks. He paid initiation fees and
dues to the Core Club, a social club that the Times once
described as a “portal to power.” He also cut himself
multiple personal checks from Essential Consultants,
amounting to more than a hundred thousand dollars, on top
of the million he had already deposited into his Morgan
Stanley accounts.
In many cases, the suspicious-activity reports highlight
activity of potential interest to ongoing investigations,
including that of the special counsel, Robert Mueller. Bank
compliance officers noted eight payments from a company
called Columbus Nova to Cohen’s account between
January and August of 2017, totalling five hundred
thousand dollars. The investigators wrote that Columbus
Nova’s biggest client is a company controlled by Viktor
Vekselberg, whom they described as “reputed to be a
longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” The
report also points out that Andrew Intrater, Vekselberg’s
relative and the C.E.O. of Columbus Nova, donated more
than three hundred thousand dollars to Trump-related
causes. The report flagged the activity as suspicious
“because the CEO’s company transferred
substantial funds to the personal attorney of
Trump at the same time the CEO reportedly
donated substantial funds to Trump’s
inauguration fund and joint fundraising
committee for Trump’s reelection and the
Republican National Committee.”
Other banks also noticed Cohen’s suspicious transactions
and filed their own SARs about his activity. Some of those
show the banks piecing together the reasons for the
transactions from news reports, citing articles from
publications including the Wall Street Journal and Vanity
Fair about Trump, Russia, and secret election-season
payments, including the payment to Clifford. One, filed by
City National Bank, follows money paid to Cohen by
Elliott Broidy, at the time the deputy finance chairman for
the Republican National Committee. The report notes,
“Broidy also owns a private security company, Circinus,
which provides services to the U.S. and other
governments. The company has hundreds of millions of
dollars in contracts with the U.A.E.” Broidy has said that
Cohen and another lawyer, Keith Davidson, worked out a
deal in which Broidy would pay $1.6 million to a former
Playboy model he had impregnated. Broidy appears to
have paid both lawyers for arranging the deal. The City
National report shows that Broidy funnelled the payments
through Real Estate Attorneys’ Group, a legal
corporation. Broidy seems to have paid Davidson two
hundred thousand dollars, and to have sent three payments,
of $62,500 each, to Cohen—one to the Essential
.
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Consultants account and two to the account of Michael D.
Cohen and Associates.
A representative for Broidy said that this description of the
payments was “not correct,” and that “Mr. Broidy is not
going to detail his payments for legal services to Mr.
Cohen.” The representative added, “Mr. Broidy did not
pay Mr. Davidson.” However, the City National report
shows that on November 30, 2017, a wire of two hundred
thousand dollars was received by the Real Estate
Attorneys’ Group from Broidy. Then, on December 5,
2017, two hundred thousand dollars were transferred from
Real Estate Attorneys’ Group to an account belonging to
Keith M. Davidson and Associates.
Michael Avenatti, an attorney representing Clifford, who
has released summaries of Cohen’s transactions on social
media, said, “The Treasury Department should release all
of the SARs immediately to the American public.”
Suspicious-activity reports are kept strictly confidential, as
a matter of law. “SARs are secret, to protect the
government and to protect financial institutions,” the
former prosecutor told me. “I don’t think there’s a safe
harbor for somebody who discloses it.” According to
FinCEN, disclosing a SAR is a federal offense, carrying
penalties including fines of up to two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and imprisonment for up to five years.
The official who released the suspicious-activity reports
was aware of the risks, but said fears that the missing
reports might be suppressed compelled the disclosure.
“We’ve accepted this as normal, and this is not
normal,” the official said. “Things that stand out
as abnormal, like documents being removed
from a system, are of grave concern to me.” Of
the potential for legal consequences, the official
said, “To say that I am terrified right now would
be an understatement.” But, referring to the
released report, as well as the potential
contents of the missing reports, the official also
added, “This is a terrifying time to be an
American, to be in this situation, and to watch
all of this unfold.”
 Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Encourages
Audience To 'Not Watch Fox News'
By Randy Hall
May 16, 2018 6:21 PM EDT
It should come as no surprise that liberal comedian Trevor
Noah, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, doesn’t
watch Fox News. In fact, he dismissed the top-rated cable
channel as not the “villain we’re chasing after.”
According to an article posted on Monday by The
Hollywood Reporter's Jeremy Barr, one of the biggest
differences between Noah and previous host Jon Stewart is
the fact that
“Noah’s version rarely touches on the network”
while Stewart “was heavy on criticisms” of FNC.
Noah told Barr:
“We seldom engage with Fox News, and that’s
because, as Trevor, I don’t watch Fox News. I
encourage my audience to not watch Fox
News. I don’t think you should put yourself
through that.”
However, Barr noted that the comedian from South Africa
still
“talks about controversies that originate on the
network and then permeate the larger culture,
including Laura Ingraham's ‘shut up and dribble’
comments about LeBron James in February.”
Noah doesn't see the popular channel
“as a conservative bogeyman worthy of daily
broadsides,” the writer stated. "We don't see
Fox News as the villain we're chasing after,”
The Daily Show host added.
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While the comedian “
has spent the first 16 months of the Trump
presidency honing his jokes about the
administration,” Barr noted, “that doesn't mean
he's interested in telling Trump jokes at the
White House Correspondents' Dinner in the
future.”
Barr noted that Noah
“wasn't surprised by the intensity of the reaction
to Wolf's remarks, which dinged Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway.”
However, the Comedy Central host was “intrigued” by the
role journalists played in launching the backlash.
“Watching journalists criticize Wolf's treatment
of the administration in real time raised
questions for Noah about the relationship
between the White House and the press,”
Barr noted.
When asked if he would be willing to host that event,
Noah replied:
“I honestly don't know. I don't know” because “I
think of what the intention is. What am I trying to
do? What is the dinner trying to do? What is it
for?”
“And, after this dinner,” the Comedy Central
host continued, “I ask that question even more
now.”
Of course, Noah couldn’t resist an opportunity to slam
President Trump:
“We both seem to be learning about the
presidency at the same time." The host
“devotes a lot of time on his show to Trump, but
because he claims to understand the president,
he is able to put some of the more outrageous
things he says in context,” Barr stated.
 "I don't lose my mind and go crazy," Noah
said.
As NewsBusters previously reported, the Daily Show host
began the year by slamming the doctor's report that
President Trump is in excellent physical and mental
health. A few weeks later, Noah praised CNN
commentator Angela Rye by gushing over how “amazing”
it was when his guest rolled her eyes after someone said
something positive about the president.
.
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This past Sunday, Noah returned to his Trump-bashing
ways by telling CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stetler
that his favorite joke about the president is comparing him
to an African dictator and reminding the comedian of “an
asteroid headed toward the Earth, but it’s shaped like a
penis.”
Perhaps it’s just as well that the Comedy Central host
doesn’t watch the Fox News Channel since he might
accidentally hear something positive about the president
and face a crisis regarding the target of most of his
vulgar “jokes.”
 Attorney Robert Barnes THRASHES Dirty Cop And
Leaker Of Cohen’s Bank Records To Slimy
Lawyer — LOCK HIM UP!
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 6:37 Pm

On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the office of one of That’s when attorney Robert Barnes ripped
Trump’s personal lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of the young reporter:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael Cohen is
President Trump’s personal attorney. The Mueller mob
took all of his records and emails.

One month later — Cohen’s financial documents are

leaked to the porn star’s shady attorney.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is

investigating how Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael
Avenatti obtained Michael Cohen’s confidential banking
records.

On Wednesday a crooked far left law

enforcement officer stepped forward today
admitting to leaking the bank records to
porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti.
Ronan Farrow published the report in the New Yorker and
defended the leaker:
Attorney Robert Barnes:
This negates the excuse the criminal leaker is
using; anyone as familiar with the system, and
with the access he has to the system, would
know the reason he couldn’t access all SARs is
because they were part of an ongoing
investigation that others had limited access to.

The criminal leaker is no “whistleblower”;

he is not disclosing something the
government is trying to keep secret about
bad acts within the government; he is
disclosing something the government
promised private citizens it would keep
secret in exchange for spying on our
accounts. 2nd problem w/ criminal leaker
disguised as a “whistleblower”:

he had detailed access to SAR database that

few people have access to & he had detailed
access to private bank accounts of Cohen. That
means highly likely he is part of #SDNY, where
the criminals work for the govt.

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 MORE… Robert Barnes is likely either a
SDNY or Mueller associate.

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 Triggered: Avenatti Calls Hollywood
Reporter Editor An ‘A**Hole,’ Demands
To Speak With Boss
By Curtis Houck
May 16, 2018 6:37 PM EDT
First, frequent cable and broadcast news guest/Stormy
Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti threatened on Monday
to sue the Daily Caller for defamation. Now, on
Wedenesday, a Hollywood Reporter column revealed how
Avenatti called the writer an “asshole” for e-mailing him a
list of tough questions and demanded their editor reach out
to him.
Senior editor Eriq Gardner’s piece entitled “Is
Stormy Daniels Getting Her Money’s Worth
From Attorney Michael Avenatti?” raised
some credible concerns about how effective
Avenatti has been for the porn star in the court
of legal (as opposed to public) opinion as she
wages war against President Trump and
personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Taking an indirect cue from MRC studies about
Avenatti’s TV appearances (which can be read
here, here, and here), Gardner noted that
“Avenatti's media ubiquity is something few
lawyers would recommend” and could be
illustrated by a federal judge remarking early on
in the process that this matter was “not the
most important matter on the court's
docket.”
Gardner correctly observed that Avenatti hasn’t
been hurt by criticism of his Trumpian-like
behavior, but rather doubled down on it.
Avenatti told him that “you can't argue that
the media strategy hasn't worked” as he’s
been “crushing it on the PR front.” If by
“crushing it” he meant auditioning for a role on
CNN and MSNBC, he’s definitely achieved that.
Later, Gardner laid bare Avenatti’s Trumpian flair with
this devastating excerpt about Avenatti’s reaction to a list
of questions Gardner had for him (click “expand” to read
more):
Then again, upon further thought, is Avenatti too thin-
skinned to survive in the limelight past his Stormy Daniels
moment?
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As I was preparing this column, Avenatti learned that The
Hollywood Reporter would be tallying his media
appearances and reached out to an editor to express
concern. Avenatti indicated he'd be open to questions so I
sent him a half-dozen. Speculating that the result of my
assessment of his work wouldn't exactly be flattering, he
called me up and became somewhat menacing. At one
point, he called me an "asshole" with an agenda and
accused the lawyers I had spoken to of being jealous of his
success. This conversation occurred before he threatened
to sue a reporter at The Daily Caller over what he
perceived to be "hit pieces."
Certainly, Avenatti has confronted attacks on his motives
from those who might lean to the right and don't appreciate
what he's up to.
When it came to some of the questions,
Avenatti smugly replied to one by stating:
“Please see the proposed settlement we
made months ago. Did you read it?” What a
tough guy!
Gardner also asked about “how the release of
Cohen's bank information advanced his core
argument that the disputed agreement
should be invalidated,” but Avenatti’s
immaturity again rose to the surface with his
response being “I hope so” and “[w]e’ll see.”
Here’s more of Gardner’s legal takedown of Avenatti:
There were certainly tough questions that I can understand
rubbed him the wrong way. For instance, given that the American
Bar Association and the State Bar of California, in their rules of
professional conduct, caution attorneys against any extrajudicial
statement that will have a substantial likelihood of prejudicing a
proceeding, and not all judges appreciate lawyers discussing
cases in the media, why do the rewards of being so out there
outweigh the risks? "We have done nothing improper," he
answered. "If speaking the truth subjects us to risk, so be it."
(....)
Maybe the question that really set him off, though, was: What
legal developments in the Stormy Daniels case gave him
confidence that the outcome would be favorable....In response, Maybe not necessarily something that's going to kill his hopes of
he accused me of not knowing my law — that Section 4 of the a trial, but legal nuances like these have been drowned out by
Federal Arbitration Act gave his client a right to a jury trial on the hyperventilating coverage of Avenatti's revelations and rhetoric.
validity of the arbitration agreement. However, this is one of
those chicken-or-egg, what-comes-first areas of law. While what (....)
he says is true, the judge might weigh whether there's any triable
issues of fact before granting a trial, and in this case, Trump's
[B]ut he seems to react rashly when challenged, which could turn
side is attempting to downplay controversy, pointing to no dispute
into a weakness down the road.
that she actually signed the hush deal, accepted payment, and
spent 16 months without asserting any objection despite the
absence of Trump's signature. As Nate Silver tweeted, "I'm sure I'm not the first person to
observe this, but Avenatti seems quite Trumpian in both loving
media attention and acting quite contemptuously toward the free
(....)
press."

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 Much-Anticipated Inspector General Report On Fbi
Handling Of Hillary Email Investigation
Enters Final Stages
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 7:46 Pm
Inspector General Michael Horowitz
informed lawmakers Wednesday on Capitol
Hill his much-anticipated report on the FBI’s
handling of Hillary Clinton’s email
investigation has entered the final stages.
Sources are saying the report on the FBI’s
7th floor under Comey’s Directorship is
absolutely damning and “worse than
expected.”
CNN reported:
Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed
lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday that his
office has provided leadership at the Justice
Department and FBI with a copy of the draft
report and has requested that they review it for
classified information.
“We will update you on the specific timing for
the report’s release, and I will be prepared to
provide a briefing and testify publicly about our
findings and conclusions as soon as the report
is released,” Horowitz wrote in a letter to
members of various committees.
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The report is not yet finalized, however, as lawyers for the
various individuals criticized in it have an opportunity to
review it with their clients and submit rebuttal points for
consideration. That process is underway with several
witnesses having been notified they can review it later this
week, according to sources familiar with the matter, but its
precise conclusions and recommendations have largely
been kept under wraps.
Sources previously told TIME Magazine, Comey faces a
punishing report from Inspector General Michael
Horowitz.
Last Wednesday, James Gagliano, a retired
FBI agent who left the bureau in 2015 said
buckle up because the IG report will be very
damning. In fact, his sources are saying “it’s
worse than expected.”
So far, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, an Obama-
appointee has delivered.
The Inspector General released a scathing report on former
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in mid-April.
The report by the Office of Inspector General criticized
McCabe for “lack of candor” regarding his disclosure to
Wall Street Journal reporters before the 2016 election.
McCabe lied at least three times under oath, he lied to the
Inspector General and lied to James Comey.
As a result of these investigations and reports, Andrew
McCabe has been criminally referred to the Justice
Department twice.
Unfortunately without an active Attorney
General, none of the criminal referrals sent
to the DOJ will result in indictments.
 Trump Properly Discloses
Payment To Michael Cohen
Ian Mason
16 May 2018
The 92 pages of President Donald Trump’s
financial disclosures for 2017 include a line
item between $100,001 and $250,000 for
lawyer Michael Cohen, consistent with the
$130,000 payment Cohen made to a porn
star claiming to have had a tryst with the
president 12 years ago.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) released the
disclosure forms Wednesday, along with a letter from
OGE head David Apol to Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein in response to a request from a left-wing
corruption watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in Washington (CREW), to investigate.
CREW sent its request, asking the Justice Department and
OGE to investigate whether Trump failed to properly
disclose after Trump defense team leader Rudy Giuliani
claimed the President had reimbursed Cohen for the
payment to Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford in an
interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity at the start of the
month.
The financial disclosure forms themselves state on their
first page that Trump was required to disclose his payment
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to Cohen and that the way he did so satisfied that
requirement. “OGE has concluded that the information
related to the payment made by Mr. Cohen is required to
be reported and that the information provided meets the
disclosure requirement for a reportable liability,” a note in
the forms reads.
Apol’s letter to Rosenstein reiterates that conclusion. Apol
writes:
Today I certified President Trump ‘s financial
disclosure report signed on May 15, 2018 (for
calendar year 2017). OGE has concluded that,
based on the information provided as a note to
part 8, the payment made by Mr. Cohen is
required to be reported as a liability. OGE has
determined that the information provided in that
note meets the disclosure requirements for a
reportable liability under the Ethics in
Government Act.
The question raised by CREW, however, whether Trump
should have made the disclosure on his earlier filings for
2016, is left unanswered.
“I am providing both reports to you because you
may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry
you may be pursuing regarding the President’s
prior report that was signed on June 14, 2017,”
Apol tells Rosenstein.
The extensive disclosures reveal a total income over $500
million for 2017. Highlights included a massive rise in
value for the operator of the Trump International Hotel
Washington, D.C., which had its first full year of operation
in 2017, and between $100,001 and $1 million in royalties
from Getty Images to first lady Melania Trump for use of
her photographs.
 Lawyers Defending Russian Firm Blast Mueller’s Team
For Using Russian Social Media Accounts THAT THEY
NEVER TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH
By Cristina Laila
May 16, 2018, 8:43 Pm
Lawyers defending Russian company
indicted by Mueller, Concord Management
sparred with Mueller’s liberal hacks
Wednesday in court.
Concord Management’s lawyers began by accusing
Mueller’s team of ignoring over 70 discovery requests.
It’s gets even crazier…
Rather, Mueller’s team offered 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.
It gets worse…
Mueller’s lawyers admitted that they don’t even have
English translations for the Russian social media posts.
Far left Politico reported:
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
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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.
“That it’s so voluminous just underscores the
vastness of the offense conduct in this case,”
the prosecutor said.
Rhee appeared to anger Dubelier by indicating that he cut
short the discovery discussion last week.
“Defense counsel hung up and and ended the
call within 9 minutes,” Rhee said, adding that an
hour had been set aside for the talks. “The
government doesn’t want to raise these issues
for purposes of a ‘he said, she said.’”
Dubelier came back to the lectern to call Rhee’s account
“demonstrably false,” saying that each side asked whether
the other had anything further to say before disconnecting.
 “That’s different than hanging up the phone on Concord Management’s lawyer’s previously said Mueller
somebody. I resent the implication that the indicted “the proverbial ham sandwich.”
special prosecutor has made,” Dubelier said,
his voice rising. The reason the Concord Management
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial ham
So Mueller’s lawyers don’t have English translations to the sandwich’ was because one of the
Russian social media posts but we’re supposed to believe entities indicted by the Mueller
we were influenced by these posts? team, Concord Catering, was not in
existence at the time the crimes
You just can’t make this stuff up. were alleged to have taken place.

This is more proof Mueller rolled out this indictment of Mueller is a pathetic man and a disgrace to this country.
Russians as a PR stunt to justify his witch hunt; his team is
not prepared to try this case and it’s hilarious to watch as
they struggle.

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 Report: Cohen Financial Records
Were Leaked To Smoke Out Missing Files
Virginia Kruta
8:53 PM 05/16/2018
Financial records detailing payments made to former
Trump attorney Michael Cohen were leaked to the media
in early May. According to The New Yorker’s Ronan
Farrow, that leak was intended to flush out several records
that appeared to be missing.
The payments revealed the leaks in the media came from
“a suspicious-activity report” (SAR) from First Republic
Bank, but that report also mentioned that the bank had also
compiled two additional SARs that were not included the
released files. The apparently missing reports would
explain some $3 million in additional payments.
The law enforcement official who leaked the report told
The New Yorker that what was truly concerning was the
fact that the two additional SARs were simply missing
from the database. The Financial Crimes Enforcement
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Network (FINCEN) is maintained by the Treasury
Department, and records generally don’t just disappear,
according to the official.
“That system is a safeguard for the bank.
It’s a stockpile of information. When
something’s not there that should be, I
immediately became concerned. That’s
why I came forward.”
Following the leak, however, the Treasury Department
began an investigation to find the source — which has the
law enforcement official worried about what could happen
to him if his identity is revealed.
“To say that I am terrified right now would
be an understatement.”
 John Bolton Sabotages Trump's
Peace Talks With North Korea [UPDATE]
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 16, 2018
John Bolton appears to have successfully sabotaged
President Trump's peace talks with North Korea thanks to
his insane public comments demanding North Korea
follow "The Libya Model" of nuclear disarmament.
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear
weapons program around 2004 in an attempt to normalize
relations with the US only to be sodomized to death by
Western-backed rebels a few years later.
Kim Jong-un has said repeatedly he doesn't want to meet
the same fate and yet Bolton went all over TV two weeks
ago saying again and again Libya is the "model" to follow.
From The Independent:
Donald Trump’s historic meeting with Kim
Jong-un has been thrown into uncertainty
as North Korea warned it could be
cancelled over US military exercises and if
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Washington presses ahead with its one-
sided demand for Pyongyang to give up its
nuclear arsenal.
Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea's deputy foreign minister,
warned on Wednesday that Pyongyang was not interested
in talks that would pressure the rogue state to "unilaterally"
give up its nuclear programme, taking aim at "unbridled
remarks" by John Bolton, the US national security adviser,
and other high-ranking White House officials.
In a statement issued by the North Korean Central News
Agency [KCNA], Mr Kim took issue in particular with Mr
Bolton's references to the so-called Libya model of nuclear
abandonment and his statements on
"complete, verifiable and irreversible
denuclearisation."
Mr Kim claimed the remarks cast doubt on
America's sincerity, underlining that his
country was not Libya, which met a
"miserable fate."
He added:
"This is not an expression of intention to
address the issue through dialogue. It is
essentially a manifestation of awfully
sinister moves to impose on our dignified
state the destiny of Libya or Iraq which had
[sic] been collapsed due to yielding the
whole of their countries to big powers."
From North Korea's full statement:
High-ranking officials of the White House
and the Department of State including
Bolton, White House national security
adviser, are letting loose the assertions of
so-called Libya mode of nuclear
abandonment, "complete, verifiable and
irreversible denuclearization", "total
decommissioning of nuclear weapons,
missiles, biochemical weapons". etc, while
talking about formula of "abandoning
nuclear weapons first, compensating
afterwards".

This is not an expression of intention to address the issue
through dialogue.
[...] It is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK, a
nuclear weapon state, to Libya which had been at the
initial stage of nuclear development.
We shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past,
and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him.
If the Trump administration fails to recall the lessons
learned from the past when the DPRK-U.S. talks had to
undergo twists and setbacks owing to the likes of Bolton
and turns its ear to the advice of quasi-"patriots" who insist
on Libya mode and the like, prospects of upcoming
DPRK-U.S. summit and overall DPRK-U.S. relations will
be crystal clear.
We have already stated our intention for denuclearization
of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several
occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put
an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and
blackmail of the United States.
Bolton has sabotaged such peace talks in the past and now
he's doing it again.
UPDATE: Trump's White House distanced themselves
from Bolton's Libya comments and said Trump, not Bolton
is in charge.
From CNN:
The White House on Wednesday downplayed comments
by national security adviser John Bolton, who recently
invoked Libya's decision to denuclearize during the Bush
administration as a model for US policy on North Korea,
potentially placing a planned US-North Korea summit in
jeopardy.
Hours earlier, a North Korean official said Bolton's
remarks were indicative of an "awfully sinister move" to
imperil the Kim regime. North Korea stunned Washington
on Tuesday by threatening to abandon talks between
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if Washington
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insists on pushing it "into a corner" on nuclear
disarmament.
Referring to the Libya comparison, White House press
secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that she hadn't
"seen that as part of any discussions so I'm not aware that
that's a model that we're using.
"I haven't seen that that's a specific thing. I know that that
comment was made. There's not a cookie cutter model on
how this would work."
She continued, "This is the President Trump model. He's
going to run this the way he sees fit. We're 100%
confident, as we've said many times before, as I'm sure
you're all aware, he's the best negotiator and we're very
confident on that front."
They also pledged to scale back their military drill with
South Korea.
From Yonhap News:
Contrary to the original plan, nuclear-capable U.S. B-52
bombers will not participate in the ongoing combined air
drills between South Korea and the United States, a
military source here said Wednesday.
"In the Max Thunder exercise that began on Friday, the
U.S. F-22 stealth fighters have already participated, while
the B-52 has yet to join," the source said on condition of
anonymity. "B-52 will not take part in the exercise, which
runs through May 25."
[...]The South Korean defense ministry also formally
confirmed B-52's absence from the exercise.
In a related move, Moon Chung-in, a special security
adviser to President Moon Jae-in, said in a lecture at the
National Assembly that the decision was made at an
emergency meeting between Defense Minister Song
Young-moo and Gen. Vincent Brooks, the commander of
U.S. Forces Korea.
Sanity appears to be prevailing.
 Awan Lawyer Demanded Witness Reveal What
She Told FBI, Probed About ‘Radical Islamic Activities’
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
8:56 PM 05/16/2018
 A lawyer for former Democratic IT aide Abid Awan
grilled a witness to find out what she told federal
investigators
 He wanted to know if FBI agents asked her whether
his client’s brother was involved in “radical Islamic
activities”
 An investigation found Awan and his brothers
made “unauthorized access” to congressional
servers
A lawyer for Abid Awan — one of the three brothers who
the House Inspector General found made “unauthorized
access” to congressional servers before the election —
used a deposition in an unrelated civil case to ask a
witness to reveal what she told FBI agents, to ascertain if
they asked about “radical Islamic activities,” and inquire
about a grand jury.
Attorney Jim Bacon also asked the witness to try to find
out details of the investigation from officials and asked
whether they had offered to put her into a witness
protection program. The deposition was given as part of a
lawsuit regarding the Awans’ deceased father’s $50,000
life insurance policy.
Bacon asked the witness — the Awans’ stepmother,
Samina Gilani — who from Capitol Hill was gathering
information about the alleged hack on Congress, according
to a transcript of the deposition, which was conducted in
Bacon’s office.
“Come clean. That’s the best,” Bacon told
her, calling it “important.”
Gilani testified that the oldest Awan brother, Imran, was
wiretapping her.
“He has connected my phone, my house
phone, with his own phone,” she said.
“Whenever I talked to someone in
Pakistan, he told me later on that you told
this, you said this.”
The FBI has been investigating Imran Awan, his wife,
Hina Alvi, and his two brothers, Abid and Jamal — all of
whom were employed as server administrators for
Democrats — since the inspector general briefed
congressional officials in 2016 that the brothers were
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suspected of theft of House equipment and wrongfully
accessing congressional servers, The Daily Caller News
Foundation previously reported. The Awans could read all
the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats.
Imran and Alvi were indicted for bank fraud in August
2017, but more serious charges connected to potential
cyber crimes haven’t been issued. Witnesses have said
Imran has tried coercing them, TheDCNF previously
reported.
Imran and his wife wired $283,000 to Pakistan on January
18, 2017. The transfer was listed in a criminal complaint
by the government after Imran was arrested at the airport
attempting to board a flight for Pakistan. The Awans’
father died two days earlier, on January 16. On January 17,
Abid submitted notarized paperwork requesting to remove
Gilani as the beneficiary of his father’s $50,000 life
insurance policy and replaced her with himself, TheDCNF
previously reported. That led to a civil court dispute in
Fairfax County, Virginia.
Gilani’s lawyer, Michael Hadeed, said the lawsuit involved
only one question: whether paperwork changing a life
insurance beneficiary could be finalized after the person’s
death. But Bacon used an Oct. 4, 2017 deposition in the
case as a vehicle to grill Gilani for details of the ongoing
FBI probe.
Q Have you ever told anybody that Mr. Imran Awan committed
any crime?
A No.
Q Have you ever told anybody that Hina Alvi committed —
A No.
Q — any crime?
A No.
Q You understand me, don’t you?
HADEED: I’m going to object on this irrelevant questioning.
BACON: It’s very relevant to her —
HADEED: The only relevance in this case —
THE WITNESS: No, never told anyone.
HADEED: It’s just simple, man. It’s just interpretation of a
contract. C’mon. Anyway, go ahead.
BACON: Okay. Have you ever told the police, when you called
the police about your husband, or the FBI, or the Capitol Police,
or anybody that Mr. Awan was involved in any radical Islam or
radical Islamic activities?
A No, never.
Q You’ve never said anything like that?
A (No response.)
Q Has anybody ever asked you that question? Anybody?
A FBI asked me when they came. I said no.
Q The FBI asked — whoa, whoa, whoa. The FBI asked you
about the Awan brothers and whether they were involved in any
radical Islamic activities, right?
A No.
BACON: She just said —
THE INTERPRETER: She said no.
THE WITNESS: I’m just telling you whatever FBI — they never
asked me about the radical Islamic question and never replied
anything.
BACON: Okay. Did they ask about any crimes?
A No.
Gilani’s reversal of her answer to Bacon’s question about the FBI
asking about radical Islamic activities was possibly due to a
language barrier.
Bacon, who specializes in money laundering cases, asked a
question about a grand jury, something that is generally
shrouded in secrecy.
Q Did you ever say to the FBI or Capitol Police or anybody, “If
you help me get this money, I will help you, and I’ll try to do what
I can to say things that will help you.”
A No.
Q Did you ever testify anywhere about any of the Awan brothers?
A No.
Q Did you ever file any documents like Exhibit Number 1 that are
declarations, or solemn statements, or affidavits for the FBI or
anybody?
A No.
Q Did the FBI or any Capitol Police or any government official
ever ask you to sign any papers?
A No.
Q Do you know what a grand jury is?
A No.
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Q Did you ever testify in court about the Awan brothers
anywhere?
A No.
Q: What did you talk about with the FBI when they came to your
house?
HADEED: I’m just going to object based on relevance.
A They wanted to know about the money, where did they send
that. And I told them I don’t know about that.
Q What money? The life insurance proceeds?
A No, no.
Q The life insurance?
A No, no, no.
Q What money are you talking about?
A They asked me, wanted to know the money, where are they
sending.
Q Where are they sending money. Who is they?
A Imran and — it’s been a long time. They were talking about
Imran and everyone else.
Pay records show the Awans and a few friends drew $5
million in congressional pay since 2009, TheDCNF
previously reported. Republican officials close to the
investigation say that, in addition to the cybersecurity
issues, they believe the brothers conducted a multi-million
dollar “ghost employee” scheme in which no-show
relatives, and one friend, were placed on the House
payroll.
Democrats have refused to say whether they ever saw
some of their purported IT aides, such as Rao Abbas — a
former McDonald’s worker who was added to the payroll
of Reps. Emanuel Cleaver and Theodore Deutch shortly
after court filings showed that Abid owed him money.
Now-Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana also placed the Awan
father on his payroll as an IT aide.
The FBI interviewed Gilani seemingly not only because of
her personal knowledge of the suspects, but because the
father’s death and the looming House investigation
coincided with a sudden scramble for control of assets in
Pakistan. Sources including relatives of the Awan family
have told TheDCNF that Imran was storing sizable assets
there, in part through a company called Al Moeen
Associates, which owns a major real estate
development. Incorporation paperwork obtained by
TheDCNF in Pakistan shows Gilani was a 10 percent
owner of Al Moeen, as was Abid, while the father owned
70 percent.
A police report shows that Gilani said the brothers
prohibited her from visiting her husband on his deathbed.
A distant relative who visited him on his deathbed, Nasir
Akhtar, told TheDCNF that Imran said — in front of his
father — that Gilani had not bothered to come because she
was “busy writing a book,” a reason Akhtar remembered
finding unlikely. She said when the Awans first came to
the US, they had no assets.
Gilani said in court documents that the brothers’ goal was
to ensure that that they, not she, would have claim to the
assets in Pakistan.
Q (reading from a written statement by Gilani) “Shahid Imran
Awan demanded me to sign a power of attorney for my Pakistani
matters.” Do you see that?
A Yes.
Q What were your Pakistani matters that are referred to in there?
A The property he has in Pakistan, Mr. Shahid told me to give
him the power of attorney for that property.
Gilani’s attorney repeatedly objected to questions that were
focused on the ongoing criminal probe rather than the life
insurance dispute between Gilani and Abid.
“Now, did they ask if Hina was sending any money or was it just
Imran that they were asking about sending money?” Bacon
asked, for example.
Hadeed interjected: “Listen. I have a right to say this because it
makes the case simpler … This case is based solely on the
January 16th date of death and the January 17th attempt to
change the beneficiary.”
But Bacon continued: “We’ll be here another couple of days. So
what time do you have to leave tonight? I’m not leaving until I get
everything I need out of you.”
Hadeed said, “Well, just ask questions that relate to the case and
maybe we can get on faster.”
Bacon told Hadeed, “You’re testifying now. Don’t do it again.”
Hadeed replied, “Don’t trick her.”
Bacon repeated: “Don’t do it again. Don’t do that again.”
Hadeed said: “I can object on attorney-client privilege.”
Bacon said: “No, you can’t.”
Bacon tried to find out what questions
congressional investigators had asked Gilani and asked her to
find out about the probe.
Q Did they say they were doing an investigation?
A Yeah, investigation.
Q Did they say how far along it was; whether it was almost
finished or whether it was just starting?
A No.
Q Did they tell you anybody else they spoke with?
A No.
HADEED: Off the record. (Brief discussion off the record.)
MR. BACON: So you understood from them that they were doing
an investigation, right?
A Yes.
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Q So did they explain to you what they were specifically
investigating or generally what they were investigating?
A They wanted to know where they are sending the money.
…
Q Were there any other questions that were asked about any
other family members that you can recall and tell me about?
A No, nothing else. The only things I told you already. I already
told you they asked me about that. That’s all.
…
Q How was your conversation left before they left your house?
A Nothing. They just said we are leaving.
Q Okay. Did they ask you to get them any information or find out
anything for them?
A No.
Q If they want to speak to you again, will you ask them what’s
going on with their investigation?
A I don’t think so they would contact me.
Q Well, if they do contact you, will you ask them when the
investigation is going to conclude?
A I don’t think so I will talk to them and no, I would ask them it.
Gilani 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 … he
threatened that he has power to kidnap my family members back
in Pakistan.”
At the deposition, she tried to avoid answering wide-ranging
questions. When Bacon asked Gilani for the name and phone
number of the people who were financially supporting her — who
she was also living with — she said:
A I don’t want to give you a name.
Q I’m sorry, but you have to.
A No, I don’t want to tell you.
BACON: Counsel?
THE WITNESS: Sorry.
BACON: She can’t refuse or I’m going to go to court and ask the
judge to order a response. I hope you explained to her she has to
answer the questions.
HADEED: I’m going to object to the relevance of the question. It
has nothing to do with the issues in the case, but —
BACON: Well, we don’t know until we have a name. And if we
have a name, that might lead to the discovery of very relevant
and admissible information.
MR. BACON: So I need the name, ma’am. You have to give me
the name.
Gilani ultimately gave Bacon the name.
She frequently answered in the negative — sometimes
apparently falsely, such as saying she does not have an email
address, when later Bacon pointed out that she had emailed the
FBI. Gilani’s answers in the deposition could be used to limit her
potential testimony in a criminal trial against Imran.
Q Do you know anything about Imran’s financial affairs?
A No, I don’t.
Multiple sources, including a Democratic aide who said Imran
bragged to him, said the Awans pay police officers in Pakistan,
TheDCNF previously reported. Bacon tried to find out whether
Gilani had told investigators that.
Q Now, did you ever tell any police officers or government
officials that the Awan brothers were paying the police officers?
INTERPRETER: FBI?
BACON: Anybody.
Q And that they had a cousin whose name was Police Officer
Ashar Awan?
AWAN: Azhar.
MR. BACON: Azhar Awan. Since they were paying him, the
police were on their side?
A No.
Q You never said anything like that?
A No, I never said that.
Q You didn’t tell anybody that?
A (Shaking head.)
During a break in the deposition, Abid sought to get Gilani to
acknowledge speaking to the media. Afterward, Bacon used the
conversation to continue:
BACON: But one thing was very clear to my client from her
statements in conversations, and that was that she did
acknowledge speaking with the press, although she has under
oath denied it. So I’m going to re-examine her in light of her most
recent conversation with my client during the break that she did,
in fact, speak with the press.
AWAN: You noticed the statement.
Abid and his lawyer wanted to know who Gilani had spoken to
about her stepsons and what numbers they called from, as well
as what she told them and what they said.
Q I’ve asked you whether you had a conversation with anybody
about the Awan brothers. And anybody means anybody at any
time up to today. Who did you speak with yesterday, ma’am?
A The people from Capitol Hill.
Q Capitol Hill police?
A No, no. Not police.
Q People from Capitol Hill. Which people?
A Someone attorneys.
Q Some attorneys from Capitol Hill?
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A Attorney’s assistant.
Q And did they come to your house?
A Yes.
Q Okay. And what did they want to know? About this case?
A They were asking about him.
Q What were they — when you say him, you’re referring to my
client, Mr. Awan?
A About all of them.
Q Okay. So
AWAN: I’m having very much difficulty —
HADEED: All right. I want the record to reflect that I am now
learning about this myself for the first time, too. So examine her.
I’m sorry. I don’t know. (The interpreter spoke to the witness in a
foreign language.)
BACON: Okay. So you want to go downstairs?
AWAN: Yeah, yeah.
BACON: All right. And then I’ll wait for you to come back —
AWAN: Yeah.
BACON: Because I think this is important. So what are we going
to take, however many minutes?
HADEED: It doesn’t have anything to do with the insurance case,
but it’s —
BACON: I don’t know if it does or doesn’t, but she could have
said a million different things. But she previously has sworn
under oath she didn’t have conversations. And now we’re seeing
that she did. (The interpreter spoke to the witness in a foreign
language.)
THE WITNESS: But I told you I didn’t tell anything about them.
…
Q All right. Now, I’m sure, but you correct me if I’m wrong, they
did not just show up out of the clear blue at 2:00 or 3:00 o’clock
last week. They contacted you to set up a time and come see
you, didn’t they?
A Yes. They told me they will come.
Q Okay. And did they call you to tell you this?
A Yes.
Q Did they call your land line or your cell phone?
A Cell phone. On my cell phone.
Q Is it the cell phone, the cell phone you have in your purse?
A I can receive calls on this phone but cannot make call on this
phone.
Q Okay. But if you pull up your phone, will you be able to see the
phone number that called you?
A No.
…
Q What about the Awan brothers did they ask you?
A What is this? What is this? How is this?
Q What is what? Did they show you papers?
HADEED: Tell her just to be more responsive. Just tell them
everything. Don’t worry. You have to — just answer. It’s okay.
(The interpreter spoke to the witness in a foreign language.)
MR. BACON: Come clean. That’s the best.
HADEED: Yeah. Tell them whatever – whatever they ask. I
mean, unless you’re under oath to tell a grand jury.
…
Q Did they give you any papers and ask you to go somewhere
like a subpoena?
A No.
Q Okay. When they asked you to tell them some things and they
said they could help you, did they explain what kind of help they
were willing to give you that they wanted to help you with?
Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative Group Series
 Court docs
 Timeline
 Abid Awan Attorney Mocks 'Wacko Lunatic' Widow As Abid
Wins $45,000 Payout
 Trump Is Right: A 'Pakistani Mystery Man' Has Documents
Wasserman Schultz Didn’t Want Prosecutors To See
 Summary: Fifteen Things To Know About 'Pakistani Mystery
Man' Imran Awan
 Father Gave USB To Pakistani Official, Claimed Power To
'Change US President,' Ex-Partner Alleges
 Hearing Reveals Congress Provided 'No Supervision' Of IT
Aides, Missed Red Flags, But Members Block Proposed
Reforms
 Congress And Wasserman Schultz Negligent For Allowing
Hacking Suspects Continued Access, Expert Says
 Exempted From Background Checks Despite Policy
 Long History Of Alleged Witness Intimidation, Evidence
Tampering
 Why Did FBI Let A Hacking Suspect Leave The Country?
 Intel Committee Dems 'Dangerous,' 'Negligent' In Handling
Of Breach
 Internal Probe Reported 'Unauthorized Access' To Data;
Officials Misrepresented Findings As 'Theft'
 House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A
Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
 Becerra Tried To Block Awan From House Democratic
Caucus Server, But Logins Continued; He Didn't Go To Cops
 Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz Is Central To Imran
Awan Case
 18 Months In, Dem IT Aides Not Charged With Hill Crimes
Despite Evidence
 Used Political Influence To Have Fraud Charges Dropped In
Pakistan
 Own Wife Turns, Accuses Him Of Fraud, Violent Threats
 Imran Awan 'Very Strongly' Wants To Block Review Of DWS'
Hard Drive
 Lawyer Implicates Congressmen
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A They didn’t say anything about help, but I told them before they
offered me the help, I don’t need their help.
Q But did they ever indicate what the possibilities or the kind of
help they could give you; whether they could take care of you,
whether they can put you somewhere else so you can get away
from them or anything like that?
A Since I didn’t ask them for any help, so that’s why they did not.
Hadeed told reporters Bacon had threatened to sue him for
defamation and that he didn’t “want to get myself in a
lawsuit over this,” TheDCNF previously reported.
The deposition ended with Bacon telling Gilani not to
“dig a hole deeper and deeper to the point
where you can’t get out of the hole that you
dug for yourself. Okay?”
Read the 140-page deposition in Book #34A - Appendix
 Sending Money To Police Officer In Pakistan
 Funneling 'Massive' Data Off Congressional Server, Dems
Claim It's Child's Homework
 'Like a Slave': Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them
Bloodied, Called Police on Imran
 Had Secret Server, Caught Falsifying Evidence To Cover It Up
 Imran Still Has Copy Of Laptop DWS Said Has Sensitive Leg-
Branch Info
 DWS Laptop Found at 3AM In Phone Booth With Letter To
Prosecutors
 Awan Asks Judge To Remove GPS, Citing Possible Emergency
With Kids--Who Are In Pakistan
 Has Secret, Still-Active House Account--
123@mail.house.gov--Linked To Intelligence Specialist
 DWS 'Islamophobia' Claim Prompts Angered Witnesses To
Go Public
 Rep. Yvette Clarke Quietly Signed Away $120,000 In Missing
Equipment
 Imran, Hina Indicted For Conspiracy Against U.S.
 DWS Now Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From Police Was
Awan's, Not Hers
 Liquidating $1.8M In Real Estate When Arrested, Some Still
Pending
 DWS Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While In
Pakistan
 Lawyer Is Longtime Clinton Associate
 Arrested At Airport After Wiring $300k To Pakistan
 FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Home
 Ex-DNC Head 'Negotiating' With Police Over Letting Them
See Evidence
 Dems Tying Themselves Into Knots To Ignore Criminal Probe
 'You'd Like Him:' Associates Describe 'Cunning,' Charismatic
Con Artist
 In Personal Lives, Evidence Of Massive Cons
 House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald's Worker As Email
Administrator
 DWS Admits To Violating Network Security, Blames House
 Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For Gathering
Evidence
 Suspect Has Fled To Pakistan, Relative Says
 House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are Blackmailing
Members
 Read the Court Docs Detailing Their Greed, Ruthlessness
 Paul Ryan: Capitol Police Getting 'Assistance'
 Brothers Could Read Every Email Of Dozens Of Congressmen
.
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 ...Also Had Access To DNC Emails
 ...Allegedly Kept Stepmom In 'Captivity' To Access Offshore
Cash
 ...Received $4 Million From Dem Reps
 ...Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive
 ...Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money
 Brothers Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious Activity
 House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members IT
Compromised
 Joe Digenova On Today’s Deep State Admission Of Spying
On Trump: THIS IS MOST UNBELIEVABLE
SCANDAL IN US HISTORY (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 9:01 Pm

strong>Joe DiGenova:

James Comey was the dirty cop in charge of a

The New York Times reported on
Wednesday the FBI opened an investigation
dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” into Trump’s
campaign 100 days before the Presidential
election.
The FBI was spying on the opposition party’s campaign
100 days before the election based on a phony Russian
dossier that was paid for by Democrats and Hillary Clinton
and by the hearsay of a low-level Trump campaign official
who was coached by FBI operatives on Russian rumors.
bunch of dirty cops. And what you have here is,
this was a criminal plot by senior people: John
Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, senior
Department of Justice officials to suborn the
presidency of the Unite States through the use
of false evidence. The false FISA warrants were
obtained through lying to the FISA Court. When
all is said and done, Mr. Huber who is
conducting the grand jury to investigate the
unmasking, the lying of the FISA court, and the
leaking of the information to the press. It will be
shown without a shadow of a doubt that the
reason Mr. Brennan has been lying under
congressional testimony from the beginning is
because he knew if he told the truth that he
would reveal the plot that involved all the
people. That story in The New York Times
today is a magnificent piece of evidence that
there was in fact a plot… There was an effort to
undermine the candidacy of the opposition
party,

Five agents, including Peter Strzok traveled
to London in the summer of 2016 to
interview with a diplomat after
Papadopoulos drunkenly claimed to
Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer
he knew who had Hillary’s emails.
This is the most unbelievable scandal in the
history of this country and The New York
Times just blew the lid off of it.
Via Hannity:

Deep State opreatives released this information to The New

York Times for Wednesday’s report.

The Deep State is panicking. They know the

Inspector General’s report is coming out any
day now and they know it is damning!

Tonight former US Attorney Joe DiGenova

told Sean Hannity this is the mos
tunbelievable scandal in US history.

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 ABC/NBC Ignore Mueller Team Admitting
He Can’t Indict Trump, CBS 29 Seconds
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 16, 2018 9:09 PM EDT

the Royal Wedding and the social media debate over the
Yanny/Laurel soundbite (for the record, this author heard
Laurel).

Combined, the three networks gushed over the wedding

and related gossip for a total of five minutes and 15
seconds. Surprisingly, the sensational folks at ABC
actually refrained from weighing in on the Yanny/Laurel
debate, thus leaving CBS and NBC to bicker about it for
three minutes and 57 seconds.

The anti-Trump Resistance appeared to have been dealt a

crippling blow Wednesday evening when news broke that
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team couldn’t indict
President Trump. The revelation came from Trump
attorney Rudy Giuliani, who said the special counsel
admitted to him that investigators would be following
decades-old DOJ guidelines that say a sitting president
cannot be indicted. This Washington-shaking news went
largely unreported by the network evening broadcasts. In
contrast, they spent over nine minutes on pointless pop
culture news.
Meanwhile, Fox News Channel’s Special Report elevated
Out of the big three network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and their program by kicking off their broadcast with the
NBC), only the CBS Evening News had the insight to think “political blockbuster” news.
it was worth reporting. Yet, they only gave Mueller’s
alleged statement 29 seconds at the tail end of yet another “This obviously has implications for the
Stormy Daniels related report. As for Spanish-language Russia collusion probe and may come as a
networks, only Univision mentioned it with a scant 16 seismic disappointment to some of
seconds. Telemundo said nothing. President Trump's critics,” anchor Bret Baier
announced.
On CBS, they conceded it was “some good news for the
President” as correspondent Paula Reid explained: Adding key details CBS had omitted, Fox News chief
White House correspondent John Roberts reported that
Well, that's significant because there is currently
an opinion at the Justice Department that says “Giuliani says that Mueller doesn't really
you cannot criminally indict a sitting president. have any choice, he has to follow the
And Giuliani says that Mueller has told him that findings of a 1999 Clinton era DOJ memo.”
he will abide by that opinion, and Mueller's “Now, that's not to say that Mueller still
boss, the deputy attorney general, Rod couldn't find some evidence of wrongdoing
Rosenstein, has publicly said he will also abide that Congress can act on, but the
by that opinion. President’s legal team doesn’t appear
concerned,” he added.
Instead of dedicating serious amounts of time to a story
that undoubtedly had the potential to turn the Russia In addition to the Stormy Daniels-related news, the
investigation upside down, the big three networks spent a networks were hyping clips of eyebrow-raising comments
combined nine minutes and 12 seconds squawking about Giuliani had made earlier this month. This contrast shows
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they prefer his statements when they bring controversy but
not when they bring good news for President Trump. And
it’s embarrassing to think they would fawn for a Royal
Wedding, as they have been, given the fact our country
was founded by those who threw off the bridle of the
British royals.
The transcripts are below:
CBS Evening News
May 16, 2018
6:35:19 PM Eastern
(…)
JEFF GLOR: Paula, you did speak today with Rudy Giuliani. He
says the Special Counsel's office told him it cannot indict a sitting
president. Talk more about that.
PAULA REID: Well, that's significant because there is currently
an opinion at the Justice Department that says you cannot
criminally indict a sitting president. And Giuliani says that Mueller
has told him that he will abide by that opinion, and Mueller's
boss, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, has publicly
said he will also abide by that opinion. So some good news for
the President.
(…)
(…)
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FNC's Special Report
May 16, 2018
6:00:11 PM Eastern
BRET BAIER: We begin with a political blockbuster tonight.
Presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani says Special Counsel Robert
Mueller is promising to follow Justice Department guidance that a
sitting president cannot be indicted. This obviously has
implications for the Russia collusion probe and may come as a
seismic disappointment to some of President Trump's critics.
Chief White House correspondent John Roberts starts us off with
the breaking details from the North Lawn. Good evening, John.
JOHN ROBERTS: Bret, good evening to you. I spoke with Rudy
Giuliani on the telephone in the last hour and he confirmed to Fox
News that about two weeks ago the special counsel, Robert
Mueller assured the President's outside legal team that he would
follow DOJ guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Giuliani says that Mueller doesn't really have any choice, he has
to follow the findings of a 1999 Clinton era DOJ memo.
Now, that's not to say that Mueller still couldn't find some
evidence of wrongdoing that Congress can act on, but the
President’s legal team doesn’t appear concerned. Giuliani telling
Fox News a short time ago, quote, “this case is essentially over.
They’re just in denial."
 DNC Affiliates Attempt Takedown
Of Roger Stone & President Trump’s Attorneys
By Assistant Editor
May 16, 2018, 9:20 Pm
Guest Post by Jacob Engels:
Roger Stone’s attorneys and the attorneys for
The Donald J. Trump for President campaign
will be arguing their respective motions to
dismiss the lawsuit filed against them regarding
the alleged hack of the DNC computers this
Thursday in D.C. District Court.
This suit is not the suit brought by the DNC
itself, but rather, the suit brought by three
disgruntled individuals associated with the
DNC. Plaintiffs claim that Stone harmed them
by conspiring with others to publish the
information that WikiLeaks had already posted.
Plaintiffs do not claim that Stone himself
participated in the hack; rather, they claim that
the mere dissemination of the information, after
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WikiLeaks had already published it, harmed
them. Plaintiffs seek, in other words, to hold
Stone liable for speech. Not for false speech,
not defamatory speech, and not for threatening
speech, but for truthful speech uttered in the
course of a presidential campaign.
This case is nothing more than a group, self
admittedly, of liberal attorneys
(see https://unitedtoprotectdemocracy.org/about/)
still smarting that their preferred candidate for
president lost the election. They went in search
of plaintiffs to hold someone responsible. The
group purporting to represent these hand-
picked plaintiffs is a group with an agenda.
This is a very important First Amendment case
that is a 21st Century version of the Pentagon
Papers and what the New York Times and the
Washington Post did before the internet.
In the motions to be argued, Stone’s team
attacked the failure to plead a conspiracy and
the failure to plead civil rights violations.
Additionally, Stone’s attorneys challenged the
Court’s subject matter jurisdiction, plaintiffs’ lack
of standing, the lack of diversity jurisdiction, lack
of the Court to have personal jurisdiction over
Mr. Stone, and improper venue.
 Trump Distances WH From Saboteur Bolton's 'Libya
Model' Plan For NK, Scales Back Military Drill
"This Is The President Trump Model. He's Going To
Run This The Way He Sees Fit."
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 17, 2018

In a statement issued by the North Korean

Central News Agency [KCNA], Mr Kim took
issue in particular with Mr Bolton's
references to the so-called Libya model of
nuclear abandonment and his statements
on

"complete, verifiable and irreversible

denuclearisation."

Mr Kim claimed the remarks cast doubt on America's

sincerity, underlining that his country was not Libya,
which met a "miserable fate."
President Trump is fighting back against John Bolton's attempt to
sabotage his peace talks with North Korea.
He added:

John Bolton tried his best to sabotage President Trump's
peace talks with North Korea around two weeks ago by
repeatedly and publicly making insane comments
demanding North Korea follow "The Libya Model" of
nuclear disarmament.
"This is not an expression of intention to
address the issue through dialogue. It is
essentially a manifestation of awfully
sinister moves to impose on our dignified
state the destiny of Libya or Iraq which had
[sic] been collapsed due to yielding the
whole of their countries to big powers."

Late Wednesday, Trump's White House scrambled to

distance themselves from Bolton's Libya comments and
reportedly scaled back their military drills with South
Korea.

From CNN:

The White House on Wednesday

downplayed comments by national security
adviser John Bolton, who recently invoked
Libya's decision to denuclearize during the
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear
Bush administration as a model for US
weapons program around 2004 in an attempt to normalize
policy on North Korea, potentially placing a
relations with the US only to be sodomized to death by
planned US-North Korea summit in
Western-backed rebels a few years later.
jeopardy.
Kim Jong-un has said repeatedly he has no desire to meet
Hours earlier, a North Korean official said Bolton's
the same fate as Gaddafi and threatened to pull out of
remarks were indicative of an "awfully sinister move" to
peace talks early Wednesday, citing Bolton's inflammatory
imperil the Kim regime. North Korea stunned Washington
comments.
on Tuesday by threatening to abandon talks between
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if Washington
As The Independent reported early Wednesday:

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insists on pushing it "into a corner" on nuclear
disarmament.
Referring to the Libya comparison,
White House press secretary Sarah
Sanders said Wednesday that she
hadn't "seen that as part of any
discussions so I'm not aware that that's
a model that we're using.
"I haven't seen that that's a specific
thing. I know that that comment was
made. There's not a cookie cutter model
on how this would work."
She continued,
"This is the President Trump model.
He's going to run this the way he sees
fit. We're 100% confident, as we've said
many times before, as I'm sure you're all
aware, he's the best negotiator and we're
very confident on that front."
The Pentagon also said there was no plan to send B-52
bombers, which North Korea feared were aimed at
launching preemptive strikes against their country, to their
upcoming drill.
From The Straits Times:
The US military's B-52 nuclear bombers
are unlikely to participate in air drills
between the United States and South
Korea after Pyongyang pulled out of
planned high-level talks with the South to
.
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protest against the exercise, South Korean
media reported yesterday.
A source in the South Korean military said yesterday that
US F-22 Raptor stealth fighters are participating in the
drills, which kicked off last Friday, but B-52 bombers have
not joined yet and are unlikely to take part, reported KBS
News.
"In the training, the US F-22 stealth fighters
have already participated, while the B-52
has yet to join," a source told Yonhap news
agency. "It appears that the B-52 may not
attend the exercise, which runs through
May 25."
[...]The Pentagon on Tuesday also played down ongoing
military exercises with South Korea, saying they were
routine and defensive in nature, Reuters reported.
"Republic of Korea (ROK) and US military
forces are currently engaged in the
recurring, annual ROK-US spring
exercises, to include exercises Foal Eagle
2018 and Max Thunder 2018," a Pentagon
spokesman said, adding that the Max
Thunder air combat drills were scheduled
to run from May 14 to 25.
"These defensive exercises are part of the
ROK-US alliance's routine, annual training
programme to maintain a foundation of
military readiness," the spokesman added.
Hopefully, Bolton's latest attempt to sabotage peace talks
with North Korea will fail.
 EXCLUSIVE=> Democrat Tim Canova On Wasserman
Schultz: Corrupt Dems Cling To Office To Avoid Jail
By Alicia Powe
May 16, 2018, 9:42 Pm
Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Tim Canova
Democratic leaders like Broward County election
supervisor Brenda Snipes and Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz are “clinging to office” to dodge investigations and
stay out of jail, warns Tim Canova, a Nova Southeastern
University law professor who is challenging the disgraced
former DNC chair for her congressional seat in 2018.
Canova won a significant legal victory Friday when a
circuit judge determined Snipes broke federal law by
improperly discarding thousands of ballots cast in the 2016
Democratic congressional primary, making an inspection
of the results impossible.
In that election, Canova faced off against incumbent
Wasserman Schultz, who has been embroiled in
controversy after controversy since the 2016 elections.
The judge ruled that Snipes ignored and illegally
obstructed Canova’s request to copy and inspect the
ballots. In fact, Snipes had signed a Sept. 1, 2017,
document to destroy the ballots.
Federal laws stipulate ballots cast in a federal race are not
supposed to be destroyed until 22 months after the
election.
Corrupt politicians like Snipes and Wasserman Schultz
don’t care at all about the American taxpayer and only
want to stay in office to evade justice, Canova told The
Gateway Pundit Wednesday.
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“Wasserman Schultz, Snipes and other agent
Democrats, maybe even some Republicans,
cling to office because there is so much
corruption in their background that they’re afraid
that should they leave office it will be
uncovered,” he said. “As long as they remain in
office, they might be in a position to control,
manipulate or prevent any investigations.”
Wasserman Schultz resigned as chairwoman of the
Democratic National Committee following revelations that
she and other Democratic party officials conspired to
sabotage the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of
Vermont.
The former DNC chair is also the most forceful advocate
and longtime employer of disgraced House information
technology aide Imran Awan. She continued to employ
and compensate Awan with taxpayer funds for several
months after he was barred from the House computer
system and under criminal investigation. In fact,
Wasserman Schultz only fired Awan after he was arrested
on bank fraud charges attempting to flee the country the
morning of July 25, 2017.
Awan is currently on trial before a federal jury for
conspiracy to commit bank fraud, false statements on a
loan or credit application, unlawful monetary transactions,
engaging in unlawful monetary transactions and allegedly
stole data from an untold Democratic House members who
hired him.
Wasserman Schultz doesn’t care at all about the American
people, she only wants to stay in office because she’s a
crook, Canova argued
“I have hopes that Debbie Wasserman Schultz
will be removed from office this year when we
defeat her in November, and that even before
that happens, some of the investigations will
start catching up with her – this is the reason
she’s clinging for office so strongly, this is why
she’s trying to hold on to this office.”
The Justice Department is remarkably apathetic to
Democratic corruption, Canova lamented.
 “I don’t know to what degree the FBI or
Department of Justice have both been
corrupted. I’ve called the FBI twice myself
personally earlier this year to report this crime
— destroying the ballots. I have yet to get any
kind of response from them,” he said. “What the
supervisor did wasn’t just to break state and
federal law by destroying the ballots three
months early, but she also destroyed evidence
in an ongoing litigation. There are all forms of
law that were broken by her.”
The federal statue has criminal sanctions – up to a year in
prison. I think the state law punishes this crime with even
more than a year in prison. We haven’t been able to get
any kind of investigation from the Department of Justice
yet – the FBI – nobody,” he continued.
“We knew that the supervisor of elections
destroyed the ballots in violation of federal law
all the way back in early November of 2017. We
are trying to hold the officials accountable who
are responsible for this. We’d like to see an
investigation, including criminal investigation. A
criminal investigation, perhaps, could uncover
others involved.”
Florida’s Secretary of State plans to send an elections
expert to Broward, the state’s second-largest county,
during the upcoming elections to monitor the
administration of upcoming elections in the county and
“ensure that all laws are followed.”
Canova is urging Florida governor Rick Scott to move to
immediately suspend Snipes and is calling for a federal,
criminal investigation.
“We are not easing up on this. We are
organizing petitions, a protest and we are not
going to let up at all,” he said. “I’m a candidate
again, this time as an independent, I’ll be on the
ballot in November, and the idea, the thought
that Brenda Snipes, this supervisor of elections,
could still be supervising my upcoming election
with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is completely
intolerable.”
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Canova compared Snipes’ ability to destroy ballots without
legal repercussions to the DNC destroying its server,
ignoring multiple requests by the FBI to surrender the
server for forensic examination.
“The FBI asked for those servers three times,
and three times the DNC declined to cooperate.
The FBI should have followed up by just seizing
the servers – they have that authority in a
criminal investigation. The idea that they would
just rely upon CrowdStrike, a private internet
security firm hired by Wasserman Schultz
through the DNC, is ridiculous,” he said. “There
has been absolutely no response from the
criminal justice system to this violation of
federal law.
“This whole episode with the ballots has shown
the kind of corruption that exists in our election
system. It’s also revealed a certain type of
corruption in our criminal justice system. And
the supervisor’s office continued to litigate for
eight months, even after destroying the ballots.”
Canova announced in April his decision to leave
the Democratic Party and hopes to appear on the
November ballot as a no party affiliation candidate against
Wasserman Schultz.
Most Democrats are also fed up with corruption on the
Democratic side, Canvoa argued.
“I have a lot of friends who remain loyal
Democrats – their loyalty is tested very often.
There are an awful lot of people who remain
Democrat, who are disgusted by the
Democratic establishment. They just don’t think
that there is any other alternative and they are
very frightened by the policy agenda of the
Republicans and the Trump administration,” he
said. “The party leadership in Broward county,
and really all over the country, is very corrupted.
They are corporate-funded and they’ve allowed
themselves to be corrupted.”
 Hannity: Obama's CIA Director
Brennan 'Again Exposed As A Liar' On Trump Dossier
May 16, 2018 – 9:59pm

Nodding to reporting from journalist Paul Sperry, Hannity

said former NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers and
former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper
Sean Hannity ripped Obama-era CIA Director John contradict Brennan's testimony to Congress on the matter.
Brennan for being allegedly exposed as a "liar" on whether
the unverified Trump-Russia dossier was used as material
in his bureau's assessment of election meddling on the part
of Russia.

Hannity said Brennan's overall credibility should've been

initially questioned since he admitted voting for Gus Hall,
the Communist Party USA presidential candidate, in 1976.

"How Brennan became CIA director is

breathtaking," Hannity said of the New
Jersey native's vote for Hall, the
Communist Party's then-chairman.

Hannity said Brennan is

"being again exposed as a liar"

while he simultaneously taunts President Donald Trump on

Twitter.

In a 2017 hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked

Brennan if the Steele dossier was used as a basis for a
bureau assessment of possible 2016 election meddling.

Brennan testified that it wasn't, but that account is now

being questioned itself by Rogers and Clapper.

Hannity also noted reports that Brennan chose

controversial FBI Agent Peter Strzok to work on the intel
community's assessment.

"This deep state is one huge, giant,

incestuous, corrupt swamp," he said.

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 Farrow: Law Enforcement Source Claims Michael Cohen
Leak; Suspected Federal Cover-Up
Joshua Caplan
16 May 2018
A new report claims to quote an anonymous law
enforcement official who takes credit for the leak of
Michael Cohen’s financial records — allegedly because
“two important reports” on President Donald Trump’s
personal attorney could not be found in federal databases.
“The payments to Cohen that have emerged in
the past week come primarily from a single
document, a ‘suspicious-activity report’ filed by
First Republic Bank, where Cohen’s shell
company, Essential Consultants, L.L.C.,
maintained an account. The document detailed
sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars
paid to Cohen by the pharmaceutical company
Novartis, the telecommunications giant A.T. &
T., and an investment firm with ties to the
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg,” Ronan
Farrow reports in The New Yorker.
Farrow’s source claims that more than three million dollars
in additional transactions were sent to Cohen’s bank
account, but even though First Republic filed two legally
mandated suspicious-activity reports (SARs) for these
transactions, the law enforcement official could not find
them in the database kept by the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
“I have never seen something pulled off the
system,” Farrow’s source says. “This is a
permanent record. They should be there. And
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there is nothing there… That’s why I came
forward.”
Several other anonymous sources speculate that access to
these particular reports may have been restricted, though
they admit such cases are “nearly unprecedented”:
Seven former government officials and other
experts familiar with the Treasury
Department’s fincen database expressed
varying levels of concern about the missing
reports. Some speculated that fincen may have
restricted access to the reports due to the
sensitivity of their content, which they said
would be nearly unprecedented. One called the
possibility “explosive.” A record-retention policy
on fincen’s Web site notes that false documents
or those “deemed highly sensitive” and
“requiring strict limitations on access” may be
transferred out of its master file. Nevertheless, a
former prosecutor who spent years working with
the fincen database said that she knew of no
mechanism for restricting access to sars. She
speculated that fincen may have taken the
extraordinary step of restricting access
“because of the highly sensitive nature of a
potential investigation. It may be that someone
reached out to fincen to ask to limit disclosure
of certain sars related to an investigation,
whether it was the special counsel or the
Southern District of New York.”
When asked to comment on the status Cohen’s financial
reports, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
said,
“FinCEN neither confirms nor denies the
existence of purported SARs.”
According to the previously leaked SAR, Cohen used the
First Republic bank account for Essential Consultants, set
up in October, 2016, to pay porn star actress Stephanie
“Stormy Daniels” Clifford.
 Media Falsely Accuses Trump
Of Calling Immigrants ‘Animals’
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:04 PM 05/16/2018

WATCH:

The media falsely accused President Donald Trump of

referring to immigrants as “animals” on Wednesday.

The falsehood started because of a selectively edited clip

posted by CSPAN that showed the president saying, “We
have people coming into the country…You wouldn’t
believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people.
These are animals.”

A number of journalists and media outlets fell for the idea

that Trump was referring to all immigrants as “animals,”
including MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, The New York
Times, the Associated Press, CBS News and The
Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin.

However, the full video shows that Trump was specifically

referring to members of MS-13, a violent gang whose
motto is “rape, control, kill.”

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 Giuliani: Comey Should Be Under Investigation – We
Won’t Sit Down For Mueller Interview Unless Comey Sits
Down For Interview (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 16, 2018, 10:04 Pm

Rudy Giuliani:

no I don’t. I have no idea if he was given

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani joined Laura
Ingraham Wednesday night on The
Ingraham Angle.
immunity. I don’t know why he’s not being
investigated. That troubles us because a lot of
the president’s statements contradict Comey.
They’re much more logical than Comey’s but
they contradict his. I you want to just believe
Comey then you’re (Trump) is walking into a
trap. And Comey has not been investigated. So
I don’t think we would sit him down for an
interview unless Comey was investigated and
treated in the same way.
Via The Ingraham Angle:

During their conversation Laura asked Rudy

if he thought fired FBI Chief James Comey
was given immunity.

Rudy said President Trump will not sit down

with Mueller unless James Comey sits down
with Mueller.

Laura Ingraham:

Do you have any information or sense… That

Bob Mueller gave immunity to Jim Comey?
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 The Other Eric Schneiderman Scandal
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:35 PM 05/16/2018
FILE PHOTO: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
speaks at a news conference to announce a state-based effort to
combat climate change in New York, New York, U.S. March 29,
2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo | The Other Eric
Schneiderman Scandal
When Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York’s attorney
general on May 7 amid revelations he engaged in a pattern
of alleged physical abuse of women he dated over the
years, one of the Democrat’s first defenders was his ex-
wife, a New York-based lobbyist named Jennifer
Cunningham.
Schneiderman is “someone of the highest character,” said
Cunningham, who asserted it was “impossible to believe”
the allegations in a New Yorker report that Schneiderman
abused multiple girlfriends over a period of several years.
Cunningham’s defense of her ex-husband drew some
attention because of her position as a partner at
SKDKnickerbocker, a Democrat-aligned public relations
and lobbying firm that touts its feminist bona fides. Two of
its most high-profile partners are Clinton White House
aide Hilary Rosen and Obama White House aide Anita
Dunn.
Though they divorced in 1996, Cunningham remained one
of Schneiderman’s closest political advisers — so close
that Cunningham worked as an unpaid adviser for
Schneiderman before his fall from grace.
That pro bono relationship has been met with skepticism
from some New York political observers and government
watchdog groups — largely because of Cunningham’s
position as a top partner at SKDKnickerbocker.
Numerous examples of potential conflicts of interest mark
the Schneiderman-Cunningham relationship.
Crain’s New York documented in 2014 Cunningham set
up meetings for clients with Schneiderman, who took
office in 2011.
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After a prolonged battled with Schneiderman’s office for
his emails with Cunningham, Crain’s reported records
showing Cunningham pitched Schneiderman on behalf of
several clients.
Cunningham set up a meeting for a client, a health care
company, Castlight, and Schneiderman, emails from 2011
showed. She arranged an urgent phone call in February
2014 between a top Schneiderman deputy and executives
at a hospital operator, Health Quest. Schneiderman’s office
was set to play an advisory role in a potential partnership
with a hospital gone bankrupt, according to Crain’s.
Schneiderman’s office defended the contacts at the time,
saying they were legal under New York law. But that’s just
the problem, says Tom Anderson, the executive director of
the National Legal & Policy Center — a good government
watchdog that has uncovered corruption in New York.
“If you wanted something from the Attorney
General’s office, you had to go through her,
and you had to bring your checkbook. The
real scandal in New York is that all of this is
legal,” Anderson told The Daily Caller
News Foundation.
“Schneiderman’s ex-wife was one of the
biggest power brokers in the state, a
modern-day Boss Tweed,” he added.
The cozy connection between Schneiderman and
Cunningham continued even after exposure by outlets like
Crain’s, New York Post and New York Daily News.
One recent example of a conflict of interest is NRG
Energy. On Aug. 30, 2017, a subsidiary of the energy
distribution company struck a deal with Schneiderman’s
office to reimburse $800,000 to customers who were
overcharged millions on their energy bills.
NRG Energy hired SKDKnickerbocker on April 19, 2017,
to lobby the executive and legislative branches in New
York state, according to lobbying records TheDCNF
reviewed. Cunningham is listed as one of the lobbyists on
the contract.
Cunningham and SKDK also represented Genting
Americas Inc. — a subsidiary of Genting Malaysia Berhad
— which operates casinos in New York. Genting Americas
Inc. lobbied hard against expanding video-slot machine
operations at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. In 2015,
Schneiderman ultimately sided against online gamblers,
providing a boon to casinos and race tracks in the state.
Genting Americas Inc. has contributed $40,000 to
Schneiderman’s campaigns from 2011 to 2014, according
to lobbying disclosure reports.
Schneiderman has also come under fire for his handling —
or lack thereof — of an investigation into Herbalife, a
nutrition company accused of operating as a pyramid
scheme.
On April 14, 2014, The New York Post broke the
story Schneiderman had opened an investigation into
Herbalife’s business practices. A week before the
investigation opened, Herbalife hired SKDK to help with
its defense and public relations campaign, The Post also
noted. Cunningham would not work on the account,
SKDK said at the time.
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The Herbalife investigation appears to have withered on
the vine. There have been no major developments or
announcements in the case.
Uber is another company that was frequently in
Schneiderman’s crosshairs. In November 2017,
Schneiderman opened the most recent investigation into
the ride-sharing company over a 2016 data breach that
affected 57 million users. On March 1, Uber hired SKDK
as a lobbyist. Cunningham is listed as one of the lobbyists
on that contract.
Now that Schneiderman is out of office, it remains to be
seen what will happen to Cunningham’s client roster or her
position as an unpaid adviser to the attorney general’s
office.
Neither Cunningham nor the AG’s office responded to
requests for comment.
 ‘Make-Believe Lawyer’ —
Rudy Giuliani Slams Michael Avenatti
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:36 PM 05/16/2018

Former NYC mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani

slammed Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti on Fox Giuliani’s appearance on Fox News comes after he claimed
News Wednesday. that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team told Trump’s
lawyers that they cannot actually indict President Trump.
“He is a make-believe lawyer.”

WATCH:

“Look, Avenatti is some kind of a–I don’t

know what he is–I don’t think he’s a real
lawyer. He’s a make-believe lawyer,”
Giuliani told host Laura Ingraham. “He’s got
all kinds of lawsuit, I think the guy’s trying Giuliani told CNN,
to bail himself out with this case.”
“I don’t want to talk about him, I want to talk “All they get to do is write a report.”
about Mueller. Avenatti means nothing to “They can’t indict. At least they
us.” acknowledged that to us after some
battling, they acknowledged that to us.”
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 Avenatti Threatened Another Journalist
Joe Simonson - Media Reporter
10:58 PM 05/16/2018
Michael Avenatti, lawyer for adult film actress Stephanie Clifford,
also known as Stormy Daniels, speaks to media outside federal court
in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April
16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Stormy Daniels’ infamous attorney Michael Avenatti
apparently threatened another reporter and publication
with a lawsuit, this time targeting Law and Crime for
running a piece analyzing his appearance at a court hearing
in April.
The news was disclosed Wednesday evening in a piece by
Rachel Stockman describing Avenatti’s pattern of
aggressively attacking reporters and outlets who scrutinize
his professional conduct.
Stockman alleges that
“after the publication of our April 26
article that Avenatti deemed ‘unfair’ and
‘complete bullshit,’ Avenatti threatened to
sue our reporter, Colin Kalmbacher,
personally and then our publication — and
then whoever ‘edited’ the article as well.”
Beyond his legal threat, Stockman said that Avenatti also
threatened to badmouth the reporter responsible for the
piece during his upcoming appearance on “The View.”
According to Stockman, Avenatti has
“threatened to ‘cut off’ certain networks and
print publications for coverage that was
unfavorable to him personally.”
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Earlier Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter’s Eriq
Gardner accused Avenatti of calling him an “asshole” and
of demanding to speak to his editor after the site ran an
unflattering story on the lawyer’s conduct.
Avenatti threatened to sue The Daily Caller News
Foundation Monday and reporters Peter Hasson and Joe
Simonson after an article ran raising questions about
Avenatti’s past businesses dealings.
“Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues do not stop
with the hit pieces that are full of lies and defamatory
statements, I will have no choice but to sue each of you
and your publication for defamation,” he said in his email
to TheDCNF.
Avenatti appeared on “CNN Tonight” with Don Lemon
on Tuesday. During the interview, Lemon asked Avenatti
about his threat to TheDCNF but did not press him to
substantiate his claims that the news outlet had printed
anything defamatory.
That same night, Lemon’s boyfriend, Tim Malone,
messaged Simonson through Twitter direct message and
agreed that Lemon could have been tougher in his
questioning.
Malone also implied that Lemon and Avenatti are friends
and that viewers should not expect hard questions.
“Honestly, I think it’s all a game, everyone
is profiting, and doing what rates for their
audience,” Malone told TheDCNF.
TheDCNF President Neil Patel responded to Avenatti’s
threats Tuesday, saying that the publication is
“confident that Peter and Joe did an
excellent job of reporting on some of your
previous business interactions, as well as
allegations and actions brought against you
by past associates.”
 Rudy To Mueller: ‘We’ve
Tortured This President Enough’
Former New York City Mayor's Advice For The Special Counsel:
'It's Time To Wrap This Up' For The 'Good For The American People'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 17 May 2018 At 6:25 AM
It is time for special counsel Robert Mueller to bring his
year-long investigation “to a close” because it’s “not good
for the American people” to prolong the probe, former
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday
during an exclusive interview on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“We’re trying to get [Mueller] to end this,”
Giuliani told Fox News host Laura
Ingraham. “This is not good for the
American people, and the special counsel’s
office doesn’t seem to have that, sort of,
understanding that they’re interfering with
things that are much bigger than them or
us.”
“So it’s about time to get the darn thing
over with,” Giuliani added. “It’s about time
to say, ‘Enough, we’ve tortured this
president enough.'”
When Ingraham asked him what his
“optimal timeline for this to wrap up” would
be, Giuliani replied, “They should do it
today. I mean, as soon as possible.”
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed
Mueller on May 17, 2017, to investigate allegations of
collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign
and Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And
just one day shy of a year later, Giuliani, now serving on
Trump's legal team, told Ingraham that there now remains
"no reason for this investigation" to continue.
"I think that they have the facts from which
they can write their report," Giuliani said. "If
you're going to write a fair report, fine, write
it. If you're going to write an unfair report,
write it, and we will combat it. We're ready
to rip to it apart, and we're ready to rip them
apart, if that's what they want. We would
rather peacefully settle this and get it over
with."
Giuliani noted that Trump's team has turned over 1.4
million documents to Mueller, and Mueller has
interviewed 28 witnesses.
"And he has nothing, which is why he
wants to bring the president to an
interview," Giuliani said of Mueller. "And
we're demanding from him, 'Tell us what
you have to get from an interview that you
don't already have.' Because he has all the
facts to make a decision."
Giuliani also revealed that Mueller informed Trump's legal
team that he planned to follow the Department of Justice's
protocol and not seek an indictment against the president.
"What we're going to do is we're — we're
going to see what kind of legal remedies
are available to us, including if they
subpoena us, challenge the subpoena, the
same reason they can't indict [a president]
constitutionally," Giuliani said.
"And remember, [former President Bill]
Clinton opposed the subpoena, and then
he voluntarily complied," Giuliani noted.
"He didn't give up presidential prerogative,
 and then … the administration wrote a "There would be a narrow area where we
memo saying they can't do that." might agree if they could tell us why they
need it," Giuliani said. "They have
Mueller told Trump's legal team he plans to abide by the [Trump's] explanations of everything. They
prerogative set during Clinton's presidency, Giuliani have 1.4 million documents. They have the
claimed. witnesses to corroborate them."
"If they're going to disbelieve them, they're
going to disbelieve them," Giuliani added.
"The fact is, we would have to know, what
is it, that you want clarified?"

But the Mueller team's "inability to reach a conclusion"

during its year-long investigation has reaped serious
repercussions for Trump and for the American people at
large, Giuliani insisted.

"Their inability to reach a conclusion that is

obvious, and their unwillingness to
recognize the damage this does to our
Although Mueller's team hopes to interview Trump under country, all over the world," Giuliani said.
oath and ask him questions regarding potential obstruction "There's no reason for this
of justice concerns, Giuliani said he was hesitant to agree investigation. There never was a good
to such an interview. Giuliani also said that Mueller's reason for it in the first place."
investigators are "not going to be able to invent any
evidence" of obstruction of justice.

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 WSJ Reporter: We’ve Confirmed The Worst
– US Intel Truly Was Spying On Trump Camp
By Cillian Zeal
May 17, 2018 At 7:05am

In a tweetstorm Wednesday evening, Strassel noted key

problems in The Times’ narrative, particularly when the
story appeared and significant facts that they glossed over.

Strassel first argued that the article was a calculated leak of

sorts in an effort to get out ahead of House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and the information
that he’s gathering and releasing regarding the FBI’s
sources on the Trump investigation.

A Wednesday piece by The New York Times which details

the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016
presidential campaign may have revealed more than
intended, at least if a Wall Street Journal reporter who has
covered the surveillance previously is correct.

The Journal’s Kimberley Strassel has written about the However, she says it proves what Trump was claiming all
investigation in the past. In a piece last week, she posited along: namely, that his campaign was being spied upon.
that the FBI may have used a mole in the Trump
campaign, particularly given the Department of Justice’s
reluctance to turn over information about the informant to
congressional investigators.

The Times piece revealed more details about the Trump

campaign surveillance operation — called “Crossfire
Hurricane” in reference to the Rolling Stones song
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” — and just how extensive it was.

While the tenor of the article, which was written by Matt

Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos, is
overwhelmingly favorable to the FBI and dismisses any
claims that the surveillance was politically motivated ,
The story briefly mentions that
(“I never saw anything that resembled a
witch hunt or suggested that the bureau’s “one government informant met several
approach to the investigation was politically times with Mr. Page and Mr.
driven,” one DOJ official is quoted as Papadopoulos, current and former officials
saying) said. That has become a politically
contentious point, with Mr. Trump’s allies
there were a few things buried deep in there that questioning whether the FBI was spying on
specifically caught Strassel’s attention. the Trump campaign or trying to entrap
campaign officials.”

However, if that informant met several times with two

low-level Trump campaign officials, one wonders just
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what his role — if any — in the Trump campaign might
have been. It seems somewhat unlikely that a random
individual outside the campaign would have had the
opportunity to meet with both George Papadopoulos and
Carter Page without some suspicion being aroused if the
informant didn’t have extremely close ties to the
campaign.

Sally Yates, for those of you with short memories, was the
deputy attorney general under former President Barack
Obama.

Strassel closed with a shot at the DOJ and James Comey.

Strassel then noted the fact that if the FBI is willing to leak
information that makes them look good to media sources,
they shouldn’t have any problem complying with the
subpoena that the House Intelligence Committee issued.

She also pointed out that the FBI had claimed the dossier
had little to no influence on the investigation.

This is arguably the biggest story in quite some time. We

already knew that intelligence had been weaponized by
Obama-era apparatchiks to get a FISA court to agree to
surveillance and that the Trump dossier had been prepared
using money from the Clinton campaign. However, we’re
beginning to realize it went deeper than that — and it
could have included a mole in the Trump campaign itself.

If it did, we need to know. No more of this drip-drip-drip

of information specifically designed as a limited hangout.
It’s time that the American people are appraised, once and
for all, just how far the Obama administration went in
using the apparatus of the federal government to infiltrate
the campaign of their political adversary.

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 Giuliani Puts The Corrupt Mueller Team On Notice:
“We’re Ready To Rip Them Apart If
That’s What They Want!”
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 7:15 Am

Ingraham: Timeline, what is your optimal timeline for this

to wrap up?

Rudy: They should do it today. I mean as soon as possible.

I think that they have the facts from which they can write
their report.

If you can write a fair report fine, then write it.

If you’re gonna write an unfair report, write it and we will

combat it. We’re ready to rip it apart.

Former Federal Prosecutor and New

York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on
Laura Ingraham’s ‘The Ingraham Angle’
on FOX News last night.
And we’re ready to rip them apart if that’s what
they want. We’d rather peacefully settle this and get it
over with.

Rudy and all of America know there is

no collusion between President Trump
and Russia and so Rudy encouraged
the corrupt Mueller team to wrap it up.

Rudy discussed the corrupt Mueller investigation that has

now been going on for a year. At the beginning of the
below segment of the interview Rudy stated that the guys
on the Mueller team are taking so long because maybe

“these guys, you know, figure they can’t get

a good job”. This is why the Mainstream Media is
after Rudy. He destroys the left. They
Rudy was outstanding and he never let up. At the end of know it and they want him gone! He is
the interview (at the 9:10 mark in the video below) Rudy too effective!
addressed the crooked Mueller team straight on –

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 CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Cheers
For ‘Necessary Activism’ Against Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 7:30 Am

“one of the great things of the Trump

administration is how it has caused a huge
rise in necessary activism.”
She cited how “women” and “black people
have come out,” along with the press, to
defend “their right to exist under the
Constitution.”…

From the Sunday, May 13 Reliable Sources on CNN:

“I have been talking about this ever since

the President was elected, even before he
was inaugurated, I made a big speech at
the Committee to Protect Journalism in
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently said on the air that
November of 2016, warning American
she’s very happy about all the activism going on under
journalists that there was now a grave and
Trump. If you had any doubt about which side these folks
existential threat to their work….
are on, wonder no more. It’s like they were asleep for the
eight years Obama was president.
Watch the video:
The Washington Examiner reports:

Mainstream Media Scream: CNN’s

Amanpour cheers ‘necessary activism’
against Trump

This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features CNN’s

Christiane Amanpour calling President Trump a “threat” to
journalism that has sparked “necessary activism” against
Trump.

On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, Amanpour

repeated her earlier claim that Donald Trump is “a grave
and existential threat” to journalism. The CNN Could she be any more of a hypocrite?
International anchor, who now has a half-hour PBS shows
and is soon to get a new hour-long one, Amanpour &
Company, proceeded to hail

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 Michael Flynn’s Brother: Where Is Rule Of Law When
Sitting President Can Launch Investigation On Opposing
Candidate’s Campaign?
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 8:38 Am

campaign official who was coached by FBI operatives on

Russian rumors.

Five agents, including Peter Strzok

traveled to London in the summer of
2016 to interview with a diplomat after
Papadopoulos drunkenly claimed to
Australian Ambassador Alexander
Downer he knew who had Hillary’s
emails.

In a SHOCKING admission on Deep State opreatives released this information to The New
Wednesday The New York Times York Times for Wednesday’s report.
reported the FBI opened an
investigation dubbed “Crossfire On Thursday Michael Flynn’s brother Joseph Flynn
Hurricane” into Trump’s campaign 100 posted this important question on Twitter:
days before the Presidential election.
“Jumpin John Brennan and the
#CrossfireHurricane … where is the rule of
law when a sitting President can launch an
investigation into an opposing candidates
presidential campaign?”

The FBI was spying on the opposition party’s campaign

100 days before the election. The spying was based on a
phony Russian dossier that was paid for by Democrats and
Hillary Clinton and by the hearsay of a low-level Trump
.

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 Conrad Black: ‘Mueller Investigation
Has Been Incompetent, Partisan’
David Krayden - Ottawa Bureau Chief
8:40 AM 05/17/2018
Conrad Black is the author of “Donald J. Trump: A President Like
No Other,” 2018. (Photo courtesy of Regnery Publishing,
Washington, D.C.)
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, former
media baron Conrad Black blasted the Robert Mueller
investigation and says President Donald Trump doesn’t
need to fire the special counsel.
“I don’t think there is much danger of
Trump being impeached and almost none
of his being removed. He could justify firing
Mueller, but I think his present tactic is
better: cooperating but remarking almost
every day that the Mueller investigation has
been incompetent, partisan, that it has
failed to find anything and is becoming ever
more desperate.”
Black, who is promoting his latest book “Donald J.
Trump: A President Like No Other,” also says Trump is
exactly what America needs at the moment and is a
welcome departure from what the GOP has served up since
Ronald Reagan.
“The Republicans had, in policy terms,
been lifeless and useless since
Reagan…The Bushes were almost inert,
McCain was vague, and Romney was a
consultant who faced in all four directions
on every issue,” Black told TheDC.
He dismissed Never Trumpers who don’t think the
president is an authentic conservative voice.
“His policy proposal were all moderate and
sensible and could have come from the
main sensible conservative think-tanks,”
Black said.
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When asked if Trump will ultimately be considered a
“great” president, Black responded,
“At this stage, I would say unusually
capable, with Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR,
Wilson, Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon;
not right at the top with Washington,
Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan.”
A transcript of the interview follows:
Conrad Black, Lord Black of Crossharbour,
is a former multinational media mogul, the
author of 10 books, a regular contributor to
the National Post newspaper that he
founded and a noted cross-border
commentator on conservative politics. He
was the first Canadian-born pundit to
endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy for the
Republican Party presidential nomination
and predicted that nominee Trump would
become President Trump. In an interview
with Daily Caller Ottawa Bureau Chief
David Krayden, Black discussed his newly-
released book, “Donald J. Trump: A
President Like No Other.”
DC: Why did you write “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No
Other” and do you think it is being released at a particularly
significant time?
CB: I don’t think there is a concise and balanced treatment of
Donald Trump as a biographical subject, nor a serious analysis of
how he won the election. His attack was so strenuous on the
whole system and so shocked the bi-partisan political class, that
most books about him are rabidly hostile and unrigorous, like
most media, and there was room for a serious explanation of who
Trump is and how he became president and that is what the
publisher requested.
DC: You write, “The Democrats have had no policy for some
years except to denigrate their opponents, and try to bribe and
anesthetize a comatose lumpenproletariat addicted to state
benefit.” Do you see President Donald Trump as the last, best
hope for America moving away from the European-style (and too
often, Canadian-style) socialism that Obama introduced?
CB: Yes, The Republicans had, in policy terms, been lifeless and
useless since Reagan-no position on immigration, trade, taxes,
and only a somewhat more purposeful foreign policy and lip
service to stimulus to economic growth and job creation. The
Bushes were almost inert,McCain was vague, and Romney was
a consultant who faced in all four directions on every issue.
DC: Of Trump you contend, “He is not, in fact, a racist, sexist,
warmonger, hothead, promoter of violence, or a foreign or
domestic economic warrior. No opposition can continue on this
name-calling basis alone for much longer than this one has.” Do
you see the name-calling ending when the Mueller probe sputters
to a conclusion? Will there ever be any tacit acceptance by the
Democratic “resistance” that Trump is their legitimate president
too?
CB: I think the process of verbal de-escalation has already
begun. Jeff Greenfield, David Brooks, John Podhoretz, Rich
Lowry and others are already starting to separate their objections
to Trump’s personality from their agreement with some of his
policies, and the president’s approval rating is rising quite
steadily while the credibility of his tormenters, accusers, and
investigators is eroding steadily. I see no reason for this trend not
to continue for a time. Leaks and personnel changes in the senior
administration are becoming much less frequent.
DC: You exhibited some courage in endorsing Trump’s
candidacy and a particular prescience in suggesting he could win
the presidency when virtually no other prominent conservative
commentator either though so or was willing to say so. What was
it that told you Trump could be “a durable and effective president”
as you put it?
CB: His policy proposal were all moderate and sensible and
could have come from the main sensible conservative think-
tanks, apart from the rather extreme espousals of tighter law
enforcement and more draconian sentencing. Those issues and
the somewhat related matters of immigration rallied a large
number of disaffected working class people, and frightened the
left and was considered an easy target by the Democratic
strategists and most of the media. But the balance of Trump’s
program-taxes, environment, trade, foreign policy, was sensible
and bound to score with a large share of the middle class. It
seemed to me that Clinton would run up huge majorities in
California, metropolitan New York and Chicago, but that Trump
would lead in the balance of the country and was unlikely to have
a very large plurality except in Texas, but could easily carry the
electoral college with solid but not landslide wins in a lot of key
states, which is effectively what happened. His performance in
the Republican primaries showed that he was pulling a lot of
votes that had not been cast in recent elections. I was particularly
impressed when he took 49% in a six-candidate Republican
primary race in very liberal Massachusetts, and pulled the
Republican vote in the Pennsylvania primary to about 98% of the
Democratic total although that was a close contest between
Clinton and Sanders-there are usually many more Democratic
votes there.
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DC: During the Vietnam War-era the phrase “ugly American”
captured the aggressive, culturally-chauvinistic stereotype that
some Canadians believed in. Do you think for those Canadians
today — and in particular the Canadian media — Trump
embodies that “ugly American” that they have both feared and
admired for so long?
CB: Yes and for many Americans and Europeans also. Up until
recently, those repulsed by that sort of person have only seen the
negative side of Trump, but as the economy strengthens and the
Korean policy seems to be working, and he has gained control of
the Republican congressional party, people are starting to see
the competent side of that sort of American in Trump as well.
DC: Trump continues to be vilified by the Canadian media. Even
the conservative outlets are reluctant to dwell on his obvious
successes but present the Democratic talking points that this is a
White House replete with chaos and scandal. You called Trump a
“throwback to Reagan” in your book because he “rejects the chic
defeatism of the establishment.” Is he also a throwback to
Reagan because leftist Canadians cannot understand Trump’s
appeal?
CB: I think so, but more because the Canadian media are so lazy
and incompetent, they just follow their American analogues. At
least Americans generally prefer their president to be someone
they approve of, but in the case of Trump, most of them had
drunk the Kool Aid that he was a primitive and repressive and
unqualified and even dangerous figure, but there is some
reluctance to be so hostile to the president. Canadians like to
imagine American presidents are fools or reckless and unserious,
and Canadian media are even less enterprising than American,
so they just took the worst tone of U.S. media Trumpophobia and
amplified it with Canadian snobbery and complacent affectation.
DC: You discuss Trump’s use of the social media in your book
and compare it to FDR’s willingness to utilize the radio to
communicate directly with Americans. Yet newspapers weren’t
offended by Roosevelt’s fireside chats the way the mainstream
media is horrified by Trump’s tweets. Do CNN and their ilk fear
their own demise every time Trump visits his Twitter account?
CB: I wouldn’t say that. But the tenor of FDR’s fireside chats was
always smooth and plausible and reassuring-never fierce or
partisan. Trump, especially in early months of his regime, was
often belligerent and insulting on Twitter and replied very
strenuously to media hostility to him. Roosevelt enjoyed the
support of the so-called working press throughout his four terms.
So the comparison is accurate as taking advantage of recent
technology, but in a very different political atmosphere and for
different purposes. FDR used the radio to reassure and DT uses
Twitter to blast his enemies, though, again, his tweets are
becoming much less belligerent.
DC: Trump has arguably been assiduously patient throughout the
Mueller investigation. Given the political agenda inherent in this
probe and given that it has yet to come up with a shred of
evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians, would Trump be
justified in firing Mueller and would it really be an impeachable DC: Why are so many Democrats obsessed with Russia today to
offense if he did so, as some Republican senators have the point of advocating a military confrontation when many of
suggested? these same people urged accommodation with the Soviet Union?

CB: I don’t think there is much danger of Trump being impeached CB: They’re grasping at straws and Russia’s a convenient
and almost none of his being removed. He could justify firing enemy-a sinister past but not now a serious rival, so let’s pretend
Mueller, but I think his present tactic is better: cooperating but there really is something bad going on involving them. It’s quite
remarking almost every day that the Mueller investigation has silly.
been incompetent, partisan, that it has failed to find anything and
is becoming ever more desperate (Stormy Daniels-as if she has DC: Do you think Trump will rate as a great president if he is
anything to do with Russian collusion), and just mock and insult allowed to complete his work?
and tear Mueller down as the FBI is exposed as virtually the dirty
tricks division of the DNC, yet leaving no room for his enemies to
CB: At this stage, I would say unusually capable, with Jefferson,
accuse him of obstruction or any unconstitutional behavior.
Jackson, Polk, TR, Wilson, Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon; not
Mueller will have to either give up, turn his interest to the
right at the top with Washington, Lincoln, FDR and Reagan.
Democratic relations with the Russians, or face the complete
withering of public support for his investigation. Trump has
played it very well-but it helps when there’s no there there.

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 Obama’s Deep State Plant In Trump
Campaign Was Bill Clinton Classmate And Later Advisor
To Clinton Administration
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 8:48 Am
This past weekend we reported that
Internet sleuths determined who the
Obama FBI spy was in the Trump
campaign. Now we know he was a
classmate of Bill Clinton’s and an
advisor to the Clinton Administration!
Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on last Thursday identified
an individual by the name of Stefan Halper 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).
Carlson determined that 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.
Carlson notes:
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.”
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Alexander Downer is the Australian individual who
apparently overheard Papadopooulos 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. Carlson writes –
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.
But, the most intriguing individual noted by Carlson is
Halper. Carlson concludes his post with the following –
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. Halper met with Carter Page just days after
Page’s Moscow trip.
A second Internet sleuth tied Halper to the Obama team of Other sites (Conservative Treehouse) have also pegged
crooks. Jacob Wohl on Twitter identified Federal Records Halper as the spy inside the Trump campaign and now it is
that reveal that the Obama Administration paid Stefan old news.
Halper $282,295 to apparently spy on the Trump campaign
– Today additional research now shows
that Halper was a classmate of
impeached President Bill Clinton.
Halper apparently knew Bill
Clinton well in their days at
Oxford.

Wohl also tweeted that Halper was the same person who
invited George Papadopolous to London, where he just so
happened to sit down next to that infamous Australian
“Diplomat” (who also worked with the Clinton And ever more research shows
Foundation) and Halper also lured Carter Page into that Halper later worked as an
compromising situations involving “Russians”. Advisor to the Clinton
Administration during Clinton’s
Another Twitter sleuth identified a second payment to two terms in office.
Halper in the amount of $129,280 making the total
payments to Halper more than $400,000 from President
Obama’s Administration to spy on the future President of From 1984-2001, Halper was Senior Advisor to the
the United States. Department of Defense and a Senior Advisor to the
Department of Justice. President Clinton was President
from 1993 to 2000 (including after his impeachment).

President Nixon resigned after his team

was caught spying on the Democrats at
their Watergate Headquarters during the
1972 campaign.

The Obama team and the Clinton

campaign spied on the Trump
Administration and used the entire
government apparatus, including the
FBI, the DOJ and others, to do so.

This is clearly 100 times worse

than Watergate! Drain the
swamp!

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 ‘Bigger Than Watergate’ – Trump
Thinks Obama’s FBI Spied On His Campaign
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:58 AM 05/17/2018
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 10: President-elect Donald
Trump (L) talks after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama
(R) in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Trump
is scheduled to meet with members of the Republican leadership in
Congress later today on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty
Images)
President Donald Trump questioned whether the Obama
administration’s department of justice and FBI spied on his
presidential campaign with a confidential informant
Thursday morning.
Trump tweeted that
“if so, this is bigger than Watergate,”
an apparent reaction to an interview that ran on Fox &
Friends.
Wow, word seems to be coming out that
the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED
.
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INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says,
“There’s probably no doubt that they had at
least one confidential informant in the
campaign.” If so, this is bigger than
Watergate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 17, 2018
“There is probably no doubt that they had
at least one confidential informant in the
campaign,” former prosecutor and
columnist Andrew McCarthy said on Fox &
Friends Thursday morning. “What
happened here is they did not have a
criminal predicate to open an investigation
on trump as they had an immense
predicate to conduct on president Clinton.”
“They used powers covertly to investigate
the trump campaign during the stretch run
of the campaign under circumstances
where they did not have evidence that
anyone had actually committed a crime.”
McCarthy referred to a recent New York Times story which
noted that
“at least one government informant met
several times with Mr. Page and Mr.
Papadopoulos,” who were both advisory
members of the Trump campaign.
 CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC Hide LARGEST POLITICAL
SCANDAL IN US HISTORY From Front Page –
Obama Spying On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 9:00 Am

Deep State opreatives released this

information to The New York Times for
Wednesday’s report.

The information was only leaked out after Congressional

investigators discovered this last week.

This scandal makes Watergate look like

a child’s play.
So how did the corrupt liberal
mainstream media report on this
In a SHOCKING admission on enormous scandal?
Wednesday The New York Times
reported the FBI opened an They didn’t.
investigation dubbed “Crossfire
ABC News— NOTHING!
Hurricane” into Trump’s campaign 100
days before the Presidential election.

CNN — NOTHING!
The FBI was spying on the opposition party’s campaign
100 days before the election. The spying was based on a
phony Russian dossier that was paid for by Democrats and
Hillary Clinton and by the hearsay of a low-level Trump
campaign official who was coached by FBI operatives on
Russian rumors.

Five agents, including Peter Strzok

traveled to London in the summer of
2016 to interview with a diplomat after
Papadopoulos drunkenly claimed to
Australian Ambassador Alexander
Downer he knew who had Hillary’s
emails.
CBS News — NOTHING!
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 MSNBC — Small side article with this
headline hiding the seriousness of the
scandal: “FBI kept 2016 investigation
into Trump campaign secret: NYT”
.
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Could you even imagine if President
Bush would have been spying on the
Obama Campaign?
Do you think it would make a few
headlines in the liberal conspiracy
media?
THE US MEDIA IS DEAD.
 CNN’s Ana Navarro Stands Up
For Illegal Immigrant Criminals, Compares Trump
To A ‘Nazi’ And ‘Slave Owner’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:42 AM 05/17/2018

WATCH:

CNN commentator Ana Navarro took issue with President Donald

Trump's comments about violent illegal immigrants, on "New Day"
Thursday, and accused him of taking like a Nazi and a "slave
owner." (Photo: Screenshot/CNN)

CNN commentator Ana Navarro took issue with President

Donald Trump’s comments about violent illegal
immigrants, on “New Day” Thursday, and accused him of
taking like a Nazi and a “slave owner.”
“I’m a lot more concerned of why he does
things like call immigrants animals — when
we start dehumanizing people,”
Navarro said.
The White House said Trump was referring Wednesday to
the violent gang known as MS-13, but Navarro said that
wasn’t a valid excuse.
“No, not good enough,” she said. “Not good
enough from a president who has called
countries in Central America — called
countries like Haiti shi*holes … That’s why
he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.”
Navarro then claimed she saw a video of a racist Trump
supporter cursing at two Spanish-speaking women in
Manhattan and used that as an excuse to compare Trump
to a Nazi.
“I’m not saying all Trump supporters are
like this. I’m not saying all Trump
supporters are deplorable,” Navarro added.
“But I am saying that the president of the
United States has got to measure his
words and be more careful about what he
says. And it is a very slippery slope when
you start dehumanizing people this way.”
“It’s what the Nazis did. It’s what slave
owners did. It’s not what Americans do,”
she concluded.

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 Former Trump Aide Michael Caputo:
Mueller Team Is ‘Managing To Manufacture Crimes’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
9:44 AM 05/17/2018

“Even though it doesn’t seem so far that

they’ve got direct evidence, of Russian
collusion, they’re still managing to
manufacture crimes,” Caputo said.

He believes Paul Manafort

“has a really good chance at defeating” the

charges brought against him during the
Russia probe, and that “the Mueller team is
Michael Caputo, who was an adviser to President Donald Trump's headed to jamming up Roger Stone,” a
presidential campaign, said he told a U.S. House of Representatives
committee on Friday that he never heard of anyone in the campaign
longtime Republican operative who is
talking with Russians. (Photo: Reuters) currently under scrutiny over his
connections with Russia and Wikileaks.
Former Trump aide Michael Caputo said Thursday on “First of all, they’re not going to find any
CNN that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team probing Russian collusion on Roger Stone’s part,
into possible Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump but if, when they don’t, they’re going to be
presidential campaign is “managing to manufacture very frustrated,” Caputo continued. “They’ll
crimes.” go after him for j-walking.”

WATCH: The former Trump aide also said he is not comfortable

calling the Mueller probe a “witch hunt,” but that the
investigation is

“finding people, and then they’re trying to

find crimes. They’re not seeing crimes, and
then they’re trying to find people.”

Caputo, like several other members of the Trump

campaign, has been interviewed multiple times by various
factions involved in the Russia probe, including the
Mueller team and Congressional investigations.

Caputo stated he believes the Mueller team is not into the

investigation “for the hell of it, they’re in to it to catch
someone.”
.

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 Giuliani: We Would Be
A ‘Laughing Stock’ If We Let Trump Testify
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:54 AM 05/17/2018

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday that he “Somebody has to defend the president
would be a “laughing stock” among lawyers if he let and that’s my job,” Giuliani said. “My job is
President Donald Trump testify in front of Special Counsel not to roll over and let him beat the hell out
Robert Mueller. of us. That’s what was going on before I
got here.”
WATCH:
Giuliani said he could envision a scenario where the
president sits down with Mueller, but added,

“it depends on if they’re willing to be

reasonable.”
“I mean, we’re gonna be the laughing stock
of lawyers if we let him testify,” he said.
“But you can be sure we’re only going to do
that if there’s a way to shorten this thing.”
If you’re innocent you gotta fight back,”
Giuliani concluded.
“It’s a damn witch hunt.”
Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade asked Giuliani to
respond to criticisms of his legal strategy, particularly from
people who say he shouldn’t be “poking the bear” by
telling Mueller to wrap up the investigation.
.

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 In Apparent Swipe At Trump,
Tillerson Warns Of US Ethical Crisis
Thu May 17, 2018 10:07AM

entering its twilight years,” Tillerson

warned.

The US president has frequently said or tweeted statements

not backed up by fact. For example, he insisted, despite
evidence to the contrary, that the crowd at his January
2017 inauguration was bigger than at predecessor Barack
Obama’s.

More recently, Trump at first disputed that he was aware

of a $130,000 payment made by his personal attorney,
Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Virginia Michael Cohen, to porn star Stormy Daniels, who alleges
Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, on May 16, 2018. (AP an affair with Trump. But in an ethics disclosure on
photo) Wednesday, Trump acknowledged repaying Cohen more
Former US Secretary of State Rex than $100,000 for an undisclosed purpose.
Tillerson has warned that American
democracy was threatened by a growing
“crisis of ethics and integrity,” an
apparent swipe at his former boss,
President Donald Trump.
“If our leaders seek to conceal the truth or
we as people become accepting of
alternative realities that are no longer
grounded in facts, then we as American
citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing
our freedom,” Tillerson said Wednesday in
a graduation address at the Virginia Military
Institute. PressTV-Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson US President
Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,
announcing he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Tillerson did not mention Trump by name during his
address to graduates at the military college in Lexington,
Tillerson arrived in Washington after running Exxon
Virginia.
Mobil, one of the world’s largest corporations. But as the
nation’s top diplomat, he soon found himself at odds with
Tillerson, who was fired by Trump in March after little the president over a variety of issues, including extending
more than a year on the job, warned that a crisis involving the Iran nuclear deal and negotiating with North Korea.
truthfulness and integrity is threatening US democracy.
Tillerson was reported to have privately called Trump a
“If we do not as Americans confront the “moron” in July after the president suggested a 10-fold
crisis of ethics and integrity in our society increase in the US nuclear arsenal during a meeting at the
and among our leaders in both the public Pentagon.
and private sector — and regrettably at
times even the nonprofit sector — then
Tillerson’s exit in March made his time in office the
American democracy as we know it is
shortest of any secretary of state in nearly 120 years.
.

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 Mika Brzezinski Calls
Giuliani ‘Morally Unhinged’
Mike Brest
10:32 AM 05/17/2018
“Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski called President
Donald Trump’s newest lawyer Rudy Giuliani “morally
unhinged” Thursday morning.
WATCH:
Brzezinski’s full quote was,
“You know there’s something different,
though. There’s something morally
unhinged. I mean, I thought, I don’t agree
with a lot of his policies and political points
of view, but I thought he had some great
moments in his career as an American.”
The entire “Morning Joe” segment was about Giuliani’s
recent comments saying that the special counsel, led by
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Robert Mueller, allegedly told him that they are not able to
indict a sitting president.
During the segment, they discussed what the president’s
lawyer has already said, which is that the White House will
discredit any outcome of the special counsel except for a
full and complete exoneration of any wrongdoing.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former counterintelligence at the FBI,
said on the show about the White House’s plan to discount
all findings,
“The phrase ‘tear it down’ is really telling
because it implies we don’t really have a
legal strategy rather we’re going to
continue to tear down the institutions and
the people that got us here.”
Giuliani previously told CNN,
“All they get to do is write a report. They
can’t indict. At least they acknowledge that
to us after some battling, they
acknowledged that to us.”
The special counsel’s team said it would follow
longstanding Justice Department guidelines, which states
that a president cannot be indicted while in office.
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 CNN Pundits Party It Up With
Michael Avenatti In Now-Deleted Photo
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:37 AM 05/17/2018

Lemon recently interviewed Avenatti on his CNN show

and asked him about his threats against The Daily Caller
News Foundation and its reporters, however he did not
push back when Avenatti accused the reporters of being
unethical.

Lemon’s boyfriend, Tim Malone, said he wished

Michael Avenatti CNN_05-14-2018 Don Lemon - Lawsuit Against “Don would have pushed [Avenatti] more.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation You don’t think Avenatti is smart enough to
try and befriend the liberal media?” Malone
The wife of a CNN commentator accidentally exposed the hinted.
network’s bias in a now-deleted tweet that showed anchors
and pundits partying with Stormy Daniel’s lawyer Michael The friendship between the lawyer and CNN anchor could
Avenatti. also help explain why the network has hosted Avenatti a
whopping 74 times in just ten weeks.
Juanita Scarlett, who is married to CNN political
commentator Errol Louis, posted a photo of Avenatti with
Louis, CNN anchor Don Lemon, and CNN commentator
Margaret Hoover.

The caption read,

Thrilled to have met @MichaelAvenatti at

the Sag Harbor soiree of my second
favorite favorite on-air journalist
@donlemon @errollous
@MargaretHoover.”

Scarlett later deleted the tweet and made her Twitter

account private, but several people took screenshots and
began circulating the photo.

The soiree was most likely at Lemon’s home since he

purchased a place in Sag Harbor a couple of years ago.
Avenatti’s presence at the party seemed to confirm
Lemon’s boyfriend’s hint to The Daily Caller News
Foundation that the two are friends.

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 Trump Rails Against Media, Mueller
On One-Year Anniversary Of Special Counsel
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:45 AM 05/17/2018

It also appeared that the special counsel attempted

investigate whether President Donald Trump obstructed
justice at any point in his time in office.

FILE PHOTO: FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the

House Judiciary Committee hearing on Federal Bureau of
Investigation oversight on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., June
13, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo | Judge Ellis III VS
Robert Mueller

President Donald Trump railed against special counsel

Robert Mueller and the media Thursday morning, the one-
year anniversary of his appointment.

May 17 marks the one-year anniversary of Mueller’s

appointment as special counsel to investigate Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Mueller and his team have indicted several Russians for

interference in the election and have delved in the personal
finances of former Trump campaign officials.
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 Michael Avenatti Says He Could Gain
Two More Clients Who Got Payments From Trump
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
10:54 AM 05/17/2018
Stormy Daniels' lawyer says he might gain two more clients with
payments from Trump (MSNBC/Screenshot)
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti said Thursday
on MSNBC that there is a possibility he could gain two
more clients with payments from President Trump and his
personal attorney Michael Cohen.
WATCH:
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Avenatti said he knew of “at least two” women “who are
on solid ground” with payments from Trump and Cohen
and suggested. “And I think as the evidence rolls out over
the coming months disclosures will be made that my client
was not alone as relates to these payments,” Avenatti said,
referring to his client Stormy Daniels.
Daniels’ lawyer said that both of these women have
payments larger than the $130,000 that Stormy had
received as a part of her deal when signing an NDA.
Avenatti said that these payments “may create additional
exposure” to Trump, however he said he did not want to
disclose the exact timing of when the payments were
made.
The California lawyer also stated he was not sure if these
women wanted their cases to become public like the
Stormy Daniels case, but that “it’s a big issue for them.”
Avenatti added that there were more women with similar
payment situations that he is still vetting.
 EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Prof With CIA, MI6
Ties Met With Trump Adviser During Campaign, Beyond
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:10 AM 05/17/2018
Days after Carter Page’s high-profile trip to Moscow in
July 2016, the Trump campaign adviser had his
first encounter with Stefan Halper, a University of
Cambridge professor with CIA and MI6 contacts.
The conversation seemed innocent enough, Page tells The
Daily Caller News Foundation. He recalls nothing of
substance being discussed other than Halper’s passing
mention that he knew then-campaign chairman Paul
Manafort. But the interaction was one of many that the pair
would have over the next 14 months, through a period of
time when Page was under the watchful eye of the U.S.
government.
Their relationship included a number of in-person
meetings, including at Halper’s farm in Virginia.
Page’s encounters with Halper were quite different from
those that another Trump campaign adviser had during the
campaign with the 73-year-old academic. As TheDCNF
reported exclusively in March, Halper and George
Papadopoulos met several times over a period of a few
days in Sept. 2016. Several days earlier, Halper contacted
and met with a third Trump campaign official. That
official, who has requested anonymity, told TheDCNF that
Halper expressed interest in helping the campaign.
Unlike with Page, Halper’s relationship with Papadopoulos
was ostensibly more of a business arrangement than a
fledgling friendship.
Halper, a veteran of the Nixon, Ford and Reagan
administrations, unsolicitedly contacted Papadopoulos on
Sept. 2 with an offer to fly the Trump associate to London
for several nights to discuss a policy paper about energy
issues in Turkey, Cyprus and Israel. Papadopoulos, who
has worked on energy issues at various think tanks,
accepted the offer and flew to London.
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Papadopoulos and Halper met several times during that
stay, having dinner one night at the Travellers Club, an
Old London gentleman’s club frequented by international
diplomats. They were accompanied by Halper’s assistant, a
Turkish woman named Azra Turk. Sources familiar with
Papadopoulos’s claims about his trip say Turk flirted with
him during their encounters and later on in email
exchanges.
Stefan Halper (Youtube screen capture)
Papadopoulos wrote the paper and delivered it in early
October. He was paid $3,000 for the work. Days before
making that payment, Halper had finalized a contract with
the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon’s think tank.
Federal records show that Halper has been paid $928,800
since 2012 for work on four policy projects for the
Pentagon.
***
Halper’s contacts with Page and Papadopoulos are
significant because they are two of four Trump associates
who were targets of an FBI counterintelligence
investigation nicknamed “Hurricane Crossfire.” Manafort
and former national security adviser Michael Flynn were
the other two.
The investigation melded exactly one year ago on
Thursday with the probe being conducted by Special
Counsel Robert Mueller. Page has said he is not a target of
that investigation, while Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty
to lying to the FBI about his interactions with another
professor, Joseph Mifsud.
The New York Times published an extensive report on
Wednesday detailing the origin of “Hurricane Crossfire,”
which was formally opened on July 31, 2016.
The probe was opened based on a tip from Alexander
Downer, the Australian High Commissioner to the U.K.
Downer said that in May 2016, Papadopoulos told him
during a conversation in London about Russians having
Clinton emails.
That information was passed to other Australian
government officials before making its way to U.S.
officials. FBI agents flew to London a day after “Hurricane
Crossfire” started in order to interview Downer.
It is still not known what Downer says about his
interaction with Papadopoulos, which TheDCNF is told
occurred around May 10, 2016.
About two weeks before that, Papadopoulos met in
London with Mifsud. Papadopoulos has told the special
counsel that during their conversations, Mifsud claimed to
have learned that the Russian government had Clinton
emails.
Emails were also brought up during Papadopoulos’s
meetings with Halper, though not by the Trump associate,
according to sources familiar with his version of events.
The sources say that during conversation, Halper randomly
brought up Russians and emails. Papadopoulos has told
people close to him that he grew suspicious of Halper
because of the remark.
The Times’ Wednesday report included a major
bombshell:
Current and former government officials
told the newspaper that “at least one
government informant met several times
with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos.”
That detail matches up with a May 8 report from The
Washington Post that an American citizen who has been a
longtime FBI and CIA source has provided information
about the Trump campaign that is now in the hands of the
special counsel’s office.
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George Papadopoulos (LinkedIn)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has
asked the Department of Justice for documents related to
the source, but the agency has claimed that providing the
information would put the source’s life at risk. Revealing
information about the source would also jeopardize
relationships with foreign intelligence services, the DOJ
has argued.
Whether Halper is that source has been a subject of some
speculation over the past week, with Halper’s name being
floated by TV and radio pundits as well as Internet sleuths.
Congressional investigators have refused to confirm or
deny whether he is. The FBI declined comment when
asked about The Times’ reporting about the informant. But
current and former government officials have told
TheDCNF that he is a person of significant importance to
the investigation, though they have not said whether he is a
source for the FBI or CIA.
Whoever the source turns out to be, the fact that the FBI
had an informant spying on the Trump campaign is likely
to generate bitter partisan debate. Democrats will likely
defend the maneuver on the grants that Trump aides’
activities warranted surveillance. Republicans have already
started to point out that the use of informants undercuts
Democrats’ denials that the government surveilled
members of the Trump campaign.
***
Page’s relationship with Halper tracks closely with the
period when the Trump adviser was under heavy scrutiny
from the federal government.
By the time he joined the campaign in March 2016, Page
was already known to the FBI, though not because of any
criminal activity. FBI agents interviewed him in 2013 as
part of an investigation into a Russian spy ring operating in
New York. Page said he met with one of the Russians and
provided him with academic papers he had written.
The FBI put Page back on its radar at around the time he
joined the Trump campaign. In late-spring 2016, top
government officials, including then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey,
discussed whether to alert the Trump campaign to Page’s
past interactions with the Russian spy ring. But
government officials decided against providing the
information.
Page’s visit to Moscow, where he spoke at the New
Economic School on July 8, 2016, is said to have piqued
the FBI’s interest even further. Page and Halper spoke on
the sidelines of an election-themed symposium held at
Cambridge days later. Former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright and Sir Richard Dearlove, the former
head of MI6 and a close colleague of Halper’s, spoke at
the event.
Page was invited to the event in June by a University of
Cambridge doctoral candidate.
Page would enter the media spotlight in September 2016
after Yahoo! News reported that the FBI was investigating
whether he met with two Kremlin insiders during that
Moscow trip.
It would later be revealed that the Yahoo! article was
based on unverified information from Christopher Steele,
the former British spy who wrote the dossier regarding the
Trump campaign. Steele’s report, which was funded by
Democrats, also claimed Page worked with Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort on the collusion
conspiracy.
Page and Manafort have vehemently denied the
allegations, with both men saying they don’t know each
other.
The FBI and DOJ would cite the dossier and the Yahoo!
article in an application for a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrant against Page. The spy warrant
was granted on Oct. 21, 2016, weeks after Page left the
Trump team. The warrant would be renewed three times,
in January, April and June. It expired in Sept. 2017, at
around the time that Page and Halper fell out of contact.
Page did not describe his final contacts with Halper.
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***
Halper has links to the CIA stretching back decades. His
late father-in-law was Ray Cline, a CIA legend who served
as director of the agency’s bureau of intelligence and
research. Halper also worked with a team of former CIA
officers on George H.W. Bush’s unsuccessful 1980
presidential primary bid.
Halper was reportedly in charge of a team of former CIA
analysts who kept tabs on the Jimmy Carter campaign.
At Cambridge, Halper has worked closely with Dearlove,
the former chief of MI6. In recent years they have directed
the Cambridge Security Initiative, a non-profit intelligence
consulting group that lists “UK and US government
agencies” among its clients.
In Dec. 2016, both Halper and Dearlove threatened to
resign from the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar because
of what Halper said was “unacceptable Russian influence
on the group.”
Halper has not responded to numerous requests for
comment. A man answered a phone call placed to Halper’s
number in March but denied that he was the professor.
Azra Turk, the woman who accompanied Halper during
his meetings with Papadopoulos, recently shut down her
phone service.
 POTUS Trump Reacts To Obama’s Deep State
FBI Spy Embedded In His Campaign
‘This Is Bigger Than Watergate!’
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 11:16 Am

Trump says it’s bigger than Watergate:

Wow, word seems to be coming out that
the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP
In a SHOCKING admission on CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED
Wednesday The New York INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says,
Times reported the FBI opened an “There’s probably no doubt that they had at
investigation dubbed “Crossfire least one confidential informant in the
Hurricane” into Trump’s campaign 100 campaign.” If so, this is bigger than
days before the Presidential election. Watergate!

Of course this Deep State FBI leak to the NY Times is just

their way of getting ahead of the damning IG report which
is set to be released very soon.

Obama’s Deep State FBI obtained Trump’s campaign

phone records through secret subpoenas and even admitted
to spying on Trump’s camp with an informant.

President Trump sounded off Thursday morning in an epic Round three:

Twitter rant. Despite the disgusting, illegal and
unwarranted Witch Hunt, we have had the
Trump began by slamming the Mueller most successful first 17 month
witch hunt: Administration in U.S. history – by far!
Sorry to the Fake News Media and
Congratulations America, we are now into
“Haters,” but that’s the way it is!
the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt
in American History…and there is still No
Collusion and No Obstruction. The only
Collusion was that done by Democrats who
were unable to win an Election despite the
spending of far more money!

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 Guatemala Opens Embassy
In Jerusalem, Israel
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 11:37 Am

Guatemala became the second country

following the United States to open its
new embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.

Guatemala held an opening ceremony in Jerusalem on

Wednesday.
The United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem on
Monday following decades of promises.
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 Search Warrant For Weiner’s
Electronic Devices Unsealed
By Kaja Whitehouse And Bruce Golding
May 17, 2018 | 12:04pm
A panicked Anthony Weiner gave all his electronic
devices to private investigators two days after he was
exposed for engaging in lewd, online exchanges with a 15-
year-old girl, court records revealed Thursday.
A newly unsealed, search-and-seizure warrant obtained by
the feds shows that the disgraced ex-pol handed over an
iPhone, iPad and laptop computer to Granite Intelligence
on Sept. 23, 2016.
The move followed an explosive report that revealed how
Weiner asked the underage teen to get naked on camera
and told her:
“I would bust that tight p—y.”
The serial sexter — whose online aliases included “Carlos
Danger” — wanted to rid himself of the incriminating
evidence and “facilitate transfer to the government” so he
could avoid an FBI raid on the Union Square apartment he
shared with his wife and young son, a source familiar with
the matter said.
Granite Intelligence, which is based in Midtown
Manhattan and was co-founded by a former New York
City prosecutor, is “committed to resolving our clients’
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problems with intelligence, integrity and discretion,”
according to its Web site.
Federal agents got permission to seize the electronics on
Sept. 26, 2016, and a search of the laptop turned up e-
mails between Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, and her boss,
then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The discovery led the FBI to re-open its investigation into
Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while she served as
secretary of state under former President Barack Obama.
Clinton has blamed the reopening of the probe, which
then-FBI Director James Comey revealed to Congress 11
days before the 2016 election, for her loss to President
Trump.
Last year, Weiner tearfully pleaded guilty to transferring
obscene material to a minor, breaking down as he told the
judge:
“I knew that was morally wrong.”
At his September sentencing, Weiner — whose sexting
habit cost him his seat in Congress and a comeback
campaign for New York City mayor — said he’d been “a
very sick man for a very long time” and begged for
probation.
But he was ordered to serve 21 months in the slammer, and
is currently locked up at the Federal Medical Center in
Ayer, Mass.
The secure facility offers a “voluntary,
intensive, residential therapeutic program
for higher risk male sex offenders,” who
comprise about 40 percent of the inmate
population.
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 President Trump Vows “Full Funding” For Border Wall,
Threatens Government Shutdown If
Congress Doesn’t Step Up
By Lucian Wintrich
May 17, 2018, 12:05 Pm
President Trump has threatened a government shutdown if
Congress does not agree to hand over full funding for the
border wall in the next budget proposal. At a meeting with
municipal leaders in California, President Trump was
optimistic,
“Now we’re going for the full funding for the
wall, and we’re going to try and get that as
soon as possible.”
Derailing Mexico’s lack of cooperation on the illegal
immigration crisis, Trump said,
“Mexico does nothing for us. Mexico talks
but they do nothing for us, especially at the
border. They certainly don’t help us much
on trade.”
The amount currently being requested for the wall is $25
billion, but even the most fiscal conservative should not be
wide-eyed at this number considering the estimated burden
of illegals currently in America ranges from 116 to 300
billion ANNUALLY.
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More via Roll Call:
The president criticized California and its
leaders for what he said was inadequate
coordination with federal immigration
authorities, going so far as to say he “would
recommend” Justice Department officials
look into obstruction of justice charges
against Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for
tipping off residents of a coming ICE raid
earlier this year. The Justice Department
already is looking into her actions.
California’s governor was unimpressed.
“@realDonaldTrump is lying on
immigration, lying about crime and lying
about the laws of CA. Flying in a dozen
Republican politicians to flatter him and
praise his reckless policies changes
nothing. We, the citizens of the fifth largest
economy in the world, are not impressed,”
Democrat Jerry Brown tweeted on
Wednesday.
Senate Democrats, however, have objected to simply
handing Trump all the monies needed to complete the
project. They have the numbers to block the wall funding
— or to demand concessions from Trump and Republicans
in return.
The disagreement over how much funding Congress
should allocate in a single bill for the proposed barrier
helped sink a Senate effort earlier this year to pass an
immigration measure. And it could bring the country to the
brink of a government shutdown later this year — just
weeks before November’s congressional elections.
 Fleischer, Spicer Go Nuclear On Liberal Media;
‘Oppositional’ Press, CNN Acting Like Chris Matthews
By Curtis Houck
May 17, 2018 12:32 PM EDT
Speaking near the end of FNC’s Hannity on Thursday
about the latest examples of liberal media bias, former
White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Sean
Spicer eviscerated the liberal press for having
“becom[e] the voice of the opposition”
to the point that “they’ve made it
personal” against the President with CNN
hosts in particular morphing into Chris
Matthews clones.
Fleischer noted that the
“curse of The New York Times” is that
they’re gaining subscribers thanks to
people being “so oppositional to Donald
Trump” that, while they claim they’re not
the opposition, they’re “becoming the
voice of the opposition.”
“Newspapers, the media cannot be oppositional. They have
to be factual and that's what's gotten lost,” he added.
Hannity asked Spicer in Trumpian fashion about the
ratings on CNN and MSNBC suffering due to their anti-
Trump slant while conceding that
“if I was watching a President give a
speech and they were chanting ‘Fox
News sucks,’ I'd be, I might take it
seriously after a while.”
Spicer correctly pointed out how CNN did a lot to promote
Trump’s candidacy but, once he was elected, the Jeffrey
Zucker-led network went berserk with one example being
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January 11, 2017 “when Jim Acosta
decided to become a carnival barker.”
The former Trump aide then ended the segment with this
mic-drop on CNN journalists acting like one of MSNBC’s
most notorious pundit:
[T]hey decided to change their entire model
and realized that their model is not to try to
follow MSNBC and become the other
resistance. And I think it's sad because
they've made it personal and their ratings
are suffering because of it and I think that
they've gotten now every one of these
hosts goes on air and tries to outdo
themselves as if Chris Matthews has
become the model for them.
Fleischer also interjected before commercial break:
“Yeah and the problem is the press’s
job is not to be resistance, but they
enjoy that role, they relish it and they
always do it to Republicans and they
particularly do it to Trump and it's going
to get worse even when Trump’s gone.”
Earlier, the pair discussed the media’s gloating over the
North Korean’s possible withdrawal from the scheduled
June 12 summit in Singapore.
Hannity observed that this was a case
where Trump “has to fail” for the liberal
media “to be happy.”
Flesicher hit the nail on the head a few moments later in
identifying the predicament that the President finds himself
in where he’ll be attacked no matter the result:
“If Trump decides he's not going to go,
the press is going to blame Donald
Trump. If Kim Jong-un decides he's not
going to go, the press is going to blame
Donald Trump. They will not blame the
communist, totalitarian dictator. They'll
blame Donald Trump and this is how it
works.”
To see the relevant transcript from FNC’s Hannity on May
16:
FNC’s Hannity
May 16, 2018
9:49 p.m. Eastern
SEAN HANNITY: Alright. So members of the mainstream media
they have been almost giddy, gloating news. North Korea is
threatening to pull out of the summit in Singapore. Here's some
examples.
ANDREA MITCHELL [on MSNBC’s MTP Daily, 05/15/18]: This
was utterly predictable once the president was so eager to
accept the terms before the terms were even spelled out.
WOLF BLITZER [on CNN’s The Situation Room, 05/15/18]: Did
President Trump, do you believe made a mistake with his
optimism about his upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: In this case, it's Kim Jong-un holding back
that football.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: It keeps holding the — aww.
BRZEZINSKI: And President Trump, not Charlie Brown, left
swinging in the air.
SCARBOROUGH: — done it so many times before.
BRZEZINSKI: As it has happened so many times before. North
Korea has done a 180.
SCARBOROUGH: Donald Trump, as Gordon said, has had his
nose rubbed in it by the Chinese, by the North Koreans.
JAKE TAPPER: After North Korea threatened to withdraw from
talks, President Trump is trying to manage expectations saying of
the potential summit, may it will happen, maybe it won't. But
North Korea experts say, based on prior actions, the White
House should have seen this coming.
HANNITY: Alright. Big surprise. What they don't report is that
President Trump, he gave up nothing for the release of the three
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hostages. Thankfully, they're home from North Korea. Kim Jong-
un, well, he needs the summit to happen more than the U.S.
Here with reaction, author of the upcoming book The Briefing,
former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is with us, and
former White House Press Secretary, Fox News contributor Ari
Fleischer. It's a sad position for Democrats to be in. All these 14
record states on low unemployment, all these different
demographics on low unemployment records, you know, the
President, North Korea is a great thing. For them to be happy, he
has to fail.
ARI FLEISCHER: Well, that's all true. But Sean, I have a
surprising conclusion how bad it is with the press. It's actually
good for Republicans because the press is so separating itself
from the American people, particularly in the battleground states,
that the Democrats read their good favorable press clips. They
read the vehement anti-vitriolic Trump clips and they believe
them and the more they believe the good press they're getting,
the more they separate themselves from the voters. The press
has separated themselves from the American people. So you
have a slice left that believes the press.
HANNITY: You might be the last press secretary that ever had a
chance at that job. I mean, I watch our friend Sean Spicer who
did — Sean, I don't know how you did that job. They can't pay
number enough and Sarah Huckabee is amazing. She has the
patience of Job. I could not do the job that you two have done.
SEAN SPICER: The wounds are finally starting to heal. I would
agree with — can I just say something on North Korea though?
HANNITY: Sure.
SPICER: The funny part is, all those clips forget what the
President said at the beginning which is, if we get a deal, great. I
might walk out. He laid the predicate for this a long time ago and
everybody is forgetting how he approached this to begin with.
That's the important thing. The President has made very clear
that he's willing to meet with him but he's willing to walk away
from the table. That's what all of these people in their reports
have forgotten and you're absolutely right. He's gotten Kim Jong-
un to give three American hostages back, he's gotten him to start
talking about denuclearizing the Korea Peninsula.
Unemployment’s at a record low. So many millions of Americans
are benefitting and they are doing whatever they can to figure out
what negative news to cover because at the end of the day,
what's so fascinating is, most Americans are saying you know
what? This President is keeping his promise as he's getting
things done and America is better country before it. So I know for
a lot of folks in the press corps, they're trying to figure where else
can I find, what can I go after him on? But at the end of the day,
Ari’s right. They continue to show how wildly out of touch they are
with the American people because the President is getting results
both domestically and foreign policy-wise he's keeping the
country safe, he's developing jobs —
FLEISCHER: But you know what?
SPICER: — he's creating a robust economy and they’re pissed. needs to pay me, but in all seriousness, they're not doing well
with this. When did they — if I was — if I was watching a
President give a speech and they were chanting “Fox News
sucks,” I'd be, I might take it seriously after a while.

SPICER: You know, the funny thing on my end is, during the
campaign season, I was very public. I gave a lot of credit to CNN
in terms of how they covered the campaign, how they ran their
debates and then, suddenly on January 11 when Jim Acosta
decided to become a carnival barker, they decided to change
their entire model and realized that their model is not to try to
follow MSNBC and become the other resistance.

FLEISCHER: Yeah.
FLEISCHER: Bring it back to North Korea for a second, Sean.
Bring it back to North Korea for a second. If Trump decides he's
not going to go, the press is going to blame Donald Trump.

SPICER: Right.

FLEISCHER: If Kim Jong-un decides he's not going to go, the

press is going to blame Donald Trump. They will not blame the
communist, totalitarian dictator. They'll blame Donald Trump and
this is how it works.

HANNITY: What about the three hostages? What about —

SPICER: But at the end of the day, Ari —
HANNITY: — crossing the DMZ, what about no rockets fired over
Japan?
FLEISCHER: They covered the hostages but it was a one-day
story. But this is again, Sean, my point about how the press is
separating itself from the people that they rely on, depend on to
buy their papers and news. Jill Abramson, the former executive
of The New York Times said that every time Trump calls them
the fake news, she hear the ching of the cash register as more
people subscribe online. That's the curse of The New York Times
because the people are subscribing online are so oppositional to
President Trump.
HANNITY: And how do you explain the failing ratings of CNN?
FLEISCHER: The New York Times say they deliver the
opposition. It's becoming the voice of the opposition.
Newspapers, the media cannot be oppositional. They have to be
factual and that's what's gotten lost.
SPICER: And I think it's sad because they've made it personal
and their ratings are suffering because of it and I think that
they've gotten now —
HANNITY: Last —
SPICER: — every one of these hosts goes on air and tries to
outdo themselves —
HANNITY: They’re all the same. Leftists.
SPICER: — as if Chris Matthews has become the model for
them.
FLEISCHER: Yeah and the problem is the press’s job is not to be
resistance, but they enjoy that role, they relish it and they always
do it to Republicans and they particularly do it to Trump and it's
going to get worse even when Trump’s gone.
HANNITY: Thank you both. Hard job you both have done.
Amazing, actually.

HANNITY: How do you explain how horrible CNN has — by the

way, I want residuals from CNN and MSNBC because they run
me all the time. It's so unfair. They need to pay me. Zucker
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 Kellyanne Conway Demands Apology Over Lies About
Pres. Trump’s MS-13 Immigrant ‘Animals’ Comments;
AP Deletes Tweet, CNN Clarifies
By Kristinn Taylor
May 17, 2018, 12:35 Pm

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway posted a

demand for an apology to President Donald Trump, and
the victims of MS-13 gang violence, from those who lied
about Trump’s comments calling MS-13 gang members
“animals” when discussing California’s illegal alien
sanctuary policies at a White House round table discussion
Wednesday.

The news media, led by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, the New

York Times and C-SPAN created a lie that Trump called
all immigrants “animals”, or that he called “undocumented
immigrants” animals. Either way, the reports and video
clips were stripped of the context that Trump was
responding to Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims
complaining that California’s sanctuary policies prevent
her from contacting ICE about MS-13 gang members in
the Fresno jail unless they meet a certain threshold.

Democrat politicians and activists, celebrities and Mexican

officials piled on condemning Trump, falsely accusing him
of dehumanizing migrants and, of course, calling him
Hitler.

CNN’s Jake Tapper posted context of Trump’s comments

Thursday morning after the conservative media had been
reporting the context since Wednesday afternoon. Conway
keyed off Tapper’s tweet for her demand for an apology.

“Others who rushed to judgment to get

the President rather than to get the
story owe @POTUS – and the grieving
loved ones who have lost family
members to gang violence – an
apology.”

Shortly before noon EDT, the Associated Press posted it

was deleting a misleading tweet about Trump’s animal
comment,

“AP has deleted a tweet from late

Wednesday on Trump’s “animals”
comment about immigrants because it Thursday afternoon CNN clarified their lack of context
wasn’t made clear that he was speaking tweet from the day before.
after a comment about gang members.”

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 “As reported in the article above, Trump’s
remarks late Wednesday were in response
to comments about members of MS-13 and
other undocumented immigrants who are
deported for committing crimes.”
Late Wednesday night Donald Trump, Jr. slammed Andrea
Mitchell for lying about his father.
“A tough take down by the California
governor after @realDonaldTrump calls
people trying to get into the country
“animals” not people.”
“He was specifically talking about MS-13,
and you know it. They are animals. I know
you would rather side with them than
Trump as you so often make clear but it’s a
bad look for you Andrea.”
Excerpt from Wednesday’s TGP report on Mitchell, the
media and Democrats smear of President Trump:
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CBS News was the exception in the media,
posting video and reporting online about
Trump’s comments in proper context.
President Trump on Wednesday encouraged the Justice
Department to investigate Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf
for “obstruction of justice,” after she tipped off immigrant
communities about an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement sweep. Mr. Trump made the comments in a
California “sanctuary state” roundtable at the White
House, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions feet away
down the table.
“To me, that’s obstruction of justice,” Mr.
Trump said. “And perhaps the Department
of Justice can look into that…”
According to the White House pool reporter in the room,
Sessions sat stone-faced as Mr. Trump made those
remarks.
The president also called some illegal immigrants not
human, but “animals,” after Fresno’s mayor expressed the
difficulty in capturing and punishing illegal immigrants
accused of crimes, such as members of the MS-13 gang.
“We have people coming into the
country, or trying to come in — and
we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re
taking people out of the country,” Mr.
Trump said. “You wouldn’t believe how
bad these people are. These aren’t
people. These are animals. And we’re
taking them out of the country at a level
and at a rate that’s never happened
before. And because of the weak laws,
they come in fast, we get them, we
release them, we get them again, we
bring them out. It’s crazy.”…
 Bethany Mandel, even with the requisite criticism of
Trump, nailed this episode smearing Trump as a “rubicon
moment”,
Shorter video clip without context posted by C-SPAN.
“A lot of what Trump calls Fake News! are
mistakes; you can somewhat excuse them
away (though they always seem to break in
one way). This MS13 quote is a whole
other animal; willful dishonesty meant to
mislead and slander. This is a rubicon
moment.”

Indeed, it is.
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 CNN’s John King:
‘There Is No Public Evidence Of Collusion’
The CNN Host Said That There Was Only Evidence Of Contacts With
Russians, Which Were More "Stupid" Than Criminals.
By NTK Staff
05.17.2018 @12:40pm

“There is no public evidence of collusion,”

he repeated. “Especially involving the
president.”

However, the CNN host said that the investigation has

uncovered evidence of “stupid” contacts between the
campaign and Russians.

“There is public evidence from Mueller and

CNN’s John King was pretty definitive when talking about
what is known about the Mueller investigation on
Thursday, telling his panelists
“[t]here is no public evidence of collusion.”
from the congressional investigations of a
lot of contacts from Trump officials, before
the campaign, during the campaign, and
after the campaign – contacts that make a
lot of people say, ‘That’s stupid,'” King
explained.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation reached
the one-year mark on Thursday.

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 BREAKING: IG Horowitz Found “Reasonable Grounds”
FBI Violated FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW In Bureau’s
Handling Of Hillary Investigation
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 12:41 Pm

BREAKING NEWS.
Inspector General Horowitz found
“reasonable grounds” for believing
there has been a violation of federal
criminal law in the FBI’s handling of the
Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Horowitz has referred his findings of
potential criminal misconduct to Huber
for possible criminal prosecution, says
investigative reporter, Paul Sperry. Sperry also dropped this:

BREAKING:

Comey/Yates targeted Gen. Flynn in C.I.

investigation a yr BEFORE he
communicated w Russian ambassador in
Dec 2016 as a transition official–and the
trigger was Flynn sitting at same table w
Putin at Dec 2015 Moscow event, even tho
Green Party’s Jill Stein also at table

Buckle up because IG Horowitz’s report

is going to light DC up.
Investigative reporter, Paul Sperry
dropped this gem Thursday afternoon:

Sperry tweeted:

BREAKING: IG Horowitz has found

“reasonable grounds” for believing there
has been a violation of federal criminal law
in the FBI/DOJ’s handling of the Clinton
investigation/s and has referred his findings
of potential criminal misconduct to Huber
for possible criminal prosecution
AG Sessions revealed in March U.S. Attorney John Huber
will be the ‘top federal prosecutor’ who will be
investigating DOJ and FBI abuses.
Many Trump supporters are skeptical because U.S.
Attorney John Huber was first appointed to his position by
Barack Obama in 2015.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers

Wednesday on Capitol Hill his much-anticipated report on
the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation
has entered the final stages.
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Sources are saying the report on the FBI’s 7th floor under Horowitz report isn’t finalized yet; lawyers for the various
Comey’s Directorship is absolutely damning and “worse people in the report are currently reviewing the report and
than expected.” preparing rebuttals.

Story developing…
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 Chuck Schumer DRAGGED On Twitter For Comparing
“All Our Great-Great Grandparents”
To MS-13 Gang Members
By Lucian Wintrich
May 17, 2018, 1:03 Pm
May 17, 2018

The left is really doubling down on the false reporting of

Trump’s “animals” comment referencing the violent MS-
13 gang.

As previously reported by TGP: NBC News icon Andrea

Mitchell led the media-Democrat hit job on President
Donald Trump over remarks he made about deporting
illegal immigrant gang members, calling them “animals”
when he was asked about MS-13 at an illegal immigration
roundtable at the White House Wednesday. Mitchell and
others falsely said Trump called all immigrants ‘animals’,
with several equating Trump to Hitler.

Well, despite EVEN the left-leaning AP deleting their

“animals” tweet, Schumer is doubling down. Of course.
This time, hilariously comparing all of our “great-great-
grandparents” to MS-13 gang members. Twitter is not
having it.

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 VIDEO: Sarah Sanders Rips Media And Liberals For
Defending MS-13 After Pres. Trump
Called Them ‘Animals’
By Kristinn Taylor
May 17, 2018, 1:14 Pm

At Thursday’s briefing, White House Press Secretary

Sarah Huckabee Sanders ripped the media for its reporting
on President Donald Trump’s comments Wednesday
calling MS-13 gang member “animals” that were falsely
reported as Trump calling all immigrants “animals”. Those
misleading reports were picked up by liberals who used
them to smear Trump as Hitler.

“Sanders says @POTUS “was very

clearly referring to MS-13 gang
members,” when he said yesterday:
“These aren’t people. These are
animals.” Sanders cited MS-13 members
for rape, kidnapping and murder. Said
the words the Pres said about them
weren’t strong enough.”

YouTube video:

C-SPAN clip via Twitter:

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Transcript via the White House:
Q: I just want to ask you, because so many
people around the country have been
talking about it in the last 24 hours, what
did the President mean when he said some
.
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immigrants are not people, they’re
“animals”?
SANDERS: The President was very clearly
referring to MS-13 gang members who
enter the country illegally and whose
deportations are hamstrung by our laws.
This is one of the most vicious and deadly
gangs that operates by the motto of rape,
control, and kill. If the media and liberals
want to defend MS-13, they’re more than
welcome to.
Frankly, I don’t think the term that the
President used was strong enough. MS-13
has done heinous acts. It took an animal to
stab a man a hundred times and decapitate
him and rip his heart out. It took an animal
to beat a woman — they were sex
trafficking — with a bat 28 times, indenting
part of her body. And it took an animal to
kidnap, drug, and rape a 14-year-old
Houston girl. Frankly, I think that the term
“animal” doesn’t go far enough. And I think
that the President should continue to use
his platform and everything he can do
under the law to stop these types of
horrible, horrible, disgusting people.
I’m going to take one more question.
Peter…”
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 BREAKING: Comey & Yates Targeted General Flynn
With Counterintel Investigation ONE YEAR Before His
Phone Call To Russian Ambassador In 2016
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 1:34 Pm

BREAKING NEWS.
It turns out 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.

The reason? Because he was sitting at a table with

Vladimir Putin at a Moscow event in December of 2015–
Russian network RT paid Michael Flynn $45,000 to speak
the same event Green Party candidate Jill Stein attended.
a 10 year anniversary gala in December of 2015.
Jill Stein was also sitting at the same table as Flynn and
Putin.
What Flynn did is totally legal, however; this is what
triggered a counterintel investigation into him by Comey
This is criminal.
and Yates.

Never mind Bill Clinton’s $500,000 for a speech in

Moscow or the $150 million paid to the Clinton
Foundation as the Russians acquired 20% of our Uranium.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry dropped this gem

Thursday afternoon:

BREAKING: Comey/Yates targeted Gen. Photo of Flynn sitting next to Putin:

Flynn in C.I. investigation a yr BEFORE he (notice Jill Stein at the same table)
communicated w Russian ambassador in A couple weeks ago, the Department of
Dec 2016 as a transition official–and the Justice released the requested
trigger was Flynn sitting at same table w unredacted documents to to the House
Putin at Dec 2015 Moscow event, even tho Intelligence Committee on the
Green Party’s Jill Stein also at table investigation of Donald Trump and the
ambush interview of Michael Flynn
coordinated by corrupt agents Andrew
McCabe and Peter Strzok.

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The unredacted portion revealed Comey testified to House Keep your eye on Sally Yates:
Intel members the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not
detect any deception.

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.

Not one word about investigating who illegally leaked the

phone call. The investigation kept going because of the
leak.
No doubt this was all done in coordination to give the FBI
and DOJ an excuse to keep monitoring Flynn.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton
called on President Trump to pardon
General Flynn:

Now we know what triggered the initial CI investigation

into General Flynn.

No wonder why Comey and Yates are publicly slamming

Trump; they are afraid as their crimes bubble up to the
surface.

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 Deep State FBI Started Spying On
Mike Flynn For $45,000 Russian Speech —
But NOT On Bill Clinton For $500,000 Russian Speech
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 1:50 Pm

In 2010 former President Bill Clinton met
with Vladimir Putin at his Novo-
Ogaryovo residence outside of Moscow.
This was after his $500,000 speech and
before the Uranium One deal was
approved by the Hillary Clinton State
Department and Obama administration
officials.
The Gateway Pundit uncovered photos from Bill’s meeting
with Vladimir Putin.
Clinton after the over-priced speech.
Nor did they start an investigation on
the Clintons for their linkss to the
Uranium One scandal where the US
handed over one-fifth of uranium
deposits to Russia.
But when General Mike Flynn flew to
Russia with his son for a speech for RT
television the FBI started to spy on
Flynn.

Flynn was paid $45,000 for the speech.

Flynn has no contacts with Russian

agents.

The Deep State FBI later charged Michael Flynn with

lying.

The Deep State has irreparably

damaged the FBI.

Democrats politicized this once revered

oganization.
Of course, the FBI did not launch an Today it is ruined.
investigation of Bill Clinton or Hillary
.

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 ‘Probably No Doubt’ FBI Had Snitch In Trump Campaign
The Former Federal Prosecutor Said The Bureau 'Did Not Have A Criminal
Predicate To Open An Investigation' Into The President
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 17 May 2018 At 1:58 PM
There is “probably no doubt” that the FBI planted “at least
one confidential informant” in President Donald Trump’s
campaign during the 2016 presidential election, former
federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said Thursday on
Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
The New York Times buried a key piece of information
inside a piece published Thursday when it noted that “at
least one government informant met several times with Mr.
[Carter] Page and [George] Papadopoulos,” two former
Trump campaign advisers.
The Times’ report came on the one-year anniversary of
special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment to head the
probe into allegations of collusion between Trump
campaign officials and Russia.
“I’ve written a couple of columns in the last
week or so pointing out that there is
probably no doubt that [the FBI] had at
least one confidential informant in the
campaign,” said McCarthy (pictured above
right), a National Review contributor and
former assistant U.S. attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
After combing through the anti-Trump and pro-Hillary
Clinton text messages exchanged by FBI officials Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page, McCarthy noted that the texts show
“that they obviously opened an investigation late July,
early August of 2016.”
“What we now know from the Times article
— that’s all true,” McCarthy said. “But the
lead that they buried is — the word that you
almost never see in the Times [piece] … is
counterintelligence.”
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McCarthy said that FBI officials "did not have a criminal
predicate to open an investigation" into Trump like they
did the "immense criminal predicate" they had to open and
conduct their investigation into Clinton's use of a private
email server for official business while serving as secretary
of state.
"And what they did was use their
counterintelligence powers covertly to
investigate the Trump campaign during the
stretch run of the campaign under
circumstances where they did not have
evidence that anyone had actually
committed a crime," McCarthy insisted.
"I think what people need to look here at is
they didn't have a criminal predicate to
investigate people in the Trump campaign
they did, and they used their
counterintelligence powers as a pretext to
investigate the Trump campaign in the
hope of making a criminal case."
Ultimately, however, there appears to be "virtually no
evidence" tying the Trump campaign "to any
cyberespionage by Russia," McCarthy said. Thus, he
argued, the FBI should have acted in a "measured and
hands-off" manner "until that kind of evidence develops."
"And I don't think it ever did," McCarthy
said.
Trump himself took to Twitter Thursday to highlight
McCarthy's Fox News interview and slam the "Witch
Hunt" on its one-year anniversary under Mueller.
 "Congratulations America, we are now into
the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt
in American History...and there is still No
Collusion and No Obstruction. The only
Collusion was that done by Democrats who
were unable to win an Election despite the
spending of far more money!" Trump
tweeted.
"Wow, word seems to be coming out that
the Obama FBI "SPIED ON THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED
INFORMANT." Andrew McCarthy says,
"There's probably no doubt that they had at
least one confidential informant in the
campaign." If so, this is bigger than
Watergate!" Trump added.
The president also mocked the "Haters,"
writing, "Despite the disgusting, illegal and
unwarranted Witch Hunt, we have had the
most successful first 17 month
Administration in U.S. history — by far!
Sorry to the Fake News Media and 'Haters,'
but that's the way it is!"

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox

News host Laura Ingraham Wednesday on "The
Ingraham Angle" that it was high time for Mueller to
bring the probe "to a close" because it's "not good for the
American people" to prolong it further.

"We're trying to get [Mueller] to end this,"

Giuliani said. "This is not good for the
American people, and the special counsel's
office doesn't seem to have that, sort of,
understanding that they're interfering with
things that are much bigger than them or
us."
"So it's about time to get the darn thing
over with," Giuliani added. "It's about time
to say, 'Enough, we've tortured this
president enough.'"
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 Here We Go=> Mueller Gives
Manafort Judge Unredacted Rosenstein Memo
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 2:39 Pm
Robert Mueller’s office begrudgingly
gave Judge T.S. Ellis the unredacted
Rosenstein memo detailing the Special
Counsel’s scope in a sealed court filing
Thursday.
Reuters reported:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office
notified a federal court in Virginia on
Thursday it had filed under seal an
unredacted memorandum that is expected
to shed light on the scope of his wide-
ranging probe into Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election.
Judge T.S. Ellis lost his temper a couple
weeks ago in a Manafort hearing and
accused Mueller’s prosecutors of using
.
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the case against Trump’s former
campaign chairman to oust the
President from office.
The Reagan-appointed judge also ordered the government
to hand over the unredacted Rosenstein memo.
The Judge told Mueller’s prosecutors,
“We don’t want anyone with unfettered
power.”
Mueller’s prosecutors argued they have certain authorities
given to them which were laid out in Rosenstein’s August
2017 memo.
Judge Ellis scoffed at Mueller’s prosecutors who argued
the memo has to be kept a secret because of ongoing
investigations and ordered the unredacted memo to be
released within a two week time frame.
And here we are; Judge Ellis now has the unredacted
memo.
Stay tuned. The Gateway Pundit will be reporting on Judge
Ellis’ response to this memo and to Manafort’s motion to
have Mueller’s case against him dismissed.
 New Video: Pres. Trump:
I Will Always Call MS-13 ‘Animals’
By Kristinn Taylor
May 17, 2018, 2:46 Pm

President Donald Trump spoke to reporters Thursday (A transcript of Trump’s Thursday statement will be posted
afternoon during a White House meeting with NATO later.)
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during which a reporter
asked Trump about his ‘animals’ comment in response to a
question about the difficulty deporting MS-13 gang
members made at a White House meeting Wednesday on
California’s sanctuary laws.

Trump’s response calling the gang members “animals”

was misreported by many in the media as Trump calling
all immigrants or “undocumented immigrants” animals
and used by liberals to smear Trump as anti-immigrant and
Hitler.

Trump told the press Thursday he will always refer to MS-

13 and other gangs as “animals”.

“I am referring to the MS-13 gangs that

are coming in. I was talking about the
MS-13 and if you look further under the
tape you will see that.” President Trump
clarifies “These aren’t people, these are
animals”

The RNC posted a video clip with the context of Trump’s

original comments from Wednesday.

Earlier Thursday White House Press Secretary Sarah

Huckabee Sanders ripped the media and liberals for
defending MS-13.

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 Sanders Rips Into Liberal Media:
If They ‘Want To Defend MS-13,
They’re More Than Welcome To’
By Curtis Houck
May 17, 2018 2:42 PM EDT
CBS News Radio White House correspondent Steven
Portnoy snuck in a question at Thursday’s White House
Press Briefing to Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
concerning the President’s comments about illegal
immigrant gang members (specifically MS-13) being
“animals.”
Sanders didn’t waste the opportunity to savagely torch the
liberal media for rallying to the murderous gang’s defense
against the President, even suggesting that the President
didn’t go far enough.
Here’s Portnoy’s question:
“I just want to ask you because so many
people in the country have been talking
about it in the past 24 hours. What did
the President mean when that he said
some immigrants are not people, they’re
‘animals?’”
For those in the liberal media who were spreading
falsehoods to their audiences (or, in the case of people like
MSNBC’s Elise Jordan and Politico Magazine’s Tim
Alberta, blaming the President for this hubub), Sanders
made clear that Trump “was very clearly referring to MS-
13 gang members who enter the country illegally and
whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws.”
Sanders reminded the White House press
corps that MS-13's motto is “rape, control,
and kill,” so “[i]f the media and liberals
want to defend MS-13, they're more than
welcome to.”
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Since this seems to be a hill that the liberal media want to
die on, Sanders came ready to fire back and informed the
press that her boss didn’t go far enough because MS-13
gang members are not just “animals,” but ones who carry
out “heinous acts.”
She then cited three examples of MS-13's devilish,
stomach-churning behavior (all of which are true and be
read in more detail here, here, and here):
Frankly, I don’t think the term that the President used was
strong enough. MS-13 has done heinous acts. It took an
animal to stab a man 100 times and decapitate him and rip
his heart out. It took an animal to beat a woman they were
sex trafficking with a bat 28 times, indenting part of her
body and it took an animal to kidnap, drug, and rape a 14-
year-old Houston girl. Frankly, I think that the term
“animal” doesn't go far enough and I think that the
President should continue to use his platform and
everything can do under the law to stop these types of
these horrible, horrible disgusting people.
To recap, scores in the liberal media rally
to the defense of MS-13 gang members
being called “animals,” but when NRA
members and gun rights supporters were
deemed “child murderers” without having
committed any crime, it’s more than
appropriate and won’t be challenged.
One can apply this same distinction between MS-13 gang
members and Israelis, so take your pick. There’s more than
enough double standards to go around.
Here’s the relevant transcript from May 17's White House
Press Briefing.
White House Press Briefing
May 17, 2018
1:39 p.m. Eastern
STEVEN PORTNOY: I just want to ask you because so many
people in the country have been talking about it in the past 24
hours. What did the President mean when that he said some
immigrants are not people, they’re “animals?”
 of the most vicious and deadly gangs that operates by the motto
of “rape, control and kill.” If the media and liberals want to defend
MS-13, they're more than welcome to. Frankly, I don’t think the
term that the President used was strong enough. MS-13 has
done heinous acts. It took an animal to stab a man 100 times and
decapitate him and rip his heart out. It took an animal to beat a
woman they were sex trafficking with a bat 28 times, indenting
part of her body and it took an animal to kidnap, drug, and rape a
14-year-old Houston girl. Frankly, I think that the term “animal”
doesn't go far enough and I think that the President should
continue to use his platform and everything can do under the law
to stop these types of these horrible, horrible disgusting people.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: The President was very clearly
referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the country illegally
and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws. This is one
.

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 As Sanders Left Briefing, Reporter Shouted Question
Proving Why America Hates The Media
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
4:07 PM 05/17/2018

It has not been a banner week for the media. And the
question shouted at Sarah Sanders as she was leaving a
contentious briefing won’t help. As Sanders was leaving
the room, the Playboy White House correspondent Brian
Karem shouted:
“Has the president ever lied to us?”
took an animal to stab a man 100 times
and decapitate him and rip his heart out. It
took an animal to beat a woman they were
sex trafficking with a bat, 28 times,
indenting part of her body. And it took an
animal to kidnap and rape a 13-year-old
Houston girl.”

Sanders did not respond. Sanders concluded, saying

Between misrepresenting Trump’s comments on MS-13 “The president should continue to use
and running with fake news about violent Palestinian his platform and everything he can do
rioters, there have been multiple crises of journalistic under the law to stop these kinds of
integrity this week. horrible, horrible, disgusting people.”

Sarah Sanders addressed these multiple slip-ups in the WATCH:

White House press briefing Thursday.

Sanders addressed the issue of media selectively editing

Trump’s comments MS-13.

She defended the president’s comments, saying,

“This is one of the most vicious and deadly

gangs that operates by the motto of ‘rape,
control and kill.’ Frankly, I don’t think the
term that the president used was strong
enough. MS-13 has done heinous acts. It
.

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Mike Flynn Jr. Reacts To Bombshell News Comey & Yates
Began Spying On His Father ONE YEAR Before Call To
Russian Ambassador Kislyak
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 4:24 Pm

BREAKING: Comey/Yates targeted Gen. Flynn in C.I.

investigation a yr BEFORE he communicated w Russian
ambassador in Dec 2016 as a transition official–and the
trigger was Flynn sitting at same table w Putin at Dec 2015
Moscow event, even the Green Party’s Jill Stein also at
table

As previously reported, 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.

The reason? Because he was sitting at a table with

Vladimir Putin at a Moscow event in December of 2015–
the same event Green Party candidate Jill Stein attended.
Jill Stein was also sitting at the same table as Flynn and
Putin.
General Flynn’s son, Mike Flynn Jr. is furious over the
Deep State’s witch hunt of his father, a decorated 3-star
General.
That’s right–Comey and Yates began spying on General
Flynn over a picture of him sitting at a table next to Putin
and Jill Stein.
Russian network RT paid Michael Flynn $45,000 to speak
a 10 year anniversary gala in December of 2015.

Big deal. There is nothing illegal about what General

Flynn did.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry dropped

this leak from Horowitz’s report Thursday
afternoon:

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Mike Flynn Jr., who is very vocal about defending his Earlier Thursday, General Flynn’s brother slammed
father against the Deep State swamp, reacted to this news. Obama’s criminal CIA Director and Deep State FBI/DOJ.

Flynn Jr. tweeted:

If a PICTURE is what got this CI investigation

going, shame on @Comey and @SallyQYates
for having the obvious partisan standards to
open in the first place…

How does a PICTURE prove two people have a

relationship? What a joke.

You can donate to General Flynn’s defense fund here.

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 MSNBC Blames Trump For
Media ‘Confusion’ Over His MS-13 Comments
By Kyle Drennen
May 17, 2018 4:35 PM EDT
After the media got caught distorting President Trump’s
comments labeling murderous MS-13 gang members
“animals” as an attack on all immigrants, on Thursday
afternoon, MSNBC only briefly corrected the record
before immediately blaming the President for press
“confusion” on the topic given his history of saying
“incendiary and racist things” in the past.
“President Trump lashing out during an
immigration roundtable at the White
House and stirring controversy over his
harsh rhetoric toward immigrants,
branding them ‘animals,’” anchor Andrea
Mitchell proclaimed during her 12:00 p.m.
ET hour show. Moments later, she
begrudgingly offered a clarification:
“But the White House now says he was
referring to the criminal immigrant gang
MS-13, not to all immigrants. Though he
didn’t say so. He certainly didn’t make
that clear.”
Turning to political analyst Elise Jordan, Mitchell sneered:
“Elise, whether you’re talking about
MS-13 or not, or all immigrants, he’s
certainly used the animal phrase quite
liberally and frequently when talking
about illegal immigrants.”
Jordan actually explained that the context of the
President’s remarks was clear when looking at the full
discussion in the White House meeting, beyond the
seconds-long clip that Mitchell played:
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“I read the transcript and I do actually give
him the benefit of doubt on this one
because it did seem to be in reference to
MS-13, which is a horrible gang that
machetes are their primary use of warfare
and they’ve preyed on minors.”
However, the former Bush administration official still
decided that Trump was at fault for the media mistake:
“So that said, the reason that I feel the
comments were incendiary is because
he’s said so many other things in the
past that were really inappropriate and
horrible....it’s such a contentious media
environment because he has had so
much racially charged language that this
was, I feel like, blown a little bit out of
proportion when it was about MS-13.”
At the top of the 1:00 p.m. ET hour, even after the
corrections made by Mitchell and Jordan, anchor Craig
Melvin still breathlessly hyped the story:
“‘Animals,’ that’s how the President of
the United States described some who
come across the border illegally....We’ll
also be reminding you of some of the
other incendiary and racist things that
this president has said.”
Minutes later, Melvin admitted that the reporting on the
controversy wasn’t accurate:
The Associated Press deleted a tweet a short time ago
about the remark because apparently there’s been some
confusion over whether the President was talking about all
immigrants or whether he was talking about MS-13 gang
members specifically.
Correspondent Peter Alexander, awaiting the White House
daily press briefing, added:
“To be clear, yesterday, when the
President was hosting a series of
leaders...he was reacting to another
individual in the room who brought up the
issue of MS-13 gang members.”
But then, like Jordan earlier, the reporter declared:
“But broadly, he has spoken
unsparingly in terms of his criticism of
immigrants who have come into the
United States from Mexico in the
past....obviously this just sort of
underscores the fierce language the
President often embraces when
speaking about topics like illegal
immigration...”
After making it clear once again that President was talking
about violent gang members, later in the same hour,
Melvin inexplicably grilled Republican Congressman
Carlos Curbelo about the issue: “But first, the President
there in his own words branding some undocumented
immigrants as ‘animals.’ Here is an opportunity to
denounce it, Congressman. What say you?”
Curbelo reiterated the same facts that Melvin had told
viewers only minutes beforehand: “Craig, I wasn’t at that
meeting. My understanding is that this discussion was
about MS-13 gang members.” Given that Melvin clearly
already knew that, why did he waste time asking the
question?
Finally, nearing the end of the hour, the host teed up
former Congressman and Trump critic David Jolly to
predictably blast the President. The liberal Republican
ranted:
Yeah, so listen, this is a product of the
President’s rhetoric since the day he
became a candidate, when it comes to
immigration.
And this issue with MS-13, look, give the President a
concession on that. Perhaps he was calling only gang
members animals. And in that case, MS-13 is a really bad
group, maybe that’s fair.
The question in most American’s mind
though, is this is a president whose
policies separates families at the
border, separate women from children,
pull people out of their homes, deport
them.
And so the notion, when the President talks about the
border, I think the anxiety most people feel is one of a
president whose policy is so hardline that it actually looks
over part of the goodness of the country.
And those questions will always linger
with this president.
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The liberal media became so obsessed with the false
narrative of Trump calling all illegal immigrants animals
that MSNBC journalists could not let the story go, even as
it was proven to be untrue by multiple sources.
Here are excerpts of the May 17 coverage on Melvin’s
show:
1:00 PM ET
CRAIG MELVIN: Plus, “Animals,” that’s how the President of the
United States described some who come across the border
illegally. His comments coming as a group of rogue Republicans
are standing up to party leadership to try and get a bipartisan
deal on immigration done once again. We’ll also be reminding
you of some of the other incendiary and racist things that this
president has said.
(...)
1:10 PM ET
MELVIN: Peter, while I have you, I want to ask you about the
President’s use of the word “animal” yesterday during some
immigration remarks. It’s drawn some heat. The Associated
Press deleted a tweet a short time ago about the remark because
apparently there’s been some confusion over whether the
President was talking about all immigrants or whether he was
talking about MS-13 gang members specifically. What more are
we hearing on that from the White House, if anything?
PETER ALEXANDER: We haven’t heard from the White House
specifically in reaction to that. I suspect it’ll be brought up in the
course of this conversation with Sarah Sanders a short time from
now.
To be clear, yesterday, when the President was hosting a series
of leaders, specifically from California, on the topic of sanctuary
cities, he was reacting to another individual in the room who
brought up the issue of MS-13 gang members. The President
described immigrants, and appeared to be referring to those
gang members, as animals.
But this is the type of language he’s used before in reference to
M-13. But broadly, he has spoken unsparingly in terms of his
criticism of immigrants who have come into the United States
from Mexico in the past. You’ll remember the day this whole thing
got started, when the President effectively announced his
campaign. He said that many of those people who came from
Mexico were rapists. He said, “I’m some of them are also good
people.”
But obviously this just sort of underscores the fierce language the
President often embraces when speaking about topics like illegal
immigration, where he feels like he can really sort of flex his
muscles and try to show his toughness.
(...)
1:15 PM ET
MELVIN: We’re also going to be talking a little bit more about the
controversy surrounding the President of the United States,
saying that some people who crossed the southern border
illegally are not people at all.
(...)
1:28 PM ET
MELVIN: Meanwhile, President Trump facing quite the backlash
today after railing against undocumented immigrants at a White
House meeting on Wednesday.
DONALD TRUMP: We have people coming in to the country or
trying to come in. We’re stopping a lot of them. But we’re taking
people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these
people are. These aren’t people, these are animals.
MELVIN: His comments were made during a roundtable
discussion with California leaders on that state’s so-called
sanctuary laws. For more on all of this, Republican Congressman
Carlos Curbelo, Florida, joins me now.
He introduced a petition last week that would force the House to
vote on some key immigration measures. It’s gaining support with
his GOP colleagues. And Congressman, we’ll talk about that in
just a moment.
But first, the President there in his own words branding some
undocumented immigrants as “animals.” Here is an opportunity to
denounce it, Congressman. What say you?
REP. CARLOS CURBELO [R-FL]: Craig, I wasn’t at that meeting.
My understanding is that this discussion was about MS-13 gang
members. If that’s the case, perhaps some people, especially
those who’ve been victimized by this violent gang, might agree
with that characterization. It’s not the way I speak, but if he was
referring specifically to gang members, that’s something I could
understand.
If he was just speaking about undocumented immigrants, a lot of
the well-meaning people who try to come to our country to work
and make a better life for themselves – not that we encourage
illegal immigration – but in that case, that characterization would
really be something that the President should apologize for.
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But, again, if it was just about this MS-13 gang, I think there’s
probably a lot of people in our country who would agree with that,
given all the violence that that group has inflicted and the deaths
that they’re responsible for.
MELVIN: Here’s the thing, this is not the first time we’ve heard
this president – hang on one second, Congressman. Sarah
Sanders is starting to take questions here from reporters during
the briefing. Let’s listen in.
(...)
1:41 PM ET
MELVIN: I would say that Sarah Huckabee Sanders there did
appear to be prepared for what we were just talking about a few
moments ago, President Trump doing a roundtable with leaders
in California yesterday, referring to some immigrants as
“animals.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders clarifying that the remark
itself was meant specifically for MS-13 gang members. Sarah
Sanders appearing to read what was clearly a prepared response
there to that particular question.
(...)
1:43 PM ET
MELVIN: David jolly, we also heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders
there spend some time talking about Mexico doing more at the
border as well. What were your takeaways from that, again, 11-
minute back and forth with reporters?
DAVID JOLLY: Yeah, so listen, this is a product of the
President’s rhetoric since the day he became a candidate, when
it comes to immigration. And this issue with MS-13, look, give the
President a concession on that. Perhaps he was calling only
gang members animals. And in that case, MS-13 is a really bad
group, maybe that’s fair.
The question in most American’s mind though, is this is a
president whose policies separates families at the border,
separate women from children, pull people out of their homes,
deport them. And so the notion, when the President talks about
the border, I think the anxiety most people feel is one of a
president whose policy is so hardline that it actually looks over
part of the goodness of the country. And those questions will
always linger with this president.
(...)
DEVELOPING=> Senior DOJ Official: We Offered Nunes
And Gowdy A Friday Meeting With Rosenstein
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 5:45 pm

Chairman of the House Intel Committee

Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Chairman of the
House Oversight Committee Trey Gowdy (R-
SC) were invited to meet with Rosenstein,
Wray and Senior Intel staff Friday morning.

A senior DOJ official is now claiming Nunes

and Gowdy have not responded to their
invite.

This is a strange development considering Nunes and

Gowdy have been hounding Rosenstein to gain access to
pertinent Mueller documents including the Rosenstein
memo.

Facing contempt charges, Justice

Department officials agreed to sit down with
Nunes and Gowdy to come to a resolution
last week.

Nunes and Gowdy met with Rosenstein and

Fox News producer, Jake Gibson is
reporting a DOJ official claimed Nunes and
Gowdy have not responded to the invitation
extended to them for a Friday morning
briefing.
Gibson tweeted: Senior DOJ Official:
Earlier in the week (Tuesday), we offered
Chairmen Nunes and Gowdy a meeting for
Friday morning with the Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris
Wray, and senior Intelligence Community staff.
They have not responded to our invite.
other officials last Thursday in a classified
briefing amid a standoff over pertinent
‘Mueller-Russia’ documents being withheld
by the swamp.
“We had a productive discussion today with
officials from the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, Department of Justice,
and FBI in which we raised questions related to
information requested from the Intelligence
Community,” Nunes and Gowdy said in a
statement. “The officials committed to holding
further discussions of these matters, and we
look forward to continuing our dialogue next
week to satisfy the committee’s request.”

Other things to consider…

Judge Ellis was given access to the

unredacted Rosenstein memo earlier
Thursday in a sealed court filing.

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IG Horowitz informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Wednesday that his much-anticipated report on the FBI’s
handling of Hillary’s investigation is in the final stages.
Thanks to a leak, we know Inspector General
Horowitz found “reasonable grounds” for
believing there has been a violation of
.
federal criminal law in the FBI’s handling of
the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Story is developing….The Gateway Pundit will update with
a response from Nunes and or Gowdy as soon as one is
available.

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Mueller Files Unredacted Memo Revealing Scope Of Russia
Probe, There Is Just One Problem...
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/17/2018 - 18:25

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has handed over an

unredacted memo to a Virginia judge on Thursday
outlining the scope of his wide-ranging probe into Russian
interference in the 2016 U.S. election. There is just one
problem: the memorandum, written by Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein was filed under seal in the
Eastern District of Virginia after judge T.S. Ellis, who is
overseeing the case against former Trump campaign
manager Paul Manafort, excoriated a Special Counsel
attorney two weeks ago during a "motion to dismiss"
hearing.

In other words, virtually nobody can read the 3-page

memo that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote
on Aug. 2, 2017, explaining why Manafort was a target of
the special counsel; although now that it is in the "public
arena" we fully expect its contents to leak within days:
after all, if this was a memo with any Trump-damaging
information, it would have been leaked by "sources" inside
the FBI and NSA long before it was even submitted to the
court.

During a May 4 hearing in which Judge Ellis made the

demand to see the full, unredacted memo, after DOJ
attorney Michael Dreeben argued at the hearing that the
redacted version offered the relevant paragraphs about
Manafort, Ellis said:

“I’ll be the judge of whether it relates to the

others.”

Meanwhile, as twitter commentators suspect, the presence

of the memo

"will fuel calls by Trump allies on the hill to

obtain the memo themselves."

Judge T.S. Ellis

A leaked transcript of a heated exchange

between attorney Michael Dreeben and Eastern
District of Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis revealed
that the entire Manafort case was in jeopardy
if the Special Counsel didn't produce an
unredacted copy of the original order from

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 Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein authorizing the impeachment or whatever. That's what you're
original investigation. really interested in." -Judge Ellis

Ellis also noted that the Special Counsel's indictment

against Manafort doesn't mention:

(1) Russian individuals

(2) Russian banks
(3) Russian money
(4) Russian payments to Manafort

To which Dreeben provided an unsatisfactory lawyerly

response about how everything is connected to everything
(including, apparently, whether Trump paid a woman to
keep quiet about consensual sex).

Ellis also gave prosecutors two weeks to show

what evidence they have that Manafort was
complicit in colluding with the Russians.

Manafort faces two indictments by Mueller in Washington

D.C. and Virginia, charging him with various crimes
ranging from conspiring to launder money and failing to
register as a foreign agent, to bank and tax fraud.

Manafort's lawyers had asked the judge in the Virginia

case to dismiss an indictment filed against him in what was
their third effort to beat back criminal charges by attacking
Mueller’s authority. In addition to pushing back against the
Special Counsel's argument for why Manafort's bank fraud
Ellis also said that Mueller shouldn't have charges are related to the Russia investigation,
"unfettered power" to prosecute Manafort
for charges that have nothing to do with
the judge also questioned why Manafort’s
collusion between the Trump campaign and
the Russians, and called out the DOJ's efforts case could not be handled by the U.S.
in the case as an attempt by Mueller to gain attorney’s office in Virginia, rather than the
Special Counsel’s office, as it is not Russia-
leverage over Manafort.
related.
"You really care about what information Mr.
Manafort can give you that would reflect on
Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or
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 GIULIANI: Robert Mueller May
Produce ‘Final Report’ By Labor Day
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 6:33 Pm
Robert Mueller is expected to produce his
‘final report’ by Labor Day, Rudy Giuliani
told the Washington Times.
Just in time to meddle in the 2018
midterms!
The Washington Times reported:
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, says
that special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed
to avoid a “fishing” expedition by narrowing the
subject of questions in an effort to get the
president to submit to an interview with the
prosecutor.
Mr. Giuliani also says he thinks fired FBI Director James
Comey is “not going to be worth anything as a witness”
and thus less a threat to the president.
Mr. Giuliani told The Washington Times that Mr.
Mueller’s team displayed a “first good faith effort” during
a Wednesday meeting that might result in an interview in
July and a final Mueller report by Labor Day.
Mueller’s team also concluded this week they cannot
indict a sitting president.
.
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BUT DON’T BE FOOLED –MUELLER IS
STILL AFTER TRUMP—
Mueller is going to issue a report on his findings around
Labor Day to meddle in the elections; the Dems want to
impeach President Trump.
The Washington Times is also reporting Mueller has
supposedly dropped a few topics he was investigating:
“He’s eliminated a lot of subjects that would
have indicated he was fishing,” Mr. Giuliani told
The Times on Thursday. “He’s eliminated those
and he’s into a much more relevant area where
we know the answers and we know the
answers really can’t be effectively contradicted.”
He declined to specify what topics have been dropped.
He has contended from the start that there is no evidence
of Trump collusion in Russian election interference. The
other two major topics: whether the president somehow
obstructed justice in the firing of Mr. Comey, a Mueller
friend, and whether he might commit perjury in answering
questions under oath.
“What I’m telling you none has been agreed to,”
he said, putting the chance of an interview at
50-50. He said he could agree to a two to three-
hour interview.
Giuliani said Mueller is relying more on perjury or
obstruction charges rather than collusion because they
have NO EVIDENCE Trump colluded with the Russians.
Furthermore, collusion is not a federal crime; no such
crime exists in American statutory law except for in anti-
trust matters, says attorney Gregg Jarrett. It has no
applications to elections and political campaigns.
President Trump should NEVER agree to a sit-down
interview with Mueller.
The Special Counsel hasn’t even named a crime; they
simply want to catch the President in a perjury trap.
Nancy Pelosi Defends MS-13, Trashes Trump — ‘There’s A
Spark Of Divinity In Every Human Being” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 6:44 Pm

But leave it to Nancy Pelosi to push this

smear 24 hours later.

Nancy Pelosi accused President Trump of

The liberal media ran a disgusting smear on
Wednesday against President Trump while
defending MS-13 killers.
calling all illegal aliens “animals.”
This is a lie.
Pelosi defended MS-13 saying there’s a
spark of divinity in every human being.
Trump called MS-13 killers “animals”…and
Nancy Pelosi knows it. She doesn’t care.

The media claimed President Trump called This is what the GOP is up against — liars and cheats. And
all immigrants “animals” when he was very yet GOP elites believe these people have the public’s
clearly discussing MS-13 gang members. interest at heart.

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 Manafort’s Son-In-Law Takes
Plea Deal, Agrees To Work With Prosecutors
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
7:33 PM 05/17/2018

cooperation in a completely separate investigation,

according to Reuters.

Mueller was appointed to investigate alleged Russian

meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller has not
been able to turn up any ties between Manafort and the
Russian government, however, according to Manafort’s
lawyers.

Trump has supported Manafort, calling him a “good

person” and slammed Mueller’s probe as a “witch hunt.”
Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald
Trump, departs after a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington,
DC, U.S., April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder | Manafort's Son- “On CNN, they have a headline, ‘Judge in
In-Law Takes Plea Deal Manafort case says Mueller’s aim is to hurt
Trump.’ You believe that? This is what
Paul Manafort’s former son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai has we’re up — it is called the witch hunt. So I
agreed to a plea deal with the Justice Department, forcing just said, ‘Give me that article. I want to
him to cooperate with officials on other criminal probes, read it.’ … just happened a few minutes
two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. before I walked on stage,” Trump told a
crowd in a May 4 speech.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has leveled two “A federal judge Friday questioned Special
indictments against Manafort — the former chairman of counsel Robert Mueller’s authority to bring
President Donald Trump’s election campaign — that tax and bank fraud charges, unrelated —
include charges of bank fraud and tax evasion. Manafort unrelated — nobody knows that. Everyone
has pleaded not guilty on all allegations. thinks, ‘oh — unrelated to the 2016 election
against former Trump campaign manager
Yohai used to work with Manafort as a business partner chairman Paul Manafort,'” Trump
and was once married to his daughter. Yohai’s guilty plea continued.
agreement is sealed, but the fact it exists could put legal
and public pressure on Manafort. As of yet, however, the
deal could have been struck to guarantee Yohai’s
.

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 Ominous Warning Given To White House Staff Leakers
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Says Anyone Who 'Betrays' President Trump
Is A 'Complete Coward' Who 'Should Be Fired'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 16 May 2018 At 8:08 PM

Media in order to make us look as bad as

possible. With that being said, leakers are
traitors and cowards, and we will find out
who they are!"

Any White House staffer who “betrays” President Donald

Trump by unauthorized leaking to the news media “is a
total and complete coward” who “should be fired,” press
secretary Sarah Sanders warned Wednesday on Fox News’
“Fox & Friends.”

One of the latest White House leaks came recently, when

someone made known a comment by communications aide
Kelly Sadler Thursday during a meeting. Sadler said that
Sen. John McCain’s refusal to support CIA director
nominee Gina Haspel “doesn’t matter” because “he’s
dying anyway” from brain cancer. Although Sadler called
McCain’s family to apologize personally, she issued no
public apology.
“What is going on at the White House?
Because it looks like the president can’t
even trust his own staff,” “Fox & Friends”
co-host Steve Doocy asked Sanders.
Sanders replied,
“Look, I can tell you there are a couple of
bad actors. I think it is disgusting and some
of the most shameful behavior that you
could ever engage in. It’s an honor and
privilege to work for the president and to be
part of his administration.
“And anybody who betrays that, I think is a
total and complete coward and they should
be fired. We fired people over leaking
before. I have personally fired people over
leaking before. And we certainly would be
very willing to do so again.”
Trump blasted leakers in a tweet Monday, saying,
"The so-called leaks coming out of the
White House are a massive over-
exaggeration put out by the Fake News
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Doocy asked Sanders why the leakers
"do it" and wondered if they leaked
because they are "just trying to stab other
staff members in the back" or are "trying to
advance their political agenda."
"What the heck is going on?" Doocy asked.
Sanders suggested that
"there are probably a number of reasons"
why White House officials leak
embarrassing information to the press.
"I think sometimes some of these leaks are
made up and the reporters search for
validation for them," she said. "But look,
there's definitely something that has to be
addressed. We're focused intensely on
addressing it, and we take it extremely
seriously."
But Sanders emphasized that any leaking constitutes
"disgusting behavior" and is "one of the
most disloyal things that you could do as
an entrusted member of the president's
team."
Sanders also lamented that the flow of leaks from the
White House often undermines and downplays the
"amazing and big things" that are
happening every day under Trump. The
leaks also distract the administration from
what it "should be focused on" achieving,
she warned.
"That's certainly what our team should be
focused on and what we'd like the news,
frankly, to be covering," Sanders said.
"There are all these big things happening.
That's what they should be covering as
well. It's a complete disservice to the
American people that they spend so much
.
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time on a comment made in a private
meeting, versus the comments that are
made on a public stage that are literally
changing the course of human history, that
this president is engaged in."
When asked if Sadler will issue a public apology for her
comments about McCain, Sanders noted that the White
House is
"dealing with this matter internally."
"I don't think we should continue to validate
leaks that come out by making that the
focus of what we're doing," she added.
 Joe Digenova: John Brennan, Will Be In Front Of The
Grand Jury Soon — He Needs A Good Lawyer! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 17, 2018, 8:57 Pm
Tucker Carlson had legal expert and
appointed Independent Counsel in the
Clinton era, Joe Digenova, on his show
tonight on FOX News. He singled out
former CIA Head, the corrupt John
Brennan, noting that he will be in front
of the Grand Jury soon.
The former Independent Counsel was outstanding in his
synopsis of the current status of Obamagate –
DiGenova said:
We know that Hillary Clinton was illegally
exonerated. We knew that a year ago. We
know that there was a substantial effort to
frame the current President of the United
States with crimes by infiltrating his
campaign and then his administration with
spies that the FBI had set upon them.
.
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We have learned that the crimes were
committed by the FBI, senior members of
the Department of Justice, John Brennan,
Mr. Clapper, Mr. Comey and others
associated with the Democratic Party and
Donald Trump and his associates
committed no crimes….
Mr. Brennan who loves to make
comments about the process get
himself a good lawyer, not a good
writer…
Yes, NBC News’ consultant, the former Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, the most partisan hack leader
of the CIA needs a very, very good lawyer…
He’s going to be in front of a grand jury
shortly.“
On Wednesday, DiGenova shared on
Newsmax that he thought Attorney
General Jeff Sessions’ and Assistant
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s
days were numbered.
Attorney Joe diGenova predicted that both Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General
Jeff Sessions’ days are numbered at the Department of
Justice during a telephone interview with Newsmax’s
Howie Carr Wednesday. DiGenova’s claim came after the
New York Times published a report titled “Code Name
Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump
Investigation”. The report has been interpreted by many
as an attempt by sources within the “Deep State” to
cushion the blow of the imminent DOJ inspector general
report, which is expected to be explosive.
Brennan is only one of the many Obama
Administration leaders to be involved in
the Obamagate scandal to spy on their
opposition candidate, President Donald
Trump.
Lock these criminals up!
 WINNING! Trump To Cut
Funding To Planned Parenthood
By Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018, 9:12 Pm

President Trump’s administration will
announce its plans to cut funding to
Planned Parenthood on Friday.
between Title X programs and any program
(or facility) where abortion is performed,
supported, or referred for as a method of
family planning,” a Trump administration
official tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in
an email.

In December, the Justice Department launched a full

investigation into Planned Parenthood over their alleged
practices of selling fetal tissue.

Conservatives and pro-life advocates have fiercely fought

to cut off Planned Parenthood’s $500 million in annual
government subsidies.

The Weekly Standard reported: Hillary Clinton thanked Planned

On Friday, the Trump administration will
announce a proposed rule to cut taxpayer
funding to abortionists like Planned
Parenthood under Title X, a program that
provides $260 million annually in federal
funding for contraception and other “family
planning” initiatives.
“The proposal would require a bright line of
physical as well as financial separation
.
Parenthood president Cecile Richards,
60, after she confirmed in January she
was resigning from her post after 12
years of overseeing the murder of
millions of unborn babies.
Good riddance to Cecile Richards and
Planned Parenthood.

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 Wapo, 11 Other US Media,
Internet Companies Hired Russian IT Firm
Richard Pollock - Reporter
9:13 PM 05/17/2018
A dozen major American media and Internet outlets hired
a Russian company called EastBanc Technologies to help
with IT and web services, according to a Daily Caller
News Foundation investigation. The companies include
The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Slate, Facebook,
AOL, Comcast and U.S. News & World Report.
Former U.S. intelligence officers slammed the media
companies for hypocrisy in retaining a Russian firm while
criticizing others who have even tangential ties to
Russians. They also considered their decision to trust their
web back-end to a foreign-based company naive.
“This clearly is a hypocrisy issue,” retired
Col. James Waurishuk, a former deputy
director for intelligence at the U.S. Central
Command and a senior national security
analyst with the National Security Counsel
under President George H.W. Bush, told
TheDCNF. “All of the media companies
have reported Trump and the Russian
collusion story that all things Russians are
bad. So why are they doing business with a
Russian company?”
EastBanc is based and incorporated in Washington, D.C.
On the surface, it appears to be a successful stand-alone
American IT company. The company provides many
traditional tech services including data analytics, cloud
services and business intelligence, according to the
company’s U.S. website.
But a counterpart company, also called EastBanc, is based
in Novosibirsk, Russia, a city in Siberia.
“The company’s office is located in the
Academgorodok of Novosibirsk,” the
company’s Russian-language
website said. “There are more than 100
specialists in the staff.”
The relationship between the two firms could be found in a
2014 powerpoint presentation produced by EastBanc. It
posted the Russian and U.S. officers side-by-side along
with their American and Russian clients.
Since the 2016 presidential election, America media
companies have slammed the Trump administration for its
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ties to Russian individuals, operations, enterprises and
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Politico Magazine’s April/May 2018 issue, for example,
produced a graphic depicting the alleged web of ties
between Trump and Russia, asking “What Is The Real
Story Of Donald Trump And Russia?” The news
magazine said,
“there’s no doubt that a spider web of
connections—some public, some private,
some clear, some murky—exists between
Trump, his associates and Russian
President Vladimir Putin.”
American media and Internet companies constitute
EastBanc’s single largest client sector, comprising 12 out
of 54 listed customers. About a quarter of its clients listed
on its American website are media and Internet companies.
J. Michael Waller, who is on the editorial board of
NATO’s Defense Strategy Communications Journal,
which examines Russia’s use of media and the Internet,
told TheDCNF the ability to enter the back end of media
companies could provide a treasure trove of sensitive and
even classified information to the Russians.
“Let’s say you’re Newsweek. And you have
a reporter who’s been there for a long time,
who has built his career with sources within
the CIA,” he told TheDCNF. “Wouldn’t you,
if you were Russian intelligence, want to
know who his sources are within the CIA?”
Former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff
Paul Rosen warned at a September 2017 C-Tech
forum that media and broadcast companies are high targets
for foreign-based cyberattacks.
“Broadcast and media companies, like so
many others, are seeing two things – an
increased frequency of cyber-attacks, and
an enhanced sophistication and complexity
to such attacks,” he told the conference.
Other former intelligence officials expressed surprise
media companies were naive to hire a Russian firm to
conduct sensitive, backend IT services for their web sites.
 “From a counterintelligence standpoint,
they are showing either a level of ignorance
or a lack of concern,” D.W. Wilbur, who for
30 years served in the CIA and the
Department of Defense, told
TheDCNF. “The reality is that anybody in
the intelligence world knows that if you’re
dealing with anything Russian, the hand of
Vladimir Putin is involved. There’s no doubt
about it.”
“It’s another example that they are not only
ill-informed about the potential threats our
adversaries pose,” he continued. “They
seem unconcerned about it, showing a
considerable amount of naivete.”
Nick Banks, who served four tours of duty as a CIA station
chief during the Cold War, said t0 TheDCNF:
“With so many U.S.-owned IT companies to
choose from, why would these American
media companies knowingly use one that is
connected directly to Russia? It doesn’t
make much sense. But if the media
companies are aware of EastBanc’s
Russian connection, they certainly have no
business attacking others.”
U.S. News was the only media company to respond to
TheDCNF’s inquiries about relationships with the Russian
company. The media outlet knowingly relied on Russian-
based technicians.
“U.S. News used EastBanc for website
development, back in 2011 through 2014,”
Chief Operating Officer Karen
Chevalier told TheDCNF in an email. “We
used a combination of onsite and offshore
consultants who were based in Russia.”
EastBanc Technology refused repeated requests from
TheDCNF to tour their offices, which appears as a bunker-
like office sandwiched between a U.S. Post Office and a
Brooks Brothers clothing store in tony Georgetown. It also
did not respond to requests to interview a company
representative about its work.
The Washington Post appears to have used EastBanc for at
least five services the news outlet offers, according to the
company’s website. WaPo hired EastBanc to develop apps
for its sightseeing and Going-Out guides, to create its
social job site and to integrate videos for streaming
through Chromecast.
EastBanc’s also helped WaPo develop apps for iPad and
Android tablets.
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WaPo’s relationship to EastBanc also appears intertwined
in other ways. Catherine Paganini is EastBanc
Technologies’ marketing director. She previously worked
at WaPo where she served as its International Marketing
Specialist, according to her LinkedIn page. Maxim
Ingnatyev, who is EastBanc’s senior software engineer,
was the “lead Android developer” at WaPo, according to
LinkedIn.
WaPo did not respond to several DCNF requests for
comments about its contractural relationship with
EastBanc.
WaPo’s editorial board has warned about Russian cyber
warfare of computer networks. One of its latest warnings
was posted in April after the Department of Homeland
Security issued an alert in April 2018.
“The latest alert from the United States and
Britain about Russian intrusion into
computer networks contains alarming
conclusions,” WaPo’s editorial board wrote.
“Earlier warnings were issued about
Russian meddling in social media, election
systems, and energy, water and aviation
controls. The new alert calls attention to
Russian efforts to compromise network
devices, such as routers, the heartbeat of
the Internet.”
Former intelligence officials told TheDCNF Moscow
approves all Russian companies interested in operating a
corporation in the U.S. Russian officials customarily
pressures and coerces all firms to cooperate with Russian
intelligence services.
“There is no doubt that all Russian
intelligence services are using Russian
companies to help them in their covert
collection efforts against the U.S,” Banks
told TheDCNF.
“Most Russian companies cooperated
voluntarily with the FSB [the Russian
equivalent to the FBI] as it’s in the national
interest, or through simple persuasion and
coercion if they wanted their businesses to
remain operational. They had no choice,”
he said.
“I almost have to suspect this company in
Russia is not in business unless they’ve got
authority and certification from the Kremlin
to operate,” said Waurishuk, who has
conducted many intelligence operations
overseas. “That’s pretty much how
[President Vladimir] Putin’s Russia
operates. Everybody has to kiss his ring to
start a business.”
David Satter, who served as the Financial Times’ Moscow
correspondent and as The Wall Street Journal’s Soviet
affairs correspondent told TheDCNF he routinely found his
fellow American journalists to be largely naive about
Russian intentions.
“This naivete about Russia was very typical
for a long time,” he told
TheDCNF. “Reporters didn’t recognize that
the ill-intentioned nature of their Russian
sources. This is just lack of intellectual
depth, lack of seriousness, lack of
readiness to see the reality about the
Russians.”
EastBanc did not have to be a continuous client to
continue to surveil the activities of the U.S. media
companies. Instead, they could quietly insert code into
their systems to monitor their internal operations.
An American businessman who has worked for 30 years in
Russia told TheDCNF the Russian FSB most likely would
silently monitor the companies with special code.
“They would create a quiet, silent back
door that they would have access to,” the
businessman, who requested anonymity to
avoid retaliation from Russian authorities,
told TheDCNF. “That back door would be
given to the FSB as a ‘right’ in order able to
continue their business. They would have
unfettered access.”
Wilbur agreed.
“That capability exists and they certainly
could silently monitor them.”
In reality, Russian intelligence agencies can spy on
companies even if they have a short-term project.
Waurishuk noted the Russians could privately watch the
information flow even if they no longer have an ongoing
relationship with the media company.
“They could get a short-term contract.
Embed it and walk away. But it’s still
connected and still providing information,”
the retired military intelligence official told
TheDCNF.
While EastBanc’s American website is sanitized of
Russian connections, its Russian site tells a different story.
Here, the company publicizes some of its U.S. clients,
including WaPo.
EastBank in Novosibirsk has also signed contracts with
some of Russia’s largest industries.
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“We create corporate solutions for leading
companies in Russia,” the company boasts
on its Russian website.
Their clients include S-7, the country’s second largest
airline; SPO Ingosstrakh, one of the country’s top three
insurance companies; and Katren, which Eastbanc says is
“a leader of the Russian pharmaceutical
market in terms of gross sales,” according
to its Russian website.
Another one of its clients is Surgutneftegaz, “one of the
largest enterprises of the Russian oil industry,” according
to EastBanc Russia’s website. EastBanc also partnered
with RN-Inform, the IT provider for Rosneft — the
country’s oil giant, to develop a project management
system.
In 2014, the Obama administration, Canada and the
European Union imposed sanctions on Igor Sechin,
president and chairman of Rosneft’s Management Board,
and Sergei Chemezov, deputy chairman of the company’s
Board of Directors. The sanctions were issued over
Russia’s continued meddling in the Ukraine.
“While Rosneft and Rostec themselves
were not named for sanctions, U.S.
businesses considering transactions with
these companies need to tread carefully,”
the Department of the Treasury stated in its
announcement.
In July 2015, the Treasury Department added Roseneft and
its subsidiaries to its sectoral sanctions list.
The vast majority of EastBanc’s leadership in Washington
appear to be Russian nationals from the Novosibirsk
region, according to its U.S. website and the officials’
LinkedIn pages.
Slava Koltovich, CEO of the American operation,
graduated from the Siberian Federal University. Prior to
joining EastBanc, Kotovich worked for Astrosoft, a
Russian software development company based in St.
Petersburg, Russia.
EastBanc Chief Software Architect Oleg Chunikhin
received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
mathematics at Novosibirsk State University.
Both Director of Solutions Peter Shaskin and Director of
Engineering Victor Shilo also graduated from Novosibirsk
State, the former receiving a master’s degree in math
modeling in rocket science and the latter getting a
bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied informatics.
EastBanc filed green card applications for 13 of its active development projects involving 4 million square
workers, according to its latest report to the U.S. feet of mixed-use buildings in the U.S. and overseas,
Department of Labor. Twelve of the employees were largely in Portugal, according to the real estate website.
Russian citizens and one was from neighboring, pro-
Moscow Belarus. The 12 American news and broadcast organizations that
Eastbanc Technology lists as “our customers” are:
The company also listed the university ties to the green
card applicants. Among the Russian applicants, they  Comcast,
attended or graduated from Novosibirsk State Technical
University; Moscow State Institute Of Steel And Alloys;  The Washington Post,
Novosibirsk State University; Udmurt State University;  Facebook,
Novosibirsk National State Research University; Moscow
 Time Inc.,
Power Engineering Institute; and Bauman Moscow State
Technical University.  AOL,
 Newsweek,
While EastBanc has concentrated its work for private
sector clients, the Russian company has also set its sights  U.S. News & World Report,
on working for the U.S. government, telling prospective  RCN,
customers, “We are GSA approved and work across the
 Slate,
commercial, enterprise, state, local, and federal
government sectors.”  Microsoft,
 Intelsat and
EastBanc’s real estate business, however, is led by
 Vidyo.
Brazilian-born real estate developer Anthony Lanier.
Lanier redeveloped large parts of Georgetown and has
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 Federal Judge Who Ripped Mueller Team Obtains 'Scope
Memo' Detailing Russia Probe
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
May 17, 2108
The federal judge who recently ripped into Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has obtained a copy of the
so-called “scope memo” that lays out the parameters of the
Russia probe.
A court document filed Thursday in the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia shows
that prosecutors have turned over the memo, under seal, to
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III.
During a court hearing earlier this month, Ellis demanded
to see an unredacted copy of Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein’s Aug. 2, 2017 “scope memo” to Mueller
outlining the scope of the special counsel’s Russia probe
that congressional Republicans also have sought.
“The scope letter is what Rosenstein said is
the actual area that Mr. Mueller can
investigate,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a
member of the House Judiciary Committee,
said Thursday on Fox News. “He hasn't
given it to Congress. I think we're co-equal
branches of government. We'd like to see it
without redactions.”
Ellis made news during the May 4 hearing for harshly
rebuking Mueller’s team, suggesting they are seeking
“unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing
down the president than prosecuting former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,”
Ellis told Mueller’s team. “You really care
about what information Mr. Manafort can
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give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an
impeachment, or whatever."
The special counsel argues that Rosenstein granted them
broad authority in his May 2017 letter appointing Mueller
to this investigation.
But after a revelation that Mueller’s team is using
information from an earlier DOJ probe in its case against
Manafort, Ellis said that information did not “arise” out of
the special counsel probe – and therefore may not be
within the scope of that investigation.
“We don’t want anyone with unfettered
power,” he said.
Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in
documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and
that some powers are actually secret because they involve
ongoing investigations and national security matters that
cannot be publicly disclosed.
Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded during the hearing,
referencing the common exclamation from NFL
announcers and saying:
"C'mon man!"
Mueller's team, investigating Russian interference in the
2016 election, has charged Manafort on tax evasion and
bank fraud charges related to activities before the election.
Thursday is Mueller's one year anniversary of being
appointed special counsel.
 Tucker Exposes Guest Who Holds
Murderers To Different Standards Based On Race
Mike Brest
9:44 PM 05/17/2018

“Of course not.”

The Daily Caller co-founder then pointed out that Acevedo

only had a problem with the president labeling immigrant
criminals as “animals,” but not a white sadist.

The Univision host later said,

“I think it would be a major mistake to

defend any criminal.”
A Univision News anchor ran smack up against a wall on
Fox News Thursday night when he attempted to draw a
Then Carlson’s responded,
difference between infamous murderer Charles Manson
and the murderous gang MS-13.
“But you do. Thank you, great to see you
tonight. Even when he admitted that
Appearing on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Enrique
President Trump was talking about MS-13,
Acevedo tried to shame President Donald Trump for using
he couldn’t stop himself from defending
the term “animals” to describe MS-13.
MS-13.”
Carlson was having none of it.
The Fox News host closed the segment out by asking
Acevedo if he could
When Carlson asked Acevedo if he would be offended by
labeling the murderous cult leader Charles Manson an
“please convince the Democrats to run in
animal, Acevedo responded,
defense of MS-13.”

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 Sunny Hostin: Mueller's 'Caught A Lot
Of Witches And Warlocks' In Russia Probe
By Tim Graham
May 17, 2018 10:50 PM EDT
On Thursday's The View, the liberal majority fulminated
against Rudy Giuliani suggesting on Fox's The Ingraham
Angle that the Mueller probe has accomplished nothing
and should wrap it up. Sunny Hostin lamented
"He says this is a witch hunt, and it's
caught a lot of witches and warlocks!
There’s been 75 charges already, 22
people have been indicted so, the
suggestion somehow that the Mueller
investigation isn't finding anything is
nonsense."
So Mueller doesn't actually have to convict anyone of
anything?
We learned that Mueller prep sessions before show time on
The View are conducted by Hostin, who clearly has picked
sides and decided Team Trump is guilty of treason:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So what's
interesting about all of that is when -- when
it was thought that maybe Hillary's group
had gone and looked for dirt on him [as if
she didn't?], it was just -- it was a terrible
thing, a horrible thing, and now it's okay.
Now that it's him, it's okay because it's just
what you do. But what do you think? It's
kind of interesting.
SUNNY HOSTIN: He [Giuliani] is just lying.
I mean, you can't collude and get
information from the Russians and the
Germans. I mean, that's treason. I just -- he
just keeps on lying and lying and as an
attorney, I'm listening to the lies and I'm,
like, what are you talking about?
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He is saying, this is a witch hunt, and
it's caught a lot of witches and
warlocks. There’s been 75 charges
already, 22 people have been indicted
so, the suggestion somehow that the
Mueller investigation isn't finding
anything is nonsense, and I'm so tired,
Whoopi, of people saying, collusion,
collusion, collusion. Collusion is not a
crime, everyone. There's no enumerated
crime for collusion, but the crimes are
obstruction of justice and treason, and
conspiracy, they're all out there. I have got
to tell you when you have 75 criminal
charges filed already, you can't say that
this is a big nothingburger. It's just not right.
[Applause]
SARA HAINES: We talked about
opposition research and Hillary, and I
actually think across the board we should
make it illegal to ever have anyone outside
of this country giving opposition research.
On both sides. I just think that it's an
involvement on some level in our
democracy, whether it’s justified in
someone’s mind or not, I think it should be
illegal.
JOY BEHAR: If they took the money out of
politics, it would help a lot. You can't even
run a campaign without all sorts of money,
and where there is money, there is dirt very
often. That's not a good idea either.
HAINES: You mean, like, lobbying?
BEHAR: All that. I don't like that.
MEGHAN McCAIN: They tried that. People
like money in politics.
BEHAR: That would solve so many
problems.
McCAIN: Listen, my whole freaking
childhood was spent hearing about
campaign finance reform!
It's like this panel never heard of Fusion GPS and how the
Clinton campaign paid them to hire a British spy to dig up
dirt from the Russians. ABC News hasn't used the words
"Fusion GPS" since January 9 of this year.
A few moments later, Goldberg read a Thursday morning
tweet from Trump about the FBI having an informant
inside the Trump campaign. But they couldn't possibly
imagine that was anything more than a crazy conspiracy
theory. See Mollie Hemingway's latest on the New York
Times trying to handle this story.

Mollie could bring some education to The View!

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 FBI’s Trump Snitch
‘Absolutely Shocking,’ A ‘Huge Scandal’
'You’d Better Have Dynamite,' Said Solomon Wisenberg, To Infiltrate President's
Campaign Team With A Spy Secretly Reporting The Inner Workings
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 18 May 2018 At 6:53 AM

“But certainly they weren’t close to being

It would be “absolutely shocking” and a “huge scandal” if,
as The New York Times reported, the FBI had a spy
watching the inner workings of President Donald Trump’s
2016 campaign, former deputy special counsel Solomon
Wisenberg said Thursday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham
Angle.”
The Times said deep in the story, published Thursday, that
“at least one government informant met several times with
Mr. [Carter] Page and [George] Papadopoulos,” two
former Trump campaign advisers.
If The Times report is accurate, among much else, it
vindicates Trump’s claim — not long after being sworn in
— that former President Barack Obama’s administration
spied on his campaign against the Democratic nominee,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
anywhere near able to say, ‘We have some
evidence of espionage by people in the
Trump campaign,'” Wisenberg said. “And
they never could have opened a criminal
investigation based on that. So instead
they used the excuse of
counterintelligence.”
Wisenberg speculated that The Times may have buried the
bombshell deep within its story
"because they knew it was going to come
out, and they're trying to be able to say,
'That's old news and that's not really a big
deal.'"
Trump ignited a firestorm in March 2017 when he tweeted,
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had
my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just
before the victory. Nothing found. This is
McCarthyism!"

“It’s absolutely shocking and very improper,

in my view, that the FBI apparently
penetrated and had an undercover person
on the Trump campaign, and if they used
the lesser standards of a
counterintelligence investigation,”
Wisenberg, former deputy special counsel
for Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater-Lewinsky
investigation of former President Bill The tweet earned Trump widespread backlash from
Clinton, told Fox News host Laura liberals and conservatives alike.
Ingraham.
"Remember when Trump was ridiculed by
Although Wisenberg (pictured above, left) said that the everyone when he said, 'I was wiretapped?'
FBI didn’t “need a criminal predicate” to open a He speaks in shorthand on Twitter,"
counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign, Ingraham said. "He meant 'surveilled.' He
he claimed the bureau should only have opened such an was right."
“investigation of whether there was Russian espionage” if
credible evidence had surfaced. Veteran political operative Roger Stone, a longtime Trump
ally, ripped the FBI for planting a spy inside the president's

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campaign organization, and also for using the infamous
Trump-Russia dossier, funded by the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) and Clinton's campaign, to obtain and
then renew surveillance warrants against Page. The FBI
failed to disclose to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) court judge the origins of the dossier, which
was authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
"Not only did they use a phony, fabricated
dossier as the underlying legal rationale for
the spying on the Republican candidate for
president using the power, the authority
and the capability of the state to spy on one
of the two major party candidates — an
abuse of power — but now they infiltrated
the Trump campaign with an FBI agent,"
Stone said.
"This makes Watergate look like small
potatoes," Stone (pictured above, second
from right) insisted.
Wisenberg said that "it's shocking enough" that the FBI
would even think of planting an informant inside Trump's
campaign "based on the kind of flimsy evidence that they
had" at the time.
"The FISA application is disturbing enough
because we know they didn't reveal
something very important to the FISA
court," Wisenberg said. "But to have a plant
in the political campaign of your opponent?
.
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If you do something like that, you'd better
have dynamite. And it looks like they didn't
have dynamite."
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at
The Federalist, said it's no longer a question
"that this might indicate that they were
spying. They're saying they spied and
they're saying they did it in a pretty broad
fashion as well."
Hemingway (pictured above, second from left) noted that
"there's an additional problem with this,
which is Congress is currently trying to find
out information about these types of things,
and the FBI is telling them that they can't
turn over that information."
The FBI and the Department of Justice have failed to
comply with congressional investigators' requests and
subpoenas for documents regarding the start of the Trump-
Russia investigation.
"Regardless of what you think about
Donald Trump, this is such a horrible
precedent to be spying on political
opponents and to be doing it with — and to
be avoiding accountability," Hemingway
said.
 LATE NIGHT COMEDY: CNN’s Jim Acosta Claims He
Was As Tough On Obama As He Is On Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 7:33 Am

with the White House — saying he loves

CNN’s Jim Acosta told Jimmy Kimmel that he was just as
tough on Obama as he is on Trump. Does he really think
people believe this? There is absolutely no comparison
between the way he and his media colleagues treated the
two presidents. They treated Obama like a hero.
seeing Acosta “bust their balls” at the White
House.
“Are you the only reporter who has ever
been kicked out of a press situation by the
President of the United States?” Kimmel
asked.
“I think so,” Acosta answered. “I wear it as
a badge of honor.”
Acosta thinks he’s “probably” the White
House’s least favorite reporter, but quoted
FDR in saying he “welcomes their hatred.”
“Listen, when I covered Barack Obama, I
was just as tough on him,” Acosta told
Kimmel. “People might not want to believe
that.”
Watch the video below. He makes the
comment at the 1:37 mark:

Mediaite reports:

CNN’s Jim Acosta: ‘I Was Just as

Tough’ on President Obama As I Am
With Trump
CNN Chief White House Correspondent
Jim Acosta appeared on Jimmy Kimmel
Live and dished on his experience in
covering the Trump administration.
Jimmy Kimmel began the interview by
praising the CNN reporter — airing a
Are all people in media this deluded?
montage of his most contentious moments
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 ANOTHER MUELLER GAFFE: Lawyers Defending
Russian Firm Tell Court Named Employees DON’T
WORK FOR THEM – Mueller MADE IT UP
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 8:35 Am

attorney Jeannie Rhee stated that there is “1.5 to 2

terabytes of data, covering hundreds of facilities that
compromise the defendant’s operational accounts”
provided to the courts.

What a Sideshow — The Mueller Case Is

Falling Apart

Lawyers defending the Russian

company Concord Management indicted
by the corrupt Mueller team again called
out Mueller’s liberal hacks and labeled
their allegations as “made up”
nonsense.

As reported on Wednesday, Concord Management’s

lawyers revealed that Mueller’s team of ignored over 70
discovery requests they had made for information before
the case. In response Mueller’s team offered to give
Concord Management’s lawyers a massive amount of
social media data from those dangerous trolls (jk) who
sought to influence the US election and the majority of it
was in RUSSIAN.

Mueller’s lawyers then admitted that they don’t even have

English translations for the Russian social media posts.

So Mueller’s lawyers don’t have

English translations to the
Russian social media posts but
we’re supposed to believe we
were influenced by these
It turns out that the ‘facilities’ that
Clinton supporting Rhee was referring
posts?
to were actually just social media
accounts.
Now we have more information on the hearing. At one
point, the Mueller attorney, former Clinton Foundation
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 for us. It’s not alleged they they work for
us.

Then among other things previously reported, Attorney
Rhee went on to align the 10 Russians identified by the
Mueller team as members of an ‘organization’.
The Russian company’s attorney responded to the judge
who apparently understood that these Russians were all
members of Concord Management.
This is more proof Mueller rolled out
this indictment of Russians as a PR
stunt to justify his witch hunt; his team
is not prepared to try this case and it’s
hilarious to watch as they struggle and
look like the corrupt amateurs that they
are.

He said – Concord Management’s lawyer’s previously said Mueller

indicted “the proverbial ham sandwich.”
No that’s not correct. The individual defendants? No. It’s
not even alleged who they are. The reason the Concord Management
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial
They’re alleged to be ham sandwich’ was because one
associated with something of the entities indicted by the
called an “organization,” which Mueller team, Concord
is a made up thing by the Catering, was not in existence
special counsel. They just at the time the crimes were
made it up, and they called it alleged to have taken place.
an “organization”. Were not
even alleged to be part of the Mueller and his corrupt team are
organization. We’re alleged to have pathetic, a disgrace and a historical
funded it. But those people don’t work stain on this country.
.
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 Clapper: It’s ‘A Good Thing’
FBI Was Spying On Trump Campaign
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
8:43 AM 05/18/2018

He explained away the possibility of an FBI informant

spying on the campaign as the bureau was trying to find
out

“what the Russians were doing to try to

substantiate themselves in the campaign or
influence or leverage it.”

Obama’s Director of National Intelligence then went on to

say,
Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper appears before
the House Intelligence Committee on "Worldwide Threats" in
Washington February 4, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron “So, if there was someone that was
observing that sort of thing, that’s a good
Former Director of Intelligence James Clapper said thing.”
Thursday night on CNN that it was “a good thing” there
was an FBI informant spying on the Trump campaign. He also stated he believes

WATCH: “it’s hugely dangerous if someone like that

is exposed because the danger to that
person” and the potential “reluctance of
others to be informants for the FBI” could
possibly devastate the FBI.

The president tweeted Thursday:

Clapper admitted the FBI

“may have had someone who was talking

to them in the campaign,” referring to
President Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign.
.

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 Oops! CNN’s Ana Navarro Says Trump Is Hitler Because
He Called MS13 “Animals” – Then Somebody
Found This Old Navarro Tweet…
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 8:57 Am

This is what CNN gets for putting this

lying hack on the air.
On Thursday CNN contributor Ana
Navarro blasted President Trump for
calling “immigrants” animals during a
White House meeting with California Navarro even doubled down on Twitter
lawmakers and sheriffs. with her Trump-Hitler comparison.

Navarro compared Trump to Hitler for his comments.

Of course, President Trump never said this and even

CNN reporter Jake Tapper admitted this on Thursday.

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But then someone found this old Via Jack Posobiec:
Navarro tweet — calling President
Trump an animal.

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 MORE Fake News: White House
Pushing Back Against False Wapo Report Claiming
Trump Supports DOJ Obstruction Of Congress
By JD Heyes
05/18/2018
The American Pravda media is being played so regularly
by the Deep State that one can only reasonably assume the
purveyors of fake news are willing dupes.
The most recent erroneous report comes from the
Washington Post — which is getting to be a regular
trafficker in fake news — claiming that the Trump
administration was all in with the Justice Department’s
ongoing stonewalling of key congressional investigations.
The Post noted:
Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national
intelligence officials relayed an urgent
message to the White House: Information
being sought by House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes could
endanger a top-secret intelligence source.
Top White House officials, with the assent
of President Trump, agreed to back the
decision to withhold the information. They
were persuaded that turning over Justice
Department documents could risk lives by
potentially exposing the source, a U.S.
citizen who has provided intelligence to the
CIA and FBI, according to multiple people
familiar with the discussion and the
person’s role.
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The showdown marked a rare moment of
alignment between the Justice Department
and Trump…
Really? No. Not really.
As Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist notes, that’s
about as untrue as it gets. (Related: Another day, another
mainstream media fake news report: NBC, ABC, forced to
walk back report over Cohen ‘phone tap’.)
In reality, the Trump White house
“does not support ongoing Department of
Justice (DOJ) efforts to obstruct a
congressional inquiry into the agency’s
activities before and after the 2016
election” she wrote, based on interviews
with “multiple White House and
congressional officials.”
The Post story came on the heels of the issuance of a
subpoena by the House Intelligence Committee to the
Justice Department for information related to someone the
FBI and/or DoJ was using as a source of information
within Trump’s 2016 campaign.
A spy, in other words.
The Post and the rest of the Pravda media were attempting
to portray Nunes the same way they always attempt to
portray him — bumbling, partisan, and a risk to national
security, when he is none of the above.
Nunes and other members of Congress have been
wrestling with the FBI and Justice Department for months
in their attempts to get to the bottom of a series of scandals
involving Obama-era corruption and nearly all of it
relating to improper actions taken by both agencies against
Team Trump.
Back in the day when Congress sought answers from
various federal bureaucracies to its questions, it was called
“oversight” — a constitutional function of the Legislative
Branch. But in the age of Obama, it became “interference”
and was increasingly met with resistance rather than
cooperation.
That attitude has carried over into the Trump
administration, along with no small number of Obama
holdovers. And frankly, lawmakers like Nunes are sick and
tired of the stonewalling.
As is Trump — which is what made the Post story just
plain dumb from the outset.
Resistance is a cover for corruption
In response to Nunes’ subpoena, the Justice Department
ramped up its public relations division; Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein even went so far as to call Nunes’ effort to get
answers “extortion” (that alone should have gotten
Rosenstein fired).
The Post picked up the mantle and ran with it, claiming —
as noted above — that yeah, Trump was with his DoJ on
this one and had been convinced to push back against
those evil Republican lawmakers.
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But it wasn’t true. Hemingway noted that “multiple” White
House and congressional officials categorically denied that
the administration was backing the DoJ’s stonewalling.
“No one at the White House has told the
Department of Justice or any other agency
to refuse to comply with a Congressional
subpoena,” a senior White House official
told The Federalist.
In fact, the source noted further, the White House expects
that all the parties concerned will find a way to comply
with the subpoena. Added a senior Republican source:
“The White House has consistently told
congressional leaders that it expects
agencies to comply with Congressional
oversight requests.”
That makes perfect sense, given that Nunes and other GOP
committee chairmen are trying to get to the bottom of a
massive scandal that was aimed at the president.
WaPo should issue a massive correction — but of course,
it won’t.
 With Leaks, DOJ Provides Clues
About Secret Trump Campaign Informant
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:30 AM 05/18/2018
The Department of Justice and FBI are fighting tooth-and-
nail to avoid giving Congress documents related to a top
secret informant who provided information about Trump
campaign advisers for the Russia probe.
But the agencies’ resistance is hypocritical given that they
appear to be behind leaks of key clues about the source,
whose existence was revealed to the public in a May 8
report from The Washington Post.
So far, three articles published over the past 10 days have
revealed tidbits of information about the source. And
though the name of the informant remains a secret, the
clues have touched off intense speculation that the person
is a professor who had several contacts with Trump
campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
The FBI and DOJ’s concerns are relayed through a
Washington Post article published Thursday. The report
details a battle between the DOJ and House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
for records related to the top secret source.
The article portrayed Nunes, Trump and other Republicans
as being too aggressive with the request and of aiming to
“expose” the identity of the source. The premise of that
concern is that Republicans plan to release the name of the
source, though some GOP lawmakers have pushed back on
that assumption.
According to WaPo’s FBI-friendly report, the bureau has
been working for the past two weeks “to mitigate the
potential damage if the source’s identity is revealed.”
“The bureau is taking steps to protect other
live investigations that the person has
worked on, and trying to lessen any danger
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to associates if the informant’s identity
becomes known,” WaPo reported.
But in the very same article decrying potential leaks of
information about the source, The Post reports new details
about the person.
“The source is a U.S. citizen who has
provided information over the years to both
the FBI and the CIA, as The Post
previously reported, and aided the Russia
investigation both before and after
Mueller’s appointment in May 2017,
according to people familiar with his
activities,” the article reads.
And that’s just one of three leaks about the source.
In its May 8 article, WaPo reported on the existence of a
source for the first time. The newspaper also reported that
the source is an American who has provided information to
the CIA and FBI. The source’s information has also been
provided to the special counsel’s Russia investigation,
according to WaPo.
The New York Times reported additional details about the
source on Wednesday.
Tucked deep down in an article about the origins of the
FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump
campaign is this nugget:
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and
other documents using national security
letters — a secret type of subpoena —
officials said. And at least one government
informant met several times with Mr. Page
and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former
officials said.
The steady stream of clues leaked to the Times and WaPo
have touched off intense speculation about the identity of
the source. Some cable TV commentators have pointed to
a March 25 report from TheDCNF about Stefan Halper, a
University of Cambridge professor who was in contact
with both Page and Papadopoulos. Halper, a U.S. citizen,
is a veteran of three Republican presidential
administrations.
Halper enticed Papadopoulos to visit London in September
2016 with an offer to pay for a policy paper about energy
issues. Papadopoulos made the trip and wrote the paper.
He was paid $3,000.
Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s version of his
encounters with Halper have told TheDCNF that Halper
brought up the question of Russian hacking of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails. Papadopoulos
was suspicious of the question, sources say. Papadopoulos,
who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was told about
Clinton emails back in April 2016 by Joseph Mifsud, a
Maltese professor.
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Papadopoulos allegedly discussed Clinton emails two
weeks later during a barroom conversation with Alexander
Downer, the Australian high commissioner to the U.K.
Downer relayed that information to Australian officials
who then passed it the FBI. That information prompted the
bureau to open the investigation of the Trump campaign.
Halper, who has extensive ties to the CIA and MI6, first
met Page in July 2016. They stayed in contact through
September 2017, Page told TheDCNF.
Government sources have declined to confirm or deny
whether Halper is the source, though TheDCNF has been
told that his name has popped up in some capacity in the
Russia matter.
 Non-Stop Leaks Leading To Massive
PURGE Of White House Staff: Report
Posted On May 18, 2018
(National Sentinel) ‘You’re Fired’: In recent days Karl
Rove, chief political advisor to George W. Bush,
commented that he’s never seen the amount of disloyal
leaking that has occurred since President Donald J. Trump
took office.
It’s a disgrace, he said, and it’s very bad for
the president who does not deserve to be
treated that way.
Trump agrees and so do those closest to him.
In fact, the president is so sick and tired of all the leaking
there is a mass purge of White House personnel coming,
according to insider sources.
As The Western Journal reports:
A continuing leak of internal information
from within the White House is leading
toward a major staff shakeup inside the
Trump administration’s communications
department, according to new reports.
Fox News cited multiple sources with
knowledge of private meetings in which
senior staffers have hinted at an upcoming
purge targeting those leaking confidential
information to the media.
The renewed focus on a persistent problem
within this White House comes amid
continuing fallout over insensitive
comments reportedly made during a
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meeting last week. Following reports of
communications aide Kelly Sadler’s crass
characterization of Sen. John McCain’s
battle with brain cancer, many demanded a
public apology that never came.
Instead, reports indicated the
communications department focused its
attention on stemming the tide of leaks.
Multiple sources present for a subsequent
meeting fulfilled White House press
secretary Sarah Sanders’ prediction about
her own comments.
“I am sure this conversation is going to
leak, too,” she was quoted as telling
staffers. “And that’s just disgusting.”
And it did.
“There are all kinds of leaks,” said
presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway
in an interview this week. “Some leaks exist
to hurt, I guess, colleagues; some leaks
exist because they disagree with the
policies that are being put forth. But none
of them are helpful.”
She added that often the leaks themselves are not as
important as the motivation behind White House staffers
doing the leaking.
“Something else that’s gone on in this
White House but not as badly as it was at
the beginning, where it’s not so much
leaking as using the media to shiv each
other, and that was going on quite a bit at
the beginning of this administration and it’s
less so now,” she said.
Conway was asked if she believes the leak of Sadler’s
comments would prompt a staff shake-up at the White
House.
“I do, actually,” Conway said. “Yes, I do.”
 Trump Thinks FBI May Have
Tried To Frame Him With Campaign ‘Spy’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:00 AM 05/18/2018

The president also tweeted furiously Thursday citing

analysis from National Review columnist Andrew
McCarthy.

President Donald Trump quoted analysis from Fox News

personalities contending that the FBI tried to frame his
campaign by gathering intelligence.

“There is probably no doubt that they had

Trump reacted to recent revelations from The New York
Times, which noted that
“at least one government informant met
several times with Mr. Page and Mr.
Papadopoulos,”
at least one confidential informant in the
campaign,” former prosecutor and
columnist Andrew McCarthy said on “Fox &
Friends” Thursday morning. “What
happened here is they did not have a
criminal predicate to open an investigation
on Trump as they had an immense
predicate to conduct on President Clinton.”
“They used powers covertly to investigate
the Trump campaign during the stretch run
of the campaign under circumstances
where they did not have evidence that
anyone had actually committed a crime.”

who were both advisory members of the 2016 campaign.

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 Journalists' Hatred
For Trump Is Destroying Them
By Andrew Klavan
May 18, 2018
American journalists hate Donald Trump so much they
have become exactly what he says they are: the purveyors
of fake news.
Take for example the New York Times, a former
newspaper. The Times used to pride itself on exposing and
denigrating our military, intelligence and law enforcement
services. The Pentagon Papers, Abu Ghraib, enhanced
interrogation, search and seizure: the Times fought hard to
thwart the work of our services when they were fighting
against and spying on our enemies.
But now that it turns out the FBI and CIA leadership may
have been subverting our political process to try to thwart
Donald Trump, the Times has become a sort of megaphone
for the excuses and spin of the Deep State wrong-doers.
On Thursday, with Devin Nunes relentlessly digging out
the facts, and a reputedly damaging inspector general's
report on the way, the Times attempted to help anonymous
Fed sources spin, play down and obscure what is now
obvious to any honest observer: the Obama administration
abused its power for political purposes and nowhere so
badly as in the DOJ's investigation of Donald Trump's
presidential campaign.
On what basis did the investigation begin? Well, back in
January, desperate to puncture the right-wing narrative that
the Russian collusion investigation was jump-started by
the Steele Dossier (Hillary Clinton's unvetted oppo
research), the Times declared that no, it was a drunken
brag by minor Trump aide George Papadopoulos that put
the Feds on Trump's trail. But now that the truth is seeping
out, the Times quietly buries that assertion. In the new
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article's first line, we learn that the investigation was
already underway when Papadopoulos's information came
to the FBI's attention. So was it the Steele Dossier that
started the hunt or not? They don't say.
The Times has also repeatedly accused Trump of lying
when he tweeted that his campaign had been wiretapped.
But now, desperate to defend Obama's fantasy legacy from
his true legacy, the ex-paper tells us that in investigating
the campaign:
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and
other documents using national security
letters — a secret type of subpoena —
officials said. And at least one government
informant met several times with Mr. Page
and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former
officials said.
So Trump was worse than wiretapped (though if you count
the unmasking of Mike Flynn he was that too). His
campaign was spied on.
And then, buried so far in the article it would take a
backhoe to dredge it up, is this little titbit:
A year and a half later, no public evidence
has surfaced connecting Mr. Trump’s
advisers to the hacking or linking Mr.
Trump himself to the Russian government’s
disruptive efforts.
So a Democrat administration set federal spies and secret
subpoenas on a Republican presidential campaign on the
basis of — well, we're not quite sure what — to investigate
what seems to have been a comically inept Russian attempt
to meddle with our elections — and then came up with
nothing.
One hardly has to ask but let's: if this had been George W.
Bush spying on Barack Obama's first campaign, would
the Times be trying to soft-sell it?
And do you doubt that this act of shameful journalistic
obfuscation was inspired by pure Trump hatred? Then how
do you explain the misreporting of Trump's "animal"
remark? At a sit-down with California officials worried
about sanctuary laws, Trump was questioned by Fresno
County Sheriff Margaret Mims. The sheriff complained
that the laws kept her from holding the vicious, brutal,
murderous members of the MS-13 gang for deportation.
"There could be an MS-13 member I know
about — if they don’t reach a certain
threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it," the
sheriff said. And the president,
sympathizing and obviously referring to the
gangsters, answered, "You wouldn’t
believe how bad these people are. These
aren’t people. These are animals."
CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York
Times and even C-SPAN rushed to tweet this comment in
such a way as to make it sound as if Trump were referring
to illegal immigrants in general.
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"Trump lashed out at undocumented
immigrants during a White House meeting,
calling those trying to breach the country’s
borders 'animals.'" Well, yes, except they
left out the descriptor: "But only those
immigrants who beat children to death with
baseball bats and cut their enemies' hearts
out and are animals."
The last time the press destroyed a president they despised
— when they managed to depose Richard Nixon for far
more trivial abuses of power than Obama's — Nixon left
office with this sage advice:
"Others may hate you, but those who hate
you don't win unless you hate them, and
then you destroy yourself."
American journalists should have listened to him. Because,
sure enough, their hatred of Trump is destroying whatever
integrity, honesty and decency they may have once had.
 Secretary Nielsen Scorches Dems
For Defending MS-13 Gang Members [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
9:40 AM 05/18/2018
Screen Shot: Kirstjen Nielsen: Fox & Friends:Youtube
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen scorched members of the Democratic party for
defending MS-13 members after President Donald Trump
called them “animals,” in a Friday interview.
Nielsen said she was “horrified” by Democratic
lawmakers’ comments defending the gang members whose
motto is to “rape, control and kill,” in an interview on
“Fox & Friends.” Nielsen said the lawmakers criticizing
Trump for calling the gang members “animals” owe the
president an apology.
WATCH:
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“The president was very clear. If you listen
to the paper or if you were in the room, it’s
clear he was talking about MS-13. This is a
gang whose motto is rape, control and kill,”
Nielsen said. “The instances of brutality
and violence they commit on communities
is well documented — everything from sex-
trafficked women whose head was bashed
in 28 times to a gentleman who was
stabbed 100 times, decapitated then his
heart was taken out.”
Nielsen also said Trump could have called the MS-13 gang
members something worse because for their horrific
actions.
“If anyone wants to quibble about whether
or not we should call those people animals,
perhaps the quibble should be whether we
call them something worse,” Nielsen
continued. “Personally, I think those
lawmakers owe the president an apology.
They are misstating facts in a very
dangerous way.”
“The president is trying to protect
Americans and he is making it clear he will
not stand for this violence in our
communities, and here you have elected
members of Congress pretending that he is
talking about something entirely
different,” Nielsen said. “It’s dangerous, it’s
inappropriate and frankly, it’s just
unprofessional.”
 Kellyanne Conway Denies
Being Chief White House Leaker
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:11 AM 05/18/2018

“I haven’t heard that. That’s pretty funny. If

I were a great leaker, I guess I would get
much better press.”

Conway defended herself, saying

“Most of what we know, we never talk

about. And I’ve been somebody who has
had a top secret clearance all along and
Screen Shot 2018-05-18 at 10.58.56 AM somebody who is in many meetings where
the content is never divulged and involved
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway denied leaking in many one-on-ones that I wouldn’t
information to the press during a Friday morning interview divulge.”
on Fox News.
The White House has been beset by questions on how to
manage leaks since the leak of an internal communications
staff meeting in which White House aide Kelly Sadler
made a disparaging remark about Arizona Sen. John
McCain.

The remark drew widespread outrage and cable TV

coverage. Sadler called the McCain family to apologize
but has not offered a public apology. She remains
employed at the White House.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer noted to Conway that some

White House colleagues accuse her of being a leaker, to
which she replied,
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 CNN’s Cuomo Fears Trump
Will Throw Him In Jail:
‘I Think About It Sometimes’
By Kyle Drennen
May 18, 2018 11:23 AM EDT
During an interview with President Trump’s attorney Rudy
Giuliani on Friday’s New Day, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo
feared that the administration may throw him and other
journalists in jail for reporting on leaks about the Russia
investigation. Giuliani dismissed the melodramatic fretting
and even jokingly offered to serve as Cuomo’s legal
counsel.
After Giuliani condemned former FBI Director James
Comey for leaking memos about his private meetings with
the President to the press, Cuomo jumped in to praise the
leaks:
“Look, people leak. No, I’m not anti-leak,
because I’m a journalist. I like leaks. I
like to get the information so I can test
power and get transparency....You’ve
got whistle blowers all over the place
that make a difference for the American
people.”
Giuliani pushed back:
“...the leaker is violating the law, the leaker
is violating his oath. You or me getting the
information, no problem. We’re entitled to
get the information and we’re entitled under
the First Amendment to speak about it and
use it.”
Cuomo then worried:
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Giuliani pointed out that the previous administration
already took such action against journalists:
“I mean, the Obama administration did that,
too.” Cuomo admitted: “[Former Attorney
General Eric] Holder went after journalists
a little bit. It was roundly condemned.”
He then pressed Trump’s lawyer:
“So that was wrong, that was wrong. You
didn’t like it, right?...But the President is
suggesting that maybe you do that to us
now. Is that okay?”
Giuliani rejected the idea:
“He doesn’t want to put anybody in jail.
The President hasn’t suggested putting
any of you guys in jail.”
Cuomo proclaimed:
“He has done exactly that, actually....He
says we’re the enemy of the American
people.”
Making light of Cuomo’s overwrought concerns, Giuliani
joked:
“Oh, you guys would broadcast from
inside the jail. We’d have to let you
broadcast from inside....And I’d bring you
Italian pastries.”
Cuomo was not amused:
“Look. it’s not a joke....You know, I think
about it sometimes.”
Giuliani incredulously replied:
“You do? No you don’t.”
Cuomo continued: GIULIANI: What’s hedging? I don’t know what you’re –

“That maybe a day will come to pass CUOMO: That maybe one of the ways we deal with these leaks
where he wants to move on people who is to go after the journalists as well. Do you like that idea?
criticize and test power.”
GIULIANI: Well, the Clinton administration did that – I mean, the
Giuliani jokingly assured him: Obama administration did that, too.

“Now that I left my law firm, I’ll CUOMO: [Eric] Holder went after journalists a little bit. It was
represent you. I’ll keep you out of jail.” roundly condemned.

Cuomo sarcastically responded: GIULIANI: And then the guy in Chicago put a journalist in jail...

“Yeah, great. Just what I need.” CUOMO: But what I’m saying is this –

Here is a transcript of the May 18 exchange: GIULIANI: ...for about a totally stupid investigation.

7:35 AM ET CUOMO: So that was wrong, that was wrong. You didn’t like it,
right?
(...)
GIULIANI: I believe it’s wrong.
CHRIS CUOMO: Look, people leak. No, I’m not anti-leak,
because I’m a journalist. I like leaks. I like to get the information CUOMO: But the President is suggesting that maybe you do that
so I can test power and get transparency. to us now. Is that okay?

RUDY GIULIANI: I believe for an FBI agent it’s an offense for GIULIANI: He doesn’t want to put anybody in jail. The President
which they would be fired. hasn’t suggested putting any of you guys in jail.

CUOMO: That’s what – look, but there’s also often risk for people CUOMO: He has done exactly that, actually. Now, he’ll say, “I
who leak information. You’ve got whistle blowers all over the was musing, I was just throwing it out there,” but he has. He says
place that make a difference for the American people. we’re the enemy of the American people.

GIULIANI: It is one thing – the leaker is violating the law, the GIULIANI: Oh, you guys would broadcast from inside the jail.
leaker is violating his oath. You or me getting the information, no We’d have to let you broadcast from inside.
problem. We’re entitled to get the information and we’re entitled
under the First Amendment to speak about it and use it. CUOMO: Look. it’s not a joke.

GIULIANI: And I’d bring you Italian pastries.

CUOMO: You know, I think about it sometimes, you know.

GIULIANI: You do? No you don’t.

CUOMO: That maybe a day will come to pass where he wants to

move on people who criticize and test power.

GIULIANI: Now that I left my law firm, I’ll represent you. I’ll keep
you out of jail.
CUOMO: Right. Even though the President of the united States
has raised questions about whether or not I should be able to get CUOMO: Yeah, great. Just what I need.
that information and whether or not we should be part of the
hedging process on getting after leaks. You know he said it, (...)
right?

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 Rep. Swalwell Says They Have Proof
Of Collusion, Bill Hemmer Pushes Back
Virginia Kruta
12:03 PM 05/18/2018

Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell told Fox News
host Bill Hemmer on Friday morning that he has evidence
that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia by
encouraging the Russians to interfere with the 2016
election.
“The president asked them to do it.”
“The president asked them to do it, Bill. He
stood on a stage and said, hey, why don’t
you guys hack more, and they showed up
to his Trump Tower, offered the evidence
to his family. They received it, they didn’t
turn it down.”

During a brief appearance on “America’s Newsroom,”

Hemmer asked Swalwell whether it was justifiable to place
an intelligence operative within the Trump campaign team.

“So if you use a warrant that is drafted on

information that may be directly tied to the
Kremlin and use it to spy on a national
political campaign, what do you think of
that?”

Swalwell skirted the question, claiming that the bigger

picture was more important than a small flaw in the
execution.
“But I always invite people to take a step
back and look at the big picture here.
Donald Trump for years had been working
with the Russians. He brought people on
his campaign who had ties to the Russians.
They were meeting in foreign places,
receiving information from Russians on his
political opponent.”
When Hemmer asked directly whether or not Swalwell had
seen a fact that proved collusion, he said
“Oh, yes, yes.”
“That’s not what we found in the transcripts
that were released the other day. You know
that. That evidence wasn’t there,” Hemmer
broke in. “Yeah, the meeting — and
depending on who you believe, it was
about adoption.”
Hemmer then asked how an offhand remark during a
campaign speech constituted collusion.
“Even if you just make a comment like that
on stage in the middle of a national
campaign, how does that prove collusion?”
Swalwell encouraged Hemmer to “look at
the broader picture,” at which the Fox
News host chuckled, “I’m trying.”

He then cited the campaign speech during which then

candidate Trump had suggested that the Russians should
“hack more.”
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 Trump Announces He Will Nominate
Robert Wilkie For Secretary Of The VA
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
12:29 PM 05/18/2018

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gives a

ceremonial check, representing a donation from President Donald
Trump to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to acting
Secretary of the VA Robert Wilkie during the daily briefing at the
White House in Washington, May 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan
Ernst

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be

nominating acting Secretary of the Department of Veterans
Affairs Robert Wilkie for the official secretary position.

“Acting Secretary Wilkie, who by the way

has done an incredible job at the VA, and
I’ll be informing him in a little while — he
doesn’t know this yet — that we’re going to
be putting his name up for nomination to be
secretary of the Veterans Administration,”
the president said at the White House
during a speech on prison reform, with
other cabinet members present.
“I’m sorry that I ruined the surprise,” Trump
joked.
The previous secretary of the VA, David Shulkin, left the
department after a scathing IG report revealed that he had
misused VA funds while traveling. The IG report detailed
that Shulkin’s chief of staff Vivieca-Wright Simpson
altered emails that allowed funds to be approved for his
wife to travel to Europe, and that Shulkin understated gifts
received while in his role as Secretary of the VA. Shulkin
also misled the media and the White House about his
financial dealings within the VA.

In an interview with The Daily Caller shortly before his

firing in February, he claimed someone had impersonated
his chief of staff in government emails.

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 Jim Jordan: If There Was A Spy
In Trump Campaign, ‘That’s As Wrong As It Gets’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
1:02 PM 05/18/2018

Jordan, a member of the House Oversight Committee and

co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, said he did not care
about the identity of the informant, but that there was one
in the first place.

“If there was a plant, a spy, an informant

put in the other party’s campaign during the
election, that is as wrong as it gets,” Jordan
said.

Republican US Representative from Ohio Jim Jordan questions
former US Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton as she testifies before the House Select Committee on
Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2015
(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said if it’s true there was an
informant who was monitoring the Trump campaign for
the FBI,
“that is as wrong as it gets.”
WATCH:
The Ohio congressman also stated that the situation looks
even more precarious
“when you couple that with what we know
they did with the dossier, took this
disproven dossier, dressed it up, made it
look like intelligence and took it to the FISA
court and most importantly didn’t tell the
court who paid for it and didn’t tell the court
the author of the document had been fired
by the FBI because he was leaking
information — if all that happened, this is
as wrong as it gets.”

Jordan continued, saying,

“one administration shouldn’t have spies on

the other party’s candidate for the highest
office in the land.”

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 FBI’s Trump Snitch
‘Absolutely Shocking,’ A ‘Huge Scandal’
'You’d Better Have Dynamite,' Said Solomon Wisenberg, To Infiltrate President's
Team With A Spy Reporting The Inner Workings
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 18 May 2018 At 1:52 PM

Trump’s campaign, he claimed the bureau

should only have opened such an
“investigation of whether there was
Russian espionage” if credible evidence
had surfaced.
“But certainly they weren’t close to being
anywhere near able to say, ‘We have some
evidence of espionage by people in the
It would be “absolutely shocking” and a “huge scandal” if, Trump campaign,'” Wisenberg said. “And
as The New York Times reported, the FBI had a spy they never could have opened a criminal
watching the inner workings of President Donald Trump’s investigation based on that. So instead
2016 campaign, former deputy special counsel Solomon they used the excuse of
Wisenberg said Thursday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham counterintelligence.”
Angle.”

The Times said deep in the story, published Thursday, that

“at least one government informant met

several times with Mr. [Carter] Page and
[George] Papadopoulos,” two former
Trump campaign advisers.

If The Times report is accurate, among much else, it

vindicates Trump’s claim — not long after being sworn in
— that former President Barack Obama’s administration
spied on his campaign against the Democratic nominee,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Wisenberg speculated that The Times may have buried the
bombshell deep within its story
“It’s absolutely shocking and very improper,
in my view, that the FBI apparently "because they knew it was going to come
penetrated and had an undercover person out, and they're trying to be able to say,
on the Trump campaign, and if they used 'That's old news and that's not really a big
the lesser standards of a deal.'"
counterintelligence investigation,”
Wisenberg, former deputy special counsel Trump ignited a firestorm in March 2017 when he tweeted,
for Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater-Lewinsky
investigation of former President Bill
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had
Clinton, told Fox News host Laura
my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just
Ingraham.
before the victory. Nothing found. This is
McCarthyism!"
Although Wisenberg (pictured above, left) said that the
FBI didn’t

“need a criminal predicate” to open a

counterintelligence investigation into

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The tweet earned Trump widespread backlash from
liberals and conservatives alike.
"Remember when Trump was ridiculed by
everyone when he said, 'I was wiretapped?'
He speaks in shorthand on Twitter,"
Ingraham said. "He meant 'surveilled.' He
was right."
Veteran political operative Roger Stone, a longtime Trump
ally, ripped the FBI for planting a spy inside the president's
campaign organization, and also for using the infamous
Trump-Russia dossier, funded by the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) and Clinton's campaign, to obtain and
then renew surveillance warrants against Page. The FBI
failed to disclose to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) court judge the origins of the dossier, which
was authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
"Not only did they use a phony, fabricated
dossier as the underlying legal rationale for
the spying on the Republican candidate for
president using the power, the authority
and the capability of the state to spy on one
of the two major party candidates — an
abuse of power — but now they infiltrated
the Trump campaign with an FBI agent,"
Stone said.
"This makes Watergate look like small
potatoes," Stone (pictured above, second
from right) insisted.
.
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Wisenberg said that "it's shocking enough" that the FBI
would even think of planting an informant inside Trump's
campaign "based on the kind of flimsy evidence that they
had" at the time.
"The FISA application is disturbing enough
because we know they didn't reveal
something very important to the FISA
court," Wisenberg said. "But to have a plant
in the political campaign of your opponent?
If you do something like that, you'd better
have dynamite. And it looks like they didn't
have dynamite."
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at
The Federalist, said it's no longer a question "that this
might indicate that they were spying. They're saying they
spied and they're saying they did it in a pretty broad
fashion as well."
Hemingway (pictured above, second from left) noted that
"there's an additional problem with this,
which is Congress is currently trying to find
out information about these types of things,
and the FBI is telling them that they can't
turn over that information."
The FBI and the Department of Justice have failed to
comply with congressional investigators' requests and
subpoenas for documents regarding the start of the Trump-
Russia investigation.
"Regardless of what you think about
Donald Trump, this is such a horrible
precedent to be spying on political
opponents and to be doing it with — and to
be avoiding accountability," Hemingway
said.
TOM FITTON: New Emails Reveal Hillary-Linked Podesta
Group Lobbied Pro-Kremlin Ukrainian
Political Front Group
By Cristina Laila
May 18, 2018, 2:51 Pm
Enter John Podesta, a longtime Clinton
operative…
“John Podesta is getting emails back and
forth and agreeing to get some information
and talking for his brother in this lobbying
effort,” Fitton explained.
What other involvements did John Podesta have in his
John Podesta (L) Tony Podesta (R) brother’s lobbying firm?

New emails obtained by conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal
more Mueller hypocrisy.
The Podesta Group, the now defunct lobbying firm ran by
John Podesta’s brother, Tony Podesta, was lobbying a pro-
Kremlin Ukrainian political front yet was never issued an
indictment from Mueller even though they failed to
register as a foreign agent.
Trump’s former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort,
however, was indicted for the exact same offense.
“These emails are a stark reminder that
Mueller is only interested in the alleged
foreign ties that involve Mr. Trump,” Fitton
exclaimed.
The Podesta group was involved with the same Ukrainian
entities that Manafort is being charged in federal court for,
yet the Podestas aren’t being investigated.
As TGP previously reported, the Podesta Group, run by
John Podesta’s brother Tony, retroactively filed DOJ
disclosures for ‘pro-Putin lobbying.’

It gets worse… Robert Mueller issued grand jury

subpoenas to several public relations firms
John Podesta was working for the Obama administration last August, including Manafort and the
helping his brother Tony Podesta lobby on behalf of Podesta Group, but only Manafort was
foreign companies while Hillary was Secretary of State. indicted.
Judicial Watch obtained 5 pages of records from the State This is more proof Mueller is hunting down
Department after filing a FOIA lawsuit. Trump and anyone connected to him.
The Podesta Group was lobbying a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian Tom Fitton with more via Judicial Watch YouTube:
front called Party of the Republics, Fitton said.
“Both Manafort and the Podesta Group had
to file foreign agent registration act forms
disclosing their lobbying activities for
groups like the party of the regions and
some other fronts associated with Ukraine.
ONLY MANAFORT WAS INDICTED for not
filing those forms properly and on time
when he should have,” Fitton said.
“The Podesta Group, a mega Democrat
lobbying firm was not indicted, nor was Mr.
Podesta himself,” Fitton continued.
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 NPR Host Maria Hinojosa Re-Smears
Trump As Saying All Immigrants Are 'Animals'
By Tim Graham
May 18, 2018 3:15 PM EDT

On Thursday night’s All In, the media’s mangling of
President Trump’s description of immigrant gang members
as “animals” was buried under a flood of hyperbole about
genocide from NPR Latino USA host and executive
producer Maria Hinojosa. Somehow, Hinojosa cartooned
Trump into saying every foreign-born person in America is
an “animal” (including his wife), and then wildly
compared his statement to the Rwandan genocide of the
Tutsis.
So much for NPR as your taxpayer-funded oasis of sanity.
Hayes began the segment
people who were not born in this
country are animals.
So I'll remain calm, but seriously our
hair should be on fire! Because I was in
Rwanda and so I spoke to journalists
who spoke to me about what happened
there and how the Tutsis were referred
to as cockroaches.
So the terms that people use really have a connection. I
mean, there`s such a clear connection to what the president
is saying.

“if you heed the Republican Party
suggestion and take a minute to watch the
full context of Trump's comment yesterday
which you should do, what you might
discover is the President really likes to
conflate all immigration issues and
immigrants with violent criminality.”
The NPR star tried to suggest against all contrary facts that
there are no gang members among the illegal immigrants,
and crime has nothing to do with immigrants:
So, first of all, there are no gang members
that are coming here in droves to seek
refuge, OK, these are women and children.
Second of all, MS-13, dear Mr. Trump, is
an American gang. You know about
American gangs? Like we`ve had them?
Have you watched the movie, you know,
Gangs of New York? MS-13 is an
American gang. So, we don`t have an
immigration problem regarding MS-13, we
have a criminal problem that has nothing to
do with immigration.

Hinojosa really blew a gasket when Mackowiak used the

term "illegal alien." It was like the Republican said
CHRIS HAYES: To talk more about the mother-blanker:
President's dehumanizing rhetoric, I'm
joined by Republican strategist Matt
Mackowiak and Maria Hinojosa, anchor
and executive producer of NPR's Latino
USA. Maria, you were shaking your head
during that clip. Your thoughts?
MARIA HINOJOSA, NPR: So, Chris, look,
I'm going to remain calm, right, because
we`re on national television. But seriously,
as somebody who was not born in this
country, and I refuse to allow this
president to kind of define good
immigrant, bad immigrant because the
litmus test at this point is simply that MATT MACKOWIAK: I think you also have
to recognize that this -- this criminal gang,
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MS-13, is a very serious threat particularly
in New York and Virginia, throughout the
northeast, yes in Los Angeles. They
operate in 40 states. 10,000 members
around the country.I'm not sitting here and
saying every single one of their members is
an illegal alien. I don't know the numbers....
HINOJOSA: Did you just say illegal alien --
did you just say illegal alien on national
television?
MACKOWIAK: I said they're not, Maria. I
said they're not.
.
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HINOJOSA: Are you serious? I'm sorry. So
you just labeled immigrants, aliens, and
you're calling human beings illegals? I
remind you illegals is not a noun. We
are not illegals and it is not a noun.
Mackowiak didn't use "illegals" as a noun, but Hinojosa
wanted to wash his mouth out with soap. None of
Hinojosa's leftist theatrics are new. In 2016 on MSNBC,
she also lectured Trump backer Steve Cortes about the
word "illegals" and made Holocaust analogies.
 SHUT IT DOWN=> Robert Mueller
Issues Grand Jury Subpoena To Roger Stone’s Driver
By Cristina Laila
May 18, 2018, 3:19 Pm
The Special Counsel issued a grand jury
subpoena to another Roger Stone aide,
Reuters reported.
The 30-year-old aide is Roger Stone’s
driver and accountant.
Reuters reported:
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has
subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time
Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two
people with knowledge of the matter said,
the latest sign that Mueller’s investigation
into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016
election is increasingly focusing on Stone.
The subpoena was recently served on
John Kakanis, 30, who has worked as a
driver, accountant and operative for
Stone.
Kakanis has been briefly questioned by the FBI on the
topics of possible Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election, the WikiLeaks website, its founder
Julian Assange, and the hacker or hackers who call
themselves Guccifer 2.0, one of the people with
knowledge of the matter said.
Mueller has not scheduled a grand jury appearance for
Kakanis, the person said.
Stone said in an emailed statement to
Reuters on Friday he believes Mueller’s
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scrutiny on him stems from
“misapprehensions and misconceptions”
created by the media, and that he would
ultimately be exonerated of any alleged
wrongdoing.
“I sincerely hope when this occurs that the
grotesque, defamatory media campaign
which I have endured for years now will
finally come to its long-overdue end,” wrote
Stone, one of Trump’s closest political
advisers in the years before he ran for
president.
On Wednesday it was reported Robert
Mueller issued two grand jury
subpoenas to Roger Stone’s social
media consultant, Jason Sullivan late
last week.
One of the subpoenas requested Sullivan appear before a
grand jury on Friday May 18th.
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.
Meanwhile, Hillary’s camp paid a British man who
compiled a phony dossier from ‘Russian intelligence’
allowing her to spy on her political opponent with an
illegally obtained spy warrant.
The only people who colluded with the Russians are the
Democrats and Deep State operatives, including Mueller.
 WHAT?… Criminal Clapper: ‘It’s A Good Thing’
Obama’s FBI Was Spying On Trump’s
Campaign (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 18, 2018, 4:24 Pm

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 camp.
Now of course this is after he initially denied
the Intelligence Community was spying on
Donald Trump.
The Deep State liars have gone from denial
to celebrating the illegal spying.
“Russians posed a threat to the very basis of
our political system.”
WRONG. Obama’s corrupt and criminal operatives
seeking to overthrow a duly elected President was and is
the biggest threat we face in regards to our political
system.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ and other intel agencies were
weaponized under Obama.
So now they’re admitting they spied and it’s a good thing.

VIDEO via Real Clear Politics:

While speaking to Clapper, CNN’s Don Lemon referenced

the NY Times article which revealed the FBI embedded at
least one spy in Trump’s camp during the 2016 election.

Clapper the leaker immediately went into spin mode and

brought up those pesky Russians.

“They may have had someone who was talking

to them in the campaign, but, you know, the
focus here is not on the campaign, per se, but
what the Russians were doing,” Clapper said.

Right, the Russians were the focus, not American

citizens…

Clapper then said it’s a good thing if the FBI had someone
observing the Trump’s campaigns interaction with the
Russians because the
More from Instapundit:
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 EXCLUSIVE: Gina Haspel Refuses To Answer Senator
Rand Paul’s Questions About CIA
Involvement In Steele Dossier
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 18, 2018, 4:58 Pm
Prior to her confirmation as CIA Director,
Gina Haspel was facing tough questions
from Senator Rand Paul, and The Gateway
Pundit has exclusively reviewed her
responses which completely dodged
specific questions about the CIA’s
involvement with the Christopher Steele
dossier.
On Tuesday, Senator Paul sent a formal letter to Haspel
inquiring about her involvement in surveillance of the
Trump campaign. Though only the first letter has
previously been published, the letters and responses are not
classified.
Senator Paul’s initial letter focused on the practices of the
CIA during the 2016 presidential election. They heavily
imply that the senator believes that the CIA was involved
with the dossier that launched the Russian collusion
investigation. Though the agency may not have been the
one running the operation, Haspel is an acolyte of former
CIA Director John Brennan — a fierce opponent of
President Trump who, according to new reports, worked
claims from the unverified dossier into then-President
Barack Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief.
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The first question the letter asks is for clarification about
under what circumstances the CIA will trail, monitor or
otherwise collect information on the communications and
movements of US presidential candidates.
Haspel responded that the
“CIA did not surveil the US presidential
candidates, CIA is the nation’s preeminent
foreign intelligence agency, and is focused on
foreign threats to the United States.”
Senator Paul’s second question was if Haspel, or anyone
else at the CIA, was aware of any US government or non-
government agency being involved in the collection or
monitoring of any presidential candidates while they were
travelling outside of the United States.
Meetings involving the dossier reportedly all took place in
London — while Haspel was the CIA’s London Station
Chief. Her role would have required that she know and
sign off on all active operations.
In her response, Haspel stated simply,
“the CIA did not target for collection the
communications of any 2016 US presidential
candidate.”
The response did not answer the question about if she was
aware of any government or non-government agency
collecting or monitoring a campaign while abroad.
“Have you, or anyone else at the CIA, ever
cooperated with any foreign intelligence
services to surveil, monitor, or collect any
information on candidate Trump during his
travels outside the United States in the
preceding five years? Specifically, was
candidate Trump ever under any surveillance or
of interest to the CIA during his previous visits
in Europe?” Senator Paul asks.
Haspel responded that “the CIA would not
cooperate with a foreign intelligence
 service’s effort to surveil or target for
collection the communications of a US
presidential candidate.”
The letter concludes by specifically asking if surveillance
was conducted during Trump’s visit to Great Britain in
November, 2016.
“The CIA did not conduct surveillance on, nor
target for collection, the communications of
then-candidate President Trump during his
November 2016 visit to Great Britain,” Haspel
wrote.
In response to Haspel’s denials, Senator Paul fired back
another lengthy list of questions.
“In your answer to my question 3, you
stated ‘the CIA would not cooperate with a
foreign intelligence service’s effort to surveil
or target for collection the communications
of a US presidential candidate.’ I appreciate
your clear statement that in the future the
CIA would not work with a foreign
intelligence service to surveil US
presidential candidates. However, the
question I asked was regarding
retrospective actions, not prospective
actions.”
The letter continued on to take aim squarely at the
infamous dossier.
1. Was the CIA aware of the efforts of Christopher Steele
to collect information on Donald Trump or his campaign
prior to Election Day 2016? If yes, please detail when
and how.
2. If the CIA was unaware of Mr. Steele’s efforts prior to
the election, at what point and how did the CIA become
aware of them?
3. Were you personally aware of the efforts of Mr. Steele
to collect information on Donald Trump or his campaign
prior to Election Day 2016? If yes, please detail when
and how.
4. If you were unaware of Mr. Steele’s efforts prior to the
election, at what point and how did you become aware
of them?
5. Did the CIA receive information regarding Donald
Trump or his campaign from Mr. Steele? If so, when
and how?
6. Did the CIA have any interaction with Mr. Steele during
the time he was collecting information on Donald
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Trump or his campaign? If so, please describe such
interaction(s).
7. Did the CIA receive information resulting from or
regarding Mr. Steele’s investigation from any foreign
intelligence service? If so, when and how?
8. Did the CIA have knowledge of any other entity of the
United States Government, including the FBI,
interacting with Mr. Steele? If so, which entity or
entities? Did the CIA receive information from Mr.
Steele’s investigation from such entity or entities? Did
the CIA in any way cooperate with or assist such entity
or entities?
Haspel responded by saying that she should have been
more clear and denied any
“cooperation with a foreign intelligence service’s
effort to surveil or target the communications of
candidate Trump.”
“With regard to the current questions raised in
your letter regarding Christopher Steele: for
Question 3, I was not personally aware of Mr.
Steele’s efforts when it was publicly reported in
the press,” Haspel continued.
She added that,
“As you know, this matter is currently under
review by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence (SSCI) as part of their investigation
into Russian active measures in the 2016
election — CIA is supporting those efforts.
Additionally, many of your question relate to
matters that fall within the jurisdiction of the FBI
not CIA. I would refer you to SSCI for any
additional questions you may have on this
issue.”
Haspel did not answer any of the other questions posed by
Senator Paul, including if the CIA aware of the efforts of
Christopher Steele to collect information on the Trump
campaign prior to Election Day or if the CIA received
information from Steele’s investigation.
Senator Paul responded with one additional question, but
has not yet received a response. He asked, via email,
if the CIA received any information from British
intelligence about Donald Trump, his campaign,
or campaign associates.”
Though Haspel has been confirmed, it does not mean that
she cannot be fired if she is found to have been lying in her
responses to Senator Paul. If she was working with James
Comey, she could and should receive the same fate. The
CIA Director serves at the pleasure of the president.
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 Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Our President Is A Lunatic,
And We’re All Gonna Die’
By Randy Hall
May 18, 2018 5:14 PM EDT

So I don’t know, I don’t know how much focus there will

be on that. I think people have had an ass-full of Donald
Trump, and I feel like the upfront is a time to look within
and make fun of ourselves.

“So next week is a Trump-free zone for

you?” Patten asked.
“Well, I can’t imagine that it will be entirely
While making ABC’s annual “upfront” presentation to Trump free, but I’m not planning on that to
advertisers on Tuesday, left-wing late-night host Jimmy be my focus,” the comedian added.
Kimmel just couldn’t resist slamming President Trump by
describing him as “a lunatic” and, as a result, “we’re all Nevertheless, the Republican occupant of
gonna die.” the White House wasn’t Kimmel’s only
target on Tuesday.
The liberal comedian made these remarks even after “We have a new slogan this year at ABC:
claiming in a preliminary interview that ‘Forward Together,’” he noted. “Hillary
Clinton had a yard sale, and she let us
“I think people have had an ass-full of have that for almost nothing.”
Donald Trump, and I feel like the upfront is “Our ‘biggliest’ hit of the year is Roseanne,”
a time to look within and make fun of he continued, “so everyone who says
ourselves.” Hollywood is out of ideas, we’re not. It’s
just that one of our new ideas was to
Also on Tuesday, Kimmel joked: Google ‘What were our old ideas?’”
“No one was expecting Roseanne to be a
“Our ratings are going down, and our prices big hit,” Kimmel then stated. “But to be
are going up. Too bad, eat it. Our President honest, we don’t expect any of our shows
is a lunatic, and we’re all gonna die.” to be hits.”
“If this continues,” he added, “it won’t say “Roseanne‘s success proves that the older
R.I.P. on our headstones, it will say K.P.I.,” and crazier you are, the more today’s
a reference to Key Performance Indicators, audience likes you,” he joked. “That’s why
a term that demonstrates how effectively a we’re proud to announce our new show:
company is achieving key business Gary Busey Proves 9/11 Never Happened.”
objectives.
“I have to admit I’m excited about Murphy
Brown. It’s refreshing to see anything
However, during a May 11 interview with Deadline's brown on CBS,” he added to reported
Dominic Patten, the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! sang a groans. “We even canceled Marvel’s
different tune. Patten stated that this event “will actually be Inhumans. Somehow we managed to have
your first upfronts of the Trump era. Have you been saving the only unsuccessful project with the word
up a bellyful of barbs for the President and his ongoing big ‘Marvel’ in the title. Ever. It had never been
show?” Kimmel replied: done before.”

I hadn’t really thought about it that way, but As NewsBusters previously reported, Donald Trump is
I guess you’re right. probably Kimmel’s favorite target. In mid-January, the
Hopefully, it’ll be the last upfront of the liberal late-night host slammed the President over use of
Trump era, too. the term “s**thole countries.”

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Then, after Trump’s State of the Union address, Kimmel
decided to play the moral arbiter of our time with an over-
the-top sob segment on DACA, the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrival law, in a segment intended to make
Trump voters and conservatives look like narrow-minded
monsters.
Of course, after the school shooting on February 14 in
Florida, he blamed Trump and the GOP for causing the
.
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incident and described the President as “obviously
mentally ill” for not giving in to the Left’s demands for
gun control.
Unfortunately, the late-night host’s attacks on the
President have apparently become so ingrained that he’s
unable to refrain from it … even when he promises to do
so.
 Russian-American Lobbyist At Infamous Trump Tower
Meeting With Don Jr. Knew Hillary Clinton And
Members Of Her Campaign
By Cristina Laila
May 18, 2018, 5:30 Pm
The Russian-American lobbyist who
attended the infamous Trump Tower
meeting with Don Jr. in June of 2016 knew
Hillary Clinton and some of her campaign
associates.
Hillary Clinton, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin
According to a newly released transcript of a testimony to
the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rinat Akhmetshin, a
Russian-American lobbyist, knew Hillary Clinton and had
contacts with her associates.
Akhmetshin also expressed his contempt for Donald
Trump and his family.
Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller reported:
The Russian-American lobbyist who attended
the infamous Trump Tower meeting had
contacts with members of Hillary Clinton’s inner
circle and knew Clinton herself, he told the
Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017.
“I knew [Clinton]; I knew some people who
worked on her campaign,” the lobbyist,
Rinat Akhmetshin, told the Senate Judiciary
Committee in closed-door testimony on Nov.
14.
Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military intelligence officer,
also said his attorney, Edward Lieberman, knows Clinton
well. Lieberman’s late wife, Evelyn Lieberman, was a
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close confidante of Clinton’s. At one point, Akhmetshin
said he was not a fan of President Donald Trump’s family.
Akhmetshin attended the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower
meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya.
In other Trump Tower meeting news…
Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who
also met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump
Tower New York in June of 2016 recently
claimed she is also an informant for the
Russian government.
Veselnitskaya previously said in a November testimony to
the Senate Judiciary Committee she had no connection to
the Kremlin.
Nothing about this Russian lawyer adds up; it’s a Deep
State set up.
According to Fox News, Veselnitskaya met with Glenn
Simpson of Fusion GPS mere hours before she and three
Russians sauntered over to Trump Tower to meet with Don
Jr. and few others from Trump’s campaign. She then met
with Simpson AGAIN after she left Trump Tower.
It gets worse…
Reuters reported that the memo Veselnitskaya presented to
Don Jr at Trump Tower was PREPARED BY FUSION
GPS….yes the same firm that Hillary’s camp paid millions
of dollars to for the garbage Russia dossier.
Veselnitskaya was also given special entry to the US by
the Obama administration via The Hill:
The Homeland Security Department
confirmed Friday that Russian lawyer Natalia
Veselnitskaya was granted special entry to the
United States on multiple occasions in 2015
and 2016 at the request of the Justice
Department.
 It also said Veselnitskaya eventually won a
nonimmigrant work visa around the time she
met President Trump’s eldest son in New York
last summer.
Homeland told The Hill that Veselnitskaya was allowed to
enter the United States on multiple occasions between
September 2015 and February 2016 under a “Significant
Public Benefit Parole” document requested by the Justice
Department so she could participate in a court case for a
client.
The request was done “in concurrence” with the U.S.
attorney’s office in New York City, which was enforcing a
civil asset forfeiture case against Prevezon Holdings, a
company owned by Russian businessman Denis Katsyv,
whom Veselnitskaya represented as a private attorney in
their home country.
This was all one big set up.

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 Grassley Sends Letter To DOJ Demanding Unredacted
Rosenstein Memo Detailing Mueller’s Scope
By Cristina Laila
May 18, 2018, 6:14 Pm

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley This Committee likewise should be

(R-IA) sent a letter to the Justice Department permitted to review the true nature and
Friday demanding Rosenstein’s unredacted scope of the Special Counsel’s
memo detailing Mueller’s scope. investigation.

Like the Judiciary, Congress is a separate branch of

government with its own constitutional duties that often
require access to Executive Branch information. In this
case the interests relate to both legislative and oversight
responsibilities.

Grassley also quoted Judge Ellis in his letter

to Rosenstein and said Americans do not
support anyone in this country wielding
unfettered power. “That is doubly true when
it is wielded in secret, beyond the purview of
any oversight authority,” Grassley
continued.

In Chairman Grassley’s letter to the DOJ, he
noted Mueller’s team had just given
Rosenstein’s memo to Judge Ellis therefore
the Senate Judiciary Committee should be
permitted to review the document.
Grassley also criticized the time frame in which the memo
was penned by Rosenstein–three months after Mueller was
appointed.
It’s also important to note that the FBI raided Paul
Manafort’s home with guns drawn, several days before
Rosenstein wrote his August 2nd memo.
It is no surprise then that a federal judge in a
May 8, 2018 hearing in the Eastern District of
Virginia expressed some skepticism about a
heavily redacted August 2017 memorandum
that was drafted three months after you issued
the Order appointing Robert Mueller as Special
Counsel, and that you both now assert details
the actual scope of his investigation.2
The judge asked for, and the Special
Counsel provided, an unredacted copy of
the August Memorandum.3
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In the Starr investigation, the scope and
changes made to it were transparent. In this
case, the public, Congress, and the courts all
thought the scope was one thing, and have now
been informed it is something else. For that
reason and others, it is unclear precisely how,
or whether, the Department is following its own
regulations, what the actual bounds of Mr.
Mueller’s authority are, and how those bounds
have been established.
Chairman Grassley then accused
Rosenstein of deliberately drafting a vague
jurisdiction and hiding the details with
heavy redactions:
In other words, the factual statement of the
matter to be investigated in the Appointment
Order was made deliberately vague rather than
“specific” as required by the regulation. The
public, as well as Congress, only learned a
fraction of the investigation’s actual scope in
April 2018—nearly a year after Mr. Mueller’s
appointment—when he filed a heavily redacted
copy of the August Memorandum in federal
court. From the small snippet we can see, the
difference in the number and the nature of the
details described in the Appointment Order and
three months later in the August Memorandum
 is significant.13 Even if there may be legitimate Rosenstein memo: they also must answer a
reasons to limit the public release of that long list of questions from the Senate
information for a time, those reasons would not Judiciary Committee Chairman.
justify withholding the scope information from
Congressional oversight committees. Read Grassley’s full letter to the Justice Department on
the next page.
The Department of Justice has until May
31st to hand over the unredacted
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 #Nevertrumper Glenn Beck – Who Regularly Accused
Trump Supporters Of Being Nazis – Jumps On
Trump Train (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 6:34 Pm

At the end of his confession Glenn Beck

asked forgiveness from Donald Trump.

What about his “Nazi” supporters, Glenn?

Glenn Beck ruined his reputation and career

by endorsing Hillary Clinton for President
and comparing Trump supporters to Nazis

 Glenn Beck Regularly Compared Trump

Supporters to Nazis
 Glenn Beck warned CNN of Trump’s Alt-
Right Racist, Nazi, KKK Threat
 Glenn Beck accused Steve Bannon of clear ties Mark Dice makes a good point.
to white nationalists.
 Glenn Beck said voting for “sociopath” Trump
brings “eternal consequences”
 Glenn Beck ENDORSED Hillary Clinton for
President.

Donald Trump won in a landslide.

On Thursday Glenn Beck put on a Trump

#MAGA hat and endorsed the Republican
president.

It took him a year-and-a-half to endorse President Trump.

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 WHITE HOUSE PETITION: President Trump Must
IMMEDIATELY Sign An Executive Order Making E-
Verify Mandatory For All Businesses
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 8:52 Pm
A new White House petition was posted this
week calling on President Trump to
immediately sign an executive order to make
e-Verify mandatory for all US businesses.
President Trump must IMMEDIATELY sign
an executive order making it mandatory for
all U.S. businesses to use e-Verify
Most Americans do not realize e-Verify is an
optional program for businesses in several
states.
This has to stop.
As long as employers are not held
accountable illegal aliens will continue to
flood into this country.
The petition author E.B. added this on the petition.
U.S. Citizens shouldn’t be responsible to pay for the lives
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of illegal aliens and the services they use, including but not
limited to education and healthcare. Likewise, businesses
must be held accountable for hiring legitimate workers.
Today, less than 3% of businesses participate in e-Verify
because it’s voluntary.
Congress has demonstrated a lack of will to stop illegal
immigration. Therefore, the President must use the powers
granted him to remove the incentive for illegal aliens to
travel to and remain in the U.S. unlawfully by eliminating
their ability to secure a JOB.
Americans want the rule of law enforced NOW. This
petition calls upon President Trump to immediately sign an
executive order making e-Verify mandatory for all U.S.
businesses, no exceptions.
Hard working U.S. Citizens shouldn’t be responsible to
pay for the lives of illegal aliens and the services they use,
including but not limited to education and healthcare.
Likewise, businesses that received huge tax cuts from the
President’s landmark tax reform legislation must be held
accountable for hiring legitimate workers. Today, less than
3% of businesses participate in e-Verify because it’s
voluntary.
Congress has demonstrated a lack of will to stop illegal
immigration. Therefore, the President must use the powers
granted him to remove the incentive for illegal aliens to
travel to and remain in the U.S. unlawfully by eliminating
their ability to secure a JOB.
Americans want the rule of law enforced NOW. The
President must immediately sign an executive order
making e-Verify mandatory.
 Rob Reiner: We've Never
Had TV Networks Align With A President!
By Tim Graham
May 18, 2018 9:51 PM EDT
Movie director Rob Reiner appeared on Friday's Morning
Joe to announce his historical verdict:
This is the first time in American history
that "state-run TV" networks like Fox and
Sinclair ever "aligned with a president of
the United States."
The networks never aligned with JFK, or Bill Clinton, or
Barack Obama.
As usual, Reiner played up the Russia conspiracy theory
that
“the president of the United States is in
conspiracy with that foreign power. This
has never happened before in this country.
You can see why the other side is putting
out a full court press, because they know
that what’s coming down the pipe,
conceivably, it is the biggest scandal in
American history and we are fighting right
now for the soul of our democracy.”
Then he turned to the wacky talking about TV networks
aligning with the president:
ROB REINER: You're under attack. The
press is under attack and right now, if you
remove the ability to get the truth out, then
you're going to have the destruction of
democracy. We don’t have anymore —
there’s no checks and balances coming
from Congress. Right now, the courts are
holding,
but this is the first time in American
history where you have a state-run
television — Fox, Breitbart, Sinclair,
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Alex Jones aligned with the president of
the United States.
That’s very, very tough. The battle lines
have been drawn. And we're going to see
whether or not democracy survives.
Substitute host Nicolle Wallace praised Reiner as a
"storyteller" and wondered whether
"the coalition you just listed, the president
of the United States, his lemmings in the
House Republican Freedom Caucus who
are doing his bidding, basically waging a
war against the Trump-appointee-led
Justice Department and FBI, the network
you just listed. Are they doing a better job
telling a false story than the truth-tellers are
doing?"
Reiner replied
"No. The truth tellers are telling the better
story. The problem is that when you've got
40 percent of the country that is only tuned
into the lies, and they are cemented, it's
going to be very hard for the truth to break
through when all the information comes
out."
So, for the purpose of this discussion, any media outlet that
isn't liberal is broadcasting "lies" and the liberal ones are
the "truth tellers."
It's fascinating that this same MSNBC that constantly
sounded like state-run TV when it was Chris Matthews
having leg tingles over Obama and then once he was
president, oozing that
“The President showed his analytical
mind....He was at his best intellectually. I
thought it was a great example of how his
mind works....What a mind he has, and I
love his ability to do it on television. I love
to think with him.”
Or this from Matthews:
"I’m saying it again, I’m getting a thrill....We
agree, we girls agree. I don’t mind saying
that. I’m excited. I’m thrilled.”
 Outrageous! Unhinged Hack Jehmu Greene Accuses
President Trump (Without Evidence) Of Paying For
Multiple Abortions (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 10:37 Pm

Liberal Jehmu Greene joined Pete Hegseth Do you have any proof of that? You’re just
and Kristin Tate on The Ingraham Angle to tossing that out?
discuss President Trump’s plan to cut
funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s Jehmu Greene:
largest abortion provider.
No. I have no evidence. I’m saying would you
Out of the blue, Jehmu Greene accused be surprised?
President Trump on national TV of
personally funding multiple abortions.
Kristin Tate:

This is the Democrat Party today –

You just can’t say that without any evidence.
Completely hateful and unhinged.
That is so irresponsible!

Jehmu Greene:

Would you be surprised, Pete?

Via The Ingraham Angle:

Jehmu Greene:

To your first question that the outrage that I

guess is coming from the left, I think what is
outrageous here is that no one would be
surprised if President Trump himself hadn’t
personally funded multiple abortions.

Pete Hegseth:

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 Rush Limbaugh: Democrats Have Done More To Damage
Elections Than Vladimir Putin Could
In His Dreams! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 18, 2018, 11:01 Pm
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 camp.
This is after he initially denied the
Intelligence Community was spying on
Donald Trump.
The Deep State liars have gone from
complete denial to celebrating the illegal
spying.
As reported earlier by Cristina Laila – Clapper then said
it’s 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
our political system.”
Later today Rush Limbaugh weighed in on this stunning
admission by the former
RUSH LIMBAUGH:
So it’s perfect… Okay. I tell you what. I’ll tell
you what then, Clapper. Whoever you
people run in 2020, we’re gonna put a spy
on! It’s gonna be a valuable thing. We’re gonna
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find out who it is that might be trying to rig the
election for you. If the Russians tampering with
campaigns is the big deal… You heard Clapper
say, “It’s not Trump. No, no. This is hyperbole!
We were trying to find out what the Russians
were doing because the Russians were
tampering.”
You people have done more to damage the
integrity of the American electoral process
than Vladimir Putin could in his dreams!
And I’m not joking. With what these people have done for
the last year and a half — basically get people thinking the
election was stolen, that it was illegitimate, that the
Russians didn’t want Hillary and wanted Trump and made
it happen — look at what they have done to the image, the
reputation of the American electoral system and process.
These people are doing the damage to it, and they continue
to do it, because they can’t show any evidence whatsoever
the Russians succeeded in determining the outcome of a
presidential race. And we’ve got multiple sound bites from
Obama himself admitting that it would be impossible to
do. Our election, presidential election system is way too
complex. You couldn’t know enough in advance of where
you would have to start playing games to pull anything off
because the Electoral College, precincts, voter turnout.
You just… It couldn’t be done. If it could, the Democrats
would never lose.
If they had found a way, if they had found a way to tamper
with presidential elections, do you think they would ever
lose one? No. But they do. They haven’t found any
evidence that the Russians succeeded, and yet they
continue to talk about it and validate the idea that spies are
worthwhile. These people need to be held accountable for
this.

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 Crazy: Chris Cuomo Afraid Trump Will Throw Him In
Jail: “I Think About It Sometimes” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 8:02 am

After Giuliani condemned former FBI Director James

Comey for leaking memos about his private meetings with
the President to the press, Cuomo jumped in to praise the
leaks:

“Look, people leak. No, I’m not anti-leak,

because I’m a journalist. I like leaks. I like to get
the information so I can test power and get
transparency….You’ve got whistle blowers all
over the place that make a difference for the
American people.”…

Even though the President of the united States has raised

CNN’s Chris Cuomo must see himself as some sort of hero
freedom fighter battling against the evil Mr. Trump.
Because he thinks Trump cares so much about the dumb
things he says that he wants to put him in jail. Really
Chris?
questions about whether or not I should be able to get that
information and whether or not we should be part of the
hedging process on getting after leaks. You know he said
it, right?…That maybe one of the ways we deal with these
leaks is to go after the journalists as well. Do you like that
idea?

News Busters reports: Watch the video:

CNN’s Cuomo Fears Trump Will Throw Him in

Jail: ‘I Think About It Sometimes’

During an interview with President Trump’s

attorney Rudy Giuliani on Friday’s New Day,
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo feared that the
administration may throw him and other
journalists in jail for reporting on leaks about the
Russia investigation. Giuliani dismissed the
melodramatic fretting and even jokingly offered
to serve as Cuomo’s legal counsel.

So has everyone at CNN lost their minds?

.

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 Corrupt #Fakenews Wapo: If The FBI Was Spying On
Trump – “It Was To Protect Him”
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 8:19 Am

Via Reddit The Donald:

The corrupt liberal media is finally reporting on the most

criminal political scandal in US history.

The Obama FBI, CIA, DOJ and State Department were

spying on opposition candidate Donald Trump before,
during and after the 2016 presidential election.
This is the latest line from the corrupt Democrat media.
The Obama Deep State even had spies embedded in the
Trump Campaign. Obama spied on Trump to try to ruin him —
But it was for his own good.
And the spying started with no evidence of criminal action
by Trump campaign officials. In fact the only links to In case there is any doubt today — YOU
Russia were made up by their Democrat opponents and CAN NEVER TRUST THE LIBERAL
Deep State hacks. DEMOCRAT-MEDIA COMPLEX.

On Thursday the corrupt liberal media Never trust the liberal media.
refused to carry this story in their front
page.

CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC all hid the

LARGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN US
HISTORY from their front pages.

On Friday former Director of National Intelligence James

Clapper said the Deep State spying on the Trump
Campaign was a good thing.

Now this…

On Saturday the far left Washington Post actually posted

this headline.

The FBI didn’t use an informant to go after Trump. They

used one to protect him.

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 MORE LIES ON TOP OF LIES=> NY Times: FBI Spy
Inside Trump Campaign Was Not There To Spy
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 9:17 Am

MORE LIES ON TOP OF LIES By the Liberal

Democrat Media…

You can NEVER trust these filthy liars.

This is an actual headline from The New York Times:

It’s time to put these crooks in jail — All of them. The New York Times today admitted there
was an Obama spy inside the Trump
Now that we know the Obama DOJ, FBI and CIA were campaign but he was not there to spy.
spying on Trump with an informant inside his campaign it
is time to clean house. What shameless liars.

If the government is EVER to be trusted again they must
start arresting and imprisoning these Deep State Obama
criminals.
Their lies aren’t even good anymore.
President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without
evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016
campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau
had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.”

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In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an informant to talk to two
campaign advisers only after they received evidence that
the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the
campaign. The informant, an American academic who
teaches in Britain, made contact late that summer with one
campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, according to
people familiar with the matter. He also met repeatedly in
the ensuing months with the other aide, Carter Page, who
was also under F.B.I. scrutiny for his ties to Russia.
The role of the informant is at the heart of the newest
battle between top law enforcement officials and Mr.
Trump’s congressional allies over the F.B.I.’s most
politically charged investigations in decades. The
.
NEVER Trust these liars in the liberal media. NEVER!
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lawmakers, who say they are concerned that federal
investigators are abusing their authority, have demanded
documents from the Justice Department about the
informant.
Law enforcement officials have refused, saying that
handing over the documents would imperil both the
source’s anonymity and safety. The New York Times has
learned the source’s identity but typically does not name
informants to preserve their safety.
This is right up there with the Washington Post today…
The Obama spy “was there to protect him.”
 SICK. BBC3 Trolls President
Trump During Royal Wedding Coverage
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 9:59 Am

The photo is a comparison to the early hours before the

Trump Inaugural and the crowds today in England to see
the Royal Wedding.

This highly deceptive tweet by Binyamin Appelbaum went

viral on Trump Inauguration day.

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a public service

broadcaster funded by taxpayers.

The BBC is unquestioningly liberal and has been for ages

much like the public broadcasters in the United States.

BBC Three is an offshoot of the BBC and owned by the

BBC
Today during their coverage of the Royal Wedding of
Prince Harry to American actress Meghan Markle BBC
Three posted these photo comparisons.
The liberal media spread this lie during the Trump
Inauguration but refused to report the truth that there were
more people and hotel rooms booked for the Trump
Inauguration than for either of the Obama Inaugurations.

But today BBC Three decided to troll the

Trump administration anyway.

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DNC Lawsuit Reveals New Connections Between The DNC,
Outside Contractor Crowdstrike And FISA Court Abuses
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 11:20 Am

court process and government sharing data with outside

contractors was in place. This investigation was requested
based on feedback to Admiral Rogers shortly after he
became Obama’s NSA Director.

Per a report from the investigation released in early 2017,

long after the 2016 election, many abuses in the FISA
process were uncovered:

Private contractors, employed by the FBI, were given full

access to raw FISA data. FISA data that, once in their
possession, could not be traced.

New revelations by Jeff Carlson at
theMarketswork reveal that the DNC claimed
that their servers were compromised by
Russia on the exact same date that the FBI
stopped allowing outside contractors
access to raw FISA data collected by the US
Government’s intelligence agencies.
The apparent purpose for the FBI’s granting such access
was to receive analytical assistance from [Redacted].
Nonetheless, the [Redacted] contractors had access to
raw FISA information that went well beyond what was
necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests; [Redacted].
The FBI discontinued the above-described access to
raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.

According to Carlson – Note that on the exact same date that the DNC says
their systems were attacked, the NSA under Admiral
Rogers stopped the sharing of raw FISA data with
The DNC lawsuit against Russia and the Trump Campaign
outside contractors by the corrupt FBI.
provides for a new timeline of events. And raises new
questions.
Remember that per Attorney Joe DiGenova, Admiral
Rogers is a good guy who warned President Trump that he
Recall, the DNC famously refused to allow the FBI to
was being spied on by the Deep State shortly after the
examine their servers – which has always seemed more
2016 election –
than a bit odd.

If the DNC had definitive proof of Russian hacking, one

would expect a standing invitation to examine the
evidence. Instead, they have protected those servers from
any outside examination.

This may be tied to NSA Director Rogers’ discovery of

Outside Contractors.

The DNC lawsuit files show that the DNC supposedly

came under a cyberattack on the DNC servers located in
Virginia and Washington DC which was executed by GRU
(Russian) agents on April 18, 2016.

Ironically, at about the same time a government It is unknown how the DNC determined that the Russia
investigation related to the many issues with the FISA attack, if it occurred, was performed by the Russians.

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 Based on a long history of ‘lack of candor’
by Obama, Clinton, the Deep State and the
DNC, it is highly likely that the DNC was
never hacked by the Russians and that this
is entirely made up.
The one company that was allowed to search the DNC
servers after they were supposedly attacked by the
Russians was a company called Crowdstrike. It is
suspected that this is one of the companies listed in the
FISA report that was given access to the DNC server.
Was the DNC receiving raw FISA
data from the US government via
Crowdstrike? It is time to
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investigate Crowdstrike and the
DNC!
One thing is clear – Today because of all
the many lies and fake news stories created
and promoted by the left, there is no way
that the average American can trust
anything coming out of the Deep State FBI,
DOJ, DNC or other government entities.
There is an old saying that applies well to all
of this:
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice
shame on me!
Americans will not be fooled anymore.
 MORE LIES EXPOSED: Deep State Informant Spied On
Trump Campaign Before FBI Officially
Began Its Investigation
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 11:56 Am
The Deep State lies and lies and lies… And
then lies some more.
The Deep State FBI started spying on the Trump campaign
earlier than reported.
They Obama FBI, DOJ, and CIA were spying on Trump
before they officially opened their investigation.
Kristina Wong at Breitbart.com reported:
Current and former officials — apparently so
fearful that an FBI informant’s identity and role
would be outed by congressional Republicans
— confirmed both to the New York Times and
the Washington Post in an attempt to offer their
own narratives first.
Both outlets offered details that readily identify
the informant — but do not name him, citing
concerns for his safety and warnings from U.S.
intelligence officials.
The details, however, match a person described
in the Daily Caller as Stefan Halper, a
Cambridge professor and longtime Washington,
D.C. fixture who worked for three Republican
administrations and has links to U.S. and British
intelligence.
Read the rest on next page.
The Times and Post are the first outlets
claiming to have confirmed his identity, and to
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describe him in such detail as to match the
description of Halper.
The accounts also indicate the FBI lied about
when they first began surveilling the Trump
campaign, or might have done so, without any
particular intelligence.
FBI officials have said they began investigating
the Trump administration on July 31, 2016, after
stolen Democratic National Committee emails
were released on July 22, 2016, prompting
Australian officials to come forward with
information they received from Trump campaign
adviser George Papadopoulos months earlier.
Officials sold this version of events last year to
the Times, which wrote on December 31, 2017,
in a piece titled “How the Russia Inquiry Began:
A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political
Dirt”:
“…when leaked Democratic
emails began appearing
online, Australian officials
passed the information
about Mr. Papadopoulos to
their American counterparts,
according to four current
and former American and
foreign officials with direct
knowledge of the
Australians’ role.”
However — the problem with that account is
that the FBI informant had approached Trump
campaign adviser Carter Page before that email
release on July 22, 2016, and before the
Australians came forward with the information,
supposedly after that.
 Before this entire criminal campaign by the These criminals need to be put in prison if
deep state unravels it will likely change a the country is to survive.
few more times.

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 Informant Spied on Trump Campaign Before the FBI
Officially Began Its Probe
By Kristina Wong
18 May 2018
Current and former officials — apparently so
fearful that an FBI informant’s identity and
role would be outed by congressional
Republicans — confirmed both to the New
York Times and the Washington Post in an
attempt to offer their own narratives first.
Both outlets offered details that readily identify the
informant — but do not name him, citing concerns for his
safety and warnings from U.S. intelligence officials.
The details, however, match a person described in the
Daily Caller as Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor and
longtime Washington, D.C. fixture who worked for three
Republican administrations and has links to U.S. and
British intelligence.
The Times and Post are the first outlets claiming to have
confirmed his identity, and to describe him in such detail
as to match the description of Halper.
The accounts also indicate the FBI lied about when they
first began surveilling the Trump campaign, or might have
done so without any particular intelligence.
FBI officials have said they began investigating the Trump
administration on July 31, 2016, after stolen Democratic
National Committee emails released on July 22, 2016,
prompted Australian officials to come forward with
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information they received from Trump campaign adviser
George Papadopoulos months earlier.
Officials sold this version of events last year to the Times,
which wrote on December 31, 2017, in a piece titled “How
the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks
and Talk of Political Dirt”:
“…when leaked Democratic emails began
appearing online, Australian officials passed the
information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their
American counterparts, according to four
current and former American and foreign
officials with direct knowledge of the
Australians’ role.”
However — the problem with that account is that the FBI
informant had approached Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page before that email release on July 22, 2016, and before
the Australians came forward with the information.
The informant first approached Carter Page at a
Cambridge symposium on the U.S. presidential election in
London on July 11-12, 2016. Page was invited to the
symposium in June 2016 by an unnamed doctoral student
at Cambridge who knew Halper, according to a source.
That timeline — of Page being approached by the
informant before the Australian tip off — was confirmed
to the Post, which wrote:
“In mid-July 2016, a retired American professor
approached an adviser to Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign at a symposium about
the White House race held at a British
university.
“The professor took the opportunity to strike up
a conversation with Carter Page, whom Trump
had named a few months earlier as a foreign
policy adviser.
“But the professor was more than an academic
interested in American politics — he was a
longtime U.S. intelligence source. And, at some
point in 2016, he began working as a secret
 informant for the FBI as it investigated Russia’s
interference in the campaign, according to
people familiar with his activities.”
The timeline of events indicate that the current and former
officials lied about when their investigation of the Trump
campaign started, and why.
Some have speculated that former CIA Director John
Brennan had launched a spy operation on the Trump
campaign as early as April 2016, but it is not clear what
might have prompted him.
The leakers confirmed to the Times and the Post that the
informant had also reached out to Papadopoulos in the
ensuing months after he reached out to Page.
The Post revealed that the informant had also approached a
third Trump campaign adviser, Sam Clovis, offering help
to the campaign:
“In late summer, the professor met with Trump
campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis for coffee in
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Northern Virginia, offering to provide foreign-
policy expertise to the Trump effort. In
September, he reached out to George
Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign-policy adviser
for the campaign, inviting him to London to work
on a research paper.”
The Post notes the informant’s role raises questions about
how he first became involved in the case, the extent of the
information he provided, the actions he took to obtain
intelligence for the FBI, and whether his interaction with
Page was for the FBI or for another agency, such as the
CIA.
Details about the informant began leaking to the Times and
the Post after House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes inquired about the informant last month.
Officials initially went to the White House to try to stop
Nunes from receiving the information, according to the
Post. After first denying his request, last week, Justice
Department officials briefed Nunes and Rep. Trey Gowdy
(R-SC).
 Deep State FBI Informant Used Thousands In Cash To
Entice Papadopoulos To London
By Cristina Laila
May 19, 2018, 4:27 Pm
MORE LIES ON TOP OF LIES By the Deep
State and Liberal Democrat Media…
You can NEVER trust these filthy liars.
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 is now saying the spy embedded in
Trump’s camp wasn’t spying; he was there to protect
Trump from the Russians. Unbelievable.
This is an actual headline from The New York Times:
In the very same New York Times FBI puff
piece, it is revealed the Deep State informant
spy [Stefan Halper] lured in George
Papadopoulos with cash–$3,000 and a trip
to London.
George Papadopoulos
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Via The New York Times:
F.B.I. agents were seeking more details about
what Mr. Papadopoulos knew about the hacked
Democratic emails, and one month after their
Russia investigation began, Mr. Papadopoulos
received a curious message. The academic
inquired about his interest in writing a research
paper on a disputed gas field in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, a subject of Mr.
Papadopoulos’s expertise.
The informant offered a $3,000 honorarium
for the paper and a paid trip to London,
where the two could meet and discuss the
research project.
“I understand that this is rather sudden but
thought that given your expertise it might be of
interest to you,” the informant wrote in a
message to Mr. Papadopoulos, sent on Sept. 2,
2016.
Mr. Papadopoulos accepted the offer and arrived in
London two weeks later, where he met for several days
with the academic and one of his assistants, a young
woman.
Over drinks and dinner one evening at a high-end London
hotel, the F.B.I. informant raised the subject of the hacked
Democratic National Committee emails that had spilled
into public view earlier that summer, according to a person
familiar with the conversation. The source noted how
helpful they had been to the Trump campaign, and asked
Mr. Papadopoulos whether he knew anything about
Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential
election.
Mr. Papadopoulos replied that he had no insight into the
Russian campaign — despite being told months earlier that
the Russians had dirt on Mrs. Clinton in the form of
thousands of her emails. His response clearly annoyed the
informant, who tried to press Mr. Papadopoulos about
what he might know about the Russian effort, according to
the person.
According to the New York Times, Papadopoulos was paid The Deep State FBI started spying on the Trump campaign
for writing a research paper and never heard from the earlier than reported then used cash to induce a meeting
informant again. with Papadopoulos.

It was also reported the informant brought up Hillary’s The Obama FBI, DOJ, and DOJ was spying on Trump
hacked emails and the Russians again in a separate before they officially opened their investigation.
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.
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 POTUS Trump Calls Out Deep State Infiltration Of His
Campaign ‘This Is A Very Big Deal’
By Cristina Laila
May 19, 2018, 5:22 Pm

If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for

On Saturday evening, President Trump
blasted Obama’s Deep State FBI infiltration
of his presidential campaign, saying it’s a
really big deal.
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 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!

The New York Times is now saying the spy embedded in

Trump’s camp wasn’t spying; he was there to protect
Trump from the Russians. Unbelievable.

The Democrat-media complex is acting blase about one of

the biggest scandals in US political history in an effort to
downplay the seriousness.

Trump’s tweet from March of 2017 proves he

was right AGAIN about Obama spying on his
campaign:

The FBI infiltration of Trump’s camp is a very big deal. This is an actual headline from The New York Times:

This is a huge scandal and everyone involved must be

prosecuted.

Trump put the FBI and DOJ on notice. The House Intel
Committee and now the Senate Judiciary Committee are
both requesting unredacted Russia documents from the
DOJ which will give us many answers to how this whole
witch hunt began.

Trump tweeted:

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In the very same New York Times FBI puff piece, it is
revealed the Deep State informant spy [Stefan Halper]
lured in George Papadopoulos with cash–$3,000 and a trip
to London.
And here’s fake news WaPo trying to spin spin spin:
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The Deep State lies and lies and lies… And then lies some
more.
The Deep State FBI started spying on the Trump campaign
earlier than reported then used cash to induce a meeting
with Papadopoulos.
They Obama FBI, DOJ, and DOJ was spying on Trump
before they officially opened their investigation.
Because of this illegal spying and fake made up Russian
collusion hoax, Robert Mueller is costing taxpayers
millions of dollars as he roves around and raids anyone
connected to Trump.
This is an egregious abuse of power and taxpayer money.
Trump is right. This is a very big deal.
 Michael Avenatti Had A Terrible Week
Peter Hasson - Reporter
5:27 PM 05/19/2018
Michael Avenatti, lawyer for adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford,
also known as Stormy Daniels, speaks to the media outside the U.S.
District Court for the Central District of California after hearing
regarding Clifford's case against Donald J. Trump in Los Angeles,
California, April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Michael Avenatti had a rough week.
Avenatti represents porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal
battles against President Donald Trump and Trump’s
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. But Avenatti suffered a
series of public relations setbacks recently — in large part
due to his own behavior.
Avenatti’s questionable business
history uncovered
The Daily Caller News Foundation published an
investigation into Avenatti’s questionable business history
on Monday. Avenatti left a string of jilted partners and
vendors during his controversial time running Tully’s
Coffee chain, the investigation revealed. People who
worked with Avenatti described him to TheDCNF as
ruthless, greedy and unbothered by ethical questions.
Avenatti’s previous law firm, Eagan Avenatti LLP, filed
for bankruptcy after sinking into millions of dollars in
debt.
Avenatti threatens reporters who look
into his background
Avenatti on Monday threatened to sue TheDCNF’s
reporters personally for reporting on his history of
questionable business practices. Avenatti’s threats
.
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backfired, as reporters from establishment outlets like The
New York Times and The New Yorker defended the quality
of TheDCNF’s journalism and rebuked Avenatti for his
intimidation attempts. After TheDCNF published
Avenatti’s threats, reporters from three other outlets came
forward to say they had faced similar threats or
intimidation from the porn star’s lawyer.
California State Bar investigating Avenatti
The California State Bar opened an investigation into
Avenatti after Seattle attorney David Nold filed a
complaint against the porn star’s lawyer, Fox News
reported on Wednesday. Nold accused Avenatti of using
Tully’s for an illegal “pump and dump” scheme that Nold
claims defrauded the state and federal government of
millions of dollars.
Avenatti’s company fired a woman for
being pregnant — and still hasn’t paid
her court-ordered $120,000 settlement
Avenatti’s coffee chain fired a pregnant woman for being
pregnant, according to court documents reviewed by
TheDCNF in an investigation published Thursday. The
court awarded the victim $120,000 from two LLCs
controlled by Avenatti. The victim’s lawyer told
TheDCNF that she has yet to receive 1 cent.
Avenatti allegedly misses $2 million
payment
Avenatti on Monday missed a scheduled $2 million
payment to a former law partner, Jason Frank, according to
a lawsuit Frank filed in court Wednesday. The missed
payment was first reported by The Los Angeles Times on
Thursday. Avenatti had personally guaranteed the $2
million payment as the first installment of a $4.85 million
settlement with Frank. An arbitration panel found in
February 2017 that Avenatti’s law firm had “acted with
malice, oppression and fraud” and improperly withheld
millions of dollars owed to Frank, the Times reported.
“Avenatti has no valid excuse for failing to perform this
obligation,” according to Frank’s lawsuit.
 President Trump Calls For
Documents Regarding Campaign Infiltration
Virginia Kruta
6:36 PM 05/19/2018

President Trump on Saturday tweeted a call for the release

of documents regarding the FBI or DOJ “infiltrating” his
campaign after continued reports identified an intelligence
source within the Trump campaign. During the campaign, Halper met with Trump team
members Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Sam
Clovis
Trump echoed the call of several Republican lawmakers to
further scrutinize any role played by Stefan Halper, a President Trump signed off with the oft-
University of Cambridge professor who was connected to repeated “Drain the swamp!”
both British and American intelligence agencies. He
added that the possible infiltration of his campaign was “a
really big deal.”

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 LEAKER GOES SILENT: James Comey GOES SILENT
After News Breaks He Was Running Spies
Inside Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 7:06 Pm
In a SHOCKING admission on Wednesday
The New York Times reported the FBI
opened an investigation dubbed “Crossfire
Hurricane” into Trump’s campaign 100 days
before the Presidential election.
The FBI was spying on the opposition party’s campaign 100
days before the election. The spying was based on a phony
Russian dossier that was paid for by Democrats and Hillary
Clinton and by the hearsay of a low-level Trump campaign
official who was coached by FBI operatives on Russian
rumors.
Five agents, including Peter Strzok traveled
to London in the summer of 2016 to
interview with a diplomat after
Papadopoulos drunkenly claimed to
Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer
he knew who had Hillary’s emails.
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And the FBI informant used thousands of
dollars to entice Trump campaign official
Papadopoulos to London to set up
meetings.
Deep State opreatives released this
information to The New York Times for
Wednesday’s report.
The information was only leaked out after Congressional
investigators discovered this last week.
This is likely the biggest political scandal in
US history.
On Saturday the Washington Post started their defense of
the Deep State spying on the Republican campaign. Liberal
hack Asha Rangappa insisted the spying was meant to
protect Trump. That may be the most dishonest and
shameful headline of all time.
The New York Times insisted the spies inside the Trump
campaign were not there to spy.
So the corrupt liberal media continues to spin for the deep
state Democrat criminals.
But noticeably absent is the loundmouth and former FBI
Chief.
Leaker James Comey has gone dark. He has
not tweeted since the news broke that he
had a spy (at least one) inside the Trump
Campaign.
Comey has not tweeted since then.
Here is Comey’s last tweet — from May 10:
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 Donald Trump Jr. On Leaker Adam Schiff:
“I Think He’s Got Some Soul Searching To Do” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 8:22 Pm

election. The spying was based on a phony

Russian dossier that was paid for by
Democrats and Hillary Clinton and by the
hearsay of a low-level Trump campaign
official who was coached by FBI operatives
on Russian rumors.

And the FBI informant used thousands of

dollars to entice Trump campaign official
Papadopoulos to London to set up
meetings.

Don Jr. had this to say on leaker Adam Schiff:

Donald Trump Jr. went on with Jesse Watters on
Saturday night. This comes after the Senate Judiciary
Committee released more than 1,800 pages of transcripts
on Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian attorney at
the Trump Tower in June 2016.
“I think he’s got some soul-searching to do.
Look 99% of intelligent people believe he’s the
person leaking this.”

The documents offer more proof that Don Jr.’s account of Via Watters’ World:
the meeting – that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
used the opportunity to lobby against the Magnitsky Act,
prompting Trump, who had been promised dirt on Hillary
Clinton, to end the meeting after 20 minutes – was, in fact,
what happened.

This also comes after The New York Times

reported the FBI opened an investigation
dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” into Trump’s
campaign 100 days before the Presidential
election.

The FBI was spying on the opposition

party’s campaign 100 days before the
.

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 HUGE!… Judge Jeanine: Former AG Loretta Lynch Had
To Approve The FBI Informant Spying On The Trump
Campaign (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 8:52 Pm

I want you to remember that you heard it here

first. Any “collector,” their name for an informant
working on a national campaign, must have a
sign off by the Attorney General. Here that
would be liar Loretta Lynch. Lynch, herself,
would of have to have approved an informant
on that campaign. And if she didn’t then the FBI
under James Comey was even more corrupt,
going rogue in their attempt to destroy Donald
Trump.

Via Judge Jeanine Pirro:

Judge Jeanine Pirro dropped a BOMB on
her show Saturday night.

Judge Jeanine said former Attorney General

Loretta Lynch must have signed off on
approval for the FBI informant in London.

This informant then spied on the Trump campaign and met

with at least three Trump campaign advisers.

That’s huge!

Judge Jeanine:

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 PREACH IT!… Judge Jeanine:
JEFF SESSIONS Is The Most Dangerous Person In
The US Government Today! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 19, 2018, 10:23 Pm

This man’s done nothing to create confidence that wrong

doers will be accountable, answerable. He’s done nothing
to create confidence on the part of the American people in
our system of justice.

For months we have argued that Jeff

Sessions is dangerous. In November 2017
we called him the modern day Benedict
Arnold for not investigating Obama and
Clinton’s Uranium One scandal.

Tonight Judge Jeanine stated that Sessions

is the most dangerous person in the corrupt In March 2018, we listed the following 12 reasons why
Deep State. AG Sessions should be removed from office now –

On her weekly show on FOX News, Judge Jeanine in her
opening statement said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions
is the most dangerous person in the US government (at the
1:50 mark in video below) –
But what ladies and gentlemen is
unmistakable in all of this is that the single
most dangerous person to the agenda of
President Trump, the Republican Party and
ultimately all Americans, is the Attorney
General of the United States himself, Jeff
Sessions.
1. After accepting the AG job, the next day Sessions
recused himself from everything Russia and turned
over the US AG Office to the deep state. We now know
that the law he quoted to recuse himself was the wrong
law and was provided by Obama attorneys.
2. Corrupt and criminal Rod Rosenstein is now running
the AG Office, not Sessions. Rosenstein is connected
to the Uranium One scandal. When asked, Sessions
stated to Congress that Asst AG Rosenstein can
investigate himself in a Uranium One criminal probe.

The man has done nothing to make anyone responsible for

the blatant corruption, the unmistakable perjury, the in-
your-face obstruction of our laws that we’ve seen play out
every day. He has fought the release of telling documents
that would put an end to this horrible period in America’s
political history. Documents that would make clear that
the criminals in this attempt to overthrow an American
President. He’s even argued that he doesn’t want to
release records of Hillary because she’s now a private
citizen.

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 3. It took Sessions months to fire FBI criminal Andy
McCabe finally on Friday evening [March 16]. McCabe
should have been fired months ago. Maybe he wasn’t
fired sooner because McCabe threatened to take
others down with him.
4. Corrupt and criminal Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are
still employed by the FBI [as of March 18th the date of
this initial post – Lisa Page has subsequently resigned
from the FBI, but Strzok is still employed]. They have
numerous text messages that show criminal and
corrupt actions related to the Hillary email scandal,
FISA abuse and the Mueller investigation. Most
recently, texts were uncovered by Congress that show
they had a relationship with the FISA Court judge who
sentenced General Flynn and later was recused. They
should not be employed, they should be in jail!
5. Robert Mueller’s criminal and corrupt witch hunt is still
in place. It was created on a lie and is still in place after
millions of wasted tax payer money. The Mueller
investigation is criminal but Sessions won’t shut it
down. Mueller is best friends with former FBI Director
James Comey and he won’t recuse himself. This
investigation is a farce.
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6. Mueller’s entire team is made up of the likes of Strzok
and Page. It’s a witch-hunt. The entire team is corrupt
and criminal. They should all be in jail.
7. Hillary is still walking around – in India no less [in
March 2018]. Her email fiasco was criminal. Much
evidence shows that she was let go before even being
interviewed. She destroyed evidence and obstructed
justice but she walks free. There is no investigation
from AG Sessions to date covering the criminal
Clintons.
8. Uranium One and the sale of 20% of US uranium is yet
to be investigated by AG Sessions. This is the real
Russia collusion and Sessions won’t touch it.
9. Joe Biden and John Kerry are now embroiled in
another Obama – Clinton related play for pay scheme
with China. The AG is nowhere to be found.
10. James Clapper, the former disgraced NSA Director
was allowed to walk this past week [in mid-March 2018]
after lying under oath to Congress due to the statute of
limitations. His lying was depicted in the movie
“Snowden”.
11. The IRS scandal under Obama involved Mueller and
yet Sessions has done nothing to address turning the
other way rather than seeking justice.
12. Every day the DOJ and FBI are delaying evidence
being requested by Congress or Judicial Watch.
Names are redacted for no reason other than to cover
up Deep State crimes. Sessions allows this and his
actions arguably show he is behind it.
The country and the President deserve
justice and a strong AG. Jeff Sessions is the
opposite. His actions are abysmal and non-
existent. America needs justice now. Jeff
Sessions must go!
 So Much Winning! Earth Has Cooled
Half A Degree Since Trump Election (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 1:17 Am

Thank you President Trump!

Sky News Australia this week announced
that Mother Earth has cooled by half a Via Jack Posobiec:
degree since Donald Trump was elected
President of the United States.

Maybe it’s all the clean coal?

Rowan Dean told his audience on Saturday the Earth has

cooled 0.454 degrees Celsius since Donald Trump got
elected.

It’s true. Watts Up With That reported: From February

2016 to February 2018, “global average temperatures
dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius.” That, he notes, is the
biggest two-year drop in the past century.
.

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 Who Is Stefan Halper?
U.S. Cambridge Professor Named As FBI's
Russia Probe Secret Source
By Tom Porter
5/20/18 At 6:24 AM
A Cambridge University professor has been named as the
FBI’s informant in their probe into alleged collaboration
between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team and
Russia.
Stefan Halper has been identified by multiple media
outlets as the source tasked by the FBI with collecting
information about the Russian connections of Trump
campaign officials Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
Halper has been dragged into the center of the battle
between the Trump administration and the FBI over the
Russia probe, with Trump alleging that the Obama
administration planted a mole in his campaign to derail his
presidential bid, and U.S. government officials denying
that the source was part of the campaign and its use of the
informant was not improper.
Top GOP officials have reportedly been pushing for the
FBI to name the source, who the New York Times reported
Friday is an American academic who teaches in Britain.
.
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Halper, 73, was reportedly chosen as an informant because
of his connections with former Trump campaign chairman
Paul Manafort, who was indicted by Robert Mueller’s
probe into Russian collusion for money laundering and
bank fraud. (Manafort denies the charges.)
A U.S. citizen with doctorates from Oxford and
Cambridge, Halper served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan
administrations before becoming a fellow of Magdalene
College, Cambridge, where he is a Senior Fellow of the
Centre of International Studies.
He was also a consultant on Russia and China policy
issues to an internal Pentagon think tank known as the
Office of Net Assessment, according to public records
cited by NBC News.
In the 1980s, he was reportedly involved in a spying
operation for the Reagan campaign that involved agents
passing classified foreign policy documents from the
Carter White House to the Republican candidate's team.
Halper reportedly flew Trump foreign policy aide
Papadopoulos to London and quizzed him on alleged
Russian efforts to boost the Trump campaign and
undermine Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton.
Page told NBC that he met with Halper and did not find
his encounters with the cademic concerning. Papadopoulos
has not commented publicly on the reports, though sources
close to him told the network that Papadopoulos had met
with Halper in 2016.
Halper has not responded to a request for comment from
Newsweek.
 On PBS, Mark Shields Says House Intelligence Committee
Is Led By 'Outrageous Adolescents'
By Tim Graham
May 20, 2018 7:49 AM EDT

PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff asked her regular "Yes, I don’t disagree with that. I would just
Friday pundits David Brooks and Mark Shields to evaluate say, I observe politically, I do think if Trump
the Robert Mueller probe after a year. Shields, for his part, fired Mueller tomorrow, the Republican
took out a verbal baseball bat and began attacking House Party would back him. Because I think Fox
Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes as not only News has created a predicate. They have
stupid and immature, but as the 21st century equivalent of done thousands of surveys and
Joe McCarthy: investigations about Mueller as a political
operative."
None of these people noticed CBS News did a poll and
found a majority view the Mueller probe as politically
motivated.
Brooks gave the first analysis on this subject, which was
milder than Shields, but also ignored any new
developments in the last 48 hours about Obama's
government spying on the Trump campaign.
MARK SHIELDS: What we do know, Judy,
BROOKS: What we have learned is that it’s
is that the Senate Intelligence Committee
a pretty broad-ranging investigation.
is composed of grownups and led by
There’s a lot of dirty businesses, a lot of
Senator Burr and Senator Warner, and
guilty pleas already, a lot of people brought
they deserve credit. The House
under indictment. So it’s a real
Intelligence Committee is led by just
investigation, investigating what looks like
outrageous adolescents who are about
real crimes.
as deep as a birdbath.
As for the collusion charge, we know there were many
At the same time, I think what we learned is that the
more meetings between the Trump people and the
defense of Donald Trump, led by himself and Rudy
Russians than we thought before. There was a meeting in
Giuliani, is to savage and torment, denigrate, vilify and
Trump Tower. And so there’s clearly more smoke there
libel Bob Mueller. Bob Mueller happens to be an
than we knew before a year ago. What we don’t have is
American who turned down an eight-figure income to be a
actual evidence of real collusion, and particularly by an
major corporate lawyer, instead became a public servant.
awareness of the president himself. That may be still out
He’s a man who volunteered and carries the wounds of
there, but that part, we still don’t have.
battle from having been a Marine platoon leader in
Vietnam. He is a public servant. The Mueller section comes at the very end of the segment:
He has not said a word. He has not given an interview. He
has not leaked to anybody. And he stands vilified by
Trump and Giuliani and their cohorts and their outriders. It
is indefensible.
And they are trying to exact the same
damage upon the Justice Department of
the country, the FBI and this country
that Joe McCarthy did on the State
Department, which has never fully
recovered from his libelous attacks.
Someone who imagines Brooks as a civil centrist might
think he would find this analysis too vicious. Wrong. As
usual, David Brooks chimed in with
.
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SHOCK REPORT: New Evidence Of Foreign Government
Meddling In 2016 Election Finally Uncovered — But It
Was From The UK – Not Russia!
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 8:42 Am
Far left VOX provided a list of those indicted by Mueller
in February –
New evidence proves that a foreign
government meddled in the 2016 US
Election. But the government identified is
the UK, not Russia!
After more than a year of the Mueller investigation,
millions of dollars and the Mainstream Media’s (MSM)
relentless attack on President Trump, what do we have?
Nothing really.
President Trump tweeting in February that if the goal of
Russia was to create discord in the US then they have
succeeded. “They are laughing their asses off in Moscow.
Get smart America!”
Since this tweet, the Russia fairy tale has
fallen apart! Corrupt Mueller and his team of
conflicted, biased and corrupt investigators
and attorneys have found nothing related to
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their target, President Trump, and now their
indictments are unraveling.
1) George Papadopoulos, former Trump
campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty
in October to making false statements to the
FBI.
2) Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national
security adviser, pleaded guilty in December to
making false statements to the FBI.
3) Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign
chair, was indicted in October in Washington,
DC on charges of conspiracy, money
laundering, false statements, and failure to
disclose foreign assets — all related to his work
for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the
Trump campaign. He’s pleaded not guilty on all
counts. Then, in February, Mueller filed a new
case against him in Virginia, with tax, financial,
and bank fraud charges.
4) Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide
and Manafort’s longtime junior business
partner, was indicted on similar charges to
Manafort. But he has now agreed to a plea deal
with Mueller’s team, pleading guilty to just one
false statements charge and one conspiracy
charge.
5-20) 13 Russian nationals and three
Russian companies were indicted on
conspiracy charges, with some also being
accused of identity theft. The charges related to
a Russian propaganda effort designed to
interfere with the 2016 campaign. The
companies involved are the Internet Research
Agency, often described as a “Russian troll
farm,” and two other companies that helped
finance it. The Russian nationals indicted
 include 12 of the agency’s employees and its
alleged financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
21) Richard Pinedo: This California man
pleaded guilty to an identity theft charge in
connection with the Russian indictments, and
has agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
22) Alex van der Zwaan: This London lawyer
pleaded guilty to making false statements to the
FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates and
another unnamed person based in Ukraine.
The Russians
The largest group in the above list, the 13 Russians and 3
Russian Company’s, indicted by Mueller were expected to
be no-shows as their court cases arrived. Some people
believe that the 13 Russians listed in the indictment are not
even real people. They’re certainly nowhere to be found
and no doubt never will come forward, even if they were
real.
In this past week’s case involving one of the company’s
listed by Mueller, Concord Management, Mueller’s
attorney Jeannie Rhee (who previously represented the
Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton) suggested that the
Russians indicted by the Mueller team worked for Concord
Management. But the attorneys for Concord management
stated that they never have worked for their client.
Mueller’s corrupt and conflicted attorney Rhee also was
put on the spot when Concord Management’s attorneys
noted that the second company indicted by the Mueller
team, Concord Catering, was not in existence at the time
Mueller’s team alleged they committed crimes (others
suggest their crime may really be too much Russian
Dressing on a tossed salad).
Concord Management’s attorneys noted that the Facebook
posts identified by Mueller’s team were all in Russian and
Rhee and her team admitted having not translated them to
English (so who knows what they said or how they
somehow helped President Trump win the election?).
Overall it is becoming clear that Mueller’s indictments of
the Russia individuals and entities supposedly impacting
the election are a farce and therefore these cases may
likely be tossed just like the salad mentioned above.
General Flynn
General Flynn’s case is also falling apart. The original
judge overseeing the Flynn case, Judge Rudolph Contreras,
was recused and we still do not know why or by whom?
Contreras is also a FISA Court Judge and he may have
signed off on the FISA warrant to spy on the General in
the first place. He also is a friend of former Mueller team
members, the corrupt Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. In their
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text messages, they text about meeting with the judge for
dinner.
The new judge overseeing the case has asked Mueller’s
team to provide all information to the General that he
apparently was not provided when he plead guilty to lying
to the Mueller team. The FBI agents who interviewed
General Flynn stated that they did not believe he lied! It’s
looking more and more like the General was set up and his
case will be tossed as well.
Paul Manafort
Manafort was indicted for two cases. The first case is
being prosecuted in Washington DC. Manafort is being
charged with not filling out some forms in prior years
starting in 2005. Clearly these indictments have nothing to
do with Russian collusion in the 2016 election.
Manafort challenged the case by challenging the legality of
Mueller’s investigation. He claimed that his case should
be tossed because the investigation is not constitutional.
When Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein set up
the investigation he did not have a crime and he set the
scope of Mueller’s work way too big, basically claiming
that Mueller could look into anything he wanted. Both of
these claims were valid.
However, the judge overseeing Manafort’s first case is
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee. Judge
Jackson has a horrible record and has seen her verdicts
overturned by the Supreme Court. She tossed Manafort’s
plea.
Judge Jackson should be impeached and there may be
support for this as the Judge of Manafort’s second case
challenged the Mueller team on exactly the above two
points. Also, the Chairman of the US Senate’s Judiciary
Committee, Chuck Grassley, late last week sent a set of
questions on this very point to Rosenstein to answer.
Manafort’s second case is another fruadulent case.
Manafort obtained loans to pay his attorney fees by using
some of his properties as collateral. Mueller’s team
charged that the amounts on the fair value of the properties
were not accurate and therefore charged him with bank
fraud. This case was moved to Virginia per Manafort’s
option and a good thing. The DC courts are filled with
Obama crooks (i.e. Contreras, Jackson, etc.).
Judge T. S. Ellis III oversees Manafort’s case in Virginia.
According to FOX News in early May –
A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied
about the scope of the investigation, are seeking
“unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing
down the president.
Judge Ellis has also requested an un-redacted scope
document from Mueller’s team and he received it on
Friday. Based on recent events this case may be tossed.
Of the other individuals indicted by Mueller, they all
appear to have been coerced into pleas in a manner similar
to the way they worked over General Flynn.
As the Russia meddling into the 2016 US
election unwinds, the meddling by the UK, is
becoming surprisingly more apparent.
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
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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. 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,
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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.
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!
 Records Show FBI ‘Informant’ Stefan Halper Was Paid
$282,000 In 2016 For Spying On Trump —
And Another $129,280 In 2017
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 9:25 Am
It has been widely reported that the Obama administration
had a spy working inside the Trump campaign.
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As previously reported internet sleuths have determined
who the FBI spy was inside the Trump campaign.
Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a
piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan
Halper 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).
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.
Internet sleuth Jacob Wohl discovered that Stefan Halper
was paid $282,295 in September 2016 for “research and
development in the social sciences and humanities.”
This is important because Halper enticed young George
Papadopoulos to London with the promise of thousands of
dollars for his assistance.
Wohl also tweeted that Halper was the same person who
invited George Papadopolous to London, where he just so
happened to sit down next to that infamous Australian
“Diplomat” (who also worked with the Clinton
Foundation) and Halper also lured Carter Page into
compromising situations involving “Russians”.
Another Twitter sleuth identified a second payment to
Halper in the amount of $129,280 making the total
payments to Halper more than $400,000 from President
Obama’s Administration to spy on the future President of
the United States.
Deplorable Lori found that the Deep State
paid Stefan Halper made an additional
$129,280 in 2017 for additional work.
 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.

Being a Deep State spy definitely has its

perks.

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BOOM! Devin Nunes: If FBI Paid To Spy On Trump “It’s
Absolute Red Line! It’s Over With!… No Honest American
Will Stand For This!” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 10:03 Am

Devin Nunes told Maria Bartiromo if this is true,

“It’s over!”

Rep. Devin Nunes:

If any of that is true, if they ran a spy ring or an

Rep. Devin Nunes (D-CA) joined Maria Bartiromo on
Sunday Morning Futures to discuss the latest
developments in the Deep State interference in the 2016
US elections.
It has been widely reported that the Obama administration
had a spy working inside the Trump campaign.
informant ring and they were paying people
within the Trump campaign, if any of that is true
that is an absolute red line. There’s not and
honest person in this country who could believe
that taxpayer dollars going to fund this ring and
operate like this what is said in The New York
Times that has quite a bit of detail on it, if any of
that is true it’s a red line in this country. You
can’t do this to political campaigns. According to
them this was done in the spring before the
counter-intelligence was even open. If that’s
true, we need to know about it… If they paid
someone it’s an absolute red line and this is
over with!”

As previously reported internet sleuths have determined

Via Sunday Morning Futures:
who the FBI spy was inside the Trump campaign.

Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a

piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan
Halper 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).

It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.

Stefan Halper was paid a total of $411,575 in
2016 and 2017 for work with the US
government that included his work spying on
the Trump campaign.

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 Trump’s Fed Up With Mueller
‘Scam,’ Blasts Fbi For Ignoring Hillary
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:12 Am 05/20/2018

President Donald Trump railed against special counsel

Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation and the FBI for not
investigating alleged crimes by his former opponent
Hillary Clinton in a series of Sunday morning tweets.

Trump has been particularly incensed in recent days and

appears to be reacting to a recent story from The New York
Times detailing alleged attempts by other foreign
governments to influence the 2016 presidential election.

The NYT story detailed a meeting between Donald Trump

Jr. and a group of emissaries from the Middle East eager to
help Trump win the presidential election.

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 TRUMP SUNDAY TWEETSTORM! — POTUS Goes
After Criminal Podesta Brothers, Deep State, 13 Angry
Democrats, Crooked Hillary…
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 10:41 Am

President Donald Trump went on an epic
Sunday morning tweetstorm today.
This comes after news of the Obama Deep
State spying on the Trump campaign in 2016
with paid informants.
President Trump went after the Podesta
brothers, Crooked Hillary and the corrupt
Deep State and Mueller team.
President Donald Trump:
got $145,000,000 while Secretary of State, paid
McCabes wife $700,000 (and got off the FBI
hook along with Terry M) and so much more.
Republicans and real Americans should start
getting tough on this Scam. Now that the Witch
Hunt has given up on Russia and is looking at
the rest of the World, they should easily be able
to take it into the Mid-Term Elections where
they can put some hurt on the Republican
Party. Don’t worry about Dems FISA Abuse,
missing Emails or Fraudulent Dossier! What
ever happened to the Server, at the center of so
much Corruption, that the Democratic National
Committee REFUSED to hand over to the hard
charging (except in the case of Democrats)
FBI? They broke into homes & offices early in
the morning, but were afraid to take the Server?
And why hasn’t the Podesta brother been
charged and arrested, like others, after being
forced to close down his very large and
successful firm? Is it because he is a VERY well
connected Democrat working in the Swamp of
Washington, D.C.?
President Trump started his tirade last night.

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! Things are really getting ridiculous.
The Failing and Crooked (but not as Crooked
as Hillary Clinton) @nytimes has done a long &
boring story indicating that the World’s most
expensive Witch Hunt has found nothing on
Russia & me so now they are looking at the rest President Trump continued this morning.
of the World! At what point does this soon to be
$20,000,000 Witch Hunt, composed of 13 Angry
and Heavily Conflicted Democrats and two
people who have worked for Obama for 8
years, STOP! They have found no Collussion
with Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren’t
looking at the corruption in the Hillary Clinton
Campaign where she deleted 33,000 Emails,
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 Donald Trump Jr. Slams Adam Schiff
— ‘He’s Got Some Soul Searching To Do’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:57 AM 05/20/2018
Donald Trump Jr. blasted Democratic “McCarthyism” and
said Rep. Adam Schiff was a leaker on Fox News’
“Watters’ World” Saturday.
WATCH:
Host Jesse Waters asked,
“You see the Democratic senators, ‘This is
McCarthyism.’ I’m like what? You have a
guy that’s been screaming Russia, Russia,
Russia, with no evidence, obvious
.
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collusion, all this shade, for 18 months,
screaming about McCarthyism? I mean,
The irony is ridiculous at this point,” Trump
Jr. said.
“One of the people that’s been giving you a
hard time is Schiff, one of the House
Intelligence Committee minority leaders,
Democrat. What would you like to say to
Adam Schiff right now?”
“I think he’s got some soul searching to
do,” Trump Jr. responded. “He’s been out
there–99 percent of intelligent people
believe he’s the person leaking this. When I
did my testimony to his committee, it was
supposed to be behind closed doors. It was
supposed to be secret. We get done at
7:00 at night, I go, and starting at 12:00 in
my Twitter feed I’m reading about verbatim,
what’s going on in the room.”
 Devin Nunes: If DOJ Has
Nothing To Hide, ‘Show Us The Documents’
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:07 AM 05/20/2018

Nunes hit back on claims that he was trying to leak the

identity of an FBI informant who was found to be spying
on the Trump campaign, and said deep state actors are
keeping requested documents from his committee.

“I can tell you that nobody was ever

interested in an informant,” Nunes
asserted. “We asked for specific
Rep. Devin Nunes Calls Out FBI (Fox News: May 20, 2018) documents that we still have not received
from the Department of Justice. So they
continue to leak out things about this
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
informant and we don’t know if there is one
criticized the Department of Justice on Fox News Sunday
informant of more informants because
for failing to provide him with documents related to the
there’s so much out there now.”
Russia investigation.

The California congressman added that he is still working

WATCH:
on uncovering the role of the Steele dossier in the DOJ
obtaining FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.

“We have a right to get the information,” he

said. “If James Comey and many others
and people who are currently at the
Department of Justice today continue to
say there’s nothing to see here — well, if
there’s nothing to see here, show us the
documents we’re asking for.”

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 Devin Nunes Draws A ‘Red Line’
On Spies Targeting Trump Campaign
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
11:19 AM 05/20/2018
Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes said on Fox
News Sunday that if spies were targeting the Trump
campaign, then it is an “absolute red line.”
WATCH:
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“If they ran a spy ring or an informant ring
and they were paying people within the
Trump campaign–if any of that is true, that
is an absolute red line.”
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reported that Stefan
Halper, a professor and former CIA spy, was spying on
advisers to candidate Trump’s campaign.
Most critically, it looks like Halper’s surveillance of the
Trump campaign started before the FBI opened an
investigation, apparently due to George Papadopoulos
bragging about Russian information on Hillary Clinton.
“If they paid someone, it’s an absolute red
line, and this is over with,” Nunes also said.
“There is no possible way, that we should
be allowing, even if it was legal, we should
never allow this in this country. Congress
should not allow for anything like this to
ever occur again to any political campaign,
if it in fact happened.”
 BREAKING: President Trump To Order DOJ Investigate
Alleged Spying On His Campaign By Obama Admin
By Kristinn Taylor
May 20, 2018, 12:44 Pm

Screen image for posterity:

Trump’s order is the culmination of a Sunday

tweet storm about alleged spying on his
campaign and the failure of the Jeff Sessions-
led Justice Department to drain the swamp.

Previous TGP report: TRUMP SUNDAY

President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is
ordering the Justice Department to investigate whether the
Obama administration spied on his 2016 presidential
campaign. The order comes on the heels of leaks to the
New York Times and Washington Post that the Obama
administration had an “informant” make several
approaches to three Trump campaign officials, included
one that involved an offer of cash and another an offer to
“advise” the campaign.
TWEETSTORM! — POTUS Goes After
Criminal Podesta Brothers, Deep State, 13
Angry Democrats, Crooked Hillary…
CNBC’s John Harwood responded on behalf of the
swamp,
“Trump’s most consequential interference in our
system of justice since he fired the FBI director
who was investigating him”

“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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Once Again=> TRAITOR JEFF SESSIONS IS AWOL As
Trump Goes On Offense Against Deep
State Campaign Spies!
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 12:56 Pm
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
President Donald Trump announced Sunday
afternoon that he will make an official
request to the AWOL Attorney General on
Monday to investigate the Obama Deep
State spies who infiltrated his 2016
presidential campaign.
“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!”
Trump should not have had to do this.
This was the duty of his Attorney General.
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But, once again, Jeff Sessions is AWOL.
For months we have argued that Jeff
Sessions is dangerous. In November 2017
we called him the modern day Benedict
Arnold for not investigating Obama and
Clinton’s Uranium One scandal.
Saturday night Judge Jeanine stated that
Sessions is the most dangerous person in
the corrupt Deep State.
On her weekly show on FOX News, Judge Jeanine in her
opening statement said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions
is the most dangerous person in the US government (at the
1:50 mark in video below) –
But what ladies and gentlemen is
unmistakable in all of this is that the single
most dangerous person to the agenda of
President Trump, the Republican Party and
ultimately all Americans, is the Attorney
General of the United States himself, Jeff
Sessions.
The man has done nothing to make anyone responsible for
the blatant corruption, the unmistakable perjury, the in-
your-face obstruction of our laws that we’ve seen play out
every day. He has fought the release of telling documents
that would put an end to this horrible period in America’s
political history. Documents that would make clear that
the criminals in this attempt to overthrow an American
President. He’s even argued that he doesn’t want to
release records of Hillary because she’s now a private
citizen.
This man’s done nothing to create confidence that wrong
doers will be accountable, answerable. He’s done nothing
to create confidence on the part of the American people in
our system of justice.
In March 2018, we listed the following 12 reasons why
AG Sessions should be removed from office now –
1. After accepting the AG job, the next day Sessions
recused himself from everything Russia and turned
over the US AG Office to the deep state. We now know
that the law he quoted to recuse himself was the wrong
law and was provided by Obama attorneys.
2. Corrupt and criminal Rod Rosenstein is now running
the AG Office, not Sessions. Rosenstein is connected
to the Uranium One scandal. When asked, Sessions
stated to Congress that Asst AG Rosenstein can
investigate himself in a Uranium One criminal probe.
3. It took Sessions months to fire FBI criminal Andy
McCabe finally on Friday evening [March 16]. McCabe
should have been fired months ago. Maybe he wasn’t
fired sooner because McCabe threatened to take
others down with him.
4. Corrupt and criminal Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are
still employed by the FBI [as of March 18th the date of
this initial post – Lisa Page has subsequently resigned
from the FBI, but Strzok is still employed]. They have
numerous text messages that show criminal and
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corrupt actions related to the Hillary email scandal,
FISA abuse and the Mueller investigation. Most
recently, texts were uncovered by Congress that show
they had a relationship with the FISA Court judge who
sentenced General Flynn and later was recused. They
should not be employed, they should be in jail!
5. Robert Mueller’s criminal and corrupt witch hunt is still
in place. It was created on a lie and is still in place after
millions of wasted tax payer money. The Mueller
investigation is criminal but Sessions won’t shut it
down. Mueller is best friends with former FBI Director
James Comey and he won’t recuse himself. This
investigation is a farce.
6. Mueller’s entire team is made up of the likes of Strzok
and Page. It’s a witch-hunt. The entire team is corrupt
and criminal. They should all be in jail.
7. Hillary is still walking around – in India no less [in
March 2018]. Her email fiasco was criminal. Much
evidence shows that she was let go before even being
interviewed. She destroyed evidence and obstructed
justice but she walks free. There is no investigation
from AG Sessions to date covering the criminal
Clintons.
8. Uranium One and the sale of 20% of US uranium is yet
to be investigated by AG Sessions. This is the real
Russia collusion and Sessions won’t touch it.
9. Joe Biden and John Kerry are now embroiled in
another Obama – Clinton related play for pay scheme
with China. The AG is nowhere to be found.
10. James Clapper, the former disgraced NSA Director
was allowed to walk this past week [in mid-March 2018]
after lying under oath to Congress due to the statute of
limitations. His lying was depicted in the movie
“Snowden”.
11. The IRS scandal under Obama involved Mueller and
yet Sessions has done nothing to address turning the
other way rather than seeking justice.
12. Every day the DOJ and FBI are delaying evidence
being requested by Congress or Judicial Watch.
Names are redacted for no reason other than to cover
 up Deep State crimes. Sessions allows this and his opposite. His actions are abysmal and non-
actions arguably show he is behind it. existent. America needs justice now. Jeff
Sessions must go!
The country and the President deserve
justice and a strong AG. Jeff Sessions is the
.

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 Alan Dershowitz: Mueller Probe,
FBI Full Of ‘Republicans Who Hated Trump’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
1:16 PM 05/20/2018

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that Robert
Mueller’s legal team and the FBI are full of “long-term
Republicans who hated Trump” on ABC’s “This Week”
Sunday.
WATCH:
“Alan’s been consistent on the issue about
the law over the years. And I respect that.
But the notion that the special counsel can’t
view this objectively, that Robert Mueller is
somehow, what, Robert Mueller is so
compromised? Which way? A long-time
Republican? Why can’t Robert Mueller be
the one to assess whether there are any
crimes here?”
“First of all, this long-term Republican–
Comey was a long-term Republican.
They’re all long-term Republicans who
hated Trump,” Dershowitz said.

Abrams shot back,

“You know that Mueller hated Trump?”

“You won’t have any doubt about that at
Mediaite founder Dan Abrams said, the end,” Dershowitz said.

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 FLASHBACK=> Barack Obama: I Guarantee There Is No
Political Influence In Any Investigation By DOJ Or FBI.
Full Stop. Period.
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 1:27 Pm

Since that interview the Obama FBI under

the leadership of James Comey pardoned
hardened criminal Hillary Clinton.

AG Loretta Lynch approved spying on the

Trump campaign.

The Obama deep state infiltrated the Trump

campaign with spies.

Oh… And the Obama IRS was found guilty

of targeting conservative and Tea Party
groups.
This didn’t age well.

Barack Obama went on with Chris Wallace on FOX News

Sunday on April 10, 2016.

During the interview the far left president told Chris

Wallace there is no political influence in the Obama FBI
and DOJ.

“I guarantee that there is no political influence in

any investigation conducted by the Justice
Department or the FBI, not just in this case but
in any case. Full stop. Period.”

Obama’s claim first resurfaced in February after text

messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress
Lisa Page revealed Obama’s possible involvement with
two FBI investigations near the end of his presidency.

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 Trump To Order Investigation
Into FBI/DOJ Surveillance Of His Campaign
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
1:55 PM 05/20/2018

President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that he is The president’s tweet comes after numerous reports of a
planning to order an investigation into the Department of spy monitoring the Trump campaign in 2016, before the
Justice’s surveillance of his campaign. FBI opened an official investigation.

Trump said: The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reported that the reported
description of the spy matches with Stefan Halper, a
Cambridge professor and former CIA spy.

Rep. Devin Nunes said on Fox News Sunday that a spy in

the Trump campaign would be an “absolute red line.”

“There is no possible way, that we should

be allowing, even if it was legal, we should
never allow this in this country. Congress
should not allow for anything like this to
ever occur again to any political campaign,
if it in fact happened,” Nunes said.
.

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 What? Ben Shapiro Defends FBI
Deep State Spy Inside Trump Campaign
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 2:03 Pm

Shapiro tweeted:

Why? If campaign aides were meeting with

Russian cut outs and then bragging about it
(see Papadapolous), why would it be
scandalous for an informant to meet with him?

Never trust never Trump.

Ben Shapiro defended the FBI’s spy campaign against

President Trump this week saying it would not be
scandalous for an informant to meet with campaign aides
who were talking to Russians.

President Trump took to his Twitter account this week

after the New York Times rolled out their FBI puff piece
admitting at least one informant was embedded in Trump’s
campaign.
Trump tweeted:
Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI
representative implanted, for political purposes,
into my campaign for president. It took place
very early on, and long before the phony Russia
Hoax became a “hot” Fake News story. If true –
all time biggest political scandal!
Shapiro slammed Trump again saying the
FBI would have been remiss not to
investigate.
Shapiro tweeted: Several things can be true at once:
1. There was no collusion.
2. There was willingness to collude by Papadapolous,
Trump Jr., and possibly Manafort.
3. FBI would have been remiss not to investigate, even if
it eventually came up empty.
4. Post-election leaks are scandalous.

Ben Shapiro attacked the President and

defended the Deep State spy embedded in
Trump’s campaign.
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Ben Shapiro is defending the FBI informant who used cash
to entice Papadopoulos to London.

Ben Shapiro is defending Obama’s FBI even though they

were spying on Trump before they opened the
investigation.

Certainly Ben Shapiro agrees there should

have been an informant embedded in
Hillary’s campaign as well. Hillary’s
campaign met with Ukrainians during the
election to get dirt on Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s aides met with Ukrainian

government officials and journalists
specifically to dig up dirt on team Trump.
The information gathered was then sent to
the DNC and Hillary’s camp.

Ben Shapiro got slammed on Twitter.

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 This Has Not Aged Well:
Jake Tapper Condemns President Trump For Accusing
Obama Of Spying On His Campaign (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 2:30 Pm

Tapper continued:

If McCarthyism is defined as making wild

accusations without any evidence, the only
thing that were McCarthyism were the
president’s tweets.

Of course, now we know that Trump was absolutely

correct and that the Obama administration was not only
spying on Trump Tower but they even implanted a spy
into his campaign.

This didn’t age well. Sorry Jake Tapper.

Via Ryan Saavedra:

Jake Tapper lambasted the American public
in 2017 for believing Obama spied on
Trump.

Jake Tapper: We noticed some numbers that alarmed us

today. They appeared in an ABC-Washington Post poll.
Showing a shockingly high percentage of Americans
believe President Obama intentionally spied on Donald
Trump and members of his campaign.

This was after President Trump accused Barack Obama of

spying on Trump Tower.

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 Trump Campaign Spy’s Past Exposed:
Worked To Flip Past Pres. Election Too As Cia Spook
By Benjamin Arie
May 20, 2018 At 2:35pm
The political scandal of the decade is brewing in
Washington, D.C., and it may leave President Donald
Trump in a very different position than his enemies wish:
Not destroyed, but largely vindicated.
Details have finally started to emerge about an
establishment-led effort to plant a “mole” within the
Trump campaign, and evidence is beginning to mount that
its goal was to undermine and derail his run for office.
The facts are suggesting something chillingly sinister: A
government operative directed by the Obama-run FBI
purposely infiltrated the campaign of a candidate with the
training and background needed to destabilize elections.
In a detailed piece published by The Intercept,
investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald summarized the
scandal and gave a blow-by-blow account of how its
beginning to unravel.
“Over the past several weeks, House
Republicans have been claiming that the
FBI, during the 2016 election, used an
operative to spy on the Trump campaign,
and they triggered outrage within the FBI
by trying to learn his identity,” he explained.
“The controversy escalated when President
Trump joined the fray on Friday morning.
‘Reports are there was indeed at least one
FBI representative implanted, for political
purposes, into my campaign for president,’
Trump tweeted.'”
Amazingly, FBI and Department of Justice sources did not
deny this claim. It’s worth remembering that while the
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media and DOJ insiders were laughing and dismissing
Trump’s accusations a year ago — especially regarding
wiretapping and the Steele dossier — he has been proven
right on almost every point.
Nobody is laughing now. Instead, they’re scrambling to
cover their tracks.
“On May 8, the Washington Post described
the informant as ‘a top-secret intelligence
source’ and cited DOJ officials as arguing
that disclosure of his name ‘could risk lives
by potentially exposing the source, a U.S.
citizen who has provided intelligence to the
CIA and FBI,'” Greenwald reported.
That was almost certainly a last-ditch effort to protect the
mole and save face. Then came the threats.
“The top Democrat on the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner …
actually threatened his own colleagues in
Congress with criminal prosecution if they
tried to obtain the identity of the informant,”
Greenwald reported.
Journalists, including Greenwald and veteran gumshoes at
several major media outlets, didn’t stop. After a few
rounds of newspaper one-upmanship, the mole’s name has
been revealed.
“As a result of some very odd choices by
the nation’s largest media outlets, everyone
knows the name of the FBI’s informant:
Stefan Halper,” Greenwald wrote.
Here’s the truly important and shocking part: Halper is no
run-of-the-mill FBI operative. He has a history of being
involved in shady CIA operations to infiltrate and derail
U.S. elections.
“To begin with, it’s obviously notable that
the person the FBI used to monitor the
Trump campaign is the same person who
worked as a CIA operative running that
1980 Presidential election spying
campaign,” Greenwale wrote.
Yes, it was Halper, a former Nixon insider and the same
man at the center of the anti-Trump scandal today.
Nearly 40 years ago, a largely buried scandal was playing
out in Washington. In involved some famous Republicans,
including old names that even today are firmly in the
“Never Trump” camp.
“Halper was responsible for a long-
forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980
election, in which the Reagan campaign —
using CIA officials managed by Halper,
reportedly under the direction of former CIA
Director and then-Vice-Presidential
candidate George H.W. Bush — got caught
running a spying operation from inside the
Carter administration,” the Intercept
explained.
In other words, there may be a structure within the foreign
policy and intelligence communities that goes back to at
least the time when George H.W. Bush ran the CIA.
That behind-the-scenes power structure — “Deep State,”
to borrow the term — was on the side of Hillary Clinton
and believed that Trump needed to be stopped at any cost.
One look at the now-public text messages from FBI
officials in the weeks and months leading up to the 2016
election definitely seems to support this. And it’s worth
pointing out that the now 93-year-old George H.W. Bush
admitted to supporting Hillary Clinton.
By any measure, the Bush dynasty has not been friendly to
Trump.
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“Whatever else is true, the CIA operative
and FBI informant used to gather
information on the Trump campaign in the
2016 campaign has, for weeks, been
falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence
asset rather than what he actually is: a
long-time CIA operative with extensive links
to the Bush family who was responsible for
a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in
the 1980 presidential election,” explained
Greenwald.
“For that reason, it’s easy to understand
why many people in Washington were so
desperate to conceal his identity, but that
desperation had nothing to do with the lofty
and noble concerns for national security
they claimed were motivating them,” he
added.
Deep operatives. Election interference. Moles and spies
deployed against a candidate by our own government
agencies.
It’s a chilling picture, but one that all of the evidence so far
supports. There’s a power struggle of shadows within the
swamp in Washington, and it is at odds with the American
people and their sovereign voice.
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 The Complete Timeline Of FBI
/ Obama / Comey / Clinton Collusion And
Treason Against Trump
By Mike Adams
05/20/2018
Over the last two years, you have been witnessing an
attempted deep state coup against the United States of
America, carried out by what can only be called an
organized crime ring of treasonous criminals like Robert
Mueller, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, John Brennan and
Hillary Clinton.
Now, fearless independent journalism Sharyl Attkisson has
put together a complete timeline of the deep state coup
attempt against Trump, detailing the multiple layers of
criminality, treason and lies that now characterize “the
establishment.”
Below, find a full reprinting of the timeline, as published
on her website. Be sure to also keep tabs on our own
reporting on all this — the most outrageous political
conspiracy in the history of our country — by reading
the following websites:
 JamesComey.news
 RobertMueller.news
 FBIcorruption.news
 DeepState.news
 Clinton.news
2011
U.S. intel community vastly expands its surveillance
authority, giving itself permission to spy on Americans
who do nothing more than “mention a foreign target in a
single, discrete communication.” Intel officials also begin
storing and entering into a searchable database sensitive
intelligence on U.S. citizens whose communications are
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accidentally or “incidentally” captured during surveillance
of foreign targets. Prior to this point, such intelligence was
supposed to be destroyed to protect the constitutional
privacy rights the U.S. citizens. However, it’s required that
names U.S. citizens be hidden or “masked” –even inside
U.S. intel agencies –to prevent abuse.
2012
July 1, 2012:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton improperly uses
unsecured, personal email domain to email President
Obama from Russia.
2013
June 2013:
FBI interviews U.S. businessman Carter Page, who’s lived
and worked in Russia, regarding his ongoing contacts with
Russians. Page reportedly tells FBI agents their time would
be better spent investigating Boston Marathon bombing
(which the FBI’s Andrew McCabe helped lead). Page later
claims his remark prompts FBI retaliatory campaign
against him. The FBI, under McCabe, will later wiretap
Page after Page becomes a Donald Trump campaign
adviser.
FBI secretly records suspected Russian industrial
spy Evgeny Buryakov. It’s later reported that Page helped
FBI build the case.
Sept. 4, 2013:
James Comey becomes FBI Director, succeeding Robert
Mueller.
2014
Russia invades Ukraine. Ukraine steps up hiring of U.S.
lobbyists to make its case against Russia and obtain U.S.
aid. Russia also continues its practice of using U.S.
lobbyists.
Ukraine forms National Anti-Corruption Bureau as a
condition to receive U.S. aid. The National Anti-
Corruption Bureau later signs evidence-sharing agreement
with FBI related to Trump-Russia probe.
Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa, a paid consultant
for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), begins
researching lobbyist Paul Manafort’s Russia ties.
FBI investigates, and then wiretaps, Paul Manafort for
allegedly not properly disclosing Russia-related work. FBI
fails to make a case, according to CNN, and discontinues
wiretap.
August 2014:
State Dept. turns over 15,000 pages of documents to
Congressional Benghazi committee, revealing former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton used private server for
government email. Her mishandling of classified info on
this private system becomes subject of FBI probe.
2015
FBI opens investigation into Virginia governor Terry
McAuliffe, including for donations from a Chinese
businessman and Clinton Foundation donor.
FBI official Andrew McCabe meets with Gov. McAuliffe,
a close Clinton ally. Afterwards, “McAuliffe-aligned
political groups donated about $700,000 to Mr. McCabe’s
wife…for her campaign to become a Democrat state
Senator in Virginia.” The fact of the McAuliffe-related
donations to wife of FBI’s McCabe—while FBI was
investigating McAuliffe and Clinton—later becomes the
subject of conflict of interest inquiry by Inspector General.
Feb. 9, 2015:
U.S. Senate forms Ukrainian caucus to further Ukrainian
interests. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is a member.
March 4, 2015:
New York Times breaks news about Clinton’s improper
handling of classified email as secretary of state.
In internal emails, Clinton campaign chairman (and former
Obama adviser) John Podesta suggests Obama withhold
Clinton’s emails from Congressional Benghazi committee
under executive privilege.
March 2015:
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch privately directs FBI
Director James Comey to call FBI Clinton probe a
“matter” rather than an “investigation.” Comey follows the
instruction, though he later testifies that it made him
“queasy.”
March 7, 2015:
President Obama says he first learned of Clinton’s
improper email practices “through news reports.” Clinton
campaign staffers privately contradict that claim emailing:
“…it looks like [President Obama] just said
he found out [Hillary Clinton] was using her
personal email when he saw it on the
news.” Clinton aide Cheryl Mills responds,
“We need to clean this up—[President
Obama] has emails from” Clinton’s
personal account.
May 19, 2015:
Justice Dept. Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
Affairs Peter Kadzik emails Clinton campaign chairman
John Podesta from a private Gmail account to give him a
“heads ups” involving Congressional questions about
Clinton email.
Summer 2015:
Democratic National Committee computers are hacked.
Sept. 2015:
Glenn Simpson, co-founder of political opposition
research firm Fusion GPS, is hired by conservative website
Washington Free Beacon to compile negative research on
presidential candidate Donald Trump and other
Republicans.
Oct. 2015:
President Obama uses a “confidentiality tradition” to keep
his Benghazi emails with Hillary Clinton secret.
Oct. 12, 2015:
FBI Director Comey replaces head of FBI
Counterintelligence Division at New York Field Office
with Louis Bladel.
Oct. 22, 2015:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) publicly states that Clinton is
“not under criminal investigation.”
Clinton testifies to House Benghazi committee.
Oct. 23, 2015:
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta meets for dinner
with small group of friends including a top Justice Dept.
official Peter Kadzik.
Late 2015:
Democratic operative Chalupa expands her political
opposition research about Paul Manafort to include
Trump’s ties to Russia. She “occasionally shares her
findings with officials from the Democratic National
Committee and the Clinton campaign.”
Dec. 4, 2015:
Donald Trump is beating his nearest Republican
presidential competitor by 20 points in latest CNN poll.
Dec. 9, 2015:
FBI Director Comey replaces head of FBI
Counterintelligence Division at Washington Field Office
with Charles Kable.
Dec. 23, 2015:
FBI Director Comey names Bill Priestap as assistant
director of Counterintelligence Division.
2016
Obama officials vastly expand their searches through NSA
database for Americans and the content of their
communications. In 2013, there were 9,600 searches
involving 195 Americans. But in 2016, there are 30,355
searches of 5,288 Americans.
Justice Dept. associate deputy attorney general Bruce
Ohr meets with Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele, the
Yemen-born ex-British spy leading anti-Trump political
opposition research project.
January 2016:
Democratic operative Ukrainian-American Chalupa tells a
senior Democratic National Committee official that she
feels there’s a Russia connection with Trump.
Jan. 29, 2016:
FBI Director Comey promotes Andrew McCabe to FBI
Deputy Director.
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McCabe takes lead on Clinton probe even though his wife
received nearly $700,000 in campaign donations through
Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe, who’s also under FBI
investigation.
March 2016:
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s email gets hacked.
FBI interviews Carter Page again.
Carter Page is named as one of the Trump
campaign’s foreign policy advisers.
March 2, 2016:
FBI Director Comey replaces head of Intelligence
Division of Washington Field Office with Gerald Roberts,
Jr.
March 11, 2016:
Russian Evgeny Buryakovwhich pleads guilty to spying in
FBI case that Carter Page reportedly assisted with.
March 25, 2016:
Ukrainian-American operative for Democratic National
Committee (DNC) Chalupa meets with top Ukrainian
officials at Ukrainian Embassy in Washington D.C. to
“expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul
Manafort and Russia,” according to Politico. Chalupa
previously worked for the Clinton administration.
Ukrainian embassy proceeds to work “directly with
reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point
them in the right directions,” according to an embassy
official (though other officials later deny engaging in
election-related activities.)
March 29, 2016:
Trump campaign hires Paul Manafort as manager of July
Republican convention.
March 30, 2016:
Ukrainian-American Democratic operative Alexandra
Chalupa briefsDemocratic National Committee (DNC)
staff on Russia ties to Paul Manafort and Trump.
With “DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asks Ukrainian
embassy to arrange meeting with Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko to discuss Manafort’s lobbying for
Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych. The
embassy declines to arrange meeting but becomes
“helpful” in trading info and leads.
Ukrainian embassy officials and Democratic operative
Chalupa “coordinat[e] an investigation with the Hillary
team” into Paul Manafort, according to a source in
Politico. This effort reportedly includes working with U.S.
media.
April 2016:
There’s a second breach of Democratic National
Committee computers.
Washington Free Beacon breaks off deal with Glenn
Simpson’s Fusion GPS for political opposition research
against Trump.
Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee
lawyer Mark Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, hire
Fusion GPS for anti-Trump political research project.
Ukrainian member of parliament Olga Bielkova
reportedly seeks meetings with five dozen members of
U.S. Congress and reporters including former New York
Time reporter Judy Miller, David Sanger of New York
Times, David Ignatius of Washington Post, and
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.
April 5, 2016:
Convicted spy Buryakov is turned over to Russia.
Week of April 6, 2016:
Ukrainian-American Democratic operative Chalupa and
office of Rep. Mary Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair of
Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, discuss possible
congressional investigation or hearing on Paul Manafort-
Russia “by September.”
Chalupa begins working with investigative reporter
Michael Isikoff, according to her later account.
April 10, 2016:
In national TV interview, President Obama states that
Clinton did not intend to harm national security when she
mishandled classified emails. FBI Director James Comey
later concludes that Clinton should not face charges
because she did not intend to harm national security.
Around this time, the FBI begins drafting Comey’s
remarks closing Clinton email investigation, though
Clinton had not yet been interviewed.
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April 12, 2016:
Ukrainian parliament member Olga Bielkova and a
colleague meet with Sen. John McCain associate David
Kramer with the McCain Institute. Bielkova also meets
with Liz Zentos of Obama’s National Security Council,
and State Department official Michael Kimmage.
April 26, 2016:
Investigative reporter Michael Isikoff publishes story on
Yahoo News about Paul Manafort’s business dealings with
a Russian oligarch.
April 28, 2016:
Ukrainian-American Democratic operative Chalupa is
invited to discuss her research about Paul Manafort with
68 investigative journalists from Ukraine at Library of
Congress for Open World Leadership Center, a U.S.
congressional agency. Chalupa invitesinvestigative
reporter Michael Isikoff to “connect(s) him to the
Ukrainians.”
After the event, reporter Isikoff accompanies Chalupa to
Ukrainian embassy reception.
May 3, 2016:
Ukrainian-American Democratic operative
Chalupa emails Democratic National Committee (DNC)
that she’ll share sensitive info about Paul Manafort
“offline” including “a big Trump component…that will hit
in next few weeks.”
May 4, 2016:
Trump locks up Republican nomination.
May 19, 2016:
Paul Manafort is named Trump campaign chair.
May 23, 2016:
FBI probe into Virginia governor and Clinton ally Terry
McAuliffe becomespublic. (McAuliffe is ultimately not
charged with a crime.)
Justice Department Inspector General confirms it’s looking
into FBI’s Andrew McCabe for alleged conflicts of interest
in handling of Clinton and Gov. McAuliffe probes in light
of McAuliffe directing campaign donations to McCabe’s
wife.
FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, who are
reportedly having an illicit affair, text each other that
Trump’s ascension in the campaign will bring
“pressure…to finish” Clinton probe.
Nellie Ohr, wife of Justice Dept. associate deputy attorney
general Bruce Ohr and former CIA worker, goes on the
payroll of Fusion GPS and assists with anti-Trump
political opposition research. Her husband, Bruce,
reportedly fails to disclose her specific employer and work
in his Justice Dept. conflict of interest disclosures.
Nellie Ohr applies for a ham radio license.
June 2016:
Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson hires Yemen-born ex-British
spy Christopher Steelefor anti-Trump political opposition
research project. Steele uses info from Russian sources
“close to Putin” to compile unverified “dossier” later
provided to reporters and FBI, which the FBI uses to
obtain secret wiretap.
The Guardian and Heat Street report that
the FBI applied for a FISA warrant in June
2016 to “monitor four members of the
Trump team suspected of irregular contacts
with Russian officials” but that the “initial
request was denied.”
June 7, 2016:
Hillary Clinton locks up the Democrat nomination.
June 9, 2016:
Meeting in Trump Tower includes Donald Trump Jr.,
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-
law Jared Kushner with Russian lawyer who said he has
political opposition research on Clinton. (No research was
ultimately provided.) According to CNN, the FBI has not
yet restarted a wiretap against Manafort but will soon do
so.
June 10, 2016:
Democratic National Committee (DNC) tells employees
that its computer system has been hacked. DNC blames
Russia but refuses to let FBI examine its systems.
June 15, 2016:
“Guccifer 2.0” publishes first hacked document from
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
June 17, 2016:
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Washington Post publishes front page story linking Trump
to Russia:
“Inside Trump’s Financial Ties to Russia
and His Unusual Flattery of Vladimir Putin.”
June 20, 2016:
Christopher Steele proposes taking some of Fusion GPS’
research about Trump to FBI.
June 22, 2016:
WikiLeaks begins publishing embarrassing, hacked emails
from Clinton campaign and Democratic National
Committee.
June 27, 2016:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch meets privately with
former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Late June 2016:
DCLeaks website begins publishing Democratic National
Committee emails.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine signs
evidence-sharing agreement with FBI and will later
publicly release a “ledger” implicating Paul Manafort in
allegedly improper payments.
June 30, 2016:
FBI circulates internal draft of public remarks for FBI
Director Comey to announce closing of Clinton
investigation. It refers to Mrs. Clinton’s “extensive” use of
her personal email, including “from the territory of
sophisticated adversaries,” and a July 1, 2012 email to
President Obama from Russia. The draft concludes it’s
possible that hostile actors gained access to Clinton’s
email account.
Comey’s remarks are revised to replace reference to “the
President” with the phrase:
“another senior government official.” (That
reference, too, is removed from the final
draft.)
Attorney General Lynch tells FBI she plans to publicly
announce that she’ll accept whatever recommendation FBI
Director Comey makes regarding charges against Clinton.
July 2016:
 Ukraine minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov attacks
Trump and Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort on
Twitter and Facebook, calling Trump “an even bigger
danger to the US than terrorism.”
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk writes
on Facebook that Trump has “challenged the very values
of the free world.”
Carter Page travels to Russia to give a university
commencement address. (Fusion GPS political opposition
research would later quote Russian sources as saying Page
met with Russian officials, which Page denies under oath
and is not proven.)
One-time CIA operative Stefan Halper
reportedly begins meetings with Trump
advisers Carter Page and George
Papadopoulos, secretly gathering
information for the FBI. These contacts
begin prior to the date FBI Director Comey
later claimed the Russian investigation
began.
July 1, 2016:
Under fire for meeting with former President Clinton amid
the probe into his wife, Attorney General Lynch publicly
states she’ll accept whatever FBI Director Comey
recommends—without interfering.
FBI official Lisa Page texts her boyfriend, FBI official
Peter Strzok, sarcastically commenting that Lynch’s
proclamation is “a real profile in courage, since she knows
no charges will be brought.”
July 2, 2016:
FBI official Peter Strzok and other agents interview
Clinton. They don’t record the interview. Two potential
subjects of the investigation, Cheryl Mills and Heather
Samuelson, are allowed to attend as Clinton’s lawyers.
July 5, 2016:
FBI Director Comey recommends no charges against
Clinton, though he concludes she’s been extremely
careless in mishandling of classified information. Comey
claims he hasn’t coordinated or reviewed his statement in
any way with Attorney General Lynch’s Justice
Department or other government branches.
“They do not know what I am about to say,”
says Comey.
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Fusion GPS’ Steele, an ex-British spy, approaches FBI
with allegations against Trump, according to
Congressional investigators.
Days after closing Clinton case, FBI official Peter Strzok
signs document opening FBI probe into Trump-Russia
collusion.
July 10, 2016:
Democratic National Committee (DNC) aide Seth Rich,
reportedly a Bernie Sanders supporter, is shot twice in the
back and killed. Police suspect a bungled robbery attempt,
though nothing was apparently stolen. Conspiracy theorists
speculate that Rich—not the Russians— had stolen DNC
emails after he learned the DNC was unfairly favoring
Clinton. The murder remains unsolved.
July 2016:
Trump adviser Carter Page makes a business trip to
Russia.
FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) rejects FBI
request to wiretap Page.
Obama national security adviser Susan Rice begins to
show increased interest in National Security Agency
(NSA) intelligence material including “unmasked”
Americans’ identities, according to news reports referring
to White House logs.
July 18-21, 2016:
Republican National Convention
Late July 2016:
FBI agent Peter Strzok opens counterintelligence
investigation based on Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos.
Democratic operative and Ukrainian-American Chalupa
leaves the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to work
full-time on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia;
and provides off-the-record guidance to “a lot of
journalists.”
July 22, 2016:
WikiLeaks begins publishing hacked Democratic National
Committee emails. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange denies the
email source is Russian.
July 25-28, 2016:
Democratic National Convention Post. Halper would later offer to hire Carter
Page.
July 31, 2016:
Approx. Aug. 2016:
FBI begins counterintelligence investigation regarding
Russia. FBI initiates a new wiretap against ex-Trump campaign
chair Paul Manafort, according to CNN, which extends at
Summer 2016: least through early 2017.

Nellis Ohr, wife of Justice Dept. associate deputy attorney Sept. 2016:
general Bruce Ohr is still on the payroll of Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS’ Steele becomes FBI source and uses
Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele, a British associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr as point of
citizen, briefs FBI leadership on his anti-Trump political contact. Steele tells Ohr that he’s “desperate that Donald
opposition research. Weeks later, the info makes it to FBI Trump not get elected.”
agent Peter “Strzok and his team,” according to New York
Times. President Obama warns Russia not to interfere in the U.S.
election
Aug. 4, 2016:
Sept. 2, 2016:
Ukrainian ambassador to U.S. writes op-ed against
Trump. FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text that
“[President Obama] wants to know everything we’re
Aug. 14, 2016: doing.”

New York Times breaks story about cash payments made
a decade ago to Paul Manafort by pro-Russia interests in
Ukraine. The ledger was released and publicized by the
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
Aug. 15, 2016:
CNN reports the FBI is conducting an inquiry into Trump
campaign chair Paul Manafort’s payments from pro-Russia
interests in Ukraine in 2007 and 2009.
After a meeting discussing the election in FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe’s office, the FBI’s Lisa Page
and Peter Strzok text of needing an “insurance policy” in
case Trump is elected.
Sept. 13, 2016:
The nonprofit First Draft, funded by Google, whose parent
company is run by major Hillary Clinton supporter and
donor Eric Schmidt, announces initiative to tackle “fake
news.” It appears to be the first use of the phrase in its
modern context.
Sept. 15, 2016:
Clinton computer manager Paul Combetta appears before
House Oversight Committee but refuses to answer
questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.
Sept. 19, 2016:

Aug. 19, 2016: At UN General Assembly meeting, Ukrainian President

Poroshenko meets with Hillary Clinton.
Paul Manafort resigns as Trump campaign chairman.
Mid-to-late Sept. 2016:
Ukrainian parliament member Sergii Leshchenko
holds news conference to draw attention to Paul Manafort Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele’s FBI contact tells him
and Trump’s “pro-Russia” ties. the agency wants to see his opposition research “right
away” and offers to pay him $50,000, according to the
Late August 2016: New York Times, for solid corroboration of his salacious,
unverified claims. Steele flies to Rome, Italy to meet with
FBI and provide a “full briefing.”
Reportedly working for the FBI, one-time
CIA operative Professor Halper meets with
Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis Sept. 22, 2016:
offering his services as a foreign-policy
adviser, according to The Washington
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 Clinton computer aide Brian Pagliano is held in contempt
of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoena.
Sept. 23, 2016:
It’s revealed that Justice Department has granted five
Clinton officials immunity from prosecution:
former chief of staff Cheryl Mills, State
Department staffers John Bentel and
Heather Samuelson, and Clinton computer
workers Paul Combetta and Brian
Pagliano.
Yahoo News publishes article by Michael Isikoff about
Carter Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. (The article is
apparently based on leaked info from Fusion GPS Steele
anti-Trump “dossier” political opposition research.)
Sept. 26, 2016:
Obama administration asks secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC) court to allow National Counter
Terrorism Center to access sensitive, “unmasked” intel on
Americans acquired by FBI and NSA. (The Court later
approves the request.)
Sept. 27, 2016:
Justice Department Assistant Attorney General of
National Security Division John Carlin announces he’s
stepping down. He was former chief of staff and senior
counsel to former FBI director Robert Mueller.
End of Sept. 2016:
Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson and Christopher
Steele meet with reporters, including New York Times,
Washington Post, Yahoo News, the New Yorker and CNN
or ABC. One meeting is at office of Democratic National
Committee general counsel.
Early October 2016:
Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele, the Yemen-born author
of anti-Trump “dossier,” meets in New York with David
Corn, Washington-bureau chief of Mother Jones.
According to The Guardian, the FBI
submits a more narrowly focused FISA
wiretap request to replace one turned down
in June to monitor four Trump associates.
Oct. 3, 2016:
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FBI seizes computers belonging to Anthony Weiner, who
is accused of sexually texting an underage girl. Weiner is
married to top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin. FBI
learns there are Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop but
waits several weeks before notifying Congress and
reopening investigation.
Oct. 4, 2016:
FBI Director Comey replaces head of Counterintelligence
Division, New York Field Office with Charles McGonigal.
Oct. 7, 2016:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and
Department of Homeland Security issue statement saying
Russian government is responsible for hacking Democrat
emails to disrupt 2016 election.
Oct. 13, 2016:
President Obama gives a speech in support of the
crackdown on “fake news” by stating that somebody needs
to step in an “curate” information in the “wild, wild West
media environment.”
Mid-Oct. 2016:
Fusion GPS’ Steele again briefs reporters about Trump
political opposition research. The reporters are from the
New York Times, the Washington Post, and Yahoo News.
Oct. 16, 2016:
Mary McCord is named Assistant Attorney General for
Justice Department National Security Division.
Oct. 18, 2016:
President Obama advises Trump to “stop whining” after
Trump tweeted the election could be rigged. “There is no
serious person out there who would suggest somehow that
you could even — you could even rig America’s
elections,” said Obama. He also calls Trump’s “flattery” of
Russian president Putin “unprecedented.”
Oct. 19, 2016:
Ex-British spy Christopher Steele writes his last memo for
anti-Trump “dossier” political opposition research
provided to FBI. The FBI reportedly authorizes payment to
Steele. Fusion GPS has reportedly paid him $160,000.
Approx. Oct. 21, 2016:
 For the second time in several months, Justice Department
and FBI apply to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page. This time, the request is approved based on
new FBI “evidence,” including parts of Fusion GPS’
“Steele dossier” and Michael Isikoff Yahoo article. The
FBI doesn’t tell the court that Trump’s political
opponent— the Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee— funded the “evidence.”
Oct. 24, 2016:
Benjamin Wittes, confidant of FBI Director James Comey
and editor-in-chief of the blog Lawfare, writes of the need
for an “insurance policy” in case Trump wins. It’s the
same phrase FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok had
used when discussing the possibility of a Trump win.
Obama intel officials orally inform Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court of an earlier Inspector General review
uncovering their “significant noncompliance” in following
proper “702” procedures safeguarding the National
Security Agency (NSA) intelligence database with
sensitive info on US citizens.
Late Oct. 2016:
Fusion GPS’ Steele again briefs reporter from Mother
Jones by Skype about Trump political opposition research.
Oct. 26, 2016:
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court holds hearing
with Obama intel officials over their “702” surveillance
violations. The judge criticizes NSA for “institutional lack
of candor” and states “this is a very serious Fourth
Amendment issue.”
Oct. 28, 2016:
FBI Director Comey notifies Congress that he’s reopening
Clinton probe due to Clinton emails found on Anthony
Wiener laptop several weeks earlier.
Oct. 30, 2016:
Mother Jones writer David Corn is first to report on the
anti-Trump “dossier,” quoting unidentified former spy,
presumed to be Christopher Steele. FBI general counsel
James Baker had reportedly been in touch with Corn but
Corn later denies Baker was the leaker.
FBI terminates its relationship with Steele because Steele
had leaked his FBI involvement in Mother Jones article.
Steele reportedly maintains backchannel contact with
Justice Dept. through Deputy Associate Attorney General
Bruce Ohr.
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Oct. 31, 2016:
New York Times reports FBI is investigating Trump and
found no illicit connections to Russia.
Nov. 6, 2016:
FBI Director Comey tells Congress that Clinton emails on
Anthony Weiner computer do not change earlier
conclusion:
she should not be charged.
Nov. 8, 2016:
Trump is elected president.
Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s interest in
NSA materials accelerates, according to later news reports.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr meets with
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson shortly after
election.
The FBI interviews Ohr about his ongoing contacts with
Fusion GPS.
Nov. 2016:
National Security Agency Mike Rogers meets with
president-elect Trump and is criticized for “not telling the
Obama administration.”
Nov. 17, 2016:
Trump moves his Friday presidential team meetings out of
Trump Tower.
Nov. 18-20, 2016:
Sen. John McCain and his longtime adviser, David
Kramer–an ex-U.S. State Dept. official–attend a security
conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia where former UK
ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood tells them about
the Fusion GPS anti-Trump dossier. (Kramer
is affiliated with the anti-Russia “Ukraine Today” media
organization). They discuss confirming the info has
reached top levels of FBI for action.
Nov. 28, 2016:
Sen. McCain associate David Kramer flies to London to
meet Christopher Steele for a briefing on the anti-Trump
research. Afterward, Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson gives
Sen. McCain a copy of the “dossier.” Steele
also passes anti-Trump info to top UK government official
in charge of national security. Sen. McCain soon arranges
a meeting with FBI Director Comey.
Late Nov. 2016:
Justice Dept. official Bruce Ohr officially tells FBI about
his contacts with Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele and
about Ohr’s wife’s contract work for Fusion GPS.
Dec. 2016:
Text messages between FBI officials Strzok and Page are
later said to be “lost” due to a technical glitch beginning at
this point.
Dec. 8 or 9, 2016:
Sen. John McCain meets with FBI Director Comey at FBI
headquarters and hands over Fusion GPS anti-Trump
research, elevating the FBI’s investigation into the matter.
The FBI compiles a classified two-page summary and
attaches it to intel briefing note on Russian cyber-
interference in election for President Obama.
Hillary Clinton makes a pubic appearance denouncing
“fake news.”
Hillary Clinton and Democratic operative David Brock of
Media Matters announces he’s leaving board of Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), one
of his many propaganda and liberal advocacy groups, to
focus on “fake news” effort.
Brock later claims credit— privately to of donors— for
convincing Facebook to crack down on conservative fake
news.
Dec. 15, 2016:
Obama intel officials “incidentally” spy on Trump
officials meeting with the United Arab Emirates crown
prince in Trump Tower. This is taken to mean the
government was wiretapping the prince and “happened to
capture” Trump officials communicating with him at
Trump Tower. Identities of Americans accidentally
captured in such surveillance are strictly protected or
“masked” inside intel agencies for constitutional privacy
reasons.
Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice secretly
“unmasks” names of the Trump officials, officially
revealing their identities. They reportedly include:
Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Director of National Intelligence Clapper expands rules to
allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to widely
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disseminate classified surveillance material within the
government.
Dec. 29, 2016:
President Obama imposes sanctions against Russia for its
alleged election interference.
President-elect Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn speaks with Russian Ambassador to U.S.
Sergey Kislyak. The call is wiretapped by U.S. intelligence
and later leaked to the press.
State Department releases 2,800 work-related emails from
Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, found by FBI
on laptop computer of Abedin’s husband, former Rep.
Anthony Weiner.
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Jan. 2017:
According to CNN:
a wiretap reportedly continues against former Trump
campaign chair Paul Manafort, including times he speaks
to Trump, meaning U.S. intel officials could have
“accidentally” captured Trump’s communications.
Justice Dept. Inspector General confirms it’s investigating
several aspects of FBI and Justice Department actions
during Clinton probe.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies to
Congress that Russia interfered in U.S. elections by
spreading fake news on social media.
Justice Dept. official Peter Kadzik, who “tipped off”
Clinton campaign regarding Congressional questions about
her email, leaves government work for private practice.
Early Jan. 2017:
FBI renews wiretap against Carter Page.
Jan. 3, 2017:
Obama Attorney General Lynch signs rules Director of
National Intelligence Clapper expanded Dec. 15 allowing
the National Security Agency (NSA) to widely disseminate
surveillance within the government.
Jan. 5, 2017:
Intelligence Community leadership provides classified
briefing on alleged Russia hacking during 2016 campaign,
according to notes later written by national security adviser
Susan Rice.
After briefing, according notes made later by Rice,
President Obama convenes Oval Office meeting with her,
FBI Director Comey, Vice President Biden and Deputy
Attorney General Sally Yates. The “Steele dossier” is
reportedly discussed.
Jan. 6, 2017:
FBI Director Comey and other Intel leaders meet with
President-Elect Trump and his national security team at
Trump Tower in New York to brief them on alleged
Russian efforts to interfere in the election.
Later, Obama national security adviser Susan Rice would
write herself an email stating that President Obama
suggested they hold back on providing Trump officials
with certain info for national security reasons.
After Trump team briefing, FBI Director Comey meets
alone with Trump to “brief him” on Fusion GPS Steele
allegations “to alert the incoming President to the
existence of this material, even though it was salacious and
unverified…” Comey later says Director of National
Intelligence Clapper asked him (Comey) to do the briefing
personally.
Jan. 10, 2017:
The 35-page Fusion GPS anti-Trump “dossier” is leaked
to the media and published. It reveals that sources of the
unverified info are Russians close to President Putin.
Jan. 12, 2017:
Obama administration finalizes new rules allowing NSA
to spread certain intel to other U.S. intel agencies without
normal privacy protections.
Justice Dept. inspector general announces review of
alleged misconduct by FBI Director Comey and other
matters related to FBI’s Clinton probe as well as FBI leaks.
Jan. 13, 2017:
Senate Intelligence Committee opens investigation into
Russia and U.S. political campaign officials.
Jan. 20, 2017:
Trump becomes president.
Fifteen minutes after Trump becomes president, former
National Security Adviser Susan Rice emails memo to
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herself purporting to summarize the Jan. 5 Oval Office
meeting with President Obama and other top officials. She
states that Obama instructed the group to investigate “by
the book” and asked them to be mindful whether there
were certain things that “could not be fully shared with the
incoming administration.”
Jan. 22, 2017:
Intel info leaks to Wall Street Journal which reports “US
counterintelligence agents have investigated
communications” between Trump aide Gen. Michael
Flynn and Russia ambassador to the U.S. Kislyak to
determine if any laws were violated.
Jan. 24, 2017:
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates sends two FBI
agents, including Peter Strzok, to the White House to
question Gen. Flynn.
Jan. 21, 2017:
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and a high-ranking
colleague go to White House to tell counsel Don McGahn
that “the underlying conduct that Gen. Flynn had engaged
in was problematic in and of itself.”
Jan. 27, 2017:
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates again visits the
White House.
Jan. 31, 2017:
President Trump fires Acting Attorney General Sally
Yates after she refuses to enforce his temporary travel ban
on Muslims coming into U.S. from certain countries.
Dana Boente becomes Acting Attorney General. (It’s later
revealed that Boente signed at least one wiretap
application against former Trump adviser Carter Page.)
Feb. 2, 2017:
It’s reported that five men employed by House of
Representatives Democrats, including leader Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), are under criminal
investigation for allegedly “accessing House IT systems
without lawmakers’ knowledge.” Suspects include three
Awan brothers “who managed office information
technology for members of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers.”
Feb. 3, 2017:
 A Russian tech mogul named in the Steele “dossier” files
defamation lawsuitsagainst BuzzFeed in the U.S. and
Christopher Steele in the U.K. over the dossier’s claims he
interfered in U.S. elections.
Feb. 8, 2017:
Jeff Sessions becomes Attorney General and Dana Boente
moves to Deputy Attorney General.
Feb. 9, 2017:
News of FBI wiretaps capturingTrump national security
adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn speaking with Russia’s
ambassador is leaked to the press. New York Times and
Washington Post report Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions,
despite his earlier denials. The Post also reports the FBI
“found nothing illicit” in the talks.
Feb. 13, 2017:
Washington Post reports Justice Dept. has opened a
“Logan Act” violation investigation against Trump
national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Feb. 14, 2017:
New York Times reports that FBI had told Obama
officials there was no “quid pro quo” (promise of a deal in
exchange for some action) discussed between Gen. Flynn
and Russian ambassador Kislyak.
Gen. Flynn resigns, allegedly acknowledging he misled
vice president Mike Pence about the content of his
discussions with Russia.
Feb. 17, 2017:
Washington Post reports that “Flynn told FBI he did not
discuss sanctions” with Russia ambassador and that “Lying
to the FBI is a felony offense.”
March 1, 2017:
Washington Post reports Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has met with Russian ambassador twice in the recent past
(as did many Democrat and Republican officials). His
critics say that contradicts his earlier testimony to
Congress.
March 2017:
FBI Director James Comey gives private briefings to
members of Congress and reportedly says he does not
believe Gen. Flynn lied to FBI.
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House Intelligence Committee requests list of unmasking
requests Obama officials made. The intel agencies do not
provide the information, prompting a June 1 subpoena.
March 2, 2017:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from
Russia-linked investigations.
Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, becomes
Acting Attorney General for Russia Probe. It’s later
revealed that Rosenstein singed at least one wiretap
application against former Trump adviser Carter Page.
March 4, 2017:
President Trump tweets:
“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire
tapping’ a race for president prior to an
election? Turned down by court earlier. A
NEW LOW!” and “How low has President
Obama gone to tapp my phones during the
very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
March 10, 2017:
Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, steps
forward to support Trump’s wiretapping claim, revealing
that the Obama administration intel officials recorded his
own communications with a Libyan official in Spring
2011.
March 20, 2017:
FBI Director Comey tells House Intelligence Committee
he has “no information that supports” the President’s
tweets about “alleged wiretapping directed at him by the
prior administration.
“We have looked carefully inside the FBI,”
Comey says. “(T)he answer is the same for
the Department of Justice and all its
components.”
FBI Director Comey tells Congress there is “salacious and
unverified” material in the Fusion GPS dossier used by
FBI, in part, to obtain Carter Page wiretap. (Under FBI
“Woods Procedures,” only facts carefully verified by the
FBI are allowed to be presented to court to obtain
wiretaps.)
March 22, 2017:
Chairman of House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.) publicly announces he’s seen evidence of Trump
associates being “incidentally” surveilled by Obama intel
officials; and their names being “unmasked” and illegally
leaked. Nunes briefs President Trump and holds a news
conference. He’s criticized for doing so. An ethics
investigation is opened into his actions but later clears him
of wrongdoing.
In an interview on PBS, former Obama National Security
Adviser Susan Rice responds to Nunes allegations by
stating:
“I know nothing about this…I really don’t
know to what Chairman Nunes was
referring.” (She later acknowledges
unmasking names of Trump associates.)
March 2017:
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) writes Justice Dept.
accusing Fusion GPS of acting as an agent for Russia—
without properly registering—due to its pro-Russia effort
to kill a law allowing sanctions against foreign human
rights violators. Fusion GPS denies the allegations.
March 24, 2017:
Fusion GPS declines to answer Sen. Grassley’s questions
or document requests.
March 27, 2017:
Former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas
admits she encouraged Obama and Congressional officials
to “get as much information as they can” about Russia and
Trump officials before inauguration. “…that’s why you
have the leaking,” she told MSNBC.
Early April, 2017:
A third FBI wiretap on former Trump campaign aide
Carter Page is approved.
April 3, 2017:
Multiple news reports state that Obama National Security
Adviser Susan Rice had requested and reviewed
“unmasked” intelligence on Trump associates whose
information was “incidentally” collected by intel agencies.
April 4, 2017:
Obama former National Security Adviser Rice admits, in
an interview, that she asked to reveal names of U.S.
citizens previously masked in intel reports. She says her
motivations were not political. When asked if she leaked
names, Rice states, “I leaked nothing to nobody.”
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April 6, 2017:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
recuses himself from Russia part of his committee’s
investigation.
April 11, 2017:
FBI Director Comey appoints Stephen Laycock as special
agent in charge of Counterintelligence Division for
Washington Field Office.
Washington Post reports FBI secretly obtained wiretap
against Trump campaign associate Carter Page last
summer. (Later, it’s revealed the summer wiretap had been
turned down, but a subsequent application was approved in
October.)
April 20, 2017:
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord resigns
as acting head of Justice Dept. National Security Division.
She’d led probes of Russia interference in election and
Trump-Russia ties.
April 28, 2017:
Dana Boente is appointed acting assistant attorney general
for national security division to replace Mary McCord.
(Boente has signed one of the questioned wiretap
applications for Carter Page.)
National Security Agency (NSA) submits remedies for its
egregious surveillance violations (revealed last October) to
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court promising to “no
longer collect certain internet communications that merely
mention a foreign intelligence target.” The NSA also
begins deleting collected data on U.S. citizens it had been
storing.
May 3, 2017:
FBI Director Comey testifies he’s “mildly nauseous” at
the idea he might have affected election with the 11th hour
Clinton email notifications to Congress.
Comey also testifies he’s “never” been an anonymous
news source on “matters relating to” investigating the
Trump campaign.
Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice
declines Republican Congressional request to testify at a
hearing about unmaskings and surveillance.
May 8, 2017:
 Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testify to
Congress. They admit having reviewed “classified
documents in which Mr. Trump, his associates or members
of Congress had been unmasked,” and possibly discussing
it with others under the Obama administration.
May 9, 2017:
President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey.
Andrew McCabe becomes acting FBI Director.
May 12, 2017:
Benjamin Wittes, confidant of ex-FBI Director James
Comey and editor in chief of Lawfare, contacts New York
Times reporter Mike Schmidt to leak conversations he’d
had with Comey as FBI Director that are critical of
President Trump.
May 16, 2017:
New York Times publishes leaked account of FBI
memoranda recorded by former FBI Director James
Comey. Comey later acknowledges engineering the leak of
the FBI material through his friend, Columbia Law School
professor Daniel Richman, to spur appointment of special
counsel to investigate President Trump.
Trump reportedly interviews, but passes over, former FBI
Director Robert Mueller for position of FBI Director.
May 17, 2017:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert
Mueller as Special Counsel, Russia-Trump probe. Mueller
and former FBI Director Comey are friends and worked
closely together in previous Justice Dept. and FBI
positions.
The gap of missing text messages between FBI officials
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page ends. The couple is soon
assigned to the Mueller team investigating Trump.
May 19, 2017:
Anthony Wiener, former Congressman and husband of
Hillary Clinton confidant Huma Abedin, turns himself in
to FBI in case of underage sexting; his third major
kerfuffle over sexting in six years.
June 1, 2017:
House Intelligence Committee issues 7 subpoenas,
including for information related to unmaskings requested
by ex-Obama officials national security adviser Susan
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Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former U.S.
ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.
June 8, 2017:
Former FBI Director James Comey admits having
engineered leak of his own memo to New York Times to
spur appointment of a special counsel to investigate
President Trump.
June 20, 2017:
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe names Philip
Celestini as Special Agent in Charge of the Intelligence
Division, Washington Field Office.
Late June, 2017:
FBI renews wiretap against Carter Page for the fourth and
final time that we know of. It lasts through late Sept.
2017. (Page is never ultimately charged with a crime.)
Late July, 2017:
FBI reportedly searches Paul Manafort’s Alexandria,
Virginia home.
Summer 2017:
FBI lawyer Lisa Page is reassigned from Mueller
investigation. Her boyfriend, FBI official Peter Strzok is
removed from Mueller investigation after the Inspector
General discovers compromising texts between Strzok and
Page. Congress is not notified of the developments.
Aug. 2, 2017:
Christopher Wray is named FBI Director.
August 2017:
Ex-FBI Director Comey signs a book deal for a reported
$2 million.
Sept. 13, 2017:
Under questioning from Congress, Obama’s former
National Security Adviser Susan Rice reportedly admits
having requested to see the protected identities of Trump
transition officials “incidentally” captured by government
surveillance.
Approx. Oct. 10, 2017:
Former Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to FBI about his
unsuccessful efforts during the campaign to facilitate
meetings between Trump officials and Russian officials.
Oct. 17, 2017:
Obama’s former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power
reportedly tells Congressional investigators that many of
the hundreds of “unmasking” requests in her name during
the election year —were not made by her.
Oct. 24, 2017:
Congressional Republicans announce new investigations
into a 2010 acquisition that gave Russia control of 20% of
U.S. uranium supply while Clinton was secretary of state;
and FBI decision not to charge Clinton in classified info
probe.
Oct. 30, 2017:
Special Counsel Mueller charges ex-Trump campaign
manager Paul Manafort and business associate Rick Gates
with tax and money laundering crimes related to their
foreign work. The charges do not appear related to Trump.
Nov. 2, 2017:
Carter Page testifies to House Intelligence committee
under oath without an attorney and asks to have the
testimony published. He denies ever meeting the Russian
official that Fusion GPS claimed he’d met with in July
2016.
Nov. 5, 2017:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller files charges against ex-
Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
for allegedly lying to FBI official Peter Strzok about
contacts with Russian ambassador during presidential
transition.
Dec. 1, 2017:
Former national security adviser Gen. Flynn pleads guilty
of lying to the FBI.
James Rybicki steps down as chief of staff to FBI Director.
Dec. 6, 2017:
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr is
reportedly stripped of one of his positions at Justice Dept.
amid controversy over his and his wife’s role in anti-
Trump political opposition research.
Dec. 7, 2017:
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FBI Director Wray incorrectly testifies that there have
been no “702” surveillance abuses by the government.
Dec. 19, 2017:
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe repeatedly testifies
that the wiretap against Trump campaign official Carter
Page would not have been approved without the Fusion
GPS info. FBI general counsel James Baker, who is
himself subject of an Inspector General probe over his
alleged leaks to the press, attends as McCabe’s attorney.
McCabe acknowledges that if Baker had met with Mother
Jones reporter David Corn, it would have been
inappropriate.
FBI general counsel James Baker is reassigned amid
investigation into his alleged anti-Trump related contacts
with media.
2018
Jan. 4, 2018:
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) refer criminal charges against Christopher Steele
to the FBI for investigation. There’s an apparent conflict of
interest with the FBI being asked to investigate Steele
since the FBI has used Steele’s controversial political
opposition research to obtain wiretaps.
Jan. 8, 2018:
Justice Dept. official Bruce Ohr loses his second title at
the agency.
Jan. 10, 2018:
Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen files defamation
suits against Fusion GPS and BuzzFeed News for
publishing the “Steele dossier” which he says
falsely claimed he met Russian government officials in
Prague, Czech Republic, in August of 2016.
Jan. 11, 2018:
House of Representatives approves government’s
controversial “702” wireless surveillance authority. The
Senate follows suit.
Jan. 19, 2018:
Justice Dept. produces to Congress some text messages
between FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok but states
that FBI lost texts between December 14, 2016 and May
17, 2017 due to a technical glitch.
President Trump signs six-year extension of “702”
wireless surveillance authority.
Jan. 23, 2018:
Former FBI Director Comey friend who leaked on behalf
of Comey to New York Times to spur appointment of
special counsel is now Comey’s attorney.
Jan. 25, 2018:
Justice Dept. Inspector General notifies Congress it has
recovered missing text messages between FBI officials
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
Jan. 27, 2018:
Edward O’Callaghan is named Acting Assistant Attorney
General, National Security Division.
Jan. 29, 2018:
Andrew McCabe steps down as Deputy FBI
Director ahead of his March retirement.
Jan. 30, 2018:
News reports allege that Justice Department Inspector
General is looking into why FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe appeared to wait three weeks before acting on
new Clinton emails found right before the election.
Feb. 2, 2018:
House Intelligence Committee (Nunes) Republican memo
is released. It summarizes classified documents revealing
for the first time that Fusion GPS political opposition
research was used, in part, to justify Carter Page wiretap;
along with Michael Isikoff Yahoo News article based on
the same opposition research.
Memo also states that Fusion GPS set up back channel to
FBI through Nellie Ohr, who conducted opposition
research on Trump and passed it to her husband, associate
deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr.
Feb. 7, 2018:
Justice Department official David Laufman, who helped
oversee the Clinton and Russia probes, steps down as chief
of National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and
Export Control Section.
Feb. 9, 2018:
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Former FBI Director Comey assistant Josh Campbell
leaves FBI for job at CNN.
Justice Department Associate Attorney General, Office of
Legal Policy, Rachel Brand, resigns.
Feb. 16, 2018:
Special counsel Mueller obtains guilty plea from a Dutch
attorney for lying to federal investigators about the last
time he spoke to Rick Gates regarding a 2012 project
related to Ukraine. The plea does not appear to relate to
2016 campaign or Trump. The Dutch attorney is married
to the daughter of a Russian oligarch who’s suing
Buzzfeed and Christopher Steele for alleged defamation in
the “dossier.”
Feb. 22, 2018:
Former State Dept. official and Sen. John McCain
associate David Kramer invokes his Fifth Amendment
right not to testify before House Intelligence Committee.
Kramer reportedly picked up the anti-Trump political
opposition research in London and delivered it to Sen.
McCain who delivered it to the FBI.
Special counsel Mueller files new charges against former
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former
campaign aide Rick Gates, accusing them of additional tax
and bank fraud crimes. The allegations appear to be
unrelated to Trump.
Fri. Feb. 23, 2018:
Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates, pleads guilty to
conspiracy and lying to investigators (though he issues a
statement saying he’s innocent of the indictment charges).
The allegations and plea have no apparent link to Trump-
Russia campaign collusion.
Sat. Feb. 24, 2018:
Democrats on House Intel Committee release their
rebuttal memo to the Republican version that summarized
alleged FBI misconduct re:
using the GPS Fusion opposition research to get wiretap
against Carter Page.
March 12, 2018:
House Intelligence Committee closes Russia-
Trump investigation with no evidence of collusion.
Fri. March 16, 2018:
 Attorney General Jeff Sessions fires Deputy FBI Director President Trump announces plans to replace National
Andrew McCabe, based on recommendation from FBI Security Adviser H.R. McMaster with former U.S.
ethics investigators. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.

Thurs. March 22, 2018: House Judiciary Committee issues subpoenas to

Department of Justice after Department failed to produce
documents.
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 John Brennan’a Latest Cryptic Tweet Has People Asking
‘Is This A Threat To Trump?’
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 2:58 Pm

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll,

John Brennan sent out a cryptic tweet on
Sunday quoting Cicero which had many
wondering if he sent out a thinly veiled
threat to Trump.

John Brennan is in hot water which is why he continues to

lash out at President Trump from his Twitter account.
Brennan is caught in a perjury trap over his statements
about Hillary’s phony dossier in a May 2017 testimony to
the intel panel.
Obama’s former CIA chief was also involved in setting up
Russian espionage traps for minor players in Trump’s
camp, according the investigative reporter, Paul Sperry.
Brennan posted a cryptic tweet Sunday which had Twitter
buzzing.
Brennan tweeted:
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot
persists in his error.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)

Brennan’s latest tweet has people asking, ‘is

this a threat?’

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John Brennan recently issued Trump a thinly veiled threat
over the Mueller witch hunt saying, “Stay tuned Mr.
Trump”

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 CBS/CNN Panels: Totally Fine To
Take Trump’s ‘Animal’ Comment Out Of Context
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 20, 2018 2:58 PM EDT

“I'm not sure we should give the benefit

of the doubt towards the President only
referring specifically to this one group
of people,” Bouie added.

Bouie even stepped up to defend the barbarism of MS-13

from the President’s condemnation, saying,

“I do think there’s a serious problem

with the president dehumanizing any
group of people, in the United States,
even if they are hardened criminals.”
As has been stated previously, the liberal media made total
fools out of themselves last Wednesday night when they He worried it would a “cue” for law enforcement to treat
rushed to claim President Trump had slammed all them roughly.
immigrants as “animals.” And when the video of the full
context came out, nearly all of them issued corrections and
retractions. Yet despite the media’s own retractions,
panelists on CBS’s Face the Nation and CNN’s Reliable
Sources thought it was fair to do that to the President given
his past comments about immigrants.

On Sunday’s Face the Nation, moderator Margaret

Brennan had let left-leaning Slate’s Jamelle Bouie kick off
their discussion of the President’s comments.

“The idea that that's unfair criticism, I

think, ignores the fact that for the past
three years now the President has made
this consistent linkage between
Hispanic immigrants and crime and
Hispanic immigrants and disorder,” he
argued.
According to Bouie, since Trump didn’t actually say MS-
13 in his answer to a question about the gang that meant
there was wiggle room for any assertion about his
comment to be true:
Even in this particular case where he's responding to a
hypothetical question about an MS-13 gang member he
doesn't -- his language, he doesn't -- he doesn't talk
specifically about MS-13 gang members. He talks
specifically about "these people,” which is just vague and a
bit slippery and unclear exactly what he means. But that is
in keeping with his past language.
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Meanwhile, on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, host Brian
Stelter was making his own excuses for the media he
worships.
“He doesn't say MS-13 in his answer, but
it seems like that's what he's referring
to. It's not entirely clear, but that's what
it seemed like. So some news outlets
might have taken him out of context,” he
suggested before decrying Fox News for
railing against the press and their
misleading reporting.
Of course, Stelter failed to mention it wasn’t just Trump
friendly media that scolded the misleading press. For
example, HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, a show Stelter
often appears on, ripped into the media for their
horrendous anti-Trump antics. One producer even noted
that the media rushed to push the false claim because it fit
their narrative about what Trump was to them.
Even Stelter’s panel was ready to condemn Trump.
“Just keep in mind this is an old game
the White House plays. Trump says
something that’s incredibly offensive
and then he comes out and says it was
fake news, it was taken out of context, it
was just a joke or something,”
Washington Post columnist Max Boot
explained to Stelter. “So I think
fundamentally the coverage was
basically fair.”
And the Daily Beast’s John Avlon was on hand at CNN to
defend the bloodthirsty killers of MS-13.
“I think that's something to watch out
for, the history of political leaders
dehumanizing opponents, even
criminals, using animal metaphors is a
dangerous one,” he opined. “That is not
something we should accept from an
American president.”
Given these comments about how it wasn’t a travesty to
have the media manipulating statements and video since it
met a preconceived notion, it’s disingenuous when they
bemoan Trump’s criticism of the press.
The transcripts are below:
CBS's Face the Nation
May 20, 2018
11:03:56 AM Eastern [1 minute 52 seconds]
(…)
MARGARET BRENNAN: The President says he there was
talking specifically about gang members from MS-13 that he was
not speaking at large about immigrants. That’s certainly not how
the Mexican government took it, Anne. And Jemele, that the not
what a lot of people heard here. And the White House said that
was unfair criticism of it.
JAMELLE BOUIE: The idea that that's unfair criticism, I think,
ignores the fact that for the past three years now the President
has made this consistent linkage between Hispanic immigrants
and crime and Hispanic immigrants and disorder. And so, in his
campaign announcement speech, “they're being crime, they’re
rapists, some I assume are good people.” In speeches and
addresses and off the cuff remarks, again and again, the
President has made that linkage.
Even in this particular case where he's responding to a
hypothetical question about an MS-13 gang member he doesn't -
- his language, he doesn't -- he doesn't talk specifically about
MS-13 gang members. He talks specifically about "these people,”
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which is just vague and a bit slippery and unclear exactly what he
means. But that is in keeping with his past language.
I think that when evaluating these kinds of comments and
evaluating this kind of imprecision, I'm not sure we should give
the benefit of the doubt towards the President only referring
specifically to this one group of people. And having said that,
even if that was the case, I do think there’s a serious problem
with the president dehumanizing any group of people, in the
United States, even if they are hardened criminals.
It opens the door to really problematic actions from federal law
enforcement, who take that as a cue for how they should
approach gang members, how they should approach people that
are within their enforcement per view. So, setting aside the
political controversy other what the president means, I think
there's a real sort of pragmatic and ethical problem with the
President speaking about people as, quote, “animals.”
(…)
CNN's Reliable Sources
May 20, 2018
11:56:45 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: So the President holds a roundtable to rail
against sanctuary cities. He starts by condemning “sadistic”
MS13 gang members. The conversation continues and one of
the panelists—one of the participants brings up MS-13 in one of
her questions for the President. Trump responds by saying,
“these aren't people, they are animals.” He doesn't say MS-13 in
his answer, but it seems like that's what he's referring to. It's not
entirely clear, but that's what it seemed like.
So some news outlets might have taken him out of context.
There were splash headlines and tweets and Facebook posts
with a video not showing the MS-13 question, only showing the
President's answer. And you know what happened next. Fox and
the President in the press railed against the news coverage.
(…)
STELTER: But the President also has a history of dehumanizing
language and disparaging language against all sorts of
immigrants.
(…)
STELTER: John, is it appropriate for the president to call anyone
an animal, even if they are sadistic gang members?
JOHN AVLON: I think that's something to watch out for, the
history of political leaders dehumanizing opponents, even
criminals, using animal metaphors is a dangerous one. That is
not something we should accept from an American president.
Yes, comments should be reported in context, but it's also saying
look at the real stats. Don’t look at the style, look at the
substance.
(…)
Also, be aware of bullies playing the victim card. Don’t fall for
that. It’s our job to impose context but it’s also in the context of
actions and rhetoric around immigrants over time.
STELTER: Max, the last 30 seconds are yours.
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MAX BOOT: Just keep in mind this is an old game the White
House plays. Trump says something that’s incredibly offensive
and then he comes out and says it was fake news, it was taken
out of context, it was just a joke or something. So he gets to slam
the news media as well as get his offensive comments out there
to his base. Don't fall for it. And the final point I would make,
whatever the so-called context of his animals remark, what
people heard was different. It’s that he was stigmatizing and
dehumanizing immigrants that’s the message he wants to send
out there. So I think fundamentally the coverage was basically
fair.
 John Kerry Spits In Trump’s Face
— We Will Not Go ‘America First’
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
4:31 PM 05/20/2018
Emmanuel Macron (R), head of the political movement En Marche !,
or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential
election, attends a meeting about international affairs with former
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) in Paris, France, March 3,
2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau | John Kerry Gives NYU
Commencement Speech
Former Secretary of State John Kerry warned President
Donald Trump Sunday that Democrats are not afraid to go
against his “America First” policies.
“We won’t win, any of us, ultimately, by
retreating within our borders, by focusing
on our own nations only, or by going it
alone,” Kerry told those gathered at New
York University’s Abu Dhabi’s
commencement ceremony Sunday — a
direct reference to the president’s “America
First” trade and immigration policies.
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Kerry served as the secretary of state for former President
Barack Obama. He also, notably, was one of the key
negotiators for the administration when it was finalizing
the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump backed out of on May
8.
Kerry lashed out against the president in early May for
withdrawing from the deal, calling the administration out
for stopping a “working” strategy.
American politics has become
“almost all accusatory and all bombastic,”
the former secretary of state told those
gathered Sunday, arguing we are at the
point where we can’t even “agree on what
the facts are.”
“No matter how big or how many the
challenges, I want you to leave here today
confident about our ability to win that
future,” Kerry said Sunday. “Every single
problem we face is created by human
choices. And to the best of my knowledge,
those problems can also be solved by
human choices.”
 Here’s Why Devin Nunes And Trey Gowdy Ignored
Invitation To Meet With Leaky DOJ
And Rosenstein On Friday
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 4:48 Pm

As previously reported, Chairman of the

House Intel Committee Devin Nunes (R-CA)
and Chairman of the House Oversight
Committee Trey Gowdy (R-SC) were invited
to meet with Rosenstein, Wray and Senior
Intel staff Friday morning.

A senior DOJ official told Fox News that

Nunes and Gowdy had not responded to
their invite as of Thursday evening.

On Sunday, Nunes revealed why he refused

to meet with the leaky DOJ on Friday. This was a strange development considering Nunes and
Gowdy have been hounding Rosenstein to gain access to
pertinent Mueller documents including the Rosenstein
memo.

Nunes accused the DOJ of not only leaking

to the media, but he confirmed once again
they are playing games and wouldn’t give
him the documents he requested.

Chairman Nunes appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Futures

with Maria Bartiromo and told her

“We’re not going to go to another meeting

On Thursday, Fox News producer, Jake Gibson reported a
DOJ official claimed Nunes and Gowdy had not responded
to the invitation extended to them for a Friday morning
briefing.
Gibson tweeted: Senior DOJ Official:
Earlier in the week (Tuesday), we offered
Chairmen Nunes and Gowdy a meeting for
Friday morning with the Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris
Wray, and senior Intelligence Community staff.
They have not responded to our invite.
where we don’t get documents and then the
meeting leaks out. This should make people
very suspicious – they were trying to get Mr.
Gowdy & I to go on Friday to the Justice
Department for supposedly another briefing.”
Did Nunes just hint Rod Rosenstein and or FBI Director
Christopher Wray of being the possible leakers?
Nunes also told Maria Bartiromo had he and Gowdy gone
to Friday’s meeting with the DOJ, the recent leaks about
the FBI informant embedded in Trump’s campaign would
have been blamed on them.

The Deep State has viciously gone after Nunes and blamed
him for leaking time and time again.

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Nunes skipped Friday’s meeting and DOJ/FBI sources still
managed to leak information to the stenographers at the
New York Times and Washington Post about the FBI
informant.

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 Former Trump Adviser Predicts
Roger Stone Likely To Face Mueller Indictment
Virginia Kruta
4:49 PM 05/20/2018

Former Donald Trump adviser Sam Nunberg predicted informant Whitey Bulger received better treatment from
Sunday on MSNBC that long-time Trump ally Roger Stone Mueller.
would probably face an indictment from special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigative team.

“He will get indicted on some stupid

financial thing.”

Nunberg, who has referred to Stone as a mentor and even a

father figure, told MSNBC’s Alex Witt that he called Stone
just before his own grand jury appearance to warn him that
his name was already involved.

“My last phone conversation with Roger

was the Saturday before my Friday grand
jury appearance where I explained to
Roger that I had received a subpoena and
his name is one that I would have to hand
over all communications,” he said.
Claiming that Mueller’s team was treating President
Donald Trump and his associates like members of the
mafia, Nunberg complained that gangster-turned-FBI-
.
Nunberg went on to say that he does expect Stone to be
indicted, likely on a financial matter.
“He will get indicted on some stupid
financial thing. He will eventually, I believe,
beat it because that is Andrew
Weissmann’s track record.”

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 HUGE! Email Shows FBI ‘Informant’ Stefan Halper Was
Still Spying On Trump Well Into 2017
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 5:26 Pm

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.

Via Jack Posobiec:

It has been widely reported that the Obama

administration had a spy working inside the
Trump campaign.

As previously reported internet sleuths have determined

the identity of the FBI spy inside the Trump campaign.

Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a

piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan
Halper 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).

It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.

Internet sleuth Jacob Wohl discovered that Stefan Halper

was paid $282,295 in September 2016 for “research and
development in the social sciences and humanities.”

Another Twitter sleuth identified a second payment to

Halper in the amount of $129,280 making the total
payments to Halper more than $400,000 from President
Obama’s Administration to spy on the future President of
the United States.

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.

Now this… Jack Posobiec added this:

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 BREAKING: DOJ Asks IG Horowitz To Investigate
Possible “Impropriety Or Political Motivation” After
Trump Demands Probe On FBI Campaign Infiltration
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 5:57 Pm

requests were made by people within the

On Sunday evening, the Justice Department Obama Administration!” the president tweeted.
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.

Trump should not have had to do this.

This was the duty of his Attorney General.

But, once again, Jeff Sessions is AWOL.

Hours later, the DOJ asked Inspector

As previously reported by TGP’s Kristinn Taylor,
President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering
the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama
administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.
The order comes on the heels of leaks to the New York
Times and Washington Post that the Obama administration
had an “informant” make several approaches to three
Trump campaign officials, included one that involved an
offer of cash and another an offer to “advise” the
campaign.
General to probe any alleged “impropriety or
political motivation” into the FBI’s
investigation into Russian interference in
the 2016 election.
Fox News reported:
The Justice Department asked its watchdog to
look into any alleged “impropriety or political
motivation” in the FBI’s investigation of Russian
interference in the 2016 election, the DOJ said
Sunday night — hours after President Trump
ordered a review looking into whether federal
agents infiltrated or surveilled his campaign for
political purposes.

Trump tweeted: “The Department has asked the Inspector

General to expand the ongoing review of the
(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)
“I hereby demand, and will do so officially
application process to include determining
tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look
whether there was any impropriety or political
into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or
motivation in how the FBI conducted its
surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political
counterintelligence investigation of persons
Purposes — and if any such demands or
suspected of involvement with the Russian
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 agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential Reports so far indicate Stefan Halper, who is believed to
election. As always, the Inspector General will be one of the FBI informants who infiltrated Trump’s
consult with the appropriate U.S. Attorney if camp, enticed George Papadopoulos with cash to get him
there is any evidence of potential criminal to London.
conduct,” DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur
Flores told Fox News. The Obama FBI, DOJ, and DOJ was spying on Trump
before they officially opened their investigation.
She also released a response from Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein: The Deep State lies and lies and lies… And then lies some
more.
“If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in
a presidential campaign for inappropriate
purposes, we need to know about it and take
appropriate action.”
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 John Brennan Fires Warning Shot To Paul Ryan And
Mitch Mcconnell After Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate
FBI’s Campaign Infiltration
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 6:29 Pm

“I hereby demand, and will do so officially

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll, tomorrow, that the Department of Justice
John Brennan lashed out at Trump on look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ
Sunday evening after the President infiltrated or surveilled the Trump
ordered the DOJ to investigate the FBI’s Campaign for Political Purposes — and if
infiltration of his campaign. any such demands or requests were made
by people within the Obama
Brennan also fired a warning shot to Administration!” the president tweeted.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
claiming they will ‘bear the majority of
the responsibility of the harm done to
our democracy’ if they don’t stop
Trump.

John Brennan warned Speaker Paul

Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell after Trump ordered the DOJ
to review the FBI’s infiltration of his
campaign.

Brennan tweeted: Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If

Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will
bear major responsibility for the harm done to our
democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the
Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s
self-serving actions.
As previously reported by TGP’s Kristinn Taylor,
President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering
the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama
administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.

The order comes on the heels of leaks to the New York

Times and Washington Post that the Obama administration
had an “informant” make several approaches to three
Trump campaign officials, included one that involved an
offer of cash and another an offer to “advise” the
campaign.

Trump tweeted:
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Brennan also sent out a peculiar cryptic tweet earlier on Brennan is caught in a perjury trap over his statements
Sunday that had Twitter buzzing: about Hillary’s phony dossier in a May 2017 testimony to
the intel panel.

Obama’s former CIA chief was also involved in setting up

Russian espionage traps for minor players in Trump’s
camp, according the investigative reporter, Paul Sperry.

On Sunday evening, the DOJ asked

Inspector General to probe any alleged
“impropriety or political motivation” into
the FBI’s investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election.
John Brennan is in hot water which is why he continues to
lash out at President Trump from his Twitter account.

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 Giuliani: Mueller Could
Wrap Up Investigation By September 1
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
6:54 PM 05/20/2018
FILE PHOTO: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani introduces
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign
event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 22, 2016.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and attorney
to President Trump, said Sunday that Special Counsel
Robert Mueller could be finished with the Russia
investigation as early as September 1.
Giuliani said the timing depends on whether Trump will be
questioned.
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“You don’t want another repeat of the 2016
election where you get contrary reports at
the end and you don’t know how it affected
the election,” Giuliani told The New York
Times.
The former New York City mayor also said that an
interview with the special counsel would be a distraction
from the president’s scheduled meeting with North Korean
dictator Kim Jong Un. Giuliani said last week Mueller
would follow DOJ protocol from the Clinton era not to
indict a sitting president, and therefore he would not indict
Trump.
Last week was the one-year anniversary of the Mueller
probe into possible collusion between Russia and the
Trump campaign. The House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence released a report in March — after its own
investigation into Trump-Russia ties — saying they found
no collusion between the president and Russia during the
2016 presidential campaign.
 An Email Referring To ‘Collusion’ Sheds Light On
Cambridge Prof’s Interactions With Trump Aide
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:14 PM 05/20/2018

 Cambridge professor Stefan Halper expressed
skepticism of the alleged collusion between Russia
and the Trump campaign in communications with
Carter Page.
 It was recently revealed Halper was the alleged FBI
informant who spied on Page and George
Papadopoulos, another Trump campaign aide.
conversation. Reid accused Page in the letter of possibly
being a Russian agent.
But Halper was all but identified on Friday as an FBI
informant who spied on Page and George Papadopoulos,
another Trump campaign adviser. Halper also made
contact in August 2016 with Sam Clovis, the campaign’s
national co-chairman.

 Halper and Page’s 14 months of contact ended in In news articles published Friday, The Washington Post
September 2017, the same month the last FISA and The New York Times described an informant who met
warrant against the former Trump campaign aide several times with Page and Papadopoulos.
expired.
The newspapers did not name the informant, but the details
Last July, Cambridge professor Stefan Halper contacted matched up exactly with two DCNF reports, one published
Carter Page with something resembling support for the in March and the other on May 17. The Times and WaPo
Trump campaign aide, who has faced allegations that he is said they were not printing the informant’s names upon the
a Russian agent and a conduit for collusion between the request of the intelligence community. The FBI, the
Kremlin and the campaign. Department of Justice and the CIA have all declined
TheDCNF’s request for guidance or comment about
“It seems attention has shifted a bit from Halper.
the ‘collusion’ investigation to the
‘contretempts’ [sic] within the White
House,” Halper wrote in a July 28, 2017
email to Page.
“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.”

The email provides some insight into how Halper might

have gained Page’s trust. And it was that trust that the 73-
year-old Halper seemingly used while working as an FBI
informant to keep tabs on Page.

That email was not the only time Halper, a foreign policy
expert with links to the CIA and MI6, offered apparent
skepticism at the collusion allegations against Page, a
Naval Academy graduate and energy consultant.
Stefan Halper email to Carter Page, July 28, 2017. (Carter Page’s
Page told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Halper Twitter)
rolled his eyes during an encounter in late Summer 2016
when a letter that then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid Page and Halper first met at an election-themed
sent to then-FBI Director James Comey was brought up in symposium held at Cambridge on July 11 and 12, 2016,

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several days after Page’s now-infamous speech at the New
Economic School in Moscow.
Halper approached Page on the sidelines of the event, and
the pair struck up what Page thought to be a friendship.
Page told TheDCNF that he stayed in touch with Halper
for 14 months, through September 2017.
They met numerous times and frequently exchanged
emails. Halper also invited Page to his farm in Virginia for
multiple visits.
Stefan Halper (YouTube screen capture)
Page said he did not detect anything untoward from
Halper.
Page noted that in their first conversation at Cambridge,
Halper said he was longtime friends with then-campaign
chairman Paul Manafort. A person close to Manafort told
TheDCNF that Manafort has not seen Halper since the
Gerald Ford administration. Manafort and Page are
accused in the Steele dossier of having worked together on
the campaign’s collusion conspiracy, but both men say
they have never met.
The FBI and the Justice Department relied heavily on the
unverified dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrants against Page. The first
surveillance warrant was granted on Oct. 21, 2016. They
were renewed in January, early April and late June 2017.
To obtain a FISA, the government is required to show that
there is probable cause to show that a target is acting as an
agent of a foreign power. To get renewals, the government
must provide new information supporting that probable
cause claim. It’s unknown whether information Halper
collected on Page was included in the FISA renewal
applications.
The fourth and final spy warrant against Page expired in
Sept. 2017, the same month Page and Halper fell out of
contact.
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Halper’s outreach to two other Trump campaign advisers
had mixed results in terms of raising skepticism from the
targets.
Clovis, who made the final decision in March 2016 to
bring both Page and Papadopoulos onto the campaign, had
no inclination that Halper was spying on Trump associates.
Clovis and Halper met for coffee on Aug. 31 or Sept. 1,
2016 near Washington. Clovis said the conversation was
innocuous, focusing mostly on foreign policy issues,
including China, one of Halper’s areas of expertise.
Halper and Clovis did not meet again, though Halper sent
the Trump official a note of congratulations after Donald
Trump’s presidential election win.
While Clovis detected nothing nefarious from Halper,
Papadopoulos was alerted during one of his meetings with
the professor in mid-Sept. 2016.
As TheDCNF reported in March, Halper reached out to
Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016 to offer to pay him for a
policy paper about energy issues in Turkey, Israel and
Cyprus. Halper paid for Papadopoulos’s flight and several
nights in London. The pair met several times during
Papadopoulos’ stay, including for dinner at the Travellers
Club, an Old London gentlemen’s club frequented by
diplomats and spies.
Halper was accompanied by an assistant, a Turkish woman
named Azra Turk.
During one of their dinners, Halper asked Papadopoulos
whether he was involved in the Russian theft of
Democrats’ emails, sources familiar with Papadopoulos’
account have told TheDCNF. Papadopoulos denied the
allegation, saying that stealing emails would be treason.
Halper grew frustrated, according to sources.
Papadopoulos had been told about Russians and the emails
earlier in the campaign. During an April 26, 2016 meeting,
another professor named Joseph Mifsud told the Trump
aide that he had learned that Russians had obtained
“thousands” of emails related to Hillary Clinton.
And an Australian diplomat named Alexander Downer
reportedly said Papadopoulos discussed hacked Clinton
emails during a barroom discussion in London around May
10, 2016. Downer relayed that information to his
countrymen, who shared it with the FBI. That information
is allegedly what prompted the bureau on July 31, 2016 to
open its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump
campaign, nicknamed “Crossfire Hurricane.”
The FBI has said that Papadopoulos was the catalyst for
the probe, but Halper interacted with Page two weeks
before Crossfire Hurricane started.
Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about
the timing of his encounters with Mifsud and two Russian
nationals. He did, however, tell the FBI in his initial
interviews that Mifsud mentioned Clinton documents.
Turk, Halper’s assistant, also brought up the topic of the
emails during a one-on-one interaction with Papadopoulos.
She later attempted to meet with Papadopoulos in Chicago,
where he lives.
Papadopoulos wrote the energy policy paper after
returning to the U.S. and received a $3,000 wire transfer
from Halper.
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Papadopoulos has told people around him that he was
skeptical of Halper’s inquiries. TheDCNF has not learned
whether Papadopoulos was suspicious of the encounters at
the time or whether that suspicion developed later on.
Halper has longstanding ties to the CIA and MI6, the
British intelligence service. Halper’s father-in-law was
CIA legend Ray Cline, and he is currently a partner at the
Cambridge Security Initiative with Sir Richard Dearlove,
the former MI6 chief.
Dearlove reportedly met with Christopher Steele, the
author of the dossier, in September 2016 to discuss how to
investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and
the Russian government.
 Looney-Bird Hillary Clinton Delivers Commencement
Speech At Yale – Wears Russian Hat, Bitches About
Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 20, 2018, 9:56 Pm

Worst. Loser. Ever. Hillary’s inspiring message to the young

graduates: Blame everyone else for your
The more Hillary Clinton talks – the more failures.
voters reject the DNC.

Keep talking Hillary.

Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement speech at

Yale this weekend.

She whined about losing.

“You will make mistakes in life. You will even

fail. It happens to all of us, no matter how
qualified or capable we are — take it from me.”

Hillary also flaunted a Russian hat.

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 Bombshell: Doxxed FBI Trump Spy Also
Spied On Carter Admin While A Campaign Aide For Regan
Stefan A. Halper Spied On The Carter Administration While Working As
An Aide For The Regan Campaign, 1983 Archived Article Says
By Shepard Ambellas -
May 20, 2018 @10:46 Am, Sun

WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) — Doxxed FBI Trump
spy Stefan A. Halper also spied on the Jimmy Carter
Administration while he was working as a Ronald Reagan
Campaign aide, according to an archived 1983 report out
of the New York Times.
The report, titled Reagan Aides Describe Operation To
Gather Inside Data On Carter explains:
An operation to collect inside information
on Carter Administration foreign policy was
run in Ronald Reagan’s campaign
headquarters in the 1980 Presidential
campaign, according to present and former
Reagan Administration officials.
Those sources said they did not know
exactly what information the operation
produced or whether it was anything
beyond the usual grab bag of rumors and
published news reports. But they said it
involved a number of retired Central
Intelligence Agency officials and was highly
secretive.
The sources identified Stefan A. Halper, a campaign aide
involved in providing 24-hour news updates and policy
ideas to the traveling Reagan party, as the person in
charge. Mr. Halper, until recently deputy director of the
State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs and
now chairman of the Palmer National Bank in Washington,
was out of town today and could not be reached. But Ray
S. Cline, his father-in-law, a former senior Central
Intelligence official, rejected the account as a ”romantic
fallacy.”
Screenshot via TimesMachine/New York Times
(@BlacklistedNews on Twitter)
It looks like Halper and the FBI have some explaining to
do.
Tthe actual article out of the newspaper is on next page.

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 Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows Demands
Documents From Rosenstein: ‘The DOJ Can’t Be Trusted
To Investigate Themselves’
By Cristina Laila
May 20, 2018, 11:54 Pm

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows

(R-NC) said the Justice Department cannot
be trusted to investigate themselves and
demanded Rosenstein turn over pertinent
Trump-Russia documents to Congress.

On Sunday evening, 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.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows

doesn’t believe the DOJ can be trusted to
investigate themselves and blasted Deputy
AG Rod Rosenstein.

Mark Meadows tweeted:

As previously reported by TGP’s Kristinn Taylor,
President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering This is the right call from @realDonaldTrump–
the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama we’ve seen disturbing evidence that the FBI
administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign. engaged in political targeting.

The order comes on the heels of leaks to the New York But the DOJ can’t be trusted to investigate themselves–
Times and Washington Post that the Obama administration Congress needs the documents too. Rod Rosenstein: where
had an “informant” make several approaches to three are the documents? Show Americans the truth.
Trump campaign officials, included one that involved an
offer of cash and another an offer to “advise” the
campaign.

Trump tweeted:

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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 President Trump, Rep. Mark Meadows and
other members of the Freedom Caucus are
on the front lines fighting the Deep State
while AG Sessions is AWOL.
On Wednesday, with the backing of Rep. Ron DeSantis
and Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Meadows sent President Trump
a letter requesting he use his Presidential powers to instruct
AG Sessions to declassify and release ALL FISA abuse
documents and the unredacted Rosenstein memo detailing
Mueller’s scope.
“In the year that has passed since these
committments were made, the Department of
Justice has failed to fully comply with regular
and repeated Congressional requests and
subpoenas. Our power as Congress to conduct
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investigations is broad, inherent and mandated
by the Constitution. As a separate and equal
branch of government, we have a constitutional
right to these documents,” Meadows said in his
letter to President Trump.
Rep. Meadows requested documents related to FISA
abuses, documents related to the initial investigation into
Trump’s camp before the Special Counsel was appointed,
and the unredacted August 2nd memo penned by Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein detailing Mueller’s
scope.
Chairman Meadows is correct. The leaky
DOJ cannot be trusted to investigate
themselves; the American people deserve
answers.
 Michael Avenatti Says He’s
Protecting The First Amendment Despite Threatening
To Sue Five Different Journalists
Joe Simonson - Media Reporter
12:09 AM 05/21/2018
Attorney Michael Avenatti on "Morning Joe," May 9, 2018.
(YouTube screen capture/MSNBC) | Avenatti Claims First
Amendment Supporter
Michael Avenatti said he has been a friend to reporters and
a contributor to the First Amendment in a tweet on
Sunday, despite the fact he has repeatedly threatened news
outlets and journalists for reporting on him.
Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer bragged about his
supposed support for journalists after praising an article by
Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post as “very
balanced.”
“Thank you @Sulliview for a very balanced
piece. When history is written, there will be
no doubt as to whether I contributed to and
defended 1st Amend values. None. I will
continue to contribute to and assist you and
other professionals in what you do. It is
vital to our nation,” Avenatti said.
Sullivan’s article,
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“Stormy Daniels’s lawyer is a media star.
So why is he threatening journalists?,”
discussed Avenatti’s behavior toward
journalists in recent months.
Since entering the media spotlight, Avenatti has threatened
reporters from Law & Crime, the Hollywood Reporter, and
The Daily Caller News Foundation for reporting on his
past business dealings or for criticizing his current conduct
as an attorney.
“If you and your colleagues do not stop with
the hit pieces that are full of lies and
defamatory statements, I will have no
choice but to sue each of you and your
publication for defamation,” he told
TheDCNF’s Peter Hasson
Speaking with Sullivan, Avenatti seemed to voice regret
for his conduct and called his behavior toward TheDCNF a
“learning experience.”
“I respect and admire the job that the press
does,” Avenatti told Sullivan but also said,
“there is nothing wrong with me calling
them out on [inaccurate or unfair
reporting].”
Avenatti has yet to identify any mistakes in TheDCNF’s
reporting, despite publisher Neil Patel promising the outlet
would quickly offer a correction.
 President Orders DOJ Probe
Of Its Spying On His 2016 Campaign
Chief Executive Unleashed A Twitter Storm On Sunday Targeting Official
Bias And Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 'Witch Hunt'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 21 May 2018 At 6:02 AM

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a ranking member of the

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
downplayed Trump's accusations and the Times report
Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press."

"Well, again, I can't comment on the identity of any

President Donald Trump demanded on Sunday that the
Department of Justice (DOJ) determine whether it or the
FBI “infiltrated or surveilled” his 2016 presidential
campaign for “political purposes.”
individual or source, but I can say this: This is part of a
string of meritless allegations from the very beginning that,
'I was — I was wiretapped in Trump Tower. There's a vast
unmasking conspiracy. The investigation began with the
Christopher Steele dossier,'" Schiff said, paraphrasing
Trump.

“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!” Trump tweeted Sunday.

The New York Times reported Thursday that the FBI under
former President Barack Obama’s administration had a spy
watching the inner workings of Trump’s campaign.
Deep in the story, The Times reported that “at least one
government informant met several times with Mr. [Carter]
Page and [George] Papadopoulos,” two of Trump’s former
campaign advisers.
"All of which was untrue," Schiff claimed.
"All of which, as you pointed out at the
outset, is designed to create this alternate
reality for Trump supporters to live in."
But Trump also said on Sunday that "things are really
getting ridiculous" as special counsel Robert Mueller's
Russian "witch hunt" for collusion morphs into "looking at
the rest of the world" while 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton's scandals were and are ignored.

Trump appeared to be reacting to a Saturday report from

the "Failing and Crooked" New York Times, alleging that
his son, Donald Trump Jr., sought aide for the president's
2016 campaign from officials of the United Arab Emirates
and Saudi Arabia during a meeting in Trump Tower.

While panning the new report, Trump also slammed

Mueller's team as being filled with Democratic donors who

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are veering their probe into multiple directions unrelated to
the original collusion allegations.
"Things are really getting ridiculous,"
Trump began on Twitter. "The Failing and
Crooked (but not as Crooked as Hillary
Clinton) @nytimes has done a long &
boring story indicating that the World's
most expensive Witch Hunt has found
nothing on Russia & me so now they are
looking at the rest of the World!"
"Now that the Witch Hunt has given up on Russia and is
looking at the rest of the World, they should easily be able
to take it into the Mid-Term Elections where they can put
some hurt on the Republican Party. Don't worry about
Dems FISA Abuse, missing Emails or Fraudulent
Dossier!" Trump added. "The Witch Hunt finds no
Collusion with Russia — so now they're looking at the rest
of the World. Oh, great!"
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, said Sunday on CNN's
"State of the Union" that "if the Times story is true, we
now have at least a second and maybe a third nation that
was trying to lean into this campaign."
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"I don't understand what the president
doesn't get about the law that says if you
have a foreign nation interfere in an
American election, that's illegal," Warner
said.
But host Jake Tapper pressed Warner about the existence
of any evidence showing that Russia interfered in the U.S.
presidential election
"with the assistance or participation of any
American, especially and including people
who are in the Trump campaign's orbit."
When Warner skirted the issue, Tapper asked,
"But have you seen any evidence of that?"
Warner cited the "pattern" of Trump campaign officials'
being "receptive to these kinds of offers" that promised dirt
on Clinton from Russia and other nations.
"Still, as far as the public knows," Tapper
noted, "[there's] no evidence of anybody in
the Trump team accepting the offers of
help, no evidence of actual conspiracy that
we know of yet, that we in the public know
of yet. And you're not willing to comment on
whether or not you've seen evidence of
that conspiracy."
The president further highlighted what he sees as the FBI's
hypocrisy in its treatment of himself and Clinton during
the 2016 presidential campaign, noting that Clinton was
exonerated after the bureau concluded its investigation into
her use of a private email server to conduct official
business as secretary of state.
"At what point does this soon to be
$20,000,000 Witch Hunt, composed of 13
Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats
and two people who have worked for
Obama for 8 years, STOP!" Trump
tweeted.
"They have found no Collussion [sic] with
Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren't
looking at the corruption ... in the Hillary
Clinton Campaign where she deleted
33,000 Emails, got $145,000,000 while
Secretary of State, paid [former FBI Deputy
 Director Andrew] McCabe's wife $700,000
(and got off the FBI hook along with [former
Virginia Gov.] Terry [McAuliffe] and so
much more. Republicans and real
Americans should start getting tough on
this Scam."
"And why hasn't the Podesta brother been
charged and arrested, like others, after
being forced to close down his very large
and successful firm? Is it because he is a
VERY well connected Democrat working in
the Swamp of Washington, D.C.?" Trump
asked.

Veteran political operative Roger Stone, a longtime Trump

ally who has come under scrutiny during Mueller's probe,
claimed Sunday on "Meet the Press" that he could
"guarantee" that Mueller's team has "found no evidence
whatsoever of Russian collusion."

"It is not inconceivable now that Mr. Mueller

Trump also wondered "what ever happened" to the
Democratic National Committee's (DNC) server, which
was "at the center of so much Corruption" and which the
DNC "REFUSED to hand over" to the FBI." He also
targeted former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's
brother, Tony Podesta, who reportedly is under
investigation for his ties to a Ukrainian group.
and his team may seek to conjure up some
extraneous crime pertaining to my
business, or maybe not even pertaining to
the 2016 election," Stone said. "But I think
it just demonstrates, again, this was
supposed to be about Russian collusion,
and it appears to be an effort to silence or
punish the president's supporters and his
advocates."

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 Former CIA Agent To John Brennan:
“Your Day Of Judgement Is Coming”
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 7:33 Am

John Brennan warned Speaker Paul

Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell after Trump ordered the DOJ
to review the FBI’s infiltration of his
campaign.

Brennan tweeted:

Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr.

Trump continues along this disastrous
path, you will bear major responsibility for
Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll, the harm done to our democracy. You do a
John Brennan lashed out at Trump on great disservice to our Nation & the
Sunday evening after the President Republican Party if you continue to enable
Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.
ordered the DOJ to investigate the FBI’s
infiltration of his campaign.
Brennan also fired a warning shot to
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
claiming they will ‘bear the majority of
the responsibility of the harm done to
our democracy’ if they don’t stop
Trump.

Brennan also sent out a peculiar cryptic threat to President

Trump earlier on Sunday that had Twitter buzzing:

But not every CIA operative approves of former Director

As previously reported by TGP’s Kristinn Taylor,
President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering
the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama
administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.
John Brennan and his erratic outbursts.
Bryan Dean Wright is a former CIA operative. He is also a
Democrat.

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 Wright told Brennan on Sunday his day
of judgement is coming.

Dean Wright served with Brennan and

thought of him as a hack (like the rest of
us).
Bryan Dean Wright then pushed for a
second Special Counsel to deal with the
Obama deep state crimes.

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 BOOM! Trump Tweets Warning Shot To Predecessor:
“WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS
BARACK OBAMA?”
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 8:13 Am

On Monday morning President Trump

On Sunday night Tom Fitton from
Judicial Watch tweeted out to President
Donald Trump that Barack Obama could
still be impeached and barred from
public office every again.
tweeted this out on his predecessor:
“The Wall Street Journal asks, “WHERE IN
THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?”
A very good question!”

Jack Posobiec agreed with Fitton.

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 TRUMP Goes After Liberal Hack
JOHN BRENNAN: This Guy Is Genesis
Of This Whole Debacle… A Political Hit Job
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 8:26 Am

Brennan also sent out a peculiar cryptic threat to President

Trump earlier on Sunday that had Twitter buzzing:
Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll,
John Brennan lashed out at Trump on
Sunday evening after the President
ordered the DOJ to investigate the FBI’s
infiltration of his campaign.
Brennan also fired a warning shot to
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
claiming they will ‘bear the majority of
the responsibility of the harm done to
our democracy’ if they don’t stop
Trump.
John Brennan warned Speaker Paul
Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell after Trump ordered the DOJ
to review the FBI’s infiltration of his
campaign.
Brennan tweeted: Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If On Monday morning former Secret Service agent Dan
Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will Bongino went on FOX and Friends and went after John
bear major responsibility for the harm done to our Brennan.
democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the
Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s
self-serving actions.

Shortly after Bongino’s appearance President Trump

tweeted out the transcript — and called Brennan’s bluff.

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President Trump:
John Brennan is panicking. He has
disgraced himself, he has disgraced the
Country, he has disgraced the entire
Intelligence Community. He is the one man
who is largely responsible for the
destruction of American’s faith in the
Intelligence Community and in some
people at the top of the FBI. Brennan
started this entire debacle about President
Trump. We now know that Brennan had
detailed knowledge of the (phony)
Dossier…he knows about the Dossier, he
denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs
the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier,
which they then used to start an
investigation about Trump. It is that simple.
This guy is the genesis of this whole
Debacle. This was a Political hit job, this
was not an Intelligence Investigation.
Brennan has disgraced himself, he’s
worried about staying out of Jail.” Dan
Bongino

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 Trump Blasts John Brennan
For ‘Destruction’ Of American Faith In CIA
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:35 AM 05/21/2018

President Donald Trump unloaded on former CIA director

John Brennan Monday, quoting analysis blaming him for
low levels of faith in the U.S. intelligence community.
Trump quoted former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino’s
blasting of Brennan, who has become an outspoken critic
of the former CIA director. Bongino highlighted Brennan’s
role in distributing the now-infamous Steele Dossier to
Congress and pushing for a counterintelligence
investigation.

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 AP 'Fact Check' Mangles
What Trump Tweeted On Tilted Mueller Probe
By Tim Graham
May 21, 2018 8:57 AM EDT
Our News Analysis Division has given this fact checker a
rating of:
Deeply Distorted
The hypersensitivity of the "independent fact checkers"
toward special counsel Robert Mueller was demonstrated
again by a Hope Yen AP "Fact Check" on Sunday. Yen
began:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is
skimming over the facts involving the investigations into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In a series of tweets Sunday, he repeatedly assails special
counsel Robert Mueller’s probe as hopelessly biased,
insisting that it is effectively controlled by Democrats. He
also repeats a claim that his campaign had been cleared of
collusion with Russia.
Neither statement holds up to reality.
In "reality," as we've explained before, 13 of 17 of
Mueller's lawyers are registered Democrats, and nine made
donations to Democrats, six of them to Hillary Clinton.
But somehow pointing this out is "unsupported."
TRUMP:
“At what point does this soon to be
$20,000,000 Witch Hunt, composed of 13
Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats
and two people who have worked for
Obama for 8 years, STOP! They have
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found no Collussion with Russia, No
Obstruction, but they aren’t looking at the
corruption...”
THE FACTS:
Trump’s suggestion that Mueller’s team is a
Democratic cabal is unsupported. Mueller
is a Republican and some others on his
team owe their jobs largely to Republican
presidents. Some have indeed given
money to Democratic candidates over the
years. Trump makes a false allegation
that Mueller worked for President
Barack Obama for eight years. Mueller
was FBI chief for less than six years under
Obama, leaving in September 2013. He
was chosen to lead the FBI by Republican
President George W. Bush in 2001 and
kept on by Obama.
This is where the "fact checker" isn't reading carefully.
Trump's tweet doesn't say Mueller worked for Obama for
eight years. It's true that Mueller's team has at least two
people who worked in the Obama Department of Justice
for eight years -- Michael Dreeben, who has been in the
solicitor general's office for decades, and Kyle Freeny. So
it's the Associated Press who messed up the facts on this
matter, not Trump.
Somehow, AP and Yen think it's "fact-checking" to object
to Trump tweeting “The Witch Hunt finds no Collusion
with Russia - so now they’re looking at the rest of the
World. Oh’ great!”. Yen stretched it in her lede to Trump
saying he's been "cleared."
In fact, they've found no collusion:
THE FACTS:
There has been no definitive resolution as
to whether the Trump campaign
coordinated with Russia in the 2016
election, with government investigations
still continuing. The special counsel’s probe
into Russian meddling has produced a
number of charges and convictions, none
to date alleging criminal collusion.
 "Collusion" is a not a legal term. So if until Mueller proclaims he hasn't found
there's "no definitive resolution," it should something.
be fair comment for a politician to say "finds
We have rated this AP "fact check" as
no collusion." The "fact checkers" on
Deeply Distorted. For similar analyses,
Mueller seem to insist Trump can never
please visit our Fact-Checking the Fact-
claim Mueller's failing to find something
Checkers site.
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 Outspoken Porn Star Lawyer Michael Avenatti
Connected To Anti-Trump FBI Spies In UK
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 9:10 Am

who appears to have targeted George

Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign
worker for the Trump campaign, in 2016.
The other individuals with Joseph Mifsud
are Alexander Downer and Stefan Halper.

Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an

Obamagate is getting more sinister by
the day. Information is now available
showing a connection between the
creepy porn star lawyer Avenatti with
FBI spies in the UK and the connection
is through a spy from Saudi Arabia!
Julian Assange from WikiLeaks shared a series of tweets in
March of 2018 about one of the spies involved in
Obamagate, Joseph Misfud. In one of his tweets, Assange
tweets that
“Misfud worked in Riyadh for a “think
tank” run by the former head of Saudi
intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal.
(BBC)”
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’s Twitter Thread notes the
connection between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.
Porn star Stormy Daniels’ creepy attorney Michael
Avenatti also has ties to Saudi Prince Turki al Faisal.
Avenatti and the Prince’s son raced together in some major
car races.

Mufsud is one of three individuals with

ties to British and/or U.S. Intelligence
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In addition the Saudi Prince was a big donor to the Clinton Presidential election! This scandal
Foundation (note it’s illegal to accept donations from keeps getting bigger and bigger and
foreigners in a political campaign in the US.) – more corrupt.

So now we have the UK and Saudi

Arabia meddling in the 2016 US
.

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 White House Releases Statement
On ‘The Violent Animals Of MS-13’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 21, 2018, 9:22 Am
The White House has released a statement following
Democrats choosing to defend MS-13 after President
Donald Trump referred to the violent gang as “animals.”
The statement begins by correctly asserting that
“the violent animals of MS-13 have
committed heinous, violent attacks in
communities across America.”
“At the State of the Union in January 2018,
President Trump brought as his guests
Elizabeth Alvarado, Robert Mickens,
Evelyn Rodriguez, and Freddy Cuevas, the
parents of Nisa Mickens and Kayla
Cuevas. Police believe these young girls
were chased down and brutally murdered
by MS-13 gang members on Long Island,
New York, in 2016,” the statement reads.
It goes on to state that Suffolk County Police
Commissioner said that the “murders show a level of
brutality that is close to unmatched.” Nearly 40 percent of
all murders in his county between January 2016 and June
2017 were tied to MS-13.
“In Maryland, MS-13’s animals are
accused of stabbing a man more than
100 times and then decapitating him,
dismembering him, and ripping his
.
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heart out of his body. Police believe MS-
13 members in Maryland also savagely
beat a 15-year-old human trafficking
victim. The MS-13 animals used a bat
and took turns beating her nearly 30
times in total,” the statement continues.
The White House remind people that
“in Houston, Texas, two MS-13 members
were charged after kidnapping and sexually
assaulting one girl and murdering another.
The two MS-13 animals laughed, smiled,
and waved for cameras in court as they
faced the charges.”
The extremely brutal transnational gang’s motto is
“aata, roba, viola, controla’”(Kill, steal,
rape, control), yet Democratic pundits and
politicians feigned outrage that Trump
would dare to “dehumanize” them.”
“In January 2017, MS-13 members were
charged with killing and hacking up a
teenager in Nassau County. MS-13’s
animals reportedly saw the murder as a
way to boost their standing in the gang. In
April 2017, police believe four young men
were brutally murdered by MS-13 animals
on Long Island. One victim was a young
man in town visiting family during an Easter
week vacation. Just last month, in April
2018, MS-13 reportedly called for its
members on Long Island to kill a cop for
the sake of making a statement,” the White
House noted.
The White House concluded the
statement by asserting that “President
Trump’s entire Administration is
working tirelessly to bring these violent
animals to justice.”
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has previously stated that
calling these gangsters “animals” wasn’t going far enough.
 Democrats Roll Out New Agenda
That Promises To ‘Clean Up The
Chaos’ In Washington
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
9:27 AM 05/21/2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is seen at the White House
Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, U.S., April 28,
2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
House and Senate Democrats have a new 2018 campaign
platform they believe can propel their party to gain control
of the lower chamber, and it is eerily similar to President
Donald Trump’s “drain the swamp” motto.
The proposal is called “A Better Deal for Our
Democracy.” It promises voters that if they elect
Democrats in November, the party will
“clean up the chaos and corruption in
Washington.”
.
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One facet of the proposal aims to make federal laws
governing lobbying disclosures and foreign agent
registration stricter. Another aims at rewriting federal
statutes that potentially allowed members of Congress to
evade bribery and pay-to-play allegations, like Democratic
Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, former GOP Sen.
Ted Stevens of Alaska and others.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer, Democratic Sens. Sheldon
Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Tom Udall of New
Mexico and other congressional Democrats will formally
roll out the proposal on the House steps Monday
afternoon.
Democrats feel the timing of the roll out could not be any
better given the number of corruption allegations running
through the administration. Some have already fallen, like
former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
Trump campaigned in 2016 promising voters he was the
one force that could “drain the swamp,” a reference to the
entrenched special interests and bureaucratic officials that
have made a career out of playing politics in Washington,
D.C.
 Dershowitz Calls For Independent
Investigation Into FBI Spying
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:29 AM 05/21/2018

any Russian sources,” Dershowitz

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is calling for an
independent investigation to dig into the 2016 election and
uncover the truth about, among other things, allegations
that the FBI was spying on the president.
asserted, “we need to get to the truth!”
“The only way to get to the truth is an
independent 9/11 type commission,” he
said.
“You need a nonpartisan commission of
experts — people who really can dig into
this, people who really have experience
and don’t have an agenda,” Dershowitz
concluded.
WATCH:

Dershowitz asserted that a special counsel is the “worst

way to get to the truth” because it is seeped in politics and
partisanship and added that people don’t trust
congressional committees.

“This election was not the finest hour.

Whether there were infiltrations of spies put
into the Republican camp, whether Strzok
did have a hatred and an insurance policy,
whether there was any cooperation with
.

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 There May Be An Impeachment
In The Works… But It Won’t Be Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 10:38 Am

Far left hack and historian Jon
Meacham said Monday that he thinks
impeachment will be the “season finale”
to President Trump’s time in office.
Meachum made the courageous
announcement on the Morning Joe echo
chamber on Monday.
On Sunday night Tom Fitton from
Judicial Watch tweeted out to President
Donald Trump that Barack Obama could
still be impeached and barred from
public office every again.

Meachum, the former Editor-in-Chief of

leftwing Newsweek, may be on to
something.
Jack Posobiec agreed with Fitton.
But he might be surprised with the final
result.

It would be hard for the Deep State and

their supporters in Congress to impeach
President Trump for mean tweets.

It would not be hard for Congress to

impeach Barack Obama for spying on
the opposition candidate during a
national election.
On Monday morning President Trump tweeted this out
And that is where this story is heading. on his predecessor:

We now know that the Obama

administration used all of the resources
of government to spy on his political
enemy during the 2016 election. The
Obama deep state event injected a spy
into the Donald Trump campaign. This
is unprecedented in US history.

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 “The Wall Street Journal asks, “WHERE IN
THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?”
A very good question!”
.
There may be a case for impeachment in
the near future.
But it won’t be President Trump.

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 GOP Lawmakers To File Resolution
Detailing DOJ-FBI ‘Misconduct,’ 2016 Meddling
Joshua Caplin
21 May 2018
scope of his probe to include possible politically motivated
acts regarding how the bureau
This week, Republican lawmakers will
shine new light on alleged misconduct
carried out by top officers at the Justice
Department and Federal Bureau of
Investigation in relation to the 2016
presidential election.
“On Tuesday, May 22nd, at 11:00 am,
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) will be
joined by at least 16 other Members of
Congress to introduce a 12 page House
Resolution detailing misconduct at the
highest levels of the Department of Justice
(DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) with regards to FISA Abuse, how and
why the Hillary Clinton email probe ended,
and how and why the Donald Trump-
Russia probe began,” Katie Vincentz, Rep.
Lee’s Communications Director, said in a
statement Monday.
“The Resolution will call for the
appointment of a second special counsel to
investigate the misconduct that took place.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asked Inspector
General Michael Horowitz over the weekend to enlarge the
.
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“conducted its counter-intelligence
investigation of persons suspected of
involvement with the Russian agents who
interfered in the 2016 presidential election.”
BREAKING: DoJ's Sarah Isgur Flores: The
Department has asked the Inspector
General to expand the ongoing review of
the FISA application process to include
determining whether there was any
impropriety or political motivation in how
the FBI conducted its counterintelligence…
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May
20, 2018
"investigation of persons suspected of
involvement with the Russian agents who
interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
As always, the Inspector General will
consult with the appropriate U.S. Attorney if
there is any evidence of potential criminal
conduct…
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May
20, 2018
"The Deputy Attorney General issued the
following statement: “If anyone did infiltrate
or surveil participants in a presidential
campaign for inappropriate purposes, we
need to know about it and take appropriate
action.”
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May
20, 2018
“If anyone did infiltrate or surveil
participants in a presidential campaign for
inappropriate purposes, we need to know
about it and take appropriate action,”
Rosenstein said in a statement Sunday.
 Stone: 'Not Inconceivable' Mueller Could
Try To 'Conjure Up' Crime Related To Business
By Mallory Shelbourne
05/20/18 10:59 AM EDT

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone in a Sunday

show interview suggested special counsel Robert Mueller
could “conjure up” a crime related to his business interests.
“It is not inconceivable now that Mr. Mueller
and his team may seek to conjure up some
extraneous crime pertaining to my
business, or maybe not even pertaining to
the 2016 election. I would chock this up to
an effort to silence me,” Stone told NBC’s
“Meet the Press.”
“Chuck, I've been a, I think, effective critic
on Infowars, on stonecoldtruth.com, on
programs like this of the excesses and
partisanship of the Mueller probe,” Stone
added to host Chuck Todd.
.
Stone again said neither he nor his attorney has been
contacted by Mueller or his team, which is investigating
Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and any potential
ties between Trump campaign staff members and Moscow.
Stone also said he is “prepared” should Mueller seek to
indict him, but slammed the special counsel for alleged
partisanship.
“But I think it just demonstrates, again, this
was supposed to be about Russian
collusion,” said Stone. “And it appears to
be an effort to silence or punish the
president's supporters and his advocates.”

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 Trump, Conservatives Demand
Investigation Of ‘Hacked’ DNC Server
By Alicia Powe
May 21, 2018, 11:04 Am
As the special counsel investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election hit the one-year mark last
week, President Trump and conservatives are demanding
an investigation into why the allegedly hacked Democratic
National Committee email server — the key piece of
forensic evidence in Russia’s suspected interference in the
2016 presidential election, was never subpoenaed by the
FBI.
The intelligence-community assessment released in
January 2017 on purported Russian meddling in the race,
conducted by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA, concludes
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the
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hacking of the DNC and the dissemination of emails from
key staffers via WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s
candidacy.
The Steele dossier alleges Donald Trump was aware that
the Democratic National Committee’s emails had been
stolen before that was publicly known and was involved in
their “strategic release” during the presidential campaign.
But the intelligence agencies attributing the sweeping
cyber-intrusion to Russia-backed hackers have yet to
provide any actual evidence.
Not a single government agency has even viewed the
hacked computer servers to conduct a forensic data-breach
investigation.
They never will. DNC officials refused to surrender to the
server to the FBI for forensic examination, which would
determine when and where the hack transpired or whether
the server was actually hacked.
Then-FBI Director James Comey said last year that the
DNC had denied the bureau’s requests to examine the
breached server. The Obama Justice Dept. never took
custody of the server — no subpoena, no search warrant.
Instead the DNC hired private cyber security firm
CrowdStrike to make replicas of the server’s data to
provide to the FBI and destroyed the server.
 The server’s contents could have discredited the Russia-
hacking story, argued former White House press
secretary Ari Fleischer.

Roger Stone, former Trump campaign aide, argued on

Meet the Press Sunday
“I don’t even believe the Democratic
National Committee was hacked.”

The mainstream media have stubbornly clung to the

Trump-Russia collusion narrative, peddling
unsubstantiated claims that Trump colluded with Russia
Michael Flynn Jr., the son of President Donald Trump’s
during the election. Yet, the purported victim of a crime
former National Security Adviser, blasted Rep. Adam
refused to cooperate with law enforcement in solving that
Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence
crime.
Committee, Sunday for claiming “there’s overwhelming
evidence of Russian hacking of our elections.”

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 Others questioned why leading members of the
establishment media are ignoring the Awan Brothers, the
three IT specialists fired for rooting through House
Democrats’ sensitive files.

Many argued slain Democratic National Committee staff

member Seth Rich was connected to the DNC leak.

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 Associated Press
Bungles Trump-Mueller Fact Check
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:09 AM 05/21/2018

The Associated Press tried to fact-check President Donald

Trump’s tweet about the investigation into Russian collusion and
ended up coming up short on facts themselves.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted about the many Democrats on
Mueller’s special counsel team, noting that two of them worked
for Obama for eight years and that they have found “no
collusion.”
The fact-check continued,
“Trump makes a false allegation that Mueller
worked for President Barack Obama for eight
years. Mueller was FBI chief for less than six
years under Obama, leaving in September
2013.”

The AP failed in their attempt to fact check the tweet, as first Trump’s tweet, however, does not say that Mueller worked for
pointed out by the Media Research Center. Obama for eight years — rather, it specifically said that two of
the people on Mueller’s team did so.
They called Trump’s claim that Mueller’s team consists of
Democrats to be “unsupported,” despite the fact that the majority
of the attorneys on his team are Democrat donors.

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 DOJ: Comey’s Immunity Deal With Mueller Does Not
Cover Clandestine FBI Conspiracy To Spy
On Trump; Could Be Indicted
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On May 21, 2018
James Comey has been quiet the last couple weeks.
Now Justice Department officials said any immunity deal
Comey struck with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller
would not absolve him from criminal charges for his role
in spearheading a FBI conspiracy to spy on Donald Trump
and campaign associates during the 2016 election.
One year ago True Pundit reported a high-ranking Justice
Department official believed Mueller had granted a
complete get-out-of-jail-free-card deal for disgraced FBI
Director James Comey: A coveted immunity deal in
exchange for cooperating as a key witness.
“The immunity is a done deal,” a Justice
Department source said. “Mueller can do
whatever he wants. We (Justice) have no
say but after many years working criminal
cases I know Comey has been given
immunity. You can tell by the way he is
acting now and the fact that Mueller has
kept us in the dark about his investigation.”
Special Counsel spokesman Peter Carr at Justice would not
comment when asked to detail the immunity arrangement
between Comey and Mueller.
“As this is an ongoing investigation, we will
decline to comment,” Carr told True Pundit.
At one point during the last year, DOJ officials said they
believed Mueller had spiked the immunity deal with
Comey. But after Comey paraded around on his book tour,
officials said if that was accurate, it was only temporary.
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Mueller likely pulled the deal to get Comey to cooperate
with his investigation on another level, beyond where
Comey was comfortable, sources said. Once he complied
with Mueller, the deal was back on the table and Comey
was free to promote his book and cash the $10 million
publishing advance.
But such an immunity deal would not cover a conspiracy
operation like the one unfolding at the FBI and DOJ,
sources said. Recent news stories have pinpointed an FBI
informant inside the Trump campaign but reporters fail to
see the bigger picture: Every intelligence agency was
involved in this operation, making hundreds of
government employees operatives and informants. While
the media focuses on one mole, there were literally dozens
at play. And the media focus on that one mole is meant as
a smoke screen to distract attention from the dozens who
worked against Trump.
As Special Counsel, by law Mueller is permitted to strike
immunity agreements without having to get approval for
the Attorney General of anyone at Justice. Also he is not
obligated as Special Counsel to inform Justice about who
is under immunity.
But Justice Department sources said is Comey led a
clandestine operation to spy on trump — and leak
intelligence to Hillary Clinton — no immunity agreement
would cover him from prosecution, especially one drafted
by a career friend.
It’s no secret Comey and Mueller are close friends, having
worked together at Justice for years alongside Eric Holder.
Comey has described Mueller, who also served as FBI
director, as his one-time mentor. If someone in Congress
cared enough to do something about it, there are no
shortages of conflicts of interests at play here in what is
supposed to be an impartial investigation. In fact, it’s
somewhat staggering.
But what are friends for? Folks outside of D.C. are getting
another unwelcome crash course into corruption.
A complete review of this case illustrates that by striking
an immunity deal Comey has essentially used the
Washington D.C. system and his connections to insulate
himself from any felony criminal charges, including
whether he participated in the illegal unmasking of Trump
or any other Americans during the election based on FISA
court-ordered wiretaps or whether he played a role
covering up crimes committed by Hillary Clinton.
Or a conspiracy to make sure Trump never made it to the
White House.
A refresher. First, Comey himself leaked at least one
memo that actually sparked the Justice Department to
appoint a Special Counsel. Then, from a pool of countless
candidates to serve as Special Counsel, Mueller — a close
friend and long-time mentor of Comey — just happened to
get picked.Then, an immunity deal is agreed on which
allowed Comey to speak carefree at his Senate hearing in
June 2017, in his book and beyond.
.
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Until now.
Comey’s deal likely insulates him against prosecution for
his role in:
 Leaking other government documents to third parties
including the media
 Inconsistencies in testimony that rise to the level of
perjury
 Any other crimes Comey may have committed during
his tenure as FBI director, including his role in quashing
the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
 His role in unmasking Trump, Trump insiders and other
Americans from FISA warrant intelligence
 Any violations of FBI employment ethics that would
nullify pension benefits.
 FBI Informant Stefan Halper Paid Over $1 Million By
Obama Admin; Spied On Trump Aide After Election
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 11:30

Less than a week after Stefan Halper was outed as the FBI inception until his 2015 retirement at the age of 93, after
informant who infiltrated the Trump campaign, public which he was succeeded by current director James H.
records reveal that the 73-year-old Oxford University Baker.
professor and former U.S. government official was paid
handsomely by the Obama administration starting in 2012
for various research projects.

A longtime CIA and FBI asset who once reportedly ran a

spy-operation on the Jimmy Carter administration, Halper
was enlisted by the FBI to spy on several Trump campaign
aides during the 2016 U.S. election. Meanwhile, a search
of public records reveals that between 2012 and
2018, Halper received a total of $1,058,161 from the
Department of Defense.

Halper's contracts were funded through four annual awards

paid directly out of the Pentagon's Office of Net
Assessment (ONA). Established as the DoD's "internal
Stefan Halper
think tank" in 1973 by Richard Nixon (whose
administration Halper worked for), the ONA was run by
foreign policy strategist Andrew Marshall from its

One of the four DoD awards Halper received

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Halper's most recent award was noted recently by Trump supporter Jacob Wohl, which piqued the interest of internet
researchers who continued the analysis.
Award ID Recipient Name Start Date End Date Amount
HQ003416P0148 HALPER, STEFAN 9/26/2016 3/29/2018 $411,575
HQ003415C0100 HALPER, STEFAN 9/24/2015 9/27/2016 $244,960
HQ003414C0076 HALPER, STEFAN 7/29/2014 7/31/2015 $204,000
HQ003412C0039 HALPER, STEFAN 5/30/2012 5/29/2013 $197,626
(h/t ProHeat)
According to the Website USASPENDING.gov, the
payments to Halper are for "RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES (2012)," "RESEARCH AND STUDIES
- THE YEAR 2030, (2014)", "RUSSIA-CHINA
RELATIONSHIP STUDY. (2015)," and "INDIA AND
CHINA ECON STUDY (2016)."
The most recent award to Halper for
$411,575 was made in two payments, and
had a start date of September 26, 2016 -
three days after a September 23 Yahoo!
News article by Michael Isikoff about
Trump aide Carter Page, which used
information fed to Isikoff by "pissgate"
dossier creator Christopher Steele.
The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the
unverified "pissgate" dossier as supporting evidence in an
FISA warrant application for Page.
Halper approached Page during an election-themed
conference at Cambridge on July 11, 2016, six weeks after
the September 26 DoD award start date. The two would
stay in contact for the next 14 months, frequently meeting
and exchanging emails.
He said that he first encountered the informant during a
conference in mid-July of 2016 and that they stayed in
touch. The two later met several times in the Washington
area. Mr. Page said their interactions were benign. -New
York Times
And as the Daily Caller reports, Halper used a decades-old
association with Paul Manafort to break the ice with Page.
Page noted that in their first conversation at
Cambridge, Halper said he was longtime
friends with then-campaign chairman
Paul Manafort. A person close to Manafort
told TheDCNF that Manafort has not seen
Halper since the Gerald Ford
administration. Manafort and Page are
477
Awarding Agency
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
accused in the Steele dossier of having
worked together on the campaign’s
collusion conspiracy, but both men say
they have never met. -Daily Caller
Spying on Page after the election...
The second installment of Halper's 2016 DoD contract is
dated July 26, 2017 in the amount of $129,280 - around
three months before the FISA warrant on Carter Page was
set to expire following repeated renewals signed by
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and a federal judge.
On July 28, he emailed Page with what the Trump
campaign aide describes as a "cordial" communication,
which did not seem suspicious to him at the time.
In the email to Page, Halper asks what his plans are post-
election, possibly probing for more information.
"It seems attention has shifted a bit from
the 'collusion' investigation to the '
contretempts' [sic] within the White
House and, how--or if--Mr. Scaramucci
will be accommodated there," Halper
wrote.
con·tre·temps
1. An unforeseen event that disrupts the normal course of
things; an inopportune occurrence.
2. An argument or dispute: "another France-versus-England
contretemps" (Rob Hughes).
The email to Page was sent on the same day former White
House Communications Director Anthony
Scaramucci reportedly went on a "vulgar tirade" against
then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Perhaps
sensing an opportunity to find out if Page was still "on the
inside," Halper may have reached out to find out what he
knew.
Halper then invites Page to his Virginia farm, telling the
former Trump adviser "Be in touch when you have the
time. Would be great to catch up."
Halper's July 28 email to Page –
sent two days after the second portion
of his contract kicked in,
suggests that the espionage operation
against Trump associates was still
active seven months into the new
administration.
It's entirely possible of course that Halper was conducting
legitimate research for the Obama administration while
also participating in an FBI/DOJ spy operation on the
Trump campaign.
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Halper was outed as the FBI's "informant" last Friday
following weeks of speculation, after the New York
Times and Washington Post published easily identifiable
information about the U.S. citizen and Cambridge
professor. Their reports matched a March 25 article by
the Daily Caller detailing Halper's outreach to several low-
level aides to the Trump campaign, including Carter Page,
George Papadopoulos, and a cup of coffee with campaign
co-chair Sam Clovis.
These contacts are notable, as Halper's
infiltration of the Trump campaign
corresponds with the two of the four
targets of the FBI's Operation Crossfire
Hurricane - in which the agency sent
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and
others to a London meeting in the Summer
of 2016 with former Australian
diplomat Alexander Downer - who says
Papadopoulos drunkenly admitted to
knowing that the Russians had Hillary
Clinton's emails.
Alexander Downer, George Papadopoulos
Downer - the source of the Papadopoulos
intel, and Halper - who conned
Papadopoulos months later, are linked
through UK-based Haklyut & Co. an
opposition research and intelligence firm -
founded by three former British
intelligence operatives in 1995 to provide
the kind of otherwise inaccessible research
for which select governments and Fortune
500 corporations pay huge sums.
Downer - a good friend of the Clintons,
has been on their advisory board for a
decade, while Halper is connected
to Hakluyt through Director of U.S.
operations Jonathan Clarke, with whom he
has co-authored two
books. (h/t themarketswork.com)
Alexander Downer, the Australian High
Commissioner to the U.K. Downer said
that in May 2016, Papadopoulos told
him during a conversation in London
about Russians having Clinton emails.
That information was passed to other Australian Following Halper's doxxing, President Trump called for an
government officials before making its way to U.S. official investigation by the Department of Justice - which
officials. FBI agents flew to London a day after “Crossfire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein assigned to the
Hurricane” started in order to interview Downer. office of the Inspector General, headed by Michael
Horowitz.
It is still not known what Downer says
about his interaction with
Papadopoulos, which TheDCNF is told
occurred around May 10, 2016.

Also interesting via Lifezette –

"Downer is not the only Clinton fan in

Hakluyt. Federal contribution records
show several of the firm’s U.S.
representatives made large
contributions to two of Hillary Clinton’s
2016 campaign organizations." We look forward to the Inspector General's findings.

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 The Deep State Media
Derek Hunter - Contributor
11:31 Am 05/21/2018
On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast…
The legacy media has a shocking lack of
curiosity when it comes to the Obama
administration spying on the Trump
campaign in 2016. The New York Times
and Washington Post both ran pieces
claiming the spying was not to “spy,” but to
protect the Trump campaign from Russia.
The only problem is this theory doesn’t hold
water. It’s like claiming you robbed a bank
not steal the money, but to protect the
money from being stolen by someone else.
If the intelligence community was really
trying to protect the Trump campaign, why
keep it secret, shouldn’t they have been in
on it at the time? And why hide it for almost
two years, denying it the whole time? If
they really were altruistic, why act like kids
with their hands caught in to cookie jar?
There’s a lot more at work here than they
are letting on.
.
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Kellyanne Conway absolutely pummeled CNN’s Brian
Stelter Sunday. Stelter claimed he didn’t vote for president
in 2016, that he left that part of his ballot black and that’s
proof he’s not biased. Even if he did leave the presidential
part of his ballot blank, he still voted down the ticket and
he’s still completely biased for liberals. Conway reply is
nothing short of gold in taking on CNN “media reporter.”
Cranky Bernie Sanders was on Meet the Press Sunday
and blamed the lack of gun control law in the wake of the
Texas school shooting on a “three letter word – NRA.” Of
course, “NRA” isn’t a word, it’s an acronym, but even
Bernie takes it further by blaming the tax cuts and the
attempts to repeal Obamacare as well. If there had been a
stiff breeze he likely would have blamed that, too. Host
Chuck Todd just let it all slide, naturally.
A public school in New York City paused for a moment of
silence to honor Hamas, the terrorist organization
launching rockets into Israel. The student-led
announcement was a shock to everyone…who hasn’t been
paying attention to how much liberals hate Israel.
A pastor in Palo Alto, CA, has had enough of
“progressives” who love to talk but don’t ever do anything
to help people. He resigned from his church after it was
reported he’d tweeted the city was “an elitist shit den” and
saying Earth Day was a “fucking joke.” Hero.
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 Trump Mentions Haspel Is
First Female CIA Director — Crowd Erupts
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:32 AM 05/21/2018

and all over the world, Gina is truly

respected,” Trump said. “Today we also
mark another milestone as Gina becomes
the first woman ever to lead the CIA.”

The crowd erupted into cheers and applause when Trump

announced the shattering of another glass ceiling.

WATCH:

The crowd at the CIA headquarters went wild on Monday

when President Donald Trump announced that Gina
Haspel is the first woman to ever lead the CIA.

Haspel was officially sworn-in as CIA director at

Monday’s ceremony and she will replace current Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo as the first female director in the
70-year history of the agency.

“She has earned the universal respect,

admiration, and trust of her colleagues here
at the CIA — throughout the government
.

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 "The Stakes Here Go Beyond Trump's Future" WSJ
Editors Demand Truth About FBI Spying
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 11:57

Amid all the liberal media's meltdown over President
Trump's "interference" in the 'investigation' by "hereby
demanding" that potential crimes by Obama's FBI be
investigated - and The Deep State's insistence that any
exposure of the already-leaked name of the Trump
campaign spy would damage national security - The Wall
Street Journal refuses to back off its intense pressure to get
to the truth.
President Trump dropped a three-tweet quote this
morning...
disgraced himself, he’s worried about
staying out of Jail.”
- Dan Bongino
And WSJ appears to be doing just that –
trying to get to the root of all this evil,
which has time and again led to
Brennan.
This "odd" action of actual news reporting comes as a
shock to many as The Editorial Board asks some very
awkward questions of various messianic people and
institutions as reporter Kimberley Strassel's findings are
proved correct and the truth is demanded...

Well, what do you know. The Federal

Bureau of Investigation really did task
an “informant” to insinuate himself with
Trump campaign advisers in 2016.

Our Kimberley Strassel reported this two weeks

ago without disclosing a name.

“John Brennan is panicking. He has

disgraced himself, he has disgraced the
Country, he has disgraced the entire
Intelligence Community. He is the one
man who is largely responsible for the
destruction of American’s faith in the
Intelligence Community and in some
people at the...
...top of the FBI. Brennan started this
entire debacle about President Trump.
We now know that Brennan had detailed
knowledge of the (phony) Dossier...he
knows about the Dossier, he denies We now have all but official
knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the confirmation thanks to “current and
Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, former government officials” who
which... contributed to apologias last week in the
...they then used to start an investigation New York Times and Washington Post.
about Trump. It is that simple. This guy is And please don’t call the informant a
the genesis of this whole Debacle. This “spy.” A headline on one of the Times’
was a Political hit job, this was not an stories says the “F.B.I. Used Informant to
Intelligence Investigation. Brennan has
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 Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not
to Spy, as Trump Claims.”
We’ll let readers parse that casuistic
distinction, which is part of a campaign
by the FBI and Justice Department to
justify their refusal to turn over to the
House Intelligence Committee
documents related to the informant.
Justice and the FBI claim this Capitol Hill oversight would
blow the cover of this non-spy and even endanger his life.
Yet these same stories have disclosed so many specific
details about the informant whom we dare not call a spy
that you can discover the name of the likeliest suspect in a
single Google search.
We now know, for example, that the informant is “an
American academic who teaches in Britain” who “served
in previous Republican administrations.” He has worked as
a “longtime U.S. intelligence source” for the FBI and the
CIA.
The stories provide the names of the three Trump
campaign officials who the informant sought to court—
Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos —as
well as specific dates and details of the encounters. He met
with Mr. Page at a symposium at a “British university” in
“mid-July,” and stayed in touch with him for more than
year. He met with Mr. Clovis at a “hotel café in Crystal
City,” Virginia, on “either Aug. 31 or Sept. 1.”
The informant didn’t previously know
the three men but offered to help with
the campaign. He also threw money at
Mr. Papadopoulos,
and the stories even report the exact language of the
message the informant sent to Mr. Papadopoulos offering
him a $3,000 honorarium to write a research paper and a
paid trip to London. Media accounts differ about whether
the informant asked the three men what they knew about
Russia. But this sure sounds like a classic attempt to make
friends for intelligence-gathering purposes.
This ought to disturb anyone who wants
law enforcement and U.S. intelligence
services to stay out of partisan politics.
We can’t recall a similar case, even in the J. Edgar Hoover
days, when the FBI decided it needed to snoop on a
presidential campaign. Devin Nunes, the House
Intelligence Chairman, is seeking documents to learn
exactly what happened, what triggered this FBI action, and
how it was justified. This is precisely the kind of oversight
that Congress should provide to assure Americans that
their government isn’t spying illegally.
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Yet now the same people who lionized
Edward Snowden for stealing secrets
about metadata—which collected phone
numbers, not names—claim the FBI
informant is no big deal.
James Clapper, Barack Obama’s Director of National
Intelligence, claims it was even a “good thing” that the FBI
was monitoring the campaign for Russian influence.
Forgive us if we don’t trust Mr. Clapper,
who leaked details related to the
notorious Steele dossier to the press, as
a proper judge of such snooping.
Would he and the press corps be so blasé if the FBI under
George W. Bush had sought to insinuate sources with
Obama supporters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright or radical
Bill Ayers during the 2008 campaign?
Incredibly, Democrats and their media
friends are painting Mr. Nunes as the
villain for daring even to ask about all
this.
Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate
Intelligence Committee, is making the rounds warning that
“the first thing any new” committee member “learns is the
critical importance of protecting sources and methods.”
Sure, but as far as we know Mr. Nunes
hasn’t disclosed the source’s name—
certainly not to us—even as anonymous
Justice officials all but paint a neon path
of details to the informant’s door.
Justice and the FBI have disclosed more to their media
Boswells than they have to the people’s representatives in
Congress.
* * *
As is his habit, President Trump belly-flopped into this
debate over the weekend with demands that Justice
investigate whether his campaign was spied on. Justice
officials quickly asked the Inspector General to
investigate, and this will polarize the political debate even
further.
But the stakes here go beyond Mr.
Trump’s political future.
The public deserves to know who tasked the informant to
seek out Trump campaign officials, what his orders were,
what the justification was for doing so, and who was aware
of it.
 Was the knowledge limited to the FBI, or As President Trump tweeted "The Wall Street Journal
did it run into the Obama White House? asks,
As important, what are the standards for
the future? Could a Trump FBI task “WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK
agents to look into the foreign ties of OBAMA?” A very good question!"
advisers to the Bernie Sanders
presidential campaign in 2020? Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein need to clear the air by sharing
what they and the FBI know with the
House. This is bigger than blowing a
source whose identity Justice leakers
have already blown. This is about public
trust in the FBI and Justice.
Where, indeed?
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Mueller’s Dirty Lawyers Obtained Obscure ‘Special Status’
To Pursue Matters Outside Of Special Counsel
Mandate In Manafort Case
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 12:00 Pm
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.
The Federal Judge overseeing Mueller’s bank fraud case
against Paul Manafort is not messing around.
Judge T.S. Ellis lost his temper and blasted prosecutors a
couple weeks ago and said he believes Mueller is using the
Manafort case to provide material that would lead to
Trump’s “prosecution or impeachment”.
Judge Ellis also ordered the government to hand over the
unredacted Rosenstein memo.
The Judge told Mueller’s prosecutors,
“We don’t want anyone with unfettered
power.”
Last Thursday, Robert Mueller’s office begrudgingly gave
Judge T.S. Ellis the unredacted Rosenstein memo detailing
the Special Counsel’s scope in a sealed court filing.
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Mueller knew the day would come he would be challenged
by an honest judge so his team of hack lawyers resorted to
some dirty tricks in order to stay in control of this case.
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.
Far left Politico reported:
An obscure special status obtained by
several of special counsel Robert Mueller’s
attorneys could prevent a judge from
ousting Mueller’s lawyers from their role in
the prosecution of former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort in federal court in
Virginia.
Several court filings indicate that when
lawyers from Mueller’s office appeared in
federal court in Alexandria earlier this year,
they did so not only as representative of
Mueller’s office but as special assistant
United States attorneys (SAUSAs)
attached to the United States attorney’s
office there.
That designation gives the Mueller prosecutors a kind of
dual status that could complicate any attempt by U.S.
District Judge T.S. Ellis III to try to shift the case to
federal prosecutors based in Alexandria–a possibility the
judge mentioned on a couple of occasions during a
contentious hearing earlier this month.
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.
“As special assistant U.S. attorneys, they
are not confined to the scope the special
counsel is acting under,” said Haley White,
a North Carolina attorney who wrote a
2015 law review article on the SAUSA
 phenomenon. “They can potentially have
the ability to go outside that scope….They
have all the powers and abilities that just a
regular U.S. attorney would have.”
At least four of Mueller’s prosecutors have
submitted court pleadings indicating they
have SAUSA status: Andrew Weissmann,
Greg Andres, Kyle Freeny and Scott
Meisler.
This could be a huge problem for Manafort
being that his legal team is arguing Mueller
has gone outside of his scope and abusing
his power.
The timing of when these 4 liberal hack
lawyers filed for this special status is
important; it is unclear at this time when
they obtained the dual status.
The first indictment against Paul Manafort
in Virginia was obtained on February 18th,
2018, so if the lawyers acquired their
SAUSA status before this date, it could
pose problems for Manafort’s legal team
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Scholars have warned about the dangers of SAUSA
status:
However, some scholars have warned of
dangers in the SAUSA phenomenon, with
U.S. attorneys’ offices blurring lines of
responsibility with other entities and
sometimes giving local prosecutors an
option to avoid the urban jury pools of their
local courts. U.S. attorneys seem to make
uneven use of the SAUSA arrangement,
with some offices rarely, if ever, relying on
it and one office reporting more than 50
SAUSAs on its rolls.
The Russia witch hunt needs to be shut down immediately.
Rosenstein and Mueller need to be fully investigated for
wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money on this
unconstitutional investigation.
 On Showtime, Lemon Condemns Trump As ‘Racist,’
Insinuates Criticism Is Because Of His Skin Color
By Curtis Houck
May 21, 2018 12:51 PM EDT
On Sunday’s installment of Showtime’s The Circus, CNN
Tonight host Don Lemon was profiled and he lashed out at
President Trump as a “racist” and insinuated that Trump’s
criticism of him was racially-based.
Thankfully, the show also profiled our friends at the Daily
Caller and, to the show’s credit, the interviews allowed for
Daily Caller personality to offer some excellent points
about liberal media bias. All the while, it inadvertently
made a comment moments beforehand by lefty co-host
Alex Wagner look absurdly foolish when it comes to
media echo chambers.
First, Lemon’s comments. McKinnon arrived at CNN’s
New York hub to visit
“the tip of the spear of fake news,
according to President Trump.”
McKinnon sat in on a meeting with Lemon and his
producers ahead of May 16's CNN Tonight and Lemon
quipped that, on Fox News,
“Hillary Clinton is president.” Standing in
hoard of cubicles, Lemon lamented that
“[w]hen you have an administration and
a President that’s factually challenged,
you have to get your facts straight and
you have to be on your game.”
Lemon repeatedly was coy when McKinnon asked why
Lemon has been one of the few journalists specifically
called out by the President, but Lemon eventually let
loose:
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My feeling is about this President have been known. I’ve
said it on the air. You know, I think he has — he is racist. I
think his actions show it. I think the facts show it. Does he
attack me for that reason? I don’t know. That could be a
part of the equation. But I think he does it because he
watches every night. He will say he doesn't. He likes
hearing about himself from a number of different people in
real time and that's what my show is.
Upon checking the NewsBusters archives, Lemon is
correct.
On January 11 in the aftermath of the
President’s “shithole” comment, Lemon
opined that Trump’s base is “worse than
him” for having supported a “racist.” In
August 2017, Lemon and his panelists
determined (without evidence) that the
President is mentally ill.
But tell us again how CNN is pro-truth or not on any one
side of the aisle, Brian Stelter.
Moments later, Wagner was drinking in her hotel room
while having a TV and two laptops set up to watch all
three cable networks. Naturally, she suggested that Trump
voters aren’t intelligent enough to understand just how
damaging and serious the Russia investigation is for the
country.
Why? It’s because the Daily Caller and Fox News won’t
tell them the real story (as if CNN and MSNBC do):
We see Fox News and Rudy Guiliani
saying, there is nothing to see here. That's
why when you go to the middle of the
country to Trump's base, you ask people
about Russia and they say, there is nothing
to see there because that's what is being
telegraphed by their media of choice. In
addition to looking to the cable networks, a
lot of the echo chamber exists online. The
Daily Caller is a conservative news website
started by Tucker Carlson of Fox News
fame and that's how Trump supporters get
a lot of their news. The lead is “Over
Sessions’ Head” and it's all about the
Freedom Caucus writing this letter and you
 see completely separate parallel universes
of news.
The next soundbite was Daily Caller editor-in-chief
Geoffrey Ingersoll that actually refuted the failed former
MSNBC host’s complaint:
Part of what we do here is point out when
the wider media is getting something
wrong. That's about half our mission and
the other half of our mission is the stuff the
wider media doesn't cover and so we try to
cover as much of that as possible.
Speaking later with Daily Caller leadership, McKinnon
asked for someone to “characterize the mainstream media”
and Ingersoll responded along with Editorial Director and
WMAL host Vince Coglianese with excellent arguments:
Instead of making the Caller look like a Trumpian
funhouse, the joke was on McKinnon, Wagner, and fellow
co-host John Heilemann (who was palling around in
Vancouver with MSNBC Republican Steve Schmidt).
In the end, the Daily Caller’s points about media bias and
echo chambers perfectly were juxtaposed with their smug
attacks on Fox News, Lemon calling Trump “racist,”
eating pizza while lambasting the Trump White House,
and listening to Schmidt ramble about Trump causing a
“constitutional crisis” at a posh event in Vancouver.
To see the relevant transcript from Showtime’s The Circus
on May 20.”
Showtime’s The Circus
May 20, 2018
8:13 p.m. Eastern

MCKINNON: How would you generally characterize the

mainstream media? What do they miss? And what do they get
wrong. Can you talk about that a little, any of you?

COGLIANESE: So much of the press seems to have the exact

same selection bias. You know, we constantly joke about like,
God, how hard must it be to have a CNN editorial meeting? You
just come in and you talk about the same exact story everyday.
Like, there’s actually no new information, really. It’s like, you talk
about Stormy, like literally every day. “What are we doing in the
A-block?” “Oh, we have Avenatti.” “Okay, what are you doing in
you’re A-block?” “Oh, we have Avenatti.”
MARK MCKINNON: I'm here at CNN, New York, which is the tip
INGERSOLL: So true. The media, as soon as they’re thrown of the spear of fake news according to President Trump.
something in that direction, they just pick it up and run with it.
They think: “Okay, Donald Trump called Mexicans ‘animals.’”
DONALD TRUMP: Media outlets like CNN are fake news, fake
That's what they think. And that's what everyone repeats,
news! [SCREEN WIPE] Fake, fake, fake news!
incorrectly the media who already think that Donald Trump is a
racist. It's confirming the bias. That’s exactly the kind of story that
we pounce on. JIM ACOSTA: Can you give us a chance to ask a question?

COGLIANESE: You know, the Russia story the whole TRUMP: Don’t be — no I’m not going to give you a question.
investigation deserves scrutiny that it hasn’t gotten from the
mainstream press. ACOSTA: Mr. President, can you say categorically —

MCKINNON: So, what kind of scrutiny that they haven’t gotten?
COGLIANESE: In The New York Times version, for instance of
the beginnings of the Trump-Russia investigation, they buried the
fact the government, itself, was spying on the trump campaign.
It's baked into The New York Times piece and if we had that
news, that would be the lead on the story. That’s the kind of thing
that needs to be surfaced and emphasize because people need
to know that.
Whether Showtime meant to or not, their profile of the
Daily Caller actually undermined the liberal insider-y
show and its smugness.
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TRUMP: No, I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake
news.
MCKINNON: There he is.
CNN PRODUCER [TO DON LEMON]: I’m working on getting
those cards for you.
MCKINNON: And I am going to talk to Don Lemon, who the
President calls the “dumbest man” in show business
LEMON: Remember we talked about the judiciary today. Is there
any place in the show for that?
CNN TONIGHT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARIA SPINELLA: I
think that story is a great story and an important story, but so
much news has broken just in the last six or seven hours.
MCKINNON: So is this a typical day?
CNN TONIGHT ANCHOR PRODUCER ZACHARY SLATER:
Yes.
SPINELLA: Yeah.
LEMON: Yes. [SCREEN WIPE] What is Maxine waters doing?
SPINELLA: She’s talking about — it looks like they're talking
about Ronan’s new story.
CHRIS HAYES [on MSNBC’s All In, 05/16/18]: It also says I think
the Trump Hotels has brought in about $40 million in the past
year. Is it problematic to you
MCKINNON: This is interesting competing narratives here.
LEMON: Right. It's always the exact opposite. On the bottom
right channel there, Hillary Clinton is president. [MCKINNON
LAUGHS] It's true. I, sometimes I swear I can't keep up with it
and I will show you how you keep it with it. Shenique, can you
bring me the fact check folder, please? This is what we call the
fact checks pile. This is Devon Nunez and the Justice
Department and I have the scope of the special counsel. If I need
something on ZTE, I have that. If I need it on the Qatari investor,
I have that. When you have an administration and a President
that’s factually challenged, you have to get your facts straight and
you have to be on your game and so, you know, he says fake
news. But what has been fake?
MCKINNON: So Donald Trump attacks the media,
LEMON: Right.
MCKINNON: — and more specifically CNN. But he very rarely
attacks specific reporters, except for you and a couple others.
Why you?
LEMON: Hmm.
MCKINNON: He said some very unkind things about you, Don.
LEMON: Why do you think? Why do you think?
MCKINNON: Well, I mean, he generally punches at something
that's bothering him or that he feels like it’s threatening him or —
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LEMON: My feeling is about this President have been known.
I’ve said it on the air. You know, I think he has — he is racist. I
think his actions show it. I think the facts show it. Does he attack
me for that reason? I don’t know. That could be a part of the
equation. But I think he does it because he watches every night.
He will say he doesn't. He likes hearing about himself from a
number of different people in real time and that's what my show
is.
MCKINNON: And so you think he is watching?
LEMON: I know he’s watching. I know.
MCKINNON: How do you know?
LEMON: Every single person who goes to the White House,
comes on the show, will say, I was at the White House today. I
was at the White House yesterday. The President watches you
every single night.
MCKINNON: But you’re as dumb as a rock?
LEMON: I’m as dumb as a rock. Oh no, I’m the dumbest man in
broadcasting.
MCKINNON: Dumbest man on television.
LEMON: Dumbest man on television, yeah. Yeah, as I said,
whatever he says, it's the opposite. Dumb people don't usually do
two hours a night in prime time.
MCKINNON: There's that.
LEMON: Yeah. [RUNNING TO STUDIO] We’ve got three
minutes. Do this every night. I’m getting tea everywhere!
UNNAMED CNN PRODUCTION STAFFER: Have a great show.
LEMON: Thank you.
UNNAMED CNN PRODUCTION STAFFER: Ten seconds to
count. Five seconds. Have a good show everybody. Stand by.
LEMON: It's showtime on Showtime. [on CNN Tonight, 05/16/18]
This is CNN Tonight. I am Dom Lemon. We have breaking news
on the Mueller investigation. Rudy Guiliani is telling CNN that the
special counsel’s team has concluded that they cannot indict —
ALEX WAGNER: Oh, okay.
LEMON [on CNN Tonight, 05/16/18]: — a sitting President and a
source close to —
WAGNER: Everybody in cable news is scrambling tonight
because there is an excess of stories to lead the broadcast with. I
want to see what Fox News is doing.
RUDY GIULIANI [on FNC’s The Ingraham Angle, 05/16/18]:
Mueller should now bring this to a close. It's been a year, he has
gotten 1.4 million documents. He’s interviewed 28 witnesses and
he has nothing, which is what he wants —
WAGNER: We see Fox News and Rudy Guiliani saying, there is
nothing to see here. That's why when you go to the middle of the
country to Trump's base, you ask people about Russia and they
say, there is nothing to see there because that's what is being
telegraphed by their media of choice. In addition to looking to the
cable networks, a lot of the echo chamber exists online. The
Daily Caller is a conservative news website started by Tucker
Carlson of Fox News fame and that's how Trump supporters get
a lot of their news. The lead is “Over Sessions’ Head” and it's all
about the Freedom Caucus writing this letter and you see
completely separate parallel universes of news.
GEOFFREY INGERSOLL: Part of what we do here is point out
when the wider media is getting something wrong. That's about
half our mission and the other half of our mission is the stuff the
wider media doesn't cover and so we try to cover as much of that
as possible.
(....)
MCKINNON: How would you generally characterize the
mainstream media? What do they miss? And what do they get
wrong. Can you talk about that a little, any of you?
VINCE COGLIANESE: So much of the press seems to have the
exact same selection bias. You know, we constantly joke about
like, God, how hard must it be to have a CNN editorial meeting?
You just come in and you talk about the same exact story
everyday. Like, there’s actually no new information, really. It’s
like, you talk about Stormy, like literally every day. “What are we
doing in the A-block?” “Oh, we have Avenatti.” “Okay, what are
you doing in you’re A-block?” “We have Avenatti.”
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INGERSOLL: So true. The media, as soon as they’re thrown
something in that direction, they just pick it up and run with it.
They think: “Okay, Donald Trump called Mexicans ‘animals.’”
That's what they think. And that's what everyone repeats,
incorrectly the media who already think that Donald Trump is a
racist. It's confirming the bias. That’s exactly the kind of story that
we pounce on.
COGLIANESE: You know, the Russia story the whole
investigation deserves scrutiny that it hasn’t gotten from the
mainstream press.
MCKINNON: So, what kind of scrutiny that they haven’t gotten?
COGLIANESE: In The New York Times version, for instance of
the beginnings of the Trump-Russia investigation, they buried the
fact the government, itself, was spying on the trump campaign.
It's baked into The New York Times piece and if we had that
news, that would be the lead on the story. That’s the kind of thing
that needs to be surfaced and emphasize because people need
to know that.
MCKINNON: Some of your critics have said that you’re just
carrying water for the President, just basically reflecting his
message whatever it is.
NEIL PATEL: It's not that America needs more opinionated
stories. It's that there are many stories that aren’t being covered
or when they are being covered, they’re not being covered fairly.
COGLIANESE: Critics who accuse us of carrying water don't
read The Daily Caller. If you read The Daily Caller, you'd have a
very good sense of where we are and it’s not to be in anybody’s
political corner.
INGERSOLL: That's some of our function, is to just continuously
just push back on these false narratives. It's like pursuing a
football on the football field. You want to go where it’s going. You
don’t want to go to where it is. Traditional broadcast media, that's
where things were and we want to go where things are going.
 The FBI Could Have Interviewed
George Papadopoulos, But Opted To Spy On Him Instead
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:52 PM 05/21/2018
The month of August 2016 is emerging as especially
crucial to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the
Trump campaign.
The investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,”
was opened on July 31, 2016 based on a claim from an
Australian diplomat that Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos made comments more than two months
earlier about Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russians.
At some point over the ensuing month, the FBI seemingly
decided to activate an FBI informant to make contact with
Papadopoulos, who had joined the Trump team in March
2016. Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor with
longstanding CIA and MI6 ties, made contact with
Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016. They met in London later
that month.
The decision to choose tactics resembling a John le Carré
novel was made in lieu of a more direct alternative:
contacting Papadopoulos to ask him what he knew about
the Clinton emails.
The bureau did not interview Papadopoulos until Jan. 27,
2017, nearly six months after Crossfire Hurricane started.
That delay in interviewing Papadopoulos and in other steps
taken during the investigation was addressed in a New
York Times article published last Wednesday.
Top FBI and DOJ officials faced a dilemma, according to
the Times article, which relies heavily on sources from
both agencies. The fear, according to their telling, was that
conducting an aggressive investigation would tip their
hand to anyone involved in a possible collusion scheme.
According to The Times, officials discussed approaching
campaign officials to ask about their Russian contacts. But
that idea was tabled because of the fear that interviewing
witnesses and issuing subpoenas ran the risk of publicizing
the investigation — a scenario FBI officials hoped to avoid
down the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
But as The Times notes, the FBI “ultimately interviewed
Mr. Papadopoulos in January 2017 and managed to keep it
a secret, suggesting they could have done so much earlier.”
Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the special counsel’s
office for lying to the FBI during that interview. As part of
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his plea deal, Papadopoulos admitted he lied about the
timing of his interactions with two Russian nationals and a
Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud.
Papadopoulos initially told FBI agents that the contacts
occurred prior to joining the Trump campaign when, in
fact, they occurred after he learned that he would be
joining the Trump campaign in March 2016.
FBI defenders could point to Papadopoulos’ deception in
the January 2017 interview to argue that he would have
lied had he been questioned earlier in Crossfire Hurricane.
But that argument is undercut by what else Papadopoulos
said in his FBI interview.
According to a statement of offense Special Counsel
Robert Mueller filed, Papadopoulos told FBI agents that
Mifsud mentioned the stolen Clinton emails.
And sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s version of the
FBI interview say he claims that he, and not the FBI
agents, first mentioned Mifsud during the interview, which
was conducted in Chicago without lawyers present.
“Defendant PAPADOPOULOS
acknowledged that the professor had told
him about the Russians possessing ‘dirt’ on
then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of
‘thousands of emails,’ but stated multiple
times that he learned that information prior
to joining the Campaign,” reads Mueller’s
statement of offense.
***
One of the first investigative steps made in Crossfire
Hurricane was to interview Alexander Downer, the
Australian High Commissioner to the U.K.
A team of FBI agents, including counterintelligence
deputy chief Peter Strzok, visited Downer at the Australian
embassy in London on Aug. 1 or 2, 2016 to interview him
about a conversation he had with Papadopoulos around
May 10, 2016.
Downer, who was accompanied by another Australian
diplomat named Erika Thompson, reportedly claimed that
Papadopoulos discussed the Clinton emails. Little else is
known about the conversation, including when exactly
Downer passed the information to his Australian
colleagues. According to reports, the Australians gave the
information to the FBI after becoming alarmed at the
release of stolen Democratic National Committee emails
on July 22, 2016. The bureau opened Crossfire Hurricane
just over a week later.
Fast forward a month to Sept. 2, 2016. That’s when Halper
unsolicitedly emailed Papadopoulos offering to pay the
Trump adviser $3,000 to write an academic paper about a
gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Papadopuolos did not know Halper but still accepted the
offer, which included a flight to London and several nights
hotel stay.
Papadopoulos and Halper met several times during the
mid-September trip. The 73-year-old professor was
accompanied by a woman he introduced as his assistant
named Azra Turk. Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’
version of events say that during one conversation, Halper
asked Papadopoulos whether he was involved in the
release of DNC emails. Papadopoulos denied it, telling
Halper that hacking emails would be treason. Halper grew
frustrated, according to the sources.
Papadopoulos also met with Turk. Sources say
Papadopoulos claims Turk asked the Trump aide about the
emails. She also later attempted to meet with
Papadopoulos in Chicago, where he lives.
As The Daily Caller News Foundation has reported,
Halper also made contact with two other Trump campaign
advisers. Days before his outreach to Papadopoulos,
Halper met for coffee with Sam Clovis, the campaign’s
national co-chairman. There was no follow-up to that
meeting.
.
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Halper’s contacts with Carter Page, another Trump
adviser, were more extensive than his outreach to Clovis
and Papadopoulos.
Halper approached Page on the sidelines of a symposium
at Cambridge in July 2016. The pair remained in contact
for the next 14 months, through September 2017. That was
the same month the surveillance warrant granted against
Page expired.
The FBI and Department of Justice have said investigators
had ample reason to investigate Page because of his past
links to Russians.
Page, a former Navy officer, worked as a banker in
Moscow in the mid-2000s. He was also interviewed in
2013 as part of an FBI counterintelligence investigation of
a Russian spy ring. One member of the ring approached
Page and met with him in New York City.
There is no evidence that Page did anything wrong, and he
has not been accused of wrongdoing. Page has said he
provided copies of his academic papers to the covert
Russian agent. He says that the papers were immaterial
and did not include any sensitive or proprietary
information.
In late-spring 2016, FBI and DOJ officials, including
James Comey and Loretta Lynch, discussed whether to
provide the Trump campaign with a defensive briefing
warning about possible attempts by Russians to infiltrated
the campaign. But according to a House Intelligence
Committee report, Comey and Lynch decided that
providing such a briefing ran the risk of alerting Russian
operatives that they were being watched.
The FBI declined comment for this article.
 CORRUPTION: Maxine Waters Discovered
To Be Paying Daughter Over 100k In Campaign Funds
By Lucian Wintrich
May 21, 2018, 12:56 Pm
You may remember our good friend Maxine Waters from
such hits as:
 Unhinged Maxine Waters Has Breakdown On House
Floor, Begins SCREAMING Over “Make America
Great” Slogan [VIDEO]
 Mad Maxine: Trump’s Exit from Iran Deal Means
Impeachment Is the Only Answer
 Unhinged Maxine Waters Rips Trump in Profane
Tirade: “Damn This President!” (Video)
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As you can surmise, Rep. Waters is known for her
incredible class, good judgment, and moral character…
In newly released FEC filings, it has
been discovered that Rep. Maxine
Waters has been paying her daughter a
pretty hefty allowance out of her
campaign funds… over 100k.
Karen Waters, the Representative’s daughter, was already
paid a hefty 42k and is scheduled to receive another 65k
from Citizens for Waters, her campaign committee. Pay-
outs are simply listed as being for “professional services”
which the Washington Free Beacon reported was a mailer
campaign said to have reached 200k Los Angeles
residents.
Further reading:
EP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA) NAMED ONE OF THE
MOST CORRUPT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
 Rep. Gaetz Drops Bombshell: ‘House Investigators Have
Additional Info About FBI’s Campaign Infiltration The
White House Doesn’t Know About Yet’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 1:05 Pm

Department investigate themselves,” Gaetz

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dropped a said.
bombshell on Fox News Monday
afternoon. Rep. Gaetz said we need a second special counsel to
investigate the FBI’s spy campaign and called on President
Gaetz revealed House investigators
Trump to declassify pertinent documents immediately.
have obtained new information about
the spy campaign against Donald Trump
that the White House still doesn’t know VIDEO:
about.

Rep. Gaetz appeared on Fox News

Monday afternoon to discuss President
Trump’s order to the DOJ to investigate
the FBI infiltration of his campaign.

Gatez says House investigators have additional

information regarding Obama’s Deep State spy campaign
that the White House still hasn’t been briefed on.
Rep. Gaetz also echoed Freedom Caucus Chairman, Mark
Meadows and said the DOJ cannot be trusted to investigate
themselves.
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!

“The White House is not yet fully informed

regarding to the extent to which intelligence
was collected on the Trump campaign.
There’s additional information that House
investigators have collected. We need to
make sure the White House gets
appropriately informed about that because
it will not be enough to have Rod
Rosenstein and others at the Justice

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On Sunday evening, the Justice Department asked
Inspector General Horowitz to investigate whether there
was “impropriety or political motivation” into the FBI’s
infiltration of Trump’s campaign.
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Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows doesn’t
believe the DOJ can be trusted to investigate themselves
and blasted Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.
President Trump, Rep. Gaetz, Rep. Mark Meadows and
other members of the Freedom Caucus are on the front
lines fighting the Deep State while AG Sessions is AWOL.
 Pres. Trump Holding White House Meeting With DAG
Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris Wray And
DNI Dan Coats At 3 P.M. EDT
By Kristinn Taylor
May 21, 2018, 1:20 Pm

The meeting at the White House comes the day after

Trump shook the Capital with his demand that alleged
spying on hos presidential campaign by the Obama
administration be investigated. Rosenstein responded
hours later with an order that the Justice Department
Inspector General investigate the charges.

FOX Business says they will discuss the deep state spying
on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump will be holding a meeting at the

White House at 3 p.m. EDT with Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris Wray and Director of
National Intelligence Dan Coats.

White Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the

media the meeting was scheduled last week and will cover
the “response to congressional requests.”

Congressional Republicans have had to threaten contempt

of Congress and impeachment of Justice Department
officials, including Rosenstein, in their battle to get
documents and information from the department.

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 Rand Paul Doesn’t Believe Gina Haspel’s Claim That The
CIA Wasn’t Working With UK Intelligence
To Spy On Trump Campaign
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 21, 2018, 1:53 Pm
Senator Rand Paul does not believe
Gina Haspel’s claim that the Central
Intelligence Agency did not work with
British intelligence to surveil the Trump
campaign.
Appearing on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business,
Senator Paul asserted that he believes there will be
information that comes out revealing that British
intelligence spied on the Trump campaign and passed the
information to then-CIA Director John Brennan.
“I’m not so sure I believe what they’re
saying,” Senator Paul stated. He
explained that he believes that there is
going to be information coming out that
the British Intelligence did hand over
information on the Trump campaign to
Brennan and that “they’re going to say
that it was done accidentally.”
Previously speaking to The Gateway Pundit about Haspel,
Senator Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Doug Stafford said
that she is a “John Brennan acolyte.”
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“Gina Haspel is a John Brennan acolyte.
Brennan is a now-visible and public
opponent of President Trump. He is part
of the deep state that opposed and now
works against the President,” Stafford
told TGP. “She should not be in charge
of the CIA.”
Prior to her confirmation as CIA Director, Haspel was
facing tough questions from Senator Paul, which The
Gateway Pundit exclusively published last week Her
responses completely dodged specific questions about the
CIA’s involvement with the Christopher Steele dossier.
Meetings involving the dossier reportedly all took place in
London — while Haspel was the CIA’s London Station
Chief. Her role would have required that she know and
sign off on all active operations.
Responding to questions from Senator Paul, Haspel
repeatedly denied that the CIA had spied on the campaign.
“Have you, or anyone else at the CIA, ever
cooperated with any foreign intelligence
services to surveil, monitor, or collect any
information on candidate Trump during his
travels outside the United States in the
preceding five years? Specifically, was
candidate Trump ever under any
surveillance or of interest to the CIA during
his previous visits in Europe?” Senator
Paul asked in a letter.
Haspel responded that “the CIA would
not cooperate with a foreign intelligence
service’s effort to surveil or target for
collection the communications of a US
presidential candidate.”
In response to Haspel’s denials, Senator Paul fired back
another lengthy list of questions.
“In your answer to my question 3, you
stated ‘the CIA would not cooperate
with a foreign intelligence service’s
effort to surveil or target for collection
 the communications of a US
presidential candidate.’ I appreciate
your clear statement that in the future
the CIA would not work with a foreign
intelligence service to surveil US
presidential candidates. However, the
question I asked was regarding
retrospective actions, not prospective
actions,” Senator Paul wrote.
Haspel responded by claiming that
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“with regard to the current questions raised
in your letter regarding Christopher Steele:
for Question 3, I was not personally aware
of Mr. Steele’s efforts when it was publicly
reported in the press.”
Haspel did not answer any of the other questions posed by
Senator Paul, including if the CIA aware of the efforts of
Christopher Steele to collect information on the Trump
campaign prior to Election Day or if the CIA received
information from Steele’s investigation.
 Clapper Defends Spying On
Trump Campaign As ‘A Legitimate Activity’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
2:03 PM 05/21/2018
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies before a
Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats,
on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2017.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
said Monday that the FBI having an informant seek to
gather information on the Trump campaign is a “legitimate
activity.”
He said it is “disturbing” that President Trump would call
for an investigation into the Department of Justice.
WATCH:
Clapper, currently a CNN security analyst, said he is not
OK with Trump ordering an investigation into the DOJ,
saying,
“that’s actually a very disturbing assault on
the independence of the Department of
Justice.”
“When this president or any president tries
to use the Department of Justice as a
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private investigatory body, that’s not good
for the country.”
Clapper said he is concerned about
“politicizing what is a legitimate activity, and
an important one, on the part of the FBI.
They use informants and have strict rules
and protocols under this.”
“But the big thing here is, this is not about
spying on his campaign. It’s about what the
Russians are doing. Were they attempting
to infiltrate the campaign? And that was the
concern and that in my belief is what the
focus of this whole activity was about.”
Cuomo asked why the bureau did not come to the
campaign openly, instead of monitoring it in secret.
“This is one of many techniques you can
use” to determine whether there being
foreign interference in the election, Clapper
replied.
“In fact, we ought to think of it as part of the
effort of the FBI to keep the nation safe and
secure and protect our voting process,” he
said later.
The president tweeted Monday:
Clapper said Thursday he believes “it’s a good thing” there
was an FBI informant in the Trump campaign.
 Brennan’s ‘Vicious’ Tweet
Means He’s Worried About Being Exposed
Obama's Former CIA Director Condemned Trump For Asking DOJ To
Investigate How FBI 'Infiltrated' His Presidential Campaign
by Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 21 May 2018 at 2:13 PM
John Brennan lobbed a “vicious” tweet at President
Donald Trump on Sunday because the former CIA director
fears his role in the spying on the chief executive’s 2016
campaign will be exposed, Judge Andrew Napolitano said
Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with
Maria.”
“One of the reasons, I think, that John
Brennan’s tweet was so vicious in tone was
because he does not want this behavior
exposed,” Napolitano said. “He probably
was behind it — and in fairness to him, it
went on long before he got there and will
go on long after he is gone.”
Napolitano was referring to Brennan’s tweet saying,
“Senator [Mitch] McConnell & Speaker [of
the House Paul] Ryan: If Mr. Trump
continues along this disastrous path, you
will bear major responsibility for the harm
done to our democracy,” Brennan tweeted
in response to Trump’s tweet. “You do a
great disservice to our Nation & the
Republican Party if you continue to enable
Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.”
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Brennan was angered by Trump's tweet earlier Sunday
calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an
official investigation to determine whether former
President Barack Obama's administration "infiltrated or
surveilled" the Trump presidential campaign. The
president was responding to multiple media reports that the
bureau had an informant in the Trump campaign.
Deep in a story it published Thursday, for example, The
New York Times reported that
"at least one government informant met
several times with Mr. [Carter] Page and
[George] Papadopoulos," two of Trump's
former campaign advisers.
"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!"
Trump tweeted Sunday.
Sarah Isgur, the department's spokeswoman, said DOJ
Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz now will
examine
"whether there was any impropriety or
political motivation in how the FBI
 conducted its counterintelligence
investigation of persons suspected of
involvement with the Russian agents who
interfered in the 2016 presidential election,"
according to The Wall Street Journal.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein also said in a
statement Sunday that
"If anyone did infiltrate or surveil
participants in a presidential campaign for
inappropriate purposes, we need to know
about it and take appropriate action."
This wasn't the first time that the decidedly anti-Trump
Brennan unleashed a volley against the president via
Twitter. In March 2018, Brennan ripped Trump for
celebrating the firing of former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired
McCabe just before his retirement with a full pension was
set to kick in after Horowitz reported that McCabe lied to
FBI investigators.
"When the full extent of your venality, moral
turpitude, and political corruption becomes
known, you will take your rightful place as a
disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of
history," Brennan tweeted at Trump. "You
may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will
not destroy America ... America will triumph
over you."
Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst for Fox News,
speculated that Brennan may have chosen to direct his
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most recent "vicious" tweet at Trump because "we may be
on the precipice of exposing" a huge political scandal.
Although Napolitano admitted that
"it shouldn't surprise people that agents of
the intelligence community inveigle their
way into private entities because that
happens all the time," he emphasized that
"we may be on the precipice of exposing a
very, very extraordinary political use of
intelligence and law enforcement by the
Obama Administration."
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo slammed Obama for
"politicizing all of his agencies" during his
administration, including "the DOJ, the FBI,
the IRS, the CIA." She claimed "they were
all involved in trying to take down Donald
Trump."
"Now, the other side of this is [that] the
government can't just investigate anyone it
wants. There has to be articulable
suspicion. That's a rather low threshold, but
it means the government must articulate
why and for what law enforcement purpose
it is gathering information about a person or
an entity," Napolitano explained.
As part of the review into the DOJ's and FBI's
surveillance, the IG must discover and disclose
"what information may have been obtained
directly or surreptitiously and for what
purpose from the Trump campaign,"
Napolitano said.
Multiple outlets reported that American former University
of Cambridge scholar Stefan Halper was the suspected FBI
informant.
"Did the professor inveigle his way into the
Trump campaign because the FBI thought
crimes were being committed, or because
the White House wanted to know what the
Trump campaign was doing so they could
pass that information on to Hillary?"
Napolitano wondered.
Trump's decision to demand an investigation into the
informant and the FBI's conduct
"is part of the [former New York City Mayor]
Rudy Giuliani-inspired 'Let's go on the
offense' approach that the Donald Trump
 legal team has been taking lately,"
Napolitano suggested.

Although Trump didn't respond directly to Brennan on

Twitter, he wrote three tweets quoting former Secret
Service agent Dan Bongino on "Fox & Friends" Monday.

"'John Brennan is panicking. He has

disgraced himself, he has disgraced the
Country, he has disgraced the entire
Intelligence Community. He is the one man
who is largely responsible for the
destruction of American's faith in the
Intelligence Community and in some
people at the ... top of the FBI," Trump
began.
"'Brennan started this entire debacle about
President Trump. We now know that
Brennan had detailed knowledge of the
(phony) Dossier...he knows about the
Dossier, he denies knowledge of the
Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill
about the Dossier, which ... they then used
to start an investigation about Trump. It is
that simple. This guy is the genesis of this
whole Debacle. This was a Political hit job,
this was not an Intelligence Investigation.
Brennan has disgraced himself, he's
worried about staying out of Jail.' Dan
Bongino," Trump concluded.

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