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 Comey: Country Would Probably
Be Better Off With Hillary As President
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:04 PM 04/19/2018

Former FBI Director James Comey made a glaringly false claim

about the infamous Steele dossier in a recent interview with ABC
News. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)

Former FBI director James Comey said in a Thursday

night interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick
that he thinks the country would probably be better off if
Hillary Clinton were elected president.
During an earlier interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper,
Comey declined to say if he thinks Clinton would have
been a better president than Trump, stating, “I can’t answer
that.”
Comey also told Tapper that he doesn’t dislike Trump,
which he says his wife was not happy about. He added that
he feels sorry for Trump because, “he has an emptiness
inside of him and a need for affirmation I’ve never seen in
an adult.”

He apparently later changed his mind, telling Remnick that

he thinks the country would probably be better off with
Clinton and that voters bear some responsibility for
choosing Trump.

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 “I Don’t Do Sneaky Things, I Don’t Leak, I Don’t Do
Weasel Moves” Comey Pens In Memo He Later
Leaked To Liberal Media
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 9:28 Pm

“I said I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak, I don’t do

weasel moves,” Comey claimed in his memo only to leak the
memos to the liberal media a few months later.

Comey admitted in a testimony he gave contents of his

memos to a trusted friend to leak to the New York Times in
order to prompt a special counsel.

Screenshot of Comey’s memo discussing his ‘honesty’

below:

Redacted memos written by disgraced

former FBI Director James Comey were
published online on Thursday evening.

Comey penned seven memos stemming from nine

conversations he had with President Trump during his time
at the FBI.

In a memo dated January 28th 2017, Comey recalls a

dinner he had with President Trump in the Green Room at
the White House.

Comey says Trump told him there were about 20 people

who wanted his job as FBI Director.

Trump allegedly told Comey he heard great things about

him be he would understand if he wanted to walk away
from his post given the firestorm over Hillary’s
investigation.

Comey responded by telling Trump he ‘could fire him at

any time he wished’ but he wanted to finish out his term
because he found directorship very rewarding.
Here’s the kicker…Comey told Trump he could count on
him to always tell the truth.
After facing threat of subpoena, the 15-page document was
provided to Congress by the Justice Department on
Thursday.

Congress received both redacted and unredacted versions

of Comey’s memos.
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After facing threat of subpoena, the 15-page document was Congress received both redacted and unredacted versions
provided to Congress by the Justice Department on of Comey’s memos.
Thursday.

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 NBC Ignores McCabe’s Criminal
Referral, ABC And CBS Downplay
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19, 2018 9:30 PM EDT

conduct of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe

who has been accused of being deceptive about his
contacts with the media.

Meanwhile, on ABC’s World News Tonight, they gave the

criminal referral the largest share of airtime with a one-
minute-and-38-second segment. 62 seconds of that time
was anchor David Muir and chief Justice correspondent
Pierre Thomas summarizing what McCabe was being
accused of, while the rest recapped his role in various
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s retirement investigations and his firing.
went from bad to worse on Thursday as the Bureau’s
Inspector General brought his case to federal prosecutors
with a criminal referral. McCabe was fired in March after
an IG investigation found he had lied to investigators about
leaks to the press during the Clinton e-mail investigation.
When it came to reporting the damning news that evening,
NBC Nightly News ignored revelation all together while
ABC and CBS gave it less time than his firing.

This was not the first time NBC had ignored developments
involving McCabe’s misconduct during investigations.
When it was first revealed that McCabe’s head was on the
chopping block just days prior to his retirement, NBC
failed to dedicate a single second of airtime (as the
NewsBusters previously reported). And when the IG
report was actually released on March 13, NBC didn’t
touch on it until Saturday.
Looking back at the MRC’s previous reporting on McCabe
coverage, we found that the CBS Evening News
downplayed his firing. When it was apparent that McCabe
was possibily going to be fired, CBS dedicated one minute
and 15 seconds to the news. But upon the criminal
referral's arrival, they crammed it into a larger report and
only spent 42 seconds on it. And as for the release of the
IG report, CBS also used just 42 seconds to inform
viewers.
And when reporting on the criminal referral Thursday,
CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett seemed to
suggest it was just something for President Trump to wield
against the Mueller investigation:
Mr. Trump has also tried to undermine the investigation by
attacking former FBI officials. He has zeroed in on the
.
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Previously, World News Tonight spent almost two minutes
(119 seconds) on the possibility McCabe could be fired
and most of that was worrying about him losing his
pension. As the MRC had noted at the time, ABC had
spent only 15 seconds on the details of why McCabe was
in hot water. The worrying for his pension went on for
days. And when the IG report was finally released, World
News Tonight ignored it.
“The former second in command at the
FBI now facing a possible criminal
investigation by the very agents he once
led,” Thomas bemoaned on Thursday.
“Today [on CNN], Comey saying he
could even potentially be a witness
against McCabe, offering his former
deputy little support.”
Instead of reporting on McCabe’s criminal referral, NBC
Nightly News ran reports on how YouTube selected
recommended videos claiming it was “secrets revealed”
and a Michigan family having their 14th boy.
 BREAKING: GOP Congressional Leaders Nunes, Gowdy
And Goodlatte Release Statement On Comey Memos
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 9:32 Pm
The Permanent Select Committee
published the statement tonight:
The Department of Justice turned over
the Comey memos to Congress today
after missing their deadline earlier in the
week.
Congressional leaders threatened to impeach deep state
leaders if they continued to stall on the memos.
Fired FBI Chief James Comey wrote about the memos in
his book and leaked the documents to reporters last year.
Congress has not yet had a chance to look at the memos —
Until tonight.
The 15-page document was provided to Congress by the
Justice Department on Thursday.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Ca.), House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman
Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) issued a statement on the memos
later tonight.
The House chairmen note that the memos
prove that fired Director Comey never felt
obstructed or threatened from his
relationship with the president.
And… former Director Comey leaked at least
one of these memos for the stated purpose
of spurring the appointment of Special
Counsel.
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on Intelligence
Today House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Ca.), House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.),
and House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) issued the
following statement:
“We have long argued former Director Comey’s self-
styled memos should be in the public domain, subject
to any classification redactions. These memos are
significant for both what is in them and what is not.
Former Director Comey’s memos show the President
made clear he wanted allegations of collusion,
coordination, and conspiracy between his campaign
and Russia fully investigated. The memos also made
clear the ‘cloud’ President Trump wanted lifted was
not the Russian interference in the 2016 election
cloud, rather it was the salacious, unsubstantiated
allegations related to personal conduct leveled in the
dossier.
The memos also show former Director Comey never
wrote that he felt obstructed or threatened. While
former Director Comey went to great lengths to set
dining room scenes, discuss height requirements,
describe the multiple times he felt complimented, and
myriad other extraneous facts, he never once
mentioned the most relevant fact of all, which was
whether he felt obstructed in his investigation.
The memos also make certain what has become
increasingly clear of late: former Director Comey has
at least two different standards in his interactions with
others. He chose not to memorialize conversations
with President Obama, Attorney General Lynch,
Secretary Clinton, Andrew McCabe or others, but he
immediately began to memorialize conversations with
President Trump. It is significant former Director
Comey made no effort to memorialize conversations
with former Attorney General Lynch despite concerns
apparently significant enough to warrant his
unprecedented appropriation of the charging decision
away from her and the Department of Justice in July
of 2016.
These memos also lay bare the notion that former
Director Comey is not motivated by animus. He was
 willing to work for someone he deemed morally
unsuited for office, capable of lying, requiring of
personal loyalty, worthy of impeachment, and sharing
the traits of a mob boss. Former Director Comey was
willing to overlook all of the aforementioned
characteristics in order to keep his job. In his eyes, the
real crime was his own firing.
The memos show Comey was blind to biases within
the FBI and had terrible judgment with respect to his
deputy Andrew McCabe. On multiple occasions he, in
his own words, defended the character of McCabe
after President Trump questioned McCabe.
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Finally, former Director Comey leaked at least one of
these memos for the stated purpose of spurring the
appointment of Special Counsel, yet he took no steps
to spur the appointment of Special Counsel when he
had significant concerns about the objectivity of the
Department of Justice under Attorney General Loretta
Lynch.
As we have consistently said, rather than making a
criminal case for obstruction or interference with an
ongoing investigation, these memos would be
Defense Exhibit A should such a charge be made.”
 Trump Fires Off Midnight Tweet Blasting
Comey Over Memos: ‘He Leaked Classified Information’
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 10:56 Pm

Trump also pointed out that Comey leaked classified

information then asked,

“will the witch hunt continue?”

Trump tweeted:

James Comey Memos just out and show

clearly that there was NO COLLUSION
and NO OBSTRUCTION. Also, he leaked
classified information. WOW! Will the Witch
Redacted memos written by disgraced Hunt continue?
former FBI Director James Comey
were published online on Thursday
evening.

Comey penned seven memos stemming from nine

conversations he had with President Trump during his time
at the FBI.

The Department of Justice turned over

the Comey memos to Congress today
after missing their deadline earlier in the
week.

Congressional leaders threatened to impeach deep state

leaders if they continued to stall on the memos.

Fired FBI Chief James Comey wrote about the memos in

his book and leaked the documents to reporters last year.
Congress has not yet had a chance to look at the memos —
The president blasted Comey in a midnight tweet. Until tonight.

The memos show there was no collusion and no AND—– THE MEMOS ARE CLASSIFIED!
obstruction.
Meaning Fired FBI Chief James Comey
Not once did Comey express that he felt threatened or leaked CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO
obstructed by Trump in his memos. THE PRESS.

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 Comey Memo: Pressure From
CNN Prompted Dossier Briefing
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:05 PM 04/19/2018
Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a newly
released memo that pressure from news outlets — “CNN
in particular” — convinced him to brief then-President-
Elect Donald Trump on the infamous Steele dossier during
a meeting at Trump Tower on Jan. 6, 2017.
“I said media like CNN had [the dossier]
and were looking for a news hook,” Comey
wrote in a memo just after briefing Trump
about the salacious allegations in the
dossier.
“I said it was inflammatory stuff that they
would get killed for reporting straight up
from the source reports,” he added.
Four days after that meeting, CNN published a story
revealing the existence of a salacious report alleging the
Russian government had compromised Trump. The CNN
story was referring to what’s now known as the dossier —
an unverified 35-page report written by former British spy
Christopher Steele.
CNN found its news hook: the very same meeting Comey
said was necessary because of pressure from CNN.
James Comey’s notes from Jan. 6, 2017 meeting with President-Elect Trump]
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CNN’s bombshell report created another news hook but
for another news outlet. Hours after the CNN story went
live, BuzzFeed News published the entire 35-page dossier,
which was later revealed to be funded by the Clinton
campaign and DNC.
The report has cast a cloud over the Trump presidency
ever since, even though Trump has vehemently denied its
allegations.
The Republican has reportedly fumed he believes Comey
set him up. Comey’s briefing was used as a pretext to
publish the dossier, which alleges the Russian government
is blackmailing Trump with video of him using prostitutes
in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, the president argued.
The leaker of the Comey briefing to Trump has not been
identified, though only a small number of government
officials would have been aware of the meeting and of
what Comey told Trump.
Joining Comey were James Clapper, John Brennan and
Adm. Mike Rogers, the directors of the Office of National
Intelligence, the CIA and the National Security Agency,
respectively.
Clapper was in contact with CNN journalists at around the
time of the briefing, the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence found. Clapper is currently an
analyst at CNN.
“Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, now a CNN national
security analyst, provided inconsistent
testimony to the Committee about his
contacts with the media, including CNN,” a
recent report from the Intelligence
Committee states.
Comey mentioned CNN’s efforts to report the dossier in
another meeting with Trump held at the White House on
Jan. 28, 2017.
“I explained why I had thought it was
important that he know about [the dossier],”
[James Comey’s notes]
Trump denied the dossier’s explosive claim, saying he did
not need prostitutes, Comey wrote in his notes. Trump
planned to sue Steele, the Republican also told Comey at
one point.
Trump also said he did not know Sergei Millian, a Belarus-
born businessman who is alleged to be one of the sources
for the prostitute claim.
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Comey wrote in a memo he wrote shortly
after his White House visit.
“I also explained that one of the reasons
we told him was that the media, CNN in
particular, was telling us they were about to
run with it.”
Comey doubts the Russian government has compromising
material on Trump, the former FBI director has said in
recent interviews.
“It always struck me and still strikes me as
unlikely, and I woulda been able to say with
high confidence about any other president I
dealt with, but I can’t. It’s possible,” Comey
said Sunday in an interview with ABC
News’ George Stephanopoulos.
 ‘Hardball’ Guest Seems To Suggest McCabe Referral For
Charges Is Part Of ‘Assault’ On Mueller Probe
By Curtis Houck
April 19, 2018 11:21 PM EDT

Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor
Eddie Glaude appeared to complain during Thursday’s
Hardball that, along with new demands from Republican
congressmen for documents from the Clinton e-mail
investigation, the FBI Inspector General’s criminal referral
concerning former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
was part of an “assault” on Robert Mueller’s
investigation.
“[I]s this obstruction again? Is this what
the Republicans are doing? Just trying
to delay, distract, waste time...so that
they can confuse the thing...I don't think
they're going to stop Mueller. I think
they're going to incite him to be more —
more militant in his investigation. But
what are the Republicans up to,” host
Chris Matthews wondered.
Smart try, Professor, but that’s some serious spin to link
the two together with the McCabe case having thoroughly
been investigated with now-public findings that he was
less than truthful in recalling interactions with fellow
agents and a Wall Street Journal reporter.
In a brief aside, he also mentioned Rudy Giuliani in light
of his decision to join the President’s legal team and the
appearance prior to the 2016 election that Giuliani may
have had prior knowledge of the FBI’s decision to reopen
the Clinton e-mail investigation.
“So it seems to me that this — this is all
confusing and consistent with the idea
that Trump is trying to divert attention
and two things. It also shows that this is
not a one man show,” Glaude concluded.
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
April 19, click “expand.”

MSNBC’s Hardball
April 19, 2018
7:09 p.m. Eastern

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Professor Glaude, is this obstruction

The liberal professor agreed and lumped in requests by
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Mark
Meadows (N.C.) with an action by an Obama-appointed
IG as part of a broader plot to take down the Trump-Russia
investigation:
again? Is this what the Republicans are doing? Just trying to
delay, distract, waste time of the prosecutors — the investigators
so that they can confuse the thing? And apparently — I don't
think they're going to stop Mueller. I think they're going to incite
him to be more — more militant in his investigation. But what are
the Republicans up to?

I mean, when Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan pressure

Rosenstein in the way they do — in the way they’re trying
to do, it seems to suggest there's a kind of pinch that's
being — that’s being orchestrated. There's the attack —
the orchestrated attack on Comey, the I.G. referral for
criminal investigation of McCabe. It seems that there's this
all-out effort, this assault on — on — on — on the
investigation to slow things up, gum it up as much as
possible and, to my mind, it's obstruction.
EDDIE GLAUDE: It seems like it. I mean, when Mark Meadows
and Jim Jordan pressure Rosenstein in the way they do — in the

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way they’re trying to do, it seems to suggest there's a kind of
pinch that's being — that’s being orchestrated. There's the attack
— the orchestrated attack on Comey, the I.G. referral for criminal
investigation of McCabe. It seems that there's this all-out effort,
this assault on — on — on — on the investigation to slow things
up, gum it up as much as possible and, to my mind, it's
obstruction. And I also was just thinking about Giuliani. I
remember the October surprise, Remember he was hinting that
there was something that the campaign was about to release and
it happened to be those e-mails, I think? So it seems to me that
this — this is all confusing and consistent with the idea that
Trump is trying to divert attention and two things. It also shows
that this is not a one man show.
MATTHEWS: Well, let’s go back on that because a lot of our
viewers — Professor, let's get back to that. That’s a hot issue
with a lot of our viewers.
GLAUDE: Sure.
MATTHEWS: I know it was. Sometime, it was 11 days before the
2016 presidential election that Comey came out and said Hillary
.
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Clinton is under investigation again because of Anthony Weiner's
laptop or whatever that he shared with his wife, Huma Abedin,
may had stuff that was classified and shouldn't have there, so
that launched a very bad 11 days for Hillary Clinton. Rudy
Giuliani, as you accurately point out gave us an advance look at
that. Why would Rudy know that Comey was going to release
that announcement about Hillary Clinton at such a critical
moment in the campaign that many believe, including me, believe
turned the election result in that last week and a half.
GLAUDE: There was some reporting at the time that Rudy
Giuliani had some connections with agents — FBI agents in the
New York office —
MATTHEWS: Did he push it?
GLAUDE: — that alerted him to this fact.
MATTHEWS: Did he push it?
GLAUDE: And it seemed, to me, he pushed. Yes. It seemed to
me. That's what I believe.
Developing: Obama CIA Chief John Brennan Made Secret
Visit To Russia Around Same Time As Fusion GPS
Produced Anti-Trump Memos
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 2:10 Am
Well isn’t this interesting?
Obama CIA Chief John Brenna, who is
fiercely anti-Trump, made a secret visit
to Moscow in March 2016.
Weeks later in June Christopher Steele
with Fusion GPS, who was hired
indirectly by Hillary Clinton, produced
his first anti-Trump memo.
Via The Donald Reddit:
According to a report earlier this month
former Senate Minority leader Harry
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Reid believed Brennan was using him in
order to publicize pretend links between
Trump campaign associates and the
Russian government.
The Russian papers reported on the
visit at the time.
The Moscow Times reported on the trip on March
28,2016:
John Brennan, the director of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), made a secret
visit to Moscow in March, according to
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg
Syromolotov. The visit, he said, had
nothing to do with Russia’s decision two
weeks ago to begin withdrawing from Syria.
“It’s no secret that Brennan was here,”
Syromolotov was quoted by the Interfax
news agency as saying Monday. “But he
didn’t visit the Foreign Ministry. I know for
sure that he met with the Federal Security
Service (the successor agency to the
Soviet KGB), and someone else.”
It wasn’t clear why Brennan visited Moscow, but the trip
appears to have coincided with President Vladimir Putin’s
surprise March 14 announcement that Russia’s combat
operation in Syria was ending, and Moscow would soon
withdraw a portion of its forces from the country after
conducting 167 air strikes.
Today John Brennan is one of the most
vocal Trump critics.
Interesting.
 The GOP’s Best Defense Against
A Massive Blue Wave In 2018 Is A Good Offense
Peter Parisi - Freelance Writer
2:34 AM 04/20/2018
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who
doubles as Senate majority leader (though perhaps not for
much longer), certainly has a keen grasp of the obvious.
In the midterm elections in November, Mr. McConnell
said in an interview earlier this month with Kentucky
Today, a Baptist publication,
“We know the wind is going to be in our
[i.e., the GOP’s] face.
“We don’t know whether it’s going to be a
Category 3, 4 or 5.”
What’s even less clear is what Mr. McConnell and the rest
of what passes for the Republican congressional leadership
is doing to avert the Democratic “blue wave” — to mix a
meteorological metaphor — that Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker sees on the horizon if his fellow Republicans don’t
go on offense, and soon.
Mr. Walker raised the tsunami warning after Democrats
won an election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme
Court on the same day Mr. McConnell sat down with
Kentucky Today.
“I’m hoping we can hold the Senate,” Mr.
McConnell said. “And the principle reason
for that [is], even if we were to lose the
House and be stymied legislatively, we
could still approve [presidential]
appointments, which is a huge part of what
we do.”
Kentucky is well inland, of course, so Mr. McConnell may
not understand, but as anyone who lives in the hurricane
belt along the coast from the Carolinas to Texas would tell
you, you don’t just sit and wait for one to hit and hope for
the best.
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The GOP panic will only ratchet up to Category 5 if
Republicans were to lose the April 24 special election in
Arizona’s 8th Congressional District. Donald Trump beat
Hillary Clinton in Arizona-8 by 21 points, 57 percent to 36
percent. But even if the GOP holds the seat, it shouldn’t
cause complacency about the midterms.
Panicking and curling up in the fetal position is not an
option, especially not when you’re up against the party of
Planned Parenthood. Neither is resting one’s hopes on a
wing and a prayer (although Kentucky Today would surely
recommend praying as a good starting point).
Since the Civil War, the president’s party has lost an
average of 32 seats in the House and two in the Senate in
midterm elections.
Democrats need to net just 24 seats in the House to hand
the speaker’s gavel back to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and that
alone should serve as smelling salts for congressional
Republicans fainting all over Capitol Hill as they look
toward November.
It calls to mind 18th-century essayist Samuel Johnson’s
observation, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Whether that will be enough to hold the House remains to
be seen, but Mr. McConnell’s finger-crossing on losing the
Senate is more perplexing, because it really shouldn’t be a
serious threat.
While Senate Republicans currently hold a razor-thin 51-
49 majority, it will be exceedingly difficult for Democrats
to net two seats, given that they are defending 26 of the 34
seats that are up in November, including 10 in red states
won handily by President Trump in 2016.
Moreover, Democrats don’t have any winning issues to run
on. Their recent string of victories in state and local
elections — 40 seats flipped, by CNN’s count since Mr.
Trump’s election — has been driven almost entirely by an
energized far-left base beset by Trump Derangement
Syndrome.
That’s not much to base a campaign on substance-wise,
but it’s something, and you can’t beat something with
nothing. Republicans need to go on offense if they hope to
hold midterm losses to a minimum in the House and retain
their Senate majority.
Republican candidates need to put the Trump economy
front and center in the campaign, including the Labor
Department report from April 5 that the total number of
people receiving unemployment benefits fell to the lowest
level in 44 years in March.
More importantly, they need to put a human face like that
of Jessica Hodge on the benefits of the Republican tax-cut
bill signed into law by Trump in December.
Their TV ads should juxtapose footage of Mrs. Pelosi
referring to the tax cuts as “crumbs” and vowing to repeal
them if Democrats reclaim Congress alongside that of the
Hurricane, West Virginia, woman on April 5 effusively
thanking Mr. Trump for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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“I just want to say ‘thank you’ for the tax
cuts,” Hodge tearfully told the president at
a tax-cut roundtable event in White Sulphur
Springs, W.Va.
The tax cut saved Hodge and her mail
carrier husband Tony $2,417. “This is a big
deal for our family,” she said.
It’s still the economy, stupid, and Republican campaigns
this fall need to pointedly ask voters whether they really
want to return to the policies that wrought economic
stagnation during Barack Obama’s presidency, because
that’s exactly what they will get if Democrats reclaim
control of Congress.
The bottom line is, in electoral politics as in football, the
best defense is a good offense.
 Meadows Sees ‘Growing Body Of
Evidence’ Comey Lied On Clinton Probe
Former FBI Director Will Be Called To Account For Claim There Was No
'Coordination' Between Him And Then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch To Exonerate Hillary
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 20 Apr 2018 At 7:14 AM

coordination’ message that Director Comey

put out on that infamous day in July, was
actually suggested by the Department of
Justice,” Comey said.

Meadows pointed to a July 1, 2016, text message exchange

between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, both of
whom were involved in the Clinton investigation.
There is a “growing body of evidence” indicating that
former FBI Director James Comey lied under oath about "Timing looks like hell," Strzok told Page.
his investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential "Will appear choreographed. All major
nominee Hillary Clinton, House Freedom Caucus news networks literally leading with 'AG to
Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Thursday night on accept FBI [director's] recommendation.'"
Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” "Yeah, that is awful timing," Page replied.
"Nothing we can do about it."
Comey (above, center) led the FBI’s investigation into "What I meant was," Strzok continued, "did
Clinton’s use of a private email server for official business DOJ tell us yesterday they were doing this,
while serving as secretary of state. Comey testified under so [Comey] added that language."
oath in July 2016 that he “did not coordinate” with then-
Attorney General Loretta Lynch (above, right) or “anyone”
Page replied she thought
regarding his July 2016 statement exonerating Clinton.
"we had some warning of it," noting that
Meadows (above, left), a member of the House Committee
"they sent some statement to [former
on Oversight and Government Reform, said the evidence
Comey chief of staff James] Rybicki bc he
suggests otherwise.
called [former Deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe]."
“We know because we have a number of
documents, a growing body of evidence,
Pointing to that exchange, plus "another email from the
Brian, that now would suggest that Director
Department of Justice" that described "how to articulate
Comey … under sworn testimony, a
the exoneration of Hillary Clinton," Meadows said that
number of times, has said there was no
more questions have been raised regarding Comey's
coordination between Loretta Lynch’s DOJ
honesty under oath.
and — and [the] FBI investigation,”
Meadows told Fox News co-host Brian
Kilmeade. "As you go further from another source
other than Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
“Not only was that false, but we know that within the Department of Justice, we now
over and over again now, we have emails know that the edits — that they had given
that would suggest that that testimony was edits to Director Comey, or at least the
false and at best misled the American emails would suggest that," Meadows said.
public, at worse was lying to Congress,”
Meadows continued. "As we are looking at this, we have got
Director Comey out there saying, 'Well, I
“And here we are today with emails, text was a Boy Scout. I was above reproach,'"
messages, that say that even the ‘no Meadows added. "Now we have evidence
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 that would suggest that that's not accurate.
So we have to look at it further."
Meadows said that "there's also additional evidence that
would suggest that DOJ narrowed the scope of the Hillary
investigation to make sure that she was exonerated."
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Comey has been on a press tour touting his new book, "A
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," over the
past several days. Many media members and liberals have
been fawning over the negative details and stories Comey
shared about Trump in his book and in interviews,
focusing on whether or not Comey believes that Trump
will be impeached on allegations of "obstruction of justice"
for firing him.

Stewart: Memos Show Comey
Was ‘Dishonest’ From ‘The Very Beginning’
Newly Released And Partially Redacted Documents Don't Reveal Collusion Or
Obstruction Of Justice, But Questions On Former FBI Director's Conduct Intensify
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 20 Apr 2018 At 7:57 AM
Former FBI Director James Comey’s redacted memos
released Thursday detailing his early conversations with
President Donald Trump show that Comey “was dishonest
with the president from the very beginning and continues
to be” to this day, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) said
Thursday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
The Department of Justice turned over redacted versions of
Comey’s memos to Congress Thursday. The memos
recorded seven conversations between Trump and Comey
ranging from before Trump’s January 2017 inauguration
through April 11, 2017. Although four of the partially
redacted memos are classified, the other three are
unclassified.
Stewart (above, second from left), a member of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, noted that
“one of the great frustrations”
congressional committees have had “for
months now” is the Department of Justice’s
and FBI’s refusal to turn over documents
both requested and subpoenaed regarding
the Trump-Russia investigation and probes
pertaining to 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton. Stewart said that
the only way the DOJ and FBI could protect
the U.S. is to “be honest with American
citizens.”
“The Justice Department and FBI have
obstructed at every turn as we’ve
requested — how many times have we had
to threaten subpoena or [have]
subpoenaed?” Stewart told host Laura
Ingraham. “This is another good example
of information that should have been
released the first time we asked.”
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.
"Why in the world does the Department of
Justice feel like it's their responsibility to
protect [Comey], rather than their
responsibility would be — to be open and
honest with the American people?" Stewart
added.
Comey wrote in his memos that Trump "needed loyalty
and expected loyalty" from him. The former FBI director,
whom Trump fired in May 2017, told the president that
"he would always get honesty from me," including "honest
loyalty."
Comey wrote that Trump
"thought maybe he should ask me to
investigate" the salacious and unverified
allegations raised in the anti-Trump
dossier, compiled by Christopher Steele
and funded by the Clinton campaign and
the Democratic National Committee (DNC),
"to prove [the dossier] was a lie."
"I reminded [Trump] that I had told him we
weren't investigating him and that I had told
the Congressional leadership the same
thing," Comey wrote in his memo. "[Trump]
said it would be great if that could get out
and several times asked me to find a way
to get that out."
Stewart said that Comey's memos show him
"that Director Comey was dishonest with
the president from the very beginning and
continues to be."
"[Comey] should have gone in and said,
'Mr. President, we have this piece of
political garbage that was funded by the
DNC, it was funded by Hillary Clinton. Pay
no attention to it, and if anyone brings it up,
we'll refute it. We'll say it's not credible,'"
Stewart said.
"Instead, what he said to the president is,
'The Russians are reporting' [on the
 dossier] as if this was [a] credible Russian
intelligence operation when he knew that it
wasn't," Stewart added. "[Comey] knew
that this wasn't some formal document that
Russia intelligence had created and put
together.
"[Comey] should have been honest with the
president," Stewart continued. "And by the
way, he's being dishonest with the
president [still]. He says that he thinks it's
possible that the president is under some
type of shadow, that the Russians have
some information."
Comey has been asked about his dealings with Trump
extensively during his press tour over the past several
days, touting his book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies,
and Leadership."
"The testimony that the director has
provided before the committee and in
closed sessions does not comport at all
with some of the things that he's saying
publicly right now," Stewart observed. "This
is not about his book. This is about learning
the truth and having him be accountable for
some of the things that he has said."
Solomon Wisenberg (above, second from right), former
deputy independent counsel for Kenneth Starr's
Whitewater-Lewinsky investigation of former President
Bill Clinton, told Ingraham that
"there is no underlying crime for the
president reflected in [Comey's memos] at
all."
"Certainly nothing approaching obstruction
of justice. As is so often the case with
President Trump, there is not an
understanding of norms, norms that have
evolved in how you deal with the FBI and
how you interact with somebody like the
FBI director," Wisenberg said. "But there's
nothing close to an obstruction of justice."
Wisenberg noted that he shares Stewart's concern over
Comey's lack of forthrightness when it came to the dossier
in his conversations with Trump.
"If Director Comey knew at the time of this
initial meeting, where he was alone with the
president and briefed him on the salacious
.
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Russia allegations, if he knew by that point
in time, which I believe he did, who paid for
these, that it was the DNC and Mrs.
Clinton's campaign, I think it is extremely
disappointing that he didn't reveal that to
the president," Wisenberg said. "I think he
definitely should have done so."
Retired FBI Special Agent Bobby Chacon (above, far
right) told Ingraham that Comey went into his early
meetings with Trump with the intention of "immediately
going and creating these memos, which he already told us
that he never had to do under President Obama."
"And it really sets up — his mindset was
that President Trump was an adversary
right from the beginning. Before they even
had a relationship, he's treating the
president of the United States as his
adversary," Chacon said.
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution, told Ingraham that the American people "were
looking for two things" in the memos that Comey asked a
friend of his to leak to the press.
"We were looking for two things in them —
collusion and obstruction of justice. It's not
there," Hanson said.
Wisenberg noted that Comey's memos
"clearly" were not "his personal notes."
"They were on a government computer.
He's writing them to people who are
professionals with him in the FBI,"
Wisenberg said. "And whether it is
classified or unclassified, it's government
property, and he doesn't have the right to
send them out anywhere without getting
permission from the proper authority."
Stewart said that all the American people are asking for is
that Comey and other key officials
"be treated just like I would have been
treated if I had been responsible for either
leaking or disseminating information that
was classified."
Also on the panel was Scott Golden (picture above, far
left), a Democratic lawyer and regular guest on Ingraham's
show.
 AMAZING! Trump Supporters Line Streets Of Key West
For Miles To Welcome President Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 8:10 Am

President Trump visited Key West,

Florida for the first time on Thursday.

Supporters LINED THE STREETS to welcome the 45th

president.

Trump Director of Social Media Dan

Scavino, Jr. posted photos from the Trump News 24-7 posted video from the
motorcade. Trump motorcade.

This was impressive.

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 POTUS Trump Defends General Flynn – Trashes Leaker
Comey After Memos Finally Released To Congress
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 8:27 Am
Michael T. Flynn is an American patriot
who honorably served his country for
over 33 years in the US Army including
five years in combat.
Michael Flynn was set up by the Mueller
Special Counsel.
On January 24, 2017, two of Direct James Comey’s top
FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe went to the
White House to question Michael Flynn.
Former FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers weeks
later that Flynn did not lie under oath during questioning
by the FBI officials.
Flynn was indicted by the Mueller witch
hunt months later for lying.
.
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He pleaded guilty on December 1, 2017.
Rush Limbaugh called the indictment of Michael Flynn
“one of the most gigantic political scandals of
our lifetime.”
Michael Flynn was set up and was
forced to spend his life savings to
defend his name.
On Thursday the Rosenstein DOJ finally released the
James Comey memos to Congress.
The memos show proof that James Comey repeatedly lied
and leaked classified memos to for the liberal media.
Comey is currently on a book tour.
General Michael Flynn is broke and
indicted for a process crime.
President Trump defended Michael
Flynn on Friday morning.
Please donate to the Michael T. Flynn
Legal Defense Fund.
(Mike Jr. told TGP the fund is legitimate and the family is
promoting the donation site.)
Please donate to the family in need.
 Detailed Analysis: Fired FBI Chief James Comey Lies And
Lacks Candor At Least 40 Times In Private Memos
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 8:33 Am
Notes from Former FBI Head James
Comey related to his discussions with
President Trump were finally released
by the DOJ and FBI last night.
These damning notes follow the release
of the DOJ’s IG report less than a week
ago that provided evidence that former
FBI Head Andrew McCabe lied multiple
times, including under oath. The
McCabe report exposed President
Obama’s FBI and DOJ as corrupt,
dishonest, coordinated and conspiring.
Comey’s notes provide additional
support of a very dishonest, conniving
and corrupt FBI led by Comey, who set
the tone.
L- stands for outright lies
PL – stands for probable lies
Less than a week since the DOJ IG’s report about fired
former FBI Head Andrew McCabe, the DOJ and FBI
finally released James Comey’s notes as requested by
Congress. These notes show a very corrupt, manipulative,
conniving and dishonest FBI Director.
A list of the key points in the 15 pages of notes follows –
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1. First note that the notes were classified and therefore Comey
leaked classified information.
2. The first page of the notes includes perhaps the most damning
piece of information from corrupt Comey’s first notes on his
meeting on January 6, 2017. After getting the President-elect
alone, Comey writes, “I then executed the session
exactly as I had planned.”
3. He next states whom the reports were from which is redacted.
But then says that he “didn’t want him caught cold by some of the
detail. [PL]
4. On page 2 Comey writes the Russians allegedly had tapes.
[PL]
5.The President immediately said this was false but Comey never
released this information.
6. Comey says, “I said I wasn’t say this was true. “[PL]…” media
like CNN had them” [how did he know and why was he not
protecting the President-elect?]…It’s important not to give them
“the excuse to write that the FBI had the material” [PL]… they
[FBI] were keeping it very close [PL]
7. Comey admits they were not investigating [President-elect
Trump] but it was being said out of Russia [PL]
8. Comey also wanted to let him [Trump] know in case it came
out in the media. [PL]
9. On page 3 begins corrupt Comey’s 2nd meeting notes with
President on January 28, 2017 [shortly after the inauguration].
10. Comey admits he was never relaxed “given the focus his
conversation required” [what focus? Why the discomfort? This
doesn’t sound normal for someone without an agenda.]
11. Comey says “I explained that he could count on me to always
tell him the truth. [L] I said in don’t do sneaky things [L], I don’t
leak [L], I don’t do weasel moves. [L] But I was not on anybody’s
side politically [L].”
12. When the President asked whether the FBI leaks, Comey
answered “that FBI leaks far less than people often say”. [L]
13. Comey said AG Lynch directed him not to use the word
“investigation” [in the Hillary matter].
14. President Trump asked whether it was true “there was a
revolt” after Comey announced no crimes in the Hillary
investigation and Comey said “that was nonsense [PL] and I
worked hard to see if folks had concerns [PL]. Comey next
said that “investigators all agreed there was not case [PL],
he [Trump] said he disagreed.’
15. President Trump next asked about McCabe and whether he
as a problem with the President and Comey said “he’s a true
professional [L] and had no problem at all” [L – it was well known
in the FBI that McCabe hated Trump].
16. Comey next bashed former Republican AG’s but not
Obama’s AG’s Holder or Lynch.
17. President Trump again said the dossier Comey presented to
him in the previous meeting was not accurate. Trump noted that
he didn’t even stay the night in Russia during the Miss Universe
contest when some incidents were said to take place.
18. Comey said, “I wouldn’t want to create a narrative that
we were investigating him [L – this went on for months and
Comey never once came out and said the President wasn’t
under investigation – this is the 2nd time Comey admits
Trump not under investigation.]
19.Comey says Obama “wanted competence and independence
and didn’t want the FBI involved in policy.” [L – Comey went to
the White House on numerous occasions and is now suspected
as following Obama’s orders – also, Obama’s entire
administration was corrupt.] Comey also said Obama slept well
knowing the FBI was well run. [L – for Obama well run meant
corrupt]
20. Comey next again said McCabe was “professional”. [L]
21. The next notes were from February 8, 2017, starting on p. 7.
Comey said that a redacted item was necessary in the now
known as fake dossier. He states “analysts from all three
agencies agreed it was relevant and that portions of the material
were corroborated by other intelligence.”[PL]
22. Comey notes a primary source of the dossier but it is
redacted [PL]
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23. Comey talked about leaks and said they were probably from
folks “who have left government”. [PL] He also said unlikely they
came from the FBI [PL], and that most leaks come from one or
two out. [L – Comey and McCabe both have testified under oath
that they leaked]
24. On page 8, Comey tell Priebus their conversation was private
[L].
25. Priebus asked whether there was a FISA application on
General Flynn and Comey answered but it is redacted.
26. Next Comey’s note reflect something strange. Comey
notes that Priebus asked why Hillary was not charged with
“gross negligence”. [Comey changed this as we now know
to clear Hillary of emails crimes.] Comey then says I took
him through “facts and the law”. [L – we know Hillary was
guilty of numerous crimes.] Then unexpectedly Comey
writes “I added that it wasn’t my fault that Huma Abedin
forwarded emails to Anthony Weiner.” [This suggests
the Weiner emails are an important part of the
2016 campaign and the Hillary email
investigations.]
27. Next and again Comey calls McCabe a “pro” and that he had
no problems with the President. [L] Comey says McCabe “put
everything aside and did his job well”. [L – he and Comey are
both fired]
28. Comey said referring to the FBI “we aren’t the kind of killer
that Putin is”. President Trump apparently paused [does Trump
know something or was Comey trying to scare the President?]
29. On page 10 Comey begins his notes from a February 14,
2017, meeting with the President [Valentine’s Day]. President
Trump says that he thought his phone was protected but that the
calls he made with Australia and Mexico and that General Flynn’s
call with the Russians were taped and then leaked. Comey says
he tried to interject several times that “leaks are terrible” but the
President wouldn’t let him. [L – Comey is a leaker] Comey says
it’s terrible his calls were leaked. [L – Comey is a leaker] Comey
says FBI leaks were terrible [L – Comey is a leaker].
30. Comey agrees that leaks compromise the President and that
he was “eager to find leakers”. [L – Comey is a leaker]
31. Comey then said he was eager to put a “head on a pike” of a
leaker. [L – Comey is a leaker.]
32. On page 12 Comey notes a very brief call from the President
and then on page 13 he notes from his discussion with the
President on March 30, 2017 via a phone. The President stated
that the Russia business was hurting him and that he was going
to personally sue Christopher Steele.
33. President Trump asked what Comey could do to lift the cloud.
Comey replies that they were “running it down as quickly as
possible’ [L – this mess is still going on and the cause of the
corrupt Mueller investigation].
34. Comey again tells Trump that he was not under
investigation and the President said it would be good to get
that out. [Comey leaked everything else but never
announced or leaked that the President was not being
investigated.]
35. Trump again brings up McCabe and Comey says again two
more times that McCabe is an honorable guy. [L and L] Then
Comey says he’d see what he could do to get out that the
President is not under investigation. [L – Comey never did until
under oath in front of Congress months later.]
36. The final set of notes begin on page 15 and refer to a call
from President Trump on April 11, 2017. Comey begins to tell the
President that he passed the President’s request about letting the
American people know that he is not under investigation and
Comey says he passed on to the acting AG but had not heard
from him. [PL]
37. President Trump this stated that he heard the FBI was
involved in an incident in Jordan in delaying a prosecution of a
soldier who killed Americans. Comey did not deny but said he
would dig into it. [PL – Comey probably knew but lied as he had a
pattern of doing]
38. Comey tries to insinuate in some footnotes that the President
was up to something but there was no basis for his impressions.
[PL – by this time it is clear that Comey was a liar and leaker.]
Overall Summary –
1. The notes were classified and Comey leaked them which is a
crime.
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1. Comey writes that his “plan” in how he wanted to share the
fake dossier with President Trump went exactly the way he
wanted. This indicates Comey was conniving and
manipulative in presenting the fake dossier to the President.
3. At least three times Comey tells the President he is not
under investigation which is probably a lie but no matter how
many times the President asks the FBI Director to share this with
the American people, he refuses to do so.
4. Comey lies over 40 times in the 15 pages of notes. Some
of his lies are known at this point from other information [L] and
some probable lies [PL] are based on other information and a
track record of lying from Comey. In total we identified 17
probable lies [PL] and 25 outright lies [L].
5. The Weiner emails are again noted in these notes as they
were noted in the McCabe IG Report. These may include
information that Comey and others do not want released to
American voters and this may be why they are going all out to
remove President Trump.
6. The Corrupt individuals in the government have no
concern for the American people or the President they
elected.
Comey shows in these notes that he is
dishonest, manipulative, conniving,
conceited, arrogant and corrupt. Fired
former FBI Director James Comey is a
leaker and a liar!
 Trump: Why Is Mike Flynn’s
Life Destroyed And Comey’s Is Not?
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:36 AM 04/20/2018
President Donald Trump took aim once again at former
FBI director James Comey questioning why his former
national security advisor was targeted by an investigation
while Comey was not.
Trump has long taken issue with Comey’s self admitted
leaking of personal memos detailing his conversations with
.
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the president. Comey leaked parts of these memos to The
New York Times following his firing by Trump in order to
try and spark the appointment of a special counsel.
Flynn has plead guilty to lying to the FBI regarding his
conversations with the Russian ambassador while serving
on Trump’s transition team before taking office.
Comey’s memos triggered deputy attorney general Rod
Rosenstein to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller to
investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
election. Comey defended the leaking to CNN’s Jake
Tapper in a Thursday interview saying:
“The average private citizen didn’t have
a one and one conversation with the
President of the United States, we asked
him to drop a criminal investigation.
And tweet at him after he’s fired that he
better hope there aren’t tapes. I was in a
position given what I knew to do
something that would be useful and
important. And so I did it. And
reasonable people can disagree about it
but I still think it was the right thing to
do.”
 Rachel Maddow Scores Coveted Comey Interview And
Decides To Talk About Russian Hookers
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:43 AM 04/20/2018
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow scored a major interview
with former FBI Director James Comey Thursday and
decided to use the opportunity to discuss the beauty of
Russian hookers.
“The president said the hookers thing is
nonsense but that Putin had told him we
have some of the most beautiful hookers in
the world,” Maddow said, reading from the
Comey memos.
“The president was conveying this to you at
the White House?” she asked.
WATCH:
.
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“In the Oval Office,” Comey replied.
Maddow asked if Trump was speaking in
hyperbole, but Comey said Trump was
speaking literally.
“I think there was public reporting he had
spoken to Vladimir Putin as a
congratulations on taking office at that
point,” Comey concluded. “I’m not
suggesting they talked about how beautiful
the hookers were in Russia but I do know
there was at least one publicly reported
conversation.”
“That would be an unusual first call
between new heads of state, a
congratulatory phone call to be bragging
about the relative value of each country’s
hookers,” Maddow added.
 Trump: ‘Nancy Pelosi Is Going
Absolutely Crazy About The Big Tax Cuts’
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
8:45 AM 04/20/2018

President Donald Trump called out House Minority Leader

Nancy Pelosi Friday morning for voting against the 2017
GOP tax cuts.
“Nancy Pelosi is going absolutely crazy
about the big Tax Cuts given to the
American People by the Republicans…got
not one Democrat Vote! Here’s a choice.
They want to end them and raise your
taxes substantially. Republicans are
working on making them permanent and
more cuts,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.
.
House and Senate leadership wants to make the 2017 tax
cuts permanent, especially before the 2018 midterm
elections. Republicans are looking like they might lose the
House in November and the party does not have a surefire
lock on the Senate.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is looking to pass another
tax cut this summer. Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell told reporters Tuesday that he “may” hold a
vote this year to extend 2017 tax cuts, like Congress did
with the Bush tax cuts.

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 STUNNING=> Comey Admits On Colbert That FBI Did
Not Have Time To Check All Of Weiner Emails
Before Election (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 10:00 Am
The more James Comey talks — The
more he exposes lies and criminal
offenses by himself and fellow members
of the deep state.
On October 28, 2016, then FBI Director James Comey
sent a letter notifying Congress that the FBI had reopened
the investigation of the Hillary Clinton email scandal after
previously undisclosed emails were found on Anthony
Weiner’s laptop by New York City detectives.
Comey and the FBI were sitting on this information for
nearly a month when the letter was written.
On November 6, 2016, two days before the presidential
election Comey wrote Congress to say the bureau had
reviewed the tens of thousands of emails and concluded
the newly discovered emails had not changed his earlier
conclusion that Hillary was innocent.
Dear Messrs. Chairmen:
I write to supplement my October 28, 2016 letter that
notified you the FBI would be taking additional
investigative steps with respect to former Secretary of
State Clinton’s use of a personal email server. Since
my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working
around the clock to process and review a large
volume of emails from a device obtained in connection
with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that
process, we reviewed all of the communications
that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was
Secretary of State.
Based on our review, we have not changed our
conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to
Secretary Clinton.
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I am very grateful to the professionals at the FBI for
doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in
a short period of time.
Sincerely yours,
James B. Comey
Director
But this week fired FBI Chief told a
different story to Stephen Colbert.
Comey told Colbert the FBI DID NOT
have enough time to review all of the
newly discovered emails on Anthony
Weiner’s laptop computer.
James Comey: So the team told me on October 27th, there
are hundreds of thousands of emails on Anthony Weiner’s
laptop, and there are thousands of emails from the missing
Blackberry.net domain. This could change the outcome of
the investigation. And so at that point what do you do? ake
no action if you can avoid it. And I kept looking for a door
that said ‘no action here’ and I couldn’t find it. I could
only see two doors and they’re both actions. One says
speak the other says conceal. Speaking would be really
bad… Hundreds of thousands of emails on Anthony
Weiner’s computer.
And the FBI team said, “No way boss
can we review this before the election.”
So what do you do? Speaking would be really bad.
Concealing would be catastrophic… It makes me sick to
my stomach that we might have had an impact.
Obviously, James Comey needs to sit
down and have a conversation with
himself and get his story straight before
he goes on TV and publicly refutes his
signed legal documents.
 BREAKING: Democrat Party Sues Trump, Russia And
Wikileaks For Conspiring To Disrupt 2016 Election
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 10:34 Am

The Democratic Party on Friday sued

President Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign, the Russian government and
the Wikileaks group, claiming a broad
conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016
election.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

Via CNBC:
Here we go.
The Democratic Party on Friday sued
After two years of the media and President Donald Trump’s presidential
Democrat Party trying to link the Trump campaign, the Russian government and
campaign to Russia they have found the Wikileaks group, claiming a broad
nothing. conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016
Last night the FBI finally released election.
Comey documents to Congress.
This story is developing. Please check back for updates.
The documents show serious
wrongdoing in the FBI and Obama
administration.
Now this…
The Democrat Party needed desperately
to change the narrative today.

On Friday the DNC sued the Trump

Campaign, Russia and Wikileaks today
for disrupting the 2016 election.

Via CNBC:

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 NBC Finally Mentions McCabe
Criminal Referral, Only Gives 9 Seconds
By Kyle Drennen
April 20, 2018 11:29 AM EDT
After news broke Thursday afternoon that the FBI
Inspector General was recommending the Justice
Department file criminal charges against the Bureau’s fired
deputy director, Andrew McCabe, NBC Nightly News
completely ignored the major development. On Friday,
NBC’s Today show wasn’t much better, only managing
nine seconds of coverage to the story, just a single
sentence.
At the top of the morning show’s 7:30 a.m. ET half hour,
during a news brief hyping the release of some of former
FBI Director’s James Comey’s salacious memos about
private conversations with President Trump, co-host Hoda
Kotb barely added this line about the legal trouble for
Comey’s one-time deputy:
“This as federal prosecutors weigh whether or
not to prosecute disgraced former FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe for misleading
investigators.”
To put things in perspective, the show devoted over five
times that amount coverage, 50 seconds, to a fan learning
Beyonce’s dance moves.
At least the Today show covered the story, even if viewers
could blink and miss it. CBS This Morning skipped it all
together. Only a couple seconds in the broadcast’s Eye
Opener video montage at the top of the program
acknowledged the criminal referral. Thursday’s CBS
Evening News only gave a paltry 42 seconds to topic,
which apparently the network thought was plenty.
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America provided the
most time to McCabe’s legal jeopardy, a whopping 49
seconds. After co-host Robin Roberts asked Justice
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Correspondent Pierre Thomas about the criminal referral,
fellow co-host George Stephanopoulos sought comment
from legal analyst Dan Abrams, who warned:
“I think that’s a dangerous situation for Andrew
McCabe....You know, Andrew McCabe needs to
be concerned.”
If it were really such a “dangerous situation” then why did
the supposed news program think it only warranted 49
seconds?
That 49 seconds was only slightly less than the mere 1
minute 2 seconds ABC’s World News Tonight offered to
the story on Thursday evening.
The networks have not wanted to touch the McCabe story
because it harms their narrative of slamming the President
over the Russia investigation. Even when they have
begrudgingly acknowledged the FBI official’s downfall, it
has been the bare minimum amount coverage, with a
emphasis on downplaying the news or even suggesting that
McCabe is a victim.
Here is a transcript of GMA’s total coverage of McCabe on
April 20:
7:04 AM ET [7:04:27 - 7:04:52, 25 sec]
(...)
ROBIN ROBERTS: And Pierre, Comey’s former deputy director
is now facing the potential of criminal charges?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Ex-FBI Director Facing Potential
Charges McCabe’s Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors]
PIERRE THOMAS: That’s right, Robin, the Justice Department’s
Inspector General is asking the U.S. Attorney’s office here in
D.C. to decide whether Andrew McCabe, who was recently fired,
should be prosecuted for misleading investigators. McCabe has
denied those allegations, but now faces the prospect of a
possible criminal investigation by the very agency he once led.
(...)
7:08 AM ET [7:08:17 - 7:08:41, 24 sec]
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Meantime, the referral of
Andrew McCabe to the Justice Department, prosecutors?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: McCabe’s Case Referred to Federal
Prosecutors; Could Ex-Deputy FBI Director be Indicted?]
DAN ABRAMS: Yeah, I think that’s a dangerous situation for
Andrew McCabe. This is a separate office. This is the
.
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Department of Justice handing it off to a U.S. Attorney’s office in
Washington, D.C., which in theory investigates this
independently. They’re gonna look at it, determine do they think
that the misleading to the level of a crime. You know, Andrew
McCabe needs to be concerned.
(...)
 Mukasey: Comey Is ‘Always
The Hero Of Every Story He Tells’
Former Attorney General Ripped The Former FBI Director For His 'Self-Serving
Memos' Filled With 'Cherry-Picked' Recollections
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 20 Apr 2018 At 11:34 AM
Former FBI Director James Comey is “always the hero of
every story he tells,” former Attorney General Michael
Mukasey said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”
The Department of Justice turned over to Congress
Thursday redacted versions of memos Comey wrote,
detailing seven conversations with President Donald
Trump both before and after Trump’s inauguration.
While touting his new book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth,
Lies, and Leadership,” Comey has fielded questions from
media outlets about his dealings with Trump. They have
also asked whether he believes that Trump will face
obstruction of justice charges for firing him in May 2017,
and for the questions he asked about the FBI’s probe into
Russian collusion allegations.
“[Comey’s] always the hero of every story
he tells,” Mukasey, who served in former
President George W. Bush’s administration
alongside special counsel Robert Mueller
during his tenure as FBI director, told host
Laura Ingraham.
“It was a self-serving memo,” Mukasey
said.
Normally when government officials write memos
recording conversations, they do so "for the proverbial
record later on, so that they can whip it out and say,
'See? This is what I wrote at the time,'"
Mukasey said. But in Comey's case, "His
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motive was the same at the time as it is
now, which is to make himself look good."
"The trouble, from the standpoint of the
people who think this would be harmful to
the president, is that those memos don't
say anything as far as I know about
[Comey] feeling that he was being leaned
on or pressured to drop any investigation,"
Mukasey said. "If in fact he thought that, it
would have been in the memo."
Comey told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Thursday on "The
Rachel Maddow Show" that he wrote the memos
immediately after his meetings with Trump to "sort of
bolster the credibility of my recollection."
"'Bolster the credibility of my recollection?'
Understand, he was not saying that 'it was
there so that I didn't forget,' because
obviously he wasn't going to forget it. He
just wanted, as he puts it, [to] enhance or
strengthen the credibility of his
recollection," Mukasey said.
"What kind of person thinks of that at the
time that events are going on, thinks that
his recollection, the credibility of his
recollection, needs strengthening?"
Mukasey asked. "What you get is cherry-
picked recollection."
Mukasey also addressed Thursday's news that the
Department of Justice's inspector general issued a criminal
referral to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington
regarding former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's
lies to federal investigators.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March
based upon Inspector General Michael Horowitz's
recommendation, after learning that McCabe lied four
times during the internal probe into the FBI's conduct
during key investigations.
Mukasey noted Mueller has brought charges against
former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Dutch
attorney Alex van der Swaan, and others connected with "So General Michael Flynn's life can be
the Trump-Russia probe for lying to investigators. totally destroyed while Shadey James
Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of
"Look at the treatment of General Flynn, money from a third rate book (that should
look at the treatment of ... an obscure never have been written). Is that really the
person like Alex van der Swaan. Everybody way life in America is supposed to work? I
who supposedly made a false statement to don't think so!" Trump tweeted.
the FBI is being prosecuted for it. Why
shouldn't he?" Mukasey said of McCabe.
"Particularly when, according to the report,
a couple of those statements were under
oath?"

Trump took to Twitter Friday to highlight the discrepancy

he also saw between how Flynn and Comey were treated,
noting that Comey asked a friend of his to leak his memos
— some of which were turned over to Congress partially
redacted Thursday — to the press.

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 BREAKING: Inspector General Investigating James
Comey Over Classified Information
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 12:16 Pm
Inspector General Horowitz is now
investigating James Comey over his
classified memos.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
At least two of the memos that former FBI
Director James Comey gave to a friend
outside of the government contained
information that officials now consider
.
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classified, according to people familiar with
the matter, prompting a review by the
Justice Department’s internal watchdog.
Of those two memos, Mr. Comey himself
redacted elements of one that he knew to
be classified to protect secrets before he
handed the documents over to his friend.
He determined at the time that another
memo contained no classified information,
but after he left the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, bureau officials upgraded it to
“confidential,” the lowest level of
classification.
The Justice Department inspector general
is now conducting an investigation into
classification issues related to the Comey
memos, according to a person familiar with
the matter. Mr. Comey has said he
considered the memos personal rather
than government documents.
 Rep Desantis Warns: This Is ‘Just The Beginning’ After
DOJ Opens Investigation Into Comey
Over Classified Information
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 12:58 Pm

BREAKING NEWS.
Inspector General Horowitz is now
investigating James Comey over his
classified memos.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) immediately came out
swinging and warned ‘this is just the beginning.’
Fired FBI Chief James Comey wrote about the memos in
his book and leaked the documents to reporters last year.
President Trump unleashed on Comey in a midnight tweet
pointing out the disgraced FBI chief leaked classified
information.

Immediately after it was revealed the Inspector General

was conducting an investigation into Comey over
classified information, Rep DeSantis came out swinging.

DeSantis tweeted:

Referral of Comey due to transmitting

classified info was justified and this IG
action is probably just the beginning. By
leaking two classified memos for political
purposes, Comey will have a hard time
demonstrating that his actions were lawful.

The Wall Street Journal reported at least two of the memos

Comey gave his friend contained classified information
prompting Inspector General Michael Horowitz to conduct
an investigation.

Of those two memos, Mr. Comey himself redacted

elements of one that he knew to be classified to protect
secrets before he handed the documents over to his friend.
He determined at the time that another memo contained no
classified information, but after he left the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, bureau officials upgraded it to
“confidential,” the lowest level of classification.
The Justice Department inspector general is now
conducting an investigation into classification issues
related to the Comey memos, according to a person
familiar with the matter. Mr. Comey has said he
considered the memos personal rather than government
documents.
DeSantis is a fearless warrior in the
fight against the Deep State.
Rep. DeSantis and 10 other lawmakers sent a letter to the
DOJ Wednesday,criminally referring Comey, Hillary
Clinton, McCabe and Loretta Lynch for their
investigations into Trump.
A bad week for Comey, McCabe, Hillary and Loretta
Lynch is a good week for Trump supporters.

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 Nets Hype ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Infamous’
Comey Memos, Skimped On McCabe
By Scott Whitlock
April 20, 2018 1:07 PM EDT

All three networks on Friday hyped the “bombshell,”
“infamous” James Comey memos released overnight.
ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 12 minutes and 12 seconds
to the documents with each network claiming they
“obtained” them (rather than the documents simply being
given to them). In contrast, the same outlets skimped on
coverage of the Justice Department recommending
charges against the fired-Deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe.
ABC counterpart, pretended that the network “obtained”
the memo:
CBS News obtained James Comey's
confidential memos about his meeting with
President Trump. They detail how the President
asks his then-FBI Director about the Russia
investigation and how to, quote, lift that cloud.

On Good Morning America, co-host George

Stephanopoulos breathlessly opened the program:

“James Comey's bombshell memos revealed.

What they say about his encounters with
President Trump, his accounts of the
President's conversation with Vladimir Putin
about prostitutes.”

CBS This Morning managed 3 minutes and 33 seconds on

the Comey memo, but completely SKIPPED the
recommendation of criminal charges against McCabe.

Co-host Robin Roberts upped the “bombshell” word

choice with another over-the-top description:

“But first we’re going to begin with those

infamous James Comey memos based on his
notes from encounters with President Trump,
released to Congress and obtained by ABC
News overnight.”
In total, GMA devoted four minutes and six seconds to
Comey’s memo. The show allowed 49 seconds to
McCabe.
CBS This Morning offered 3 minutes and 33 seconds to the
Comey memos. Co-host Norah O’Donnell, just like her
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On the Today show, Peter Alexander explained how NBC,
too, “obtained” the Comey memos: “All of these detailed
documents given to Congress by the Justice Department.
Obtained overnight by NBC News.”
Today allowed just 9 seconds on McCabe, but 4 minutes
and 33 seconds on the Comey memos.
The networks on Friday also showed little in the way of
skepticism about Comey’s claims in the memos, despite
the fact that he’s been caught contradicting past statements
in other situations.
Partial transcripts are below. Click "expand" for more.
GMA
4/20/18
7am tease
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Breaking news, James
Comey's bombshell memos revealed. What they say about his
encounters with President Trump, his accounts of the President's
conversation with Vladimir Putin about prostitutes.
...
ROBIN ROBERTS: But first we’re going to begin with those
infamous James Comey memos based on his notes from
encounters with President Trump, released to Congress and
obtained by ABC News overnight. They reveal comments
President Trump allegedly made about Vladimir Putin and fired
national security adviser Michael Flynn. Our chief justice
correspondent Pierre Thomas is tracking all of this for us there in
D.C. Good morning, Pierre.
PIERRE THOMAS: Robin, good morning. That's right. Those
controversial Comey memos now in the hands of Congress and
president trump is weighing in. Overnight, ABC news obtaining
the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote after those
controversial encounters with the President. The memos turned
over by the Justice Department to congressional investigators
last
night largely match Comey's congressional testimony and what
he said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. After his first
encounter with President-Elect trump on January 7th of last year
he wrote the President seemed preoccupied with salacious
accusations from unverified intelligence. The subject, prostitutes.
“There were no prostitute, there were never prostitutes,” Comey
recalled Trump saying.
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CBS This Morning
NORAH O’DONNELL: CBS News obtained James Comey's
confidential memos about his meeting with President Trump.
They detail how the President asks his then-FBI Director about
the Russia investigation and how to, quote, lift that cloud.
...
JOHN DICKERSON: Former FBI Director James Comey's
confidential memos about President Trump are now public. They
show the full extent of the President's concern about the Russia
investigation, loyalty, leaks to reporters, and an unproven dossier
exploring Mr. Trump's alleged ties to Russia.
...
JEFF PEGUES: In all there are seven memos and, yes, some
are classified and they've been partially redacted. Comey says
that he wrote those memos after conversations with President
Trump between January and April of 2017.
Today
4/20/18
7am tease
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Breaking overnight, the Comey memos.
Congress gets 15 pages of detailed notes from the fired FBI
director and promptly leaks them. This morning, the new
revelations about Comey's one-on-ones with the president.
...
PETER ALEXANDER: Savannah, good morning to you. 15
pages of memos covering everything from leakers to hookers.
Just some of the new revelations from former FBI Director James
Comey. All of these detailed documents given to Congress by the
Justice Department. Obtained overnight by NBC News.
 Guess Who Was CNN DOJ Reporter When Comey Told
Trump He Was Being Pressured By CNN About Dossier?
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 2:09 Pm

story was referring to what’s now known as the dossier —

an unverified 35-page report written by former British spy
Christopher Steele.

So how do you suppose James Comey

knew that CNN was about to run the
salacious anti-Trump dossier?

And who could have been pressuring leaker James Comey

with the discredited dossier?

Guess who started working at CNN

covering the DOJ around this time?
Valerie Jarrett’s daughter Laura!
On Thursday night the much anticipated Comey memos
were finally released by the DOJ to Congress.
Laura Jarrett was hired by CNN in the
fall of 2016 to cover the Justice
The memos show that Comey has not been honest with the
Department.
public about his meetings with Trump.

The memos also show that Comey likely broke the law. CNN made the announcement in January 2017.

In one exchange Comey told Trump that

CNN was pressuring him about the anti-
Trump dossier.
Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller reported:
Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in
a newly released memo that pressure from
news outlets — “CNN in particular” —
convinced him to brief then-President-Elect
Donald Trump on the infamous Steele
dossier during a meeting at Trump Tower
on Jan. 6, 2017.
“I said media like CNN had [the dossier]
and were looking for a news hook,” Comey
wrote in a memo just after briefing Trump Via American Lookout:
about the salacious allegations in the
dossier.
CNN Hires Valerie Jarrett’s Daughter
“I said it was inflammatory stuff that they
would get killed for reporting straight up CNN has assigned the daughter of one of
from the source reports,” he added. President Obama’s top advisers to cover
the Department of Justice.
Four days after that meeting, CNN published a story The network announced in a press release
revealing the existence of a salacious report alleging the that Valerie Jarrett’s daughter Laura would
Russian government had compromised Trump. The CNN be one of four reporters to cover the
Justice Department in 2017. The New York
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 Post broke the news that Jarrett had been
hired in September, though a formal
announcement about her beat did not
come until Thursday.
Jarrett has long wanted to work in
television news, though being an objective
reporter was not her original goal. She told
.
Vanity Fair in a 2009 “Bright Young
Things” profile that her chief ambition was
to “work as a TV-news legal analyst.” Her
favorite cause was “promoting civil rights
and social equality for women and
minorities.”

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 Eric Holder Howler: 'You Don't Talk
About Partisan Things' at the Justice Department
By Tim Graham
April 20, 2018 2:34 PM EDT
Former Obama attorney general Eric Holder made an
incredibly sober and unfunny appearance on Comedy
Central on Tuesday night's The Daily Show. Host Trevor
Noah turned to the Jim Comey book, noting Comey
trashed Trump, that
"He's a liar, he mistreats women, he's not
fit to be in office." Holder quipped back:
"Well, Jim got those three things right." But
what about what he got wrong?
NOAH: A lot of people say 'yeah, but
James Comey, you're the last person to
criticize anybody because of how much you
screwed up when you were in your
position. As an attorney general, when you
look at what James Comey did, and what
he's now trying to say, what are your
thoughts on the issue?
HOLDER: Yeah, 've known Jim for I think,
20, 25 years or so. I think he's a man of
integrity. I think he is a good guy but I think
he made a really substantial error in 2016
when he made that initial appearance and
said that he was clearing Hillary Clinton
and used that language and obviously
made the statement later on. That was not
something for an FBI director to do.
NOAH: Right.
HOLDER: That was something for an
attorney general to do, or in the absence of
the attorney general, the deputy attorney
general.
NOAH: Right.
HOLDER: He was out of his lane when he
did that. And that I think had an impact on
the election. I don't think that's the sole
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thing that caused Hillary's defeat, but it
certainly had an impact on the election.
But when Noah asked that if Trump had a point in
criticizing the FBI based on their behavior in 2016, Holder
tried to claim he had no point whatsoever, and that
somehow -- Strzok and Page text messages blotted out of
our collective memory -- there was no anti-Trump animus
in the Justice Department, just nonpartisan professionalism
all around:
NOAH: You said he made a mistake and
said it was something that would give the
FBI a bad name. The president of the
United States currently says the FBI has a
bad name. Do you think Donald Trump has
a right then to say, that guys, the FBI has
problems because of everything that
James Comey and his fellow FBI agents
have done?
HOLDER: No. I mean, I think the
president's criticism of people in law
enforcement, prosecutors, FBI agents, is
unwarranted, it's inconsistent with the
facts. I mean, I worked with these folks
almost all of my professional career.
They're hard-working, they're dedicated.
You know, you don't talk about partisan
things when you are in the Justice
Department. That's considered
something that is -- that's inappropriate.
And what I think -- so we hold these
elections in 2018 and in 2020 and if the
Republicans try to portray themselves as
the law enforcement party, I hope people
will remember the things Donald Trump
has said about people in law enforcement.
NOAH: Yeah, things -- people will
remember and they will vote for him again.
His people don't care. I genuinely think
they don't care.
Holder turned to the camera as if speaking
to the audience and said "Don't do it!" Noah
shot back: "I don't think they're watching
you [because Trump voters aren't watching
Trevor Noah]." Holder said "That's a good
point. Someone could have switched off
from Hannity tonight."
 GOP Lawmaker On Comey Memo Leaks To Media:
“Was Rosenstein In On It?” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 2:56 Pm
Media was set ablaze on Thursday night
after the much-anticipated Comey memos
were finally released by the DOJ to
Congress.
The memos contained classified information.
This didn’t stop Comey from giving the memos to a friend
to leak to the liberal press in order to prompt a special
counsel investigation into Trump.
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) wants to know if Comey
was talking to Rosenstein about leaking his memos since
the Deputy AG drafted the jurisdiction, ultimately creating
the special counsel investigation.
Was Rosenstein in on Comey’s media leaks? Most
likely…
Congressman Lee Zeldin appeared on Fox News on Friday
to discuss Comey’s memos.
“James Comey leaked classified information to
the media.” Zeldin began.
Zeldin said he believes it’s worse that Comey leaked
classified information because he’s the FBI Director.
Was he talking to Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein about these leaks? Comey admitted he leaked
the memos in order to prompt a special counsel.
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Rosenstein is the one who drafted the jurisdiction
appointing Mueller as a special counsel.
“I would also be interested in knowing, was he
speaking to Rod Rosenstein at the time? Did
Rosenstein know? When these were being
leaked to trigger a special counsel–it’s Rod
Rosenstein who actually signs the document
creating the special counsel. Was he
completely in the dark or was he actually in on
it?” Zeldin asked.
VIDEO:
Inspector General Horowitz is now
investigating James Comey over his
classified memos.
The Wall Street Journal reported at least two of the memos
Comey gave his friend contained classified information
prompting Inspector General Michael Horowitz to conduct
an investigation.
Experts however, say all 7 memos are considered
classified.
This was all a set up. With the help of the crooked media,
Rosenstein, Comey, Mueller, Hillary, Obama et al were
ALL in on this attempted coup against a duly elected
president.
 Breaking: Trump Camp Responds To Frivolous DNC
Lawsuit — Warns Of “Aggressive Discovery Phase –
Everything Will Be On The Table”
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 3:38 Pm

In 2016 the Democrat National Committee
claimed their websites were hacked by
Russia and the information was given to
Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has always maintained their
source for the Podesta-DNC emails was not
Russia.
“This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus
Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate,
dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent
Democratic Party,” said Brad Parscale,
Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc. “With the Democrats’
conspiracy theories against the President’s
campaign evaporating as quickly as the
failing DNC’s fundraising, they’ve sunk to a
new low to raise money, especially among
small donors who have abandoned them.

There is a great deal the American public wants to know

about the corruption of the Democrats, their collusion to
influence the 2016 presidential election, and their role in
prompting a scam investigation of the Trump Campaign.
While this lawsuit is frivolous and will be dismissed, if the
case goes forward, the DNC has created an opportunity for
us to take aggressive discovery into their claims of
‘damages’ and uncover their acts of corruption for the
American people,” he concluded.
The Obama FBI under James Comey NEVER
looked at the DNC servers after the leak. If this lawsuit proceeds, the Trump
Campaign will be prepared to leverage the
discovery process and explore the DNC’s
The DNC would not allow it.
now-secret records about the actual
corruption they perpetrated to influence the
Today the DNC sued the Trump Campaign, outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Russia and Wikileaks for conspiring to Everything will be on the table, including:
disrupt the 2016 election.
• How the DNC contributed to the fake
This afternoon the Trump campaign responded to the dossier, using Fusion GPS along with the
lawsuit. Clinton Campaign as the basis for the
launch of a phony investigation.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, the Democratic National • Why the FBI was never allowed access to
Committee filed a wide-ranging, partisan civil lawsuit in the DNC servers in the course of their
federal court against the Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks, investigation into the Clinton e-mail
and the Russian Government. In response, Donald J. scandal.
Trump for President, Inc. notes that this frivolous lawsuit • How the DNC conspired to hand Hillary
is a last-ditch effort to substantiate the baseless Russian Clinton the nomination over Bernie
collusion allegations by a nearly-bankrupt Democratic Sanders.
Party still trying to counter the will of the people in the • How officials at the highest levels of the
2016 presidential election. This civil lawsuit is completely DNC colluded with the news media to
without merit and will be dismissed in due time. influence the outcome of the DNC
nomination.

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 • Management decisions by Debbie mails, personnel decisions, budgets,
Wasserman Schultz, Donna Brazile, opposition research, and more.
Tom Perez, and John Podesta; their e-

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 ‘Did Comey Collude With Mueller?’
Judicial Watch Sues DOJ For Comey-Mueller
Communications
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 3:52 Pm

On January 19, 2018, the FBI provided Judicial Watch a

Conservative watchdog group Judicial
Watch announced Friday it filed a lawsuit
against the Justice Department for
communications on James Comey and
Robert Mueller.
Tom Fitton wants to know, “Did Comey
collude with Mueller as a vendetta against
Trump?”
“Glomar” response, stating that it could, “neither confirm
nor deny that the specific items you seek exist or do not
exist as mere acknowledgment of these items would
require the FBI to confirm or refute these assumptions,”
which it claims could possibly interfere with law
enforcement proceedings.
Comey’s involvement with the special counsel was first
revealed on June 8, 2017, when the former FBI
director testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that
he leaked memos of his conversations with President
Trump

“because (he) thought that might prompt the

appointment of a special counsel.”

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton had this to say about

Comey’s communication with the special counsel:
Via Judicial Watch:
“Did Comey improperly funnel his dishonest
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a memos and collude with the Mueller special
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit counsel operation as part of a vendetta against
against the Justice Department for all records of President Trump? Why is the DOJ still
communications relating to former FBI Director protecting James Comey and the out-of-control
James Comey’s providing memoranda of his Mueller operation?”
conversations with President Trump to Special
Counsel Robert Mueller and his team. (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-
cv-00932)).

The suit was filed after the FBI informed Judicial

Watch that it would neither “confirm nor deny”
the existence of the materials for an August 4,
2017, FOIA request seeking:

 All records of communications between former

FBI Director James Comey and Special
Counsel Robert Mueller, or members of SC
Mueller’s investigative committee, relating to
the return of memoranda of conversations,
memoranda to the file or notes regarding same
generated by Comey following conversations
with government officials during his tenure as
FBI Director.

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 Wikileaks Responds To
Absurd Lawsuit — Zings DNC
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 20, 2018, 4:21 Pm

“DNC already has a moribund publicity

lawsuit which the press has became bored
of–hence the need to refile it as a “new” suit
before mid-terms. As an accurate publisher
of newsworthy information WikiLeaks is
constitutionally protected from such suits,”
the official WikiLeaks account tweeted.

In a second tweet, they added that the

“DNC is suing WikiLeaks for spectacularly

revealing that the DNC rigged its primaries on
The Democratic National Committee has filed a multi-
behalf of Hillary Clinton. The DNC was so
million dollar federal lawsuit against WikiLeaks, the
corrupt that five of its officers, including its
Trump campaign and Russia for exposing their plot to rig
president, were forced to resign.”
the Democratic primaries for Hillary Clinton.
WikiLeaks also posted the full text of the lawsuit and
On Friday afternoon, WikiLeaks responded to the lawsuit
linked to a Gateway Pundit article in which we covered a
on Twitter.
previous filing by Trump’s campaign lawyers that
explained the publications are protected under the First
Amendment — even if they came from Russia. WikiLeaks
publisher Julian Assange has long maintained that they did
not.

Comment on DNC lawsuit:

"DNC is suing WikiLeaks for spectacularly

revealing that the DNC rigged its primaries on
behalf of Hillary Clinton. The DNC was so
corrupt that five of its officers, including its
president, were forced to resign."

https://t.co/xHDB85FdEw

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 20, 2018

The lawsuit claims that the Trump campaign worked with

Russia and WikiLeaks to bring down Clinton.

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 “That is so even when even when the website
performs ‘editorial functions’ ‘such as deciding
whether to publish,’” the filing contends. “Since
WikiLeaks provided a forum for a third party
(the unnamed ‘Russian actors’) to publish
content developed by that third party (the
hacked emails), it cannot be held liable for the
publication.”

Carvin went on to argue that this defeats any claim of

conspiracy, as a conspiracy is an agreement to commit “an
unlawful act.”

“Since WikiLeaks’ posting of emails was not

an unlawful act, an alleged agreement that it
should publish those emails could not have
been a conspiracy,” the filing asserts.

The First Amendment is even more strictly guarded during

a political campaign, when it has “its fullest and most
urgent application.” According to Citizens United, the First
Amendment leaves voters “free to obtain information from
diverse sources in order to determine how to cast their
In a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year against the votes.”
Trump campaign, Trump’s lawyers argued that WikiLeaks
publications meet the requirements for the Bartnicki First Following the lawsuit news, WikiLeaks also hurled a dig at
Amendment test and are thus protected free speech. Rep. Keith Ellison, the Deputy Chair of the Democratic
National Committee .
The first part of the case law is that a defendant may not be
held liable for a disclosure of stolen information if it deals
with “a matter of public concern.” The second portion
requires that the publisher cannot have been involved in
the theft.

Addressing this portion, Carvin’s filing asserts that there

can be “no serious doubt” that the disclosures from
WikiLeaks satisfied the “newsworthy” and “public
concern” portion of the test. There have not been any
credible allegations that WikiLeaks themselves stole or
hacked the emails.

In a motion filed in October, lawyer Michael A. Carvin

also argued that under section 230 of the Communications
Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230), “Keith, do you think ‘we have a right to lie
without being exposed by WikiLeaks’ is really a
“a website that provides a forum where ‘third vote winner?” WikiLeaks asked.
parties can post information’ is not liable for the
third party’s posted information.”
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 BREAKING: North Korea Freezes Nuclear,
Missile Tests Ahead Of Trump Summit
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 5:34 Pm

Yonhap reported:
Kim Jong Un announced North Korea will be
suspending its nuclear and missile tests and
shut down a nuclear test site ahead of
Trump’s summit.
President Trump boldly stood up to North Korea’s Kim
Jong Un.
This is what true leadership looks like; peace through
strength.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has
announced that the country will suspend
nuclear and missile tests and shut down a
nuclear test site in the northern area, state
media said Saturday.
“From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear
tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic
missiles,” the Korean Central News Agency
said.

“The North will shut down a nuclear test site in

the country’s northern side to prove the vow to
suspend nuclear test,” it added.

The decision was made at a plenary meeting of the central

committee of the ruling Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK)
Friday, according to the KCNA.

Story Developing…

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 Wikileaks Seeks Donations
To Counter-Sue The DNC:
‘Discovery Will Be Amazing Fun’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 20, 2018, 5:50 Pm

“Help us counter-sue. We’ve never lost a

WikiLeaks has announced that they are seeking donations publishing case and discovery is going to be
so that they can counter-sue the Democratic National amazing fun,” WikiLeaks tweeted, along with
Committee, saying that discovery is going to be “amazing the link to donate.
fun.”
Trump has shared a similar sentiment about being excited
for discovery, specifically the server that the Democrats
have previously refused to turn over to the FBI.

Just heard the Campaign was sued by the

Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good
news in that we will now counter for the DNC
Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the
Wendy Wasserman Schultz Servers and
Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man
and Clinton Emails.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April

20, 2018

On Friday, it was announced that the DNC is suing the

Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks. The Democratic
Party blames WikiLeaks for exposing their wrongdoing and
causing them to lose.

WikiLeaks had responded to the lawsuit on Twitter earlier

in the day by asserting that their publications are
constitutionally protected.

“DNC already has a moribund publicity lawsuit

which the press has became bored of–hence
the need to refile it as a ‘new’ suit before mid-
terms. As an accurate publisher of newsworthy

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 information WikiLeaks is constitutionally
protected from such suits,” the official
WikiLeaks account tweeted.
In a second tweet, they added that the
“DNC is suing WikiLeaks for spectacularly
revealing that the DNC rigged its primaries on
behalf of Hillary Clinton. The DNC was so
.
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corrupt that five of its officers, including its
president, were forced to resign.”
WikiLeaks also posted the full text of the lawsuit and
linked to a Gateway Pundit article in which we covered a
previous filing by Trump’s campaign lawyers in which
they explained that WikiLeaks publications are protected
under the First Amendment — even if they came from
Russia. WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has long
maintained that they did not.
 Trump TORCHES Wasserman Schultz And ‘Pakistani
Mystery Man’ In Response To DNC Lawsuit ‘We Will
Counter For DNC Server And Clinton Emails’
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 6:04 Pm
On Friday, the DNC sued the Trump
Campaign, Russia and Wikileaks for
conspiring to disrupt the 2016 election.
President Trump responded to the suit Friday afternoon
and absolutely torched Debbie Wasserman Schultz, her
Pakistani IT staffer and Hillary Clinton.
Please, Mr. President, never stop tweeting!
Trump tweeted:
Just heard the Campaign was sued by the
Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good
news in that we will now counter for the DNC
Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and
Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man
and Clinton Emails.
To this date, the FBI still has not inspected the DNC’s
servers that were supposedly hacked by the Russians.
.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz employed a shady Pakistani
family to run IT for her and many House Democrats.
The Awan brothers IT ring had access to emails and
computer data from an estimated 800 lawmakers and
staffers.
Imran Awan downloaded terabits of information to a
DropBox and may have sold the information according to
a House official.
The discovery is going to be a lot of fun.
WikiLeaks is also gearing up to counter-sue the DNC.
This afternoon the Trump campaign responded to the
lawsuit.
“This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus
Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate,
dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent
Democratic Party,” said Brad Parscale,
Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc. “With the Democrats’
conspiracy theories against the President’s
campaign evaporating as quickly as the
failing DNC’s fundraising, they’ve sunk to a
new low to raise money, especially among
small donors who have abandoned them.
There is a great deal the American public wants to know
about the corruption of the Democrats, their collusion to
influence the 2016 presidential election, and their role in
prompting a scam investigation of the Trump Campaign.
While this lawsuit is frivolous and will be dismissed, if the
case goes forward, the DNC has created an opportunity for
us to take aggressive discovery into their claims of
‘damages’ and uncover their acts of corruption for the
American people,” he concluded.
Editor’s note: President Trump corrected his tweet to say
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz” instead of “Wendy
Wasserman Schultz”
 Trump Is Right: A ‘Pakistani Mystery Man’ Has
Documents Wasserman Schultz Didn’t Want Prosecutors
To See [VIDEO]
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
6:42 PM 04/22/2018
Imran Awan enters federal court Oct. 6, 2017 / One America News |
A Pakistani, DWS Laptop And A Phone Booth
A key, if under-covered, aspect of the “Pakistani mystery
man” story is that Imran Awan, the Pakistani-born IT aide
of former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, took a
laptop with username RepDWS after he was banned from
the House computer network for “unauthorized access to
data,” and then left it in a phone booth with a letter to
prosecutors.
On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted: “Just heard
the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats.
This can be good news in that we will now counter for the
DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held
by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails.”
Trump appears to have accurately identified a key issue
with the “Pakistani mystery man” that comes straight from
court documents.
 Lawyers for Pakistani-born Imran Awan currently have
a copy of the contents of a laptop with the username
RepDWS
 Wasserman Schultz wanted to block prosecutors from
seeing what was on it
 Imran’s lawyers have attempted to set up a situation
where it is up to Imran whether prosecutors can see
the laptop, claiming “attorney client privilege”
 Other analysts say the laptop should be fair game for
review
Each twist has increased the intrigue:
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 On Feb. 2, 2017, Imran was banned from the House
computer network for making “unauthorized access” to
congressional data, according to the House inspector
general
 This happened not long after Wasserman Schultz was
fired from the DNC after a cyber breach, yet she
refused to fire Imran or even put him on paid leave,
claiming that an IT aide didn’t need to access the
internet to do his job
 Wasserman Schultz’s refusal to fire him meant he had
continued physical access to the congressional office
buildings, even though all of his other part-time
employers fired him and he knew there was an ongoing
criminal investigation
 On April 5, 2017, despite not being allowed to connect
to the House network, he was in possession of a laptop
with the username RepDWS and left it in a phone
booth, where it was picked up by police who
confiscated it because they recognized that it was left
there by a criminal suspect
Let that sink in. A Pakistani IT aide, who had just been
fired by all his other employers for being a suspected
hacker, left a laptop with the username RepDWS in a
phone booth. The laptop was placed next to a letter to
prosecutors. What it said is not publicly known. The cache
of documents also included copies of Awan’s ID (which
assured that police tied the laptop to a criminal suspect and
seized it as evidence rather than returning it as lost
property) and a note that said “attorney client privilege,”
which put the laptop into legal limbo.
It is not clear whether the laptop was left out of
carelessness or was potentially stolen and possibly planted
for police to find.
 It was left in the booth (photo to the right) with highly
specific and sensitive materials
 It may have been left there late at night. Building staff
called police at 12:21 a.m. to report “an unattended bag
in the phone booth on the 2nd floor.” Imran’s attorney
said in court that it was snatched by police while he
had stepped out of the phone booth to search for better
reception: “What occurred is a backpack from my client
was found, he was trying to get a better signal, there
was a note that said attorney client privilege and a hard
 drive.” Gowen later offered TheDCNF a seemingly
conflicting account, saying in an email: “He wasn’t
there late at night that is just false.”
 The phone booth is in the Rayburn House Office
Building. Wasserman Schultz’s office is in Longworth, a
different building.
Wasserman Schultz’s laptop was left in an old phone booth in the
Rayburn building like this one. / Photo: DCNF
What happened next adds to the mystery. On May 17,
2017, Wasserman Schultz used a hearing on the Capitol
Police’s budget to threaten Police Chief Matthew R.
Verderosa with “consequences” if he didn’t return what
she characterized as “a member’s equipment.” She
repeatedly asked whether it was a member or a staffer who
was under investigation, saying since it was a member’s
equipment, police shouldn’t be able to take it unless the
member was under investigation. A member of the
Committee on Appropriations’ Legislative Branch
Subcommittee, she has significant influence over the
Capitol Police’s budget.
When that didn’t work, she escalated, raising the prospect
of re-arranging the Capitol Police’s entire board to prevent
Verderosa from being a voting member, and lamented that
not all of the board’s members were subject to oversight
by her committee. Questioning Verderosa’s boss,
Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, she said:
“We have had jurisdictional issues and a
challenging time conducting oversight
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because of the structure of the Capitol
Police Board and there — there being a
(inaudible) line rather than a direct line to
us in terms of being able to hold the board
accountable.”
WATCH:
“I’d like to know, sergeant, if you think that
we should be looking at restructuring the
way the board makes decisions so that we
can establish a more direct line of
accountability … At the end of the day,
[the chief] doesn’t have a decision-making
role,” Wasserman Shultz continued.
She also used campaign funds to hire a lawyer to keep the
laptop out of prosecutors’ hands. And it wasn’t just any
lawyer — it was Bill Pittard, who until months prior had
been working as acting general counsel of the House of
Representatives, a position with responsibilities that
include deciding what to turn over to the executive branch
pursuant to legal activity.
In August, after Imran’s arrest at Dulles airport,
Wasserman Schultz changed her tune, saying “This was
not my laptop. I have never seen that laptop. I don’t know
what’s on the laptop.” She said it was Imran’s laptop but
purchased using taxpayer funds from her office.
She said Imran’s “due process” rights had inspired her
demeanor during the Capitol Police exchange and the
lengths to which she went to shield the laptop. She then
said she was no longer seeking to block prosecutors from
looking at the laptop.
But by then, Imran had taken up the same quest. In
September, prosecutors turned over a copy of the
government laptop to Imran, even though he had been
banned from the House network because he was viewed as
a threat. In October, Imran’s attorney, Chris Gowen — a
former aide to Hillary Clinton — said in court that Imran
was invoking attorney-client privilege on the laptop and
that they “feel very strongly” that the hard drive not be
able to be used as evidence.

Prosecutors gave Imran a copy of the
laptop found in a phone booth / Federal
court records
That seemed to set up a situation where Imran was
shielding the laptop that Wasserman Schultz had initially
not wanted examined, but where it would be within his
power to drop the objection. That’s significant because
House sources have said that Democrats aren’t cooperating
with the Awans’ prosecution, and raised questions about
whether he has leverage over them.
Former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy questioned that
attorney-client privilege applies to the laptop at all, saying,
“If I give my lawyer my bank records and
ask him if they show evidence of a crime,
the bank records do not become [attorney-
client] privileged — only his advice to me
would be [attorney-client] privileged. And if
I stuck a sign on my bank records that said
‘[attorney-client] privileged documents,’ that
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would not make them [attorney-client]
privileged documents.”
Wasserman Schultz has declined to answer questions about
the laptop, but given that it was government equipment
that, as she noted previously, belongs to her, she might be
able to explicitly give permission to prosecutors to look at
it. In particular, if Imran wasn’t authorized to have the
laptop, it could be more difficult to invoke privilege on it.
(Wasserman Schultz’s brother is an assistant U.S. attorney
at the same office that is handling the case, and he has
tweeted dismissively about it.)
Rather than simply swatting down the claim and using
what McCarthy said is the universally employed solution
to such a dilemma — using a “taint team” to go through
the laptop and isolate specific files that are
communications to Imran’s lawyer — prosecutors have
delayed the court hearing five times, telling the judge
repeatedly:
“The government has been in discussions with
counsel for the defendants regarding complex
discovery issues and other legal issues in this
case, in particular issues surrounding claims of
attorney-client privilege being raised by
defendant Imran Awan,” court papers filed
Tuesday say.
The next court date is set for May 4, though could be
postponed a sixth time.
 Once Again Speaker Ryan And Senate Leader Mcconnell
Are Nowhere To Be Found After Trump AND HIS
FAMILY Are Sued By DNC
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 8:16 Pm

After two years of the media and Democrat

Party trying to link the Trump campaign to
Russia they have found nothing. Then
today the DNC sued the Trump Campaign,
including the President and his family,
Russia and Wikileaks today for disrupting
the 2016 election.

Via CNBC:

The Democratic Party on Friday sued President

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the
Russian government and the Wikileaks group,
claiming a broad conspiracy to help Trump win
the 2016 election.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

In 2016 the Democrat National Committee

claimed their websites were hacked by
Russia and the information was given to
Wikileaks.
The Obama FBI under James Comey NEVER
Wikileaks has always maintained their looked at the DNC servers after the leak.
source for the Podesta-DNC emails was not
Russia. The DNC would not allow it.

Today the DNC sued the Trump Campaign,

Russia and Wikileaks for conspiring to
disrupt the 2016 election.

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This afternoon the Trump campaign responded to the
lawsuit.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, the Democratic National
Committee filed a wide-ranging, partisan civil lawsuit in
federal court against the Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks,
and the Russian Government. In response, Donald J.
Trump for President, Inc. notes that this frivolous lawsuit
is a last-ditch effort to substantiate the baseless Russian
collusion allegations by a nearly-bankrupt Democratic
Party still trying to counter the will of the people in the
2016 presidential election. This civil lawsuit is completely
without merit and will be dismissed in due time.
“This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus
Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate,
dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent
Democratic Party,” said Brad Parscale,
Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc. “With the Democrats’
conspiracy theories against the President’s
campaign evaporating as quickly as the
failing DNC’s fundraising, they’ve sunk to a
new low to raise money, especially among
small donors who have abandoned them.
• How the DNC conspired to hand Hillary Clinton the
nomination over Bernie Sanders.
• How officials at the highest levels of the DNC colluded
with the news media to influence the outcome of the
DNC nomination.
• Management decisions by Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Donna Brazile, Tom Perez, and John Podesta; their e-
mails, personnel decisions, budgets, opposition
research, and more.
The President also responded with a tweet destroying the
corrupt DNC on their shocking lawsuit –
Trump tweeted:
Just heard the Campaign was sued by the
Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good
news in that we will now counter for the DNC
Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and
Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man
and Clinton Emails.

There is a great deal the American public wants to know

about the corruption of the Democrats, their collusion to
influence the 2016 presidential election, and their role in
prompting a scam investigation of the Trump Campaign.
While this lawsuit is frivolous and will be dismissed, if the
case goes forward, the DNC has created an opportunity for
us to take aggressive discovery into their claims of
‘damages’ and uncover their acts of corruption for the
American people,” he concluded.
The biggest question of the day is where is
If this lawsuit proceeds, the Trump the Republican Leadership?
Campaign will be prepared to leverage the
discovery process and explore the DNC’s The Republican President and his lovely
now-secret records about the actual family are being sued by the corrupt DNC.
corruption they perpetrated to influence the They have already been raked through the
outcome of the 2016 presidential election. mud on fake claims of Russia collusion.
Everything will be on the table, including: This has no doubt cost the President’s
beautiful family undue stress and millions in
• How the DNC contributed to the fake dossier, using legal fees and lost time to address.
Fusion GPS along with the Clinton Campaign as the
basis for the launch of a phony investigation. Why are Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority
• Why the FBI was never allowed access to the DNC Leader McConnell silent? Where are they?
servers in the course of their investigation into the
Clinton e-mail scandal.
.

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 HAH! Andrew McCabe “Upset” After James Comey
Throws Him Under The Bus
By Cristina Laila
April 20, 2018, 10:04 Pm

On Thursday it was revealed Inspector

It’s the battle of the dirty cops.
Andrew McCabe, James Comey and Loretta
Lynch are all throwing each other under the
bus as their corruption begins to bubble up
to the surface.
It’s a glorious thing to watch.
General Michael Horowitz sent a criminal
referral for former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe to the US Attorney’s office
about the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton
Foundation.
President Trump even took a swipe at the dueling dirty
cops.

On Thursday, Trump tweeted: James Comey just threw

Andrew McCabe “under the bus.” Inspector General’s
Report on McCabe is a disaster for both of them! Getting a
little (lot) of their own medicine?

On Friday, Fox News producer Jake Gibson reported

McCabe was “upset and disappointed” over comments
being made about him by Comey.

Jake Gibson: Fired FBI official Andrew McCabe is “upset

James Comey threw McCabe under the bus on Thursday in
an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Comey told Tapper he could be a potential witness against
McCabe.
and disappointed” over comments being made about him
by his former boss James Comey, a lawyer for the former
deputy said Friday, a day after it emerged McCabe was the
subject of a criminal referral sent to US Atty in
Washington.

When asked if he could be a witness, Comey

responded, “Sure, given that the IG’s report reflects
interactions that Andy McCabe had with me and other
senior executives, I could well be a witness.”

“I think it is accountability mechanisms

working,” Comey added. “It is not acceptable in
the FBI or the Justice Department for people to
lack candor. It’s something we take really
seriously.” Comey is also now under DOJ investigation over his
classified memos.
The Office of Inspector General released a scathing report
on McCabe last week claiming he “lacked candor,” (lied)
including under oath several times.

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 Former US Attorney General:
When Comey Wrote His Notes They Were Classified –
Those Were Government Memos (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 10:06 Pm

Former US Attorney General Michael secret, secured compartmentalized information.” In other

Mukasey joined Laura Ingraham on Friday words, those weren’t my notes, those were the
night to discuss the Comey private memos government’s notes. And those weren’t Mr. Comey’s
that were finally released to Congress on memos, those were the government’s memos.
Thursday night.
Via The Ingraham Angle:
Mukasey told Laura the Comey memos belonged to the
government and were classified the minute he wrote them
down.

President Trump also weighed in on this today.

Michael Mukasey: I think we ought to put to rest

something one of your guests said in the last segment
about how well the memos weren’t marked classified at
the time. They were classified as soon as he wrote them. I
had an experience when I started as AG of taking notes at
a meeting at a top secret procedure. And when I got up to
leave the meeting my then chief of staff leaned over and
wrote in big block letters at the top TS/SCI meaning “top

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 Could We Be This Lucky?…
Sessions Promises To Leave Too
If Rosenstein Gets Canned
By Jim Hoft
April 20, 2018, 10:46 Pm

Here’s some good news for your weekend. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the
White House he might have to leave his job if
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions President Donald Trump fired his deputy, Rod
promised to resign if dirty cop Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into
Rosenstein gets fired. Russian interference in the 2016 election,
What wonderful news! according to people familiar with the exchange.

Sessions made his position known in a phone

call to White House counsel Donald McGahn
last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein
peaked after the deputy attorney general
approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the
president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.

Sessions is famous for signing over his

leadership role to Rosenstein the day after
he was sworn in. This of course allowed the
Deep State to wreak havoc on the Trump
Administration for months and months over
a phony Russia collusion scandal.

Sessions will go down as one of the worst

Attorneys General in US history.

The Washington Post reported:

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 TGP’s Joe Hoft Provides Analysis Of IG Report And The
Weiner Email Scandal On Hagmann Report
By Jim Hoft
April 21, 2018, 7:59 Am

Democrats are most fearful of being

released to the public.]

Last weekend information from the IG’s report was

connected with events from 2016 that validated claims that
the Weiner emails included salacious and sinister data that
could bring the entire Democrat complex to its knees. This
too was reported at the Gateway Pundit.

Joe Hoft from the Gateway Pundit was invited on the

Hagmann Report to discuss this relationship between the
IG’s report and the Weiner emails.
The Gatewaypundit’s Joe Hoft was on the
Hagmann Report on Tuesday and provided
an analysis of the DOJ IG’s report released
last Friday and connections with the Weiner
email scandal.

Last Friday the DOJ IG released a report related to fired

FBI Chief Andrew McCabe and the many lies McCabe
made which resulted in his firing. The Gateway Pundit
provided a summary of the report last weekend.

A point raised from a review of the report was related to

the Weiner emails. The Gateway Pundit reported –

The report includes little mention of Anthony
Weiner’s laptop emails other than to mention that
a meeting was scheduled to get a search warrant to
request the emails on October 27th, 2016. The emails
were the suspected cause for Comey’s email to
Congress on October 28th, 2016, announcing that the
Hillary email scandal was being reopened. However,
per text messages between Strzok and Page, the FBI
knew about the emails in September 2016 and had
sent a team to New York to review the emails at that
time. [The Weiner emails may be what the
.
Over the coming months more corruption and criminal
activities will be reported related to the Obama
Administration’s FBI and DOJ and the Mueller
investigation. The rationale for the Mueller team to
partake in such a brazen plot to remove the President is
still unknown. Was it simply related to Hillary losing the
election?
It must have been something more. Perhaps
the answer is hidden in the Weiner emails?

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 Qanon On The Rothschild, Saudi & Soros Puppet Masters
Behind The Deep State
Written By Dr Michael Salla
April 21, 2018

meticulously detailed in Corsi’s book, Killing the Deep

State.

There has been a number of important developments

within the U.S. that indicate how ferocious the behind the
scenes battle has become between President Donald Trump
and senior Deep State officials embedded within the
Federal bureaucracy. The most telling struggle involves
the April 9, 2018 FBI raid on Trump’s long time personal
attorney Michael Cohen, and the Federal Judge appointed
to hear Cohen’s case.

It’s worth highlighting that after the early morning raid on

Cohen, that same evening, Trump was visited by U.S.
military leaders in a powerful show of support
emphasizing that they had his back despite his immediate
concern over what the raid could mean for the Trump
business empire. Significantly, they were photographed
with 9 assembled on his right and 11 on his left, in a veiled
reference to 911 being a false flag attack known by the
military to have been orchestrated by the Deep State.
As pointed out in a previous article, QAnon is a group of
U.S. military intelligence officials working with the Trump
administration to expose the Deep State, and to dismantle
its hold over the U.S. political system. In 2015, Trump was
recruited by this group of military officials to prevent a
coup d’etat , according to best-selling political author Dr
Jerome Corsi and others.
It was this group of military intelligence officials that
neutralized a number of secret Deep State efforts to stop
Trump from being inaugurated after his surprise November
8, 2016 election victory. These efforts have been
The raid on Trump’s personal attorney marked a dramatic
escalation in the Deep State’s efforts to undermine the
Trump administration. The raid almost certainly provided
the Deep State with damaging material about his business
empire that could be used to blackmail Trump despite the
support he continues to receive from U.S. military
intelligence.
The raid on Cohen occurred less than 24 hours after the
April 8 false flag event was orchestrated in Syria, which
pinned the blame for a chemical weapons attack on the
Assad regime. It’s highly likely that the Deep State
demanded that Trump attack Syria to forestall
incriminating material being made public and/or his
business empire being scrutinized.

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Consequently, the limited missile strike on April 14 was
carefully planned by Trump and U.S. military intelligence
to satisfy Deep State demands, while avoiding any direct
confrontation with Russian forces that could precipitate
World War III, either in Syria, or later in Iran.
Furthermore, President Putin of Russia was made fully
aware of Trump’s quandary and chose not to retaliate
against U.S. military forces responsible for the missile
strike.
So who is behind the Deep State? Who are the puppet
masters? And what role does President Putin play in
helping Trump deal with the Deep State’s puppet masters?
According to QAnon, we need to follow the money trail to
begin getting answers to these questions. In a November
11, 2017 post, QAnon declared:
It’s worth beginning with the oldest of this list of puppet
masters – the Rothschilds whose influence dates back to
their successful financing of the British Empire in the
Napoleonic wars. Due to the Rothschild family’s astute
judgement in loaning funds to the British and other
Monarchical opponents of Napoleon, they became
fabulously wealthy after Napoleon’s defeat.
The Rothschilds were also rewarded by their grateful
monarchical debtors with national honors and aristocratic
titles that quickly elevated key family members into public
prominence throughout the 19th century.
QAnon’s estimate of the Rothshild family’s cumulative
wealth coincides with the upper range of Investopedia’s
estimate of between $350 billion to US$2 trillion, as of
March 2016. The lower range of many official estimates
are false, according to QAnon, the true net wealth of the
Rothschilds is closer to $2 trillion.
Similarly, Investopedia estimates that the House of Saud’s
wealth is close to $1.4 trillion, but QAnon is telling us that
it is closer to $4 trillion. Given the size of the Saudi Royal
family; 15,000 members, with 2000 holding the most
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power and wealth, the cumulative wealth may in fact be
much closer to QAnon’s estimate.
When it comes to George Soros wealth, the official
estimate of $24 billion, is once again, much lower than
what QAnon is telling us.
As a successful hedge fund manager, however, Soros
controls far more than his personal worth, placing the total
assets he controls closer to the $1 trillion claimed by
QAnon.
So how does the Rothschild family, along with the House
of Saud and George Soros, use their enormous
accumulated wealth of $7 trillion to pull the financial purse
strings of politicians and national elites all over the world?
QAnon provided an answer in a December 7, 2017 post
describing how the finances of the Rothschilds, Saudis
(SA) and Soros are used for complementary world-wide
control functions:
The reference to the Rothschilds as “cult leaders” and
exercising influence over the church is highly significant.
In 1832, the Rothschild loaned money to the Vatican,
which led to the Rothschilds gaining great influence over
the church through its dependence on international
financing. A dependence which has had a corrupting
influence on the Church, as pointed out by researchers
such as Dr. Paul Williams, author of Operation Gladio:
The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the
Mafia.
In addition, the Rothschild family has a controlling interest
in a vast network of central and private banks, which gives
them enormous global influence. Predictably, this financial
influence can be used to manipulate politicians all over the
planet through campaign contributions. This is the
foundation for the Rothshild’s worldwide government
control, as QAnon tells us.
What gives credence to QAnon’s reference to the cult and
financial power of the Rothschilds is Dr. Bill Deagle, a
former physician with U.S. Space Command, who was
mysteriously approached by Guy De Rothschild, who
claimed to be the “Pindar”, the CEO of Earth Inc.
De Rothschild displayed enormous occult powers
according to Deagle, corroborating QAnon’s reference to
the Rothschilds as cult leaders. What kind of cult then is he
referring to? I will return to this question in Part 2, after
examining the functions QAnon ascribes to the other two
puppet masters, House of Saud and George Soros.
In his December 7, 2017 post, QAnon referred to Saudia
Arabia (SA) as being in control of oil technology, sex
trafficking of children, US/UK politicians and major
technology companies.
It is not all that surprising that the House of Saud is listed
by QAnon as a puppet master, since it has accumulated
enormous wealth (officially US$1.4 trillion) due to the oil
reserves that it has controlled for decades in Saudi Arabia.
Importantly, QAnon is telling us that the House of Saud
has used its wealth to secretly control the U.S. and British
political systems through campaign contributions and
outright bribery.
This is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in the
September 11, 2001 attacks where 16 of the 19 hijackers
were Saudi citizens, yet it was Afghanistan rather than
Saudi Arabia that was invaded by the U.S. and its NATO
allies!
A subsequent 911 Commission Report authorized by the
U.S. Congress, which was released in 2002, hid the Saudi
involvement by classifying 28 pages. It was only on July
15, 2016 that the Commission’s classified pages were
publicly released with details of the Saudi officials
involved, which included its then Ambassador to the U.S.
Prince Bandar, who funded at least two of the hijackers.
Arguably, it was this release that led to the extraordinary
events in Saudi Arabia in early November 2017, where
Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman jailed prominent
members of the Royal Family and senior Saudi officials
for corruption. Those arrested included Prince Bandar, the
most senior of the Saudi officials implicated in the 911
attacks.
It appears that Prince Salman took preemptive action to
clear the way for the truth about 911 eventually being
made public by jailing and shaming Saudi officials
implicated in the false flag attack.
Additionally, QAnon tells us that Saudi Arabia has been
long linked to child and sex trafficking. What are the
children used for? Aside from the obvious sex and labor
abuses, this raises the more troubling practice of child
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sacrifice. I will return to this when the Rothschild cult
leadership issue is discussed in Part 2.
This takes us the third of the puppet masters identified by
QAnon.
George Soros is best known for having successfully bet
against the British Pound in 1992, and making
approximately US$2 billion in the process. If Soros’
cumulative wealth, through his hedgefund is close to $1
trillion, along with secret coordination with the Rothschild
and Saudi family, then it becomes easy to understand how
Soros could have successfully opposed the Bank of
England in his currency speculation.
Soros, according to QAnon, is responsible for
manipulating public opinion in directions favored by the
Deep State. Through his Open Society Foundation, Soros
has been involved in secretly funding dissidents and
political opponents that have led to mass movements that
have toppled many political regimes.
In addition to his prominent role in toppling Eastern
European communist states, Soros’ Open Society played a
prominent role in the Arab Spring movement, and more
recently in catalyzing mass domestic opposition to the
election of Donald Trump.
Slush funds have been created and cleverly used to fund
“progressive” organizations that serve Deep State agendas
in the U.S. This became clear in July 2017, when the
Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions began an
investigation of slush funds generated from corporate
penalties ordered by judges in Federal lawsuits. These
funds were being directed to “progressive organizations”
opposed to the Trump administration.
Finally, it’s important to point out that the judge appointed
to oversee the case involving Michael Cohen is U.S.
District Judge Kimba Wood, who officiated at George
Soros’ wedding in 2013. Judge Kimba’s close relationship
with Soros clearly points to her being a Deep State asset
who has been placed in this important position to directly
threaten the Trump business empire.
Now that the enormous financial assets controlled by the
Rothchilds, Saudis, and puppet masters, Soros has been
examined, now I can return to QAnon’s claim that the
Rothschild are the head of a worldwide cult.
Continued in Part 2.
 Qanon On The Rothschilds & Satanism –
Trump’s Secret Alliance With Putin
Written By Dr Michael Salla
April 21, 2018
In Part 1, I analyzed QAnon posts identifying the puppet
masters behind the Deep State – the Rothschild family,
House of Saud, and George Soros – and the enormous
financial resources at their disposal. To achieve control at
a global level, the three puppet masters coordinate their
efforts through different functions they respectively
exercise.
QAnon referred to a cult led by the Rothschild family
which has been a critical part of this global control system.
In a November 11, 2017 post, QAnon succinctly described
the chief characteristics of the worldwide cult:
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QAnon is telling us that the puppet masters, the
Rothschilds, Saudis and Soros are Satan worshippers. At
the apex of this Satanic cult are the Rothschilds, according
to QAnon.
It’s worth repeating from Part 1 that Dr. Deagle told us
about Guy De Rothschild being the Pindar, CEO of Earth
in 1992, which I discussed in more detail in an earlier
article. This corroborates what QAnon revealed about the
Rothschilds being the leaders of a cult followed by the
puppet masters.
Prior to his death in 2007, Guy De Rothschild arranged for
leadership of the Rothschild family to be passed on to his
son, David Rene de Rothschild, in 2003. Recently,, David
de Rothschild announced on April 17, 2018 that leadership
of various Rothschild companies would in turn be passed
on to his son, Alexandre de Rothschild.
According to what QAnon and Deagle have revealed, it
can be concluded that the role of Pindar (Satanic cult
leader) had passed on from Guy to David de Rothschild,
and that Alexandre is being groomed to take over the
position at some point.
QAnon refers to a temple on Epstein’s island with
underground levels that the Satan worshiping Rothschilds,
Saudis and Soros, along with their followers and
compromised politicians, regularly visit. Compromised
politicians include the Clintons, who are deeply involved
in events at Epstein’s island as evidenced by Bill Clinton’s
frequent visits there – 26 of which have been documented
in flight logs.
QAnon refers to how the Clintons were compromised by
Soros, and how evil they became through their association
with the Rothschilds:

What kind of “EVIL” activities are performed Epstein’s
island, the Rothschild’s Black Forrest estate, and other
locations like Bohemian Grove, California?
QAnon said that the Saudis are in control of sex and child
trafficking. There are multiple witnesses that describe
Satanic ceremonies that involve child sacrifice. John
DeCamp, a former state senator for Nebraska, wrote The
Franklin Coverup: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in
Nebrask (1992), which provides the most well documented
and researched book detailing child abuse and ritual
sacrifice at Satanic events all over the United States.
In an article where he summarized multiple interviews
with children who survived the abuse and Satanic
ceremonies, De Camp wrote:
The essence of the story the children told, was that they
were used in a coordinated ring of child abuse. When I say
child abuse, I don’t mean the traditional child abuse that
social workers yak about, but serious, big league abuse of
children. They are used as drug couriers, as sexual objects
to compromise this or that politician or businessman. They
are used in the most gross fashion possible, including ritual
murder and things like that. I am talking about the most
unbelievable things, which I still have difficulty believing.
But having seen enough evidence, I know they exist, in an
organized fashion, and not committed by the sleazes in the
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bars and the guys in the alley. I’m talking about the most
prominent of citizens, the most respectable.
De Camp gave an example in his book, of how young
children are exploited at Satanic ceremonies held at private
locations such as Bohemian Grove:
Paul was taken by Larry King [not the talk show host] and
others to a wooded area in California – identified after
publication as the Bohemian Grove. There Paul and
another boy were forced to do sex acts with and to
consume parts of a child whom they had watched being
murdered by the cultists. The body was to be disposed of
by “the men with the hoods.
I now return to the last comment in QAnon’s November
11, 2017 post:
“Vladimir Putin: The New World Order Worships Satan”.
Here QAnon is signaling that President Putin is fully aware
of the Satanism practiced by the puppet masters –
Rothschilds, Saudis, and Soros – and that there is secret
coordination between U.S. military intelligence and Putin
in responding to the Deep State.
This is why Russia has repeatedly stood down its military
forces despite U.S. military provocations in Syria, Ukraine,
and elsewhere in Russia’s sphere of influence. Putin knows
that the Deep State is intent on fomenting World War III.
Putin is also well aware that the Deep State has been
pressuring Trump from the beginning of his
administration, and now blackmailing Trump through
material acquired from the Cohen raid. Nevertheless,
Putin/Russia and Trump/US military intelligence are
coordinating to prevent any military clashes that could
quickly escalate out of control due to deep state actors
embedded within each of their administrations.
This scenario is corroborated by a comment given by
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who said in an
April 20 interview:
Speaking about risks of a military confrontation, I am 100
percent sure that [both the US and Russian] militaries
won’t allow this, and of course neither will President
[Vladimir] Putin or President [Donald] Trump.
QAnon’s revelations have been very helpful in
understanding the puppet masters behind the Deep State,
their connection to a Satanic cult that has compromised
political systems in the U.S. and around the world, and
how Trump and U.S. military intelligence are secretly
coordinating with Putin’s Russia to deal with these
multifaceted challenges.
 TRUMP Slams “Third Rate Reporter” And Crooked
Hillary “Flunkie” Maggie Haberman For
Pushing Trash On Michael Cohen
By Jim Hoft
April 21, 2018, 10:34 Am

President Trump slammed “third rate

reporter” Maggie Haberman from The New
York Times on Saturday for pushing a smear
campaign against his lawyer Michael Cohen.

Liberals are hoping Cohen will “flip” and testify against

the Republican president in their never-ending deep state
witch hunt.

***********
Haberman was hired by the NYT‘s DC bureau chief
Trump is right — Maggie Haberman is a Carolyn Ryan in January 2015, a few months before the
committed liberal hack and Hillary flunky. beginning of the primaries.

Joel Benenson, Hillary Clinton’s chief
campaign strategist, said in emails the
campaign had a “very good relationship” with
Maggie Haberman and they “have never been
disappointed”.
Maggie Haberman was hired as the presidential campaign
correspondent, effective February 15, 2015.
Hillary campaign official Joel Benenson e-mailed the
Clinton campaign in January of that same year.

Via Wikileaks:

“Who: For something like this, especially in the

absence of us teasing things out to others, we
feel that it’s important to go with what is safe
and what has worked in the past, and to a
publication that will reach industry people for
recruitment purposes. We have has a very good
relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico
over the last year. We have had her tee up
stories for us before and have never been
disappointed. While we should have a larger
conversation in the near future about a broader

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 strategy for reengaging the beat press that
covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve
our objective and do the most shaping by going
to Maggie. “
Jennifer Palmieri, Director of Communications with the
Hillary campaign sent out this e-mail, a few months later
in July of 2015:
existent “sources” and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates
Michael, a fine person with a wonderful family. Michael is
a businessman for his own account/lawyer who I have
always liked & respected. Most people will flip if the
Government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying
or making up stories. Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that
despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!

Via Wikileaks:

“Maggie thinks it is responsible and that we are

not going to have a problem with it – it will have
all the caveats that HRC has not actually
proposed these policies, and has said that we
will pay for any new policies. She is going to
read me the story later today off the record to
further assure me. I will let you all know how
that goes. Jen”

And Maggie Haberman attended both off-the-records

meetings with John Podesta and Joel Benenson before the
primaries:

When the Deep State and/or Democrat Party

need something done – They turn to far left
hack Maggie Haberman.

**********

On Saturday President Trump pounded

liberal hack Maggie Haberman.

President Trump:

The New York Times and a third rate reporter named

Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I
don’t speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out
of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship
with me in the hope that he will “flip.” They use non-
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 PAY DIRT=> Rep. Nunes: There Was NO OFFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE USED When DOJ Started Spying On
Trump — All Politics (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 22, 2018, 10:48 Am

Mr. Chairman you’ve got to explain what

you just said. I think this is extraordinary.
That you’re telling us that in order for the
FBI, the Department of Justice to launch an
investigation into so-called collusion
between President Trump and the
Russians there was no official intelligence
used. Then how did this investigation start?

Rep. Nunes:

I think that is the point. We don’t

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Maria understand and never understood.
Bartiromo this morning on Sunday
Morning Futures. This is pay dirt folks.

During the discussion Nunes, who is chairman of the The Obama DOJ NEVER had any
House Intelligence Committee, told Maria the DOJ had intelligence that Trump was working
was NO EVIDENCE of wrongdoing when they started to with the Russians.
spy on the Donald Trump campaign.
They started spying on him and his
It was all for political reasons — which is immoral, campaign and family anyway.
unethical and illegal.
It was all politics.
Rep. Nunes:
Via Sunday Morning Futures:
This is really important to us because the
intelligence investigation uses the tools of
our intelligence services that are not
supposed to be used on American citizens.
So, we’ve long wanted to know what
intelligence did you have that actually led to
this investigation. So what we found now
after the investigators have reviewed it is in
fact there was no intelligence. So we have
a traditional partnership with what’s called
the Five Eyes Agreement…

Maria Bartiromo:
.

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 Rep. Devin Nunes:
“It’s Possible” Russians Have Dirt On James Comey
(VIDEO)
By Mike Lachance At American Lookout:
April 21, 2018, 11:02 Am

“The irony here is quite frankly hard to believe.”

“Well, it’s certainly possible that the Russians

could have information on Comey,” Nunes
suggested. “It’s certainly possible that the
Russians could have information on Hillary
Clinton. It is certainly possible that they have
information on all kinds of people.”

Nunes and Hannity were reacting to Comey’s ABC

During one of his many recent interviews, former FBI
director James Comey said it’s “possible” that Russia has
dirt on President Trump. It was an incredibly irresponsible
thing to say and Devin Nunes recently fired back during an
appearance on FOX News.
The Washington Examiner reported:
interview in which he said it was “possible” but “unlikely”
that Trump is compromised by Russian operatives in the
wake of unsubstantiated claims made in the controversial
Steele dossier.
Kudos to Nunes for doing this. Republicans
have to start pushing back on all this
nonsense.

Devin Nunes: ‘It’s possible’ the Russians

have dirt on James Comey

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-

Calif., took a rhetorical jab at James Comey on Tuesday,
responding to the former FBI director’s open-ended
suggestion that it was “possible” that the Russians have
dirt on President Trump.

During an interview on Fox News with host Sean Hannity,

the California Republican said,

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 CNN Media Panel Fears Fox
News Is Controlling The Government
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 22, 2018 4:23 PM EDT
Deep in the bowels of the internet, you’ll find conspiracy
theorists who believe lizards are in control of the
government, but on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” you’ll find
people who believe the government is run by a Fox. Fox
News that is. It has been a growing concern among left-
wing media hacks that, since President Trump took office,
conservative media now had the access and influence
President Obama had gifted to them. And in recent weeks,
CNN has been on a crusade of making it seem like it was
abnormal.
As the Media Research Center previously reported,
CNN ran a report cautioning their few viewers that the
Trump administration was hiring friendly journalists in
droves (but just a handful), while failing to mention that
President Obama had hired as little as 30 friendly
journalists (at least four from CNN) over his eight years
in office.
But facts do not come first at CNN as Reliable Sources
host Brian Stelter ran yet another segment decrying how
Fox News opinion hosts had close and personal
relationships with the President.
“With high ratings comes huge
headaches, that is really the deal with
Sean Hannity and Fox News. Hannity’s
relationship with President Trump is
even tighter than we thought according
to this new reporting from the
Washington Post,” he announced to kick
off the segment.
If what Stelter said was true, it might explain why CNN
doesn’t have any headaches when it comes to how
ridiculous their hosts and reporters conduct themselves.
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Sarah Ellison, one of the writers of the Washington Post
piece Stelter noted, was on the program and said she and
her colleagues were surprised by the access Hannity had.
She and Stelter quipped about Trump being one of
Hannity’s producers:
I would say the funny thing about that relationship is that it
does both ways. So, Donald Trump is actually helping
produce what Sean Hannity -- and the message he’s
delivering. The funny thing about it, though, is that Sean
Hannity is also helping produce the President's message,
which was one of the things my colleagues and I thought
was the most, sort of, surprising about this story.
Apparently, none of them thought to mention how Obama
would wine and dine with MSNBC hosts as they cooked
up talking points and spin as well. Or his close personal
friendship with CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King.
“I think it comes to this question, John
Avlon, state-run media or media-run
state. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace brought
this up the other day, saying there's
always talk about Fox being state-run
TV but really is it Fox running the state,”
Stelter asked to John Avlon of The Daily
Beast.
Avlon acted like the Obama administration never
happened as he righteously proclaimed that nothing like
this has ever happened before.
“Look, reality check: We’ve never had an
administration as close to a partisan
media outlet as this one. (…) We've
never had media outlets staffing an
administration to the extent -- literally to
 the extent Fox News and Breitbart have
in this administration.”
This must be one of those falsehoods Stelter had
admitted letting slip by unopposed on his show because
there was no corresponding “reality check” from the CNN
host.
After playing a deceptively edited video making it seem
as though President Trump got all of his thoughts from
Fox News,
“That is extraordinary! Because typically
talking points in the past have gotten
from politicians to partisan media,”
Avlon declared.
Stelter then let the bitter Beast editor end the segment by
smearing such Trump relationships by claiming they were
“increase[ing] the tribalism on Twitter,
the social media mobs, all the kinds of
things that dumb down our debate and
makes us meaner, dumber, and pettier
as a country.”
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
CNN
Reliable Sources
April 22, 2018
11:39:52 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: Welcome back to Reliable Sources. With high
ratings comes huge headaches, that is really the deal with Sean
Hannity and Fox News. Hannity’s relationship with President
Trump is even tighter than we thought according to this new
reporting from the Washington Post. Quoting here:
“Trump and Hannity usually speak several times a week. The two
men review news stories and aspects Hannity’s show, and
occasionally debate specifies about whatever the President is
considering typing out on Twitter. The frequency of Hannity’s
contact with Trump means that ‘he basically has a desk in the
place,’ one presidential adviser said.”
The panel is back with me now. Sarah Ellison is one of the
reporters who wrote that Washington Post story. So, Sarah,
you're suggesting the President is also a producer of Hannity’s
show?
SARAH ELLISON: Yes, I would say the funny thing about that
relationship is that it does both ways. So, Donald Trump is
actually helping produce what Sean Hannity -- and the message
he’s delivering. The funny thing about it, though, is that Sean
.
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Hannity is also helping produce the President's message, which
was one of the things my colleagues and I thought was the most,
sort of, surprising about this story.
(…)
STELTER: I think it comes to this question, John Avlon, state-run
media or media-run state. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace brought this
up the other day, saying there's always talk about Fox being
state-run TV but really is it Fox running the state? What to you
make of this suggestion?
AVLON: Look, reality check: We’ve never had an administration
as close to a partisan media outlet as this one. Think about the
relationships between people in the past who have advised
presidents.
(…)
AVLON: It was those relationships that lead a lot of principled
conservatives to decry the closeness of that they called the
MSM, and the Democratic Party and Democratic presidents.
We've never had media outlets staffing an administration to the
extent -- literally to the extent Fox News and Breitbart have in this
administration.
And with Hannity this idea of him producing the presidency—and
remember Trump-TV was plan-B for the president. This
enormously dynamic relationship, of course it should be divulged,
but there really is nothing quite like it in American history. And it
ends up demeaning the independence of the good reporters at
Fox, people like Bret Baier, Shep Smith, and other folks who are
trying to play it straight and do it right. This is out—there is
nothing we’ve seen in American history. There is no obvious
parallel.
STELTER: Well, we’ve decided to look at some of what the
President had to say at Mar-a-Lago this week, versus what was
said on Fox beforehand. Let’s take a look at the combo here:
(…)
STELTER: Fox said it first, the President said it second, John,
your reaction?
AVLON: That is extraordinary! Because typically talking points in
the past have gotten from politicians to partisan media. This is a
two-way street in something close to real time. It's self-reinforcing
of the White House’s menace-- message, and then it increases
the tribalism on Twitter, the social media mobs, all the kinds of
things that dumb down our debate and makes us meaner,
dumber, and pettier as a country. It’s an extraordinary two-way
relationship we’ve never seen. And those conservatives how
decried the too cozy relationship, [between] politicians and
journalists in the past, they're either actively complicit in it or by
their silence, the laziness of the anti-anti-Trump pose, they're
complicit in it as well in a different way.
STELTER: To our panel, thank you.
 POTUS Trump RIPS “Liar And Leaker” James Comey
Over Classified Memos AGAIN ‘He Broke The Law!’
By Cristina Laila
April 21, 2018, 6:38 Pm

Trump tweeted:
Redacted memos written by disgraced
former FBI Director James Comey James Comey’s Memos are Classified, I did not
were published online on Thursday evening. Declassify them. They belong to our
Government! Therefore, he broke the law!
Comey penned seven memos stemming from nine Additionally, he totally made up many of the
conversations he had with President Trump during his time things he said I said, and he is already a proven
at the FBI. liar and leaker. Where are Memos on Clinton,
Lynch & others?
Although reports state 2 of the memos Comey leaked to
his law professor friend were classified, experts argue all 7
memos were classified.

The president torched Comey AGAIN on Saturday from

Twitter.

Trump immediately blasted Comey after the memos leaked

online.

President Trump, please never stop tweeting!

The president once again called out corrupt cop James

Comey for leaking classified memos to the liberal media in
order to prompt a special counsel. Trump said, “I did not
Declassify them [the memos],” then once again said
Comey “broke the law.” On Friday it was announced Inspector
General Horowitz opened an investigation
Trump also pointed out Comey never kept memos on his into James Comey over his classified
conversations with Hillary, Loretta Lynch or others such as memos.
Obama.

Comey penned memos of his conversations with Trump

because this entire Deep State attempted coup was a set up
from the beginning.

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 James Woods Ignites Twitter After
He Drops A MOAB On Hillary Clinton
By Cristina Laila
April 21, 2018, 7:52 Pm

James Woods ignited Twitter Friday

night after he dropped a MOAB on Patriotic actor James Woods responded to the Fox News
Hillary Clinton. article by dropping a MOAB on Hillary Clinton.

Woods tweeted:

“Your corruption was not a flesh wound, but

a systemic rot of your entire being. YOU
were never going to let you be president,
because you are a greedy, lying grifter.
You weren’t born a Clinton, but you took to
being one like a duck to swamp water.”

A new book written by a NY Times reporter sheds light on

Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. It reveals Hillary Clinton
said, “they were never going to let me be president” on
election night after she realized Donald Trump won.

Fox News reported:

Hillary Clinton lamented that “they were

never going to let me be president” on
election night in 2016, a new book detailing
her White House bids claims.
The Daily Beast obtained book excerpts
of “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two
Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact
Glass Ceiling.”
The book reportedly references Clinton’s OUCH!
September 2016 comments — she said
that half of Trump supporters could be put
into a “basket of deplorables.” The Twitter lit up after James Woods dropped this bomb on
comments were reportedly not the first, as Hillary.
“Hillary always broke down Trump
supporters into three baskets,” New York
Times reporter Amy Chozick’s book
claimed, according to The Daily Beast.

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Trouble Ahead For DNC: 2017 Russia Report Loses Luster
As Its Architects Comey, Brennan And Clapper Are
Proven As Leakers, Liars And Trump Haters
By Jim Hoft
April 22, 2018, 8:13 Am

not the source of the emails of Clinton’s that it released

during the campaign. It is more likely that the emails
were provided to Wikileaks by DNC insider Seth Rich
who was murdered in July 2016 in a still unsolved
murder in Washington DC.
3. The DNC has not allowed investigators to review its IT
systems and servers to determine how its emails
landed in the hands of Wikileaks. To date the Mueller
team has not reportedly even asked for this
information. An inspection would provide evidence as
to whether its servers were hacked by outsiders or if
the emails were simply copied by an insider and
provided to external parties.
It is looking more and more like
Obama’s Former FBI Director James
President Trump tweeted that this case is an opportunity
Comey, former CIA Director John
for the Trump campaign to obtain information from the
Brennan and Former NSA Director
DNC that they are withholding from parties outside the
James Clapper may have lied when they
DNC.
put together a report released in
January 2017 about Russian influence
in the 2016 election. This report was
used to push the entire Russia
narrative.

This past week the DNC announced that they are suing
Russia, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign –

for allegedly engaging in a conspiracy to damage the

Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential race.

The DNC is seeking recompense for what it says was

millions of dollars in damages from Russia’s hacking of its
internal emails, which were then published by WikiLeaks,
with the encouragement of then-candidate Trump and his
campaign.
There are many problems that the DNC faces with their
case –
1. Congressional investigations and the Special Counsel
Mueller investigation have been going on for the past
year and they haven’t uncovered any activities that
support that the Trump campaign worked with Russia
in any way to damage the DNC.
2. Wikileaks has a track record of not revealing its
sources but it has repeatedly hinted that Russia was
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4. Finally, one of the biggest problems the DNC has with
their lawsuit is that their entire case may be predicated
on a report released in January 2017 by former FBI
Head Comey, former CIA Director Brennan and Former
NSA Director Clapper. NSA Director Admiral Mike
Rogers, who requested the FISA warrant audit that the
Obama team reportedly wanted to fire him over and
who reportedly notified President-elect Trump that he
was being spied on in November 2016 a week after the
election, reported to the Senate that he did not agree
with the findings in the Russia report.
In the report, it is reported that –
We also assess Putin and the Russian
Government aspired to help President-
 elect Trump’s election chances when Clapper lied to Congress on whether Americans were
possible by discrediting Secretary being spied on or not –
Clinton and publicly contrasting her
unfavorably to him.

All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI
have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate
confidence.

Admiral Rogers later stated in a Senate hearing stated that

his confidence did not reach even this threshold:

I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy, I’d call it an

honest difference of opinion between
three different organizations and in the
end I made that call.…It didn’t have the
same level of sourcing and the same John Brennan has noticeably shared his hate with President
level of multiple sources. Trump calling him a “paranoid charlatan”. It was also
recently reported that Brennan made a trip to Russia
This means that the Russia
himself in March of 2016 as the Russia collusion narrative
Report was based on was in its infancy.
judgements from the CIA led by
John Brennan, the DNI led by If the DNC is relying on the Russia
James Clapper, and the FBI led
report on the 2016 election and the
by James Comey.
individuals accountable for the
accuracy of the report are James
Comey later lied under oath and admittedly leaked
Comey, James Clapper and John
information as well. Comey’s own notes from discussions
with the President were labeled classified and yet he Brennan, the DNC is in big trouble.
shared them with a friend who then shared with the media.
Comey is facing criminal charges in these areas.

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 EXCLUSIVE: In Private, Trump Aide George
Papadopoulos Denies Collusion
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:32 PM 04/22/2018

 Papadopoulos has not spoken publicly about the
case against him
 Sources say Papadopoulos has privately
downplayed the conversations that are the subject
of the FBI investigation
 Sources also say Papadopoulos has privately
denied collusion with the Russians
More than six months have passed since George
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and began
cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation. In that span, speculation has swirled about
whether the President Donald Trump’s former campaign
adviser holds the keys to collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russian government.
Democrats, including California Rep. Adam Schiff,
routinely cite Papadopoulos as a possible Trump campaign
conduit to Russia, and his Oct. 5 guilty plea and
subsequent cooperation with Mueller has fueled
speculation that he has provided damaging information
about the Trump campaign’s activities.
over to the agency. Clinton’s deleted records were a hot
topic of debate during the 2016 presidential campaign,
well before WikiLeaks began releasing emails that were
stolen from the DNC and Clinton campaign.
In his plea, Papadopoulos acknowledged he lied to FBI
agents during a Jan. 27, 2017, interview about his contacts
with Mifsud and two of the professor’s Russian associates.
He was arrested on July 27, 2017, at Dulles airport after an
overseas trip. He faces up to six months in jail for lying to
the FBI.
TheDCNF has also learned previously unreported details
about a second conversation that Papadopoulos had in
London, this one with Alexander Downer, Australia’s top
diplomat to the United Kingdom.

Papadopoulos, an energy consultant who lives in Chicago,

has not spoken publicly about the case against him. But
two sources familiar with his thinking say that he has
privately denied that he was involved in any collusion
scheme. Sources say he has also downplayed the
significance of conversations that he had in London with
two separate diplomats in which Hillary Clinton’s emails
were allegedly discussed.

Those alleged discussions about emails would later prompt
the FBI to open a counterintelligence intelligence
investigation into the Trump team.
As part of his plea deal with Mueller, Papadopoulos
acknowledged Joseph Mifsud, a professor and former
Maltese diplomat, told him during a conversation in
London on April 26, 2016, he had learned the Russian
government had possession of “thousands” of Clinton-
related emails. But sources familiar with Papadopoulos’
thinking say he has told associates he did not see, handle
or disseminate Clinton emails.
Papadopoulos has also said he believes that the emails in
question were the 30,000-plus emails that Clinton deleted
in Dec. 2014 before turning her State Department emails
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[Alexander Downer speaks to reporters in Nicosia, July 29, 2008.
REUTERS/Andreas Manolis]
On around May 10, 2016, two weeks after the Mifsud
meeting, Papadopoulos met with Downer at Kensington
Gardens in London.
The New York Times first reported in December the
meeting took place. Downer claimed Papadopoulos
drunkenly bragged to to him about Clinton-related emails,
according to The Times. The newspaper reported it was
not known whether Downer was fishing for answers from
Papadopoulos.
What exactly Papadopoulos told Downer remains unclear.
What Downer and the Australian government told U.S.
officials is also a mystery. The ex-Trump aide has told
associates that he did not discuss anything nefarious with
the Australian diplomat.
TheDCNF is told that Papadopoulos was introduced to
Downer through two intermediaries. An Israeli embassy
official in London named Christian Cantor introduced
Papadopoulos, who he previously knew, to Erika
Thompson, a counselor to Downer who serves in the
Australia’s London embassy.
Papadopoulos was front-and-center in the British press
because of comments he made about David Cameron, the
U.K. prime minister at the time. On May 4, 2016,
Papadopoulos gave an interview to The London Times
calling on Cameron to apologize to Trump over negative
comments about the then-GOP candidate.
Thompson reached out to Papadopoulos two days after that
story appeared and said Downer wanted to meet with the
young Trump aide. During the meeting, which TheDCNF
is told Thompson attended, Downer ordered Papadopoulos
to “leave David Cameron alone.”
Downer could not be reached for comment, and Thompson
did not respond to numerous emails. Papadopoulos’s
lawyers also declined comment for this article.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is
interested in finding out how the information from Downer
made its way to the FBI.
In late-July 2016, Australia’s ambassador to the U.S., Joe
Hockey, told his American counterparts about Downer’s
claims about the Papadopoulos conversation. The Aussies
sat on the information for two months but revisited the
Papadopoulos information after WikiLeaks released emails
stolen from the Democratic National Committee.
That leak occurred on July 22, 2016. The FBI opened its
counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016. Peter
Strzok, the FBI’s deputy chief of counterintelligence at the
time, oversaw the investigation.
Strzok was removed from Mueller’s Russia team in July
2017 after he was found to have exchanged anti-Trump
text messages with FBI attorney Lisa Page. Those texts
also suggest Strzok traveled to London just days after the
investigation was opened to meet with someone from the
Australian embassy.
“[Redacted’ talked about the Embassy. It’s
the longest continuously staffed
establishment in London,” Strzok wrote to
Page in an Aug. 2, 2016 text message.
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The Australian embassy in London matches Strzok’s
description.
Papadopoulos was not interviewed by FBI agents until Jan.
27, 2017, nearly six months after the start of the
investigation. That six month delay is puzzling to both
congressional investigators and to Papadopoulos. He has
wondered to associates why, if he was actually suspected
of conspiring with the Russian government, the bureau
would have waited so long to contact him.
The FBI’s investigation appeared to focus instead on
Carter Page, another energy consultant who joined the
Trump campaign’s foreign policy team at the same time as
Papadopoulos. Relying heavily on the infamous and
unverified Steele dossier, the FBI and Justice Department
obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
warrant on Page on Oct. 21, 2016. The agencies
successfully obtained three more surveillance warrants on
Page over the next nine months.
***
Papadopoulos first met Mifsud in Italy on March 14, 2016,
about a week after Papadopoulos officially joined the
Trump team. Prior to that, Papadopoulos served in the Ben
Carson presidential campaign.
Papadopoulos acknowledged to prosecutors that he lied
when he initially claimed that he interacted with Mifsud
and the Russians prior to joining the Trump team in early
March 2016. In fact, Papadopoulos first met Mifsud on
March 14, 2016 in Italy. The pair had worked at the
London Centre of International Law Practice but
reportedly did not know each other.
Papadopoulos and Mifsud soon began corresponding and
discussing arranging meetings between the Trump
campaign and Russian government officials. Emails and
Facebook messages cited in court filings submitted by the
special counsel show that Papadopoulos pitched campaign
officials numerous times on holding meetings. He made
one pitch personally to Trump during a March 31, 2016,
meeting of the national security team.
There is no evidence that those meetings took place.
On April 18, 2016, Mifsud, who worked at the time as a
professor at the University of Stirling, introduced
Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-
sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs
Council. Timofeev, who told Papadopoulos he had links to
the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, communicated
with the Trump adviser over Skype about setting up
meetings with the campaign.
 Papadopoulos emailed Trump campaign adviser Stephen
Miller the next day, saying he had

“interesting messages coming in from

Moscow about a meeting when the time is
right.”

Miller did not respond to the email, but it is unclear

whether Papadopoulos told Miller, who currently works in
the White House, or anyone else on the campaign about
Mifsud’s comments about emails. TheDCNF’s sources did
[Joseph Mifsud (left) and Ivan Timofeev (right) at Valdai Discussion not say whether Papadopoulos told the campaign of
Club, April 19, 2016. (Valdai Discussion Club)]
Mifsud’s remarks.
In an April 26, 2016, meeting in London, Mifsud told
Papadopoulos that he had recently met in Moscow with Mifsud could not be reached for comment. He has gone
high-level Russian government officials who claimed to underground in the months since his name surfaced
have “dirt” on Clinton. Papadopoulos told the FBI Mifsud publicly.
said
“the Russians had emails of Clinton” and
“they have thousands of emails.”
.

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 Rep. Devin Nunes: I Believe Comey Gave His Classified
Memos To “Several People” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 22, 2018, 12:49 Pm
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Maria
Bartiromo this morning on Sunday
Morning Futures.
During the discussion Nunes, who is chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee, told Maria the DOJ had
was NO EVIDENCE of wrongdoing when they started to
spy on the Donald Trump campaign.
It was all for political reasons — which is immoral,
unethical and illegal.
Rep. Nunes told Maria Bartiromo the Obama DOJ
NEVER had any intelligence that Trump was working
with the Russians.
They started spying on him and his campaign and family
anyway.
It was all politics.
Chairman Nunes went on:
We now know that there never was any
official intelligence to start this
investigation. We know that Sidney
Blumenthal and others were pushing
information into the State Department. So
we’re trying to piece all of that together.
Maria Bartiromo:
We are waiting the IG report as it relates to
Jim Comey as it relates to the handling of
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the Hillary Clinton email investigation. We
got these Comey memos this week. Tell
me what you got from these memos.
Rep. Nunes:
…Once you read the Comey memos it
becomes exhibit A in a defense that there
was no obstruction of justice… I think for
Mr. Comey when you match up the
memos, with what’s in his book, with the
interviews he’s giving, I think he’s got a lot
of problems coming in the future with what
the IG is looking at with his behavior in the
Hillary Clinton email investigation… As it
relates to Mr. Comey you got the added
problem now that the memos that he wrote,
the seven memos he wrote on Donald
Trump…
If those memos contain classified
information, he purposely leaked them
in order to get a special counsel started.
After he retired he leaked pieces of these. So we need to
know exactly what he leaked. Who did he give these
memos to?
Was it just the friend who leaked them
to The New York Times or were there
others? I believe there were others. I
think these Comey memos were actually
given to several people, that contained
classified information.
If true this would put Comey in prison.
Lock him up!
Via Sunday Morning Futures:
 DNC Chairman Asked If Clinton Ordered Lawsuit
Against Trump/Russia/Wikileaks, Responds:
‘You’ll Have To Ask Sec. Clinton’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 22, 2018, 12:53 Pm

our democracy and we have to protect

that.”

Appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, Democratic

National Committee Chairman Tom Perez refused to say
whether or not the frivilous lawsuit against the Trump
campaign, WikiLeaks and Russia was ordered by failed Senator Claire McCaskill has called the lawsuit a
candidate Hillary Clinton.
“silly distraction” and Rep. Jackie Speier
The lawsuit claims there was a vast conspiracy to prevent stated that it is “ill-conceived … not in the
her from winning the election. interest of the American people.”

When asked if Clinton pushed the party to file the lawsuit, Perez responded to the anger from his party by asserting
Perez did not answer. that he is “punching back” against the election results.

“You’ll have to ask Secretary Clinton,” “I’m punching back not only for my
Perez said. colleagues, I’m punching back for
democracy,” Perez said.

The Democratic Party is dead broke heading into the 2018

midterms. According to their year-end filing, the party is
more than $6 million in debt with just over $6.3 million on
hand.

Meanwhile, their Republican rivals are flush with cash.

After Todd reworded the question and asked if she knew “Republicans are swimming in pools of
about it, Perez claimed that he did not “ask her money. The Republican National
permission” prior to the filing — again dancing around the Committee had raised $132 million by the
question. end of 2017 — about twice as much as the
DNC — and entered 2018 with almost $40
“I have not consulted Hillary Clinton to ask million to spare, with not a penny of debt,”
her permission to file a complaint. The buck the Week reports.
stops with Tom Perez and we filed this
complaint because our democracy is at
risk,” Perez said. “This was an assault on
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When asked by host Chuck Todd how much the lawsuit is
going to cost, as the party is currently broke, Perez refused
to answer the question.
“How much are you taking away from 2018
to focus on 2016?” Todd asked.
“Chuck, we can’t afford not to do this.
When you look ahead and you see what
was done before and what they’re trying
to do again, our democracy is at stake.
It’s hard to win elections when you have
interference in elections. We’ve been
winning elections. We know how to walk
and chew gum,” Perez said.
.
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Perez also claimed that they could not wait for Robert
Mueller to conclude his investigation and announce their
findings because of a statute of limitations, but would not
say how long they had left to file.
“How close to this deadline are you?” Todd
asked.
“Again, I don’t know when Director Mueller
is going to file his complaint or whatever
action he takes,” Perez said, avoiding the
question.
 Watch Fox News Guest Breakdown
The Pakistani ‘Mystery Man’ [VIDEO]
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
2:46 PM 04/22/2018

September 2016. The Awan’s behavior mirrored a “classic

method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an
organization,” the inspector general said.

After the inspector general presented that information, the

Caucus’ server physically disappeared. Despite warnings,
The Awan’s were left on House servers until Feb. 2, 2017.

WATCH:

The Daily Caller News Foundation Editor-In-Chief

Christopher Bedford explained Sunday who the “mystery
man” from Pakistan the president referenced Friday really
is.

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC)

Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired a Pakistani
IT worker — Imran Awan — to be her e-mail server
administrator while she served in the House of
Representatives. Nearly every member of Awan’s family
went on to work for Democrat members, until they were
on the payroll of 1 in 5 House Democrats.

During their time at the House, the Awan’s had the “keys
to the kingdom,” with the ability to access nearly every file
on House servers, the chamber’s inspector general said.

The Awan’s were making “unauthorized access” to data,

the House inspector general warned leadership in
.

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 Trump Takes A Swipe At AG Sessions After Congress
Sends Criminal Referral Of Hillary, Comey To DOJ
By Cristina Laila
April 22, 2018, 3:04 Pm

Congress criminally referred Hillary, Comey, McCabe and

Lynch to the DOJ, but what good is a criminal referral if
our AG is AWOL?

Trump tweeted:

“GOP Lawmakers asking Sessions to

Investigate Comey and Hillary Clinton.”
@FoxNews Good luck with that request!

President Trump took a swipe at AWOL

AG Sessions Sunday morning after
Congress sent a criminal referral of
Hillary Clinton and James Comey to the
DOJ.

Rep. DeSantis and 10 other lawmakers sent a letter to the

DOJ Wednesday,criminally referring Comey, Hillary
Clinton, McCabe and Loretta Lynch for their
investigations into Trump.

The Inspector General also sent a criminal referral of

McCabe to the Justice Department.

On Friday, the Inspector General also opened an

investigation into Comey for his classified memos.

This is good news, but in order for the criminal referrals to

Trump took a swipe at AG Sessions Sunday morning from have any real power, the Attorney General must take
his Twitter account. action!

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 CBS Shows Armed Anti-Trump Character Saying,
‘We Need To Assassinate The President’
By Kristinn Taylor
April 22, 2018, 9:48 Pm

CBS All Access Television on Sunday night streamed an And:

episode of The Good Fight in which an anti-President
Donald Trump character armed with a handgun said, “we
need to assassinate the president” and spoke of “regime
change”.

The Media Research Center’s Callista Ring reported on

CBS’ nationwide broadcast encouraging the assassination
of President Trump.
…Lawyer Diane Lockhart (Christine
Baranski), who despises Trump and
spends most of her time hallucinating fake
news segments about the president, CBS has a habit of broadcasting calls for the assassination
defends her friend Tully after he was of Republican presidents and GOP nominees. In 2000 CBS
arrested for violently rioting in the streets. aired a taped episode of the Craig Kilborn show in which
Tully jokes privately to Diane in court, “Oh, footage of GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush was
like we need to assassinate the President?” shown with the words “Snipers Wanted”.
in response to Diane asking him not to say
anything radical. When she reprimands him
for the statement in a later scene, he
assures her that he was only joking. TGP
note: Tully mentions the judge is a Trump
supporter, which prompts Lockhart to
admonish him not to say anything radical.
That prompts his statement, ““Oh, like we
need to assassinate the President?”
But lest you think this was just an innocent joke, check out
this next exchange. In response to Diane finding a gun in
his bag and demanding to know if what he said in court
was a joke, Tully responds,
“Why? You don’t believe in regime Screen grab via The Smoking Gun
change?” When she hands him back the
Note: This article gas been corrected with the show being
gun after unloading it, he tells her, “This
streamed on CBS All Access, not on broadcast.
won’t slow us down.”
Vidio clips via MRC:
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 Tom Fitton: Sean Hannity Targeted By Deep State With
Illegal Leaks From HUD After Michael Cohen Raid
By Kristinn Taylor
April 23, 2018, 2:03 Am

Tom Fitton, the President of Judicial Watch, posted to his

personal Twitter account Sunday night his belief
conservative radio and TV icon Sean Hannity is being
targeted by the Deep State with illegal leaks to the
Guardian about his some of private real estate investment
loans being guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development.

Tom Fitton often appears on the Fox News Channel,

including on Hannity.

Jon Swaine reported in the Guardian on Sunday that
companies owned by Hannity have around $90 million in
real estate investments in houses and apartment
complexes, including two apartment complexes in Georgia
purchased using HUD loan guarantees that Hannity’s
companies pay insurance premiums to HUD for the
guarantees.
Fitton wrote in response, “Deep State
targets @SeanHannity,
@RealDonaldTrump supporter, with
illegal leaks out of HUD. Is it a
coincidence this story appears a few
weeks after raid on Cohen?”
Fitton was likely reacting to this passage from the
Guardian:
“A Hud source said Hannity was
identified in non-public filings as the
100% owner of the apartment
complexes.”
In addition to an overall Deep State hit on Hannity, Swaine
is trying to make an issue out of Hannity not disclosing his
HUD loan guarantees in an interview last year with HUD
Secretary Ben Carson even though the loan guarantees
originated in 2014 under the Obama administration.
“He also declined to note his financial
interest when he hosted Carson on Fox
News last June for a discussion about Hud
and housing.”
More from Swaine on Hannity’s real estate investments:
When Sean Hannity was named in court
this week as a client of Donald Trump’s
embattled legal fixer Michael Cohen, the
Fox News host insisted their discussions
had been limited to the subject of buying
property.
“I’ve said many times on my radio show: I
hate the stock market, I prefer real estate.
Michael knows real estate,” Hannity said on
television, a few hours after the dramatic

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 hearing in Manhattan, where Cohen is
under criminal investigation.
Hannity’s chosen investment strategy is confirmed by
thousands of pages of public records reviewed by the
Guardian, which detail a real estate portfolio of remarkable
scale that has not previously been reported.
The records link Hannity to a group of shell companies
that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven
states over the past decade. The properties range from
luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families.
Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell
companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all
of them.
…The real estate holdings linked to
Hannity are spread across more than 20
shell companies formed in Georgia. Each
of the companies uses a variant of the
same name, which combines the initials of
Hannity’s children. Public records show the
companies have bought up dozens of
properties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
New York, North Carolina, Texas and
Vermont.
Among the most valuable are two large
apartment complexes in Georgia that
Hannity bought in 2014 for $22.7m. The
developments are in the cities of Perry and
Brunswick, which have higher poverty rates
and lower median incomes than the US
averages. One- and two-bedroom units in
Hannity’s apartment complexes are
available to rent for $735 to $1,065 per
month, according to brochures.
The Georgia purchases were funded with
mortgages for $17.9m that Hannity
obtained with help from Hud, which insured
the loans under a program created as part
of the National Housing Act. The loans, first
guaranteed under the Obama
administration, were recently increased by
$5m with renewed support from Carson’s
department.
…The Georgia mortgages supported by
Hud were guaranteed as part of a program
aimed at protecting investors such as
Hannity who buy rental apartment
buildings. The government promises to
cover losses if borrowers default on their
mortgages. Borrowers pay an insurance
.
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premium to Hud in return. Bigger loan
guarantees are available if the building
houses low-income families.
Paperwork relating to the agreements with
Hud, which was filed to county authorities,
named Hannity as the principal of the shell
companies used to buy the apartment
complexes and to borrow the funds.
Hannity personally signed several of the
documents. A Hud source said Hannity
was identified in non-public filings as the
100% owner of the apartment complexes.
Late last month, Hannity’s mortgages were
replaced with loans for $22.9m that were
rewritten with Carson’s Hud and a new
bank. There was no indication that Carson
was personally involved in the process.
Carson does, however, have the authority
to allow Hannity from 2019 to convert the
rental complexes into condominiums for
sale, which could be lucrative for the
television host.”
End excerpt. Please read complete Guardian article at this
link.
It is worth noting Swaine and the Guardian do not claim to
have done the legwork researching the “thousands of
pages” pertaining to Hannity’s real estate investments.
Swaine wrote, “reviewed by the Guardian” and “But the
Guardian obtained records in which Hannity signed deeds
and other documents on behalf of four of the LLCs”,
leaving open the likelihood the Hannity records were
handed to the Guardian by Hannity opponents.
Hannity is not accused by Swaine of breaking the law with
his real estate investments, but Fitton is accusing Swaine
of being the recipient of illegal leaks by Deep State
operatives in the wake of the raid on Michael Cohen
instigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that included
the taking of Cohen’s attorney-client records. Hannity has
denied being a formal client of Cohen’s but has said he at
times sought legal advice on real estate from Cohen.
“”Deep State targets @SeanHannity,
@RealDonaldTrump supporter, with
illegal leaks out of HUD. Is it a
coincidence this story appears a few
weeks after raid on Cohen?”
(Disclosure: Kristinn Taylor worked for Judicial Watch
from 1999 to 2004.)
 The Real Donald Trump
Ronald Kessler - Journalist And New York Times Bestselling Author
3:09 AM 04/23/2018
When I asked President Trump about his practice of giving
out hundred dollar tips to janitors and workmen, he
became defensive.
“What tips? For who?” he said during an
exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago for my
book “The Trump White House:
Changing the Rules of the Game.”
“People who help you,” I replied.
After more back and forth, Trump finally said,
“I just like taking care of people. I love
those people. I take care of the people.
They take care of me, I take care of them.”
Trump, who said this is the only interview he has given or
will give for a book as president, likes to project a tough
guy image and never reveal this softer side of him.
For 26 years, Norma Foerderer was Donald Trump’s top
aide. When she joined the Trump Organization in 1981, he
had only seven other employees. No one knew so well
both the personal and business side of Donald Trump.
In the only in-depth interview she ever gave, Foerderer,
who has since died, told me there are two Donald Trumps:
One is the Trump that appears to the public, making often
outrageous comments on television to get attention for his
brand and now his presidency; the other is the real Trump
only insiders know. He listens without a touch of bravado.
That private Trump is “the dearest, most thoughtful, most
loyal, most caring man,” Foerderer said.
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Illustrating the difference between the public and private
Trump, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced
during the campaign that its members would be boycotting
all Trump’s properties following his statements on illegal
immigrants and his vow to build a wall across the entire
Mexican border. But Trump subsequently met privately
with Javier Palomarez, the chamber’s CEO.
“There were no bombastic statements of
any sorts,” Palomarez said admiringly on
CNN as he left the meeting. “It’s kind of
interesting, the dichotomy between the
private Donald Trump and the public
Donald Trump. He listened a lot more than
he spoke.”
When Trump came up with the idea of branding his
condos and office buildings back in the 1980s, everyone in
the real estate business thought he was nuts: Traditionally,
obscure companies that no one had ever heard of sold and
leased real estate.
But the Trump brand came to stand for quality, prestige
and success. In the same way, Trump brands his
presidency, marketing himself by making provocative
comments to get attention. That brand consists of the
tough-guy image Trump wants to project, never admitting
a mistake or showing his softer side, keeping his emotions
in check, always counterpunching when he is attacked,
thus enhancing his power.
The fact that Melania Trump is a powerful influence in the
White House is another example of Trump’s personal side
that he doesn’t want out. She will sit in on meetings,
summarize points others are making, and come up with her
own strategy. Aides say her judgment is impeccable.
“Melania’s a good influence at keeping
things focused on the main thing and not
being in the weeds over a lot of small stuff,”
former White House Chief of Staff Reince
Priebus told me for the book. “She has
good political sense and comes down the
right way on what the focus and agenda
needs to be.”
Melania will give Trump articles to read, including
negative ones, and she is not afraid to disagree with him.
At Mar-a-Lago one Saturday, Anthony P. Senecal,
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago butler, opened the door at the main
entrance to the estate to find Martha Stewart standing
there. She had bicycled over to the club, and she asked if
she could take a tour. Happy to oblige, Senecal asked her
to return the next day at 3 p.m. when it would be
convenient for Senecal, whom Trump eventually named
the Mar-a-Lago historian.
When Trump came by later that day, Senecal told him
about Martha Stewart and the tour he had set up for
Sunday.
“Fine, just treat her right,” Trump said.
But hours later, Senecal went to see if Trump needed
anything. He encountered his boss outside the master
bedroom in what is known as the Pine Hall, a glittering
antechamber with a crystal chandelier and murals that had
once graced the walls of homes in France.
Without warning, Trump lit into the butler, screaming at
him and calling him a “dumb ass
for scheduling the tour at 3 p.m. when workers would be
shifting furniture around. Trump yelled that Senecal
instead should have scheduled the tour for lunchtime,
when well-heeled club members would be on hand to
impress and be impressed by Martha Stewart. A
perfectionist, Trump could not stand it when things were
not done his way.
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As her husband was tearing into Senecal, Melania entered
the Pine Hall.
“I don’t think you should talk to Tony in that
tone,” Melania said to Trump in her usual
soft voice.
Trump never said another word about it. But the next
morning when he and Senecal were in the mansion’s living
room, Trump, without explanation, handed him $2,000 in
twenties.
“It was his way of apologizing,” Senecal
says.
Despite the occasional blistering tirades, Senecal says he
loved working for Trump, who would act as if nothing had
happened after delivering an attack. To be sure, giving his
butler cash in twenties was strange, but,
“Everything about Mr. Trump is strange,”
Senecal says.
Senecal says Melania’s quiet comment and her husband’s
later remorse are typical of her influence. Almost always,
Melania delivers her advice in private, but occasionally,
Senecal would pick up on their exchanges.
“Melania rules the roost,” Senecal says.
 Shania Twain Apologizes For Saying
She Would Have Voted For Donald Trump
By Kristinn Taylor
April 23, 2018, 3:32 Am
Popular country music singer Shania Twain shocked the
entertainment world with her comments in an interview
with the Guardian published Sunday that she would have
voted for Donald Trump for president if she could. The
Canadian born, now Swiss resident Twain issued a
groveling apology on Twitter hours after the interview
went online.
Tweet promoting Shania Twain’s world tour stops in
Australia.
Twain said of Trump:
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…If she had been able to vote in the US election, she
would have plumped for Donald Trump, she says.
“I would have voted for him because,
even though he was offensive, he
seemed honest. Do you want straight or
polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to
have both. If I were voting, I just don’t
want bullshit. I would have voted for a
feeling that it was transparent. And
politics has a reputation of not being
that, right?”
Twain posted a four-part apology on Twitter Sunday night:
I would like to apologise to anybody I have
offended in a recent interview with the
Guardian relating to the American
President. The question caught me off
guard. As a Canadian, I regret answering
this unexpected question without giving my
response more context (1/4)
I am passionately against discrimination of
any kind and hope it’s clear from the
choices I have made, and the people I
stand with, that I do not hold any common
moral beliefs with the current President
(2/4)
I was trying to explain, in response to a
question about the election, that my limited
understanding was that the President
talked to a portion of America like an
accessible person they could relate to, as
he was NOT a politician (3/4)
My answer was awkward, but certainly
should not be taken as representative of
my values nor does it mean I endorse him.
I make music to bring people together. My
path will always be one of inclusivity, as my
history shows. (4/4)
 According to the Guardian, Twain is one of the most
successful female recording artists and is worth about $350
million. Twain is embarking on a world tour this year after
losing her voice–literally and figuratively.

The Guardian interview with Twain is a fascinating read

on her life story.

Video of one of Twain’s greatest hits: Man! I Feel Like A

Woman

As usual, Ann Coulter cut through the clutter on the Twain

controversy,

“I don’t believe there was 1 person

complaining about @ShaniaTwain’s Trump
remarks who was an actual Shania fan.”

An example of the anti-Trump vitriol that prompted

Twain’s apology, “Shania Twain says she supports Donald
Trump. Is she a deranged racist traitor, or is she just really
stupid?”

Obianuju Ekeocha observed, “If you want to know what it

feels like to live within a tyrannical mobocracy, check out

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Shania Twain apologising for saying that she could have
voted to Donald Trump. This ideological extremism where
people are set on fire 🔥 for having the wrong ideology…”

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 BET Founder: Trump Is Bringing
Black Workers Back Into The Economy (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 23, 2018, 8:01 Am
BET founder Robert Johnson might be a
Democrat but he’s not stupid.
The nation’s first black billionaire
praised the Trump economy for bringing
black workers back into the economy.
BET founder: Trump’s economy is bringing black workers
back into the labor force from CNBC.
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CNBC reported:
The growing U.S. economy and improving
business environment is bringing black
workers back into the labor force, BET
founder Robert Johnson told CNBC on
Friday.
Johnson, the nation’s first black billionaire,
spoke before Friday’s jobs report, which
showed nonfarm payrolls rose 103,000 in
March, falling well short of the 193,000 gain
economist were expecting.
In January, the Labor Department reported the
unemployment rate among black workers was at its lowest
since at least the early 1970s, when the government began
tracking the data. The unemployment rate for black
Americans spiked in January and then fell in February.
The rate was unchanged in March at 6.9 percent.
“When you look at that [January report],
you have to say something is going right,”
said Johnson, a Democrat and founder and
chairman of The RLJ Cos.
“You have to take encouragement from
what’s happening in the labor force and the
job market,” Johnson told “Squawk Box.”
“When you look at African-American
unemployment, … you’ve never had
African-American unemployment this low
and the spread between African-Americans
and whites narrowing.”
 Dirty Cop Mueller Has Yet To Contact Russian
Attorney Or Wikileaks In Collusion Witch Hunt Of Trump
By Jim Hoft
April 23, 2018, 8:19 Am
The Mueller witch hunt was NEVER
about finding the truth.
The Mueller witch hunt was ALWAYS
about destroying President Trump, his
family and his reputation.
A year into the investigation special
counsel Robert Mueller and his team of
far left attorneys have yet to speak to
Russian operative Natalia Veselnitskaya
who spoke with Donald Trump Jr. for 20
minutes in 2016.
Veselnitskaya is connected to the company behind the
anti-Trump Steele dossier and the Democrats.
The AP reported:
A Russian lawyer who discussed sanctions
with Donald Trump Jr. in New York during
his father’s 2016 campaign for the U.S.
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presidency said Sunday that special
counsel Robert Mueller has not contacted
her yet.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Natalia
Veselnitskaya also detailed her recent meeting in Berlin
with investigators from the U.S. Senate Intelligence
Committee. Like Mueller, the committee is investigating
allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential
election.
Veselnitskaya met in June 2016 with then-candidate
Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and
Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman at the time, Paul
Manafort, after Trump Jr. was told the Russian lawyer had
potentially incriminating information about Hillary
Clinton.
Mueller, a former FBI director, is leading a federal probe
of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump
campaign. He has filed charges against multiple former
Trump campaign aides.
Veselnitskaya alleged in her interview with the AP in
downtown Moscow that if Mueller’s team never questions
her, it would mean that it “is not working to discover the
truth.”
The Mueller witch hunt as also NEVER contacted
Wikileaks — the organization that released the Podesta
emails which were ignored by the liberal media.
If Mueller wanted the truth he would
have contacted the Russians and
Wikileaks in his never-ending witch
hunt.
But Mueller doesn’t want the truth.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said
in September he was willing to give
Mueller information on the Podesta
emails given to the organization.
Mueller has never contacted him.Julian
Assange has repeatedly said Russia
was not the source of the leaked emails.
 CNN Suddenly Rushes To The Aid Of Former Trump
Adviser Sam Nunberg After Trashing Him A Month Earlier
[VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:58 AM 04/23/2018

continued. “For referring to somebody as a

drugged up drunk when he says he wants
to give attention to addiction?”
WATCH:

CNN’s Chris Cuomo jumped at the chance to defend

former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg on “New Day”
Monday, despite mocking him for appearing drunk on-air
in March.

Cuomo was interviewing New York Times reporter Maggie

Haberman about an article she wrote Friday discussing the
possibility of lawyer Michael Cohen flipping on President
Donald Trump to cut a deal. Trump had a negative reaction
to the piece and began tweeting in response. One of his
tweets claimed Haberman was using non-existent sources
and “a drunk drugged-up loser” to slam Cohen.

“Yes we should [hold Trump to account],”

Haberman and Cuomo believe the “loser” to
be Nunberg and defended him despite previously ripping
on him in March.
“This is a man who has pledged to take the
opioid crisis real. To treat addiction in a
way no president has before. We know he
has to be talking about Sam Nunberg,”
Cuomo said.
“Should he be held to account, the
president of the United States,” Cuomo
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Haberman replied. “He was very good at
going to events and sort of sounding a note
of compassion. Calling someone a drugged
up loser on Twitter and especially then
creating this kind of who is it, is it Sam
Nunberg, is it someone else? That is the
opposite and that is something that people
who have been working in the field of
addiction for a long time have been trying
to push back against.”
“This is how [Trump] really feels about to sound he is focused on this crisis that is
addicts,” Haberman concluded. “He had a very revealing to say what he said.”
brother who died of alcoholism. We know
that he considers addiction to be weak. Cuomo mocked Nunberg back in March and said,
Whatever he says to people when he is
either dealing with people who have lost
“If the guy had a pet monkey on his
children as he did recently in New
shoulder, he would be more legitimate.
Hampshire, to opioids, or when he is trying
Can’t make it up. Can’t make it up.”
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 Federal Law Shows Dirty Cop Mueller NEVER Would
Have Passed Special Counsel ‘Conflict Of Interest’ Test
By Jim Hoft
April 23, 2018, 9:33 Am
Rosenstein was Required by Law to
Ensure Mueller had No Conflicts of
Interest to be Special Counsel – No Way
Mueller Could Have Passed!
The Special Counsel law requires that the Attorney
General or Assistant Attorney General ensure that the
There is no way that Rosenstein could
have performed a conflict of interest
review and determined that Robert
Mueller had no conflicts of interest.
Mueller is best friends with James Comey who was and is
a key player in the FISA and Trump scandals. That alone
should have disqualified Mueller from being the Special
Counsel. But Mueller has much more. Mueller was the FBI
Director during the Uranium One scandal. He even
delivered uranium to Russia on an airport tarmac in Europe
per Hillary Clinton’s instructions! Any conflict of interest
should have disqualified Mueller due to the sensitivity,
legal nature and importance of the mandate of the Special
Counsel. This was a setup!
Congress should request all
documentation related to Rosenstein’s
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appointed Special Counsel has no conflicts of interest.
There is no way that Rod Rosenstein could have
determined that Robert Mueller had no conflicts of
interest. Congress should request the data related to this
assessment and address obvious flaws in approving
Mueller, remove Mueller and prosecute Rosenstein for
lying and failing his duty as Assistant AG!
Article 600.3.b states in part that that –
“The Attorney General shall consult with
the Assistant Attorney General for
Administration to ensure an appropriate
method of appointment, and to ensure that
a Special Counsel undergoes an
appropriate background investigation and a
detailed review of ethics and conflicts of
interest issues.”
assessment of Mueller’s independence
and objectivity in regards to any and all
conflicts of interest.
This information will no doubt show the corrupt nature of
the Mueller Special Counsel from the very start and should
put Rosenstein in legal jeopardy for being dishonest in his
efforts to appoint Mueller.
And where the hell is AWOL Jeff
Sessions?
The Mueller Special Counsel was corrupt from the start.
Shut it down!
Hat tip Miq Manong
 Sarah Sanders, Trump Roast
Democrats Opposing Pompeo Nomination
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:34 AM 04/23/2018

“at some point, Democrats have to decide

whether they love this country more than
they hate this president. And they have to
decide that they want to put the safety and
the security and the diplomacy of our
country ahead of their own political game.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and

President Donald Trump took Senate Democrats to task for
opposing the nomination of Mike Pompeo to be Secretary
of State.

Pompeo is set to be voted out of the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee with an unfavorable recommendation
after Republican Sen. Rand Paul joined Democrats and
pledged to oppose his nomination.

The unfavorable recommendation to the Senate floor

however is unlikely to sink Pompeo’s nomination.

“I am not concerned,” Senator Tom Cotton

Sanders told Fox & Friends early Monday morning that told reporters Friday. “Mike Pompeo will be
confirmed by the Senate next week.”
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 ‘Morning Joe’ Jumps At The Chance To Defend James
Comey While Bashing President Trump [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:04 AM 04/23/2018
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough became upset over President
Donald Trump attacking former FBI Director James
Comey on “Morning Joe” Monday and compared the
commander-in-chief to a “banana republic” dictator.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski mentioned the news of Trump’s
tweet about Comey leaking classified documents to the
press, prompting Scarborough to go off.
“You know, I just enough. Really
seriously,” Scarborough said. “He’s been
very deliberate. Donald Trump has tried to
undermine the rule of law. He has trashed
the FBI and the men and the women who
protect our country everyday. He has
trashed the Justice Department. He has
pressured the Justice Department to go
after a list of people including Hillary
Clinton which is so outrageous, which is
such a banana republic move. Which is
something that you would expect from Latin
America in the 1970s.”
WATCH:
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Scarborough thinks it’s absurd for anyone to push for an
investigation into Comey and Andrew McCabe, saying he
believes Comey did not commit any crimes.
“That we’re actually seeing it happen, we’re
hearing people talking about the possibility
investigation of McCabe for crimes and
now he’s talking about investing Comey for
crimes — for materials that weren’t even
classified when he wrote them,”
Scarborough concluded.
This isn’t the first time the “Morning Joe” crew has
referred to the Trump as a dictator. Back in June of last
year, Brzezinski said the Trump administration “feels like
a developing dictatorship,” and in January she referred to
Trump as “the great dictator.” In February, New York
Times reporter and “Morning Joe” regular Nick
Confessore compared Trump to a third world dictator after
he won the CPAC straw poll.
 Republicans Have A Plan For 2018 —
It’s Terrible News For Hillary Clinton
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:22 AM 04/23/2018
The Republican plan for the 2018 midterms is not good
news for failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Fox News reports that Hillary is “starring” in their strategy.
Republicans are planning to marry Democrats to Hillary
Clinton and force the party to be associated with their
failed nominee.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks onstage at
the Women of the World Summit on April 13, 2018 in New York
City. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (Photo credit should read
ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)
In a huge contrast to how Mitt Romney treated Barack
Obama after the 2012 election, Hillary has refused to leave
the public eye.
Last month, Clinton smeared many Trump supporters as
racists and sexists during a talk.
“I won the places that are optimistic,
diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his
whole campaign ‘Make America Great
Again’ was looking backwards,” she
claimed. “‘You know, you didn’t like black
people getting rights, you don’t like women,
you know, getting jobs, you don’t want to,
you know, see that Indian-Americans are
succeeding more than you are — whatever
your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”
 Joe Scarborough Predicts Republicans
Will Face Reckoning For Electing Donald Trump
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:48 AM 04/23/2018

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough predicted a reckoning for

Republicans who support President Donald Trump, on
“Morning Joe” Monday and said they’ll have to explain
their actions when Trump’s time in office is over. This isn’t the first time Scarborough has predicted a
doom’s day event for the Republican Party. He claimed in
January there would be a racial reckoning against
“We look at that picture [with the Obamas,
conservatives for enabling racism and two weeks ago he
Bushes and Clintons together] and we think
said Republicans will “bleed support” for November’s
we will never get back to that again, but so
midterms if Trump didn’t fire EPA chief Scott Pruitt.
too shall Donald Trump
pass,” Scarborough said. “And when he
does, the Republican Party is going to have “A hard rain is going to fall on Donald
a hell of a time explaining what they did in Trump and the Republicans who enable
the four to eight years while he was there.” this sort of racism, and it’s coming,”
Scarborough said.
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 Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says James Comey
Violated FBI Rules By Leaking Memos: ‘Very Troubling’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:06 AM 04/23/2018
Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says James Comey Violated FBI
Rules By Leaking Memos 'Very Troubling' - Fox & Friends 4-23-18
George Washington University Law School Professor
Jonathan Turley said former FBI Director James Comey
violated FBI rules by leaking memos about his
conversations with President Donald Trump.
“He certainly did violate the rules of the
FBI,” Turley said on “Fox & Friends”
Monday. “This was not some type of
personal diary as so many in the media
portrayed it as. When we see the memos, it
only reaffirms what many of us said at the
time. This is clearly FBI material covered
by FBI regulations.You are not allowed just
to take them and leak them to the media.”
“They were addressed to high-ranking FBI
officials. They were part of an investigation
done on an FBI computer by the head of
that investigation,” Turley continued. “I
don’t think there’s any question now. There
shouldn’t have been before. But there’s no
question now that this was FBI material
improperly removed and then leaked by
Comey.”
Turley said it was disturbing how many people are willing
to look the other way and ignore Comey’
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“What’s so concerning here is it’s sort of a
concerted effort by many to ignore the
unprofessional conduct of Comey in this
regard,” Turley said. “You can disagree
with the president. You can disagree with
the firing of Comey. But, what Comey did in
this instance is very troubling and it’s
wrong. He is a leaker and he did improperly
remove FBI material and give it to the
media.”
Turley said Comey’s actions were geared towards helping
himself and criticized his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” for
revealing details of an ongoing investigation.
“It wasn’t in the interests of the
investigation. It was in the interest of
James Comey,” Turley concluded.
“He took over the public narrative by
releasing these memos. It’s the same
dynamic when rushing a tell-all book to
prints. He published a book that referenced
both disclosed and undisclosed evidence in
the middle of an investigation that he
headed where he’s a key witness. Why?
That clearly is not helping the
investigation.”
 The Liberal Mob Is Swarming
Derek Hunter - Contributor
11:06 AM 04/23/2018

Country singer Shania Twain performs during the U.S. Open

opening ceremony August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast, we

talk about the outrage police demanding Shania Twain
apologize for committing the biggest sin in the liberal
world — saying she would have voted for Donald Trump.

The angry mob will never forgive anyone who commits

this sin, no matter how much they apologize, and by
apologizing they alienate half the country. But why Twain
was asked the question in the first place in the real
question. She’s Canadian and a singer, why bother
bringing it up? We explore.

Listen to the show:

But one celebrity didn’t apologize over the weekend,

standing by his support for a conservative black woman
and her free-thinking. Kanye West angered liberals with
his support for independent thought, which tells you a lot
about the modern left.

Shania Twain poses on the red carpet a the Billboard Magazine’s

11th annual Women in Music luncheon in New York, on December 9,
2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

Former NFL quarterback and current idiot Colin

Kaepernick was in the news for being awarded
the “Ambassador of Conscience Award” from Amnesty
International for calling everyone and everything racist.

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That’s all it takes these days. Kaepernick was, naturally,
ignorant of reality when he said, “Racialized oppression
and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our
nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful
lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the
mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison
industrial complex.” We correct the record.
Hillary Clinton Reuters/Jim Young
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Finally, the ultimate victim has re-emerged to plant her
flag atop Martyr Mountain. Hillary Clinton, in a new book,
is quoted as saying, “They were never going to let me be
president,” upon hearing the news that she’d lost on
election night.
Who are the “they” and how did they prevent her from
campaigning in Wisconsin? She doesn’t say, and we mock
her for it.
NOTE: We are aware of the problem with the podcast
posting to iTunes and are working to resolve it as soon as
possible.
The Daily Daily Caller Podcast is a daily look and
mocking of the news from a conservative perspective.
Hosted by Derek Hunter, it is available in audio form
Monday-Thursday and will have a video option on
Fridays.
 Judge Andrew Napolitano Breaks Down
Whether James Comey Broke The Law
With Memo Leak [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:40 AM 04/23/2018

“This professor, Jonathan Turley, is correct

there. But I think that the House Intel or
Judiciary Committee is more interested in
whether or not Jim Comey violated federal
law. Not whether he violated D.O.J. Regs.
For the simple reason that he doesn’t work
for the Department of Justice anymore.
They can’t do anything to him as a result of
the violation of those regulations.”

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew WATCH:

Napolitano said former FBI Director James Comey may
have broken the law by leaking confidential memos and
said he may have lied under oath before Congress.

Napolitano was asked on “America’s Newsroom”

Monday if Comey broke the law by leaking confidential
memos and he said it all depends on the material that was
sent.

“It’s going to depend upon which four of the

seven memos were leaked,” Napolitano
said. “Whether anything in there was
classified at the time, whether it was
properly classified and whether the
professor exposed classified materials. I
don’t think the professor did this. This law
school professor is a former ranking official
of the DOJ. Who once had a security
clearance and knows what it is like to deal
with these things.”
“It is clear that FBI And DOJ regulations
were violated by the mere delivery of those
memoranda — even if they didn’t contain
anything classified, to the professor,”
Napolitano said.
.
Napolitano also accused Comey of lying during his
Congressional testimony last year and said if Congress can
build a case, he may be charged with perjury.
“He may very well have lied under oath,”
Napolitano added. “Will he be prosecuted
for lying or misleading the Congress? If it’s
a clear case of lying or misleading I think
he will be. If it’s a he said/she said, so to
speak … I don’t think they will, because
they don’t like to waste juries’ times with
that.”

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 O’Keefe Fires Warning Shot To Corrupt Officials ‘Update
Your Resumés Because We Are Releasing
Videos Next Week’
By Cristina Laila
April 23, 2018, 12:38 Pm
Project Veritas founder, James O’Keefe
teased his Twitter followers last
Wednesday that his next undercover
investigation will be released in two
weeks.

Monday morning he took his taunting to the next level and

told “corrupt officials” to ‘update their resumés’ because
he will be releasing videos starting next week.
Truth seekers on Twitter were excited.

The guerrilla journalist has set his sites on tech giants and
fake news as of late.

In October, O’Keefe busted CNN and New York Times

exposing their real motivation behind reporting on the
Russian collusion hoax as part of his ‘American Pravda’
series.

In January, Project Veritas busted Twitter with a series of

undercover videos exposing how the social media giant
shadowbans and censors Trump supporters with
algorithms.

On Monday, O’Keefe tweeted: “Dear corrupt officials,

You might want to start updating your resumes, because
we will be releasing new videos starting next week.”

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 Wisenberg Sees ‘Dereliction’
If Mueller Hasn’t Interviewed Russian Lawyer
Former Whitewater Deputy Special Counsel Said It Would Be 'Absolutely Striking'
If Natalia Veselnitskaya Has Been Ignored
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 23 Apr 2018 At 2:08 PM
If special counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t talked to the
Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign
officials, it would constitute “dereliction” of duty, attorney
Solomon Wisenberg said Monday on “The Laura
Ingraham Show.”
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya met with President
Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law and
senior adviser Jared Kushner, and then-campaign manager
Paul Manafort at Trump Tower in June 2016.
Because Veselnitskaya promised to provide dirt on 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, many of
Trump’s critics cite this meeting as evidence of Russian
collusion with Trump campaign members.
But Veselnitskaya told the Associated Press Sunday that
Mueller’s team has not contacted her at all.
“That’s very interesting for someone as
thorough as Mueller and the Mueller team,”
Wisenberg, former deputy special counsel
for Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater-Lewinsky
investigation of former President Bill
Clinton, told host Laura Ingraham.
“But you would think [Mueller] would want
to talk to her, particularly as she was
meeting with the head of Fusion GPS both
before and after that meeting at Trump
tower,” Wisenberg continued. Fusion GPS
is the opposition research firm that was
paid by the Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) for
the infamous dossier of “salacious but
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unverified” allegations of collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russian
interests.
Although Wisenberg noted that persons of interest in a
special counsel's investigation sometimes make inaccurate
claims that the investigator is unable to refute publicly, if
the Russian lawyer's claim is correct, then it is "absolutely
striking."
"But if she is accurate and nobody has
even tried to speak to her, that is a striking
fact, given that this is one of the more
significant meetings that took place with
respect to the whole issue of Russian
alleged collusion, because some people
went to that meeting thinking that they were
going to get Russian dirt or information
about Russian dirt relating to Hillary
Clinton," Wisenberg said.
"So the idea that she would — that there
had not even been an attempt to interview
her is absolutely striking," Wisenberg
continued.
Although Mueller may have been trying to interview the
Russian lawyer but ran into "some kind of interference,"
Wisenberg said that it would be a "real dereliction" of duty
if Mueller "hasn't made that attempt."
"The fact is if you’re Mueller and the heart
of what you’re investigating is Russian
collusion, why haven't you spoken to her?"
Wisenberg said. "It’s just incredible to me
 — that’s why I say I’d want to check it out
because it is incredible to me that [he]
would have at least not tried to do that."
Wisenberg also commented on the FBI's raid on the home,
office, and hotel room of Trump's personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen, earlier in April.
"It’s not that difficult to get a garden-variety
search warrant, including a search warrant
against an attorney. It’s not that difficult in
any district in the country, including the
Southern District of New York," Wisenberg
said.
"Now, obviously in this case you would
hope the Southern District had very, very
solid evidence, given whose attorney they
are searching. And you would hope that a
magistrate would look at it very carefully,"
he said.
"But there is a relatively low legal standard,
as you know — it’s probable cause,"
Wisenberg told Ingraham.
Cohen is now under investigation for potential campaign
finance law violations and a $130,000 payment to porn star
Stormy Daniels, who claims she was silenced during the
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2016 presidential campaign after an alleged affair with
Trump more than 10 years ago.
"If it’s only a campaign finance violation
and alleged bank fraud relating to that, I
think there’s going to be tremendous
blowback," Wisenberg said. "They’d better
have something considerably more than
that."
Wisenberg also said that
"one of the real ironies here" is that many
members of Mueller's team "were seated at
a meeting with Trump’s legal team about
whether or not he would come talk to them
when this story broke."
"I’m not sure at all that Mueller’s people
knew that a search was about to happen,"
Wisenberg claimed. "One of the big ironies
here is that this could end up very much
damaging Mueller’s reputation and the
whole investigation. And it’s a gift from the
Southern District because they weren't —
they operated in an extremely aggressive
manner here."
 Sean Hannity Responds To Latest
Deep State Illegal Leaks From Hud After Cohen Raid
By Cristina Laila
April 23, 2018, 4:31 Pm
TGP’s Kristinn Taylor previously reported,
Tom Fitton, the President of Judicial Watch,
posted to his Twitter account Sunday night
his belief Sean Hannity is being targeted by
the Deep State with illegal leaks to
the Guardian about some of his private real
estate investment loans being guaranteed
by HUD.
Hannity responded to the latest Deep State
attacks on Monday afternoon.
Jon Swaine reported in the Guardian on Sunday that
companies owned by Hannity have around $90 million in
real estate investments in houses and apartment
complexes, including two apartment complexes in Georgia
purchased using HUD loan guarantees that Hannity’s
companies pay insurance premiums to HUD for the
guarantees.
Fitton referenced a piece in the Guardian which stated,
“A Hud source said Hannity was identified in
non-public filings as the 100% owner of the
apartment complexes.”
Sean Hannity posted a response to the Deep State attacks
to his website:
It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my
personal money in communities that badly need such
investment and in which, I am sure, those attacking me
have not invested their money. The fact is, these are
investments that I do not individually select, control, or
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know the details about; except that obviously I believe in
putting my money to work in communities that otherwise
struggle to receive such support.
I have never discussed with anybody at HUD the original
loans that were obtained in the Obama years, nor the
subsequent refinance of such loans, as they are a private
matter. I had no role in, or responsibility for, any HUD
involvement in any of these investments. I can say that
every rigorous process and strict standard of improvement
requirements were followed; all were met, fulfilled and
inspected.
The LLC’s are REAL companies that spend real
investment money on real properties.
Update: Hannity issued an encore to his first response:
Henssler Capital is a separate and distinct legal entity from
Henssler Financial. Each company has different lines of
business and Henssler Capital does not offer its services to
the general public. Mr. Hannity has no ownership interest
in Henssler Financial, the company he discusses in his
media offerings, and to which his affiliation was disclosed.
Henssler Financial does provide financial advice and other
services to the general public and has hundreds of clients
(including Mr. Hannity) with total assets under advisement
of over $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2017.
Last Monday liberal Judge Kimba Wood, the federal judge
overseeing the Cohen-Trump case, released the name of
Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s alleged third client –
Sean Hannity.
This same federal judge who just rejected Trump’s request
for a temporary restraining order and who outed Sean
Hannity publicly at the hearing officiated George Soros’
wedding in 2013.
An attorney for far left New York Times and CNN
convinced Judge Kimba Wood to publicly name Sean
Hannity at the hearing.
This is precisely the Soros-swamp-media complex
Americans are fed up with.
 NUCLEAR TENSIONS: Iranian Foreign Minister
Threatens President Trump With “All
Or Nothing” On Nuclear Deal
By Lucian Wintrich
April 23, 2018, 4:57 Pm
Iran’s shady Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
spent today attempting to warn President Trump not to exit
the nuclear deal as there is no “plan B.” The original
nuclear deal was enacted by President Obama to curb
Iran’s ability to obtain nuclear weapons; in exchange for
lifting crippling sanctions on the country, Iran promised to
open itself up to international inspections and limit
uranium enrichment. Well, three years later and all the
“nuclear deal” did was provide a massive book to Iran’s
economy while not actually allowing the US to inspect
their nuclear sites, paving the way for Iran to continue its
nuclear ambitions “legally”.
Obviously, this terrible deal is seen by many, President
Donald Trump included, as being lenient and ineffective
and against US interests. Also – obviously – Iran LOVES
the deal. It comes as no surprise that Zarif is fighting tooth
and nail to keep it.
Via Channel News Asia:
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“It is either all or nothing. European leaders
should encourage Trump not just to stay in the
nuclear deal, but more important to begin
implementing his part of the bargain in good
faith,” Zarif wrote on his Twitter account.
Under Iran’s settlement with the United States,
France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China,
Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program to
satisfy the powers that it could not be used to
develop atomic bombs. In exchange, Iran
received relief from sanctions, most of which
were lifted in January 2016.
Trump has given the European signatories a May 12
deadline to “fix the terrible flaws” of the 2015 nuclear
deal, or he will refuse to extend U.S. sanctions relief on
Iran.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Fox News
Sunday interview he has no “plan B” for the deal and the
United States should stay in the agreement as long as there
is no better option.
“President Macron is correct in saying there is
no “plan B” on JCPOA,” Zarif Tweeted. The
JCPOA or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,
is the formal name of the accord.
Iran has said it will stick to the accord as long as the other
parties respect it, but will “shred” the deal if Washington
pulls out.
 Justice Department To Turn Over 1,000 Hillary Clinton
Docs In Response To Goodlatte Subpoena
By Cristina Laila
April 23, 2018, 8:44 Pm

announced Monday that the Justice Department

On Monday, the Justice Department finally
agreed to turn over 1,000 Hillary Clinton
docs in response to Chairman Goodlatte’s
subpoena.
This is still a fraction of what is being requested by the
House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees.
has agreed to provide them with documents
related to the FBI’s investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s private email server.
The deal was struck after Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and
Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., met this month with the U.S.
attorney, John Lausch, who has been selected to respond to
Republican demands for documents.

“We look forward to reviewing the information to

better understand the decisions made by the
Department of Justice in 2016 and 2017,”
Goodlatte and Gowdy said in a joint statement.
“Congress has a constitutional responsibility to
preserve the integrity of our justice system by
ensuring transparency and accountability of
actions taken.”

The Justice Department is still covering for Crooked

Hillary.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton regularly calls on

President Trump to ask his DOJ why they continue to
Fox News reported:
stonewall investigators on Hillary’s investigation.

The Republican chairmen of the House

Trey Gowdy previously spoke to Maria Bartiromo about
Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight
the stonewalling.
and Government Reform Committee
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 NEW VIDEO: Clinton Associate Alexander Downer
Refuses To Confirm He Met With George Papadopoulos
By Jim Hoft
April 23, 2018, 10:42 Pm

Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK,

Alexander Downer, joined ABC.net 7.30 to
discuss Trump campaign worker George
Papadopoulos among other issues.

Alexander Downer would not deny or

confirm he met with Papadopoulos in
London at a bar in 2016.

Downer would also not say if the Mueller special counsel

or FBI had interviewed him.

In fact we now know that all of the Trump-

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

1. The anti-Trump dossier was bought and paid for by

Hillary Clinton and the DNC
2. Hillary’s crooked confidant, Sidney Blumenthal, was a
source for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier.
3. Bill’s crooked friend Alexander Downer was source for
the bar room discussions with George Papadopoulos
that was fed to the Deep State FBI.
4. We now know ALL FOUR initiators of the Trump-
As reported earlier by TGP — Alexander Russia Collusion investigation were paid by Hillary
Downer is a former Clinton associate. Clinton or were donors to the Clinton Foundation.

Today in an interview Downer would not

confirm his meeting with Papadopoulos.

Here is a transcript of their interview from ABC.net:

ELLEN FANNING: I want to start by asking you: did

you meet with George Papadopoulos in the Kensington
Wine Bar in May of 2016? And if so, what did he say to
you?

ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, let me be blunt about

this. Of course, it has been widely reported that I did.

Deep State FBI did not tell Congress that the But I don’t think talking about it is going to help our
Australian who initiated the Russia probe relationship with the United States or make any
was connected to the Clintons. contribution that will advance Australia’s interests.

After all, this whole question of Russia and any

relationship that Russians may have had at any stage with
the Trump campaign team is a toxic issue in American
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politics. And I don’t think any of us really want to be
dragged into that any more than we can help.
ELLEN FANNING: You say you don’t want to talk about
it, so it sounds like it did occur. And, as you say, it has
been widely reported.
Here is what we think we know about it. It’s information
independently verified by the New York Times and by the
Sydney Morning Herald: and that is that Mr Papadopoulos
told you that he had become aware that Russia had a dirt
file on Hillary Clinton, based on hacked Democratic Party
emails. Is that what he told you, very simply?
ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, as I said, I am not
going to go into granular detail like that. I am really not,
because this issue plays into American politics in a really
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major way and I have no enthusiasm to play into American
politics in the first place.
And in the second place, I mean, I don’t think it’s in
Australia’s interests that we do play into American
politics, more than is necessary for our country.
ELLEN FANNING: All right. Well, can I ask you this,
very simply: have you been interviewed or questioned or
expect to be interviewed or questioned by the FBI or the
Mueller investigation?
ALEXANDER DOWNER: I mean, it’s exactly the sort of
question that I definitely wouldn’t answer.
Downer then would not say if he was interviewed by the
FBI or Mueller investigation.
 Seriously? Facebook Says “Kill Trump, Hang Him, Hunt
Him” Page Does Not Violate Community Standards
By Jim Hoft
April 24, 2018, 8:02 Am

Mark Zuckerberg was lying.

Tech Giants Google and Facebook are
Facebook has cut off traffic to all the top conservative and
currently purging conservative content from
Trump-supporting websites.
Facebook and YouTube — They are hiding
conservative stories on Google — They are But at the same time Facebook allows hateful pages calling
shadow-banning conservative news on all for President Trump’s assassination.
social media.
Facebook administrators recently decided the “Kill Trump,
In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure Hang Him, Hunt Him” page did not violate community
that conservative news would not spread on the social standards.
media platform.
Unbelievable.
This was after Facebook announced it was
A screenshot of the report was posted by comedian Owen
losing 50,000,000 user hours a day in the
Benjamin, who was banned earlier this month.
previous quarter.
The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s
engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping
45%.
In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a
comparable decline in Facebook engagement.
Top conservative Facebook pages with daily
traffic in the millions have seen 75% to 95%
drop in traffic.
Young Cons, Western Journalism, SarahPalin.com,
Independent Journal Review, Right Wing News, and
several others have seen dramatic loss in traffic.
On Tuesday Senator Ted Cruz blasted
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the
company’s censorship of conservative
news.
Mark Zuckerberg said it wasn’t happening.

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 EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Trump Assured Rand Paul That
He Intends To End Wars In Afghanistan And Syria,
Work With Him To Reform FISA
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 24, 2018, 8:30 Am
Senator Rand Paul reversed course and voted for the
notoriously hawkish Mike Pompeo to become our next
Secretary of State on Monday, after assurances that
President Donald Trump intends to end the wars in Syria
and Afghanistan as well as reform the Federal Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
Sources close to the negotiations between Paul, President
Trump and Pompeo have provided the Gateway Pundit
with exclusive details of the deal to sway his vote.
Last week, Trump called Paul and assured him that he is
the one who sets foreign policy — not his Secretary of
State. The president explained that he still believes that
regime changes, and Iraq, were mistakes.
The president informed Paul that he intends to be out of
Syria and Afghanistan sooner, rather than later.
Since the call took place shortly after the Syria bombing,
the senator and the president went back and forth about
whether or not it was the right thing to do. Days before the
bombing, Trump had vowed that he was going to be
pulling troops out of the nation.
Trump assured Paul that it was a “one time thing to deter
the use of chemical weapons and not an escalation or
change of his declaration from the week before.” He was
adamant that his vow to leave Syria stands.
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On Thursday of last week, Paul and Pompeo met in the
senator’s office in DC. The Secretary of State hopeful
noted a number of issues that the two of them agree on,
including foreign aid to Pakistan and Palestinians.
Pompeo also agreed with Paul that Libya was a terrible
idea, and reminded the senator that he voted against it in
the House.
“He said that regime change has had a
negative impact on the region and
should not be our goal,” a source close
to the negotiation told the Gateway
Pundit of the conversation.
Paul and Pompeo also discussed North Korea and their
hope for a peaceful negotiation and denuclearization. He
had been the one sent to negotiate with the hostile nation,
and appears to have done well.
On Monday, prior to changing course and agreeing to
change his vote, Paul spoke to Trump twice — as well as
General John Kelly and Pompeo. Each assured the senator
that the president remains committed to a different kind of
foreign policy — one that recognizes that Iraq was a
mistake, has no desire for regime change and will get the
United States out of Syria and Afghanistan.
Still not ready to change his vote, Paul decided to ask for
something he has been requesting for quite a while — a
reexamination of the issue of American citizens being
caught up in FISA.
In January, Paul had attempted to filibuster the
reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA over concerns
about the warrantless collection of US citizens’ private
information.
During the FISA debate, the President had stated that he
wanted reform, and publicly threatened not to sign it the
morning of its passage, setting off a firestorm in the
Intelligence Community. Sources close to Paul say the
senator saw this as a chance to enlist the President on
something important to him.
 “He asked for the president to help him
fix the FISA issue through executive
action,” the source explained.
The president has the power to order all agencies to require
warrants without new legislation.
Senator Paul has always been in support of Trump,
especially regarding his instincts on foreign policy. His
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biggest objection to Pompeo was wanting assurances that
the president intended to hold to his campaign promises on
policy. Convinced that he will, and that they will work
together on FISA reform, Paul was certain that the
negotiation was successful.
Pompeo was very narrowly approved by the Senate foreign
relations committee on Monday evening, in a mostly party-
line vote of 11 to 9.
 WATCH=> Judicial Watch ‘Deep State Update’
Special Panel Presentation
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 11:00 Am

Conservative watchdog group Judicial

Watch announced it will be holding a
‘Deep State Update’ special panel
presentation on Tuesday, April 24th at
11:45 AM EST.

Judicial Watch fearlessly takes on the Deep State. They

have countless FOIA lawsuits pending seeking documents
on George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Clinton-Lynch tarmac
meeting, Comey’s memos, Mueller etc.
Panel Experts will include Freedom
Caucus member Rep. Jim Jordan, The Judicial Watch blew the doors wide open on Hillary’s
Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese, Lt. Col. private server scandal and Benghazi.
Tony Shaffer, and JW attorney, Michael
Bekesha. You name the scandal and Tom Fitton and his team at
Judicial Watch are on the front lines fighting for justice.
In cased you missed the livestream, watch the video
below:
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 CNN’s ACOSTA: Americans Are Too Dumb To See
Through President Trump’s “Act”, They
“Don’t Have All Their Faculties.”
By Lucian Wintrich
April 24, 2018, 1:17 Pm
CNN’s Jim Acosta had some choice words for his fellow
Americans. During a recent sit down with Vanity Fair,
Acosta and April Ryan (another despicable race-baiting
White House correspondent) went off on a tirade about
how they’re smarter than everyone else in this country.
The two laid out their distaste not just for Trump and how
much they hate his use of the phrase “fake news”, but
claimed that his rhetoric will lead to international
“anarchy.” If that doesn’t sound like crazy fear mongering
fake-news I don’t know what does…
April Ryan, who has made a career out of freebasing
coffee and then screaming like a two-year-old about race
during the briefings, began the charge:
“Fake news, by the president saying this, is
not just a simply or cute little statement for
some. This has tentacles that is reaching
overseas. I’ve heard from European
leaders who are saying it can really
destabilize democracies. They are very
concerned about this fake news issue.
Think about it. When you are in a country
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and your citizenry thinks that you’re fake,
thinks that what the news is saying is fake,
there can be anarchy some kind of way. It
causes a destabilization of democracies.
There’s tentacles to what this president is
saying. … We are a part of the pillars of
this nation.”
Great, April Ryan thinks that she’s a “pillar of this nation”
– a correspondent for “Urban News Radio” who
disseminates false charges against the administration every
morning is a “pillar”… ok. got it.
Next, We have Acosta who went straight to condemning
all other Americans and laughable morons who he keeps
trying to educate with his metropolitan intellect but have
been unreceptive to declaring him their God:
“The problem is that people around the
country don’t know it’s an act. They’re
not in on the act, and they take what he
says very seriously, and they take attacks
from [former White House press secretary]
Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what
they do to us on a daily basis very
seriously. They don’t have all their
faculties in some cases — their elevator
might not hit all floors. My concern is that
a journalist is going to be hurt one of these
days.”
To decode that Acosta line:
Everyone in this country is a moron, I hope
nobody attacks me.
Great stuff. And these are the chosen few reporters who
the American public are supposed to look to for unbiased
coverage?
 GOP Lawmaker Sends Letter To AG Sessions Demanding
Answers About His Involvement In
FBI Raid Of Trump’s Lawyer
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 1:24 Pm

“We would like to know if you approved,

GOP lawmaker, Lee Zeldin wants were consulted, or had any involvement
answers from AG Sessions regarding in this decision by the Department of
the FBI raid of Trump’s personal lawyer, Justice,” Zeldin asked in a letter to AG
Michael Cohen. Sessions about the FBI raid of Cohen on
April 9th.

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein approved the decision to allow

the FBI raid of Trump’s personal lawyer.

“In light of the fact that the action taken

was not directly related to the Russia
investigation, and the subject was the
personal attorney of the President of the
United States, it would appear that the
Attorney General should have been
involved,” Zeldin concluded in the letter.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), with the support of Freedom

Caucus members, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, Matt Gaetz
and Ron DeSantis are demanding answers from AG
Sessions about the FBI raid of Michael Cohen’s office and
residence.

On Tuesday, Rep Zeldin announced he sent a letter to AG

Sessions demanding to know if he had any involvement in
the decision to approve the FBI raid of Cohen. .

Screenshot of Zeldin’s letteron next page:

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Zeldin tweeted: Sent letter to @jeffsessions yest. w/@Jim_Jordan @RepMarkMeadows @RepMattGaetz
@RepDeSantis re no knock raid of Michael Cohen’s residence & office. No reason for this action against POTUS’
personal atty outside scope of Mueller probe w/out AG’s awareness, involvement & signoff

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 WTH? AG Sessions Will Not Recuse Himself From Cohen
Investigation – Only On Certain Issues
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 2:01 Pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has
decided not to recuse himself from the
investigation into Trump’s personal
lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Don’t get too excited because Sessions
will consider stepping back on specific
matters tied into the Cohen probe.
Bloomberg reported:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has
decided against recusing himself from the
investigation into President Donald Trump’s
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will
consider stepping back from specific
questions tied to the probe, according to a
person familiar with the matter.
[…]
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By staying involved in the Cohen probe,
Sessions is entitled to briefings on the
status of the investigation, which is being
conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of
the Southern District of New York. That
could put Sessions in the position of being
asked by Trump, who strongly condemned
the FBI raid on his longtime lawyer, to
divulge information about the Cohen
investigation.
Sessions could also weigh in on specific decisions by
prosecutors, including whether to pursue subpoenas and
indictments. The attorney general may be asked about his
role in the Cohen investigation when he testifies before
congressional panels on Wednesday and Thursday.
Sessions will be taking his role in the Cohen probe
“matter-by-matter” meaning he will be backing off from
certain issues.
The Justice Department said in a statement:
“The attorney general considers his
potential recusal on a matter-by-matter
basis as may be needed. To the extent a
matter comes to the attention of his office
that may warrant consideration of recusal,
the attorney general would review the issue
and consult with the appropriate
Department ethics experts.”
President Trump was furious after Rosenstein approved of
the FBI raid of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
 REPORT: James Comey Hires Former US Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald As Personal Lawyer
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 4:50 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey has
reportedly hired former US Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald to be one of his
personal lawyers.
Talking Points Memo reported exclusively:
Fired FBI Director James Comey has
retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald as one of his personal attorneys,
bringing in a heavy-hitting former
prosecutor, close friend and longtime
colleague to help him navigate his dramatic
role as a potential witness in the
investigation of President Trump’s
campaign and potential obstruction of
justice.
Two Capitol Hill sources independently confirmed to TPM
that Fitzgerald was serving as a lawyer for Comey.
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Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald go back many years as
buddies.
In the early 2000’s, then-Deputy AG James Comey
authorized the special counsel investigation into the
unauthorized disclosure of CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Comey’s choice for special counsel was Patrick Fitzgerald.
Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby was
eventually charged by the special counsel for perjury and
obstruction of justice.
Plot twist: President Trump just pardoned Scooter Libby.
Talking Points Memo also reported:
David Kelley, another of Comey’s old allies
whom he’s brought on as one of his
attorneys, would neither confirm nor deny
to TPM that Comey had hired Fitzgerald —
but noted that “Pat and Jim have been
friends and colleagues for a long time.”
“I’ve represented Mr. Comey since not long
after his firing,” Kelley told TPM, but would
only say “Ask Pat” when pressed on if
Fitzgerald was working with him.
Fitzgerald is definitely swamp friendly.
On March 18, 2016, Strzok and Page engaged in a
discussion about the possibility of a special counsel in the
Clinton investigation and referenced Patrick Fitzgerald,
who was the Special Counsel in the Valerie Plame matter:
On Friday, the Office of Inspector
General opened an investigation into
James Comey over his classified
memos.
SARA CARTER: McCabe May Have Issued ‘Stand-Down’
Order On FBI Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 6:30 Pm
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe is in hot water.
The Inspector General recently issued a
scathing report on McCabe revealing he
‘lacked candor’ (lied) several times,
including under oath.
A new report by investigative journalist Sara Carter
reveals McCabe may have given a ‘stand-down’ order on
the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton.
Sara Carter reported:
Multiple former FBI officials, along with a
Congressional official, say that while there
may have been internal squabbling over
the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton
Foundation at the time, there was
allegedly another “stand-down” order by
McCabe regarding the opening of the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of
her private email for official government
business.
McCabe’s stand-down order regarding
Clinton’s private email use happened after
The New York Times first reported Hillary
Clinton Used Personal Email Account at
State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules in
March 2015 and before the official
investigation was requested by the Justice
Department toward the end of July 2015.
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After The New York Times publication, the FBI
Washington Field Office began investigating Clinton’s use
of private emails and whether she was using her personal
email account to transmit classified information.
According to sources, McCabe was overseas when he
became aware of the investigation and sent electronic
communications voicing his displeasure with the agents.
“McCabe tried to steer people off the
private email investigation and that appears
to be obstruction and should be
investigated,” said one former FBI official
with knowledge of the circumstances
surrounding the investigation. “Now if the
information on the ‘stand-down’ order is
obtained by the IG that could bring a whole
lot of other troubles to McCabe.”
Andrew McCabe didn’t recuse himself from Hillary’s
email investigation until ONE WEEK before the election.
According to Judicial Watch McCabe controlled resources
supporting the investigation into Hillary’s email scandal
while his wife was running for Virginia State Senate:
While working as Assistant Director in
Charge of the Washington Field Office,
McCabe controlled resources supporting
the investigation into former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. An
October 2016 internal FBI memorandum
labeled “Overview of Deputy Director
McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr.
McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office,”
details talking points about McCabe’s
various potential conflicts of interest,
including the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s
illicit server, which officially began in July
2015.
Andrew McCabe’s wife, Jill recently argued in a WaPo
op-ed that her husband’s involvement in Hillary’s
campaign came after contribution were made to her
campaign in her State Senate run:
“Andrew’s involvement in the Clinton
investigation came not only after the
 contributions were made to my campaign
but also after the race was over. Since that
news report, there have been thousands
more, repeating the false allegation that
there was some connection between my
campaign and my husband’s role at the
FBI.”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz criminally referred
McCabe to the Justice Department, making it the second
criminal referral for the former Deputy Director of the
FBI.
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The Hillary-FBI-Campaign contribution (payoff) cycle of
the swamp is exactly what Americans are fed up with.
McCabe’s wife received a HUGE campaign contribution
from a Clinton crony only to have Hillary’s investigation
handled with kid gloves by her husband–now we find out
he may have attempted to obstruct an investigation into
Clinton.
Read Sara Carter’s full report on McCabe’s stand-down
order on next page.
 Did McCabe Issue ‘Stand-Down’
Order On FBI Clinton Email Investigation?
"McCabe Tried To Steer People Off The Private Email Investigation..."
Sara Carter
April 24, 2018
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is now
facing possible criminal charges for lying under oath about
leaks he made to The Wall Street Journal in 2016, in an
effort to salvage his reputation and give his account to
journalists who were questioning whether he gave a
“stand-down” order to FBI agents investigating the Clinton
Foundation.
Multiple former FBI officials, along with a Congressional
official, say that while there may have been internal
squabbling over the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton
Foundation at the time, there was allegedly another “stand-
down” order by McCabe regarding the opening of the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of her private email
for official government business.
McCabe’s stand-down order regarding Clinton’s private
email use happened after The New York Times first
reported Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at
State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules in March 2015 and
before the official investigation was requested by the
Justice Department toward the end of July 2015.
After The New York Times publication, the FBI
Washington Field Office began investigating Clinton’s use
of private emails and whether she was using her personal
email account to transmit classified information.
According to sources, McCabe was overseas when he
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became aware of the investigation and sent electronic
communications voicing his displeasure with the agents.
“McCabe tried to steer people off the
private email investigation and that appears
to be obstruction and should be
investigated,” said one former FBI official
with knowledge of the circumstances
surrounding the investigation. “Now if the
information on the ‘stand-down’ order is
obtained by the IG that could bring a whole
lot of other troubles to McCabe.”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz released the report on
McCabe earlier this month and is continuing to investigate
the FBI’s role in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a
private server to conduct government business. Horowitz’s
team of investigators have been sifting through more than
1.2 million documents, of which 46,000 are connected to
the ongoing investigations, according to several
Congressional officials who spoke to this reporter. Of
those documents, Congress has received a tiny fraction of
the emails pertaining to their oversight investigations.
The body of documents obtained by the Inspector General
also include all of McCabe’s communications,
congressional officials said.
Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog
group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
in September 2017 against the FBI for the communications
on behalf of retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jeff
Danik, as previously reported. Danik spent more than 28
years with the bureau as a supervisor in the counter-
terrorism division and special overseas advisor. Thus far,
the FBI has failed to abide by a judge’s order to turn over
all of former McCabe’s text messages, emails and SMS
phone messages.
The DOJ declined to comment on whether McCabe had
given a “stand-down” order in either or both investigations
into Clinton. The Inspector General, which is expected to
issue its second report in May on the FBI’s investigation
into Clinton’s use of a private server for government
business, does not comment on ongoing investigations.
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty declined to comment.
McCabe’s troubles began after the Wall Street Journal first
published a story regarding his wife, Jill McCabe, a
Democrat, who had an unsuccessful run in a 2015 Virginia
State Senate race. According to campaign finance reports
obtained by The Wall Street Journal, she received roughly
$700,000 from political super PACs connected to Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close ally and personal friend of
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Jill McCabe
McCabe, however, was closely involved in the
investigations into the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton
email server. Members of Congress began questioning
McCabe’s possible conflicts of interest, whether or not he
had properly disclosed his wife’s campaign funds and if he
should have recused himself from the Clinton
investigations.
It is later, in a follow-up article by Wall Street Journal
author Devlin Barrett, Internal Feud over Hillary
Clinton Probe, that Barrett refers to a possible “stand-
down” order given by McCabe to FBI agents regarding
their ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. At
the time, no-one, including former FBI Director James
Comey had officially confirmed the investigation into the
Clinton Foundation. McCabe, in an effort to salvage his
reputation and rebut the claims against him before the
story came out on Oct. 30, 2016, authorized a leak of a
phone conversation he had with the Department of Justice
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in which he claims he pushed back against the DOJ, which
he says was fighting against the Bureau’s investigation.
According to Horowitz’s report on McCabe, Barrett’s
“article discussed not only the FBI’s
handling of the Clinton E-mail Investigation
but ‘internal disagreements within the
Bureau and the Justice Department
surrounding the Clintons’ family
philanthropy.'” It stated that “McCabe, in
particular, was caught . . . [in] an
increasingly acrimonious fight for control
between the Justice Department and FBI
agents pursuing the Clinton Foundation
case.”
The former law enforcement sources who spoke to this
reporter said a possible stand-down order on the Clinton
Foundation investigation doesn’t preclude another stand-
down order from McCabe on the Clinton email server
investigation. They noted that it appears from the IG’s
report that the Justice Department was attempting to
dissuade McCabe from moving forward with the FBI’s
investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe said he
authorized the disclosure to The Wall Street Journal of his
conversation with the DOJ’s Principal Assistant Attorney
General (PADAG) in an effort to counter the narrative that
he had given a stand-down order on the Bureau’s Clinton
Foundation investigation.
Horowitz’s referral on McCabe is the second referral
seeking criminal prosecution of McCabe. The first referral
was sent this week by Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fl, and ten
other lawmakers asking for the investigation based on
McCabe’s false testimony to investigators.
The evidence collected by Horowitz has raised new
questions with Congressional investigators regarding
McCabe’s role in the Bureau’s investigations into Clinton
and what role President Obama’s Department of Justice
may have had in both investigations.
 “Stupid, Stupid Question” – Trump Slaps Down Liberal
Hack Jonathan Karl (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 24, 2018, 6:32 Pm

Trump responded,

“Stupid, stupid question.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump

welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and First
Lady Brigitte Macron today to the White House.

President Trump met with his friend President Macron in

the Oval Office this morning. But the President was not
happy with liberal reporter Jonathan Karl.

Karl asked Trump whether he was considering a pardon

for his attorney Michael Cohen — who has not been
charged with any crimes by the Mueller special counsel.

The Real Criminals

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 FINALLY! After A Year Of Delays GOP Leader
McConnell Files Cloture On Nomination Of Richard
Grenell As US Ambassador To Germany
By Jim Hoft
April 24, 2018, 7:12 Pm

After a year in office half of President After a year of waiting it looks like
Trump’s nominees are still waiting for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
confirmation in the US Senate. announced a cloture vote on Richard
Grenell as ambassador.
Mitch McConnell can vote anytime on the nominees. But
Mitch won’t do it because he is required to use 30 hours of
floor debate to force a vote.

In the private sector if you don’t get

your work done during the week you
hold overtime.
In the public sector they go to a fancy
dinner.
This is outrageous.

This is great news.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders highlighted Richard Grenell
who is the Trump nominee for Ambassador to Germany in
March.

Richard has been waiting for months for

his confirmation by the US Senate.

President Trump has repeatedly called for the Senate to

confirm Richard Grenell as ambassador to Germany.

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 HUGE! BREAKING: DOJ To Release
‘Missing’ Strzok-Page Text Messages Within Hours
By Cristina Laila
April 24, 2018, 8:40 Pm

Sara Carter tweeted: BREAKING: DOJ will make the 6

BREAKING NEWS months of missing texts that were eventually located by IG
The Department of Justice will be between Strzok and Page available to Congress sometime
releasing the ‘missing’ Strzok-Page text tonight or tomorrow, according to sources…developing
messages within the next 24 hours
according to investigative reporter Sara
Carter.

The six months of ‘missing’ Strzok-Page texts will be

available to Congress Tuesday night or tomorrow.

These are the crucial months between December of 2016

up until Mueller was appointed on May 17.
Story developing…
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BREAKING: Comey Now Says He Hired Fitzgerald As His
Attorney ‘Last Year’ — When He Was
Leaking His Trump Memos
By Jim Hoft
April 24, 2018, 9:01 Pm

Ousted FBI Director James Comey told the Chicago Sun-

Fired FBI Chief James Comey told
reporters at his book signing Tuesday in
Chicago he hired former US Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald last year — around
the time he was fired.
News broke earlier today that Comey
had hired Fitzgerald.
Times on Tuesday that his longtime friend and former U.S.
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been on his legal team for
nearly a year.
“He’s been representing me since I was
fired,” Comey said at a Washington, D.C.,
reception Tuesday evening, signing copies
of his book “A Higher Loyalty.”

FOX News legal expert Gregg Jarrett

told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that
Comey likely leaked the memos to his
friend Patrick Fitzgerald.
It appears Jarrett nailed it.

Via Hannity:

Comey admitted last year during

Congressional testimony that he leaked
memos to his close friend Daniel
Richman, a law professor at Columbia
University, in order to push a special
counsel against President Trump.
Richman announced in January of this
year that he was now Comey’s lawyer.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported:

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 Bozell & Graham Column:
Beware Networks Skipping Their Own Polls
By Brent Bozell And Tim Graham
April 24, 2018 11:19 PM EDT
Watch national news outlets choose which results of its
opinion polls they report, and which ones they bury. It tells
you everything you need to know about their political
agenda.
On the morning of Sunday, April 15, ABC anchor Paula
Faris reported a new ABC News-Washington Post poll that
showed President Trump’s approval rating “ticking up
slightly” to 40 percent, “lifted in part by the strong
economy.” On screen, the graphic also pointed out that 56
percent disapproved.
Having established that America disapproves of her GOP
president, it seemed fair to continue the narrative by
connecting it to the next segment. ABC anchor Dan Harris
then asked George Stephanopoulos about his hour-long
special that night touting former FBI director James
Comey’s book: “To your eyes, do you, do you see
anything in this Comey book and interview that could hurt
that approval rating?”
Stephanopoulos said it was “a scathing personal
assessment of President Trump. A scathing assessment of
his presidency and what he believes President Trump is
doing to the institutions and the rule of law in the country.”
But The Washington Post’s poll also had bad news for
Democrats in Congress.
That part of the survey was covered....on page A-4.
“Democrats hold an advantage ahead of
the midterm elections, but a Washington
Post-ABC News poll shows that edge has
narrowed since January, a signal to party
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leaders and strategists that they could be
premature in anticipating a huge wave of
victories in November,” they reported.
Forty-seven percent of registered voters
prefer the Democratic candidate in their
district, while 43 percent favor the
Republican. “That four-point margin
compares with a 12-point advantage
Democrats held in January.”
That “blue wave” could still happen. This is just one
snapshot. But it’s interesting that a shrinking advantage for
Democrats didn’t get a lick of air time on ABC. Pollsters
also sought an approval rating for House Democratic
leader Nancy Pelosi – 32 percent positive, 44 percent
negative – and ABC whistled past that disastrous number,
too.
They’re not alone. An April NPR/PBS Marist poll found
the Democrats were ahead by only five points in the
generic ballot question, 44 to 39 percent. That’s a point
more than the 3.9 percent margin of error. Neither NPR
nor PBS reported that.
The new April NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found
a gap of 47 to 40 percent for the Democrats, slipping from
a 10-point gap in their last survey. That was discussed on
one show on April 15, Meet the Press.
Chuck Todd reported that number but then used another
number to put a positive spin on it for Democrats, saying
the “news gods have a sense of humor.” He said “66
percent of Democrats say they’re highly interested in the
midterm election, while just 49 percent of Republicans say
the same thing.” Todd pointed out that in 2010, these
numbers were exactly reversed, and we know about the
wave election of 2010.
No one expects these networks to report all of their polling
results. But consumers should beware that these “facts
first” networks have a tendency to pass over the results
they don’t like and heavily emphasize the ones they do.
Whether they are reporting on polls or policies or scandals
and gaffes, everything the networks report sounds like dark
clouds and stormy seas for Trump and the GOP. Disaster is
always around the corner. The wishful thinking is palpable
and incessant.
 'Chasing Hillary' Book Reveals
F-Word Tirade During Mock Debate
By P.J. Gladnick
April 25, 2018 6:43 AM EDT
The Chasing Hillary book by New York Times reporter
Amy Chozick was released Tuesday and some really
interesting tidbits from the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign
trail have already been revealed. One such tidbit that
appeared in the UK Weekly is that Hillary went on an F-
word tirade during a mock debate against a mock Donald
Trump:
Hillary Clinton launched into a “f***-
laced fusillade” during a practice
session for her televised debate with
Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016
election, according to a journalist who
followed her 2016 presidential bid.
In her new book, Chasing Hillary, New York Times
journalist Amy Chozick, who covered Clinton’s political
career for a decade, sheds light on the inner workings of a
campaign which ended in shocking defeat.
In one passage, she describes a practice
debate in which Clinton reportedly cried
“You want authentic, here it is!”,
followed by “a f***-laced fusillade about
what a ‘disgusting’ human being Trump
was and how he didn’t deserve to even
be in the arena”.
Trump was played in the mock debates by longtime
Clinton aide Philippe Reines, the New York Times reported
at the time. Reines was chosen for the part due to his
familiarity with Clinton’s “personal and political
vulnerabilities”, enabling him to “throw any number of
embarrassing comments in her face” as he imitated her
outspoken Republican rival.
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The UK Guardian also reported another revelation from
the book that Hillary campaign manager Robby Mook was
so weary of listening to Bill Clinton's unwanted campaign
advice that he mocked him behind his back.
Campaign manager Robby Mook, who was 36 years old
on election night, “always listened patiently, respectfully”
to the two-term president talk about campaign strategy,
Chozick writes. “But [Mook] mostly saw in the former
president a relic, a brilliant tactician of a bygone era.
“Behind his back, Robby did a Bill
impersonation (‘And let me tell you
another thing about the white working
class …’) waving a finger in a Clintonian
motion.”
....“By late February,” she writes, “Bill went
red in the face on almost daily conference
calls trying to warn Brooklyn that Trump
had a shrewd understanding of the angst
that so many voters – his voters, the white
working class whom Clinton brought back
to the Democratic party in 1992 – were
feeling.”
Finally, another Chasing Hillary excerpt that appeared in
Vanity Fair about Hillary's reaction to merely tying with
Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Iowa caucus gives new
meaning to the expression "put on a happy face."
Hillary arrived at her victory rally at Drake University a
couple of hours late wearing red.
I stood on a folding chair in the back of the
room and marveled at how good the
entire Clinton family had become at
smothering any honest emotional
reaction. With Bill and Chelsea Clinton
standing onstage behind her, Hillary drew
into some deep reserve of fakery and
willed herself into looking happy, as if
trying hard enough would make it so.
I remembered the advice Huma had given to a sobbing
Anthony Weiner staffer after the Carlos Danger sexting
scandal enveloped her husband’s mayoral bid, as famously
captured in the documentary Weiner. “I assume the
photographers are still outside, so you will look happy?”
Huma said, rhetorically.
....As we rolled up our power cords and trudged through
the parking lot to the bus with our open laptops cradled in
our arms, the traveling press corps looked aghast.
“Um, what just happened?”
“That didn’t feel like a victory rally.”
.
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“No, no it did not,” I said.
Chasing Hillary also has a special three-page section
listing 84 possible slogans that the Clinton campaign
considered but ultimately rejected. Perhaps they were
discarded due to overwhelming banality such as
"You've earned a fair chance," "A new
bargain we can count on," and "No quit."
Internet Sleuth: Review Of Strzok And Page Text Messages
Reveals FBI Efforts To Setup, Embarrass Or Attack
Trump At Campaign Rally
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 9:14 Am

Another sleuth on the Internet

uncovered some disturbing information
in the Strzok and Page text messages.

The messages sent by corrupt FBI and

former Mueller investigation team
members Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
appear to indicate that the FBI was
trying to set up, attack or embarrass
candidate Trump before the 2016
election.

Internet sleuth Jason Enzer on Twitter reviewed the corrupt

FBI lovebirds’ emails and tweeted the following –

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Is this what it looks like? In august of 2016 the 2 FBI
lovebirds Page and Strzok were talking cloak and dagger.
Here is the exchange. what stands out is Page saying

“Think so. Not sure. For sure his RNC

experience is going to be a zero, don’t
know enough to tell more.” Strange!

Enzer then notes a post at far-left Politico suggesting that

candidate Trump was wasting money on his personal
security team. [Was liberal Politico trying to encourage
President Trump to remove some of his security staff? We
already know Politico was sending their posts to the
Hillary campaign for review before posting.] –

None other than Trump! MSM was

relentlessly critical of yet another
unconventional, irresponsible, and
dangerous waste of $ “The president-elect
continues to employ a battalion of retired
cops and FBI agents to protect him and
clamp down on protesters.

“https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-
security-force-232797 …

Enzer continues –

Stzrok asks “zero in terms of not the same

characters?” Page goes on to clarify “Just
don’t think it’s going to be useful. Think
interactions are going to be more with his
security folks. (BC he has private, ex-Bu
ones in addition to the Service.) who had
private ex-Bu security?

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 Enzer appears to be on to something. Was the FBI trying
to set up President Trump in an embarrassing situation or
were their intents more sinister and violent?

What is clear is that the FBI was led by

corrupt and criminal individuals.
Enzer sums up his thoughts on these texts – Because these individuals went so far to
set up the President in a fake
investigation based on no crimes that
Call me crazy, but it looks like the FBI was
has gone on for over a year and is
discussing some sort of setup. One that
grossly unconstitutional – there is no
would be useless because of the additional
telling what the corrupt individuals at
private ex-bu security DJT employed.
the FBI were capable of and
having been tested at Trump rallies, the
contemplating.
security team had reached legendary
status and the FBI knew not to test it
.

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 Deep State Leak: Trump Asked AWOL Sessions To Fire
Corrupt Lovebirds Strzok And Page But Sessions Declined
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 9:33 Am
President Donald Trump asked AWOL
AG Jeff Sessions and FBI Chief
Christopher Wray why corrupt Hillary-
supporting lovebirds Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page were still employed at the
bureau after being caught secretly
exchanged texts and plotted to take
Trump down.
This information was leaked to far left
Vox.com. Sessions declined to fire the
corrupt FBI hacks.
Vox.com reported:
President Donald Trump sharply
questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions
and FBI Director Christopher Wray during a
.
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White House meeting on January 22 about
why two senior FBI officials — Peter Strzok
and Lisa Page — were still in their jobs
despite allegations made by allies of the
president that they had been disloyal to him
and had unfairly targeted him and his
administration, according to two people
with knowledge of the matter.
The president also pressed his attorney general and FBI
director to work more aggressively to uncover derogatory
information within the FBI’s files to turn over to
congressional Republicans working to discredit the two
FBI officials, according to the same sources.
The very next day, Trump met Sessions
again, this time without Wray present,
and even more aggressively advocated
that Strzok and Page be fired, the
sources said.
Trump’s efforts to discredit Strzok and Page came after
Trump was advised last summer by his then-criminal
defense attorney John Dowd that Page was a likely witness
against him in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice,
according to two senior administration officials. That
Trump knew that Page might be a potential witness against
him has not been previously reported or publicly known.
 LEGAL EXPERT: There Is Probable Cause Comey
Committed Criminal Espionage – Punishable
By 10 Years In Prison
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 10:30 Am

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

Next Barnes notes –

Contrary to what you may hear, a person

Legal expert and lawyer Robert Barnes
provided some expert analysis last
night on Twitter about the legal
implications former FBI Director and
“Crooked Cardinal” James Comey is in.
Comey’s leaks are highly likely to place
Comey in prison [where he belongs] for
many years.
can be convicted of CRIMINAL
ESPIONAGE even if they do not leak
classified material & even if they only
remove, but do not share, national security
information. Criminal Espionage laws were
written before we had a classification
system.
— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law)

Robert Barnes from Barnes Law tweeted the following set

of tweets last night about the legal jeopardy that crooked
Comey put himself in –

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://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/
793 … His 3rd tweet on the subject –
<blockquoteclass=”twitter-tweet” data-
lang=”en”> 3/ Criminal Espionage only requires proof
THREAD: As explained on @foxnewsnight that a person entrusted w/ “national
w/ @ShannonBream, there is probable defense related” information remove that
cause @Comey committed CRIMINAL information from its proper place or
disclose that information to an
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 unauthorized person in either an intentional
act or because of their “gross negligence.”
— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law)
4th tweet –
4/ The courts have defined “national
defense related” information very broadly in
the seminal Supreme Court case of Gorin
v. United States, effectively deferring to the
judgment of the jury as to what constitutes
national defense related information.
5th tweet –
5/ Some courts limited the Criminal
Espionage statute to information which is
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“potentially dangerous” to disclose to
national security and “closely held”
information. That same court also said the
information did not have to ever be
classified for it to be a crime to disclose it.
6th tweet –
6/ Here is the key: In order for @Comey to
ever classify #ComeyMemos as either
“confidential” or “secret,” he admitted the
memos were government proprietary
information, related to national security, &
the disclosure of which was “reasonably
expected” to hurt national security.
7th tweet –
7/ Now add in: Classified Information NDA
@Comey signed to be FBI Director, his
sophisticated longtime use of classified
information, his admission that information
 did not have to be marked classified in the
Hillary press conference, and his record
prosecuting whistleblowers.

It looks like Cardinal Comey committed

criminal espionage when he removed
the emails he prepared and then gave
8th and final tweet – them to an unauthorized friend. Maybe
in jail the Cardinal can start a choir with
8/ Adds up to one thing: there is probable his new found friends some day soon in
cause that James @Comey committed jail.
CRIMINAL ESPIONAGE when he removed
the #ComeyMemos from FBI exclusive
control & custody after his firing (the first
crime) & then gave them to an
unauthorized person (the 2nd crime).
#MultipleFelonies
.

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 JUDICIAL WATCH: New Hillary Emails Reveal
Classified Documents, Clinton Foundation Pay-To-Play
By Cristina Laila
April 25, 2018, 11:47 Am
Judicial Watch strikes again!
On Wednesday, conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch released 281
pages of newly discovered emails found
on Hillary Clinton’s private server.
The emails, dated 2010-2013, contain
classified information and show more
Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with the
State Department.
Via Judicial Watch:
Ten emails contain classified
information redacted “in the interest of
national defense or foreign policy,”
including confidential sources, and concern
Israel and the Middle East. Most of the
emails include exchanges with former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The
emails show Hillary Clinton conducted
classified and sensitive negotiations about
the Israel-Arab conflict on her unsecure,
non-governmental server.
 A document labeled “plan” was completely redacted as
classified.
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 A November 2012 email chain discusses the “Mid East”
and includes then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan,
Blair as “aclb” and Clinton.
 Another November 2012 email chain discusses the
“Mid East” and includes Sullivan, Clinton’s office
manager Claire Coleman, Blair and Clinton.
 A November 2012 email chain fully redacted is titled
“Mid East Peace” and includes Blair, Clinton, Obama’s
Special Envoy to the Middle East David Hale as
“haledm2@state.gov,” Sullivan and Blair’s Chief of
Staff and former Downing Street aide Catherine
Rimmer.
 In an April 2011 email exchange between Blair, Clinton
and Sullivan concerning “Israel,” Blair says he “had
another long session with BB [Netanyahu].”
 A May 2011 exchange concerns “Israel” and includes
Blair, Clinton and Sullivan.
 A May 2011 email concerns “Palestinians” and includes
Blair, Clinton and Sullivan. Blair says, “I’ve also sent
you a paper.”
 A June 2011 email regarding “Israel” includes Blair,
Sullivan and Clinton. Blair says, “Saw Israeli PM. Put
the concept of a Q statement. He was receptive.
Palestinians interested too. I know there are
discussions also you guys are having. And the French
initiative….”
 In a July 2011 email – with several national security
redactions – written by Blair to Clinton and Sullivan,
Blair says, “I saw BB….. Molcho [chief negotiator in the
Israeli negotiating team with the Palestinians] will
speak to David Hale. I can see Cameron and Sarkozy
with David…. I saw Egyptians….”
 A September 2010 email exchange is titled “Info for
you,” and includes Sullivan, Blair and Clinton. Blair
writes that he just spent three hours with Netanyahu,
and Sullivan, using his Sprint BlackBerry, he writes
“We have pitched this to [redacted].”
Huma Abedin is in many of these emails
assisting the Clintons with their
influence peddling:
Many of the emails involve Abedin, who joined the State
Department as deputy chief of staff in 2009. From June
2012-February 2013, she was granted status as a “special
government employee,” allowing her to work as a
consultant to clients like Teneo and served as a paid
consultant to the Clinton Foundation.
Several of the emails demonstrate the commingling of
Clinton State Department and Clinton family foundation
business:
 In a November 2010 email with subject line, “How do I
get through to Bill Clinton,” Rafael Anchia, a lawyer
with Haynes Boone, asks Clinton campaign official Ed
Meier if he could get to the “gatekeepers” to get Bill
Clinton to give a speech in Spain, noting that “a large
bank is willing to pay for it.”
Bill Clinton was also caught conducting
State Department and Clinton
Foundation work simultaneously:
The Clinton Foundation work in Malawi involved a
Clinton Foundation owned “for-profit agribusinesses
including Tukula Farming Company which operates 7200
acres of commercial farms” in the impoverished country.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton
had this to say about the new Hillary
emails showing once again the Clintons
are above the law:
“It is shameful that Hillary Clinton
attempted to delete or hide classified
information and that Obama appointees
James Comey and Loretta Lynch refused
to prosecute her. It is clear that the Clintons
were using the State Department to run an
extensive influence peddling scheme.
Americans should be concerned that while
untold resources are devoted to the
abusive Mueller special counsel
investigation of President Trump, this
Justice Department seems uninterested in
prosecuting the Clintons.”

Other emails show that Bill Clinton appears to conduct

State Department and Clinton Foundation business
simultaneously:

 In a September 2012 email with subject line “Burma,”

Desai briefs Jake Sullivan on Bill Clinton’s discussions
in Burma. Desai reports, in part: “WJC mentioned work
of CF [Clinton Foundation] and offered to help in any
way. TS [Than Shwe, president of Burma] said he
already had asked HRC about WJC foundation and
wanted to invite WJC foundation to work in myanmar in
collaboration with gov agencies and other ngos … TS
invited WJC to open offices in Rangoon and
Mandelay.” That same day, Abedin writes Desai (cc’s
Mills, Sullivan, Fuchs and three other persons whose
email address are redacted) with subject line “Re: He
had v good meeting with Libya and Burma:” “hrc
looking forward to hearing about Burma. We meet at
545. I believe you have downloaded to jake?”
 In a September 2012 email with subject line “Columbia
/ President Santos,” Desai and Toiv discuss a request
by Colombian president, Manuel Santos, that Bill
Clinton say some positive words about Santos’ initiative
reaching out to the FARC terrorist group. Santos
provided the Clinton Foundation with suggested The Clintons both need to be prosecuted for their many
language. Toiv said that she would “check” and also pay-to-play schemes involving their foundation.
mentioned that she was working on a “visa issue.”
President Trump, when we chanted “Lock her up!” we
meant it.
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 POTUS Trump Likely To Win
Travel Ban Case In Supreme Court
By Cristina Laila
April 25, 2018, 1:24 Pm
The Supreme Court appears to favor
President Trump in his travel ban case.
This is great news for America and the MAGA base.
This is what we voted for. Make America safe again!
CBS reported:
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice
Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for
the travel policy in arguments Wednesday
at the high court. The ban’s challengers
almost certainly need one of those two
justices if the court is to strike down the
ban on travelers from several mostly
Muslim countries.
The travel ban case is the court’s first
comprehensive look at a Trump policy —
one of considerable importance to the
president and highly controversial since it
was first rolled out a week after Trump took
office.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the most aggressive
questioner of Solicitor General Noel Francisco in his
defense of the Trump policy, and the three other liberal
justices also raised questions about it.
Story developing…
 Ouch! Sarah Huckabee Sanders Chews Up
CNN’s Jim Acosta – Spits Him Out (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 2:11 Pm

This was brutal. I certainly see that, I stated a moment ago

White House Press Secretary Sarah we support a free press but we also
support a fair press. And I think that those
Huckabee Sanders gave CNN’s Jim
Acosta a public thrashing today at the things should go hand-in-hand. And there’s
a certain responsibility by the press to
daily press briefing.
report accurate information. I think a
number of people, I’m not finished, I think a
The liberal media has turned these daily briefings into a number of people in this room do that every
sideshow against President Trump and his administration. single day. They do their very best to
Today’s hatefest came after the very successful White provide fair and accurate information. I
House visit by French President Emmanuel Macron and certainly support that and that’s one of the
his wife Brigitte Macron. reasons why I’m standing here taking your
questions. And a lot of times taking your
On Wednesday Jim Acosta whined questions in a tone that’s completely
about press freedom in the age of unnecessary, unneeded and frankly
Trump. What a clown. doesn’t further the conversation or help the
American people get any more information
This is the same hack who accused Trump supporters of in a better way than is your job or my job.
being idiots this week. And that’s what I trying to do.

Jim Acosta:

The president’s tone towards the press

obviously is not helpful.
And once again, Jim Acosta shows his
ass at the press briefing.

Jim Acosta:

Are trying to say this administration is a

champion of the free press?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

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 LOL! Acosta Claims He’s Being Misquoted In Smear
Against American People, Gets Dunked On
By Curtis Houck
April 25, 2018 2:32 PM EDT

On Wednesday morning, CNN’s chief White House Almost immediately, conservative Twitter unloaded and,
correspondent Jim Acosta cried foul in a tweet concerning in a brief moment of indulgence, it was glorious:
a Variety interview released Tuesday in which he insulted
the intelligence of the American people by claiming that

“[t]hey don’t have all their faculties in

some cases”

when it comes to the rise of fake news and rhetoric from

the President or his advisers about the liberal media.

Thankfully, the interwebs immediately dunked on Acosta’s

pathetic attempt at damage control along with a Sean
Spicer appearance hours earlier on FNC’s Fox & Friends
blasting Acosta’s comments as “sad” in “show[ing]...a
lack of understanding” of the American people.

Here’s Acosta’s tweet on the matter:

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ACOSTA:
Since he claims he’s being unfairly attacked, lets take a
fuller look at what he said since this space transcribed
large portions of the three videos Variety released.
Acosta’s comments were proceeded by CNN political
analyst, American Urban Radio Networks correspondent,
and fellow showboater April Ryan, who accused the
President of violating his Oath of Office by not defending
the news media (click “expand” to see the full comments):
RYAN:
But here’s the thing. Fake news, by the
president saying this, is not just a simple —
a cute little statement for some. This has
tentacles that it’s reaching overseas and
I’ve heard from European leaders who are
saying it can really destabilize democracies
and they are very concerned about this
fake news issue. Think about it. When you
are in a country and your citizenry thinks
that you’re fake, thinks that what the news
is saying is fake, there could be anarchy
some kind of way and it causes a
destabilization of democracies. There’s
tentacles to what this President is saying
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and this is the piece that gets me. Every
President, on Inauguration Day, January
20, 12:01 p.m. or whatever day it is,
becomes President but before he does
that, he takes the oath of office to uphold
the Constitution and the free press is part
of the Constitution — First Amendment and
he is swearing to uphold the Constitution.
So he’s really being a hypocrite when he’s
calling us “fake news” and saying — and
it’s undermining us and we are a part of the
pillars of this nation, the Founding Fathers.
They didn’t know that there was going to be
Twitter. They didn’t know there was going
to be Ashley, they didn’t know there was
going to be a Jim, they definitely didn’t
know there was going to be an April asking
questions of Presidents, but when we stand
on what they laid for us and we — and the
First Amendment is still strong — freedom
of press and the President is going totally
against that.
The problem is that people around the
country don’t know it’s an act. They’re not
in on the act and they take what he says
very seriously and they take attacks from
Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what
they do to us on a daily basis very
seriously. They don’t have all their faculties
in some cases — their elevator might not
hit all floors. My concern is that a journalist
is going to be hurt one of these days.
Somebody’s going to get hurt and, at that
point, you know, the White House, the
President of the United States, they’re
going to have to take a hard look in the
mirror and ask themselves whether or not
they played a role in this, whether they
created this toxic environment that resulted
in a journalist getting hurt and the moment
that a journalist gets hurt in the United
States of America because of rhetoric
coming from the President of the United
States, we have suddenly become
something less than the United States. We
are starting to join at that moment, a
different group of countries around the
world where the press is not safe and I — I
hope and I’d liked to see the White House
and the President pay more attention to
that.
Put simply, there’s no ambiguity there.
“People around the country” is about as
clear as you can get, Jim. My colleague
Tim Graham tweeted that, for CNN, they’re
under the impression that “Trump saying
 ‘s---hole’ according to an anonymous SPICER: I mean, I'm not wiping anything off his jacket, I will tell
source is vastly more credible and you that.
troublesome than a media transcript of
Acosta's smear of the American HEGSETH: Well, he mentioned your name yesterday —
people.”
SPICER: I heard on Fox & Friends I heard.
As for Spicer, the former White House Press Secretary
took Acosta to ask,
HEGSETH: — and insinuated a few other things about the rest of
you, listen to him.
stating that “it's sad to see that in all
seriousness because when I think it
continues to show is a lack of
understanding” on the part of “folks in
these big urban areas who have been
sort of around an elite group of people
in the media or on Wall Street.”
“So, for Jim not to understand that, and
for him to continue to dismiss and
frankly make fun of and ridicule people
around this country, is really sad and
really shows you how little of an
understanding they have of what's
happening in this country,” he added. JIM ACOSTA: The problem is that people around the country
don’t know it’s an act. They’re not in on the act and they take
Spicer even argued that he wouldn’t have been as bothered what he says very seriously and they take attacks from Sean
if it were from an openly liberal activist, but Acosta’s Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what they do to us on a daily
supposed to be a neutral correspondent (click “expand” to basis very seriously. They don’t have all their faculties in some
see more): cases — their elevator might not hit all floors.

That's a — that’s a problem and when you’re STEVE DOOCY: Whoa, so he is saying that the President, his
further insulting them saying they don't have demeanor, that’s all an act.
their faculties. I wasn't attacking Jim. Frankly, I
was attacking the premise of bad stories, bad SPICER: Right.
narratives, false information and I continue to
believe that that's important because I believe in
DOOCY: This guy on TV and at state dinner? That’s all an act
a fair and, I mean, I believe in the First
and the people who voted for him are crazy.
Amendment. I believe in a robust press, but I
don't believe that false narratives should go
unanswered and I think the lack of his SPICER Well, act one, get more jobs for American people:
understanding of what's happening in this complete. Act two, strengthen our position in the world: complete.
country is still a fundamental problem with so I mean, if this is an act, it's a pretty good play because right now,
many people in the mainstream elite media. the American people are benefiting pretty well. So, bad on him.
Look, I — part of the reason I wrote this book, The Briefing,
which is — [LAUGHS] [DOOCY, EARHARDT MAKE INAUDIBLE
To see the relevant transcript from FNC’s Fox and Friends
COMMENT] which is because I talk about some of those
on April 25, click “expand.”
interactions. But —
FNC’s Fox and Friends
HEGSETH: So, Jim might make the book.
April 25, 2018
7:37 a.m. Eastern
SPICER: Oh, I think he's in the book.
PETE HEGSETH: Well, on another topic, we had to get your take
on. You might remember your good friend from CNN journalist AINSLEY EARHARDT: What does it say though, seriously, about
Jim Acosta. the voters because we have — the voters were called
deplorables.
SEAN SPICER: Very close, very close.
SPICER: Right.
HEGSETH: Very close, right?

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EARHARDT: The voters — they — he’s call them “[t]hey don't
have...their faculties?”
SPICER: Yeah.
EARHARDT: That they’re stupid, they don’t have all the elevator
stops.
SPICER: I think this is — this is — and it's sad to see that in all
seriousness because when I think it continues to show is a lack
of understanding. We saw an executive from ABC News after the
election talk about we need to get a firmer grasp of what's going
on in this country, which I think is a good sign. I think when folks
in these big urban areas who have been sort of around an elite
group of people in the media or on Wall Street finally get to
understand what's going on in rural America, the troubles that
they feel, the way they feel they have been left behind and why
this president is addressing their concerns is important. So, for
.
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Jim not to understand that, and for him to continue to dismiss and
frankly make fun of and ridicule people around this country, is
really sad and really shows you how little of an understanding
they have of what's happening in this country.
HEGSETH: They still think they are saving America from the
President.
SPICER: I know. That —
HEGSETH: That’s the problem
SPICER: — and again, I don't mind that from a liberal activist. I
get it. I’ve been doing this a long time, but where — when you
have a purported —
DOOCY: He is the White House correspondent.
SPICER: — yeah, correspondent saying that the people don't get
it. That's a — that’s a problem and when you’re further insulting
them saying they don't have their faculties. I wasn't attacking Jim.
Frankly, I was attacking the premise of bad stories, bad
narratives, false information and I continue to believe that that's
important because I believe in a fair and, I mean, I believe in the
First Amendment. I believe in a robust press, but I don't believe
that false narratives should go unanswered and I think the lack of
his understanding of what's happening in this country is still a
fundamental problem with so many people in the mainstream
elite media.
 Kanye West Goes ALL IN Supporting
The President — Trump Responds
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 25, 2018, 3:28 Pm

Kanye West caused a liberal Twitter meltdown once again

on Wednesday by tweeting support for President Donald
Trump, including a photo of himself in a “Make America
Great Again” hat alongside someone making the ‘okay’
hand gesture.

President Trump responded on Twitter, thanking West for

his support.

The “okay” hand sign is popular among Trump supporters

to signal support for our president, as he frequently does
the gesture when he is speaking and making a point.

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West also tweeted that he would be meeting with Trump-
backing venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

West previously caused leftist internet meltdowns when he

tweeted support for conservative pundit Candace Owens
and a string of videos by Trump supporting author Scott
Adams.
The tweets on Wednesday caused liberal media pundits to
once again claim that the okay-sign is a symbol for “white
power,” which it is not. The Anti-Defamation League has
previously corrected the fake news on this smear
campaign.
For those who are confused about the meaning of the
gesture, here is a handy explainer from Paul Joseph
Watson:

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 Whoopi Goldberg Angrily
Reads Note Card Trashing Trump's Cabinet
By Tim Graham
April 25, 2018 3:46 PM EDT
On Wednesday’s edition of The View, co-host Whoopi
Goldberg was reading a rant off an index card. (This
happens a lot with the liberals on The View, so you can
wonder who’s actually writing these lines. They often
sound like a DNC Info-Pak.) Whoopi was outraged about
the lack of experience in the Cabinet. No one on the set
asked how she is qualified to be a pundit because she co-
starred in Ghost and Sister Act. She is a high-school
dropout.
The subject was Dr. Ronny Jackson's delayed confirmation
as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and co-host Sunny Hostin
was suggesting the problem was Trump's utter lack of
government experience.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG [reading]: May I just point
something out? You know, Rick Perry, who wanted to
dismantle the Department of Energy, is now running it.
Scott Pruitt, who is a climate change skeptic who’s been
funded by the fossil-fuel industry is head of the EPA!
Ben Carson, a medical doctor -- maybe somebody who
could have done some good in the V.A. Where is he? He’s
in charge of Housing and Urban Development, because
one time, he passed a project! And Jim Bridenstine, who
has no background in science whatsoever is the new head
of NASA. So this is not -- this is normal!
Does this pass all the fact checks? Let's just look at
Bridenstine, who has bachelor's and master's degrees, but
not in science. He's a former Navy fighter pilot with
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combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, including a
total of 1,900 flight hours and 333 aircraft-carrier landings
to his name. (Pilots often become astronauts.) He has also
served as executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space
Museum & Planetarium. In the House, Bridenstine has
served on the House Science, Space, and Technology
Committee.
The website Physics World included Bridenstine's liberal
scientist critics, and supporters:
Bridenstine’s supporters point out that
neither James Webb, NASA’s administrator
during the build-up to the Apollo Moon-
landing programme, nor Sean O’Keefe,
who led the agency from 2001 to 2004, had
experience in space projects before their
appointment.
Bridenstine demonstrated an interest in space issues in
2016, when he sponsored a bill called the American Space
Renaissance Act in Congress.
“It’s a very thoughtful look at needed
reform,” says John Logsdon, professor
emeritus in George Washington
University’s Space Policy Institute. “He’s
not coming in naïve.”
G Scott Hubbard, former director of NASA’s Ames
Research Center and overseer of the agency’s first Mars
program who is now at Stanford University, agrees.
“He has exhibited a significant interest in
the policy,” he says. “He wasn’t just
grabbed from the hallway.”
But Whoopi may have borrowing from the liberal site
Vox. Their hit piece was titled "Trump’s Next NASA
Administrator Is A Republican Congressman With No
Background In Science." They suggested NASA should
ideally be led by a global-warming alarmist wearing a pro-
LGBTQIA bracelet.
 DEVELOPING=> Rudy Giuliani Meets
Face-To-Face With Robert Mueller
By Cristina Laila
April 25, 2018, 5:27 Pm
Rudy Giuliani met face-to-face with
Robert Mueller on Tuesday to reopen
negotiations for a presidential interview
with the special counsel.
Mueller told Giuliani he wants to
interview Trump about the transition
period and early months of his
presidency.
Trump transition is none of Mueller’s
damn business. Shut this investigation
down already.
Washington Post reported:
Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s
new personal lawyer dealing with the
ongoing probe into Russian interference in
the 2016 election, met with special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III on Tuesday to reopen
negotiations for a presidential interview,
according to three people familiar with the
talks.
Giuliani, who joined Trump’s legal team last
week, conveyed the ongoing resistance of
Trump and his advisers to an interview with
federal investigators, but did not rule out
.
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the possibility, the people said, adding that
Giuliani pressed Mueller for clarity on when
the probe is expected to end.
In response, Mueller reiterated that he
would like a chance to ask Trump
questions about steps he took during the
transition and early months of his
administration, the people said. The special
counsel emphasized, as he did
in conversations in March with Trump’s
team, that an interview is essential for
investigators to understand Trump’s intent
in making key decisions as they seek to
wrap up the portion of the probe focused
on potential obstruction of justice.
Last week, Rudy Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team to
negotiate an end to Mueller’s Russia witch hunt.
The Daily Caller reported two other former federal
prosecutors will also be joining Trump’s legal team.
The husband-and-wife team of Martin and
Jane Raskin are the two other attorneys to
join Trump’s team, which is being led by
Jay Sekulow. The Raskins, who operate a
law firm in southern Florida, have worked in
various U.S. attorney’s offices as well as at
Justice Department headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
To this day, the FBI still has not inspected the DNC’s
servers to confirm they were indeed hacked by the
Russians.
Mueller still has not interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange nor has he spoken to Russian lawyer Natalia
Veselnitskaya.
Both Mueller and Rosenstein should be fired and
prosecuted.
 Sanders Torpedoes Acosta For His ‘Unnecessary’ ‘Tone’ In
Press Briefings; ‘I’m Finished With You’
By Curtis Houck
April 25, 2018 5:32 PM EDT
Behold the latest reminder that, for CNN, everything is
about them. Wednesday’s White House press briefing saw
another throw down between Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders telling off CNN’s supercilious White
House correspondent Jim Acosta over claims the Trump
administration has been suppressing reporters.
Sanders jabbed Acosta for crying foul over his Variety
comments about the American people and when he tried
to argue that the President has hurt press freedoms and
wouldn’t stop talking, Sanders forcefully told him that
“I’m finished with you.”
The issue of press freedoms first arose thanks to a question
from Voice of America White House correspondent Steve
Herman, informing Sanders that the U.S. fell to 45th place
in the World Press Freedom Index directly because of the
President. He then wondered if she agreed that Trump’s
“denigrated freedom of the press in the
United States.”
Sanders replied that the White House
“would reject the idea that the President
or this administration has halted
freedom of the press” because “we're
one of the most accessible
administrations that we've seen in
decades.”
She added merely holding briefings to take questions
without knowing them ahead of time
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“is a pretty good example of freedom of
the press and I think it's ridiculous to
say otherwise.”
About five minutes later, Acosta received his chance and
first asked about the media firestorm surrounding VA
Secretary nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson:
“Yesterday, the President suggested
that Dr. Jackson does not have the
experience to run the Department of
Veterans Affairs. Is that affair
assessment that he lacks that
experience?”
Sanders responded by invoking Acosta’s Variety hubub in
denying the President knocked Jackson:
SANDERS: That's not what the President said. I think you're
taking some of his words out of context.
ACOSTA: What he said? He said inexperience was an issue.
SANDERS: And based on your tweet, I know you don't
appreciate when people take your words out of context, so I'd
appreciate it if you not do that to the President.
After some harmless back and forth, Acosta followed up on
Herman’s question and, almost immediately, the sparing grew
heated (to the approval of April Ryan):
ACOSTA: Let me just follow up, if I can, just a few — since you
brought up being taken out of context, it seems to be a press-
related question.
RYAN [OFF-CAMERA]: Yes. Yes.
ACOSTA: Are you trying to say this administration is a champion
of a free press? That seems —
SANDERS: I certainly think, as I stated a moment ago, we
support a free press but we also for a fair press and I think that
those things should go hand in hand and there's a certainly
responsibility by the press to report accurate information. I think a
number of people —
ACOSTA: Is there a responsibility on the part of the President?
SANDERS: — I’m not finished. I think a number of people in this
room do this every single day. They do their best every day to
provide fair and accurate information, certainly support that[.]
At one point, Sanders called out Acosta’s arrogance, informing
him that she takes questions, including “your questions in a
tone that's completely unnecessary, unneeded and frankly
doesn't help further the conversation or help the American
people get any more information in a better way, which is
your job and my job and that's what I'm trying to do.”
comments has denigrated freedom of the press in the United
States?
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Certainly would not — would
reject the idea that the President or this administration has halted
freedom of the press. I think we're one of the most accessible
administrations that we've seen in decades. I think by my mere
presence of standing up here and taking your questions unvetted
is a pretty good example of freedom of the press and I think it's
ridiculous to say otherwise.

The White House Press Secretary concluded that she’s “going (....)
to move on,” but Acosta wasn’t having it, shouting that “the
President’s tone toward — the President's tone toward the
press, obviously, is not helpful at times and I think that's
plain to see.”

“Jim, I’m finished with you. Thank you. Thank you, Jim,” she
replied amidst the cross-talk.

Acosta wasn’t done. After the briefing, he was given time on CNN
to reiterate his side, trashing Sanders for “restort[ing] to a
cheap shot about being taken out of context” over the
Jackson claims and “I think that was pretty revealing.”

He then continued to play the victim, alluding to his Variety
comment and the press freedom rankings (click “expand”):
I asked Sarah Sanders are you saying this administration is
some sort of champion of a free press. Obviously, she feels
because she come up to the podium and answers questions that
somehow makes them champions of the free press. Brooke, just
about any mayor spokesperson or mayoral spokesperson or
gubernatorial spokesperson does that all over the country. I'm
not sure that exactly makes you a champion of the press when
the President of the United States has not had a full press
conference with the press in over a year, calls people the enemy
of the people and fake news and threatens The Washington Post
and so on. That is not champion of the free press and, you know,
she went after us on that. It's unfortunate but it just goes to show
you how uncomfortable they are with these questions about
these issues in the cabinet and specifically, right now, Ronny
Jackson.
To see the relevant transcript from April 25's White House press
briefing and CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, click
“expand.”
2:32 p.m. Eastern
ACOSTA: I just wanted to follow up on Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Yesterday, the President suggested that Dr. Jackson does not
have the experience to run the Department of Veterans Affairs. Is
that affair assessment that he lacks that experience?
SANDERS: That's not what the President said. I think you're
taking some of his words out of context.
ACOSTA: What he said? He said inexperience was an issue.
SANDERS: And based on your tweet, I know you don't
appreciate when people take your words out of context, so I'd
appreciate it if you not do that to the President. If he didn't think
he had the experience, he wouldn't have nominated. He said that
had been one of the questions people had posed about him.
Obviously, the President thought —

White House Press Briefing

April 25, 2018
2:26 p.m. Eastern

STEVE HERMAN: Yes, Sarah, I'd like to ask you about the drop
for the ranking in the United States in the World Press Freedom
Index, the United States now down to 45 and according to
Reporters Without Borders, much of the blame for that goes to
the President for his attacks on the media. What's the reaction of
the white house and does it accept that the President's
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ACOSTA: So he thinks Dr. Ronny Jackson has all the experience
necessary to run the Department?
SANDERS: Look, I think he has an incredibly strong background.
ACOSTA: It’s a yes or no question.
SANDERS: He's a highly qualified, highLY skilled individual and
if he didn’t think he was capable of doing the job, he wouldn't
have announced his nomination in the first place.
ACOSTA: Let me just follow up, if I can, just a few — since you
brought up being taken out of context, it seems to be a press-
related question.
APRIL RYAN [OFF-CAMERA]: Yes. Yes.
ACOSTA: Are you trying to say this administration is a champion
of a free press? That seems —
SANDERS: I certainly think, as I stated a moment ago, we
support a free press but we also for a fair press and I think that
those things should go hand in hand and there's a certainly
responsibility by the press to report accurate information. I think a
number of people —
ACOSTA: Is there a responsibility on the part of the president?
SANDERS: — I’m not finished. I think a number of people in this
room do this every single day. They do their best every day to
provide fair and accurate information, certainly support that and
that's one of the reasons I'm standing here taking your questions
and
ACOSTA: We appreciate that.
SANDERS: — a lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's
completely unnecessary, unneeded and frankly doesn't help
further the conversation or help the American people get any
more information in a better way, which is your job and my job
and that's what I'm trying to do. I’m going to move on.
ACOSTA: I fully appreciate that, but Sarah —
SANDERS: David, go ahead.
ACOSTA: — but the President’s tone toward —
SANDERS: Jim, I’m finished with you. Thank you.
ACOSTA: — the President's tone toward the press, obviously, is
not helpful at times —
SANDERS: Thank you, Jim
ACOSTA: — and I think that's plain to see.
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(....)
CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin
2:42 p.m. Eastern
ACOSTA: The President said with respect to this issue of
experience and Dr. Ronny Jackson, he said “I know there's an
experience problem because lack of experience,” the President
say quite plainly yesterday that Dr. Jackson seems to have an
issue when it comes to having the right amount of experience to
run the VA and so I think that more than anything else, perhaps
more than these other allegations that are swirling around the
doctor may be the one issue that trips him up the most when he
goes into conformation hearings, if those hearings actually
happen and that is does he have the experience necessary to
run the VA. When I asked Sarah Sanders about that, she sort of
resorted to a cheap shot about being taken out of context. I think
that was pretty revealing.
BROOKE BALDWIN: Seemed a little personal.
ACOSTA: Yeah, it got a little personal there and I think she was
referring to a comment that I had made that I said was taken out
of context. You know, which led me to ask a follow-up question
about something that was raised in this briefing and that is why is
it that the United States seems to be dropping when it comes to
rankings of press freedom all around the world during this
administration. It just happened recently, somebody asked about
it in the room. I asked Sarah Sanders are you saying this
administration is some sort of champion of a free press.
Obviously, she feels because she come up to the podium and
answers questions that somehow makes them champions of the
free press. Brooke, just about any mayor spokesperson or
mayoral spokesperson or gubernatorial spokesperson does that
all over the country. I'm not sure that exactly makes you a
champion of the press when the President of the United States
has not had a full press conference with the press in over a year,
calls people the enemy of the people and fake news and
threatens The Washington Post and so on. That is not champion
of the free press and, you know, she went after us on that. It's
unfortunate but it just goes to show you how uncomfortable they
are with these questions about these issues in the cabinet and
specifically, right now, Ronny Jackson. Brooke?
BALDWIN: Amen. Jim, thank you so much.
 Jake Tapper And Ellen Degeneres
Discuss Life Under Trump As 'Crazy' And 'Scary'
By P.J. Gladnick
April 25, 2018 5:41 PM EDT
Jake Tapper appeared on the Ellen show on Tuesday and
guess what the main topic of discussion was? Do I really
need to spell it out? Unless you have been in a state of
hibernation for the past few years then you definitely know
they talked about the one who lives rent-free in the minds
of liberals -- President Donald Trump. Tapper was
obviously irked by Trump bringing up the subject of fake
news.
ELLEN DEGENERES: So what's happening? I mean have
you ever seen anything like what is happening right now?
JAKE TAPPER: No, it's crazy.
DEGENERES: Yes, and scary.
TAPPER: It can be scary. I do have a lot of faith in
American institutions of checks and balances of checks
and balances. And the fact is, you know, the free press still
thrives. And we're still able to say what we want to say.
And there is the judicial branch and the legislative
branch. But, yeah. It's very odd. We've never had a
president talk and act this way. We never had a direct line
from the id of a president's brain out to the world as we do
through the Twitter machine and President Trump.
How is it noteworthy that we still have checks and
balances? Like we were guaranteed a fascist takeover by
Trump, complete with martial law? Nevertheless the
laughable liberal scenario of those outcomes continues to
remain a narrative among the left, so perhaps they still
await the cancellation of the midterm elections.
DEGENERES: Right. And the fact that he is attacking the
free press which is a very dangerous thing. And he attacks
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CNN. Does that bother you that he attacks CNN all the
time? Calling it fake news.
TAPPER: It doesn't bother me. I mean, it bothers me when
he attacks the media over and over and over again. And he
seems to use the term "fake news" almost exclusively to
mean, "news that is true, but I don't like."
Or maybe he uses the term fake news to mean news that is
fake. Want some fake news examples, Jake? Let us pull up
some recent CNN fake news examples from the vast
NewsBusters archives.
 CNN's Cuomo: Mueller's Team Has a '50/50'
Breakdown of Democrats and Republicans
 What?! Cuomo Denies Liberal Justice Called for
Second Amendment Repeal
 CNN Analyst Pushes Debunked Poll on Background
Checks
 Sleazy CNN Airs Unproven Election-Meddling Claims
of Jailed Russian 'Sex Coach'
 CNN and MSNBC Helped Russia Sow Discord by
Promoting Fake Anti-Trump Rally
Finally, Jake Tapper suggests that Trump has lost his
nickname mojo.
DEGENERES: I was going to say, he doesn't really
personally go after you because you don't have a nickname
yet because when you have a nickname is when you're
really the target.
TAPPER: I'll be honest. President Trump has a lot of
skills, and I used to think his branding skill was amazing.
Little Marco or Lyin' Ted, Low Energy Jeb, Crooked
Hillary.He's kind of lost his mojo on the nickname front.
He tried to do it with Comey. And he's been trying out all
these different nicknames. He had Lyin' Comey. That
didn't seem to work. Liar and a Leaker Comey, Slippery
Comey, Slime Ball -- first Slime Ball, two different words,
then Slimeball, one word. He is clearly trying new
material, as one does, and it hasn't really caught on.
I don't know if he's just so ensconced in the White House
he's lost his ability to do it but no, he has not come up
with a good nickname for me yet.
How about Frownin' Jake? Almost every time Tapper Is Tapper, who is often honored by the press as a "staunch
refers to Trump a frown breaks out on his face which is defender of facts," arguing that CNN never gets it wrong?
highlighted by two frown lines radiating from between his Or that CNN's favorite political operatives have never
eyebrows. leaked and then lied about being a leaker?

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 While DNC Was Busy Suing Russia – Grifter Hillary
Clinton Reportedly Stole $84 Million In Donations
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 7:49 Pm
On Friday the Democrat Party sued Russia, the Trump
campaign, Trump family members and Wikileaks.
This comes after a year of research
found ZERO EVIDENCE the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia during
the 2016 election.
And Wikileaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly stated
Russia was not the source of the DNC emails the
organization made public in the fall of 2016.
Meanwhile… While the DNC was looking
for Russian ghosts, Hillary Clinton stole
$84 million from the party.
The Washington Times reported:
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the
Democratic National Committee violated
campaign finance law by failing to disclose
payments for a dossier on Donald Trump,
according to a complaint filed Wednesday
with the Federal Election Commission.
The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign
Legal Center said the Democrats
effectively hid the payments from public
scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of
federal law. By law, campaign and party
committees must disclose the reason
money is spent and its recipient.
“By filing misleading reports, the DNC and
Clinton campaign undermined the vital
public information role of campaign
disclosures,” said Adav Noti, senior director
of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a
former FEC official. “Voters need campaign
disclosure laws to be enforced so they can
hold candidates accountable for how they
raise and spend money. The FEC must
investigate this apparent violation and take
appropriate action.”
Media reports on Tuesday alleged that a
lawyer for the Clinton campaign hired
Fusion GPS to investigate Mr. Trump in
April 2016. The private research firm
reportedly hired Christopher Steele, a
former British spy with ties to the FBI, to
conduct the opposition research, and he
compiled a dossier containing allegations
about Mr. Trump’s connections to Russia.
 Comey Gets Triggered After Anderson Cooper Calls Him
A Leaker Over And Over Again (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 25, 2018, 8:02 Pm

Leaker James Comey got triggered at a
town hall Wednesday evening after
Anderson Cooper called him out for
leaking memos to the media.
Anderson Cooper called Comey a leaker
and insisted he leaked many times.
“One unclassified memo to the media and
it’s really important–I was a private citizen,
” Comey shot back.
Anderson Cooper wouldn’t let up and insisted the memo
was an internal document he had written while he was FBI
Director and therefore it is a leak.

At this point Comey tried to split hairs about what a leak

technically is or is not, claiming a document has to be
classified in order to be considered a leak.

Anderson Cooper read a part of Comey’s memo about

nailing leakers to the door and asked,

“shouldn’t you be nailed to the door then?”

“You did leak memos. I mean is it okay for
somebody at the FBI to leak something, an
internal document? Even if it’s not
classified? Isn’t that leaking?” Anderson
Cooper asked Comey.
“Plenty of people leak non classified
information”, Anderson Cooper said
insisting Comey is indeed a leaker.
Comey thought he would have an easy ride tonight with a
CNN town hall, but Anderson Cooper brought a little heat!
VIDEO:

Comey wasn’t happy with Anderson Cooper.

“Well there’s a whole lot wrong with your

question, Anderson,” Comey replied. “First,
I didn’t leak memos. I asked a friend to
communicate the substance of one
unclassified memo…”

Anderson Cooper interjected which upset Comey.

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 Trump Goes Off Against ‘Phony’
Investigation Hovering Over His Head
Chris White - Energy Reporter
9:04 AM 04/26/2018
President Donald Trump called out his “haters and
enemies” Thursday in a 30-minute rant that included
trashing an investigation designed to muddy-up his
presidency.
“I have a phony cloud over my head that
doesn’t exist,”
Trump said during a “Fox & Friends” segment discussing
special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The president
thrashed CNN and NBC during the segment as well for
feeding into the frenzy.
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“There’s no collusion with me and the
Russians,” Trump emphasized. “Nobody’s
been tougher to Russia than I am.”
The president has made similar remarks in the past
regarding his handling of Russian President Vladimir
Putin. Trump told reporters in March that Putin would
have his hands full if he went full bore against the U.S.
The Kremlin wouldn’t stand a chance in a Cold War-style
nuclear arms race, Trump said in a March 21 phone call
with Putin shortly after the Russian president won re-
election. Trump also alerted European leaders to say Putin
sounded dangerous, an adviser aware of the conversation
told NBC.
“If you want to have an arms race, we can
do that, but I’ll win,” two officials said the
president told Putin. The president’s
tougher stance stems from Putin’s early
March claim Russia has new nuclear-
capable weapons that could hit the U.S.
The Russian leader’s bold talk “really got
under the president’s skin,” one official
said.
 Axios’s Swan Torches Media For Reporting
Uncorroborated Jackson Claims, Matthews Agrees
By Curtis Houck
April 25, 2018 9:14 PM EDT
Axios political reporter Jonathan Swan has a reputation of
being an even-keeled reporter and appearing on multiple
cable networks. However, Wednesday hits on the Fox
News Channel’s Special Report and MSNBC’s Hardball
saw Swan unload on only fellow journalists and elected
officials for publicly spreading unsubstantiated allegations
against VA Secretary nominee Ronny Jackson.
What was even more surprising was that Swan’s
arguments were met on MSNBC with similar anger from
Hardball host Chris Matthews.
Prior to Matthews, he spoke on Fox,
admitting that he doesn’t “usually try to
get angry on TV but I actually do feel a
sense of, like, deep concern and anger
at some of this because I broke that
stupid story on Sunday”
that there were concerns both in Congress and at the White
House but he went no further not because he was unaware
of the claims, but he instead couldn't confirm their
veracity.
Swan continued as he raised his voice:
But I don't know if they are true. I have no
earthly idea if they are true or not. So, I'm
not just going to go, ‘oh, well, it's alleged,
and I am hearing that this guy, you know,
did all of these terrible things and these,
you know, X, Y, and Z,” because I have no
idea if it's true or not and, like, clearly
neither does Jon Tester. I mean, this isn’t
— surely, this is a problem.
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Only minutes later, he switched to Hardball and Matthews
was already skeptical of the alcohol and drug-fueled
stories of abuse by Jackson. Matthews wondered to NBC
chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson on two
separate occasions:
How could all this go unknown and all of a sudden he's up
for VA and we're learning horrible stuff about him...Well,
what do you hear about him? I mean, and he's the White
House — he's the President's physician and he's
supposedly now a boozer who drinks all the time on the
job and nobody noticed it?
Prior to Swan, he told PBS Newshour’s Yamiche Alcindor
that “this is...pretty clear cut” as to whether the
allegations are true and how could this have not been
exposed during his time in the Bush or Obama
administrations.
When he moved to Swan, Matthews told him that it’s
difficult to believe Jackson went from
“some sort of impeccable being” to
these claims, so “[i]t doesn’t hold up.”
Swan reiterated his points from FNC and when Matthews
inquired about where these stories are “coming from,”
Swan went nuclear (click “expand,” emphasis mine):
Chris, I don't know because I haven't spoken to one of the
people who’s made these allegations. All I’ll tell you is I'm
talking to people who are on the White House staff who’ve
worked with him and they're not echoing is sort — these
allegations. And you know, so it's very hard for me to
know if it’s true or not....Again, I haven't seen the evidence
of an organized campaign behind this.
There's clearly a campaign against him
and I’m not saying — I don't know one
way or the other whether they're true or
false. But I’m just — again, as a
reporter, it makes me very
uncomfortable when I see allegations
out there that I cannot verify and as far
as I can see from what these people are
saying on TV, they haven't fully verified
either.
Like Tester has admitted he can’t — he's not sure yet about
the veracity of them. Surely, they’re — this is not that
clear-cut to me at all. I mean, what is clear-cut is that this
was a guy who was completely unvetted, who had no
relevant experience to run the second largest agency in the
federal government, that the President tweeted out on an
impulse over the objections of his chief of staff. That's the
clear-cut part of this story. The rest we need more
reporting to find out.
Before going to commercial break,
Matthews noted that “these charges are
serious” and “[e]ither the guy is a drunk
on the job or he's not and you can't
throw charges around like that unless
you know they're true and somebody’s
got to substantiate or undermine those
charges or this guy’s career is going to
be ruined now.”
He concluded:
And so, I think to go around and say, “oh,
it's only about policy or it’s only about the
executive responsibilities to run this
agency” eludes the fact that somebody
ought to be held responsible, somebody
has fed all this stuff to people like Senator
— Senator Tester and the question is, is it
true? And I think that's the job of Congress
to figure out because the Presidents
haven't done a good job of checking this
guy out. I hope Congress does the better
job.
Editor's Note, 10:00 a.m. Eastern: This post
has been corrected to more accurately
reflect Swan's comments on Special Report
concerning the accuracy of the allegations
against Jackson.
The relevant transcript from FNC’s Special Report with
Bret Baier and MSNBC’s Hardball on April 25:
FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier
April 25, 2018
6:45 p.m. Eastern
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JONATHAN SWAN: Can I just — I don't usually try to get angry
on TV but I actually do feel a sense of, like, deep concern and
anger at some of this because I broke that stupid story on
Sunday. I said they’ve got deep concerns about him in the White
House, on the Hill, his confirmation’s in peril and I said there
have been allegations taken to Tester. The reason I wrote it that
way is not because I didn't know what the allegations were. I was
given them on Friday. I knew what these allegations were. But I
don't know if they are true. I have no earthly idea if they are true
or not. So, I'm not just going to go, “oh, well, it's alleged, and I am
hearing that this guy, you know, did all of these terrible things
and these, you know, X, Y, and Z,” because I have no idea if it's
true or not and, like, clearly neither does Jon Tester. I mean, this
isn’t — surely, this is a problem.
MSNBC’s Hardball
April 25, 2018
7:02 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: How could all this go unknown and all of a
sudden he's up for VA and we're learning horrible stuff about
him?
HALLIE JACKSON: So the argument from the White House,
Chirs, that Sarah Sanders made from the podium today is that
this a guy who has been and passed four background checks for
his position inside the administration. They're arguing, hey, he's
at arm's length — literally not just with one President, but with
three presidents, former Presidents Bush, Obama and Donald
Trump now. That's sort of what they're laying out. Now, I will tell
you that the public line. Privately, there is an acknowledgment of
concern in and around the White House how the Jackson
nomination was rolled out, Chris, about how this was handled
from the very beginning given that there is some concern that
Jackson's story wasn't fully told, that he hadn't had a chance to
talk about his resume, his biography, his experience and his
credentials. Now, I ran into Ronny Jackson along with my
colleague her Kristen Welker in a surprise interview. I think he
was a bit taken aback to see reporters upstairs in the West Wing
although did he answer a couple of questions regarding
specifically some of those explosive allegations that have now
come out in this document obtained by NBC News which you've
discussed put together by Democrats on the Veteran Affairs
Committee. He says he's never wrecked a car. That is one of the
allegations that he got drunk after a Secret Service party and
crashed a government vehicle. Jackson multiple times denied
that that ever happened. He said he doesn't know where the
allegations are coming from. He says he is still moving forward
and we are told by a White House official that he told the
President these accusations are false and misleading. So, listen,
if you're going to pick a word to describe the mood at the White
House tonight, it seems to be defiant.
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you hear about him? I mean, and
he's the White House
JACKSON: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: — he's the President's physician and he's
supposedly now a boozer who drinks all the time on the job and
nobody noticed it?
(....)
medicine he shouldn't give away, acts as a sort of concierge
doctor, a candyman to the White House staff and is abusive to
people below him and, all of a sudden, we're learning this after
having served three Presidents and being treated as some sort of
impeccable being and now this. It doesn't hold up. It sounds like
the Vietnam War where we hear one story from the generals and
another story from the troops.
JONATHAN SWAN: Well, that's one way of looking at it and the
other way of looking at it is there are a whole bunch of allegations
that have been aired and are now out there in the media that we
actually don't know if they're true and I’ve been trying — I
reported all of this on Sunday that he had huge problems that the
White House was concerned about him, that Capitol Hill was
concerned about him and there were allegations that had been
taken to Tester. The reason I didn't write them is cause I actually
still, to this day, don't know if they're all true. I've been trying to
corroborate them.

MATTHEWS: Yamiche, this is — this is — this — really pretty MATTHEWS: Where they coming from, generally?
clear-cut. It's not do you like the guy or not? Do you like his
temperament or not? Did you crash the car? Does he drink a lot
SWAN: I’ve been making calls.
when they get on the plane together with the President as his
number one patient? And he's drunk. It's not like he has a few
drinks. He's drunk a lot and this thing about concierge medicine
where he’s giving out pills all the time, having a nickname candy
man because he’s good for the kind of drugs people like to have
for recreational purposes, perhaps. This is pretty flagrant. It's one
or the other.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, the thing is the key question here

is, if all of these allegations are true, how did he survive three
Presidents? How did he go from George Bush —

MATTHEWS: Who has been covering for him?

ALCINDOR: — exactly. How — what's the vetting process been
when he's been passed over to the next — to the next President
because it is undeniable there are hand written notes from
Obama. Not like — this is not — we're not talking about
somebody who typed this up on a computer. I saw it with my own
two eyes the signature of Obama saying he needs to be
promoted up, he's a great doctor, he's doing great. So, those are
the things that the white house is saying. The problem is, though,
that I think that Ronny Jackson has the been backing the White
House publicly, but the president did not roll out the Obama
taking points. Yesterday, he made it clear, if I was Ronny
Jackson, I would probably be backing out of this issue. So, to me,
he's given him an off-ramp here and I’m not sure if he’s going to
get it, but I would not surprised if Ronny Jackson said: “You know
what? I don't want to go to this hearing and get all this stuff on
the record. I’m just going to bow out?
MATTHEWS: I would think that too. Let me go to Jonathan
Swan. Jonathan, it seems to me that if this guy continued as the
President's doctor, none of this would have come out. The only
reason any of it’s coming is he's about to run a 400,000
employee agency of the government, the Veterans
Administration, and finally we realized he drinks a lot, gives away
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MATTHEWS: Are they coming from inside the White House staff
or are they coming from — where are they coming from?
SWAN: Chris, I don't know because I haven't spoken to one of
the people who’s made these allegations. All I’ll tell you is I'm
talking to people who are on the White House staff who’ve
worked with him and they're not echoing is sort — these
allegations.
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
SWAN: And you know, so it's very hard for me to know if it’s true
or not.
MATTHEWS: Was there an organization that’s out there that’s —
you know, we’re used to this. We all know about this — certain
organizations left and right who promote bad stories about
people and gin up these commentaries by people. Is there any
evidence of an organized campaign against the doctor?
SWAN: Again, I haven't seen the evidence of an organized
campaign behind this. There's clearly a campaign against him
and I’m not saying — I don't know one way or the other whether
they're true or false. But I’m just — again, as a reporter, it makes
me very uncomfortable when I see allegations out there that I
cannot verify and as far as I can see from what these people are
saying on TV, they haven't fully verified either. Like Tester has
admitted he can’t —
ALCINDOR: Yeah. Mmhmm.
SWAN: — he's not sure yet about the veracity of them. Surely,
they’re — this is not that clear-cut to me at all. I mean, what is
clear-cut —
MATTHEWS: Yamiche?
SWAN: — is that this was a guy who was completely unvetted,
who had no relevant experience to run the second largest agency
in the federal government, that the President tweeted out on an
impulse over the objections of his chief of staff. That's the clear-
.
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cut part of this story. The rest we need more reporting to find
out.
(....)
MATTHEWS [on the behavioral allegations being linked to his
inexperience in management]: The trouble with that is, it frees
people from having to back up what they've claimed and these
charges are serious. Either the guy is a drunk on the job or he's
not and you can't throw charges around like that unless you know
they're true and somebody’s got to substantiate or undermine
those charges or this guy’s career is going to be ruined now. And
so, I think to go around and say, “oh, it's only about policy or it’s
only about the executive responsibilities to run this agency”
eludes the fact that somebody ought to be held responsible,
somebody has fed all this stuff to people like Senator — Senator
Tester and the question is, is it true? And I think that's the job of
Congress to figure out because the Presidents haven't done a
good job of checking this guy out. I hope Congress does the
better job.
 Rep. Nunes: DOJ Is Stalling On Surrendering Documents
To Congress In Hopes That Dems Will
Win In November (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 25, 2018, 10:02 Pm

are banking on the Democrats taking

over so all these investigations will be
shut down.

Sean Hannity:

It’s unbelievable. Is it going to take a

contempt of, are they going to be held in
contempt at the Justice Department
because I agree with your analysis. This
seems they’re trying to push this to 2018.
Republicans better wise up and get
On Wednesday night Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep.
busy.
Mark Meadows (R-NC) and House Intelligence Chairman
They better be wrapping these
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Sean Hannity to discuss
investigations up by December or it
the seemingly endless corruption of the Obama-Trump
could be too late.
Department of Justice.
Via Hannity:
During the discussion Rep. Nunes said
the DOJ is stalling on turning over
documents to Congress because they
want to wait and see if Democrats win in
November.
Rep. Devin Nunes: Let me start by saying
to Mark’s point they shouldn’t wait. They
should enforce the subpoenas immediately,
Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Goodlatte. The more
that you wait over time I’ve learned, you
just wait and you wait and you wait. And
pretty soon there’ll be an election and I
think the Department of Justice and FBI
.

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 CNN’s Acosta Whines About Being Called Fake News,
Vilifies Trump Supporters
Stephanie Hamill
10:20 PM 04/25/2018

CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta had a
lot to say during an interview with Variety Magazine,
including his complaints about being called fake news and
trashing the intellect of Trump voters.
WATCH:
“The problem is that people around the
country don’t know it’s an act. They’re not
in on the act and they take what he says
very seriously and they take attacks from
Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what
they do to us on a daily basis very
seriously,” Acosta explained.

Wait, what exactly is it that Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders

do to you?

I didn’t realize fact checking reporters like you was

considered an “act.” You may not like it Jim, but they have
the right to push back against the constant partisan attacks
coming from you and many of your colleagues.

CNN was caught red-handed falsifying a story about

Trump over feeding Koi fish in Japan. If you can’t even
tell the truth about that, why should anyone believe you or
the fake news media?
.

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 ‘Morning Joe’ Calls Attacks On Dr. Ronny Jackson The
‘Biggest Political Hit Job We Have Seen In Recent Years’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:41 AM 04/26/2018

He withdrew his nomination for Veterans Affairs secretary

Thursday morning, after intense media scrutiny.

WATCH:

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said White House Dr.

Ronny Jackson is either one of the craziest admirals on
record, or the attacks against him are a political hit job,
Thursday on “Morning Joe.”

“Either this guy is the most out of control,

crazed admiral ever, or this is the biggest
political, biggest political hit job that we
have seen in recent years,” “If [Jackson] crashed a car and he was
Scarborough said. drunk, there ought to be some kind of
evidence of that. We ought to be able to
find that out fairly easily. And he says he
Scarborough’s defense of Jackson comes just three months
never has,” BBC’s Katty Kay said.
after he accused Jackson of lying about President Donald
Trump’s health. “I would have thought in the next couple of
days we’re going to start seeing whether
Jackson’s been accused of having an alcohol problem and this story holds water or whether it doesn’t,”
of over prescribing prescription medications. she concluded.
.

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 Judge Napolitano Thinks He
May Have ‘Jumped The Gun’
With Comey Accusations
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:00 AM 04/26/2018

WATCH:

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano

admitting to “jumping the gun” about whether or not
former FBI Director James Comey broke the law when he
leaked material to a Columbia University professor.
“[Comey] has a very narrow definition of
leak, but not all leaks are
criminal,” Napolitano said. “That’s what
[Comey] was talking about. If it’s not
classified. It’s not criminal. At the time this
occurred, by this I mean professor
Richman reading to selected members of
the media, selected non-classified portions
of one of the memos, Jim Comey was a
private citizen. So he could.”
Napolitano accused Comey of breaking FBI protocol and
possibly lying under oath Monday on “Fox & Friends”
and suggested he may have broken the law.
“I jumped the gun here the other day,”
Napolitano added. “Not knowing that
Professor Richman had a security
clearance. And one of you, I think, said to
me did Jim Comey break the law? And I
said it appears he did. I’ve since then
apologized. It now appears did he not.”
“We didn’t know about the professor having
the clearance, which is why as a judge, I
ought to have known, you’ve got to get all
the facts before you form a judgment,” he
concluded.

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 Media Ignore Lawsuit Claiming
Hillary Campaign Laundered $84 Million
By Randy Hall
April 25, 2018 11:00 PM EDT
If there’s any doubt that the mainstream media will go to
any lengths to protect fellow liberal Democrats, the fact
that the journalists have avoided covering a lawsuit -- filed
in D.C. district court exposing an $84 million money-
laundering conspiracy by Democrats during the 2016
presidential election -- should erase it completely.
Of course, these same reporters reacted joyfully to the
Democratic National Committee's Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act lawsuit filed
against the 2016 Donald Trump campaign, WikiLeaks and
Russia.
However, according to an article posted on the website of
The Federalist magazine by Senior Contributor Margot
Cleveland, the lawsuit claims that the conspiracy was
carried out by the Democratic National Committee and the
Hillary Clinton campaign during the same presidential
election in violation of federal campaign-finance law.
Dan Backer, a campaign-finance lawyer and attorney-of-
record in the lawsuit, explained the underlying law in an
article for Investor’s Business Daily, where he stated:
Per election, an individual donor can contribute $2,700 to
any candidate, $10,000 to any state party committee and
(during the 2016 cycle) $33,400 to a national party's main
account.
These groups can all get together and take a single check
from a donor for the sum of those contribution limits -- it's
legal because the donor cannot exceed the base limit for
any one recipient. And state parties can make unlimited
transfers to their national party.
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This “legal loophole” allows “bundlers”
to raise large sums of money from
wealthy donors -- more than $400,000 at a
time -- by filtering the funds to the national
committees.
“Suspecting the DNC had exceeded those
limits, a client of Backer’s -- the Committee
to Defend the President -- began reviewing
FEC (Federal Election Commission) filings
to determine whether there was excessive
coordination between the DNC and
Clinton,” Cleveland stated.
“What Backer discovered, as he explained
in an interview, was much worse,” the
Federalist reporter noted. “There was
‘extensive evidence in the Democrats’ own
FEC reports, when coupled with their own
public statements that demonstrated
massive ‘straw man contributions’ papered
through the state parties, to the DNC, and
then directly to Clinton’s campaign -- in
clear violation of federal campaign-
finance law.’”
“On behalf of his clients,” Cleveland added,
“on December 15, 2017, Backer filed an
86-page complaint with the FEC,” asking
the commission “to commence
enforcement proceedings against Hillary
Clinton, her campaign and its treasurer, the
DNC and its treasurer, and the participating
state Democratic committees.”
The document stated:
“During the 2016 presidential election,” the
Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) was established
“as a joint fund-raising committee to accept
contributions from large donors, some
exceeding $400,000.”
“So far, so good,” Cleveland continued. “To
comply with campaign finance law, the
HVF needed to transfer the donations to
the specified recipients, whether the
Clinton campaign, down-ticket Democrats,
the DNC or state committees.”
However, she added, FEC records
 “show several large contributions reported
as received by the HVF and the same
amount on the same day (or occasionally
the following day) recorded as received by
the DNC from a state Democratic
committee, but without the state
Democratic committee ever reporting the
contribution.”
During a 13-month period, Cleveland noted,
“FEC records show some 30 separate
occasions when the HVF transferred
contributions totaling more than $10 million
to the DNC without any corresponding
record of the receipt or disbursement from
the state parties,
thus illegally leap-frogging the state
Democratic parties.”
“On the other hand,” she stated, “of the
contributions state parties reported as
received from the HVF, 99 percent wound
up at the DNC. They were transferred
immediately or within a day or two, raising
questions of whether the state Democratic
committees truly exercised control over the
money -- something necessary under
campaign-finance law to allow a later-legal
transfer to the DNC.”
While “the evidence is damning,” the
contributor noted, “the Clinton campaign’s
control of the contributions did not end
once the funds reached the DNC.”
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Instead, “public statements by former DNC Chairwoman
Donna Brazile acknowledged that
‘[a]s Hillary’s campaign gained momentum,
she resolved the party’s debt’ and
‘expected to wield control of its
operations.’”
Therefore,
“the contributions qualified as donations
to the Clinton campaign for purposes of
federal campaign-finance law, and …
exceeded the legal contribution limits,”
Cleveland noted.
She concluded by again slamming the mainstream media:
Yet even with the overwhelming evidence of tsunami-level
campaign-finance criminality -- more than $84 million --
the media instead chases the cloud cast over President
Trump because of the $130,000 payment his attorney,
Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.
One wonders what it will take to break through the
mainstream media blackout. Maybe a few pointed
unpresidential tweets from our commander-in-chief?
As NewsBusters has regularly reported, evidence --
whether overwhelming or not –
does not figure into the media’s
overwhelming liberal bias.
 Donald Trump Jr. SMOKES
Comey In Viral Tweet
By Cristina Laila
April 25, 2018, 11:23 Pm

Donald Trump Jr. smoked Comey is a

Donald Trump Jr. destroyed Comey
Wednesday evening in a viral tweet.
Comey praised Hillary Clinton in a town
hall Wednesday evening and Donald
Trump Jr. promptly put him in his place.
viral tweet.
Don Jr. tweeted:
Great American norms & traditions like
taking hammers to iPhones, bleach bitting
hard drives,and destroying 30,000
documents under subpoena.

Yea Ok!!!

CNN tweeted a video of Comey praising

Hillary.

CNN tweeted: It’s so obvious Comey wanted Hillary to win the

Comey says he didn’t vote in the 2016
election, but “Hillary Clinton is more
meshed in, trained in, respectful of the
norms and traditions that I’m so worried
about being eroded today”
VIDEO:
presidential election and did everything in his power to
prevent Trump from winning the White House.
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person to run for
president (besides Obama).
Comey knows all about Hillary’s private server and her
mishandling of classified information yet he still praised
her. Despicable.

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 CNN Stacks Comey Town Hall
Audience Questions 2:1 Against Trump
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 25, 2018 11:29 PM EDT

The first question was posed by a graduate student named

Zachary Smith, who wanted to know about Trump’s
fitness for office (a question CNN has been pushing for
months, particularly his mental fitness).

“Do you believe that President Trump

possesses the moral and mental
capacities needed to effectively lead our
armed forces given his unprecedented
loyalty he pledged, the general
temperament, and the documented
outbursts,” he wanted to know.
CNN’s major primetime event on Wednesday night was
their town hall featuring former FBI Director James
Comey taking questions from the students, faculty, and
staff at the Collehe of William and Mary (his alma mater).
Being a town hall-style event, the evening was filled to the
brim with questions, a majority of which were asked by
moderator Anderson Cooper. But when it came to the
questions asked by those in attendance, they asked eight
questions critical of Trump with only four critical of
Comey.

In all, there were some 58 questions asked throughout the

night and the questions from the audience only numbered
21. And while the questions touched on many topics, eight
of them were critical of President Trump in some way. Of
the four questions critical of Comey, three were about him
specifically (including questions about his leadership and
motive) and only one was about his handling of the Hillary
Clinton e-mail investigation.
Comey responded by first praising the audience for
attending the event.
“You’re trying to get them on your side
right away,” Cooper joked. “If they are not
on my side, I am out of luck,” Comey
laughed.

An analysis of the dichotomy on the town hall questions is That exchange was interesting given the CNN-led lynch
important because, as the Media Research Center has mob that was their Parkland town hall, complete with
documented throughout the years, accusations of scripted questions.

CNN has a habit of prescreening the After a question to Comey about whether or not he broke
questions and picking the ones they like the law for leaking his memos, Cooper went to a student
and help push their narrative. who crudely asked about the Steele dossier.

And while they only picked one student to question Comey “What do you think would happen if
about the e-mails, they appeared to largely leave it up to there were so-called ‘pee tapes’ and
Cooper who asked five questions on the subject. they were leaked to the public tomorrow
would it matter in the long run,” she said.
And straight from the get-go, the Trump-critical questions
CNN allowed were off the rails.

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That was followed up with a question from a professor
regarding President Trump’s possible criminal
background:
What else do you think Putin might have on
Trump that makes Trump so reluctant to
criticize Russia? Do you think it might be
proof Russian organized crime money has
been laundered through Trump’s
businesses?
And while it wasn’t a question about Trump, CNN felt the
need to have a student ask yet another question about gun
control in the wake of Parkland and the so-called “March
for Our Lives.” The student even parroted the long-
debunked claim there had been over 18 school shooting
this year. So much for “Facts First” on CNN. Comey
actually praised the students and was looking forward to
gun control.
Of the 21 questions, the students asked, there was only one
that could be argued was 'pro-Trump,' and it was about
forgiveness:
“In open reconciliation between the two of
you could not only allow our country to
recover and unite but would also
demonstrate leadership. Have you begun
to forgive the President?”
A sampling of the town hall questions from the transcript
are below:
CNN's Comey: Truth, Lies & Leadership: Town Hall
April 25, 2018
8:01:33 PM Eastern
(…)
ANDERSON COOPER: To we got a lot of questions from
students, faculty and staff so, let's get through this. This is
Zachary Smith. He’s getting his masters in chemistry. Zachary,
what’s your question?
ZACHARY SMITH: Hi Director Comey. Do you believe that
President Trump possesses the moral and mental capacities
needed to effectively lead our armed forces given his
unprecedented loyalty he pledged, the general temperament, and
the documented outbursts?
JAMES COMEY: Thank you for that question. Really important
question. Ten seconds just to thank the students of William and
Mary for coming out and looking so good tonight. Thank you.
Thank you.
COOPER: You’re trying to get them on your side right away.
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COMEY: If they are not on my side, I am out of luck.
(…)
COOPER: I want to go to Evelyn Lawhorn, a senior studying
government.
EVELYN LAWHORN: Hi, my questions was: Do you think there
is any credence to the President's claims that you broke the law
when you released your memos?
(…)
COOPER: The next question is from Julia Wicks, she’s a junior
studying English and she has a question about some of the
allegations in the Steele dossier.
JULIA WICKS: Hi. What do you think would happen if there were
so-called “pee tapes” and they were leaked to the public
tomorrow would it matter in the long run?
(…)
COOPER: Next question is from Carl Fredericks—excuse me—
Friedrichs, a professor of marine science here at William and
Mary. Carl?
CARL FRIEDRICHS: Hello. What else do you think Putin might
have on Trump that makes Trump so reluctant to criticize
Russia? Do you think it might be proof Russian organized crime
money has been laundered through Trump’s businesses?
(…)
COOPER: Next question is from Daniel Powers. We got a lot of
questions from student, obviously, about the decisions you made
before the 2016 election. That is going to come as in surprise for
you. Daniel is a senior studying history and computer science.
Daniel?
DANIEL POWERS: Good evening. There’s [a] very compelling
case to be made that your announcements, especially [your]
October 28 announcement, cost Hillary Clinton the election. At
the same time, you never disclosed how Trump was involved in
an FBI investigation into the Russians. Should you have
disclosed that to the American public?
(…)
COOPER: I want to bring in another student. This is Emily
Holtzman. She is a senior studying government. Emily?
EMILY HOLTZMAN: Mr. Comey, my question for you is if you
wanted the bureau to remain independent why did you factor in
the legitimacy of a Hillary Clinton victory into your decision to
announce she was being investigated prior to the election? Isn't
this a political consideration?
(…)
COOPER: I want to introduce Abhi Chadha, he’s a sophomore
studying finance and government. Welcome.
ABHU CHADHA: Good evening, Director Comey. In your
experience with the Trump administration, what did you feel is
the attitude of the administration towards established government
institution such as the FBI? Did they feel that these institutions
were antagonistic towards the goals of their administration or was
there some level of willingness to cooperate in your experience?
(…)
COOPER: I want you to meet Brian Connelly, he’s a junior
studying government.
BRIAN CONNELLY: Thank you. In recent weeks, President
Trump has nicknamed you slippery Comey. What is your
nickname for him?
(…)
COOPER: I want to Aria Austin, she’s a freshman studying
government and English. Aria?
.
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ARIA AUSTIN: Good evening. Student-led marches and walkouts
have occurred all over the country including here in Williamsburg
in response to the 20 school shootings taking place only 16
weeks in 2018. The issue of gun control is a major topic of
discussion in America right now and young people are taking
control of that narrative. Do you think the March for Our Lives
movement and several others will effectively lead to stricter gun
control laws? And if so, why now?
(…)
ROBERT COLTER: I'm a Californian, a Mexican and a
Republican. And my friends often urge me to switch parties. And
sometimes I've been tempted. But I won't. Because to me it's still
the party of Lincoln, of Ike, George H.W. Bush, his son, and my
family. That being said, I think the way Trump -- I think his
demeanor has been offensive to Republican norms and civil
discourse. What first attracted you to the Republican Party and
what do you think is a positive message we could rally around
today?
(…)
IAN DOTY: Mr. Comey the conflict between you and President
Trump had begun to characterize divisions within our country. In
open reconciliation between the two of you could not only allow
our country to recover and unite, but would also demonstrate
leadership. Have you begun to forgive the President? Do you
think you could ever do so?
(…)
 Giuliani Meets With Mueller
To Discuss Trump Interview
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 04/25/2018 - 21:30
After former White House lead attorney John Dowd was
pushed out for insisting that President Trump agree to an
in-person interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller,
Rudy Giuliani, the newest member of Trump's legal team
and also now apparently the de facto leader, has reportedly
met with Mueller to begin negotiating the terms of a
Trump meeting, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The irony in Giuliani meeting with Mueller is that Giuliani
once served as the US attorney for the Southern District of
New York - the same office that is investigating Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen.
The meeting is also surprising for another reason: Until
recently, it had appeared as if Trump would ultimately
decline to sit for an interview with Mueller. Furthermore,
rumors recently circulated that Mueller and his team were
preparing a path forward that didn't involve a presidential
interview.
But all that has changed, apparently.
During their meeting, Giuliani reportedly sought to wrestle
some information out of Mueller about the probe and how
much longer it could reasonably be expected to continue. It
has previously been reported that Mueller could conclude
the probe within a few months of an interview with Trump,
and that a presidential interview was the special counsel's
last major remaining obstacle. Mueller also reportedly told
Giuliani that his questions would mostly pertain to the
transition and Trump's first months in office.
The face-to-face discussions illustrated how Giuliani is
functioning as Trump’s chief liaison and lead negotiator
with the special counsel. The meeting renewed talks that
had largely faltered since the resignation last month of
John Dowd, a veteran lawyer who was serving as Trump’s
lead outside attorney on the investigation.
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"I’m doing it because I hope we can
negotiate an end to this for the good of
the country and because I have high
regard for the president and for Bob
Mueller," Giuliani said in an interview with
The Washington Post last week.
Trump said in a statement last week that Giuliani
"wants to get this matter quickly
resolved."
Of course, Giuliani is a particularly suitable lead attorney -
and it's somewhat surprising that he is only just joining the
Trump team - thanks to his longstanding friendship with
Mueller.
Giuliani, 73, a former New York mayor
and U.S. attorney, has known Mueller
for decades through their work in
federal law enforcement.
Both men were joined by members of their teams in the
Tuesday sit-down meeting at Mueller’s office in southwest
Washington.
During their first meeting, the former New York mayor
reportedly made it clear to Mueller that Trump is still
feeling reluctant - a position that's hardened since the FBI
raid on Cohen's home, hotel room and office. And while an
interview now appears more likely, Trump could still pull
out at the last minute and risk a subpoena from Mueller. If
a subpoena is issued, it could trigger a legal battle that
would likely require the Supreme Court to weigh in.
But maybe all that can be avoided.
Compared to some of the other characters on the Trump
legal team, Giuliani actually seems like the adult in the
room. But is it also possible that Mueller knows Giuliani
well enough to know that the former New York City
mayor can be, at times, too trusting? In other words, just
because Giuliani seems like he has a steady hand on the
wheel, doesn't mean he can prevent Trump from walking
into a perjury trap.
 CNN Media Unit Tries To Turn
Jim Acosta's Gaffe Apple Into A Banana In Fighting Fox
By Tim Graham
April 26, 2018 7:34 AM EDT
Curtis Houck ably locked it down yesterday how absurd it
was for CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta to claim he
was taken out of context when he said
"people around the country" don't
understand Donald Trump calling the
media (especially CNN) "Fake News" is an
"act."
Try not to miss the official CNN Media Unit doubling
down with Acosta, claiming despite the actual quote that
Fox is taking Acosta out of context. This is the actual
quote:
ACOSTA:
The problem is that people around the
country don’t know it’s an act. They’re not
in on the act and they take what he says
very seriously and they take attacks from
Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what
they do to us on a daily basis very
seriously. They don’t have all their
faculties in some cases — their elevator
might not hit all floors. My concern is
that a journalist is going to be hurt one of
these days.
Acosta is right that he did not say "Trump
voters." He was much broader than that.
He said "people around the country." He
may have meant "some violent idiots," but
that is plainly not what he said. So Brian
Stelter and Oliver Darcy tried to claim the
apple was a banana.
In his overnight newsletter, Stelter ran an item headlined
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"Fox twists Acosta's words about
threats to journalists:
In this Variety mag interview, Jim Acosta
referenced the 'conservative meat grinder.'
This story is a perfect illustration of it."
So the same network that took an unrecorded,
anonymously sourced tip about Trump saying "s---hole
countries" and blew it up into 195 on-air profanities in one
day is going to lecture about someone else playing fast and
loose with quotes and context?
Oliver Darcy's story was also headlined
"Fox News twists CNN's Acosta's words
about threats to journalists".
Here's how you know Darcy is making a banana cream pie
out of the apple of Acosta's quote. He doesn't use it. The
only place it appeared in its entirety was in a reproduction
of Acosta's tweet. Notice how he chops the transcripts into
little banana slices of two words:
Speaking to Variety magazine about what it's like to cover
the Trump White House, Acosta commented on the threats
journalists doing so often face.
He remarked that individuals who might
send such threats to reporters "don't
know" that the "fake news" attacks from
Trump and his allies are "an act."
"They don't have all their faculties in some
cases, their elevator might not hit all floors,"
Acosta said. "My concern is that a journalist
is going to be hurt one of these days.
Somebody's going to get hurt."
But Fox News and other pro-Trump media organizations
twisted Acosta's comments to suggest he was saying
Trump voters are not smart.
The funniest part of Darcy's story is this:
"A spokesperson for CNN declined to comment
beyond Acosta's tweet."
As if Darcy and Stelter aren't the actual CNN public-
relations attempt on this story?
This network should never lecture anyone else about
transparency, or being "Facts First."
 DISGUSTING. Democrat Senator Tester Spreads Lies
About VA Pick Ronny Jackson Forcing Him
To Withdraw Nomination
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 8:04 Am

Admiral Ronny Jackson was the physician for George W.

Bush, Barack Obama and then Donald Trump for one year.

The accusations were complete garbage

Senator Jon Tester was the point person this week in the
smears and destruction of Trump VA pick Admiral Ronny
Jackson.
Tester accused Admiral Jackson of being
repeatedly drunk while on duty “where his
main job was to take care of the most
powerful man in the world.”
but Jackson was forced to resign from
his promotion because the damage by
Jon Tester and the Democrat media was
too extensive.
Senator Jon Tester is up for reelection
this year in Montana.
On Thursday morning President Trump
slammed Democrats and Jon Tester for
their lible against Admiral Ronny
Jackson.

Tester also told CNN that Jackson was known as “the

candy man” inside the White House and that during
official overseas trips he would hand out drugs to
passengers to

“put them to sleep and then give them the

drugs to wake them back up again.”

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 James Comey: 'There Is No Deep State'
Chris Menahan
Informationliberation
Apr. 26, 2018
Former FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday on
CNN the "deep state" doesn't exist.
"I hear this term deep state all the time,"
Comey said. "There is no deep state, but
there is a deep culture and a commitment
to the rule of law, equal protection of the
laws."
Incredibly, the audience managed not to burst into
laughter.
"The fundamental values that are at the
core of our constitution that runs really
deep in the FBI, the Justice Department as
a whole, the intelligence community. The
United States military services," Comey
continued.
"It is the ballast that gives me comfort and I
hope should give all Americans comfort,
but that can be damaged in any significant
ways," he said. "I don't think any president
serves long enough to damage, to flip that
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ship over, but if we are silent, tremendous
damage will be done that will take us time
to recover."
"You said there is no deep state but you
talk about a deep culture and it doesn't
sound that much different," Anderson
Cooper countered. "A deep culture which
has ways of doing things and believes it is
the right way of doing things isn't that some
of what President Trump was elected to
shake up?"
"Absolutely not," Comey said. "No one, I
hope, voted for him with the idea that he
would destroy those values. So that is what
I mean by a deep culture. It is a culture that
we should celebrate, and the rest of us who
are not part of it ought to make sure we call
it out when we see it threatened or
damaged."
"When we say the deep state is trying to
destroy president Trump," Cooper pressed
one more time. "You are saying point blank
that is not true?"
"That's nonsense," Comey answered.
No one buys this garbage.
Two recent polls found the overwhelming
majority of Americans on both sides believe
there's a deep state and view it as a "major
problem."
Subversives like Bill Kristol have openly celebrated the
deep state moving to overthrow President Trump.
The Democratic Party is actively being taken over by CIA
and other former intelligence operatives.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer openly threatened

Trump the deep state

"have six ways from Sunday at getting back

at you."

John Brennan "was" an admitted

communist who said he "froze" while
applying for the CIA after being asked
during a polygraph test if he had ever
worked with or for a group "dedicated to
overthrowing the United States."

He answered truthfully that he had.

In July 2017, John Brennan effectively called for a coup to FBI Agent Peter Strzok suggested the whole Russia
overthrow Trump if he tries to fire Mueller and shut down investigation was an "insurance policy" to undermine
his witch hunt. Trump on the off chance he gets elected.

"I think it's the obligation of some executive

branch officials to refuse to carry that out...
I would just hope that this is not going to be
a partisan issue. That Republicans and
Democrats are going to see that the future
of this country is at stake and something
needs to be done for the good of the
future," Brennan said.

For Comey to boldly claim "there is no deep state" shows

he thinks the public are complete idiots and he can lie to
them with impunity.
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 Ronny Jackson Withdraws VA Secretary Nomination
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
8:18 AM 04/26/2018
Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson announced that he is
“regretfully” withdrawing his nomination to be secretary
of the Department of Veterans Affairs amid allegations of
misconduct.
“While I will forever be grateful for the trust
and confidence President Trump has
placed in me by giving me this opportunity,”
Jackson, the White House physician said in
a statement Thursday, “I am regretfully
withdrawing my nomination.”
The embattled Jackson stands accused of mismanaging
pain medications, drunk driving, and destruction of a
government vehicle, according to a document compiled by
.
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the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, allegedly relying
on the testimonies of nearly two dozen former colleagues.
“I have no idea where that is coming from,”
Jackson said Wednesday.
“The allegations against me are completely
false and fabricated,” Jackson said in his
withdrawal statement. “If they had any
merit, I would not have been selected,
promoted and entrusted to serve in such a
sensitive and important role as physician to
three presidents over the past 12 years.”
“I am proud of my service to the country
and will always be committed to the brave
veterans who volunteer to defend our
freedoms,” he added.
Responding to Jackson’s decision, the president, speaking
on Fox News, called Democratic obstructionism a
“disgrace.” He referred to “Doc Ronny” as an “incredible
man,” “a real leader.”
“These are all false accusations. They are
trying to destroy a man,” Trump told
reporters.
 TRUMP RIPS Smear Merchant Sen. Jon Tester Over
Admiral Jackson Lies: “This Is Going To Cause Him A Lot
Of Problems” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 8:21 Am

Senator Jon Tester was the Democrat
point person this week in the smears
and destruction of Trump VA pick
Admiral Ronny Jackson.
Tester accused Admiral Jackson of being repeatedly
drunk while on duty “where his main job was to take care
of the most powerful man in the world.”
Trump hit him hard.
President Trump:
I call him Doc Ronny. He’s an admiral,
highly respected, a real leader. And I
watched what Jon Tester of Montana, a
state that I won by over 20 points. They
love me and I love them. And I want to tell
you that Jon Tester, I think this is going
to cause him a lot of problems in his
state. He took a man who was just an
incredible man, respected by President
Obama, gave him his highest rating. You
saw what President Obama said. President
Bush. He was the doctor to President
Bush, President Obama and the family.
He’s been my doctor. And he runs a
fantastic operation.

Tester also told CNN that Jackson was known as “the

candy man” inside the White House and that during
official overseas trips he would hand out drugs to
passengers to “put them to sleep and then give them the
drugs to wake them back up again.”

Admiral Ronny Jackson was the physician for George W.

Bush, Barack Obama and then Donald Trump for one year.

The accusations were complete garbage

but Jackson was forced to resign from
his promotion because the damage by
Jon Tester and the Democrat media was
too extensive.
Senator Jon Tester is up for reelection
this year in Montana.

On Thursday morning President Trump went after Senator

Tester on FOX and Friends.
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 Trump Comes Unleashed
On ‘Leaking, Lyin Comey’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:40 AM 04/26/2018
President Donald Trump vilified former FBI Director
James Comey after his recent media appearances in a
Thursday morning interview on Fox and Friends.
“Comey is a leaker and he is a liar and not
only on this stuff, he has been leaking for
years,” Trump declared, saying of his
personal memos distributed to the press “It
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is all classified. It is totally classified.
Legally he did an illegal act and he said it
himself in order to get a special counsel
against me.”
“It is totally classified,” the president said
again of the memos continuing “He leaked
memos which were classified. Nobody
unclassified them. The memos were about
me. They are phony memos. He didn’t
write the memos accurately. He put a lot of
phony stuff.”
Trump referenced specifically Comey’s claim that the
president told him he never spent the night in Moscow,
saying,
“His memo said I left immediately. I never
said that. I never said I left immediately.”
 POTUS TRUMP Destroys Leaker-Liar Comey
After His Crazy Town Hall On CNN (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 9:01 Am

President Trump went on FOX and Friends earlier today

and destroyed Comey.

President Trump:

Look, Comey is a leaker and he’s a liar and

not only on this stuff. He’s been leaking for
years. He’s probably been using his friend
the so-called professor who now turns out
to have been FBI clearance, which he
never said. He even lied about that
because he never said that in Congress, he
Fired FBI Chief James Comey went on said he gave it to a friend.
CNN last night to promote he new book
That was devastating.
and to smear President Trump.
Comey also bashed and lectured Via Varney and Co.:
Republicans.

James Comey:

I’ve been embarrassed and ashamed. My

question for Republicans is, so where is
that? Where is that commitment to
character and values. If people convince
themselves, well we’ll trade it temporarily
for a tax cut or Supreme Court Justice, as I
say in the book that’s a fool’s bargain.

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 President Trump Slams Terry Mcauliffe And Andrew
McCabe For Massive ‘Corruption’ On Fox & Friends
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:52 AM 04/26/2018

disgrace. And our Justice Department,

which I try and stay away from, but at some
point I won’t — our Justice Department
should be looking at that kind of stuff, not
the nonsense of collusion with Russia,”
Trump added.

WATCH:

President Donald Trump appeared on “Fox & Friends”

Thursday and slammed former Democratic Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe and Andrew McCabe for massive
corruption.

“By the way you take a poll at the FBI. I

love the FBI. The FBI loves me but the top
people in the FBI, headed by Comey, were
crooked,” Trump said.
“You look at McCabe where he takes “There is no collusion with me and Russia,”
$700,000 from somebody supporting the president said. “And everyone knows
Hillary Clinton. He takes $700,000 for his it.”
wife’s campaign and by the way, didn’t
even spend that money,” he continued.
Trump also said Democrats are leading a witch hunt
“They kept some of it, because under that
against him as revenge for his victory over Clinton.
law — he took $700,000 from a group
headed by Terry McAuliffe, who was under
investigation by McCabe and the FBI, and “It was what the Democrats used to try and
that investigation disappeared” make an excuse for their loss of an
election,” Trump added. “For their loss of
the electoral college that they should never
Trump said the Justice Department should be sent in to
lose, because the electoral college is set
investigate the situation and reiterated there was no
up perfectly for the Democrats. And this
collusion between his administration and the Russian
was an absolute, total beating in the
government.
electoral college.”
“He took $700,000. And you look at the
corruption at the top of the FBI, it’s a
.

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 Jim Jordan Roasts James Comey
For His Elitist Double Standard
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:25 AM 04/26/2018

people at the FBI. That’s what he should be

concerned about.”

WATCH:

Jim Jordan Roasts James Comey For His Elitist Double

Standard - Fox & Friends 4-26-18

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said the American

people are tired of the way former FBI Director James
Comey and Democrats have been favored with a double
standard, Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”
The American people felt former Secretary of State Hillary
“This is ridiculous,” Jordan said. “The
Clinton’s investigation was rigged from the start, Jordan
American people are so fed up with this
also said and believes Comey should be concerned about
two standards. One standard for us regular his involvement.
folk and a different standard if your name is
Clinton, Comey, Lynch, Lerner. That’s what
American people are fed up.” “I would also add the American people
thought the fix was in on the Clinton
“The fact that five of the top people. This is investigation,” Jordan concluded.
what should concern Mr. Comey,” Jordan
continued. “He’s been fired. Andrew “But since we got a hold of the Page-Strzok
McCabe has been fired for lying four times, text messages, we know the fix was in. So
three times under oath. Jim Baker, former that’s what should concern James Comey.
chief counsel has been demoted and This idea that he’s embarrassed is just
reassigned at the FBI. Peter Strzok deputy ridiculous.”
head of counter intelligence, demoted,
reassigned. Lisa page, FBI council
demoted, reassigned. These are the top
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LEAKER-LIAR COMEY Leaked Private Trump Memos
More Broadly Than Initially Reported — Patrick
Fitzgerald Likely Recipient (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 10:26 Am
Fired FBI Chief James Comey told
reporters at his book signing Tuesday in
Chicago he hired former US Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald last year — around
the time he was fired.
News broke earlier this week that
Comey had hired Fitzgerald.
FOX News reported:
Comey admitted last year during
Congressional testimony that he leaked
memos to his close friend Daniel
Richman, a law professor at Columbia
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University, in order to push a special
counsel against President Trump.
Richman announced in January of this
year that he was now Comey’s lawyer.
FOX News legal expert Gregg Jarrett
told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that
Comey likely leaked the memos to his
friend Patrick Fitzgerald.
It appears Jarrett nailed it.
The James Comey memos that leaked to
the media and were a catalyst for the
appointment of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller were more widely shared than
previously known, three sources familiar
with the matter tell Fox News.
Sources identified former U.S. Attorney and
special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald as the
likely recipient, and did not rule out a third
individual, in addition to Columbia law
professor Daniel Richman, who shared
contents with the media. The memos
documenting Comey’s private
conversations with the president are now
the subject of a Justice Department
Inspector General review over the
presence of classified information.
Patrick Fitzgerald is a longtime friend of
Comey’s and now his lawyer, as first
reported by Talking Points Memo.
 Fitzgerald did not respond to emails or a
voicemail seeking comment.
Fox News asked Fitzgerald how many
memos he received, if Comey, Richman or
a third party provided them, whether they
were stored securely because of classified
contents, and whether the FBI took steps
— to include his personal and business
electronics — to mitigate the spill of
classified information. In the event he did
not receive any Comey memos, Fitzgerald
.
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was invited to provide an on the record
statement to Fox News.
The publisher of Comey’s book, “A Higher
Loyalty,” did not respond to Fox News’
questions. An FBI spokesperson offered no
comment.
During his June 2017 Senate testimony,
after President Trump fired him, Comey did
not describe Richman as an FBI employee,
and seemed to give no public indication the
memos were shared more broadly.
 SHOWDOWN=> Senate Panel Approves
Legislation To Protect Robert Mueller
By Cristina Laila
April 26, 2018, 12:01 Pm

John Kennedy (La.) and

Here we go.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, with
Chuck Grassley at the helm, passed
legislation in a 14-7 vote to protect dirty
cop Robert Mueller.
Ted Cruz (Texas) opposed it.
The vote marks the first time Congress has advanced
legislation to formally protect Mueller from being
fired by President Trump, who has railed against him in
public and reportedly talked in private of dismissing him.

This legislation would give Robert Mueller an “expedited

review” if he were to be fired so if a court were to
determine he wasn’t fired for a ‘good cause’, the special
counsel would be reinstated.

The Committee also added new reporting requirements via

The Hill:

The committee also added new reporting

requirements into the bill, including
notification when a special counsel is
appointed or removed and requiring a
report be given to Congress after an
investigation wraps up; that report would
detail the investigation’s findings and
Here’s who voted for/against the legislation via The Hill: prosecution decisions.

With every committee Democrat backing the legislation, The Democrats, especially Dianne Feinstein praised
only one Republican was needed to secure passage. Senator Grassley.

In the end, four Republicans voted for the bill: The bill will now head to the Senate where surprisingly,
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing back.
Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.),
Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Last Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Mitch McConnell shut down a bipartisan
Jeff Flake (Ariz.). bill to protect Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s witch hunt job.
Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch (Utah), McConnell says he will not hold a floor
Mike Lee (Utah), vote on the bill even if it gets approved
John Cornyn(Texas), in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mike Crapo (Idaho),
Ben Sasse (Neb.),
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 Voters Overwhelmingly
Support Draining The Swamp
Jim Simpson - Contributor
12:34 PM 04/26/2018
Workers hang a "Drain the Swamp" sign outside a venue where
Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore will hold a rally in Midland
City, Alabama, December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
A majority of Americans have concerns about what has
come to be known as the DC “Swamp,” and these concerns
are shared by both Democrats and Republicans, according
to a poll released Wednesday.
The poll was commissioned by the Ear to the Ground
Listening Project and was conducted by McLaughlin
Associates, which surveyed 1,000 likely voters.
A second McLaughlin poll published at Breitbart on
Wednesday found that most believe the Mueller
investigation is bogus and would like to see it ended.
Democrats appear to already know this, and are toning
down their rhetoric on “Trump/Russia collusion” because
voters aren’t buying it.
A man holds up a “Drain the Swamp in Washington DC” sign as
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign
event on the tarmac of the airport in Kinston, North Carolina,
October 26 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
According to the Listening Project poll, 60 percent of all
voters and 74 percent of Republicans believe it is
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important to drain “the Swamp.” Only 6 percent of voters
and 5 percent of Republicans believe draining the Swamp
is unimportant.
According to the poll, almost half of Americans (46
percent) blame the GOP for allowing the Swamp to
survive. This includes 41 percent of conservatives, 44
percent of moderates and 50 percent of independents. Only
17 percent believe the GOP is helping to drain the Swamp.
Fifty-three percent also believe that DC politicians are not
worried about the loss of freedoms average voters fear,
according to the poll.
Most people, including moderates and liberals, believe
lobbyists, GOP members and bureaucrats are the ones
most to blame for keeping the Swamp alive. Trump voters
and conservatives place the most blame with the media,
Democrat leadership and lobbyists.
On Trump campaign promises, however, results are
somewhat different. A small plurality, 34 percent, believe
Democrats are to blame for Trump not meeting his
campaign promises, 33 percent blame Trump, 27 percent
blame the GOP and only 17 percent blame the Swamp.
Meanwhile, only 9 percent of conservatives trust GOP
candidates to keep their word once elected, while 52
percent of liberals trust their Democratic candidate.
The poll gauged other views on current issues as well. For
example, 55 percent of Americans frown upon
jurisdictions implementing so-called “sanctuary” policies
that defy federal efforts to arrest criminal aliens. Thirty-
seven percent strongly oppose such policies. In total, only
37 percent support sanctuary polices, and only 21 percent
strongly.
Most notably, 80 percent of all voters believe,
“…that the American traditions of freedom
and individual rights are being threatened
by growing social movements, public
bullying and increasing political violence.”
Only 14 percent disagree.
The Breitbart poll focused on American attitudes
regarding the investigation into Trump/Russia collusion
being carried out by former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
The poll found that a majority of Americans, by a margin
of 51 to 33 percent,
believe that Mueller has not found any “real
evidence of corruption by the president.”
Americans also believe the investigation
has “overstepped its purpose” and are
losing their patience with it.
In discussing this poll on Wednesday’s radio show, Rush
Limbaugh zeroed in on that 51 to 33 percent statistic. He
observed that Democrats were starting to realize that voter
patience was running out with Mueller.
“I think it dovetails with the internal polling
by the Democrat Party,” Limbaugh said.
“We’ve been chronicling with you for the
past week how Democrats are urging
candidates to get off of this, to stop talking
about it, and it had to be because their
internal polling numbers on this are so
bad.”
The news cycle continues to report each step in the probe
blow-by-blow. But despite widespread Democrat boasting
of an anticipated “blue wave” in the midterm election,
according to this poll, Democrats only enjoy a 0.3 percent
.
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advantage over Republicans in a generic ballot, which is
within the margin of error.
Polling “likely voters” is the least biased and most accurate
method of polling, but because it requires more work than
a “random sample” of adults. A disproportionate number
of women and young people respond when a poll is
conducted by random sample, and those groups tend to be
more liberal, even among independents. Because it is
random, the sample could also include illegal aliens.
Sometimes that bias is significant. For example, an
Economist poll cited in my study queried 570 Democrats
and only 360 Republicans, a 58 percent difference.
Overall, the 7 polls cited in that study contained an average
of 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans. It is thus
not surprising that so many presidential polls were so far
off in their predictions of the 2016 election. This latest Ear
to the Ground poll suffers no such sampling bias.
The Ear to the Ground Listening Project describes itself as
“a collaboration between individuals in the
academic, market research, and public
policy arenas seeking to understand and
reflect the voice of the American people
through the tools of market research.”
 Rep. Jim Jordan: Comey NEVER Told Congress His
Memo-Leaking Friend Worked For The FBI (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 26, 2018, 1:01 Pm

President Trump:
GOP lawmaker Jim Jordan ripped fired
FBI Director James Comey Thursday Look, Comey is a leaker and he’s a liar and
morning over his memo leaks. not only on this stuff. He’s been leaking for
years. He’s probably been using his friend
Rep. Jim Jordan said Comey never told
the so-called professor who now turns out
Congress his law professor friend
to have been FBI clearance, which he
Daniel Richman, whom he gave his
never said. He even lied about that
memos to in order to leak to the liberal
because he never said that in Congress, he
media, worked for the FBI on an unpaid
said he gave it to a friend.
basis.

VIDEO:
That’s right. Daniel Richman was a ‘special government
employee, presumably with clearance,’ said Jim Jordan.

This is the swamp.

Americans are fed up.

The president also blasted Comey Thursday morning on

Fox & Friends.

President Trump destroyed Comey for omitting his memo-

leaking friend worked for the FBI during his testimony to
Congress.

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 POTUS Trump Pleased After Senate Confirms Mike
Pompeo As 70th Secretary Of State
By Cristina Laila
April 26, 2018, 2:40 Pm

Today is a busy day in the Senate. Pompeo will be jetting to Brussels for
On Thursday, the Senate finally the NATO summit Friday.
confirmed Mike Pompeo as the 70th
Secretary of State.

President Trump was pleased with the

Senate confirmation of Pompeo.

Mike Pompeo

The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as the 70th Secretary

of State in a 57-42 vote Thursday.

President Trump was pleased and congratulated Pompeo.

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram with the details…

Pergram tweeted:
Pompeo is honored to be the 70th
Secretary of State.
The Senate has confirmed Mike Pompeo
as Secretary of State. The vote was 57-42.
All Republicans present voted aye. Seven
senators who caucus with the Democrats
voted yes. Heitkamp, Manchin, Donnelly,
Jones, Nelson, King, McCaskill.

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 BREAKING: Thousands Of Strzok-Page Texts Have Just
Been Delivered To Congress “We Hear It Could Be
Explosive Stuff”
By Cristina Laila
April 26, 2018, 3:10 Pm

“We’re expecting them this afternoon,”

BREAKING NEWS.
Congressional investigators have just
received ‘missing’ Strzok-Page text
messages, according to investigative
reporter, Sara Carter.
A Congressional source told Sara Carter
they are hearing it could be explosive.
said a Congressional official with
knowledge Thursday, with regard to the
texts. “We hear it could be explosive
stuff.”
It is not certain how the texts will be received by Congress
but according to several Congressional sources, the
redacted version of the texts will be delivered, while the
unredacted version will remain in possession of the DOJ,
where they can be viewed by Congressional investigators.

The DOJ’s Inspector General is now retrieving some of the

missing five months of text messages exchanged between
the pair of FBI agents using forensic experts to track
“ghost texts,” left behind even after they are deleted from
the devices, former and current law enforcement officials
told this reporter.

Read Sara Carter’s full report here.

Fingers crossed, said Sara Carter from her Twitter account:

The six months of ‘missing’ Strzok-Page texts will be

available to Congress Thursday afternoon after a slight
delay this week.

These are the crucial months between December of 2016

up until Mueller was appointed on May 17.

Sara Carter reported:

The thousands of missing text messages

between the embattled FBI lovers are
expected to be delivered to Congressional
investigators Thursday afternoon, after a
long drawn out battle behind closed doors
between the Department of Justice and
Congressional leaders, this reporter has
learned.
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 SHOCK: MSNBC Host Frets
‘Capitalist’ Voters Will Reject ‘Far Left’ Dems
By Kyle Drennen
April 26, 2018 3:41 PM EDT
In a stunning departure from MSNBC’s normally steadfast
adherence to Democratic Party talking points, on her 9:00
a.m. ET hour show on Thursday, anchor Stephanie Ruhle
actually grilled Democratic Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz
over his party’s obsession with impeaching President
Trump and questioned whether “centrist” “capitalist”
voters would really vote for “far left” Democrats in the
November midterm elections.
“Democrats, they are hopeful of the
fast-approaching midterms, looking to
take back one or maybe both chambers
of Congress,”
Ruhle optimistically declared at the top of the segment.
However, she then offered a hard dose of reality:
“Here’s my question – I ask it every day
– what exactly is the party’s message?
A growing number of Democrats say it
should not be impeaching President
Trump.”
After citing former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel warning against
impeachment, she turned to Senator Schatz and pressed
him on the issue. While making sure to say that she
“completely understand[s] the impeachment argument,”
Ruhle continued:
“But the American people want their
lives better. Is it a mistake for
Democrats to continue to push on how
morally reprehensible and unfit the
President is?”
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Schatz replied in part:
“I think it is extremely unwise and unjust to
start talking about that in advance of any
process.” Though he still voiced support for
the Russia investigation: “But I do think it’s
important we’re party of the rule of law and
insist on the operation of law and insist that
the Mueller investigation allow – is allowed
to complete itself.”
Ruhle then demanded the liberal lawmaker offer voters
specific policy proposals to improve their lives:
“I feel like when I hear from Democrats
on a regular basis, they’re just going
after Trump, and I get that, there’s a lot
to go after, but if you want people to
vote for you, you have to deliver them a
better America. And what are you
offering?”
After Schatz rattled off some standard Democratic agenda
items like “college affordability” and vowing to “preserve
the Affordable Care Act,” he predictably took a shot at the
GOP:
I think one of the problems that the Republicans made in
the last election is they weren’t ready to govern. And so
part of what we have to do is the hard work of being
prepared when the gavels get given to us, that we have a
real legislative program to start to implement.
Ruhle didn’t let him off the hook:
What does “us” mean? Because you
run the risk, if you push far to the left,
that you’re going to lose the middle.
And in the middle, you have a lot of
centrists who maybe traditionally voted
Republican who are disenfranchised, who
don’t want to support President Trump.
But those people in the middle who
don’t want to support President Trump
don’t want to support people on the far
left. Their capitalists. They believe in the
 American dream and they want to be
rich.
Schatz attempted to argue that the Democratic Party
supports capitalism:
“Sure. And so do I. And I think a lot of
progressives are also totally supportive of
market capitalism, but they understand the
need for regulation.” He then immediately
undermined that statement by pushing
class warfare rhetoric: “They understand
the need to protect the little guy. They
understand that the way market capitalism
is working right now is to suck wealth up
and not to encourage entrepreneurship, not
to help people to pursue the American
dream.”
Ruhle challenged him:
“Then why do you think business
sentiment, small and large – and I mean
small business people all around the
country – why do you think small business
sentiment is up under President Trump?”
She then helpfully teed Schatz up to tell American
business owners why they were wrong:
“When if you actually look at his policies,
he’s not necessarily gonna help those
people, but they feel like he is. Why is
that?”
The senator partly argued:
“I think we have a good business platform,
but Stephanie, I think you’re right, we
sometimes don’t do a good job of framing
what we’re talking about as embracing the
American dream.”
She urged Democrats to make a better sales pitch to voters:
“You need to sell it harder. I think back to
TPP and President Obama. While he may
have put together an extraordinary
program, didn’t sell it. So you’ve got to get
those sales skills on fire.”
While Ruhle’s tough questions to Schatz were surprising,
it was clear that the liberal anchor’s true motivation was to
correct a potential vulnerability for Democrats and help
them defeat Republicans.
Here is a transcript of the April 26 exchange:
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9:47 AM ET
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Democrats, they are hopeful of the fast-
approaching midterms, looking to take back one or maybe both
chambers of Congress. Here’s my question – I ask it every day –
what exactly is the party’s message? A growing number of
Democrats say it should not be impeaching President Trump.
Something former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is
stressing. Listen.
FMR. SEN. HARRY REID [D-NV]: I’ve been through an
impeachment. And they’re not pleasant. And I think the less we
talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country.
RUHLE: There’s also this warning from current Chicago Mayor
and former White House Chief of Staff for Obama, Rahm
Emanuel, telling Axios that impeachment should not be “a
political tool.”
Joining me now, Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii.
Senator, to those points, I completely understand the
impeachment argument. I understand the point Democrats are
making day in and day out about the President’s conduct. But the
American people want their lives better. Is it a mistake for
Democrats to continue to push on how morally reprehensible and
unfit the President is? People voted for him in spite of lack of
morals.
SEN. BRIAN SCHATZ [D-HI]: Well, I think what we have to focus
on, when it comes to this, is the rule of law and the operation of
law. And I think when it comes to the question of impeachment
that is a solemn question, that is a serious question, and it’s a
question of law and of politics.
So from my standpoint, sitting in the United States Senate, if
there ever were to be an impeachment, the United States
Senate, senators individually would be serving as jurors. And
therefore, I think it is extremely unwise and unjust to start talking
about that in advance of any process.
But I do think it’s important we’re party of the rule of law and
insist on the operation of law and insist that the Mueller
investigation allow – is allowed to complete itself. That doesn’t
mean that that’s what goes into our campaign commercials, but I
think we can walk and chew gum at the same time, which is to
talk about middle class economics, talk about what an awful bill
this tax bill was, talk about health care and college affordability.
RUHLE: Okay, but then tell me, what are those platforms?
Because I feel like when I hear from Democrats on a regular
basis, they’re just going after Trump, and I get that, there’s a lot
to go after, but if you want people to vote for you, you have to
deliver them a better America. And what are you offering?
SCHATZ: Right, I think it’s a very good question, Stephanie. And
let me just give you a couple of things. We have a very serious
proposal for college affordability You know, in the last election
there was a lot of conversation about college affordability, but the
proposals were thin. We now have more than a dozen senators
on a real proposal which will reverse the state disinvestment in
higher education. That’s number one.
Secondly, not only are we going to preserve the Affordable Care
Act, which is now more popular than ever, but we’re looking at
expanding coverage through something called the Medicaid
Public Option Act, Medicare for All. There are a lot of good
proposals out there.
I think one of the problems that the Republicans made in the last
election is they weren’t ready to govern. And so part of what we
have to do is the hard work of being prepared when the gavels
get given to us, that we have a real legislative program to start to
implement. I think people agree with us generally, but they don’t
believe that we mean it. And one of the things that I’m working on
is making sure that we flesh out our legislative program so that
after the election we’re ready to role.
RUHLE: What does “us” mean? Because you run the risk, if you
push far to the left, that you’re going to lose the middle. And in
the middle, you have a lot of centrists who maybe traditionally
voted Republican who are disenfranchised, who don’t want to
support President Trump. But those people in the middle who
don’t want to support President Trump don’t want to support
people on the far left. Their capitalists. They believe in the
American dream and they want to be rich. I’m not saying –
SCHATZ: Sure. And so do I. And I think a lot of progressives are
also totally supportive of market capitalism, but they understand
the need for regulation. They understand the need to protect the
little guy. They understand that the way market capitalism is
working right now is to suck wealth up and not to encourage
.
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entrepreneurship, not to help people to pursue the American
dream.
So one of the things that I’ve noticed is that when people are
looking for centrists, they’re actually more concerned about tone
than about policy. A lot of progressive policies are extremely
popular, but if you ask people whether they’re comfortable with
certain political views, they think they’re not progressives.
Because what they don’t like is the yelling. What they don’t like is
the shouting. What they don’t like is the constant accusations.
But if you look at Conor Lamb, if you look at Ralph Northam, if
you look at the 40 legislative seats at the local that were flipped
over the last two years, a lot of them ran on a progressive
platform, but dispositionally, a little more down the middle.
RUHLE: Then why do you think business sentiment, small and
large – and I mean small business people all around the country
– why do you think small business sentiment is up under
President Trump? When if you actually look at his policies, he’s
not necessarily gonna help those people, but they feel like he is.
Why is that?
SCHATZ: Well, I think part of it is the economy overall is
improving. And you know, it’s been improving for a number of
years, the stock market continues to improve.
But a lot people are struggling. And one of the things that I think
the Democrats need to do a better job of is describe why, for
instance, ACA actually helps small business people to move from
one entrepreneurial endeavor to the next. Why our college
affordability plan is the ladder up to pursue the American dream.
Why it makes no sense to undermine net neutrality. Why killing
marijuana businesses across the country is anti-business.
So I think we have a good business platform, but Stephanie, I
think you’re right, we sometimes don’t do a good job of framing
what we’re talking about as embracing the American dream.
RUHLE: You need to sell it harder. I think back to TPP and
President Obama. While he may have put together an
extraordinary program, didn’t sell it. So you’ve got to get those
sales skills on fire.
(...)
 Joy Behar Asks Dr. Phil:
Isn't President Trump Grooming Macron
Like An Orangutan?
By Tim Graham
April 26, 2018 3:50 PM EDT
Psychologist and talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw was the
big guest on The View on Thursday, and they began by
suggesting it's unfair to try and diagnose rapper Kanye
West with mental illness based on his new pro-Trump
tweets. But then, that "comedian" Joy Behar asked Dr. Phil
if Trump's "bromance" with French prime minister
Emmanuel Macron resembled the behavior of an
orangutan. So Dr. Phil diagnosed Trump from afar as
engaging in a "power play," suggesting to Macron that he
had a "bigger stick."
JOY BEHAR: So Trump's been hosting Macron. Have you been
watching the bromance?
Dr. PHIL McGRAW: I have.
BEHAR: Sometimes they shake hands for like a half hour.
Dr. PHIL: Yeah.
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BEHAR: Trump brushes the dandruff off Trump [sic, Macron] like
an orangutan does that. So have you ever seen a Dian
Fossey documentary? That’s what the monkeys do. They do
this [grooming motion]. What's that about? What's going on
there? [ Laughter ]
SUNNY HOSTIN, after laughing: Joy knows everything about
animals, by the way Animal habits.
BEHAR: I do.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Grooming.
Dr. PHIL: That does seem to be a bit of a loaded question.
BEHAR: I'm just saying.
Dr. PHIL No, listen. It does seem that he is being paternal with
him.
BEHAR: Oh really?
Dr. PHIL Don't you think?
BEHAR: Well, it looks like a power play to me.
Dr. PHIL It does, it looks like a power play. It looks like he's being
paternal because he is positioning him and then he is kind of
grooming him
BEHAR: Grooming him.
Dr. PHIL: And also it's kind of -- I think he's trying to establish
a one-up position, a father/son kind of, “Look, stick with me,
I'll take care of you here, I've got the bigger stick.”
HOSTIN: Oh! Moving on --
BEHAR: You devil. [ Laughter ]
On Wednesday, The View mocked Trump and Macron's
hand-shaking and air-kissing with a video The Washington
Post website made, complete with a bossa nova romantic-
piano soundtrack.
Their headline was "Trump And Macron
Can't Stop Touching Each Other." Could
that be seen as mocking the two leaders as
gay? And how does that little satire match
"Democracy Dies in Darkness"?
.
So when Trump is fighting and taunting world leaders,
that's worth mocking. And when Trump is getting along
with world leaders, that's also worth mocking. It shows
you the hateful consistency of the media elites.

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 The Absolute Biggest Revelations
From The Comey Memos
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
4:56 PM 04/26/2018

As James Comey continues his press tour for his new  The Loyalty Pledge
book, one thing is clear. There’s a lot more to learn about  The idea the memos were “personal”
the memos he passed along after leaving the FBI.  The “Golden Showers thing”

Was the information classified? Did he send them to more

than just those three people? The Daily Caller’s Vince
Coglianese is cutting through all the noise.

WATCH:

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 18: Former FBI Director James Comey

poses for photographs as he arrives to speak about his new book “A
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” at Barnes & Noble
bookstore, April 18, 2018 in New York City. The book, which went
on sale yesterday, focuses on leadership principles and details his
interactions with President Donald Trump. Comey served as FBI
Director from September 2013 until May 2017, when he was fired by
the president. Comey previously served as U.S. Deputy Attorney
These are some of the most contested parts of the memos: General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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 DOJ Gives Congress Missing
Strzok-Page Text Messages
Chuck Ross - Reporter
5:57 PM 04/26/2018
The Justice Department on Thursday gave Congress five
months worth of text messages exchanged between Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page — two FBI officials involved in the
investigations into Hillary Clinton and President Donald
Trump’s campaign.
The messages, exchanged between Dec. 14, 2016, and
May 17, 2017, were initially thought to be missing due to a
technical glitch on FBI-issued cell phones. But the texts
were recovered by the Justice Department’s office of the
inspector general, which is investigating the FBI’s
handling of both the Clinton and Trump campaign
investigations.
Approximately 300 messages were given to Congress,
a Justice Department official told The Daily Caller News
Foundation.
Strzok, the former deputy chief of the FBI’s
counterintelligence division, was removed from Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia team in July 2017 after
the discovery of the text messages. They showed Strzok
and Page expressed deep hostility to Trump during the
2016 campaign.
Strzok oversaw the FBI’s Russia investigation when it
began on July 31, 2016. He was also a top investigator on
the Clinton email probe. He helped conduct the interviews
of Clinton and several of her top aides.
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The congressional committees that received the text
messages are likely to pour through them to find any
information that might shed light on political bias from
Strzok and Page as well as their thoughts on the Clinton
and Trump investigations.
Some of the text messages released so far have drawn
scrutiny from congressional Republicans.
One in particular is an Aug. 15, 2016, exchange in which
Strzok referred to an “insurance policy” he wanted in the
event of a Trump election win.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s office — that
there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but
I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok
wrote to Page, referring to a conversation
they had in then-FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe’s office.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely
event you die before you’re 40.”
Though Strzok was heavily critical of Trump in the texts,
he indicated to Page in one exchange he believed there was
not much evidence of collusion against the Trump
campaign.
“You and I both know the odds are nothing.
If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no
question. I hesitate in part because of my
gut sense and concern that there’s no big
there there,” Strzok wrote to Page on May
19, 2017 — two days after the appointment
of Robert Mueller as special counsel.
Strzok was referring to the Russia investigation when he
said he believed there was “no big there there,” a source
close to Strzok confirmed to The Daily Caller News
Foundation.
 Leaker-Liar Comey Defends Liar McCabe:
“He Stood Tall Under Tremendous Stress” (He Lied 3
Times Under Oath)
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 6:06 Pm

Fired FBI Director James Comey went
on with Bret Baier on Special Report on
Thursday to discuss his new book.
Comey lied repeatedly during the FOX
News interview.
Leaker-liar Comey defended Andrew McCabe who was
charged with lying repeatedly under oath and will likely be
persecuted.
“He stood tall under enormous pressure.”

Via Special Report:

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 Huh? Crazy Leaker Comey: We Weren’t Looking At
‘Collusion’… We Were Looking To See If Americans Were
‘In Cahoots’ With Russia
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 6:34 Pm

Fired FBI Director James Comey went
on with Bret Baier on Special Report on
Thursday to discuss his new book.
Comey lied repeatedly during the FOX
News interview.
Fired FBI Director James Comey went
on with Bret Baier on Special Report on
Thursday to discuss his new book.
Comey lied repeatedly during the FOX
News interview.

This was a good line…

Comey told Baier:

“I’m not familiar with the word “collusion.”

The Russia investigation was looking to
see if any Americans were “cahoots with”
an adversary nation.”
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 Weasel Comey Names The THREE People
He Gave His Classified Trump Memos To (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 26, 2018, 7:17 Pm

Fired FBI Director James Comey went
on with Bret Baier on Special Report on
Thursday to discuss his new book.
Comey went on a lying spree Thursday night then named
the THREE people who he gave his classified Trump
memos to.
him to get it out to the media–I gave 4
memos to my legal team, which included
Patrick Fitzgerald” Comey said.
Comey answered in the affirmative when Bret Baier asked
him if Fitzgerald was a part of his legal team at the time he
gave him the memos.

Comey then named the other man he gave the memos to–
David Kelly.

It was just revealed that Comey’s ‘good friend’ Daniel

Richman was also working for the FBI as a special
government employee–a fun fact that Comey conveniently
left out in his testimony.

Comey is a leaker, a liar and a weasel. LOCK HIM UP!

Notice how triggered Comey gets when Bret Baier

Bret Baier asked Comey if he had written permission from considers what he did by giving his friends classified
the FBI to hand over contents of his memos to other memos as “leaks.”
people.
VIDEO:
“No, and I didn’t consider it a part of an
FBI file…it was my personal memoir,”
Comey said of his classified memos.

Comey continued to say that he thought of his memos as a

diary.

Bret Baier then asked Comey who else he gave (leaked)

the memos to.

“I gave the memos to my legal team after I

gave them to Dan Richman after I asked
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 Comey Falsely Claims
Republicans Funded The Steele Dossier
Chuck Ross - Reporter
7:20 PM 04/26/2018
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate
Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in
the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington,
U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst | Comey: Republicans
Funded Steele Dossier
Former FBI Director James Comey repeated one of the
more pervasive false claims about the infamous Steele
dossier on Thursday, telling Fox News’ Bret Baier
Republicans first financed the salacious document.
Instead, the Clinton campaign and Democratic National
Committee funded the dossier project.
“I knew it was first funded by Republicans,”
Comey told Baier during an exchange
about his knowledge of the dossier, which
former British spy Christopher Steele
wrote.
“That’s not true, that the dossier that
Christopher Steele worked on was funded
by Republicans?” Baier replied.
“My understanding is his work started
funded as oppo research funded by
Republicans,” Comey insisted.
Baier corrected Comey, saying The Washington Free
Beacon, a conservative website, claimed they hired Fusion
.
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GPS, the opposition research firm commissioned the
dossier, on a retainer,
“but they did not fund the Christopher
Steele memo or the dossier.”
“That was initiated by Democrats,” Baier
said.
“My understanding was the activity was
begun, that Steele was hired to look into
was first funded by Republicans then
picked up — important thing was picked up
by Democrats opposed to Donald Trump,”
Baier added.
Comey’s false claim is not without precedent, though it is
surprising given the FBI relied on the dossier as part of its
investigation into possible collusion between President
Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian government.
Fusion GPS hired Steele to investigate Trump in June
2016. The opposition research firm was working at that
time for Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the
Clinton campaign and DNC.
The Washington Free Beacon, which billionaire
Republican donor Paul Singer funds, hired Fusion GPS in
September 2015 to conduct standard opposition research
on Trump. But the website ended its Trump work in May
2016, after Trump appeared poised to win the GOP
nomination. The Free Beacon employed Fusion through
January 2017 but cut ties after BuzzFeed News published
the Steele report.
Comey signed off on three surveillance warrants obtained
against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page,
which relied heavily on the dossier.
 AS TGP Reported 2 Days Ago=> Comey Admits
He Leaked Memos To Former US Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald Last Year
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 7:31 Pm

Comey admitted last year during

Congressional testimony that he leaked
memos to his close friend Daniel
Richman, a law professor at Columbia
University, in order to push a special
counsel against President Trump.
Richman announced in January of this
year that he was now Comey’s lawyer.

FOX News legal expert Gregg Jarrett

told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that
Fired FBI Chief James Comey told Comey likely leaked the memos to his
reporters at his book signing Tuesday in friend Patrick Fitzgerald.
Chicago he hired former US Attorney
Patrick Fitzgerald last year — around Jarrett was right.
the time he was fired.
As TGP reported earlier James Comey admitted Thursday
News broke earlier Tuesday that Comey
that he leaked his private and likely classified memos with
had hired Fitzgerald.
Patrick Fitzgerald last year when he was fired.

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 Comey Defends McCabe —
‘I Still Believe He Stood Tall’ [VIDEO]
Peter Hasson - Reporter
8:09 PM 04/26/2018

[Screenshot/Twitter]

Baier asked Comey about that tweet on Thursday, noting

Former FBI Director James Comey defended his former
deputy director, Andy McCabe, on Thursday, telling Fox
News anchor Bret Baier he still believes McCabe “stood
tall.”
Comey defended McCabe despite revelations McCabe lied
both to Comey and to FBI investigators about leaks
McCabe orchestrated to the media.
the inspector general found McCabe lied to the FBI four
times — thrice under oath.
“Do you still believe he ‘stood tall’ as you
tweeted in January,” the Fox News anchor
asked, “or is he one of the ‘small people
helping to tear down an institution?'”
WATCH:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16

after both the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector
General and the FBI’s Office of Professional
Responsibility recommended McCabe’s termination.

Comey blasted McCabe’s firing at the time, writing on

Twitter:

“Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall

over the last eight months, when small
people were trying to tear down an
institution we all depend on. He served with
“Yeah. I still believe he stood tall,” Comey
distinction for two decades. I wish Andy
said. “He represented himself and the
well. I also wish continued strength for the
organization under tremendous stress
rest of the FBI. America needs you.”
during that period after I was fired.”
“But I read the IG report as you did. It
concluded that Andy had not been candid.
This is what accountability looks like in the
Justice Department,” Comey said.
.

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 Rep. Desantis On Latest Strzok-Page Text Messages:
This Was Not Complete – I Don’t Think This Was A Full
Production (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 26, 2018, 8:40 Pm

The Department of Justice released 49 Well Sean I think this is an incomplete

pages of redacted Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page text messages after the election of
Donald Trump as president in November
2016.
The DOJ released only 49 pages from
the Deep State lovebirds.
production. I mean we know their texting
habits. How often there were texting in
other periods. This is the period, December
2016 all they way up to the firing of James
Comey and then the appointment of Robert
Mueller to the Special Counsel. Yet, there’s
only 40-some pages there.

Via Hannity:

Rep. Ron DeSantis told Sean Hannity that it appears the

DOJ is holding text messages from Congress.

Rep. DeSantis:
.

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 Tour De Force: FNC’s Baier Grills Comey
Over Dossier, E-Mail, Leaks In Epic Interview
By Curtis Houck
April 26, 2018 9:11 PM EDT
Former FBI Director and new author James Comey has
spent the past 12 days on his book tour promoting A
Higher Loyalty, the supposed greatness of Comey himself
and the lack thereof on the part of President Trump.
However, no prior interview compared to his Thursday hit
on the Fox News Channel’s Special Report as host Bret
Baier offered a masterfully tough tour de force akin to
interviews of yesteryear by the late Tim Russert.
The interview got a late start with Baier telling viewers in
a “Fox News Alert” at the top of the program that Comey
was “in traffic” and that he would be kept updated with
Comey’s whereabouts. Eventually, Comey arrived at the
Fox News D.C. bureau near Union Station and the
interview started at the 6:15 p.m. Eastern mark.
The questioning began with the Hillary Clinton e-mail
probe and if it was
“true that you and your FBI colleagues
made the decision to exonerate
Secretary Clinton well before she was
interviewed.”
Comey denied that despite having written a memo
exonerating her and emphasized that it’s crucial for
investigators to have an idea of where a probe that ended
up lasting almost a year.
It was soon after that Baier showed his mettle, telling
Comey that
“you already knew that she had been
telling, whatever you want to say, lies,
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mistruths about this investigation of
what — and how she handled those
emails”
and played a clip of Comey stating just that in
congressional testimony in July 2016.
Here’s more of that exchange, including a question about
why Cheryl Mills was allowed to sit in on Clinton’s FBI
interview (as always, click “expand” for more):
BAIER: You go back to intent a lot, but actually the statute, as it's
written handling, classified information grossly negligent doesn't
deal with intent.
COMEY: Well, grossly negligent is express pressure of kind of
intent. How were you acting? What was your mental state at the
time?
BAIER: You were careful to call it extremely careless, not grossly
negligent.
COMEY: Right. I was struggling with the fact we thought it was
not mere sloppiness but didn't rise to the level of criminal
misconduct that the Justice Department prosecutes. How do you
describe that? I probably should have said really sloppy, but I
wanted to be honest and say it's above sloppy. It doesn't add up
to the what the 1917 statute meant when it said grossly negligent
is a felony.
BAIER: So, why did you allow Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton's
chief of staff, to sit in on that interview? She was potentially a
subject or a target in the investigation. She was a government
employee. She wasn't Clinton's attorney, but, yet, she sits in
there and talks with her throughout the interview.
COMEY: Yeah. My understanding was, at that time, she was one
of Clinton's attorneys. She was no longer a subject in our
investigation. The agents had scrubbed her conduct very
carefully by that point and she was no longer a subject. But that,
again, that's a reasonable question. But the facts are not a
subject, one of Clinton's lawyers. She is entitled to be in the
interview.
What made Baier’s interview successful but damaging for
Comey was his short but pointed questions that didn’t
come across as attitudinal or snarky. One such moment
was when Baier broached the subject of the Steele dossier.
Baier would tell his panel following the interview that this
portion surprised him because Comey showed a false
understanding of who funded the final dossier (which
included the “pee tape” allegation):
BAIER: When did you learn that the DNC and Hillary Clinton
campaign had funded Christopher Steele's work?
COMEY: Yeah. I still don't know that for a fact.
BAIER: What do you mean?
COMEY: I’ve only seen it in the media. I never knew exactly
which Democrats had funded. I knew it was funded first by
Republicans.
BAIER: But that's not true.
COMEY: I'm sorry?
BAIER: That's not true that the dossier that Christopher Steele
worked on was funded by Republicans?
COMEY: My understanding his work started funded as opo-
research funded by Republicans after —
BAIER: So Free Beacon had said that they had Glenn Simpson
and Fusion GPS on a kind of retainer they did not fund the
Christopher Steele memo or the dossier. That was initiated by
Democrats.
COMEY: Okay. My understanding was the activity was begun,
that Steele was hired to look into first funded by Republicans.
Then picked up — the important thing was picked up by
Democrats opposed to Donald Trump.
BAIER: So is that why — did you tell President Obama that the
dossier was who it was funded by?
COMEY: No, not to my recollection.
BAIER: Did he want to know who it was funded by?
COMEY: I wanted to know what I knew which is it was funded by
people politically opposed by Donald Trump.
BAIER: Okay.
COMEY: Which particular opponents wasn’t that important to
me.
BAIER: So, you still to this day don't know it was funded by the
DNC.
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COMEY: I have read that in the media but didn't know for a fact
and didn't know while I was at the FBI who — which exact
opponent of the president's funded that.
BAIER: Okay. So, how many times and to what extent did you
brief president Obama on the dossier?
COMEY: I didn't ever brief President Obama on the dossier. I
was present during a conversation where Director of National
Intelligence briefed it to him as we did to the gang of eight and to
the President-elect the first week of January.
Baier then held Comey’s feet to the fire over the leak of
the Trump Tower meeting between Comey and Trump
over the dossier. The FNC host ran through the gambit of
possible leakers and Comey denied all of them.
Comey added that he made no attempt to
find out who did it because the dossier was
an “unclassified, public document.”
Without a doubt, the most devastating exchange focused
on Comey’s leaking of his memos to friend, former FBI
employee, and law professor Daniel Richman.
The FNC host marvelously exposed
Comey’s refusal to inform lawmakers that
Richman was anything but a private citizen
and instead a former “FBI special
government employee.”
Comey tried to argue that “it wasn’t
relevant” but the damage was done.
With Comey on the ropes, Baier led Comey as he were the
former law enforcement official by getting him to admit to
leaking the classified memos to not just Richman.
For full transparency, here’s the entire exchange.:
COMEY: Two things. His primary focus was our Going Dark
Challenge. Helping us think through and articulate and fight for
access to encrypted communications and then law enforcement
data was a big part of his responsibilities.
BAIER: So, did you leak other things through Mr. Richman?
COMEY: Yeah. The only reason I'm smiling, I don't consider what
I shared Mr. Richman a leak. I told him about an unclassified
conversation with the President. I gave him —
BAIER: Okay, but the FBI protocol —
COMEY: Let me answer your question.
BAIER: — you went through this with Anderson last night.
COMEY: I gave him nothing else ever to share with the media.
BAIER: FBI protocol says your own employment agreement with
the FBI prohibits “the unauthorized disclosure of any information
or material from or related to FBI files or any information acquired
by virtue of my official employment without prior written
permission from the FBI.” Did have you written permission?
COMEY: No and I didn't consider it part of an FBI file. All the
things that I talked about with Anderson.
BAIER: You wrote it as FBI director. It was work product.
COMEY: No. It was not. It was my personal aid to memoir.
BAIER: You were talking to the President.
COMEY: Sure I carried two copies of it. One to keep in my
personal safe at home and I left another one at the FBI so the
Bureau could always have access to it, but I always thought of it
as mine like a diary.
BAIER: Who else did you give, leak, whatever you want to call it?
COMEY: Use is what I prefer.
BAIER: Yeah. The memos to.
COMEY: I gave the memos to my legal team after I gave them to
Dan Richman after I gave them to the media. I'm sorry, gave four
memos to my legal team.
BAIER: Which included Patrick Fitzgerald.
COMEY: Patrick Fitzgerald.
BAIER: He was a legal team at that time?
COMEY: Correct, sure.
BAIER: And Dan —
COMEY: David Kelly and Dan Richman.
BAIER: — David Kelly and — okay. You said in the memos I said
I don't do sneaky things, I don't leak. I don't do weasel moves.
But, I mean, we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak, isn't
it?
COMEY: It's not.
BAIER: Okay. Here's what you told Chuck Grassley about
leaking.
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REPUBLICAN SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY (Iowa) [on
05/03/17]: Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous
source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump
investigation or the Clinton investigation?
COMEY [on 05/03/17]: Never.
GRASSLEY [on 05/03/17]: Has any classified information relating
to President Trump or his association — associates been
declassified or — and shared with the media?
COMEY [on 05/03/17]: Not to my knowledge.
BAIER: So at what point were you made aware that some of the
information was classified by the FBI?
COMEY: Which information?
BAIER: In the memos?
COMEY: Oh, yeah. I don't know, some time after I was fired the
FBI apparently made a decision that there were some words in at
least two of the memos, maybe one, I think two, that were
diplomatically sensitive and so my lawyers returned them to the
FBI. But my testimony was truthful and I stand by it. I was hoping
you were going to ask me that.
BAIER: I am. I was.
COMEY: It was truthful.
Absolutely catastrophic and master’s class in conducting a
long interview.
Following a commercial break, Comey tried to play dumb
when it came to interpreting the Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page texts concerning the two lovers and former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
But prior to that act, Baier pressured him about the
prospect of McCabe facing criminal charges and the work
of Strzok and Page being questioned with the Clinton and
Trump probes based on their behavior.
BAIER: Should he be prosecuted?
COMEY: That's not for me to say. As a —
BAIER: Well, wait. You said it in the Clinton case.
COMEY: Well, I was then the director of the FBI.
BAIER: Which was not your role at that moment.
COMEY: I'm a private citizen. Private citizens should not be
calling for the prosecution of people in a case they are not
involved in. But, I do believe, as it routinely happens, the IG will
likely refer or has referred it to a U.S. Attorney's office to look at
it.
BAIER: So, did you — you see the disparity here where people
look at how the Clinton case was handled and how the Trump
case is handled. Did you tell lawmakers —
COMEY: I don’t I don't see disparity though.
BAIER: — did you tell lawmakers that FBI agents didn't believe
former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was lying
intentionally to investigators?
COMEY: No.
BAIER: You did not tell that?
COMEY: And I saw that in the media. I don’t know what —
maybe someone misunderstood something I said. I didn't believe
that and didn't say that.
BAIER: About the controversial text messages, we just received
a lot more up on Capitol Hill today. If you knew back then when
you were in charge of the investigation, and you saw those texts
between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the level of animus they
had against President Trump, what would have you done?
COMEY: I would have removed both of them from any contact
with significant investigations.
BAIER: So shouldn't their work from —
COMEY: — including those involving anybody connected to
president trump but beyond that. It’s just such poor judgment.
BAIER: — should their work product then be questioned?
COMEY: Sure. It's a reasonable question to ask.
BAIER: Okay. So, then Peter Strzok —
COMEY: They were bad mouthing everybody, including the
candidate Trump.
BAIER: — so, Peter Strzok interviews Hillary Clinton. Deals with
the bleach bit and the server and Cheryl Mills, all of that,
interviews Michael Flynn, and is integral in this whole case.
COMEY: But he’s one of many other people involved in all the
things you just ticked off. It's a reasonable question to ask and I
can tell you this. When I saw the texts, I was deeply disappointed
in them, but I never saw any bias any reflection of any kind of
animus towards anybody. Including me. I'm sure I'm bad
mouthing those texts. I'm just not going to read them never saw
it, but that's why we have such a big team of people —
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BAIER: But you were in charge.
COMEY: — to bang on each other.
BAIER: So, the buck stops with you.
COMEY: Of course.
BAIER: Okay.
COMEY; Of course. Of course I’m responsible.
The final excerpt worth highlighting was Baier pointing
out that Comey has stated he would still be on the job if he
weren’t fired despite the fact that he finds Trump unfit for
office and akin to a mob boss.
Speaking for most viewers, Baier expressed an
astonishment that Comey seemed to have zero problem
with that:
BAIER: You told CNN last night that you didn't think you’d be
fired. That, you know, had you not been fired, you would still be
working as FBI director tonight.
COMEY: Yeah. In fact, that was my intention to serve another six
years.
BAIER: So, despite the fact that now you say that this President
is morally unfit, that you say impeachment is too good of a
remedy on the book tour —
COMEY: That's not what I said. I said in a way I hope not
because I think the voters need to speak.
BAIER: Exactly and on the media tour and the blitz, you are
basically encouraging voters to vote Trump out of office because
he doesn't line up with your values.
COMEY: I'm asking them to vote their values and what I believe
your viewers would agree are America's values.
BAIER: Okay and but as of tonight, had you not been fired, you’d
still be working for this guy that you say is like a crime boss, who
is morally unfit, who you just don't agree with on principle and
values. You would still have that job tonight?
COMEY: Absolutely to be protect — and my goal would to be
protect the FBI and serve the President of the United States.
BAIER: So, when you say Republicans —
COMEY: I respect that office tremendously.
BAIER: — when you say to Republicans why do you work with
this President and then sit there and say you would still have this
job tonight, isn't there a disconnect there?
COMEY: No because elected officials in Congress have a public
platform and are responsible for communicating with the voters in
a way the FBI director is not. My job would be to protect the
independence of the institution. Their job should to be represent
the people who elected them.
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This was far from the first instance in which Baier grilled
high-profile figures in the news. In March and August
2016, he grilled Hillary Clinton during the height of the
campaign in ways that put his competitors to shame. He
also hammered then-Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon on
Mary 25, 2016 in a similar fashion that you can read about
here.
 Comey Says He STILL Doesn’t Know If Hillary’s Camp
Funded The Dossier… He Signed THREE FISA
Applications To Authorize Wiretaps Anyway
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 12:12 Am

Now of course we know this is a lie. Of course Comey

knew Hillary’s camp paid for the dossier.

Comey is a crooked cop and deserved to be fired.

Fired FBI Director James Comey went

on with Bret Baier on Special Report on
Thursday to discuss his new book.

Comey told Bret Baier he still isn’t sure who paid for the
phony Russia dossier–but who the hell cares where the
dossier came from because he signed three FISA
applications to authorize wiretaps anyway.

This guy was the FBI Director….STUNNING.

According to the FISA memo released in

February, the dossier formed an
essential part of the initial and all
THREE renewal FISA applications on
Carter Page.
Page 1 of the FISA memo says then-FBI
Director James Comey signed THREE
FISA applications in question on behalf
of the FBI.
Bret Baier asked Comey, Page 2 of the FISA memo clearly states
the political origins of the dossier were
known to senior FBI and DOJ officials
“When did you learn that the DNC and
yet omitted from the FISA applications.
Hillary Clinton campaign had funded
Christopher Steele’s work?”
Comey is a liar.
Comey replied,
The reaction from Trump supporters over this absurd
statement from Comey:
“I still don’t know that for a fact.”
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 Another Trump Miracle: North Korea And South Korea
Meet To Bring “Peace To The Peninsula”
By Jim Hoft
April 27, 2018, 6:52 Am

The statement was released during the signing of a pact

between South Korean President Moon Jae-In and his
North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un seeking to
establish a “permanent” and “solid” peace on the
Peninsula.

A few months ago the media was saying

that President Trump was fast creating
World War III.

Today the two Korean Leaders met to

end the Korean War and to negotiate a
complete Korean denuclearization.
President Trump’s actions led to today’s meeting but many
said that the President was going to start World War III
after his comments and tweets towards North Korea’s
leader ‘rocket man’ Kim Jong Un, tweeting,

“Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in

25 years, why would it work now? Clinton
failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I
won’t fail.”

Today in Asia comes the biggest news in 60 years –

The leaders of North and South Korea have pledged to

jointly eliminate the risk of war and work together to
achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula.
One of the President’s greatest tweets was towards, the
The joint statement Friday, from the border truce village of North Korean leader,
Panmunjom, concluded a historic one-day bilateral summit
aimed at achieving peace between the two adversarial “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by
nations for the first time in more than sixty years. The calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call
meeting of the Korean leaders was the first in more than a him “short and fat?” Oh well, I try so hard to
decade. be his friend – and maybe someday that
will happen!”
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 President Trump’s rhetoric with Kim Jong Un places the
US at the brink of World War III –

U.S. military officials increasingly worry that a mistake or

miscommunication — even more than an intentional act of
war — could start a nuclear conflict in Korea.

A North Korean provocation, a U.S. warning shot,

malicious hackers or a simple accident could be the cause
that starts a new war between two nations with a long
After this, Trump lovers declared the President ‘the king of
history of tensions and suspicion.
Twitter’ but Trump haters called him ‘mad’. The far left
liberal Huffington Post reported –
“Miscalculation is now at a stage [that is]
higher than probably any time since the
President Donald Trump launched into a
Cuban missile crisis,” former Obama
wild Twitter rant on Saturday after a
administration Energy Secretary Ernest
statement from North Korea referred to him
Moniz said days after President Donald
as an “old lunatic.”
Trump boasted on Twitter that his nuclear
“Why would Kim Jong Un insult me by button is “a much bigger & more powerful
calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call one” than Kim Jong Un’s.
him ‘short and fat?’,” Trump wrote on
They were all wrong again. Today due
Twitter.
to President Trump’s efforts in less than
two years in office, North and South
The president has, however, repeatedly referred to the Korea are meeting together to negotiate
North Korean leader as a “little rocket man.” peace in the Peninsula!

Another far left media site, Politico, quoted an official

from the failed Obama administration, stating that
.

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 Korean Leaders Declare An
End To War On Korean Peninsula
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
7:09 AM 04/27/2018

The two Koreas also agreed to more frequent exchanges

and the fielding of unified teams at international sporting
events.

Moon agreed to visit Pyongyang in the fall for further

negotiations with Kim.

The two Koreas “will be reunited as one

country,” the North Korean leader said in a
separate speech.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean
President Moon Jae-in declared in a joint statement Friday
that “a new era of peace has begun” in Korea. While historically significant, the joint statement did not
include any clear timetable for a lot of the stated goals.
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump, who will also meet
“There will be no more war on the Korean
Kim, appears quite satisfied with the latest developments
Peninsula,” the statement read. Kim and
on the peninsula.
Moon met for the first time at a historic
summit on South Korean soil Friday. There
were handshakes and hugs, shocking
scenes given that this time last year, the
nuclear sword of Damocles hung not only
over Korea, but the world.
“South and North Korea will actively
cooperate to establish a permanent and
solid peace regime on the Korean
peninsula,” Friday’s joint statement further
explained. “Bringing an end to the current
unactual state of armistice and establishing
a robust peace regime on the Korean
peninsula is a historical mission that must
not be delayed any further.”

In their joint statement, the two Korean leaders expressed a

desire for closer diplomatic ties, the cessation of hostilities
and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through
phased disarmament, meetings with China and the U.S. to
finally end the Korean War, the transformation of the Trump credits himself for the changes in Korea, and Moon
heavily-fortified demilitarized zone into a peace zone, and has also thanked the president. Kim naturally credits
the reunification of Korean families torn apart by the war. himself, praising North Korea’s courage and goodwill for
shifts on the Korean Peninsula.
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 President Trump Thanks China Leader
Xi For Helping To End The Korean War!
By Jim Hoft
April 27, 2018, 7:22 Am

Korean War Ends!

President Trump tweeted about the historic meeting

between the Korea’s today at the Korean border. He
tweeted – “After a furious year of missile launches and
Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and
South Korea is now taking place. Good things are
happening, but only time will tell!”

He finally thanked China President Xi – “Please do not

forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of
China, has given to the United States, particularly at the
Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a
much longer, tougher, process!”

He next tweeted – “KOREAN WAR TO END! The

United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very
proud of what is now taking place in Korea!”

Today the world owes a great debt to

peacekeeper President Donald Trump!
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 \
AG Sessions Confirms His Continued Recusal
While His Corrupt DOJ And Special Counsel With
Obvious Conflicts Charge Forward
By Jim Hoft
April 27, 2018, 9:17 Am

honored that, and will continue to honor

that,” Sessions said.

Sessions recusal was conniving and dishonest. If he was

going to recuse himself he needed to share this with his
President but he did not. Since then the US DOJ and FBI,
the two entities that he oversees, have been found to be
corrupt and led by criminals. Meanwhile Sessions
continues to do nothing about the obvious corruption in
Washington and throughout Obama’s DOJ. President
Trump is well aware of this –

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who

recused himself from anything Russia
as soon as he was sworn into office,
confirmed Wednesday that he will
continue with his recusal. His high
standards for recusal are not consistent
with his Assistant AG and Special
Counsel who are nothing but conflicted.
The corruption and lack of justice
continues. Sessions recused himself from anything Russia because of
pressure from the MSM for supposedly chatting with a
Russian during the election cycle. As a result his crooked
Wednesday AG Jeff Sessions appeared in front of the
Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein took over the department
Senate and declared that he would continue with his
and created the Mueller investigation almost overnight to
recusal –
look into Trump – Russia collusion, which isn’t even a
crime in the US code. The entire investigation is
Attorney General Jeff Sessions kept quiet Wednesday unconstitutional corrupt and conflicted but Sessions
about whether he would recuse himself from the criminal ignores the obvious conflicts and allows the ‘witch hunt’ to
investigation into Trump attorney Michael Cohen and continue.
refused to speculate on resigning should President Donald
Trump choose to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod
Mueller’s team is a who’s who of corrupt and conflicted
Rosenstein.
Obama and Hillary cronies. As we reported over the past
year Mueller’s team consists of the following
During a hearing held by the Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related
 Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal
Agencies, Sessions was pressed by Democratic Sen.
Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
Patrick Leahy on whether he had “honored” his recusal
— Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
from the investigation into Russian meddling and potential
 Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
collusion with Trump campaign associates ahead of the
 Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on
2016 election.
detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern
District of New York
“Sen. Leahy, I am honoring the recusal in  — Worked under Trump-basher Preet Bharara in
every case, in every matter that comes the liberal New York southern district.
before the Department of Justice. I have
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  Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s
Civil Division. — Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
 Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail
from the Office of the Solicitor General. -Fluent in
Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
 James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a
former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate
Special Prosecution Force. –Former assistant special
prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution
Force.
 Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and
as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia. — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation
Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney
General in the Office of Legal Counsel under
Barack Obama.
 Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the
Justice Department’s National Security Division.
— Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia
scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael
Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
 Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
the WilmerHale firm.
 Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on
detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District
of New York.
 Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former
colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
of the past two generations.
Mueller also had on his team Peter Strzok and Lisa Page,
the lusting couple whose texts were uncovered by the DOJ
IG which show bias, contempt for the President and
numerous corrupt and potential criminal actions while
working for the FBI. Strzok led the Hillary email
investigation and let her off without even recommending a
grand jury. He interviewed her without putting her under
oath, without taking notes, and without taping the
discussion. Page leaked information to the Wall Street
.
Journal as noted in the IG’s McCabe memo. Both are now
back at the FBI.
Rod Rosenstein who hired Mueller has numerous conflicts
of interest. It’s unknown if they ever have been vetted or
even declared. He is related to the corrupt Uranium One
scandal and he signed off on a FISA warrant request to spy
on President Trump based on a dossier created by the
Clinton campaign. Despite these obvious conflicts he has
never mentioned recusing himself from office or the
corrupt Mueller investigation. President Trump tweeted
about this –
Mueller may be the most corrupt. In the past he
was involved in numerous scandals related to Obama and
the Clintons where no one was ever charged with crimes.
His best friend is James Comey. Mueller is involved in
Uranium One and he even delivered uranium to the
Russians on a tarmac in Europe per the direction of then
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He too has never
suggested recusing himself from the witch hunt.
Sessions recuses himself for talking to a Russian but the
rest of the team has more conflicts than can accurately be
tallied in a single post. The Mueller – Rosenstein –
Sessions investigation is corrupt based on perceived and
confirmed conflicts of interest.
By recusing himself Sessions shows he
is corrupt, dishonest, not able to
perform his duty as AG and part of the
deep state. He must go.

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 Trump: Leaking Comey
Is ‘Either Very Sick Or Very Dumb’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:18 AM 04/27/2018

Comey insisted he did not leak contents of some of his

classified memos memorializing conversations with Trump
in a Thursday evening interview on Fox News.

“I don’t consider what I did with Mr.

Richman a leak,” the former FBI director
told Bret Baier.
“I told him about an unclassified
President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then the conversation with the president,” adding “I
director of the FBI, in the Blue Room of the White House in January
2017.Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images | Comey Memo: gave him nothing else, ever, to share with
CNN Prompted Dossier Briefing the media.” Comey explained in a previous
CNN interview. “I think of a leak as an
President Donald Trump took aim at James Comey Friday unauthorized disclosure of classified
morning over the former FBI director’s claim that he did information.”
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 Bret Baier Dishes On One-On-One Interview With James
Comey: ‘It Was Tense’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:21 AM 04/27/2018

was tense — back and forth,” Baier said.

“But in the commercial break he turned to
me said, hey those are tough but fair
questions.”

Baier was surprised by Comey’s lack of knowledge about

the Christopher Steele dossier and challenged him when he
tried to claim it was funded by Republicans.
Bret Baier Dishes On One-On-One Interview With James Comey 'It
Was Tense' - Fox & Friends 4-27-18 “What struck me were a couple of things,”
Baier continued. “One, was that after all
Fox News host Bret Baier discussed his interview with this time and after all the talk about the
former FBI Director James Comey on “Fox & Friends” dossier, that he did not know that the
Friday and described it as “tense.” Democrats, the DNC and
Hillary Clinton were funding that? That was
pretty shocking.”
“I started with the Clinton probe and got to
the Trump probe, and started to go down
the leaking questions there. Obviously it
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 Here Is The House Intel Committee’s
Long-Awaited Russia Report
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:42 AM 04/27/2018

“the investigation did find poor judgment

and ill-considered actions by the Trump
and Clinton campaigns.”

It singles out Trump associate’s contacts with Russian

nationals and groups like Wikileaks during the campaign.

The committee also released a 99-page rebuttal written by

Democrats upset with Republican members’ handling of
the Russia investigation. Democrats, led by California
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Rep. Adam Schiff, claim that Republicans failed to
Friday released a heavily-redacted 253-page report laying interview relevant witnesses or to issue subpoenas that
out the findings of its 14-month investigation into Russian might uncover evidence of Trump campaign collusion.
interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The committee, which is chaired by Republican California
The report, which was authored by committee Republicans Rep. Devin Nunes, conducted 73 witness interviews for
and approved for release on a party-line vote, asserts that the investigation and reviewed 308,000 documents.
the investigation
The investigation, which was formally opened on Jan. 25,
“found no evidence that the Trump 2017, looked into four main areas: Russian active
campaign colluded, coordinated, or measures; intelligence related to any links between
conspired with the Russian Russian operatives and political campaigns; the U.S.
government.” government’s response to Russia’s attempts to infiltrate the
political system; and leaks of classified information from
But the report notes that the intelligence community.

House Intel’s Russia report by Chuck Ross on Scribd starts

on next page.

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 Kellyanne Conway
Drops Bomb On ‘Fox & Friends’:
President Wants To Call In Monthly
Virginia Kruta
9:47 AM 04/27/2018

“And the president has said that he would

like to perhaps come once a month and as
news breaks, but he’ll keep us guessing…”

Doocy appeared dumbfounded.

“Wait. Come to Fox & Friends Once a

month?”

White House Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway delivered Conway confirmed that, yes, the president would like to
a surprise announcement on Friday morning’s “Fox & make regular appearances.
Friends,” saying that President Donald Trump would like
to make his wide-ranging Thursday interview a monthly “Perhaps monthly,” she said, or as news
occurrence. breaks.

A chorus of, “WOW!” and “All right!”

Conway was appearing to discuss the situation on the erupted from the Fox & Friends” set.
Korean peninsula and the upcoming meeting between
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Conway went on to explain that Trump, as a private
but she began by referencing Trump’s Thursday morning citizen, had done a weekly appearance on “Fox &
interview on the same program. Friends” and it gave the American people a clearer picture
of his thought process and policy positions. His goal in
“Tough act to follow with yesterday’s doing more regular appearances would be to keep that
interview.” conversation open and ongoing.
Host Steve Doocy thanked the Trump administration for
agreeing to work with Fox News producers in order to set
up that interview, but Conway said that it was certainly
something the president wanted to do and enjoyed doing.

“The president had a great time bringing

his case directly to the American people as
he does on social media and these bilateral
Q & As, certainly at the South Lawn, the
press pool sprays, and with other
interviews.”

But then Conway dropped the other shoe.

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 CNN’s Chris Cuomo Thinks Trump
Could Win The Nobel Peace Prize For North Korea Efforts
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:11 AM 04/27/2018

Chris Cuomo, host of CNN’s “New Day,” thinks President

Donald Trump may receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his
efforts to broker peace between North and South Korea,
and said he may deserve the award more than former
President Barack Obama.
“Politics. We have to deal with the policy,
obviously,” Cuomo said Friday. “There are
so many what IFS and conditions and all
that. But if you take it at its best possible
result — President Obama got a Nobel
peace award for a lot less than bringing
actual peace, instead of armistice to the
Korean peninsula.”
WATCH:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean
President Moon Jae-in released a joint statement Friday
promising “a new era of peace” in Korea. The
announcement is seen as unprecedented, as Trump’s
predecessors made little progress in dealing with the rogue
nation.
Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2009 just
over eight months after he became president, and while
America was still embroiled in two wars in the Middle
East. The Peace Prize committee chairman who gave him
the award (and a cash prize of $1.4 million) has since
been demoted.

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 Almost Every Moment Of Kim Jong Un’s Meeting With
Moon Jae-In Was Carefully Scripted …
Except For This One
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
10:25 AM 04/27/2018

president then said that it was nice to meet

Kim. “I can’t stop the feeling excited to
meet in this historic place, and I am very
moved that the president came to greet me
at the demarcation line,” the latter
responded.
WATCH:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threw out an

unexpected curve ball at a carefully planned inter-Korean
summit Friday.

As Kim crossed over the border to meet his southern

counterpart on South Korean soil, the two Korean leaders
exchanged pleasantries and shook hands, as expected.
What took place immediately afterwards, however, was
unplanned.
“When do I get to visit the North?”
South Korean President Moon Jae-in reportedly asked
Kim, who replied that he could do so right then and there.
The two Korean leaders then stepped over the concrete
slab delineating the inter-Korean border into North Korea.
Hand-in-hand, Kim and Moon then stepped across the
military demarcation line together.
The entire spectacle, one of the most talked about
moments of the summit, was clear evidence that both sides
understand the value of propaganda.
This scene, historically significant for a number of reasons,
was preceded by a polite yet somewhat awkward
conversation.
“Nice to meet you,” Kim said. “How was the
journey?” Moon asked, to which Kim
replied, “It was fine.” The South Korean
.
“It was a courageous decision for you to
come here,” Moon said, leading Kim to say
that it was not. “It’s a historic moment,”
Moon stated.
Indeed, Friday’s summit was significant, as it is the third
inter-Korean summit and the first since Kim took power.
Furthermore, Friday marked the first time a North Korean
leader has visited South Korea since the end of Korean
War hostilities.
During their meeting, the two sides agreed to increased
bilateral cooperation, closer diplomatic ties, the cessation
of hostilities and phased disarmament. Both Moon and
Kim expressed a desire to finally end the Korean War.
Timetables remain unclear, and commitments remain
vague, but the results of Friday’s summit may have the
potential to move the Korean Peninsula closer to a state of
peace.
Moon is expected to visit Pyongyang later this year.

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 Joe Scarborough Praises
‘Fox & Friends’ For ‘Remarkable’ Interview
With Trump [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:41 AM 04/27/2018

Joe Scarborough praised his competition over at “Fox &

Friends” Friday for conducting a “remarkable” interview
with President Donald Trump.
“With any luck, though, Donald Trump will
take a victory lap this morning by calling in
again to ‘Fox & Friends,’ because I got to
tell you yesterday, yesterday was
wonderful,” Scarborough said .”And let’s
just say for our friends over at ‘Fox &
Friends’ they asked him some good
questions, ask him some good follow-up
questions that I think really opened up the
conversation.”
WATCH:
.
“So they certainly should be commended
for that, it was a remarkable 30-minute
interview,” Scarborough continued.
He also said Trump left himself open to legal scrutiny with
certain claims he made on air.
“But Donald Trump put down land mines
for his legal team. All over the place
yesterday,” Scarborough concluded. “So
much so, that the southern district of New
York moved immediately and amended
their pleadings, based on the admissions
against interests that Donald Trump made
on TV.”

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 Republican Rep Ron Desantis
Tells Rod Rosenstein To
‘Produce The Goods’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:12 AM 04/27/2018
Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis Tells Rod Rosenstein Produce The
Goods -- Fox & Friends 4-27-18
Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida said Friday on
“Fox & Friends” that deputy attorney general Rod
Rosenstein must produce more of the Strzok-Page texts to
Congress or face the consequences.
DeSantis claims there are “big gaps” in the information
Congress has received thus far and suspects many texts
may be missing.
“Big gaps. No doubt about it,” he said. “I
think their average texts from the other
periods were almost 12 texts as day. From
the production we got over a key six month
period, it was less than two texts a day.”
WATCH:
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“Unless they just magically had radically
different texting habits for that particular six
months, there is a lot more that needs to be
received by the Congress and we’re going
to have to go back to Rosenstein and go
back to these guys and say produce the
goods,” DeSantis continued.
He also commented on the possible impeachment of
Rosenstein and thinks it should be kept on the table, to
avoid further obstruction.
“If you’re not willing to do things like that
then you are going to keep getting
stonewalled,” Desantis concluded. “And I
think the fear is that they try to string this
out past the election and if the Democrats
take over, which I hope not, then they don’t
have to worry about doing this anymore.”
 Lindsey Graham Praises
Trump For Korea Peace Talks [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:29 AM 04/27/2018

happened? Donald Trump convinced North

Korea and China he was serious about
bringing about change.”

WATCH:

Lindsey Graham Thinks President Trump Should Win The Nobel

Peace Prize - Fox & Friends 4-27-18

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina

praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring peace to
North and South Korea and thinks he should receive the
Nobel Peace Prize if his plan is successful.

“Here’s the deal. It wouldn’t have happened

without Trump,” Graham said on “Fox & “We’re not there yet,” Graham concluded.
Friends” Friday. “It may not happen, but “But, if this happens, President Trump
[it’s] the biggest change since the end of deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”
the hostilities. The fact that the North
Korean and South Korean president met
and they vow to end the war, what
.

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 Trey Gowdy Gives James Comey
A Dose Of Reality, Reminds Him
He’s Not A Hero [Video]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:38 Am 04/27/2018

Trey Gowdy Gives James Comey A Dose Of Reality, Reminds Him

He's Not A Hero - Fox & Friends 4-27-18

South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy appeared on

Gowdy also decried the double standard that allows
“Fox & Friends” Friday and called out former FBI
Comey and Andrew McCabe to be hailed as champions
director James Comey for leaking information and painting
while those same people crucify President Donald Trump.
himself as a hero.

“The thing with Comey is, he is the hero in

“Comey said I don’t do sneaky things; I
every story he tells,” Gowdy concluded.
don’t leak; I don’t do weasel things. His
“He’s the hero, and he has, what strikes me
definition of leak is to disseminate
as double standard. If this person lies, he
classified information. That’s actually a
wants him to be president of the United
crime,” Gowdy said. “A leak is if you and I
States. If Andy McCabe lies, he’s still a
have an expectation of privacy in a
stand up guy. But he thinks if President
conversation and then I go and divulge the
Trump lies, he should be impeached.
contents of it — that is not a legal issue. It’s
That’s relativism. It’s antithetical to morals.”
a moral issue, but It’s a leak.”

WATCH:

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 Trump Celebrates
House Intel Committee Report
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:40 AM 04/27/2018
Trump Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla
President Donald Trump celebrated the release of the
house intelligence committee’s report on Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election, in a Friday
tweet.
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The newly released report found
“while the committee found no evidence
that the Trump campaign colluded,
coordinated, or conspired with the Russian
government, the investigation did find poor
judgment and ill-considered actions by the
Trump and Clinton campaigns.”
The report found fault with the Trump campaign for
“periodic praise for and communications with WikiLeaks
— a hostile foreign organization — to be highly
objectionable and inconsistent with U.S. national security
interests” and also took a swipe at the Clinton campaign.
“Using a series of intermediaries, the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and
Hillary for America (Clinton campaign) paid
a research firm to conduct opposition
research on candidate Trump and his ties
with Russia.”
 Trey Gowdy: Comey’s Definition
Of A Leak Is ‘What The Rest Of Us Call A Felony’
David Krayden - Ottawa Bureau Chief
9:48 AM 04/27/2018

Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy says former FBI Director

James Comey is distorting the definition of an information
“leak” to suit his own purposes.
The South Carolina congressman told Fox News’ Tucker
Carlson Thursday night that Comey was twisting the facts
in an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier earlier that evening.
CNN host Anderson Cooper pressed him.
“I think of a leak as an unauthorized
disclosure of classified information,” Comey
said.
“That’s it?” Cooper replied.

Comey was trying to convince Baier that he had not really
“leaked” his memos of meetings with President Donald
Trump to the media but had simply shared personal
correspondence that could be seen as no different than a
private “diary.”
The DOJ inspector general is examining whether Comey
violated any laws or regulations governing the release of
classified information to the media or public.

That didn’t wash with Gowdy, who told Carlson that

Comey

“has a definition of the word leak that no

one else has.”
“What he says is a leak is what the rest of
us call a felony,” Gowdy insisted. “Leaking
is disclosing a confidential conversation,
which is exactly what he did.”

Comey claimed Wednesday on CNN that he did not leak

memos, but that he

“asked a friend to communicate the

substance … one unclassified memo to
the media.”

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 Week Before Blaming ‘F*Cking Russians,’
McCaskill Said Election ‘Impossible’ To Rig
BY: Brent Scher
April 27, 2018 12:14 Pm

Now more than 17 months since the election it is

Sen. Claire McCaskill / Getty Images
Democrats who are still attempting to challenge the results
in the courts. The Democratic National Committee filed a
lawsuit against the Trump campaign for conspiring with
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) was quoted on election Russia to defeat Clinton.
night blaming the "f*cking Russians" for Hillary Clinton's
loss, but a week earlier she was on CNN saying
McCaskill's tune had already changed by election night,
according to a new book by Michael Isikoff and David
"it would be impossible to rig an
Corn.
election in the United States of
America."
The authors say McCaskill was heard by reporters blaming
"fucking Russians" as it became clear Trump was going to
McCaskill's October 28, 2016, comments to Chris Cuomo
come out on top.
came when most were confident Clinton would be
victorious and Democrats were pressuring Donald Trump
to say he would accept the election results. "Can you believe this? The fucking
Russians," she said, according to the book.
"The notion that the most resilient and
admired democracy in the world is now McCaskill now says she doesn't remember making the
subject to election rigging is comment and that it wasn't her sentiment at the time. She
preposterous," McCaskill said. "Frankly, has called the DNC's lawsuit a "silly distraction."
it would be impossible to rig an election
in the United States of America."

McCaskill goes on to criticize Trump for "whining" and

"making excuses" for losing.
.

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 Veselnitskaya=> ‘I Am A Lawyer And
I Am An Informant For The Russian Government’ –
Obama Admin Gave Special Entry To US
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 12:36 Pm
Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya,
who met with Donald Trump Jr. at
Trump Tower New York in June of 2016
is now claiming she is also an informant
for the Russian government.
Via The New York Times:
The Russian lawyer who met with Trump
campaign officialsin Trump Tower in June
2016 on the premise that she would deliver
damaging information about Hillary Clinton
has long insisted she is a private attorney,
not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in
the presidential election.
But newly released emails show that in at
least one instance two years earlier, the
lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked
hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal
office to thwart a Justice Department civil
fraud case against a well-connected
Russian firm.
Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have
recanted her earlier denials of Russian
government ties. During an interview to be
broadcast Friday by NBC News, she
acknowledged that she was not merely a
private lawyer but a source of information
for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika,
the prosecutor general.
“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she
said. “Since 2013, I have been actively
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communicating with the office of the
Russian prosecutor general.”
Veselnitskaya previously said in a November testimony to
the Senate Judiciary Committee she had no connection to
the Kremlin.
Nothing about this Russian lawyer adds up; it’s a Deep
State set up.
According to Fox News, Veselnitskaya met with Glenn
Simpson of Fusion GPS mere hours before she and three
Russians sauntered over to Trump Tower to meet with Don
Jr. and few others from Trump’s campaign. She then met
with Simpson AGAIN after she left Trump Tower.
It gets worse…
Reuters reported that the memo Veselnitskaya presented to
Don Jr at Trump Tower was PREPARED BY FUSION
GPS….yes the same firm that Hillary’s camp paid millions
of dollars to for the garbage Russia dossier.
Veselnitskaya was also given special entry to the US by
the Obama administration via The Hill:
The Homeland Security Department
confirmed Friday that Russian lawyer
Natalia Veselnitskaya was granted special
entry to the United States on multiple
occasions in 2015 and 2016 at the request
of the Justice Department.
It also said Veselnitskaya eventually won a
nonimmigrant work visa around the time
she met President Trump’s eldest son in
New York last summer.
Homeland told The Hill that Veselnitskaya was allowed to
enter the United States on multiple occasions between
September 2015 and February 2016 under a “Significant
Public Benefit Parole” document requested by the Justice
Department so she could participate in a court case for a
client.
The request was done “in concurrence” with the U.S. Mueller still hasn’t contacted Veselnitskaya, so there’s
attorney’s office in New York City, which was enforcing a that.
civil asset forfeiture case against Prevezon Holdings, a
company owned by Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, This was all a set up.
whom Veselnitskaya represented as a private attorney in
their home country.
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 Trump Slams White House Correspondents’ Dinner As
‘Fake News Prom,’ Will Hold Michigan Rally
Instead Of Attending (VIDEO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 27, 2018, 12:41 Pm
The post also included a video, in which Trump media
advisor Mark Serrano said that
President Donald Trump is not only skipping the annual
White House Correspondents’ Dinner again this year, he
took to Facebook on Friday to mock the event by calling it
the “fake news prom.”
The typically star-studded event has lost its luster under
the Trump administration, as the president declined
attending in 2017 as well. During previous administrations,
the president would attend the black-tie dinner and be
lightly roasted by the host and other guests, which always
included A-list celebrities.
During his presidency, President Trump has skipped both
and instead held competing rallies at the same time. This
year, his rally will be in Washington, Michigan.
In a Facebook post about the dinner, Trump wrote,
“tomorrow night I’m skipping the Fake
News Prom (White House Correspondents’
Dinner) to be with American patriots who
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truly want to MAGA! Tune in at 7pm to
watch the rally LIVE on Facebook!”
“this weekend, the elites of the fake news
media will be gathering in Washington for
the annual White House Correspondents
Dinner. It will be a star-studded event
where the denizens of Washington society
hobnob with their favorite celebrities to
wine and dine and pat themselves on the
back for all of their fake news
achievements over the past year.”
“The truth is the White House
Correspondents Dinner merely exposes
the cozy, co-dependent relationship that
exists year-round between the political
class in Washington, their mouthpieces
in the mainstream media, and the
Hollywood elites who shape our culture
with their out-of-touch liberal ideology,”
Serrano continued. “As is customary,
the President of the United States was
invited to this glamorous affair and
 President Trump is in Washington that
evening — Washington, Michigan, that
is!”
Serrano continued on to say that while the “fake news
media is celebrating themselves with champagne toasts”
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President Trump will be leading a rally at the exact same
time “with hardworking patriotic Americans.”
The event will be attended by Sarah Sanders, and hosted
by Michelle Wolf, from Comedy Central’s The Daily
Show with Trevor Noah.
 #Nevertrump Troll Website Redstate
Finally Shut Down Over Lack Of Interest
By Jim Hoft
April 27, 2018, 1:03 Pm
#NeverTrump troll website Redstate was
finally shut down today.
Guess there’s just not a market in the
conservative media for Trump-bashing
lunacy.
Redstate was the pulse of the conservative movement:
Poor Erick Erickson:
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RedState famously called for protesters
to bring guns to Trump rallies.
CNN Money reported:
Salem Media, owner of the influential
conservative outlet RedState, froze the site
on Friday and dismissed many of its
writers.
Bloggers were locked out of their accounts
— some just temporarily, while the cuts
were made, and others permanently.
Erick Erickson, the site’s longtime editor
who left in 2015, tweeted about what he
called the “mass firing” on Friday morning.
“Very sad to see, but not really surprising
given Salem’s direction,” he wrote. “And,
finally, after all these years, they’ve turned
off my account.”
Multiple sources told CNNMoney that they
believed conservative critics of President
Trump were the writers targeted for
removal.
“Insufficiently partisan” was the phrase one
writer used in a RedState group chat.
 BOMBSHELL: Group Of Wealthy Donors Paid $50
Million To Fund Trump-Russia Investigation
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 2:08 Pm
A bombshell was revealed in the House
Intel Panel’s much-anticipated Trump-
Russia report which was released
Friday morning.
A group of wealthy donors shelled out
$50 million to fund the Trump-Russia
investigation according to a footnote in
the Russia report.
A group of about 7-10 wealthy donors from California
(Silicon Valley) and New York spent $50 million to fund a
Trump-Russia investigation conducted by none other than
Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former staffer for
Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein named Daniel Jones.
Christopher Steele, a former British spy, was hired by
Fusion GPS to conduct ‘oppo research’ on Donald Trump.
Steele then compiled a 35-page dossier from a series of
memos he penned alleging Trump commissioned help
from Russia in order to win the presidential election.
Hillary Clinton’s camp and the DNC also funded the
dossier.
The Russia dossier is complete garbage and has not been
verified to this date yet Mueller is using it to conduct his
investigation into Trump’s campaign.
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The dossier failed to propel Hillary Clinton into the White
House.
Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller exclusively reported:
The House report states that in March
2017, Jones told the FBI about a project he
is working on with Steele and Fusion GPS
that is being funded to the tune of $50
million by 7 to 10 wealthy donors from New
York and California.
“In late March 2017, Jones met with FBI
regarding PQG, which he described as
‘exposing foreign influence in Western
election,’” reads the committee’s report.
“[Redacted] told FBI that PQG was being
funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located
primarily in New York and California, who
provided approximately $50 million.”
“[Redacted] further stated that PQG had
secured the services of Steele, his
associate [redacted], and Fusion GPS to
continue exposing Russian interference in
the 2016 U.S. Presidential election,” reads
the report, which adds that Jones “planned
to share the information he obtained with
policymakers…and with the press.”
Jones “also offered to provide PQG’s entire
holdings to the FBI,” the report says.
The report cites a transcript of an interview that Jones gave
to the FBI. The transcript, known as an FD-302, is dated
March 28, 2017.
Screen image of footnote provided by Chuck Ross:
The Federalist first reported in February a former staffer
for Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein, Daniel Jones was
working with Fusion GPS.
Who else was Daniel Jones talking to? Top Democrat
Senator Mark Warner–yes the same Mark Warner who
tried to create a backchannel with Christopher Steele via
Adam Waldman, a lobbyist for Russian Oligarch Oleg
Deripaska.
Fox News first obtained text messages between Senator
Warner and Adam Waldman discussing setting a private
meeting with Christopher Steele.
According to additional text messages obtained by The
Daily Caller, Daniel Jones was also communicating with
lobbyist Adam Waldman in March of 2017, and they
ultimately met in person.
The Daily Caller reported:
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Waldman met with Jones on March 16,
2017.
During that meeting, Waldman says
that Jones revealed that he was working
with Fusion GPS. Jones also said that a
“group of Silicon Valley billionaires and
George Soros” were funding the project
with Fusion GPS, according to Waldman,
who testified to the Senate Intelligence
panel on Nov. 3.
The money and effort spent to prevent Donald Trump from
becoming president is astounding.
Soros, Obama and Hillary are the root of this attempted
coup with the help of the weaponized intel and law
enforcement agencies.
The wheels have been turning to remove Trump from
office before he was even sworn in on inauguration day.
 John Brennan Issues Warning To POTUS
About Mueller’s Investigation
“Stay Tuned, Mr. Trump…”
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 3:01 Pm

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll, Trump Campaign “colluded, coordinated or

John Brennan issued President Trump a
warning Friday morning after the House
Intel Panel released their much-
anticipated Russia report, officially
clearing Trump.
conspired with Russia.” Clinton Campaign
paid for Opposition Research obtained
from Russia- Wow! A total Witch Hunt!
MUST END NOW!

There was no Trump-Russia collusion. End the witch hunt

now and start prosecuting all involved in the attempted
coup.

Former CIA Director, John Brennan

promptly issued a warning to President
Trump.

John Brennan tweeted:

A highly partisan, incomplete, and deeply

Not only did the House Intel report clear Trump of any flawed report by a broken House
‘collusion’ with Russia, it revealed a group of wealthy Committee means nothing. The Special
donors spent $50 million to fund the Trump-Russia Counsel’s work is being carried out by
investigation. professional investigators—not political
staffers. SC’s findings will be
A group of about 7-10 wealthy donors from California comprehensive & authoritative. Stay tuned,
(Silicon Valley) and New York spent $50 million to fund a Mr. Trump….
Trump-Russia investigation conducted by none other than
Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former staffer for
Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein named Daniel Jones.

Where the hell is AG Sessions??

President Trump reacted to the House

Intel report Friday morning and called
for the witch hunt to “END NOW!”

Trump tweeted:
The “professional investigators” Brennan is referring to on
Just Out: House Intelligence Committee Mueller’s team is a who’s who of corrupt and conflicted
Report released. “No evidence” that the

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Obama and Hillary cronies. As we reported over the past
year Mueller’s team consists of the following:
 Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal
Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
— Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
 Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
 Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on
detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern
District of New York
— Worked under Trump-basher Preet Bharara in
the liberal New York southern district.
 Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s
Civil Division. — Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
 Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail
from the Office of the Solicitor General. -Fluent in
Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
 James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a
former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate
Special Prosecution Force. –Former assistant special
prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution
Force.
 Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and
as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia. — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation
Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney
General in the Office of Legal Counsel under
Barack Obama.
.
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 Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the
Justice Department’s National Security Division.
— Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia
scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael
Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
 Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
the WilmerHale firm.
 Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on
detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District
of New York.
 Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former
colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
of the past two generations.
Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page were thrown off of
the investigation after Trump-hating text messages
between the two FBI agents were discovered by the IG.
John Brennan was involved in this attempted coup which
is why he’s lashing out on his Twitter account.
In fact, Chairman Nunes is currently investigating whether
John Brennan perjured himself in a public testimony about
the dossier.
 Here Are The 49 Pages Of
The FBI Lovebirds Latest Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 3:56 Pm

After a delay, five different Congressional
committees received some of the ‘missing’
Strzok-Page text messages Thursday
evening.
These text messages we are waiting for are from the
crucial 6 months between December of 2016 up until
Mueller was appointed on May 17.
Only 49 pages, mostly redacted were turned over to
investigators Thursday.
The Daily Caller obtained the 49 pages of Strzok-Page text
messages.
The DOJ is still withholding the damning text messages
between these two FBI lovebirds.
The FBI previously claimed the messages were erased due
to a tech glitch with the FBI-issued phones, then the IG
magically recovered them.
Where the hell is AG Sessions??

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 Congressman Messer Plans To Nominate President Trump
For Nobel Peace Prize Over ‘Historic
Progress’ In North Korea
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 27, 2018, 4:15 Pm

Congressman Luke Messer (R-IN) announced his
intentions to nominate President Donald Trump for a
Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, following the historic
agreement to end the 65-year-old war in the Korean
peninsula and work towards denuclearization.
On Thursday, Kim Jong Un crossed the border to meet
with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, the first time a
North Korean leader has done so since the end of the
Korean War in 1953.
North Korea has recently announced that they will
be suspending nuclear tests and launches of ballistic
missiles, and that they will shut down a nuclear site.
announcement, President Trump should get
the Nobel Peace Prize. Our peace through
strength strategy is delivering never before
seen results.”
As a member of Congress, Messer is actively gathering
support from his colleagues to nominate the President for
the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, the press release stated.
President Obama previously received a Nobel Peace Prize,
for no real reason.

South Korea’s foreign minister has credited President

Trump for bringing the two sides together, saying

“Clearly, credit goes to President

Trump…He’s been determined to come to
grips with this from day one.”
“We are seeing unprecedented progress
toward peace, and it’s a direct result of
President Trump’s strong leadership.”
Messer said in a statement about his
intentions. “Following this historic
As Fox News has noted, the former secretary of the Nobel
Institute, acknowledged in 2015 that the prize was awarded
prematurely to President Obama –
“for achievements the institute hoped Obama
would achieve, rather than for what he had
actually accomplished.”

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House Intel Report Reveals James Clapper Leaked Dossier
Briefing To CNN’s Jake Tapper – Then Lied About It
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 5:50 Pm
The much-anticipated House Intel Russia
report was released Friday morning,
officially clearing President Trump of any
“collusion” during the election.
The House Intel report also revealed former DNI Chief,
James Clapper leaked the dossier briefing to CNN’s Jake
Tapper.
Fake News CNN then ran a story featuring James Clapper,
denying Clapper leaked to CNN.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
According to the House Intel report, James Clapper
“provided inconsistent testimony to the
Committee about his contacts with the media,
including CNN.”
Via Sara Carter:
They noted that when Clapper was initially
asked about leaks related to the dossier in July
2017, Clapper denied “discussing the dossier
compiled by Steele or any other intelligence
related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election
with journalists.”
But according to the report, Clapper eventually
acknowledged discussing the “dossier with
CNN journalist Jake Tapper.” He also admitted
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that he may have told other journalists about
the dossier.
“Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in
early January 2017, around the time IC leaders
briefed President Obama and President-elect
Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’
a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’
the highly-classified version of the IC,” the
Russia report states.
On January 10th, 2017, CNN reported then-President elect
Trump had been briefed on January 6th about the salacious
yet unverified dossier, compiled by Steele.
This story was precisely the ‘news hook’ Buzzfeed needed
to usher in the dossier which they published in full later
on.
The Russian collusion story was now in full
swing thanks to the Clapper-Tapper leak.
In Comey’s recently published memos, he told Trump in
January, the media had the dossier and was looking for a
‘news hook’ to run with the story.
During a July 17, 2017 committee interview,
James Clapper initially “flatly denied” discussing
the Steele dossier “or any other intelligence
related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election
with journalists.”
Clapper then caved and admitted he discussed the dossier
with Jake Tapper and other journalists.
Clapper also lied about leaking during an
interview with Don Lemon in March of this
year.
Clapper told Don Lemon in March of 2018 that he didn’t
have any contact with the media about the dossier before
he left his government post on Jan 20th.
“I didn’t have any contact with media until after I
left the government on the 20th of January, so I
don’t quite understand, at least what I’ve read,
 that somehow I leaked about the dossier,”
James Clapper told Don Lemon.

“So you didn’t leak anything about the dossier to any

media?” Lemon asked Clapper.

“No, not…I mean, I talked about it after I left the

government, but not during that period, and certainly not
between the 6th of January and the 10th when the
president-elect himself talked about it.”

WATCH CLAPPER LIE – VIDEO:

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 Trial Lawyer: What Jake Tapper Did Was Worse Than
What His CIA Allies Said Assange
Should Go To Prison For
By Jim Hoft
April 27, 2018, 6:00 Pm

The House Intelligence Panel’s much-
anticipated Trump-Russia report was
released on Friday morning.
The committee’s report officially cleared
President Trump from any wrongdoing.
in the 2016 U.S. elections revealed that
Obama’s Director of National Intelligence
(DNI) leaked information about the
infamous anti-Trump dossier to CNN’s
Jake Tapper, lied about it to Congress, and
then was rewarded with a contract at CNN a
few months later.
Attorney Robert Barnes tweeted out that
Jake Tapper may want to lawyer up.
“It appears what Jake Tapper did is worse
than what his CIA allies said Assange
should go to prison for.

The report did spotlight several deviant and

potentially illegal acts by political operatives
and their cohorts in the liberal media.
According to the report, former Obama
Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper leaked information about the junk
anti-Trump Russia dossier to CNN’s Jake
Tapper.
Clapper lied about this to a congressional
panel while under oath.

So James Clapper is obviously in serious

trouble — And so is Jake Tapper.
Ryan Saavedra and The Daily Wire reported:
On Friday, a newly-declassified
congressional report on Russian meddling

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 THE GLOVES ARE OFF=> Trump Unleashes Fury On
The Special Counsel AGAIN “Witch Hunt!”
By Cristina Laila
April 27, 2018, 9:41 Pm

TRUMP TWEETED:
The gloves are off.
Just Out: House Intelligence Committee Report
President Trump unleashed on the special released. “No evidence” that the Trump
counsel for the second time in one day in a Campaign “colluded, coordinated or conspired
late Friday night tweet. with Russia.” Clinton Campaign paid for
Opposition Research obtained from Russia-
Wow! A total Witch Hunt! MUST END NOW!

Trump hit the special counsel AGAIN on

President Trump is a fighter. Friday night.

This is why we elected him. TRUMP TWEETED:

The much-anticipated House Intel Russia
report was released Friday morning,
officially clearing President Trump of any
“collusion” during the election.
There was no Trump-Russia collusion; there was however,
collusion with wealthy donors conspiring to take down
Trump.
House Intelligence Committee rules that there
was NO COLLUSION between the Trump
Campaign and Russia. As I have been saying
all along, it is all a big Hoax by the Democrats
based on payments and lies. There should
never have been a Special Counsel appointed.
Witch Hunt!

A group of about 7-10 wealthy donors from California

(Silicon Valley) and New York spent $50 million to fund a
Trump-Russia investigation conducted by none other than
Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former staffer for
Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein named Daniel Jones.

President Trump reacted to the House Intel report Friday

morning slamming the witch hunt.

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