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F.R.E.D. Productions
May 2018
FIRST EDITION
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FBI Delays Release Of Communications
With Firm That Examined DNC Servers
Bureau Relied On The Firm For Information About
The DNC's Hacked Servers
BY: Joe Schoffstall
April 28, 2018 5:00 Am
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requests on a daily, weekly, monthly, and "Ultimately, what was agreed to is the
annual basis." private company would share with us what
they saw," Comey said last year in
As part of the initial FOIA request, the Free Beacon also reference to CrowdStrike.
sought an expedited delivery of the documents noting its
"widespread and exceptional media interest," but was CrowdStrike was first paid by the DNC on May 5, 2016
denied. and was given more than $400,000 up to the end of the
year, filings show. In early 2017, the firm was paid an
The DNC previously claimed that the FBI had never asked additional $121,000 for its services.
for access to its servers. However, former FBI Director
James Comey testified that the bureau had sought access to
the servers numerous times.
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President Trump Calls On Liberal Senator Jon Tester
To Resign After Spreading Lies About
Admiral/Doctor Ron Jackson
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 8:23 Am
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On Day Unconstitutional Mueller Investigation Created,
FBI Lovebirds Strzok And Page Celebrate:
“We’ve Got One Hell Of A Team Going”
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 10:26 Am
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“TRUMP TOWN” – Israel May Name Embassy Row In
Jerusalem After 45th President
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 11:59 Am
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Even before the progress made this week
The Trump Administration changed things– toward moving the embassies of the Czech
Republic, Romania, and Honduras, Gallant had
The Trump Administration declared already sent a letter to Construction Ministry
Jerusalem the capital of Israel. director-general Hegai Roznik and chief
architect Vered Solomon-Maman last Friday,
Trump also announced the US will move its embassy to asking them to form a task force that will
Jerusalem. immediately begin working on finding an
appropriate site for many embassies in the
capital…
Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama made the same
promise but did not follow through with move once they
were elected. …“There is an apparent pattern of embassies
moving to Jerusalem, and we have to start
getting ready now,” Gallant said. “We might
Now Israeli officials may name the new have to build dozens of embassies, and we
embassy row in Jerusalem after President would need new land ready for that purpose. I
Trump. asked my ministry to vigorously take action as
fast as possible.”
The Jerusalem Post reported:
Gallant suggested a couple possible names for the area
Construction Minister Yoav Gallant has where the embassies would be located. He initially called
instructed the top officials in his ministry to it “Embassy Town,” but then said he may decide to instead
begin the process of planning and approving a call it “Trump Town,” after US President Donald Trump,
new quarter for embassies from countries who initiated next month’s move of the US Embassy to
around the world that will be built in Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
he revealed on Thursday in an interview from
New York, where he will be speaking at
Sunday’s Jerusalem Post Conference.
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Trump Blasts “Lying Machine” James Clapper For
Leaking Dossier Briefing To CNN Then Lying About It
By Cristina Laila
April 28, 2018, 1:23 Pm
The much-anticipated House Intel Russia Clapper also lied about leaking during an
report was released Friday morning, interview with Don Lemon in March of this
officially clearing President Trump of any year.
“collusion” during the election.
Clapper told Don Lemon in March of 2018 that he didn’t
The House Intel report also revealed former DNI Chief, have any contact with the media about the dossier before
James Clapper leaked the dossier briefing to CNN’s Jake he left his government post on Jan 20th.
Tapper.
WATCH CLAPPER LIE – VIDEO:
Clapper then lied about leaking over and over again,
including under oath.
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Judge Jeanine To Anybody Not Convinced
Jim Comey Was Involved In A Coup:
‘Are You Stupid?’
By Trent Baker
28 Apr 2018
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Which One Is Lying?
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Former Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Pushes Back
Against Russia Witch Hunt
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 28, 2018, 4:08 Pm
Former Green Party candidate Jill Stein is pushing back to be Russian immigrants or of Russian
against Senate Intelligence Committee requests from her descent. We reiterate here that the
campaign as part of the Russian meddling witch hunt, responding parties will not participate in a
calling their demands “unconstitutional.” hunt for identification of persons based on
nationality or descent.”
According to a report from the Intercept, Stein’s campaign “not pertinent to the subject of Russian
is arguing that the broad request unfairly places suspicion interference.”
on all people of Russian lineage, and are refusing to
comply with the request. Stein’s campaign did provide the committee with all
communications with “Russian media organizations, their
The Intercept reports that the campaign has employees, or associates.” The Green Party candidate
said they will absolutely “not be disclosing frequently appeared on Russia Today, as the network was
names of persons with whom they have ever one of the only ones willing to give third party candidates
communicated, including American political a platform.
supporters, targeted because they happen
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CNN’s Brian Stelter Has Tantrum Over Trump Skipping
White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Says He
Is ‘Waging War’ On Reporters
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 28, 2018, 5:16 Pm
Brian Stelter had a tantrum on Saturday over President Ironically, CNN’s role appears to be less about the true
Donald Trump “snubbing” the White House intention of the First Amendment — holding politicians to
Correspondents’ Dinner and referring to it as a “Fake account — and more about advocating for the Democratic
News Prom.” Party’s interests, as evidenced by the current scandal
involving James Clapper and Jake Tapper.
Though Stelter frequently attacks WikiLeaks, a publication In a Facebook post about the dinner, Trump wrote,
that has never had to issue an apology or retraction unlike
CNN, his tantrum this weekend was all about pretending “tomorrow night I’m skipping the Fake News
that he cares about press freedom. Prom (White House Correspondents’ Dinner)
to be with American patriots who truly want to
Stelter referred to Trump’s refusal to attend the event for MAGA! Tune in at 7pm to watch the rally LIVE
the second year in a row as a waging “war on the reporters on Facebook!”
who cover him.”
The post also included a video, in which
“It would be one thing if he skipped the dinner to Trump media advisor Mark Serrano said that
oversee crisis response or host a community “the truth is the White House
service event. But instead he is counter- Correspondents Dinner merely exposes the
programming the dinner by holding a campaign cozy, co-dependent relationship that exists
rally in Washington Township, Michigan. If it’s year-round between the political class in
anything like last year’s rally during the dinner, Washington, their mouthpieces in the
more media attacks are sure to come,” Stelter mainstream media, and the Hollywood elites
wrote. who shape our culture with their out-of-
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touch liberal ideology,” Serrano continued. “fake news media is celebrating themselves
“As is customary, the President of the with champagne toasts” President Trump will be
United States was invited to this glamorous leading a rally at the exact same time “with
affair and President Trump is in Washington hardworking patriotic Americans.”
that evening — Washington, Michigan, that
is!” The event will be attended by Sarah Sanders, and hosted
by Michelle Wolf, from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show
Serrano continued on to say that while the with Trevor Noah.
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‘Very Popular’ Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Gets Star
Treatment At White House Correspondents’ Dinner
By Kristinn Taylor
April 28, 2018, 7:18 Pm
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Trump nemesis Michael Avenatti, the attorney for stripper
Stormy Daniels, is also attending the dinner and is making
the most of his star turn.
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Rev. Al Sharpton and House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) are attending.
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Was The Russia Collusion Hoax Invented To Cover Up The
Truth About The DNC’s “Awan” Scandal That Funneled
U.S. Intelligence Secrets To Pakistan?
By Ethan Huff
04/28/2018
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Even though she had just lost her job as DNC chair, and phone booth in Washington, D.C. Schultz still refused to
knowing that Imran was under investigation for fire Imran at this point, insisting that it was not her laptop.
committing cybersecurity crimes, Debbie Wasserman
Schultz refused to fire Imran Awan. 7. Prosecutors arrest Imran at airport after he began
liquidating assets.
6. Laptop containing username “RepDWS” found in
phone booth after Imran banned from network. Imran and his wife had wired $300,000 to Pakistan from
their federal retirement accounts, prompting the Federal
Not long after Imran was banned from accessing the House Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest Imran at the airport,
network, a laptop containing the username “RepDWS,” at which point he was charged with bank fraud. His wife,
pointing to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was found in a however, was allowed to leave the country.
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Audience Member Shouts ‘We Love You Trump!’ —
President Trump’s Response Lights Up The Room
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:10 PM 04/28/2018
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Corey Lewandowski Fires Up
The Crowd At Trump Rally In Michigan (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 8:52 Pm
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Trump In Michigan: If We Don’t Have Funding For The
Wall By September “We’ll Close Down The Country”
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 9:03 Pm
For the second year in a row President Trump held a rally in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Trump held a rally with American workers tonight.
on the night of the White House
Correspondents’ Ball. Trump told the crowd:
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Trump: If Dems Win In 2018 Midterms,
They'll Impeach Me
By Morgan Gstalter
04/28/18 09:07 PM EDT
President Trump said Saturday that Republicans need to Last week at the Time 100 gala in New York, Waters
maintain the House majority, otherwise he could face urged Trump to “please resign.”
impeachment from Democrats.
“So that I won’t have to keep up this fight of
“We have to keep the House because if we your having to be impeached because I
listen to Maxine Waters, she’s going don’t think you deserve to be there,”
around saying ‘We will impeach him,’ ” Waters said. “Just get out.”
Trump said at a Michigan rally.
However, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
has warned against Democratic efforts to impeach Trump,
saying it would end up harming the party before the
midterm elections.
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FBI Officially Becomes A National Joke: Interviews
Russian MMA Fighter Trump Knew In 2008
By Jim Hoft
April 28, 2018, 9:53 Pm
They must think this is Trump’s golden link The agents were in attendance at Saturday’s
to Putin. fight, Millen said.
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John Kasich On Trump Getting Nobel Peace Prize:
'It's A Long Way Between The Lip And The Cup'
By Kimberly Leonard
April 28, 2018 10:05 PM
"It's a long way between the lip and the cup," Gov. John Kasich, R-
Ohio, said when asked about the possibility of Trump being
nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
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AP Reporter Rips White House Correspondents’
Dinner As Sean Spicer Calls Out WHCA
Board Members For ‘Disgrace’
By Kristinn Taylor
April 29, 2018, 1:32 Am
South Carolina based Associated Press reporter Meg between journalists and those who don’t
Kinnard ripped the White House Correspondent’s trust us, even wider. And those of us based
Association Dinner Saturday night for making it harder for in the red states who work hard every day to
reporters in red states to work and be trusted there. The prove our objectivity will have to deal with
dinner featured vile personal attacks by comedienne it.”
Michelle Wolf on senior White House officials Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Counselor to the
President Kellyanne Conway.
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Insiders Warn 'Deep State Treason'
Has Put Entire Country In Danger As America
Faces Tectonic Shift Of Political Landscape
- As Democrats Pay Huge Money For 'Fake News'
On Trump, Their Lips Tell Us Everything
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
April 29, 2018
After linking to this April 6th story at the Daily Mail titled
Meanwhile, the UK cements their descent into tyranny by In the aftermath of Charlottesville, an
allowing young Alfie Evans to die without even allowing awful lot of awful things have been said
his own parents to take him somewhere else where he about Republicans and race relations.
might be treated as America approaches a crossroads from
which there may be no turning back. However, the Left's accusations of
racism couldn't be further from the truth
that has played out in the halls of
Congress over the last 150 years.
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With this new emergence of Conservative African the Obama administration, The Hill
Americans led by amazing people such as Diamond and reported on Wednesday.
Silk, Candice Owens and now even Kanye West making
waves and shattering typical stereotypes, will even more Campbell said Russian nuclear officials
black Americans finally awaken for good and 'break the expected APCO to apply its $3 million
spell' they've long been living under? annual lobbying fee from Moscow
toward the Clintons’ Global Initiative.
Should even 20% more black Americans realize that the The contract detailed four $750,000
Democratic plantation that they've been slaving upon is the payments over a year’s time.
very worst possible thing for them by metaphorically
'swallowing' the 'red pill' that so many others have recently “APCO was expected to give assistance
swallowed, the D's are in huge trouble. free of charge to the Clinton Global
Initiative as part of their effort to create
And if this new story from Zero Hedge is any indication, a favorable environment to ensure the
while the 'great awakening' may not yet be viral across Obama administration made affirmative
America, nearly a million Americans have 'had it' with the decisions on everything from Uranium
increasingly socialist blue states of California and New One to the U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear
York, where over 800,000 are expected to flee over the Cooperation agreement,” Campbell
next 3 years, following more than 3.5 million over the past stated.
decade leaving those high-tax, imploding states for low-tax
red states such as Arizona and Texas. And while Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill claimed that
Campbell's statement was just an attempt by the Trump
administration to distract Robert Mueller and the American
public from the 'real collusion' that the Democrats
continually attempt to put upon President Trump, it's
obvious to those paying attention where the 'real collusion'
was.
The heavily redacted final report of the We will close with this extremely important excerpt from
House Permanent Select Committee on Greg Hunter's USA Watchdog and his recent interview
Intelligence said the panel is continuing with former CIA officer and whistleblower Kevin
to probe efforts by former British Shipp which sums up everything that we've been
intelligence officer Christopher Steele, witnessing ever since President Trump was elected and
author of the discredited anti-Trump explaining exactly why America is still in such danger as a
dossier, and the research firm 'Constitutional crisis' the likes we've never seen in America
FusionGPS that hired Steele on behalf continues to unfold in the days and weeks ahead. You can
of the Democratic National Committee the entire interview embedded as the final video below.
and Clinton campaign during the
election. Former CIA Officer and whistleblower
Kevin Shipp says what is going on with
The continuing anti-Trump opposition Donald J. Trump “is an ongoing coup to
research operation was contained in a remove a duly elected President.” Shipp
footnote on page 113 of the 243-page contends, “This is a huge constitutional
report. It identified the Penn Quarter crisis like the country has never seen
Group as the research firm that hired before. This makes Watergate look like a
Steele and FusionGPS. [Disclosure: The Sunday school class.”
Washington Free Beacon was once a
client of Fusion GPS. That relationship On Friday, Shipp and other retired top
ended in January 2017. For more officials at the CIA, FBI, DOJ and NSA
information, see here.] held a press conference and demanded
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
While 'crazy Hillary' still scatters blame for her November prosecute top Obama era officials for
2016 loss in EVERY direction except for the one direction obvious crimes against the incoming
where it should be cast perfectly representing the Trump Administration. Shipp says, “We
'victimhood mentality' of many on the left, for the DOJ and have a coup within our government
FBI to fully regain their now tarnished reputation while right now at the senior levels at the CIA,
restoring their integrity, they'll have to get to the bottom of DOJ and the FBI attempting to unseat a
this all. duly elected President who was elected
by the American people and remove him
And should 'the truth' find that President Trump colluded from office. . . .This is, at worst, treason
with Russia to steal the election away from Hillary with senior officials in the shadow
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government or Deep State . . . to attack ‘progressive’ document. In other words,
Donald Trump and remove him from the Constitution is outdated and should
office." be redone. They are both directly
connected into George Soros, who
Shipp goes on to explain, “There is wants to destroy the sovereignty of the
essentially a civil war involving parts of U.S. government. . . . The Democrat
senior management and upper parts of Party is now made up of Marxists and
our government that is occurring in the leftists that have penetrated that entire
United States. It’s between the ‘Dark’ organization. . . . Their entire goal is to
side and the ‘Constitutional’ side. There change our form of government and
has never been anything like this in destroy our sovereignty.”
history. It is extremely serious, and this
is an extremely serious hour for our
government and especially for our
constitutional freedoms. . . . This
essentially is a global criminal cabal
that has penetrated into our government
and now has senior level officials
colluding and, I would argue, conspiring
to unseat this president.”
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Hillary Clinton Insider Philippe Reines:
‘F**K Sarah Sanders’; Melania And Trump Family
‘Diseased Clan’ With ‘Rotten Souls’
By Kristinn Taylor
April 29, 2018, 2:41 Am
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Trump Slams White House Correspondents' Dinner
As ‘A Very Big, Boring Bust’
By Jacqueline Thomsen
04/29/18 08:04 AM EDT
President Trump took to Twitter early Sunday to blast the is the one pussy you're not allowed to
White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, grab.”
claiming the event was
She was referring to the infamous “Access Hollywood”
“a very big, boring bust.” tape, during which Trump can be heard bragging about
groping and kissing women without their consent
“While Washington, Michigan, was a big
success, Washington, D.C., just didn’t
work,” Trump said, referring to a rally he Wolf also called Vice President Pence “a weird little guy”
held instead of attending the dinner and criticized press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and
Saturday night. White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway.
The president also said that entertainer Michelle Wolf "Kellyanne Conway has the perfect last
“really ‘bombed’ ” during her routine at the dinner, calling name for what she does — Conway," Wolf
her a “so-called comedian” and saying that Fox News host said. "You guys have to stop putting
Greg Gutfeld should host the event next year. Kellyanne on your shows. If you don't give
her a platform, she has nowhere to lie. If a
tree falls in the woods, how do we get
Kellyanne under that tree? I'm not
suggesting she gets hurt. Just stuck. Stuck
under a tree."
"I actually really like Sarah. I think she's
very resourceful," Wolf said of Sanders.
"But she burns facts and then she uses that
ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like
maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies."
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Presidents Trump And Obama Show Their True Colors:
One Stands Up For WH Doctor After Being Slandered –
The Other Remains Silent
By Jim Hoft
April 29, 2018, 8:20 Am
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President Trump’s tweet continued: no such findings. A horrible thing that we in
D.C. must live with, just like phony Russian
“….great people of Montana will not stand Collusion. Tester should lose race in
for this kind of slander when talking of a Montana. Very dishonest and sick!”
great human being. Admiral Jackson is the
kind of man that those in Montana would
most respect and admire, and now, for no
reason whatsoever, his reputation has
been shattered. Not fair, Tester!”
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SENATOR TESTER Cheers Withdrawal Of Admiral
Jackson After He Smeared Him With False Rumors
By Jim Hoft
April 29, 2018, 9:43 Am
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Comey: House Intel Probe
Into Russia's Election Meddling Is A 'Wreck'
By Julia Manchester
04/29/18 10:32 AM EDT
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Former Asst. FBI Director:
“I Have No Doubt” Clapper And Brennan Conspired
With Comey Against Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 29, 2018, 10:37 Am
James Kallstrom:
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'He Actually Wrote The Wrong Book':
Gutfeld Theorizes The Real Reason
Behind Comey's Tell-All
April 29, 2018 10:41am
Greg Gutfeld on Saturday presented his theory about why Gutfeld said that Comey knew NYPD would look to seize
former FBI Director James Comey really wrote his tell-all Weiner's laptop -- which contained classified emails from
book, "A Higher Loyalty." the account of Abedin -- so he would then begin to write
his book.
"He actually wrote the wrong book," Gutfeld
said. "If you're going to write a book, it should be
about Hillary's unwillingness to deal with
"This is really about how Hillary protected Huma, and that cost the election."
Huma Abedin, which allowed Anthony
.
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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters Changes Course,
Saying ‘70% Of Democrats’ Want Trump Impeached
By Frank Camp
April 29, 2018
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Chuck Todd Makes Comey
Squirm With This Question About Russia
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
12:06 PM 04/29/2018
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CNN Analyst Shares Ugly Truth About The WHCD
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
12:13 PM 04/29/2018
CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd washed the glitz “Look, referring to this as the swamp is
and glam off of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner courteous. This is a pain in the ass,” Mudd
on Saturday night, reminding viewers it’s just another asserted. “Let me give you some
elitist “swamp” party. characteristics, seriously, for people who
haven’t been here.”
WATCH: “There’s three thousand people here. If
you’re not a VIP let me give you a couple of
characteristics,” he continued. “Number
one, it’s a watered down drink for a guy
who likes a cocktail. Number two, not
kidding, there’s thousands — you cannot
move. You’ve got like two inches to move.
And number three, let me give you
Washington, D.C. … every person you talk
to … looks at you and then looks over your
shoulder and says, ‘is there anyone else
more important to talk to?'”
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Gross. WHCD ‘Comedian’ Cracks Gruesome Abortion
Joke — Liberal Reporters Laugh In Delight (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 29, 2018, 12:14 Pm
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Bolton: US Expects North Korean Denuclearization To Go
Down The Way It Did In Libya
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
12:39 PM 04/29/2018
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Rep. King: Russia Probe Is A
'Very Shameful Chapter' In History Of The FBI
April 29, 2018 – 12:41pm
"It was based on basically gossip, it did not In another tweet, Brennan called the House Intelligence
come through normal channels. It did not Committee's findings "deeply flawed" and that they mean
warrant an investigation like this," King nothing.
said.
"Jim Comey was giving the country the
impression that the president was being
investigated even though he knew the
president was not being investigated, but
refused to make that public," he added.
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'The President Wins Last Night':
CNN Panel Criticizes WHCD Comedian's Stand-Up
JENNI FINK
APR 29, 2018 | 1:14 PM
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Whiny Jim Acosta Says Trump’s Attacks On Fake News
Worse Than Nasty Abortion Jokes At #WHCD
– Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
April 29, 2018, 1:20 Pm
Everyone except for CNN’s Jim Acosta. “He thinks abortion is murder, which, first of all,
don’t knock it ‘til you try it–and when you do try
Whiny Acosta took to his Twitter account to say Trump’s it, really knock it. You know, you’ve got to get
attacks on the press (fake news) are worse than vile that baby out of there. And yeah, sure, you can
abortion jokes and disgusting insults hurled at another groan all you want. I know a lot of you are very
woman. anti-abortion. You know, unless it’s the one you
got for your secret mistress.”
Acosta tweeted:
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Stormy Daniels Attorney:
‘We're Going To Be Able To Prove That The
President Knew About The Agreement’
By Luis Sanchez
04/29/18 01:47 PM EDT
Avenatti asked:
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Gowdy: Trump Shouldn’t
Celebrate Until Mueller Probe Is Complete
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
1:52 PM 04/29/2018
Rep. Trey Gowdy advised President Trump on Sunday to witnesses and has far greater resources at his disposal for
avoid claiming there is “no collusion” until the Mueller his investigation. As such, it may be premature for Trump
investigation completes its course. to claim vindication, even if he is correct that there is no
collusion.
WATCH:
“Be careful in how I phrase this…the best
we can do is say what we learned,” Gowdy
said of the House Intel’s report. “I can’t say
what’s in the universe of witnesses we
have not talked to and I have always
maintained I am awaiting the Mueller
investigation.”
“They have investigative tools we don’t
have,” he continued. “Executive branch
investigations are just better than
congressional ones. So, we found no
evidence of collusion — whether or not it
exists or not, I can’t speak to.”
Gowdy explained on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that
although the House Intelligence Committee’s report found
no evidence of collusion, Mueller is able to interview more
.
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Dershowitz Warns Impeaching
‘Devil Trump’ Will ‘Eliminate Civil Liberties’
Harvard Professor Fears Employing This Tool Against Political Enemies Is
'Going To Come Back To Bite You In The Rear End'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 29 Apr 2018 At 2:21 PM
Republican members of the House Permanent Select Dershowitz then compared how liberals have treated
Committee on Intelligence released their redacted 253- Trump with the movie and play, "A Man for all Seasons,"
page report Friday, summarizing the committee’s findings which recounted the final years of Sir Thomas More, the
during its year-long investigation into allegations of English cleric who refused to support King Henry the
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. VIII's quest to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Although the Republicans found “poor judgment” and “ill- in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
considered actions” on the part of the Trump campaign,
they found “no evidence of collusion.”
"Sir Thomas More is asked, 'Would you
give the devil the right of the law?' And he
Trump took to Twitter on Friday to tout the report and says, 'Yes, I would.' And the opponent
slam special counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt,” says, 'No, no, you can't give the devil the
writing, right of the law.' And then Sir Thomas More
says, 'If you knock down the all the laws to
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get the devil, the next thing that will happen to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she was silenced
is the devil will use that to come after you,'" during the 2016 presidential campaign after an alleged
Dershowitz said. affair with Trump more than 10 years ago.
"Now Democrats and left-wingers obviously
think President Trump is the devil, and "Well, first of all, there are a lot of civil
they're prepared to eliminate civil liberties," libertarians in the ACLU that don't care
Dershowitz warned. "The American Civil about civil liberties. All they care about is
Liberties Union is praising a raid on a left-wing, hard-Left politics," Dershowitz
lawyer's office and praising the fact that the said. "They use civil liberties as an excuse
FBI gets to read potentially lawyer-client and as a justification."
privileged information." "So, you know, everybody is turning
everything around now, and there is so
The FBI conducted raids on the home, office, and hotel much hypocrisy and the ultimate victim is
room of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, earlier both truth and civil liberties," Dershowitz
in April, in a move that stemmed from Mueller's probe into continued, noting that each American must
Russian collusion and election interference. "commit yourself to civil liberties without
regard to which side is being attacked."
As a result, Cohen is now under investigation for potential
campaign finance law violations and a $130,000 payment
.
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Democrats Ignore Dossier In Russia Report,
In Stark Contrast To Their Early Rhetoric
Chuck Ross - Reporter
2:45 PM 04/29/2018
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Fusion GPS is the opposition research firm that hired October to acknowledge hiring Fusion GPS. Congressional
Steele in June 2016 to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to Republicans have also forced out details of the FBI’s
Russia. Perkins Coie is the Clinton campaign and DNC reliance on the dossier to obtain spy warrants on former
law firm that hired Fusion in the first place. Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans, in contrast, have ramped up their focus on the Republican lawmakers frequently point out in interviews
dossier over the past year. Pressure from committee that none of the dossier’s most disturbing allegations have
Republicans forced Perkins Coie to come forward in been proved in the 15 months since BuzzFeed published it.
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John Brennan Viciously Attacks POTUS Trump For
Labeling James Clapper A “Lying Machine”
By Cristina Laila
April 29, 2018, 3:02 Pm
President Trump unleashed on former Intel And the left claims there is no Deep State.
Chief James Clapper Saturday morning after
the House Intel Russia report revealed he Just look how much hatred the former CIA Chief has for
leaked the dossier briefing to Jake Tapper President Trump. It’s unprecedented.
then lied about it.
Both Clapper and Brennan are stuck in a perjury trap and
Clapper then lied about leaking over and over again, they know it which is why they continue to attack Trump.
including under oath.
On Friday, John Brennan also warned Trump about
Trump tweeted on Saturday: Mueller’s investigation saying,
“Clapper lied about (fraudulent) Dossier leaks to “Stay tuned Mr. Trump…”
CNN” @foxandfriends FoxNews He is a lying
machine who now works for Fake News CNN.
Watch Clapper lie to Don Lemon about leaking the
dossier–this is the type of man Brennan considers to be
honest, full of integrity and morality….
VIDEO:
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The Mooch Goes After Michelle Wolf For Tasteless
‘Atrocity,’ Compares Her To Michael Wolff
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
3:21 PM 04/29/2018
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James Woods Destroys Gutter ‘Comedian’
Michelle Wolf In Epic Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
April 29, 2018, 4:16 Pm
James Woods went off on the foul-mouthed ‘comedian’ Patriotic actor James Woods gave this gutter comedian a
and liberal reporters at the WHCD in an epic tweetstorm. piece of his mind on Sunday.
The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Woods blasted the WHCD Association
Saturday night was an utter disgrace. President:
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James Woods says Republican women
running for office should use the clip of Wolf
trashing Sarah Sanders in their campaigns:
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BACKLASH: Trump Wants 'Dishonest And Sick' Jon
Tester To Resign For Spreading False Rumors
Byryan Saavedra
April 29, 2018
The Secret Service later came out and said the allegations
were completely false.
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Here Are Three Scary FBI Scandal Factors You Must Know
There's An Old Washington Maxim About Being Careful Because 'What Goes
Around Almost Always Comes Back Around'
By Mark Tapscott
Updated 29 Apr 2018 At 7:43 PM
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Remember Comey's July 2016 nationally televised All these people enjoyed years of unfettered, or nearly so,
announcement that he would not recommend prosecution access to the incredible digital and electronic listening
of Clinton despite her "extreme carelessness" in handling power developed by the U.S. intelligence community in
super secret classified national security information? the wake of 9/11, including the ability to "unmask" any
lawmaker, congressional staffer, corporate executive,
One of the drafts of Comey's announcement referred to philanthropic executive or donor, judge, foreign official,
Clinton emails between her and "the president." But, as presidential appointee, diplomat, or military officer
McCarthy recently pointed out, "a revised draft of Comey's overheard in any of the hundreds of millions of
remarks was circulated by his chief of staff, Jim Rybicki. It conversations intercepted by the listening agencies.
replaced 'the president' with 'another senior government
official.'" Think of the potential leveraging power that attends
knowing all the secrets of all the most important people at
Mukasey recently explained on "The Ingraham all levels of governance in the most powerful country on
Angle" why that change made a huge difference in earth. Just as blackmail is an oft-used technique for
understanding the Clinton email scandal: obtaining intelligence sources at the highest levels of
foreign capitals, it can also provide the necessary tools for
transferring great wealth from one person or place to
"President Obama was sending messages
others.
and receiving messages on Hillary Clinton's
private email server. Jim Comey knew that,
and when President Obama went on This reality may make sense of an otherwise opaque
television and said, 'There's no issue here, Brennan tweet from March 13, which included this key
she didn't really intend to cause harm,' passage in the text:
what he was really saying in essence is,
'You'd better let her off, because if you "With other investigative shoes yet to drop,
wind up accusing her, you wind up legislators who try to
accusing me.' protect @realDonaldTrump will face
"Comey followed that lead. And the notion November reckoning."
that this was somehow something that he
had to do for the welfare of the country, Those "other investigative shoes" could have multiple
there's a lot of disingenuous claptrap." In meanings to numerous hearers when spoken by a guy who
other words, preserving Obama's "plausible spent years running the CIA. After all, who knows what
deniability" was priority number one. secrets he took with him as he walked out the door of the
agency's Langley headquarters, secrets that could be worth
Third, there's the spooks' sting. a fortune when properly utilized in a timely manner.
These two scandals are loaded with spymasters. The most There is a huge industry of former spies who have created
powerful ones weren't even at the FBI. Think former companies and consultancies that are paid billions of
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and dollars by clients around the globe. If you doubt that, just
former CIA Director John Brennan. And don't forget ask Hillary Clinton, because she knows all about them.
former national security adviser Susan Rice or former U.N.
Ambassador Samantha Power.
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Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree? Longtime Hillary Clinton
Advisor Lays Out Why Mueller Probe Is “Corrupt”
(VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 29, 2018, 8:09 Pm
On Fox News program ‘The Story doctrine called the fruits of the poisonous tree,
with Martha MacCallum,’ this week, former that says when investigations get started like,
Clinton strategist Mark Penn this when searches and seizures are done on
eviscerated special counsel Robert this basis, they should be thrown out. I think
Mueller’s “corrupt” Trump-Russia probe. that’s probably the best way to stop this thing
because, otherwise, we are going all the way to
the end and I don’t think we should waste
another year here.”
Penn isn’t the first commentator to evoke the legal doctrine ‘fruit
of the poisonous tree,’ in reference to the probe.
Partial transcript via Grabein. It is important to note that Mueller’s move takes
his investigation into uncertain legal territory
MARK PENN: “Well, look, I spent a year and may ultimately create some new law in his
fighting Ken Starr and I think any reasonable favor. Then again it might not. The question is
person looking at what happened here says this why Mueller would take the risk. […]
investigation had no foundation and whatever
foundation it had was not only wrong but This could ultimately fall into the category of
corrupt. I think Christopher Steele was part of being careful what you ask for. Once again, the
the FBI when he leaked, lied, and then was Mueller team showed little hesitation or
fired. Page and Strzok are clearly biased. The circumspection in plowing into this controversial
head of the FBI was clearly biased. The head of area. It is the same attitude that led to the
the CIA appeared to be doing illegal leaks as reversals of Weissmann at the cost of millions
well. This whole thing was corrupt. There is a
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(and ruined lives) in failed prosecutions. If the According to Axios founder Mike Allen, Mueller secretly
evidence was improperly seized, it could got his hands on “many tens of thousands,” of emails
contaminate later evidence derived from it in a exchanged by Trump transition officials. Trump
“fruit of the poisonous tree” theory. Mueller lawyer Kory Langhofer penned a blistering response to the
would not be the first to face such a cascading news, accusing Mueller of unlawfully obtaining transition
problem of contamination. […] documents.
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Donald Trump Jr. Breaks The Internet With Epic
Smackdown In Response To #WHCD Attacks On POTUS
By Cristina Laila
April 29, 2018, 8:23 Pm
BOOM!
Donald Trump Jr. broke the internet with a From counting how many scoops of ice cream he eats, to
viral tweet Sunday evening in an epic hiding in the bushes to catch a glimpse of him golfing,
smackdown in response to the White House Trump lives rent free in their minds.
Correspondents’ Dinner.
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WOW! Deep State Redacted Comey Comments In House
Intel Final Report On Trump And Russia That Absolve
Gen. Michael Flynn
By Jim Hoft
April 29, 2018, 10:50 Pm
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“We object to the excessive and unjustified In addition, Republicans pointed out that the Intelligence
number of redactions, many of which do Community quickly removed proposed redactions from the
not relate to classified information,” Nunes House Intel Democrats’ counter-report.
said in a statement . “The committee will
convey our objections to the appropriate “The Democrats got all the redactions on
agencies and looks forward to publishing a their minority views lifted within a day,” said
less redacted version in the near future.” House Intel spokesman Jack Langer
Sunday evening, “while we’re still
struggling to get our concerns addressed.”
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President Trump Puts Rally
On Hold For Medical Emergency In The Crowd
Virginia Kruta
12:01 AM 04/29/2018
President Donald Trump abruptly paused his speech those who had stepped in to help. “Those
Saturday evening while doctors attended to a medical are the people we love, those are great
emergency in the audience. The president had opted to people, I’ll tell you. And the doctors, thank
speak at a campaign-style rally in Michigan rather than you, doctor. Great job. Amazing! What
attend the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. people we have, what people we have.”
The president spoke for over an hour, but about 50 minutes WATCH:
into his remarks, he abruptly paused in the middle of a
comment about ICE agents dealing with gangs.
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Alabama Congressman: Some Republicans
Are Retiring Because Of Assassination Fears
Guest post by Mike LaChance at American Lookout
April 30, 2018, 7:24 Am
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WHCA Denounces Comedian For
Jokes ‘Not In The Spirit Of’ Civility
Derek Hunter - Contributor
8:25 AM 04/30/2018
Dear Members,
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South Korean Leader:
President Trump Should Win
Nobel Peace Prize
By Jim Hoft
April 30, 2018, 8:40 Am
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un on Friday pledged to end hostilities
between the two countries and work
towards the “complete denuclearization” of
the Korean peninsula in the first inter-
Korean summit in more than a decade.
If they can give a peace prize to Al Gore
for junk science you’d think they could
honor Trump for actually bringing peace
to Korea?
CNBC reported:
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Congressman DESTROYS
Mueller’s Reputation In 48-Pager
John Wynne
April 30, 2018
“Robert Mueller has a long and sordid Mueller, then FBI Director, did not admit the FBI made
history of illicitly targeting innocent people errors or refute the accusations.
that is a stain upon the legacy of American Instead, the FBI raided the home of Weldon’s daughter
jurisprudence,” Gohmert, a Republican, weeks before Election Day.
begins in his report. “He lacks the judgment
and credibility to lead the prosecution of With rumors abuzz that Weldon too was under
anyone.” investigation, the congressman lost re-election.
The raid destroyed Weldon’s political career … and
Based on his findings, the congressman believes that nothing ever came of it.
Mueller is someone who targets individuals for
prosecution and will resort to any measure to bring them
down.
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“The early morning raid by Mueller’s FBI
with all the media outside, obviously alerted
by the FBI, had achieved its goal of
colluding to abuse the federal justice
system to silence Curt Weldon by ending
his political career,” Gohmert concludes.
“People say those kinds of things just don’t
happen in America. They certainly seemed
to when Mueller was in charge of the FBI Rod Rosenstein/photo by Internet Education Foundation (CC)
and they certainly seem to while he is
Special Counsel, as well.” Gohmert goes on to describe Mueller’s role with then-U.S.
Attorney Rod Rosenstein in the investigation of Russia’s
The report speculates that Mueller was placed in charge of effort to obtain uranium from the United States.
the Russian collusion investigation because he could be
relied on to use “extra-legal actions” to take out the “Rosenstein and Mueller’s failure to warn
political enemies of the Deep State. against or stop the sale reeks of its own
form of collusion, cooperation, or
In addition, Gohmert notes that President Barack Obama capitulation in what some consider a
“begged” Mueller to stay on as FBI Director for two more treasonous sale,” Gohmert writes.
years than the 10-year term allowed by the law … a deal
that Congress approved. He further speculates that the Russian collusion
investigation itself may be an attempt by Mueller and
The congressman highlights many more troubling Rosenstein to protect themselves.
incidents concerning Mueller, including even more
framing of political opponents and changing hiring In addition, Gohmert describes how Mueller hired
practices at the FBI to create a bureaucracy packed with “extremely biased attorneys” who worked tirelessly to
yes-men who could be more easily controlled. prevent President Trump from being elected to serve on
the investigation.
Even Mueller’s acceptance of the Special Counsel position
was unethical, Gohmert states, because he had numerous The bottom line: Robert Mueller should never have been
conflicts of interests, and even the appearance of a conflict appointed Special Counsel, and has to go.
of interest in such a position is disallowed by the law.
“If you want answers, and you CAN handle
Gohmert notes that Mueller’s successor as FBI Director, the truth, join me in demanding those
James Comey, was a close friend and confidante of answers from ‘Special Counsel’ Robert
Mueller. Mueller, along with his resignation,” the
report concludes. “If he were to resign, it
Comey, of course, was fired by President Trump. could well be the only truly moral, ethical,
and decent action Mueller has undertaken
And that’s not all. in this entire investigation.”
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More Mueller Conflicts Of Interest – His Former Employer
Is Manafort’s Law Firm! Shut It Down!
By Jim Hoft
April 30, 2018, 8:48 Am
There is no way that Rosenstein could Counsel. But Mueller has much more. Mueller was the FBI
have performed a conflict of interest Director during the Uranium One scandal. He even
review and determined that Robert delivered uranium to Russia on an airport tarmac in Europe
Mueller had no conflicts of interest. per Hillary Clinton’s instructions! Any conflict of interest
should have disqualified Mueller due to the sensitivity,
Mueller is best friends with James Comey who was and is legal nature and importance of the mandate of the Special
a key player in the FISA and Trump scandals. That alone Counsel. This was a setup!
should have disqualified Mueller from being the Special
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Now this week more conflict have been uncovered. Big members of the WilmerHale team over to his federal
League Politics reports that Mueller worked at the same investigation team.
law firm used by Paul Manafort, the same guy Mueller
charged with bogus crimes this past year. Congress should request all document-
tation related to Rosenstein’s
Federal government insiders believe that Deputy Attorney assessment of Mueller’s independence
General Rod Rosenstein did not have the authority to and objectivity in regards to any and all
legally appoint Robert Mueller as special counsel, due to a conflicts of interest.
major glaring conflict of interest in the case.
This information will no doubt show the corrupt nature of
Robert Mueller worked for WilmerHale — the very firm the Mueller Special Counsel from the very start and should
representing Paul Manafort — when Rod Rosenstein put Rosenstein in legal jeopardy for being dishonest in his
contacted Mueller to give him the go-ahead to investigate efforts to appoint Mueller.
Manafort for suspected Russia ties. That should have come
up in any fair (and legally required) background check that And where the hell is AWOL Jeff
Rosenstein should have done on Mueller. Sessions?
Mueller was a partner at WilmerHale when he switched The Mueller Special Counsel was
over to become Special Counsel, and he has brought corrupt from the start. Shut it down!
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Manages
To Make Sarah Sanders Insults All About Him [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:04 AM 04/30/2018
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Fired Redstate Writer Can’t Understand Why
Conservative Audience Rejected #Nevertrump Website?
By Jim Hoft
April 30, 2018, 9:23 Am
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Dan Bongino Personally Vouches For Dr. Ronny Jackson:
‘Saved My Butt Many Times’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:27 AM 04/30/2018
Radio host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino “I was the law enforcement guy on the
defended Dr. Ronny Jackson on “Fox & Friends” Monday ground. When there was some kind of
and vouched for him based on personal experience. problem on a visit with the doctor or
someone in the military or anyone else, me
“This was a man I knew as a Secret Service lead advance — I
personally, Bongino said. “This was a man would have been notified,” Bongino
who saved my butt when I was sick concluded. “I never saw any of this. This is
overseas many times when I was in the a joke and this was a political hit job of the
Secret Service.” highest order.”
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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert Calls Out
Senators Who Want To Protect Robert Mueller
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:48 AM 04/30/2018
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said it’s time for of our uranium,” Gohmert added. “And then
Robert Mueller to hit the road, despite calls from senators Hillary gets 145 million for her foundation. I
to shield the special counsel from President Donald mean, if they don’t put the kibosh on that
Trump. investigation, then that sale doesn’t go
through.”
“The reason they’re doing it [protecting “[Mueller] absolutely does [have to go],” he
Mueller] is number one, they are never concluded. “Rosenstein too. Big time.”
Trumpers,” Gohmert said on “Fox &
Friends” Monday. “They want Trump out at
WATCH:
all costs, even if it helps these guys that
are doing a rotten job.”
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REUTERS POLL: Millennial Support For
Democrats Fell By Nearly 10 Percent Over Past Two Years
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
9:54 AM 04/30/2018
The latest poll from Reuters and Ispos shows that U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Make America
millennial support for Democrats has significantly dropped Great Again Rally in Washington, Michigan April 28, 2018.
(REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
over the past two years.
While “overt” support for the Republican party did not
The poll surveyed more than 16,000 registered voters from change from 2016, the same amount of young voters (39
January through March of this year. The data shows that percent) now say they would support a Republican for
only 49 percent of voters between the ages of 18-34 Congress as a Democrat, erasing the 14 percent gap in the
are likely to support a Democrat, a nearly 10 percent drop 2016 poll.
from the 2016 iteration of Reuters’ poll.
Additionally, millennials are now almost evenly split on
which party has a better economic plan: 34 percent favored
Democrats on the issue, while 32 percent favored
Republicans. In 2016, Democrats outperformed
Republicans on the economic question by 12 points.
(Reuters/Ispos)
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Border Patrol Agent Says Illegal Immigrants Have
No Regard For America’s Laws, And
It’s Backfiring On Democrats
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:03 AM 04/30/2018
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Big Media Company Withholds FBI Investigative
Bombshell For Months; Shielding Mueller, Hillary & FBI
Brass From Publicity Disaster
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On April 30, 2018
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Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says His High School Kids
Know More About The Trump Dossier
Than James Comey [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:20 AM 04/30/2018
WATCH:
Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says His High School Kids Know
More About The Trump Dossier Than James Comey - Fox & Friends
4-30-18
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Turley: James Clapper Lied To Congress
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:20 AM 04/30/2018
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President Trump Derides White House Correspondents’
Dinner As “Fake News”
By Lucian Wintrich
April 30, 2018, 10:40 Am
Trump tweeted:
House and Senate lawmakers are on recess back in their “I say to Congress, ‘I will never sign
districts this week, where many are planning to meet with another bill like this again.’ I’m not going to
constituents and host campaign fundraisers and events do it again. Nobody read it. It’s only hours
leading up to the November midterm elections. old. Some people don’t even know what is
in it. $1.3 trillion dollars–it is the second
Republican leadership is adamant that selling the benefits largest ever,” Trump said.
of the 2017 tax reform bill is the surefire way to maintain
majority in the Senate and fight to keep the majority — a The president justified signing the bill because it was
scenario that looks increasingly unlikely — in the House. “necessary” to fund national security.
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House Intel: Witnesses Corroborated
Jeff Sessions’ Claims About Papadopoulos Exchange
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:13 PM 04/30/2018
A new report from the House Permanent Select Committee Democrats have hammered Sessions for failing to disclose
on Intelligence backs up testimony from Attorney General in his Jan. 10, 2017, Senate confirmation hearing that he
Jeff Sessions about a hotly contested exchange he had met Russia’s ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during the
during the 2016 presidential campaign with Trump adviser campaign season. Sessions later said that one of his
George Papadopoulos. meetings with Kislyak occurred in relation to his work as a
senator. He’s claimed that two other encounters with
Reuters reported three anonymous sources have disputed Kislyak were inconsequential greetings that occurred on
Sessions’ claim that during a March 31, 2016, meeting of the sidelines of political events.
the Trump foreign policy team, he rebuffed a suggestion
from Papadopoulos that members of the Trump campaign On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee released a
meet with Russian government officials. report that cited two witnesses who testified that Sessions
did indeed reject Papadopoulos’ offer of a Russia meeting.
“Yes, I pushed back,” Sessions told the Two other meeting attendees have said they recall Sessions
House Committee on the Judiciary during a shooting down Papadopoulos’ idea.
Nov. 14 hearing.
The Republican report states:
Sessions told the House Intelligence Committee during a
closed-door interview on Nov. 30: Sessions’ account of his response has
been corroborated by another attendee,
“I felt like, and I’m the chairman of this [redacted]. [Redacted] also attended and
group — I should not do anything that similarly recalled that when Papadopoulos
indicated to Mr. Papadopoulos that he was raised the issue of obtaining contacts with
authorized to go to Russia or anyplace else the Russian government on behalf of the
to represent the Trump campaign and do campaign, Senator Sessions interrupted
some sort of negotiations. So I pushed and began “talking about the Logan Act,”
back pretty sharply on that.” which criminalizes unauthorized
negotiations with foreign governments.
But according to Reuters, one of its anonymous sources
said that Sessions did not contest Papadopoulos, as he has The names of the two sources who corroborated Sessions
claimed. are redacted in the 253-page report, which was authored by
Republicans on the House Intel panel. But the footnotes
reveal the dates on which the testimony was provided, and
One person told Reuters that Sessions responded, “Okay,
interesting,” to Papadopoulos, who has pleaded guilty to a check of a report written by House Intel Democrats
lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian nationals shows that the two meeting attendees are Walid Phares and
Sam Clovis.
while serving on the Trump campaign.
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“When it got to George, he said something The campaign adviser vaguely recalled Sessions’ response:
about meeting with Russians,” the attendee
told TheDC in August. “Nope, not going there.”
“It was kind of strange, frankly, because
he’s basically a young kid and he’s raising In their report, House Intel Democrats did not address the
this issue. It just came and went and there Sessions-Papadopoulos exchange.
was really nothing there.”
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PRO-TRUMP AUTHOR Is Detained
By FBI, Interrogated, Has Phone Confiscated, Subpoenaed
To Testify In Mueller Special Counsel
By Jim Hoft
March 30, 2018, 12:14 Pm
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Here is a statement from Ted Malloch on I did, however, find it objectionable to
his detention at Boston’s Logan treat me the way they had, as I was
International Airport on Tuesday, March entering my home country, where I am a
citizen and have served at the highest
27, 2018.
levels of government.
********** They did not need to use such tactics or intimidation. I was
a US patriot and would do anything and everything to
On March 27, 2018 I flew on a long international flight assist the government and I had no information that I
into Boston’s Logan International airport. I was to connect believed was relevant.
to a domestic flight en route to my in-laws’ house, just
outside of Cleveland, Ohio for the Easter holidays. They asked for my cell phone and any laptop (I didn’t have
a computer on me) and produced a document to seize it
After exiting the plane, I was escorted to a special line for and perform forensics on it. I gladly signed permission and
passport control. There, I was formally detained and asked asked if at least I could keep my drivers license and credit
to wait, along with my wife who was traveling with me. cards. They said yes and gave them back to me. One of the
They would not say why, and I found it most curious as I agents took the phone into another room and downloaded
am a frequent flier and go back and forth to the US and items but returned to say they would need to keep it and
Europe and elsewhere many times a year. I never had had take it to Washington, DC for a full assessment. I asked
such treatment. when I could get it back. They assured me in a few days
they would definitely get it to me one way or another.
After about twenty minutes left waiting, we were taken by
a TSA official and an FBI agent to a separate hall where The other agent then proceeded for about an hour to
they thoroughly checked my suitcase and asked about any interrogate me and involved himself in various disarming
electronic devices, phones or computers I had in my chitchat about my career, sterling academic credentials,
possession. top-secret code word government clearances in an earlier
era, and my being a fan of the championship Philadelphia
This all seemed very foreboding and I Eagles. All well and good, I presumed. What did they
have never experienced anything like want? Why me? And why in this underhanded fashion?
this before, unless you include trips to What had I done?
communist China or in the old world to
eastern bloc countries as a diplomat. The questions got more detailed about
What’s going on, I thought? my involvement in the Trump campaign
(which was informal and unpaid); whom I
When they found nothing suspicious and would not answer communicated with; whom I knew and how
my questions about why they were detaining me, they well—they had a long list of names.
separated me from my wife and told her to wait in a They seemed to then focus more
lounge, without explanation, while I was to be interviewed. attention on Roger Stone (whom I have
That is all they said. Naturally, this left her in a state of met a grand total of three times and with
total confusion and near panic. groups of people); Jerome Corsi, a
journalist who edited a memoir I had
What had I done? Why Ted Malloch? written some years ago; and about
Wikileaks, which I knew nothing.
I was then escorted to another building and into a secure
conference room where two young FBI agents introduced Had I ever visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London?
themselves to me. they asked.
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CNN’s Cillizza Writes Entire Article
Complaining About Trump’s Rally Speech
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
12:44 PM 04/30/2018
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Trump Commits To Protecting
Christians Persecuted In Nigeria
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
12:57 PM 04/30/2018
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Clapper And Brennan STILL Have Security Clearance As
They Trash Trump And Work At CNN, MSNBC
By Cristina Laila
April 30, 2018, 1:06 Pm
Mary Beth Long, who is a defense analyst and was the first
It is being reported that both former DNI
female to serve as an Assistant Secretary of Defense,
Chief James Clapper and former CIA responded to Sara Carter.
Director John Brennan still have their
security clearances. Clapper and Brennan still have access
Clapper admitted to leaking the dossier to intel…
briefing to CNN after lying about it and Mary Beth Long tweeted:
Brennan is caught in a perjury trap over
his involvement with Hillary’s dossier. “I also understand Clapper and Brennan
still have access to intel. Is that appropriate
To make matters worse, both men enjoy for two now “journalists”? Particularly two
cushy jobs as analysts for the ‘destroy who are so publicly critical of the
Trump’ media. Administration? And in view of the handling
This is unprecedented. of the dossier? And leaks?”
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter said hiring suspected Former CIA Director John Brennan does not hide his
leaker, James Clapper raises ethical questions. hatred for President Trump. He routinely threatens Trump
and lashes out at the President from his Twitter account.
Sara Carter blasted CNN and James Clapper.
Over the weekend, John Brennan warned Trump about
Sara Carter tweeted: Mueller’s investigation, stating,
“I wonder if CNN should have disclosed its “Stay tuned Mr. Trump…”
source was Clapper since they now
contract him as a paid analyst? Seems like The former CIA Director then defended his partner-in-
an ethical problem to pay your sources for crime, Clapper and attacked Trump for rightfully calling
unverified information.” Clapper a “lying machine.”
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Trump To Fill West Coast EPA Post
With Lawyer Who Coined 'Lock Her Up' Chant
By Miranda Green
04/30/18 02:13 PM EDT
Michael Stoker, a former Republican Santa Barbara to receive a political appointee from the Trump
County supervisor and agriculture attorney, will soon head administration.
the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regional
office that oversees the entire Pacific Southwest, E&E The administration has reportedly struggled to find people
News reported Monday. interested in taking the appointment. In January it was
widely expected that Ryan Flynn, an oil and gas lobbyist
Stoker is perhaps best known for coining the "lock her up" from New Mexico, would take on the role but he later told
chant about Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary the Los Angeles Times that he was staying put.
Clinton when at the 2016 Republican National
Convention. Stoker's new position was first announced over the
weekend at a fundraiser in Santa Barbara County, E&E
The phrase was then routinely used by President Trump to News reported. The emcee told the crowd that Stoker
attack Clinton on the campaign trail. would be appointed to the Region 9 post this week but that
the information was not to be made public until Monday.
Stoker was also a reported contender for a spot on the
National Labor Relations Board. Under the position, Stoker would lead an office that
oversees more than 700 EPA staffers throughout
He was nominated in January to serve as director of the California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and the Pacific
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service but never Islands.
came before the Senate for confirmation.
The EPA did not respond to requests for comment.
Stoker's appointment will fill a long-open vacancy in San
Francisco's Region 9 office — the only regional office yet
.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Threatens
Iran’s Withdrawal From Nuclear Deal
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
2:23 PM 04/30/2018
Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi appeared clean to the IAEA as required by the
to signal Monday the country’s imminent withdrawal from nuclear deal.”
the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration in
2015. WATCH:
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Bill Gates Says Trump Casually Asked Him
If He Wanted To Be White House Science Adviser
Eric Lieberman - Tech And Law Reporter
2:29 PM 04/30/2018
President Donald Trump recently seemed to offer “I mentioned: ‘Hey, maybe we should have
Microsoft founder Bill Gates the vacant role of White a science adviser,'” Gates told STAT. “He
House science adviser, the tech mogul said in an interview said: Did I want to be the science adviser?”
published Monday.
Gates recalled telling Trump that such a role wouldn’t be
The fellow billionaires had discussed a number of topics “a good use” of his time. He also told STAT he wasn’t
together — universal vaccines, foreign aid and education sure if it “was a serious thing or not,” as Trump could have
— during the first two times they convened. But in the been asking if he was somewhat subtly vying for the job.
course of their third-ever meeting on March 15, the two
talked mostly about global health and how secure the Gates isn’t the only one to advocate for the need of filling
planet was from potential biological warfare, as well as such a position, as many in the scientific community have
other pandemics natural or imposed, according to STAT, argued the same. Former President Barack Obama used his
which interviewed Gates. highest ranking science adviser to address the spread of the
Ebola virus within the U.S.
A new type of terrorism — in which one conceivable
option could be “using genetic engineering to create a Like Gates, several others perceive a void for that post as a
synthetic version of the smallpox virus” — could sign Trump doesn’t realize the ostensible urgency for the
annihilate more than 30 million people in less than a government to have more involvement in the fields of
year, Gates said in February 2017. health and science. But it’s also possible the president is
having difficulty finding the right person to assume and
A likely part of Gates’ consternations about the world’s stay within the role — a struggle that has seemed to occur
preparedness (or lack thereof) for massive infections is the for other positions.
vacancy of an adviser in the Trump administration to help
address such apocalyptic possibilities, among other
initiatives.
.
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POTUS Trump BLASTS The Swamp –
Puts Congress On Notice About Term Limits
April 30, 2018, 2:48 Pm By Cristina Laila
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The Media Really Wanted The Nigerian President
To Address Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment, But …
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
3:02 PM 04/30/2018
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari appeared in a joint Trump here at the White House,” the
press conference with President Trump at the White House reporter said. “Did you address his reported
Monday. comments from earlier this year when he
reportedly used vulgar language to
When a reporter asked about Trump’s infamous alleged describe African nations?”
“sh*thole” comment, both Trump and Buhari refused to
take the bait to divide them. Buhari responded by saying he doesn’t even know if he
believes the media reporting on Trump’s comment.
WATCH:
“I’m very careful what the press says about
other than myself,” Buhari said. “I’m not
sure about, you know, the validity of
whether that allegation against the
president was true or not. So, the best
thing for me is to keep quiet.”
“We didn’t discuss it, and you do have
some countries that are in very bad shape
and very tough places to live in,” Trump
said. “But we didn’t discuss it because the
president knows me and he knows where
I’m coming from, and I appreciate that. We
did not discuss it.”
“I want to ask you, you’re the first leader
from sub-Saharan Africa to visit president
.
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He 'Destroys People': Gohmert Demands
Mueller Resign In Report On Bureaucrat's
'Problematic' Past
By Fox News Insider
April 30, 2018 – 4:30pm
Steve Doocy played video of Gohmert ripping then- Each time I prepared to question Mueller during
Director Mueller during a hearing on the Boston Marathon Congressional hearings, the more concerned I became
bombing. about his work ethic.
Mueller told Gohmert his "facts are not all Then as I went back to begin compiling all that
together (unintelligible)," prompting the information in order to recount personal interactions with
lawmaker to challenge the director to tell Mueller, the more clearly the big picture began to come
him where he was lying. into focus.
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Knives Out For Kelly: Leaky White
House Staffers Target Chief Of Staff
Peter Hasson - Reporter
5:05 PM 04/30/2018
The leaks are the latest indication that Kelly may be losing
NBC News quoted eight current and former White House
influence in the Trump administration.
staffers in a story that described Kelly complaining about
President Donald Trump.
Kelly’s public standing took a hit in February over his
handling of domestic abuse allegations against former
Kelly frequently portrays himself as saving the country
staffer Rob Porter.
from destruction and has repeatedly called Trump an
“idiot,” the anonymous officials claimed. The officials
blamed Kelly for low morale in the White House and Then, too, anonymous White House officials undermined
questioned his judgement. Kelly in the media, leaking meeting details that portrayed
the chief of staff in a negative light.
“He says stuff you can’t believe,” one
senior White House official told NBC News. This story has been updated to include Kelly’s statement.
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Michelle Wolf Deleted Tweets Calling
Eric Trump An ‘Abortion,’ Glorifying
Antonin Scalia’s Death
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:07 PM 04/30/2018
Screenshot/Daily Mail
She also made light of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia’s death, saying it was good that it he died after
Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
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SARA CARTER: VP Mike Pence’s Physician Behind
Attacks Against Ronny Jackson
By Cristina Laila
April 30, 2018, 6:08 Pm
Tester played point man to smear and But where did these rumors and
slander Admiral Jackson with false accusations start? Who was fighting to
allegations of inappropriate behavior. keep Dr. Jackson from being nominated
and who wanted to smear his name
publicly?
Admiral Jackson withdrew his nomination after the false
allegations were released and shared widely by the liberal
mainstream media. According to four administration officials, the main
allegations were brought forth by Vice President Mike
Pence’s Army physician Dr. Jennifer Pena, who the
According to investigative reporter, Sara Carter, VP Mike officials contend has held a long-time grudge against
Pence’s physician is behind the attacks on Ronny Jackson Jackson because of his continuing promotions in the White
out of jealousy. House. She began her career at the White House during the
Obama administration. According to the officials, Pena,
who is still active military and assigned to the White
House Military Office, did not follow proper protocol to
report on the allegations. Instead, she went directly to the
Senate with the support of some current and former White
House medical staff who were her loyalists. None of the
allegations she allegedly brought forth have been
substantiated.
“This is like something like out of the show President Trump stuck up for Ronny Jackson while Obama
Madame Secretary,” said a former Bush the coward has remained silent.
Administration official, who knows Jackson
and served with him in the White House. Read Sara Carter’s full report on next page.
The official referenced the American
.
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VP Pence Physician Behind Ronny Jackson Attacks
'This Is Like Something Out Of The Show Madame Secretary...'
Sara Carter
April 30, 2018
Unsubstantiated rumors and accusations targeting White President’s physician are only partially accurate. Jackson
House physician Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, who was had abdicated his role as the President’s physician when he
nominated by President Donald Trump to be Secretary of was nominated by Trump for the Veteran’s Affairs
the Veterans Affairs Administration, have been propelled Administration but as of Monday, he continues to work in
by media outlets and Democratic members of the Senate the White House Medical Unit.
without any proof that those allegations were true.
Those who have served with Jackson, both in the Bush
But where did these rumors and accusations start? Who administration and Trump administration, describe the
was fighting to keep Dr. Jackson from being nominated attacks against Jackson’s character as flat out wrong and
and who wanted to smear his name publicly? unbelievable, current and former administration officials
told this reporter. A number of former Obama
According to four administration officials, the main administration officials have also come forward in
allegations were brought forth by Vice President Mike Jackson’s defense, along with the U.S. Secret Service,
Pence’s Army physician Dr. Jennifer Pena, who is which shot back at the allegations brought by the top
assigned to Pence by the White House Medical Unit and Democrat on the Veteran’s Affairs Committee member
does not work directly for the office of the Vice President. Sen. Jon Tester from Montana.
Those officials contend Pena has held a long-time grudge
against Jackson because of his continuing promotions in Tester’s office did not return phone calls for comment.
the White House. She began her career at the White House
during the Obama administration. According to the “(Jackson) is disgusted that the
officials, Pena, who is still active military and assigned to accusations have carried so much weight
the White House Military Office, did not follow proper with nothing to back them up,” said a senior
protocol to report on the allegations. Instead, she went Trump administration official, who knows
directly to the Senate with the support of some current and Jackson. “This is a vendetta in particular
former White House medical staff who were her loyalists. and these false allegations were given to
None of the allegations she allegedly brought forth have members of Congress then leaked to the
been substantiated. press. There is absolutely no merit to any
of these stories…he’s disgusted with the
whole thing.”
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The onslaught of stories drew attention away from the rumors,” said a current Administration
administration’s mission to fill the post at the Veteran’s official. “Certainly we would never
Affairs Administration and led Jackson to withdraw his nominate anybody who had derogatory
name from the nomination last week. information. Pena has had a long-standing
feud with doctor Jackson…she’s very
“This is like something like out of the show jealous that he’s been consistently
Madame Secretary,” said a former Bush promoted. This isn’t about being a
Administration official, who knows Jackson whistleblower – there are other procedures
and served with him in the White House. for that. She went up to the hill and she
The official referenced the American spoke with approximately twenty-five
political television series starring Tea Democrats…she’s a holdover in the White
Leone, which shows the seedy side of House and didn’t want Jackson to be
Washington D.C. and the backstabbing nominated.”
tactics of those trying to rise to the top.
Trump has called on Tester to resign after the Montana
“Dr. Jackson was always professional and
Senator took the anonymous allegations to the
kind,” said the former Bush official. “I never
press, telling CNN that Jackson was known as the “candy
heard of any of these allegations against
man” for passing out prescription drugs, to include the
him until Pena brought them to Congress. I
sleep aid Ambien, on overseas trips and then giving those
never saw any evidence of this. It’s tragic
staffers drugs to wake up.
what’s happened to him.”
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Tester did not disclose who brought the allegations to his At one time there was missing Percocet. It threw the
committee. medical staff into a panic, the Tester report found. It
said Jackson had provided a large supply to a staffer in
But the unfounded allegations include: the White House military office, the report said.
Jackson asked staffers to write prescriptions for each
Jackson had private stocks of controlled substances, other so that drugs could be given to non-beneficiaries.
suggesting he took advantage of lax record-keeping of According to the report, the physicians felt
drug inventories in the White House medical unit. uncomfortable that they refused to be part of the
culture of loose distribution of drugs to current and
former White House staffers.
.
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Corey Lewandowski Poised To Replace
John Kelly As White House Chief Of Staff
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 30, 2018, 6:14 Pm
Kelly has denied the claims made in the report from NBC, Lewandowski, according to a friend of both him and the
but sources close to the president say that he may still be president, does not believe Kelly shares the
on the chopping block.
“Make America Great Again” agenda and
“I spend more time with the president than attempts to “rein the president in on who he
anyone else and we have an incredibly sees and what he does.”
candid and strong relationship,” Kelly said “Lewandowski believes the way to win the
Monday in a statement issued by the White midterms and especially in 2020 is to let
House. Trump be Trump. Let the guy who
“He always knows where I stand and he surprised every political expert in America
and I both know this story is total BS,” he by winning follow his instincts, reconnect
said. “I am committed to the president, his with his base, and get back to winning
agenda, and our country. This is another more,” a source explained.
pathetic attempt to smear people close to
President Trump and distract from the
administration’s many successes.”
.
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EPIC: Sarah Sanders Calls Out The MSM’s Actual “War
On Women”, Waged Against “Every Female That Is Close
To This President” (VIDEO)
By Lucian Wintrich
April 30, 2018, 6:26 Pm
These repeated attacks, many of which are no doubt “The only war on women that I see is
*actually misogynistic* are ignored by the same folks in the one that’s being waged against
media who repeatedly put forth “wage gap” myths and every woman and every female that is
claims that women are more attacked and demeaned now close to this president.”
than ever before.
.
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Kanye West Just Tweeted The Most Incendiary Comment
On Democrats And Black Americans Yet
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
6:29 PM 04/30/2018
pic.twitter.com/EJ2KN6O20q
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 30,
2018
The tweet went immediately viral and initiated a chain
reaction of criticism. Fellow recording artist John Legend
sent a series of critical texts to Kanye in which he refuted
Steve. Legend reminded Kanye that President Lyndon B.
Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act. Legend also called
the Republican Party “the party of the Confederacy.”
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Kanye’s swing rightward has been partly precipitated by
interactions with conservative student activists Charlie
Kirk and Candice Owens. Kirk, the founder of
conservative student group Turning Point USA, and
Owens, the communications director of the group, were
spotted with Kanye this weekend after the rapper tweeted a
number of complimentary comments about Owens.
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Paul Ryan: WHCD Jokes Were
‘Extremely Inappropriate’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
6:42 PM 04/30/2018
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CNN Analyst: Stormy Daniels
Lawsuit Has ‘No Merit Whatsoever’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
6:52 PM 04/30/2018
CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said Monday that Stormy “Wolf, there’s a 0.0 percent chance of this
Daniels’ defamation case against President Trump has case moving forward, let’s talk about why.
When you talk about defamation, you’re
“no merit whatsoever.” speaking about a false factual assertion
that impugns reputation,” Jackson said.
“I think it goes nowhere.”
“How is her reputation impugned?” Jackson
also asked. “Are people really saying,
WATCH:
because of Trump’s tweet, she’s a liar,
she’s subject to scorn, to ridicule, to
shame, oh, my goodness! Really, Stormy
Daniels?”
“And so, at essence, I get and understand,
and I’m not impugning Michael Avenatti in
any stretch of the imagination, he’s taken it
to the president, he’s been a
counterpuncher himself, but I just this
lawsuit has no merit whatsoever and I think
it goes nowhere,” he added.
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Dems Shifting Their Sights From Pruitt To Zinke
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
7:02 PM 04/30/2018
“Secretary Zinke absolutely belongs in the “What’s important is having the right person
same breath as Administrator Pruitt when it for the right job,” Zinke said, according to
comes to wasting taxpayer money and the staffers. “I care about excellence, and I’m
ethical troubles and conflicts of interest and going to get the best people, and you’ll find
the transactional approach to leadership,” we have the most diverse group anyone’s
Center for American Progress Senior ever had.”
Fellow Matt Lee-Ashley told E&E News.
Reports have centered on Zinke’s claim he is a geologist.
Lee-Ashley also served as deputy chief of staff in the The secretary has never held a position as a geologist,
Department of the Interior (DOI) under former-President however, Zinke earned a degree in the subject from the
Barack Obama. University of Oregon before he served as a Navy Seal.
“These two gentlemen are the most Other reports have dug up segments from a radio show
effective at draining the swamp that Zinke hosted. Reports have also pulled clips from a couple
[Trump] has, so the attacks on them are men who raised conspiracy theories while on Zinke’s
not surprising — but the petty nature of show.
these attacks show they’re grasping at
straws,” Western Energy Alliance President
Despite all the negative attention, Zinke has fared far
Kathleen Sgamma told E&E.
better than Pruitt in staving off potential scandal.
While Pruitt has held the spotlight for much of April for
“The threat of actually reining in EPA is so
spending on security and first-class travel, Zinke has dealt
much more threatening to the
with his own criticisms from public officials and the press.
environmental lobby; it’s not surprising that
that’s what they’re [attacking first],”
Zinke’s office, due for a renovation, nearly cost the DOI Sgamma told E&E.
$139,000 to outfit it with new doors. After learning of the
expense, Zinke negotiated the price down to $55,000, the
Though Pruitt’s critics have not secured his ouster, Zinke
secretary said. The expense of the doors was largely due to
may take the spotlight soon, environmentalists warn.
regulations governing any restoration done to historic
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“What you’re seeing from whistleblowers very worried about more,” Center for
from inside EPA has been very effective. Western Priorities Media Director Aaron
We’ve seen some of that from inside Weiss told E&E.
Interior. But if I were Secretary Zinke, I’d be
.
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Michelle Wolf Takes Another Jab At Sarah Sanders In
Response To WHCD Backlash
Katie Jerkovich - Entertainment Reporter
7:18 PM 04/30/2018
Later, she criticized the White House press secretary’s At the dinner Saturday night, Wolf said Sanders “burns
behavior at the event Saturday night. facts” and talked about her looks.
“There’s plenty where you could look back “She burns facts and then she uses that
and the camera was on [Barack] Obama ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe
when people were making pretty she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s
aggressive jokes about Obama and he was probably lies,” the comedian told the crowd.
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Trump Slams ‘Fake News’
For Using Anonymous Sources,
Calls Them ‘Truly Bad People’
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
8:13 PM 04/30/2018
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Trump Refuses To Apologize For Muslim Ban
Scott Morefield - Reporter
8:12 PM 04/30/2018
180
Trump Rips Jon Tester For Supporting Open Border
Agenda As Migrant Caravan Approaches US
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
8:48 PM 04/30/2018
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The Real “Collusion:” CNN Wins Award At WH
Correspondent’s Dinner Based On Trump-Russia Leak By
Former DNI Clapper — Who Was Then Hired By CNN
By JD Heyes
04/30/2018
But all along the network — and Clapper, and former FBI We have a conflict with our “system” here. We have
Director James Comey, and anyone connected to the piece- statutes that prohibit the leaking of classified information
of-trash dossier — used it as a means of undermining the but we have no laws punishing those who publish
Trump presidency, which has been non-stop since he took classified information. Until that conflict is resolved, the
office. leaks will continue and our republic will always be in a
state of compromise by petty Left-wing Deep Staters with
And when CNN hired Clapper, naturally it did not disclose an ax to grind.
that he was believed by some in Congress to have been the
.
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Comey Claims Steele Dossier Was Not
An Essential Part Of Carter Page FISA Applications
[VIDEO]
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:35 PM 04/30/2018
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Mueller Hints At Obstruction
In Trump Questions: Report
By AFP
30 Apr 2018
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John Kelly: Reports I Called Trump An Idiot ‘Total BS’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:45 PM 04/30/2018
187
DOJ OIG Releases Report On Retired FBI Special Agent
Found Involved In Numerous Corrupt Criminal Acts
By Jim Hoft
April 30, 2018, 9:52 Pm
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Here Are The Questions
Robert Mueller Wants To Ask Trump
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:31 PM 04/30/2018
“It is not clear whether Mr. Mueller knows something new, Regarding Flynn, Mueller wants to know what Trump
but there is no publicly available information linking Mr. knew about the retired general’s phone calls with Russian
Manafort, the former campaign chairman, to such ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying
outreach,” The Times noted. to FBI agents about those phone calls, which occurred in
December 2016. He was fired on Feb. 13, 2017 —
Mueller has indicted Manafort on money laundering and purportedly because he lied to Vice President Mike Pence
bank fraud charges related to his work for a Ukrainian about the phone calls.
political party several years before he joined the Trump
campaign in April 2016. Rick Gates, a former Manafort The bulk of Mueller’s questions focus on Comey, and
business partner and Trump campaign aide, is cooperating Trump’s conversations with the ousted FBI director.
with Mueller’s prosecutors as part of a plea deal. Mueller hopes to ask Trump the purpose for several
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meetings he had with Comey during the early days of his Trump’s legal team is reportedly undecided about whether
presidency. Comey wrote memos following those he should sit for an interview with Mueller. John Dowd,
meetings. Trump asked Comey to back off of the who was the top lawyer on the legal squad, reportedly
investigation of Flynn, the former FBI director claimed in opposed an interview. Mueller’s team has reportedly told
a Feb. 14, 2017 memo. Trump’s lawyers he is not a target of the investigation.
That would suggest charges are not expected against
Mueller also wants to find out Trump’s thought process in Trump. But an interview with Mueller could open Trump
deciding to fire Comey. up to perjury charges if he gives false statements.
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What Mueller Wants To Ask Trump
About Obstruction, And What It Means
The Questions Show The Special Counsel’s Focus On Obstruction Of Justice
And Touch On Some Surprising Other Areas.
By Matt Apuzzo And Michael S. Schmidt
April 30, 2018
Questions related to Michael T. Flynn, In January, the Washington Post columnist David Ignatius
the former national security adviser revealed Mr. Flynn’s phone calls with Mr. Kislyak. Mr.
Ignatius questioned whether those conversations had
violated a law prohibiting private citizens from attempting
to undermine American policies. In February, The
Washington Post revealed the true nature of Mr. Flynn’s
conversations with Mr. Kislyak.
Ms. Yates, the acting attorney general for the first weeks
of the Trump administration, twice warned the White
Michael T. Flynn in December 2017.CreditChip Somodevilla/Getty House that Mr. Flynn was lying, and those lies made him
Images North America vulnerable to Russian blackmail. No one from the White
House has ever said how much Mr. Trump knew about
those warnings.
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How was the decision made to fire Mr. Flynn on Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on these conclusions and
Feb. 13, 2017? said he believes the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin,
who denies any interference.
Eighteen days after Ms. Yates’s warning, Mr. Flynn was
asked to resign. The White House said that Mr. Trump lost What was your reaction to Mr. Comey’s briefing
confidence in Mr. Flynn because he had lied. But the that day about other intelligence matters?
White House has never fully explained why, after learning
about the lie, officials waited so long to act. This question addresses documents written by a retired
British spy, Christopher Steele, who said that Russia had
After the resignations, what efforts were made to gathered compromising information on Mr. Trump. The
reach out to Mr. Flynn about seeking immunity or documents, which became known as the Steele Dossier,
possible pardon? also claim that the Trump campaign had ties to the Russian
government. Mr. Comey privately briefed Mr. Trump
The Times recently revealed that, when Mr. Flynn began about these documents.
considering cooperating with the F.B.I., Mr. Trump’s
lawyers floated the idea of a pardon. Mr. Mueller wants to What was the purpose of your Jan. 27, 2017, dinner
know why. with Mr. Comey, and what was said?
CreditBrendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images What did you know about the F.B.I.’s investigation
into Mr. Flynn and Russia in the days leading up to
What was your opinion of Mr. Comey during the Mr. Comey’s testimony on March 20, 2017?
transition?
Mr. Comey’s testimony publicly confirmed that the F.B.I.
The questions about Mr. Comey relate to whether Mr. was investigating members of the Trump campaign for
Trump fired Mr. Comey last year to shield Mr. Flynn, or possible coordination with Russia. Mr. Mueller wants to
anyone else, from prosecution. Mr. Trump has denied that, know what role that revelation played in Mr. Comey’s
saying he fired Mr. Comey because of his mishandling of firing.
the F.B.I.’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server. What did you do in reaction to the March 20
testimony? Describe your contacts with
This question is important because, if Mr. Trump truly was intelligence officials.
upset about the Clinton investigation, he would have
shown an early distaste for Mr. Comey. In the aftermath, The Post reported, Mr. Trump asked the
United States’ top intelligence official, Daniel Coats, to
What did you think about Mr. Comey’s intelligence pressure Mr. Comey to back off his investigation. Mr.
briefing on Jan. 6, 2017, about Russian election Mueller wants to ask Mr. Trump about his contacts with
interference? Mr. Coats as well as the C.I.A.’s director at the time, Mike
Pompeo, and the National Security Agency’s director,
The briefing revealed that American intelligence agencies Michael S. Rogers. The conversations could reflect Mr.
had concluded that Russian operatives meddled in the Trump’s growing frustration with Mr. Comey — not about
election to hurt Mrs. Clinton and to boost Mr. Trump. Mr.
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the Clinton case, but about his refusal to shut down the revealed, Mr. Trump suggested he had fired Mr. Comey
Russia inquiry. because of the pressure from the Russia investigation.
What did you think and do in reaction to the news “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut
that the special counsel was speaking to Mr. job,” Mr. Trump said. “I faced great pressure because of
Rogers, Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Coats? Russia. That’s taken off.”
It is not clear whether Mr. Mueller knows something What did you mean in your interview with Lester
specific about Mr. Trump’s reaction to these interviews, Holt about Mr. Comey and Russia?
but the question shows that Mr. Mueller is keenly
Shortly after firing Mr. Comey, Mr. Trump undercut his
interested in how Mr. Trump responded to each step of his
own argument when he told NBC News that he had been
investigation.
thinking about the Russia investigation when he fired Mr.
Comey.
What was the purpose of your calls to Mr. Comey
on March 30 and April 11, 2017? I was going to fire Comey knowing there was no good
time to do it. And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I
said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with
Mr. Comey said that Mr. Trump called twice to ask him to
Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the
say publicly that he was not under F.B.I. investigation. In
Democrats for having lost an election that they should've
the second call, Mr. Comey said, the president added: “I
won.
have been very loyal to you, very loyal. We had that thing,
you know.”
Mr. Trump unleashed a series of attacks on Mr. Sessions in The Trump Tower meeting was arranged through the
July. Russian singer Emin Agalarov, his billionaire father, Aras
Agalarov, and a music promoter. Mr. Mueller is
scrutinizing the nature of connections between the
Agalarovs, Mr. Trump and Russian officials.
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This is a key question. Mr. Trump praised the release of Mr. Stone, a longtime adviser, claimed to have inside
hacked Democratic emails and called on Russia to find information from WikiLeaks, which published hacked
others. Mr. Mueller’s investigation has unearthed evidence Democratic emails. He appeared to predict future releases,
that at least one member of Mr. Trump’s campaign — and was in touch with a Twitter account used by Russian
George Papadopoulos — was told that Russia had obtained intelligence. This question, along with the next two, show
compromising emails about Mrs. Clinton. But Mr. Trump that Mr. Mueller is still investigating possible campaign
has repeatedly said there was “no collusion” with the cooperation with Russia.
Russian government.
What did you know during the transition about an
attempt to establish back-channel communication
to Russia, and Jared Kushner’s efforts?
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Trump Reportedly Tells Rand Paul
US Getting Out Of Afghanistan
Autumn Price
8:37 AM 05/01/2018
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Nolte – Media Fail: Trump’s
Approval Rating Average Hits Year-Long High
By John Nolte
1 May 2018
To anyone who still believes the establishment media have Bottom line: what Americans want more than anything are
some influence or moral authority over public opinion, this peace and prosperity, and after eight years of the Bush
news probably seems counterintuitive. After all, why wars and eight years of Obama’s hideous economy,
would voters increase their approval of a racist, sexist, Trump’s presidency so far epitomizes peace and
pussy-grabbing, porn star-boinking, serial adulterer who prosperity.
colluded with the Russians to steal the election and who
turned the White House bowling alley into a gallows
where every night after watching Hannity, Trump eats a In the end, that is what voters will judge Trump on. They
bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken while fingering the can see through the smoke of the media lies and the pundit
nuclear button as 11 illegal immigrant children are hysteria, and they are starting to understand that “sources
hanged? tell us” is Greek for “this is fake news.”
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Rush Limbaugh Reveals The REAL Scandal Behind The
White House Correspondent’s Dinner —
And It Isn’t Michelle Wolf
Posted On May 1, 2018
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Trump Takes Aim At Mueller Probe:
‘Can’t Obstruct If There’s No Crime’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:52 AM 05/01/2018
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POTUS Trump Destroys Deep State’s Latest
Leak From Mueller’s Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 11:08 Am
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Comey: Trump ‘Is Actively
Undermining The Rule Of Law’
By Pam Key
1 May 2018
Monday at an event broadcast by CSPAN’s “Book TV,” “I don’t know whether it’s a message. Even
former FBI director James Comey said President Donald if it’s not a message to anybody, it’s an
Trump was attack on the rule of law. It’s really
important that people be prosecuted for
“actively undermining the rule of law.” lying blatantly, which is what that was, in
the criminal justice system. Without that,
the rule of law just melts away.”
When asked about Trump pardoning Scooter Libby,
Comey said,
When asked about preemptive pardons, Comey added,
“I think it’s an attack on the rule of law.
There’s a reason why George W. Bush, for “In this environment where you have a
whom Scooter Libby worked, declined to president who is actively undermining the
pardon him after deep review of all the rule of law and the institutions that we
facts. President Bush concluded that count on—no matter what your political
justice was done. The rule of law system affiliations—we count on as a country to
worked here. As an act of mercy, he uphold this democracy. The routine attacks
commuted his sentence. To now have a on the Justice Department, the FBI, in the
president, 12, 14 years later, say he courts, at least to me, and the quick
deserves to be pardoned with no review condemnation of the FBI for acting like
and no consultation, as best as I can tell, thugs, allegedly, when executing a court-
with the prosecutors and investigators, I ordered search warrant—all of that
can’t think of a sensible reason consistent together along with the president’s habit of
with the rule of law to do that. So I think it is not telling the truth repeatedly tells me it’s a
an attack on the rule of law.” president that might do something like
that.”
He continued,
.
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Mueller’s Former Assistant Says ‘Grammatical Errors’
Prove Trump Leaked Questions To NY Times
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 11:26 Am
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Meghan McCain — Many People Think
The Media Hates ‘The People In The
Middle Of The Country’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
12:03 PM 05/01/2018
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US Claims Of “Russian Meddling”
Exposes Its Own Global Meddling
By Tony Cartalucci
May 1, 2018
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is fully aware that large, corporate-financier interests NED funds such influencing operations in over 100 states
actually determine US policy, is also implausible. globally, from South America to Africa, from Eastern
Europe to East Asia, and everywhere in between.
That accusations against Russia are meant to deflect away
from America’s own growing problems both domestically If what the FBI’s recent indictment against the Internet
and abroad, including its attempts to justify a wider Research Agency constitutes what it calls the “improper
confrontation with Russia itself, is a much more likely foreign influence on U.S. elections and on the U.S.
explanation. political system,” then what the US itself is doing abroad
through organizations like NED is exposed as the US’
US Exposes the Illegitimacy of its Own own, highly-industrialized version of such “improper
Global Meddling foreign influence.”
Should the Russian government have intentionally and Beyond NED, the US government also directly funds and
directly attempted to interfere in US elections or operates other fronts, including NED’s subsidiaries – the
America’s internal political affairs, it would constitute an National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International
attack upon American sovereignty and warrant a vigorous Republican Institute (IRI), and Freedom House – as well
US response. However, nothing of the sort has been as the United States Agency for International Development
established yet, with the US having sought to target Russia (USAID). Together with NED and USAID, the US
with wider sanctions and provocations long before the government works through and coordinates with other,
2016 US elections appeared on the horizon. privately owned intermediaries like George Soros’ Open
Society Foundation.
That the US has attempted to use what it calls “improper
foreign influence on US elections and on the US political Foreign opposition groups working on behalf of US
system” as a pretext for attacking Russia, its media both in interests and funded by the US government are almost
Russia and its US-based networks, its diplomatic mission always jointly funded by Open Society, as well as the
in the United States, as well as the Russian economy governments and local embassies of the United Kingdom
through sanctions, indicates that Washington is more than and European Union members.
aware of how inappropriate it is for one nation to attempt
to interfere with or influence the internal political The recent attempt to accuse Russia of and punish it for
processes of another nation. supposed “meddling” in the US openly illustrates that the
US itself understands the impropriety it is involved in as it
Yet this is precisely what the United States itself has done conducts its own campaign of global meddling on a much
– for decades, openly – around the globe. larger scale. What is perhaps most ironic is that the left-
leaning individuals manning Washington’s global army of
subversive meddlers in targeted nations around the globe
Unlike the FBI’s indictment, which fails to establish any
have eagerly promoted anti-Russian propaganda, including
direct link with the Russian government or define any
specific examples of what could be considered political condemning supposed Russian “meddling,” either
interference – beyond Russian-based media operations – oblivious or indifferent to the fact they themselves are
the US conducts vast efforts to interfere in the elections engaged in reality for decades in what the US has accused
and political processes of nations around the globe. Russia of without evidence over the last year.
Through US government-funded agencies like the National The further the US pushes this politically-motivated public
Endowment for Democracy (NED), operating on an annual relations campaign dressed up as counteracting “improper
budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, the US controls foreign influence” in the US, the easier Washington will
entire opposition parties, opposition groups and so-called make it for the nations it is really targeting around the
globe with very real interference to expose, condemn, and
“activist” organizations inside targeted nations. This also
includes the creation and funding of media organizations – dismantle the networks the US uses to carry out this
not based in the US and commentating on foreign politics interference.
– but operating inside targeted nations, often concealing
their foreign funding from their audiences. Targeted nations can not only cite America’s own efforts
to uproot foreign influence it claims is targeting the US, it
NED also funds lawyers to defend its agents of influence can use the same sort of legal and public relations ploys
when exposed and targeted by the very sort of legal action the US is currently using to attack Russia with to do so.
the FBI claims its recent indictment represents.
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Roger Stone Demands
Correction To House Intel Report
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
12:22 PM 05/01/2018
Republican political operator Roger Stone is demanding a Stone has maintained that his Podesta tweet is in reference
correction to the House Intelligence Committee’s report on to John and Tony Podesta’s lobbying operation.
Russian interference in the 2016 election, a letter from his
attorney provided to The Daily Caller reveals. “What Mr. Stone did know prior to his
Tweet, and what he testified to under oath
Stone’s attorney, Grant Smith, cited page 75 of the house in front of the Committee, was that the
intelligence committee report released Friday which Podesta brothers (John and Tony) had long
incorrectly cites a tweet from Stone during the 2016 term and extensive business interests in
presidential campaign. The report cited the tweet as “Trust Ukraine and with Russian banking and oil,”
me, it will soon Podesta’s time in the barrel. Smith continued. “This knowledge came to
#CrookedHillary.” be known by Mr. Stone through published
news reports and the publicly released
Panama Papers, all of which predated Mr.
Smith’s letter notes that the report omitted the word “the”
Stone’s Tweet.”
before “Podesta’s.”
Final House Report Stone Correction Letter 4.30.18 by
Christian Datoc on Scribd is on next page.
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Bush Intel Officials Defend
Nomination Of Gina Haspel For CIA
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
12:14 PM 05/01/2018
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Mueller Question To Trump On Ukraine Based On
Debunked Conspiracy Theory
By Joel B. Pollak
1 May 2018
One of the question in particular seems based on a faulty The Trump team, doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin,
premise — a conspiracy theory that Trump intervened in gutted the GOP platform’s position on behalf of Russia.
the process of drafting the Republican Party’s 2016
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That is precisely the opposite of what happened. In the some Republicans — from repeating the false charge that
end, the platform, already fairly strong on the Russia- he intervened to water down the position on Russia and
Ukraine issue, was strengthened, not weakened, as a result Ukraine.
of the subcommittee meeting. The Trump campaign agreed
to a platform condemning Kremlin belligerence, calling for It is odd that the Special Counsel, who presumably has
continued, and perhaps increased, sanctions against Russia, access to the Washington Examiner and the underlying
for the full restoration of Ukrainian territory, for refusing facts and witnesses, would taint his inquiry by including a
to accept debunked conspiracy theory among the questions to be put
to the president.
“any territorial change in Eastern Europe
imposed by force, in Ukraine or elsewhere,” The fact that Mueller did so — assuming the Times report
is accurate — lends weight to claim that the investigation
and pledging to aid Ukraine’s armed forces. has become so partisan as to call its credibility into
question.
The fact that the conspiracy theory has been debunked has
not stopped Trump’s opponents — including
.
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Manafort Lawyers Say Special Counsel
Unable To Produce Evidence Of Russia Contacts
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:28 PM 05/01/2018
The special counsel’s office has said it does not They wrote that the special counsel’s office, which is
have evidence of any contacts between Paul being led by Robert Mueller, “has not produced any
Manafort and Russian government and intelligence materials to the defense — no tapes, notes, transcripts or
officials other material evidencing surveillance or intercepts of
Manafort is a longtime political consultant who has communications between Mr. Manafort and Russian
been indicted on money laundering and bank fraud intelligence officials, Russian government officials (or any
charges other foreign officials.)”
The former Trump campaign chairman laundered
millions of dollars and failed to properly register as “The Office of Special Counsel has advised
a foreign agent, prosecutors say there are no materials responsive to Mr.
Manafort’s requests,” they add.
The special counsel’s office has told lawyers for Paul
Manafort that it does not have evidence of any contacts The lawyers assert that
between the former Trump campaign chairman and
Russian government and intelligence officials. “the natural implication of this is that these
government leaks were intentionally
That’s at least according to Manafort’s attorneys, who designed to create a false narrative in order
disclosed details of the interactions in court papers filed on to garner support for the appointment of a
Monday night. Special Counsel to investigate Mr.
Manafort for purportedly coordinating with
The lawyers say they want a hearing to look government Russian intelligence/government officials
officials’ leaks to the media regarding Manafort, a despite the lack of any such evidence.”
longtime political consultant who has been indicted on “If this proves to be true, then Mr. Manafort
money laundering and bank fraud charges. should not have been referred to the
Special Counsel for investigation of
“By their actions, it is self-evident that the coordination with the Russian government,
objective of these government sources was nor for any other matters,” they wrote.
to create unfair prejudice against Mr.
Manafort and thereby deprive him of his The special counsel’s office declined comment in response
Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights,” wrote to Manafort’s filing.
Manafort lawyers Kevin M. Downing and
Thomas E. Zehnle.
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The indictments against Manafort center on work he did The question raises the possibility that Mueller’s team has
through 2014 for former Ukrainian President Viktor information about Manafort that has yet to be made public.
Yanukovych. Manafort laundered millions of dollars in
payments for the Ukraine work and failed to properly Manafort’s relationship with Russian oligarch Oleg
register as a foreign agent, prosecutors say. Deripaska could be one avenue for any campaign
collusion, if it occurred. Manafort sent emails to a
Manafort was investigated in 2014 for the Ukraine work, Ukrainian business associate during the campaign saying
but the Obama Justice Department declined to press that he would be willing to provide briefings on the
charges. campaign to Deripaska, an ally of Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
Mueller and his team of prosecutors have yet to make any
allegations against Manafort regarding his work on the Manafort’s camp says that the briefing never happened.
Trump campaign. There has been some speculation that Campaign emails also show that Manafort rejected offers
the investigation is moving in that direction. from Trump adviser George Papadopoulos to set up
meetings with Russian government officials.
Rick Gates, a former Manafort business partner and Trump
campaign aide, is cooperating with Mueller’s team as part Manafort’s team has strongly denied that he coordinated or
of a plea deal. Manafort is also mentioned in one of the 48 conspired with Russians to influence the election.
questions that Mueller wants to ask in a prospective
interview with President Donald Trump regarding possible “Paul Manafort did not collude with the
collusion with Russia. Russian government to undermine the
2016 election or to hack the DNC,” Jason
“What knowledge did you have of any Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, told
outreach by your campaign, including by reporters in August 2017.
Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential
assistance to the campaign?” reads one of
the questions.
.
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CNN Legal Analyst Calls
Stormy Daniels Defamation Lawsuit
A 'Publicity Stunt'
By P.J. Gladnick
May 1, 2018 1:55 PM EDT
Tension rose to the red hot level on the set of CNN's -- why filed this defamation suit and how you -- how the president
AC360 on Monday when CNN legal analyst Paul Callan defamed Stormy Daniels with that tweet.
condemned the defamation lawsuit of Stormy Daniels
against President Donald Trump as a "publicity stunt." MICHAEL AVENATTI: Well, Anderson, we made it known in the
Sitting right next to Callan was Daniels' lawyer, Michael day after the president sending this tweet that we were going to
Avenatti, who went absolutely ballistic over finally being bring this case. We were considering whether to bring it in Los
challenged in one of his countless interviews on CNN (or Angeles, in connection with the other lawsuit or a separate
MSNBC). lawsuit. We decided to file it here. You know, we believe
effectively that the president called my client a liar...
Although CNN has been spending quite a bit of time
hyping the Stormy Daniels banana, the occasional COOPER: By saying it's a con job?
contrarian Callan calmly obliterated their narrative on this
occasion with a hard legal apple. Another prominent AVENATTI: That by saying it's a con job, and effectively accused
example of Callan going against the CNN anti-Trump her of committing a crime, in that it's -- she maintains that she
grain was his December 30 column, Trump is right about was assaulted by the side of her car, difference between assault
the FBI. and battery, but she was assaulted at the side of her car, and she
identified this individual by way of this sketch, which took a
The video of the encounter between the lawyers at times considerable amount of time to prepare and publish. And we
looked more like Avenatti was about to pull a Zell Miller want to hold the president accountable for his statement.
and challenge Callan to a duel to a duel than a legal
discussion (click "expand" below the video to see more) COOPER: Paul, I mean, reading the case file, is this a provable
case of defamation? Because defamation against a public figure,
it's a higher bar than it is against somebody who's not, right?
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AVENATTI: I think it probably will be hard to prove, Anderson. CALLAN: Well, it's nice to be able to walk directly into the
But two points, I mean, first of all, I've been proven hard cases studio in New York.
my entire career and I'm confident in this one. And secondly, if
the president continues to do what he's done over the last seven Publicity hound venues should at least be conveniently
weeks, he's going to probably take a lot of steps to help us along accessed. And now the tension is about to boil over with Avenatti
the way. I mean, he's going to probably be the second best going apoplectic that someone would suggest that he was offline:
attorney for us on the case, and I'm confident that he's going to
help us.
AVENATTI: So, I'm confident that we're going to be able to put --
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President Trump Recognizes Army Lieutenant General —
Stops Speech To Thank Him
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
2:08 PM 05/01/2018
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Obviously written by a brainwashed idiot!
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Reporter Asks If It’s ‘Insensitive’ For Trump To Speak At
The NRA — Sarah Sanders Responds
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
3:33 PM 05/01/2018
A reporter asked White House press secretary Sarah “There are a lot of Americans who say this
Sanders on Tuesday if it’s “insensitive” for President is an insensitive time to be speaking to the
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to speak at the NRA given the epidemic of gun violence
National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting. which the president himself has talked
about,” he said.
Sanders didn’t even bat an eye when she answered this “What’s the administration’s response to
silly question. that? Why make the decision to speak at
the NRA now, as the president said before
WATCH: a lot of presidents have not spoken before
the NRA at the convention?”
“Certainly as we’ve indicated on many
occasions, safety is a big priority. Security
is a big priority for the administration,”
Sanders said.
“But we also support the Second
Amendment, and strongly support it,
and don’t see there to be a problem with
speaking at the National Rifle
Association’s meeting,” she added.
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Sarah Sanders Shoots
Down Question About Adam Schiff
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
3:36 PM 05/01/2018
WATCH:
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CNN Analyst Asks Sarah Sanders
What’s Potentially The Dumbest Question In WH History
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
3:57 PM 05/01/2018
Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban “millions of Americans came out and voted
Radio Networks and a CNN political analyst, first asked a for and continue to support this presidency
perfectly legitimate question about the recent Waffle makes him pretty legitimate.”
House shooting, namely if the administration had reached
out to hero James Shaw Jr. about visiting the White House
and so that his selfless action could be honored by
President Trump. Sanders responded that they had reached
out to Shaw.
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GOP Lawmakers Draft Articles Of Impeachment
Against Rod Rosenstein As “Last Resort”
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 4:43 Pm
Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted Chairman Nunes previously threatened
articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein with contempt charges in order
Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special to receive the 2-page “Electronic
counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over Communication” document.
the federal investigation into Russian interference in the Legal analyst for Fox News, Gregg
2016 election. Jarrett recently unleashed on Mueller
and Rosenstein, calling for both to
Meadows acknowledged the draft in an interview Monday, resign after they ‘colluded to break the
calling the one-page document “a last resort option, if the law.’
Department of Justice fails to respond” to his requests for
more information.
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Rod Rosenstein Hits Back At
Impeachment Threats [VIDEO]
Chuck Ross - Reporter
3:46 PM 05/01/2018
WATCH: Rod Rosenstein responds to impeachment “I just don’t have anything to say about
threats documents like that that nobody has the
courage to put their name on and that they
leak in that way,” Rosenstein said Tuesday
of the House Freedom Caucus.
“There have been people that have been
making threats privately and publicly
against me for quite some time, and I think
they should understand by now the
Department of Justice is not going to be
extorted,” he said.
“Any kind of threats that anybody makes
are not going to affect the way we do our
job,” added Rosenstein.
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Dirty Cop Mueller Requests Michael Flynn
Sentencing Be Delayed Two Months
By Jim Hoft
May 1, 2018, 4:56 Pm
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Congress Wants Details Of
Comey Friend’s Handling Of Trump Memos
Chuck Ross - Reporter
5:14 PM 05/01/2018
FILE PHOTO: Then-FBI Director James Comey testifies before the The leaked memo was from Comey’s Feb. 14, 2017 White
House Intelligence Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling
in the 2016 U.S. election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March
House conversation with Trump regarding former national
20, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey claimed that
Trump asked him to back off of an investigation of Flynn.
The chairmen of two House committees are asking the
Justice Department for records related to Daniel Richman, Details of Comey’s memo have trickled out slowly over
the FBI “special government employee” who handled the past year despite heavy pressure from Congress to
former FBI Director James Comey’s memos of make them public. The Justice Department released the
conversations he had with President Donald Trump. documents on April 20, following subpoenas issued by
Goodlatte, Gowdy and California Rep. Devin Nunes, a
Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte and South Carolina Rep. Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
Trey Gowdy, the GOP chairmen of the House Judiciary
and House Oversight and Government Reform In their new letter, Goodlatte and Gowdy are asking for
Committees, are asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions details about who all received Comey’s memos.
and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for
Richman’s work records as well as information regarding They want to know the timeline of Richman’s work as a
his security clearance. contractor, consultant or employee of the FBI as well as
any of his job titles. Congressional sources have told The
Comey gave Richman four memos that he wrote after his Daily Caller News Foundation that Richman enjoyed open
meetings and conversations with Trump. Two of the access to the FBI’s offices during Comey’s tenure.
documents contain classified information. Comey redacted
classified portions of one of the memos before giving it to Comey told Fox News’ Bret Baier in an interview on April
Richman. The Justice Department recently determined that 26 that Richman began serving as his attorney after he was
another one of the memos contained classified information fired from the FBI.
that Comey did not redact.
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AP Fact Check Hits Trump,
Not Tester On False Ronny Jackson Charges
By Tim Graham
May 1, 2018 5:34 PM EDT
THE FACTS:
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But Trump remained the fact-check target: Likewise, PolitiFact has zero fact checks on Sen. Tester,
who was elected in 2006.
"As to Trump’s claim that the Secret
Service 'checked out all of those things' We have rated this "fact-check" by AP Fact Check as Kind
and said they were untrue, it’s not clear if of True. The facts aren't incorrect, but they are stacked to
he was referring to the full allegations or defend Adm. Jackson's detractors. For similar analyses,
just the purported car crash." please visit our Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers site.
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WATCH: Trump Responds To Suggestion
That He Should Get The Nobel Peace Prize
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
5:36 PM 05/01/2018
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BREAKING: Mueller Warns
He May Subpoena President Trump
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 7:22 Pm
The Washington Post is reporting Mueller raised the And the questions go on and on about Trump’s transition
prospect of presidential subpoena in a recent meeting with and early months of his presidency.
Trump’s legal team.
This is a total witch hunt. There is no underlying crime to
In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, even justify a special counsel investigation.
President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to
talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s Where the hell is AG Sessions??
interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Where are the Republicans??
But special counsel Robert S. Mueller III responded that
he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a
.
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Sure, Trump SHOULD Sit Down With Special Counsel
Mueller, But Only Under THESE Conditions
Posted On May 1, 2018
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‘Extortion’ Rosenstein Freaks After GOP Lawmakers
Draft Articles Of Impeachment – Rep. Mark
Meadows Hits Back Harder
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 8:09 Pm
As previously reported, Freedom makes are not going to affect the way we
Caucus Chairman, Mark Meadows do our job.”
drafted “articles of impeachment”
against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rep. Mark Meadows wasted no time and hit back harder
Rosenstein as a “last resort” this week. with a statement on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Rosenstein freaked and referred to the Meadows called Rosenstein’s response to the draft articles
impeachment threat as “extortion.” of impeachment
Rep. Meadows was not fazed by Rosenstein and hit back “a lot of rhetoric with little facts.”
harder.
Rep Meadows then blasted Rosenstein for not producing
any of the FISA abuse documents requested in a timely
manner, embarrassing the Justice Department.
Rosenstein called the draft articles of impeachment The articles of impeachment would be referred to the
“extortion” while speaking at the Newseum’s Law Day House Judiciary Committee where lawmakers clash over
event: the idea of impeaching Rosenstein.
“There have been people who have been Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle argue the removal of
making threats privately and publicly Rosenstein is a direct attack on Mueller’s probe being that
against me for quite sometime and I think Rosenstein drafted the special counsel’s jurisdiction.
they should understand the Justice
Department is not going to be extorted. We Rosenstein is blatantly ignoring the various Congressional
are going to do what is required by the rule committees that have oversight over the DOJ. He should
of law and any kind of threats anybody be thrown out and investigated along with Mueller.
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The only person who is threatening and intimidating Gregg Jarrett: I can tell you a congressional source tells
people is Rosenstein. me that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago
threatened Chairman Nunes and members of Congress he
According to attorney Gregg Jarrett, Rosenstein threatened was going to subpoena their texts and messages because he
Chairman Nunes and members of Congress in January: was tired of dealing with the intel committee. That’s
threats and intimidation.
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Kathy Griffin Goes On PROFANE
Anti-Trump Rant: ‘F— Him! I’m Not Holding Back!’
Mac Slavo
May 1st, 2018
“Yeah, I take the apology back,” she told Griffin added that while she doesn’t mean to disrespect the
the hosts of The View. “F— him. And Don presidency, she believes Trump is different from previous
Jr. and Eric, or as I call them Eddie presidents in office. She also added that it was “OK” for
Munster and Date Rape. I’m not holding some to portray Barack Obama lynched and post it all over
back on this family. This president is Facebook. She must be delusional because it’s difficult to
different and I have been through the mill find anyone who thought that was “OK” and acceptable
and so now I’m back on the road. I sold out imagery.
Carnegie Hall in less than 24 hours.”
* Please be aware that although the “You know, I was doing stand-up for so
profane language is censored in the video long, there was a time in the Bill Clinton
below, it may not be suitable for those at days you could make fun of that Monica
work. However, the video is entertaining if [Lewinsky] dress all day long and nobody
you’d like to see Griffin act like a grotesque thought you were a terrorist,” she said. “But
lunatic for almost eight minutes straight. now, like, you said things have gotten not
“I’ve performed in Iraq and Afghanistan,” only politically incorrect but this
she explained. “Two places Trump has administration and learned it firsthand
never been and can’t find on a map. Of because I got a call the next day from the
course with my connection with the military Department of Justice and I was under a
I thought of literally Daniel Pearl’s mother two-month federal investigation for
and so I thought, OK, obviously not very conspiracy to assassinate the president
many people literally witnessed that of the United States. F– him!”
horrendous event, but when I thought of
her I thought, OK, apologize,” she said,
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“I don’t blame the theater owners,” she said When asked if she went too far, Griffin said she didn’t.
about her canceled events due to bomb
threats. “Because they’re used to doing “I didn’t commit a crime,” Griffin said at the
‘Mamma Mia’ or ‘Stomp’ and all of a time. “I didn’t rape anybody. I didn’t assault
sudden it’s ‘I’m going to bomb Kathy Griffin anybody. I didn’t get a DUI. I mean, my
in her va—-.'” Griffin’s mic was then cut off God, there are celebrities that f—ing kill
as she pointed down. “They were very people.”
specific,” she said, smiling.
.
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Clinton Fixer’s ‘Second Dossier’
Was Met With Skepticism
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:32 PM 05/01/2018
Shearer wrote that his FSB source said that the spy agency
knew of Trump’s predilection for women and used it
against him.
Jonathan Winer/YouTube
“From observing Trump for years in previous visits to
Moscow, the FSB knew he had a weakness for women,”
reads the Shearer memo, according to Real Clear According to Shearer, Ross said that he would report on
Investigations. the story if he would “fly to Moscow to tape and air for
broadcast,” which he would do if he could find a “talking
head source” to back up Shearer’s claims. While Ross did
Trump was also aware that the Kremlin had compromising
not secure the explosive interview he sought, he
material on him.
did interview Sergei Millian, a Belarus-born businessman
who is alleged to be “Source D,” the dossier’s main source
Copies of the video were in Bulgaria, Israel and in vaults for the Moscow hotel room allegation.
in Moscow, Shearer’s source said.
The recent book “Russian Roulette” suggests that Ross
Shearer’s memos wove a twisted path to the FBI, with learned about Millian from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn
Blumenthal being the initial conduit. Simpson. Simpson hired Steele in June 2016 to investigate
Trump’s activities in Russia.
In Summer 2016, Blumenthal shared Shearer’s documents
with a friend, a State Department official named Jonathan “For Simpson, Millian was now an
Winer. At the time, he was serving as special envoy to investigative target. He tipped off ABC
Libya, provided the Shearer reports to Steele, who he had News, which conducted an on-air interview
known since 2009. with Millian, in which he said Trump ‘likes
Russia, because he likes beautiful ladies —
Steele gave the Shearer reports to the FBI. The London- talking to them, of course,'” write Michael
based Steele first contacted the bureau in July 2016 to Isikoff and David Corn, the authors of
share his information on Trump. He continued meeting “Russian Roulette.” Corn is the Washington
with investigators through that October.
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bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones Shearer claimed in his memo that Cullison told him that
magazine. the DNC was paying Fusion GPS to corroborate the story
about Trump’s Moscow visit.
Millian’s alleged involvement as a source for the dossier
has raised questions about the veracity of the document. The Journal has denied that Cullison knew who hired
Former business associates of Millian have claimed that he Fusion GPS. But as Lee Smith notes in his report at Real
has embellished his business achievements and Clear Investigations, even if Cullison did not know that the
connections. According to “Russian Roulette,” Fusion DNC had hired Fusion GPS, Shearer clearly had that
GPS’s Simpson was concerned that Millian was a source information.
for Steele.
It remains unclear how Shearer knew that the DNC was
“Simpson had his doubts. He considered involved with Fusion GPS and how he happened to speak
Millian a big talker,” the book reads. with two reporters who were in contact with the opposition
research firm.
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Rep. Meadows Blasts Rosenstein
Over ‘Extortion’ Remark
John Wynne
May 2, 2018
“The Deputy Attorney General’s response President Trump referenced the controversy in a tweet this
to the draft articles of impeachment is morning:
reminiscent of our interactions with him
over the past few months:
A lot of rhetoric with little facts,” Meadows
said.
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Trump: Obstruction Of Justice
Allegations Are ‘Set Up And A Trap’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:52 AM 05/02/2018
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REPORT: After A Year In Office Trump Out Performs
Obama In EVERY ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 9:39 Am
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President Obama on the other hand
again moved in the opposite direction.
Jobs
In Summary
Overall based on the above data it is
clear that President Trump is doing a
solid, if not excellent job.
Unemployment The mainstream liberal media won’t
report this, but when looking at the
economy, President Trump the
Also according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics President
businessman crushes the former
Trump decreased unemployment to its current level of
community organizer Barack Obama in
4.1%. The unemployment rate in January 2017 was 4.8%
every meaningful measurement.
and it has reached a low of 4.1% for the last six months in
a row.
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Trump Hints Mueller Questions
May Be ‘Intrusion’ Of His Presidential Powers
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:56 AM 05/02/2018
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ONCE AGAIN… Where The Hell Are GOP Leaders As
Mueller’s Stalinist Witch Hunt Moves
To Take Down Trump?
By Jim Hoft
May 1, 2018, 10:18 Pm
This was all a witch hunt to take down It’s clear who the GOP elites stand with
President Trump. — and it’s NOT the American people.
Just like Joseph Stalin’s regime.
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Joe Digenova: ‘If Mueller Issues Subpoena For An
Interview With Trump We Are Headed To A
Constitutional Crisis’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 1, 2018, 10:31 Pm
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova told spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the
Fox News host Laura Ingraham Tuesday president’s lead lawyer.
evening that if Mueller issues Trump a
subpoena we are headed to a Mueller is out of control.
Constitutional crisis.
We’re already there… Mueller wants to ask Trump over 40 questions and none of
them are about ‘Russian collusion.’
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Katy Tur Confesses: I'm Not Sure
There's Any Smoking Gun Of Collusion
By Tim Graham
May 2, 2018 7:02 AM EDT
Matt Vespa at Townhall reports MSNBC host Katy Tur Tur said
expressed doubt about whether Robert Mueller is going to
find collusion in his investigation of the Trump campaign's "The question is not what he finds, but how
associations with Russians. In an Australian interview, her damning does it need to be to convince
questioner brought up "the holy writ of the Mueller five, ten percent of the hard-rock 30
investigation" [!] and that "a lot of people are hoping it percent of Americans who believe in
will lead to an indictment" (of Trump). Donald Trump and who think the Mueller
investigation is a bunch of BS that it's real
First, he mentioned the possibility of Oprah running and that it matters. And until we can get to
against Trump in 2020, and Tur gave a small digression a point where we can chip off that
into how Democrats need to figure out if they need a certain 'I'm going to believe in you no
scrappy Joe Biden to get down into the mud with Trump or matter what happens, we're gonna be in a
an unemotional policy wonk who takes the high road. rough situation. I just don't know how it
ends."
"As for the Mueller investigation," she then
declared, "As an American, as a citizen, I Don't miss the royal "We" in "we can chip off" Trump's
am fascinated to know what he finds. I’m supporters. This is exactly how the liberal media elite is
not so sure that he’s going to find this functioning. It's their mission to end the "rough situation"
smoking gun of coordination or of Trump being in power.
collusion. Then again, I wouldn’t be
surprised if he did."
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One A Day: CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer Michael
Avenatti 59 Times In Less Than Two Months
By Bill D'Agostino
May 2, 2018 9:05 AM EDT
CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, Here’s another statistic that should put CNN’s interest in
particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti into perspective:
Avenatti. In less than two months (from March 7 to April
30), Avenatti has been a guest on CNN a total of 59 times
From March 7 to April 30, all 51 Republican
– an average of more than once per day.
Senators combined received just 34
interviews on the cable network.
MRC analysts combed through transcripts of all of CNN’s
2018 coverage looking for references to interviews with
Though CNN has eagerly hosted Avenatti at seemingly
Avenatti, and then double-checked using our video
every opportunity, some at the network have commented
archive. Since Avenatti’s first appearance on March 7, he
on his inordinate on-air presence. On April 6, New Day
has been interviewed on CNN a whopping 59 times, more
stand-in host David Gregory elicited a laugh from his
than one-third of which (19) were with Anderson Cooper
fellow panelists when he sarcastically referred to “rare
— who, of course, interviewed Stormy Daniels on CBS’s
public comments from Michael Avenatti.” And on April
60 Minutes back in March.
30, CNN legal analyst Paul Callan characterized the
lawyer’s most recent lawsuit against the President as “a
By comparison, CNN hosted House Democrat Adam publicity stunt” during yet another appearance by Avenatti
Schiff (CA) – who had been a favorite of the network – ten on Cooper’s show.
times during the months of March and April. That would
be a generous portion of airtime for any politician, but it
Despite these remarks by Gregory and Callan, it remains to
was barely one-sixth the exposure granted to a lawyer
be seen whether CNN will ratchet back the absurd amount
overwhelmingly known for representing a porn star.
of coverage they have given Avenatti. But if their current
pace of 1.09 interviews per day (including weekends)
Unfortunately for the Congressman, CNN’s interest in continues for the rest of the year, the network will have
Schiff was noticeably higher before Avenatti showed up. bombarded viewers with a total of 327 Avenatti
In January and February, the Trump-bashing Democrat appearances for all of 2018.
was interviewed a total of 17 times; in March and April,
that fell to just ten times, a decline of roughly 40%.
Stay tuned.
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Nets Dismiss Netanyahu’s
Iran Presentation: ‘No Smoking Gun’
By Kyle Drennen
May 2, 2018 9:44 AM EDT
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows worked to arguably the most momentous decision
discredit and dismiss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin since he took office.
Netanyahu’s Monday presentation detailing Iran’s
deception about its nuclear weapons program prior to the On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host George
2015 international deal to prevent that program’s progress. Stephanopoulos announced: “Israeli Prime Minister
While secret Iranian files obtained by Israel clearly Benjamin Netanyahu now has revealed documents which
demonstrated that the authoritarian regime lacked any he says are proof that Iran lied about pursuing nuclear
credibility on the issue, anchors and correspondents made weapons. That’s just days before President Trump’s
Netanyahu the target instead. deadline to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.”
Reporting for NBC’s Today show, Chief Foreign Affairs Chief Global Affairs Anchor Martha Raddatz downplayed
Correspondent Andrea Mitchell threw cold water on the the findings:
revelations:
“But the documents predate the Iran
“Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu nuclear deal of 2015. In fact, the White
documenting Iran’s past nuclear House quietly corrected a statement last
program and claiming Iran remains a night saying the documents show the
nuclear threat....Evidence he says that Iranians ‘had’ a clandestine nuclear
Iran once was trying to build a nuclear program instead of ‘have’ such a program.”
weapon....But no smoking gun that Iran
still has a nuclear weapons program Stephanopoulos reiterated:
today.”
“Right, but it does – as you point out, it
does not show that Iran is violating the
deal right now.”
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been signed, and he did not present any Correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the very latest. Andrea, good
evidence that Iran had violated it.” morning.
She later highlighted: ANDREA MITCHELL: Good morning, Hoda. Israel’s Prime
Minister Netanyahu documenting Iran’s past nuclear program
“This morning, the IAEA, which is the and claiming Iran remains a nuclear threat. And doing it in
U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, said they had, English for an audience of one, President Trump, who is
quote, ‘No credible indications of activities reportedly leaning toward withdrawing from the nuclear deal as
in Iran relevant to the development of a soon as next week.
nuclear explosive device after 2009.’”
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump to Abandon Iran Deal?; Battle
Brennan added, Over Nuke Program as Israel Accuses Tehran of “Lies”]
“In other words, we already knew this.” President Trump today closing in on whether to withdraw from
the Iran nuclear deal, as Israel’s prime minister, Netanyahu,
makes a dramatic case against it. Showing off copies of
Co-host John Dickerson fretted:
thousands of documents and disks.
“And given the fact that policy makers base
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: 183 disks.
their policy on the idea that Iran was lying.
Who was this for? Was this an audience of
one, in Donald Trump? And was it to MITCHELL: Reportedly stolen by Israeli spies from a warehouse
convince him give him backing for what he in Tehran. Evidence he says that Iran once was trying to build a
might do?” nuclear weapon.
Brennan replied: NETANYAHU: The nuclear deal is based on lies. It’s based on
Iranian lies and Iranian deception. 100,000 files right here prove
that they lied.
“It was an all-English presentation, it was
multimedia. It appealed to many of the
things that the President likes in these
presentations. And he used TV clips, as
well. So it spoke to the President’s
language...”
Here is a full transcript of Mitchell’s May 1 report on MITCHELL: Echoing his newly-minted secretary of state, with
NBC’s Today show: Netanyahu in Tel Aviv two days ago.
7:12 AM ET MIKE POMPEO: President Trump’s been pretty clear, this deal is
very flawed. He’s directed the administration to try and fix it. And
if we can't fix it, he is going to withdraw from the deal.
HODA KOTB: We have a lot more to get to this morning,
including new claims that Iran has lied about the nuclear
weapons. As President Trump faces a deadline to decide the fate
of the Iran nuclear deal. NBC’s Chief Foreign Affairs
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MITCHELL: Even though Mike Pompeo only weeks ago, then still TRUMP: We got nothing. We got nothing. So that doesn’t mean I
CIA Director, acknowledged Iran is adhering to the nuclear wouldn’t negotiate a new agreement, we’ll see what happens.
agreement.
MITCHELL: Israeli officials say that Netanyahu did brief the
POMPEO: With the information I have been provided, I have no – President on this intelligence back in March, when he was in D.C.
I’ve seen no evidence they are not in compliance today. He provided no evidence yesterday that Iran has cheated on the
Iran deal, but his theatrical presentation is timed to dominate the
MITCHELL: But Netanyahu is trying to counteract a parade of debate this week as President Trump is about to make arguably
European leaders trying to save the deal. Macron of France, the most momentous decision since he took office. Savannah
Merkel of Germany, and May of Great Britain on the phone. The and Hoda?
President, so far, not swayed.
KOTB: Alright, Andrea Mitchell, thanks.
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TRUMP Unloads On Deep State Mueller
In Epic Wednesday Tweet Storm
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 10:39 Am
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Can Mueller Subpoena The President?
Derek Hunter - Contributor
10:48 AM 05/02/2018
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Mueller’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Probe Has Now
Risen To The Level Of A National Security Threat
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On May 2, 2018
The second is an analytical piece by The Associated Press Which brings me back to Mueller and his quest to question
assessing the potential meaning of a series of leaked the president.
questions that Mueller ostensibly wants to ask the
president during a sit-down, notably whether Trump During that early March meeting, the story linked above
“obstructed justice” when he fired FBI Director James claims, Mueller responded to the Trump legal team’s claim
Comey and whether Trump “colluded” with Russia to that the president had no obligation to talk to Mueller with
“steal the election” from Hillary. a threat: The special counsel may resort to issuing a
subpoena requiring our sitting president to appear before
Let’s unpack the second report first. the grand jury for questions under oath.
As to the charge of obstruction: That drew the ire of Trump’s lead attorney at the time,
John Dowd.
Until this president, firing Executive Branch
employees like FBI directors was a fully- “This isn’t some game,” Dowd said,
recognized and unchallenged presidential according to two people with knowledge of
authority. Such firings were not always his comments. “You are screwing with the
universally approved of by various political work of the president of the United States.”
factions, but no one questioned the
president’s lawful authority to do so. Let me be as clear as I can be:
Suddenly, because it’s Trump — and
because it was one of Mueller’s best Dowd is exactly right.
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This pretend investigation, where there is but one objective There are a few Republican lawmakers in Congress who
— to undermine and potentially remove a duly-elected, are attempting to cover Trump’s back with a threat to
sitting president — has reached the level of a national impeach Rosenstein, but they are too few and thus, the
security threat. threat is empty.
President Trump is on the precipice of settling one of the So the question remains:
thorniest, most dangerous situations in modern times —
North Korea — and in the process not only ending a 65- If Mueller does subpoena the president,
year state of technical war but also a rising nuclear threat what should Trump do? What can he do?
against U.S. allies in the region and the American people.
He can invoke Executive Privilege, which is not in the
At the same time, Trump must deal with two near-peer Constitution, but which has been invoked by many
revisionist powers — Russia and China — while presidents including George Washington. Trump could
attempting to contain a third regional revisionist power make a national security claim as his reason for invoking
with nuclear ambitions in the Middle East — Iran. the privilege, and some of his aides have already declined
to answer categories of questions in appearances before
And these are just the most visible national security issues congressional committees in the premise that Trump may,
and threats to our country. As president, you can bet that at some point, invoke it formally.
Trump is aware of far more threats than you and I because
he has access, daily, to all the threat information being That could lead to a legal challenge from Mueller, which
tracked by our intelligence community. — in this environment — is likely given the purpose of
this “probe,” which is entirely political.
For this reason alone, Mueller has no legal right to
subpoena Trump. But then Mueller may be forced to reveal more than he
cares to in court while arguing against Trump’s claim of
The problem is, Trump doesn’t seem to have any support executive privilege. And at that point, the president’s
in the places he needs it most. The Justice Department is lawyers may even produce findings that prove this entire
led by a man Trump trusted to be his attorney general, but investigation is based on a lie.
who has willingly taken himself out of the loop regarding
anything relating to Russia. Jeff Sessions is perhaps the That may be the president’s best legal option because he
biggest error that Trump has made thus far in his doesn’t have enough friends in high places to help him.
appointments.
What is clear is that this investigation is dangerously
The deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, is complicit in the distracting to our president at a time when we need him to
scandal; he has signed off on Foreign Intelligence be fully focused on the very real threats to our country.
Surveillance Court requests to spy on Trump and Trump
campaign figures based on the “dossier” everyone knows is Fake investigations should never outweigh real-world
phony. Plus, Rosenstein just signed off on an FBI raid of challenges.
Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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Trump Threatens To Force DOJ
To Hand Over Unredacted Docs To Congress
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:13 AM 05/02/2018
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White House Looking To Roll Back
$25 Billion From Massive Spending Bill
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
11:27 AM 05/02/2018
President Donald Trump’s administration is going to roll A recision package would make its way from the White
out a recision package in the coming weeks that will roll House to the House and Senate appropriations committees,
back $25 billion from the $1.3 trillion spending bill where lawmakers would have up to 25 days to amend,
Congress passed in April, a source with first-hand approve or shoot down the president’s proposal.
knowledge told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
If lawmakers on the respective appropriation committees
“I will never sign another bill like this again. fail to do something within the 25 day timeframe, the
I’m not going to do it again. Nobody read it. package would likely make its way out of committee,
It’s only hours old. Some people don’t even where the full House and Senate bodies would have the
know what is in it. $1.3 trillion dollars–it is opportunity to act.
the second largest ever,” the president said
in late March when he signed the House and Senate lawmakers would have 45 days to
Republicans’ spending bill. consider the recision package. If they disprove of the
president’s proposal, the White House would then be
The White House was expected to release a recision forced release the withheld funds to the federal agencies.
package — a request to rescind funds Congress previously
appropriated — Tuesday, but that did not materialize. The The package would fail if either appropriations committee
administration was reportedly looking at rolling back or the House or Senate bodies shoot it down. The one
between $30 and $60 billion from the $1.3 trillion potential caveat working in the president’s favor is that
spending bill. lawmakers can approve the package with a simple-
majority vote.
Trump proposed a 2018 budget that was, notably, $114
billion less in domestic spending than what Congress
passed in March. The president has since expressed
.
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Trump Aide GOES OFF On Senate Intel Committee Over
Russia Witch Hunt “God Damn You To Hell”
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 11:47 Am
Michael Caputo, a former campaign aide with Russia are costing my family a great
to President Trump unloaded on the deal of money — more than $125,000 —
Senate Intel Committee Tuesday over and making a visceral impact on my
their Russia witch hunt in a blistering children.”
statement.
“I want to know who cost us so much Michael Caputo pointed the finger at the Senate Intel
money, who crushed our kids, who forced Dems such as Mark Warner and Dianne Feinstein who are
us out of our home, all because you lost an either directly or indirectly involved perpetuating the
election. I want to know because God Trump-Russia hoax.
Damn you to Hell,” Caputo said to
Democrat snakes on Tuesday. ‘Here’s how I know: how many of you know
Daniel Jones, former Senate Intelligence
staffer for Senator Dianne Feinstein? Great
guy, right? Most of you worked with him.
One of you probably just talked to him this
morning.
‘Of course, very few of us in flyover country
knew Daniel until recently. Now we know
that he quit his job with your Senate
committee not long ago to raise $50 million
from ten rich Democrats to finance more
work on the Fusion GPS Russian dossier.
The one the FBI used to get a FISA
warrant and intimidate President Donald
Michael Caputo is outraged over the Russia witch hunt Trump, without anyone admitting — until
which has cost him over $125,000 in legal fees, forcing months after it was deployed — that it was
him to uproot his family. paid for by Hillary Clinton.
‘In fact, good old Dan has been raising and
The Deep State is pure evil; they are destroying everyone spending millions to confirm the
in Trump’s inner circle with outrageous legal fees and unconfirmable – and, of course, to keep all
threats of prison all because Hillary Clinton lost the his old intel colleagues up-to-speed on
election. what Fusion GPS and British and Russian
spies have found. Got to keep that Russia
The Washington Examiner reported: story in the news.
‘Of course Dan’s in touch with you guys.
In Caputo’s closing statement obtained by We know from the news that he’s been
the Washington Examiner, he said the briefing Senator Mark Warner, vice
panel’s investigation “forced” his family out chairman of this committee. Which one of
of their home and “crushed” his children you works for Senator Warner? Please give
due to mounting legal costs associated with Danny my best.
the inquiry.
Caputo blasted Daniel Jones as being a source for the
“Today, I can’t possibly pay the attendant
recent fake news story about Michael Cohen visiting
legal costs and live near my aging father,
raising my kids where I grew up,” Caputo Prague reported by McClatchy
said. “Your investigation and others into the
allegations of Trump campaign collusion “But who is McClatchy’s second source? It
couldn’t be Dan; he was the first source …
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So who could it be — perhaps one of his Remember. Dianne Feinstein unilaterally
former Senate Intelligence colleagues? I released Glenn Simpson transcripts without
mean, you’re all in this together. You’re the consulting with fellow Senate Intel Panel
swamp.” members then blamed her decision to do
Caputo then called for an investigation into so on a bad cold.
the investigators working together to
coordinate this attack against President Partial transcript via Daily Mail.
Trump.
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BREAKING: Trump Lawyer
Ty Cobb OUT As In-House Russia Counsel
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 12:09 Pm
President Trump turned up the heat on Mueller and A list of questions Mueller has for Trump leaked to the
Rosenstein Wednesday morning, threatening to “get New York Times Tuesday.
involved”.
Mueller is asking Trump over 40 questions and none of
Fox News reported: them have anything to do with Russia collusion; the key
focus is obstruction.
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Ty Cobb Retires As White House Lawyer,
Likely Replaced With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 05/02/2018 - 12:58
Some days, it seems like President Trump's legal team gets this year that Flood was being courted to join Trump's
more press than he does. team, though he never officially joined.
And today is definitely one of those According to the Times, Flood is expected to take a more
days. adversarial approach with Mueller than Cobb, who had
urged the president to embrace a conciliatory path that
We're referring, of course, to the New York Times' latest would end with him sitting for an interview with
Trump legal team exclusive (its second in three days) – investigators (and quite possibly walking into a perjury
trap).
a report that White House lawyer Ty
Cobb is "retiring" from the president's Mr. Flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach
service. to the investigation than Mr. Cobb, who had pushed Mr.
Trump to strike a cooperative tone.
President Trump is reportedly in talks
with Emmet T Flood, the veteran
Washington lawyer who represented Bill Mr. Flood initially spoke with the White
Clinton during his impeachment, to take House last summer about working for
Cobb's place. the president, but the talks ultimately
fell apart because Mr. Flood did not
want to deal with Mr. Trump’s longtime
Cobb's retirement was unexpected, and is the latest major New York lawyer,
shakeup on Trump's legal team, which is struggling to
negotiate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the
terms of a potential presidential interview. Marc E. Kasowitz, who was overseeing the president’s
dealings with the special counsel at the time.
Just this morning, Bloomberg reported that Cobb is the
only person on Trump's legal team who has a valid [...]
security clearance. But since Cobb is technically employed
by the White House, he can't serve as Trump's lead It was not clear what prompted Mr. Flood to sign on. The
personal attorney. president’s legal team for the special counsel investigation
has been marked by turnover and uncertain strategy,
complicated by a client liable to dismiss his lawyers’
advice.
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Flood is best-known for his work as a member of Clinton's review the documents and weigh whether to assert
legal team during his impeachment proceedings, but Flood executive privilege.
did not have a high-profile role.
But his departure is the surest sign that Trump's legal team
Cobb's tenure at the White House was marred by clashes might be leaning toward denying Mueller the in-person
with former Trump lead attorney John Dowd and with interview with Trump that he so desperately craves. Jay
White House Chief Counsel Don McGahn, who had Sekulow, the current lead attorney, is said to be in favor of
warned Cobb that he was rushing to turn over documents asserting executive privilege to avoid an interview.
requested by Mueller, and that he should take the time to
.
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Trump Threatens To Use His ‘Presidential Powers’ After
DOJ Refuses To Turn Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo
Detailing Scope Of Mueller Probe
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 1:29 Pm
Rep. Meadows was not fazed by Rosenstein and hit back On Tuesday, Rosenstein freaked and referred to the
harder. impeachment threat as “extortion.”
Assistant AG Stephen Boyd said in a letter from the Rep. Meadows was not fazed by Rosenstein and hit back
Justice Department, obtained by the Washington harder.
Examiner, the DOJ will not turn over the unredacted
Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s scope: Assistant AG Stephen Boyd said in a letter from the
Justice Department, obtained by the Washington
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Examiner, the DOJ will not turn over the unredacted On Wednesday morning, in response to
Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s scope: the stonewalling by the DOJ, Trump
threatened to use his presidential
“Although we are working to accommodate powers.
the requests of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee in a Trump tweeted:
number of oversight matters, we cannot
provide the requested information A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn
pertaining to the Special Counsel’s ongoing over Documents to Congress. What are
investigation consistent with longstanding they afraid of? Why so much redacting?
principles of investigatory independence.” Why such unequal “justice?” At some point
Turning over the unredacted memo would I will have no choice but to use the powers
“threaten the integrity” of Mueller’s granted to the Presidency and get involved!
investigation, the letter reads.
It would also violate Justice Department
policy of “against confirming or denying
information about active investigations,”
wrote Boyd.
President Trump has had enough of the
stonewalling and unconstitutional witch
hunt.
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Another Trump Win: North Korea Releases
Three US Prisoners From Labor Camp
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 1:44 Pm
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President Trump Formally Nominated For Nobel Peace
Prize By 18 Republican Members Of Congress
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 2, 2018, 1:51 Pm
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Trump Administration Stands Behind Appointee
Ximena Barreto, Rejects CNN’s Smear Job
Attempt To Get Her Fired
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 2, 2018, 2:45 Pm
After it was revealed that she had been given a position for
her fantastic work during the campaign, liberal
organizations including David Brock’s American Bridge
opposition research firm scoured Barreto’s social media
for anything that could be used to claim she is racist,
though she herself is an immigrant.
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This level of harassment has not been seen with any other
appointees for previous administrations.
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“I love America and it’s people. I have
many, many friends of all races and
religions, and I look forward to working
hand-in-hand with them all as we labor to
improve our nation for future generations.
America is the land of opportunity, I hope
for the opportunity of understanding and
forgiveness,” the statement concluded.
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Inspector General Investigating Whether Strzok-Page
Texts May Have Been Deleted – Gaps In Record Flagged
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 3:40 Pm
Fox News reported: Rep. Ron DeSantis told Sean Hannity last week that it
appears the DOJ is holding text messages from Congress.
Justice Department Inspector General
Michael Horowitz has investigated whether Rep. DeSantis:
the DOJ or FBI might have deleted text
messages between bureau officials Peter Well Sean I think this is an incomplete
Strzok and Lisa Page, according to GOP production. I mean we know their texting
sources who have spoken with members of habits. How often there were texting in
the IG’s team. other periods. This is the period, December
2016 all they way up to the firing of James
[…]
Comey and then the appointment of Robert
The sources told Fox News that the IG’s Mueller to the Special Counsel. Yet, there’s
office, so far, has not found evidence that only 40-some pages there.
officials from either agency deleted any
messages. It is unclear at this point if the Both Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are still employed and
office is still investigating the matter, and have security clearance.
whether technical glitches might instead be
at issue.
.
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MSNBC Legal Analyst: America Will Be
‘Authoritarian Dictatorship’ If Trump Refuses
Mueller Subpoena
By Curtis Houck
May 2, 2018 3:47 PM EDT
Well, that’s one way to show you’re unable to provide Jackson didn’t bat an eye at this plea to overthrow an
legal analysis without a political bias. entire branch of our U.S. government and characterization
of the Trump presidency as a “dictatorship.”
Our friends at Grabien flagged down an interesting
moment on Wednesday morning as MSNBC contributor Instead, she was intrigued, telling McClatchy Newspapers
and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks argued White House correspondent Anita Kumar:
that if President Trump refuses to comply with a possible
subpoena by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Americans “Anita, I want to you weigh in on that
should “rise up against” the government because then because Jill is bringing up not just the
we’d be living “in an authoritarian dictatorship.” legal perspective in the prism through
which this is seen but the political one
and that exists. There's a political
component and piece to this as well.”
Host Hallie Jackson set Wine-Banks up by asking for her MSNBC Live with Hallie Jackson
take on the legal debate about whether May 2, 2018
10:08 a.m. Eastern
“a sitting president can be indicted”
HALLIE JACKSON: Here’s — is the bigger question, though,
and particularly in the Mueller probe’s search for Russian related to — and again there are a lot of building blocks that
collusion or obstruction of justice by the President in the would have to go into place, but about whether a president, a
May 2017 firing of then-FBI Director James Comey. sitting president can be indicted.
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Trump Campaign Official Michael Caputo: Mueller Team
“Warned Me” Not To Talk About Investigation (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 7:47 Pm
Michael Caputo, a former campaign aide to President Michael Caputo: I don’t really want to
Trump unloaded on the Senate Intel Committee Tuesday interfere with the investigation. I was
over their Russia witch hunt in a blistering statement. warned about that.
Tucker Carlson: They warned you not to
“I want to know who cost us so much talk about it?
money, who crushed our kids, who forced
us out of our home, all because you lost an Michael Caputo: Well they warned about
election. I want to know because God interfering to be careful…
Damn you to Hell,” Caputo said to Tucker Carlson: Exercising your freedom
Democrat snakes on Tuesday. of speech?
Michael Caputo: My attorneys told me to
As TGP’s Cristina Laila reported earlier Michael Caputo is be careful… What’s happening to me and
outraged over the Russia witch hunt which has cost him my family is happening to many others in
over $125,000 in legal fees, forcing him to uproot his this investigation.
family.
Caputo then told Tucker Carlson he
WILL NEVER work in Republican
politics again.
The opposing party will destroy you.
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Rudy Giuliani: Comey Is Disgraceful –
Pathological Liar, I’m Embarrassed For Hiring Him
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 8:46 Pm
Rudy Giuliani:
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Joe Digenova: Mueller Has No Authority Under Federal
Law To Issue Presidential Subpoena To Get Testimony To
Prompt Impeachment (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 8:57 Pm
Former US Attorney, Joe diGenova The Washington Post reported Tuesday Mueller raised the
blasted Robert Mueller over his prospect of presidential subpoena in a recent meeting with
presidential subpoena threat in his Fox Trump’s legal team.
News appearance with Tucker Carlson
Wednesday evening. In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel,
President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to
Joe diGenova even taunted Mueller and told him to go talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s
ahead and issue Trump a subpoena because it will be interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
unconstitutional and illegal.
But special counsel Robert S. Mueller III responded that
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova told Tucker Carlson the he had another option if Trump declined:
point of the Mueller investigation is to make sure Trump is
a one term president. He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear
before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with
They are going for impeachment; they want the Democrats the encounter.
to take Congress as well.
Mueller’s warning — the first time he is known to have
Joe diGenova taunted Mueller, “Go ahead. Please issue the mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team —
subpoena because it will be an unconstitutional subpoena spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the
and an illegal subpoena.” president’s lead lawyer.
“There is no authority under federal law A list of questions Mueller sent Trump’s legal team leaked
to issue a subpoena to a president of Tuesday to The New York Times.
the United States to get testimony from
him so it can be used at an Mueller has over 45 questions for Trump that have nothing
impeachment proceeding,” diGenova to do with Russia collusion.
continued.
Two of the more outrageous questions Mueller wants to
VIDEO: ask Trump is why he continues to “criticize” Comey and
McCabe. Seriously? It’s none of Mueller’s business.
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Rudy Comes Clean: Trump’s Payment To Stormy Daniels
Was Legal, “That Money Was Not Campaign Money”
(Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 9:09 Pm
279
BREAKING: Giuliani Calls For Comey
To Be Prosecuted For Leaking Classified
Information (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 2, 2018, 9:19 Pm
280
BOOM! Black Male Support For President Trump
DOUBLES IN ONE WEEK Thanks To
Kanye West (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 2, 2018, 10:55 Pm
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Rudy Mauls Mueller, Crimes
‘All Committed By The Government’
'The Scales Have Fallen From The Eyes Of The White House Lawyers,' According
To Harmeet Dhillon, California Attorney And GOP Leader
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 03 May 2018 At 7:03 AM
“the crimes now have all been committed Dozens of questions that Mueller hopes to ask Trump
by the government,” former New York during an interview that were leaked to The New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday on Times concerned four main topics: Trump’s firing of
Fox News’ “Hannity.” Comey, former national security adviser Michael Flynn,
Sessions, and Trump campaign officials’ contact with
“I believe that Attorney General [Jeff] Russian interests.
Sessions, my good friend, and [Deputy
Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein, who I Giuliani told Hannity that Trump fired Comey “because
don’t know, I believe they should in the Comey would not — among other things — say that he
interest of justice end this investigation,” he wasn’t a target of the investigation. He’s entitled to that.
told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Hillary Clinton got that and he couldn’t get that. So he
“There’s been too much government fired him and he said,
misconduct. The crimes now have all been
committed by the government,” said ‘I’m free of this guy.'”
Giuliani, who joined the president’s outside
counsel team earlier this week. “You can’t blame the president for feeling, ‘I
am not being treated the same way [Clinton
was],” Giuliani said.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into
collusion allegations has been fraught from its outset with
concerns about anti-Trump bias and pro-Hillary Clinton Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a member of the House
bias within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI. Committee on the Judiciary, reacted to Giuliani’s claims
regarding
Although no concrete evidence of collusion has been
found, Mueller’s team has shown even greater apparent “too much government misconduct,”
interest in whether Trump could be charged with saying, “I think my impression is that he’s
obstruction of justice for firing former FBI Director James got it right.”
Comey in May 2017. “My frustration is that we’ve gone a year
and there’s no — there’s no criminal
But Comey’s conduct came under scrutiny after he activity” on Trump’s part, Biggs (above, far
admitted that he asked a friend to leak to the news media right) said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham
memos detailing his personal conversations with Trump Angle.” “And this is just — that [the] Mueller
prior to his firing because he thought doing so would spur investigation is not objective, and that really
resonates with me because it’s not
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objective. It’s biased, and they’re trying to trial. It could not be clearer," Dhillon (above, second from
use these questions and this interview is right) said.
going to be a trapfest for … Mueller against
the president.” "And I'm glad, as a supporter of the
“It gets to the whole thing — they just want president and a lawyer, to see that they
to go after President Trump,” Biggs said. have finally woken up."
Giuliani spoke to Hannity after the president’s legal team Noting that Giuliani's interview "was amazing" and "very
experienced its latest shakeup, with Ty Cobb’s departure encouraging to me," Dhillon said it was refreshing to see
and Emmet Flood’s arrival. Flood worked on former that the Trump team is "smartening up and girding for
President Bill Clinton’s legal team during his impeachment battle."
proceedings and also served as a special counsel during
former President George W. Bush’s administration. "I mean, [Mueller team members] are not
people you can trust at their face value. We
have seen the crimes. We have seen the
deception. And we have seen the absolute
unethical conduct that's been committed
against this president so far," Dhillon said.
"I think we have seen in the last 24 hours Giuliani claimed that Cohen's payment was a "perfectly
since the release of these proposed legal" one and wasn't made with campaign funds.
questions from Mueller and now with this
Rudy interview on 'Hannity' — I think we've "Sorry, I'm giving you a fact now that you
seen a dramatic change in this case," don't know. It's not campaign money. No
Washington Examiner senior political campaign finance violation," Giuliani said,
columnist and Fox News contributor Byron noting that it was "funneled through a law
York told host Laura Ingraham. firm, and then the president repaid it."
"I mean, it's become much more
confrontational. The lawyers, John Dowd York said that Giuliani raised "real questions" with that
and Ty Cobb, who were counseling a more new information. "Rudy just gave us a completely
conciliatory approach toward Mueller, they different version of this," York said.
are now gone," York (above, far left) noted.
"And we've just had the president's lawyer Giuliani later clarified, telling Fox News that Trump repaid
go on TV for an hour. I mean, you didn't Cohen "over several months" through placing the lawyer
see Dowd and Cobb doing that." on a "retainer of $35,000 when he was doing no work for
the president."
Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, Republican
National Committeewoman for California,
told Ingraham that Trump's legal team is "I said, 'That's how he's repaying it, with a
"signaling here" by "picking somebody with little profit and a little margin for paying
impeachment experience" that "the scales taxes,'" Giuliani said, noting that Trump
have fallen from the eyes of the White "didn't know about the specifics of [the
House lawyers, and they realize that the payment], as far as I know, but he did know
stakes are about impeachment here." about the general arrangement that
Michael would take care of things like this.
Like I take care of things like this for my
"When you see the questions and the Mueller leak, the clients. I don't burden them with every
questions are clearly not about any crime that the president single thing that comes along."
may have committed. It's clearly doing some free research
for the Democrats with respect to a potential impeachment
.
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As Predicted: Corporate 1st Quarter Earnings Are Best In
A Quarter Century – Stocks Ready To Rise!
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 8:01 Am
We were right!
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Mika On Morning Joe Implies President Trump Is
Suffering From Effects Of Long-Term STD
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 8:26 Am
This is NBC–
Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe implied
Wednesday morning that President
Trump suffers from the effects of having
a long-term STD.
Then MSNBC pundits just can’t
understand why President Trump and
they want to destroy him.
This is the despite his major economic
and foreign policy victories.
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Rudy Giuliani: The Basis For The Mueller
Case Is Dead – Sessions Should Step In And Close It
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 8:52 Am
Rudy told the FOX and Friends crew that Sessions needs
to step in and close the Mueller witch hunt down.
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President Trump Announces His Team
Will Seek Damages From Porn Star Stormy Daniels
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 9:13 Am
287
COMEY RESPONDS: Blasts Giuliani
For Comparing FBI Raiders To “Stormtroopers”
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 11:06 Am
Comey tweeted:
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“I’m Sorry Jeff To Say This” –
Rudy Giuliani: My Biggest Regret Is
Not Taking Attorney General Job (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 11:20 Am
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Colbert Applauds Avenatti For ‘Using The Media’
To Trash Trump: ‘You’ve Been On CNN Like 60 Times’
By Kyle Drennen
May 3, 2018 11:54 AM EDT
During an interview with Stormy Daniels attorney Michael shows to keep the pressure on the
Avenatti on Wednesday’s CBS Late Show, aired early President?”
Thursday morning, host Stephen Colbert congratulated the
porn star’s legal counsel for effectively “using the media” Avenatti smugly declared:
to attack President Trump and even alluded to a Media
Research Center study finding that Avenatti has made 59
“I mean, you’re dealing with a defendant
appearances on CNN in less than two months.
that’s very undisciplined, can be easily
baited into making mistakes. And I think
While introducing his guest, we’ve been very, very successful in doing
just that. And we’re going to keep doing
Colbert hailed Avenatti as the person what we’re doing.”
who “has helped turn a civil dispute
with a porn star into an existential threat After cheers and applause from the promised friendly
to the Trump presidency.” As the liberal audience, Colbert wondered:
interview began, the comedian jokingly
reassured the media-savvy attorney: “Now, But you’re using the media. I mean,
I don’t want you to be nervous if you’ve people are – people are fascinated in
never been on TV before. These are just your client. Certainly CNN, also, is
cameras. These people all like you.” fascinated with your client. They always
have a good, you know, over the-shoulder
shot of her under the shoulder when you
guys are talking. Are you trying to out-
Trump Trump by using the media?
Now, I don’t want you to be nervous if you’ve never been on TV [Avenatti raises his arms, calling for more cheers and applause]
before. These are just cameras. These people all like you.
Lawyers don’t normally do talk shows. COLBERT: No! We don’t have time. We don’t have time. This
isn’t CNN, I keep things to pace.
MICHAEL AVENATTI: I’m not your normal lawyer, I guess.
AVENATTI: I thought that was – I thought that was a challenge.
COLBERT: Well, you don’t have the normal case.
(...)
AVENATTI: That’s correct.
12:19 AM
COLBERT: You’ve been on CNN, we did a count, something like
60 times, so far. COLBERT: Now, you said just a little while ago, and you said on
CNN last week, you said you think Trump will resign, that he
AVENATTI: That’s it? won’t last out his term. What makes you think he’ll resign? He is
nothing, if not shameless. So what is it that would make him step
down? He’ll fight tooth and nail to the end.
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AVENATTI: Well, Stephen, here’s the problem. You have the buried, there’s no question about that. And I don’t think the
personal attorney to the president of 12-15 years who is going to President is going to be able to withstand the heat at the end of
face serious, serious charges. The FBI seized 16 cell phones the day, I just don’t.
when they conducted those raids, an enormous amount of
information. That attorney knows where all kinds of bodies are (...)
.
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BREAKING: Feds Wiretapped Trump Lawyer’s
Phone Lines – INCLUDING CALL TO
WHITE HOUSE… WTH?
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 12:09 Pm
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Reporter Screams At Trump About
Stormy Daniels At National Day Of Prayer Ceremony
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
12:34 PM 05/03/2018
President Trump welcomed a diverse range of religious on you” from one of the attendees, directed at the press
leaders to the White House for the National Day of Prayer pen.
Thursday. The event was uplifting – but the behavior of a
reporter at the end of the ceremony disgusted the guests.
294
Huh?… Stormy’s Lawyer Michael Avenatti Says HE
KNEW Cohen’s Text Messages Were Tapped! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 12:55 Pm
295
GIULIANI FURIOUS! After Wapo Reporter
Reads NBC Cohen Wiretap Report To Him
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 1:15 Pm
296
Sanders Shoots Down
Questions About Stormy Daniels Payment
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
1:47 PM 05/03/2018
WATCH:
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Mika Brzezinski On Giuliani Interview:
'Oh My God, I Can't Even, I Can't'
By Bill D'Agostino
May 3, 2018 2:09 PM EDT
with Kim Jong-un. For his part, the Senator did not appear
to mind.
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BEAUTIFUL! Sarah Huckabee Sanders
SHUTS DOWN Liberal Hack April Ryan (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 2:29 Pm
It’s always fun to watch Sarah Huckabee office about his impacting stellar
Sanders chew up a liberal reporter and statements about what’s happening?
spit them out.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: The White
House Press Office wouldn’t coordinate
with the president’s outside legal team on
legal strategy.
April Ryan: You said yourself you were
blindsided…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: I actually didn’t
use that term.
April Ryan: Well, I said it. But you were
blindsided with what you said.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: With all due
respect you actually don’t know that much
about me in terms of what I feel and what I
At the White House press conference on don’t… I think we’re done here.
Thursday far left crank April Ryan
Zing!
accused Sarah Sanders of being
“blindsided” by Rudy Giuliani’s
comments.
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GIULIANI IS ON A ROLL – Calls Comey A “Sensitive
Little Baby” In Response To Comey’s Tweet Over
“Stormtroopers” Comment
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 2:40 Pm
Comey lashed out at Rudy on Thursday morning for “The settlement payment, which is a very
calling the FBI agents who raided Michael Cohen’s office regular thing for lawyers to do. The
and residence “stormtroopers.” question there was, the only possible
violation there would be:
Rudy took a shot at Comey in response and it was Was it a campaign finance violation? Which
glorious. usually results in a fine, by the way, not
this big stormtroopers coming in and
breaking down his apartment and
breaking down his office.”
Comey tweeted:
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Intimidation? CBS Reporter Major Garrett
Implies Sarah Sanders Faces Legal Jeopardy
For Press Briefings
By Kristinn Taylor
May 3, 2018, 2:50 Pm
Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS appears your position is you’re not going to
News, implied White House Press Secretary Sarah comment because it’s ongoing litigation.
Huckabee Sanders faces legal jeopardy for statements she
Have you been advised not to wade into
has made to the press. This writer is hard-pressed to recall
this to protect yourself from any
any previous White House press secretary who has ever
potential legal exposure by giving either
been threatened like this by the media or federal false information or information that
investigators.
proves later not to be able to be
withstood in court?”
Sarah Sanders:
Transcript:
Garrett:
Major Garrett:
(Talking over Sanders) “But the point of
Jonathan’s question before, when you say
“When you’ve given answers around this before that you gave the best information
general topic you gave us the best you had at the time…”
information you had at the time. Now it
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Sanders: (Interjecting) “And I continue to dealing with any of those questions now
do that today.” and pushing it all off because you says it’s
all ongoing litigation?”
Garrett: “But it turns out not to be correct or
accurate are you then trying to limit the Sanders, “Again, I’m giving the best
liability that you may encounter by not information I have. Some information…”
.
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EXCLUSIVE: Giuliani Calls
For Sessions To 'Step In' On Cohen Investigation
By Niall Stanage
05/03/18 03:09 PM EDT
On Twitter, Comey wrote: This story was originally published before NBC News
issued a correction to its original report, which contended
“I know the New York FBI. There are no that Michael Cohen's phones had been wiretapped. The
'stormtroopers' there; just a group of people Hill's story has been updated to reflect the NBC
devoted to the rule of law and the truth. Our correction.
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Sarah Sanders Wipes
The Floor With April Ryan
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
3:13 PM 05/03/2018
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders smoked CNN Sanders first smacked down Ryan by explaining to her that
analyst April Ryan on Thursday after the reporter the White House press office would not talk to the
purported to know Sanders’ feelings about the president’s president’s legal team about legal strategy. Ryan got hit
legal strategy. again after she claimed Sanders said she was “blindsided”
by Rudy Guiliani’s comments on Fox News last night.
WATCH:
“You said yourself you were blindsided,”
Ryan claimed.
“I didn’t use that term,” Sanders shot back.
“Well I said it, but you were blindsided by
what you said,” Ryan asserted.
“Well, with all due respect, you actually
don’t know much about me in terms of what
I feel and what I don’t,” Sanders retorted
with some serious sass. “Okay, I think
we’re done here.”
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Trump Cracks Joke About Election Night
That Will Drive Hillary Clinton Insane
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
3:15 PM 05/04/2018
President Donald Trump recalled how so many people said Trump recalled election night 2016, saying, “We really
he couldn’t get enough electoral college votes to win the had a big night.”
2016 election during a speech at the National Rifle
Association (NRA) convention Friday. “Remember they said there’s no way, electoral
college, there is no way to win for me. There is
Trump dropped a joke that will drive Hillary Clinton no way to 270.”
insane, mocking those who said he couldn’t get to 270.
“They were right–but 306 was okay, right?”
WATCH: Trump said.
He continued,
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Dershowitz Explodes:
‘I Don’t Want To Live In A Police State’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
3:19 PM 05/03/2018
Constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz delivered a heated Clinton who could have been elected and
takedown Thursday of lawyers and civil libertarians had the same thing happen to her, or
pursuing Donald Trump for a crime, despite multiple Donald Trump that civil libertarians ought
probes failing to find evidence after more than a year of to express concern.”
investigating.
“I don’t want to live in the surveillance
state,” he continued. “I want to do
WATCH: everything in my power no matter who the
target is to prevent this from occurring.”
“It was Lavrentiy Beria who told Stalin,
‘show me the man, and I’ll find your crime.’
You can go through the federal criminal
code and find crimes that virtually any
businessman, any politician has
committed,” Dershowitz stated. “It is so
easy to get a warrant. It is so easy to
persuade a judge to give you a wiretap
warrant. That simply doesn’t protect
American citizens, and any civil libertarian
who was exposed to what’s going on here
today — if Hillary Clinton were the subject
“I do not trust the government. I do not trust — would be taking exactly the opposite
judges. I do not trust prosecutors when position.”
they are zealously seeking to go after a “There is so much hypocrisy, partisan
particular target, in this case Donald hypocrisy out there. I don’t mind if
Trump,” the lawyer stated on MSNBC. conservatives take the view we ought to
“Nobody would have been going after trust government or former prosecutors
Michael Cohen if he weren’t Donald take the view we ought to trust
Trump’s lawyer. That’s the reality.” government. My gripe is against civil
“People don’t investigate campaign libertarians and criminal defense lawyers
contribution lapses or campaign rule who are always on the side of challenging
violations generally about people who the government, the ACLU, who have
aren’t in the public life, and I just worry that suddenly lost its way and forgotten what
when you have somebody with a target on they’ve preached for 50 years because it is
his or her back – whether it is Hillary Donald Trump they’re after.”
.
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Dirty Cop Robert Mueller Seeks
70 Blank Subpoenas In Manafort Case
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 3:24 Pm
SHUT IT DOWN. In a filing Monday night, Manafort’s lawyer argued his
client wouldn’t get a fair trial because of leaks to media
Robert Mueller is seeking 70 blank
from government officials.
subpoenas in the Manafort case
according to a Thursday court filing by
the Special Counsel. Screenshot of page one of court filing showing Mueller
seeking 70 blank subpoenas:
Although Manafort faces no charges related to the Trump Paul Manafort first made arguments in a suit with Robert
campaign, he is accused in cases filed both in Alexandria, Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions as Head of the
Virginia and Washington, D.C. of hiding the work he did DOJ, related to illegalities in the way that Rosenstein set
for and the money he made from a Russia-friendly political up the Mueller special counsel. Rosenstein’s special
party in Ukraine and former Ukrainian president Viktor counsel order was not based on a crime and
Yanukovych. unconstitutionally stated that Mueller could basically look
at anything he wanted to look at. These provisions are
against the law and are now for the courts to settle.
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In addition to the above suit, Robert Barnes recently wrote The memo is dated August 2, 2017 and is from Rosenstein
at Law and Crimes that Mueller’s actions not related to the to Mueller supposedly directing Mueller to look into
2016 campaign are outside the scope of Jeff Sessions Manafort actions with a Russian operative perhaps before
recusal as AG and therefore unconstitutional. 2016. This however is clearly outside the scope of
Sessions’ recusal as argued by Manafort and doesn’t even
In early April, Mueller and Rosenstein presented to the address Manafort’s argument that these actions are not for
courts a rebuttal for Manafort’s latest action – they Mueller to take or Rosenstein to order but are Sessions
presented a previously undisclosed memo to a federal actions alone as AG.
court in Washington supposedly addressing Manafort’s
argument. The problem is it doesn’t. Mueller and Rosenstein are out of control. The witch hunt
must be shut down.
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Robert Mueller Hires ANOTHER
Liberal Hack Lawyer Who Donated To Hillary Clinton
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 3:42 Pm
Dirty cop Mueller has stacked his team with liberal hack
Robert Mueller has hired another lawyers who are all registered Democrats. Over half of
Democrat to join his team of liberal hack them have donated to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
lawyers.
Mueller’s team is a who’s who of corrupt and conflicted
And surprise surprise, the new lawyer
Obama and Hillary cronies.
donated to Hillary Clinton.
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Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page were thrown off of
detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District the investigation after Trump-hating text messages
of New York. between the two FBI agents were discovered by the IG.
Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former WHERE THE HELL IS AG SESSIONS??
colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
of the past two generations.
.
312
CNN Goes Nuclear On Sanders After WH Briefing;
‘She Has Lost Credibility’ With The Country
By Curtis Houck
May 3, 2018 4:33 PM EDT
314
I'm sure Sarah Sanders will stay there because she's pleasing an NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Well, I mean, I think you go back to
audience of one. But she has acknowledged she can only go out day one with Sean Spicer, right? Blatantly going out and telling a
there with information, the best available. If the best available is falsehood about something really small, right? Crowd size and
false, bad, and untrue information, she's failing at her job and I from what we could tell, he was basically sent out there by the
think we saw that time and again in this press briefing today and I President who was unhappy about the comparisons of his crowd
think it will go down as the real time that Sarah Sanders has lost size to Obama's crowd size. So this is a book end and echo
her credibility with the American people. event. Here is Sarah Sanders, who, of course, was mocked,
right? If you remember the White House Correspondents Dinner,
HILL: But, David, let me press you on that for just a moment I mean, this was part of the theme of that comedienne’s attack,
because, yes, there is a fact that she said repeatedly, as you the idea that Sarah Sanders had a problem with the truth. And I
point out today, I'm giving you the best information I have at the think we got plenty of evidence today and through these last
time. Is this Sarah Sanders failing in her job or is this Sarah couple of months that she does have a problem being candid and
Sanders doing her job? She's giving us the information that she part of her job there is almost like a reporter, right? I mean, it's
has at the time, which then continues to change based on the almost digging for as much information as she can get, verifying
giver of that information, the President. that information and presenting that information, right? And if she
has doubts about that information, then she shouldn't go out
there presenting that information as if it's truthful and that's what
CHALIAN: But Erica, she's speaking on behalf of the President of
she has done and you saw here today basically deflect, go to
the United States. If she can't verify what she's going out with to
outside counsel, I’m giving you the best information I can. But it's
that podium to answer questions with is truthful, accurate
not the best information if it isn’t vetted if it’s a falsehood. That’s
information, she shouldn't be speaking about it at all. That's not
not good information. That’s terrible information.
the case here. She spoke with bad information because we are
now learning it was not truthful when she walked out there in
March and delivered those answers and she — I thought she CHALIAN: And, Erica, just to add to what Nia is saying there, I
was clear in acknowledging that today. think Sarah Sanders is wearing it on her face, in her words, that
she knows because she is totally — to Nia’s point, she’s
completely changed her approach to all this. It is all now about go
HILL: There’s also — maybe if you look at sort of, as you point
to outside counsel, go to outside counsel, I can only give the best
out, circle this date on our calendars, May 3 and Nia-Malika, the
information I had at the time. That is a shift because she
question is where do we go from here in terms of information and
recognizes that working in that role in this White House under
being able to trust anything that comes out of this White House?
this level of scrutiny has demolished her credibility. So she's
taking a different approach.
HILL: And I will say to your point, David, I thought there was
definitely a change in her demeanor today.
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Catching Up To CNN?
Avenatti Gets 8 MSNBC Appearances In 4 Days
By Kyle Drennen
May 3, 2018 4:36 PM EDT
After a Media Research Center study found that Stormy the attorney once again appeared on the cable channel with
Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti appeared on CNN an Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell. On Wednesday,
astonishing 59 times in less than two months, a number Avenatti talked to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi in the 3:00 p.m
which has already risen in the last 24 hours, MSNBC ET hour. In the 10:00 p.m. ET hour, the porn star’s legal
seems to be trying to catch up, featuring the porn star’s counsel once again appeared on The Last Word, calling in
lawyer on its airwaves a total of eight times in just four to discuss breaking news about the case with O’Donnell.
days, including three separate appearances on Thursday.
Avenatti doubled all those appearances on Thursday. First,
he joined the cast of Morning Joe in the 7:00 a.m. ET
hour. Next, he took softball questions from anchor Andrea
Mitchell in the 12:00 p.m. ET hour. Finally, he participated
in panel discussions during the 1:00 p.m. ET and 2:00 p.m.
ET hours, as anchors Kasie Hunt and Steve Kornacki
covered the breaking news that federal investigators had
been wiretapping President Trump’s personal attorney
Michael Cohen for months.
On Monday, Avenatti sat down for an interview with he has repeatedly proclaimed that Trump
Deadline: White House anchor Nicole Wallace in the 4:00 will be removed from office and has well-
p.m. ET hour. Later that night, in the 10:00 p.m. ET hour, established ties to the Democratic Party.
.
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NBC Corrects Michael Cohen Wiretap Story:
Feds Monitored “To And From” Calling
And Texting Info But Not Content
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 4:43 Pm
Media ignited after NBC published an Giuliani had his doubts when speaking to WaPo reporter,
article claiming the Feds wiretapped Robert Costa and initially said he had not confirmed the
Michael Cohen’s phone lines and even wiretaps.
intercepted at least one phone call with
Robert Costa then tweeted:
the White House.
WaPo reporter Robert Costa spoke to Giuliani over the Giuliani to Wash Post: If true, “It’s not
phone Thursday for reaction. Giuliani was furious over the appropriate. I mean, he’s a lawyer. You
NBC report, however; he had his doubts about the validity mean, I call up my lawyer and the
of he report. government is wiretapping him? That’s
pretty damn — I mean, they’ve already
NBC backpedaled and issued a correction. eviscerated the attorney-client privilege.
This would make a mockery of it.”
NBC reporter, Ken Dilanian corrected the record several Interesting how it took hours for NBC to correct their
hours after their initial report that feds wiretapped Michael bombshell report.
Cohen’s phone lines and even intercepted a phone call
with the White House.
Ken Dilanian tweeted:
NBC News has corrected its story:
Michael Cohen’s phones were being monitored by a pen
register, not a wiretap, senior U.S. officials say. Pen
registers capture “to and from” calling and texting
information, but not content.
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What Blue Wave? Senate Polls Show
Generic GOP Sweeping Democrat Incumbents From Office
By Kristinn Taylor
May 3, 2018, 4:51 Pm
#INSen:
GOP 39 (+5)
Donnelly (D – incu) 34
#MOsen:
Hawley (R) 38 (+5)
McCaskill (D – incu) 33
#MTSen:
GOP 42 (+5)
For all the media hype about a ‘Blue Wave’ sweeping Tester (D – incu) 37
Republicans from power in this November’s House and
Senate mid-term elections, a comprehensive Morning
Consult poll shows a Republican wave in the making in
U.S. Senate elections across the country with five
Democrat incumbents decisively losing by at least five
percent and four other Democrat incumbents in statistical
ties. Naturally, the poll has been ignored by much of the
mainstream media.
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Yes this is May, and the election is in November and
Republicans have been known to blow sure-thing Senate
elections, but the hype of a ‘Blue Wave’ is overblown.
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Dershowitz On Cohen Wiretaps: We Are Moving Closer
And Closer To The Surveillance State (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 5:08 Pm
NBC later updated their story and said Cohen was only
monitored and not wiretapped.
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MSNBC Issues HUGE Correction
To Michael Cohen ‘Wiretap’ Story
Chuck Ross - Reporter
5:32 PM 05/03/2018
“Feds Tapped Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s It was “a fact” investigators had a wiretap on
Phones,” read the headline of the initial NBC News story. Cohen, Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for Daniels, claimed —
hours before MSNBC’s correction.
At least one phone call Cohen had with someone at the
White House was intercepted, according to the report. It “I don’t think we’re going to find out that this
was not clear when investigators began wiretapping was confined just to email or voice
Cohen, but NBC News reported it was in place in the wiretaps. My understanding is that they
weeks before FBI agents raided Cohen’s home, office and were also wiretapping text message
hotel room in connection with an investigation into communications for the weeks leading up
payments he made to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star to the FBI raids,” Avenatti said on MSNBC,
who claimed to have had an affair with Trump. where he appears frequently.
“I’m not speculating; that’s a fact,” he
But later Thursday, MSNBC ran a correction to the story. added.
“Correction: Feds are monitoring, not Avenatti believed investigators obtained information from
listening to Cohen’s calls,” read a chyron the wiretap suggesting Cohen planned to destroy evidence
correcting the report. relevant to the case, Daniels’ lawyer told MSNBC. And
because of that, he said investigators decided to carry out a
Instead of a wiretap, investigators obtained
raid of his properties.
what’s known as a pen register warrant,
reporter Tom Winter said. That allows
investigators to obtain information about “I also think that it will ultimately be
calls placed to and from a particular phone disclosed that during these wiretaps, the
such as phone numbers and phone-call FBI learned of means by which Michael
length. Cohen and others were going to potentially
destroy or spoliate evidence or
Three U.S. law enforcement officials provided the correct documentation,” Avenatti continued.
details of the warrant against Cohen, Winter said. Winter’s “That’s what served as the predicate or the
initial sources were described as basis for them to be able to go in and get
the warrant to search the home, the office
“two people with knowledge of the legal and the hotel room of Michael Cohen.”
proceedings involving Cohen.”
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FITTON: New Memo Leak Details Are Further Evidence
Of FBI Corruption Under Comey ‘This Wasn’t The
First Time Leaks Occurred’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 6:12 Pm
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NBC Issues Massive Correction To Cohen Surveillance
Story, Admits He Was Not Wiretapped
By Curtis Houck
May 3, 2018 6:30 PM EDT
What a time to be at NBC. First, Ronan Farrow won a citing two separate sourcing with
Pulitzer Prize on April 16 for his Harvey Weinstein knowledge of the legal proceedings
reporting NBC supposedly tried to suppress. Then, two involving Cohen. But we’ve got a correction
stories broke one week ago that the network botched its to that now. It’s not a wiretap where they
response to the Matt Lauer scandal and former NBC were listening into the phone calls but
Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw was accused of sexual something else specifically.
misconduct.
Winter started his mea culpa with the qualifier that the
Now, Thursday saw another embarrassment as NBC News
was forced to run a correction on MSNBC’s MTP Daily “two independent sources” at the heart
that, contrary to their original reporting, longtime Trump of this false report “have a long-term
attorney and fixer Michael Cohen was not being track record of credibility in providing
wiretapped. accurate information to this news
organization.”
See the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily on TODD: Essentially, to bring back a phrase we used to use a lot
May 3 below. during the Snowden revelations and, frankly, during the
investigation in the Boston marathon, this is metadata.
MSNBC’s MTP Daily
May 3, 2018 WINTER: Exactly.
5:03 p.m. Eastern
TODD: Is — meaning he is being surveilled, but they’re trying to
figure out who he is talking to not necessarily what he’s talking
about.
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Lou Dobbs: ‘Weak-Kneed’ Paul Ryan
And Mitch McConnell Don’t Rise To The Level
Of A Snake’s Belly (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 6:43 Pm
Lou Dobbs:
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Former Hillary Clinton Chief Strategist:
How Does Robert Mueller Justify His
“Stormtrooper Tactics”? (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 3, 2018, 7:58 Pm
Mark Penn is the former chief strategist to Hillary Clinton Remember Tucker I worked for a year
in her 2008 campaign. working with President Clinton against Ken
Starr and that effort. And I just find that that
This week Mark Penn penned a piece in The Hill on the was child’s play to what’s going on here.
outrageous conduct of the Mueller Special Counsel. Penn Well Mueller has some questions about
argued that Mueller has nothing implicating President what the president was thinking when he
Trump ans so his special counsel wants to catch Trump in fired Comey. Well I certainly have some
a perjury trap to find their crime. questions about what he was thinking when
first he went to apply for the FBI job, with
Rosenstein. And then turns around the next
day, he didn’t already have a plan. Boy
when he put that team together and there
wasn’t a single Trump donor. What was he
thinking then? And when you look at these
dossiers and discovered that there was no
foundation here how did he deal with that?
And how does he justify these really storm-
trooper tactics. Which is really not an
exaggeration when you go guns drawn to
political consultants, wiretaps all over the
place.
Mark Penn asked Mueller several questions including this It was stunning to listen to this rare Democrat who still
one: When you picked your team, what was going through holds some honesty and integrity.
your mind when you picked zero donors to the Trump
campaign and hired many Democratic donors, supporters
Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
of the defiant actions of Sally Yates, who at the time was
deputy attorney general, and prosecutors who had been
overturned for misconduct? What were you thinking in
building a team with documented biases?
Mark Penn:
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The Definitive List Of Media
Screw-Ups On The Trump-Russia Story
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
8:36 PM 05/03/2018
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other establishment media outlets, this was “During our one-on-one meeting at Trump
proof that Sessions was hiding something Tower…I offered that assurance [that he
related to Russia. was not under investigation].”
A little over six months later, CNN quietly
walked back the scandal, explaining the 9. The ’17 Intel Agencies’ Lie
FBI sent emails informing Sessions’ aide
that he did not need to disclose the The media perpetuated a false claim from
meetings on his forms because they were presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for
carried out in the course of his duties as a months, insisting that all 17 intelligence
senator. agencies agree that Russia interfered in
the 2016 election. The New York Times, for
6. Russians Aren’t Just Hacking The Election — example, rated that claim as true only to
They’re Hacking Our Power Grid later say the exact opposite.
Only four intelligence agencies ultimately
The Washington Post claimed in January deemed Russia responsible for meddling
2017 that Russians were hacking the U.S. because the other 13 have no business
power grid through a company in Vermont, making judgments on the claim. As NYT
only to change the story to say that only succinctly explained, “the rest were doing
one laptop was infiltrated. It turns out that other work.”
one laptop was never even connected to
the power grid. 10. Manafort Notes Are A Nothing Burger
7. Republicans Funded The Dossier! NBC botched its big scoop claiming that
Paul Manafort’s notes from a meeting with
A number of news outlets have consistently a Russian lawyer included the word
claimed that Republicans initially paid for “donations” near a reference to the
the anti-Trump Steele dossier, failing to Republican National Committee.
note that Steele wasn’t even contracted by
Turns out that not only did the word
Fusion GPS until after the GOP donors “donations” not appear in Manafort’s notes,
pulled funding. The Republican donors say
but the word “donor” didn’t either.
they paid Fusion for standard opposition
POLITICO had to correct the NBC report,
research and that they have zero leaving the legacy network looking awfully
connection to the controversial dossier.
embarrassed.
The media has perpetuated this falsehood
so consistently that even former FBI BONUS: Did Cohen Go To Prague?
director James Comey was confused,
repeating the lie in an interview with Fox
Questions are being raised about a recent
News’ Bret Baier.
McClatchy report that states special
counsel Robert Mueller has evidence
8. CNN’s Gets Comey Prediction Wildly Wrong Michael Cohen visited Prague in the
summer of 2016. The story would be huge
Prior to former FBI director James Comey’s because it would seem to corroborate the
congressional testimony last June, CNN portion of the Steele dossier claiming
asserted that Comey was prepared to Cohen visited Prague at that time to meet
contradict a key claim by President Trump with a Kremlin official.
— that Comey told him he was not under
investigation. However, no other outlets have confirmed the report and
Sadly for them, Comey’s prepared even anti-Trumpers are questioning its sourcing.
testimony was released with the line,
.
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NYT’s Chozick Tells Rolling Stone:
Trump ‘Bullied’ Poor Hillary With Bill’s Accusers
By Clay Waters
May 3, 2018 8:47 PM EDT
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controllingness -- I don’t know what Chozick herself admits in Chasing Hillary that her Clinton
exchange was like, but I think if Hillary coverage was “neutral to positive, with plenty of wet
declined to do an interview it would be out kisses thrown in,” and one can certainly take that statement
of an abundance of caution. at face value.
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Nets Spend 13 Mins On Stormy,
Ignore House Dem Accused Of ‘Child Sex Abuse’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3, 2018 9:31 PM EDT
The time totals included coverage of the revelation Cárdenas has been calling colleagues in recent days about
President Trump knew about the “hush money” payment the lawsuit and telling them he is innocent, according to a
and a related story that investigators were monitoring the House Democratic aide. The three-term congressman is the
phones of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s political
action committee. Two other House Democratic aides
confirmed that Cárdenas has been contacting colleagues
The accusations against Cardenas dated back to 2007 and about the lawsuit.
are disturbing, He also vehemently denied the allegations
made against him.
It’s disappointing that the networks would put chasing the
shiny object ahead of a serious allegation against a sitting
“My client is sickened and distraught by member of Congress. Although, all three did cover the 27
these horrific allegations, which are 100%, new women who had come forward with allegations
categorically untrue,” his lawyer, Patricia against former CBS and PBS host Charlie Rose.
Glaser said. She did say they “respect
.
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Former Asst. FBI Dir.
Slams Bureau For Cohen Pen Register
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:37 PM 05/03/2018
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GOP Lawmaker Introduces Resolution To End Mueller
Witch Hunt ‘Provide Evidence Or Terminate
Probe’ Within 30 Days
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 10:00 Pm
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Inspector General Reportedly Gearing
Up To Release Scathing Assessment On James Comey
By Cristina Laila
May 3, 2018, 10:37 Pm
The Justice Department’s Inspector The release date of the IG report on Comey’s memo leaks
General, Michael Horowitz, will soon is unknown at this time.
release a much-anticipated assessment of
Democratic and Republican charges that
officials at the FBI interfered in the 2016 Unfortunately without an active Attorney General, the
criminal referrals remain stagnant.
.
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Chris Bedford: Mueller Is ‘Waging Proxy
War’ On Trump Through Cohen Raid [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
10:42 PM 05/03/2018
“Here’s what it looks like from the outside: it “What we have seen this past week,
looks like Mueller and his friends at The when Giuliani has gone on the offensive,
Department of Justice are waging a proxy when he has tried to say this is not
war on the President of The United States campaign finance reform, this money was
right now by assigning this task to New reimbursed, which would imply there is no
York and saying, ‘We washed our hands; bank fraud involved,” Bedford said. “When
but hey, it would be good if someone took he tries to do that, he has decided that the
care of this,'” Bedford said on Fox Business Department of Justice and the folks in New
News’ “Kennedy” Thursday night. York are trying to pick off one President
Donald Trump’s oldest and closest
WATCH: confidants and remove one of his officers
from the battlefield.”
“They’re pretending it’s got nothing to do
with the Russia investigation, but all of the
same players back here in Washington
would had to have signed off on any of this
for all of this to have happened,” Bedford
concluded.
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The Next Democratic Nominee
Will Emulate Kathy Griffin
Scott Greer - Deputy Editor
10:58 PM 05/03/2018
Kathy Griffin is back in the news after telling a White Griffin’s unhinged rage, complete with four-letter words
House official to suck her “dick.” and sexual insults, represents a large portion of the
progressive base. Remember all the ridiculous costumes
Griffin attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and signs of the Women’s March? Griffin is distilling all
Saturday, which offered her the opportunity to yell at of that anger into telling random White House staffers to
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley. She suck her non-existent penis.
first demanded to know how Gidley slept at night working
for President Trump, and then proceeded to berate him for Two possible presidential contenders have taken note of
asking, “Are we really going to do this?” that rage and tried to emulate in their speeches. In 2017,
California Sen. Kamala Harris decided to drop an f-bomb
“Yes we are, suck my dick! No, really, suck during a public appearance.
my dick!” the profoundly unfunny comedian
shouted at Gidley. As the White House In attacking a Republican lawmaker’s suggestion on food
official departed, she added, “Fuck you!” stamps, Harris declared,
Griffin was still proud of herself for this act as she boasted “What the fuck is that?”
about it on Twitter on Tuesday.
to wild applause from a progressive audience.
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has also felt the need to
drop f-bombs in public, saying last year about her job,
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Rolling Stone Insists John Podesta’s Emails
Were 'Leaked By The Russian Government'
By P.J. Gladnick
May 3, 2018 11:13 PM EDT
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This Is CNN: April Ryan Trash Talks About Street
Fighting Sarah Sanders, Calls Her ‘Gutter’
By Kristinn Taylor
May 4, 2018, 1:40 Am
CNN Political Analyst April Ryan spoke repeatedly about White House transcript:
engaging White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders in a violent street fight following a confrontation MS. SANDERS: …I’ll take one last question. Lalit. Sorry, April.
late in Thursday’s press briefing where Sanders called out
Ryan for making up a statement by Sanders and Ryan
Q Okay, Sarah, really fast. Two questions. Can you — if you’re
getting angry at Sanders in response.
not ready — (laughter) —
MS. SANDERS: Again, those are all questions you would need to
refer to the outside counsel.
Ryan’s anger stayed with her all afternoon and evening
Q Okay. Well, now, going to Rudy Giuliani — did Rudy Giuliani
with Ryan making mentions of “street”, “fist fights”
do harm to the President today and last night in his conversations
“physical fights” and “street fight” when talking about
to Fox?
Sanders on CNN and Twitter, even going so far as to call
Sanders “gutter”.
MS. SANDERS: I don’t believe so.
Ryan also accused Sanders of using her as a “whipping
post”, invoking slave-era imagery. Q And are you —
Ryan’s day job is White House Correspondent & MS. SANDERS: Sorry, I’m going to take Lalit’s question like I
Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio promised to do.
Networks. Ryan was hired by CNN last year to provide
political commentary after she became a heroine of the Q Why didn’t he talk to the White House Press Office about his
anti-Trump ‘resistance’ by repeatedly clashing with first impacting stellar statements about what was happening?
Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Everyone (inaudible).
Ryan has an antagonistic relationship with Sanders such MS. SANDERS: The White House Press Office wouldn’t
that she accused Sanders of faking a photo of a coordinate with the President’s outside legal team on legal
Thanksgiving Day chocolate pecan pie. When Sanders said strategy.
she would bake another pecan pie just for her, Ryan
demurred implying Sanders would poison her with the pie. Q But you were blindsided — you said yourself, I was blindsided
by what he said.
Thursday’s confrontation began with Ryan bullying her
way past another reporter whom Sanders was trying to call MS. SANDERS: I actually didn’t use that term.
on for the last question of the briefing and ended with
Ryan angry with Sanders for calling out her sloppy Q Well, I said it. (Laughter.) But you were blindsided, from what
reportage. you said.
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MS. SANDERS: Well, with all due respect, you actually don’t impeachment, I’ve seen war, I’ve seen
know much about me in terms of what I feel and what I don’t. peace. So I understand the process. I’m
not a dummy and do not discredit me.
Q (Inaudible) been here for 21 years, so I understand how this That’s what my comeback was,” Ryan said.
operates. Do not discredit me.
Rawlings-Blake:
Ryan:
Ryan:
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Comey’s Leaking May Get His
Accomplice Leaker Buddy 10 Years In Prison
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 7:45 Am
<blockquoteclass=”twitter-tweet” data-
lang=”en”>
THREAD: As explained on @foxnewsnight
w/ @ShannonBream, there is probable
cause @Comey committed CRIMINAL
ESPIONAGE against Trump when he
leaked #ComeyMemos. The law punishes
espionage w/ a 10 year federal prison
sentence & can be found at 18 USC 793(f).
https://t.co/o6hYD3wxZ1
— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) April 24,
2018
4th tweet –
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WATCH: Morning Joe Turns
Into Sarah Sanders Hate-Fest
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:08 AM 05/04/2018
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‘Our Mistakes Live Forever’ —
Kellyanne Conway Blasts The Media For Hypocrisy
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:17 AM 05/04/2018
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway called out “We really only had four and a half hours of
media hypocrisy on “Fox & Friends” Friday, saying that stories that they said Michael Cohen had
there is a double standard in judging Trump’s mistakes his lines wiretapped, and that was walked
versus mistakes in establishment media. back at about 5:30 on MSNBC,” Fox
News’ Brian Kilmeade said.
WATCH: “I want to add one more thing, people do
make mistakes, but at the Trump White
House our mistakes live forever, right?”
Conway said.
“I think those, just like — that’s the problem
here, isn’t it? The media protect each other,
like ‘Oh, well they corrected it. They said
they were sorry.’ Excuse me, even after
Saturday night I told people those who are
seeking mercy and instant absolution and
forgiveness, ought to have demonstrated
the capacity to have offered some over the
last 16 months,” she added.
346
WATCH: Leaf Blower
Interrupts Kellyanne’s TV Hit
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:24 AM 05/04/2018
Conway also used her hit this morning to slam the media
for hypocrisy.
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John Bolton: New York
Times Story Is ‘Utter Nonsense’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:26 AM 05/04/2018
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Scott Adams Posts The Definitive List On
Why President Trump Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 8:53 Am
There was much talk this week on how Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for winning an
President Trump deserves a Nobel election and then later destroying the Middle East.
Peace Prize.
Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize for junk science.
On Monday South Korean President Moon Jae-in said
U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Certainly President Trump deserves a
Prize for his efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.
Nobel for bringing peace to the Korean
peninsula. Right?
On Wednesday 18 US lawmakers officially nominated
President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here is a copy of his list on next page.
Now this…
.
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‘As Bad As Fake News CNN’ —
Trump Blasts NBC For Botched Cohen Report
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:59 AM 05/04/2018
President Trump blasted NBC News for a report on federal government. This report turned out to be
Michael Cohen that turned out to be false on Twitter misleading, as the government was only monitoring basic
Friday. information about his phone calls, not listening in.
Trump tweeted: Trump also tweeted about the immigration crisis at the
border Friday morning.
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‘Amazing’: Unemployment
Hits Lowest Rate In 18 Years
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
9:13 AM 05/04/2018
Unemployment dropped to 3.9 percent in April, the lowest March jobs numbers were revised up from 103,000 up to
unemployment rate since 2000, after remaining unchanged 135,000 while February’s were revised down slightly from
at 4.1 percent for several months, the Department of 326,000 to 324,000.
Labor reported Friday.
Labor force participation has remained low, however,
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed falling for the second straight month to 62.8 percent, near
roughly 164,000 jobs were added last month, about the lowest level recorded in the past half century,
30,000 fewer than some experts predicted but continuing according to WSJ.
the longest streak of consecutive monthly job growth at 91
.
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‘Fox & Friends’ Nails NBC For
Cohen Wiretap Story: ‘Completely Wrong’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:33 AM 05/04/2018
WATCH:
.
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Story ‘Corrections’ Haunt Legacy Media. Meanwhile, On
CNN, They’re Young Frankenstein-Ing Rod Rosenstein
Virginia Kruta
9:41 AM 05/04/2018
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• NBC News falsely reported Trump’s lawyer was
wiretapped
• CNN falsely reported Trump’s son colluded with
WikiLeaks
• ABC News falsely reported Trump told Flynn to meet
w/Russians during the campaign
• Bloomberg falsely reported Mueller issued subpoena
targeting Trump allies
— Ryan Saavedra
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President Trump: I Would Like To Speak To Mueller But
“It Is A Pure Witch Hunt” – I Must Be Treated Fairly
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 9:58 Am
The Mueller witch hunt has lasted now over a year and the
far left investigators have yet to find one iota of evidence
that Trump colluded with the Russians to take down
Hillary Clinton.
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'Canoe Fake' Kosinski Lectures
State Department On 'Fake News' Accusations?
By Tim Graham
May 4, 2018 9:51 AM EDT
I noted on Tuesday that The Weekly Standard reported that say what they want. You don't have to
CNN's Michelle Kosinski strongly questioned State agree with it, others don't have to agree
Department senior official Michael Kozak on Trump with it, but that is certainly within his own
bashing the press when the department's human-rights right to do.
report came out. Jack Heretik at the Washington Free
Beacon pointed out that Kosinski did it again on Thursday, Nauert lectured that journalists in Turkey or Afghanistan
or World Press Freedom Day, suggesting that any charge would be arrested, harassed, or subject to death threats just
of "fake news" is somehow "disinformation," as if, for for reporting the news.
example, NBC's false report on Michael Cohen
wiretapping couldn't be criticized as wrong. Kosinski shot back:
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National Review’s Andrew McCarthy
Says DOJ Should Stop Trump’s Mueller Interview
[VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:05 AM 05/04/2018
WATCH:
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MSNBC SHOCK: Predicts Trump ‘Landslide’
Due To 3.9% Unemployment, N. Korea
By Julia A. Seymour
May 4, 2018 10:14 AM EDT
Eisen called the 3.9 percent rate “a wow number” and said
the stock market “loves this number.
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EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone
Explains Relationship With Rick Gates
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:30 AM 05/04/2018
He added that,
“Special counsel Robert Mueller is focusing The Republican political operative continued that while the
intensely on alleged interactions between CNBC story alleged they worked together in the 1980’s
former top Trump campaign official Rick that he has
Gates and political operative Roger Stone,”
CNBC reported Thursday, adding “the “no memory of Gates from this period and
questions have been largely about what never worked with him on anything- if he
was discussed at meetings, including was even really there.”
dinners, between Stone and Gates, before
and during the campaign.” He noted however that he had one interaction with Gates
in which the deputy campaign manager called him about a
Stone said an exclusive statement to TheDC, however, that personal matter that later resolved itself during the
he “only attended ONE dinner with Gates and New York campaign.
.
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Insider Exclusive: Roger Stone Blasts
‘Bogus’ CNBC Story, Another Distraction
In Ongoing Witch Hunt
By Assistant Editor
May 4, 2018, 10:31 Am
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CNN Cillizza: Sarah Sanders
Should Quit Her Job
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
11:00 AM 05/04/2018
She also got into quite the war of words with April Ryan,
telling her, with all due respect, you actually don’t know
much about me in terms of what I feel and what I don’t.”
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FEDERAL JUDGE LOSES TEMPER In Manafort
Hearing – Says Mueller’s Goal Is To
Oust Trump From Office!
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 11:02 Am
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GOP Lawmaker Introduces Legislation Requiring Mueller
‘Provide Evidence’ Against POTUS Or
‘Terminate’ Probe In 30 Days
Posted On May 4, 2018
Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., who is currently running for the For his part, Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
U.S. Senate, introduced his resolution on Thursday, Nunes, R-Calif., has said there is plenty of evidence that
arguing that the investigation should be quickly resolved to the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with Russian
“preserve the integrity of our democratic institutions.” sources to produce the so-called “Russia dossier” — a
collection of salacious and unverified allegations that the
FBI used to obtain FISA court surveillance warrants to spy
In addition, Rokita said he believes it the ongoing probe is on Team Trump in 2016 and beyond.
a waste of taxpayer money, estimating that thus far it has
cost some $17 million, The Hill reported.
“No one in government should be without
accountability, and for many Americans,
“The Mueller investigation has dragged on this investigation looks more like an
for nearly a year at a cost of tens of millions attempt by the Washington elite to
of dollars without producing a shred of destroy President Trump with innuendo,
evidence of collusion—the matter it was leaks, and baseless allegations than to
tasked with investigating in the first place,” provide justice,” said Rokita.
he said in a statement.
.
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HUGE NEWS! As TGP Predicted — Judge In Manafort
Case BLASTS MUELLER SPECIAL COUNSEL On
Lawless “Unfettered Power”
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 11:13 Am
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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.”
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U.S. Judge Questions Special
Counsel's Powers In Manafort Case
Sarah N. Lynch
4 May 2018
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The federal judge in Washington, Amy Berman Jackson, could not be handed over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
has not yet ruled on the request to dismiss that indictment. the Eastern District of Virginia.
Friday, however, marked the first time that Manafort’s As an example, he pointed to the FBI’s probe into Trump’s
arguments about the scope of Mueller’s powers appeared personal lawyer Michael Cohen, and mused that the
to have gained some traction. special counsel had turned that matter over to prosecutors
in Manhattan.
During the oral arguments, Ellis repeatedly chided
Mueller’s $10 million budget. Dreeben declined to discuss the Cohen case, but said that
Mueller’s probe into Manafort was authorized by
He also asked whether Rosenstein, who oversees the probe Rosenstein.
and is considered an important witness into whether
Trump tried to obstruct justice, is recused from the case. Rosenstein’s May 2017 order laying out the scope of the
probe, he told the judge, did not reveal all the details
And he repeatedly claimed that the indictment appeared to because they involve sensitive national security and
serve as a way for Mueller to “assert leverage” over counterintelligence matters that could not be divulged
Manafort. publicly, but were conveyed to Mueller.
“The vernacular,” he said “is to sing.” Ellis balked, saying Dreeben’s answer essentially means
the Justice Department was “not really telling the truth”
Ellis did not issue a ruling on Manafort’s motion to about the probe and invites someone to respond by saying,
dismiss the indictment Friday. “Come on, man!”
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‘I Figured You Would Ask That’ —
Trump Claps Back At Reporter Who Interrupts Him
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
11:17 AM 05/04/2018
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BREAKING: Judge In Manafort Case Orders Govt To
Hand Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo
Detailing Mueller’s Scope
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 11:54 Am
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In response, Freedom Caucus Chairman, Mark Meadows On Wednesday morning, in response to the stonewalling
drafted “articles of impeachment” against Deputy Attorney by the DOJ, Trump threatened to use his presidential
General Rod Rosenstein as a “last resort.” powers in order to get the unredacted Rosenstein memo.
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Federal Judge Brutally Slams Mueller Witch Hunt: 'C'mon
Man!' Accuses Special Counsel Of 'Lying'
& No 'Unfettered Power'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
May 4, 2018
U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis is hearing the motion Ellis is also demanding the special counsel's office hand
to dismiss, and his statements to the attorney arguing the over to him the original "scope memo," to justify charging
case on behalf of Mueller's team, were at times brutal and Manafort for bank fraud from 2005 and 2007, which had
sarcastic as he accused them of "lying" to the American nothing to do with the the mandate to investigate links
people with the initial DOJ release detailing Mueller's between Russia and the Trump campaign.
scope, after Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben
explained to the court that some of the special counsel's Via Reuters:
"powers" were secret, not revealed to the public, because
they involved ongoing investigations and national security None of the charges relate, however, to
matters. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign or
possible collusion with Russia. Trump has
He summed up the argument of the Special denied any collusion.
Counsel’s Office as, "We said this was
what [the] investigation was about, but we Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing has
are not bound by it and we were lying." argued that the charges must dismissed
because the FBI investigation dates back
to 2014, and therefore did not arise from
Mueller’s probe.
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The bulk of Friday’s questions by the judge As skeptical as Ellis appeared regarding
were aimed squarely at Michael Dreeben, the government’s arguments, he also had
the deputy solicitor general who is currently questions for Manafort’s lawyer that
working in Mueller’s office. suggested he hadn’t made up his mind.
Even if there were issues with the breadth
While Dreeben conceded that Mueller had of Mueller’s original appointment order, the
inherited the probe into Manafort after his judge asked, didn’t the August memo
May 2017 appointment by Deputy Attorney address that by specifically referring to
General Rod Rosenstein, he insisted the Manafort’s work in Ukraine as falling under
office is on solid legal ground and has the Mueller’s jurisdiction?
power to proceed with prosecuting the
case. “Let me ask you: So what?” Ellis asked
Manafort’s lead attorney Kevin Downing.
“Our investigative scope does cover the Downing replied that Rosenstein couldn’t
activity” in the indictment,” Dreeben told the retroactively fix the problems with the
judge. “Cover bank fraud in 2005 and original appointment order. If it was
2007? Tell me how!” Ellis retorted. unlawful, Mueller lacked authority to
conduct the investigation and convene a
After being informed that a subsequent memo by grand jury, Downing said.
Rosenstein gave Mueller the authority to pursue charges
on Manafort that occurred before the 2016 election, the Ellis asked Downing if one possible
Judge pointed out the memo turned over to him was highly outcome would be that he could send the
redacted, and demanded an unredacted version be case to the US attorney's office in Virginia
submitted to him. When Dreeban attempted to tell the to handle. Downing said that could be an
Judge the redacted portions did not apply Manafort, the option.
Judge retorted
Judge Ellis has not ruled on Manafort's motion to dismiss
"I'll be the judge of that." and has given the special counsel's office two weeks to
provide the unredacted "scope memo" from August.
The proceedings highlighted the Judge is suspicious as to
the charges against Manafort being within Mueller's scope, The Judge also reportedly chided Mueller's budget and
as some of the information obtained to charge him, did not specifically asked if Deputy Attorney General Rod
"arise directly from the investigation," as was stated in the Rosenstein has been recused from the case as he is an
original announcement of a special counsel being important witness in the case.
appointed, but stemmed "from an earlier Justice
Department probe – in the U.S. attorney’s office for the I find it highly interesting that the Judge specifically and
Eastern District of Virginia," as Fox News reports. deliberately brought up Rod Rosenstein and whether he
was recused since he is a witness, leading me to believe
It is noteworthy that at the time of the original the Judge has been keeping an eye on the whole witch
investigation, the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern hunt, bringing up the same concerns other legal experts
District of Virginia chose not to pursue the case against have.
Manafort.
In February, renowned attorney Alan M. Dershowitz, who
"What we don't want in this country, we is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at
don't want anyone with unfettered power," Harvard Law School, highlighted five key points to answer
Ellis said. "It's unlikely you're going to the question as to whether Rosenstein should be recused
persuade me the special counsel has from his oversight position of Robert Mueller.
unlimited powers to do anything he or she
wants." Five facts are indisputable.
Related: MONUMENTAL: The Naked Truth About First, Rosenstein is currently supervising
Robert Mueller Robert Mueller, who he appointed to be
special counsel to investigate the Russia
As Buzzfeed notes, while the majority of the questions and matter and all ancillary issues.
scorn were aimed at the Mueller team lawyer, Ellis did
ask Manafort’s lead attorney Kevin Downing a few Second, these ancillary issues include any
pointed questions as well: possible obstruction of justice growing out
of the Russia investigation.
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Third, President Trump’s firing of former nothing more than part of a witch hunt to "assert leverage"
FBI Director James Comey may be an over Manafort, in an attempt by team Mueller to get him to
important building block in any possible "sing," as an attempt to find something, anything, to justify
obstruction case against the president. his multi-million dollar investigation in order to
"prosecute" or "impeach," the President of the United
Fourth, Rosenstein played a central role in States.
that firing, having written the memorandum
justifying the president’s action. If that is the case, than after more than a year-and-a-half of
FBI/DOJ investigations, and nearly a year of a special
Fifth, Rosenstein would be an important — counsel investigation, they still have absolutely nothing on
perhaps the most important — witness in President Trump and are desperate to find something.
any investigation of the reasons behind the
firing. Final Note: American taxpayers are still paying for this
witch hunt.
The fact that Judge Ellis is asking about Rosenstein shows
he is just as concerned about the ethical aspect of
Rosenstein's involvement.
BOTTOM LINE
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Federal Judge Accuses Mueller's Team Of 'Lying,' Trying
To Target Trump: 'C'mon Man!'
By Jake Gibson | Fox News
May 4, 2018
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Trump himself drew attention to the judge’s comments The judge also gave the government two weeks to hand
later Friday afternoon, during an NRA convention in over the unredacted “scope memo” or provide an
Texas. explanation why not -- after prosecutors were reluctant to
do so, claiming it has material that doesn’t pertain to
“It’s a witch hunt,” he said. “I love fighting Manafort.
these battles.”
“I’ll be the judge of that,” Ellis said.
Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Earlier this year, Ellis suggested that Manafort could
argue that the special counsel does not have the power to indict their face life in prison, and “poses a substantial flight risk”
client on the charges they brought. (AP) because of his “financial means and international
connections to flee and remain at large.”
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MSNBC Spends Hours On False Story,
NBC Gives Seconds To Correction
By Kyle Drennen
May 4, 2018 12:04 PM EDT
Dr. Pena was appointed to the White House Medical Unit It’s too late; another good man has been destroyed by lies
during the Obama administration. and fake news media.
Sara Carter reported: Ronny Jackson is currently still in the medical unit,
however; he withdrew his name from nomination of
Veteran’s Affairs.
Vice President Mike Pence’s physician,
Army Dr. Jennifer Pena, resigned from the
White House Wednesday according to None of the allegations against Ronny Jackson have been
several senior Administration officials. substantiated.
Pena’s resignation comes just as the
allegations she brought against President Good riddance, Dr. Pena.
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POTUS Trump Announces He Will Seek DAMAGES From
Stormy Daniels Over Breach Of NDA
Posted On May 4, 2018
The FBI raided Cohen’s offices and hotel room last month,
in part, to obtain information related to the payoff,
claiming it could be a violation of campaign finance laws.
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14.) Did you purposefully allow these innocent men to
remain in prison for murder to protect FBI informant
Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi?
10.) Where are the FBI's notes from the Flynn interview? 17.) Though you were not yet director of the FBI, do you
If they were provided to Flynn, when? know why the FBI would not accept the intelligence
information from the U.S. military regarding 9/11
attacker Mohammed Atta? In January and February 2000,
11.) Did you or anyone else on your team get the
one year before 9/11, members of the program Able Danger
required signoff from then-national security adviser H.R.
identified the Brooklyn al-Qaida cell and Mohammed Atta. In
McMaster, as required on any retasking of NSA
September 2000, Able Danger attempted to provide
surveillance, in April of 2017 when the direct FISA
information to the FBI on three separate occasions, but
surveillance of Carter Page and indirect surveillance of
administration lawyers denied the transfer of information.
Trump was again extended, this time with approval by
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein?
18.) If the FBI had received that information from the
Able Danger team, what actions could have been taken
Now on to Mueller's multiple past prosecutorial abuses.
to prevent 9/11?
On Mobster Whitey Bulger
19.) Did you leak information to the press or authorize
the leak about nonexistent allegations against Weldon?
As head of the criminal division while assistant U.S. Did you leak to the media or authorize a leak about the raid
attorney, then as acting U.S. attorney in Boston, Mueller of the Weldon family property? Whose idea was it to do the
oversaw a cluster of prosecutions tied to protected FBI search two weeks before Weldon's re-election? Could the
informant and mob kingpin Whitey Bulger. FBI's raid have achieved its purposes if it had been done
two weeks after Weldon's re-election? Did you investigate
Mueller's stewardship of these prosecutions led to wrongful how the media knew of the raid and its location?
murder convictions, cover-ups and a $100 million settlement
to the victims or their families, as two of these men died in 20.) Was a grand jury convened to hear evidence in the
prison. The Boston Globe only had one "lingering question" alleged investigation of Weldon and his daughter?
— I have a few more.
21.) What was the outcome of that investigation, if there
12.) Why did the U.S. Attorney's office, under your was one? What follow-up has occurred to attempt to
direction, let the FBI protect known mobster Whitey remedy the loss that the FBI participated in causing?
Bulger?
Mueller's Illegal Raid on Congressional Offices
13.) Why did you work so hard to prevent the parole of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was secretly videotaped
the four men who were exonerated for the murder of taking bribes in an undercover sting and, subsequently,
Teddy Deegan?
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Mueller's FBI found $90,000 in cold, hard cash in his freezer Mueller's Witch Hunt Against Sen. Ted Stevens
during a raid at his home. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was falsely charged and
prosecuted in 2008 just 100 days before his re-election bid
The Constitution frames our government with three coequal for what the FBI alleged was not paying full price for
branches, but Mueller doesn't seem to care too much about improvements to a cabin he owned in Alaska. In the midst of
constitutional restraints. Mueller's FBI agents raided the the prosecution, Stevens lost his re-election bid and, two
offices of a sitting member of Congress — for the first time in years later, lost his life.
our nation's history — without attorneys in the House of
Representatives first reviewing the material seized to ensure Large-scale misconduct was revealed through a
nothing privileged was obtained by the FBI. whistleblower in an audit of the case, in which FBI agents
and prosecutors, among many other things, withheld
The Supreme Court sided with the legislative branch against exculpatory evidence.
the executive branch to throw out Mueller's illegal raid of
Jefferson's federal office. There are set processes by which 26.) Were you aware of any exculpatory evidence, or
these coequal branches cooperate for warrants. Which attempts to conceal evidence, that would have
leaves this lingering question: exonerated Stevens?
22.) As FBI director, why did you authorize the raid of 27.) Did you take any actions of any kind to prevent FBI
Jefferson's office without first consulting with House of agent Mary Beth Kepner from being fired? Did you take
Representatives attorneys? Did you intend the raid to put any actions to pursue disciplinary procedures against her for
fear into members of Congress that you could raid them the wrongdoing in the Stevens case?
whenever you wanted? In the wake of that raid did you state
that you might decide to assign 400 agents to investigate all 28.) Why was the whistleblower, FBI agent Chad Joy,
of the members of Congress, or words to that effect? Was it permanently restricted from participating in any more
your intent to intimidate members of Congress and dissuade criminal cases? Whose decision was that? Did you
them from asking further questions or making demands approve of it? Is it true that whistleblowers against the FBI
upon your office? while you were FBI director were routinely disciplined or
dismissed, despite any wrongdoing they unearthed or
National Security Letter Abuses caused to be corrected?
National Security Letters (NSL) are a tool that allows the 29.) Why was a critical witness in the case with
Department of Justice (DOJ) to bypass the formality of exculpatory evidence sent back to Alaska by FBI agents
subpoenas, warrants, and instead simply send a letter to an before the information could be shared with Stevens'
individual, business or any entity they so choose to demand defense attorneys? Did you ever consider advocating to
documents. have the case against Stevens dropped when you learned of
all the improprieties, instead of waiting for a new attorney
The letter also informs the recipient that it is a federal felony general to take over and drop the charges the following
to reveal to anyone that the letter was received or what it year?
requires to be produced, and if he or she has done so,
prosecution will follow. Under Muller's tenure as FBI director, Ruin of Dr. Steven Hatfill's Reputation, Productive Life
there was incredibly widespread abuse of the NSLs. And a few questions on the wrongful, malicious prosecution
of Dr. Steven Hatfill, accused by Mueller of mailing anthrax
23.) Are you responsible for the FBI's misusing the letters in the wake of 9/11, a Mueller/Comey twofer. They
Patriot Act, NSLs and other methods to obtain ruined Hatfill's life and his relationship with friends,
information on American citizens without probable neighbors, and potential employers.
cause?
30.) Despite a 100 percent absence of any admissible
24.) Other than the attorney general, did anyone lose his evidence of Hatfill's guilt, why did you work so hard to
or her job as a result of the widespread abuse of NSLs convince people he was the perpetrator? Did you find it
and the Patriot Act? helpful for your purposes to move public attention away from
the radical Islamic jihadis who had attacked us on 9/11 and
instead place the attention on a white male?
25.) When you said at the time that you were
accountable for that massive assault on the
constitutional rights of American citizens, how exactly 31.) Was any research done into the disposition of
were you held accountable? Did you write or find some cases involving the dogs you had brought in from
way to apologize to or compensate the thousands of California to smell Dr. Hatfill? Did you know these same
Americans whose records were improperly seized? dogs were involved in many cases in which the defendants
were later exonerated? Do you believe that every time a dog
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seems to appreciate having his ears rubbed, as these did Mueller's Unethical Acceptance of Special Prosecutor
when Dr. Hatfill petted them, it is an "alert" to evidence of a Appointment
crime? Federal law at 28 CFR 600.7 prohibits anyone from serving
as a special counsel if there is the appearance of a conflict
33.) Whom do you feel is most responsible for the of interest.
settlement in excess of $6 million paid out to Dr. Hatfill
for your FBI's maliciously and wrongful persecution of 37.) How long have you been a mentor and friend to
an innocent man who never had any contact with Comey? Did he mention to you that he was thinking about
anthrax? leaking information to try to get a special counsel appointed?
Have you spoken to Comey since you have been special
The Framing of Scooter Libby counsel? If so, was it recorded? Were there witnesses to
your conversation? Did you write a 302 memo immediately
after your conversation?
Another Mueller/Comey twofer came in 2003 — a fabricated
and politically charged FBI investigation "searching" for the
leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the media. 38.) Have you reviewed the standards for recusing
oneself from prosecuting a case? Are you aware that
under 28 CFR 600.7, you are prohibited from serving as
34.) Did you encourage James Comey to ask then-
special counsel even if there is only the appearance of a
Attorney General John Ashcroft to recuse himself from
conflict of interest?
the Plame investigation? Did you bother to discern that
Plame was not in a protected status at the time her identity
was allegedly outed and before Scooter Libby, a former aide 39.) Do you have a conflict of interest in your
to Vice President Richard Cheney, was wrongfully relationship with Comey? Since Comey is necessarily a
convicted, as we now know? witness in any potential case against Trump regarding a
potential obstruction of justice, can you admit that you are
disqualified from investigating or prosecuting the case?
35.) When did you learn that the source of Plame's
identity leak was Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage? Wasn't it before U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald 40.) Do you consider your role as special counsel to be
(godfather to one of Comey's children) was sworn in as the protector of those who want President Trump
special counsel? Why, as FBI director, did you not stop the removed from office because you believe he never
witch hunt, since you knew that there was no crime should have been elected? Do you realize that actions to
committed — and if there was one, Armitage committed it? remove a duly elected president for crimes he did not
Did it cross your mind that not only would you avoid an commit may reasonably fit the definition of sedition?
innocent man's being convicted, but also save millions of
dollars to stop the unnecessary special counsel Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is a member of the House
prosecution? How much did Fitzgerald's investigation cost Judiciary Committee and former chief justice of the 12th
American taxpayers? Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas).
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BREAKING: Giuliani Issues Statement
Clarifying Recent Comments About Stormy Payment
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 1:20 Pm
Rudy reiterated,
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Trump: Time And Place Set For North Korea Summit
‘We’ll Be Announcing It Soon,’ President Says
Mikael Thalen | Infowars.Com
May 4, 2018
Trump also stated that progress had been made in regards The summit will be the first ever between a sitting U.S.
to the release of three Americans currently detained in president and the leader of the Democratic People’s
North Korea. Republic of Korea.
“A lot of things have already happened with The Trump administration’s goal, according to Secretary
respect to the hostages,” the president of State Mike Pompeo, is
added.
“the permanent, verifiable, irreversible
South Korean and U.S. media outlets reported this week dismantling of North Korea’s weapons of
that the U.S. detainees had been removed from labor mass destruction program.”
camps in early April and sent to a hotel outside of
Pyongyang.
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Eric Holder Takes A Shot At Giuliani For
“Stormtroopers” Comment – Calls FBI Agents Who
Raided Michael Cohen’s Home “Patriots”
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 2:05 Pm
Holder then called the raiders “patriots.” As if Eric Holder knows what true patriotism is…
Giuliani said,
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DOJ Inspector General's Testimony Postponed,
Amid New Leads In Clinton Case Review
By Catherine Herridge | Fox News
May4, 2018
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McCabe has vowed to fight the allegations, saying then- had spoken with Horowitz’s team about his handling of
FBI Director James Comey knew of his media engagement memos documenting his conversations with President
with the Wall Street Journal, but wanted to distance Trump.
himself from disclosures.
Gowdy did not set a new date for the testimony, but,
Horowitz’s forthcoming report is also expected to examine considering the short congressional calendar in May, it’s
actions taken at the bureau by Comey. The former director possible Horowitz’s testimony could be put off until June.
confirmed in an interview with Fox News last week that he
.
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Trump Goes To NRA Convention –
Takes Direct Aim At John Kerry And His Broken Leg
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
3:23 PM 05/04/2018
President Trump gave a rowdy speech to the NRA Trump said the broken leg was a sign of weakness for
convention in Dallas Friday, during which he took a shot at Kerry negotiating with Iran.
former Secretary of State John Kerry’s bike accident.
“I said, ‘Don’t tell him you broke your leg. Stay
The record audience listened to the president talk about inside and say you don’t want to negotiate and
subjects ranging from Kanye West to the Iran Deal. you will make a much better deal,'” he said, “But
he broke his leg. At 73 years old, you never go
POTUS compared his leadership style to his predecessor into a bicycle race. Okay?”
Barack Obama. Trump said the Obama administration had
a policy of capitulation on a world stage. Kerry was 71 when he broke his leg.
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If Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Manafort,
Case Would Be Handed Over To Trump Appointee
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 3:45 Pm
WaPo reported:
T.S. Ellis, III, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of
Va, at the Investiture ceremony of Stuart Nash to be Associate Judge
at the D.C. Superior Court. June 4, 2010. Photo by Diego M.
But the judge did question why an investigation
Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. into Trump attorney Michael Cohen was handed
over to federal prosecutors in New York while
The Federal Judge in Paul Manafort’s case the Manafort case was kept with the special
cast doubt on Friday over Mueller’s bank counsel.
fraud case against the former Trump
campaign manager. Ellis suggested that if he ruled in Manafort’s
favor, the case could simply be returned to
Judge T.S. Ellis lost his temper and blasted the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern
prosecutors, saying he believes Mueller is District of Virginia.
using the Manafort case to provide material
that would lead to Trump’s “prosecution or It is precisely because the probe into Manafort’s
impeachment”. financial dealings began years ago with federal
prosecutors in that office, Manafort’s defense
If Judge T.S. Ellis rules in favor of Paul attorneys argued, that the special counsel
Manafort, the case will be handed over to should not be involved.
Trump-appointed US Attorney Tracy
Doherty-McCormick. Judge Ellis also accused Mueller’s prosecutors of lying
and ordered the government to hand over the unredacted
Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s scope.
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IG Horowitz Postpones Testimony To Pursue New Leads In
His Review Of Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 4:12 Pm By Cristina Laila
The slight delay is due to new leads Horowitz is pursuing Fox News reported:
in his review of Hillary Clinton.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s widely
anticipated testimony next week before the
House Oversight Committee has been
postponed, as the Justice Department IG has
pursued new leads in his review of the
Hillary Clinton email investigation, according
to a congressional letter and sources familiar
with the matter.
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As a result of these investigations and reports, Andrew The release date of the IG report on Comey’s memo leaks
McCabe has been criminally referred to the Justice is unknown at this time.
Department twice.
Unfortunately without an active Attorney General, the
Sources tell TIME Magazine, Comey faces a punishing criminal referrals remain stagnant.
report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
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Reporter Criticizes Trump For Sitting Down With Kim
Jong Un – Sanders NUKES The Whole Press Room
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
4:00 PM 05/03/2018
Sarah Sanders had a deeply contentious White House press “I think that the president feels like stopping
briefing Thursday afternoon. a nuclear war and helping preventing
nuclear war and helping protect the safety
The president’s spokesperson got into verbal spats with and the security of people across globe
multiple reporters over a variety of issues. Questions about would be the number one priority of the
Stormy Daniels, torture techniques and classified memos president of the United States.”
were flying and Sanders once told a reporter
Sanders continued,
“You don’t know me.”
“And certainly I would think would be the
Few got it as bad as Brian Karem, however, the White priority that most Americans would share in
House correspondent for Playboy Magazine. Brian asked if support the president doing.”
the president believes “he is above the law?”
WATCH THE FIRE:
Sanders immediately said “No.”
He then asked,
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SHADOW GOVERNMENT=> John Kerry
Secretly Met With Foreign Leaders To Salvage Iran
Nuclear Weapons Program
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 5:56 Pm
The Boston Globe reported: The Obama-Iran echo chamber led by Obama’s former
aide Ben Rhodes was quiet after this news broke on
John Kerry’s bid to save one of his most Monday.
significant accomplishments as secretary of
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It’s outrageous that Obama and his corrupt cabal continue
to undermine President Trump’s administration at every
turn.
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Kerry Is Quietly Seeking To
Salvage Iran Deal He Helped Craft
By Matt Viser Globe Staff
May 04, 2018
With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was
signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet
stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of
contacts gleaned during his time as the top US diplomat to
try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the
outside. President Trump, who has consistently criticized
the pact and campaigned in 2016 on scuttling it, faces a
May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue abiding by
its terms.
Kerry also met last month with German President Frank- Ronald Zak/Associated Press
Walter Steinmeier, and he’s been on the phone with top Former energy secretary Ernest Moniz.
European Union official Federica Mogherini, according to
the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to “Part of the equation is if Ernie [Ernest Moniz,
reveal the private meetings. Kerry has also met with the former US energy ecretary] or John made a
French President Emmanuel Macron in both Paris and bold statement, [Trump] is . . . crazy, and he
New York, conversing over the details of sanctions and might do the opposite just to spite them,” said
regional nuclear threats in both French and English. one source who has worked with Kerry. “You’re
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liable to spur this guy in a direction you don’t “Every detail PM Netanyahu presented
want him to go in, just to be spiteful.” yesterday was every reason the world came
together to apply years of sanctions and
Moniz was a key part of the negotiating team, meeting negotiate the Iran nuclear agreement —
with his Iranian counterpart as they determined some of because the threat was real and had to be
the technical scientific details. stopped,” Kerry wrote on Twitter Tuesday. “It’s
working!”
A former Obama White House official said there is little to
be gained by aiming the effort directly at Trump.
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“This isn’t President Obama’s agreement. It’s
the world’s agreement,” he added. “Maybe
Macron, Merkel, and Great Britain can
persuade the administration, but if they can’t
they’ll be even more essential to protecting the
deal absent the United States. We know these
voices are powerful. They have an audience
with the president and our allies are popular at
home.”
Kerry and Moniz met in February with Ryan, who has Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
been outspoken in his opposition to the Iran deal. Kerry Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
also held a breakfast briefing last week with members of
the House and Senate, which was designed to answer Most Democrats have remained fairly quiet about the Iran
questions as well as underscore how, if Trump pulls out, deal. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer opposed the
Europe could hold the deal together. deal from the start, even though he’s not in favor of
ripping it up now. Senator Robert Menendez, the top
Kerry’s activities could raise questions if they are Democrat on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
perceived as a direct effort to counter current has been consumed with his own troubles, having spent
administration foreign policy. last year in a federal corruption trial that ended without a
conviction. He was admonished last month by the Senate
The Trump administration got entangled with controversy Ethics Committee for bringing “discredit upon the Senate.”
when Michael Flynn, the incoming national security
adviser, tried to undermine Obama policies in the “No one has really led the charge. You could
administration’s last few weeks. His actions appeared to argue that’s what needs to be done by Obama,
some legal experts to violate the Logan Act, an obscure Kerry, Susan Rice, and the others who were
18th century law meant to crack down on private citizens involved,” said Daniel Kurtzer, who served as
acting on behalf of the United States during a dispute with Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Egypt and George
foreign governments. W. Bush’s ambassador to Israel. “But nobody
knows how to deal with [Trump].”
The Logan Act prohibits US citizens from having private
correspondence with a foreign government The president doesn’t listen much to the voices of the
foreign policy establishment. And they don’t really know
“with intent to influence the measures or how to reach him through conservative media.
conduct of any foreign government . . . in
relation to any disputes or controversies “It’s a legitimate question to ask why is Obama
with the United States, or to defeat the not out front with the cognoscenti. But those
measures of the United States.” aren’t the ones Trump cares about anyway,”
Kurtzer said. “My guess is the phone has been
Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of ringing off the hook between European leaders
Texas, said the law is a red herring — since it’s never been and Obama. The Europeans are trying. They’re
used to prosecute anyone — and almost certainly would giving it their best shot.”
not apply to anything Kerry is doing.
A spokeswoman for Obama declined to comment on
“The act only applies to conduct that is whether the former president is doing anything to preserve
designed to ‘defeat the measures of the United the Iran deal.
States’ or influence the conduct of foreign
governments,” Vladeck said. “If all Kerry is Kurtzer said the most articulate public advocate for the
doing is working to keep in place something pact right now is Moniz, although he said that the former
that’s still technically a ‘measure of the United energy secretary may not have the name recognition
States,’ I don’t see how the statute would apply required to drive a national debate (Kurtzer himself
even if someone was crazy enough to try it.” initially could not correctly recall his name).
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John Kerry Lashed Out At Israeli PM Netanyahu After His
Secret Meeting With Iranian Foreign Minister
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 6:22 Pm
https://europeanmpsforjcpoa.com
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Kerry argued the US needs the Iranian
nuclear deal because Iran continues to build
nukes… This was after they were caught
breaking the deal!
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FBI Has Not Requested
Anti-Trump Agents’ Personal Email Records
Chuck Ross - Reporter
6:26 PM 05/04/2018
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Report: John Kerry Colludes
With Iran To Undermine American Foreign Policy
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
6:28 PM 05/04/2018
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BREAKING: Newly Unredacted Portion Of House Intel
Report Proves Comey Is Lying To Reporters Today
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 7:06 Pm
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Byron York reported:
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BREAKING: Trump-Hating FBI Lawyer
Lisa Page And Comey Confidant James Baker Resign
By Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018, 8:19 Pm
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interview that he would be joining the Brookings
Institution to write for Lawfare, its blog focused on
national security law.
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BREAKING: Embattled
FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Has Resigned
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:32 PM 05/04/2018
The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text “OMG THIS IS F***ING TERRIFYING,” Page
messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, wrote to Strzok on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016.
The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
“F Trump,” Strzok wrote in another text.
The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered
her resignation. The Justice Department’s office of the inspector general
discovered the biased text messages as part of the
watchdog’s investigation into the FBI’s handling of the
Clinton email investigation.
The exchanges show a deep hostility to President Donald Page is also a central player in Horowitz’s investigation of
Trump at a time when the two officials were working on McCabe. She is the FBI official who McCabe instructed to
the FBI’s investigation into possible Trump campaign speak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an October
collusion with the Russian government. Some of the texts 2016 article about the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email
show Strzok and Page cryptically discussing how to investigation. McCabe authorized Page to leak to The
proceed with the investigation, which was opened on July Journal
31, 2016.
“in a manner designed to advance his personal
“I want to believe the path you threw out for interests at the expense of Department
consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no leadership,” Horowitz determined.
way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we
can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote to Page in an Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16
Aug. 15, 2016 text referring to then-FBI Deputy based upon a recommendation from the FBI’s Office of
Director Andrew McCabe. Professional Responsibility (OPR).
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event Horowitz released a report on April 13 that alleged
you die before you’re 40,” he added. McCabe gave inaccurate and incomplete statements about
his authorization of the media leaks. The report, which
dinged McCabe for a “lack of candor,” said he initially
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denied to both the OPR and the inspector general that he sent to the FBI’s human resources division after his
authorized Page to speak with The Journal. removal from the Mueller team.
Horowitz is expected to release a report this month that An attorney for Page did not respond to requests for
will focus more heavily on Strzok and Page. Strzok was comment about the resignation.
.
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VIDEO=> Watch James Comey
OPENLY LIE To Bret Baier About
Mike Flynn’s Testimony
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 8:50 Pm
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Dan Bongino: Media Has
‘Failed Us’ On Mueller Story
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:28 PM 05/04/2018
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The Media’s No Good, Very Bad Week
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:52 PM 05/04/2018
The shift in tone of the WHCD was evident this year when If guests were shocked by that reporter’s actions, they
comedienne Michelle Wolf mean-spiritedly attacked White would have been seriously disturbed by another Thursday
House press secretary Sarah Sanders, accusing of her of event.
everything from acting like an angry softball coach to
being an “Uncle Tom” for white women. NBC News, clearly stumbling through the week at this
point, claimed in a report that federal investigators had
Many journalists publicly and privately expressed dismay been listening in on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phone
with the “entertainment” and quickly tried to distance calls. The story led to breathless coverage throughout the
themselves from Wolf’s act, including avoiding asking media, but like many of the media’s anti-Trump stories, it
Sanders any questions about it at the next White House turned out to be fake news.
press briefing.
MSNBC later issued an on-air correction clarifying that
While the WHCD eventually disappeared from the front investigators had a pen register warrant on Cohen, which
page, the press made a number of other major missteps that allowed them to see his call logs but did not allow them to
discolored the week. actually listen to any of his calls. It was nowhere near the
“wiretap” the network initially claimed.
On Monday, a number of news outlets got basic facts
wrong about Vice President Mike Pence’s planned speech To summarize, the media kicked off this week with an
at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. elitist dinner to “honor the First Amendment,” only to
Politico, USA Today, MSNBC and a number of local cripple themselves with a series of fake news stories,
outlets ran with false headlines claiming the NRA was rancorous behavior and yet another sexual harassment
banning guns from its own meeting. scandal.
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BOOM! Dirty Cop Mueller Seeks Delay In
Junk Russia Bot Case After Indicted Company
Calls His Bluff
By Jim Hoft
May 4, 2018, 9:54 Pm
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Porn Star Stormy Daniels Admits
She’s Not Paying For Her Attorney Fees – Who Is?
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 7:52 Am
.
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Crooked Rod Rosenstein Appears Unconcerned About
Upcoming DOJ IG Report?… What Does He Know?
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 8:11 Am
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s widely anticipated In December Congressman Jim Jordan grilled Rosenstein
testimony next week before the House Oversight who again appeared to have confidence in the DOJ IG’s
Committee has been postponed, as the Justice Department pending report:
IG has pursued new leads in his review of the Hillary
Clinton email investigation, according to a congressional
letter and sources familiar with the matter.
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Laura Ingraham Hammers Devin Nunes On Not Reading
Requested Documents — ‘How Serious Are You?’
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:18 AM 05/05/2018
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LOCK THEM UP! Newly Released Unredacted Documents
Were Not A National Security Threat – Instead Show DOJ-
FBI Was PROTECTING COMEY
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 10:31 Am
Now this…
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Don Lemon: If Trump Isn’t Racist,
‘He’s Certainly Racist-Adjacent’ (VIDEO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 5, 2018, 11:06 Am
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FBI Faced ‘Conundrum’
In Its Investigation Of Michael Flynn
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:18 PM 05/05/2018
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The interview took place on Jan. 24, 2017. One of the He noted that the lack of apparent deception “was not [a]
agents who interviewed Flynn was Peter Strzok, the former great beginning of a false statement case,” according to the
FBI counterintelligence division official who is currently House Intel report.
ensnared in scandal for sending anti-Trump text messages
to an FBI lawyer. McCabe also described the
Both Comey and McCabe told the House Intel panel that “conundrum that we faced on their return from
the agents did not detect deception from Flynn during the the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t
White House interview. detect deception in the statements that he
made in the interview … the statements were
Comey said that they interviewers inconsistent with our understanding of the
conversation that he had actually had with the
“discerned no physical indications of deception. ambassador.'”
They didn’t see any change in posture, in tone,
in inflection, in eye contact. They saw nothing The implications of Comey and McCabe’s initial
that indicated to them that he knew he was lying assessment of the Flynn investigation are unclear.
to them.” Supporters of the retired general are likely to argue that the
White House interview was a last-ditch effort to trap Flynn
McCabe confirmed the FBI agents’ perception of the into committing a crime. Flynn’s critics have maintained
Flynn interview. that his decision to lie about his Kislyak contacts is
evidence of a larger cover-up.
“The two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t
think he was lying.” An attorney for Flynn declined to discuss the House Intel
report because of the special counsel’s ongoing
investigation. Flynn is cooperating with the investigation
as part of his plea deal.
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Newly Unredacted Docs Reveal Illegal Counterintel Leak
About Flynn’s Call To Kislyak Enabled Obama FBI To
Keep Operation Open On General Flynn
By Cristina Laila
May 5, 2018, 12:27 Pm
On Friday night the Department of December 31th 2016: Kislyak calls Flynn again
Justice released the requested unredacted with good news Russia won’t escalate
documents to to the House Intelligence retaliation for sanctions Obama placed on
Committee on the investigation of Donald Russia. Flynn then relates this message to
Trump and the ambush interview of Michael transition officials.
Flynn coordinated by corrupt agents
Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok.
The Deep State take down of General Flynn timeline: January 10th 2017: Buzzfeed publishes entire
Russia dossier.
December 28th 2016: General Flynn has a
flurry of calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak January 12th 2017: An unknown illegally leaks
as part of his transition work as National General Flynn’s phone calls discussing
Security Advisor. Russia’s sanctions with Kislyak to the media.
Media goes wild as Russian fever is in full gear.
December 29th 2016: Flynn calls senior Trump
transition officials to discuss his phone calls January 14th: Flynn tells Pence he didn’t
with Kislyak. discuss Russia sanctions with Kislyak.
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January 24th 2017: Peter Strzok So Comey wasn’t concerned about who illegally leaked
ambushed General Flynn with the help of General Flynn’s phone calls.
McCabe with a surprise ‘interview’ about his
conversations with Russian Ambassador This is more proof that Obama’s corrupt DOJ and FBI care
Kislyak. This led to Flynn’s firing. not about national security.
February 13th 2017: General Flynn resigns as In fact, the redactions made to the House Intel report
NatSec Advisor. weren’t about national security either, they were made to
PROTECT COMEY.
December 1st 2017: General Flynn pleads
guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations
with Kislyak.
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Chuck Todd Conducts Softball Interview With Reporter
Who Broke Contested Michael Cohen Prague Story
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:53 PM 05/05/2018
Chuck Todd had a prime opportunity to get to the bottom that claims to have knowledge about our
of a potentially game-changing report that deals with the investigation and dig deep into what they claim
question of possible Trump campaign collusion. before reporting on it,” the spokesperson said.
On Friday, the MSNBC host interviewed Greg Gordon, a “If another outlet reports something, don’t run
McClatchy journalist who reported on April 13 that the with it unless you have your own sourcing to
special counsel’s office has been provided evidence that back it up,” a spokesperson for the special
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen visited Prague in August or counsel’s office told TheDCNF.
September 2016, as alleged in the infamous Steele dossier.
The sourcing for the McClatchy story — which is
If true, the report would be a major bombshell on the described as “two sources familiar with the matter” — has
Russia collusion front. invited speculation, most notably from former Trump
campaign aide Michael Caputo. During testimony before
Cohen has vehemently denied visiting Prague ever since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday,
BuzzFeed News published the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017. Caputo speculated that a former committee staffer named
The dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Daniel Jones was one of the sources for the McClatchy
Steele, claims that Cohen met with Russian government article.
officials to coordinate the dissemination of documents
hacked from Democrats. “But who is McClatchy’s second source? It
couldn’t be Dan [Jones]; he was the first source
WATCH: McClatchy reporter defends murky Michael … So who could it be — perhaps one of his
Cohen Prague story former Senate Intelligence colleagues? I mean,
you’re all in this together. You’re the swamp,”
Caputo said in the interview.
An attorney who met with Jones that same month has told
The Daily Caller News Foundation that Jones claimed to
be working closely with Fusion GPS, which he described
as a “shadow media organization” that was helping the
government. The attorney, Adam Waldman, also said that
If Cohen lied about visiting the European city, his and Jones claimed that billionaire philanthropist George Soros
President Donald Trump’s denials about collusion with the was a Fusion GPS donor. Jones also told Waldman that he
Russian government would invite heavy scrutiny. personally helped place anti-Trump news stories with
media oulets.
But the McClatchy report has some problems. No other
outlets have confirmed the reporting. In response to In his interview on Friday, Todd glossed over many of the
inquiry about the report, the special counsel’s office issued questions that could help determine how seriously the
a cryptically-worded statement to The Daily Caller News McClatchy report should be taken.
Foundation warning against vague reports.
“You were one of the bylines along with Peter
“What I have been telling all reporters is that Stone on a pretty blockbuster report a couple
many stories about our investigation have been weeks ago that other news organizations
inaccurate. Be very cautious about any source haven’t been able to match…which is this idea
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that Mueller has proof that Michael Cohen — or distinction. Nor did he ask how the evidence was presented
has evidence of Michael Cohen traveled to or who presented it.
Prague,” Todd began.
“We checked with our two sources who we
He noted the frustration reporters have with major stories trust, and they told us that they were happy with
that other outlets are unable to corroborate. the story,” Gordon said.
“I know that as a reporter, you want to be first, “So you stand by it?” asked Todd.
but you want to know that others have that,”
said Todd. “We stand by it, and of course we’ll find out
what happens presumably. And if Michael
Gordon clarified to Todd that his report said that Mueller Cohen ends up becoming a government
has been presented with “evidence” — and not “proof” — witness, we might find out more,” Gordon
of Cohen’s trip to Prague. But Todd did not tease out the replied.
.
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Dershowitz: Comey And Mueller
Treat Trump Like ‘A Mafia Boss’
Virginia Kruta
1:43 PM 05/05/2018
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FIGHTING FAKE NEWS:
Trump Campaign Launches MSM “Accountability
Survey” Against “Liberal Propaganda Machine”
By Lucian Wintrich
May 5, 2018, 1:52 Pm
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Mainstream Media Accountability Survey
Do you trust the mainstream media to put the interests Do you believe that the media sensationalizes and
of Americans first? exaggerates stories in order to paint President Trump
and conservatives in a bad light?
Do you trust the mainstream media to report fairly on
our presidency? Do you believe that the media purposely tries to divide
Republicans in order to help elect Democrats?
Do you trust NBC to fairly report on our presidency?
Based on your answers above, do you believe that the
Do you trust CNN to report fairly on our presidency? Republican Party should spend more time and
resources holding the mainstream media accountable?
Do you trust MSNBC to fairly report on our presidency?
Do you agree with President Trump’s strategy of
Do you trust Fox News to fairly report on our communicating directly with his supporters through
presidency? Twitter, email, and Facebook videos?
What television source do you primarily get your news Do you believe the media is biased when it covers
from? President Trump’s stances on illegal immigration (ex:
the Wall, ending Sanctuary cities)?
Do you use a source not listed above?
Do you believe the media is biased when it covers
On which issues does the mainstream media do the President Trump’s restriction on immigration from
worst job of representing President Trump? (Select as countries compromised by radical Islamic terrorism?
many that apply.)
Do you believe the media is biased when it covers
Immigration people of faith and supporters of religious liberties?
Economics
Do you believe that the media unfairly reported on
Radical Islamic Terrorism President Trump’s executive order granting Americans
Pro-life values/social issues the freedom to buy health care across state lines?
Second Amendment rights Do you agree with the President’s decision to break
with tradition by giving lesser known reporters and
Do you feel that the media is too eager to slur bloggers the chance to ask the press secretary
conservatives with baseless accusations of racism and questions?
sexism?
What percentage do you believe is an accurate
Do you believe that the mainstream media does their representation of President Trump’s positive news
due-diligence fact-checking before publishing stories coverage by the mainstream media?
on the Trump Administration?
Are there any other thoughts you’d like to share with
Do you believe the media fails to report on Democrats’ the President when it comes to mainstream media
scandals? accountability?
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A Kid Yells To Trump While He’s On Stage
— His Response Will Warm Your Heart
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
2:19 PM 05/05/2018
Trump turned his head and had the perfect response. Then, what appeared to be the voice of a child yelled “hi!”
to Trump.
WATCH:
Trump laughed and said, “Thank you.”
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McCain Tells Inner Circle He Does Not
Want President Trump At His Funeral – Send Pence
By Jim Hof
May 5, 2018, 2:33 Pm
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‘Orwellian Nonsense’: Trump Says US Companies Are
Done Playing China’s Political Correctness Game
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
3:23 PM 05/05/2018
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New FOIA Documents Reveal FBI LOST
Chain Of Custody Of Hillary’s Server For Five Weeks
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 4:08 Pm
The FBI released a 229 page file on the How does this happen?
investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
mishandling of classified – sensitive
investigative matter.
Via Wikileaks:
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President Trump Celebrates Cinco De Mayo By Lauding
‘Significant Contributions Of Mexican Americans’
Scott Morefield - Reporter
4:41 PM 05/05/2018
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Sarah Sanders Calls Out Dem
‘Hypocrisy’ On Women’s Empowerment
Saagar Enjeti -White House Correspondent
4:53 PM 05/05/2018
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders White House legislative affairs director Marc Short
called out Democratic lawmakers for opposing the lamented to a roundtable the attacks in recent weeks on
administration’s nominee to be the next CIA director in a Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson, who was briefly nominated to
Saturday tweet. be the secretary of veterans affairs.
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‘Let Me Assault YOUR Reputation’
— MSNBC Panel Turns Into Dumpster Fire [VIDEO]
Peter Hasson - Reporter
5:40 PM 05/05/2018
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House Intel Committee Chairman Nunes:
“Send In The G-Men” To Arrest John Kerry
For Violating Logan Act
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 5:45 Pm
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Logan Act, which could theoretically result in three year in
federal prison.
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Security Expert Tony Shaffer:
The Question Of Why Flynn Pleaded Guilty Is Now Clear –
He Was Lied To By Mueller
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 6:15 Pm
2.) Peter Strzok was removed from your team Security expert Tony Shaffer believes he
after more than 10,000 texts between him and now understands why Michael Flynn
fellow team member Lisa Page were found to pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
contain vitriolic anti-Trump tirades. These texts
were not simply anti-Trump. They were more in Shaffer believes Michael Flynn was lied to.
the nature of desperate attempts to stop him
from becoming president and talk of a nefarious The Department of Justice released the
insurance policy to orchestrate his removal if he requested unredacted documents to the
were elected. Did they ever speak this way House Intelligence Committee on the
about Donald Trump in your presence? Why investigation of Donald Trump and the
were you so determined to have people with interview of Michael Flynn by corrupt agents
outright hatred of Donald Trump on your special Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok.
counsel team?
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The newly unredacted portion of the House Intel Report
revealed Comey told lawmakers that the FBI agents who
interviewed General Flynn did not detect any deception.
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HAH! Trump-Appointed Judge REJECTS Dirty Cop
Mueller’s Request For Delay In Junk Russian Bot Case
By Cristina Laila
May 5, 2018, 6:49 Pm
It has been a bad week for Mueller. According to Sperry, a veteran FBI agent said the 13
indictments by Mueller are moot and it was done for show
First his prosecutors were raked over the to solely justify the Special Counsel’s existence and salary.
coals by Judge Ellis, now his request for
delay on the junk Russian bot case has been Well, now one of the companies wants to play ball and
DENIED. Mueller is running scared.
It gets better….
Politico reported:
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pressure on the special counsel’s office to turn
over records related to the case.
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Leaked Transcript Of Manafort Hearing
Shows Mueller’s Team Of Corrupt Hacks TOOK A
BEATING From Judge Ellis
By Cristina Laila
May 5, 2018, 7:50 Pm
The Federal Judge in Paul Manafort’s case The Gateway Pundit unrolled the entire thread here:
cast doubt on Friday over Mueller’s bank
fraud case against the former Trump
campaign manager.
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