Are The “Alt-Left” & Alt-Right W/Soros Help

& “The Deep State” Going To Destroy

Our President And Country?

The 2017 Trump

Presidency - #19
December 20, 2017 to January 10, 2018

Mueller Has Found Flynn Guilty, Will

This Help The “Psycho Left” Destroy
The Trump Presidency
And United States of America?
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 Mueller’s Sinister Coup Attempt
The Special Counsel Threatens The Rule Of Law By
Stealing Trump Transition Documents.
Matthew Vadum
December 20, 2017
The unprecedented theft of thousands of likely privileged
Trump transition emails by Special Counsel Robert S.
Mueller’s investigators is yet more proof that the open-
ended fishing expedition is continuing to move forward
with its effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election.
News of the misappropriation of the email tranches comes
weeks after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller
quit or be fired, saying the independent prosecutor has
“indisputable” conflicts of interest.
“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this
country if we allow an unaccountable
person with no oversight to undermine the
duly-elected president of the United
States,” Gaetz said, echoing earlier
remarks by writer Michael Walsh who
asserts the Left is engaged in a “rolling
coup attempt” against President Trump.
Monday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” author Mark
Steyn said,
“I see no reason at all why a guy who is
supposed to be investigating Russian
interference in an election that took place
on November the 8th should be able to
seize, effectively, an incoming
government’s entire confidential
communications between each other in the
period after the election took place. That
seems to be entirely unwarranted by
Mueller.”
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Trump himself was more restrained in his rhetoric.
He said “a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad,” in
reference to the purloining of the transition records by
Mueller’s office.
“Not looking good. It’s not looking good,”
Trump said.
“It’s quite sad to see that,” Trump said. “My
people were very upset.”
“I can’t imagine there’s anything on them,
because as we said there’s no collusion,”
he added. “There was no collusion
whatsoever.”
Until somebody delivers a coup de grâce to this
disgraceful coup attempt, the push could last the entirety of
Donald Trump’s presidency. The end of the investigation
is nowhere in sight. Although White House lawyers had
said Mueller’s probe would conclude by year’s end,
members of the independent prosecutor’s team reportedly
said recently that the investigation will spill over into 2018
– at least.
Commissioned to investigate the Left’s ridiculous Trump-
Russia electoral collusion conspiracy theory, Mueller, with
his scorched-earth, shock-and-awe tactics, remains the
Left’s best hope to drive the 45th president of the United
States from the White House. Democrats still refuse to
accept that the irretrievably corrupt Democrat Hillary
Clinton was flattened by Republican Trump in the election
13 months ago. Working with the Deep State, former
President Obama launched his own insurrection against the
Trump administration even before it came into being.
Although there is still no evidence of wrongdoing by
Trump or of an underlying crime, Obama loyalists like
former attorney general, Eric Holder, are threatening to
lead potentially violent large-scale protests if President
Trump fires the out-of-control special counsel. This is not,
as the leftist chant goes, what democracy looks like. These
people are in effect screaming at their own straw man after
Democrats spent the last few days whipping up hysteria
that Trump was on the verge of firing Mueller, something
he steadfastly insists he has no intention of doing – even
though he has every reason and every right to give the
swamp-dweller the boot.
The president’s lawyers reportedly realized Mueller had
obtained transition team emails from the General Services
Administration (GSA), which hosted the 73-day-long
transition's "ptt.gov" emails, when prosecutors started
using them as the basis for questions posed to witnesses.
According to Axios, “the fight” between Mueller’s office
and the White House
“involves emails from the accounts of 12
officials, including members of the political
leadership and foreign-policy team. One of
the accounts alone includes 7,000 emails.”
The GSA, among other things, helps to facilitate the
peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the
next. The Presidential Transition Acts of 1963 and 2015
“authorize the Administrator of GSA to provide the
President-elect and the Vice-President-elect the services
and facilities needed to assume their official duties.”
Mueller bypassed Trump transition officials and lawyers
by taking it upon himself to seize thousands of emails
owned by the transition authority but held by the GSA.
According to the National Archives “materials that
[presidential transition team] members create or receive
are not federal or presidential records, but are considered
private materials.” The GSA signs agreements with
transition teams, agreeing to delete “all data on
[computing] devices” used by transition officials.
“When Mueller’s people found out that the transition
records were not yet deleted,” left-wing public interest law
professor Jonathan Turley writes, “they demanded their
surrender despite the fact that Trump officials claimed that
the material held privileged information that belonged to
the transition team and is subject to protection from
discovery.”
Trump transition lawyers say Richard Beckler, at the time
GSA general counsel, agreed that the transition records
were the property of the transition and that his agency had
no right to access or control the records. They also say
Beckler assured them that any demands for records from
Mueller’s people would be forwarded to transition
lawyers. GSA now denies Beckler made any such
declaration. He was hospitalized in August and has since
died. Trump’s attorneys claim that Mueller’s investigators
took advantage of Beckler’s illness and seized the emails
while he was in the hospital. Mueller’s people say they
followed the rules.
But Turley does not seem convinced the GSA had the
authority to hand over the records to a third party and
.
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warns that it may be impossible to prosecute any crimes
that may be discovered because the evidence would be
tainted.
“The move was legally unprecedented and
strategically reckless,” Turley writes. “In a
gratuitous muscle play, Mueller may have
added a potential complication to the use of
evidence that could contaminate much of
his investigation in any later trial.”
All Mueller needed to do was follow the proper protocol
and request access to the transition emails through
channels and he would likely have gotten much of what he
wanted.
“But that is not the Mueller way,” writes
former federal prosecutor Andrew C.
McCarthy, “as we saw with the utterly
unnecessary pre-dawn raid on the home of
[former Trump campaign manager] Paul
Manafort — busting in with a search
warrant and guns drawn, at the very time
Manafort was cooperating with
congressional committees, and when he
was represented by well-respected lawyers
through whom Mueller could have
requested production of whatever materials
he was seeking.”
Mueller’s investigators must have known that Trump’s
transition entity, Trump for America (TFA), asserted
ownership and control of the presidential transition team
(PTT) records, McCarthy suggests.
The main issue here is not whether Mueller had the legal
power to request that GSA, the third-party custodian,
voluntarily turn over all the PTT records to the special-
counsel investigation. It is also not whether GSA had the
authority to comply with the request. The real question is
why did Mueller choose to proceed in this sneaky manner?
This sneakiness was wholly unnecessary.
By following the correct procedures, McCarthy notes, in
the end “Mueller would have gotten whatever files he was
entitled to review, and Trump’s counsel would have been
permitted to withhold anything that was truly privileged.”
But why follow the rules when the mainstream media
treats you like a rock star?
Mueller thinks he is above the law. And so far no one has
held him accountable.
 Witch-Hunt Russiagate
Investigation To Continue Throughout Next Year
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-20-17
On May 17, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special
DOJ council in charge of investigating “any links and/or
coordination between” Russia and Trump’s campaign
team.
In over seven months, the probe cost taxpayers over $5
million, revealing no improper or illegal connection
between Trump, his campaign team and the Kremlin -
because there’s nothing to find, no matter how long the
witch-hunt scam continues.
There’s plenty to hold Trump accountable for, nothing
about any disturbing relations with Russia.
Yet according to individuals close to the investigation, it’ll
likely last at least through next year, maybe throughout
Trump’s entire term.
How many more millions of dollars will Mueller waste on
a probe going nowhere?
It’s part of the plot to denigrate Trump for the wrong
reasons, along with endless Russia bashing - sustaining
Russophobic hysteria, duping an uninformed public to
believe most anything they’re told, as long as it’s repeated
endlessly on television and through print media.
Mueller represents anti-Trump/anti-Russia dark forces, a
reliable spear-carrier for deep state interests.
As FBI director from September 2001 - September 2013,
he was part of the 9/11 coverup, a cheerleader for naked
aggression on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
He enforced post-9/11 police state harshness, presiding
over persecution of Muslims for their faith and ethnicity,
the 2001 anthrax deception, and other disturbing activities
demanding condemnation and accountability not
forthcoming.
As special council, his job is denigrating Trump’s
campaign team and the president, along with providing
ammunition for endless Russia bashing - based on nothing
credible.
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He’s accused of improperly, perhaps illegally, obtaining
thousands of Trump transition team emails.
According to counsel for Trump for America (TFA)
attorney Kory Langhofer, “career staff at the General
Services Administration (GSA)…unlawfully produced
TFA’s private materials, including privileged
communications, to the special counsel’s office,” adding:
His office “was aware that the GSA did not own or control
the records in question,” and had no right to produce them
without TFA’s permission.
Its communications are private and privileged, Langhofer
maintained. It’s not a federal agency.
Yet they’ve been “extensively used” by Mueller, learning
nothing related to his probe.
“This morning, we sent a letter to Congress
concerning the unauthorized sharing of
private and transition emails with the
Mueller team,” Langhofer said last
Saturday.
It states in part that transferring documents is “unlawful
conduct that undermines the Presidential Transition Act of
1963, and will impair the ability of future presidential
transition teams to candidly discuss policy and internal
matters that benefit the country as a whole.”
Trump’s lawyers will meet with Mueller’s team later this
week to discuss the status of its probe.
According to Trump’s legal team, Mueller found no
evidence of collusion, obstruction or other wrongdoing in
TFA or White House documents.
Yet the endless witch-hunt continues. A better use of time
and money would be to investigate the investigator’s
ulterior motives along with Hillary’s wrongdoing.
A mountain of damning evidence exists to indict and
prosecute her for high crimes. Yet no one dares lay a glove
on her.
 “Rigged System”: Donald Trump Jr. Exposes The High-
Level Deep State Operation To Take Out His Father
Alex Thomas
December 20th, 2017

month before congressional investigators

In a surprising speech to a group of young conservative
activists in Florida, Donald Trump Jr. warned about the
now admitted conspiracy carried out by the highest levels
of the government to stop his fathers agenda by any means
necessary.
Speaking to a gathering held by the Turning Point USA
Student Action Summit, Trump Jr. noted that his father is
currently dealing with a rigged system as well as a
conspiracy by the deep state to take him out.
“There is, and there are, people at the
highest levels of government that don’t
want to let America be America,” Trump Jr.
noted, echoing many voices in the
alternative media who have discussed this
very fact since the moment Trump was
elected.
“My father talked about a rigged system
throughout the campaign, and people were
like, ‘Oh, what are you talking about?” he
continued. “But it is. And you’re seeing it.”
CNN was the first to report on the comments and although
their article wasn’t the usual full-scale anti-Trump
propagandist piece, it did laughably claim that his
comments were “freewheeling” as if to imply that they
came out of no where and have no basis in reality.
and as some on the right, including him,
increasingly attack the Department of
Justice’s special counsel probe, alleging it
is politically compromised.
In his remarks Tuesday, Trump Jr. railed
against special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation and attacked the media’s
coverage of the Russia story, saying the
ongoing probe was emblematic of the kind
of “rigged system” the President had railed
against during the campaign.
More ridiculous, one of the panelists that CNN interviewed
after playing a clip of Trump Jr’s comments (who of
course was a former Obama official) actually claimed that
discussing documented facts about parts of the FBI’s
political bias somehow helps Russia.
That’s right, according to the likes of CNN, even talking
about Hillary operatives within the FBI, such as Peter
Strzok, means that you are working with the Russians!
With that being said, the mainstream medias hold over the
minds of the American people continues to slip each day
and comments such as those by Trump Jr. only further
reveal that startling lengths that the deep state puppets in
the media will go to take out a democratically elected
president.
Keep in mind that we already know that anti-Trump
operatives were working at the HIGHEST LEVELS of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hurt Donald Trump.
This is a documented fact and Trump Jr. is only speaking
about what the media itself has reported yet he is one again
accused of helping the Russians.
If you don’t realize at this point that the likes of CNN are
working against the American people, one has to wonder
what it will take?

Trump Jr.’s freewheeling comments before

the Turning Point USA Student Action
Summit came after he spoke earlier this
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 Trump The Neo-Con
Dean Henderson
12/20/2017

Wolfowitz and Dov Zakheim, PNAC envisioned a

tumbling of menacing Middle East nationalist dominoes
waiting to fall with a little help from the CIA and its NGO
partners.

Though their projects in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria have

failed miserably, it appears these Zionist zealots now have
Iran in the imperialist crosshairs. With the former CEO of
the world’s largest oil company now serving as point man
Secretary of State, there is nothing the oil barons and their
banksters would love more than to privatize Iran’s South
Pars gas field – the world’s largest.

But with their old buddy Netanyahu on the ropes in Tel

Aviv over corruption charges and their new Saudi puppet
Prince Mohammad bin Salmon acting like Pol Pot, the old
After months of Russia-phobic threats generated by the
Balfour Declaration/Treaty of Jeddah colonial construct
City of London’s intelligence services, the orange-faced
appears to be fraying.
narcissist who fooled the alt-right into believing that a
Manhattan billionaire casino don could be their populist
savior, has officially enunciated his foreign policy. Houthi rebels continue send rockets towards Riyadh, the
banksters’ ISIS mercenaries have been defeated, and the
Kurds are burning down Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
It appears the steady drip of anti-Putin propaganda – led by
offices in Erbil. Turkey and Qatar continue their pivot
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of the Schiff banking dynasty –
towards Russia. Hezbollah has never been stronger in
was enough to push Trump into the anti-Russia camp. In a
Lebanon.
typically bellicose speech on Monday, the reality TV star
turned President, also had harsh words for China and
especially for Iran. More than anything, Trump’s paranoid ramblings can be
seen as a desperate attempt to divert attention from the
reality on the ground in the Middle East, where nearly a
In a nutshell, Trump’s foreign policy mirrors the one
century of Anglo-American hegemony is coming to a
hatched by the Project for a New American Century
grinding halt, as increasingly united progressive forces
(PNAC) neocons under President George W. Bush.
rout the occupiers in one battle after another.
Loaded with dual Israeli citizens like Richard Perle, Paul
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Why Is Eric Holder So Desperate To Prevent Mueller From
Being Fired? Because Holder Is Among Those Who Will Go
To JAIL If The Truth Comes Out
By Ethan Huff
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Former Attorney General Eric Holder has had a second
meltdown on social media this week as rumors about
President Donald Trump’s potential pre-Christmas firing
of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special counsel
Robert Mueller continue to circulate.
The shamed orchestrator of the infamous “Fast and
Furious” gun-running scandal has “tweeted” twice now
about how he and a “vast majority of the American
people” simply won’t stand for Mueller’s firing – this, as
Holder himself is in boiling hot water for allegedly having
facilitated government contact with a corporation known
as Fusion GPS that we now know was involved in
procuring the now-discredited “Trump Dossier.”
On December 14, Holder tweeted that any
attempt by the Republicans in Congress to
remove Mueller from his post “will not be
tolerated.” Holder went on in this tweet to
say that the “attacks” on Mueller and his
staff are “BS,” adding that they “are
blatantly political – designed to hide the
real wrongdoing,” insinuating that President
Trump should be the target of any
investigation.
Three days later, Holder tweeted a second time declaring
that firing of Bob Mueller or in any way
“crippling the special counsel’s office” is
Holder’s “ABSOLUTE RED LINE.” He went
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on to suggest that, should the President
take action against Mueller in accordance
with his legal purview that “there must be
mass, popular, peaceful support of both.”
“The American people must be seen and
heard – they will ultimately be
determinative,” Mueller concluded in his
second tweet.
While President Trump’s lawyer, Ty Cobb, claims that the
President has no plans to remove Mueller from his post,
Holder is obviously convinced otherwise, as demonstrated
by the nervous breakdown he seems to be having on
Twitter over the prospect of someone else being appointed
to the position of special counsel. And a quick look into
Holder’s shady past reveals precisely why.
Obama hack Eric Holder knows that
prison time awaits, and he’s obviously
scared
Like a stopped up toilet that just won’t flush, Barack
Obama and his former administration are curiously
determined to float back to the surface of politics and flood
the news cycle with endless false accusations against our
current president. Rather than slide down the political
pipes into excremental obscurity, this cadre of community-
organizing rabble rousers is desperate to smear its stench
wherever anyone might be willing to take a nice, long
whiff.
Why, you might be asking yourself? Because the Obama
clan has a whole lot to hide that, should their buddy
Mueller be deposed, would presumably be laid bare for the
entire world to see. Holder, in particular, is quickly
becoming the subject of his own potential criminal
wrongdoing in the Fusion GPS scandal.
A top Department of Justice (DOJ) official by the name of
Bruce Ohr who worked under Holder is being accused of
having maintained communications with Fusion GPS as
part of a criminal conspiracy to discredit and ultimately
remove President Trump from office.
Recently appearing on Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show on Fox
News was Congressman Jim Jordan, a Republican from
Ohio, who laid out how the House Judiciary Committee is
planning to subpoena Ohr along with his wife Nellie Ohr,
an employee of Fusion GPS, both of whom are believed to
be co-conspirators.
The effort is part of an “ongoing inquiry,”
says Rep. Jordan, “into claims of bias
against President Donald Trump.”
If Holder goes to jail, so does Obama
Holder is obviously concerned that the potential removal
of Mueller would eventually lead to his own demise, thus
why he’s now lashing out with extreme paranoia about the
whole thing. But what people need to remember is that any
future takedown of Holder for his crimes would likely drag
along Obama as well.
Both Holder and Obama, as you may recall from our
earlier reporting, have an extensive criminal legacy of
engaging in illegal behavior to push their leftist agendas.
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The duo was caught trafficking weapons south of the
border into Mexico during “Operation Fast and
Furious,” which was a failed attempt to destabilize the
country in order to push more gun control restrictions on
the American public. Holder and Obama knowingly sent
thousands of high-powered, semi-automatic rifles directly
into Mexico under the guise of pursuing the drug cartels,
though it was later revealed that the true purpose was to
enact stricter firearms legislation.
“Fast and Furious was merely a pretext for
imposing stricter gun laws,” The New York
Post had revealed at the time, noting that
the whole thing backfired with the DOJ lost
track of the nearly 2,000 firearms that were
delivered as part of the scheme.
More than 20 people died or were seriously injured as a
result, and neither Holder nor Obama has been held
accountable.
 UN General Assembly To Vote On Rescinding
Trump's Jerusalem Declaration
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-20-2017
On Thursday, General Assembly members will meet in a
rare emergency special session (ESS) in the wake of
America’s veto of a SC resolution opposing Trump’s
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A draft resolution is expected to be adopted
overwhelmingly - America, Israel, and perhaps a few US
dominated Pacific island states alone voting against it.
Security Council resolutions alone (with 15 members, 5
permanent, 10 rotating) are binding, not GA ones, the body
comprised of all UN members states, so resolutions
adopted represent the majority view of all nations, making
them significant statements carrying political weight.
GA Resolution 377, Uniting for Peace (1950) states in
cases where Security Council members fail to act as
required to maintain international peace and security, the
General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately,
and may issue recommendations it deems necessary.
The GA may meet in emergency special session if it’s not
convened at the time. SC veto power can’t block it. ESS
resolutions can be adopted without consent of any or all of
the five permanent SC members.
These sessions have been convened 10 times since the UN
was established, mostly recently in 1997.
The 10th ESS was adjourned and resumed numerous times
since 2000. They differ from special sessions, able to be
called within 15 days of a request received by the
secretary-general.
America initiated the Uniting for Peace Resolution in
October 1950 to circumvent Soviet Russia vetoes during
US aggression on North Korea, begun in June that year
when the USSR was boycotting the Security Council (from
January to August that year), unable to use its veto power
in absentia.
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GA Res. 377 was adopted by a 52 - 5 majority - “no” votes
from Soviet Russia and four other Eastern bloc countries.
On December 19, neocon US UN envoy Nikki Haley
outrageously warned its member states, saying:
Trump “will be watching this vote carefully and has
requested I report back on those countries who voted
against us.”
“We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.”
Separately, she tweeted: “The US will be taking names”
during Thursday’s vote.
Turkey and Yemen requested the ESS on behalf of the
Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The draft resolution mirrors the Security Council one
Washington vetoed - reaffirming the illegality of actions
“alter(ing) the character, status or demographic
composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem” - by Trump’s
recognition of the city as Israel’s capital.
Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour said he expected
“overwhelming support” for the measure, adding:
“The General Assembly will say, without the fear of the
veto, that the international community is refusing to accept
the unilateral position of the United States.”
In the wake of Washington’s SC veto, igniting a firestorm
in Occupied Palestine, Mike Pence postponed his
December 19 visit to Israel until mid-January.
He’s persona non grata in the Occupied Territories,
America no longer recognized by Palestinian leadership as
an honest peace broker.
It never was before and isn’t now, one-sidedly supporting
Israel, partnering in its high crimes.
 Natural News Calls For The Arrest And Criminal
Indictment Of Rosie O’Donnell For Attempted
BRIBERY Of U.S. Senators
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Poor Rosie O’Donnell. The washed-up ‘comedian’ and
actress is so distraught over Republican control of
Congress and Donald J. Trump having beaten the most
corrupt presidential candidate in the history of the
republic (that would be one Hillary Clinton) she has been
reduced to behaving like a Mafia figure.
On the eve of the Senate’s vote to support the Trump-led
tax reform proposal — the first major reform and reduction
of taxes in more than 30 years — O’Donnell took to
Twitter to make this Mafioso-type offer: She offered to
pay Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and/or Jeff Flake of
Arizona $2 million each if they would just vote “no” on
the bill.
Wow. Rosie is just like her Democrat friends and
soulmates; they really hate it when Republicans try to let
Americans keep more of their own money rather than
have it confiscated at gunpoint by the IRS so Democrats
can redistribute it to constituents.
As The Daily Caller notes, O’Donnell was very plain and
open, writing on Twitter,
“so how about this i promise to give 2
million dollars to senator susan collins and
2 million to senator jeff flake.” Later in her
tweet, she added, “no s**t 2 million cash
each”.
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No Republicans took her up on the offer; all 51 voted for
the measure. (Related: Rosie O’Donnell’s contribution
to treason.)
That said, she probably committed a felony when she
made her offer.
So, a little statute called “18 U.S. Code § 201 – Bribery of
public officials and witnesses” states:
(a) (1) the term “public official” means
Member of Congress, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner, either before or
after such official has qualified, or an officer
or employee or person acting for or on
behalf of the United States, or any
department, agency or branch of
Government thereof, including the District
of Columbia, in any official function, under
or by authority of any such department,
agency, or branch of Government, or a
juror
Naturally, a senator is a “member of Congress.”
There’s more:
(b)Whoever—
(1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives,
offers or promises anything of value to any
public official or person who has been
selected to be a public official, or offers or
promises any public official or any person
who has been selected to be a public
official to give anything of value to any
other person or entity, with intent—
1. to influence any official act
Adds USLegal.com:
“The General Federal Bribery Statute
punishes the offense of bribery in the
U.S[iii]. According to 18 USCS prec §
 201(b), whoever directly or indirectly,
corruptly gives, offers or promises anything
of value to any public official with intent to
influence that person’s official act will be
fined for the offense of bribery.”
That’s pretty much what O’Donnell did with her stupid,
ridiculous, ham-handed attempt to “influence” the votes of
two sitting U.S. senators. I mean, if I were a prosecutor
who was handed this case, the only negotiating I would be
doing with O’Donnell’s lawyers is over the amount of time
in prison she’d be spending.
Which, according to the statute, can be “a fine of an
amount not more than three times the monetary equivalent
of the thing of value, or imprisonment for not more than
fifteen years, or both,” according to USLegal.com.
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So in other words, in her lunacy, O’Donnell
stepped in it big time when she very
publicly offered to bribe two sitting U.S.
senators. And as such, we are now calling
on the Trump Justice Department to do
its job and prosecute this very obvious
attempt to unduly influence the
constitutional processes of our
government.
There should be no excuses. Frankly, I’m surprised the
president hasn’t picked up the phone to Attorney General
Jeff Sessions yet and ‘requested’ this case be pursued,
because if what O’Donnell just did doesn’t qualify as
attempted bribery, then nothing does.
 Jordan: We Know Clinton Campaign
Paid Russia To Influence Election, ‘Most
Of Mueller’s Team Is Anti-Trump’
By Breitbart TV
20 Dec 2017

Mueller’s team opposes Trump and the Clintons paid

Russians to influence the 2016 election.

Jordan said,

“We know, for a fact, the Clinton campaign

paid Russians to do what? To influence the
election. And yet we’ve had this months-
long investigation by Bob Mueller with no
evidence that President Trump worked with
Russians in any way.”

"Of course not!" Republican Rep. Jim

He later added,
Jordan says he has not coordinated with
White House or Fox News about talking
points on Mueller investigation “It’s not the anti-Trump messages that
pic.twitter.com/JF1f4jGPWZ bother me about Peter Strzok. Most of
Mueller’s team is anti-Trump. We know
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) that. What concerns me is the intent to
December 21, 2017 carry out a plan to disrupt the election.
Because as Mr. Strzok said, we can’t afford
Wednesday, on CNN’s “AC360,” Representative Jim to leave this in we the people’s hands. That
Jordan (R-OH) argued most of Special Counsel Bob is a problem.”
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 ‘We'll Save A Lot’: Trump Threatens
To Stop Aid To UN Members Over Jerusalem Vote
Published Time: 20 Dec, 2017 18:23 Edited Time: 21 Dec, 2017 05:46
US President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White
House in Washington on 20 December 2017. © Jonathan Ernst /
Reuters
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut aid to UN
member states who vote against US at the upcoming UN
General Assembly on the issue of Washington’s Jerusalem
move. He said the US will save “billions” in the process.
His threats come ahead of the rare emergency special
session of the UNGA scheduled for Thursday. Arab and
Muslim countries requested the meeting after the US
vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to rescind
Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Trump
went ahead with his controversial declaration earlier this
month despite multiple warnings against doing so, drawing
international condemnation and stirring protests from
Muslims worldwide.
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars
and even billions of dollars, and then they
vote against us. Well, we're watching those
votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save
a lot. We don't care,” Trump told reporters
at the White House.
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On Tuesday, the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, sent a
warning letter to the member states, saying the US
president will take the voting choices on his landmark
Jerusalem decision “personally.”
“The President will be watching this vote
carefully and has requested I report back
on those who voted against us,” Haley
stated in the letter.
Haley voiced a similarly non-subtle warning on Twitter
earlier:
“We don't expect those we've helped to
target us,” she stated, threatening that the
US “will be taking names” of those
“criticizing” Trump's Jerusalem decision
during Thursday's vote.
The unanimous support for the resolution in the UN
Security Council was an “insult” for the US, Haley said
after vetoing the resolution. It “won’t be forgotten,” she
added. The US was the only state of the 15-member
council to oppose the resolution.
“It’s one more example of the UN doing
more harm than good in addressing the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Haley claimed.
Trump’s Jerusalem move, however, has already drawn
criticism from a host of countries which said the
declaration itself was destructive to the Israeli-Palestinian
peace process. Two days after the US decision, Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas refused to meet US Vice
President Mike Pence, stating Palestine will seek a new
mediator for the conflict.
The leaders of Muslim countries, who gathered for an
emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) in mid-December in Istanbul, stated
that the US decision effectively voided its status as a
mediator in the decades-old conflict, and called for world-
wide recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of
Palestine.
 COURT DOCUMENTS: Ex-British Spy Behind Fusion
GPS Dossier Admits It Contains “Limited Intelligence”
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Former British spy Christopher Steele,
who was tasked with compiling the
‘Trump dossier’ for opposition research
firm Fusion GPS, admitted in court that
the discredited document contains
“limited intelligence.”
Washington Times reports:
While Mr. Steele stated matter-of-factly in his dossier that
collusion between Mr. Trump and the Russian government
took place, he called it only “possible” months later in
court filings. While he confidently referred to “trusted”
sources inside the Kremlin, in court he referred to the
dossier’s “limited intelligence.” […]
In court filings this year, Mr. Steele doesn’t sound as
confident as his dossier.
He answered questions through his attorney in a libel
complaint brought by a Russian entrepreneur, Aleksej
Gubarev. Mr. Steele has accused Mr. Gubarev of being
pressured by Russian’s FSB intelligence service to take
part in hacking against the Democratic Party.
In one answer, Mr. Steele refers to the intelligence he
gathered as “limited.” On the charge of collusion by Mr.
Trump and his campaign advisers, he now says there was
only “possible coordination.”
Steele also admitted part of “his final
December memo,” was unvetted.
“The contents of the December
memorandum did not represent (and did
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not purport to represent) verified facts, but
were raw intelligence which had identified a
range of allegations that warranted
investigation given their potential national
security implications,” Steele wrote.
“Such intelligence was not actively sought;
it was merely received.”
Steele’s stunning admission comes after reports that the
wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby,
boasted on Facebook about how ‘Russiagate,’ would not
exist if it weren’t for her husband.
Tablet Magazine reports:
In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017,
that Tablet has seen in screenshots,
Jacoby claimed that her husband deserves
the lion’s share of credit for Russiagate.
(She has not replied to repeated requests
for comment.) “It’s come to my attention
that some people still don’t realize what
Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control
of Donald Trump,” Jacoby wrote. “Let’s be
clear. Glenn conducted the investigation.
Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele
worked for Glenn.” This assertion is hardly
a simple assertion of family pride; it goes
directly to the nature of what became
known as the “Steele dossier,” on which
the Russiagate narrative is founded.
News of the Facebook post comes amid heighten scrutiny
for the opposition research firm. According to Fox
News reporter Jake Gibson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has called on a senior Justice Department attorney to look
into appointing a special counsel to investigate recently
demoted official Bruce Ohr’s contacts with Fusion GPS.
“Sessions on calls for a special counsel to
look into Sr DOJ Official Bruce Ohr, and
wife Nellie’s contacts with Fusion GPS
during the summer and fall of 2016: I’ve put
a Senior Attorney, with the resources he
may need, to review cases in our office and
make a recommendation to me, if things
aren’t being pursued that need to be
 pursued, if cases may need more Fox News‘ James Rosen and Jake Gibson recently reported
resources to complete in a proper manner, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce G. Ohr
and to recommend to me if the standards worked for the opposition research firm during the 2016
for a special counsel are met, and the presidential election.
recommended one should be established,”
tweeted Fox News reporter Jake Gibson on
Tuesday.
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 Trump’s Labor Board Devastated
Obama’s Pro-Union Legacy In 2017
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
4:35 PM 12/21/2017
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under
President Donald Trump has overturned nearly every
major pro-union ruling it made under former-President
Barack Obama, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
The NLRB was able to reverse many Obama-era rulings
and restore longstanding precedents with a 3-2 Republican
majority before Chairman Philip Miscimarra’s term ended
Friday. The board is now deadlocked at 2-2 until Trump
names a new nominee.
“What the board has now done is restore
some of the norms [of labor law]. The
radical changes all occurred over the
previous eight years,” Rick Grimaldi, a
member of the Labor Relations Practice
Group at Fisher Phillips, told The
Washington Free Beacon.
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Business advocates celebrated Miscimarra’s appointment
as chairman back in April. Miscimarra, who believes each
law should be interpreted based on its explicit text, had
opposed many Obama-era rulings since he was nominated
in 2013.
Unions and their supporters were not as receptive to
Miscimarra’s appointment.
“The idea that you cannot look at the
developments in the workplace and how it
has changed over the past 80 years when
it comes to interpreting the law is absurd,”
New York labor rights attorney Joshua
Parkhurst told The Washington Examiner.
Trump had asked Miscimarra to agree to serve on the
NLRB for another five-year term. Miscimarra turned the
offer down to spend more time with his family.
In the days before Miscimarra left, the board reversed two
decisions that departed from years of precedent. In 2011,
the NLRB gave unions the authority to organize “micro-
unions” within a company that could hold elections not
open to rest of a companies unionized employees. In 2015,
the NLRB voted to hold employers liable for labor
violations committed by franchisees or subcontractors that
don’t work directly for the company.
 GOP Member Of House Judiciary Committee
To Robert Mueller: ‘Put Up Or Shut’ About
Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017

“If there’s not, let’s move on as a country” Moreover, Gaetz and other Republicans have voiced
concerns about the content of those texts, which appeared
to suggest a plot or scheme to keep Trump out of the
White House.

The discussions appeared to have also taken place in the

presence of current FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for

(National Sentinel) Showtime: A Republican member of
the House Judiciary Committee has issued a challenge to
special counsel Robert Mueller, who is currently
conducting a lengthy probe of alleged collusion between
the campaign of President Donald J. Trump and Russia:
Show us the evidence.
“It’s time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut
up. If there’s evidence of collusion, let’s see
it,” Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said in an
interview on Fox News Wednesday.
“If there’s not, let’s move on as a country
and let’s institute reforms at the FBI so that
an egomaniac FBI director like James
Comey cannot depart from the normal
standard procedures that guarantees all
Americans equal treatment under the law,”
he continued.
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 in the Aug. 15, 2016 text message.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely
event you die before you’re 40.”
Gaetz said that message is “totally unacceptable” while
alleging that the text shows that McCabe, Strzok and other
FBI officials “hatched a scheme to deprive Donald Trump
of the presidency both before and after his election.”
McCabe was interviewed in Tuesday by the House
Intelligence Committee.
Gaetz added that Judiciary Committee chairman Bob
Goodlatte has committed to issuing subpoenas to McCabe
and Strzok.

Gaetz has been extremely critical of Mueller’s probe from

the outset, saying that more than anything he sees it as
overtly political and tainted against the president.

For him and other Republicans, the turning point was

learning earlier this month that FBI counterintelligence
agent Peter Strzok, whom Mueller fired over the summer,
had exchanged anti-Trump text messages with his
mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

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 Can The FBI Get Away With
Getting Trump Team Emails?
By Andrew P. Napolitano, Lew Rockwell
December 21, 2017
Within hours of his victory in last year’s presidential
election, Donald Trump dispatched his lawyers to establish
a nonprofit corporation to manage his transition from
private life to the presidency. This was done pursuant to a
federal statute that provides for taxpayer-funded assistance
to the newly elected — but not yet inaugurated —
president. The statutory term for the corporation is the
presidential transition team, or PTT.
In addition to paying the PTT’s bills, the General Services
Administration, which manages all nonmilitary federal
property, provided the PTT with government computers,
software and a computer service provider. During the
course of the PTT’s existence, the folks who worked for it
sent or received tens of thousands of emails. The PTT
ceased to exist upon Trump’s inauguration, and a receiver
was hired to wind it down.
Last weekend, a lawyer for the receiver revealed a letter he
sent to Congress complaining that special counsel Robert
Mueller — who is investigating whether there was any
agreement between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin
that resulted in the now-well-known efforts by Russian
intelligence to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential
election — dispatched FBI agents to the GSA looking for
copies of all the PTT’s emails and that the GSA
surrendered them.
How did this happen?
When the FBI is looking for documents or tangible things,
it has several legal tools available. They range in their
disruptive nature from a simple request to a grand jury
subpoena to a judicially authorized search warrant.
The FBI request is the easiest for the government, and if
FBI agents ask you for something and you give it to them,
you cannot later be heard to complain that your privacy
rights regarding the things you surrendered were violated.
If they seize your documents pursuant to a subpoena or a
warrant, they normally get to use what they have seized.
The issue becomes more complex when the FBI comes
calling for documents of yours that are legally in the hands
of a custodian — such as your physician, lawyer, banker or
accountant. In the case of Trump’s PTT and Mueller’s
wish for all PTT emails, the sought-after data — the
electronic copies of all the PTT’s emails — were in
custody of the GSA.
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Anyone who has ever used a GSA computer is familiar
with the warning that appears on the screen at the time of
each use. It says that there is no right to privacy in the
communications sent or received, as the electronic
versions of those communications are the property of the
federal government. This, no doubt, is the reason Hillary
Clinton infamously used her husband’s computer servers
during her four years at the State Department rather than
the government’s.
We do not know whether Mueller’s FBI agents merely
requested the electronic data from the GSA or his
prosecutors obtained a grand jury subpoena. If it was a
simple FBI request and if the GSA simply complied, that
was a lawful acquisition by the FBI of the PTT emails, yet
in that case, the GSA violated its fiduciary duty to inform
the PTT of the request before it complied with it.
If the FBI came calling on the GSA with a grand jury
subpoena, that means Mueller’s team must have presented
evidence under oath to a grand jury and demonstrated that
the sought-after items would more likely than not be
helpful to the investigation. When a grand jury issues a
subpoena to a custodian of records — no matter who the
custodian is — it is the moral and fiduciary duty of the
custodian, not the government, to inform the owner of the
subpoenaed items that a subpoena has been received.
In some cases, it is also the legal duty of the custodian to
inform the owner, but it apparently was not in this case. As
far as we can tell, there was no written agreement between
the GSA and the PTT requiring the GSA to inform the
PTT of any document requests or subpoenas. Had such a
request been revealed, the lawyer for the receiver of the
PTT would have had an opportunity to challenge the
government before a judge. Without that notice, there is no
time for the challenge.
Until 1986, it was the duty of the government when
seeking documents or tangible things from a custodian to
inform the owner, as well as the custodian, of its intent.
That fair procedure gave the owner of the records time to
challenge the government before a judge. But the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (which
has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting privacy),
enacted at the dawn of the digital age, did away with that
requirement.
 House GOP Holding ‘SECRET TALKS’ As They
Build Criminal Case Against Senior FBI, DoJ Officials
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017
A group of Republican House members have gathered in
secret for weeks
(National Sentinel) Swamp Drain: House Republicans for
weeks have publicly discussed theories and scenarios
regarding the actions and motivations of key FBI and
Department of Justice officials who appear to have
conspired against then-GOP candidate Donald J. Trump.
Now, however, a report on Wednesday claimed that
Republicans are holding “secret talks” while building
criminal cases against those key FBI and Justice
Department officials.
As reported by Politico, a group of Republican House
members have gathered in secret for weeks to investigate
potential corruption at the department after being frustrated
by their lack of progress in getting DoJ officials to turn
over documents and other materials to explain how the FBI
used the infamous “Trump dossier.”
The site noted further:
A subset of the Republican members of the
House intelligence committee, led by
Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has
been quietly working parallel to the
committee’s high-profile inquiry into
Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential
election. They haven’t informed Democrats
.
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about their plans, but they have consulted
with the House’s general counsel.
Those familiar with the chairman’s plans say the goal of
the effort is to point out what several committee
Republicans believe is systemic corruption and an ongoing
conspiracy by upper FBI and DoJ ranks.
The group plans to release a report early next year laying
out their concerns about DoJ and FBI officials tied to the
“Trump-Russia collusion” and Clinton email
investigations. They may also seek a vote in Congress to
declassify portions of their evidence.
In the past, these GOP members have pointed out that
there doesn’t appear to be any evidence to support
collusion between the president’s transition team and
Russia, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest Clinton
criminally mishandled classified information.
Yet, under then-FBI Director James Comey and Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, no charges were filed against the
Democratic presidential frontrunner last year and in fact, it
appears as though Comey and the DoJ exonerated Clinton
months before the FBI even interviewed her.
Whatever evidence the secret Nunes-led group produces, it
could be used to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s
Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
Others believe Mueller is now conducting an impeachment
probe.
“I hate to use the word corrupt, but they’ve
become at least so dirty that who’s
watching the watchmen? Who’s
investigating these people?” Nunes said in
a Fox News interview earlier this month.
“There is no one.”
 FINALLY: AG Sessions Orders
FRESH Probe Into Uranium One Deal
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama
Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining
facilities to Russia’s state atomic energy company
(National Sentinel) New Look: Attorney General Jeff
Sessions has ordered Justice Department prosecutors to
being asking FBI agents to explain evidence they
discovered into a currently dormant criminal probe into the
controversial Uranium One deal that has been tied to Bill
and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, NBC
News reported.
According to multiple law enforcement sources, interviews
with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department’s efforts
to fulfill a pledge that an assistant attorney general gave to
Congress in November.
The assistant AG promised that the department would
determine whether a special counsel is warranted to look
into the Uranium One deal, according to a senior Justice
Department official
NBC News noted further:
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the
Obama Administration allowed the sale of
U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia’s
state atomic energy company. Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state at the time,
and the State Department was one of nine
agencies that agreed to approve the deal
after finding no threat to U.S. national
security.
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The network reported that a senior law enforcement
official briefed on the initial FBI probe said that
allegations of corruption surrounded the process of the
Obama administration approving the sale, but no charges
were ever filed.
The Clintons have denied any wrongdoing.
However, undercover informant for the FBI who worked
in the Russian nuclear industry and was made to sign an
“illegal” non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by Obama
Attorney General Loretta Lynch claims to have video
evidence showing Russian agents with briefcases full of
bribe money in relation to the Uranium One scandal.
The informant, identified as William D. Campbell, was
scheduled to testify before Congress at the end of
November after a non-disclosure agreement he signed,
which carried the threat of prison time if violated, was
lifted by the Trump Justice Department.
Republicans in the Senate are probing the Uranium One
deal. President Donald J. Trump has also called the deal
corrupt and pushed for an investigation.
Earlier, The Hill‘s John Solomon and Circa News‘ Sara
Carter noted that Campbell had been deeply embedded in
the Russian nuclear industry. While there he was able to
gather incriminating evidence of bribery and kickbacks to
and by U.S. and Russian actors involved in getting the
Uranium One deal approved by the Obama administration.
NBC Nes noted further that in a letter to Rep. Bob
Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
Affairs Stephen Boyd “said Justice Department lawyers
would make recommendations to Sessions about whether
an investigation should be opened or expanded, or whether
a special counsel should be appointed to probe a number of
issues of concern to Republicans.”
FBI agents who investigated the case have been asked in
recent weeks by Justice Department prosecutors to
describe the results of their efforts. Agents have also been
asked if there was any improper effort to quash
prosecutions of the Clintons or others involved in the
transaction.
Bill and Hillary Clinton hid donations from a firm tied to
the controversial Uranium One, as indicated in documents
obtained by The Hill.
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In October, The Hill reported further that the FBI turned up
evidence of collusion, racketeering, bribery and payoffs
between Russian nuclear company interests tied to
President Vladimir Putin and the Clinton Foundation back
in 2010.
However, the paper noted, the Justice Department under
Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch sat on
the information and did not act on it.
 Prosecutors Ask FBI Agents
For Info On Uranium One Deal
By Tom Winter, Pete Williams And Ken Dilanian
December 21, 2017
On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice
Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to
explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal
investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics
have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law
enforcement officials told NBC News.
The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice
Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant
attorney general made to Congress last month to examine
whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what
has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior
Justice Department official said.
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama
Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining
facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State
Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to
approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national
security.
Hillary Clinton speaks in Los Angeles on Dec. 15. Mario Anzuoni /
Reuters
A senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the
initial FBI investigation told NBC News there were
allegations of corruption surrounding the process under
which the U.S. government approved the sale. But no
charges were filed.
As the New York Times reported in April 2015, some of
the people associated with the deal contributed millions of
dollars to the Clinton Foundation. And Bill Clinton was
paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech by a Russian
investment bank with links to the transaction.
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Hillary Clinton has denied playing any role in the decision
by the State Department to approve the sale, and the State
Department official who approved it has said Clinton did
not intervene in the matter. That hasn't stopped some
Republicans, including President Trump, from calling the
arrangement corrupt — and urging that Clinton be
investigated.
In a letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General
for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd said Justice
Department lawyers would make recommendations to
Sessions about whether an investigation should be opened
or expanded, or whether a special counsel should be
appointed to probe a number of issues of concern to
Republicans.
In recent weeks, FBI agents who investigated the case
have been asked by Justice Department prosecutors to
describe the results of their probe. The agents also have
been asked if there was any improper effort to squash a
prosecution, the law enforcement sources say.
The senior Justice Department official said the questions
were part of an effort by the Sessions team to get up to
speed on the controversial case, in the face of allegations
from Congressional Republicans that it was mishandled.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment.
On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an
agreement to sell a majority stake to the mining arm of
Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.
At the time, Uranium One's two licensed mining
operations in Wyoming amounted to about 20 percent of
all uranium mining production capacity in the U.S,
according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (That
figure has since decreased.)
Is President Trump right about Russia, Uranium and Clinton?
Because enriched uranium is a component of nuclear
weapons, the deal required a national security review by
the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United
States.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium
One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, The
New York Times reported, Uranium One's Canadian
chairman, Ian Telfer, used his family foundation to make
four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton
Foundation. Those contributions were not publicly
disclosed by the foundation, the Times reported, despite a
promise to publicly identify all donors. The foundation
later said it made a mistake.
Others associated with Uranium One also donated to the
Clinton Foundation, according to the Times.
Sen John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, raised
objections to the sale, saying it would
"give the Russian government control over
a sizable portion of America's uranium
production capacity."
Congressman questions reviving of Uranium One 6:21
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On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice
Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to
explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal
investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics
have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law
enforcement officials told NBC News.
The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice
Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant
attorney general made to Congress last month to examine
whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what
has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior
Justice Department official said.
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama
Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining
facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State
Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to
approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national
security.
Ian Telfer, chairman of Goldcorp Inc., speaks during an interview in
Toronto in 2014. Galit Rodan / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Clinton has said she was not involved in the deliberations
and played no role in the decision.
Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state, told
the Times that he represented the department on the
committee, and that
"Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on
any C.F.I.U.S. matter."
He did not respond to a request for comment by NBC
News.
A spokesman for Hillary Clinton did not answer whether
she was ever briefed on the Uranium One deal.
"At every turn this storyline has been
debunked on the merits," said the
spokesman, Nick Merrill. "This latest
iteration is simply more of the right doing
 Trump's bidding for him to distract from his
own Russia problems, which are real and a
grave threat to our national security."

Stewart Baker, a former top lawyer in the George W. Bush

administration and an expert in the CFIUS process, said he
doubted that the Uranium One decision ever reached
Clinton's desk.

About the donations, he said,

"Is it possible that the Russians thought

Frank Giustra speaks as former President Bill Clinton looks on
they needed to do this and that it would during a news conference announcing that the Clinton foundation is
help them? Yeah, but that doesn't mean launching a new sustainable development initiative in Latin America
that it actually did." in New York in 2007. Shannon Stapleton / Reuters file

Baker said it was disquieting that the Sessions Justice UrAsia had soon closed deals for uranium mining rights in
Department was re-examining a case that career officials Kazakhstan. In 2006, Giustra donated $31.3 million to the
already concluded warranted no charges. Clinton Foundation.

"You'd like to think that that wouldn't
happen often in a mature democracy," he
said.
However, he pointed out that Eric Holder, President
Obama's attorney general, ordered a new investigation into
brutal CIA interrogations after career prosecutors had
looked but filed no charges in the Bush administration. In
the end, Holder's department didn't file charges, either.
Frank Giustra and Uranium One
Uranium One became a much bigger player in the uranium
market after it absorbed a company run and co-owned by
Frank Giustra, a Canadian businessman and Bill Clinton
associate, in February 2007.
Giustra was the chairman of UrAsia, a company bidding
for uranium rights in Kazakhstan. In 2005, after he had
begun negotiating for the rights, he and Bill Clinton
traveled to Kazakhstan on separate planes and attended a
dinner with the country's president.
.
The value of UrAsia shares increased seventyfold between
2005 and 2007. Uranium One merged with UrAsia in
2007, after which, says Giustra, he sold his shares and left
the company — three years before the controversial sale of
U.S. uranium mining facilities.
Giustra has donated more than $100 million to the Clinton
Foundation and currently sits on the foundation's board.
In a statement, Giustra said that he had been working on
the purchase of mining stakes from a private Kazakh
company in early 2005, and the purchase was concluded in
late 2005.
"In late 2005, I went to Kazakhstan to finish
the negotiations of the sale," said Giustra.
"Bill Clinton flew to Almaty a few days after
I arrived in the country on another person's
plane … Bill Clinton had nothing to do with
the purchase of private mining stakes by a
Canadian company."

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 WOW! Wife Of Fusion GPS Founder
Glenn Simpson Bragged On Facebook Her Husband
Was Behind ‘Russiagate’
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson, Mary Jacoby, is proud of her
husband’s work that led to mass Trump-
Russia hysteria. Jacoby is so proud that
she felt the need to boast on Facebook
about how ‘Russiagate,’ would not exist
if it weren’t for her husband.
Tablet Magazine reports:
A Tablet investigation using public sources
to trace the evolution of the now-famous
dossier suggests that central elements of
the Russiagate scandal emerged not from
the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-
secret “sources” in the Russian
government—which are unlikely to exist
separate from Russian government
control—but from a series of stories that
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson
and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The
Wall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS
existed, and Donald Trump was simply
another loud-mouthed Manhattan real
estate millionaire. Understanding the
origins of the “Steele dossier” is especially
important because of what it tells us about
the nature and the workings of what its
supporters would hopefully describe as an
ongoing campaign to remove the elected
president of the United States. […]
In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has
seen in screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband
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deserves the lion’s share of credit for Russiagate. (She has
not replied to repeated requests for comment.)
“It’s come to my attention that some people
still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in
exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,”
Jacoby wrote. “Let’s be clear. Glenn
conducted the investigation. Glenn hired
Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for
Glenn.”
This assertion is hardly a simple assertion of family pride;
it goes directly to the nature of what became known as the
“Steele dossier,” on which the Russiagate narrative is
founded.
News of the Facebook post comes amid heighten scrutiny
for the opposition research firm. According to Fox
News reporter Jake Gibson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has called on a senior Justice Department attorney to look
into appointing a special counsel to investigate recently
demoted official Bruce Ohr’s contacts with Fusion GPS.
“Sessions on calls for a special counsel to
look into Sr DOJ Official Bruce Ohr, and
wife Nellie’s contacts with Fusion GPS
during the summer and fall of 2016: I’ve put
a Senior Attorney, with the resources he
may need, to review cases in our office and
make a recommendation to me, if things
aren’t being pursued that need to be
pursued, if cases may need more
resources to complete in a proper manner,
and to recommend to me if the standards
for a special counsel are met, and the
recommended one should be established,”
tweeted Fox News reporter Jake Gibson on
Tuesday.
Fox News‘ James Rosen and Jake Gibson recently reported
the wife of Justice Department official Bruce G. Ohr
worked for the opposition research firm during the 2016
presidential election.
Fox News reports:
 Contacted by Fox News, investigators for
the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie
H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce
G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research
firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs.
Ohr’s duties – including whether she
worked on the dossier – remains unclear
but a review of her published works
available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has
written extensively on Russia-related
subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox
News that she was paid by Fusion GPS
through the summer and fall of 2016.
.
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In a statement to Fox News, a Justice Department
spokesperson said,
“It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats
as he has done recently. This person is
going to go back to a single focus—director
of our organized crime and drug
enforcement unit. As you know, combatting
transnational criminal organizations and
drug trafficking is a top priority for the
Attorney General.”
 Report: DOJ Prosecutors Probe FBI Agents About
Uranium One Deal, Clinton Connections
By Tyler O'Neil
December 21, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions gestures as he testifies on
Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017,
before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about his
role in the firing of James Comey, his Russian contacts
during the campaign and his decision to recuse from an
investigation into possible ties between Moscow and
associates of President Donald Trump. (AP
Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Prosecutors with the Department of Justice (DOJ) have
begun asking FBI agents to explain newly uncovered
evidence surrounding the 2010 Uranium One deal and
alleged corruption with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
New documents released by an anonymous informant in
October brought the case back into the spotlight,
suggesting that any Clinton-Russia collusion is worse than
the alleged Trump-Russia collusion driving the
investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
An assistant attorney general made a promise to Congress
last month to investigate whether a special counsel was
warranted to look into the case, a senior DOJ official told
NBC News. Sources have confirmed that the investigation
is underway.
President Donald Trump has drawn attention to the case.
"Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama
Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake
Media doesn't want to follow!" the president tweeted in
October.
In 2010, the Obama administration approved a
controversial deal giving Russian company Rosatom
partial control of Canadian mining company Uranium One
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(and with it, 20 percent of U.S. uranium). At the same
time, Russians paid former president Bill Clinton $500,000
for a speech in Moscow hosted by Sberbank, a Russian
bank promoting Uranium One stock at the time, and
Hillary Clinton approved the deal in her role as secretary
of State.
To make matters worse, the FBI had already reportedly
gathered evidence of Russian corruption in the U.S.
uranium industry but kept it secret right when it would
have mattered most.
At the time, Uranium One had two licensed mining
operations in Wyoming amounting to about 20 percent of
all U.S. uranium mining. Because enriched uranium is a
key component of nuclear weapons, the deal required
national security review from the Committee on Foreign
Investments in the United States (CFIUS), on which
Hillary Clinton was one of nine members.
At the time, the U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan warned
Clinton's State Department that Rosatom was acting on
behalf of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU,
to acquire uranium mines after Russia felt "squeezed" by
having their uranium imports limited by other countries.
As the Russians took Uranium One, the firm's Canadian
chairman Ian Telfer gave four donations totaling $2.35
million to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013.
The Clinton Foundation did not publicly disclose these
funds, The New York Times reported in 2015. Others
associated with Uranium One also gave to the Clinton
Foundation.
A key Clinton Foundation player also helped Uranium
One grow in the years before the 2010 deal. Frank Giustra,
who has donated more than $100 million to the Clinton
Foundation and now sits on the foundation's board, served
as chairman of UrAsia, a company bidding for uranium
rights in Kazakhstan.
In 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton attended a dinner with
the country's president. UrAsia closed deals for uranium
mining rights in Kazakhstan later that year, and Giustra
donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation in 2006.
UrAsia shares skyrocketed seventyfold between 2005 and
2007, and merged with Uranium One in 2007. Giustra said
he sold his shares and left UrAsia shortly after it merged
with Uranium One.
"In late 2005, I went to Kazakhstan to finish
the negotiations of the sale," Giustra said.
"Bill Clinton flew to Almaty a few days later
I arrived in the country on another person's
plane ... Bill Clinton had nothing to do with
the purchase of private mining stakes by a
Canadian company."
Defenders of the Uranium One deal argue that the
Russians don't have a license to export the uranium out of
the U.S., and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
found no risk to national security. Clinton herself said she
was not involved in the deliberations and played no role in
the decision.
"Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on
any C.F.I.U.S. matter," Jose Fernandez, a
former assistant secretary of state, told the
Times in 2015.
Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill insisted that any
corruption associated with the Uranium One deal is a
"debunked" story.
"At every turn this storyline has been
debunked on the merits," Merrill told NB
News. "This latest iteration is simply more
of the right doing Trump's bidding for him to
distract from his own Russia problems,
which are real and a grave threat to our
national security."
Stewart Baker, a former lawyer in the George W. Bush
administration and a CFIUS expert, said he doubted that
the Uranium One deal ever reached Clinton's desk.
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"Is it possible that the Russians thought
they needed to do this and that it would
help them? Yeah, but that doesn't mean
that it actually did," Baker said. He noted
that Eric Holder, attorney general under
President Obama, ordered a new
investigation into CIA interrogations carried
out under President Bush after prosecutors
had filed no charges against the Bush
administration.
Interestingly, the FBI rushed to arrest a Russian spy ring
getting close to Hillary Clinton at the time of the Uranium
One deal.
The Mueller investigation is arguably a case of "lawfare"
against the Trump administration, similar to the Obama
investigation into the Bush CIA and similar to the pending
Uranium One investigation into Hillary Clinton. Political
opponents often engage in legal investigations as an
attempt to discredit their political enemies.
The Clinton camp's response to Uranium One
investigations — that this is a "debunked" story distracting
from real matters of national security — mimics the Trump
deflections on the Mueller investigation well.
It may be that analysts on the Right rush to connect the
breadcrumbs in Uranium One in much the same way as
analysts on the Left rush to connect the breadcrumbs in
Trump-Russia. The evidence for bribery in the case of
Uranium One seems much more firmly established than
the evidence for treason in Trump-Russia, however.
Interestingly, Mueller was at the helm of the FBI during
the Uranium One deal, and may have been involved in
hiding and downplaying the Russia uranium scandals at
the time. PJ Media's Roger Simon has called for Mueller to
recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation for
this reason.
In any case, if Mueller is going to drag out the Trump-
Russia investigation, why should Sessions' DOJ not
investigate Uranium One? Clinton's Russia connections
are at least as bad as Trump's alleged collusion. Shouldn't
the public be allowed to learn more?
 After Calling Tax Plan ‘Fantasy,’
NBC Dismisses Proof It Was Wrong
By Kyle Drennen
December 21, 2017 1:00 PM EST
After NBC’s Today co-host Savannah Guthrie accused
House Speaker Paul Ryan of “living in a fantasy world” on
Wednesday for predicting that tax reform legislation would
encourage businesses to raise wages for their employees,
on Thursday, the network morning show tried its best to
deny the reality that several major companies announced
that they would be doing exactly that.
During a report on reaction to the major Republican
legislative accomplishment, correspondent Kristen Welker
noted:
“Republicans are betting the benefits to
business will trickle down and boost
individuals and the economy.”
She then acknowledged:
“AT&T and NBC’s parent company,
Comcast, announcing employee bonuses,
something the legislation doesn’t require.”
Faced with the fact that even the owner of her network was
proving the GOP right, Guthrie seemed admit, at least
initially, that her grilling of Ryan might have been unfair:
“So, we were just talking about this
yesterday with Speaker Paul Ryan,
would corporations really take this
money they’re getting and plow it back
into the economy? And on the first day,
it seems some have done that very
thing.”
However, left-wing MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle was
there to immediately shoot down any notion that the tax
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bill was already having the positive economic impact that
Republicans promised:
Listen, they’re doing something, but
they’re literally doing the least they can
do....But we have to take a step back,
this is day one. And from a PR
perspective, you’re darn right those
companies should have done
something. They, without a doubt, have
a relationship with the White House.
They know that there were protesters in
Washington, that people are going, “Hold
on a second, my taxes are gonna go up
and corporations are gonna get billions of
dollars less they have to pay? What are
you going to do for me?” So this is a great
gesture on the part of these companies,
but thus far, it’s a gesture.
After Ruhle dismissed the significant business moves as
merely “PR,” Guthrie chimed in with her own conspiracy
theory about why at least one of the companies was really
being so generous:
“And not to be a cynic, but, for example,
AT&T does have a merger pending,
correct, before the Justice
Department?”
Ruhle agreed:
“That’s not being cynical. They’ve got a
merger....
The Department of Justice has gotten in the mix.” She
went on to claim that all of the corporations, including
Comcast, were really just trying to return favors to the
Trump administration:
Comcast has benefitted. Just last week,
you asked me, who benefits from the net
neutrality? Big media companies. So
Comcast is doing something. Boeing, huge
contracts with the government. And Wells
Fargo, Fifth Third Bank, they certainly like
that the CFPB now has Mick Mulvaney in
charge. This is a relationship.
 “It’s a very positive move, it’s a great PR
move. It’s not long term, yet,” Ruhle
concluded.
Thursday’s CBS This Morning was similarly sour on the
idea that Republican predictions had cone true.
“So we saw essentially yesterday, after
the Democrats called the President’s tax
plan and the Republicans’ tax plan sort
of a ‘fantasy,’ we saw all these
companies come out and say, ‘Well, we
are gonna give people money, we are
gonna do more hiring,’” co-host Norah
O’Donnell confessed. She then turned to
political analyst Dan Senor and skeptically
asked: “Will they actually follow through
on those promises?”
Like Ruhle on NBC, Senor promptly threw cold water on
the idea:
Well, I think the news you saw overnight with these
companies announcing these end-of-year bonuses, it’s a
little bit of – you know,
it’s kind of some gimmicks here. I mean,
I don’t think we should overstate the
significance.
It’s good, it’s positive. But we shouldn’t overstate the
significance.
At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour, Fortune magazine’s
Senior Editor at Large Leigh Gallagher joined the program
and advanced the narrative that the employee bonuses
were just PR:
So I think this really speaks to – you know,
there’s been an enormous amount of public
disaffection with this bill.
There’s an incredible feeling that it favors
businesses and it favors the wealthy, which
it does....you can almost see that these
companies are sort of writing the tweets
for the President because this is sort of a
line straight to his heart. They are showing
right away that, look, this is for – you
know, the tax cut is passed on one day,
day two it rains money for American
workers.
Fill-in co-host Anthony Mason fretted:
“What’s the likelihood then, that once you
get past this initial PR phase that this will
be a pattern of behavior?” Gallagher
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replied: “Well, that – there’s a lot of
skepticism around that....the big criticism is
that companies will use this money to
reinvest by buying back their stock and by
paying dividends.”
At one point in the discussion, Gallagher tried to use the
same talking point against AT&T that Guthrie had pushed
on the Today show:
“But you know, AT&T is an interesting
example. It’s locked in a fight over whether
it will be allowed to acquire Time Warner.
So this – look, this is a big deal and AT&T
also said it’s gonna invest a billion dollars
here in the U.S. next year, in addition to the
bonuses.”
However, O’Donnell fact-checked that claim:
“And in fairness to Randall Stephenson, the
CEO of AT&T, I was with him before they
tried to block that deal and he was already
talking about reinvesting in workers before
that.”
Perhaps AT&T was simply following through on
something that it had already promised to do if tax reform
passed.
ABC’s Good Morning America was the only network
morning show to unequivocally report the business
bonuses as good news.
“President Trump praising AT&T for
promising to share the wealth from the
corporate tax cut with their workers, and
other companies are doing the same,” fill-in
co-host Amy Robach announced.
Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis explained:
“Yes, a number of companies have rushed
to announce special bonuses and wage
hikes in the aftermath of the tax bill...”
Robach wrapped up the segment by emphasizing:
“Alright, this all sounds like very good
news.”
Jarvis added:
“For a lot of people.”
Apparently, simply admitting that the Republican tax plan
was having a positive impact was far too difficult for NBC
and CBS to handle.
Here are excerpts of the December 21 coverage from both
networks:
Today
7:10 AM ET
GUTHRIE: We want to focus in on corporate America’s response
and those surprise bonuses for hundreds of thousands of
workers. NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle is here with us. She covers
business. So, we were just talking about this yesterday with
Speaker Paul Ryan, would corporations really take this money
they’re getting and plow it back into the economy? And on the
first day, it seems some have done that very thing.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Tax Bill & Big Bonuses; What’s
Behind Corporations’ $1,000 Offers?]
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Listen, they’re doing something, but they’re
literally doing the least they can do. Now, it’s a positive for
anyone at AT&T or Comcast or Boeing or Wells Fargo. It’s great
to get that $1,000. It is great to see minimum wage get pushed
up and people get $15 an hour. But we have to take a step back,
this is day one. And from a PR perspective, you’re darn right
those companies should have done something. They, without a
doubt, have a relationship with the White House. They know that
there were protesters in Washington, that people are going, “Hold
on a second, my taxes are gonna go up and corporations are
gonna get billions of dollars less they have to pay? What are you
going to do for me?” So this is a great gesture on the part of
these companies, but thus far, it’s a gesture.
GUTHRIE: And not to be a cynic, but, for example, AT&T does
have a merger pending, correct, before the Justice Department?
RUHLE: That’s not being cynical. They’ve got a merger. We
know that the President has an issue with CNN. The Department
of Justice has gotten in the mix. Comcast has benefitted. Just
last week, you asked me, who benefits from the net neutrality?
Big media companies. So Comcast is doing something. Boeing,
huge contracts with the government. And Wells Fargo, Fifth Third
Bank, they certainly like that the CFPB now has Mick Mulvaney
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in charge. This is a relationship. It’s a very positive move, it’s a
great PR move. It’s not long term, yet.
(...)
CBS This Morning
7:07 AM ET
NORAH O’DONNELL: So we saw essentially yesterday, after the
Democrats called the President’s tax plan and the Republicans’
tax plan sort of a “fantasy,” we saw all these companies come out
and say, “Well, we are gonna give people money, we are gonna
do more hiring.” Will they actually follow through on those
promises?
DAN SENOR: Well, I think the news you saw overnight with
these companies announcing these end-of-year bonuses, it’s a
little bit of – you know, it’s kind of some gimmicks here. I mean, I
don’t think we should overstate the significance. It’s good, it’s
positive. But we shouldn’t overstate the significance.
The real question is, will a large chunk of the country receive
some kind of tax relief, A. And, B, will companies really start
investing in the growth of their companies, capital infrastructure,
hiring more people? We will know that very quickly.
(...)
8:04 AM ET
NORAH O’DONNELL: Let’s break it down and go through it. So,
some companies have already made commitments, essentially,
to give back. Boeing announcing $300 million for things like gift
matching, workplace development. AT&T, Comcast talking about
bonuses. How does that work out, that reinvestment in
employees?
LEIGH GALLAGHER [FORTUNE SENIOR EDITOR AT LARGE]:
Well, it’s interesting. So I think this really speaks to – you know,
there’s been an enormous amount of public disaffection with this
bill. There’s an incredible feeling that it favors businesses and it
favors the wealthy, which it does. But you know, AT&T is an
interesting example. It’s locked in a fight over whether it will be
allowed to acquire Time Warner. So this – look, this is a big deal
and AT&T also said it’s gonna invest a billion dollars here in the
U.S. next year, in addition to the bonuses.
O’DONNELL: And in fairness to Randall Stephenson, the CEO of
AT&T, I was with him before they tried to block that deal and he
was already talking about reinvesting in workers before that.
GALLAGHER: Exactly. But you know, you can almost see that
these companies are sort of writing the tweets for the President
because this is sort of a line straight to his heart. They are
showing right away that, look, this is for – you know, the tax cut is
passed on one day, day two it rains money for American workers.
GAYLE KING: But companies are under no obligation to do that,
though.
MASON: Correct.
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GALLAGHER: They’re not. No, no, no, they’re not. And –
MASON: What’s the likelihood then, that once you get past this
initial PR phase that this will be a pattern of behavior?
GALLAGHER: Well, that – there’s a lot of skepticism around that.
But I will say also those companies, it’s not just bonuses, some of
them are raising the minimum wage. So that is a significant –
KING: Wells Fargo.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. And so – but the big criticism is that
companies will use this money to reinvest by buying back their
stock and by paying dividends. And we’re sort of in an era of
financial engineering and capital finds the way that it’s – you
know, flows to the way it’s most useful.
(...)
 James Woods SLAMS “Pompous Blowhard”
#Nevertrumper Bill Kristol For Attacking
Trump’s Tax Bill
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, December 21, 2017

#NeverTrumper elitist blowhards like “Only an elitist cupcake like you would think
Bill Kristol are miserable over Trump’s having a bonus is “creepy.” Try actually
successful tax bill. It only further proves working for a living, you pompous
they are on the wrong side of history. blowhard. It would amaze you how
important a salary and bonus can be.”
Bill Kristol’s “inner Socialist” slipped out again. He
attacked the positive response many corporations had
yesterday announcing bonuses to employees and increases
in capital spending.

According to Bill Kristol, it’s “creepy” for a corporation to

give bonuses to employees in response to tax cuts.

Patriotic actor James Woods moved in for the kill shot.

Bill Kristol tweeted,

“Isn’t there something creepy about

corporations giving cash bonuses to
employees explicitly because of the
passage of certain legislation or because of
specific regulatory actions? Doesn’t it have
something of a Road to Corporatist
Serfdom feel to it?”

James Woods responded in his usual snarky fashion utterly

destroying the RINO hack,

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According to Bill Kristol, innovation, increases in capital
spending and giving bonuses to hard working employees
when a corporation has access to more money is “creepy”.
Let that sink in.
A quick recap of just a few of the corporations positively
responding to Trump’s tax bill:
AT&T quickly responded to this
historical tax cut and announced
Wednesday it will be issuing over
200,000 U.S. employees a special $1,000
bonus and will also increase US capital
spending by $1 billion.
Also, thanks to Republicans passing
historic tax reform, Boeing has
announced a new $300 million
investment initiative.
There’s more… Fifth Third
Bancorp announced it will “raise its
minimum hourly wage for all employees
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to $15, and distribute one-time bonus of
$1,000 to more than 13,500 employees.”
More winning! Comcast announced it
will invest a whopping $50 billion into
infrastructure projects over the next five
years due to the Republicans’ tax plan.
The media giant will also give $1000
bonuses to more than 100,000
employees.
A $1,000 bonus can be life-changing for many people who
live on tight budgets. Only an elitist far removed from the
reality of many struggling Americans would act like Bill
Kristol.
Strange, Bill Kristol has never said it’s
“creepy” that the U.S. government
rewards illegal aliens by giving them
free everything, yet hard working,
employed Americans receiving a bonus
from their employer is “creepy”. That’s
all you need to know about the mindset
of a #NeverTrumper.
 'My God, Is That SNL?' CNN's Lemon Laughs At
Supposedly Extreme GOP Praise For Trump
By Tim Graham
December 21, 2017 4:25 PM EST
Republicans celebrated a big win on Wednesday, and CNN
Tonight anchor Don Lemon responded by mocking it as a
“festival of flattery” for an egotistical president. Lemon
pretended that this kind of gushing over a president has
never been done in modern times, as if Lemon’s never
watched network TV coverage of the Obamas, or the
Clintons, or the Kennedys.
DON LEMON: There was a festival of
flattery on the White House lawn today to
celebrate the passage of the Republican
tax cut bill.
HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN:
Something this big, something this
generational, something this profound
could not have been done without exquisite
presidential leadership. Mr. President,
thank you for getting us over the finish line.
REP. DIANE BLACK: Thank you, President
Trump, for allowing us to have you as our
president and to make America great
again.
SEN. ORRIN HATCH: You're one heck of a
leader, and we're all benefiting from it. This
bill could not have passed without you.
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE:
President Donald Trump delivered a great
victory for the American people.
LEMON: My God. Is that SNL? Is that real?
Complimenting President Trump has
become something of a ritual at the White
House, but have other presidents expected
such praise? Let's discuss now with CNN
presidential historians Timothy Naftali and
Douglas Brinkley. I mean, listen, you
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(Laughs) -- what is going on here?! By the
way, you gentlemen look so handsome.
You're such fantastic historians. I am just
honored to be on television with you.
Isn't that fairly typical praise when major legislation
passes? Did Lemon forget Joe Biden saying Obamacare
was a "big f---ing deal"? The Democrats had T-shirts
made.
This is the same Don Lemon who at this time three years
ago proclaimed of the Obamas, "They are America's first
couple, the closest thing that we have to royalty." New
York Times columnist Charles Blow shot back, "You're
going to get in so much trouble for calling the Obamas
royals." At the time, our Scott Whitlock pointed out that
when Chelsea Clinton had a baby earlier in 2014, they
gushed about the Clintons as royalty and a dynasty.
Lemon could just focus on his own network. CNN's David
Gergen oozed over Obama's 2008 convention speech:
“In many ways, it was less a speech than a
symphony....It was a masterpiece." In
2011, CNN's Piers Morgan told Obama
aide David Axelrod, "I always feel he's got
so many pluses, doesn't he? In a sense,
he's personable, he's handsome, he can be
funny. You know, abroad he has this great
image for America. A lot of things are just
perfect about Barack Obama." Four years
ago, CNN's Piers Morgan pondered a
presidential run by lumpy Chris Christie
"after the perfect Barack Obama -- who’s a
perfect physical specimen to many people's
eyes."
Brinkley said Trump has a 35 percent approval rating and
hasn’t done anything notable this year, “But it's worth
high-fiving. It is an historic victory. But I think the
exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump,
it almost seems like a scene out of The
Godfather we just saw, not what you
would expect from the president of a
democracy.”
Timothy Naftali compared it to Nixon, not the Democrats:
 “I haven't heard this kind of sycophancy
since I listened to the Nixon tapes,
where Henry Kissinger is telling the
president what a remarkable human being
he is.”
Naftali added Trump was insecure:
“I think one of the lessons that Congress
learned was that this president is insecure,
and that if you want to work with this
president, you have to make him feel great
about himself. And they didn't do it in the
health care debate. And they decided to do
it over tax cuts.”
Lemon was so amazed by these pretty standard clips of
praise at a victory celebration that he reprised his
amazement in the 11 pm hour with the husband-and-wife
CNN analysts John Avlon and Margaret Hoover. He
laughed out loud when the clip package ended.
JOHN AVLON: I mean, come on. This sort of Dear
Leader genuflection -- like, the cabinet meeting, The
Washington Post calculated that Vice President Pence
praised him once every twelve seconds for three minutes.
That is not normal human behavior, folks. That is a
hostage video. I mean what’s going on?
DON LEMON: Come on, conservative Margaret Hoover.
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MARGARET HOOVER: No, exactly. Look, this is sad.
This is really, really sad.
LEMON: It is embarrassing, isn't it?
HOOVER: It’s really sad. And, you know there was a time
where conservatives like me who really supported people
like Paul Ryan and the center-right and believed that they
were getting, they were supporting President Trump in
order to deliver on their principles, right? And so in order
to get the kind of tax reform done that we talked about for
30 years, you know, they had to cooperate with the
Republican President in order to be -- so it was actually
harder for them to be with Trump in order to deliver. And
then they didn’t!
So this just undermines [underlines?]
the fact that they totally sold out their
principles.
LEMON: Why would they do that?
HOOVER: Because they lost all hope. (LAUGHTER)
LEMON: All right. Stop it. When people do that [praise
you effusively], don't you say ‘Come on, stop it, this is a
team effort, and it took all of us. We all got it done.
HOOVER: This President demands something very
different from the people.
AVLON: It’s just creepy to see senior
Senators like Orrin Hatch give the
President a tongue bath on national
television, it is odd. It is just weird.
HOOVER: I don't even know what that is. (LAUGHTER)
Avlon has presided over some creepy conversations at The
Daily Beast, like the one where two colleagues said they
wouldn't donate their heart to evil supervillain Dick
Cheney.
 "A Stunning Rebuke":
128 Nations Support UN Call For Trump To Withdraw
Jerusalem Decision
By Tyler Durden
Dec 21, 2017 12:57 PM

One day after Trump escalated his war of words with the
UN, threatening to cut off foreign financial aid over
today's UN vote on the president's decision to recognize
Jerusalem the capital of Israel, the United Nations on
Thursday delivered what has been dubbed a "stunning
rebuke" of the US President's Jerusalem decision, voting
overwhelmingly to condemn the move and calling on the
U.S. to withdraw the decision.
The final vote was a landslide against Israel, with some
128 nations voting in favor of the resolution. Nine
countries opposed the resolution while 35 abstained.
Only Israel, Honduras, Togo, U.S., Palau, Marshall
Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Guatemala voted against
Jerusalem resolution. Two-thirds of UN member states
including Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium,
Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Greece
voted in favor of the resolution. Canada abstained.
As reported yesterday, in the runup to the General
Assembly vote, Trump and US Ambassador to the UN,
Nikki Haley, warned countries against opposing the Trump
administration's Jerusalem decision.
Haley went so far as sending a letter to
members of the international body this
week, warning that Trump had
instructed her to take names, i.e., list
the countries that voted in favor of the
resolution. The president followed up on
that warning on Wednesday, suggesting at
a Cabinet meeting that the U.S. could cut
off foreign aid for countries that
opposed the U.S. in the vote.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars
and even billions of dollars, and then they
vote against us," Trump said. "Well, we're
watching those votes. Let them vote
against us, we’ll save a lot. We don't care."
The threat did little to stop the countries
from voting to blast Trump's decision.

While the resolution – a formal statement of a U.N.

opinion – is not legally binding, it is represents a symbolic
and diplomatic condemnation of Trump's decision and
exerts political pressure on him to reverse the move...
which Trump of course won't do.

The General Assembly vote came days after the U.S.

vetoed a similar resolution in the U.N. Security Council.
The panel's other 14 members voted in favor of that
measure – a move that Haley called an "insult" to the
U.S. Shortly after the Security Council vote, Arab and
Muslim leaders at U.N. called for an emergency special
session of the General Assembly to discuss the U.S.'s
Jerusalem decision.

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In a defiant speech ahead of the General Assembly vote on
Thursday, Riyad Al Maliki, the Palestinian foreign affairs
minister, cast the Trump administration’s Jerusalem
decision as an affront on regional peace and security that
has isolated the U.S. from the international community.
“Does the United States not wonder
why it stands isolated in this
position?” he asked.
Turkey, which has led the Muslim opposition to the US
Jerusalem declaration, was among the first to speak at the
meeting. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
stressed that only a two-state solution and sticking to the
1967 borders can be a foundation for a lasting peace
between Israel and Palestine. The minister said that since
Jerusalem is the cradle for the “three monotheistic
religions,” all of humanity should come together to
preserve the status quo.
“The recent decision of a UN member
state to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel violates the
international law, including all relevant
UN resolutions. This decision is an
outrageous assault on all universal
values,” Cavusoglu said.
The US threats were also condemned by Turkey, with the
country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stating that
Trump “cannot buy Turkey's democratic will.”
“I hope and expect the United States won't
get the result it expects from there (the UN
General Assembly) and the world will give
a very good lesson to the United States,”
Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara on
Thursday ahead of the meeting.
A spokesman for Palestine president Mahmud Abbas
triumphantly declared that the
"UN Vote is a victory for Palestine."
***
Despite being isolated by virtually the entire international
community, in her blunt response,
Haley warned the international body that
the U.S. would remember the vote as a
betrayal by the U.N., and that the vote
would do nothing to affect the Trump
administration’s decision to recognize
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Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move
its embassy there.
“America will put our embassy in
Jerusalem. That is what the American
people want us to do, and it is the right
thing to do,” she said ahead of the vote.
“No vote in the United Nations will make
any difference on that. But this vote will
make a difference in how Americans view
the U.N.”
Haley reminded UN members of the US’ generous
contributions to the organization and said that the United
States expects its will to be respected in return.
“When we make a generous contributions
to the UN, we also have a legitimate
expectation that our goodwill is recognized
and respected,” Haley said, adding that the
vote will be “remembered” by the US and
“make a difference on how the Americans
look at the UN.”
Ahead of the vote, Israeli PM Netanyahu called the UN a
"house of lies."
"The State of Israel rejects outright this
vote, even before it passes," he said at a
ceremony in southern Israel. "The attitude
to Israel of many nations in the world, in
all the continents, is changing outside
of the UN walls, and will eventually filter
into the UN as well -- the house of lies,"
he said.
"Jerusalem is our capital, we will continue
to build in it and embassies of countries,
led by the US, will move to Jerusalem,"
Netanyahu said, thanking Trump and US
ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for
"standing by Israel and the truth."
Israeli envoy to the UN Danny Danon stated that Israel
considers Jerusalem its capital, dating back to Biblical
times, and the US decision only outlines the obvious.
Danon went further and accused the UN of “double
standards” and an “unbreakable bond of hypocrisy” with
Palestine and prejudice against Israel.
“Those who support today’s resolution are
like puppets. You’re puppets pulled by the
strings of your Palestinian puppet masters.
You’re like marionettes forced to dance,
while the Palestinian leadership looks on
with glee,” Danon told the gathering.
 “WORSE Than Watergate!”: Rand Paul Calls For “High
Ranking” Obama Officials To Be Investigated For
“Colluding” Against Trump
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Senator Rand Paul is calling for a full

investigation into alleged collusion
between Obama administration officials
in an effort to prevent President
Trump’s election.
Paul was referring to last week’s bombshell that top DOJ
official Bruce Ohr not only met with key players in the
creation of the infamous “Trump dossier,” but his wife
Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research
firm that commissioned the unproven document. […]

“Time to investigate high ranking Obama government

officials who might have colluded to prevent the election
of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than
Watergate!” tweeted Rand Paul on Thursday.

“You have the Department of Justice,

where you have a high-ranking official
whose wife works for the group doing
opposition research on Trump being paid
for by the Democrat National Committee,
that sounds like a lot of high-ranking people
colluding to try to prevent Donald Trump
from being president,” Paul told Fox News
BizPac Review reports: host Bill Hemmer.

With tax reform a done-deal and the wind “You know, we’ve had this investigation
at his back, Senator Rand Paul came out about Russian collusion, maybe we need
swinging against the Obama an investigation about high-ranking Obama
administration. officials colluding to try to prevent Trump
from being president,” Paul added.
Paul said he wants answers as to why
Mueller’s investigation into alleged Trump- “That’s more serious than even Watergate.”
Russia collusion appears so obviously
partisan […]

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 Tom Brokaw: Conservative Media
On A ‘Jihad’ Against FBI, Mueller
By Chris Reeves
December 21, 2017 4:38 PM EST
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, the show’s liberal pundits
continued their smear campaign targeting congressional
lawmakers and journalists who have been trying to reveal
the full extent of political bias within the FBI that may
have adversely affected its investigations of Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential
campaign. Working with the knowledge that there is now
an official congressional investigation into the FBI and
DOJ’s conduct last year, co-host Joe Scarborough and his
guest panelists went into overdrive to paint any
questioning of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his
investigative team’s professionalism as an illegitimate,
desperate, and futile attempt to save Trump’s presidency.
Former veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had
some especially harsh words for Fox News’s recent
coverage of FBI corruption,
claiming that the network “is on a jihad
right now” against Mueller and his
agents.
For his part, Scarborough was satisfied with a slightly less
theological analogy to attack congressional Republicans,
who he compared to “monkeys throwing poo against the
wall” for openly doubting Mueller’s handling of his
investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion:
6:35 AM EST
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Alright, so listen, let me, let me
just tell you, Republicans, children, um, you're, you’re
out of your league. You’re playing way out of your
league. Bob Mueller is several steps ahead of you. And
you will destroy your majority for years to come. If you
want to do it, your business. I think Americans would
probably be comforted with you out of power for a
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very long time and your president with a 33% approval
rating. Uh, but Michael Schmidt, I'm a little confused. I'm
just a dumb country lawyer, but I thought this FBI, uh, was
the same FBI we heard last week had warned Donald
Trump during the campaign about the Russians trying to
interfere with this campaign.
MICHAEL SCHMIDT: Yeah. I think that you
can’t underestimate the impact that these
disclosures about Pete Strzok, the top
counterintelligence agent at the FBI with
these text messages he was exchanging, it
has really given the Republicans a
talking point to attack the FBI in a way
that they didn't have before. And it has
really become the rallying cry and I think
has encouraged them, enthused them, that
maybe there is a way that they can
undercut Mueller by continuing to attack
this.
SCARBOROUGH: But, but, but Michael,
help me out here. Help me out here. It
seems to me that they're just throwing
whatever they can like monkeys
throwing poo against the wall. Last
week, it was Textgate scandal. And then
we found out actually that those texts were
improperly released. And actually, they
were attacking Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton as well. That's okay, so
they move on to something else. Like,
what exactly is the scandal? They're,
they’re just making things up every
week.
Scarborough did not elaborate on what he meant by: “[W]e
found out actually that those texts [...] were attacking
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton as well,” but he
appeared to be conflating Strzok’s anti-Trump, anti-
Sanders, and pro-Clinton texts, which have been the big
story for the past couple of weeks, with another story about
New York FBI agents disparaging both Clinton and
Trump. As Vanity Fair has reported [emphasis mine]:
As the biggest of the bureau’s outposts,
handling many of its headline cases, New
York is particularly possessive of its
investigations. There’s no evidence,
 however, that its agents dragged their feet
on reviewing Weiner’s laptop in order to
force Comey to act—or of its bias toward
either of the 2016 presidential
candidates. The New York field office
held Clinton and Trump in nearly equal
disdain. “In 2016, the New York agents
thought Hillary is corrupt and Trump is
crazy—he’s in New York and they know
him well,” a top veteran of the city’s office
said. “So in the primary there was a
majority of agents for Bernie Sanders.”
Given the fact that Peter Strzok, the lead investigator of
Hillary Clinton’s alleged mishandling of classified
information as Secretary of State, hated Trump, hated
Sanders, and wanted Clinton to win the election, it stands
to reason that this political bias could have tainted Strzok’s
judgement. According to reporting by CNN, there is
already concrete evidence to suggest that Strzok’s feelings
were not properly kept separate from his investigation
[emphasis mine]:
A former top counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at
the center of a political uproar for exchanging private
messages that appeared to mock President Donald Trump,
changed a key phrase in former FBI Director James
Comey's description of how former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton handled classified information, according
to US officials familiar with the matter.
Electronic records show Peter Strzok, who led the
investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server as
the No. 2 official in the counterintelligence division,
changed Comey's earlier draft language
describing Clinton's actions as "grossly
negligent" to "extremely careless," the
sources said.
(...)
The shift from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless,"
which may appear pedestrian at first glance, reflected a
decision by the FBI that could have had potentially
significant legal implications,
as the federal law governing the
mishandling of classified material
establishes criminal penalties for "gross
negligence."
Hey Joe, if you’re curious about what exactly the scandal
is, you don’t have to tune in to watch monkeys flinging
poop at anybody. You can just watch CNN.
Thursday’s Morning Joe did not get any better when New
York Times reporter Jeremy Peters came on to spread
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outright disinformation about criticisms of Mueller and the
FBI:
7:16 AM
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, Jeremy Peters, talk about the
discomfort on the Hill that some senior Republicans have
at some of the more junior members attacking the men and
women at the FBI and going after an American war hero,
um, Bob Mueller. Um, talk about the discomfort that some
Republicans are feeling.
PETERS: Well, what they'll say to you
privately, Joe, is the same thing they said
after Trump's attacks on Judge Curiel, that
this is an unwarranted and, really,
constitutionally dangerous attack by
somebody on an independent branch of
government, an independent entity in
the government. It’s, and it’s -- and it
violates the separations that are
supposed to exist. You know, to Susan’s
point about Mueller and how he doesn't
care, that may be true, but you know who
else doesn't care? Donald Trump. And
Donald Trump is living in a world right
now that is fed by the conservative
media hysteria over Bob Mueller and his
alleged ties to Democrats, the attorneys
who work for him who donated to
Democrats. This has been a narrative
that has built up on a single cable news
network and in the conservative radio
sphere over the last several months, that
is: This man cannot be trusted. He is
politically tainted and therefore unable to
objectively investigate the President, that
this is a witch hunt. And that -- and Donald
Trump marinates in that all day long. He
hears it on Hannity. He hears it on Laura
Ingraham. He -- in, in, in Breitbart. I mean,
it is, it -- inescapable for him. And it's hard
for me to imagine that eventually that
doesn't affect his thinking and his
judgment.
Peters committed at least three major errors of fact that I
can pick out.
First, neither the FBI nor the Justice Department are
independent branches or entities within the federal
government. Both the FBI and the Justice Department are
constitutionally subordinate to the President because they
fall under his executive authority to oversee federal law
enforcement. Because of the President’s decision to fire
James Comey earlier this year, some legal commentators
have suggested changing this aspect of the structure of the
executive branch.
Second, “conservative media” have not been the only ones
to scrutinize Mueller and the FBI’s conduct. Fox News and
Breitbart have certainly focused on stories about FBI
corruption more than other news establishments, but the
L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters,
Business Insider, and many more politically diverse outlets
have contributed important reporting as well.
Third, Mueller’s ties to Democrats are not “alleged.” The
Special Counsel’s own office has provided information to
reporters confirming that most of Mueller’s legal team
have made political contributions to Democratic
candidates, including “three [who] gave a total of $18,100
to either [Hillary Clinton’s] 2016 campaign or her 2008
run for the presidential nomination.”
If there is really nothing to be worried about regarding
allegations of political bias at the FBI or among Mueller’s
legal team, why did Peters have to repeatedly lie about
easily verifiable facts?
Near the end of the second hour of Joe’s broadcast,
Brokaw finally came on to discuss the issues of the day
with Mika Brzezinski, which included his designation of
Fox News as a jihadi network:
7:51 AM
BROKAW: Uh, John, it's very hard for me to predict what either
party would do under almost any circumstance these days
because there's very little history.
I would say that the FBI in the judgment
of most people in this country still is
one of our most valued institutions and
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Mueller's reputation across the board
has [sic] enormous amount of integrity.
BRZEZINSKI: The President just tweeted, Tom – I just want your
reaction here – “Was @foxandfriends just named the most
influential show in news? You deserve it - three great people!
The many Fake News Hate Shows” could “study your formula for
success!” Tom?
BROKAW: Well, he watches Fox News
because it reinforces what he believes.
And, Fox News, after Shepard Smith in
the late afternoon, is on a jihad right
now on the whole question about
whether there's a fairness about this or
not,
the transfer of uranium, for example, to, um, Ira-, to Iran. Shep
Smith has gone in some detail to say: It did not happen. She
didn't have the authority to do that. That ends at 4:30 or 5:00 or
whenever he gets off the air, and then from then on,-
BRZEZINSKI: What happens?
BROKAW: -the whole assault is on the
institutions. I mean, Newt Gingrich,
looking into the,-
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] Through Fox?
BROKAW: -looking -- Newt Gingrich was looking into the camera
and saying the FBI is a corrupt organization. Right? Three
months earlier, he had said Bob Mueller is one of the great
distinguished public servants that we have.
So, we're at, you know, we’re at war here
and it's gonna be sorted out in the final
analysis.
Amazingly enough, today was not the first instance of
Brokaw flippantly comparing conservative media to
jihadis. Back in 2003, speaking before the National Press
Club, Brokaw complained that watchdog groups like
NewsBusters were “suffocating discourse” and
“encouraging a kind of e-mail or telephonic jihad [...]
under the guise of promoting fair press coverage.”
 Trump Threatens Aid Cuts To UN
Members Who Vote Against Him On Jerusalem
Written By Jason Ditz
December 21, 2017 At 5:37 Am
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The global backlash against
President Trump’s recent declaration that Jerusalem is the
capital city of Israel is setting the stage for a major
showdown at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, a
vote which is expected to be overwhelming opposed to
Trump’s statement.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had been making
vague warnings of punishment for nations that resist the
US on the matter, and President Trump is said to like that
idea so much that he’s now overtly threatening to cut off
foreign aid to any nation that dares vote against him at the
General Assembly.
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While the administration seems to be betting this will lead
to massive capitulation worldwide, it’s still virtually
certain that the resolution will pass by a wide margin.
Voting for the US, and by extension, Israel, is unthinkable
across the Muslim world, and it’s also hard to imagine that
any of the Security Council nations, who already voted
against the US, would willingly change course now, when
it would be so transparently a reaction to US threats.
But if Trump doesn’t get his way, that too raises an
interesting question. For instance, if the vote was 191-2 or
some other overwhelming defeat for the US, as some have
predicted, it’s going to be awfully hard for President
Trump to make good on his threats, since it would mean
effectively ending American foreign aid to everyone but
Israel.
That’s not likely to sit well with many of the longer-
serving US officials, who see foreign aid as “buying
influence” abroad. It’s also hard to imagine, having
ignored US law on not giving military funding to juntas,
that the US will suddenly defund all the world’s juntas at
once over Jerusalem.
 FBI Fires Suspected Leaker
And Comey Ally James Baker
By Tyler Durden
Dec 22, 2017 9:31 AM
Just hours after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
delivered private testimony to the House Intelligence
Committee, his boss, FBI Director Christopher Wray,
announced that the bureau’s top lawyer would be leaving
his post, an attempt to bring in “new blood” to an agency
whose reputation has been hopelessly compromised by
revelations that agents’ partisan bias may have influenced
two high-profile investigations involving President Donald
Trump and his former campaign rival, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
As the Washington Post reported, the FBI’s top lawyer,
James Baker, is being reassigned. WaPo says Baker’s
removal is part of Wray’s effort to assemble his own team
of senior advisers while he tries to defuse allegations of
partisanship that have plagued the bureau in recent months.
James Baker
But reports published over the summer said Baker was
“the top suspect” in an interagency leak investigation, as
we reported back in July
Three sources, with knowledge of the investigation,
told Circa that Baker is the top suspect
in an ongoing leak investigation,
but Circa has not been able to confirm the details of what
national security information or material was allegedly
leaked.
A federal law enforcement official with
knowledge of ongoing internal
investigations in the bureau told Circa,
"the bureau is scouring for leakers and
there's been a lot of investigations."
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The revelation comes as the Trump administration has
ramped up efforts to contain leaks both within the White
House and within its own national security apparatus.
The news of the staff shakeup comes as Trump and his
political allies have promised to “rebuild” the FBI to make
it “bigger and better than ever” following its “disgraceful”
conduct over the Trump probe.
Baker played a key role in the agency’s
handling of major cases and policy
debates in recent years, including the
FBI’s unsuccessful battle with Apple
over the growing use of encryption in
cellphones.
Wray has, of course, resisted Congress’s push to learn
more about senior agent Peter Strzok, who was a key
player in both the Clinton investigation and the Trump
probe. Strzok was exposed last month for exchanging anti-
Trump texts with FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom he
was having an affair.
Strzok played important roles with both
investigations. Later, it was revealed
that his edits to Clinton’s exoneration
letter went further than had been
previously disclosed.
According to WaPo,
Baker told colleagues he will be taking
on other duties at the FBI.
Unsurprisingly, the Jeff Bezos-owned
 paper describes Baker as “one of the
most trusted, longest-serving national
security officials in the US. He has
served as the head of the FBI’s Office of
General Counsel for several years."
Of course, WaPo says Baker’s reassignment has nothing to
do with the leak investigation, which ended without any
publicly disclosed findings. It’s also unclear what, exactly,
Baker was suspected of leaking.
Baker is reportedly a very close to
former FBI director James B. Comey,
who asked Baker to be his general
counsel. The two men were colleagues at
the Justice Department and when they
were out of government at Bridgewater
Associates, an investment management
firm.
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It's notable that Baker’s departure comes six months after
the leaking scandal, and just days after AG Jeff Sessions
reportedly asked DOJ prosecutors to begin asking FBI
agents about the details of the Uranium One investigation.
A sign that the bureau is finally moving to address
concerns expressed by Republican lawmakers about bias
that may have favored Clinton.
Baker’s head is the third to roll in the “housecleaning” that
saw the FBI sanction Strzok and Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ
official who reportedly concealed his wife’s ties to
opposition research firm Fusion GPS – the firm that
supervised the creation of the infamous “Trump dossier."
It was also revealed recently that Baker’s name is on a list
of DOJ officials who are expected to receive a subpoena to
testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Strzok
and Ohr’s names are also on that list.
If that’s any indication of what’s to come, we doubt this
will be the last time we hear Baker’s name.
 GOP Lawmaker: No Question There Was “An
Orchestrated Plan” Hatched By FBI, Doj To Keep Trump
OUT Of Oval Office
By JD Heyes
Saturday, December 23, 2017
As time goes on and we learn ever more about the
shenanigans that took place during last year’s presidential
election cycle, it’s becoming clear to thinking people
everywhere: There definitely was “collusion” but none of
it was conducted by the Trump campaign.
In fact, the most damning evidence of collusion can be
found not with Russia per se, but within our own
government, or, more specifically, within the confines of
Barack Obama’s government.
That’s the conclusion of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who has
been hot on the trails of DC Swamp creatures whom he
believes actively plotted against President Donald J.
Trump and in favor of the most despicable criminal never
to be charged, Hillary “Rotten” Clinton.
During an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends
morning show earlier this week, Jordan said that he
believes there were ranking figures within the FBI and
Department of Justice who “were putting together a plan to
stop Donald Trump from being the next president of the
United States.”
“I think it’s amazing in spite of the fact that the
Democrats were against him, the Republican
establishment was against him, the mainstream
press was against him. and now I believe the
FBI and the Justice Department were against
him, the American people still said that’s the
guy we want to be the next president,” he said,
as reported by Breitbart News.
As reported by Trump.news, Jordan and other GOP
lawmakers are starting to put together the extent of
outright, blatant corruption within Obama’s highly
politicized FBI and Justice Department following months’
worth of damning reports.
During a recent appearance by Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein before the House Judiciary Committee to
answer questions regarding special counsel Robert
Mueller’s ongoing (and bogus) investigation into “Trump-
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Russia collusion,” Jordan, along with Rep. Trey Gowdy,
R-S.C.,
“presented scores of examples where bias
against President Donald J. Trump obviously
exists within the group of investigators and
prosecutors Mueller has assembled for his
probe, but well before it began, extending into
last year’s high-profile criminal investigation of
Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified
information and surveillance of the Trump
campaign,” Trump.news reported.
“The reason we have special counsel is
because of a conflict of interest,” Gowdy said.
“We don’t like conflicts of interest because it
undermines people’s confidence in both the
process and the result.
“And then, lo and behold, those that are
supposed to make sure there are no conflicts of
interest seem to have a bit of their own,” Gowdy
noted further.
In his Fox & Friends interview, Jordan discussed other
evidence of a conspiracy, especially surrounding the FBI’s
use of the never-confirmed but widely-debunked “Trump
dossier.” (Related: Expert: Bogus Trump ‘dossier’ was
NOT ‘just opposition research’ but used by FBI to launch
‘collusion’ probes)
“…[E]verything points to — from what we
learned several weeks ago that they paid to the
dossier to the fact that I believe that fake
dossier was used as the basis to get Warren to
now what we learn about Peter Strzok and
Bruce Ohr and the FBI and the Justice
Department, respectively,” he said, continuing,
“Everything points to the fact that there was an
orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald
Trump from becoming the President of the
United States.”
Then Jordan noted something that should be obvious to
everyone with the exception of Left-wing Democrats and
hacks: No evidence whatsoever of Trump-Russia
“collusion” has yet to be found, and it would have been by
now, given all the leaking by the Deep State to harm
Trump.
“To date, there’s not one bit of evidence that
Donald Trump worked with the Russians to
influence the election,” he said. “But we know
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for a fact the Clinton campaign paid Russians.
They paid Christopher Steele through the law
firm, though Fusion GPS they paid Christopher
Steele who actually paid Russians for this false,
fake dossier information.”
Jordan added that he wants key figures in this scandal
subpoenaed so that they are forced to explain, under oath,
what they did last year.
Sen. Rand Paul Declares Obama Officials’ Effort To Derail
Trump Campaign “WORSE Than Watergate”
By JD Heyes
Sunday, December 24, 2017
The junior senator from Kentucky has had enough.
GOP Sen. Rand Paul, once a fierce competitor of President
Donald J. Trump in their mutual bid for the White House,
says it’s become obvious that there were Deep State forces
loyal to the Obama political machine within the
Department of Justice and FBI who conspired to keep the
billionaire real estate mogul-turned-politician out of the
Oval Office.
And for that, they should be investigated and if (actually
when) they are found guilty of said conspiracy, punished.
What’s more, Paul justified his call for a new investigation
by comparing it to one of the most heinous political crimes
in U.S. history.
“Time to investigate high ranking Obama
government officials who might have colluded to
prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This
could be WORSE than Watergate!” tweeted
Rand Paul on Thursday.
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As reported by BizPac Review, with the Republican tax
reform plan done Paul came out swinging on behalf of the
president, who we all know was wronged in so many ways
by one of the most corrupt White House administrations in
recent memory.
For one, Paul says he wants answers into why special
counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump-Russia
collusion is so blatantly partisan. (Related: SWAMP:
Trump lawyer alleges Mueller engaged in “unlawful
conduct” in obtaining transition documents.)
“You have the Department of Justice, where
you have a high-ranking official whose wife
works for the group doing opposition research
on Trump being paid for by the Democrat
National Committee, that sounds like a lot of
high-ranking people colluding to try to prevent
Donald Trump from being president,” Paul said
in an interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer.
That was a reference to last week’s bombshell that top DoJ
official Bruce Ohr had not only met with principals who
created the infamous “Trump dossier,” but also that his
wife Nellie worked for the same firm — Fusion GPS —
during the campaign last year and as the dossier was
being created by former British spy Christopher Steele.
“You know, we’ve had this investigation about
Russian collusion, maybe we need an
investigation about high-ranking Obama officials
colluding to try to prevent Trump from being
president,” Paul said.
“This is more serious than even Watergate,” he
added.
No doubt about that.
That top-ranking officials within the FBI and
Justice Department — the two federal entities
Americans have to be able to trust to
unbiasedly mete out justice and enforce federal
law — would conspire against a U.S.
presidential candidate is just plain
unacceptable.
Fox News’ Judge Janine Pirro made that same claim in “The stench coming out of the FBI and Justice
recent days, calling on Congress and the Trump Justice Department is like that of a Third World country
Department to step up pressure on those responsible for the where money and boys and clubs decide
anti-Trump collusion and hold them to account. elections,” she said. “It’s time to take them out
in cuffs.”
“There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and
department of justice– it needs to be cleansed
of individuals who should not just be fired. But
who need to be taken out in cuffs,” she said
during her program “Justice” last week.

“There have been times in our history where

corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive,
that examples had to be made,” Pirro said.
“This is one of those times.”

She said examples of those who should be targeted

include, but are not limited to, Deputy FBI Director
Andrew McCabe, former FBI Director James Comey, and
even Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“I for one am tired of investigations, politicians

posturing,” Pirro said. “Something more has to
be done.”

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 Trump Slams FBI,
Clinton For 'Garbage' Dossier
By Josh Delk
12/26/17 09:01 AM EST
President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the FBI and the
Clinton campaign on the Russia dossier compiled against
him and his 2016 campaign.
"WOW, @foxandfriends 'Dossier is bogus. Clinton
Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all
of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF
RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.' And
they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis
for going after the Trump Campaign!" Trump tweeted, the
latest in his ongoing smear on the FBI.
The dossier, a compilation of opposition research against
the 2016 Trump campaign, was partly funded by Clinton's
campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
It included several incendiary claims against Trump and
his campaign that have loomed over his presidency.
While the research for the dossier was originally aimed at
finding information on the entire field of GOP candidates,
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it alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow
that eventually became the focus of the project.
Some Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee,
which has investigated witnesses in connection with the
dossier, have begun to probe into the FBI's and Justice
Department's handling of the look into the claims included
in the document.
BuzzFeed News published the controversial dossier in
January, which includes many salacious claims that have
not been verified.
Trump has also targeted the FBI in recent weeks for what
many Republican lawmakers believe was a biased and
politically motivated approach to its investigation of
collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
The Justice Department allowed the House Intelligence
Committee earlier this month to interview an FBI
employee thought to be an informant to the dossier's
leading researcher, amid calls from Trump attorneys for a
second special counsel to investigate links between the
bureau and the private company that commissioned the
dossier research.
The Intelligence Committee has attempted to slap
contempt citations on the department and the FBI for its
investigation into claims of Russian collusion in the
dossier.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is facing new
criticisms from Trump for his role in the FBI's probe,
testified before the committee last week.
 Trump Slams "Crooked Hillary
Pile Of Garbage"-Funded "Bogus" Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Dec 26, 2017 6:59 PM
Having taken a shot at The FBI on Christmas Eve Eve...
President Trump took to Twitter early on this Boxing Day
with a very direct shot across the bow of all his DC-swamp
adversaries...
As a reminder, we know three things for sure:
(1) The Steele dossier was a Clinton campaign product.
If it was used by the FBI and the Obama Justice
Department to obtain a FISA warrant, that would mean
law-enforcement agencies controlled by a Democratic
president fed the FISA court political campaign material
produced by the Democratic candidate whom the president
had endorsed to succeed him. Partisan claims of egregious
scheming with an adversarial foreign power would have
been presented to the court with the FBI’s imprimatur, as if
they were drawn from refined U.S. intelligence reporting.
The objective would have been to spy on the opposition
Republican campaign.
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(2) In June of this year, former FBI director James Comey
testified that the dossier was “salacious and unverified.”
While still director, Comey had described the dossier the
same way when he briefed President-elect Trump on it in
January 2017. If the dossier was still unverified as late as
mid 2017, its allegations could not possibly have been
verified months earlier, in the late summer or early
autumn of 2016, when it appears that the FBI and DOJ
used them in an application to the FISA court.
(3) The dossier appears to contain misinformation.
Knowing he was a spy-for-hire trusted by Americans,
Steele’s Russian-regime sources had reason to believe that
misinformation could be passed into the stream of U.S.
intelligence and that it would be acted on — and leaked —
as if it were true, to America’s detriment. This would sow
discord in our political system. If the FBI and DOJ relied
on the dossier, it likely means they were played by the
Putin regime.
Manifestly, the DOJ and FBI were favorably disposed
toward Steele and Fusion GPS. I suspect that these good,
productive prior relationships with the dossier’s source led
the investigators to be less exacting about corroborating
the dossier’s claims.
But that is just the beginning of the bias story.
At a high level, the DOJ and FBI were in the tank for
Hillary Clinton. In July 2016, shortly before Steele’s
reports started floating in, the FBI and DOJ announced that
no charges would be brought against Mrs. Clinton despite
damning evidence that she mishandled classified
information, destroyed government files, obstructed
congressional investigations, and lied to investigators. The
irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are legion:
President Obama making it clear in public statements that
he did not want Clinton charged; the FBI, shortly
afterwards, drafting an exoneration of Clinton months
before the investigation ended and central witnesses,
including Clinton herself, were interviewed; investigators
failing to use the grand jury to compel the production of
key evidence; the DOJ restricting FBI agents in their lines
of inquiry and examination of evidence; the granting of
immunity to suspects who in any other case would be
pressured to plead guilty and cooperate against more-
culpable suspects; the distorting of criminal statutes to
avoid applying them to Clinton; the sulfurous tarmac
meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former
President Clinton shortly before Mrs. Clinton was given a
peremptory interview — right before then–FBI director
Comey announced that she would not be charged.
The blatant preference for Clinton over Trump
smacked of politics and self-interest. Deputy FBI
director McCabe’s wife had run for the Virginia state
legislature as a Democrat, and her (unsuccessful)
campaign was lavishly funded by groups tied to Clinton
insider Terry McAuliffe. Agent Strzok told FBI lawyer
Page that Trump was an “idiot” and that “Hillary should
win 100 million to 0.” Page agreed that Trump was “a
loathsome human.” A Clinton win would likely mean
Lynch — originally raised to prominence when President
Bill Clinton appointed her to a coveted U.S. attorney slot
— would remain attorney general. Yates would be waiting
in the wings.
The prior relationships of trust with the source; the
investment in Clinton; the certitude that Clinton would win
and deserved to win, signified by the mulish determination
that she not be charged in the emails investigation; the
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sheer contempt for Trump. This concatenation led the FBI
and DOJ to believe Steele — to want to believe his
melodramatic account of Trump-Russia corruption. For the
faithful, it was a story too good to check.
The DOJ and FBI, having dropped a criminal
investigation that undeniably established Hillary
Clinton’s national-security recklessness, managed
simultaneously to convince themselves that Donald
Trump was too much of a national-security risk to be
president.
* * *
As we previously concluded, while there is a dearth of
evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in
Russia’s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election,
there is abundant evidence that the Obama
administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to
use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized
monitoring of the Trump campaign — and to fuel a pre-
election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies
believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions
if he were elected president. Congress should continue
pressing for answers, and President Trump should order
the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than —
what’s the word? — resist.
 DEEP STATE: Rep. Matt Gaetz Says Email Evidence
PROVES Hillary Got “Special” Treatment From
The FBI To Avoid Prosecution
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
A Florida Republican says that the House Judiciary
Committee, of which he is a member, now has email
evidence of bias and collusion within the wholly
discredited FBI that the so-called “criminal investigation”
into Hillary Clinton’s obvious and arrogant mishandling of
classified info via her unsecured private email server was
tanked on purpose to avoid indicting her.
Rep. Matt Gaetz told Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on
Friday that the committee has obtained email evidence that
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe indicated that
Clinton would get “HQ special” — “headquarters special”
— treatment, Breitbart News reported.
The fiery Gaetz, who has been like a hound dog tracking
down every lead and example of bureau-wide bias in favor
of Clinton and against President Donald J. Trump during
last year’s campaign, said that the circumstances
surrounding the FBI’s alleged ‘investigation’ were marred
by “extreme pro-Hillary Clinton bias.” (Related: Discover
the truth at Conspiracy.news)
“The Judiciary Committee is engaged in an
investigation, particularly as it relates to the
handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal
and any potential investigations of the Clinton
Foundation and the handling of bribes or other
types of improper payments,” Gaetz told the
network.
“I can certainly say that my impression after
these interviews is that there was extreme pro-
Hillary Clinton bias that benefitted her in this
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investigation and that she received special
treatment as a consequence of her candidacy
for president,” he added.
“That shouldn’t happen. The law should apply
equally to all Americans whether they’re political
candidates or not. And so, we need to institute
reforms through the Judiciary Committee for
more oversight, for more transparency so that
this never happens again.” (Related: Gaetz: FBI
Dep. Dir. McCabe emails indicate Hillary Clinton
got SPECIAL treatment by allies within Bureau.)
Gaetz is only the latest Republican lawmaker to come out
and essentially blame elements within the FBI and Obama
Department of Justice for being completely in the tank for
Hillary last year. They have cited evidence indicating that
the so-called “Trump dossier,” which was paid for by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee, and commissioned by a pro-Democrat
‘opposition research’ firm, was weaponized as legitimate
‘evidence’ to obtain FISA court warrants so pro-Hillary
agents and investigators could spy on her rival.
As for Gaetz, he said last month that “we now have
evidence” of FBI malfeasance in the investigation of
Clinton.
“We now have evidence that the FBI’s
investigation of Hillary Clinton did not follow
normal and standard procedures,” he said, as
reported by The National Sentinel. “The current
deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe sent
emails just weeks before the
presidential election saying that the Hillary
Clinton investigation would be special — that it
would be handled by a small team
at headquarters, that it would be given special
status.”
In his Fox interview Friday, the Florida Republican said
the committee’s next move will be to find out if there was
a departure at the FBI from standard policies and
“procedures.”
 “[O]ur view is we need to find out if whether or
not the procedures were departed from,” he
noted. “And we have email evidence from
Andrew McCabe indicating that Hillary Clinton
was going to get an ‘HQ Special,’ a
headquarters special.
Wouldn’t that be a major departure from the lopsided, one-
sided “justice” meted out (or not) during the corrupt
Clinton and Obama years?
Watch McCabe’s interview here:

“That meant that the normal processes of the

Washington field office weren’t followed and he
had a special. And he had a very small group of
people that had a pro-Hillary Clinton bias who
had a direct role in changing that investigation
from one that likely should have been criminal
to one where she was able to walk,” Gaetz
continued.

“And so I think that we’ve gotta ensure that that

never happens again, that the same processes
that would apply to any American would also
apply to people who were running for president
of the United States.”
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 A 25 Point Blueprint
For A Pro-Trump Congress
By Michael Snyder
December 26, 2017

In 2016 the Trump movement took the White House, and
now in 2018 we can take control of Congress. The
mainstream media and the Democrats are eagerly
anticipating a massive anti-Trump backlash in November
2018, but I say that the mid-term elections will be a golden
opportunity to give President Trump dozens of new allies
in Congress. The Make America Great Again agenda is a
winning agenda, and if we are able to mobilize pro-Trump
forces all over the nation we can pull off another miracle
next November. But first, we have got to win the
Republican primaries that will start happening early next
year, because otherwise we won’t even have any pro-
Trump candidates to vote for in the mid-term elections.
We have identified several dozen major pro-Trump
candidates all over the nation, and you can find that list on
Facebook right here. If you know of another pro-Trump
candidate that should be added to that list, please let me
know.
The mainstream media would like us to believe that
Trump’s support is falling, but the truth is that he has very
high approval ratings among Republicans from coast to
coast. If we can get the voters to understand who the pro-
Trump candidates are, we should be able to win primary
after primary all over the nation.
In the end, it isn’t that complicated. We just need to take
our pro-Trump message and share it everywhere that we
possibly can. The following are 25 basic pro-Trump
principles that I am running on, and I believe that they
could be used as a blueprint for pro-Trump candidates
across the country…
#1 A Pro-Trump Conservative – Donald
Trump helped restore my faith in America by
winning the 2016 election, and I will fight like
mad to implement his agenda if I am elected to
Congress.
#2 It’s Time To Drain The Swamp – The same
rules that apply to the rest of us should also
apply to Congress, and all federal officials
should be banned from working as lobbyists for
at least ten years after they leave government
service.
#3 Every RINO Must Go – Way too many
Republicans have been fighting Trump’s
agenda and acting like Democrats. It is time to
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hold them accountable, and that means every
‘Republican in name only’ needs to go.
#4 100% Pro-Life – No money for Planned
Parenthood ever. Nearly 60 million babies have
been murdered since 1973, and I am making an
unbreakable pledge to vote against any bill that
funds Planned Parenthood 100% of the time.
#5 100% Pro-Gun – The Constitution says that
the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed. I believe that every
American has a constitutional right to carry a
gun, and I will never back down from defending
the Second Amendment even a single inch.
#6 Abolish The IRS & The Income Tax – We
didn’t have an income tax from 1872 to 1913,
and that was the greatest period of economic
growth in U.S. history. As we fight a long-term
battle to abolish the income tax, in the short-
term we can at least go to a flat tax or a fair tax,
both of which would be far superior to what we
have now.
#7 Abolish The Federal Reserve – Since the
Fed was created in 1913, we have had 18
recessions, the value of the U.S. dollar has
fallen by about 98 percent, and the U.S.
national debt has gotten more than 6000 times
larger. Abolishing this debt-based system is one
of the keys to a bright economic future for
America.
#8 Cut Red Tape – As President Trump has
proposed, two existing government regulations
should be eliminated for every new regulation
that is enacted.
#9 Getting Federal Bureaucrats Off Our
Backs – I will work very hard to get federal
control freaks off of the backs of our farmers,
our loggers, our miners, our ranchers and our
small business owners.
#10 Local Control Of Education – It is time to
get the federal government out of the education
business. I want to abolish Common Core and
the Department of Education, and I want control
over education to be as close to the local level
as possible.
 #11 Shut Down Big Brother Spying –
Government agencies have been conducting
unconstitutional surveillance of American
citizens for decades, and that needs to stop
now.
#12 True Limited Government – President
Trump has proposed shutting down more than
60 different government programs and
agencies. That would be a good start. Instead
of asking which government agencies we
should close, we should be asking which
government agencies really need to remain
open.
#13 100% Repeal Of Obamacare – Rapidly
rising health insurance premiums are financially
crippling Idaho families. Republicans in
Congress have fumbled the ball, and we must
repeal Obamacare immediately.
#14 Build The Wall – We need to make sure
that everyone comes into this country through
the front door. We must end illegal immigration,
and so I support President Trump’s call to build
a wall on the southern border.
#15 End Sanctuary Cities – President Trump
has proposed cutting off all federal funding for
so-called “sanctuary cities”, and I will fight very
hard to get this done.
#16 Supporting Our Veterans – My father is a
vet, and I will work passionately to make sure
that our veterans receive the respect, care and
support that they deserve.
#17 Fighting Islamic Terror – I fully support
President Trump’s fight against ISIS, and I will
push for legislation that would give local
communities all over America the option to say
no to refugees from terrorist hotbeds.
#18 Stopping Reckless Government
Spending – We are 20 trillion dollars in debt
and we continue to steal more than 100 million
dollars from future generations every single
hour of every single day.
#19 Bringing Jobs Back To America – The
U.S. has lost more than 70,000 factories since
China joined the WTO in 2001. Our formerly
great manufacturing cities now look like war
zones, and we desperately need to start making
things in this country once again.
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#20 Energy Independence – The United
States has abundant reserves of oil, natural gas
and clean coal, and we need to take the
regulatory shackles off of the energy industry so
that we can start moving toward energy
independence.
#21 Resisting The Globalists – We must
reduce the power and influence of the United
Nations, and we must strongly fight all attempts
by the globalists to erode American sovereignty.
#22 Supporting States Rights – It is almost as
if the 10th Amendment doesn’t even exist
today. If I am elected, this is what his message
to the feds will be: ‘Hand over the keys and get
out of Idaho’.
#23 Removing The Wolves – Under Bill
Clinton, Canadian gray wolves were brought to
Idaho. These wolves travel in packs and are
killing machines. I am 100% committed to
removing these wolves from our state.
#24 Holding Judges Accountable – Federal
judges that disregard the U.S. Constitution and
that choose to legislate from the bench should
be subject to impeachment.
#25 An Unashamed Christian – Like President
Trump, I am not ashamed to say that I am a
Bible-believing Christian, and if we truly want to
make America great again we need to return to
the values and principles that this nation was
founded upon.
If you believe in what we are trying to do, we would love
to get you involved in our campaign. We need many more
volunteers, many more contributors and many more people
sharing the material that we post on our official campaign
Facebook page.
We are just a small part of a national movement that is
beginning to emerge. It began with Donald Trump’s
victory back in November, and it has continued in races all
over the nation.
I believe that we truly can take our government back, but it
is going to take a total team effort, and we need your help.
In 2016 we witnessed the biggest political miracle in
American history, and some would say that taking control
of Congress would be an even bigger miracle, but if we all
work together I believe that anything is possible.
We shocked the world in 2016, and I encourage you to
come join us as we shock it again in 2018.
 Did the FBI Conspire to Stop Trump?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday - December 26, 2017 at 11:20 pm
The original question the FBI investigation of the Trump
campaign was to answer was a simple one: Did he do it?
Did Trump, or officials with his knowledge, collude with
Vladimir Putin’s Russia to hack the emails of John Podesta
and the DNC, and leak the contents to damage Hillary
Clinton and elect Donald Trump?
A year and a half into the investigation, and, still, no
“collusion” has been found. Yet the investigation goes on,
at the demand of the never-Trump media and Beltway
establishment.
Hence, and understandably, suspicions have arisen.
Are the investigators after the truth, or are they after
Trump?
Set aside the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory momentarily,
and consider a rival explanation for what is going down
here:
That, from the outset, Director James Comey and an FBI
camarilla were determined to stop Trump and elect Hillary
Clinton. Having failed, they conspired to break Trump’s
presidency, overturn his mandate and bring him down.
Essential to any such project was first to block any
indictment of Hillary for transmitting national security
secrets over her private email server. That first objective
was achieved 18 months ago.
On July 5, 2016, Comey stepped before a stunned press
corps to declare that, given the evidence gathered by the
FBI, “no reasonable prosecutor” would indict Clinton.
Therefore, that was the course he, Comey, was
recommending.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, compromised by her
infamous 35-minute tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton —
to discuss golf and grandkids — seconded Comey’s
decision.
And so Hillary walked. Why is this suspicious?
First, whether or not to indict was a decision that belonged
to the Department of Justice, not Jim Comey or the FBI.
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His preemption of Justice Department authority was
astonishing.
Second, while Comey said in his statement that Hillary had
been “extremely careless” with security secrets, in his first
draft, Clinton was declared guilty of “gross negligence” —
the precise language in the statute to justify indictment.
Who talked Comey into softening the language to look less
than criminal? One man was FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, whose wife, Jill, a Virginia state senate
candidate, received a munificent PAC contribution of
$474,000 from Clinton family friend and big bundler Terry
McAuliffe.
Also urging Comey to soften the fatal phrase “gross
negligence” was key FBI agent Peter Strzok. In text
messages to his FBI lover Lisa Page, Strzok repeatedly
vented his detestation of the “idiot” Trump.
After one meeting with “Andy” (McCabe), Strzok told
Page an “insurance policy” was needed to keep Trump out
of the White House.
Also, it appears Comey began drafting his exoneration
statement of Hillary before the FBI had even interviewed
her. And when the FBI did, Hillary was permitted to have
her lawyers present.
One need not be a conspiracy nut to conclude the fix was
in, and a pass for Hillary wired from the get-go. Comey,
McCabe, Strzok were not going to recommend an
indictment that would blow Hillary out of the water and let
the Trump Tower crowd waltz into the White House.
Yet, if Special Counsel Robert Mueller cannot find any
Trump collusion with the Kremlin to tilt the outcome of
the 2016 election, his investigators might have another
look at the Clinton campaign.
For there a Russian connection has been established.
Kremlin agents fabricated, faked, forged, or found the dirt
on Trump that was passed to ex-British MI6 spy
Christopher Steele, and wound up in his “dirty dossier”
that was distributed to the mainstream media and the FBI
to torpedo Trump.
And who hired Steele to tie Trump to Russia?
Fusion GPS, the oppo research outfit into which the DNC
and Clinton campaign pumped millions through law firm
Perkins Coie.
Let’s review the bidding.
The “dirty dossier,” a mixture of fabrications, falsehoods
and half-truths, created to destroy Trump and make Hillary
president, was the product of a British spy’s collusion with
Kremlin agents.
In Dec. 26’s Washington Times, Rowan Scarborough
writes that the FBI relied on this Kremlin-Steele dossier of
allegations and lies to base their decision “to open a
counterintelligence investigation (of Trump).” And press
reports “cite the document’s disinformation in requests for
court-approved wiretaps.”
If this is true, a critical questions arises:
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Has the Mueller probe been so contaminated by anti-
Trump bias and reliance on Kremlin fabrications that any
indictment it brings will be suspect in the eyes of the
American people?
Director Comey has been fired. FBI No. 2 McCabe is now
being retired under a cloud. Mueller’s top FBI investigator,
Peter Strzok, and lover Lisa, have been discharged. And
Mueller is left to rely upon a passel of prosecutors whose
common denominator appears to be that they loathe Trump
and made contributions to Hillary.
Attorney General Bobby Kennedy had his “Get Hoffa
Squad” to take down Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. J.
Edgar Hoover had his vendetta against Dr. Martin Luther
King.
Is history repeating itself — with the designated target of
an elite FBI cabal being the President of the United States?
 The UN Tried To Mess With Trump,
But They Ended Up With A $285 Million
Budget Reduction Instead
By Michael Snyder
December 26, 2017
When are people going to learn that you don’t mess with
Trump? Over the past several decades, the United Nations
has grown into a vast bureaucratic monstrosity that is
completely out of control, but previous administrations
have just kept feeding the beast. Thankfully, we now have
a president that is not afraid to stand up to the globalists,
and the $285 million budget reduction that Trump and his
team just negotiated is the largest budget reduction in UN
history. Those that have not read “The Art of the Deal”
yet may want to do so, because this is Trump at his best.
The following is the statement that UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley put out about this stunning budget reduction…
Today, the United Nations agreed on a budget for the
2018-2019 fiscal year. Among a host of other successes,
the United States negotiated a reduction of over $285
million off the 2016-2017 final budget. In addition to these
significant cost savings, we reduced the UN’s bloated
management and support functions, bolstered support for
key U.S. priorities throughout the world, and instilled more
discipline and accountability throughout the UN system.
“The inefficiency and overspending of the
United Nations are well known. We will no
longer let the generosity of the American people
be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.
This historic reduction in spending – in addition
to many other moves toward a more efficient
and accountable UN – is a big step in the right
direction. While we are pleased with the results
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of this year’s budget negotiations, you can be
sure we’ll continue to look at ways to increase
the UN’s efficiency‎ while protecting our
interests,” said Ambassador Haley.
What makes this deal even more interesting is the fact that
it came just after the UN General Assembly voted 128 to 9
against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel.
Is there a possibility that the two decisions are connected?
Even if they aren’t, the fact that the budget reduction deal
happened so quickly after the anti-Israel vote sends a very
strong message.
Meanwhile, what we do know is that President Trump has
publicly warned the nations that voted against his
recognition of Jerusalem that they could see their financial
aid reduced…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to
cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a
draft United Nations resolution calling for the United
States to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital.
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and
even billions of dollars, and then they vote
against us. Well, we’re watching those votes.
Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We
don’t care,” Trump told reporters at the White
House.
Considering the fact that we are 20 trillion dollars in debt,
we could definitely cut back on financial aid to countries
that want to go against us.
And personally, I would very much be in favor of reducing
funding to the United Nations a whole lot more. The UN
is an anti-American institution that has been promoting the
agenda of the globalists for as long as it has existed, and
once I get to Washington I am going to do all that I can to
help Trump put America first.
The UN needs to be defanged, declawed and made as definitely a good first step in the right direction.
powerless as possible, and this huge budget reduction is
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 ISIS Supporters Publish Image
Depicting Beheaded Barron Trump
By Bridget Johnson
December 26, 2017
(ISIS supporters' propaganda image)
ISIS supporters circulated a gruesome Christmastime
poster depicting the beheading of Barron Trump, showing
a masked jihadist standing over an adult body in an orange
jumpsuit with the 11-year-old's head photoshopped into the
terrorist's hand.
PJM is not reproducing an image of the poster here
because of the disturbing content. It's similar to an image
released last month depicting a beheaded Pope Francis.
"Soon we will cut the head of america's mule
son," says the text on the Barron image.
A message posted last month on a pro-ISIS Telegram
channel by an ISIS supporter called on fellow followers
to "handle the son of the mule of America" and included a
photo of the president's son and a snapshot of a Google
map showing the location of Barron's school.
ISIS supporters have been on a holiday threat spree, taking
the terror group's PR into their own hands with a flurry of
propaganda posters encouraging lone jihadists to attack,
including a new one reiterating previous calls to "put terror
in their hearts by running them over or stabbing them or
burning structures and forests."
A Modesto, Calif., tow-truck driver arrested and charged
last week with hatching a holiday plot to attack San
Francisco's Pier 39 apparently paid attention to ISIS
supporters' propaganda posters. Everitt Aaron
Jameson loved with a heart, said the criminal complaint, a
recent poster from ISIS supporters showing Santa
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overlooking Times Square with a box of dynamite at his
side.
Another poster from ISIS supporters circulated this week
shows an armed jihadist overlooking a Christmas display
as the Statue of Liberty looms overhead. "Make your
motto 'I will not survive if they cross worshipper
survived,'" jihadists were advised.
"And for you Crusaders, we swear by Allah the
Almighty you will see the strength of the
Caliphate Soldiers, and the battles will be in
your homeland, we will break your cross and
destroy your thrones and we will shed your
blood," the text adds. "And the news is what
you see not what you hear."
Last week, ISIS supporters encouraged lone jihadists to try
methods such as making a terrorist attack look like a
random murder or cooking up poisons to use on victims in
a new suggestion list.
The "hints" list, posted on Telegram, shows the Eiffel
Tower and Big Ben in the background, with blood
dripping from the top of the image. It was distributed in
Arabic, French and English, with the English translation
not clean.
Lone jihadists were urged to have "total emmersion [sp] in
the community," while "choosing easy targets to deal with"
in an operation that "must be secret & unseen."
The list suggests "attacking an isolated victim and make it
look like a Homiside [sp]." This method was mentioned in
the October 2016 issue of ISIS' Rumiyah magazine
focusing on knife attacks, when terrorists were advised to
target someone walking home from a night out or working
the night shift, "or someone walking alone in a public park
or rural forested area, or someone by himself in an alley
close to a night club or another place of debauchery, or
even someone out for a walk in a quiet neighborhood."
Also suggested was "burning markets, churches &
factories at night time." In the January issue of Rumiyah,
ISIS claimed a November 2016 fire at a furniture factory
in Losino-Petrovsky, Russia. That article included a large
photo of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, along with its
address and the caption, "A popular Crusader gathering
place waiting to be burned down." Jihadists were advised
to time their arson "preferably in the later part of night to
the early hours of morning when people are generally
asleep."
The "hints" list continues to suggest "putting iron pieces in
the railroads to take the train off course" (a train
derailment tool that's essentially a concrete and rebar track
clamp was detailed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
in the August issueof Inspire magazine) or "making lethal
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poisons from the available materials." An official
ISIS guide distributed in November 2016 advised jihadists
to explore the wide range of toxic plants that are
"accessible to everyone."
While most attack threats or encouragement over the
holiday season has come from ISIS supporters, the Islamic
State's official al-Naba newsletter notably highlighted an
Australian New Year's Eve terror plot, saying that the
would-be attacker would have caused "catastrophic"
casualties in "one of the most important centers where
Christians meet" to ring in the holiday.
 Trump RIPS ‘Garbage’ Golden Showers ‘Dossier,’
Says Its ‘FBI Tainted’ And ‘Hillary’ Product
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 26, 2017

While the FBI won’t repudiate the dossier, it also won’t CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY
substantiate the salacious claims it makes CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP
COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED,” he tweeted.

“And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of

garbage as the basis for going after the Trump
Campaign!” he added.

The tweets came as Republicans in Congress are also

turning up pressure on certain FBI and Department of
Justice figures who they believe have a distinct anti-Trump
bias and may have utilized the thus-far unproven dossier as
justification to obtain FISA court warrants to spy on the
(National Sentinel) Growing Ire: President Donald J.
president’s 2016 campaign.
Trump tore into the infamous “Trump dossier” in an early-
morning tweet on Tuesday, calling it a “tainted” document
While the FBI won’t repudiate the dossier, it also won’t
that the FBI must not use as a basis for investigation.
substantiate the salacious claims it makes or claim that
Trump and Russia colluded in last year’s election.
Calling the document “bogus,” the president railed against
it as little more than a “pile of garbage” while referencing
The “major core charges of election collusion” cannot be
the fact that it was paid for by the Hillary Clinton
verified, the FBI has noted, adding that its “back is against
campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
the wall” following congressional testimony last week by
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is now said to be
“WOW, @foxandfriends “Dossier is bogus. retiring soon.
Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI

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 Robert Mueller May Indict Paul Manafort Again
The Charges Against The Former Trump Campaign Boss Appear To
Have Been Only An Opening Salvo In A Legal Barrage On The
President’s Confidants, Informed Observers Say.
Betsy Woodruff
12.26.17 7:58 PM ET
From its inception, two things about special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation were clear: first, the White
House’s biggest concern was that Mueller would follow
the money; and second, Mueller is following the money.
It’s been seven months since Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein ordered Bob Mueller to take over the
FBI’s counterintelligence probe into possible links
between the Kremlin and people associated with the
Trump campaign. Trump’s lawyers have long said they
expected the probe to stay focused and end quickly.
Instead, Mueller has assembled a team of prosecutors with
expertise in handling financial investigations and white-
collar crime, and obtained guilty pleas for crimes that
weren’t committed during the election year.
And, most importantly, he’s sent a thinly veiled warning to
the White House: No one’s finances are off limits. If 2017
had the president’s inner circle sweating, 2018 could feel
like a sauna.
And no one may feel more heat than Paul Manafort. In
Washington legal circles, there’s a broad expectation that
Mueller will file what’s called a superseding indictment of
Manafort and Rick Gates, his erstwhile business partner—
and alleged partner in crime. Gates and Manafort both
pleaded not guilty when Mueller’s team filed their
indictment on Oct. 30. Legal experts say there may be
more charges to come.
“I would expect a superseding indictment to
come down relatively soon,” said Jonathan
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Turley, a professor at George Washington
University’s law school.
“There was much in the narrative of the
indictment that referenced crimes not charged,”
he added. “Prosecutors will often issue a
superseding indictment as the grand jury
continues its work. There’s also a tactical
reason for this, that superseding indictments
tend to grind defendants a bit more over time.”
A superseding indictment would essentially replace the
current indictment of Manafort. And in that current
indictment, Mueller’s team hinted there was more to come.
In particular, they hinted at potential tax charges for
Manafort’s foreign financial transactions. Federal
prosecutors can bring charges against any American who
has money in a foreign bank account and doesn’t check a
box on their tax forms disclosing it. The Manafort/Gates
indictment describes financial behavior that may be liable
for that kind of prosecution. And that’s an indicator that
Mueller’s team may be preparing to formally charge both
men with violating tax laws.
A former prosecutor from the Justice Department’s tax
division said Mueller handed down what’s known as a
“speaking indictment”—in other words, an indictment that
contains more information than necessary.
“It’s a way of dirtying up a defendant without
having to actually prove the conduct,” he said. “I
think, in fairness to them, they probably rushed
it because they didn’t want to wait for the tax
division approval on those tax counts. That, I
assume, would be working its way through the
system.”
Anytime federal prosecutors want to charge someone with
breaking tax law, they must get approval from the Justice
Department’s Tax Division. That approval process can be
time-consuming, and the would-be defendant’s attorneys
often can petition Tax Division lawyers against authorizing
the charges. Following the money, it turns out, can be
circuitous.

“Superseding indictments are frequently
brought in financial investigations due to
defendant recalcitrance to cooperate and also
because they take so long to be put together,”
said Martin Sheil, a retired supervisory special
agent for the IRS’ criminal investigations unit.
Mueller has been working with IRS criminal investigators,
as The Daily Beast first reported in August. Those agents
specialize solely in financial crimes with a tax nexus; their
cooperation was an early indicator that money mattered to
Mueller.
And Manafort and Gates may not be the only Trump
campaign alums with headache-generating finances. On
Dec. 1, retired Gen. Michael Flynn—the president’s
former national security adviser—pleaded guilty to lying
to the FBI about his communications with Russian
government officials. Court documents indicate that Flynn
has agreed to help Mueller’s team with their investigation
in exchange for leniency.
Sheil noted that if Flynn isn’t as cooperative as Mueller
expects, then his financial dealings could be easy fodder
for Mueller.
“Flynn did not disclose payments received from
Russia in 2015 nor Turkey in 2016 on his
Security Disclosure forms,” Sheil said. “What is
the likelihood he reported these sums on his tax
returns?”
Additional trouble for Team Trump could arise out of the
blizzard of subpoenas that reportedly went out to Deutsche
Bank in the last few weeks.
The German mega-bank is likely accustomed to hot water.
In January of 2017, they agreed to pay $425 million to the
New York Department of Financial Services to settle
allegations that they let Russian traders engage in what
those regulators called “a money-laundering scheme.” In
that particular scheme, Russians moved $10 billion to the
United States.
It’s an eye-popping concession, but one that largely got
lost in the noise of Trump’s inauguration and the political
implications of Russian efforts to intervene in the 2016
elections. But it points to close ties between the bank and
Kremlin elites. The bank’s lawyers signed court
documents admitting they were “on clear notice” about
their insufficient safeguards against unlawful activity
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(PDF)—while the multibillion-dollar scheme was
unfolding. In fact, those lawyers admitted their traders in
Moscow went “to significant lengths” to make the scheme
work. They even admitted that one of their Moscow
supervisors appeared to have taken bribes related to the
scheme that were worth up to $2.3 million. It was
underway from 2011 to early 2015.
Jared Kushner and Trump himself have had significant
dealings with the bank, which also helped the hedge fund
of billionaire Trump patron Robert Mercer trim billions
from its tax bill. The bank has long interested
congressional investigators looking into potential
connections between Trump World and the Kremlin. And
if reports about Mueller’s subpoena of the bank are
correct—and the White House says emphatically that they
are not—then Mueller’s money trail may be making a pit
stop in Germany.
Besides that, Mueller’s probe is causing bipartisan anxiety
in Washington. The indictment of Manafort and Gates
mentioned two lobbying firms—referring to them only as
“Company A” and “Company B”—which are widely
assumed to be the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC.
Within hours of the indictment’s release, Tony Podesta
resigned from his firm. He’d previously drawn criticism
for helping Manafort push Kremlin-friendly talking points
to Capitol Hill offices.
“The Manafort and Gates indictment left a
number of torpedoes in the water,” said Turley.
“We’re just waiting to see who they hit. One of
the most likely targets is Tony Podesta.”
The only person in a position to constrain Mueller and his
deputies is Rosenstein, who has been overseeing all
Trump/Russia matters since Attorney General Jeff
Sessions’ recusal. A former Justice Department official
who worked under now-Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein told The Daily Beast that he’s unlikely to rein
in Mueller at all.
“As long as Rod is supervising, he is never
going to put Mueller under any kind of pinch,”
he said. “That’s just the way Rod operates.”
It means that as long as Rosenstein stays in place, Mueller
will likely be able to follow that money trail wherever it
leads.
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Analysis: The Quiet Probe Into Clinton Email Investigation
Could Be A Landmine For Robert Mueller
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Published 5:00 A.M. ET Dec. 26, 2017 | Updated 5:32 A.M. ET Dec. 26, 2017
A new report says the investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election has cost millions.
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WASHINGTON — In early January, news that the Justice
Department’s inspector general launched an investigation
into the government's disputed handling of the Hillary
Clinton email inquiry was quickly overtaken by the chaotic
run-up to President Trump’s inauguration.
Nearly a year later, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s
wide-ranging review of the FBI and Justice’s work in the
politically-charged Clinton case now looms as a potential
landmine for Russia special counsel Robert Mueller.
For months, Horowitz’s investigation — which has
amassed interviews with former Attorney General Loretta
Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey and other key
officials — had been grinding on in near anonymity. That
is, until earlier this month when the inspector general
acknowledged that Mueller was alerted to a cache of text
messages exchanged between two FBI officials on his staff
that disparaged Trump.
The communications, involving senior counter-intelligence
agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, were
gathered in the course of Horowitz’s internal review of the
Clinton case, which Strzok also helped oversee.
Horowitz’s investigation is not examining Mueller’s
operation. But the disclosures already have provided a
hammer to Trump loyalists who are escalating their
criticisms of the legitimacy of the special counsel’s
inquiry.
Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray and
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein only highlighted
the potential gravity of the inspector general's work when
they repeatedly urged Republican House committee
members during separate hearings to withhold judgment
about allegations of bias within the FBI until the internal
Justice probe is completed.
Justice officials have indicated that a report is likely in the
next few months.
"The inspector general's investigation is very
important," House Judiciary Committee
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Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told
Rosenstein at a Dec. 13 hearing. The deputy
attorney general cited the probe multiple times
as the reason for declining to respond to
lawmakers' questions about how the texts might
affect Mueller's probe.
"It is very encouraging to us that (Horowitz) is
doing what I think is good, unbiased work," the
chairman said.
Once it's completed, the inspector general’s review also
threatens to give opponents fodder to unleash fresh
criticism of the FBI – which Trump has singled out in
scathing rebukes since Mueller's indictment of former
national security adviser Michael Flynn earlier this
month. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and
pledged to cooperate with the special counsel, was the
fourth Trump campaign official to be charged in the
investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016
election.
Chris Swecker, a former FBI assistant director, said the
text communications unearthed by Horowitz have handed
leverage to attorneys representing current and possible
future defendants in the Mueller investigation, either in
possible plea negotiations or at trial.
"Two star witnesses have been created for the
defense," Swecker said, referring to Strzok and
Page whose communications could be
introduced as evidence of an investigation
biased against Trump.
Strzok was removed from the Russia investigation this
summer immediately after Mueller was informed of the
communications in which the agent described Trump as an
"idiot" while expressing a clear preference for
Clinton. Page, meanwhile, had completed her temporary
assignment to the Russia inquiry and had returned to
bureau headquarters when the texts were discovered.
Swecker said Mueller acted appropriately in dismissing
Strzok, but fears that the damage has already been done.
"I never heard anything related to politics come
out of (Mueller's) mouth," Swecker said,
referring to his experience working closely with
 the special counsel when he served as FBI
director.
"But none of this is good for Mueller or his
reputation for fairness," Swecker said. "Who
knows what else the IG (inspector general)
has."
Mounting questions about the FBI's continuing credibility
– including Trump's jab that the bureau's reputation was in
"tatters" – have landed hard at the agency. The FBI was
sent reeling in May when Trump abruptly
dismissed Comey for his handling of the Russia inquiry.
Wray, who took over in September, has publicly defended
the bureau's reputation in the wake of Trump's attacks. He
was joined late Tuesday by the FBI Agents Association,
whose members issued a rare, collective defense of their
own.
"Attacks on our character and demeaning
comments about the FBI will not deter agents
from continuing to do what we have always
done – dedicate our lives to protecting the
American people," the group said in a written
statement.
Pat Cotter, a former federal prosecutor, said the specter of
Horowitz's inquiry should have "zero effect on how
Mueller and his team do their jobs."
"But this is a political event, too," Cotter added.
"To the extent that this (agents' conduct) will
be used to discredit, distract or obfuscate the
Mueller investigation, maybe it will work.''
For Horowitz, the Clinton email inquiry may be the most
consequential investigation he has launched since his
installment as Justice's watchdog in 2012. But the former
public corruption unit chief in the Manhattan U.S.
attorney's office has not shied from controversy in the past
five years.
Months after taking office, Horowitz issued a scathing
account of a botched gun-trafficking operation that
allowed an estimated 2,000 firearms to fall into the hands
of Mexican drug cartel enforcers.
The inspector general's review of the so-called "Fast and
Furious" operation managed by the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco Firearms and Explosives recommended 14
federal law enforcement officials for discipline, resulting
in a dramatic shakeup in leadership at the ATF. The
operation was halted when two of the weapons were found
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at the scene of the 2010 slaying of border patrol agent
Brian Terry.
A separate 2015 report authored by Horowitz's staff found
that U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents posted in Colombia
had engaged in sex parties involving prostitutes who were
supplied by local drug cartels. The review concluded that
some of the 10 agents involved admitted attending the
parties where a local Colombian police offer often stood
guard, protecting the agents' firearms and other property.
Less than a month after Horowitz's report, then-DEA chief
Michele Leonhart announced her retirement from the
agency.
In the review of the Clinton email investigation, authorities
are examining whether the Justice Department and FBI
followed established "policies and procedures'' when then-
FBI Director Comey publicly announced that the bureau
would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton
related to her use of a private email server while she was
secretary of State.
The inspector general is not evaluating the merits of the
now-closed criminal inquiry or challenge the conclusions
not to prosecute Clinton. Rather, it will focus on Justice
and FBI policies that guided the probe.
Former Justice inspector general Michael Bromwich said
that the office has a long established record as "a reliable
and independent voice" that has held some of the most
powerful institutions to account.
The disclosures of the agents' text messages, he said,
"has certainly re-focused the spotlight on
investigation that many people may have
forgotten about but remains an important piece
of work that needs to be completed."
More than once, Bromwich found himself at the center of a
firestorm while inspector general. In 1997, Bromwich
authored a damning review of the FBI's crime laboratory
on the eve of the federal trial of Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh. While McVeigh was ultimately
convicted and executed, the lab had been heavily involved
in examining evidence in that case.
"Michael (Horowitz) is a very solid guy with
exactly the right background for the job. It's a
job that doesn't make you many friends,"
Bromwich said. "And I don't think a lot of people
will be happy when it's over. But I think he is
going to call it as he sees it."
 Carl Bernstein: FBI Isn't Tainted,
Trump's Presidency Is
By John Bowden
12/26/17 10:04 PM EST
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein tore into President
Trump on Tuesday over the latter's attacks on the
FBI, saying it's Trump's presidency whose integrity has
been compromised, not the law enforcement agency's.
In an interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto, the legendary
Watergate reporter accused Trump of acting
contemptuously toward the FBI and other "instruments" of
American democracy.
“The key word … that he keeps using is
‘tainted.’ There’s really only one institution that
has really been tainted through these months
and that is the Trump presidency," Bernstein
said. "It’s tainted by the president’s lies, by his
disrespect for American institutions operating
under the law with traditional American
democracy and the instruments thereof."
“He’s contemptuous of those instruments,”
Bernstein added.
Bernstein accused the president of doing a "grave
disservice" to the country by undermining institutions such
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as the FBI. Trump, Bernstein said, should welcome moves
from special counsel Robert Mueller's team if he really
believes he will be exonerated in the end.
"If the president is as confident as he says, if
this investigation is going to end very soon with
him being exonerated, he ought to welcome all
of this instead of attacking constantly,"
Bernstein said. "He’s doing a grave disservice
to our democracy."
Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning that the FBI was
"tainted." His comment came after he sharply criticized
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Saturday over
reports that McCabe will possibly retire in March.
"How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,
the man in charge, along with leakin’ James
Comey, of the Phony Hillary
Clinton investigation (including her 33,000
illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for
wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during
investigation?" the president tweeted.
"FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing
the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to
go?!!!" Trump added in another tweet.
McCabe has been the target of Republican criticism over a
campaign donation his wife received from Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe (D), a top ally of the Clintons, a year
before the investigation he managed into her private email
server cleared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of
wrongdoing.
 Director Ridley Scott Offers
Strong Defense Of Trump Tax Reform
He Proved That He Is Not At All Interested In Conforming To
Hollywood’s Obnoxious Politics
John Nolte
December 27, 2017

Well, let’s take the tax bill. People say (Republicans) are
doing it for the wealthy class. What they forget is if you
get a clever, un-selfish business person — I don’t care if
it’s a corner store or a big business — who’s suddenly
saving 15 percent, they’ll put it back in this business. Then
you’re going to get growth and therefore (people) will get
employed.

He added that “My concern is with the elderly, the infirm,

and the youth who need to have chances and shots for
every level, and equality in education. But you have to use
it. You have to get your (expletive) head down and use it.”
While most of Hollywood and the media
have been lying about the massive tax
reform passed by the House and Senate last
week, legendary film director Ridley Scott
proved that he has a much better grasp of
how an economy works than most actors
and journalists. He also proved that he is
not at all interested in conforming to
Hollywood’s obnoxious politics.

Ridley Scott directing Thelma & Louise (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Inc., 1991)

While out doing publicity for his latest movie, All the
Money in the World, the 80-year-old behind such iconic
films as Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, The Martian,
Anthony Hopkins and Ridley Scott in Hannibal (2001)
Thelma and Louise, and Black Rain, was not even asked
about President Trump or taxes. Answering a question
about the “value of human life, class struggles and the role The reporter then seemed eager to challenge Scott’s belief
of wealth in society” and how it pertains to the “this that after you are given equal opportunity, it is all up to
moment in America,” Scott volunteered this defense: you. “I’m sure you benefited from some help early on in

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your career,” the reporter assumes. Scott is having none of
it:
I’m a natural-born hunter because that’s who I am. No one
taught me that. I started from scratch. I arrived in
Hollywood with a wristwatch and stayed at the YMCA.
You have to learn the curve. But don’t (expletive) moan
about it. It’s about doing. There’s always a way in. I used
to lay concrete on runways for an Irish company when I
was a student. I packed drywall. My parents didn’t have
the money to help me out. But they were very supportive
of anything I wanted to do.
Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, and Ridley Scott attend the
premiere of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s “All The Money In The
World” at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on December 18, 2017 in Beverly
Hills, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Over at his HiT site, film writer and critic Christian Toto
says we should not be surprised by Scott’s answer. Scott
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is, after all, the director who stood up today’s Social
Justice Warrior mob when complaints arose about a lack of
racial diversity in his biblical epic Exodus: Gods and
Kings.
“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely
on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is
Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott said.
“I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question
doesn’t even come up.”
“The question never came up” is my favorite part. Scott
was not even interested in paying lip service to the mob.
Scott is also, obviously, correct about taxes. Employees are
already seeing the trickle-down effect of these cuts in the
form of raises and Christmas bonuses. This even includes
the lying media that lies about how tax cuts work, and
ignores how much more we all benefit with that money in
the hands of those who earned as opposed to wasteful,
heartless, unelected federal bureaucrats.
 CNN ‘Legal’ Correspondent Tells Viewers
A Huge LIE About Republicans And The ‘Trump Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 27, 2017
CNN has repeatedly misinformed its viewers
(National Sentinel) Fake News: On Tuesday CNN legal
analyst Evan Perez gave viewers a widely-debunked view
of the infamous “dossier” alleging “collusion” between
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and the Russian
government.
During one segment on Tuesday, Perez falsely claimed
that anti-Trump Republicans at first funded the dossier,
much of which remains unsubstantiated and which has
essentially been repudiated by author and former British
spy Christopher Steele.
The legal analyst was responding to a tweet from Trump
earlier in which he called the dossier a “pile of
garbage.” Perez has close ties to the cofounders of Fusion
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GPS, the firm behind the dossier, which CNN failed to
disclose, The Daily Caller reported.
“Look, the fact is that the dossier was compiled
as part of opposition research, first paid for by
Republicans who were opposed to Donald
Trump and then later on by Democrats and the
Clinton camp, people associated with the
Clinton campaign who wanted to try to bring
him down,” Perez said.
The “fact” cited by Perez — that anti-Trump Republicans
originally funded the dossier — has been ruled “false” by
fact-checkers.
GOP donor Paul Singer initially hired Fusion GPS through
the Washington Free Beacon to conduct opposition
research on Trump and other candidates during the 2016
Republican primaries. However, that research was not
related to the dossier.
Nevertheless, CNN has repeatedly misinformed its viewers
with the claim that the dossier was initially a GOP effort.
Perez’s error on Tuesday is at least the third time that the
network has falselytold its audience that Republicans
originally funded the dossier, The Daily Caller noted.
 Report: Mueller May Indict Paul Manafort AGAIN
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 27, 2017
“I would expect a superseding indictment to
come down relatively soon”
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort talks with ABC
News' George Stephanopoulos at the GOP convention in August
2016.
(National Sentinel) Swamp Thing: In the seven months
since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed
Robert Mueller as a special counsel to look into alleged
collusion between Team Trump and Russia, he’s found
nothing to substantiate the claim.
Rather, Mueller has expanded his limitless probe to all
things Team Trump and Russia, including the financial
dealings of then-GOP candidate Donald J. Trump’s
campaign associates.
One of Trump’s associates who has been charged with
financial crimes thus far is former campaign manager Paul
Manafort, along with his erstwhile business partner Rick
Gates, both of whom have pleaded not guilty.
However, Mueller may not be done with his charges
against Manafort, at least. He could file what is called a
superseding indictment of both men, according to The
Daily Beast.
“I would expect a superseding indictment to
come down relatively soon,” said Jonathan
Turley, a professor at George Washington
University’s law school.
“There was much in the narrative of the
indictment that referenced crimes not charged,”
he told the news site. “Prosecutors will often
issue a superseding indictment as the grand
jury continues its work. There’s also a tactical
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reason for this, that superseding indictments
tend to grind defendants a bit more over time.”
A superseding indictment essentially replaces the initial
indictment, say legal experts. And in the initial indictment
of Manafort and Gates, Mueller’s team hinted they could
file additional charges in the future.
That now appears more likely:
Federal prosecutors can bring charges against
any American who has money in a foreign bank
account and doesn’t check a box on their tax
forms disclosing it. The Manafort/Gates
indictment describes financial behavior that may
be liable for that kind of prosecution. And that’s
an indicator that Mueller’s team may be
preparing to formally charge both men with
violating tax laws.
But Mueller isn’t playing by the normal rules, say critics,
and that’s thanks in large part to the limitless mandate he
was given by Rosenstein.
For example, a former prosecutor from the Justice
Department’s tax division said Mueller handed down
what’s known as a “speaking indictment,” or one that
contains more information that necessary.
“It’s a way of dirtying up a defendant without
having to actually prove the conduct,” he said. “I
think, in fairness to them, they probably rushed
it because they didn’t want to wait for the tax
division approval on those tax counts. That, I
assume, would be working its way through the
system.”
A growing number of congressional Republicans,
convinced that Mueller’s probe is what Trump says it is —
a “witch hunt” — are said to be planning a comprehensive
report that seeks to build criminal cases against senior FBI
and Justice Department figures who appear to have plotted
to keep Trump out of office.
One of the names mentioned is FBI counterintelligence
investigator Peter Strzok, whom Mueller had on his team
until anti-Trump texts and details of an “insurance policy”
to prevent Trump from taking office were discovered.
As noted by Newsmax, the report would highlight the
conduct of some FBI officials into last year’s investigation
of suspected Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential
election, people familiar with the plans have said.
.
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This would come as Republican supporters of President
Donald J. Trump in Congress have stepped up efforts to
discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s “collusion”
probe amid allegations of anti-Trump bias on his
prosecutorial and investigative team.
Trump’s lawyers have doubled down on an earlier
prediction that the portion of Mueller’s investigation
having to do with their client will soon come to an end.
 Mueller Witch Hunt Sets Sights On New Target:
The Republican National Committee
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s ever-
expanding Russia probe is now
investigating the Republican National
Committee’s joint data sharing agreement
with the Trump campaign.
Business Insider reports:
Two sources told Yahoo News that Mueller’s
team is examining whether the joint RNC-
Trump campaign data operation — which was
directed on Trump’s side by Brad Parscale and
managed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner
— “was related to the activities of Russian trolls
and bots aimed at influencing the American
electorate.”
The FBI has been scrutinizing Kushner’s contacts in
December 2016 with the Russian ambassador to the US
and the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank.
The special counsel’s office declined to comment on its
ongoing investigation. Multiple requests to various current
and former RNC officials on Wednesday went
unanswered. A source close to one of the Trump
campaign’s data firms said they were “unaware of anyone
being questioned.”
In September Facebook announced it would turn over
3,000 Russian-linked ads to GOP-led congressional
committees.
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The left claimed that 3,000 ads costing $100,000 that were
neither favorable or unfavorable for either candidate
flipped the 2016 election.
We know for certain that this was all another fake news
story.
Russia Today reported in October that half of the
Facebook ads ran after the election and 25% of the ads
never ran at all.
Mark Penn, former chief strategist on Bill Clinton’s 1996
presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate
campaign, and Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign,
admitted it’s impossible Russian Facebook ads won
Donald Trump the White House. Penn uses basic math to
dispel the notion that $100,000 of Russian ads would have
had any impact of the election outcome.
WSJ reports:
Hillary Clinton’s total campaign budget,
including associated committees, was $1.4
billion. Mr. Trump and his allies had about $1
billion. Even a full $100,000 of Russian ads
would have erased just 0.025% of Hillary’s
financial advantage. In the last week of the
campaign alone, Mrs. Clinton’s super PAC
dumped $6 million in ads into Florida,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
I have 40 years of experience in politics, and
this Russian ad buy, mostly after the
election anyway, simply does not add up to
a carefully targeted campaign to move
voters.
It takes tens of millions of dollars to deliver meaningful
messages to the contested portion of the electorate.
Converting someone who voted for the other party last
time is an enormously difficult task. Swing voters in states
like Ohio or Florida are typically barraged with 50% or
more of a campaign’s budget. Try watching TV in those
states the week before an election and you will see how
jammed the airwaves are.
 New Jerusalem Train Station
To Be Named After President Trump
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017
Israel will name a new train station after
President Trump announced the U.S.
embassy in Tel Aviv will move
to Jerusalem.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs
up as he speaks at his New York presidential primary night rally in
Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 19, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon
Stapleton (TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) – RTX2AQX6
Daily Caller reports:
Israel’s transportation minister is planning to
name a train station in Jerusalem after
President Donald Trump as a gesture for
recognizing the holy city as the capital of Israel.
The nation’s transportation minister Israel
Katz said Wednesday that the station, if
approved and built, will be a thank you to Trump
for his “courageous and historic decision to
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state
of Israel.”
The train station would sit in close proximity to the
Western Wall, a holy site for worshipers of Judaism and a
tourist attraction that brings in roughly 11 million visitors a
year.
The announcement comes after the United Nations defied
President Trump, voting 128 to 9 against his decision to
declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US
embassy to the Holy City.
President Trump warned countries that voted against the
United States at the UN that he may cut off their foreign
aid.
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Trump told reporters,
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and
even billions of dollars, and then they vote
against us. Well, we’re watching those votes.
Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot.”
The Trump administration issued a statement Sunday
evening announcing the United States has made a
‘significant reduction,’ in its United Nations budget.
“Ambassador Haley on the United States
Negotiating a Significant Reduction in the
UN Budget”
Today, the United Nations agreed on a budget for the
2018-2019 fiscal year.
Among a host of other successes, the United
States negotiated a reduction of over $285
million off the 2016-2017 final budget.
In addition to these significant cost savings, we reduced
the UN’s bloated management and support functions,
bolstered support for key U.S. priorities throughout the
world, and instilled more discipline and accountability
throughout the UN system.
“The inefficiency and overspending of the
United Nations are well known. We will no
longer let the generosity of the American people
be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.
This historic reduction in spending – in addition
to many other moves toward a more efficient
and accountable UN – is a big step in the right
direction. While we are pleased with the results
of this year’s budget negotiations, you can be
sure we’ll continue to look at ways to increase
the UN’s efficiency‎ while protecting our
interests,” wrote Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Meanwhile, “God Bless Trump” signs are posted on street
corners and billboards in Israel.
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 REPORT: MORE Top FBI Agents Who Worked On
Clinton Email Probe Rumored To Be Leaving
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017

Perceived political bias in the Clinton email

investigation demonstrated by former FBI
Director James Comey, his #2 Andrew
McCabe and disgraced bureau agent Peter
Strzok, have wrought immense damage to
the federal law enforcement agency. The fall
out prompted by Strzok’s anti-Trump text
messages and the FBI’s role in the dubious
Fusion GPS dossier has led to big-fish, such
as McCabe and James Baker, to either plot
early retirement or be reassigned.

President Trump blasted Andrew McCabe for his overt

corruption and accused him of racing the clock to retire
with full benefits with only 90 days to go.

With Comey and McCabe out, Baker reassigned, and more

According to reporter Sharyl Attkisson, the exodus may
FBI officials gone, a self-drainage of the Swamp appears
not be over just yet.
to be in motion.

“8 high ranking DOJ/FBI officials have been

Second, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
removed, reassigned or are rumored to be
Nunes is seriously considering compiling a ‘warts and all,’
leaving incl. top agents who worked on 2 high-
report detailing alleged corruption at the FBI. It’s plausible
profile probes: Clinton mishandling of classified
the agents rumored to be heading for the door will be
info, and Trump-Russia collusion
included in Nunes’ report and rather than face political
investigation,”Attkisson tweeted on Tuesday.
headwinds, they’ll resign instead.

The reporter did not elaborate on the rumbling, but with all
As of late, we have watched Republican lawmakers point a
that has occurred, it would not be surprising to see more
lot of fingers and toss out a bunch of theories as to who
top FBI officials leave.
should be held responsible for sourcing, procuring and
disseminating the discredited ‘Trump dossier.’ A new
The timing of Attkisson’s tweet is interesting for two report reveals lawmakers are secretly building a criminal
reasons. First, McCabe is set to retire early next year after case against top Justice Department and FBI officials for
a barrage of attacks for his corruption. mishandling “the contents of a dossier that describes
alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.”
McCabe’s retirement announcement comes on the heels of
a major shake up at the FBI; Wray just removed Comey
“confidant” and suspected leaker James Baker from his top
post as general counsel.
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 New Trump Executive Order Targets Clinton-Linked
Individuals, Lobbyists And Perhaps Uranium One
By Tyler Durden
Dec 27, 2017 7:41 AM
The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive
Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of
US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or
entities deemed "serious human rights abusers," along
with government officials and executives of foreign
corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in
corruption - which includes the misappropriation of state
assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain,
and corruption related to government contracts or the
extraction of natural resources.
Furthermore, anyone in the United States
who aids or participates in said corruption
or human rights abuses by foreign parties is
subject to frozen assets - along with any
U.S. corporation who employs foreigners
deemed to have engaged in corruption on
behalf of the company.
In fact, anyone in the world who has "materially
assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material or technological support for, or
goods or services" to foreigners targeted by
the Executive Order is subject to frozen
assets.
The EO, based on the 2016 Global Human Rights
Accountability Act, immediately added 13 foreign
individuals to a list of "Specially Designated Nationals"
(SDN) maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control
(OFAC) –
several of whom have ties to the Clintons,
the Clinton Foundation, or Clinton
associates (details below).
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Moreover, the Treasury Department sanctioned an
additional 39 people, for a total of 52 under the new order
- including the son of Russia's prosecutor general.
The Order reads:
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
States of America, find that the prevalence and
severity of human rights abuse and
corruption that have their source, in whole or
in substantial part, outside the United States,
such as those committed or directed by
persons listed in the Annex to this
order, have reached such scope and gravity
that they threaten the stability of
international political and economic
systems.
Last Week's Executive Order could have
serious implications for D.C. lobbyists who
provide "goods and services" (e.g. lobbying
services) to despots, corrupt foreign politicians
or foreign organizations engaging in the crimes
described in the EO. "Virtually every lobbyist
in DC has got to be in a cold sweat over the
scope of this EO," said an attorney consulted
in the matter who wishes to remain
anonymous.
And because the phrase "person" means "an
individual or entity" in the order - any US
organization which merely employs a
foreigner engaging in the listed offenses is
also subject to frozen assets. "Consider, what
would happen if Apple, say employed a foreign
national who bribed a PRC official for
government approvals? How about a
hypothetical case of a company like
Northrop or Boeing where an employee, or
consultant, who is a foreign national bribes
a Saudi official to direct government
purchases of airplanes and military
equipment? At least some or all of their assets
could be frozen."

Now consider that if reports from The Hill are accurate -
an FBI mole deep within the Russian uranium industry
uncovered evidence that
“Russian nuclear officials had routed
millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to
benefit former President Bill Clinton’s
charitable foundation during the time
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on
a government body that provided a
favorable decision to Moscow (the Uranium
One approval)” –
a deal which would eventually grant the Kremlin control
over 20 percent of America’s uranium supply right around
the time Bill Clinton also collected $500,000 for a
Moscow speech, as detailed by author Peter Schweitzer’s
book Clinton Cash and the New York Times in 2015.
“The Russians were compromising
American contractors in the nuclear
industry with kickbacks and extortion
threats,
all of which raised legitimate national security concerns.
And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama
administration made those decisions,” a person who
worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of
anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian
officials. –The Hill
The same FBI informant claims to have video
evidence showing Russian agents with
briefcases full of bribe money related to the
controversial Uranium One deal:
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In a report by Tucker Carlson, a former long-time
executive of now-defunct D.C. lobbying firm, The Podesta
Group - who has been interviewed extensively by FBI
special counsel Robert Mueller,
claims that Tony Podesta was "basically part
of the Clinton Foundation," frequently
meeting with the charity to discuss the
Uranium One deal.
Meanwhile, Tony's DNC operative brother John Podesta
reportedly recommended that the Podesta Group hire
David Adams - Hillary Clinton's chief adviser at the State
Department, giving them a "direct liaison" between the
group's Russian clients and Hillary Clinton's State
Department.
Hypothetically, if the Uranium One deal is
deemed corrupt by the Trump administration,
and "Russian nuclear officials" indeed routed
millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation,
and Tony Podesta lobbied on behalf of the deal
for the Clinton Foundation - it stands to reason
that this Executive Order could freeze the
US-housed assets of quite a few individuals.
Of note, assets can be frozen with no prior
warning, as trump has declared a national
emergency due to the "scope and gravity" of
the threat posed by said individuals.
To simplify this complicated legal document a bit, keep in
mind:
Section 1. (a)(i-ii) outlines all foreigners the
Executive Order applies to:
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Section 1. (a)(iii) defines U.S. Citizens who have assisted foreigners in any of the crimes described above:

Note: The above section (iii)(A)(3) means any expropriate businesses, monopolize markets, solicit bribes,
foreign person engaging in "serious human and administer extortion rackets.
rights abuses" or listed forms of corruption
In early 2016, Amsterdam-based telecom giant
on behalf of a U.S. entity. Also of note -
VimpelCom (now VEON) admitted to a conspiracy in
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back a
which they paid millions in bribes to Karimova for entry
series of Obama-era curbs on civil-asset
into the Uzbek telecom market. In a series of related cases,
forfeiture over the summer, strengthening the
the U.S. Justice Department has sought the forfeiture of
federal government's ability to seize cash
$850 million in bribe money from various bank accounts
and property from Americans without
across Europe. In July, Uzbek officials arrested Karimova
criminal charges. That said, this Executive
for fraud, money laundering, bribery, and embezzlement
Order only freezes assets, it does not allow the
and a variety of other claims.
government to take custody of them.
In 2009, a WikiLeaks cable notes that
In regards to the 13 listed individuals targeted Karimova set her sights on Bill Clinton to
by this order - several of whom have ties to gain access to then-Secretary of State,
the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation or Hillary Clinton.
Clinton associates - we find the following:

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Goulnara Islamovna Karimova, 45, daughter of former

Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, headed a powerful
organized crime syndicate that leveraged state actors to
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(WikiLeaks, 7/31/2009)
Three years later, Karimova co-sponsored a
2012 Clinton Foundation fundraiser in
Monaco. Hillary Clinton's State Department
was asked to weigh in on Bill Clinton's
contacts with Karimova.
Pictured below with Bill Clinton at an AIDS charity
event in Cannes, France.
Goulnara Karimova and Bill Clinton
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Dan Gertler is an Israeli billionaire mining
magnate revealed by the Paradise Papers to be chief
negotiator between the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) and his primary business partner - mining company
Glencore, founded by Marc Rich –
who was pardoned for corruption by Bill
Clinton on his last day in office after his wife
gave $450,000 to the Clinton Library
foundation.
Glencore immediately cut ties with Gertler following
Trump's Executive Order.
Dan Gertler
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In 2001 Gertler gave $20m in cash to DRC President
Joseph Kabila to use to buy weapons and fund his war
against rebels to consolidate his grip on power. In
exchange, Gertler’s company IDI was granted a monopoly
on the DRC diamond trade, worth hundreds of millions a
year. In 2013, Gertler sold the DRC rights to mine oil for
$150 million, a 300x increase on an asset he purchased
from President Kabila 7 years prior for just $500,000.
In 2012, Kabila offered Bill Clinton $650k for
a speech in the DRC - for which Clinton
sought State Department approval –
only to have his speaking agency recommend against the
appearance which would require photos with the dictator.
Gertler's family foundation is also linked to John McCain
- sharing a seat on the board of directors of "Operation
Smile" with Cindy McCain for a period of time.
---
Yahya Jammeh is the former President of Gambia who
came to power in 1994 and stepped down in 2017. He has
a long history of serious human rights abuses and
corruption - creating a terror and assassination squad
called the Junglers that answered directly to him.
Yahya and Zeinab Jammeh with Barack and Michelle Obama, 2014
Jammeh was installed as President during a
1994 CIA-led coup in Gambia authorized by
 the Clinton administration, and in 2014, the
Obama administration effectively sidelined
an attempted coup. Indeed, Jammeh appears
to have been a friend to both the Clinton and
the Obama Administrations.
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Angel Rondon Rijo; Dominican Republic - Sanctioned for
funneling a $92 million bribe from Brazilian conglomerate
Odebrecht to Dominican Republic officials as kickbacks.
Odebrecht Donated $50-$100k to the Clinton
Foundation.
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Benjamin Bol Mel; Sudan - Financial Advisor to South
Sudanese President Salva Kiir and president of ABMC
construction company accused of corruption. Hillary
Clinton pushed for a waiver from the Obama Admin on the
prohibition of military aid due to the use of child soldiers
in South Sudan.
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Artem Yuryevich Chayka; Russia - Son of Russia's
Prosecutor General, Yuri Chayka (Chaika) - used father's
connections to win state owned contracts.
Curiously, Russian Attorney Natalia
Veselnitskaya met with Yuri Chayka before
her involvement in the infamous Trump Tower
meeting arranged by Fusion
GPS associate Rob Goldstone
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- a meeting many believe was one of several schemes used
by the Obama administration to justify wiretapping the
Trump campaign. Of note - Donald Trump Jr. reportedly
shut down the Trump tower meeting when Natalia
Veselnitskaya began discussing lifting sanctions under the
Magnitsky act - the very legislation Trump's Executive
Order is now leveraging against Artem Chayka.
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Mukhtar Hamid Shah; Pakistan - surgeon
specializing in kidney transplants, believed to
be involved in kidnapping, wrongful
confinement, and the removal of and
tracking in human organs from Pakistani
laborers.
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The rest of the 13 individuals have engaged in a variety
of corruption and human rights abuses ranging from a
Serbian arms dealer believed to be linked to a $95 million
deal with Yemen, to government officials who ordered
journalists murdered, to several instances of serious human
rights violations. (h/t @HNIJohnMiller)
One wonders if perhaps the purpose of this Executive
Order addressing serious human rights abusers and
corruption - a national emergency, was intended to ensure
the much talked about swamp renovation comes in ahead
of schedule and under budget. We'll know for sure if
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin starts freezing bank
accounts after the holidays.
 Dennis Kucinich To Dems:
Focus On Jobs Not ‘Process Of Impeachment’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media Reporter
11:59 AM 12/27/2017

Former Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich

cautioned his party against impeaching President Donald
Trump Wednesday on Fox News, and said they should
shift focus to job creation and improving the country’s
economic conditions.
“Instead of focusing on replacing President
Trump and bringing in a President Pence, we
ought to be focusing on the things that attract
people to the Democratic party: Jobs, wages,
health care, education, retirement
security,” Kucinich said during an interview on
“America’s Newsroom.”
WATCH:
.
“That will get people excited about voting
Democrat instead of focusing on … this process
of impeachment which could be quite
problematic legislatively,” he added.
Kucinich said it would be a mistake for Democrats to
continue with the same narrative that cost them the 2016
presidential election, because it wouldn’t win back
Democratic defectors who voted for Trump.
“We have to be careful that we’re not trying to
recreate the 2016 election,” he said. “We want
to bring Democrats back who may have voted
for Donald Trump.”

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 Trump Executive Order Targets
Deep State & Opens Door To Full Disclosure
Written By Dr. Michael Salla
December 27, 2017
Something very profound happened in the U.S. on
December 21 with the passage of President Donald
Trump’s “Executive Order Blocking the Property of
Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or
Corruption”. The order declared a state of national
emergency concerning human rights and corruption, and
named specific individuals and organizations that would
have their bank accounts and assets frozen regardless of
where in the world the abuses had occurred.
While the mainstream media has largely ignored Trump’s
Executive Order, the alternative media has been paying
close attention. Many have noted the Executive Order is
far more significant than what it appears to be on the
surface. Rather than just freezing the financial resources of
foreign citizens linked to the Russian sphere of influence,
as it superficially appears to do, it is really targeted at
members of the “Deep State” (aka Cabal or Illuminati)
that have been involved in human trafficking, pedophilia
and systemic corruption all over the planet.
The language of the Executive Order is very open ended in
terms of how international corruption and human rights
abuses threaten US national security:
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
States of America, find that the prevalence and
severity of human rights abuse and corruption
that have their source, in whole or in substantial
part, outside the United States, such as those
committed or directed by persons listed in the
Annex to this order, have reached such scope
and gravity that they threaten the stability of
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international political and economic
systems…The United States seeks to impose
tangible and significant consequences on those
who commit serious human rights abuse or
engage in corruption, as well as to protect the
financial system of the United States from
abuse by these same persons.
I therefore determine that serious human rights
abuse and corruption around the world
constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat
to the national security, foreign policy, and
economy of the United States, and I hereby
declare a national emergency to deal with that
threat.
Its annex identifies key individuals and organizations,
several of whom are clearly associated with Russia. The
Executive Order is linked to the Global Magnitsky Human
Rights Accountability Act that emerged from the murder
of a prominent dissident exposing human rights abuses and
corruption in Russia.
This linkage can easily lead readers into falsely believing
that the Executive Order is solely intended to target corrupt
Russian officials, and corruption and human rights abuses
by countries in Russia’s sphere of influence.
Yet, as a number of alternative media sources point out,
Trump’s Executive Order goes well beyond the Russian
sphere of influence. It is really targeting the Deep State,
and fulfilling his 2016 campaign pledge to “drain the
swamp” .
For example, Jim Stone, a freelance journalist, writes:
The executive order is presented as a national
emergency up front, right in the beginning. At
first it reads like he’s going after foreigners
which are named directly in an annex at the
end. That’s not what this is. The first part of the
order only cements the second part of the
order, to prevent American criminals from
running away to foreign countries and being
supported by foreigners.
To sum this up:

No swamp critter can accept help from another

swamp critter in getting away … Child
traffickers and other human rights abuses are
covered, the stealing of and misuse of
government funds is covered, all items are
covered for foreigners and U.S. citizens, any
foreigners who have assets in the U.S. that
have done anything against the U.S. for the
purpose of supporting the American swamp will
have those assets seized, anyone in violation of
anything in this executive order will have their
assets seized… .

An anonymous whistleblower using the pseudonym
MegaAnon says that the Executive Order has led to many
powerful members of the Deep State waking up with no
financial resources.
Guess what? The Swamp’s financials FROZE
OVER while they all slept last night, y’all.
It’s gonna be a LOOOOOONG Christmas break
for them… they were all broke before sunrise …
This covers kids/humans, drugs, arms/guns,
WMD’s/chemicals/Uranium, organs, etc.
Now if you want to know who in our swamp woke up with
frozen accounts, foundations, “charities”, side businesses
and shell orgs/LLC’s, etc. dig into the annex list…
The next day, the Washington Post reported on a
recommendation by the Intelligence Community and
Pentagon in October 2016 to sack Rogers. President
Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper,
and the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, reportedly
were dissatisfied with Rogers performance, including his
visit to Trump:
In a move apparently unprecedented for a
military officer, Rogers, without notifying
superiors, traveled to New York to meet with
Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower.
That caused consternation at senior levels of the
administration, according to the officials, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel
matters.

The Executive Order and the language it uses really does

CIA Director John Brennon was a key player in the effort
mark a momentous event. Quite simply, it marks a transfer
to remove Rogers as illustrated by the Washington Post
of political power from the Deep State to the U.S. military
story which is the traditional official news outlet
in terms of who is really in control of the U.S. Republic.
promoting CIA interests. To his credit, President Obama
did not take action against Rogers.
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has surrounded himself
with senior military officers who share his desire to “drain
Now more than a year after these back stage
the swamp”. His Chief of Staff, John Kelly, is a retired
maneuverings, Rogers remains at the helm of the NSA
four star USMC general; his Secretary of Defense, James
closely monitoring the global activities of the Deep State
Mattis, is also a retired four star USMC general; his
and advising Trump and his National Security team.
National Security Advisor, James McMaster, is an active
duty three star US Army general; his head of the National
Security Agency, Mike Rogers, is an active duty four star This has been especially significant when it came to the
Navy Admiral; the head of the Secret Service, Randolph Central Intelligence Agency which has long been the key
Alles is a retired two star Marine General; and the list goes U.S. institution in funding and enforcing the will of the
on. Deep State.

The role of Admiral Mike Rogers is particularly significant
since he broke ranks with the US intelligence community
back in late 2016 to warn Trump about a Deep State effort
to undermine and even prevent him from coming into
power by spying on his transition team. While Trump was
President-elect, Rogers traveled to Trump Tower on
November 17, 2016 to warn him of the Deep State plans.
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In particular, the CIA’s Clandestine Services and
Counterintelligence divisions were instrumental in creating
an unofficial “black budget” for funding highly classified
projects and operations ever since the CIA’s creation in
1947.
These two branches of the CIA have long been the secret
enforcers of Deep State as best illustrated in the Kennedy
Assassination. James Jesus Angleton, chief of the CIA’s
Counterintelligence office, played a direct role, while
Richard Helms (Deputy Director of Plans) provided covert
support for the operation.
Trump’s elevation of former congressman, Mike Pompeo,
to become CIA Director was intended to bring the CIA
under direct Presidential authority. Pompeo was, however,
effectively sidelined from exercizing any real power over
the CIA’s covert operations. It was Pompeo’s more
balanced approach to US-Russia relations that earned him
the enmity of shadowy CIA groups.
The situation dramatically changed on Saturday November
18, when a number of USMC helicopters flew over the
CIA’s Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. A former FBI
agent, Hal Turner confirmed through credible sources that
the helicopters had “buzzed” the CIA HQ for roughly 30
minutes.
The intent was clear, the USMC was threatening the CIA’s
clandestine services division to get on board with the
Trump administration or else. This is not the first time that
the CIA has been intimidated by a US President
threatening to unleash the US military against it.
In 1958, President Eisenhower threatened the CIA’s Area
51 facilities in Nevada with invasion by the US First Army
stationed at Colorado if the CIA did not fully disclose all
its classified programs there. In a May 2013 video
interview, a former CIA operative revealed what he heard
Eisenhower tell his boss to relay to the mysterious MJ-12
Committee in charge of the Area 51 facility, for which the
CIA provided operational security.
The clearest sign that the CIA is now firmly under
Trump’s control is President Putin thanking President
Trump and Pompeo for thwarting a planned terrorist attack
against a prominent St Petersberg cathedral. A December
17 Kremlin Press Release stated:
Vladimir Putin thanked Donald Trump for the information
passed on by the United States’ Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) that helped detain the terrorists who plotted
to set off explosions at Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg
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and other public places in the city. The information
received from the CIA was enough to locate and detain
the criminals.
The Russian President asked the US President to convey
his appreciation to the Central Intelligence Agency director
and the operatives of US intelligence services who
received this information.
It is unprecedented for a Russian Head of State to publicly
thank the CIA. The underlying message was clear, the CIA
was now under the control of White Hats in the U.S.
national security system and Putin was very grateful.
What we are witnessing with Trump’s December 21
Executive Order is the final act of a well thought out plan
to sideline the Deep State, “drain the swamp” , and
reinstate direct Presidential authority over the U.S. national
security system. Effectively, we are witnessing a handover
of real power from the Deep State to the U.S. military via
Donald Trump as Commander in Chief.
What is particularly noteworthy in the Executive Order is
that this transfer of power is being done quietly behind the
scenes with little mainstream attention. Key figures in the
Deep State are finding their global financial resources
frozen, and are being secretly detained via sealed
indictments that now have worldwide impact due to
Trump’s Executive Order.
By late November, there were over four thousand sealed
federal indictments being tracked by alternative news
journalists such as Hal Turner. Many of these are being
enforced by Special Operations Command personnel that
are going around the planet arresting key Deep State
figures.
All this leads to the question, what does all this mean for a
seven decades-long suppression of the truth regarding
extraterrestrial life and technology, the existence of a
breakaway German colony in Antarctica, and the existence
of multiple secret space programs?
The way in which the Executive Order has been crafted for
a specific target, and quietly enforced is that the U.S.
military is wanting to keep much of what is occurring off
the public radar. The primary reason for doing so is clearly disclosures that will occur throughout the remainder of the
to minimize disruption to the U.S. political system while Trump administration will promote US national security
the transfer of power takes place. interests largely defined through a military mindset.

Once the transfer process is complete, we can expect some

of the sealed indictments being publicly revealed, and
Trump publicly declaring victory in his effort to “drain the
swamp”. We can expect a lot of unexpected retirements by
indicted individuals who are currently making plea deals to
escape imprisonment. Individuals involved in the most
egregious human rights abuses such as child trafficking,
will very likely be publicly exposed and tried.

As the transfer of power process moves forward, we can

expect that more of the truth about secret space programs,
Antarctica and extraterrestrial life will be disclosed. Based
on how the U.S. military is dealing with key figures from
the Deep State, it can be predicted that disclosure will take
place in a gradual manner that does not disrupt the social
fabric of US and stability of the global community.
Disclosure is inevitable, but with the U.S. military now
increasingly in charge of the American end of the process,
disclosure is likely to happen in a series of gradual steps
that culminate in sweeping changes all across the planet as
advanced technologies involving zero-point energy,
antigravity propulsion and holographic healing are
strategically released.
While removal of the Deep State and its corrosive global
influence through human rights abuses and corruption is a
welcome development, the outsized behind-the-scenes
influence of the U.S. military in the Trump administration
is a cause for concern in the long term. Predictably,
.
President Eisenhower’s greatest lament over the way
classified projects involving advanced technologies were
being managed in the U.S. was that excessive secrecy cut
out the best people from the decision making process.
Only full disclosure will prevent a similar problem from
arising in the future where a new Deep State emerges, one
dominated by military interests, with control over
advanced technologies, which it uses to dominate the rest
of humanity.
Full disclosure is essential for humanity transitioning from
an insular planet dominated either by criminal syndicates
or a military mindset, into to a more informed peaceful
planetary society worthy of becoming a full member of a
galactic community.

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 Proof: The Entire Trump-Russia Probe
Is A Complete SHAM, Robert Mueller Isn’t Even
Investigating Ties To Russia!
Alex Thomas
December 27, 2017
Another day, another piece of evidence that
points to the now transparently obvious fact that
the FBI’s counterintelligence probe being led by
deep state operative and Clinton supporter
Robert Mueller is nothing more than a complete
sham that isn’t even actually investi-
gating whether or not Trump colluded with
Russia to win the election.
That’s right, the supposedly extremely important probe
into Russian attempts at fixing the U.S. election isn’t
actually looking into connections between Trump
campaign officials and Russia (because there are none) but
rather they are using a form of financial terrorism to
bankrupt Trump associates with white-collar crime
investigations that have absolutely no connection to the
2016 election, much less Russia.
This is not up for debate as this shocking fact has now
been openly admitted in the mainstream media through an
article by The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff, a reporter
who in the past has had key information leaked to her with
the specific aim of taking out a democratically elected
president.
The article details the fact that Mueller is likely to indict
short-lived Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort once
again and of course his supposed crimes have literally
nothing to do with Russia.
In other words, this is a clear cut operation to take out
President Trump by any means necessary.
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Woodruff reports:
It’s been seven months since Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein ordered Bob
Mueller to take over the FBI’s
counterintelligence probe into possible links
between the Kremlin and people associated
with the Trump campaign. Trump’s lawyers
have long said they expected the probe to stay
focused and end quickly.
Instead, Mueller has assembled a team of
prosecutors with expertise in handling
financial investigations and white-collar
crime, and obtained guilty pleas for crimes
that weren’t committed during the election
year.
And, most importantly, he’s sent a thinly veiled
warning to the White House: No one’s finances
are off limits. If 2017 had the president’s inner
circle sweating, 2018 could feel like a sauna.
So there you have it. This is not about Russia hacking the
US election but rather about attempting to tie up former
Trump associates with charges that have nothing to do
with the election or even Trump in general with the hope
that they will eventually turn on the president.
Woodruff also noted in her report that Mueller is
attempting to “grind” Manafort down in order to turn him.
This is clear cut corruption at its finest folks.
And no one may feel more heat than Paul
Manafort. In Washington legal circles, there’s a
broad expectation that Mueller will file what’s
called a superseding indictment of Manafort and
Rick Gates, his erstwhile business partner—and
alleged partner in crime. Gates and Manafort
both pleaded not guilty when Mueller’s team
filed their indictment on Oct. 30. Legal experts
say there may be more charges to come.
“I would expect a superseding indictment to
come down relatively soon,” said Jonathan
 Turley, a professor at George Washington
University’s law school.
“There was much in the narrative of the
indictment that referenced crimes not charged,”
he added. “Prosecutors will often issue a
superseding indictment as the grand jury
continues its work. There’s also a tactical
reason for this, that superseding indictments
tend to grind defendants a bit more over time.”
A superseding indictment would essentially
replace the current indictment of Manafort. And
in that current indictment, Mueller’s team hinted
there was more to come. In particular, they
hinted at potential tax charges for Manafort’s
foreign financial transactions.
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Federal prosecutors can bring charges against
any American who has money in a foreign bank
account and doesn’t check a box on their tax
forms disclosing it. The Manafort/Gates
indictment describes financial behavior that may
be liable for that kind of prosecution. And that’s
an indicator that Mueller’s team may be
preparing to formally charge both men with
violating tax laws.
The proof is in the pudding and the mainstream has now
openly admitted that the Mueller probe isn’t even looking
into connections between Trump and Russia.
At this point it would be the height of insanity for Trump
to allow Robert Mueller to continue this deep state
operation against him.
 WATCH: CNN Legal Analyst Slams Mueller's
Investigation, Backs Trump Criticisms
Of Embattled Agency
Byryan Saavedra
@Realsaavedra
December 28, 2017

Dozens of the text messages from Strzok showed a strong

antipathy for Trump, but none was more damaging than
one he sent regarding the FBI’s "insurance policy":

I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration

in [deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe’s] office that
there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't
take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely
event you die before you're 40…

Callan went on to highlight the role some of these same

CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said recently that his views
on President Donald Trump’s attack on the FBI regarding
the Mueller investigation have changed after he started
researching what was going on.
agents had in the criminal investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private email server despite having
major conflicts of interest.
WATCH:

Callan joined CNN host Poppy Harlow to discuss the

recent revelations about the blatant anti-Trump bias at the
FBI which was exposed when text messages from FBI
agent Peter Strzok were made public.

"Originally, I was angered at the president's attacks on the

FBI, I thought they were unjustified," Callan said. "But
when I started to delve into the facts, boy there's some
really disturbing stuff here."

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 James Woods DEMOLISHES Elizabeth Warren’s
‘Science’ Soapbox With HEAP BIG Mic Drop
By Doug P.
Posted At 11:11 Pm On December 29, 2017

As Twitchy previously reported, Sen. Elizabeth Warren

was in a mood to lecture about “science” after President
Trump’s tweet mocking global warming alarmists during a
seriously snowy and cold late December:

OUCH!

With the exception of those first seven words (which are

totally believable considering the source), Warren’s tweet
was effectively shredded, and James Woods dropped the
mic that totally demolished Warren’s “science” soapbox:

Big time.

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 “Classified, Confidential, And Heavily Redacted”:
2,800 Huma Abedin Emails Found On Anthony Weiner’s
Laptop Have Been Released
Alex Thomas
December 29th, 2017
The State Department has released over 2,000 emails
belonging to top Hillary Clinton operative Huma Abedin
that were found on her disgraced former husband Anthony
Weiner’s laptop and a number of the documents contained
classified, confidential, and heavily redacted information.
Although media reports on the emails have so far varied, it
has been confirmed that there were indeed classified
documents on the laptop in question and that the FBI
KNEW this fact but refused to charge Abedin or Clinton
with any crime.
A CNN report on the emails attempted to downplay
Abedin’s knowledge of the classified material but
nonetheless confirmed that certain emails should not have
been on the laptop in the first place.
The emails weren’t marked as classified,
though the FBI later found classified information
contained in some emails recovered from
Weiner’s laptop.
CNN has previously reported it was likely that
some of the emails stored on Weiner’s laptop
contained classified information, and fired FBI
Director Comey testified that there is no
indication Abedin “had a sense that what she
was doing was in violation of the law.”
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The fact that Clinton and Abedin previously
exchanged classified emails gave federal
prosecutors probable cause to justify their
review of Weiner’s laptop in fall 2015, according
to a search warrant application released in
December 2016.
[…]
Though neither Abedin nor Weiner was
identified by name in the search warrant
documentation, and the court ordered the
materials redacted, the affidavit in support of
the warrant makes clear that the FBI argued
that there was further probable cause to search
Weiner’s hard drive in light of the fact that
Abedin and Clinton previously exchanged
classified emails.
Yes, you read that correctly. CNN and the Clinton shills in
the FBI expect the American people to believe that Abedin
wasn’t aware that taking classified material home was
illegal.
Interestingly, Abedin made a trip to Clinton’s Manhattan
office just hours before the release of the emails in a move
that many believe was connected to the email release itself.
The Daily Mail noted:
Huma Abedin was spotted heading into
the Hillary Clinton offices in midtown Manhattan
on Friday just a few hours before the release of
2,800 of her emails.
The longtime aide to Hillary Clinton was joined
by her son Jordan, who she has been raising as
a single mother ever since her husband
Anthony Wiener entered a correctional facility in
Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Abedin submitted her divorce papers on the
same day Weiner appeared in court to enter his
guilty plea back in May.
 Weiner was sentenced to 21 months behind
bars and ordered to pay $10,000 after entering
a guilty plea to a single charge of transferring
obscene material to a minor.
The emails contained on Weiner’s laptop included national
security discussions, with classified information, that
would have gotten any other person arrested and charged
by the FBI immediately.
The Daily Mail report continued:
The emails date from 2010, 2011 and 2012 and
concern discussions with Middle East leaders
including some from Israel, the United Arab
Emirates, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Large portions, including entire pages, were
redacted before the documents’ release.
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The charges against Weiner arose after
DailyMail.com revealed in September of last
year that he had been sexting a 15-year-old
high school student from North Carolina for
months.
In the wake of that revelation he had his laptop
seized, and emails found on the device led to a
second FBI probe into Clinton’s email server,
which she later claimed cost her the election.
It is those emails that have now been released
by the State Department.
All in all this is simply more proof that high-level Clinton
operatives within the FBI not only allowed Clinton to get
away with the email scandal, they also let Abedin off the
hook as well.
 Deep State Takedown In Progress:
Is Trump About To Start Arresting Top Democrats And
Bringing Them To Justice?
Michael Snyder
December 29, 2017
When Donald Trump gets hit, he always hits back even
harder. So when the deep state decided to conduct a legal
witch hunt against President Trump and his family, they
should have expected that Trump would return the favor.
In recent days, there have been all sorts of rumblings about
sealed indictments, pending arrests and a “deep state
takedown”. Many believe that we are on the verge of
seeing some of the most prominent Democrats in the entire
nation being arrested and thrown in prison.
We shall see how all of this plays out, but in this article I
am going to focus on the things that have been confirmed
so far.
First of all, let’s talk about the documents that are going to
be released on Friday. According to Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton, the State Department is scheduled to
release 2,800 government documents which were found on
Anthony Weiner’s laptop…
.@StateDept will publish releasable portions of 2800
government docs that @FBI found on Anthony Weiner
laptop tomorrow (Dec. 29th). Again, thanks
to @JudicialWatch lawsuits.
Will @RealDonaldTrump DOJ finally take action on
Clinton/Abedin misdeeds?
Remember, this is just a portion of the documents that
were found on his laptop, and the really juicy stuff is
almost certainly not going to be found in these government
docs.
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There are persistent rumors that the really juicy stuff on his
laptop contains evidence of sexual misconduct by top
Democrats that would far surpass anything that has come
out about members of Congress so far.
We are potentially talking about the type of stuff that could
send people to prison for life, and we need to keep
demanding for that material to be released to the public as
soon as possible. I understand that there are ongoing
investigations that cannot be compromised, but there is no
excuse for things to drag on for this long.
But without a doubt, there could potentially be some
gamechanging material in the docs that we will get to see
tomorrow. The following is what Judicial
Watch previously had to say about these documents…
“This is a disturbing development. Our
experience with Abedin’s emails suggest these
Weiner laptop documents will include classified
and other sensitive materials,” said Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton. “When will the
Justice Department do a serious investigation of
Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious
violations of law?”
Judicial Watch previously released 20 productions of
documents in this case that show examples of mishandling
of classified information and instances of pay to play
between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton
Foundation.
Also, at least 627 emails were not part of the 55,000 pages
of emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradict a
statement by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her
government emails had been turned over to department.
Based on just the evidence that we have so far, Hillary
Clinton should clearly be going to prison, and let us hope
that this latest development will move things in the right
direction over at the Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, one of the other pieces of the puzzle that has
been confirmed is a very curious executive order that was
just issued by President Trump. The following comes
from Zero Hedge…
The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive
Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of
US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or
entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along
with government officials and executives of foreign
corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in
corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state
assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain,
and corruption related to government contracts or the
extraction of natural resources.
Furthermore, anyone in the United States
who aids or participates in said corruption
or human rights abuses by foreign parties is
subject to frozen assets – along with any
U.S. corporation who employs foreigners
deemed to have engaged in corruption on
behalf of the company.
Many believe that this executive order is directly related to
ongoing investigations into corruption within the
Democratic Party.
More specifically, the wording of this executive order
definitely sounds like it could have been written with Bill
Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Podesta and Uranium One
in mind. Here is more from Zero Hedge…
Now consider that if reports from The Hill are accurate –
an FBI mole deep within the Russian uranium industry
uncovered evidence that
“Russian nuclear officials had routed
millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to
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benefit former President Bill Clinton’s
charitable foundation during the time
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on
a government body that provided a
favorable decision to Moscow (the Uranium
One approval)”
– a deal which would eventually grant the Kremlin control
over 20 percent of America’s uranium supply right around
the time Bill Clinton also collected $500,000 for a
Moscow speech, as detailed by author Peter Schweitzer’s
book Clinton Cash and the New York Times in 2015.
A very dangerous game is being played behind the scenes,
and I believe that Trump is going to come out the big
winner in the end.
Many on the left had been anticipating that 2018 would be
the year when Donald Trump is finally taken down, but
they will be bitterly disappointed when some of their most
cherished heroes end up in shackles instead.
If the elite had not gone after Trump so brutally earlier this
year, perhaps he would have been willing to let some
things slide. But once Robert Mueller was appointed as
special counsel and given an unlimited amount of time,
money and resources to dig up dirt on Trump, it was
inevitable that Trump would try to find a way to strike
back even harder.
We have never seen anything quite like this in the history
of American politics, and I have a feeling that 2018 is
going to be one of the most “interesting” years ever.
 Fake News: Mainstream Media Claims That White House
Intern Is Racist For Using ‘OK’ Hand Gesture
Alex Thomas
December 29th, 2017
Another day, another piece of evidence that points to the
stunning fact that the mainstream media is willing to
spread complete disinformation on a daily basis in their
desperate, never ending attempt to hurt President Trump.
The latest example comes in the form of a pathetic hit
piece in The Daily Mail that claims that former White
House Intern Jack Breuer used a racist hand gesture in a
November photo op with the president and fellow interns.
The problem? Breuer isn’t actually a white supremacist
and was flashing the ‘OK’ hand gesture that the president
and others have used in the past. Keep in mind that the
ADL itself has already confirmed this is NOT a racist hand
symbol.
The Daily Mail report breathlessly reads:
A former White House intern is coming under
fire after flashing a known ‘white power’ sign
during a photo-op with President Donald Trump.
[…]
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It is the same sign that white nationalist Richard
Spencer gave on the steps of the Trump
International Hotel on election night and that
right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos
posed with in front of the White House.
It was also seen at the Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, in August – the same
day an alleged Nazi sympathizer accelerated
his car into anti-protesters, killing one and
injuring several others.
All those surrounding Breuer on the right side of
the picture are using their left hands to give
their thumbs-up, with him standing out by using
his right hand.
The gesture – which only makes sense if made
with the right hand, although there are
examples of people making it with their left
hand – is said to depict the letter ‘W’ with the
outstretched middle, ring and little fingers, and a
‘P’ with the circle made by the thumb and
forefinger stretching down to the wrist. Together
‘WP’ stands for White Power.
As Paul Joseph Watson rightfully noted, the hand gesture
has nothing to do with racism even if actual white
supremacists have used it in the past.
Unfortunately for the Daily Mail, allegations that
the hand symbol, which actually represents
“OK,” equates to white supremacy were
debunked by none other than the ADL in May of
this year.
“Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger ‘OK’ hand
gesture become a white supremacist hand
sign? Well, no, it hasn’t, but you are likely to
hear just the opposite from social media, thanks
to the latest hoax from members of notorious
website 4chan,” the ADL said.
Breuer, who released a statement on Twitter
Thursday evening, also called the allegations
unfounded.
 Despite the fact that the claims in the Daily Mail article
have been fully debunked, the news outlet has so far
refused to correct or take down the fake news report,
instead spreading it to tens of thousands of readers, many
who are only too happy to believe literally anything
negative about the Trump White House.

As Trump himself has noted many times, the establishment

media readily spreads fake news on a daily basis and the
vast majority are openly working against him.

This is simply one more example.

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 GOP Lawmaker Finally Says What Needed To Be Said:
Purge Fed Agencies Of “Deep State” BIAS
By JD Heyes
Friday, December 29, 2017

Mueller’s continuing, bogus probe into Team Trump

“collusion” with Russia during the 2016 election.

Mueller did reassign Strzok when the texts were

discovered by the Department of Justice’s inspector
general; as a gag, perhaps, Strzok — who, again, is having
an extra-marital relationship at work — was reassigned to
work in human resources. (Related: Trump “dossier”
creator Christopher Steele BACKING OFF claims prez is
linked to RUSSIA as he faces libel lawsuit.)

But, aside from that, Republicans see a larger pattern of

It’s time Congress and the Trump administration took up abuse against conservatives by federal officials in the FBI,
the mantle of real reform and drained the swamp for real. Department of Justice, the IRS and elsewhere. They also
point to former FBI Director James Comey’s incredibly
biased “investigation” into Clinton’s emails, in which he
Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., said on Tuesday that in order
exonerated her (when really that was the attorney general’s
for the White House and members of Congress to be
job). Comey made the decision to let her off the hook
certain that all bias — Left or Right — was removed from
months in advance, according to memos and other
some federal agencies, a purge of existing personnel
documents congressional investigators have obtained.
needed to happen, and soon, or else the country would
continue to suffer through the “Deep State” bias shown to
President Donald J. Trump and his administration over the Other lawmakers and former Justice Department officials
past year, the Washington Times reports. also believe that Congress and the Executive Branch
(paging Attorney General Jeff Sessions) should begin a
purge of top and ranking officials who have long since
“I would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it
devolved into little more than Deep State operatives and
and say, ‘look, we’ve got a lot of great agents, a lot of
shills.
great lawyers here,’ those are the people that I want the
American people to see and know the good works being
done, not these people who are kind of the deep state,” Someone who feels strongly about this is former U.S.
Rooney said on MSNBC, where no doubt he was mocked attorney, Joe diGenova, who recently told Fox News’
behind his back. Tucker Carlson that the ongoing probe into alleged
“collusion” between Trump and Russia is putting the
nation into a “constitutional crisis.”
And okay, it really isn’t Right-wing bias that needs to be
purged because there isn’t any; it’s all Left-leaning, pro-
Democrat bias that must be purged, and quickly. “What you have now unfolding inside the FBI and
Department of Justice under [former President] Obama
was a brazen plot to do two things: To exonerate Hillary
Case in point: Rooney made his comments in the context
Clinton because of an animus for Donald Trump, and then
of an ongoing situation at the FBI where one agent, Peter
if she lost to frame the incoming president for either a
Strzok, has been found to have demonstrated clear bias
criminal act or impeachment,” diGenova said.
against the president in text and email messages he sent to
his mistress, FBI lawyer, Lisa Page.
“This is one of the most disgusting performances by the
senior officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice
In addition to being lead investigator into Hillary Clinton’s
that every one of these agents should be fired and the
obvious criminal mishandling of classified emails, Strzok
people who are still in the Justice Department be fired,” he
was also a principal figure in special counsel Robert
said. That includes empaneling a “federal grand jury to
investigate the conduct of [FBI Deputy Director Andrew]
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McCabe and [FBI agent Peter] Strzok and [FBI lawyer [DoJ official Bruce] Ohr and everybody in the Obama
Lisa] Page and [former FBI Director James] Comey and Justice Department that even touched this.”

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 CNN’s ‘Media’ Guy Brian Stelter
Is Angry At Fox News For Reporting…The Truth
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 29, 2017

“This is a prime example of how ‘Fox & Friends’ But according to Stelter, it was a “disservice” to viewers of
does a disservice to viewers” Fox & Friends for the show to share that information.

“This is a prime example of how ‘Fox & Friends’

does a disservice to viewers,” Stelter tweeted.

(National Sentinel) Head-Scratcher: The media

correspondent for CNN, Brian Stelter, is calling out Fox
News‘ “Fox & Friends” morning show because the hosts
reported an accurate polling statistic comparing Presidents
Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama.
On Thursday The National Sentinel reported that Trump’s
approval rating had popped to 46 percent, while his
disapproval had fallen to 53 percent.
However, according to a Dec. 28, 2009 poll by Rasmussen
Reports, the same firm that released Trump’s latest
approval ratings, had Obama at 47 percent favorable; just a
day later, on Dec. 29, Obama’s rating fell to 46 percent
favorable and 53 percent unfavorable, the same as
Trump’s.

“So Brian Stelter is apparently angry that Fox News

“Fox & Friends” shared this fact on air Friday morning,
leading the president to tweet out his satisfaction about the reported poll numbers that are factually accurate because
polls. they happen to be favorable to the president. Very
unbiased,” The Daily Caller observed.

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 “The Most Polite Obliteration Of A Man
That I Have Ever Witnessed” – Watch As Russian
Collusion Narrative Is Absolutely Pummeled
Mac Slavo
December 29th, 2017

If you’ve attempted to have any meaningful conversation
with a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter in recent months,
there’s a near 100% chance that they’ve channeled the
Trump-Russia-Collusion narrative as the reason behind the
President’s 2016 sweeping victory. That and accusations
of racism have been the only argument that they really
have against the President.
Most have already dismissed the accusations of racism –
arguments like only white racists go to farmer’s markets –
as nothing more than ad hominem attacks in lieu of any
fact-based evidence to support their arguments.
The entire interview followed this basic script. Harding
makes an unfounded claim, Maté holds him to the fact that
it’s unfounded, Harding sputters a bit and tries to zoom
things out and point to a bigger-picture analysis of broader
trends to distract from the fact that he’d just made an
individual claim that was baseless, then winds up implying
that Maté is only skeptical of the claims because he hasn’t
lived in Russia as Harding has.
Source: Caitlin Johnstone via ZeroHedge.com
You just have to see it to really appreciate it:

The Russian narrative, is therefore, the real fallback.

But as we and others have repeatedly noted over the last

eighteen months, there is absolutely no factual evidence to
support any of the thousands of reports out there, most of
which are based on a single original factually-challenged
news story often shilled in establishment mouthpieces like
Beelzebezos’ Washington Post.

As you’ll see in the Real News interview below, the

world’s foremost Russian Collusionist and author of the
aptly, even if inaccurately, titled book Collusion: Secret
Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald
Trump Win, author Luke Harding gets absolutely
pummeled when faced with real facts and analysis.
That’s really all Harding brought to the
debate.
In short, the Russian collusion narrative exists only in the
minds of those desperately clinging to any reason for
Trump’s election other than the actual reason – a rebuttal
by a fed up U.S. populace to the greed, political
machinations and socialist ideals of establishment
politicians on both sides of the aisle.

A bunch of individually weak arguments, the fact that he
speaks Russian and has lived in Moscow, and the
occasional straw man where he tries to imply that Maté is
claiming that Vladimir Putin is an innocent girl scout.
Meanwhile Maté just kept patiently dragging the debate
back on track over and over again in the most polite
obliteration of a man that I have ever witnessed.
.
Call it racism, collusion or just plain crazy.
We’re fine with that. The more you squirm,
the more you’re triggered, the more you
scream in pain, the more we know we’re
doing something right.

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 Nevertrumper Bret Stephens Whines: Trump’s Policy
Victories Don’t Matter Because He’s A Bully
By Breitbart News
30 Dec 2017
Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times
that even though he is happy with the policy
achievements of the Trump Administration
in its first year, he will never support Donald
Trump because he is offended by the
president’s personality:
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Tax cuts. Deregulation. More for the military; less for the
United Nations. The Islamic State crushed in its heartland.
Assad hit with cruise missiles. Troops to Afghanistan.
Arms for Ukraine. A tougher approach to North Korea.
Jerusalem recognized as Israel’s capital. The Iran deal
decertified. Title IX kangaroo courts on campus
condemned. Yes to Keystone. No to Paris. Wall Street
roaring and consumer confidence high.
And, of course, Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. What,
for a conservative, is there to dislike about this policy
record as the Trump administration rounds out its first year
in office?
That’s the question I keep hearing from old friends on the
right who voted with misgiving for Donald Trump last
year and now find reasons to like him. I admit it gives me
pause. I agree with every one of the policy decisions
mentioned above. But I still wish Hillary Clinton were
president.
Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.
 New Lawsuit Seeks To Force
Disclosure Of Trump’s Secret Kill List
Written By Derrick Broze
December 30, 2017 At 11:38 Am
The Trump admin is now facing legal
challenges demanding the release of details
related to the secret kill list and rules which
allow for the assassination of American
citizens.
(AP) — On December 22 the American Civil Liberties
Union filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in
an attempt to force the release of newly established rules
related to the U.S. military’s secret program of killing. The
program was established during the Obama Administration
and now expanded under Donald Trump. Recent reports
from the New York Times (1, 2) allude to the fact that the
Trump administration is loosening the already flimsy
protections established by the Obama admin. These
protections were reportedly put in place to minimize injury
and deaths of civilians.
The ACLU states that two recent articles from the New
York Times and The Atlantic spurred on the lawsuit.
The New York Times investigation reviewed U.S. airstrikes
from the beginning of the fight against the Islamic State in
Iraq in 2014 to December 2016. The report found that the
U.S. military killed civilians 31 times more than it
admitted. The second piece was a response to the Times‘
investigation by Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper,
former national security officials in the Obama years. The
men admit that the Obama administration continued the
global War on Terror by keeping the infrastructure in
place. The men also note that protections for civilians were
inadequate, as were promises of transparency and
reparations for victims.
In October, Activist Post reported that a newly signed
Presidential Memorandum would normalize the use of
drones in American life.
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The memo, titled “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration
Pilot Program,” allows certain communities to be exempt
from current safety rules as they test drone
operations. Under the Trump administration the use of
drone bombings are increasing and airstrikes have already
increased. Also, in an apparent effort to fight illegal
immigration, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will
be using drones to conduct aerial surveillance on American
citizens on the border. These actions have led privacy
groups to ask the U.S. Senate if images gathered by the
CBP’s drones will be connected to the agencies facial
recognition database.
As the ACLU notes:
the Trump administration is killing people in
multiple countries, with strikes taking place
at a virtually unprecedented rate—in some
countries, the number has doubled or
tripled in Trump’s first year in office.
The American public is generally aware of conflicts taking
place in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, but remain largely
ignorant to the military operations taking place in Somalia,
Pakistan, Nigeria, and across the African continent. These
operations have lead to an increase in civilian deaths.
Another point that can not be ignored is the fact that the
U.S. government is bombing people in nations which are
majority Muslim. These are the same countries subject to
the so-called “Muslim ban.” This means there are likely
people who have become refugees in an effort to escape
the U.S.-led wars on their homeland and then they are
turned away or treated like criminals.
“At the same time, it (the Trump admin)
refuses to officially disclose critically
important information about where it is
conducting strikes, against whom, and with
what consequences,” the ACLU writes.
Throughout the Obama administration the ACLU fought
legal battles over the release of Obama-era documents
related to the secret kill list. The Presidential Policy
Guidance (PPG), sometimes known as “the Playbook” or
disposition matrix, guided the Obama Administration’s
decisions on the U.S. government’s drone assassination
program. The PPG was originally released in May 2013,
but the full content of the document has remained a secret.
The public has only seen a “fact sheet” which describes the
document.
In February 2016, U.S. District Judge Colleen
McMahon ordered the Obama Administration to hand over
the PPG and other documents related to the targeted drone
assassination program for the court’s review and possible
release to the public. The three documents relate to the law
and policy that govern the controversial program. The
ACLU has also been fighting to uncover new information
related to the so-called Presidential Kill List, also known
as the disposition matrix.
The Washington Post first reported on the disposition
matrix in 2012:
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has
been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing
terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the
‘disposition matrix.’
The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects
arrayed against an accounting of the resources being
marshaled to track them down, including sealed
indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said
the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists,
mapping plans for the ‘disposition’ of suspects beyond the
reach of American drones.
Although the matrix is a work in progress, the effort to
create it reflects a reality setting in among the nation’s
counterterrorism ranks: The United States’ conventional
wars are winding down, but the government expects to
continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years.
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The kill list has been the subject of legal battles for
years. New York Times journalist Charlie Savage sued the
Obama admin an attempt to reveal the government’s legal
justifications for assassinating terror suspects without a
trial. Specifically, Savage sued the Obama administration
in an attempt to obtain details about the murder of al-
Qaeda affiliated cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki was
born in New Mexico and eventually found himself on the
U.S. government’s radar under suspicion of terrorism.
On September 30, 2011, drones sent by the CIA and Joint
Special Operations Command flew into Yemen and
bombed al-Awlaki and al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan.
The case drew public criticism not only because al-Awlaki
was an American citizen, but because several weeks after
his death, another American drone killed al-Awlaki’s 16-
year-old son, Abdulrahman. He was also a U.S. citizen
living in Yemen.
In their latest rebuke of the Trump admin, the ACLU takes
a surprisingly strong stance against former President
Barack Obama by acknowledging the role the Nobel Peace
Prize winner played in establishing these dangerous
programs. “He committed this country to ever more
militaristic responses in ever more countries, regardless of
whatever reluctance he might have felt,” the ACLU writes.
“Wrongful killings and civilian deaths were the inevitable
result.”
Normalizing the use of drones – both at home and abroad –
is just beginning to coalesce into the new standard for
American warfare and daily life. What can we do about
this illegal, immoral, and dangerous warfare taken by the
U.S government? Is there any way for the people to
reverse the course?
 Top 10 Stories Of 2017 Showing America's Winning As
Liberals, Media And NeverTrumpers Lose Their Minds
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
December 30, 2017

We're heading into the end of 2017 and we have seen some
incredible things happen over the course of the year, so
many that a dozen or more "Top Ten" lists could be
created, and are being created, but most of what I am
seeing in those lists does not delve into how it benefits the
country.
For example, Time Magazine has a list of the top ten viral
moments in 2017, highlighting everything from Beyonce's
pregnancy to the NFL Kneelers, one of which never even
made my radar and the other is number 10 on my list, but
for a whole different reason, one TIME doesn't even bother
to enlighten their readers about.
To me watching the fall of Kathy Griffin, after acting like
some ISIS wannabe, holding a mock head of a bloody
President Trump, makes the list because she is
representative of the far left progressive liberals.
Everything offends them, yet they believe they can be as
offensive as they want with no ramifications. They do
something stupid, suffer for it, then scream about how they
are the victim when public backlash hits them. They
apologize and then take their apology back, proving they
never meant it in the first place.

10. PATRIOTS UNITED TO PROTEST NFL

KNEELERS

According to TIME "the most striking responses took

place on the field where many players, some complete
teams and even owners, made a show of peacefully
demonstrating or protesting by either kneeling, linking
arms, or raising their fists. Not all players and owners
kneeled for the same reasons as Kaepernick, but after the
President’s divisive statements, many were compelled to
demonstrate to support for freedom of speech."

What TIME ignored completely in order to attack
President Trump's statements showing his disdain for
players that chose to protest during the national anthem, is
how many around the nation agreed with the President.
Americans from all over the country started burning their
NFL jerseys and other merchandise, video after video of
them doing so was uploaded and shared, many going viral.
NFL television ratings hit new lows each and every week
of the season. Images were shared of stadiums across the
country with more empty seats than people attending.
Video and audio of those attending booing the NFL
kneelers.
Absolutely no mention at all from TIME about the true
"viral" events surrounding the issue, which was that
patriots all across America united to protest the NFL
kneelers.
9. KATHY GRIFFIN'S FALL
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Months later and she is still whining that she can't get a gig
in the U.S.
Kathy Griffin is on this list as the poster child for liberal
stupidity throughout 2017.
8. SUPREME COURT BACKS TRUMP AGAINST
LOWER COURTS' ACTIVISM
From President Trump's initial travel pause EO to his
rescinding DACA, lower courts have attempted judicial
activism rather than following the law and over the course
of the last year, the Supreme Court has sided with the
President in a manner consistent with the law, especially
noting at times when the lower courts decisions were
"seriously flawed."
In June the Supreme Court allowed the majority of
President Trump's travel ban to go into effect after lower
courts blocked it. Lower courts attempted again to
intercede, and by December the Supreme Court allowed
full enforcement of the travel ban in a 7-2 decision. In
early December the Supreme Court also blocked a
California courts attempt at overreach with document
demands regarding DACA.
There are other examples but the point here is that the
Supreme Court is rebuking and appears to be reprimanding
lower courts in their attempt to usurp the legal rights of a
president, especially in regards to national security issues.
Related: SCOTUS Keeps Rebuking Lower Courts That
Rule Against Trump
7. TRUMP HATERS FORCED TO ADMIT HE IS
WINNING
NeverTrumpers and the media are being forced to admit he
is 1) Keeping his promises and 2) Winning - The bonus
here is that during this last year we have seen RINOs
(Republicans In Name Only) expose themselves for what
they truly are.
National Review became known before the 2016
presidential election as virulently anti-Trump, yet by the
years end, we now see that same publication, while still
snarky about the president, admit that "he is compiling a
solid record of accomplishment." While naming just a
handful of those accomplishments, the writer, Rich Lowry,
also admits "It’s hard to see how a conventional
Republican president would have done much better, except
if he had managed to get Obamacare repealed, which was
always going to be a dicey proposition given the narrow
Republican majority in the Senate."
High praise from a publication that "synonymous with the
Never Trump movement," as The Daily Caller states.
UC Berkeley professor Steven F. Hayward was among the
conservatives featured in National Review’s “Against
Trump” issue. But his stance on Trump appears to have
softened since then.
“In assessing Trump’s accomplishments, let’s not get too
distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto
ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an
administration arguably more conservative than Ronald
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Reagan’s,” Hayward wrote in a column for the Los
Angeles Times last month.
“While the Congress controlled by his adopted party
remains gridlocked, Trump is rolling back regulations and
a number of the Obama administration’s most
controversial achievements, including the internal
structure of Obamacare and the Clean Power Plan. His
foreign policy resets look increasingly sure-footed. His
judicial nominees are uniformly conservative,” Hayward
continued.
“It is inconceivable that any of the other leading
Republican candidates from the 2016 cycle would have
governed as boldly as Trump has.”
Trump haters at the NYT and HuffPost decry that Trump
is "winning" and even CNN somehow managed not to
choke while declaring Trump is keeping his promises,
stating "A politician who actually does what he told voters
he would do seems almost unfathomable in Washington, a
town of broken promises."
Related: Hell freezes over: Media start admitting that
Trump's first year isn't a flop
6. NEVER TRUMP MOVEMENT IMPLODES -
RINOS EXPOSED
Even among Trump haters, we are now seeing RINOs
being called out for becoming "Trump-obsessed zealots
who add nothing to our discourse." That is what Charles
Cooke over at National Review said about the so-called
"conservative" Jennifer Rubin from Washington Post.
Cooke highlights multiple instances where President
Trump has done something that aligned 100 percent with
what Rubin had previously been in support of, to her now
opposing it for no other reason that it was Trump that did
it, his examples show the overwhelming hatred being
spewed from Rubin with no thought to her previous
positions.
The illustrations are endless. In two years, Rubin has gone
from arguing that the “ludicrous,” “absurd” Iran deal
“has to go” — and, indeed, that John Kasich was a fool
for contending otherwise – to praising those who believe it
must remain in place as “reasonable” “experts,” and
predicting that even to decertify would put “American
credibility” at “risk.” In 2015, she wrote that “if you
examine the Iran deal in any detail, you will be horrified
as to what is in there.” In 2017, she characterizes this
position as the “emotional” “temper tantrum” of an
“unhinged president.” A similar metamorphosis has
sullied her views on tax cuts, welfare, energy, and gun
control (before, after), as well as her attitude toward Jews
and anti-intellectuals, which once led her to defend Sarah
Palin, but which now leads her to condemn Trump on
almost all of the grounds she once dismissed.
That brutal takedown of Rubin was headlined "Jennifer
Rubin Is Everything She Hates about Trump
Worshippers."
While this may seem just to be a difference between two
"conservative" Never Trumpers, in the world of political
writers, this most definitely started an internal war between
Trump enemies. David Frum from the Atlantic decided to
stand up for Rubin, other National Review writers weighed
in, other sites like MediaIte reported on this internal battle
of the NeverTrumpers. PowerLine, known for excellent
political analysis also noted it.
As the Never Trumpers "crash and burn," while liberals
attempt to spin it as a GOP "civil war," we note that they
were a small segment of the GOP party, with some willing
to look at presidential actions and be objective in their
analysis even while disliking the "man" behind the
presidency, while others have totally exposed themselves
as nothing more than hacks, willing to betray their own
principles just so they can oppose anything president
Trump does.
Weeding out people like Rubin, Bill Kristol, David Frum,
and others who are blinded to everything but their own
hatred, is a major win for conservatives across the board.
5. #METOO MOVEMENT KNOCKS CELEBRITIES,
MEDIA OFF THEIR HIGH HORSE
The #MeToo movement is also listed on the TIME's list of
viral things in 2017, but it makes my list for a very
different reason.
Celebrities that attempt to use their "fame" to control the
public, thinking because people like their acting, or
singing, and are entertained by them, they somehow have
the right to tell others what to do, who to vote for, push
gun control (while they act in some of the most violent
movies), and generally act like they are morally superior to
everyone else just because they get huge paychecks, have
literally been roiled by the fall of Harvey Weinstein for
sexually assaulting women for decades, and the subsequent
#MeToo movement.
Not only have dozens of actors been embroiled in sex
scandals, but the women who have been in the
entertainment industry for decades are being called out for
being silent about it for so many years. On one hand actors
and actresses, one after another, claim that "everybody
knew," yet the main chorus is "but not me, 'I' didn't
personally know." Right everyone "else" knew. Ok,
gotcha!
Media personalities and politicians have all become
engulfed in the #MeToo movement, and while I am on
record as thinking the movement has dishonestly and
destructively conflated typical flirting behaviors with
actual rape and assault, the benefit to the country in the
movement, aside from removing those that actually
committed crimes from the public sphere, is has knocked
them all off their high horses.
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The media who openly admits they think they have the
right to "control exactly what the public thinks," to
politicians that once elected do not even attempt to keep
their campaign promises, thinking they somehow know
what is best for their voters instead of listening to said
voters, to celebrities that can no longer even attempt to
claim a moral high ground, have all seen their influence
greatly diminished in 2017.
Related: After Weinstein: More than 100 high-powered
men accused of sexual misconduct
4. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TWITTER HABIT
I know, right about now many ANP readers are face-
palming me over this making the list, and everyone is
entitled to their own opinion... including me!
Many see President Trump's Twitter activity as a fault or
in a negative light, but I look at how one tweet from the
president can send liberals and the media into complete
meltdown mode, dominating headlines for a day,
sometimes two and in some cases a whole week, as a great
thing. As liberals "scream at the sky" over something the
president said, and as the media goes on all day rampages
over white box trucks, President Trump is busy
accomplishing many of the things he said he would, and
the media's slight mention of them before going off on
their unhinged tangents over his tweets, is why so much
has been done without major opposition.
Politico highlights "138 things Trump did this year while
you weren't looking," which is a tad misleading since the
things listed are not things done while "we" weren't
looking, they were done while the media was distracted by
other things President Trump said, did or, yes... tweeted.
The Washington Examiner has compiled a list of 81 major
achievements, and 11 Obama legacy items that have been
repealed.
Real Clear Politics highlights Trump's 2017 Top 10
Achievements, compiled by Steve Cortes, a contributor to
RealClearPolitics and Fox News, is the national
spokesman for the Hispanic 100, an organization that
promotes Latino leadership by advancing free enterprise
principles.
Some of the items were highly publicized, others I would
bet not many people even knew of because the media,
meant to inform them, was too busy chasing their tails
every time President Trump says "Boo" or better yet,
"covfefe" on Twitter.
As a side bonus, President Trump often gives us hints of
something big that is coming, as he did before the Uranium
One story broke, as he did months before it became
national news that Trump Tower was under surveillance
by the Obama administration, and a number of other
things.
Best for me....... is watching how easy it is to troll the
media. He says jump and all of a sudden they race to see
who can jump the highest.
3. MAINSTREAM MEDIA IMPLODES ANP readers have seen us document every one of CNN's
lies, rants, manufactured outrages, and fake news stories
Much like the NeverTrumpers, the mainstream media is in
during 2017, so 'nuff said.
the midst of totally imploding. The MSM has abandoned
even the pretense of objectivity, and all regard for facts 1. LIBERAL MELTDOWNS
and truth during the Trump presidency, going as far as
The very short video below from January 20, 2016 takes
blatantly becoming part of the opposition party. The sheer
the top spot, because it was 100 predictive of the year-
number of actual "fake news," mistakes,
long constant meltdown of liberals with Trump
misrepresentations, and outright lies that have later had to
Derangement Syndrome. Throughout the year, what you
be corrected, edited, while changing entire articles and
see below is what the country and the world has witnessed
headlines, in some cases leading to forced resignations and
liberals doing in 2017.
suspensions, has been overwhelming.
This article would be multiple pages long if I tried to list
each example, but in June 2017, the Intercept did compile
a good list which provides ample evidence that the media
has become completely reckless in their mindless Trump
hatred and rage. Since June, things have only gotten worse.
While conservatives have long said the mainstream media
has a liberal bias, news outlets claimed that was some type
of "conspiracy" theory, yet now, even the majority of the
public sees it, with many even now saying the MSM has
become the "enemy of the people," in polling conducted.
Interesting, while 60 percent of "Trump Approvers" think
the media is the enemy of the people, even 15 percent of
"Trump Disapprovers" agree with that statement.
Seeing the media expose themselves to the general public
most definitely has been one of the best things to happen to For anybody that thinks I am exaggerating in any way,
America in 2017. please remember that in November 2017, liberals planned
a "scream helplessly at the sky" event to protest an election
Related: that was held a whole year before.
Media Rages In 2017 - MSM Suffers Humiliating Year Of
Manufactured Outrage, Fake News And Mortifying
Moments
In 2017, the media flunked the Trump challenge
MRC’s Tim Graham Slams Liberal Media’s Anger With
Trump Supporters
The Year of Media Freakouts
2. THE FALL OF CNN

So, liberal meltdowns and the way they, including the

liberal media, completely lost their minds in 2017, simply
had to top the list.

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 Nunes Bombshell—Closing In On
The Beast, Establishment Screams Like Stuck Pigs
By Harley Schlanger, Larouche PAC
December 30, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee has given the FBI and
Department of Justice until January 3, 2018 to produce
their files on Christopher Steele and the use of his dirty
British intelligence authored dossier in the Russiagate hoax
against President Trump. It is believed that these
documents will not only implicate top officials of the FBI
and DOJ in a British instigated conspiracy against Donald
Trump. They will lead to full exposure of Barack Obama
and all of his intelligence chiefs as part of this conspiracy.
As the House Intelligence Committee closes in, the
screams and whines of the U.S. political establishment
have reached a fevered pitch. Saying that Robert Mueller
and the FBI are corrupt is obstruction of justice! They rant.
The last few days news feeds from the Resist! Insurrection
crowd included Clinton and Washington D.C. superlawyer
David Kendall imploring, “Leave Robert Mueller alone”
and Obama CIA chief John Brennan and fired FBI
Director James Comey tweeting in support of
compromised “friends’ at the FBI and Department of
Justice. Both Brennan and Obama’s former DNI James
Clapper have been wildly claiming and waving their hands
to anyone who will pay attention that Vladimir Putin is
somehow “playing” Donald Trump.
In his December 28th letter to Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes
revealed who is actually obstructing justice. According to
Nunes, the FBI and Justice Department played a three card
monte game with documents concerning the use and
payment for the dodgy British Intelligence dossier
requested by subpoena from the FBI by the House last
August. In response to the August subpoena,
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DOJ flatly denied that any basic FBI
investigatory documents, such as FD-302
interview summaries regarding the Steele
dossier existed.
Then, in early December, shortly before Nunes was to
meet with Rosenstein, numerous FD-302s were discovered
to exist. According to Nunes’ letter,
“As it turns out, not only did documents exist
that were directly responsive to the Committee’s
subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and
FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when
their roles in matters under the Committee’s
investigation were brought to light.”
In addition, the Justice Department has refused to produce
any FBI documents concerning meetings between FBI
officials and FBI confidential human sources concerning
the Steele dossier. The House Committee is now
challenging that refusal.
Nunes also demands interview dates for former DOJ
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr (who held
unauthorized meetings with Christopher Steele and whose
wife worked for Steele’s U.S. business partner, Fusion
GPS, on the Steele Trump/Russia project), FBI lovebirds,
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (both deeply involved in the
dodgy dossier as resistance fighters against Trump),
former FBI attorney and James Comey confidante James
Baker, and FBI attorney Sally Moyer and Director for
Congressional Affairs Greg Brewer. It would seem that all
of these people are deeply implicated in the documents
which the FBI explicitly denied even existed.
 PATHETIC: Even After Deadly Train Crash In
Washington, Chuck Schumer HOLDS UP
Trump’s Railroad Admin Pick (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 30, 2017

“The time for playing political games with this He also took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the
agency should be over” New York Democrat.
(National Sentinel) Hold-up: Democrats in the Senate “[Schumer] said that the Department of
have been using the arcane confirmation process to hold up Transportation is not pushing federal PTC hard
a number of President Donald J. Trump’s nominations for enough,” Thune said. “Well, if you truly believe
federal posts, including his pick to head up the Federal that DOT needs to do more, why is he, along
Railroad Administration, Ronald Batory. with a few of his colleagues, standing in the way
of Mr. Batory’s nomination?”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is blocking Batory’s
confirmation over his demand that Trump and Republicans “When finally confirmed [Batory] will play a
agree to spend billions of federal dollars for a major tunnel significant role in successful Positive Train
project between New York and New Jersey. Control implementation,” he said.
Schumer’s action comes despite a major “The time for playing political games with this
Amtrak derailment in Washington state earlier agency should be over,” Thune said just before
this month in which three people were killed. Schumer blocked the nomination.
In 2015, an Amtrak derailment near “I’m beyond words to explain why we are
Philadelphia in 2015 killed seven and injured objecting to someone who is unanimously
several hundred people. approved out of the committee to run an
incredibly important safety agency,” Thune said
Batory is an experienced and respected former railroad
after the objection. “I hope this is the last time.”
executive, having spent four decades in the industry.
The Trump administration was equally dismissive of
He was unanimously approved by members of the Senate
Schumer.
Commerce Committee in early August, however, Schumer
has been blocking the process of bringing Batory to the “Sadly, just days after a deadly derailment Sen.
full Senate for confirmation vote. Schumer has yet again chosen to prioritize
politics over safety,” one unnamed staffer told
The latest action by Schumer came late Thursday
the Free Beacon.
afternoon, when he objected to a motion by Sen. John
Thune (R., S.D.) for unanimous consent to have a vote on
Batory’s nomination, the Washington Free Beacon
reported.
There was some speculation that Schumer would drop his
objections following the derailment in Washington state,
but the senior New York senator has continued his
obstruction.
Thune told reporters he was “deeply frustrated”
that a “non-controversial, highly qualified
nominee has been languishing in the Senate for
over four months due to objections by a handful
of Democrats over a parochial issue entirely
unrelated to the qualifications.”
.
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 Barbra Streisand Has Found A Reason
To Impeach Trump! (Who Wants To Tell Her?)
By Doug P.
Posted At 1:11 Pm On December 30, 2017

Trump-triggered singer Barbra Streisand has found a

reason to impeach President Trump. The charge?

At least that tweet didn’t contain the word “Russia.”

#BabySteps For some reason Streisand would like Mike Pence to be

president (she does realize Hillary’s nowhere to be found
in the chain of succession, right?).

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 Expert: James Comey LIED To Congress,
As Weiner-Abedin CLASSIFIED Emails Prove
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 30, 2017

“This is a major victory” Watch’s litigation and so this really cries out for
a legitimate investigation being done,” he told
Dobbs.

“Your earlier clip with Mr. Comey talking about

intent is a fraud,” he continued. “There’s no
requirement for proving intent under that
particular citation I gave you a moment ago.
Intent is irrelevant. The fact that the loss or the
mishandling of the national defense information
occurred – that’s the crime.”

(National Sentinel) Under Oath: Former FBI Director He continued,

James Comey was not truthful with Congress when he
testified earlier this year when he discussed classified
emails that bureau investigators found on a laptop in 2016
belonging to former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, said Chris
Farrell, the Director of Investigations and Research at
Judicial Watch.
“Frankly, these documents conform the
foundation for an indictment of Comey and
[Peter] Strzok, the investigator who is at the
center of this entire nightmare of a security
problem.”

During an appearance on Fox Business‘ “Lou Dobbs Earlier in the day, Bernard Kerik, New York City’s former
Tonight,” Farrell noted that at least five of the emails police commissioner, tweeted essentially the same thing.
turned over to his organization on Friday by the State
Department in response to a FOIA lawsuit contained
“The possession, transmission, and failing to
classified information. At the time they were discovered,
secure these documents are all federal crimes
Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary
that do not require intent. Why hasn’t someone
Clinton when she served as President Obama’s secretary of
been prosecuted? Any member of the @FBI,
state.
@TheJusticeDept or #DOD would’ve been
prosecuted in a second for a violation that
At the time of the emails, Abedin was married to Weiner, a substantial,” he wrote.
onetime Democratic congressman who began a 21-month
prison sentence last month after being convicted of sexting
a 15-year-old girl.

Fox News reported Friday that Comey said during a

congressional hearing earlier this year that he believed
Abedin regularly forwarded emails to Weiner for him to
print out so she could give them to Clinton.

Farrell insisted that Comey’s testimony to Congress was

erroneous.
“I know that people have been jailed for a
fraction, a tiny fraction, of what has now been
made public and documented through Judicial
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Comey famously claimed in a July 2016 press conference
and later to Congress that Clinton had been “extremely
careless” in her handling of classified email, which is not a
legally actionable term.
The former FBI director had initially written in his Judicial Watch has forced the State Department
statement that her behavior was “grossly negligent,” which to finally allow Americans to see these public
is a legally actionable term. However, Strzok later changed documents.”
that portion of his statement to “extremely careless.”
Fitton added,
Critics of the widening classified email scandal say the
latest findings among documents released by the State “That these government docs were on
Department indicate that criminal charges not only should Anthony Weiner’s laptop dramatically
have been recommended a year ago, but that they should illustrates the need for the Justice
still be filed. Department to finally do a serious
investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma
“This is a major victory,” Judicial Watch Abedin’s obvious violations of law.”
President Tom Fitton said in a Friday statement.
“After years of hard work in federal court,
.

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 THUD: Eric Holder Saws Off Same Branch
He’s Sitting On During ‘Rule Of Law’ Lecture To Trump
By Doug P.
Posted At 2:06 Pm On December 30, 2017

Every now and then we can count on former Attorney

General Eric Holder to demonstrate an extreme lack of
self-awareness to take a swipe at Trump, and this is one of
those weeks:

Holder’s apparently referencing the same Trump interview

with the New York Times that caused Obama-appointed
former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to fantasize about the
president being read his Miranda rights. Self-awareness
isn’t a big thing with officials from the previous
administration:

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 What Special Counsel Has Offered
Publicly Signals Long Year Ahead In Russia Probe
By Mike Levine
Dec 30, 2017, 7:02 AM ET

crimes involving their now-defunct international

consulting business.

FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before a Senate Judiciary

Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2013 .

As 2017 — the year of the Donald Trump presidency,

further Russian interference in American politics, and the
special counsel investigation into it all — comes to a close,
there is continued speculation about where Robert
Mueller's sprawling probe now stands. Shawn Thew/EPA. Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul
Manafort walks to a car after a bond hearing at the E. Barrett
Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, Nov. 6, 2017
In an interview with The New York Times published
Thursday, Trump insisted it has already "been proven that Mueller became special counsel seven months ago, and he
there [was] no collusion" between his associates and began using the grand jury in Washington shortly
Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign. thereafter. Such grand juries often last for up to 18 months,
and they can be extended for six months at a time.
However, the status of Mueller's probe has remained
elusive as so much of what his investigators are up to is
done in secrecy and behind closed doors.

One thing is clear: Their work is far from finished, and it's
going to stretch well into the new year.

And the little that has happened in public view offers

significant clues about what's happening out of public
view.

Most notably, the federal grand jury in Washington that

has already indicted two key Trump associates is
continuing to meet and hear more evidence from
prosecutors. The grand jurors' identities are unknown, but
their faces are recognizable to the reporters and producers Charles Dharapak/AP - Robert Mueller is seated before President
who have been standing inside the courthouse each week. Barack Obama and FBI Director James Comey at an installation
Just a week ago, one of Mueller’s top prosecutors, Jeannie ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Oct. 28, 2013.
Rhee, was spotted at the courthouse by ABC News.
Meanwhile, Trump's former national security adviser Mike
In October, the grand jury in Washington indicted Trump's Flynn is currently working with Mueller's team after
former campaign chair Paul Manafort and Manafort's pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with
former business partner and Trump campaign aide Rick Russian operatives last year.
Gates for alleged money laundering and other financial

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According to the plea agreement filed with prosecutors
four weeks ago, Flynn has agreed to "cooperate fully" with
Mueller’s investigation –
– and that cooperation could include "answering
questions; providing sworn written statements;
taking government-administered polygraph
examination(s); and participating in covert law
enforcement activities."
Another Trump associate, former campaign adviser
George Papadopoulos, has also pleaded guilty to lying to
the FBI about his own contacts with Russians, and he has
been working with Mueller's team for months.
In Trump's interview with The New York Times, the
president said he thinks Mueller is "going to be fair" to
him.

Flynn also agreed to testify "fully, completely, and

truthfully" before any grand juries or trials, and to
"promptly" turn over "any and all evidence of crimes" that
he knows about, according to the agreement.

Flynn's next court appearance isn’t scheduled for another

month, when federal authorities are expected to lay out
how helpful he has been to them so far.

Carlos Barria/Retuers
White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
speaks at the White House in Washington, Feb. 1, 2017. A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment for this
article.

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 How The Russia Inquiry Began:
A Campaign Aide, Drinks And Talk Of Political Dirt
By SHARON Lafraniere, MARK MAZZETTI And MATT APUZZO
DEC. 30, 2017
George Papadopoulos was working as an energy consultant in
London when the Trump campaign named him a foreign policy
adviser in early March 2016. Credit via Agence France-Presse —
Getty Images
WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an
upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a
young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign,
made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in
Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been
told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would
embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to
try to damage her campaign.
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the
Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander
Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked
Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian
officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to
their American counterparts, according to four current and
former American and foreign officials with direct
knowledge of the Australians’ role.
The hacking and the revelation that a member of the
Trump campaign may have had inside information about it
were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an
investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt
the election and whether any of President Trump’s
associates conspired.
If Mr. Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the
F.B.I. and is now a cooperating witness, was the
improbable match that set off a blaze that has consumed
the first year of the Trump administration, his saga is also
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a tale of the Trump campaign in miniature. He was brash,
boastful and underqualified, yet he exceeded expectations.
And, like the campaign itself, he proved to be a tantalizing
target for a Russian influence operation.
While some of Mr. Trump’s advisers have derided him as
an insignificant campaign volunteer or a “coffee boy,”
interviews and new documents show that he stayed
influential throughout the campaign. Two months before
the election, for instance, he helped arrange a New York
meeting between Mr. Trump and President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi of Egypt.
The information that Mr. Papadopoulos gave to the
Australians answers one of the lingering mysteries of the
past year: What so alarmed American officials to provoke
the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into
the Trump campaign months before the presidential
election?
It was not, as Mr. Trump and other politicians have
alleged, a dossier compiled by a former British spy hired
by a rival campaign. Instead, it was firsthand information
from one of America’s closest intelligence allies.
Interviews and previously undisclosed documents show
that Mr. Papadopoulos played a critical role in this drama
and reveal a Russian operation that was more aggressive
and widespread than previously known. They add to an
emerging portrait, gradually filled in over the past year in
revelations by federal investigators, journalists and
lawmakers, of Russians with government contacts trying to
establish secret channels at various levels of the Trump
campaign.
The F.B.I. investigation, which was taken over seven
months ago by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,
has cast a shadow over Mr. Trump’s first year in office —
even as he and his aides repeatedly played down the
Russian efforts and falsely denied campaign contacts with
Russians.
They have also insisted that Mr. Papadopoulos was a low-
level figure. But spies frequently target peripheral players
as a way to gain insight and leverage.
F.B.I. officials disagreed in 2016 about how aggressively
and publicly to pursue the Russia inquiry before the
election. But there was little debate about what seemed to
be afoot. John O. Brennan, who retired this year after four
years as C.I.A. director, told Congress in May that he had
been concerned about multiple contacts between Russian
officials and Trump advisers.
Russia, he said, had tried to “suborn” members of the
Trump campaign.
‘The Signal to Meet’
Mr. Papadopoulos, then an ambitious 28-year-old from
Chicago, was working as an energy consultant in London
when the Trump campaign, desperate to create a foreign
policy team, named him as an adviser in early March 2016.
His political experience was limited to two months on Ben
Carson’s presidential campaign before it collapsed.
Mr. Papadopoulos had no experience on Russia issues. But
during his job interview with Sam Clovis, a top early
campaign aide, he saw an opening. He was told that
improving relations with Russia was one of Mr. Trump’s
top foreign policy goals, according to court papers, an
account Mr. Clovis has denied.
Traveling in Italy that March, Mr. Papadopoulos met
Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor at a now-defunct
London academy who had valuable contacts with the
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mifsud showed
little interest in Mr. Papadopoulos at first.
But when he found out he was a Trump campaign adviser,
he latched onto him, according to court records and emails
obtained by The New York Times. Their joint goal was to
arrange a meeting between Mr. Trump and President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow, or between their
respective aides.
Sam Clovis, a former co-chairman of Mr. Trump’s presidential
campaign, denies that he told Mr. Papadopoulos that improving
relations with Russia was one of Mr. Trump’s top foreign policy goals
during Mr. Papadopoulos’s interview for a job with the campaign.
Credit Win Mcnamee/Getty Images
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In response to questions, Mr. Papadopoulos’s lawyers
declined to provide a statement.
Before the end of the month, Mr. Mifsud had arranged a
meeting at a London cafe between Mr. Papadopoulos and
Olga Polonskaya, a young woman from St. Petersburg
whom he falsely described as Mr. Putin’s niece. Although
Ms. Polonskaya told The Times in a text message that her
English skills are poor, her emails to Mr. Papadopoulos
were largely fluent. “We are all very excited by the
possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump,” Ms.
Polonskaya wrote in one message.
More important, Mr. Mifsud connected Mr. Papadopoulos
to Ivan Timofeev, a program director for the prestigious
Valdai Discussion Club, a gathering of academics that
meets annually with Mr. Putin. The two men corresponded
for months about how to connect the Russian government
and the campaign. Records suggest that Mr. Timofeev,
who has been described by Mr. Mueller’s team as an
intermediary for the Russian Foreign Ministry, discussed
the matter with the ministry’s former leader, Igor S.
Ivanov, who is widely viewed in the United States as one
of Russia’s elder statesmen.
When Mr. Trump’s foreign policy team gathered for the
first time at the end of March in Washington, Mr.
Papadopoulos said he had the contacts to set up a meeting
between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin. Mr. Trump listened
intently but apparently deferred to Jeff Sessions, then a
senator from Alabama and head of the campaign’s foreign
policy team, according to participants in the meeting.
Mr. Sessions, now the attorney general, initially did not
reveal that discussion to Congress, because, he has said, he
did not recall it. More recently, he said he pushed back
against Mr. Papadopoulos’s proposal, at least partly
because he did not want someone so unqualified to
represent the campaign on such a sensitive matter.
If the campaign wanted Mr. Papadopoulos to stand down,
previously undisclosed emails obtained by The Times
show that he either did not get the message or failed to
heed it. He continued for months to try to arrange some
kind of meeting with Russian representatives, keeping
senior campaign advisers abreast of his efforts. Mr. Clovis
ultimately encouraged him and another foreign policy
adviser to travel to Moscow, but neither went because the
campaign would not cover the cost.
Mr. Papadopoulos was trusted enough to edit the outline of
Mr. Trump’s first major foreign policy speech on April 27,
an address in which the candidate said it was possible to
improve relations with Russia. Mr. Papadopoulos flagged
the speech to his newfound Russia contacts, telling Mr.
Timofeev that it should be taken as “the signal to meet.”
 “That is a statesman speech,” Mr. Mifsud with an Israeli Embassy official who introduced Mr.
agreed. Ms. Polonskaya wrote that she was Papadopoulos to another Australian diplomat in London.
pleased that Mr. Trump’s “position toward
Russia is much softer” than that of other It is also not clear why, after getting the information in
candidates. May, the Australian government waited two months to
pass it to the F.B.I. In a statement, the Australian Embassy
Stephen Miller, then a senior policy adviser to the in Washington declined to provide details about the
campaign and now a top White House aide, was eager for meeting or confirm that it occurred.
Mr. Papadopoulos to serve as a surrogate, someone who
could publicize Mr. Trump’s foreign policy views without “As a matter of principle and practice, the
officially speaking for the campaign. But Mr. Australian government does not comment on
Papadopoulos’s first public attempt to do so was a disaster. matters relevant to active investigations,” the
statement said. The F.B.I. declined to comment.
In a May 4, 2016, interview with The Times of London,
Mr. Papadopoulos called on Prime Minister David
Cameron to apologize to Mr. Trump for criticizing his
remarks on Muslims as “stupid” and divisive. “Say sorry
to Trump or risk special relationship, Cameron told,” the
headline read. Mr. Clovis, the national campaign co-
chairman, severely reprimanded Mr. Papadopoulos for
failing to clear his explosive comments with the campaign
in advance.

From then on, Mr. Papadopoulos was more careful with

the press — though he never regained the full trust of Mr.
Clovis or several other campaign officials.

Mr. Mifsud proposed to Mr. Papadopoulos that he, too,
serve as a campaign surrogate. He could write op-eds
under the guise of a “neutral” observer, he wrote in a
previously undisclosed email, and follow Mr. Trump to his
rallies as an accredited journalist while receiving briefings
from the inside the campaign.
In late April, at a London hotel, Mr. Mifsud told Mr.
Papadopoulos that he had just learned from high-level
Russian officials in Moscow that the Russians had “dirt”
on Mrs. Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,”
according to court documents. Although Russian hackers
had been mining data from the Democratic National
Committee’s computers for months, that information was
not yet public. Even the committee itself did not know.
Whether Mr. Papadopoulos shared that information with
anyone else in the campaign is one of many unanswered
questions. He was mostly in contact with the campaign
over emails. The day after Mr. Mifsud’s revelation about
the hacked emails, he told Mr. Miller in an email only that
he had “interesting messages coming in from Moscow”
about a possible trip. The emails obtained by The Times
show no evidence that Mr. Papadopoulos discussed the
stolen messages with the campaign.
Not long after, however, he opened up to Mr. Downer, the
Australian diplomat, about his contacts with the Russians.
It is unclear whether Mr. Downer was fishing for that
information that night in May 2016. The meeting at the bar
came about because of a series of connections, beginning
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A House Judiciary Committee session last month at which Attorney
General Jeff Sessions testified. Mr. Sessions was head of the Trump
campaign’s foreign policy team. Credit Al Drago for The New York
Times
A Secretive Investigation
Once the information Mr. Papadopoulos had disclosed to
the Australian diplomat reached the F.B.I., the bureau
opened an investigation that became one of its most
closely guarded secrets. Senior agents did not discuss it at
the daily morning briefing, a classified setting where
officials normally speak freely about highly sensitive
operations.
Besides the information from the Australians, the
investigation was also propelled by intelligence from other
friendly governments, including the British and Dutch. A
trip to Moscow by another adviser, Carter Page, also raised
concerns at the F.B.I.
With so many strands coming in — about Mr.
Papadopoulos, Mr. Page, the hackers and more — F.B.I.
agents debated how aggressively to investigate the
campaign’s Russia ties, according to current and former
officials familiar with the debate. Issuing subpoenas or
questioning people, for example, could cause the
investigation to burst into public view in the final months
of a presidential campaign.
It could also tip off the Russian government, which might
try to cover its tracks. Some officials argued against taking
such disruptive steps, especially since the F.B.I. would not
be able to unravel the case before the election.
Others believed that the possibility of a compromised
presidential campaign was so serious that it warranted the
most thorough, aggressive tactics. Even if the odds against
a Trump presidency were long, these agents argued, it was
prudent to take every precaution.
That included questioning Christopher Steele, the former
British spy who was compiling the dossier alleging a far-
ranging Russian conspiracy to elect Mr. Trump. A team of
F.B.I. agents traveled to Europe to interview Mr. Steele in
early October 2016. Mr. Steele had shown some of his
findings to an F.B.I. agent in Rome three months earlier,
but that information was not part of the justification to start
an counterintelligence inquiry, American officials said.
Ultimately, the F.B.I. and Justice Department decided to
keep the investigation quiet, a decision that Democrats in
particular have criticized. And agents did not interview
Mr. Papadopoulos until late January.
Opening Doors, to the Top
He was hardly central to the daily running of the Trump
campaign, yet Mr. Papadopoulos continuously found ways
to make himself useful to senior Trump advisers. In
September 2016, with the United Nations General
Assembly approaching and stories circulating that Mrs.
Clinton was going to meet with Mr. Sisi, the Egyptian
president, Mr. Papadopoulos sent a message to Stephen K.
Bannon, the campaign’s chief executive, offering to broker
a similar meeting for Mr. Trump.
After days of scheduling discussions, the meeting was set
and Mr. Papadopoulos sent a list of talking points to Mr.
Bannon, according to people familiar with those
interactions. Asked about his contacts with Mr.
Papadopoulos, Mr. Bannon declined to comment.
Mr. Trump’s improbable victory raised Mr.
Papadopoulos’s hopes that he might ascend to a top White
House job. The election win also prompted a business
proposal from Sergei Millian, a naturalized American
citizen born in Belarus. After he had contacted Mr.
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Papadopoulos out of the blue over LinkedIn during the
summer of 2016, the two met repeatedly in Manhattan.
Mr. Millian has bragged of his ties to Mr. Trump — boasts
that the president’s advisers have said are overstated. He
headed an obscure organization called the Russian-
American Chamber of Commerce, some of whose board
members and clients are difficult to confirm. Congress is
investigating where he fits into the swirl of contacts with
the Trump campaign, although he has said he is unfairly
being scrutinized only because of his support for Mr.
Trump.
Mr. Millian proposed that he and Mr. Papadopoulos form
an energy-related business that would be financed by
Russian billionaires “who are not under sanctions” and
would “open all doors for us” at “any level all the way to
the top.”
One billionaire, he said, wanted to explore the idea of
opening a Trump-branded hotel in Moscow.
“I know the president will distance himself from
business, but his children might be interested,”
he wrote.
Nothing came of his proposals, partly because Mr.
Papadopoulos was hoping that Michael T. Flynn, then Mr.
Trump’s pick to be national security adviser, might give
him the energy portfolio at the National Security Council.
The pair exchanged New Year’s greetings in the final
hours of 2016.
“Happy New Year, sir,” Mr. Papadopoulos
wrote.
“Thank you and same to you, George. Happy
New Year!” Mr. Flynn responded, ahead of a
year that seemed to hold great promise.
But 2017 did not unfold that way. Within months, Mr.
Flynn was fired, and both men were charged with lying to
the F.B.I. And both became important witnesses in the
investigation Mr. Papadopoulos had played a critical role
in starting.
 Midas Touch: Trump’s DC Hotel
Was Supposed To LOSE Money, But…
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 31, 2017

“Even the critics of the Washington property As reported by The Daily Caller, there have been frequent
acknowledged that it actually turned out better protests at the hotel as well, which should have further
than maybe expected” dampened profits.

But the hotel, which is a refurbishment and reconstruction

of an old Post Office close to the White House, has
become a hot gathering spot for Trump supporters, fans,
tourists, and conservative groups.

Axios noted that the hotel was expected to lose $2 million

in its first year, but instead it has produced nearly the same
amount in profits. One potential reason is that room rates
were increased following Trump’s inauguration.

(National Sentinel) Great, Still: When then-GOP

“Even the critics of the Washington property
candidate Donald J. Trump opened Trump International
acknowledged that it actually turned out better
Hotel in Washington., D.C. — “on time and under
than maybe expected — one of the better of the
budget,” he said last year — it wasn’t slated to turn a profit
Trump properties, if not among the best,” Bjorn
for perhaps as much as two years.
Hanson, a professor of tourism and hospitality
at New York University, told The Daily Beast.
But instead, the property has raked in a tidy $2 million in
just four months’ time, surprising most observers who note
such luxury properties take a long time to become viable.

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 The Probe With NO END: Mueller’s ‘Collusion’
Investigation Will Last WELL INTO 2018
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 31, 2017

“It’s time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut up”
But, as critics of the probe note, none of the indictments
have had anything at all to do with alleged collusion
between the president’s campaign and the Russian
government, which was the original mandate of the special
counsel.

The lack of evidence after more than a year of

investigating those allegations — by congressional
committees, the FBI, and Mueller’s special counsel — is
frustrating some members of Congress.

“It’s time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut up. If

(National Sentinel) Witch Hunt: Special counsel Robert there’s evidence of collusion, let’s see it,”
Mueller’s probe into alleged collusion between the Trump Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, a member of the
campaign and Russia is expected to extend well into next House Judiciary Committee, said in an interview
year, according to sources familiar with the investigation. on Fox News earlier this month.

As reported by ABC News, despite predictions by lawyers “If there’s not, let’s move on as a country and
for President Donald J. Trump that Mueller’s probe will let’s institute reforms at the FBI so that an
wrap up sooner rather than later, sources believe that isn’t egomaniac FBI director like James Comey
the case at all. cannot depart from the normal standard
procedures that guarantees all Americans equal
“Most notably, the federal grand jury in treatment under the law,” he continued.
Washington that has already indicted two key
Trump associates is continuing to meet and Trump and others have complained that the ongoing
hear more evidence from prosecutors,” the Russia collusion probe is harming the administration’s
network reported. ability to improve relations with a strategic, nuclear-armed
great power.
“The grand jurors’ identities are unknown, but
their faces are recognizable to the reporters and
producers who have been standing inside the
courthouse each week. Just a week ago, one of
Mueller’s top prosecutors, Jeannie Rhee, was
spotted at the courthouse by ABC News,” the
report continued.

Special counsel grand juries often last up to 18 months and

can be extended further in six-month increments if
necessary.

Former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former

campaign manager Paul Manafort, and campaign associate
George Papadopoulos have all been indicted by Mueller.

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Cops LOVE Trump: Law Enforcement Leaders Say Prez’s
Support For Thin Blue Line Is SAVING Police Lives
By JD Heyes
Sunday, December 31, 2017
For eight long years, police officers around the country
suffered through one indignity after another under
President Obama and his cop-hating Justice Department.
The disrespect began within weeks of Obama taking
office, when he took the side of a black friend and
colleague, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, over the
word of a white police sergeant. It was the first time, as
president, that Obama played the race card.
“I don’t know – not having been there and not
seeing all the facts – what role race played in
that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any
of us would be pretty angry; number two that
the Cambridge police acted stupidly in
arresting somebody when there was already
proof that they were in their own home,” Obama
pontificated.
As if that weren’t bad enough, Obama added this
unsubstantiated claim:
“Separate and apart from this incident is that
there’s a long history in this country of African-
American and Latinos being stopped by law
enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a
fact.”
From there it only got worse. By the time Obama left
office, he had — through his attorneys general Eric Holder
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and Loretta Lynch — implemented policies that amounted
to a federal takeover of local police departments, and all
based on the manufactured premise that ‘local cops’ were
inherently biased/bigoted/racists. (Related: Has “ethical
policing” become an oxymoron? Maybe it’s time to hit
the reset button with these 9 principles from the 1800s.)
Worse, 90 percent of American police officers didn’t even
feel safe.
Now, however, there’s a new president living at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave., and he’s made it plain that he is an ally
of the men and women who form the thin blue line:
Donald J. Trump.
As reported by the Washington Times:
Top law enforcement leaders say they have had
no bigger advocate this year than President
Trump, and they are hopeful he has set the
stage for fewer dangerous confrontations
between officers and the public, better-
equipped departments and, ultimately,
reductions in crime.
Indeed, the paper noted, “early signs” are very positive.
For one, officer deaths are down this year, which includes
fatal shootings of cops. Also, early reports from major
cities point to reductions in crime increases that have been
reported in the past two years.
While police officials say they are still concerned about
how to handle the ongoing opioid epidemic and how to
balance the administration’s policies of universal
enforcement of federal immigration statutes without
alienating immigrant communities, they are hopeful that a
Trump presidency overall will be good for local law
enforcement.
Even as he has offered some criticism for federal law
enforcement and some within the intelligence community,
Trump has generally praised the work of local police, and
they have noticed. The morale boost was much needed and
appreciated.
 “Arguably the most significant thing a president
can do is use the bully pulpit to reflect his
support for law enforcement,” National Fraternal
Order of Police Executive Director Jim Pasco
told the Times.
“To this point in his presidency, he has certainly
gone out of his way to do that. That resonates
within the profession, and it’s received very
favorably,” he added.
Police officials say one of the biggest positives so far is
Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ending of the
Obama-era policy of federalizing local police through
court-approved consent decrees, which were used to
politicize local police policies and bring them more in line
with Obama’s Left-wing views.
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“We were frustrated toward the end of the
Obama administration with the Justice
Department and some of their decisions with
regard to consent decrees and how they were
dealing with individual police departments they
are reviewing or investigating,” Chief Tom
Manger, head of the Montgomery County Police
Department in Maryland and president of the
Major Cities Chiefs Association, told the Times.
He added there was still some federal oversight, but it is
far less combative.
There are many things that Trump still must address as he
continues to undo the damage Barack Hussein Obama did
to our country. But as his improved relationship with
America’s police officers demonstrates, he is making good
progress already.
 Dem Rep Cohen: ‘Trump Is The Most Despicable Human
Being To Ever Reside At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave’
By Pam Key
31 Dec 2017
Sunday on MSNBC while defending his tweet about
President Donald Trump, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said
Trump was the “most despicable human being to ever
reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
He golfs when he could be reading or be in
church or be with his family. Never see him
with Barron. You’d think he’d be golfing
with Dad occasionally but narcissists only
engage in activities where they are the
show. No movies, sports viewing either just
Fox! He will start a war!
https://t.co/RFuJksiQyk
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— Steve Cohen (@RepCohen) December
31, 2017
He continued,
“A narcissistic sociopath doesn’t change. It
endangers the country and war like wag
the dog is something he could get into to
improve the ratings for the ’18 elections
where they are in desperate shape. They’ll
do anything to improve ratings.”
He added,
“I think you have to show, and I hope I can
show, what type of person he is. He’s
never with his son. I think one of his ex-
wives wrote he never was with his children
until they were adults. This is an unusual
human being. Barron looks like a nice kid,
but he spends no quality time at all with his
father. He claims he has the Christian
evangelical support which is amazing
because he doesn’t go to church.”
 Ouch! James Comey Gets ZINGED After Ringing In New
Year With Not-So-Veiled Swipe At Trump
By Doug P.
Posted At 10:01 Pm On December 31, 2017

As you’re well aware, since he joined Twitter, former FBI LOL. Comey’s tweet had a distinct BACKFIRE feel to it.
Director James Comey has demonstrated an affinity for
subtweeting President Trump, and this New Year’s Eve is
no exception:

Comey really teed this one up nicely. Instapundit leads off

the zinging:

Ouch!

Yeahhh, well, maybe something like that.

That’s anybody’s guess.

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 Bernstein: Trump Trying To
Undermine Media's Credibility
Says Broad Attacks On Press Are To Detriment Of Country
By Pam Key
31 Dec 2017
attempting to “undermine the credibility of the press as a
national institution.”

Bernstein said, “Nixon and Watergate tried to make the

conduct of the press the issue instead of the conduct of the
president and the men around him. Donald Trump has
gone even farther. He’s tried to undermine the credibility
of the press as a national institution to the detriment of the
country by these broad attacks on the press.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” veteran journalist

Carl Bernstein said President Donald Trump was
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 House Permanent Select Committee Intel Chair Devin
Nunes Goes After DOJ And FBI For Not Producing
Subpoenaed Documents Or Witnesses
By Shepard Ambellas -
December 31, 2017

“promptly produce to the committee — no later

than January 3, 2017 — All outstanding records
identified as responsive to the August 24
subpoenas.”

Additionally, Nunes has requested that by the

same deadline the following officials must
confirm interview, sometime in January:

 Former DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce

Ohr;
Featured Image: Screen capture CNN/YouTube
 FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Peter Strzok;
‘This behavior that can no longer be  FBI Attorney James Baker;
tolerated’  FBI Attorney Lisa Page;
 FBI Attorney Sally Moyer and;
 FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg
WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) — House Permanent Brower
Select Committee Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes sent
a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Friday
The chairman also made clear that all of this is “part of a
in response to The Department of Justice and Federal
broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be
Bureau of Investigation’s “failure to produce” key
tolerated.”
documents and witnesses that were subpoenaed over four
months ago which relate to the Trump/Steele dossier.

Chairman Nunes is extremely frustrated with the way

things are being handled in the D.C. swamp and has
instructed the DOJ and FBI

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 Tissue? President Trump’s New Years Wishes For ‘Even
The Fake Media’ Triggers Whiners GALORE
By Sam J.
Posted At 6:13 Pm On December 31, 2017

President Trump wished his friends, supporters, enemies,

haters and even the very dishonest fake news media a
Happy New Year …

Oops, ‘scuse us, we just threw up in our mouths a little.

Which of course triggered the biggest batch of stupid
we’ve seen in a long while:

Russia! Bots! ELEVENTY!

2017 will surely go down as the dumbest year, yet.
How festive.

Someone needs a nap. Good luck with that, tater.

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 For goodness sake. Wow, things just got real up in here.

Just a thought, maybe if people stopped being so outraged

by these tweets he’d send less of them?
How rude.
But hey, what do we know?

No one really believes your MOM.

Despicable. Disgrace.
Wait, that doesn’t work.
Pretty sure that means Trump’s tweet did EXACTLY
what he wanted it to, then. Our bad.

Because Obama worked SO HARD to unify us all, right? *you’re*

What did he say about bringing a knife to a gunfight?
Man, Twitter will verify anybody.

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Tissue?

Objectively.
That’s hilarious.
Who is this guy again?
Say what you will about the president, but the man
KNOWS how to get a reaction.
Happy New Year, Mr. President.

Damn, these people are so mean.

Ha!
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 Former Joint Chiefs Chair Says He Hopes TRUMP Backs
Iranian Protestors More Than OBAMA Did
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 1, 2018

“We chose to not be as supportive as we could “We chose to not be as supportive as we could
have been then” have been then,” Mullen said. “And I hope we
can be right now so that Iran can continue to
evolve. They have an incredibly young
population. They look to a future that they
cannot see. They’ve been promised change
and a healthier economy.

“Protests represent the inability to deliver that

so far. I think support of them seems …
absolutely the right thing to do,” he added.

As the protests picked up steam over the weekend, Trump

(National Sentinel) Revolutionary: Former chairman of tweeted out his support for them, adding that the “U.S. is
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has said he watching” for any human rights abuses.
hopes that President Donald J. Trump lends more support
to Iranians currently protesting the authoritarian theocratic
regime than his former boss, President Barack Obama, did. Led primarily by college students, security forces for the
Iranian government have already killed two protesters
while officials have shut down social media networks that
Mullen said on ABC’s “This Week” that Obama should have helped facilitate the spread of the protests to cities
have backed Iranian protesters in 2009 more than he did. around the country, the Washington Examiner reported.
Now that protests are once again roiling the country,
Trump should throw his support behind them, he said.
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 David Brock And Clinton Pal Funneled
$700K To Fund Trump Sexual Harassment Accusers
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/01/2018 - 17:50
Weeks after The Hill revealed a $750,000 scheme by
California woman's rights attorney Lisa Bloom to
compensate women accusing Donald Trump of sexual
misconduct - one of whom had her mortgage paid off after
Trump ignored her pleas to become his makeup-artist
during the campaign - the New York Times claims in a
bombshell report that DNC operative and Media Matters
founder David Brock, along with major Hillary Clinton
friend and donor, Susie Tompkins Buell,
steered $700,000 towards Bloom's efforts to
smear Trump with sexual misconduct claims
right before the 2016 election.
(left) Jill Harth, Lisa Bloom and Gloria Allred, Katie Johnson (right)
David Brock
As the NYT notes, several donors reached out to Ms.
Bloom “asking how they could help."
She told them that she was working with “a
few other women” who might "find the
courage to speak out" against Mr. Trump if
the donors would provide funds for security,
relocation and possibly a safe house."
Ms. Bloom would not identify the donors.
But two Democrats familiar with the
arrangements said a nonprofit group
founded by Mr. Brock, American Bridge 21st
Century Foundation, gave $200,000, while
the fashion entrepreneur Susie Tompkins
Buell, a major donor to Mr. Brock’s suite of
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groups, gave $500,000 to Ms. Bloom’s firm for
the last-ditch effort.
Democrats familiar with the financial arrangements told
the NYT that Bloom's firm kept the money from
Brock's American Bridge, while refunding the money from
Buell - a longtime friend
and financial supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Of note, Brock previously sat on the board of Hillary
Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action, and his group
"Correct the Record" sunk over $1 million into a digital
task force called "Barrier Breakers 2016," which had a
mandate to
"engage in online messaging for both
Secretary Clinton and to push back against
attackers on social media (The Atlantic)."
Meanwhile, Brock's Correct The Record defended
coordinating with the Clinton campaign and contributing
$6 million to fund Hillary.
"Correct the Record is a $6 million Washington
D.C.-based political committee that spends
millions on opposition research, message
development, surrogate training and booking,
professional video production, and press
outreach for the benefit of the Clinton
campaign—and by its own admission, does so
in full coordination with the Clinton campaign,"
the Campaign Legal Center said in the
complaint. -Free Beacon
The Trump accusers include makeup-artist Jill Harth and
Katie Johnson. Harth - who allowed a Lisa Bloom donor to
pay off her mortgage before she accused President Trump
of sexual assault,
approached the Trump campaign about
doing Donald Trump's makeup,
was rejected, and later cropped up as an accuser shortly
before the 2016 election. Another Trump accuser, Katie
Johnson fabricated a story of Trump raping her when she
was 13 at one of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's
notorious 'sex parties.' Johnson, another client of Lisa Brock claimed in legal papers that he sold a Rehoboth
Bloom, withdrew her case against Trump days before the Beach, Del., home he once shared with Grey in order to
election, while the Daily Mail reported that she made it all meet Grey’s demands, which he called "blackmail" in the
up. lawsuit. -Fox News

Brock is no stranger to meddling in Trump's affairs to try
and influence the 2016 election - having spearheaded an
army of Correct the Record "nerd virgins" who were
"crammed into a newsroom-style bullpen in the back
corner of the offices of American Bridge 21st Century" to
attack then-candidate Donald Trump while vehemently
defending Hillary Clinton. Various Brock-linked anti-
Trump groups Media Matters, ShareBlue, American
Bridge and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW)
set a $40 million budget to fight Trump at
the beginning of 2017.
Brock is also no stranger to funneling money to
people - once having paid $850,000 to a
former domestic partner of over 10 years
after he began dating D.C. pizza restaurant
impresario James Alefantis.
Ironically, Brock used to be a GOP political operative -
having spearheaded 1993 sexual harassment allegations
against President Bill Clinton by former Arkansas
employee,
Paula Jones - who was paid $850,000 by the
Clintons to drop her lawsuit.
So just to be clear, Clinton operative David Brock and
Hillary Clinton pal Susie Tompkins Buell steered
$700,000 into a scheme to compensate Trump accusers
right before the 2016 election. Which is yet another answer
to the recurring question of just who tried to influence the
election.

Brock's scorned partner, William Grey, threatened to

expose damaging information involving Media
Matters donors.

In an acrimonious lawsuit settled at the end of last year,

Brock accused William Grey of making

repeated threats to expose him to the "scorn
or ridicule of his employees, donors and the
press in demanding money and property."
James Alefantis and David Brock (darrellsees.com)
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 As The Dossier Scandal Looms,
The New York Times Struggles To Save Its Collusion Tale
By Andrew C. McCarthy
January 1, 2018 5:28 PM
A Secret Service agent stands nearby as Donald Trump speaks at a
campaign stop in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 2016. (Reuters photo:
Eduardo Munoz)
The totality of the evidence undermines the Times’
collusion narrative. ‘ Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow
Got the F.B.I.’s Attention.” That was the page-one
headline the New York Times ran on April 20, 2017, above
its breathless report that “a catalyst for the F.B.I.
investigation into connections between Russia and
President Trump’s campaign” was a June 2016 visit to
Moscow by Carter Page.
It was due to the Moscow trip by Page, dubbed a “foreign
policy adviser” to the campaign, that “the F.B.I. obtained a
warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court”
in September — i.e., during the stretch run of the
presidential campaign.
You’re to be forgiven if you’re feeling dizzy. It may not be
too much New Year’s reverie; it may be that you’re reeling
over the Times’ holiday-weekend volte-face: “How the
Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk
of Political Dirt.”
Seven months after throwing Carter Page as fuel on the
collusion fire lit by then-FBI director James Comey’s
stunning public disclosure that the Bureau was
investigating possible Trump campaign “coordination” in
Russia’s election meddling, the Gray Lady now says:
Never mind. We’re onto Collusion 2.0, in which it is
George Papadopoulos — then a 28-year-old whose idea of
résumé enhancement was to feign participation in the
Model U.N. — who triggered the FBI’s massive probe by .
. . wait for it . . . a night of boozy blather in London.
What’s going on here?
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Well, it turns out the Page angle and thus the collusion
narrative itself is beset by an Obama-administration
scandal: Slowly but surely, it has emerged that the Justice
Department and FBI very likely targeted Page because of
the Steele dossier, a Clinton-campaign opposition-research
screed disguised as intelligence reporting. Increasingly, it
appears that the Bureau failed to verify Steele’s allegations
before the DOJ used some of them to bolster an
application for a spying warrant from the FISA court (i.e.,
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court).
Thanks to the persistence of the House Intelligence
Committee led by Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the
dossier story won’t go away. Thus, Democrats and their
media friends have been moving the goal posts in an effort
to save their collusion narrative. First, we were led to
believe the dossier was no big deal because the FBI would
surely have corroborated any information before the DOJ
fed it to a federal judge in a warrant application. Then,
when the Clinton campaign’s role in commissioning the
dossier came to light, we were told it was impertinent to
ask about what the FBI did, if anything, to corroborate it
since this could imperil intelligence methods and sources
— and, besides, such questions were just a distraction from
the all-important Mueller investigation (which the dossier
had a hand in instigating and which, to date, has turned up
no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy).
Lately, the story has morphed into this: Well, even if the
dossier was used, it was only used a little — there simply
must have been lots of other evidence that Trump was in
cahoots with Putin. But that’s not going to fly: Putting
aside the dearth of collusion evidence after well over a
year of aggressive investigation, the dossier is partisan
propaganda. If it was not adequately corroborated by the
FBI, and if the Justice Department, without disclosing its
provenance to the court, nevertheless relied on any part of
it in a FISA application, that is a major problem.
So now, a new strategy to prop up the collusion tale: Never
mind Page — lookee over here at Papadopoulos!
But that’s not what they were saying in April, when the
collusion narrative and Democratic calls for a special
prosecutor were in full bloom.
Back then, no fewer than six of the Times’ top reporters,
along with a researcher, worked their anonymous “current
and former law enforcement and intelligence officials” in
order to generate the Page blockbuster. With these leaks,
the paper confidently reported: “From the Russia trip of
the once-obscure Mr. Page grew a wide-ranging
investigation, now accompanied by two congressional
inquiries, that has cast a shadow over the early months of
the Trump administration” [emphasis added].
Oh sure, the Times acknowledged that there might have
been a couple of other factors involved. “Paul Manafort,
then [i.e., during Page’s trip] Mr. Trump’s campaign
manager, was already under criminal investigation in
connection with payments from a pro-Russian political
party in Ukraine.” And “WikiLeaks and two websites later
identified as Russian intelligence fronts had begun
releasing emails obtained when Democratic Party servers
were hacked.”
But the trigger for the investigation — the “catalyst” —
was Page.
Somehow, despite all that journalistic leg-work and all
those insider sources, the name George Papadopoulos does
not appear in the Times’ story.
Now, however, we’re supposed to forget about Page.
According to the new bombshell dropped on New Year’s
Eve by six Times reporters, it was “the hacking” coupled
with “the revelation that a member of the Trump
campaign” — Papadopoulos — “may have had inside
information about it” that were “driving factors that led the
F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s
attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of
President Trump’s associates conspired.”
It seems like only yesterday — or, to be more precise, only
late October, when he pled guilty to a count of lying to the
FBI in the Mueller probe — that Mr. Papadopoulos was
even more obscure than the “once-obscure Mr. Page.”
Now, though, he has been elevated to “the improbable
match that set off a blaze that has consumed the first year
of the Trump administration.”
But hey, if you’re willing to hang in there through the first
36 paragraphs of the Times’ nearly 3,000-word
Papadopoulos report, you’ll find the fleeting observation
that “A trip to Moscow by another adviser, Carter Page,
also raised concerns at the F.B.I.”
You don’t say!
Page and the Dossier Problem Again, until this weekend,
Page was the eye of the collusion storm. And as I outlined
in a column last weekend, a significant part of what got the
FBI and the Obama Justice Department stirred up about
Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow was the Steele dossier —
the anti-Trump reports compiled by former British spy
Christopher Steele. Alas, six months after the Times’
planted its feet on Page as the linchpin of the Trump-
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Russia investigation, we learned that the dossier was
actually an opposition-research project paid for by the
Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee. We further learned that at Fusion GPS, the
research firm that retained Steele for the project, Steele
collaborated on it with Nellie Ohr, the wife of top Justice
Department official Bruce Ohr — and that Bruce Ohr had
personally been briefed on the project by Steele and a
Fusion GPS executive.
It is an explosive problem, this use of the dossier by the
Obama Justice Department and the FBI in an application to
the FISA court for authority to spy on Trump’s associates.
Politically, it suggests that the collusion narrative peddled
by Democrats and the media since Trump’s victory in the
November election was substantially driven by partisan
propaganda. Legally, it raises the distinct possibilities that
(a) the FBI did not adequately verify the claims in the
dossier before using them in an application to the secret
federal court; and (b) the Justice Department of the then-
incumbent Democratic administration did not disclose to
the court that the dossier was produced by the Democratic
presidential campaign for use against the rival Republican
candidate.
When it emerged in October that the dossier was a
Democratic-party campaign product, Representative Trey
Gowdy (R., S.C.) recounted that, for months, the Justice
Department and FBI had stonewalled House demands that
they fess up about whether dossier allegations were used in
applying for the FISA-court warrant to surveil Page. But
though the DOJ and the Bureau have struggled to lock the
barn, the horse left long ago. Shortly before the Times ran
its Page extravaganza last April, CNN confirmed that the
dossier had indeed been used to obtain the FISA warrant
— the network relying on unnamed “US officials briefed
on the [Russia] investigation.”
I won’t hazard a guess on which of CNN’s anonymous
sources are also the Times’ anonymous sources. But it is
safe to say the intelligence community, still suffused with
Obama holdovers, has been undone by its own illegal
leaking. Back in April, they leaked because they figured it
would wound President Trump: After all, if the dossier had
been used to obtain a FISA warrant, that must mean that
the dossier’s sensational allegations of a traitorous Trump-
Russia conspiracy were true. That is, the leakers assumed,
just as many of us familiar with the FISA process assumed,
that the Justice Department would never put information in
a FISA warrant application unless the FBI had first
corroborated it.
Subsequently, however, former FBI director James Comey
told a Senate committee that the dossier remained
“salacious and unverified.” Obviously, if the FBI had not
verified the dossier by the time Comey testified in June
2017, then the Bureau cannot possibly have verified the
dossier when DOJ sought the FISA warrant nine months
earlier, in September 2016.
Then in October, it emerged that the Clinton campaign
paid for the dossier. More recently, we learned that anti-
Trump bias ran rampant in the upper ranks of the Bureau
and the Justice Department — to the point that a top FBI
counterintelligence agent spoke of the Bureau’s need for
an “insurance policy” against the risk of a Trump
presidency. Right before Christmas, reporting from Fox
News strongly suggested that the FBI, though apparently
aware that the dossier was a partisan campaign project, had
verified none of its sensational claims. Finally, in a Fox
News interview on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R.,
S.C.), who has inspected relevant classified documents,
indicated that the Justice Department used the dossier in its
application without disclosing its partisan political genesis
to the FISA court (see Paul Mirengoff’s Powerline post
with embedded video).
All of this comes back to Carter Page, heretofore the
anchor of the media’s collusion narrative. The link
between Page and the dossier is manifest. As I outlined in
last weekend’s column, the FBI began receiving the
dossier’s explosive reports shortly after Page’s Russia trip.
Steele’s reports, based on anonymous Russian sources,
alleged that (a) there was an explicit Trump-Russia
conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election, (b) the
conspiracy included Russian hacking of Democratic email
accounts in which Trump campaign officials, including
Page, were complicit, and (c) Page met with two top
Kremlin operatives on the Moscow trip — operatives who
discussed with him a quid pro quo arrangement to drop
sanctions against Russia, floated the possibility of
providing the Trump campaign with “kompromat”
(compromising information) on Hillary Clinton, and
warned that Trump better be careful because the Putin
regime had a kompromat file on him, too.
It has become increasingly clear that Steele’s claims about
Page are, at best, highly dubious; more likely, they are
untrue. Aside from the fact that Comey has been
dismissive of the dossier as “unverified,” Page has
vigorously and plausibly denied its allegations about him.
The Annapolis grad and former naval-intelligence officer
insists he is not even acquainted with the Russian officials
with whom he supposedly had traitorous meetings.
Moreover, if the Russian regime truly wanted to make
insidious proposals to Trump, it had emissaries far better
positioned to approach him; it strains credulity to believe
the Kremlin would turn to Page — barely known to Trump
and, years earlier, derided as an “idiot” by a Russian
intelligence operative who tried to recruit him.
Papadopoulos and the New ‘Russian Reset’
So now, with the Page foundation of the collusion
narrative collapsing, and with the heat on over the Obama
administration’s use of the dossier, it is apparently
Papadopoulos to the rescue.
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In the Times’ new version of events, it was not the dossier
that “so alarmed American officials to provoke the F.B.I.
to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump
campaign months before the presidential election.” That,
according to the Times, is a false claim that “Mr. Trump
and other politicians have alleged.” Somehow, the paper
omits the inconvenient details that it was the Times that
led the charge in claiming that it was Page’s trip to
Moscow that provoked the investigation, and that it was
the dossier that so alarmed the FBI about that trip.
In what we might think of as the latest “Russian Reset,”
the Times now says the investigation was instigated by
“firsthand information from one of America’s closest
intelligence allies” — Australia. Turns out Papadopoulos
was out drinking in London with Alexander Downer,
“Australia’s top diplomat in Britain.” Tongue loosened, the
“young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign”
made a “startling revelation” to Downer: He had learned
that “Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
Because of the “Statement of the Offense” that Special
Counsel Mueller filed with the court when Papadopoulos
pled guilty, the Times and the rest of us now know that a
few weeks earlier (on April 26), Papadopoulos was told by
a Maltese academic who purported to have Kremlin ties
that Russia had “thousands of emails” that could damage
Hillary Clinton. We also know that in July, hacked
Democratic-party emails began being published.
With that established, we’re now told that when the emails
were leaked, Australian officials put two and two together,
figuring these emails might be what Papadopoulos was
talking about “that night at the Kensington Wine Room.”
The Aussies thus tipped off their American counterparts to
the barroom conversation between Papadopoulos and
Downer. That, not the dossier explicitly alleging a Trump-
Russia conspiracy, is what provoked the investigation. You
can take it to the bank. After all, the Times has gotten this
revisionist history from “four American and foreign
officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role” —
i.e., from the same sort of unidentified, unaccountable
sources that brought you the Page-centric version of events
that has now been discarded.
To say this story has holes in it does not do justice to the
craters on display. To begin with, the Times admits that
“exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said” to Downer “is
unclear.” What we are dealing with here is sheer
supposition. And, it appears, flawed supposition.
As I pointed out after Papadopoulos pled guilty, he was
told that the Russians had “emails of Clinton.” But the
hacked emails that were published were not Clinton’s
emails; they were those of the DNC and John Podesta —
exceedingly few of which Clinton was even included on,
much less participated in. Given the amount of
misinformation the credulous Papadopoulos was given
(one of his interlocutors falsely posed as Putin’s niece), the
likelihood is that he was being toyed with: Remember,
there was much speculation at the time, including by
Trump himself, that the Russians (and other foreign
intelligence services) might have hacked former secretary
Clinton’s unsecure private server and obtained the 30,000-
plus emails that she refused to surrender to the State
Department; it is probable that these were the emails
Papadopoulos’s dubious Russian connections purported to
be dangling.
There is no evidence that Papadopoulos or the Trump
campaign was ever shown or given any of the emails the
Kremlin purportedly had. The evidence, in fact,
undermines the collusion narrative: If the Trump campaign
had to learn, through Papadopoulos, that Russia
supposedly had thousands of emails damaging to Clinton,
that would necessarily mean the Trump campaign had
nothing to do with Russia’s acquisition of the emails. This,
no doubt, is why Mueller permitted Papadopoulos to plead
guilty to a mere process crime — lying in an FBI
interview. If there were evidence of an actual collusion
conspiracy, Papadopoulos would have been pressured to
admit guilt to it. He wasn’t.
Even a cursory FBI investigation of Papadopoulos would
have illustrated how implausible it was that he could have
.
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been integral to a Trump-Russia plot. Anonymous
intelligence and law-enforcement officials have been
leaking collusion information to the Times and other
media outlets since before Trump won the November 2016
election — that’s why we’ve spent the last year-plus
hearing all about Page, Manafort, Flynn, et al. If
Papadopoulos had really been the impetus for the
investigation way back in July 2016, what are the chances
that we would never have heard his name mentioned until
after his guilty plea was announced 15 months later? What
are the chances that we’d only now be learning that he was
the real stimulus for the investigation? I’d put it at less
than none.
There’s another interesting word that does not appear in
the Times’ extensive Papadopoulos report: surveillance.
Despite being “so alarmed” by young Papadopoulos’s
barroom braggadocio with the Australian diplomat, and his
claimed Russia connections, there is no indication that the
Obama Justice Department and FBI ever sought a FISA-
court warrant to spy on him.
No, the FISA warrant was sought for Carter Page, after his
trip to Moscow. The trip the Times used to say incited the
Trump-Russia probe.
 Trump: ‘No More’ Aid To Pakistan,
‘They Have Given Us Nothing But Lies And Deceit’
By John Hayward
1 Jan 2018
President Donald Trump lashed out at
Pakistan on Twitter just a few minutes past
7:00 a.m. Eastern time on New Year’s Day,
expressing frustration at Islamabad’s
inadequate efforts against terrorism and
implying that U.S. foreign aid will be
terminated as a result.
It is not yet clear whether the “no more” exclamation
means the complete or partial termination, or temporary
suspension, of American aid to Pakistan.
If the complete termination of U.S. foreign aid does indeed
become official policy, it would be a far more dramatic
step than withholding all or part of America’s $255 million
in military assistance to Pakistan, a measure reportedly
under consideration by the administration over the past
few days after Pakistan refused to allow U.S. interrogators
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access to a captured terrorist from the hostage-taking
Haqqani network.
In August, President Trump said the “next pillar”
of his strategy for battling terrorism would
involve a “change in our approach to Pakistan.”
Trump accused Pakistan of giving
“safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and
terror.”
“We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s
safe havens for terrorist organizations, the
Taliban and other groups that pose a threat to
the region and beyond,” the president said.
”These killers need to know they have nowhere
to hide – that no place is beyond the reach of
American arms.
The Trump administration withheld $50 million in military
aid to Pakistan over the summer because it felt Islamabad
was not doing enough to bring down the Taliban and the
Haqqani Network. There was some criticism at the time
that despite his strong complaints about Pakistan refusing
to help fight the Taliban or even actively colluding with it,
Trump was dealing more harshly with Egypt over human
rights violations by its government.
The Pakistani military rescued a Canadian-American
family held hostage for years by the Haqqanis in October.
Concerns have been raised that even this rescue might
have been the result of a deal between the Pakistanis and
the militant network, which has long been suspected of
enjoying special favors and protection from elements of
the Pakistani security apparatus. The prisoner Pakistan
refused to allow the United States to interview was tied to
the kidnapping of this Canadian-American family.
On Thursday, Pakistani military spokesman
Major-General Asif Ghafoor warned the United
States against taking “unilateral” military action
on its soil and denied his country was not doing
enough to fight the Taliban and its allies,
promising that the results of Pakistan’s
 counterterrorism operations would be “seen in “If there are any facilitators and abetters inside
subsequent years and months.” Pakistan that can only be addressed if the 2.7
million Afghan refugees are sent back to
After making this declaration, Ghafoor implied Pakistan Afghanistan,” he said.
could actually do more, once its concerns about Afghan
refugees are addressed.
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 Obama Elitist Hacks Get DESTROYED On Twitter After
Telling Trump To “Stay Quiet” On Iranian Protests
By Jim Hoft
January 1, 2018

As previously reported— After several days the protesters called out to President
Obama,
The Barack Obama administration actively
assisted the evil Khamenei Regime to crush “Obama, Obama, Are you with the regime or
the 2009 Green Rebellion with us?”

In 2009 tens of thousands of brave Iranian democracy But Obama did nothing — Instead he
protesters rose up against the brutal Khamenei regime after worked with the evil regime to quash the
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the rebellion.
winner in a disputed national election.
This past week protesters took to the streets again in Iran
to protest the evil, corrupt regime.
Barack Obama, Ambassador Susan Rice and former
Secretary of State John Kerry are telling President Trump
to be quiet.
The Iranians are furious with these latest comments from
Obama and his lackeys.

Today former Ambassador Susan Rice told

President Trump to “be quiet” on the Iranian
uprising.

Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand tore into

The protests quickly turned bloody when Iranian hardliners Rice.
started firing on the protesters.
One beautiful young protester was shot in the neck by the
regime.

Her name was Neda Soltani or Neda Agha Soltan — she was shot in the
neck during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. (AFP)

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. More…

And activist Imperator Rex tore into John

Kerry and Ben Rhodes after their pompous
tweets on the Iranian rebellion.

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 The Iranians have heard enough from
Barack Obama and his lackeys.

Obama – You be quiet!

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 Dem: Trump ‘Most Despicable
Human Being’ To Serve As President
The Tennessee Democrat Had Sponsored Five Articles Of
Impeachment Against Trump In November, Which Failed Miserably
By Brandon Carter
January 1, 2018

the ratings for the [2018] elections, where they

[Republicans] are in desperate shape.”

Cohen remarks followed a tweet Sunday in which he said

Trump could start a war.

The Tennessee Democrat, a fierce critic of Trump,

sponsored five articles of impeachment against Trump in
November.

Joined by five other House Democrats, Cohen introduced

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) slammed the articles accusing Trump of being a danger to the
President Trump in an interview Sunday, country, obstructing justice in his firing of former FBI
calling him “the most despicable human Director James Comey and violating the foreign
being ever” to serve as president. emoluments clause of the Constitution.

“Donald Trump is the most despicable human “Given the magnitude of the constitutional crisis,
being to ever reside in 1600 Pennsylvania there’s no reason for delay,” Cohen said at the
Avenue,” Cohen said on MSNBC. time.

Cohen had previously announced in August he would

introduce articles of impeachment against Trump based on
his comments following the deadly violence at a white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

“Instead of unequivocally condemning hateful

actions by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and
Klansmen following a national tragedy, the
president said 'there were very fine people on
both sides.' There are no good Nazis. There are
no good Klansmen,” Cohen said in a statement
at the time.

“A narcissistic sociopath doesn’t change,” he The majority of the Democratic caucus, including House
continued. “It endangers the country. And
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have not supported
war…is something he could get into to improve
attempts to impeach Trump.
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 Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Attorneys
Are Lying To Him So He Doesn’t Fire Mueller
By Colin Kalmbacher
11:55 Am, January 1st, 2018
Esteemed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says
President Donald Trump‘s attorneys are soft-peddling the
gravity of the Russia probe and telling the mercurial
president what he wants to hear in order to keep him from
acting in a rash way–like firing special counsel Robert
Mueller.
Bernstein was discussing the issue with Dana Bash during
an appearance on CNN‘s State of the Union. Bash asked
the storied newsman the following question, “Carl, Bob
mentioned the famous–infamous–Saturday Night
Massacre, when Archibald Cox, the special counsel, was
fired in 1973. Do you trust that the administration is not
going to do this? They assure that the president won’t go
that far–that he won’t fire Bob Mueller–do you believe it?”
To which Bernstein replied, “There is no reason to believe
almost anything Donald Trump says because what we
know is that the president of the United States and his
presidency is characterized, above all else, by the lying of
the president of the United States. That doesn’t mean that
lying by the president is a crime, it does mean that we see
.
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him covering up events, but not necessarily criminally
covering up events. And where this is going definitively
we don’t know.”
Bernstein continued, citing his own anonymous sources
within the White House. He said:
But there are many times he has expressed, I am told by
people in the White House, the desire to fire Mueller, the
desire to pardon people under investigation–including his
family. And one of the things that’s going on now is his
lawyers are telling him what he wants to hear; and that’s
what I’m told by lawyers in the White House. They’re
telling him what he wants to hear to keep him from acting
precipitously and to go off and fire Mueller in a rage–or
fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, in a
rage. They have an out of control client. The president of
the United States, in their view, is out of control a good
deal of the time, especially when it comes to this
investigation.
Bash then swung back to Bob Woodward, Bernstein’s
longtime friend and writing partner, playing a clip of
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) explaining her belief
that Mueller’s investigation is well-positioned to issue
obstruction of justice charges against Trump soon.
Bash asked both Woodward and Bernstein whether
Feinstein’s read on the investigation was correct. Both of
the legendary journalists pumped the brakes on Feinstein’s
read–saying it was simply too soon to tell.
[image via screengrab/CNN]
 We've Been Fooled For 15 Years,
But No More: Donald Trump's Tweet To Pakistan
ET Online And Agencie
Updated: Jan 01, 2018, 08.20 PM IST
After recent reports that the Donald Trump administration
was considering cutting off aid to Pakistan, US President
Donald Trump slammed the country, saying that the US
had "foolishly" given Pakistan $33 billion in aid in the last
15 years.
Trump said that the US had only gotten lies and deceit in
return for the monetary aid it had provided. Trump also
said that US operations in Afghanistan were being
hindered by the "safe haven" that Pakistan was providing
to terrorists.
..
Earlier this month, Trump had already hinted that he may
cut off the aid for good.
.
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"We make massive payments every year to
Pakistan. They have to help," he said in
unveiling his national security strategy.
And last week, Vice President Mike Pence told American
troops during a visit to Afghanistan:
"President Trump has put Pakistan on notice."
"For too long Pakistan has provided safe haven
to the Taliban and many terrorist organisations,
but those days are over," Pence told American
troops at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan
where he made an unannounced trip on
December 21.
"President Trump has put Pakistan on notice,"
he had said.
Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US Hamdullah Mohib
welcomed Trump's tweet.
"A promising message to Afghans who have
suffered at the hands of terrorists based in
Pakistan for far too long," Mohib tweeted.
 CRIMINAL: Top Hillary Aide Huma Abedin Forwarded
State Dept. Passwords To Yahoo Email Acct. Before It
Was HACKED By Russians And Others
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018

CNN/Money reported in October that all Yahoo email
accounts had been hacked in August 2013
Sushchin was also employed by Russian investment bank
Renaissance Capital, the institution that paid former
President Bill Clinton a half-million dollars for a single
speech in Moscow in June 2010, when his wife was
Obama’s secretary of state.

Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at State, regularly

forwarded work emails to her personal
humamabedin@yahoo.com address, government officials
said.

“She would use these accounts if her

(State) account was down or if she needed
(National Sentinel) Criminal Negligence: Hillary
to print an email or document. Abedin
Clinton’s former top aide at the State Department, Huma
further explained that it was difficult to print
Abedin, forwarded government email account passwords
from the DoS system so she routinely
to her private unsecured Yahoo account before it was
forwarded emails to her non-DoS accounts
eventually hacked by foreign powers including Russia.
so she could more easily print,” noted an
FBI report.
As reported by The Daily Caller‘s Luke Rosiak, an
analysis of Abedin’s emails released by the State
She sent passwords for her government laptop to her
Department to government watchdog Judicial Watch last
Yahoo account on Aug. 24, 2009, according to an email
week found that Abedin regularly used her personal email
released by the State Department in September 2017.
provider to conduct sensitive State Department work.

CNN/Money reported in October that all Yahoo email

accounts had been hacked in August 2013. Yahoo was also
hit by another hack in 2014 believed to be separate from
the 2013 hack and thought to have affected 500 million
users, the network added.

“This guarantees that an account with high-

level correspondence in Clinton’s State
Department was impacted by one or more
of a series of breaches — at least one of
which was perpetrated by a ‘state-
sponsored actor,'” Rosiak reported.

U.S. officials later charged Russian intelligence agent Igor

Sushchin with hacking the 500 million accounts, he added.
The 2014 hack allowed Sushchin and his associated to gain The Daily Caller noted further:
access to accounts in subsequent years — 2015 and 2016
— by using fake cookies. Long-time Clinton confidante Sid Blumenthal sent Clinton
an email in July 2009 with the subject line:
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 “Important. Not for circulation. You only.
Sid.” The email began “CONFIDENTIAL…
Re: Moscow Summit.” Abedin forwarded
the email to her Yahoo address, potentially
making it visible to hackers.
That email was deemed by government investigators as too
sensitive to release to the public under Freedom of
Information Act guidelines, so it was heavily redacted
before being turned over to Judicial Watch.
The released copy says
“Classified by DAS/ A/GIS, DoS on
10/30/2015 Class: Confidential.” The
unredacted portion reads: “I have heard
authoritatively from Bill Drozdiak, who is in
Berlin…. We should expect that the
Germans and Russians will now cut their
own separate deals on energy, regional
security, etc.”
In March 2009, Clinton forwarded an email to Abedin
from Denis McDonough, a foreign policy advisor to
Obama’s campaign and later his chief of staff, marked
“Ambassadors.” It, too, was heavily redacted before being
released to Judicial Watch.
As Abedin continued to use her Yahoo account to conduct
sensitive work, media reports noted how poor Yahoo’s
email security was. A July 2012 CNN article reported that
credentials to 450,000 Yahoo accounts had been posted
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online. Five days later, Rosiak reported, Abedin forwarded
sensitive email to her Yahoo account.
It seems clear that the Justice Department and FBI knew
that Abedin and Clinton were essentially trafficking in
sensitive materials via unsecured channels, but no charges
were ever filed.
Clinton said on Oct. 9, 2016, at the second presidential
debate with then-GOP nominee Donald J. Trump,
“After a year-long investigation, there is no
evidence that anyone hacked the server I
was using and there is no evidence that
anyone can point to at all, anyone who
says otherwise has no basis, that any
classified materials ended up in the wrong
hands. I take classified materials very
seriously and always have.”
But that is not consistent with FBI findings. Abedin’s use
of her private Yahoo account fits with the bureau’s
assessment that her account, and those of others involved,
were indeed compromised.
“We do assess that hostile actors gained
access to the private email accounts of
individuals with whom Secretary Clinton
was in regular contact from her private
account,” then-FBI director Jim Comey
said in 2016.
 “Justice” For Trump? DoJ, FBI Staffers
And Agents Gave Money To Hillary Clinton EVERY
DAY Of Her 2016 Campaign
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Supporters of President Donald J. Trump, most of whom
have long been convinced that there was no “collusion”
between his presidential campaign and “the Russians,”
regularly chafe at the fact that his own Justice Department
appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to ‘investigate’
the allegation.
What’s worse than Mueller’s appointment, they say, is
who he’s hiring to conduct the probe: As of August, the
long-time Deep State operative had hired eight confirmed
Democratic donors to conduct an investigation into a
Republican president, and one who many in Washington
believe isn’t even legitimate to begin with.
“I can say that the people that have been
hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters.
Some of them worked for Hillary Clinton. I
mean the whole thing is ridiculous if you
want to know the truth, from that
standpoint,” Trump told Fox News in June,
as reported by The Daily Caller.
Turns out the president’s concerns are not at all ill-placed.
That’s because, as Lifezette reports, the Department of
Justice and FBI swamps are full of Hillary donors.
In fact, there are so many of them that a DoJ or FBI
employee or agent donated to her campaign every single
day of her failed 2016 campaign:
Sherri Berthrong retired as a lawyer after
37 years at the Department of Justice
(DOJ) in 2015, but that didn’t end her ability
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to influence the government. Beginning
June 1, 2016, she made a small
contribution to Hillary Clinton every few
days — right through the November 8
election.
She made average contributions of $15.90, which in sum
amounted to $1,177 — a fraction of the $1.2 billion
Clinton raised and spent. However, Berthrong
“was not unique among DoJ and FBI
employees in making dozens of small
donations throughout the campaign,”
Lifezette noted.
A supervisory administrative officer in the FBI’s
Washington field office, Lafayette Anderson, clicked the
“donate” button 113 times beginning April 1, 2016, the site
reported. She contributed a total of $1,414. She often gave
two, and sometimes three, donations a day.
They were far from the only ones: A total of 268 current
and former Department of Justice and FBI employees who
are living in working just in the D.C. area made thousands
of contributions to Clinton during the campaign cycle. In
all, their donations total a combined $243,020, or just more
than half of the $416,375 she received from DoJ/FBI
employees nationwide. (Related: Mueller’s ‘pit bull’
attorney literally attended Hillary Clinton’s election
night party.)
How did Trump’s donations stack up to those figures?
They were a shadow of what Clinton was getting from
Justice Department workers, agents, lawyers, and
prosecutors. Just 61 DoJ/FBI employees gave to Trump for
a total of just $20,252. Trump, by comparison, spent
roughly half of Clinton’s $1.2 billion total to win the
November 2016 contest.
Granted, the Clinton and Trump donors who gave
represent less than 3 percent of the 113,000 people
employed by the Justice Department and FBI. However,
Lifezette noted, the actual donor total will never be known
because they aren’t required to disclose who they work for.
That said, think of the disparate figures in this way: Not
every voter is polled on important questions of the day,
just a fraction of the country is, and the ‘overall’ findings
of the poll are then extrapolated from that small
percentage.
If we extrapolate the small number of donors who gave to
both candidates, we can deduce, logically, that both the
FBI and the Department of Justice are replete with
Democratic voters, donors, and supporters.
And while Americans are obviously free to vote for and
support whomever they choose,
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how is President Trump supposed to get a
fair shake from a lion’s den of political
opposition?
Here’s another thought. As president, Trump makes
policies that the federal bureaucracy — these two agencies
included — are expected to carry out. Do you think there
is going to be more or less slow-walking or ignoring of
Trump’s policies at DoJ and the FBI, given the radical
difference in political donations?
 ABC Spends Last Day Of 2017 Wailing
About Trump’s Threat To First Amendment
By Scott Whitlock
January 2, 2018 1:27 PM EST
ABC on Sunday spent the final day of 2017 whining about
the term “fake news” and insisting that Donald Trump is a
threat to the First Amendment. With no mention of the
network’s demonstrably fake reporting, This Week guest
host Martha Raddatz complained, “There was an attack
on the media, on the First Amendment that we have not
seen before, really, in this country... and the profound
effect that can have. This is a President, as you know well,
who likes attention from the media. On the other hand, he
calls us fake news.”
USA Today’s Susan Page responded by lamenting, “Well,
I’m very concerned as a citizen that a lot of Americans no
longer trust the mainstream news media to be telling them
the truth.” Again, there was no mention of the fact that
ABC had to suspend correspondent Brian Ross for
incorrectly reporting that candidate Donald Trump
instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian
officials.
Ross is now barred from reporting on Trump. (This is the
same guy who falsely linked a mass killer to the Tea
Party.) Instead of showing any sort of humility over the
profession's botched reporting, fellow panelist Mary
Jordan of the Washington Post blamed Trump for tearing
down “one of the pillars of democracy.”
I think the global effect of the president of the United
States talking about fake news of -- when stories that he
doesn’t like is dangerous. There are 262 journalists in jail
around the world now by despots and authoritarian figures.
The crime, for some, fake news. So when in Egypt and
China and Myanmar and in other countries, leaders don’t
like stories about corruption, about extrajudicial killings,
what do they do? They jail them. We used to be the moral
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authority. The First Amendment, that democracy rests on a
free press. And it is just — he’s just made it easy now to
damp down one of the pillars of democracy.
Over on CNN, Sunday, Brian Stelter wondered, “What is
fake news?” Guest John Avlon, unsurprisingly, blamed
others for being partisan:
Hyper-partisan news sites that have explicit agendas that
go well beyond The National Reviews and Weekly
Standards or Mother Jones that have a forthright
philosophy. These are places that are viewing political
debate as a form of war and sometimes they function as
propagandists and there are no rules in this. They are ugly
and they will unleash forces against critics in any way,
shape or form.
For more examples of fake news in 2017, go here.
A partial transcript of the ABC segment is below:
This Week
1/2/18
9:41am
RADDATZ: And Susan, I want to — I want to expand to the First
Amendment. I -- I sort of don’t like to talk about the media and —
and it’s all about us. But there was an attack on the media, on
the First Amendment that we have not seen before, really, in this
country. And -- and the profound effect that can have. This is a
President, as you know well, who likes attention from the media.
On the other hand, he calls us fake news. What do you think the
lasting effect of this is?
PAGE: Well, I’m very concerned as a citizen that a lot of
Americans no longer trust the mainstream news media to be
telling them the truth. Because we can disagree on what policies
make sense, but we need to agree on what we think is actually
happening. And I also think something to watch in 2018 are
Justice Department investigations into leaks and whether that
goes further than just rhetoric in terms of having a chilling effect
on journalism’s ability to hold to accountable people in power.
RADDATZ: And Mary, you’ve spent a good deal of time -- one
second, Perry. You’ve spent a good deal of time traveling around
the world, being based around the world. The rest of the world
viewing fake news.
.
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MARY JORDAN (national correspondent, Washington Post): I
think the global effect of the president of the United States talking
about fake news of -- when stories that he doesn’t like is
dangerous. There are 262 journalists in jail around the world now
by despots and authoritarian figures. The crime, for some, fake
news. So when in Egypt and China and Myanmar and in other
countries, leaders don’t like stories about corruption, about
extrajudicial killings, what do they do? They jail them. We used to
be the moral authority. The First Amendment, that democracy
rests on a free press. And it is just — he’s just made it easy now
to damp down one of the pillars of democracy.
 Wikileaks Smacks Down Former Hillary Clinton Advisor
‘Russia Was Not A Wikileaks Source’; ‘Deal With It’
By Cristina Laila
January 2, 2018

Tanden also tweeted,

Former Hillary Clinton advisor Neera
Tanden took to her Twitter account to “One good thing about 2017 is we learned in
cry once again about the Trump-Russia detail of the collusion between the Trump
hoax. campaign and Russia. The question before us
now is criminal conspiracy.”
Donald Trump won the presidential election
over a year ago and these mentally
deranged liberals just can’t accept it so they
keep pushing the big lie.

Of course both tweets by Tanden are full of lies, but when

has the truth ever mattered the Democrats?

The FBI STILL hasn’t inspected the DNC’s servers to see

Tanden got a surprise because WikiLeaks absolutely
destroyed her with a wicked comeback.
WikiLeaks Task Force was created to correct
misinformation about WikiLeaks and they wasted no time
scolding Hillary Clinton’s former advisor after she spread
lies about WikiLeaks and Russia.
if they were hacked at all and by whom. Why? What are
the Democrats hiding? The truth.
Wikileaks Task Force smacked down Tanden in a tweet
that went viral.”1. It was DNC & MSM who promoted
Trump as “pied piper” GOP candidate. Own it. 2. Russia
was not @wikileaks source. Deal with it. 3. Your giant
#nothingburger is still not a logical argument. Stop it.”

Former Hillary Clinton advisor Neera Tanden tweeted

Monday,

“Would Trump have won without Russia’s help?

Wikileaks was THE negative drumbeat of the
last month against Hillary. We don’t really know
but seems legit answer to say no.”

Founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has repeatedly

denied Russia as a source.

Sean Hannity spoke with founder and editor-in-chief of

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, on his radio show is
December of 2016 to clear up the source of the DNC hack.

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When Hannity asked him if the Russian government was
the source of the hack, Assange said the following:
Julian Assange: “Our source is not the
Russian government.“
Sean Hannity: “So in other words, let me be
clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta
documents or anything from the DNC?”
Julian Assange: “That’s correct.”
WikiLeaks has an 11 year flawless history of
releasing authentic information.
“Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-
unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich
and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds
to her office window so snipers could not see
her and installing surveillance cameras at her
home,” writes Philip Rucker of the Washington
Post.
If Seth Rich’s murder was just a random
mugging in the middle of the nightas the
Democrats and media suggest — Why was
Donna Brazile in fear for her life?

For the record, Assange made a similar

statement back on November 3rd in 2016
before the election.

But the mainstream media refuses to listen to him!

Another unsolved mystery–the death of former DNC

staffer Seth Rich.

On July 10, 2016, 27 year-old DNC staffer Seth Conrad
Rich was murdered in Washington DC about a block from
his apartment. The killer or killers took nothing from their
victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.
Shortly after Rich’s murder, Hillary’s campaign chairman
John Podesta’s DNC emails were scattered throughout the
internet via WikiLeaks.
Eyebrows were raised once again when former interim
Chairwoman of the DNC Donna Brazile said Seth Rich’s
murder haunted her.
The Russian collusion hoax was completely fabricated by
Hillary Clinton and her cronies. Her dirtiest political trick
to date is the multi-million garbage dossier which was used
by the FBI and most likely prompted a FISA warrant to
spy on her political opponent.
Since she lost the presidential election, the dossier was
then used to prompt a Special Counsel to investigate
Donald Trump for a crime that has yet to be named.

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 Wikileaks Denies Russia As Source
In Response To Head Of John Podesta Think Tank
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/02/2018 - 17:40

Wikileaks has once again denied that Russia was their

source of leaked emails published during the 2016
election. In a Monday reply to Neera Tanden, former
Hillary Clinton advisor and President of the Center for
American Progress - a liberal think tank founded by John
Podesta, the WikiLeaks Task Force tweeted "2. Russia was
not @wikileaks source. Deal with it."

The WikiLeaks Task Force twitter account is

described as an "Official @WikiLeaks support
account," which exists to "Correct
misinformation about #WikiLeaks, amplify
our publications."

While Julian Assange has previously denied Russia as
their source,
this is the first explicit admission by the
organization in print regarding Kremlin
involvement in leaked emails published
during the 2016 US presidential election.
HANNITY: Can you say to the American
people, unequivocally, that you did not get this
information about the DNC, John Podesta's
emails, can you tell the American people 1,000
percent that you did not get it from Russia or
anybody associated with Russia?
JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes. We can say, we have
said, repeatedly that over the last two months
that our source is not the Russian government
and it is not a state party.
While the US intelligence community is apparently
sticking to the Russia narrative, President Trump
definitively hedged his opinion on WikiLeaks' source. At a
July 2017 press conference before a scheduled meeting
with Vladimir Putin, President Trump fielded questions
about whether he accepts the U.S. intelligence
community’s verdict that Russia interfered in the 2016
election in a bid to help him defeat Democratic rival
Hillary Clinton.
Trump responded that others might have been culpable, in
addition from Russia.
"I think it was Russia and I think it could
have been other people and other
countries,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of people
interfered. I think it’s been happening for a
long time.”

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Trump also said the U.S. intelligence community has made
mistakes in the past and its judgment is open to question.
As he has done in the past when discussing Russian
hacking,
he mentioned the U.S. invasion of Iraq in
2003.
Intelligence assessments claiming that Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction turned out to be inaccurate.
“I remember listening about Iraq,” Trump
said. He added: “Nobody really knows.
Nobody really knows for sure.”
The WikiLeaks Task Force tweet comes on the heels of a
cryptic 3AM (London time) tweet by Julian Assange
containing a 60-character code and an embedded link to
the MIA music video "Paper Planes."
Several people speculated that the tweet signaled an
imminent new WikiLeaks document release, while others
suggested Assange was highlighting Maya Arulpragasam,
MIA, for a reason. As The Guardian pointed out last fall,
Arulpragasam has her own "Visa" issues with the United
States after her renewal application got mysteriously
delayed back in 2014 and has been stuck in limbo ever
since...
a fact which she attributed to having
"supported Wikileaks and stuff."
There is a song on the new album called “Visa” that takes
aim at American immigration policy, something
Arulpragasam unwillingly knows a lot about.
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Her application to renew an expired visa has
been stuck in mysterious bureaucratic limbo
since 2014.
In an age when British popstars with any sort of US
fanbase are routinely granted permission to work in
America, her two-year hobbling seems unconventional.
“Obviously what’s happening to me is very
deliberate,” she says. “I don’t know who’s
doing it, it’s like fucking playing Cluedo.”
In general, though, she does not pitch her suspicions
small.
“On paper I’ve supported WikiLeaks and
stuff. And now Hillary Clinton is running for
president. And until that’s solved I might
have a problem, because anyone who ever
associated with that website is going to get
fucked up. Even if you delivered [WikiLeaks]
their takeaway, you are going to be on a list.
Do you know what I mean?”
I ask her if she ever worries she’s paranoid and she replies,
smartly, that in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s
revelations about the NSA it’s wrong “to even use the
word ‘paranoia’ as if it’s a weird condition. Because it’s
common as a fucking cold now. Everyone has to have an
element of paranoia"
The Russia denial also follows several weeks of unsettling
activity involving WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. In mid-
December, Three hooded figures dressed in black broke
into the Madrid office of WikiLeaks lawyer Baltasar
Garzon in a dawn raid.
The intruders covered security cameras with
tape,
and there were no signs that anything was taken - however
police are analyzing Garzon's computer equipment to
determine whether or not any files were taken or copied.
"They have not taken what they have been
looking for,"
Garzon told El Periodico, and told Ser magazine that
his clients’ security “has not been affected,” and that the
people "acted very quickly."
Hours after the break-in, Julian Assange
tweeted a Jimmy Dore video which contains a
clip of Assange strongly hinting that
murdered DNC IT staffer Seth Rich was their
source.

Seth Rich
The next week, Julian Assange's twitter account was
mysteriously deactivated for several hours.
And as we reported yesterday, a document found on
convicted pedophile Anthony Weiner's laptop confirms the
the Obama administration was implicated in a plot to
silence Julian Assange before the 2010 Swedish election -
as an arrest warrant was issued for the WikiLeaks founder
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two weeks after the US Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden
sent a cable detailing their concerns.
Meanwhile, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher travelled to
London in August with journalist Charles Johnson for a
meeting with Assange, where Rohrabacher said
the WikiLeaks founder offered "firsthand"
information proving that the Trump
campaign did not collude with Russia, and
which would refute the Russian hacking
theory.
After President Trump denied knowledge of the potential
deal, Rohrabacher raged at Trump's Chief of Staff, John
Kelly, for constructing a "wall" around President Trump
by
"people who do not want to expose this
fraud."
Perhaps Trump will take a blowtorch to the hornet's nest
and pardon Assange in exchange for proof Russia wasn't
WikiLeaks' source, per the deal Rep. Rohrabacher brought
back from the Ecuadorian Embassy's longest-term resident.
 Wikileaks Tweets PROOF The NY TIMES COLLUDED
With Hillary Clinton While She Was At State Dept.
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
“The players in the WikiLeaks email are
interesting”
(National Sentinel) Deep State: Whistleblower web site
WikiLeaks overnight tweeted what appears to be
irrefutable proof that at least one correspondent at The
New York Times was colluding with then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton to update her in advance about stories
the paper was preparing to run.
The tweet comes after the Times on Monday published
what critics say was another “hit piece” on Republicans
headlined, “Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I.
Open New Rift in GOP.”
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The link in the tweet goes to a State Department site that
includes a full PDF file of the cable, which is here.
“The players in the WikiLeaks email are
interesting. Scott Shane is the national
security reporter for the Times. And the
recipient of his email, Philip Crowley, was
at the time the United States Assistant
Secretary of State for Public Affairs under
Clinton’s State Department,” The Daily
Wire reported.
Political observers said that the tip-off was meant to give
Clinton and the State Department time to come up with
responses to stories that put her and the agency in a bad
light.
“Or, in another possible scenario, the
heads up could give the State Department
time to create a diversion for the same day,
thus overriding a damaging story with other
news its friends in the mainstream media
would happily cover instead,” The Daily
Wire noted further.
Late last week the State Department released 2,800 emails
sought in a FOIA lawsuit by government watchdog
Judicial Watch that came from a laptop computer
belonging to former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, the
estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
At least five of those emails contained classified
information marked “confidential.” The Daily Mail noted
that the confidential classification level is given to
information in which unauthorized disclosure “reasonably
could be expected to cause damage to national security.”
 ‘This Is Your Brain On Drugs.’ Chelsea Handler’s Dig At
Trump’s Brain Mind-Blowingly BACKFIRES
By Sam J.
Posted At 12:23 Pm On January 2, 2018

There are a few things Chelsea Handler should avoid while

making digs at Trump or anyone else for that matter.
Drinking.
Drugs.
Brains.
Oh, the irony of Handler accusing anyone else of having
‘sh*t for brains.’
That’s too much to ask of any president.

And whatever could Trump have tweeted that so enraged

her?
Put down the Twitter, Chelsea.

Figures.
She seriously set herself up for this.

You know, those ones?

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Suggesting she read a book?! Oppressor!

Maybe that will be her next show, “Crazy old woman yells
at a wall.
Would look a lot like her Twitter feed.

And to think, she supposedly gave up her show to be a

political activist.
We’re starting to think she chose poorly.

.
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 Trump To DOJ: ‘JAIL!’ To Abedin, Comey;
Calls On ‘DEEP STATE’ Justice Dept. To ACT
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
Trump appeared to be suggesting that a double standard
was being employed against the sailor and Hillary Clinton,
Abedin and others
(National Sentinel) Justice Deserved: President Donald J.
Trump on Tuesday slammed “Crooked Hillary” aide Huma
Abedin and appeared to call on the “Deep State” Justice
Department to act following new revelations she may have
mishandled classified emails.
“Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma
Abedin, has been accused of disregarding
basic security protocols. She put Classified
Passwords into the hands of foreign
agents. Remember sailors pictures on the
submarine? Jail!” Trump tweeted early
Tuesday. “Deep State Justice Dept must
finally act? Also on Comey & others.”
The president was making a reference to U.S. Navy sailor
Kristian Saucier who was jailed after taking unauthorized
cell phone photos inside a nuclear submarine. Trump
appeared to be suggesting that a double standard was being
employed against the sailor and Hillary Clinton, Abedin
and others involved in mishandling classified data.
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Fox News reported further:
The president’s tweet comes after the State
Department, in a Friday news dump,
released a batch of emails from Abedin’s
account that were discovered by the FBI on
a laptop belonging to her estranged
husband, Anthony Weiner. At least four of
the documents were marked “classified.”
As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail, the group Judicial
Watch had filed suit to obtain the documents from the
State Department. The group’s president, Tom Fitton,
speculated in October that the laptop likely contained
classified information.
At least five emails determined to be classified were found
among 2,800 documents stored on a laptop belonging to
Anthony Weiner, whose then-wife Huma Abedin was
deputy chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton.
The State Department released its documents Friday
afternoon. They included eight pages that were classified
at the “confidential level,” the third-most sensitive level
established by the U.S. government.
In addition, Abedin forwarded classified emails to her
Yahoo account, reports noted Tuesday. All Yahoo
accounts were hacked in 2013 by Russian state actors,
according to a CNN/Money report.
Comey exonerated Clinton in July 2016 despite the fact
that FBI agents had discovered evidence she mishandled
classified information. He reopened the case in late
October after agents found classified emails on a laptop
belonging to Abedin’s now-estranged husband, former
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.
Comey told lawmakers during a congressional hearing
earlier this year that he believed Abedin forwarded emails
to Weiner for him to print out so that she could give them
to Clinton.
 Boom! POTUS Trump Tweets Rocket Man Kim Jong Un:
“I Too Have A Nuclear Button, But It Is Much Bigger…
And My Button Works!”
By Jim Hoft
January 2, 2018

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the

“Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone
from his depleted and food starved regime please inform
him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much
bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button
works!

On Monday North Korean communist tyrant Kim Jong

Un declared North Korea a “nuclear power”.

Little Rocket Man added that he has a “nuclear button on

his desk.”

On Tuesday President Donald Trump responded to

little rocket man.

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 NY Times In Full COVER-UP Mode To Help DEMS Save
Their ‘Trump-Russia Collusion’ Narrative As House Closes
In On FBI’s Improper Use Of ‘Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
“[N]ow, with the Page foundation of the
collusion narrative collapsing, and with the
heat on over the Obama administration’s
use of the dossier, it is apparently
Papadopoulos to the rescue”
(National Sentinel) Deep State Corruption: A report over
the New Year’s holiday weekend by The New York Times
claiming that a once-minor figure in the presidential
campaign of President Donald J. Trump is really
responsible for the FBI’s counterintelligence probe of
Team Trump is getting pushback from a former Justice
Dept. prosecutor who says the story sounds like political
cover for Democrats.
Andrew McCarthy, writing in National Review Online,
said that the paper is attempting to save the “Trump-Russia
collusion” narrative with “Collusion 2.0,” “in which it is
George Papadopoulos — then a 28-year-old whose idea of
résumé enhancement was to feign participation in the
Model U.N. — who triggered the FBI’s massive probe
by . . . wait for it . . . a night of boozy blather in London.”
The Times initially claimed in an April 2017 piece that
former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page triggered the
FBI’s counterintelligence probe after a June 2016 visit to
Moscow. The FBI reportedly obtained a warrant from the
secretive FISA court in order to launch surveillance of the
entire Trump campaign a few months before the
November 2016 election.
But, as McCarthy noted in his column, the change of
narrative appears to be linked to ongoing revelations
surrounding the now-infamous “Trump dossier,” a piece of
opposition research commissioned by a Democrat-leaning
firm, Fusion GPS, and paid for in large part by the
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campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National
Committee.
Republicans in Congress, and in particular House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes of
California, increasing believe that the FBI used the dossier
as a quasi-intelligence document to obtain the FISA
warrant without ever the dossier’s salacious claims of
espionage.
“[I]t turns out the Page angle and thus the
collusion narrative itself is beset by an
Obama-administration scandal: Slowly but
surely, it has emerged that the Justice
Department and FBI very likely targeted
Page because of the Steele dossier, a
Clinton-campaign opposition-research
screed disguised as intelligence reporting,”
McCarthy wrote.
“Increasingly, it appears that the Bureau
failed to verify Steele’s allegations before
the DOJ used some of them to bolster an
application for a spying warrant from the
FISA court.”
He’s not the only one who thinks so. House Judiciary
Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the
same thing last month.
“The easiest way to clear it up is tell us
what’s in that application and who took it
there,” Jordan said in an interview following
the committee’s attempt to get an answer
to that question from senior FBI and Justice
Department officials.
It is due to the persistence of Nunes and Republicans that
the dossier story won’t go away, McCarthy said,
prompting the need for Democrats and their allies in the
media to craft another version of the Trump-Russia
collusion narrative, to deflect attention away from the
possible misuse of the document.
McCarthy noted further:
 First, we were led to believe the dossier
was no big deal because the FBI would
surely have corroborated any information
before the DOJ fed it to a federal judge in a
warrant application. Then, when the Clinton
campaign’s role in commissioning the
dossier came to light, we were told it was
impertinent to ask about what the FBI did, if
anything, to corroborate it since this could
imperil intelligence methods and sources
— and, besides, such questions were just a
distraction from the all-important Mueller
investigation (which the dossier had a hand
in instigating and which, to date, has turned
up no evidence of a Trump-Russia
conspiracy).
Lately, the story has morphed into this:
Well, even if the dossier was used, it was
only used a little — there simply must have
been lots of other evidence that Trump was
in cahoots with Putin. But that’s not going
to fly: Putting aside the dearth of collusion
evidence after well over a year of
aggressive investigation, the dossier is
partisan propaganda. If it was not
adequately corroborated by the FBI, and if
the Justice Department, without disclosing
its provenance to the court, nevertheless
relied on any part of it in a FISA
application, that is a major problem.
The Times assigned a half-dozen top reporters and a
researcher to the Page story, the former federal prosecutor
noted, which meant the paper gave the story top priority.
He noted further that despite the effort the paper put into
the story, which allegedly included information gleaned
from several insider sources, “the
.
George Papadopoulos” never appeared in the report about
Page.
“It is an explosive problem, this use of the
dossier by the Obama Justice Department
and the FBI in an application to the FISA
court for authority to spy on Trump’s
associates. Politically, it suggests that the
collusion narrative peddled by Democrats
and the media since Trump’s victory in the
November election was substantially driven
by partisan propaganda,” wrote McCarthy.
He also said there were legal implications for the misuse of
the dossier.
“Legally, it raises the distinct possibilities
that (a) the FBI did not adequately verify
the claims in the dossier before using them
in an application to the secret federal court;
and (b) the Justice Department of the then-
incumbent Democratic administration did
not disclose to the court that the dossier
was produced by the Democratic
presidential campaign for use against the
rival Republican candidate,” he wrote.
CNN reported in April 2017 that the FBI did indeed use the
dossier to obtain the FISA warrant.
“[N]ow, with the Page foundation of the
collusion narrative collapsing, and with the
heat on over the Obama administration’s
use of the dossier, it is apparently
Papadopoulos to the rescue,” McCarthy
wrote.
name
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 WOW! Devin Nunes May Interview
Robert Mueller Over Clinton-Uranium One Scandal
By Joshua Caplan
January 2, 2018
During his remarks at David Horowitz’s
Restoration Weekend 2017 back in
November, Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunes dropped a bomb that few, if any,
caught in the media.
The California Congressman told the audience that he
will interview Robert Mueller if the special counsel was
involved in the Clinton-Uranium One deal.
When asked by an audience member what his thoughts
were on Mueller’s alleged role in the Clinton-Uranium
One deal, Nunes had this to say:
NUNES: Trey Gowdy, rightfully so, wants to methodically
go through this, so the answer to Mueller, if he has
involvement in it, we’re going to interview him. I mean,
that’s the bottom line.
What’s interesting about Nunes’ statement is that Mueller
appears to have approved the deal, says
Congressman Louie Gohmert.
On April 25th, 2017, Rod Rosenstein was confirmed to
be deputy attorney general by a vote of 94-6 in the Senate
and on April 26th he was sworn in. Then less than a
.
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month later, on May 17th, Rosenstein appointed a special
counsel and appointed his old friend from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert Mueller.
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial deal in 2010 giving Russia 20% of America’s
Uranium, the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear
industry officials were involved in bribery, kickbacks,
extortion and money laundering in order to benefit
Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway.
And previously Rep. Louie Gohmert dropped the bomb
that Rosenstein and Mueller were the ones who allowed
the Uranium One deal to go forward.
Here is Louie from After the Bell.
Rep. Gohmert: One of the things that was most shocking
was that a guy named Rosenstein, if that name sounds
familiar, since he appointed Mueller (to lead Special
Counsel on Trump) he was the guy that actually helped
sign documents that got the whole thing, the original
cover-up done by sealing documents back early in the
Obama administration so that Hillary could go through and
make mega-millions…
…The blockbuster line now here is that he (Mueller) and
Rosenstein had to be involved in him being the Special
Counsel now because now we know he needed to cover
up the fact that him and Rosenstein covered up the first
investigation!
Via After the Bell:
 Trump Suggests Cutting Aid To Palestine
After 'Taking Jerusalem Off The Table'
Published Time: 2 Jan, 2018 22:58 Edited Time: 3 Jan, 2018 08:24
© Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
US President Donald Trump has suggested the US should
halt aid to the Palestinian Authority, accusing the
Palestinians of being “no longer willing to talk peace” with
Israel.
After announcing that the US would halt aid to Pakistan
because Islamabad is “not doing enough” to combat
terrorism, Trump followed up with tweets that the US is
getting “no appreciation or respect” from the Palestinians
though it sends “hundreds of millions of dollars” a year.
“They don’t even want to negotiate a long
overdue peace treaty with Israel,” Trump
wrote.
“We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest
part of the negotiation, off the table,” he
added. “But with the Palestinians no longer
willing to talk peace, why should we make
any of these massive future payments to
them?”
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Trump's tweets came just hours after US ambassador to the
UN, Nikki Haley, announced presidential intentions to
punish the Palestinians over their refusal to hold
negotiations with Israel.
"The President has basically said that he
doesn’t want to give any additional
funding... until the Palestinians are
agreeing to come back to the negotiating
table,” Haley said on Tuesday in New York.
"We're trying to move for a peace process,
but if that doesn't happen, the president is
not going to continue to fund that situation."
Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the US has been among the
major donors to the Palestinian Authority (PA), created to
manage limited self-governance in parts of the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip. The goal of the aid was to stimulate
economic growth in Palestinian territories and build public
support for negotiations with Israel.
In 2011, when Washington threatened to cut off the aid
because the PA was negotiating a unity government with
Hamas ‒ considered a terrorist group by both the US and
Israel ‒ the PA said it was willing to give up the funding.
“Palestinians need American money, but if
they use it as a way of pressuring us, we
are ready to relinquish that aid,” a
spokesman for PA President Mahmoud
Abbas said at the time.
Last month, Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital and ordered the US embassy to relocate
there. Congress passed a law in 1995 ordering the
embassy’s relocation, but every president since has signed
a waiver delaying its implementation.
Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan under the
1949 armistice, and has been entirely controlled by Israel
since June 1967. The UN has not recognized Israel’s
annexation of the city, and the Palestinians continue to
claim the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of their
future state.
 ‘Constitutional Crisis’: Deep State Versus Donald Trump,
Administration Over Transgender Individuals In Military
By Matthew Boyle
2 Jan 2018
The left and media are presenting a
decision by elements of the Trump
administration to not pursue an
immediate stay in court as a win by
LGBTQ forces seeking to force
President Donald Trump, America’s
Commander-in-Chief, to accept
transgender recruits into the U.S.
military.
But it might not be as big a win as they would have hoped
for, as conservative forces rally behind the president with a
variety of plans to crush the short-term leftist victory—
though it does remain to be seen if the administration’s
various departments responsible, primarily Justice and
Defense, will follow through on efforts to get Trump
another win.
As of Jan. 2, thanks to lower court rulings blocking
implementation of President Trump’s directive to the
Department of Defense, transgender individuals can
legally enlist in the U.S. military. That is in direct
contravention of an order the Commander-in-Chief handed
down to Defense Secretary James Mattis back in August,
one that has been challenged in court and blocked by a
district judge by a preliminary injunction while the case is
ongoing. On appeal, two U.S. courts of appeals—the
Fourth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit—upheld two lower
courts’ preliminary injunctions, blocking Trump’s
transgender ban on military enlistment.
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Perhaps most importantly, it sets up a potential
constitutional crisis, George Rasley of Richard Viguerie’s
ConservativeHQ told Breitbart News.
“The judge’s order directing President
Trump to enlist transgenders into the
military is a constitutional crisis of the first
order,” Rasley said in an email. “From
usurping the administration’s immigration
powers to the powers of the commander in
chief, federal judges have attempted coup
after coup against Donald Trump. If the
President and his lawyers do not fight back
more aggressively there will be no
presidential power that these left wing
judges will not attempt the seize for
themselves.”
Shocking many conservatives and Trump supporters, the
Department of Justice—and Department of Defense—did
not seek a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court, which will
likely eventually hear the case, and perhaps grant a stay
nullifying the lower court’s block while the legal process
plays itself out. That decision appears to be a questionable
one, and many conservatives and Trump supporters are
baffled at why the Trump administration’s DOJ would not
step forward and press this issue right this second.
Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness said
in a lengthy statement issued Tuesday:
Under Article III of the U.S. Constitution,
the federal courts have no authority to
make policy regarding the military. The
Department of Justice (DoJ) should have
protected the constitutional rights of
President Donald J. Trump by filing an
emergency appeal with the Supreme Court
immediately after the District of Columbia
and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals
denied requests for stays of lower court
preliminary injunctions. The issue is not the
military transgender policy alone, but who
gets to decide what the policy will be. By
failing to petition the Supreme Court to stay
the lower court orders, the DoJ has tacitly
 conceded that federal judges can make
military policy and establish medical
standards for enlistments. According to
Reuters, a Justice Department official who
requested anonymity noted that the
Defense Department has set up a ‘study’ to
review the issue. Rather than litigate this
interim appeal before that occurs, the
administration has decided to wait for the
DoD’s study and continue to defend the
president’s lawful authority in district court
in the meantime. This is a lame excuse,
making as much sense as the 2016 Trump
Campaign allowing the Federal Election
Commission to declare Hillary Clinton the
winner of the presidential race early on
Election Night, relying on vote counts
coming in later to undo that result. The
DoJ’s reported strategy might be plausible
IF the Defense Department ‘study’ in
question were truly fact-based and
objective, and IF the DoD had taken steps
to provide conditional enlistment contracts
with transgender personnel who are
recruited under the force of federal court
orders. Neither expectation has been met.
Chris Hull, an executive vice president of the Center for
Security Policy who previously served as chief of staff to
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), is similarly upset.
“These individuals suffer from a serious
mental illness with suicide rates of up to
40%, which is eight times as high as the
rate among schizophrenics, who are barred
from military service,” Hull told Breitbart
News. “We already have a problem with
suicide in the military without actively
recruiting those among the most likely to
die at their own hands.”
But, per the Department of Justice, they are following the
instructions of the Department of Defense and the White
House. The Pentagon is, per the DOJ, working on a new
study on the matter—and things are on hold until then and
until the next stages of litigation.
“The Department of Defense has
announced that it will be releasing an
independent study of these issues in the
coming weeks,” DOJ spokeswoman Sarah
Isgur Flores told Breitbart News. “So rather
than litigate this interim appeal before that
occurs, the administration has decided to
wait for DOD’s study and will continue to
defend the President’s and Secretary of
Defense’s lawful authority in district court in
the meantime.”
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In other words:
DOJ lawyers are just like the lawyers for
their clients, trying to formulate a legal
strategy that they think will win their clients’
case. But, by no means has the DOJ
abandoned the case—and it is still fighting
to defend the legality of the president’s
directive.
Sources close to the matter and with direct knowledge tell
Breitbart News that the issue came up at a National
Security Council principals meeting on Tuesday—and the
senior-most officials in the Trump administration are
seeking a pathway forward to dealing with this matter.
Sources close to the process have told Breitbart News that
there may be a better option on the table for the president
if he wants to succeed here, and it involves a strategy laid
out for him by several top conservative leaders.
A letter sent to President Trump signed by various military
and law enforcement conservative leaders, including
President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ed Meese,
lays out a new pathway forward for President Trump to
block transgender individuals from serving in the military.
Meese and the other conservative leaders wrote to
President Trump before the New Year:
As you know, several district judges have
recently ordered the Department of
Defense to begin enlisting individuals who
identify as transgender into the military on
January 2, 2018. These orders are not only
at odds with your directive of August 25,
2017 to the Secretary of Defense and, with
respect to the Coast Guard, to the
Secretary of Homeland Security precluding
such a change in policy. It is also a judicial
intrusion upon your exclusive authority as
Commander-in-Chief pursuant to Article II
of the Constitution and a dangerous affront
to your responsibility to determine the
make-up and disposition of the nation’s
armed forces. Unfortunately, this is not the
only example of unacceptable
infringements on your presidential powers.
Courts have been eager to strike down
your immigration-related executive orders
with politically-motivated rulings. Moreover,
as Bloomberg reported yesterday in a news
report headlined, ‘Washington Bureaucrats
Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump’s
Agenda,’ others in the government have
been emboldened to subvert your
administration and policies. We believe
strongly that your decision to prevent
additional enlistments of individuals who
identify as transgender in the U.S. armed
 forces is fully justified in light of the grave
harm such a policy change would portend
for the readiness, morale, unit cohesion
and funding challenges facing our military.
In addition, it would be a most dangerous
precedent to have the judiciary interjecting
itself into your exclusive, constitutional
command authority and responsibility to
create a right to serve where there is none
– let alone extending that right to people
whose medical condition and requirements
are, as a practical matter, incompatible with
military service and a burden on an already
stressed military budget.
They continued in the letter to President Trump by noting
that there is a different pathway forward for him that
would take the power away from activist judges attempting
to nullify his presidency, and allow him to move forward
with implementation of his ban on transgender individuals
enlisting in the U.S. military. The conservative leaders
wrote to President Trump:
To allow this court order to stand, moreover, would be to
invite the judiciary to trespass further on your executive
authority and the chain of command. Predictably, it would
also empower government employees to ignore
presidential direction – with profound and adverse
implications for the Republic. In the interest of avoiding
such intolerable consequences and preventing avoidable
harm from being inflicted on the armed forces with the
initiation of enlistments of individuals who identify as
transgender, we recommend that you immediately issue a
new directive to the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland
Security along the lines of the attached. It simply preserves
your authority and responsibility to establish accession
standards for military service, pending the outcome of
ongoing litigation.
In addition to Meese, the other signers of the letter include
retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, Center for
Security Policy President Frank Gaffney, Retired U.S. Air
Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, Retired U.S. Navy
Admiral James Lyons, and Elaine Donnelly from the
Center for Military Readiness.
Taking this new action would supersede the old executive
action. The draft text, also obtained by Breitbart News,
would allow transgender individuals to serve in the
military only during the timeframe in which this court case
.
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will make its way through the court system—from the
district court level all the way up through the appeals court
to the Supreme Court if necessary. Their enlistment
contracts would include specific provisions that they may
not avail themselves of sex-change surgeries or other
expensive medical options at taxpayer expense during this
time, and that they will immediately be discharged from
the military if and when the administration prevails in
court. Doing it this way, as well, allows time for the
Department of Justice to build its case out with evidence at
the district court level—evidence that will eventually be
considered in the very likely event that the U.S. Supreme
Court eventually considers this case.
This order will likely be challenged as well. But by
resetting the clock this way, a Supreme Court decision on
the president’s policy would likely not come down before
2019, when it is very possible that the court will have one
or two more conservative Justices in place of the
potentially retiring Anthony Kennedy and the aging Ruth
Bader Ginsburg.
In other words, Trump could sign a new order immediately
with language close to what Meese and company are
suggesting very soon. Then, the same judges at both the
district court and appeals courts levels that blocked
Trump’s directive from implementation would predictably
block this one. The new order would replace the old one—
and this new one would become the focus of the court
case.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the Justice Department
official responsible for preparing the DOJ’s legal strategy
here, would then ask the Supreme Court for a stay on the
lower court order blocking implementation—and by the
time those actions have passed, no transgender individuals
or at least very few would have gotten into the military and
the case would not be on the Supreme Court docket until
2019 rather than this year, in 2018.
Again, it all remains to be seen what President Trump, the
DOJ, and the Department of Defense do here in the end.
The DOJ and White House have not responded to specific
requests for comment about this letter and plan. But the
fact that Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General for
President Reagan, is signed onto this letter lends
significant credibility to the idea that President Trump—
who sources say has read their letter and is considering
their ideas—may move forward with such a strategy.
 Witness: Russia Probe Grand Jury Looks Like ‘Bernie
Sanders Rally’ – Or A ‘Black Lives Matter Rally’
By Cristina Laila
January 2, 2018
According to a witness, the Russia witch hunt
Grand Jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders
rally or a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley.
11 out of 20 jurors are black; the only white male in the
room was a prosecutor (Mueller was not present).
Page Six reported:
“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie
Sandersrally,” my source said. “Maybe they
found these jurors in central casting, or at
a Black Lives Matterrally in Berkeley [Calif.]”
Of the 20 jurors, 11 are African-Americans and
two were wearing “peace T-shirts,” the witness
said. “There was only one white male in the
room, and he was a prosecutor.” Mueller was
not present
[…]
Sol Wachtler, the former chief judge in New York, once
called for abolishing grand juries because they are so
easily manipulated that they would “indict a ham
sandwich.”
My source said,
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“That room isn’t a room where POTUS gets a
fair shake.”
Not only is the Grand Jury completely bias and full of
liberal hacks who most likely hate President Trump,
Mueller’s entire team of lawyers are Hillary/Obama
donors.
It is way past time for the unconstitutional witch hunt to be
shut down.
We reported in August that Mueller’s entire team was full
of Trump haters. Here is a summary of the Mueller team –
(Strzok’s mistress Lisa Page has since been removed)
 Robert Mueller – Special Counsel Team leader. —
Best friend to fired leaker James Comey a key
witness in the case and cohort at the FBI in
assisting Mueller to enable the Clintons to get away
with their many crimes.
 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.
 Lisa Page, an attorney on detail from the FBI’s Office
of the General Counsel and a former trial attorney with
the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang
Section – Investigated Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry
Firtash, a one-time business partner of former
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, 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.
 Andrew Weissmann, who is on detail from the
Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and who has served
as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant U.S.
attorney for the Eastern District of New York. —
Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory
Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at
least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007.
 Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
.
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served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
the WilmerHale firm.
 Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland. —
Worked under Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in
Maryland.
 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.
SHUT IT DOWN.
The Mueller ‘Russia’ investigation was built
on a foundation of lies and cost taxpayers
$6.7 million within the first 5 months!
 President Donald Trump Recognized
As ‘Pro-Life Person Of The Year’ For 2017
By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
3 Jan 2018
One of the most prominent pro-life
groups in America has given its annual
award to President Donald Trump,
declaring him the 2017 “Pro-Life Person
of the Year.”
“Since Trump took office, he has accomplished more for
the pro-life agenda than any other president,” according to
Operation Rescue, one of the most visible and effective
pro-life activist groups in the country.
Operation Rescue gives its annual Malachi Award “to
recognize individuals who sacrificially work to advance
the cause of protecting the pre-born,” their website states.
The group’s president, Troy Newman, had high praise for
Mr. Trump, announcing that he “has proven to be the most
pro-life president we have had in modern history and has
backed up his pro-life rhetoric with action like no other
before him.”
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Newman said that President Trump has had the courage to
keep promises made during the campaign that provide
greater protections for the pre-born and deny Federal funds
to those who commit abortions.
In explaining why its award went to Mr. Trump, Operation
Rescue highlighted eight specific accomplishments it
attributes to his presidency.
These achievements include naming Justice Neil Gorsuch
to the U.S. Supreme Court, denying public money to
abortion providers around the world, the Department of
Justice investigation into Planned Parenthood’s illegal sale
of baby parts, support for pro-life legislation, support for
the defunding of Planned Parenthood, his naming of pro-
life people to his administration, specific HHS pro-life
policies, and protections for conscientious objectors to the
Obamacare HHS mandate.
“We are proud of President Trump and his bold
willingness to advance the cause of life,” Newman said.
“There are more battles ahead, but under the Trump
administration, we can now finally see progress within our
government toward restoring the sanctity of life and the
protections of personhood to the pre-born.”
The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)
lashed out at Operation Rescue for its decision, calling it
“an anti-choice extremist group with ties to domestic
terrorism,” thereby signaling that the award had hit home.
NARAL went on to describe pro-life Americans who work
for the protection of the unborn as Trump’s “extremist,
fringe base.”
 POTUS Trump’s Assistant Trolls CNN’s Brian Stelter For
Reporting Trump’s ‘Nuclear Button’ Tweet
For ‘Twitter Violation’
By Cristina Laila
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
On Monday North Korean communist
tyrant Kim Jong Un declared North
Korea a “nuclear power”.
Little Rocket Man added that he has a
“nuclear button on his desk.”
On Tuesday President Donald Trump
responded to little rocket man.

Stelter called Trump’s behavior “madness” and tattled on

POTUS Trump to Twitter’s president.

“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just

stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his
desk at all times.” Will someone from his
depleted and food starved regime please
inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button,
but it is a much bigger & more powerful one
than his, and my Button works!”

President Trump’s assistant and Director of Social Media,

Dan Scavino trolled the heck outta Brian Stelter.

CNN’s Brian Stelter got triggered over President Trump’s “Carry on w/your night @BrianStelter.
tweet. While you would love nothing more than to
see a Twitter ToS Violation for handle:
@realDonaldTrump, you and all of your
liberal friends have NOTHING. Keep calling

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 Twitter�Stop trying to be the NEWS. Just And another one from Scavino…BOOM!
report the NEWS & try keeping it REAL!”

Stelter responded,
CNN, where lighting bongs, pushing botched Trump-
Russia collusion stories and tattling on the president for his
“Thanks Dan. I reached out to a Twitter
tweets is considered news.
spokesman, and he had no immediate
comment. More TK.”

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 ‘This Is FAKE NEWS’: CNN Runs Globalist Sponsored
Propaganda Piece That Claims That The Deep State Is
NOT Real, No Conspiracy Against Trump
Alex Thomas
January 3rd, 2018
Over the last two years elements of the deep state, along
with their mainstream media allies, have waged a
seemingly endless war on all things Donald Trump that, at
this point, simply cannot be denied.
From claiming that he had no chance of winning, to lying
about his beliefs, all the way to the sham Russia
investigation, it has become transparently clear that
ingrained elements within the federal government,
including the intelligence community, have worked against
Trump from the beginning and actually increased their
attacks after his stunning election victory.
At each step, liberal news outlet CNN has been at the
forefront of this unprecedented attempt to take out the
democratically elected president and long ago confirmed
the belief already held by many that they were specifically
out to get Donald Trump and his tens of millions of
supporters.
Now, in what can only be described as one of the most
blatant propaganda pieces of all time, two CNN
“reporters” have outed themselves as nothing more than
deep state establishment puppets after publishing a “news”
report that not only claims that the deep state isn’t real but
also laughably implies that there has been no conspiracy to
hurt President Trump whatsoever.
That’s right, according to CNN, high-level FBI officials
didn’t let Hillary Clinton off the hook. High-level FBI
agents weren’t openly supporting Clinton while at the
same time setting up an “insurance policy” in the event
that Donald Trump won the election. James Comey and
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Robert Mueller aren’t personal friends and the Clinton
campaign never paid for RUSSIAN SOURCES to provide
disinformation on Trump.
The CNN propaganda piece reads:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday
escalated an extraordinary confrontation
with his own Justice Department,
suggesting it was part of a shady
government “deep state” conspiracy
against him.
The explosive charge follows Trump’s
repeated attacks on the FBI and agents
working with special counsel Robert
Mueller on the investigation into whether
there was collusion between members of
his presidential campaign and a Russian
election meddling operation in 2016.
His assault, delivered via a tweet,
suggested that Trump is again chafing
against conventions that presidents
normally observe to maintain the
independence of judicial authorities and to
avoid the perception of political interference
in the Justice Department and the FBI.
[…]
Tuesday’s outburst by the President also
sheds new light into his apparent belief in,
or willingness to perpetrate, the idea for
political reasons that there is a “deep state”
— a secret cabal of government and
intelligence officials conspiring against him
and his presidency.
As I’ve been apt to say lately, you truly can’t make this
stuff up folks! Keep in mind that it is a confirmed reality
that the deep state is real, a fact known LONG BEFORE
Trump ever got into office or was a victim of an attack by
their puppets.
Not happy to spread obvious disinformation in just one
piece, CNN also published another piece of transparent
garbage, this time by their publicly anti-Trump Editor
Chris Cillizza in which he also laughably implies that the
deep state simply cannot be real.
“Deep State Justice Dept must finally act,”
Trump tweets, suggesting that Abedin
belongs in jail and former FBI Director
James Comey and “others” might too.
The idea of the “deep state” has long been
central to the beliefs of people like Breitbart
executive Steve Bannon and others in the
conservative media.
Its basic tenet is that there is a sort of
extra-judicial government being run in the
shadows of the public-facing government
— a so-called “deep state” that has as its
prime objective to maintain the status quo.
The “deep state” isn’t really partisan, it’s
more an agreement by the establishment to
keep its hold on power for as long as
humanly possible.
CNN’s editor then goes on to list Trump’s supposed
crimes in which he literally lays out exactly what we
KNOW to be happening in reality and then claims that
only your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving would believe it.
Make no mistake, this is purposeful propaganda at its
finest and is designed to LIE directly to the American
people while covering up for those that truly run the world.
Consider what’s being alleged here: That
the Justice Department is refusing to
prosecute criminals — including the former
director of the FBI! — because the deep
state is protecting those people.
That sounds a little off, right? Like, if your
uncle spent 15 minutes at Christmas dinner
bending your ear with that exact theory,
you would ask your mom afterward: “What
is the deal with Uncle Harold?”
Now, consider the source: This is the
President of the United States we are
talking about. The most powerful person in
the country — and maybe the world. The
person who chose the man — Jeff
Sessions — who runs the Justice
Department.
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Let’s be clear about all of this: The
President of the United States is saying
that the former FBI director, who he fired
and who could, as we speak, potentially be
playing a central role in the special counsel
investigation into Russia’s attempted
interference in the 2016 presidential
election, is being protected by a secret
quasi-government that really controls
things.
Cillizza also whines about the fact that the deep state and
elements of the FBI are finally being publicly exposed as if
this is somehow a bad thing for the American people when
in reality it actually only hurts the very people that Cillizza
serves.
What’s even more frightening than the
assumptions made in those presidential
tweets is that plenty of people are changing
their views of the FBI due to Trump’s
assault on the bureau and its one-time
head.
In 2014, Gallup polling showed that 62% of
Republicans thought the FBI was doing an
“excellent” or “good” job. In new Gallup
polling, that number among Republicans
has dipped to 49% — even as
Republicans’ trust in other government
agencies has soared since 2014.
It’s almost impossible to accurately
describe how abnormal this sort of
behavior is from a president. In the past,
presidents went out of their way to build up
trust in the agencies and departments of
the federal government, believing that
strength in institutions — particularly those
tasked with law enforcement — was
critically important to a functioning and
healthy democracy.
Consider this. Elements of the intelligence community,
with the help of news outlets like CNN, are actively trying
to take out their political opponent in Donald Trump while
at the same time attacking him for publicly fighting back.
Truly unbelievable!
 Trump Homeland Chief Pushes For Border Wall: ‘First
And Foremost’ Before Any DACA Amnesty
By Matthew Boyle
2 Jan 2018
In an interview with the Associated
Press, Secretary of Homeland Security
Kirstjen Nielsen said that President
Donald Trump’s planned wall along the
U.S. border with Mexico is “first and
foremost” before any deal for amnesty
for the recipients of Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
The AP reported after interviewing Nielsen:
The secretary said she was hopeful the
White House and Congress can reach a
deal that includes border and immigration
enforcement measures. She said building a
wall along the Mexico border was ‘first and
foremost,’ and the administration wanted to
end ‘loopholes’ on issues that include
handling asylum claims and local police
working with immigration authorities.
While the AP put a headline and lede on its piece that
focused on what Trump is willing to do with so-called
DREAMers who are recipients of the illegally granted
DACA temporary executive amnesty that Trump’s
predecessor, former President Barack Obama unlawfully
bestowed upon several hundred thousand illegal aliens, the
interview focused more on Trump’s efforts for a border
wall.
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“Nielsen, who visited prototypes of Trump’s
proposed border wall in San Diego, said
the president would request $1.6 billion
next year for the barrier, in addition to $1.6
billion he is seeking this year to build or
replace 74 miles (118 kilometers) in
California and Texas,” the AP wrote.
That $3.2 billion is not enough for the full wall—which is
estimated at over $20 billion in cost in total—but Nielsen
said it would be a “down payment” to get the wall started.
“It’s all a down payment,” she said. “This is
not going to get us the whole wall we need
but it’s a start.”
Nielsen also said any DACA deal would focus only on the
recipients of the unlawful DACA program, not generally
on so-called DREAMers.
“Nielsen said she believed any permanent
protection for DACA recipients should be
limited to the hundreds of thousands who
qualified during the three years it was in
effect, not anyone who would meet the
criteria if it were still in place. She said it
should include permission to work,” the AP
reported.
The headline and lede of the AP article, however, centered
on whether any legislative DACA deal would contain
citizenship—not just legal status—for the recipients. The
AP wrote:
The Trump administration would consider
immigration legislation that includes a
pathway to citizenship for hundreds of
thousands of young people, the U.S.
Homeland Security secretary said
Tuesday, while emphasizing no decision on
that issue has been made and a border
wall remains the priority. Congress is
considering three options, including
citizenship or permanent legal status for
people who were temporarily shielded from
deportation, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said
 in an interview. Details on qualifying for
citizenship, including on how many years to
wait and other requirements, would have to
be addressed.
But Nielsen did not say, when asked if President Trump
would back citizenship for the DACA recipients via a
legislative deal, if the president supports that.
“I think he’s open to hearing about the
different possibilities and what it means
but, to my knowledge, there certainly hasn’t
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been any decision from the White House,”
Nielsen said.
This month, Democrats are angling to push through some
kind of a legislative DACA deal attached to the
government funding bill that runs out on Jan. 19. The
Democrats in Congress hope to use the leverage they have
in the funding fight for some kind of DACA deal,
something that is setting an existential battle for the soul of
President Trump’s presidency. It remains to be seen how
that will shake out.
 Trump Versus The FBI
By Binoy Kampmark
January 2, 2018
The attempt to tease, weave and develop a narrative
against President Donald J. Trump over a Russian
connection began almost immediately after his victory in
November last year. This was meant to be institutional
oversight and probing, but in another sense, it was also
intended to be an establishment’s cry of hope to haul the
untenable and inconceivable before some process. No one
could still fathom that Trump had actually won on his
merits (or demerits). There had to be some other reason.
Central to the Trump-Bannon approach to US politics has
been the fist of defiance against those entities of
establishment fame. There is the Central Intelligence
Agency, which Trump scorned; there is the FBI, which
Trump is at war with. Then there is the Department of
Justice, which he regards as singularly unjust.
The FBI investigation into Trumpland and its reputed
nexus with Russia remains both bane and opportunity for
Trump. As long as it continues, it affords Trump
ammunition for populist broadsides and claims that such
entities are sworn to destroy him.
To watch this story unfold is to remember how a soap
opera can best anything done in celluloid. The New York
Times has given us a New Year’s Eve treat, claiming that
former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos spilt
the beans to former Australian foreign minister Alexander
Downer at London’s Kensington Wine Rooms in May
2016.
The two men had, apparently, been doing what any decent
being does at such a London venue: drink. Papadopoulos’
tongue started to wag as the imbibing continued. There
was a Russian connection. There was dirt to be had,
featuring Hillary Clinton.
Downer, however hazed, archived the discussion. He
could make a name for himself with this decent brown
nosing opportunity. Australia, Washington’s ally with an
enthusiastic puppy dog manner, wanted to help, to tip off
US authorities that a great Satan, Russia, might be
involved. So commenced the long road to the fall of
Trump’s former aide, who conceded, in time, to have lied
to the FBI. Trump’s response was to degrade
Papadopoulos as a “low-level volunteer” and “liar”, giving
him the kiss of unimportance.
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Australian ex-officials were by no means the only ones
involved in providing succour to the anti-Trump effort. A
picture was being painted by other sources – British and
Dutch, for instance – pointing to the Kremlin as central to
the Democratic email hacks. The FBI probe, in time,
would become the full-fledged investigation led by a
former director of the organisation, Robert Mueller.
This provides the broader context for the Trump assault on
all manner of instruments in the Republic. Earlier in
December, Twitter was again ablaze with the president’s
fury. The blasts centred on the guilty plea by former
national security advisor Michael Flynn. He had, in fact,
had conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
Trump’s approach was two-fold: claim that Flynn’s actions
had been initially, at least, lawful, while the conduct of the
FBI and Department of Justice had been uneven and
arbitrary. “So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is
destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now
infamous FBI holiday ‘interrogation’ with no swearing in
and no recording, lies many times… and nothing happens
to her?”
He then reserved a salvo for the DOJ. “Many people in our
Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going
to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER
receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress,
deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”
The persistent inability to understand Trumpland as a
series of bullying an exploitative transactions blunts the
value of the FBI investigation. Whatever it purports to be,
it smacks of desperation, an effort in search of an
explanation rather than a resolution. The Trump Teflon
remains in place, immoveable.
More to the point, Trump is certainly right in questioning
the historic inability of the FBI to be a credible instrument
of justice, even if history is not his strong suit. The Bureau
under J. Edgar Hoover was a monster of surveillance, its
reputation, despite being in deserved tatters, defended by
one president after the other.
As for bias, Trump is certainly right on the score that
certain FBI officials, foremost amongst them lawyer Lisa
Page and FBI special agent Peter Strzok, were
demonstrably favourable to Clinton over him.
The Trump campaign, keen to find chinks in the Clinton
camp, was always going to be indiscriminate and
characterised by ruthlessness: the provenance of the
information was hardly going to matter. Be it a hack, a
disclosure; be it legitimately or illegitimately obtained,
information in this context proved to be advertising power.
To that end, anything against Hillary would have been
treated as rich mineral, whatever quarry it might have been
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hewn from. That it stemmed from Russian sources gave
fever to those still gripped by Cold War nostalgia.
In the new year, the antics will continue and Trump will,
as he has all year, continue to receive blows with a certain
nonchalance. He will also retaliate in kind. The
establishment forces have been busy on various fronts, but
the Trump machine, authoritarian, unreflective, but
resolute, continues to function with indignant disdain. As
long as that lasts, he will thrive.
 Trump's 'Lock Her Up' For Huma Called 'Political'
Activists Overlook Alleged Illegalities In Their Opposition To President
January 3, 2018
Hillary Clinton with top aide Huma Abedin.
After eight years of a politicized Washington “swamp,”
where the IRS under Barack Obama openly targeted
conservatives and Christians, where Islamists were invited
to set policy for the nation’s law enforcers, where the
president himself actively ridiculed police officers trying
to protect the public, now there’s a claim that the
Department of Justice is being politicized.
The claim comes from an official with the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, which calls itself a Muslim
civil-rights organization.
The move was prompted by President Trump’s call for the
law to be enforced regarding Huma Abedin, a Muslim who
was a top aide to Hillary Clinton while she was U.S.
secretary of state.
Trump’s social-media statement, noting Abedin allegedly
jeopardized classified information by putting it on a laptop
belonging to her now-ex-husband Anthony Weiner,
suggests that the law be followed for all.
Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma
Abedin, has been accused of disregarding
basic security protocols. She put Classified
Passwords into the hands of foreign
agents. Remember sailors pictures on
submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept
must finally act? Also on Comey & others
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 2, 2018
Trump’s statement Tuesday morning to call for Hillary
Clinton’s close aide Huma Abedin to be jailed.
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That, claimed Robert McCar, the government affairs chief
for CAIR, is just wrong.
“Calling for the imprisonment of political
rivals is a clear attempt by President Trump
to further politicize the Department of
Justice. Every American who values the
constitutional guarantee of due process
should be outraged by the president’s
statements.”
The president’s tweet, however, highlighted a double
standard for punishments when it comes to handling
classified materials, as U.S. Navy Petty Officer Kristian
Saucier was charged and convicted of a felony for taking
pictures of a confidential propulsion system as a keepsake
of his service. He was ultimately sent to prison.
Saucier himself noted Hillary Clinton stored information
of a far more classified status on an unsecure server, and
yet she was not charged for her negligence.
Saucier claimed this is evidence of how powerful people
are exempt from the same laws which were used against
him.
Trump’s use of the term “Deep State” reflects an
awareness of this network of mutual protection which
seemingly covers government insiders.
His suggestion to the Justice Department to investigate and
possibly jail Abedin is also a way for the president to take
the offensive in some of the legal battles which have been
hampering his presidency, and strike back against
adversaries such as former FBI Director James Comey.
Comey testified in a May Senate hearing Abedin had
forwarded hundreds of thousands of emails to her husband
Anthony Weiner so they could be printed out. Some of the
emails, recently released thanks to a lawsuit filed by
Judicial Watch, were marked classified.
President Trump’s action shows the commander-in-chief
evidently agrees with Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton’s recent plea for a “serious investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.”
As WND recently reported, the politics have permeated the
case.
For example, the decision by former director James Comey
not to charge Abedin or Hillary Clinton with a crime was
heavily influenced by FBI agent Peter Strzok, a vocal
opponent of President Trump who until recently was
serving as part of Robert Mueller’s team in the “Russian
collusion” investigation.
Abedin also made misleading statements about the
mishandling of national secrets, but unlike former National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn, faced no consequences.
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday Huma Abedin sent
sensitive State Department emails, including the passwords
to government systems and the PIN number to access a
secure State Department website, to her personal Yahoo
account.
In 2013, Yahoo was hacked, and the
company stated “all Yahoo user accounts
were affected.”
Among the information sent to an unsecured account was
the name and email address of the person who obtains the
classified Presidential Daily Brief. Other emails contained
classified information regarding American counter-drug
operations in Mexico, notes about a possible confrontation
between the Obama administration and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and correspondence related
to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Besides possibly criminal conduct in mishandling
classified information, new records obtained by Judicial
Watch show Abedin removed five boxes of “physical
files” out of the State Department, including records
described as “Muslim Engagement Documents.”
Hillary Clinton was also allowed to remove personal
correspondence and certain binders which may contain
evidence related to accusations of a a pay-to-play scheme
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in which donations to the Clinton Foundation led to
influence over policy.
Abedin did not only enable foreign adversaries to obtain
American secrets but could possibly pose a security threat
herself, reports suggest.
For several years, Abedin edited the journal for the
Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), an
organization established by the government of Saudi
Arabia. Abedin’s mother, an Islamist activist and
academic, was even permitted to edit the content of a
speech which was to be given in Saudi Arabia by then-
secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Other members of Abedin’s family have also been
prosecuted by the Justice Department for conspiracy, wire
fraud and securities fraud.
However, President Trump evidently believes the Justice
Department, or at least a significant part of it, has allowed
Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to escape any
consequences for their crimes.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated Tuesday President Trump “obviously” does not
believe the “entire” Justice Department is part of the
“Deep State,” but that there are fundamental issues about
the rule of law involved.
“The facts of the case are very disturbing
and I think the president wants to make
clear that he doesn’t feel that anyone
should be above the law,” Sanders told
reporters.
Sign the precedent-setting petition
supporting Trump’s call for an
independent prosecutor to investigate
Hillary Clinton!
 Bannon: Trump Tower Meeting
With Russians Was ‘Treasonous’
Jack Crowe - Political Reporter
9:44 AM 01/03/2018

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made to the Trump

campaign by an intermediary, on behalf of the Russian
government. Trump Jr., who replied “I love it,” when
contacted with the offer of damaging information,
immediately downplayed the incident in the wake of The
NYT report, maintaining no consequential information was
revealed.

Bannon added that if the meeting had to take place, it

should have been

“in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon called
the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a number of
high-ranking Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-
connected attorney “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” in an
interview included in an upcoming book on the Trump
White House.
Bannon, who was dismissed from his role seven months
after Trump took office, told author Michael Wolff the
meeting between Donald Trump Jr., former campaign
chairman Paul Manafort, White House advisor Jared
Kushner and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya was
at the very least ill advised.
“The three senior guys in the campaign
thought it was a good idea to meet with a
foreign government inside Trump Tower in
the conference room on the 25th floor –
with no lawyers. They didn’t have any
lawyers,” Bannon told Wolff in an interview
for his upcoming book, “Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House,” obtained
by The Guardian.
Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet
with these people.”
Citing recent reports indicating Special Counsel Robert
Mueller subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for the financial
records of individuals close to Trump, Bannon stressed
that the investigation would focus heavily on financial
crimes.
“You realise where this is going,” Bannon
told Wolff. “This is all about money
laundering. Mueller chose [senior
prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and
he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to
fucking Trump goes right through Paul
Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s
as plain as a hair on your face.”
Deutsche Bank, which has lent hundreds of millions to
Kushner’s real estate company, has come under scrutiny
for continuing to lend to the Trump Organization after
other banks stopped due to credit issues.

“Even if you thought that this was not

“It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the
treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I
Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy.
happen to think it’s all of that, you should
They’re going to go right through that.
have called the FBI immediately.”
They’re going to roll those two guys up and
say play me or trade me,” Bannon said.
The Trump Tower meeting, which was first exposed by
The New York Times in July 2017, was prompted by an
offer of “incriminating” information related to former
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 Probe Uncovers "Laws Broken,
False Statements" In FBI Handling Of Clinton Emails
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/03/2018 - 08:32
In what could be a major black eye for the deep state and
yet another nail in the Clinton legacy coffin,
The Hill's John Solomon reports that
Republicans on key congressional
committees say they have uncovered
new irregularities and contradictions
inside the FBI’s probe of Hillary
Clinton’s email server.
"This was an effort to pre-bake the cake,
pre-bake the outcome,” said Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-Fla.), a House Judiciary
Committee member who attended the
McCabe briefing before the holidays.
“Hillary Clinton obviously benefited
from people taking actions to ensure
she wasn’t held accountable.”
In what appears to be clear evidence confirming previous
fears of favoritism and prejudice within the FBI,
lawmakers and investigators told Solomon at The Hill that,
for the first time,
investigators say they have secured
written evidence that the FBI believed
there was evidence that some laws were
broken when the former secretary of State
and her top aides transmitted classified
information through her insecure private
email server.
That evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the “sheer volume”
of classified information that flowed
through Clinton’s insecure emails was
proof of criminality as well as an
admission of false statements by one
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key witness in the case, the investigators
said.
The name of the witness is redacted from the FBI
documents but lawmakers said he was an employee of a
computer firm that helped maintain her personal server
after she left office as America’s top diplomat and who
belatedly admitted he had permanently erased an archive
of her messages in 2015 after they had been subpoenaed
by Congress.
The investigators also confirmed that the
FBI began drafting a statement
exonerating Clinton of any crimes while
evidence responsive to subpoenas was
still outstanding and before agents had
interviewed more than a dozen key
witnesses.
Those witnesses included Clinton and the
computer firm employee who permanently
erased her email archives just days after
the emails were subpoenaed by
Congress, the investigators said.
Notably, lawmakers on the House Judiciary
Committee who attended a Dec. 21 closed-
door briefing by FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe say the bureau official
confirmed that the investigation and
charging decisions were controlled by a
small group in Washington
headquarters rather the normal process
of allowing field offices to investigate
possible criminality in their localities.
The top Democrat on the panel even
acknowledged the FBI’s handling of the
case was unique, but, of course, Rep.
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y) argued Republicans
are politicizing their own panel’s work.
Rep. Gaetz said he has growing questions about the role
the Obama Justice Department played in the case.
“I think we have more questions than
answers based on what we’ve learned,”
Gaetz said.
 A House GOP lawmaker told The Hill his
staff also has identified at least a dozen
interviews that were conducted after the
drafting effort began, including of some
figures who would have key information
about intent or possible destruction of
evidence.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's
(R-Iowa) staff has a higher number: 17 witnesses including
Clinton were interviewed after the decision was already
made.
“Making a conclusion before you
interview key fact witnesses and the
subject herself violates the very premise
of good investigation.
You don't lock into a theory until you have the facts. Here
the evidence that isn't public yet shows they locked into
the theory and then edited out the facts that contradicted
it,” the GOP lawmaker said, speaking only on condition of
anonymity because the documents are not yet authorized
for release.
The longtime Senate chairman went to
the Senate floor before the holidays to
raise another concern:
The FBI did not pursue criminal charges
when Clinton’s email archives were
permanently deleted from her private
server days after a subpoena for them was
issued by a congressional committee
investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S.
diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
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The deletion occurred on the same day Clinton’s former
chief of staff and her lawyer had a call with the computer
firm that handled the erasure using an anti-recovery
software called BleachBit, Grassley said.
“You have a conference call with
Secretary Clinton’s attorneys on March
31, 2015, and on that very same day her
emails are deleted by someone who was
on that conference call using special
BleachBit software,” Grassley said. “The
emails were State Department records
under subpoena by Congress.
“What did the FBI do to investigate this
apparent obstruction?” Grassley asked.
“According to affidavits filed in federal court
— absolutely nothing. The FBI focused
only on the handling of classified
information.”
As The Hill notes, both parties are likely
to learn more in the first quarter of 2018
when the Justice Department inspector
general is expected to release initial
findings in what has become a wide-
ranging probe into the FBI’s handling of the
Clinton email case as well as whether
agents and supervisors had political
connections, ethical conflicts or biases that
affected their work.
While the resistance tries to switch the narrative to
Papadopoulos, and away from Page and the Trump
Dossier,
it is becoming clearer and clearer where
the real corruption was all the time.
 NUNES: House Intel Chair Says He’ll Pull MUELLER
In For Interview Over Uranium One SCANDAL (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered Justice
Department prosecutors to begin asking FBI agents to
explain evidence they discovered
(National Sentinel) Wide Net: House Intelligence
Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told an
audience in Washington, D.C., Tuesday that if he finds
evidence special counsel Robert Mueller was involved in
the Uranium One scandal, he’ll seek to interview him.
During remarks in November at David Horowitz’s
Restoration Weekend 2017 that were largely unnoticed by
most media outlets, Nunes pledged to interview Mueller if
it turns out he had a role the deal, which has turned into
another Obama-era scandal.
“Trey Gowdy, rightfully so, wants to
methodically go through this, so the answer
to Mueller, if he has involvement in it, we’re
going to interview him. I mean, that’s the
bottom line,” Nunes said in response to a
question about his thoughts as to whether
he believes Mueller was involved.
Here is video of Nunes’ response:
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In closing Nunes said there was “much more to come” on
the issue of Uranium One that he couldn’t discuss.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, has said he believes that
Mueller signed off on the deal, which allowed Russia to
obtain 20 percent of all strategic U.S. uranium.
“One of the things that was most shocking
was that a guy named Rosenstein, if that
name sounds familiar, since he appointed
Mueller (to lead Special Counsel on Trump)
he was the guy that actually helped sign
documents that got the whole thing, the
original cover-up done by sealing
documents back early in the Obama
administration so that Hillary could go
through and make mega-millions,” he said.
“The blockbuster line now here is that he
(Mueller) and Rosenstein had to be
involved in him being the Special Counsel
now because now we know he needed to
cover up the fact that him and Rosenstein
covered up the first investigation,” he
continued.
Watch:
Bill and Hillary Clinton, via their foundation, were also
part of the scandal.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered Justice
Department prosecutors to begin asking FBI agents to
explain evidence they discovered into a currently dormant
criminal probe into the controversial Uranium One deal
that has been tied to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the
Clinton Foundation.
According to multiple law enforcement sources, interviews
with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department’s efforts
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to fulfill a pledge that an assistant attorney general gave to
Congress in November.
The assistant AG promised that the department would
determine whether a special counsel is warranted to look
into the Uranium One deal, according to a senior Justice
Department official.
 FINALLY: House Will Expand Its Russia Probe
To Include Improper Use Of BOGUS
“Trump Dossier” By FBI
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
For months supporters and backers of President Donald J.
Trump have chafed at the notion that the apparatuses of
government could be used against him over
unsubstantiated claims that his campaign “colluded” with
Russians in order to beat the most corrupt presidential
contender in U.S. history.
They chafed because after more than a year’s worth of
allegations — from Democrats and their sycophantic allies
in the “establishment” media — no evidence whatsoever
has been produced indicating there is even a shred of
evidence the narrative is true. And yet the ‘investigations’
continue.
Finally, however, a House panel seems ready to come to
the president’s defense.
As reported by the Washington Times, the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is expanding
its 2016 election probe to include how and why elements
within Obama’s Department of Justice and FBI used the
bogus “Trump dossier” to ensnare the president and his
campaign staffers.
The committee’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.,
has accused the Justice Department and the FBI of
misleading him with “a pattern of behavior that can no
longer be tolerated.” He has said that initially, the DoJ
claimed it did not have any documents related to the
dossier but then, when pressured, suddenly produced
“numerous” such documents.
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During the first part of 2018, Republicans on the panel are
expected to complete the starting-point probe into alleged
Russian hacking of Democratic entities and whether aides
to Trump assisted in that effort. For the record, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange has said repeatedly that hacked
Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign
documents his organization received did not come from
Russia or any “state” actor.
Already Democrats on the panel, who have been doing
their level best to thwart Nunes’ investigation, are
protesting the likely move to wind it down and refocus it
on suspected Deep State corruption. The Times reported
that Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is
pushing an extended list of witnesses he wants majority
Republicans to call. Critics of the move suspect all he’s
trying to do is push the probe beyond the 2018 elections.
That’s because in recent weeks more Democrats, including
Schiff, have resigned to the fact there they won’t find any
evidence of Trump-Russia “collusion” because there isn’t
any. (Related: Expert: Bogus Trump ‘dossier’ was
NOT ‘just opposition research’ but used by FBI to
launch ‘collusion’ probes.)
In the meantime, Nunes has constructed a separate
investigation of the FBI and Department of Justice
hierarchy after several GOP lawmakers expressed their
belief that the real collusion exists among those officials,
former President Obama’s administration and the Clinton
campaign — in a bid to subvert Trump’s candidacy.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Judiciary
Committee, which is conducting a separate investigation of
the Election 2016 shenanigans, has come out and said
directly he believes the dossier was misused by elements
within the FBI to obtain a secretive FISA court order to put
Team Trump under surveillance during the campaign. If
true, that would represent an unprecedented politicization
and abuse of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement assets.
“Let’s remember a couple of things about
the dossier,” Jordan told Fox Business’ Lou
Dobbs last month.
 “The Democratic National Committee and document — that it became the basis for a
the Clinton campaign, which we now know warrant to spy on Americans.”
were one and the same, paid the law firm
who paid Fusion GPS who paid He added:
Christopher Steele who then paid Russians
to put together a report that we call a
“The easiest way to clear it up is tell us
dossier full of all kinds of fake news,
what’s in that application and who took it
National Enquirer garbage and it’s been
there.”
reported that this dossier was all dressed
up by the FBI, taken to the FISA court and
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 Trump Irritates Leftists With Twitter (Again)
Mac Slavo
January 3rd, 2018

Mere minutes later, Trump alerted the public that he would

be announcing “THE MOST DISHONEST &
CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on
Monday at 5:00 o’clock.” He also exhorted everyone
to tune into Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show at 9 pm
ET, just in case you think CNN isn’t going to take home
the gold in this category.

It’s becoming rather easy to upset a leftist. All president

Donald Trump has to do is post to his Twitter account and
the liberals become rabid.

On New Year’s Eve, North Korean leader Kim Jong

Un warned his enemies

“that the whole territory of the U.S. is within

the range of our nuclear strike and a
nuclear button is always on the desk of my
Those who have come to the conclusion that the
office, and this is just a reality, not a threat.”
mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda
mouthpiece of the communist deep state elitists will more
It shouldn’t be the “big news story” of the day, buy than likely thoroughly enjoy that segment.
apparently Trump’s Twitter response to Kim Jong-Un
about whose nuclear button is bigger is a front page story.
Kim Jong-Un doesn’t even have a Twitter account, but the
I guess this is what happens when the mainstream media
left acts like he’s going to send a nuke over Trump
loses all sense of dignity and integrity and sells their souls
responding on social media.
to communism.

In response, President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday

night that he is in possession of a “much bigger & more
powerful one than his, and my Button works!”, thus
proving the U.S. still has capabilities the likes of which
Kim will never achieve.

If we all have to watch the world burn because of the

elitists who won’t let go of their grip on power, we might
For those not overly sensitive and easily offended, the can
as well have a little laugh about it.
be taken as a bit of humor – which (let’s face it) we can all
use nowadays. But a quick scan of the comments on that
Tweet will give anyone a good laugh.

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 Report: Bannon Says Mueller Investigation Will Target
Kushner, Manafort’s ‘Greasy’ Money Laundering Deals
BY Breitbart News
3 Jan 2018

White House hopes for a quick end to the Mueller

investigation are gravely misplaced.

“You realise where this is going,” he is

quoted as saying. “This is all about money
laundering. Mueller chose [senior
prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and
he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to
fucking Trump goes right through Paul
Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s
as plain as a hair on your face.”

Last month it was reported that federal prosecutors had

subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, the German
financial institution that has lent hundreds of millions of
dollars to the Kushner property empire. Bannon continues:
Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve
Bannon says the Mueller
“It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the
investigation is targeting the alleged
Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy.
“greasy” money laundering of Trump
They’re going to go right through that.
associates like Jared Kushner and Paul
They’re going to roll those two guys up and
Manafort as a path to attack President
say play me or trade me.”
Trump, according to a new book by
Michael Wolff called Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House. Scorning apparent White House insouciance, Bannon
reaches for a hurricane metaphor:
David Smith reports in the Guardian:
“They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a
Category Five.”
Bannon has criticised Trump’s decision to fire Comey. In
Wolff’s book, obtained by the Guardian ahead of
publication from a bookseller in New England, he suggests
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 The Deep State’s Plan ‘C’:
Murder Donald Trump
Mac Slavo
January 3rd, 2018
Longtime Donald Trump advisor and confidante Roger
Stone is warning once again about the deep state. This
time, he said that the deep state’s “plan C” is to simply
murder the president, since plans A and B won’t work out.
With trust in the mainstream media at an all-time low, the
global elitists are on the verge of losing their grip on
humanity’s throat. And Roger Stone says emphatically that
they plan to go down swinging. According to New
American, the Deep State’s “Plan A,” is the
imploding “investigation” into alleged “Russian
collusion” by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said Stone.
If and when that fails, which Stone suggested was likely
and soon, the establishment would move to “Plan B.” In
essence, Plan B would involve trying to get a majority of
Trump’s cabinet to declare him unfit for office. This would
allow Trump to be removed under the U.S. Constitution’s
25th Amendment. This scheme is also going to most likely
fail, Stone said.
Last but not least, though, Stone
warned of “Plan C,” which is killing the
president.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New
American magazine at his Florida studio, Stone offered
insight into Trump — and into his enemies [the deep state]
and their tactics.
“It’s easy to forget that the shocking
upset that Donald Trump pulled off has
never been forgotten or acknowledged
by the globalist cabal that has really
infected both of our major parties,” he
explained. “I say that as someone who is a
sentimental Republican, but a Republican
in the mold of Barry Goldwater who wanted
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government out of the bedroom, out of the
boardroom, that believed in peace through
strength, not, you know, neocons cruising
the globe looking for expensive wars to
profiteer in and stick our nose in.” –New
American
Roger Stone isn’t the first person to see Trump as a target
of the deep state. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has said
he feels that the deep state isn’t afraid to nuke a city in the
United States in order to kill Trump and blame North
Korea for the result.
“He’s a shock to the system,” said Stone, a
legendary political operative who, in
addition to his longtime relationship with
Trump, has served as a senior campaign
aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan,
Senator Bob Dole, and others. According to
Stone, Donald Trump’s election
represented the “hostile takeover of the old
Republican Party, which we now hope to
remake in his image as a party that stands
for economic nationalism, that stands for
putting American interests ahead of
globalist interests, and re-affirms our
sovereign rights as Americans.”
“Now, I think the establishment, at this
time, when the president has just passed
his tax cut, has cut these regulations — so
you see a record stock market, you see
unemployment at all time lows, you see a
booming housing market — it’s easy to
misread the deep enmity and hatred that
the globalists and the Insiders have for
this president, and to underestimate
their resolve to remove him.”
Stone believes the Deep State would, in fact, attempt to
murder the president when Plan A and B fail, which seems
the likely scenario.
“Having written books on the Kennedy
assassination, having highlighted the
attempted assassination of President
Ronald Reagan by people deeply
associated with the Bush family, I think the
 establishment has Plan A, Plan B, and Plan
C,” he said. “Plan A is very clearly a take-
down by the illegitimate Special Counsel
Robert Mueller, who was appointed not by
Jeff Sessions, not at the direction of the
president, but by this fellow Rosenstein,
who is a close associate of Mueller and
[disgraced former FBI boss James] Comey,
and who is a globalist Bush insider, a
liberal Republican, who somehow got the
number two position in the Trump Justice
Department,” Stone warned, saying the
establishment was now hoping Trump
would fire Mueller to regain the upper hand.
The other thing that is becoming more and more apparent,
Stone said, is that
“neither Mr. Mueller nor the House nor the
Senate Intelligence committees nor the
Judiciary committees in those bodies have
been able to find any evidence of Russian
collusion.”
“Sorry, but Don Jr.’s meeting with a
Russian lawyer that provided nothing is
perfectly legal and proper,” Stone said.
“There’s nothing wrong with it. She
produced no evidence, but what we did
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learn is that she was in the country thanks
to the Obama FBI, without a visa, and she
was popping up and being photographed at
Hillary rallies and in John McCain’s office.
She’s a Quisling! It’s a setup! She’s a spy.
She delivered nothing. It’s an attempt to
entrap Donny Jr. in a meeting that’s
perfectly innocuous and perfectly legal.”
But the deep state’s Plan B is to invoke the 25th
Amendment.
“So we’ll see an uptick in all of this ‘Trump
is mentally imbalanced, Trump is insane,
Trump must be removed,’” Stone warned.
“Now you have to examine the extent to
which they can whip up that hysteria as a
backdrop because, without that hysteria,
such a political move on the president will
fail.” And once Plan B fails, the globalists
will move on to Plan C, which is simply an
assassination.
“We know Plan C. We saw it in the case
of President John F. Kennedy, who had
crossed the Central Intelligence Agency
and the Deep State over both the Cuban
Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs, both,
I think, central,” he said.
 Hannity Sez ‘People Like Hillary Clinton Should Be
Nervous – People Will Be Going To Jail’ As GOP
Lawmakers Find NEW ‘Irregularities’ And
‘Contradictions’ In FBI’s EMAIL Investigation (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
“The evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the ‘sheer volume’ of
classified information that flowed through
Clinton’s insecure emails was proof of
criminality”
Huma Abedin, aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham, left, goes
over notes with Clinton, during her visit to the newly opened
University Teaching Hospital Pediatric Centre of Excellence, in
Lusaka, Zambia, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Clinton is on the first leg
or a three-nation tour of Africa. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
(National Sentinel) Criminal Probes: Republican
lawmakers on key committees say they have uncovered
new evidence of irregularities and contradictions involving
the FBI’s criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email
scandal, in which she improperly handled classified data.
As reported by The Hill, for the first time congressional
investigators say they have obtained written evidence that
the FBI believed there were indications and additional
evidence some laws were violated when the former
secretary of state for President Obama and her top aides
sent classified information through her unsecured private
email server.
“That evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the ‘sheer volume’ of
classified information that flowed through
Clinton’s insecure emails was proof of
criminality as well as an admission of false
statements by one key witness in the case,
the investigators said,” as quoted by The
Hill.
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While the name of the witness has been redacted from the
FBI documents, The Hill noted further that lawmakers
have said he was an employee with a computer firm that
helped maintain Clinton’s private email server after she
left the Obama administration.
Also, lawmakers said the witness admitted belatedly that
he had permanently erased an archive of her messages in
2015 after they had already been subpoenaed by Congress.
In addition, the congressional investigators confirmed that
the FBI had started drafting a statement letting Clinton off
the hook for any crimes even while evidence that pertained
to subpoenas remained outstanding and before agents had
talked to more than a dozen key witnesses.
Those witnesses included Clinton and the computer firm
employee who permanently erased her email archives just
days after the emails were subpoenaed by Congress,
investigators told The Hill.
Some Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee,
which deposed current FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe in December, said they are now convinced there
was a plot to exonerate Clinton no matter how much
illegality agents uncovered.
“This was an effort to pre-bake the cake,
pre-bake the outcome,” said Rep. Matt
Gaetz of Florida, a House Judiciary
Committee member who attended the
McCabe briefing before the holidays.
“Hillary Clinton obviously benefited from
people taking actions to ensure she wasn’t
held accountable.
“I think we have more questions than
answers based on what we’ve learned,”
Gaetz added.
Lawmakers are expected to learn much more about the
FBI’s actions and those of its top leaders, including fired
FBI Director James Comey, during their investigation of Meanwhile, Fox News host Sean Hannity discussed the
Clinton, in the first half of this year. possibility that Clinton and others including her top aide
Huma Abedin should be worried.
The Justice Department’s inspector general
“is expected to release initial findings in “This year is going to be massive in terms
what has become a wide-ranging probe of news especially about the corrupt media.
into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email And they are very, very nervous, rightly so,
case as well as whether agents and people like Hillary Clinton. They should be
supervisors had political connections, nervous. People will be going to jail. I
ethical conflicts or biases that affected their promise you,” he said.
work,” The Hill reported.
Watch:
Comey said during his July 2016 press conference
exonerating Clinton that the agency found she had
mishandled classified information, which is normally a
felony. He also noted that agents had found at least 110
emails that were marked “top secret” or “secret” at the
time she transmitted or received them.

GOP congressional investigators told The Hill multiple

drafts of Comey’s statement eventually exonerating
Clinton also included specific language acknowledging
there was

“evidence of potential violations of the

statutes regarding the handling of classified
information.”

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 James Comey Calls For Leaders
To Protect Justice Department, FBI (From Trump)
© AFP 2017/ Nicholas Kamm - US
22:01 03.01.2018(Updated 22:12 03.01.2018)

In a tweet, Trump alleged that Abedin "has been accused

of disregarding basic security protocols" and had "put
classified passwords into the hands of foreign agents."

Former FBI Director James Comey has called for

Washington leaders to defend the Department of Justice
(DOJ) and the FBI, calling them “essential to our liberty.”
His tweet comes one day after US President Donald
Trump, who fired Comey from the FBI in May, referred to
the Justice Department as part of the “deep state.”
"Where are the voices of all the leaders
who know an independent Department
of Justice and FBI are essential to our
liberty? 'You are not only responsible
for what you say, but also for what you do
not say.' — Martin Luther," Comey tweeted
on Wednesday morning.
This is the second time Trump has referred to the Justice
Department as a "deep state" apparatus, implying that the
DOJ is operating independently and not responding to his
leadership as chief executive.
In November, Trump claimed that the House
of Representatives was investigating whether the DOJ and
FBI should be held in contempt of court "for withholding
key documents and an FBI witness which could shed light
on surveillance of associates of Donald Trump." No, I
don't know why he referred to himself in the third person
here.

The tweet seems to be a response to Trump's latest public

criticism of the Justice Department, urging them to "act"
against Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton,
including during the latter's tenure as secretary of state.
Abedin has been under scrutiny recently after classified
State Department files were discovered on the laptop
of her ex-husband, former representative Anthony Weiner
(D-NY).
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Trump has taken a negative stance toward the DOJ
in recent tweets, implying that the department is
deliberately ignoring crimes by Clinton. Comey has also
come under fire from Trump in recent months, saying,
among other accusations, that he had left the reputation
of the bureau "in tatters."

The above tweets refer to the FBI's 2015 and 2016
investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server while she was secretary of state. In July 2016,
Comey testified that the FBI recommends no charges be
filed against Clinton, as her behavior was "extremely
careless" but not criminal.
In May 2017, Trump fired Comey, publicly stating that it
was due to dissatisfaction with Comey's performance. The
New York Times reported shortly after the dismissal that
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Trump fired Comey for focusing too much on the probe
into alleged Russian interference into the 2016 presidential
election and not enough on leaks of classified information
from executive branch officials to the press.
"FBI Director Comey was the best thing
that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that
he gave her a free pass for many bad
deeds! The phony…" Trump tweeted
on May 2, a week before he fired Comey.
The Times also reported that Comey privately testified
to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump had
asked for him to pledge loyalty in January 2017 — which
Comey refused to do. Comey also testified that Trump
pressured him in February to end the FBI investigation
into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Trump has denied both claims and referred to Comey as a
"leaker" for revealing their private, off-the-record
conversations.
 Trump UNLOADS On Former
Advisor Steve Bannon: ‘He LOST His Mind’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
“Steve had very little to do with our
historic victory”
(National Sentinel) Break-up: President Donald J. Trump
took aim at his one-time senior presidential advisor Steve
Bannon on Wednesday after publication of comments
critical of Trump and his family were published by The
Guardian.
The excerpts were included in an upcoming book
by Michael Wolff, in which Bannon slams the Trump’s
son, Don Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner as behaving in
a “treasonous” manner, among other things.
The Breitbart News chief also slams campaign chairman
Paul Manafort and calls their infamous meeting with a
Russian lawyer during the campaign “treasonous” and
“unpatriotic.”
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me
or my Presidency,” Trump said in a
statement Wednesday.
“When he was fired, he not only lost his
job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer
who worked for me after I had already won
the nomination by defeating seventeen
candidates, often described as the most
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talented field ever assembled in the
Republican party,” he added.
He noted that Bannon did not deserve any credit for the
president’s victory.
“Now that he is on his own, Steve is
learning that winning isn’t as easy as I
make it look,” Trump said.
“Steve had very little to do with our historic
victory, which was delivered by the
forgotten men and women of this country.
Yet Steve had everything to do with the
loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for
more than thirty years by Republicans.
Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s
only in it for himself,” he continued.
Trump also accused Bannon of being one of the infamous
administration leakers of information to the media, which
plague the White House early on.
“Steve pretends to be at war with the
media, which he calls the opposition party,
yet he spent his time at the White House
leaking false information to the media to
make himself seem far more important than
he was,” he said. “It is the only thing he
does well.”
He added,
“Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting
with me and only pretends to have had
influence to fool a few people with no
access and no clue, whom he helped write
phony books.”
 Breitbart Readers Side With Trump
Over War Of Words With Bannon
“I Voted For Trump…I Didn’t Vote For Bannon”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
January 3, 2018

appeared to side with Donald Trump in favor of the

executive chairman of Breitbart News.

“I voted for Trump…I didn’t vote for

Breitbart.com readers have
overwhelmingly sided with Donald
Trump over his war of words with
former White House senior counselor
Steve Bannon.
The President lashed out at Bannon in a long press release,
alleging that Bannon “lost his mind” when he left the
White House.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me
or my Presidency. When he was fired, he
not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve
was a staffer who worked for me after I had
already won the nomination by defeating
seventeen candidates, often described as
the most talented field ever assembled in
the Republican party,” said Trump.
Bannon. I’ll stick with Trump, thanks,” was
the top rated comment on an article about
Bannon’s comments.
“The meeting was NOT “treasonous” stupid
maybe, but NOT treasonous! Trump Jr.
and Jared had NO idea that they were
BEING SET UP by the Clinton camp, which
clearly they were,” commented another
user.
“The fact that Bannon blew any credibility
he had by backing Moore just to spite
McConnell, says a lot too. Bannon
personally lost us that seat in the senate,”
added another.
In addition a Twitter poll asking who Americans would
vote for in a hypothetical Bannon vs Trump 2020
presidential match up overwhelmingly finds they would
back Trump by a margin of more than six to one.

Trump was responding to a claim attributed to Bannon in a

new book in which Bannon supposedly said that Donald
Trump Jr.’s decision to meet with a Russian lawyer before
the election was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”.

“Even if you thought that this was not

treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I
happen to think it’s all of that, you should
have called the FBI immediately,” Bannon
is reported to have told author Michael
Wolff.
Donald Trump Jr. also slammed Bannon in a series of
The war of words exploded onto the pages of Bannon’s tweets, including one in which he asserted,
own Breitbart.com, but the vast majority of readers

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 “Andrew Breitbart would be ashamed of the “Wow, Just looked at the comments section
division and lies Steve Bannon is on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost
spreading!” Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.”

Don Jr. also took note of the tone of the Breitbart

comments, remarking,

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 ‘View’ Hosts Mock ‘Insane’ ‘Paranoid’ Trump For
Tweeting Liberals In DoL May Be 'Deep State'
By Kristine Marsh
January 3, 2018 2:24 Pm Est
Wednesday on ABC’s The View, the largely liberal panel mocked
the idea that officials appointed by President Obama, still
working in the federal government, could have an agenda against
President Trump.
Host Whoopi Goldberg led the discussion by laughing at the idea,
cracking up as she described Trump’s tweets about the “deep
state”:
Both the current guy in the White House and
his son have been tweeting about the so
called “deep state” which is a conspiracy
theory which government employees
[giggles] loyal to Obama and Hillary are
working behind the scenes to derail [giggles]
his presidency. Now does this seem a little
odd?
Gathering her composure, she continued reading the actual
dictionary definition:
It's been around a long time, this theory of the
deep state. Based on what the Oxford
Dictionary says, which is it's “a body of people,
typically influential members of government
agencies or the military believed to be involved
with the secret manipulation or control of
government policy.
By this point, the rest of the panel kept up the mockery.
“Is this like Scandal?” co-host Sunny Hostin
joked.
“If this was real, do you think he would still
be a sitting president?” Whoopi continued
scoffing.
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Referring to Eric Trump’s tweets, host Joy Behar wondered aloud
if the Russians were involved.
“Maybe the Russians are planting this stuff! How
does he know? Ask Jared!” she snarked.
While the rest of the panel scoffed at the “conspiracy theory,”
host Meghan McCain pointed out that the idea wasn’t a loony
fringe idea.
“It's worth noting that 48% of Americans think
the deep state exists, according to an ABC/This
Network poll,” she began.
“That’s ridiculous!” Hostin exclaimed. McCain
then explained that a little less than half of
Republicans and Democrats believe in the
“deep state,” saying it runs the gamut including
ideas like “Area 51.”
Instead of addressing the question of where all these unflattering
“leaks” from anonymous sources within the administration were
coming from since President Trump took office, Whoopi
somehow equated this commonplace idea to fake internet
conspiracies like “PizzaGate”:
Let me tell you the danger of that. You've
remember PizzaGate? Where they put out this
insanity that there was some sort of -- thing
happening, selling of children out of a pizza joint
in Washington. According to them I guess she
[Hillary] was sitting there with Bill and counting
the kids. Someone got shot because of this
insanity. Do you understand that? When you
have insane theories like this, people get
hurt.
She went on to rant about how “dangerous” it was for President
Trump to be espousing such ideas as the “deep state,” saying it
was a marker of “insanity”:
What makes it particularly scary it used to be
thought of as insanity. It's now being
thought of as fact. I want to point out there was
no one running children through this pizza store.
They put this information out there, no fact
checking, nothing and someone got shot.
Someone was shot because a man decided
he believed it. He drove from where he lived
to the pizza shot with his gun.
Hostin picked up on that theme, calling Trump “paranoid” to Speaking of conspiracy theories, the hosts at The View have
believe anyone within the government could be trying to expressed their own over the years.
sabotage his presidency:
Longtime former host Rosie O’Donnell repeatedly suggested on
I wonder if the president really believes this. I've been joking the show that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were staged by the U.S.
about it. This is the first I'm hearing about this deep state. If Whoopi Goldberg herself has espoused her own conspiracy
you're playing to the conspiracy theorists in your base or 46% of theories. In the last year alone, she suggested that the Taliban
Americans, that makes sense. “started” like Trump, and that “antifa” was a fake group “made
up” by the right.
If you're the President of the United States
and you are paranoid enough to believe
there's some conspiracy against your
presidency and you have nuclear warheads
at your disposal, shouldn't we all be a little
bit concerned about this?
“This is no joke. People getting hurt,” Whoopi
shook her head before cutting to commercial
break.

Later in the show, Whoopi offered a correction, acknowledging

no person was actually shot in the PizzaGate shooting incident.

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 BUSTED: Billionaire Trump Ally Says
Quotes Bashing Prez Attributed To Him Are FALSE
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018

Barrack reportedly turned down a high-level position in

the Trump administration

(National Sentinel) Misquote: A billionaire close

confidant of President Donald J. Trump was quoted as
disparaging the commander-in-chief in a new book by
author Michael Wolff, but has told The New York Times he
never said it.

Wolff, in his upcoming, highly anticipated book, “Fire

and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,”
said Thomas Barrack Jr. had some hard words for the
president, as reported by The Guardian on Wednesday.
Barrack and Trump are reportedly very loyal friends,
“Trump is not spared,” the news site
having a relationship that dates back decades in the real
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas
estate business.
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told
a friend: Indeed, the billionaire real estate mogul spoke at the 2016
Republican National Convention and became a member of
‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.'” Trump’s inauguration committee.

But the Times’ Maggie Habberman reported that Barrack Barrack reportedly turned down a high-level position in
told her the quote is “totally false.” the Trump administration, telling the President he could
help him from outside Washington with “no skin in the
“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once, game.”
says he never said the quote attributed to
him to Wolffe or anyone. ‘Totally false,’ Upon publication of this story, Wolff had not yet
Barrack said by phone just now. Tom responded to Barrack’s statements.
Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to anyone who
knows me that those aren’t my words and
In October, the Washington Post reported that Barrack has
inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.’
“remained unfailingly loyal” to Trump, and sees him as a
He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him
“shrewd politician.”
to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
Haberman.

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 Atlantic Magazine Editor Wants
Trump's Brain Examined By Committee
By P.J. Gladnick
January 3, 2018 2:36 PM EST
Because President Donald Trump has been spotted holding
water bottles a few times with both hands, a committee
should be formed to examine his brain in order to make
recommendations about his removal from office via the
25th Amendment. Such is the fantasy of one James
Hamblin, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine who,
perhaps, should have his brain examined for proposing
such a nutty idea.
Hamblin even analyzed Trump's speech patterns when he
was interviewed years ago by Larry King and Oprah to
make the determination for brain analysis by committee.
This bizarre proposal comes as no real surprise since
several months ago Hamblin proposed that we give up beef
for beans in order to reduce climate change. Hamblin's
latest idea is equally as full of flatulence as we shall see in
Is Something Neurologically Wrong With Donald Trump?
Trump’s grandiosity and impulsivity has made him a
constant subject of speculation among those concerned
with his mental health. But after more than a year of
talking to doctors and researchers about whether and how
the cognitive sciences could offer a lens to explain
Trump’s behavior,
I’ve come to believe there should be a
role for professional evaluation beyond
speculating from afar.
I’m not alone. Viewers of Trump’s recent speeches have
begun noticing minor abnormalities in his movements.
In November, he used his free hand to
steady a small Fiji bottle as he brought
it to his mouth. Onlookers described the
movement as “awkward” and made
jokes about hand size.
Some called out Trump for doing the exact thing he had
mocked Senator Marco Rubio for during the presidential
primary—conspicuously drinking water during a speech.
Case closed! Immediate removal from office via 25th
Amendment due to awkward water bottle handling.
Then in December, speaking about his
national-security plan in Washington,
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D.C., Trump reached under his podium
and grabbed a glass with both hands.
This time he kept them on the glass the
entire time he drank, and as he put the
glass down. This drew even more
attention. The gesture was like that of an
extremely cold person cradling a mug of
cocoa. Some viewers likened him to a child
just learning to handle a cup.
Aha! Solid evidence for his removal from office in contrast
to the fact-free Russia collusion theory.
Then there was an incident of slurred speech. Announcing
the relocation of the American embassy in Israel from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem—a dramatic foreign-policy move—
Trump became difficult to understand at a phonetic level,
which did little to reassure many observers of the
soundness of his decision.
Just one incident of slurred speech is enough to go through
the emotions of examining his brain before 25
Amendmenting him out of office.
Though these moments could be inconsequential, they call
attention to the alarming absence of a system to evaluate
elected officials’ fitness for office—to reassure concerned
citizens that the “leader of the free world” is not
cognitively impaired, and on a path of continuous decline.
Especially if such a leader is a Republican.
After age 40, the brain decreases in volume by about 5
percent every decade.
The most noticeable loss is in the
frontal lobes. These control motor
functioning of the sort that would direct
a hand to a cup and a cup to the mouth
in one fluid motion—in most cases
without even looking at the cup.
You cannot be president if you are unable to take a drink
from a water bottle in one fuid motion. Oh, and also if you
are a Republican.
Hamblin then analyzes Trump's speech patterns from thirty
years ago during interviews with Larry King and Oprah in
comparison with today and concludes possible
dementia...or even Alzheimer's:
Though it is not possible to diagnose a
person with dementia based on speech
patterns alone, these are the sorts of
changes that appear in early stages of
Alzheimer’s. Trump has likened himself to
Ronald Reagan, and the changes in
Trump’s speech evoke those seen in the
late president. Reagan announced his
Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 1994, but there
was evidence of linguistic change over the
course of his presidency that experts have
argued was indicative of early decline. His
grammar worsened, and his sentences
were more often incomplete. He came to
rely ever more on vague and simple words:
indefinite nouns and “low imageability”
verbs like have, go, and get.
Finally, Hamblin's solution to the water bottle handling
and linguistic change problem--- A presidential fitness
committee run like the Congressional Budget Office:
A presidential-fitness committee—of the
sort that Carter and others propose,
.
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consisting of nonpartisan medical and
psychological experts—could exist in a
capacity similar to the Congressional
Budget Office. It could regularly assess
the president’s neurologic status and give a
battery of cognitive tests to assess
judgment, recall, decision-making,
attention—the sorts of tests that might help
a school system assess whether a child is
suited to a particular grade level or
classroom—and make the results
available.
Such a panel need not have the power to unseat a
president, to undo a democratic election, no matter the
severity of illness. Even if every member deemed a
president so impaired as to be unfit to execute the duties of
the office, the role of the committee would end with the
issuing of that statement. Acting on that information—or
ignoring or disparaging it—would be up to the people and
their elected officials.
And we pretty much already know how such a committee
loaded with Trump deranged loons would rule.
Much more interesting than examining Trump's brain
would be to place electrodes all over the head of one James
Hamblin and analyze the jump in brain waves whenever
the name of Trump is mentioned.
Was Huma Abedin The Ultimate Spy, One Of The Greatest
Traitors To America In US History? It's Time To Take
Down 'The Enemies Of America Within', President Trump!
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 3, 2018
While President Donald Trump took to twitter on Tuesday
to urge the 'deep state justice department' to act against
Huma Abedin as Susan Duclos reported in this ANP story,
evidence is emerging that Huma may have been the
'ultimate spy' in the drive of radical Islam to destroy
America as we detail within this ANP story, a true 'enemy
of America within'...Hillary Clinton's bedroom.
Born in 1976 to Syed Zainul Abedin (1928–93) and Saleha
Mahmood Abedin in Michigan, at the age of two her
family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where Huma lived
until returning to the US for college at the age of 18.
Within 2 years, she was working at the White House as an
intern for then first-lady Hillary Clinton.
As Wikipedia reports about her family,
both of her parents were educators. Her
father, born in New Delhi (India) on April 2,
1928, was an Islamic and Middle Eastern
scholar of Indian descent, who received his
PhD from the University of Pennsylvania,
and then in 1978 founded the Institute of
Muslim Minority Affairs, an organization
devoted to the study of Muslim
communities in non-Muslim societies
around the world. In 1979, he founded the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, which
his wife took over after his death; his
daughter Huma was listed as an associate
editor from 1996–2008.
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Known as a trusted adviser to Hillary, particularly on the
Middle East, prior to the Democratic primaries in 2007 she
was labeled as 'Hillary Clinton's Secret Weapon' after
having taking over the position as Hillary's top aide and
personal advisor prior to her 2000 NY Senate run, later to
be appointed 'deputy chief of staff' to Hillary at the US
State Department in 2009.
And as we've learned in story after story that have come
out this week as also heard in the first two videos below
from Sean Hannity and Fox News, with classified
documents found on her husband Anthony Weiner's
laptop, people like Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton
should be very worried that they'll soon be going to prison
for jeopardizing US national security. Are US military
secrets now in the hands of radical Islamists or Iran or
even China or Russia because of them?
Back on October 25th of 2016 we published a story on
ANP titled "Anonymous Exposes 'The Grand Jihad To
Overthrow America' - Calls Hillary Clinton 'The Root Of
All Evil' And Uncovers 'The Sleeper' Within" and as we
reported in that story, we were likely watching the
'ultimate infiltration' of a US presidential candidate, and
therefore America, with the infiltration of Hillary by Huma
Abedin.
We have decided to republish an extended excerpt of that
story as part of the next few sections of this story to help
tell this tale that must be told. Please keep in mind that
while the source story was written prior to the election, the
truth within it remains the same.:
 We've all seen the scenario played out
in Hollywood movies and real-world
leaders of nations going back millenia
know the dangers all too well. A
mysterious woman or man suddenly
captures the attention of a country's
leader or other high-placed insider -
covertly to gather top secret
information, assassinate the target or
completely infiltrate their regime. As
many know, the Russians are famous
for their notorious female spies
throughout history.
As we enter the stretch run of the 2016
election, we are once again witnessing
such an 'infiltration' of a political figure
though as it's not the Russians who are
doing the infiltrating this time. As we
also learn, this 'infiltration' has grave
consequences for Christians and every
person across America and those who
love freedom across the world.
Who is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's
#1 aide and sidekick for the past 20
years and why should we as American
citizens even care? As we learn in the
final video below from Anonymous,
Huma Abedin has absolutely undeniable
ties to both terrorists and those who
funded the 9/11 attacks upon
America. (ANP: We have again
embedded that video as the final one
below)
Why should Americans care about who the mother of
Huma Abedin is? As we also reported in that October
story, during the Obama administration, we witnessed a
'stealth' jihad to overthrow America and while we were
called 'conspiracy theorists' for even suggesting such a
thing, remember that the Islamic principal of taqqiya
permits Muslims to lie to advance the cause of Islam - in
some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order
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to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them. Once
again, from that October of 2016 story referencing the
final video below.:
We have proof that her mother supports
both the death penalty for those who
choose to leave Islam as well as the
subordination of women. Huma and her
mother both worked for the same
radical Islamic journal.
Proving to us beyond any doubt the
strong ties between Abedin, Hillary
Clinton and 'the grand jihad' to
overthrow America, we see the ties
exposed before our very eyes of a long-
held plan to replace our political system
here in America with a repressive form
of Sharia law with Hillary Clinton and
her top aide Abedin leading the way.
Also showing to us the undeniable ties
between Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin,
Abdullah Omar Naseef and the nation of
Saudi Arabia as the main players in this
drama that the MSM is hoping you never
find out about, we also see the proof of
ties between these main players and
numerous organizations that all share
the same goals and have told us
repeatedly in plain English they want to
destroy Western civilization and replace
it with repressive Sharia law.
As we learned in this 2013 story from the National
Review, Huma worked for many years at a journal that
promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded
by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef.
Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign
terrorist organization under American law. Ms. Abedin and
Naseef overlapped at the Journal of Muslim Minority
Affairs (JMMA) for at least seven years. Throughout that
time (1996–2003), Ms. Abedin ALSO worked for Hillary
Clinton in various capacities.
You read that correctly. As Anonymous also tells us in that
final video below, during the same time period as the 9/11
attacks upon America, Huma Abedin was working for both
Hillary Clinton AND those funding the terrorists
responsible for attacking America.
Even this NY Post story from back on August 21st, 2016
told us Huma worked at a radical Muslim journal for 10
years and even ripped apart a 1995 proclamation made by
Hillary that 'woman's rights are human rights'. From their
story.:
One of Clinton’s biggest
accomplishments listed on her
campaign website is her support for the
UN women’s conference in Bejing in
1995, when she famously declared,
“Women’s rights are human rights.” Her
speech has emerged as a focal point of
her campaign, featured prominently in
last month’s Morgan Freeman-narrated
convention video introducing her as the
Democratic nominee.
However, soon after that “historic and
transformational” 1995 event, as Clinton
recently described it, her top aide Huma
Abedin published articles in a Saudi
journal taking Clinton’s feminist
platform apart, piece by piece. At the
time, Abedin was assistant editor of the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
working under her mother, who remains
editor-in-chief. She was also working in
the White House as an intern for then-
first lady Clinton.
Headlined “Women’s Rights Are Islamic
Rights,” a 1996 article argues that single
moms, working moms and gay couples
with children should not be recognized
as families. It also states that more
revealing dress ushered in by women’s
liberation “directly translates into
unwanted results of sexual promiscuity
and irresponsibility and indirectly
promote violence against women.” In
other words, sexually liberated women
are just asking to be raped.
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As we also asked back in October of 2016, Abedin began
working for Clinton in the US State Department after only
being here for 2 years in this country.
Was she trained to infiltrate America
knowing Clinton's alleged proclivity for
lesbian women? If male leaders can be
seduced by spies who don't have their best
interests at heart, there is no doubt in our
mind that female "leaders" can be as well.
We continued:
Knowing the Clinton's sordid history, did
those seeking to overthrow America realize
that Hillary was 'ripe for the picking'? The
final video below provides absolute proof
that Hillary has been infiltrated by someone
with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
and those who seek to overthrow our form
of government in the West.
And why has Huma refused to deny her terror ties?
As we're told in the final video, the Institute
of Muslim Minority Affairs is funded by the
same person who funded those who
attacked America on 9/11 and who also
funds the Muslim World League. While the
ties exposed here begin twisted like
spaghetti, Anonymous does an outstanding
job untangling the terror mess and proves
to us a deep well of treason exists that is
now bubbling up to the surface with the
intention of taking down America and the
West.
And while America has thankfully dodged that bullet for at
least another 3 years and hopefully 7 with President Trump
possibly doing the impossible, taking down Hillary Clinton
and the 'deep state', as ANP writer William B. Stoecker
recently wrote in this story on ANP, we need to stay awake
and aware about what's happening here in America.
With the 'globalist deep state' still attempting to take down
President Trump and the 1st Amendment here in America,
working to permanently silence those within the
independent media who speak out loudly against them,
how quickly might things change should Hillary not be
held accountable for her actions but run again for President
in 2020 and win? While the worst nightmare for millions,
should such a thing happen, like Barack Obama sealing his
records in his first executive order, the chance for
Americans and the world to ever learn the truth about
Hillary and Huma will forever be lost.

Why hasn't there been a serious investigation into Huma

asks Fox News in the 3rd video below? Between Barack
Obama in the Oval office, Iran-born Valerie Jarrett as one
of his chief advisers, the Muslim Brotherhood in the White
House during Obama's term in office and Huma Abedin
into 'all things Hillary', it's easy to understand why there
hadn't been a serious investigation up to this point. Yet
with all things seemingly now changing before our eyes,
it's time to take them all down, President Trump!

The first video below is a brief excerpt from the 2nd,

Hannity's full show Tuesday night.

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“Deep State” DoJ, FBI, Won’t Answer Congress’ Questions
But Will LEAK To The Traitorous “Mainstream” Media
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Republicans in Congress have had it with senior staffers
and officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI, and
are preparing to lower the boom on them as investigations
are set to refocus on how they sought to undermine
President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
But in the meantime, GOP members of Congress are
taking both agencies to task in public, questioning not only
their loyalty to the country but also whether or not they are
violating laws through continuous leaking to ‘friendly’
mainstream media outlets.
On Tuesday, Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., a frequent critic
of senior FBI and DoJ officials who have been
stonewalling congressional committees seeking
information about their anti-Trump efforts, appeared on
Fox News to decry their refusal to answer questions about
the famed “Trump dossier,” but have no problem leaking
select details to outlets like The New York Times.
DeSantis, a member of the House Judiciary Committee,
along with GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Trey
Gowdy, has been attempting to get to the bottom of
whether or not the FBI used the bogus dossier as a
legitimate “intelligence” document it then took to the
secretive FISA court in order to get a warrant to spy on the
Trump campaign.
The Florida lawmaker tore into a New York Times piece
published earlier this week claiming that Trump campaign
volunteer George Papadopoulos is the one who sparked the
Russian collusion investigation.
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The Times essentially reported that Papadopoulos got too
drunk one evening at a swanky London wine bar and
revealed to an Australian diplomat that the Russians have
“political dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
When you think about it, whether Papadopoulos knew that
for certain or not, it makes perfect sense, given that she and
hubby Bill were involved in the Uranium One scandal,
used an unsecured email server that was likely hacked (by
Russia and others), and had an aide who similarly
compromised national security information.
But I digress. The Times’ claims unraveled within hours of
publication. And besides, the paper reported in April that
former Trump campaign aide Carter Page was the one who
really triggered the collusion investigation (though he
wasn’t, either). (Related: PROOF that Hillary Clinton
got special treatment by the FBI, which exonerated her
even though she committed serious crimes.)
How do we know? Because the Deep State
let it slip months ago in a leak to CNN that
the Feds used the dossier to get the FISA
warrant. Oops.
As for what specific role the dossier played in getting the
FISA warrant, DeSantis told Fox News,
“I asked Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein that very question under oath in
front of the Judiciary Committee and he
hemmed and hawed and would not answer
the question. So it’s a little odd to me when
the DOJ will not answer that but yet there
are some people either in the FBI and DOJ
who has no problem leaking that to The
New York Times.”
“That attempt strikes me as an attempt on
some people in the agency to deflect from
the dossier,” he added, as reported by The
Gateway Pundit.
Rosenstein was appointed to his post by Obama.
Rosenstein also happens to be the DoJ official who
authorized a special counsel to investigate alleged Trump-
Russia collusion, then named Deep State operative Robert
Mueller to head it up.
In December, under questioning from DeSantis and other
GOP lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee, Rosenstein
smugly refused to answer direct questions regarding the
dossier.
“The Russia investigation. Who started it?
Who was the agent? Was it [anti-Trump
FBI counterintelligence agent Peter] Strzok
who started it? Who opened the case?”
“That matter is under review by the
Intelligence Committee and there is nothing
that I can talk about publicly regarding the
.
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initiation of the investigation,” the deputy
AG responded.
When DeSantis pressed, Rosenstein suggested that only
the House Intelligence Committee has oversight in the
matter. That set the congressman off.
“That’s not true! We have oversight over
your department and the FBI and whether
public funds were spent on a dossier —
that’s not something that is classified! We
have every right to that information. You
should provide it,” he said.
 Where Are George Soros, Hillary Clinton And Tony
Podesta? Also, Surge Of Politicians Now
Wearing 'Medical Boots'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 3, 2018
I have seen a lot of chatter on the Q-Anon and MegaAnon
postings at 4chan and 8chan, and have been asked why
don't we follow the goings on, the "clues," offered, and
write about it. While it is true we haven't detailed their
daily and weekly chatter, and won't, that does not mean we
are ignoring it either. Since mid-2017, we have carefully
watched, tallied the predictions, balanced the ones that
came true out with those that haven't, along with those that
could possibly still happen.
See, anyone can anonymously claim they are a secret
Intelligence sources offering tidbits and puzzle pieces for
everyone else to put together, that doesn't mean they are,
but it doesn't mean they aren't either, so unless something
can be confirmed, verified or debunked, we simply
continue to observe, research and wait.
Some things have caught my interest, and that of author,
and political commentator Jerome Corsi. Specific postings
that fit in with the major news events we are witnessing,
from President Trump's Executive order that could literally
bring down high profile figures like the Clintons, as certain
individuals names in the annex of the EO are connected in
one way or another with the Clintons or the Clinton
Foundation, or how that EO could apply to people like
billionaire troublemaker George Soros, and other
individuals. (More on that EO to catch up in a prior ANP
article from December 22, 2017)
Below Corsi details some of his observations which lead
him to believe another "shoe is about to drop," as he
highlights his belief that all the sexual assault allegations
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that started with the fall of Democratic mega-donor
Harvey Weinstein, are just the "tip of the iceberg" which
will lead into massive crackdowns and major exposure into
the rampant problem of pedophilia and child trafficking,
and how that all ties in with the timing of President
Trump's December 21, 2017 executive order titled
"Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons
Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or
Corruption."
As ANP detailed on December 22, 2017, that executive
order did not only specify foreign actors but also anyone
within our government, presently or former officials, that
are complicit or had been directly engaged in
"(1) corruption, including the
misappropriation of state assets, the
expropriation of private assets for personal
gain, corruption related to government
contracts or the extraction of natural
resources, or bribery; or (2) the transfer or
the facilitation of the transfer of the
proceeds of corruption."
That EO also announced that anyone caught up within
those parameters, could have their assets seized
immediately and without warning.
Corsi believes that many things we have seen and reported
on, are indicators that the stage is being set for something
huge. Listen below.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
That Dec. 21, 2017 executive order could potentially cover
a whole lot of household names, including people like
Hillary and Bill Clinton, the Podesta's both John and Tony,
and the man behind many color revolutions, George Soros.
Tony Podesta: Which brings us to the
headlined question of where certain
individuals are right now, as we have noted
many are asking where Tony Podesta has
been since he stepped down from the
company he founded, The Podesta Group,
 on the same day that special Counsel
Robert Mueller charged former Trump
campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Quick note and update on Manafort: On January 3, 2018,
Manafort issued a lawsuit against Department of Justice,
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special
counsel Robert Mueller - see more here)
One of the people asking about Podesta just happens to be
the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in an
interview published by the NYT on December 28, 2017,
via the Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump believes special
counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly
in his ongoing investigation, but he is
curious why charges have not yet been
filed against democratic lobbyist Tony
Podesta.
“Whatever happened to Podesta?,” the
president asked during a wide-ranging New
York Times interview published Thursday.
“[T]hey closed their firm, they left in
disgrace, the whole thing, and now you
never heard of anything.”
Trump referenced the apparent scrutiny the
Podesta Group is under by Mueller’s team
for lobbying work it did in the U.S. on behalf
of former Ukranian leader Viktor
Yanukovych. The lobbying reportedly
resembles the same activity former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort was
indicted for by the special counsel.
The Podesta Group, once headed by
brother of former Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta, is likely to close
by the end of this year. His brother, Tony
Podesta, stepped down from his position at
the firm in late October.
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Excellent question, what has happened to Tony Podesta? A
man known for his creepy "child art," and to which his
company was named in the Manafort indictment as
"company B," as one of the firms solicited to lobby on
behalf of the Ukranian government.
So, Podesta steps down from his position at Podesta group,
the groups then announces their closure, to reopen as
another entity, then he goes off the radar.
A search using a variety of search engines brings up a
number of "claims" about Tony Podesta being in Gitmo,
arrested, turning states witness and being in protective
custody, none of which confirmed and nothing more than
rumor, but absolutely nothing offering direct witness
sightings, when looking in "news" or just on the "web"
option itself.
George Soros: Another person that seems
to have been strangely quiet lately is
George Soros. Liberal billionaire, and the
money man behind many of the instances
of anti-Trump protests and rioting within the
U.S. over the past year, has oddly gone
quiet on his social media Twitter account.
The last tweet from Soros or whoever runs his Twitter
account was on November 26, 2017. Prior to that his
account tweeted out messages regularly every month.
Some months a dozen, some more, some a few less, but
active every month recently except in December and early
January.
Like with Podesta, there are hyperbolic "claims" around
the internet that Soros had a heart attack on Christmas Eve,
but nothing in any news agency, or even Hungary news,
nor any announcements from any of Soros' businesses,
which is where a press release would generally be
generated should something have happened to him health-
wise.
It was reported in October 2017 that Soros had transferred
the bulk of his wealth, some $18 billion to his Open
Society Foundations. Is it possible Soros and/or his
advisors saw the writing on the wall, or were maybe tipped
off, and transferred the bulk of his billions to the society to
prevent the U.S. government from freezing or seizing his
assets as part of the upcoming EO?
Hillary Clinton: While Hillary Clinton's
Twitter page has been active, there is no
way of knowing if she still has staff manage
her social media as she used to end her
personal tweets with "-H" and none of them
this past year has included it.
We haven't seen any public appearances from Clinton
since mid-December, where it was noted that she is still
wearing a "medical boot." Clinton started wearing that
boot in October when she apparently took a spill, which at
first it was reported she hurt her ankle, then she stated she
had broken a toe. That "accident" coincidentally happened
a day before the huge Uranium One scandal broke out after
a blockbuster report at The Hill. Clinton had canceled
appearances on her book tour at the time.
Then Congresswoman Jackie Speier, the woman that
claimed that President Trump was going to fire Robert
Mueller on December 22, 2017 (which never happened),
and who also happens to be one of the lawmakers on
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
that employed Imran Awan who has been federally
indicted for federal bank fraud and conspiracy.

(Note- Reports from January 3, 2017, indicate there was a

fire at the Clintons' Chappaqua, New York Home, but no
injuries have been reported)

SURGE IN POLITICIANS WEARING MEDICAL

BOOTS

While Clinton's use of the medical boot for two months

from just a broken toe has been the topic of articles, such
as this one from Daily Mail, we are noting a number of
other politicians seem to be having problems with their
leg/foot. That or they have very strange ideas of what is
considered a fashion accessory.

On November 2, 2017, Representative Jackie Walorski,

a House Ways and Means member, was also pictured
wearing a medical boot, when going to speak to the press
after a meeting with President Trump.

John McCain, the Senator from Arizona that arranged to

have "unverified" Kremlin sourced Trump dossier, that
Hillary Clinton and the DNC helped fund, delivered to the
FBI, is sporting a medical boot on his right foot, after a
minor tear in his right Achilles tendon. (Although he has
moved it to the left on at least one occasion.)
There is a significant amount of chatter across the internet
with people speculating these boots are being worn to hide
ankle monitors because these people are in legal trouble.
This rumor cannot be confirmed and anything other than
providing us all with newly taken pictures of both their
legs and feet without socks or boots (Think they would do
it if we asked? No? Me either), means it won't be
debunked any time soon.

There is one rumor I can debunk. Images are being shared

of Chelsea Clinton in a medical boot as well. Those images
are real, but they were taken back in 2012.

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BOTTOM LINE
There is a lot going on in January, with the president
highlighting Huma Abedin's crimes, and others, while
calling out the "Deep State Justice Department," and
investigations ongoing in both houses of Congress
regarding Uranium One, the FBI and DOJ under Obama,
along with the ongoing OIG review of the FBI and DOJ
.
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actions during the Clinton investigation, and the DOJ now
ordering their prosecutors to also review the Clinton
evidence and the reasons former FBI director James
Comey let Hillary Clinton off regarding her emails and
private server usage....... so it appears Corsi may be
correct, it does seem as if the stage is being set to see
another shoe, or perhaps a closet full of them, drop.
“The 25th Amendment Needs To Be Enforced”: Green Day
Frontman Billy Joe Armstrong Tells His Fans That Support
Trump To “F**K OFF” While Calling For
His Impeachment
Alex Thomas
January 3rd, 2018

it takes to ignore the actual facts surrounding the rogue

nuclear nation.

One user detailed these facts and was viciously attacked by

Armstrong in another post that made clear that the Green
Day singer has indeed lost his mind.

The concerned fan(former?) wrote,

“I love how no one loses their shit about

how Kim Jong
In the never ending saga that is the establishments attack 1) Literally made the same threat hours
on all things Donald Trump, more and more rich before Trump
musicians have publicly aligned themselves against the
president with unhinged rants that not only attack Trump 2) Is the reason all those innocent people
but also the tens of the millions of Americans who voted are starving
for him. 3) Threatens the rest of the world
4) Has active death camps. But no by all
In other words, Trump Derangement Syndrome is means Trump’s the real villain here you
especially strong with rich liberals who are falling over guys.”
themselves to attack the president as if it is somehow
courageous to literally join with the establishment.
Armstrong responded,

The latest example comes in the form of an Instagram rant

“Go fuck yourself you fucking keyboard
in which Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong had a
coward. You don’t know what the fuck
mini meltdown over the presidents latest tweet about North
you’re talking about. No one is coming for
Korea, eventually going on to attack his own fans who
you you paranoid fool. This is your
support the president while joining with the deep state
president making threats of mass
echo chamber in calling for the use of the 25th
destruction. Wake up or get the fuck off my
Amendment to remove him from office.
Instagram.”

“This isn’t funny. This is our president

Eventually Armstrong took it one step further, responding
acting like a madman drunk on power
to another comment by telling all the people who support
THREATENING to kill innocent starving
his band that also happen to support the president to “f**k
people by way of nuclear war. The 25th
off” and to stop listening. (very rich for a privileged
amendment needs to be enforced. This
musician to say.)
man is sick and unfit for office. I don’t care
if your liberal or conservative.. this has to
stop . Please share #impeachtrump.” “Well then go fuck yourself you stupid piece
of shit. If that’s the way you feel about
mass destruction and murder then fuck off.
As Paul Joseph Watson rightfully noted, many Americans
Stay the fuck off my Instagram and don’t
responded to Armstrong’s call for Trump to be impeached
come back. Don’t listen to my fucking
with anger while also pointing out the stunning hypocrisy
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 records. I have no problem telling ignorant
fucks like you to go to hell. That goes for
any other stupid fucks that thinks this
behavior should be normalized. Get the
fuck out!”
As Watson wrote,
“Armstrong’s response to Trump’s tweet
mirrored the hysterical reaction of the
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mainstream media, which doesn’t seem to
get anywhere near as irate about the fact
that Kim Jong-un routinely threatens the
world with nuclear holocaust and presides
over a brutal regime that imprisons
hundreds of thousands of its own people in
political death camps.”
Another day, another rich liberal melting down over
Donald Trump.
 Trump Follows Infowars’ Lead
With ‘Fake News Awards’ Ceremony
Infowars Had Held A Fake News Awards Ceremony In November
Infowars.Com - January 3, 2018

follow Infowars’ lead and once again announce a more

official Fake News Awards to be held Monday.
“I will be announcing THE MOST
DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA
AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at
5:00 o’clock,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
“Subjects will cover Dishonesty & and Bad
Reporting in various categories from the
President Donald Trump announced he Fake News Media. Stay Tuned!”
would hold the “most dishonest and
corrupt media” awards ceremony on
Monday, January 3.

Trump floated the idea of holding such an awards

ceremony last November.

“We should have a contest as to which of

the Networks, plus CNN and not including
Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt, and/or
distorted in its political coverage of your
favorite President (me). They are all bad.
Winner to receive Fake News Trophy!” he
tweeted.
A list of Winners from the Infowars Fake News Awards
Ceremony can be viewed below:
Fake News Anchor: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
Fake News Entertainer: Stephen Colbert
Fake News Publication: NY Times
Fake News Network: CNN
Fake News Reporter: Jim Acosta
Fake News Politician: Hillary Clinton
Fake News Story: Trump-Russia collusion

Infowars answered the president’s call and held a Fake

News Awards ceremony later that same night, with
winners in several categories including Fake Publication,
Anchor, Entertainer, and Reporter.

The following December, the mainstream media faked

several “bombshell” stories surrounding Trump and the
phony Russia-Gate investigation, prompting Trump to

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 If The Trump Administration DOESN’T Indict Hillary
Clinton, James Comey, Then The Rule Of Law
In America Is DEAD
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Just days before he won his first presidential election,
then-Sen. Barack Obama said he was just “days away”
from fundamentally transforming America.
Talking heads, politicos and pundits on the Right parsed
his words in an attempt to figure out just what he meant.
Eight years later, his meaning became clear: Obama sought
to fundamentally transform America’s institutions, culture,
and justice system, and many believe he succeeded beyond
even his wildest dreams.
Particularly hard hit was the American justice system.
Obama, we now know, politicized every aspect of it by
putting in place rank partisans who, in carrying out the
former president’s political objectives, ignored and buried
substantial violations of law that undoubtedly harmed U.S.
national security in ways we may never be able to fully
gauge.
The best walking, talking examples of this are Hillary
Clinton and James Comey.
Clinton, during her tenure as Obama’s first secretary of
state, not only used her position to pad her and her
husband’s pocketbooks through their financial vehicle, the
Clinton Foundation, but in her quest for secrecy, she
installed a private, unsecured email server in her New
York home and used it to conduct official business.
In the course of conducting that business, she handled
scores of classified and confidential information that she
was never held accountable for, despite the fact that the
FBI had discovered evidence she violated several statutes
pertaining to the handling of classified information.
As reported by The Hill, for the first time congressional
investigators say they have obtained written evidence that
the FBI believed there were indications and additional
evidence some laws were violated when the former
secretary of state for President Obama and her top aides
sent classified information through her unsecured private
email server. (Related: Hannity sez ‘People like Hillary
Clinton should be nervous – People will be going to jail’
as GOP lawmakers find NEW ‘irregularities’ and
‘contradictions’ in FBI’s EMAIL investigation (Video))
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“That evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the ‘sheer volume’ of
classified information that flowed through
Clinton’s insecure emails was proof of
criminality as well as an admission of false
statements by one key witness in the case,
the investigators said,” as quoted by The
Hill.
Then, of course, there is former FBI Director Comey,
whom we now know planned to exonerate Clinton from
those crimes long before he announced that he would
during a highly irregular July 2016 press conference.
In making that statement to the press, Comey laid out the
bureau’s case against Clinton:
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned
to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52
e-mail chains have been determined by the
owning agency to contain classified
information at the time they were sent or
received. Eight of those chains contained
information that was Top Secret at the time
they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret
information at the time; and eight contained
Confidential information, which is the
lowest level of classification.
The former FBI director would then go to make some
incredible claims:
 That Clinton and her aides were not guilty of “gross
negligence” in mishandling the sensitive information,
only of being “extremely careless.” We now know that
initially, Comey wrote “gross negligence” in an early
draft, but that it was changed to “extremely careless” by
FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok. This is
important because “gross negligence” is language
taken directly from the statutes governing the handling
of classified documents and therefore is legally
actionable.
 Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor” would elect to
prosecute Clinton. That’s not his decision to make, it’s
 the attorney general’s decision (in this case another
Obama sycophant, Loretta Lynch).
 He also said the FBI did not find “evidence” that Clinton
“intended” to mishandle classified information. Intent
doesn’t matter, and in fact, the statutes state clearly
that intent makes no difference (hence the “gross
negligence” language).
After admitting that Clinton did indeed
mishandle dozens of pieces of classified
information, he still didn’t recommend she
be charged.
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Barack Obama’s corruption of the Justice Department and
FBI couldn’t be plainer. Now just imagine how much he’s
“fundamentally transformed” other institutions of
government.
If the Trump administration doesn’t act
against Clinton, Comey, and anyone else
responsible for serial violations of U.S. law,
then we are no longer a nation of laws and
therefore no one should be prosecuted
for anything.
 Grassley: James Comey May Have
LEAKED CLASSIFED Memo To Friend
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
Grassley asked Rosenstein to clarify whether the DOJ or
FBI have determined whether any of the memos that
Comey sent to Richman contained classified information
(National Sentinel) Illegal: The chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee said in a letter to Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday that former FBI
Directory James Comey may have illegally leaked a
classified memo to a friend.
In his letter, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, demanded
answers from Rosenstein regarding the handling of memos
that Comey wrote following his conversations with
President Donald J. Trump, The Daily Caller reported.
The Judiciary chairman said that he and his staff have
recently reviewed seven memos Comey wrote following
his meetings with the president. Of those, four contained
information that was classified as “Secret” or
“Confidential.”
Grassley also noted that past media reports claimed that
Comey gave at least four memos to his friend, Columbia
law professor Daniel Richman.
During congressional testimony last year, Comey told a
House panel he hoped that leaking the memos would lead
to a special counsel appointment aimed at investigating
Trump’s campaign. Shortly thereafter, Rosenstein
appointed former FBI director and Comey friend Robert
Mueller.
A report in July 2017 said that more than half of the
memos Comey wrote following his Trump meetings
contained classified information.
“This revelation raises the possibility that
Comey broke his own agency’s rules and
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ignored the same security protocol that he
publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the
waning days of the 2016 presidential
election,” The Hill reported.
The paper also noted that Comey testified the previous
month before the House Intelligence Committee that he
shared at least one of them with Richman. “He asked that
lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news
media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special
prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired
as FBI director,” The Hill noted further.
“If it’s true that Professor Richman had four
of the seven memos, then in light of the
fact that four of the seven memos the
Committee reviewed are classified, it would
appear that at least one memo the former
FBI director gave Professor Richman
contained classified information,” Grassley
writes.
He asserted in his letter that the Justice Department and
FBI have so far failed to provide crucial details about the
memos and how they were handled.
Grassley said during a recent review of the memos that
was held in a secure facility, FBI personnel “refused” to
answer questions about the chain of custody of the memos,
when they were deemed classified, and who made the
classified determinations.
The Daily Caller reported further:
In his letter, Grassley asked Rosenstein to
clarify whether the DOJ or FBI have
determined whether any of the memos that
Comey sent to Richman contained
classified information and which of the
seven Comey memos had been provided
to Richman.
Grassley is also inquiring when Richman
received the memos and whether any had
classification markings on them at the time
they were exchanged.
.
 Donald Trump Jr.: Bannon
‘Nightmare Of Backstabbing, Leaking, Lying,
Undermining’
By John Nolte
4 Jan 2018
Using his Twitter account Wednesday,
the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.,
personally responded to reports of
comments made by Breitbart News
Executive Chairman Steve Bannon
about the Trump family. The younger
Trump’s comments echoed those made
by the president himself in a White
House statement filled with accusations
against his former chief strategist.
Among other things, the president claimed Bannon had
been “fired,” was guilty of spreading “false information to
the media to make himself seem far more important than
he was,” and that Bannon had “little to do with our historic
victory[.]”
Trump, however, did give Bannon full credit for “the loss
of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years
by Republicans.”
Donald Trump Jr. also mocked Bannon over the Alabama
Senate loss. “Thanks Steve. Keep up the great work,” he
wrote in response to a tweet about a Democrat capturing
that seat.
Thanks Steve. Keep up the great work.
https://t.co/J9O8CUfJAD
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
January 3, 2018
A second tweet pressed this same point:
It would be amazing if there would have
been a nice simple path to keeping this
seat with a nice 30 point margin…
#thankssteve https://t.co/uB7DXMZjiH
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018
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After Breitbart News published a series of stories covering
the reports of Bannon’s comments, Don Jr. said that the
reader comments on those stories showed that “Bannon
has lost Breitbart[.]”
Wow, Just looked at the comments section
on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost
Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
January 3, 2018
A few hours later, he blasted Bannon as a “nightmare of
backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying & undermining the
President.”
Steve had the honor of working in the
White House & serving the country.
Unfortunately, he squandered that privilege
& turned that opportunity into a nightmare
of backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying &
undermining the President. Steve is not a
strategist, he is an opportunist
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
January 3, 2018
Retweets also signaled Trump’s thoughts on Bannon. This
included an accusation from the Daily Mail’s David
Martosko that Bannon “was the single biggest leaker in the
West Wing (until his departure).”
In case it's not clear to everyone by now,
Steve Bannon was the single biggest
leaker in the West Wing (until his
departure).
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) January
4, 2018
 BOGUS: NYTimes’ Papadopoulos ‘Bombshell’ Continues
To Unravel After Former DNI Clapper Says He Knew
NOTHING About Him
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018

“There were other factors that I think were President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James
the stimulus for the investigation” Clapper told CNN Tuesday evening that Papadopoulos was
not on his “radar scope” when he left.

“There were other factors that I think were

the stimulus for the investigation and the
revelation about George Papadopoulos,
which was not a name on my radar scope
when I left…I think also was another
factor,” Clapper said.

The former DNI also made the claim, as some Democrats

(National Sentinel) Deep Mistake: Last weekend The New and Left-leaning media outlets have similarly made in the
York Times published what it considered a ‘bombshell’ past, that portions of the Russian dossier have been
revelation: That George Papadopoulos, a young foreign substantiated.
policy adviser to the Trump campaign, was the individual
who essentially got the “Russian collusion” investigation
However, when pressed, Clapper could only recount two
started, rather than the widely refuted “Trump dossier.”
instances, neither of which have to do with alleged Russian
collusion with the Trump campaign.
“During a night of heavy drinking at an
upscale London bar in May 2016, George
He cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “animus”
Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy
towards Hillary Clinton “and the determination of clearly
adviser to the Trump campaign, made a
favoring…Trump to win the presidency” as the two
startling revelation to Australia’s top
examples.
diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt
on Hillary Clinton,” the paper reported.

The rest of the report, which was lengthy, sought to add to

the new narrative that what this minor Trump campaign
official allegedly told an Australian diplomat is what
triggered the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into
alleged Russian collusion.

Republicans in Congress have long asserted that the FBI

used the unsubstantiated Trump dossier to obtain a Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant from the secretive
FISA court in order to justify launching a
counterintelligence investigation against members of
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign in 2016.
In a tweet, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly
Further evidence emerged earlier this week suggesting that Strassel noted, “Former Director of National Intelligence
Republicans are right and not the Times. James Clapper (in a Tuesday CNN interview):

George Papadopoulos “was not a name on

my radar scope when I left.” So head of
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 intelligence had never heard of the dude
that the NYT now claims launched the
entire Trump-Russia probe?”

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 Bannon Praises Trump: POTUS ‘Is A Great Man…
I Support Him Day In And Day Out’
By Robert Kraychik
4 Jan 2018
Partial transcript below.
“The President of the United States is a
great man,” said Breitbart News’s
Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon
on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s
Breitbart News Tonight.
Bannon’s comments came in response to Justin from
California, a caller-in to Breitbart News Tonight noting
President Donald Trump’s recent criticisms of Bannon.
Partial transcript below.
JUSTIN: First of all, I think [Donald Trump]
made a huge mistake, Steve, bashing you
like he did today on Twitter. That was
devastating to me. I hope in the future you
can forgive him for that when we come to
2020, because I’m sure he’s going to need
your help.
BANNON: The President of the United
States is a great man. You know I support
him day in and day out, whether going
through the country giving the Trump
Miracle speech or on the show or on the
.
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website, so I don’t you have to worry about
that. But I appreciate the kind words.
JUSTIN: Yeah, that just made me sick to
my stomach, though.
“[Donald Trump] got sucked in by fake
news, or trolled,” said Gayle in Alabama,
another caller-in toe Breitbart News
Tonight, framing the president as being
fooled by cultivated drama via the
Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Wolff.
BANNON: President Trump, with the whole
swamp up there, the D.C. apparatus, the
nullification project, everything going on; he
is fighting every day. There’s no doubt in
your mind, right? And maybe things get off
track, or stuff gets said, and all this heated
stuff, but however, this is a guy, you voted
for him, you supported him, is there any
doubt in your mind he’s been fighting for
and working for you, the deplorables, the
forgotten man and woman, the silent
majority, every day he’s been there?
GAYLE: I’ve never thought that any of us
were deplorables. I thought they all were
criminals, because I know who they are.
I’ve done the savings and loans. I took
down many, I mean, I did the banking work.
I do know across the country, I do know the
history. We are fighting the criminals in
Washington. We are fighting the seventy-
and eighty-year-old criminals. We are
fighting the people, the Clintons and the
Bushes. We do know the history. We are
not the deplorables. We are the subdued
by the criminals in Washington… I happen
to know this country is greater because of a
Stephen K. Bannon.
 Scaramucci: Steve Bannon Should Apologize – “Even
Breitbart Will Break From Bannon If He Doesn’t Drop
The Nonsense” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018

But I have to say this, if he did say it he

Former White House communications
director Anthony Scaramucci went on
ABC, CNN and FOX and Friends on
Thursday morning to discuss the latest
dust-up between President Trump and
former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
should get out there and walk it back. So
he’s got two choices, I’m not his
communications director or his strategist,
but I would say, “Walk it back, Doanld
Trump Jr. is not treasonous. He’s an
American patriot. He loves his dad and he
loves his country.” So walk it back. And if
he didn’t say it then he’s got to go out there
and denounce that he didn’t say it.

The former communications director added that even

Breitbart News will break from Steve Bannon if he doesn’t
drop the nonsense.

Via FOX and Friends:

Scaramucci told FOX and Friends that

Steve Bannon should apologize for the
comments.
Anthony Scaramucci: Look I don’t know if
it’s trump but what I would suggest is that…
let’s go verify it. At the end of the day some
of it may be true some of it may not be true.
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Counterattack: Paul Manafort Files SUIT Against Mueller,
DoJ, Charging Massive OVERREACH
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
“The principle that government must be
both limited in power and accountable to
the people lies at the core of our
constitutional traditions”
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort talks
with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos at the GOP
convention in August 2016.
(National Sentinel) Legal Defense: Lawyers for former
Donald J. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have
filed suit against special counsel Robert Mueller and the
Department of Justice, alleging both overreached with
criminal charges brought against their client last fall that
included tax evasion and money laundering.
As reported by Politico, the lawsuit also strikes at
Mueller’s legitimacy and credibility as special counsel. In
a 17-page complaint, Manafort’s attorney argue that
Mueller exceeded authority given him by the Justice
Department in May to investigate any links or coordination
between the Russian government and Trump’s campaign.
Also, the complaint argues that DoJ gave Mueller too
much power initially when it approved him to pursue “any
matters that arose or may arise directly from the
investigation.”
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
If the court refuses to strike down Mueller’s appointment,
the lawsuit makes several other suggestions, such as
setting aside Mueller’s indictments and declaring he does
not have the authority to investigate business dealings that
are not part of his original mandate.
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Also, the lawsuit suggests that the court stop him from
investigating any matters beyond the scope of the original
appointment, or
“any other relief as may be just and
proper.”
“The principle that government must be
both limited in power and accountable to
the people lies at the core of our
constitutional traditions. That principle must
be zealously guarded against creeping
incursions,” Manafort attorneys Kevin
Downing and Thomas Zehnle wrote in the
lawsuit.
The case was was filed in the same venue — the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia — that oversees
Mueller’s criminal case against both Manafort and former
Trump 2016 campaign aide Rick Gates.
The suit names DOJ, Mueller and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein as co-defendants.
Manafort’s attorneys also note a 1999 decision by
Congress to allow for the lapse of the law establishing the
independent counsel office, following a years-long
investigation of President Bill Clinton by Kenneth Starr.
While noting that Rosenstein appointed Mueller under DoJ
regulations, the suit argues the special counsel has been
given
“carte blanche to investigate and pursue
criminal charges in connection with
anything he stumbles across while
investigating, no matter how remote from
the specific matter identified as the subject
of the Appointment Order.”
Legal experts note that under current rules, Mueller is not
“independent” but rather essentially a Justice Department
employee, meaning he works for Trump, ultimately.
There has been some speculation that even if Manafort is
convicted, the president would pardon him.
 Senate Judiciary BOSS SAYS Comey LIKELY LEAKED
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times –
Updated: 10:27 A.M. ON Thursday, January 4, 2018
A top Republican senator said Wednesday that it appears
former FBI Director James B. Comey leaked classified
information in his effort to shape the narrative surrounding
President Trump’s decision to fire him.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley
said Mr. Comey wrote seven memos, and shared four of
them with a professor he was using as an intermediary to
defend him. Of the seven, four are marked at the
confidential or secret level — meaning at least one of the
memos Mr. Comey shared contained restricted
information.
Mr. Grassley now wants to know when and how the
memos were deemed classified, and what that might mean
for Mr. Comey.
The Iowa Republican fired off a letter to Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein demanding answers.
“Has there been any review of whether the
disclosure of the memoranda by Mr.
Comey was otherwise improper, such as
whether it violated his employment
agreement or any Department rule or
policy? If so, what is the status of the
review? If not, why not?” Mr. Grassley
wrote.
He said he’s personally reviewed the seven memos, but
was forced to do so in a Sensitive Compartmented
Information Facility, or SCIF.
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“The FBI insisted that these reviews take
place in a SCIF because the majority of the
memos are classified,” he said. “FBI
personnel refused to answer factual
questions during the document reviews,
including questions about the chain of
custody of the documents I was reviewing,
the date that they were marked classified,
and who marked them as classified.”
Mr. Comey has said he gave copies of memos to Daniel
Richman, a law professor at Columbia University, who
then shared information from them with the New York
Times.
Mr. Richman refused to give the memos to Mr. Grassley’s
committee, but said he turned them over to the special
counsel’s office and the FBI, which has now provided the
limited access to Mr. Grassley. At least one of the memos
had information now marked at the “secret” level, which is
above “confidential” but below “top secret.”
“The Justice Department should know
which memos were provided and be able to
share that information with the committee,”
Mr. Grassley wrote.
Mr. Comey, during the probe into former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s emails, said information can be
classified even if it isn’t properly marked as such at the
time.
He cleared Mrs. Clinton of criminal wrongdoing, saying
that while she was reckless, she was too technologically
incompetent to understand the risks she was running with
the information.
A number of press outlets have sued the FBI demanding
the Comey memos be released. The government says
release would hinder the ongoing special counsel probe
into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Mr. Comey said he wrote the memos after interactions
with Mr. Trump, saying he found the president’s behavior
to be so troubling he needed to memorialize it.
 Breaking: FBI And DOJ Announce They Will FINALLY
Deliver Subpoenaed Docs On Phony Dossier To Congress
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018

House Intelligence Committee Chairman

Devin Nunes (R-CA) is tired of waiting
for Deep State to turn over subpoenaed
documents.

Nunes and GOP lawmakers on the Intel

Committee gave the Department of
Justice and FBI until Wednesday to turn
over requested documents on the
phony Trump dossier.

Now this…

On Wednesday afternoon Deputy Attorney General Rod

Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray met with
Speaker Paul Ryan for two hours on Capitol Hill. The two
Deep State officials told Ryan they will finally deliver the
subpoenaed documents to Congress.

Rep. Devin Nunes broke the news

tonight.
The Deep State was given a deadline of
Nunes slammed the Deep State last week for failing to Wednesday.
produce the documents as required by law back in August. Let’s see if they keep their legal
commitment.
“Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI’s intransigence
with respect to the Aug. 24 subpoenas is Via the Laura Ingraham Angle:
part of a broader pattern of behavior that
can no longer be tolerated. As a result of
the numerous delays and discrepancies
that have hampered the process of
subpoena compliance, the committee no
longer credits the representations made by
DOJ and/or the FBI regarding these
matters.”

But Deep State defied Congress and refused to turn over

the documents.

On Wednesday night Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a

member of the House Freedom Caucus, told Lou Dobbs
Congress may file contempt of Congress charges against
the DOJ and FBI for failing to produce documents
subpoenaed by Congress.

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 “Legal Action Is Imminent”:
Trump Slaps Bannon With Cease-And-Desist
Zero Hedge
January 4, 2018
President Trump’s lawyers slapped former White House
Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon with a cease and desist
letter Wednesday night demanding he refrain from further
As ABC reports, in the letter to Bannon, Harder, writes,
“You [Bannon] have breached the
Agreement by, among other things,
communicating with author Michael Wolff
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
the Company, disclosing Confidential
Information to Mr. Wolff, and making
disparaging statements and in some cases
outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
the Company, knowing that they would be
included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity
surrounding the marketing and sale of his
book.”
Trump’s legal team is threatening monetary damages,
injunctive relief, and “all other remedies available at law
and equity,” although no monetary figure is given.
The letter goes on to cite Paragraph 8 of a non-disclosure
agreement Trump required all of his staff to sign to refrain
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disparaging the President and his family, reports ABC
News.
In a statement issued today, Trump attorney Charles
Harder issued a statement that “legal notice was issued
today to Stephen K. Bannon,” adding
“his actions of communicating with author
Michael Wolff regarding an upcoming book
give rise to numerous legal claims including
defamation by libel and slander, and
breach of his written confidentiality and
non-disparagement agreement with our
clients. Legal action is imminent.”
from any disparaging comments against the Trump family,
campaign, or organization;
“Consent to Injunction. A breach of any of
your promises or agreements under this
agreement will cause the Company, Mr.
Trump and each other Trump Person
irreparable harm. Accordingly, to the extent
permitted by law, and without waiving any
other rights or remedies against you at law
or in equity, you hereby consent to the
entry of any order, without prior notice to
you, temporarily or permanently enjoining
you from violating any of the terms,
covenants, agreements or provisions of this
agreement on your part to be performed or
observed. Such consent is intended to
apply to an injunction of any breach or
threatened breach.”
Under the “Damages and Other Remedies” section of the
agreement Trump’s attorneys cite a section which reads
 “Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, each Trump Person will be
entitled to all remedies available at law and
equity, including but not limited to monetary
damages, in the event of your breach of
this agreement. Nothing contained in this
agreement will constitute a waiver of any
Trump Persons remedies at law or in
equity, all of which are expressly reserved.”
Never-Trump neocon Bill Kristol suggested the cease and
desist letter is an intimidation tactic to dissuade others
from “telling the truth about what happened during the
campaign.”
Former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos said in
an Instagram post
“Sad to see Trump and Bannon at each
others’ throats today. I expect the
interviews Michael Wolff did happened a
long time ago and are tumbling out in to the
press unexpectedly. (It’s worth noting that
Wolff has a very long history of being called
out by his sources for fabricating quotes,
including this book already.),” adding “The
.
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statement from the President has left Steve
will little choice though. Expect to see
Breitbart bigging up Pence in the months to
come.”
Excerpts from Wolffs book were published Wednesday in
New York Magazine, in which Bannon described a July
2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Donald
Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer
as treasonous and unpatriotic.
Bannon also said he believed there was zero chance that
the president was not aware of the meeting, which
contradicts previous White House statements.
They’re going to crack Don Jr. like an
egg on national TV, Bannon reportedly
said.
As we reported yesterday, Following Steve Bannon’s
earlier remarks from a forthcoming book about
“treasonous” meetings at Trump Tower, President Trump
lashed out and denounced his former top strategist, saying
that he lost his mind after leaving the White House last
summer.
“When he was fired, he not only lost his
job, he lost his mind,” Trump blasted
Bannon in a White House statement. “Now
that he is on his own, Steve is learning
that winning isn’t as easy as I make it
look.”
Perhaps Steve will also learn what it’s like to be
considerably less wealthy if Trump follows through on his
new legal threats.
 IT BEGINS=> DOJ Reopens
Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, January 4, 2018

The Department of Justice has Hillary Clinton has put our national security at risk time
reopened the investigation into Hillary and time again with her mishandling of classified
Clinton’s use of a private server information, pay-to-play and Uranium One scandal.
following the release of new evidence
Congressional Republicans on key
Huma Abedin mishandled classified
committees say they have found new
information.
contradictions and irregularities inside
of the FBI’s investigation of Hillary’s
emails server, John Solomon reported.
Fired FBI Director James Comey drafted Hillary Clinton’s
exoneration letter before interviewing 17 witnesses,
including Hillary Clinton.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe didn’t recuse
The Daily Beast reported there is a renewed effort in the himself from Hillary’s email investigation despite many
Justice Department to get new details on how Hillary conflicts of interest until one week before the presidential
Clinton, Huma Abedin and other aides handled classified election.
information. The DOJ wants to know just how much
classified information was on Hillary’s private email Comey and McCabe are dirty cops who destroyed the
server and how it got there. FBI’s reputation trying to protect Hillary Clinton. The
entire ‘criminal investigation’ the FBI was conducting was
More evidence is surfacing that on Hillary’s orders, Huma a sham. Hillary was given special treatment by the FBI.
Abedin directed Hillary’s immigrant D.C. maid, Marina Everyone complicit must be jailed.
Santos to print out classified “call sheets” and access other
sensitive Clinton emails, Paul Sperry of the New York LOCK HER UP!
Post reported. President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton was pleased with
Marina Santos, an immigrant from the Philippines does not the new development.
have the security clearance required to access such
sensitive information.
Santos had access to everything while Hillary Clinton was
Secretary of State including top secret, CIA-prepared daily
presidential briefings. Unbelievable.
Thanks to Judicial Watch, all eyes are on Huma Abedin
after the State Department released a portion of the
documents found on pervert Anthony Weiner’s laptop
Friday. At least 5 emails contain classified information.
It gets worse for Huma…
Twitter erupted after a report surfaced that Hillary
Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin forwarded State Department
passwords and sensitive information to her Yahoo email
accounts.
The President hammered Crooked Hillary and Comey and
called for Huma Abedin to be jailed. He also asked the
Justice Department to “finally act” on Comey.

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 Bannon BUST: Billionaire Backer BAILS As Trump
Lawyer Threatens LAWSUIT Over Disparaging Comments
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
“Legal action is imminent”
(National Sentinel) Cock Fight: The war between former
top political advisor Steve Bannon and his former boss
President Donald J. Trump took on new twists overnight as
the Breitbart News chief lost the support of a key
billionaire backer while facing the threat of a lawsuit.
As reported by The Hill, Bannon lost the support of
billionaire Rebekah Mercer, who is an ally of the
president, after he suggested he may challenge Trump in
2020.
“A person close to Mercer told The
Washington Post that she no longer
supports Bannon. According to the report,
Mercer was frustrated with Bannon’s
strategy in the Alabama Senate Race, and
pulled her funding after he told other major
conservative donors that Mercer would
back Bannon in his own presidential
bid,” The Hill noted.
Bannon backed Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama race
after he defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a GOP
primary last year. Trump initially supported Strange but
eventually got on board with Moore in order to keep
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former seat in Republican
hands.
But after several revelations that Moore may have sexually
harassed or abused teenage girls as an adult, his candidacy
flagged and he was eventually defeated by Democrat Doug
Jones, who was sworn into the U.S. Senate earlier this
week.
“The core constituency for Breitbart is what
you would call the Trump Deplorables.
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That’s the audience. And if they’re asked to
choose between Steve and Trump, they’re
going to choose Trump. That’s clear,” a
person familiar with Breitbart News‘
operations told The Post.
It isn’t clear from the Post report if Mercer will continue to
support Breitbart News either, though she bought a stake
in the news organization from her father in November. The
Post did say that Mercer would no longer support any
Bannon projects.
Meanwhile, as ABC News reported, lawyers on behalf of
Trump have sent Bannon, the president’s former chief
political strategist, a cease-and-desist letter demanding he
stop making further disparaging statements about Trump’s
family.
Trump attorney Charles J. Harder of the firm Harder
Mirell & Abrams LLP, said in a statement,
“This law firm represents President Donald
J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc. On behalf of our clients,
legal notice was issued today to Stephen
K. Bannon, that his actions of
communicating with author Michael Wolff
regarding an upcoming book give rise to
numerous legal claims including
defamation by libel and slander, and
breach of his written confidentiality and
non-disparagement agreement with our
clients.
“Legal action is imminent,” the statement
continued.
In a letter to Bannon, Harder writes,
“You [Bannon] have breached the
Agreement by, among other things,
communicating with author Michael Wolff
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
the Company, disclosing Confidential
Information to Mr. Wolff, and making
disparaging statements and in some cases
outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff
 about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
the Company, knowing that they would be
included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity
surrounding the marketing and sale of his
book.”
During his campaign, then-candidate Trump had all
campaign staff sign non-disclosure agreements which
disallowed them from making any disparaging comments
about him or his family, or the Trump organization, among
other things.
him to Wolffe or anyone. ‘Totally false,’
Barrack said by phone just now. Tom
Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to anyone who
knows me that those aren’t my words and
inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.’
He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him
to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
Haberman.

The letter and escalating war between Bannon and Trump

comes after The Guardian published excerpts of a new
book on the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, in
which he quotes Bannon making dire predictions about
how special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will
affect Donald Trump Jr. and Trump son-in-law Jared
Kushner.

The news site noted that in Wolf’s book, “Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House,” Bannon slams Trump’s
son, Don Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner as behaving in
a “treasonous” manner, among other things, for taking a
meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June
2016.

He also predicted that Mueller is focusing on “money

laundering” involving former campaign manager Paul
Manafort, Don Jr., and Kushner.

Manafort has filed a lawsuit against Mueller and the
Justice Department, accusing both of overreaching with
criminal charges brought last fall that included money
laundering and tax evasion.
“Trump is not spared” either, The Guardian
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’”
Barrack immediately denied making those statements
to The New York Times‘ Maggie Habberman.
“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once,
says he never said the quote attributed to
.
Trump responded to Bannon’s criticisms in a statement
Wednesday, claiming he got to the campaign late and was
not responsible in any way for his victory.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me
or my Presidency,” Trump said in a
statement Wednesday.
“When he was fired, he not only lost his
job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer
who worked for me after I had already won
the nomination by defeating seventeen
candidates, often described as the most
talented field ever assembled in the
Republican party,” he added.

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 Reps. Mark Meadows And Jim Jordan: ‘After Latest FBI
Leak To Press, It’s Time For AG Sessions To Go’
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim
Jordan (R-OH) say it’s time for AG Jeff
Sessions to go as evidenced by the
latest FBI leak to The New York Times.
In a scathing op-ed in the Washington Examiner, both
GOP Reps. and members of the Freedom Caucus,
Meadows and Jordan called for AG Sessions to be
replaced.
The GOP Reps. said all of President Trump’s
accomplishments continue to be masked because of
‘Trump-Russia collusion’ headlines dominating news
cycles day in and day out.
After nearly 6 investigations and millions of dollars
thrown at Mueller’s liberal dream team of Obama/Hillary
donors, there is not one scintilla of ‘Russian collusion’
evidence yet the farce continues.
This entire Russia investigation is Jeff Sessions’ fault. He
caved to pressure like a coward and recused himself from
the Russia investigation because he met with Russian Amb
Kislyak (gasp). CNN recently walked back their fake news
story and admitted then-Senator Sessions did nothing
wrong when he met with the Russian ambassador.
The GOP Reps. then ripped into the New York Times
‘Papadopoulos Bombshell’ which of course unraveled
within hours of publication.
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Even with the complete dearth of evidence Congressional
hearings have produced, the narrative machine continues
to mobilize. Last week, the New York Times published an
article using four current and former anonymous
intelligence officials to suggest that George Papadopoulos,
a Trump campaign volunteer, was a “driving factor” who
triggered the FBI’s spying on the Trump campaign. These
anonymous sources claim that Papadopoulos, during a
night of drinking at a bar in Europe, tipped off Australian
diplomats about Russian collusion efforts, which
ultimately led to the FBI opening an investigation.
Meadows and Jordan asked 5 questions that shred the
claims made in that NY Times article:
Question 1: If George Papadopoulos was
central to the FBI’s investigation of the
Trump campaign, why did the FBI wait
more than 6 months to interview him in late
January and again in February? And even
if they were trying to keep the probe quiet
during the 2016 election, why wait more
than 2 months after Election Day?
Question 2: If Papadopoulos was so
critical to the investigation, why did the FBI
get a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
or FISA, warrant on Carter Page in the
summer of 2016 but not on Papadopoulos,
the alleged central player?
Question 3: If Papadopoulos was key to a
collusion investigation and evidence
existed supporting that claim, why would
Bruce Ohr, the former DOJ official married
to Fusion GPS’ investigator, meet with
Christopher Steele, author of the so-called
“Trump dossier” hired by the Clinton
campaign, before and after the election?
Question 4: Why would former FBI
Director James Comey brief President
Obama and President-Elect Trump on the
contents of the Russian dossier, but not do
the same thing on this campaign staffer’s
alleged collusion?
Question 5: Why won’t the FBI answer
questions from Congress on this very
topic? Why do they continue to refuse
 transparency on whether they paid
Christopher Steele for the Russian
Dossier? We in Congress have asked them
repeatedly to tell us what was in the
application they took to the FISA Court to
get a warrant for spying on the Trump
campaign. Did they use the dossier in their
application? This demands an answer.
Meadows and Jordan argue that answers to these questions
could bring the ‘Russian collusion’ farce to an end. Instead
of answering these questions, the FBI continues to leak
far-fetched stories to the New York Times. Congress is
being stonewalled as they continually ask for evidence and
answers.
The Reps, argued the alarming number of
FBI agents and DOJ officials sharing
information with reporters is in clear
violation of the investigative standards.
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How would New York Times reporters know any of this
information when the FBI and DOJ are prohibited from
talking about ongoing investigations? How many FBI
agents and DOJ officials have illegally discussed aspects
of an ongoing investigation with reporters? When will it
stop?
Meadows and Jordan conclude that since AG Sessions
recused himself, he has no control over the Justice
Department.
It is time for Sessions to start managing in
a spirit of transparency to bring all of this
improper behavior to light and stop further
violations.
Meadows and Jordan conclude that now is the time for
Sessions to be replaced.
 “That Room Isn’t A Room Where POTUS Gets A Fair
Shake”: Russian Probe Grand Jury Exposed As
Group Of Trump Hating Liberals
Alex Thomas
January 3, 2018
Another day, another piece of evidence that the sham
Russia investigation being carried out by special counsel
Robert Mueller is specifically designed to take out
President Trump and his associates, with the new evidence
exposing the fact that the grand jury in the case has been
stacked with anti-Trump liberals.
From high-level FBI agents openly going after their
political enemy (Trump) to Mueller himself being an open
member of the deep state and close personal friends with
fired former FBI Director James Comey, the evidence that
the “investigators” involved are actually anti-Trump
partisans has become overwhelming.
Now, even more sinister evidence has been released, with
a source telling Page Six’s Richard Johnson that the 20
person grand jury handing down indictments for Mueller
doesn’t include ANY Trump supporters and is basically a
liberal attack group hellbent on taking out the
democratically elected president.
“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie
Sanders rally,” the source told Johnson.
“Maybe they found these jurors in central
casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in
Berkeley.”
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Johnson’s report continued:
Of the 20 jurors, 11 are African-Americans
and two were wearing “peace T-shirts,” the
witness said. “There was only one white
male in the room, and he was a
prosecutor.” Mueller was not present.
The Washington, DC, grand jury, which
meets only on Fridays, handed down its
first indictments in October, charging Paul
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign
chairman, and his partner Rick Gates with
money laundering and failing to register as
foreign agents. The two are pleading not
guilty.
Mueller’s team is expected to bring more
charges against Manafort relating to his
work on behalf of the Ukrainian
government in the years before Trump
became a candidate.
Sol Wachtler, the former chief judge in New
York, once called for abolishing grand
juries because they are so easily
manipulated that they would “indict a ham
sandwich.”
So there you have it. We already know that Mueller is
purposefully working against the president with a team of
lawyers chalked full of transparent anti-Trump sentiment
and now we also know that the supposed “impartial” grand
jury is actually a group of liberals who most likely hate the
president just as much as Mueller himself does.
“That room isn’t a room where POTUS gets
a fair shake,” the source concluded.
 Justice Department ‘Looking
Into’ Hillary Clinton’s Emails— Again
It’s The Most Scrutinized Email Server Of All Time.
But The President Is Demanding It Get Scrutinized Again.
And DOJ Is Taking A Fresh Look.
Betsy Woodruff
01.04.18 10:00 AM ET
Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she
served as secretary of State, The Daily Beast has learned.
An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar
with the thinking at the Justice Department’s Washington
headquarters described it as an effort to gather new details
on how Clinton and her aides handled classified material.
Officials’ questions include how much classified
information was sent over Clinton’s server; who put that
information into an unclassified environment, and how;
and which investigators knew about these matters and
when. The Sessions ally also said officials have questions
about immunity agreements that Clinton aides may have
made.
A former senior DOJ official familiar with department
leadership’s thinking said officials there are acutely aware
of demands from President Donald Trump that they look
into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary
of State—and that they lock up her top aide, Huma
Abedin.
For instance, Trump tweeted on Dec. 2,
“Many people in our Country are asking
what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to
do about the fact that totally Crooked
Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from
the United States Congress, deleted and
‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”
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The former official said tweets like this present two
challenges for department leadership: looking into the
matter in a way consistent with normal Justice Department
approaches, and trying to avoid the appearance that they
are trying “to put Huma in jail.”
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to
comment for this story.
It’s an open question as to whether Justice Department
officials would have the same level of interest in Clinton’s
server without a political directive from the White House,
the former official said.
Last week, the State Department released emails, in
response to a lawsuit from the conservative group Judicial
Watch, showing that classified material was on the
computer of Abedin’s then-husband Anthony Weiner.
Sources told The Daily Beast that Justice Department
officials were looking into the Clinton emails before those
documents were released.
Stephen Boyd, who heads the Justice Department's Office
of Legislative Affairs, appeared to hint at the department’s
interest in Clinton’s emails in a letter to House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte on Nov. 13. In the
letter, Boyd wrote that that Sessions “directed senior
federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues” the chairman
was concerned about. He also wrote that those prosecutors
would “make recommendations as to whether any matters
not currently under investigation should be opened,” and
that they would send those recommendations directly to
the attorney general and his top deputy, Rod Rosenstein.
Brian Fallon, formerly a spokesperson for the Justice
Department and Clinton’s presidential campaign, said he
suspects DOJ officials are engaging in perfunctory steps
“to give Trump and his allies something to
talk about and point to, and something to
give Fox News to devote segments to.”
“I think that even that is extremely
dangerous, and that the Justice
Department should not be opening itself up
to the perception that it is bending to
political pressures from the White House,”
Fallon continued. “The Justice Department
is supposed to operate independently of
the White House, and even if this is just a
perfunctory step that they’re taking to try to
appease the president, that in and of itself
is an abuse of the DOJ authority.”
Nick Merrill, Secretary Clinton’s communications director,
had this to say:
“As Trump begins the new year with Steve
Bannon calling his campaign treasonous
and indictments and guilty pleas piling up,
he resorts to diversion and distraction like
clockwork, with the help of his attorney
general. Few matters have been more
scrutinized than emails, and it was
determined that there was no wrongdoing.
Trump’s behavior shows a profound
disrespect for the rule of law and an
unprecedented abuse of power—with his
attorney general following suit at every
turn. It tarnishes our justice system, and
should be deeply troubling to all
Americans.”
Clinton’s use of a private email server—which the FBI
previously investigated, and declined to recommend for
criminal prosecution—became a huge issue on the
campaign trail. Trump mentioned it at just about every
campaign rally, frequently followed by chants of “Lock
her up!” from his supporters. On July 5, then-FBI Director
James Comey made an unprecedented public statement
blasting Clinton’s use of the server, but then explained
why the bureau wouldn’t recommend she or any of her
associates be prosecuted.
Over the summer, Trump made the email story a central
campaign narrative. And at the Oct. 9 presidential debate,
he threatened to incarcerate Clinton if he won the election.
“If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney
general to get a special prosecutor to look
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into your situation,” he said, referring to her
emails, “because there has never been so
many lies, so much deception.”
“It’s just awfully good that someone with
the temperament of Donald Trump is not in
charge of the law in our country,” she
replied.
“Because you’d be in jail,” he retorted.
In the weeks after that exchange, the email story
dominated the news; on Oct. 28, Comey sent a letter to
Capitol Hill—which promptly leaked—saying the
investigation was reopened. Then, on Nov. 6, two days
before the election, Comey followed up with another letter
explaining that he actually hadn’t found new information
in additional emails. Republicans were irate that Comey
backtracked. Clinton’s camp was irate that he’d said
anything at all. In less than two weeks, the FBI director
had pulled off a vanishingly rare Washington feat:
upsetting everyone.
And though Trump (obviously) became president, many
conservatives still argue the Justice Department didn’t
adequately investigate Clinton. The president himself, with
lots of encouragement from the crew at Fox & Friends, has
lobbed a host of critical tweets at the Justice Department
on the issue.
“Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid [sic],
Huma Abedin, has been accused of
disregarding basic security protocols,” he
wrote on Tuesday morning. “She put
Classified Passwords into the hands of
foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures
on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice
Dept must finally act? Also on Comey &
others.”
Conservatives said the revelation that Justice Department
officials are looking at Clinton’s email server comes as a
relief.
“Clearly, that’s the least they can be doing,
is asking some of these questions,” said
Tom Fitton, who heads Judicial Watch. “I
 think there’s enough there to re-initiate an FBI agents or DOJ lawyers who are found
investigation.” to have violated their ethical and legal
responsibilities, and restoring the trust of
“It’s certainly a positive development,”
the American people.”
added Fitton, whose organization sued for
the release of thousands of Clinton emails “It’s about time they’re doing a review of
and deposed her top aides. “It’s part of this whole mess,” he added.
what we’ve been demanding.”
Matt Miller, a spokesperson for the department during
Holder’s time there, vehemently disagreed. He said the
news is evidence that Trump is undermining the
independence of the Justice Department.

“The president’s ongoing campaign to tear

Mark Corallo—a former spokesperson for Trump’s legal
team and the John Ashcroft-era Justice Department—also
said it’s a good sign.
“People should be encouraged that the
new leadership at the Justice Department
is actually interested in a nonpartisan,
above-board Justice Department that treats
every citizen equally,” he said. “And we can
hope that this means they are dedicating
themselves to cleaning up the Justice
Department and the FBI, sanctioning any
.
down the wall between the Justice
Department and the White House seems to
be working,” he said.
“If the White House asks you to look into it,
the answer is not to look into it for the sake
of looking into it,” he continued. “The
answer is to tell the White House to stay
out of investigations and prosecutions,
especially when it comes to your political
opponents. You’re just encouraging a bully.
If you encourage him to do that, he’ll just
keep bullying you.”

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 FINALLY: DoJ RE-Opens Probe Into Hillary EMAIL
Scandal After MORE Classified Data
Found On Huma Laptop
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018

Word of the new probe comes after President Donald J. and access other sensitive Clinton emails, Paul Sperry of
Trump tweeted Dec. 2. the New York Post reported, as cited by The Gateway
Pundit.

Santos, an immigrant without a security clearance, did not

have permission to handle sensitive and classified
materials.

Word of the new probe comes after President Donald J.

Trump tweeted on Dec. 2,

“Many people in our Country are asking

(National Sentinel) Justice Delayed: The Trump Justice
Department is reopening its previous investigation into
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server during her tenure following the discovery that
top Clinton Huma Abedin mishandled classified
information.
what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to
do about the fact that totally Crooked
Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from
the United States Congress, deleted and
‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”

As reported by The Daily Beast, the renewed effort by the

Justice Department seeks new details on how Clinton,
Abedin, and other aides handled classified information.

The department wants to know how much classified

material was exchange, how much passed through
Clinton’s private server, and how it arrived.

There is a renewed effort in the Justice Department to get

As reported last week, at least five emails that were
new details on how Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and
determined to be classified were found among some 2,800
other aides handled classified information. The DOJ wants
documents stored on a laptop belonging to former U.S.
to know just how much classified information was on
Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, whose then-wife
Hillary’s private email server and how it got there.
Huma Abedin was a top aide to then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton.
Also, people familiar with the new probe say the
department wants to know which investigators were aware
The emails were part of a 2,800-document batch obtained
of these issues and when.
via FOIA request by government watchdog group Judicial
Watch from the State Department.
An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that
officials have questions about immunity agreements that
The documents included eight pages that were classified at
Clinton aides may have made.
the “confidential level,” the third-most sensitive level
established by the U.S. government.
Meanwhile, more evidence is surfacing that on Hillary’s
orders, Huma Abedin directed Hillary’s immigrant D.C.
maid, Marina Santos to print out classified “call sheets”
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The Justice Department’s decision to reopen the email case
was met with praise from Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton.

“And we’re pleased to see that our work

helped pressure the Sessions Justice
Department to at least begin to ask
questions about the sham Clinton email
investigation by the Comey/Lynch FBI/DOJ
under President Obama,” he tweeted
Thursday.

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 Washpost Media Reporter: Trump-Book
Author Accused Of Inventing Quotes
By Tim Graham
January 4, 2018 12:07 PM EST
On the front of Thursday's Style section, Washington Post
media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a piece on blazing-hot
author Michael Wolff and his Trump book Fire and Fury.
The headline was "A whale of a Trump tale, but is it
fishy?" Inside, the headline is "Wolff Made Up Quotes,
Some Of His Sources Say."
After recounting all the hot stories about Trump and his
former aide Steve Bannon, that revelation is tucked inside
on page C-4:
Wolff, for example, writes that Thomas Barrack Jr., a
billionaire friend of Trump’s, told a friend that Trump is
“not only crazy, he’s stupid.” Barrack on Wednesday
denied to a New York Times reporter that he ever said such
a thing.
Katie Walsh, a former White House adviser, has also
disputed a comment attributed to her by Wolff, that
dealing with Trump was
“like trying to figure out what a child wants.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
added her own skepticism during her daily briefing on
Wednesday.
“We know the book has a lot of things, so
far that we’ve seen, that are completely
untrue,” she said.
She was not specific, but Sanders added that Wolff’s
characterizations of White House operations were
“the opposite of what I saw.”
Wolff, 64, has said his book was based on 200 interviews
with White House and campaign staffers, including
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Bannon. He didn’t respond to multiple requests for
comment.
We should expect that NBC's exclusive interview with
Wolff on Friday's Today will focus on the fake-news
question. Farhi also found this pattern in Wolff's media
columns for New York magazine:
Judith Regan, then a hotshot book editor
who had been a classmate of Wolff’s at
Vassar, vigorously disputed almost every
paragraph of Wolff’s column about her. She
said she hadn’t had a personal
conversation with Wolff in 30 years.
Wolff’s response:
“She doesn’t speak to me. . . . I suppose
the world is full of people who no longer
speak to me.”
New Republic columnist Andrew Sullivan accused Wolff
of putting words in his mouth when Wolff wrote in 2001
that Sullivan
“believes that he is the most significant gay
public intellectual in America today.”
Sullivan said he never made any such
claim.
Farhi also thought it was fishy for Wolff to claim Trump
didn't know who John Boehner was when Fox News boss
Roger Ailes recommended him as a chief-of-staff pick.
This is how the story ended:
Even Wolff’s anecdote about Trump being unaware of
who Boehner was last year seems a bit suspect. The
reason? Trump had tweeted about Boehner multiple times
since 2011. In September 2015, for example, Trump
tweeted this:
“Wacky @glennbeck who always seems to
be crying (worse than Boehner) speaks
badly of me only because I refuse to do his
show — a real nut job!”
Trump-bashers on MSNBC are already making excuses. “Even if not all of it is true, the spirit of the
Host Stephanie Ruhle championed the view that book is."

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 Alt-Left Insanity: ‘Trump Trauma’
Is Making Liberals Freak Out
By Dan Gainor
January 4, 2018 9:23 AM EST
Note: Normal people might find some of
this offensive. (We hope. Dear Lord,
please!)
The alt-left is completely nuts. If reading more than a year
of this column hasn’t proven that to you, please get help.
You might have contracted something.
Even when they admit they’re nuts, they have to blame
someone. Naturally, they point the finger at President
Donald J. Trump. And that takes us to an episode of “AM
Joy” just before the new year.
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart was guest
hosting and discussing “Trump trauma” with his panel of
people who hate Trump, conservatives and anything that
doesn’t have a D after it’s name.
Capehart accused Trump of “provoking the leader of North
Korea.” That’s forgetting a lot of history -- like the
numerous times North Korea has threatened to nuke the
U.S., the random attacks on American soldiers or that
NoKo, as Trump likes to say, is a death cult that runs a
giant death camp.
Still, that lead up launched the panel into a frenzy.
Attorney Raul Reyes went to Crazy Land, literally. “You
know that psychologists and therapists and that
community, they have a term for it, PTSD. President
Trump Stress Syndrome … Disorder.” Don’t blame me
that he can’t spell. At least he fixed it.
Reyes called the Trump era “scary” and claimed, “all of
our democratic norms being challenged if not
demolished.” Forgetting, of course, that Trump was
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elected, wildly supports free speech, and mocks the press
but hasn’t arrested anyone in the media. In other words,
none of our democratic norms has been demolished or
even challenged.
Then Capehart turned to writer and commentator Anushay
Hossain who said she was “pessimistic, but trying to be
optimistic.” Hossain admitted one of the ways she handled
Trump trauma is by following “emergency kittens on
Twitter.”
“Whenever things get too stressful, just go
over to the timeline of emergency kittens.”
Then she admitted that,
“2017 started out rough. First of all, for me
as a lifelong feminist, I didn't get out of bed
for a good three days.” She spent the time
listening to “Wind Beneath My Wings” and
“Hallelujah.” (Hopefully the Jeff Buckley
version.)
I will agree with her point that they’re “going to need some
deep therapy in 2018.” Yes, the alt-left seriously needs
therapy.
Capehart capped all that with Karine Jean-Pierre, a
Moveon.org spokesperson who teaches at Columbia
University. (Ah, academia, the only place Moveon.org staff
can find work.)
“When I heard that awful carnage speech
by trump, I was incredibly pessimistic. I
was like, oh my gosh, the world is literally
going to end this year.”
Let’s recap, shall we? One guest thinks libs have PTSD.
Another relies on pictures of kittens and hid in her bed for
three days. And the last one thought the world was going
to end. I think the business opportunity for 2018 is to open
a mental health clinic for the alt-left.
That naturally takes us to the rest of this week’s column on
the blame game:
If Trump Is Making Liberals Crazy:
 The natural extension of “Trump trauma” is
to claim that Trump himself is nuts. After
all, he beat 16 GOP contenders, defied the
media narrative time and time again and
defeated Hillary Clinton for president in an
upset that made the Patriots Super Bowl
comeback look easy. Someone that
accomplished must be … “crazy?”
Esquire’s Charles Pierce tried that line of attack. Here’s
the allegedly intelligent assessment of:
“Trump’s New York Times Interview Is a
Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline.”
What follows is Pierce’s attempt to
psychoanalyze the president. This is a
common liberal theme. We disagree with
you, so you must be crazy. The Soviet
Union mastered this strategy during the
Cold War, locking up political opponents in
asylums.
Pierce cited the Trump (seen here during the inauguration)
interview with the New York Times:
“To my ears, anyway, this is more than the
president*’s well-known allergy to the truth.
This is a classic coping mechanism
employed when language skills are coming
apart.” Pierce has an admittedly sad
personal tale, watching his “father and all of
his siblings slide into the shadows and fog
of Alzheimer’s Disease.”
That doesn’t make him an expert on the president.
Pierce later adds a strange criticism.
“In addition, the president* exhibits the kind
of stubbornness you see in patients when
you try to relieve them of their car keys—
or, as one social worker in rural North
Carolina told me, their shotguns.”
That used to be known as standing by principle, but this is
2018 and it’s the alt-left.
He followed with the discredited claims about Ronald
Reagan having been senile during his presidency.
“In Ronald Reagan’s second term, we
ducked a bullet. I’ve always suspected he
was propped up by a lot of people who a)
didn’t trust vice-president George H.W.
Bush, b) found it convenient to have a
forgetful president when the subpoenas
began to fly, and c) found it helpful to have
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a “detached” president when they started
running their own agendas—like, say,
selling missiles to mullahs.”
That should be a hint of how the media will continue to
target Trump in 2018 and beyond. Remember, the alt-left
and media always think people on the right are: crazy,
stupid, racist and evil or maybe some combination of those
four. They are hitting Trump with all four.
Let’s Blame The Constitution:
If Trump has made the alt-left crazy and
they can’t get away with claiming he’s
crazy, what next? Let’s blame the
Constitution. This article begins with a
celebration of the play “Hamilton,” where
the way they make the Founders cool is to
make them people of color.
You know, instead of rebelling and creating the best, most-
powerful nation in human history. Most people would
think that’s cool. But then again, I’m not liberal like those
involved.
That takes us overseas to the article itself, The Guardian
UK’s
“The year of Trump has laid bare the US
Constitution’s serious flaws.”
Because we always care about what the British think of
our Constitution after we rebelled from them to create it.
(The image is from Mel Gibson's The Patriot, when
relations between Americans and their mother country
were less ideal.)
Author Jonathan Freedland actually argues in support of
the revolution and said it was Britain’s “inheritance” -- “a
part of our patrimony mislaid across the Atlantic.” Starts
out well, then we get to the Trump bashing.
“For this first year of the Donald Trump
presidency has exposed two flaws in the
model that I cannot brush aside so easily.”
The big bad? Trump disregarded
“norms. – that are essential to civic
wellbeing.” Oh horrors! “Trump trampled all
over those as a candidate”
and did so even more after getting elected. The alt-left
solution? Impeachment.
“Of course, there is a remedy, and its name
is impeachment. Scholars are clear that
Trump has already provided sufficient legal
grounds for such a move – the case
against him is far more compelling than the
one against Bill Clinton. But impeachment
proceedings are triggered by the House of
Representatives, followed by a trial in the
Senate, and nothing will happen so long as
Republicans control both houses of
Congress.”
Great. Even the foreign press is playing games trying to
manipulate our elections. I guess it’s only bad when Russia
does it.
But of course, let’s blame Republicans.
“And today’s Republicans refuse to fulfil
that obligation. They, like Trump, are
without shame.”
In other words, they won’t do what he demands.
That wasn’t enough. He then went after the 2nd
Amendment, as well. His whine was
“the fact that the argument hinges on
interpretations of a text written more than
two centuries ago is itself a problem.”
If We Can’t Blame The Constitution,
Then Let’s Blame Trump Supporters!:
This week in alt-left media was like a game of hot potato.
Nearly a year after Trump took office, liberals are still
trying to find someone or something to blame. I’ve lost
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track of how many candidates for that role have surfaced --
Hillary Clinton (she blames literally everyone else), the
media, the electoral college, racist people, white people,
white women, Fox News, James Comey, President Putin,
Obama, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, sexism … well, you get
the idea.
Naturally, Trump supporters who a) backed him in the
election and, shockingly, b) back him now are the worst.
The Daily Beast’s pretentiously named Jared Yates Sexton
tells the liberal view of events leading up to now. (Of
course, he’s an associate professor of Creative Writing at
Georgia Southern University. There are probably alt-lefty
authors who aren’t in academia. Maybe.) It’s filled with
personal anecdotes that are completely unprovable but
claim Trumpeters said nasty things. (One wonders if said
professor has ever been to a football game and if he thinks
fans genuinely want to “kill” bad referees.)
After regaling his readers with that awful description of
events, he tells of the awful Trump supporters.
“In order to maintain that devotion they
had to accept a toxic worldview—a
worldview that made them susceptible to
hate groups that had grown large and
powerful with Trump’s ascent to power.”
He just kept piling it on, astonished that Trump supporters
still back the president. Then he waved the They Are Scary
Flag, claiming:
“It is, after all, bad enough that his base
might support Trump firing a man charged
with investigating him, but the talk among
the fringe right, where many of his
supporters can be found, is trending more
and more toward armed insurgency.”
Ah rebels. You’d think conservatives had run around the
country chanting “Revolution.” But no, that was lefties
from Occupy Wall Street. He continued his screed and
asked
“the troubling question:
Just how far will they go?”
 TOP STORY OF THE DAY: Manafort Lawsuit Will
Likely Shut Down Deep State Mueller Investigation!
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Today’s report on the filing of a suit
against the “Deep State” DOJ,
Rosenstein and Mueller by Paul
Manafort is a HUGE story. Manafort’s
suit is likely to shut down Mueller
investigation!
No wonder the MSM came out with the Bannon – Trump
story today. Whenever a huge story comes out about
Criminal and Corrupt Mueller and Rosenstein and the
Deep State led DOJ, another story is released by the MSM
to change the subject in the media. Today the MSM talked
about Breitbart’s Steve Bannon’s remarks about members
of President Trump’s family. These remarks have not yet
been substantiated. However, the much bigger story in the
news is that former Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort sued the DOJ, Robert Mueller and Rod
Rosenstein and is demanding the Mueller investigation be
shut down!
We have reported for months on the many criminal and
corrupt actions taken by numerous parties related to
the Mueller investigation. Mueller never should have
taken on the job in the first place due to numerous
conflicts. He is best friends with fired leaker and former
FBI Director James Comey. He met with Comey shortly
before Comey testified with Congress and for this alone he
should have recused himself. The team Mueller built to
attack President Trump and have him removed is all Deep
State attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s record in the past is
scattered with actions that let the Clintons off Scott free on
numerous occasions when they should have been put in
jail.
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We now know that the FBI had an
investigation into the Clintons and
moneys they received from Russia in
return for giving Russia 20% of all US
uranium.
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 giving Russia
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We
also know that Rosenstein and Mueller
were the ones who allowed the Uranium
One deal to go forward. This was the
real Russia collusion story involving the
US government.
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his
entire team should have resigned after this.
But the perhaps one of the most
damning aspects of the Mueller
investigation is that it was not legal.
The corrupt Mueller investigation is
tasked with finding a crime that does
not exist in the law. It is a legal
impossibility. Mueller is being asked to
do something that is manifestly
unattainable.
FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett stated in an article
a couple of months ago the fact that the entire Mueller
investigation is lawless. Jarrett argued that –
Shortly after the indictments[against Papadopoulos and
Manafort] were unsealed, the media’s spirits were
suddenly boosted when the special counsel revealed that a
former adviser to Trump pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
about his contacts with a Russian national during his time
on the Trump campaign. Surely this was evidence of
illegal “collusion,” right?
Wrong. George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single
charge of making a false statement to the FBI. He was not
charged with so-called “collusion” because no such crime
exists in American statutory law, except in anti-trust
matters. It has no application to elections and political
campaigns.
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media
would ever understand that. They have never managed to
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely
because it does not exist in the criminal codes.
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary –
It is against the law for the Clinton
campaign and the Democratic National
Committee to funnel millions of dollars
to a British spy and to Russian sources
in order to obtain the infamous and
discredited Trump “dossier.”
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101)
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the
true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what
Clinton and the DNC appear to have done.
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign
finance laws with impunity.
But that’s not all.
Damning new evidence appears to show
that Clinton used her office as Secretary
of State to confer benefits to Russia in
exchange for millions of dollars in
donations to her foundation and cash to
her husband.
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records,
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
Hillary presided over a governing body which
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
uranium supply to Russia.
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
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charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
concluded with the following –
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue in court
that the appointment of Mueller was illegal. The criminal
charges [against Manafort and Papadopoulos] change all
that. The two defendants will be able to argue before a
judge that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein violated the special counsel law.
As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
Russian government and individuals associated with the
campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
finding a crime that does not exist in the
law. It is a legal impossibility. He is
being asked to do something that is
manifestly unattainable. Today as
reported by Cristina Laila at TGP,
Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and
Rosenstein because what they are
doing is not supported by US Law. This
is the biggest story of the day! Manafort
is suing to have the Mueller
investigation shut down!
Manafort’s case argues in paragraph 33 that the special
counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein gave crooked
and criminal Mueller powers that are not permitted by law
–
33. But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports
to grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise
directly from the investigation.” That grant of authority
is not authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations.
It is not a “specific factual statement of the matter to be
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28
C.F.R. § 600.4(a).
If Manafort wins this case – which it
appears according to the law he will –
the entire investigation would be
deemed illegal – which it is – and
therefore legally would have to be shut
down – which it should be.
 Trump Clears Path for Assange to Leave London
Wikileaks Acknowledge Trump Admin Ended Grand Jury Proceedings
Jerome Corsi | Infowars.com
January 4, 2018

violated national security laws, even if it can be shown he

published U.S. national security classified documents.

Specifically, Nauert said the following:

“We support a freedom of the press here in

the United States. We support the right of
voices to be heard. And when a nation
clamps down on social media or websites
or Google or news sites, we ask the
question, “What are you afraid of?” What
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the past few
are you afraid of? We support the Iranian
days, a series of unexpected
people and we support their voices being
developments have cleared the path for
heard.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to
leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in Trump’s attorneys argue Assange’s
London without fear of arrest. First Amendment right to publish

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks posted a tweet announcing the
U.S. government had ended its eight-year-long grand jury
proceedings against WikiLeaks that was expanded in 2017
to cover the WikiLeaks various “Vault” releases on CIA
spy technology.
In a motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia on Dec. 29, 2017, in the case Roy
Cockrum vs. Donald J. Trump for President, Trump’s
attorneys argued that Julian Assange had a right under the
First Amendment to publish the DNC and John Podesta
emails, even if the emails were stolen.

The WikiLeaks tweet referenced a State Department press

conference held that day, Jan. 2, 2018, in which State
Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert made a strong
statement regarding freedom of speech that was couched in
a reference to Iran.

The WikiLeaks tweet confirmed the State Department’s

reference to freedom of speech in Iran was a coded
communication intended to extend the umbrella of free
speech and press rights to WikiLeaks in a clear reversal of
the policy in which both CIA Director Mike Pompeo and
Attorney General Sessions have argued that arresting The case was orchestrated by Project Democracy, a group
Julian Assange is a priority. It is not clear that Assange has run by former attorneys from the Obama administration,
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arguing that then former Trump campaign adviser Roger
Stone had conspired with the Russians to publish the DNC
and Podesta emails.

In a 32-page motion defending the Trump Campaign,

Michael A. Carvin of the Jones Day law firm and attorney
of record representing President Trump, argued that the
Trump campaign, and by inference Julian Assange at
WikiLeaks, could not be held liable under the First
Amendment for a disclosure of stolen information if the
information published involves “a matter of public
interest” and the speaker was not “involved” in the theft.

In making the argument, Trump’s attorneys relied upon

Bartnicki v. Vopper. 532 U.S. 514 (2001), a labor union
case in which the Supreme Court ruled a radio station had
the right to broadcast a stolen tape of a phone call between
the chief union negotiator for a Pennsylvania high school
and the chief union negotiator together with the union
president.
Technically, Assange has not yet been indicted of any
criminal offense in the United States, nor is it clear if he
committed any crime. Under the Supreme Court Decisions
New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), and in
the Pentagon Papers case, New York Times v. U.S. 403
U.S. 713 (1971), a journalist is allowed to accept and
publish classified documents provided by other sources.
While Roger Stone’s case is still pending in the District of
Columbia District Court, the opinion submitted by
President Trump’s attorneys can be seen to have
established the basis for pardoning Assange as a pre-
condition of allowing Assange to leave the Ecuadorian
Embassy in London without U.S. federal authorities
seeking to arrest him.
Sweden drops charges against Assange
Will President Trump pardon Assange?
A QAnon post on the Internet bulletin board 8chan on
Christmas Day and a series of messages posted on Twitter
by Julian Assange on New Year’s Day appear to deliver a
coordinated message that an extradition for Assange from
his sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London is
imminent.
While interpreting posts intended to be cryptic is not a
science, those following QAnon understand QAnon has
forecast several important developments in code, in an
effort to mobilize Internet-aware Trump loyalists.
Ultimately, the question QAnon is raising is this:
Will President Trump pardon Julian
Assange?
The QAnon Christmas Day post reads as follows:
On Jan. 1, 2018, Infowars.com posted on Scribd.com a
decoding of this cryptic QAnon Christmas Day post.

In May 2017, the government in Sweden dropped the rape
case against Assange, ending the four-year long attempt by
the Swedish government to arrest Assange via a European
Arrest Warrant.
A recent decision by a United Kingdom tribunal also
appears to have vitiated the arrest warrant issued by a
British court in 2012, after Assange violated his bail
conditions to take refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
On Dec. 29, 2017, Assange posted a tweet that referenced
an article published by the Guardian on Dec. 14, 2017,
citing a United Kingdom tribunal that declared WikiLeaks
to be a media organization and a free speech advocate –
designations that could carry a legal importance in placing
Assange under “free speech” protections both in the UK
and in the United States.
 Using gematria, the numbers 10, [10-9] are translated
into the letters JA, the initials of Julian Assange with “J”
being the 10th letter of the alphabet and “A” being the
first. The operational window for Assange’s extraction
from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London is signaled to
be later this week, Jan. 5-6, 2018.
 That Assange will be extracted with the blessings of the
Trump administration is suggested by the designation
FDeltaC, referencing a Federal Detention Center of
undetermined location. That the location is outside the
United States is suggested by the “Delta” designation.
 Dec. 25-26 references Emanuel Leutze’s famous
painting depicting George Washington’s historic
crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night in
1776, with painting posted in synch on the Internet
bulletin board 8chan by both QAnon and by the U.S.
Department of Defense on Dec. 25, 2017.

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  With the possibility Assange might return to the United
States, the “storm” QAnon has been predicting appears
ready to begin.
 QAnon’s reference to “Secured” suggests the path for
Assange to return to the United States has been
secured at the highest level of the U.S. government,
with the knowledge and approval of President Trump.
 QAnon’s reference to “Floor is yours” suggests this is
Assange’s opportunity to drop key files on Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the hoax of
“Russia collusion” developed by CIA Director John
Brennan and propagated to the mainstream media with
the assistance of Google’s Eric Schmidt.
 The comment “Twitter FW” suggests Twitter will be
used by Assange to communicate with the public as
the extraction mission goes forward. The additional
comment “Twitter [kill_rogue] suggests Assange will
post key information on the Twitter account
@kill_rogue.
 Finally, the notation “CONF_WHITE_WHITE” suggests Assange’s New Year’s Eve post also embedded a video of
Assange’s initial destination of Switzerland has been the song “Paper Planes” by singer M.I.A. that linked to
confirmed. Switzerland’s national flag is a white cross YouTube.
(WHITE_WHITE) against a red background.
Again, in what appears to have been a synchronized post,
On New Year’s Eve, Julian Assange posted on Twitter a @kill_rogue retweeted Assange’s New Year’s Day post
cryptic string of numbers that appear to be a “Dead Man’s and asked,
Switch,” linking possibly to a new cache of WikiLeaks
documents Assange’s associates would post should
Assange be arrested. “What words do you hear in the song?”

The second line of the lyrics in the song reads,

“If you catch me at the border I got visas in

my name …”
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 Trump Tweet Attacks Wolff Book, ‘Sloppy Steve’
By Breitbart News
4 Jan 2018
President Donald Trump launched one
of his trademark nicknames on
Thursday evening, presumably referring
to Breitbart News executive chairman,
former Trump campaign CEO, and
former White House chief strategist
Steve Bannon as “Sloppy Steve,” as a
controversial new book rushes to
newsstands.
Trump began his tweet by disputing reports that he had
given journalist Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House, unfettered access to the
White House.
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I authorized Zero access to White House
(actually turned him down many times) for
author of phony book! I never spoke to him
for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations
and sources that don’t exist. Look at this
guy’s past and watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 5, 2018
The new nickname quickly trended #1 on Twitter.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump had noted Bannon’s praise for
him Wednesday evening on Breitbart News Tonight. In
response to a caller, the man known to Breitbart News
readers and listeners as the “Honey Badger” declined to
retaliate against the president’s earlier criticism:
“The President of the United States is a
great man. You know I support him day in
and day out, whether going through the
country giving the Trump Miracle speech or
on the show or on the website.”
But Trump, clearly anticipating more controversy ahead of
the rushed early release of Wolff’s book on Friday, went
on the attack.
 Deep State Coup Underway! Lawmakers
Discussed Trump’s ‘Mental Health’ With Psychiatrist
Mac Slavo
January 4th, 2018
Lawmakers have called in a psychiatrist to discuss
president Donald Trump’s “mental health.” The psychiatry
professor at Yale, who believes President Trump’s mental
health is a mounting emergency, made her case to more
than a dozen members of Congress last month.
This appears to be “Plan B” right out of the deep state’s
playbook. Yesterday, SHTFPlan reported on an interview
with Roger Stone, in which Stone details the lengths the
deep state will go to in order to oust Trump.
But the deep state’s Plan B is to invoke the 25th
Amendment.
“So we’ll see an uptick in all of this
‘Trump is mentally imbalanced, Trump
is insane, Trump must be removed,’”
Stone warned. “Now you have to examine
the extent to which they can whip up that
hysteria as a backdrop because, without
that hysteria, such a political move on the
president will fail.”
And once Plan B fails, the globalists will
move on to Plan C, which is simply an
assassination. -SHTFPlan.
According to Axios, one Republican Senator was present at
the meetings, along with a dozen or so Democrats. Dr.
Bandy X. Lee, said Trump is “going to unravel,” and that
“the rush of tweeting is an indication of his
falling apart under stress. Trump is going to
get worse and will become uncontainable
with the pressures of the presidency.”
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Politico reports that Lee has been invited to speak again at
Rep. Rose DeLauro’s house later this month with other
lawmakers. These meetings lasted over 16 and took place
over the course of two days back in December.
The Deep State’s “Plan A,” Stone said, is
the imploding “investigation” into alleged
“Russian collusion” by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. If and when that fails,
which Stone suggested was likely, the
establishment would move to “Plan B.” In
essence, that plot would involve trying to
get a majority of Trump’s cabinet to declare
him unfit for office. This would allow Trump
to be removed under the U.S.
Constitution’s 25th Amendment — another
scheme Stone said would probably flop.
Last but not least, though, if all else fails,
Stone warned of “Plan C”: Killing the
president. –The New American
It certainly looks like we are being told exactly what’s
going to take place, and it’s unfolding before our very
eyes. According to AOL, Lee’s remarks were clear.
“From a medical perspective, when we see
someone unraveling like this, it’s an
emergency,” Lee said. “We’ve never come
so close in my career to this level of
catastrophic violence that could be the end
of humankind.”
While Lee made it clear that psychiatrists are prohibited
from diagnosing from afar, she pointed out that President
Trump’s pattern of behavior was a worrying sign.
Plan B could very well be in full swing as another example
of manufactured outrage made headlines. Take into
account yesterday’s article by SHTFPlan in which Green
Day’s Billy Joe demands the 25th amendment “be
enforced.”
The latest example comes in the form of an Instagram
rant in which Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong
had a mini meltdown over the presidents latest tweet about
North Korea, eventually going on to attack his own fans
who support the president while joining with the deep state
echo chamber in calling for the use of the 25th
Amendment to remove him from office.
“This isn’t funny. This is our president
acting like a madman drunk on power
THREATENING to kill innocent starving
people by way of nuclear war. The 25th
amendment needs to be enforced. This
man is sick and unfit for office. I don’t care
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if your liberal or conservative.. this has to
stop . Please share #impeachtrump.” -
SHTFPlan
For the deep state’s plan B to work, a hysteria must be
whipped up to convince the easily manipulated that their
very lives are in danger. And as we can plainly see, that’s
exactly what’s happening. However, when Plan B fails, the
deep state’s Plan C is to assassinate the president.
 Media Matters Funding Sexual
Assault Witch Hunt on Republicans
By D. C. McAllister
January 4, 2018
President-elect Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news
conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday,
Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Before the presidential election, one of Media Matters’
attack dogs spent $200,000 funding an effort to bring
down Donald Trump with sexual assault charges. It failed,
but if the progressive political and media watchdog keeps
to its game plan to impeach the president, this won’t be the
end of such efforts.
As reported by Kenneth Vogel in The New York Times,
political partisans are
“raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to
support abusers who come forward with
charges against President Trump and
members of Congress.”
One of those partisans is American Bridge 21st Century
Foundation, which gave Lisa Bloom, attorney and
daughter of activist lawyer Gloria Allred, $200,000 to fund
Trump’s accusers. The organization was founded by
Media Matters’ David Brock and says it will possibly
create an ongoing fund “to encourage victims to bring
forward similar claims against Republican politicians,”
Vogel reported.
“California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering
to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a
commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one
Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-
figure payment for another woman who ultimately
declined to come forward after being offered as much as
$750,000,” clients told The Hill.
Bloom claims that donors like American Bridge were only
offering money “to ensure the safety” of the accusers.
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On November 3, 2016, Jane Doe (Accuser #3) agreed to
speak at a press conference at my office. During the lead-
up to the press conference and after, she and I received
multiple death and rape threats. Moments before the press
conference was scheduled to begin, Jane Doe backed out. I
understood why. She was afraid. My heart went out to her
as did many who could understand her fear and pain. Of
course I respected her decision and helped her remove
herself from the narrative.
At that point, several donors came forward with offers of
financial help to ensure the safety of the women who
would come forward. I was happy to relay those offers of
funds for relocation to a safer community and round the
clock security.”
The "Time's Up" Campaign Is Mostly Repackaged
Feminist Garbage
Bloom also said that donors helped her clients with basic
compensation.
Most people do not get paid for interviews. But some
shows will offer a few thousand dollars to license photos,
or for an appearance fee. When my client is a single
mother, unemployed, in dire need of therapy, on the verge
of bankruptcy or all of the above, she may choose to do an
interview with the outlet that will compensate her. A few
thousand dollars hardly levels the playing field against a
billionaire like Donald Trump, but it helps a little, and I
leave that decision to my client, after she’s been fully
vetted for veracity. Due to an unexpected turn of events,
donors also reached out to help some of my clients last
year.
Bloom’s efforts failed, but as Brock has indicated, this
won’t be the end of the witch-hunt, which fits into the
overall strategy Brock developed after the election to
undermine Trump and all who support him.
Last year, he wrote a confidential memo in which he
explained the role American Bridge would play in putting
progressives back in power.
“We are going to resist the normalization of
Donald Trump,” Brock wrote. “Trump has
the legal authority, but we have the moral
 authority—and the moral responsibility to
oppose him.”
No other issue reinforces the notion that Media Matters
and Republican opposition have “moral authority” more
than bringing down their political enemies with
accusations of sexual harassment and assault. American
Bridge has and will play a role in that effort.
As stated in Brock’s plan of action,
American Bridge will cement itself as the
standard-bearer of opposition research,
build on its role as a progressive
clearinghouse for information that drives
the narrative on Republican officeholders
and candidates, and be at the epicenter of
Democrats’ work to regain power—starting
in 2017 and building to 2020. Here’s what
success will look like:
1. Trump will be defeated either through impeachment or
at the ballot box in 2020.
2. The balance of power will shift back to Democrats. We
will measurably impact US Senate, gubernatorial, and
state legislative races.
3. We will free ourselves from solely relying on the press.
Our robust digital program will reach voters directly
online.
The goal of American Bridge 21st Century,
as stated on their website, is “holding
Republicans accountable for their words
and actions and helping you to ascertain
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when Republican candidates are
pretending to be something they’re not.”
The problem with funding sexual assault abusers by any
partisan group is that it corrupts the system and removes
all credibility of accusers, which is harmful to the women
themselves if they are, indeed, telling the truth.
As journalism professor at the University of Southern
California Vince Gonzales told Snopes, political partisans
who insert themselves into cases take the focus off the
victims and puts it onto themselves and political game-
playing.
“It’s a zero-sum game, but it’s a very short
term gain,” he said. “If you’re a political
donor who gets involved and if the story is
true, you become the story. You become
the political motivation behind the story and
then people no longer have to focus on the
allegations. That’s the danger.”
Ron Rotunda, professor at Chapman University School of
Law, agreed.
“These victims have serious stories to tell
and we have to get justice for them,” he
said. “But we undercut that when people
are paid money for their testimony. It taints
it. If this were a jury trial, you’d have to ask
[a witness], ‘You got x-thousand dollars to
say this?’ and from there it’s not hard to
connect the dots when there are only two
dots. The problem is, if a real victim
accepts a payoff it undercuts their story.
That’s just a fact of life.”
 MSNBC: ‘Isn’t It Remarkable That
We’re’ Discussing Trump’s ‘Mental State?’
By Scott Whitlock
January 4, 2018 3:43 PM EST
Though MSNBC journalists have admitted that much of a
new anti-Donald Trump book by Michael Wolff may not
be true, it’s still enough to spark a new conversation over
whether the President is mentally ill. On Thursday, Katy
Tur pivoted to the crazy Trump theme: “Isn't it remarkable
that we're talking about the President's mental state and
asking honest questions about his mental state? You also
have members in Congress meeting with psychiatrists to
talk about the 25th Amendment.”
MSNBC analyst Richard Painter fretted about a deranged
Trump: “We are all at great risk, and this is a situation that
needs to be addressed by the cabinet and Congress as set
forth in the 25th Amendment.” He added, “We cannot risk
having a president who is mentally unstable and
controlling nuclear weapons.”
Tur replied with what can only be called fake news: “It is
interesting that the President hasn't had a press conference,
an open press conference since last year. Since February of
last year.” No. He had an open press conference at the
White House on October 16, 2017.
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Tur keeps promoting this wrong information. On
December 22, she insisted, “He hasn’t had a press
conference since what, February?... That is laughable.”
The statement may be laughable because it’s false.
Later in the day, reporter Hallie Jackson conceded that the
new book may not be that reliable.
NBC News has not confirmed everything in this Wolff
book, and there are pieces, center anecdotes and moments
on their face appear to be factually not true. You heard
Sanders reference one of them. The fact Wolff says the
President not know who John Boehner was. Look at
Twitter, it's not the case.
For MSNBC, however, it’s reliable enough to push the
idea that the President is crazy.
A partial transcript is below:
MSNBC Live
1/4/18
2:41pm ET
KATY TUR: Richard, isn't it remarkable that we're talking about
the President's mental state and asking honest questions about
his mental state? You also have members in Congress meeting
with psychiatrists to talk about the 25th Amendment.
RICHARD PAINTER Well, I think it's long overdue that we
address this issue. Just a few days ago many of us were terrified
to see the president of the United States on Twitter
communicating to North Korea that his button — nuclear button
— is bigger than theirs. This is not mentally stable behavior. You
combine that with nuclear weapons. We are all at great risk, and
this is a situation that needs to be addressed by the cabinet and
Congress as set forth in the 25th Amendment.
TUR: Yeah.
PAINTER: We cannot risk having a president who is mentally
unstable and controlling nuclear weapons.
TUR: It is interesting that the President hasn't had a press
conference, an open press conference since last year. Since
February of last year. He didn't have one at the end of the year,
and in the book Richard Wolffe [sic] — not Richard Wolffe, went
to the author went to talk about an interview that the President ...
was supposed to do with 60 Minutes that Hope Hicks decided
against because he was repeating himself so much that she 3:04
needed the questions beforehand, which is why they went with
Sean Hannity. Unclear if that is true, but that is what is painted in
HALLIE JACKSON: Have to reiterate, of course, NBC News has
this book. Julia, special counsel Robert Mueller's team, how
not confirmed everything in this Wolff book, and there are pieces,
much are they going to be looking at this?
center anecdotes and moments on their face appear to be
factually not true. You heard Sanders reference one of them. The
JULIA AINSLEY (NBC News Natl. Security and justice reporter): fact Wolff says the President not know who John Boehner was.
Well, Katie, a lot of what Robert Mueller's team has on Trump Look at Twitter, it's not the case.
and the presidency has already been assembled. A book like this
would take a lot of corroboration.
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While Media Goes Into Rabid, Foam At The Mouth Frenzy
Over Trump-Bannon Theater, They Ignore That Manafort
Lawsuit Could Deem Entire Mueller Investigation Illegal
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 4, 2018
Whenever the media goes into a rabid, foam at the mouth
frenzy over a certain topic, the first question we see asked
and have asked ourselves, is what are they trying to
distract us from?
Paul Manafort, indicted by Robert Mueller for issues that
occurred before the presidential campaign of Donald
Trump began, issues that had been previously known by
the Department of Justice, and did not "arise directly from
the investigation," and also goes beyond the original scope
of the mandate in the initial DOJ press release, just filed a
lawsuit against the DOJ, Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller.
For the past two days we have seen a complete media
circus over a supposed "Steve Bannon - President Trump"
feud in relation to excerpts from an upcoming book
release, that has dominated the headlines, the television
talking heads and bloggers, forums and websites all across
the Internet, yet the Manafort lawsuit, which was barely
covered by the media, could literally deem the entire
Mueller investigation illegal.... from its inception.
When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein released
the announcement of appointing a special counsel
(Appointment Order) into the Russian collusion
investigation, he specified that Mueller would have the
power to investigate and/or prosecute "any links and/or
coordination between the Russian government and
individuals associated with the Campaign of President
Donald Trump," and "any matters that arose or may arise
directly from the investigation," and "any other matters
within the scope of 28 CFR § 600.4", which covers
"Jurisdiction." (See Special Counsel Order here)
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When Mueller indicted Manafort, the charges had nothing
to do with the original "jurisdiction," meaning Russian
collusion, nor did it arise directly from the initial
investigation into links or coordination between Russia and
individuals associated with the Trump campaign, which I
initially thought was the impetus behind the Manafort
lawsuit against the DOJ, Deputy AG Rosenstein and
Mueller, until I read the entire lawsuit, where we see
Manafort isn't just trying to get the charges against him
dropped as improperly investigated and charged,
but he is asking the court to deem the
entire investigation illegal because
Rosenstein's Special Counsel order
violates DOJ regulations for Special
Counsels.
In the 17 page complaint filed with the courts against the
DOJ, Rosenstein and Mueller, Manafort's counsel explains
that the charges stemmed from actions going back over a
decade and which Manafort had already spoken to the DOJ
about in July of 2014, when Mr. Manafort voluntarily met
with DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents, therefore the
indictment was not gleaned from any matters that arose or
might arise "directly" from the investigation.
What was unexpected in the complaint is Manafort is not
just trying to get the charges against him dismissed, but is
asking the court to rule that the Rosenstein order granting
authority to Mueller was illegal in and of itself because it
violates the DOJ’s special counsel regulations.
Page #9 is where the complaint becomes very interesting:
32. Consistent with 28 C.F.R. §600.4(a)—which
provides that special counsels “shall also” have
“authority to investigate and prosecute federal crimes
committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere
with,” their investigations—paragraph (b)(iii) of the
Appointment Order provides that Mr. Mueller may also
pursue “any other matters within the scope of 28
C.F.R. §600.4(a).”
 33. But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order
purports to grant Mr. Mueller further authority to
investigate and prosecute “any matters that arose or
may arise directly from the investigation.” That grant
of authority is not authorized by DOJ’s special
counsel regulations. It is not a “specific factual
statement of the matter to be investigated.” Nor is it an
ancillary power to address efforts to impede or
obstruct investigation under 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).
34. DOJ’s special counsel regulations do address
“new matters that come to light in the course of” the
special counsel’s “investigation,” but not by
authorizing a grant of original jurisdiction to pursue
them. 28 C.F.R. §600.4(b). To the contrary, DOJ’s
special counsel regulations specify that, whenever
the special counsel “concludes that additional
jurisdiction” is required to address “new matters
that come to light in the course of” an
investigation, the special counsel must “consult
with the Attorney General,” who must then
“determine whether to include the additional
matters within the Special Counsel’s jurisdiction
or assign them elsewhere.” Id
35. The effort to convey that “additional” authority to
pursue any matters that might come to light, as part of
the grant of original jurisdiction, without the required
consultation and decision by the Attorney General,
exceeds the scope of appointment authority under 28
C.F.R. §600.4. It also defies the principles of limited
power and accountability that animate those limits on
the Attorney General’s appointment authority. Under
the Appointment Order, the Special Counsel’s
authority is not confined to the specific matters
identified by politically accountable officials: The
Appointment Order purports to grant authority to the
Special Counsel to expand the scope of his
investigation to new matters without the consent of—
indeed, without even consulting—any politically
accountable officer of the United States.
Emphasis mine. The two points in bold above are critical
and in my opinion, the main point of the lawsuit. First
Manafort's counsel is arguing that under the DOJ's own
regulation regarding jurisdiction, Rosenstein violated the
law by giving Mueller carte blanche.
The second point caught my attention because during
Rosenstein's December 2017 testimony in front of
the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Lamar
Smith attempted to get Rosenstein to answer whether he
had been asked by Mueller at any point for more authority
to "expand" his investigation to include additional
jurisdiction, meaning issues unrelated to "coordination
between the Russian government and individuals
associated with the Campaign of President Donald
Trump," or "any matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation," and Rosenstein wouldn't answer
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the question, despite Representative Smith asking him
point blank, multiple times.
Watch how Rosenstein consistently attempts to deflect
from the question, and still never fully answers it.
It is not only Congress that Rosenstein refused to answer
in regards as to whether he granted Mueller "additional
jurisdiction," to investigate issues pertaining to Manafort
that had nothing to do with his clear mandate, but on page
12 of the Manafort lawsuit, item #44, it shows that
Rosenstein refused to answer the same question from
Manafort's attorney.
44. On September 12, 2017, undersigned counsel for
Mr. Manafort sent a letter to Mr. Rosenstein
requesting that he confirm or deny that, prior to July
26, 2017, he granted Mr. Mueller additional jurisdiction
to investigate Mr. Manafort for potential tax crimes and
other white-collar criminal offenses dating back to
January 1, 2006, and that prior to August 3, 2017, he
authorized Mr. Mueller to prosecute Mr. Manafort for
tax crimes related to the 2010 tax year. Mr.
Rosenstein has not responded; nor has anyone
else from his office.
Starting on page #14, Manafort's counsel lists two counts.
In the first they are asking the entire "Appointment Order"
be set aside, meaning declaring Mueller's entire
investigation illegal and given to him Ultra Vires (beyond
the powers) of what Rosenstein was allowed to do by law.
In the second, they are asking the judge to declare
Mueller's conduct
"beyond his jurisdiction under the
Appointment Order."
In their Prayer for Relief, they ask the court to grant the
following items:
a. an order and judgment setting aside the Appointment
Order and declaring it invalid, arbitrary and capricious,
an abuse of discretion, and otherwise not in
accordance with law;

b. an order and judgment declaring ultra vires and setting
aside all actions taken against Mr. Manafort pursuant to
the Appointment Order;
c. an order and judgment declaring that Mr. Mueller lacks
authority to investigate business dealings not arising
from the original jurisdiction set out in the Appointment
Order;
d. an order and judgment enjoining Mr. Mueller from
investigating matters beyond the scope of the grant of
jurisdiction in the Appointment Order; and e. any other
relief as may be just and proper.
The entire 17 page Manafort complaint, filed on January 3,
2018, is embedded at the bottom of this article.
BOTTOM LINE
While the MSM is downplaying this lawsuit and those that
bothering to report it are mis-characterizing the extent of
what Manafort is asking for, such as NYT that headlines
claiming Manafort is simply asking for a judge to "narrow
the Russia investigation," when multiple times within the
complaint we see he is first asking the judge to declare the
entire "Appointment Order" set aside, which would
completely shut down Mueller's investigation.
The fact is, after all this time and all the millions spent by
Mueller on supposedly investigating "Russian collusion"
with the Trump campaign, the only four charges and
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indictments he has gotten to date, has been two people for
lying to the FBI, (yet Clinton, Huma Abedin and other
Clinton campaign members were never charged when they
were proven to have lied to the FBI) and two people for
actions taken long before Donald Trump even started
running for President.
The argument by Manafort's lawyer is creative and by
filing this lawsuit, in conjunction with the multiple
investigations by congress, the DOJ and a nearly yearlong
investigation by the Office of Inspector General into
misconduct by FBI and DOJ officials, even if this suit is
unsuccessful, it brings more scrutiny onto the intelligence
agencies that became highly politicized under the Obama
regime. Plus, by going after the entire investigation now in
court, after multiple members of Mueller's team have been
publicly exposed as anti-Trump partisans, some having
been reassigned, others demoted, Manafort is keeping the
spotlight on the actions of Rosenstein, Mueller and the
DOJ.
No wonder the media is hyperventilating so badly on the
Trump-Bannon issue, they want the Manafort lawsuit to be
mentioned, then forgotten about as fast as possible, and
creating a media circus over some claims in a book is
typical of the type of reporting we have come to expect out
of the MSM.
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 ‘Fire And Fury’ Author Michael Wolff Has Serious
Credibility Issues, History Of Questionable Quotes
Chris Menahan
January 4, 2018

Note” suggests many of his quotes are

“recreations.”

Author Michael Wolff claims in his new book “Fire and

Fury” that President Trump had never heard of John
Boehner — he actually tweeted about him at least 7 times
throughout the years.
Wolff says in his book that Roger Ailes allegedly
suggested Trump hire former Speaker of the House John
Boehner to be his Chief of Staff. Wolff claims Trump
responded,
“Who’s that?”
“He also notes that the stories he is told
often compete of conflict with one another,”
Tur said. “Despite that, Wolff says in some
cases he’s let the source tell his/her
version. The reader can decide if it’s true or
false.”

Donald Trump Jr. retweeted this picture from White House

Director of Social Media Daniel Scavino Jr. showing the
two went golfing together in 2013:
NBC’s Katy Tur said Wolff is “likely to face
some serious questions and criticisms
regarding his use of quotes” as his “Author

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 Wolff claims in his book that billionaire Thomas Barrack
Jr. once said of Trump, “He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.”
Barrack told New York Times’ Maggie Haberman he only
spoke with Wolff one time and the quote was, “Totally
false.”
“It’s clear to anyone who knows me that those aren’t my
words and inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said,”
Barrack said.
“He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him to ask if it
was accurate,” Haberman said.

In Wolff’s 1999 book “Burn Rate,” 13 people complained

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The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle said in a 2004 cover
story that Wolff’s columns
“aren’t recreated so much as created”
from Wolff’s “imagination.”
“Much to the annoyance of Wolff’s critics,
the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated
so much as created–springing from Wolff’s
imagination rather than from actual
knowledge of events,” Cottle said.
“Even Wolff acknowledges that
conventional reporting isn’t his bag. Rather, The salacious and highly questionably nature of his writing
he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip suggests that was all a con-job.
swirling around him at cocktail parties, on
the street, and especially during those long Nonetheless, he’s cashing in.
lunches at Michael’s.” “Fire and Fury is #1 on Amazon,” Wolff
Wolff got access to the White House by posing as an tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
impartial reporter who wanted to let Trump’s team get
their message out without the smarmy undertones which
characterize the rest of the media.
In February 2017, he chastised CNN’s Brian Stelter for
being a “ridiculous figure” because he would constantly
make himself the story and frame the media as victims of
Donald Trump.
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 Laura Ingraham: Trump Will Not Be
Re-Elected If He Sells Out On Immigration (Video)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Friday, January 5, 2018

As the senate works on a framework for immigration
legislation that they hope to release next week, Fox News
host Laura Ingraham has asserted in no uncertain terms
that President Donald Trump will not be re-elected if he
sells out his voters on the issue.
United States. I can tell you that right
now, and I come as someone who is a
great supporter of his,” she added.
On Thursday, Republican senators met with the president
to discuss a plan that would tighten border security — but
also create a “solution” for illegal immigrants who are
currently protected from deportation under the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“We have to end chain migration to prevent

a future set of new chain migrants coming,”
Senator Tom Cotton insisted during the
meeting.

Senate Democrats have been vowing to block short-term

funding bills unless DACA illegals are protected.

Discussing the issue on her show The Ingraham Angle on Trump tweeted thanking the senators after Thursday’s
Thursday evening, the popular Trump-supporter did not meeting, and listed his top priorities for immigration
hold back on how important it is that the president get this reform — which included ending chain migration,
right. cancelling the visa lottery and building the wall.

“I got to say, the Republicans and

Democrats watching this, your solemn duty
is to the American people. The American
people, not to the people of other countries
who came here illegally, but to legal
immigrants, and to American citizens,
Ingraham said. “Donald Trump
understands that. I don’t think he is going
to, you know, sell out people on
immigration. If he does, he is over anyway.”

There are few things that would be absolute deal breakers “We must BUILD THE WALL, stop illegal
for President Donald Trump’s base — and immigration is immigration, end chain migration & cancel
probably one of the biggest. the visa lottery. The current system is
unsafe & unfair to the great people of our
country – time for change!” Trump wrote.
“So — He is going to be done. If he sells
us out on immigration, Donald Trump
will not be re-elected president of the
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 TICK-TOCK: Trump DoJ Opens Probe
Into Clinton Foundation ‘PAY FOR PLAY’ Allegations
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
FBI and Justice Department officials have already
interviewed one witness
(National Sentinel) Buying Influence: The Justice
Department has launched a new investigation into the
Clinton Foundation over allegations of “pay for play”
while Hillary Clinton was President Obama’s first
secretary of state.
Fox News reported Friday that a source familiar with the
new probe told the network on Thursday that the
investigation is being led by the U.S. attorney and the FBI
in Little Rock, Ark., where the foundation began.
The network reported that it had confirmed the existence
of the probe.
“Fox News also has learned investigators
are looking into whether the Clinton
Foundation violated tax law,” the network
reported online.
“Accusers of ‘pay to play’ have claimed the
foundation promised favors in exchange for
donations or pledges of cash or gifts,” it
said.
The Hill‘s John Solomon broke the story on Thursday. He
noted that FBI and Justice Department officials have
already interviewed one witness, and that more activity is
scheduled for later this month.
“The officials, who spoke only on condition
of anonymity, said the probe is
examining whether the Clintons promised
or performed any policy favors in return for
largesse to their charitable efforts or
whether donors made commitments of
donations in hopes of securing government
outcomes,” Solomon reported.
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The Clintons have faced “pay-to-play” allegations for
months, but they and Foundation officials have denied
there were any exchanges of political favors for donations.
Donations to the foundation plunged following Clinton’s
November 2016 election loss to President Donald J.
Trump, falling 42 percent in 2016 from $108 million to
$63 million.
The New York Post reported in November that the Justice
Department, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee,
said it was looking at appointing prosecutors to examine
allegations that millions of dollars in donations to the
foundation were tied to the Obama administration’s
Uranium One deal.
In November, reports noted that the Clintons hid donations
from a firm tied to the controversial Uranium One.
Reporters John Solomon and Alisan Spann reported that
the Clintons understated donations they received in 2008
and 2016 from a firm hired by a Russian nuclear company
involved in the deal.
“As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
greenlighted the Russian purchase of
Uranium One, a Canadian company with
uranium assets in the US, at a time when
many of the company’s owners had given a
combined total of $145 million to the
Clinton family charity,” the New York Post
reported.
The Hill added:
“The probe may also examine whether any
tax-exempt assets were converted for
personal or political use and whether the
Foundation complied with applicable tax
laws, the officials said.”
One witness recently interviewed in the newly launched
probe described the experience as “very professional and
thorough,” The Hill reported. The news site added that the
witness said questions were focused on “whether donors to
Clinton charitable efforts received any favorable treatment
from the Obama administration on a policy decision
previously highlighted in media reports.”
Spokespersons for the Clintons and the Foundation called
the probe politically motivated.
 Mueller’s Investigation Is Unconstitutional – While
Crooked Hillary And Dirty Cop Comey Walk Free…
AG Sessions Needs To Go!
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 5, 2018
If Attorney General Sessions was doing
his job, corrupt Hillary Clinton and
disgraced former FBI Director James
Comey would be in jail or in court, the
entire Obama Administration would be
under investigation for corruption and
criminal activities, the leadership in the
FBI and DOJ would be behind bars, and
MS13 would be eliminated from the US.
Instead President Trump faces daily
attacks related to totally fictional crimes
and the Clintons and Obama run free.
Sessions must resign now!
There has been more than enough time
for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
address the many corrupt and criminal
activities and individuals within the DOJ
and FBI and throughout the
government.
Instead he has done nothing. He focuses on weed and
MS13 while Hillary runs free. His actions related to the
Mueller investigation result in daily attacks against
President Trump and a narrative that could have been
totally avoided if the AG did his job. The DOJ and the
FBI are perceived as corrupt entities like those found in
banana republics. It’s now time for deep state operative
Sessions to resign.
On Wednesday Paul Manafort’s legal team filed a suit
against the DOJ, Mueller and Rosenstein claiming their
special investigation is not legal as it goes beyond the
mandate of what a special counsel is legally able to
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partake. The DOJ is under the purview of AG Sessions. If
AG Sessions were doing his job the investigation would
have never started but after yesterday’s court filing he
surely would have halted the Mueller investigation until it
was proven constitutional. But he is nowhere to be found
when it relates to deep state initiatives like the Mueller
investigation.
Based on current statutes Manafort’s suit will result in the
Mueller investigation being shut down. Manafort argues
that the investigation is not legal because it was set up on
broader terms than the special counsel mandate provides.
When Rod Rosenstein, gave Mueller the authority to
investigate and prosecute “any matters that arose or may
arise directly from the investigation.” That grant of
authority is not authorized by DOJ’s special counsel
regulations. (Read the full 17 page complaint here.)
AG Sessions should stop Mueller’s
investigation now until this verdict is
finalized.
Why would he allow it to continue knowing there is a good
chance it will be shut down in a few months for being
illegal?
For months investigations and requests for information
from entities like Judicial Watch have been stalled and
stymied by the FBI and DOJ. Who is running these
entities? It should be AG Sessions. Is he the one ordering
that legal requests into the deep state’s activities within the
FBI and DOJ be ignored? Congress has gotten to the point
where they are considering putting people in jail and they
should. The efforts by Sessions’ FBI and DOJ to prevent
transparency and the free flow of information to
Americans and Congress are appalling and must stop.
Sessions has allowed this to happen for far too long.
What other criminal acts are the deep
state within the DOJ and FBI committing
that are currently going on?
What illegal actions are they taking now to cover their
tracks? Is this the major objective of the Mueller
investigation – to cover up their illegal activities in the
past?
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Last week it was uncovered by Judicial Watch that
classified emails were found on Hillary’s assistant Huma
Abedin’s home computer during Huma’s husband’s
investigation for sex crimes. He is now in prison and
Huma and Hillary should be. Huma and Clinton were
never charged with any wrong doing related to the crimes
of having these emails on a private computer.
Where is Sessions on this?
Yesterday it was reported that Hillary’s emails and the
Clinton Foundation are both now under investigation by
either the FBI or the DOJ –
but who believes these entities with their
current corrupt and criminal leadership
can even come close to performing
objective and independent
investigations?
Sessions must go! America needs an
AG that can DRAIN THE SWAMP!
 Judicial Watch: At Least 18
‘Classified Emails’ On Convicted Felon Weiner’s Laptop
“The Weiner Emails Emphasize The Need For The Justice Department To
Conduct A Fresh, Serious Investigation Of Hillary Clinton’s
And Huma Abedin’s Obvious Violations Of Law.”
By Michael W. Chapman
January 4, 2018 | 5:20 PM
(CNSNews.com) -- The government watchdog
group Judicial Watch, which has filed numerous Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits to obtain government
documents for the public to see, announced today that at
least 18 "classified emails" from the State Department
were sent through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private server to the laptop of Anthony Weiner, who is
married to Clinton's former deputy chief of staff, Huma
Abedin, and is a convicted felon who sexted a 15-year-old
girl.
The work-related emails of Huma Abedin, who worked
with Clinton at the State Department, were discovered by
the FBI when they were investigating Anthony Weiner for
his sexting crimes with a minor.
Abedin "kept a non-State.gov email
account on Hillary Clinton's notorious email
server that she used repeatedly for
government business," said Judicial Watch
in a statement.
Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, and Hillary Clinton. (YouTube)
“Judicial Watch’s work in federal court
holding the government accountable to the
rule of law has forced the State Department
to finally release these documents,” said
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The
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classified information on Weiner’s laptop is
part of a pattern of the mishandling national
security by Clinton and her aides."
"The Weiner emails emphasize the need
for the Justice Department to conduct a
fresh, serious investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious
violations of law," said Fitton. "That’s why
we are pleased to learn that the Justice
Department has reportedly at least begun
asking questions about the Clinton
classified material."
"Judicial Watch has no doubt that the
Justice Department is taking these steps
due to the ongoing disclosures of Clinton
email misconduct from Judicial Watch's
lawsuits," he said.
The release of the Abedin emails came about because of a
lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch in May 2015, and a
February 2016 court order directing the State Department
to release the records the FBI had obtained from Weiner's
laptop by Dec. 31, 2017.
(YouTube)
There were 13 classified emails on Weiner's laptop that
had been previously released to the public. In this new
batch, Judicial Watch uncovered five more classified
emails.
 The earlier material included discussions
"about Saudi Arabia, The Hague, Egypt,
South Africa, Zimbabwe, the identity of a
CIA official, Malawi, the war in Syria,
Lebanon, Hamas, and the PLO," reported
Judicial Watch.
In the newly discovered emails there are discussions
among Clinton, Abedin and State's Jacob Sullivan about
Israel's Gaza policy, an update on the United Nations,
talking points on Haiti, the "Anthony Campaign" from
Huma@clintonemail.com, Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah,
Saud al faisal, Wikileaks, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas and
PLO talks. Much material in the emails is also redacted.
Judicial Watch further explained,
"The Weiner laptop also contains classified
material from Abedin’s Blackberry. A July
9, 2011, email contained classified
information regarding a then-upcoming call
between Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu.
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"On November 25, 2011, classified
information was sent regarding [State's
Jeffrey] Feltman’s notes on the Egyptian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs impression of the
Hamas-Palestine Liberation Organization
talks. On May 4, 2012, additional classified
material from the BlackBerry backup was
sent."
The watchdog group further reported that it
"previously released 20 productions of
documents in this case that show examples
of mishandling of classified information and
instances of pay to play between the
Clinton State Department and the Clinton
Foundation. Also, at least 627 emails were
not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that
Clinton turned over, and further contradict a
statement by Clinton that, 'as far as she
knew,' all of her government emails had
been turned over to department."
 CNN Tries, Fails To Get
Donald Trump Kicked Off Twitter
By Chriss W. Street
5 Jan 2018
CNN’s Brian Stelter asked Twitter on
Tuesday whether President Donald
Trump’s tweet threatening North Korea
with his “much bigger & more powerful”
nuclear button violated the social media
network’s terms of service.
Calling Trump’s tweet evidence of “madness,” the host of
Reliable Sources clearly hoped not only to obtain an
answer to a question, but to see Trump suspended or
removed from Twitter.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the
“Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.”
Will someone from his depleted and food
starved regime please inform him that I too
have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much
bigger & more powerful one than his, and
my Button works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 3, 2018
Stelter and other Trump-haters cited Twitter’s rule against
violent threats:
“You may not make specific threats of
violence or wish for the serious physical
harm, death, or disease of an individual or
group of people.”
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They were disappointed when Twitter said Trump’s tweet
was “too vague” a threat to qualify for punishment.
Although nuclear war qualifies as the most extreme
violence on the planet, Twitter was quick to respond:
“We hold all accounts to the same Rules,
and consider a number of factors when
assessing whether Tweets violate our
Rules.”
But Twitter then acknowledged that a carve-out exists
regarding government and military issues and that the site
would also consider the “newsworthiness” of any public
statement.
It is not clear what Twitter rule would prevent a head of
state from tweeting that he intends to defend his country
against an external threat. North Korean dictator Kim
Jong-un had said on New Year’s Day that “the nuclear
button is always on the desk of my office,” and said his
missiles could hit any target in the United States.
Economic considerations may also have been at stake in
Twitter’s decision.:
President Trump’s tweeting is estimated to
have added $3.5 billion to the value of
Twitter.
President Trump, with 45,954,600 followers, has the 20th-
largest number of Twitter followers. He also has tweeted a
“YUUGE” 36,698 times since joining the social media
platform in 2009. Trump’s provocative style also makes
him the world’s most tweeted leader.
Wall Street stock analyst James Cakmak at Monness
Crespi Hardt told Fortune in August,
“There is no better free advertising in the
world than the president of the United
States.” He estimates that Trump’s use
pumps up Twitter’s stock market value by
about $3.5 billion, to $17.8 billion,
Twitter cannot afford to lose Trump. The site claims to
have 330 million registered users, but has only added a
lackluster 25 million users in the last 2 years, according
to Statista. Twitter’s daily user numbers are even worse, at
only 125 million, 30 percent less than Snapchat.
The highly influential ARS Technica website put Twitter
on its Deathwatch List last year, and renewed the ranking
this year. They compare Facebook, which reports $27
billion in revenue and $10 billion in profit, to Twitter,
which at best brings in “a tenth of that revenue and loses
hundreds of millions of dollars every year.”
According to Geopolitical Futures (GPF) senior analyst
Jacob L. Shapiro,
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“North Korea is a case study in how a
geographically weak country can turn
weakness into strength.” GPF views Kim
Jong Un’s “bellicose threats and strange
diplomatic overtures” as an effort to build
distrust between the United States and
South Korea.
Since South Korea fears being a nuclear battleground, GPF
sees China as potentially the biggest winner and Japan as
the biggest loser if North Korea can humiliate America and
its allies in Asia.
But Twitter gives President Trump a no-cost vehicle to
strike back at so-called Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un —
without having to start a nuclear war.
 Roger Stone: Bannon’s Money Man Is
A Chinese Soros Operative And Double Agent (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 5, 2018

Political consultant and conservative

strategist Roger Stone joined Alex
Jones on Thursday via Skype to break
down how Steve Bannon’s new financial
backer is a Chinese, Soros operative.

Roger Stone goes on to say that Steve Bannon and H. R.

McMaster objected to Kwok’s extradition.

Stone says Bannon’s money man is a Chinese operative

and who became a double agent who has orchestrated
multi-million dollar online financial crimes in China.
Sanders says Kwok was a bundler for Hillary Clinton and
has been seen dining with George Soros.

Matt Drudge tweeted about Kwok and

Bannon on Thursday.

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 DEAL With DoJ Gives House Intel Chair Nunes Access
To ALL Documents, Witnesses, In Russia
Witch-Hunt Collusion Probe
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
“It is my hope that this agreement will provide the
Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses”
(National Sentinel) Winning: A deal between House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.,
and the Trump Justice Department struck on Thursday will
give investigators access to “all remaining investigative
documents” in an unredacted form that the panel has been
seeking as part of its Russia probe.
The deal was revealed in a letter between Nunes and
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that was
obtained by Fox News.
The letter was sent by Nunes to Rosenstein and it
summarizes an “agreement” that had been reached during
a phone call Wednesday evening. The letter also notes that
key FBI and Justice Department witnesses will now be
provided to the Intelligence Committee later in January.
“It is my hope that this agreement will provide the
Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses
necessary to complete its investigations,” Nunes wrote.
Fox News reported further:
The agreement comes after the DOJ and FBI faced a
Wednesday deadline to comply, under the threat of new
subpoenas and even contempt citations. Under deadline
pressure, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Rosenstein
met Wednesday with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to
discuss the demands from the intelligence committee.
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Nunes’ letter outlines the terms of the deal reached, as he
continues looking for information that helps prove or
disprove whether the controversial anti-Trump “dossier”
was used as justification to open the Russia probe and
conduct surveillance on Trump campaign officials.
After more than a year-and-a-half, no one in the media, in
government or in Congress has been able to verify the
dossier’s most explosive and salacious claims about
President Donald J. Trump and his campaign team.
Republicans on the committee have also expressed
concerns that the dossier was paid for by the Hillary
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
In his letter, the Intelligence Committee chairman said that
the panel is “extremely concerned by indications that top
U.S. Government officials who were investigating a
presidential campaign relied on unverified information that
was funded by the opposing political campaign and was
based on Russian sources.”
Initially, Nunes issued subpoenas for all related records on
Aug. 24, and they remain in effect.
However, the committee has been stonewalled by the
Justice Department and FBI for months.
According to the agreement between Nunes and
Rosenstein, the House panel will also get access to eight
key witnesses, Fox News reported, “including FBI agent
Peter Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who exchanged anti-
Trump text messages during an affair and previously
worked on the special counsel’s Russia probe; FBI general
counsel James Baker, who was reassigned; FBI head of
counterintelligence Bill Priestap, whom ex-FBI boss James
Comey testified made the decision not to brief Congress
about the Russia case during last year’s election; and
Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official reassigned after concealing
meetings with figures involved in the dossier.”
All witnesses are tied directly to allegations of political
bias against the president.
 Trump Fires Off Late Night Tweet Torching Author
Michael Wolff And “Sloppy Steve” Bannon
By Cristina Laila
Friday, January 5, 2018
President Trump fired off a late night
tweet saying he never authorized
access to the White House for author
Wolff.
The feud between President Trump and Steve Bannon is
reaching a fever pitch.
Trump fired off a late night tweet attacking author Michael
Wolff and called his former White House strategist
“Sloppy Steve”.
“I authorized Zero access to White House
(actually turned him down many times) for
author of phony book! I never spoke to him
for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations
and sources that don’t exist. Look at this
guy’s past and watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve!” Trump Tweeted late
Thursday night.
Rumors are swirling Breitbart owners
are debating ousting Steve Bannon
amid an explosive feud with President
Trump.
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The Drudge Report currently has a bright red scathing
headline linking to a Wall Street Journal article asking if
Bannon is out at Breitbart:
As previously reported, the rift between President Trump
and former White House strategist Steve Bannon has been
in steady escalation this week. The former White House
strategist Steve Bannon claimed that Don Trump Jr will
“crack […] like an egg” under pressure from the erroneous
Russia investigations. Continuing, Bannon went as far as
to call Trump Jr’s agreement to meet with a Russian
attorney “treasonous”.
“Even if you thought that this was not
treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s***, and
I happen to think it’s all of that, you should
have called the FBI immediately.”
“It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the
Kushner s–t. The Kushner s–t is greasy.
They’re going to go right through that.
They’re going to roll those two guys up and
say play me or trade me,”
On the heels of Mr. Bannon’s claims, President Trump
punched back saying that the former strategist has “lost his
mind”, that he “only pretends to have influence”, and that
Bannon had “very little to do with our historic victory.”
President Donald Trump’s lawyer sent a
cease and desist letter to former Chief
Strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday
night.
 It’s BOGUS! ‘Bombshell’ Trump Tell-All Author
Michael Wolff ADMITS He Can’t Verify EVERYTHING
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
More than one alleged source has already
refuted a quote attributed to them in the
book
(National Sentinel) Fiction: Michael Wolff, the author of
an explosive new book about Donald J. Trump’s
presidency, has admitted that he cannot say that everything
contained in its pages is 100 percent accurate, which has
thrown all of what’s in the tome in doubt for many critics.
A political firestorm surrounding the book, “Fire and
Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” began earlier
this week after excerpts of it were featured by The
Guardian.
Among other things, Wolff quoted former top Trump
political strategist Steve Bannon as saying that Donald
Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump
Tower in June 2016 as being treasonous.
He also predicted that Mueller is focusing on “money
laundering” involving former campaign manager Paul
Manafort, Don Jr., and Kushner.
“Trump is not spared,” the news site
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’”
But in an author’s note included in the book, Wolff said he
was not certain that all the allegations, accusations and
statements in the book were true, casting significant doubt
on all of its contents, critics charged on Friday.
He said several of his sources were flatly lying to him,
while others said things that were contradictory in nature.
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Many of those were nonetheless included in his book.
Wolff said in his author’s note that he and the publisher are
including them, “allowing the reader to judge” whether the
sources’ claims are true.
In other instances, Wolff said he used his instincts as a
journalist to relay
“a version of events I believe to be true.”
“Many of the accounts of what has
happened in the Trump White House are in
conflict with one another; many, in
Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These
conflicts, and that looseness with the truth,
if not with reality itself, are an elemental
thread of the book,” he wrote.
“Sometimes I have let the players offer
their versions, in turn allowing the reader to
judge them. In other instances I have,
through a consistency in the accounts and
through sources I have come to trust,
settled on a version of events I believe to
be true,” he continued.
However, reported by Business Insider:
The book itself, reviewed by Business
Insider from a copy acquired prior to its
Friday publication, is not always clear
about what level of confidence the author
has in any particular assertion.
The book makes a number of significant, yet
unsubstantiated, claims, including that Trump never
wanted to be president, that all of his senior staff
considered him an idiot, that he tried to lock the Secret
Service out of his room, and that he ate at McDonald’s to
avoid being poisoned.
For his part, the president tweeted that he never spoke once
to Wolff.
“I authorized Zero access to White House
(actually turned him down many times) for
author of phony book! I never spoke to him
 for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations
and sources that don’t exist. Look at this
guy’s past and watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve!” he wrote, the last part
being a jab at Bannon.
“I’m not going to waste my time or the
country’s time going page by page and
talking about a book that is complete
fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip,” she
said Friday.

More than one alleged source has already refuted a quote
attributed to them in the book. Wolff claimed that longtime
friend and confidante of Trump’s, billionaire real estate
developer Thomas Barrack Jr., had some hard words for
the president.
“Trump is not spared,” the news site
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’”
In an interview with Today show co-host Savannah
Guthrie, Wolff defended his book and his journalistic
chops.
“My credibility is being questioned by a
man who has less credibility than perhaps
anyone who has ever walked on Earth at
this point,” he said, in an apparent
reference to Trump.
However, as The Washington Post reported, Wolff has a
lengthy history of getting facts wrong or inventing them
out of thin air.

But The New York Times’ Maggie Habberman reported

that Barrack told her the quote is “totally false.”

“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once,

says he never said the quote attributed to
him to Wolffe or anyone. ‘Totally false,’
Barrack said by phone just now. Tom
Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to anyone who
knows me that those aren’t my words and
inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.’
He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him
to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
Haberman.

“He has been accused of not just re-

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who the book
creating scenes in his books and columns,
said warned Trump that he may be under surveillance from
but of creating them wholesale,” the paper
British spies, issued a statement saying the claim is
reported.
“categorically absurd” and “simply untrue.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

refused to engage reporters who asked about the
administration’s response to the book’s charges and
claims.

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 President Trump’s Poll
Numbers Boom With The Economy
By John Nolte
5 Jan 2018
Despite the elitist media’s malevolent
intentions to distract from President
Trump’s historical successes in the first
year of his presidency, word and the
results are getting through to the only
people that matter, voters. And the
latest job approval numbers for the
president reflect this.
Even the Gallup poll, which has been an outlier with its
bad news, has Trump at 40 percent approve (55 percent
disapprove) after weeks in the mid-thirties. One of the
reasons Gallup is an outlier is that it polls all U.S. adults,
rather than screen for registered or likely voters. For a
time, Trump’s disapproval in this poll was over 60 percent.
The Rasmussen poll, one of the most accurate of the 2016
presidential election, shows Trump at a pretty healthy 45
percent approve, 53 percent disapprove. Better still, the
president has been in the mid-forties going back to
December 22.
The rebound can also be seen on the Real Clear Politics
poll of polls. A few weeks ago, Trump was upside down
with a dismal 37 percent approve, 58 percent disapprove
average — or 21 points underwater.
As of today he sits at a much healthier average of 41
percent approve, 56 percent disapprove — or 15 points
underwater, which is an overall improvement of six points.
But…
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If you remove the polls taken before December 14, old
polls that do not reflect the boom of good economic news
or the passage of historic tax reform that came near the end
of the year, Trump’s job approval average leaps to 44
percent and his disapproval drops to just 55 percent —
rebound of 10 points since December 16.
While our elitist media continues its relentless and
unprecedented attacks against Trump — obsessing over
castle intrigue, the Russian collusion conspiracy theories,
and chaos narratives, the American people are seeing
something completely different in the actual, proof-
positive results coming out of the Trump administration…
A booming economy, ISIS pretty much destroyed without
us having to add a single boot on the ground (that we know
of), regulations slashed, energy production and exploration
booming, superb judges in record numbers confirmed, a
stock market zooming to highs that seemed impossible
only a year ago. Black, Hispanic, and overall
unemployment sit at record or near-record lows. And so
much more…
Trump is not only getting things done, as the indisputable
results show, he getting these big things done efficiently
and competently.
And in the end, this is all the voters care about or should
care about.
If America is great again, that tide lifts all boats and the
media hysteria and propaganda becomes white noise.
Overall, Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year
was in not allowing himself to be distracted by all the
nonsense involving leaks, Robert Mueller, and an elitist
media that has shown little regard for the truth (e.g. Last
week’s narrative: Trump wanted to win so bad he colluded
with the Russians to win. This week’s narrative: Trump
did not want to win).
Rather than get embroiled in all the drama, he kept a close
eye on the only ball that matters — the economy. And not
only is he better off for it, so is our country.
 Paging Jeff Sessions! Turns Out ALL
Of Comey’s LEAKED Memos Were CLASSIFIED (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
“We have a sworn declaration”
(National Sentinel) High Crimes: Earlier this week Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein that former FBI Directory James
Comey likely illegally leaked at least one classified memo
to a friend.
In his letter, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, demanded
answers from Rosenstein regarding the handling of memos
that Comey wrote following his conversations with
President Donald J. Trump, The Daily Caller reported.
The Judiciary chairman said that he and his staff have
recently reviewed seven memos Comey wrote following
his meetings with the president. Of those, four contained
information that was classified as “Secret” or
“Confidential.”
It turns out that the fired FBI director may be in more legal
trouble than suspected.
Judicial Watch Director of Investigations Chris Farrell
appeared with Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business network
Thursday evening to discuss Comey’s memos.
He told Dobbs that FBI Chief FOIA Officer has confirmed
that all of Comey’s memos were classified at the time they
were written and are still classified today.
“We have a sworn declaration from David
Hardy who is the Chief FOIA Officer of the
FBI that we obtained just in the last few
days,” Farrell said.
“And in that sworn declaration Mr. Hardy
says that all of Comey’s memos, all of
them, were classified at the time they were
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written and they remain classified,” he
added.
Leaking classified information is a federal crime.
Grassley, in his letter, noted that past media reports
claimed that Comey gave at least four memos to his
friend, Columbia law professor Daniel Richman.
During congressional testimony last year, Comey told a
House panel he hoped that leaking the memos would lead
to a special counsel appointment aimed at investigating
Trump’s campaign. Shortly thereafter, Rosenstein
appointed former FBI director and Comey friend Robert
Mueller.
A report in July 2017 said that more than half of the
memos Comey wrote following his Trump meetings
contained classified information.
“This revelation raises the possibility that
Comey broke his own agency’s rules and
ignored the same security protocol that he
publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the
waning days of the 2016 presidential
election,” The Hill reported.
Judicial Watch has been at the forefront of obtaining
documents and data from the State Department and Justice
Department pertaining to alleged mishandling of classified
information by former Obama administration officials
including Comey and former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton.
Here is Farrell’s interview with Dobbs:
 Trump Legal Action Against Publisher
Backfires, Tell-All Book Gets Early Release
Published Time: 5 Jan, 2018 01:51 Edited Time: 5 Jan, 2018 06:46

statement in the introduction that claims the book contains

“untrue statements.” Harder also said the book does not
cite any sources for several statements and many of the
sources the book does cite have said they never spoke to
Wolff.

Trump’s legal team is demanding Henry

Holt immediately send them a copy of the
full text so they can “fully assess all of the
statements” made in the book.
Harder adds that any attempts to publish
US President Donald Trump © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
the book could result in “substantial
An explosive book on President Donald Trump’s first year monetary damages and punitive damages.”
in the White House is hitting the shelves early, after The letter also states that Steve Bannon,
Trump’s legal team threatened to sue the publisher for former White House chief strategist,
defamation and libel. violated “several provisions” of an
agreement he signed with the Trump
organisation, which prohibits him from
Henry Holt & Co, the publisher of Michael Wolff’s book “communicating with any members of the
‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ is print or electronic media about Mr. Trump,
allowing retailers to begin selling the book four days ahead or any of his family members, or any of
of schedule citing “unprecedented demand,” a Henry Holt their businesses, or the campaign.”
spokeswoman told CNN Thursday.

The decision to speed up the release came only hours after

Trump’s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Wolff and
his publisher, according to CNN.

On Thursday, Charles Harder, Trump’s

lawyer, sent a letter to Wolff and Steve
Rubin, the president of Henry Holt,
demanding they “immediately cease and
desist from any further publication, release
or dissemination of the book,” as well as
any excerpts or summaries of its content,
according to a copy obtained by the
Washington Post.
In the letter, Wolff and Rubin are accused
of publishing “false” and “baseless”
statements about Trump. Harder
threatened to sue for “defamation by libel,
defamation by libel per se, false light
On Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers also sent a cease and
invasion of privacy, tortious interference
desist letter to Bannon, demanding that he refrain from
with contractual relations, and inducement
making any “disparaging” comments about the president
of breach of contract.”
and his family.

Specifically, it alleges Wolff and Rubin of “reckless

“You [Bannon] have breached the
disregard for the truth,” which he says can be proven in a
Agreement by, among other things,
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 communicating with author Michael Wolff “President Trump’s attack absolutely stirred interest,”
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and Finley said.
the Company, disclosing Confidential
Information to Mr. Wolff, and making On Thursday, Wolff announced the new release date on
disparaging statements and in some cases Twitter and thanked the president.
outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
the Company, knowing that they would be
included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity
surrounding the marketing and sale of his
book,” Harder wrote to Bannon, according
to ABC News.

Excerpts of Wolff’s book were published by New York

Magazine Wednesday in an article entitled “Donald
Trump Didn’t Want to Be President.”

That day, the book quickly jumped to number one on

Amazon's best-seller list, where it still remains due to
thousands of pre-orders.

Terry Finley, chief executive of Books-A-Million Inc., the

country’s second-largest bookstore chain, told the Wall
Street Journal their bookstores experienced a “huge spike
in demand” Wednesday.
Michael Wolff © AFP
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 COLD STEELE: GOP Senators Want
CRIMINAL Probe Of Bogus ‘Trump Dossier’ Author
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
The letter is the first criminal referral from any of the
congressional investigations into Russia’s election
interference
(National Sentinel) Numbered Days: Two Republican
senators are requesting the Justice Department launch a
criminal investigation into the author of the discredited
“Trump dossier,” former British spy Christopher Steele.
As reported by The Hill, Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa
and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have sent a letter
to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray asking that they investigate if
the former MI6 agent was dishonest during his interactions
with federal authorities.
Steele was hired by Democratic opposition research firm
Fusion GPS to author the dossier, which was paid for by
the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
Some Republicans also believe the dossier, which contains
salacious and unsubstantiated claims about Donald J.
Trump and his campaign team, was used to get
authorization from the FISA court to put the campaign
under surveillance in 2016.
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“I don’t take lightly making a referral for criminal
investigation. But, as I would with any credible evidence
of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I
feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice
Department for appropriate review,” Grassley said in a
statement.
Graham added that “after reviewing how Mr. Steele
conducted himself in distributing information contained in
the dossier and how many stop signs the DOJ ignored in its
use of the dossier, I believe that a special counsel needs to
review this matter.”
Graham is an attorney by trade, having spent decades as an
Air Force lawyer and officer.
The letter is the first criminal referral from any of the
congressional investigations into Russia’s election
interference.
In their request, the senators passed along a memo tied to
“certain communications between Christopher Steele and
multiple U.S. news outlets.”
The memorandum was not released publicly, The Hill
reported, because it is classified.
Grassley’s office, in announcing their request, said it is
standard for the committee to notify the Justice
Department when it “comes across what appears to be
credible evidence of a criminal violation that warrants
further investigation by appropriate authorities based on
information from any source, public or non-public.”
 “An Idiot Surrounded By Clowns”:
Why Trump (Still) Sits In The White House
By Paul Street
January 5, 2018
Photo by Michael Vadon | CC BY 2.0
Most of the media’s attention on journalist Michael
Wolff’s “explosive” new book Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump White House has focused on the disclosure that
Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon used the
words “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” to describe Donald
Trump, Jr. and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner’s
infamous June 2016 meeting with Russians claiming to
possess damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Talking media heads are also agog over Bannon’s
assertions that the Donald, Jr. certainly introduced his
father to the Russians and that Trump is vulnerable on
Russian money laundering through Deutsche Bank.
What really leaped out at me from The New York Times’
write-up on Wolff’s book, however, is the total contempt
that Boss Tweet’s own associates and advisers have for
him:
The book presents Mr. Trump as an ill-informed and
thoroughly unserious candidate and president, engaged
mainly in satisfying his own ego and presiding over a
dysfunctional White House. It reports that early in the
2016 campaign, one aide, Sam Nunberg, was sent to
explain the Constitution to the candidate.
‘I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,’ it
quotes Mr. Nunberg as saying, ‘before his
finger is pulling down on his lip and his
eyes are rolling back in his head.’
The book … quotes an email from an
unnamed White House aide offering a
harsh assessment of Mr. Trump’s
operation: ‘It’s worse than you can imagine.
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An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump
won’t read anything — not one-page
memos, not the brief policy papers;
nothing. He gets up halfway through
meetings with world leaders because he is
bored.’
The book also asserts that Mr. Trump’s
advisers and associates deride him in
private, calling him an ‘idiot,’ a ‘dope’ or
‘dumb’ as dirt. Thomas J. Barrack, a friend
and adviser to Mr. Trump, was quoted
telling a friend that the president is ‘not only
crazy, he’s stupid’. (emphasis added).
“Stupid” may be putting it mildly. Recall the description of
Trump that his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to
disavow:
“fucking moron.”
The disclosures come as the Insane Clown President has
just taken his childish and reckless Twitter war with his
opposite number Kim Jong-un to a new low by saying “my
nuclear button is bigger than his – and it works.”
Nobody should be surprised by the “revelation” that
Trump is a malignantly narcissistic “dotard” (Kim’s
entertaining description) and dysfunctional “idiot.” That’s
been clear to anyone who isn’t themselves a hopeless
moron since the beginning of Trump’s political career,
festooned with the ridiculous and racist charge that Barack
Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
The real question is how an “idiot surrounded by clowns”
got into the White House. The Democratic Party
establishment wants people to think that Russia did it – a
charge as moronic as Trump’s claim to have won the
popular vote but for millions of illegal immigrant ballots.
The neo-McCarthyite Russiagate gambit is calculated to
distract attention from the dismal, demobilizing, and
dollar-drenched Democrats’ own responsibility for putting
Trump in office by (a) making policy (under both Bill
Clinton and Barack Obama) in cringing accord with the
regressive, state-capitalist and corporate-globalist
commands of Wall Street; (b) crushing progressive, social-
democratic forces in their own party; and (c) mounting a
horrific presidential campaign (Hillary 2016) that made
numerous unforced errors, like failing to visit Wisconsin
after the Democratic National Convention and calling
(however accurately) half of Trump’s backers
“deplorables.”
This is not to say that Trump deserves no credit for his
victory. Even the “fucking moron” and his clown team
had the basic smarts to keep the evangelical Ted Cruz
wing of the Republican electorate on board by granting
significant influence and position (including the Vice
Presidency) to the theocratic right. The pussy-grabbing
reality-television real estate magnate from godless New
York City would not have prevailed in the general election
without that deft move.
At the same time, Trump won because of underlying
historical and structural factors that are part and parcel of
the onset of the long neoliberal era. Even an “idiot” like
Trump was able to exploit the onset of corporate
globalization, automation, increased international
competition, austerity, extreme (New Gilded Age) wealth
concentration, and accelerated plutocracy to promise
economically squeezed voters a restoration of the vanished
middle-class American Dream. His call to “Make America
Great Again” resonated with mass white nostalgia for the
long lost Golden Age (1945-1973) of unmatched U.S.
economic prosperity.
The “dope” Trump benefitted from the depth and degree of
the 2008-2009 financial collapse and recession and the
weak, low-wage recovery that followed while Wall Street
and corporate profits soared to obscene new heights with
help from the Bush-Obama bailouts. The severe economic
hit helped de-legitimize establishment candidates like
Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio last year. It
made the real presidential contest a race between a
“populist” and “outsider” of “the left,” fueled by small
donors– the progressive neo-New Dealer Bernie Sanders –
and Trump, a self- and Mercer-financed billionaire
“populist” and “outsider” of the right.
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The corporate Democrats’ party structure held to prevent
the nomination of Sanders, the left “populist,” who would
likely have defeated Trump. By contrast, the corporate-
Republicans’ party structured did not hold. It crumbled
before the Trump-Bannon challenge, which was
unintentionally abetted by a corporate media that gave
more attention to the Donald’s every insane Tweet and
facial expression than it did to Sanders’ huge middle-class
and anti-plutocratic rallies against “the billionaire class.”
The jackass president-to be was able to win white middle-
and working-class votes by riding and playing/preying on
the long-term scapegoating (nothing new, to say the least)
of racial minorities and immigrants as the (false) cause of
declining opportunity and income and growing inequality
in the neoliberal era.
Agent Orange was further able to exploit the long-term
neoliberal rise and spread of “small government” and “free
market” ideology. Trump mined the “anti-government”
discourse to promote his “anti-establishment”/anti-
Washington campaign even as he advanced a reactionary
populist and white-nationalist critique of globalization and
immigration.
The Dotard-in-Chief benefitted from the underlying, ever-
sharpening partisan, racial, cultural, and ideological
polarization between the Republican and Democratic
parties, which guaranteed that Republicans voters would
support Trump – not matter how offensive and idiotic he
was – to block the presidential candidate (especially the
widely loathed Hillary Clinton) of the hated Democrats.
Hair Furher also reaped a windfall from the spilling over
of partisan polarization into crippling political and policy
gridlock after the 2008 financial crisis, the election of the
nation’s first Black president, the passage of Obama’s
signature health insurance reform, and the rise of the
Republican Tea Party. Trump exploited public disgust
with the resulting epic dysfunction of the paralyzed federal
government by posing as a great outsider/savior who
would “clean up the mess” and “drain the swamp.”
Along with all this, Trump benefitted from institutional
factors that long predate the neoliberal era and trace to the
U.S. Founders’ openly anti-democratic Constitution. For
the fifth time in United States history, the Founders’
Electoral College system allowed the installation of a
president who didn’t win the majority vote in the
quadrennial election. Remarkably enough, the nation that
proclaims itself the homeland and headquarters of global
democracy does not elect its powerful chief executive on
the elementary democratic principle of one person, one
vote. Like the Constitution’s scheme of Congressional
representation in its upper chamber (the Senate), the
charter’s Electoral College provision over-empowers the
nation’s vast and disproportionately white, right-wing, and
rural electorate relative to more liberal, progressive,
multiracial, and urban voters
The Founders’ system of checks and balances between the
legislature, executive, and judicial branches creates
remarkable capacity for gridlock when the branches are
held by different and intensely partisan political parties.
(The Founders’ it should be recalled, believed that they
had created a political system that would prevent the rise
of “factions” and parties and thus did not anticipate the
kind of partisan checkmate that Trump was able to exploit
last year.)
Along the way, the nation’s constitutional federalism gives
its fifty states great leeway in crafting election laws as well
as electoral districts. Right-wing Republican state-level
restrictions on Black, Latino, and “felon” voting rights
played a key role in Trump’s victory.
And the Supreme Court’s repeated constitutionally super-
empowered “wealth primary” rulings on behalf of abject
campaign finance plutocracy (here progressives need to
interrogate the 1976 Buckley-Valeo decision as well as the
2010 Citizens United judgment) have functioned to squash
progressive alternatives to corporate control of U.S.
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politics in ways that Trump was able to exploit with his
faux “populism” last year.
The dismal Dems want you to blame it all on Russia and
James Comey when he was a bad guy (he became a good
guy for the Democrats when he got fired by Trump for
refusing to squash the FBI’s Russiagate investigation). The
truth of the matter is that Russian “interference” was a
very minor matter in relation to the forces and factor
discussed above – forces and factors in which the
Inauthentic Opposition Party (the late Sheldon Wolin’s
incisive description of the Democrats) are deeply complicit
and involved – in explaining the ascendancy of a
dangerous “fucking moron” to the White House.
Now the U.S. and the world are saddled with a juvenile,
stupid, pathologically narcissist POTUS who poses grave
environmental and thermonuclear dangers to humanity.
Thanks to the absurdly deified Constitution bequeathed to
us by wealthy and anti-democratic aristo-republican
slaveowners and merchant capitalists 228 years ago, it is
hard to imagine him being removed from office except by
death or (further) disability prior to January 20 th, 2021.
We continue to be screwed by the Founding Fathers. Hold
on to your powdered wig.
 Obstruction Evidence Mounts As Critics Say
Trump Move To Stop Sessions Recusal 'Screams Of Guilt'
Though Obstruction Of Justice Difficult To Prove, Trump "Doing
Everything He Can To Help Mueller Do It,"
Argued Former White House Ethics Chief
By Jake Johnson, Staff Writer
Friday, January 05, 2018

Trump has previously aired his grievances with Sessions

over his recusal in public—calling him a
"disappointment"—but critics interpreted Trump's behind-
closed-doors effort to keep the Russia probe under his
control as another piece of evidence in a cumulative case
that the president obstructed the ongoing Russia probe.

President Donald Trump put his hand on the shoulder of Sen. Jeff
Sessions after introducing him before Sessions's swearing in
ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House February 9, 2017 in
Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

In a revelation viewed by some lawmakers and legal

experts as yet more evidence that President Donald Trump
has obstructed justice, the New York Times reported on
Thursday that Trump ordered White House counsel
Donald McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions
from recusing himself from the FBI's Russia probe in a bid
to maintain his "grip" on the investigation.

McGahn proceeded to carry out Trump's demand by

lobbying Sessions—a move slammed by former Office of
Government Ethics head Walter Shaub as an attempt to
convince Sessions to "break the law"—but the effort
ultimately failed.

When Sessions recused himself last March, Trump

"erupted in anger in front of numerous White House
officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect
him," according to the Times.
"Where's my Roy Cohn?" the president
reportedly exclaimed, referring to his
former lawyer, who also worked for the red-
baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Cohn was
disbarred from practicing law in New York
in 1986 on charges of "unethical" behavior.
Noting that it is far from easy to prove
obstruction—given that corrupt intent must
be demonstrated—Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW) chair Norm Eisen argued the
Times report shows that "Trump is doing
everything he can to help [Special Counsel
Robert] Mueller do it."

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As the Times reports, Mueller has learned about Trump's
push to stop Sessions from recusing himself and is
investigating the effort as part of his Russia probe, which
the White House has attempted to discredit as a "hoax."
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a former prosecutor, took to
Twitter following the Times revelations to argue that
"the repeated attempts by the president of
the United States to influence the criminal
investigation against him, such as this
attempt to order AG Jeff Sessions to not
recuse, screams consciousness of guilt."
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As Common Dreams reported last October, an in-depth
analysis of Trump's actions during the first months of his
presidency by CREW concluded it is "likely" that Trump
obstructed justice by interfering with
"the investigations into Michael Flynn and
Russia's interference in the 2016
presidential election through various
actions, including the termination of James
Comey."
Following the Times report, Eisen concluded that it "seems
like a good morning to circulate" the paper once more.
 Another One! Former HILLARY Senior Advisor FRETS
Millennials Will Vote For GOP After Tax Cut Leaves
THEM With More Of Their Own Money
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
“I hope millennials don’t fall into a lull of
accepting, this is what it is”
(National Sentinel) Taxes & Votes: A long-serving,
trusted political advisor to Hillary Clinton says he’s
becoming concerned that Millennials, which Democrats
see as a key voting bloc, will begin supporting
Republicans after the recently-passed tax cut leaves them
with more money every payday.
As reported by The Daily Caller, Phillippe Reines served
as a senior advisor to Clinton for more than 10 years in a
number of roles during her U.S. Senate and State
Department tenure.
He also advised her in the lead-up to her second failed bid
for the presidency during the 2016 election cycle.
Reines recently sat down with Washington interns to give
his view of the political landscape following Clinton’s loss
and Donald J. Trump’s unexpected victory.
He was asked by a young woman about the future of
younger voters in American politics. In response, Reines
said he did not know “how Millennials think,” and that it’s
“unclear what will get them going.”
While he speculated that socialist progressives like Sens.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts would do well tapping into youthful
enthusiasm for their prospective presidential candidacies,
he noted that he’s concerned that Trump and Republican
policies will begin to attract younger voters after seeing
their taxes go down.
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Philippe Reines served as a senior adviser to Hillary
Clinton for more than a decade in multiple roles in both
her Senate and state department offices. He also advised
Clinton in the lead up to her presidential campaign.
Reines sat down with Washington interns to give his
assessment of the political landscape after the 2016
election. Reines was asked by a young woman about the
future of young voters in politics. The Clinton advisor first
began by saying he didn’t know “how millennials think”
and that it is “unclear what will get them going.”
“Donald Trump and his people
want everyone to shut up, get over the
election, Hillary Clinton go away, that’s in
their best interest, but that’s not how
it works,” he said.
“We are supposed to oppose what we
disagree with. And I hope millennials
don’t fall into a lull of accepting, this is what
it is,” he continued. “God knows how many
of them will see their taxes go down and
base it just on that.
“But yeah, they are a key demographic that
voted oddly in 2016, and I am not sure
people understand how to get them to vote
productively in 2020,” he said.
The president and some Republicans have also speculated
they will win more support from a wider range of voters in
the 2018 and 2020 elections and beyond after improving
their economic conditions.
Reines isn’t the only Democrat worried about voters
flocking to support the GOP following the tax cuts.
Liberal CNN morning host Allyson Camerota and Rep.
Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., recently discussed what political
effect that the recently-passed Trump-Republican tax cuts
would have on the country, with both agreeing that it could
lead to more GOP support during the 2018 elections.
 Utah Man Arrested After
Threatening To Kill Trump, Shoot Up Movie Theater
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:25
A Utah man is facing criminal charges
after allegedly threatening to kill
President Donald Trump,
according to an indictment filed Wednesday. A grand jury
in central Utah returned the indictment showing multiple
charges against Travis Luke Dominguez of threatening the
President, the police, a bank, another business and a movie
theater.
"I'm a Navy SEAL," the indictment quoted
Dominguez, 33, as saying. "I woke up and
decided I’m going to kill the president
Donald Trump today. Please forgive me
and then I will die by suicide by cop."
The indictment went on to quote Dominguez as saying,
"I'm going to kill the sexist racist
homophobic President Trump today.
Nothing you can do to save President
Trump nor stop me pigs."
CNN, which first reported the news, was
unable to independently confirm
whether Dominguez's claim that he is a
SEAL is accurate.
A motion filed Wednesday said Dominguez was being
held in Utah state prison and was due to appear in court on
Thursday afternoon.
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The charges say Dominguez also threatened to carry out a
mass shooting or use explosives at a movie theater,
according to the New York Post.
Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for US Attorney John
Huber, issued a statement outlining the indictment and the
timeline of the actions it alleges.
"Local and federal law enforcement
agencies treat all threats seriously. They
expend time and resources responding
to and investigating them - as our
agencies did in this case. That said,
there isn't any evidence that Mr.
Dominguez traveled to carry out his
threats against the President," she said.
Dominguez made the threat on Trump's life on Dec. 4,
2017, the US attorney's office said. Trump visited Utah
that day to announce his decision to shrink a pair of
national monuments.
The DOJ statement alleges that later in December,
Dominguez used an internet tip line to send more threats,
including the threat to hurt people at a movie complex with
firearms or explosives and then to harm police officers
responding to the scene.
After a threat on New Year's Eve, the statement said,
Dominguez "was observed in the area of the theater" and
police officers then executed a vehicle stop and he was
taken into custody.
The US Secret Service did not respond to a request for
comment Wednesday evening.
 Robert Mueller Sued Over
Fake Russian Collusion Investigation
By Infowars War Room -
January 5, 2018

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 Networks Refuse To Cover FBI
Opening New Clinton Foundation Investigation
By Curtis Houck
January 5, 2018 12:37 PM EST
To the shock of no one (at least in the NewsBusters
newsroom), the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and
NBC ignored on Friday morning the stunning revelation
that the Clinton Foundation is under FBI investigation for
possible crimes while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of
State.
FNC’s Fox & Friends was the only cable or network
morning show (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This
Morning, CNN’s New Day, FNC’s Fox & Friends,
MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and NBC’s Today) to confirm
and cover the story, spending eight minutes and 50
seconds (minus teasers) on the Clinton Foundation.
The Hill’s John Solomon broke the story
just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern, explaining right
off the top that “[t]he Justice Department
has launched a new inquiry into whether
the Clinton Foundation engaged in any
pay-to-play politics or other illegal
activities while Hillary Clinton served as
Secretary of State.”
Solomon revealed that FBI agents in Little Rock, Arkansas
“have taken the lead in the investigation,” including the
process of interviewing possible witnesses. He cited a
source has having told him that the focus is whether
Clinton sought to curry favor with possible donors in
exchange for access to Clinton or favorable treatment by
the government.
Here’s more from Solomon:
The probe may also examine whether any
tax-exempt assets were converted for
personal or political use and whether the
foundation complied with applicable tax
laws, the officials said.
One witness recently interviewed by the FBI described the
session to The Hill as “extremely professional and
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unquestionably thorough” and focused on questions about
whether donors to Clinton charitable efforts received any
favorable treatment from the Obama administration on a
policy decision previously highlighted in media reports.
In an update Friday morning, Clinton spokesman Nick
Merrill blasted the move as “disgraceful” and suggested
that it was ordered without merit by the Trump
administration to distract from the Russia investigation and
Michael Wolff’s stunning new book.
After the morning shows, both CNN and The Washington
Post confirmed Solomon's scoop. CNN Newsroom with
John Berman and Poppy Harlow went live in the 10:00
a.m. hour to Justice correspondent Laura Jarrett following
the publication of a CNN.com story by Jarrett and
colleague Evan Perez.
In part, Jarrett told Berman and Harlow:
A significant legal development here as
CNN has now learned that federal
authorities down in Arkansas are actively
investigating the Clinton Family Foundation
for corruption. A U.S. official tells me that
the FBI and federal prosecutors there are
digging into specifically whether foundation
donors were improperly promised policy
favors or some type of special access to
Clinton while she was secretary of state in
exchange for donations to the charity's
coffers and coming whether tax laws were
followed here.
The major broadcast networks had plenty of time for
Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury book of Trump White
House gossip, but no time for this bomshell. If any
significant time is devoted to it, watch for the liberal media
and friends like Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff
(Calif.) to slam the FBI before going back to suggesting
any criticism of the FBI is un-American.
 GOP Senators Ask For Criminal Probe
Of British Spy Who Wrote "Trump Dossier"
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:32

Many details surrounding the now-infamous "Trump themselves. I hope the Department of
Dossier," from who funded it to how exactly it made it's Justice will carefully review our letter and
way into the hands of the FBI and whether or not it was take appropriate action,” Graham said.
relied upon to secure FISA warrants to spy on members of
Trump's campaign, are critical to determining whether
partisan politics, or fact-based investigative work, drove
the DOJ's initial efforts in its Russia probe.

Now, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck

Grassley (R-Iowa) and Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime
and Terrorism Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) say
they've uncovered what they believe is sufficient evidence
to refer the author of the dossier, ex-MI6 spy Christopher
Steele, to the Justice Department for an investigation of
potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 for false
statements about the distribution of claims contained in the
dossier.
“I don’t take lightly making a referral for
criminal investigation. But, as I would with
any credible evidence of a crime
unearthed in the course of our
investigations, I feel obliged to pass that
information along to the Justice
Department for appropriate review,”
Grassley said.
“Everyone needs to follow the law and
be truthful in their interactions with the
FBI. If the same actions have different
outcomes, and those differences seem
to correspond to partisan political
interests, then the public will naturally
suspect that law enforcement decisions
are not on the up-and-up. Maybe there is
some innocent explanation for the
inconsistencies we have seen, but it seems
unlikely. In any event, it’s up to the Justice
Department to figure that out.”
“After reviewing how Mr. Steele
conducted himself in distributing
information contained in the dossier
and how many stop signs the DOJ
ignored in its use of the dossier, I
believe that a special counsel needs to
review this matter. The rule of Law
depends on the government and all who
work on its behalf playing by the rules
According to the letter, yesterday evening Grassley and
Graham delivered to Senate Security a letter and classified
memorandum for delivery to Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray
containing information that forms the basis of their
referral, which they describe as follows:
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, individuals are
prohibited from making false statements
to the federal authorities of the United
States. Grassley and Graham are
referring Steele for making potentially
false statements about the distribution
of claims from the dossier.
This referral does not pertain to the veracity of claims
contained in the dossier. The referral is for further
investigation only, and is not intended to be an allegation
of a crime.
It is the practice of the committee to notify the Justice
Department whenever it comes across what appears to be
credible evidence of a criminal violation that warrants
further investigation by appropriate authorities based on
information from any source, public or non-public.
In the interest of transparency, the
senators and committee staff are
working to redact all sensitive
information in the classified
memorandum sent to Rosenstein and

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 Wray. If and when that process can be
lawfully and appropriately completed in
consultation with the Justice
Department, an unclassified version of
the memorandum will be released.
Of course, the only question is whether the alleged false
statements made by Steele will result in the same
punishment as that bestowed upon Michael Flynn or
whether there is an exemption for false statements
provided they were intended to harm the current
administration.
Here is the full statement by Grassley and Graham:

And here is the referral to the Deputy AG Rosenstein and FBI Director Wray:

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 How The System Got Trumped:
Cambridge Analytica’s Electoral Psyops Campaign
By Louis Proyect
January 5, 2018
Poster for “Trumping Democracy.
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, “Trumping
Democracy” provides the key to understanding how we
have ended up with the most unpopular president in
history. Despite the tsunami of reports about Russia
meddling with the 2016 elections, this gripping
documentary makes the case that it was instead the result
of a combination of Robert Mercer’s funding and the
computer-based Psyops his Cambridge Analytica firm
exploited. This one-two punch produced a president that
Gary Cohn described, according to Michael Wolff’s new
bombshell book, Fire and Fury, as a “An idiot surrounded
by clowns.”
Including the director Thomas Huchon, “Trumping
Democracy” was the product of a creative team that
despite (or, perhaps because of) its French provenance has
a sharper focus on our national calamity than MSNBC,
CNN and all the other usual suspects. Huchon’s last
documentary “Conspi Hunter” was based on a bogus
conspiracy theory about the CIA inventing the AID virus
in order to subvert Cuba. He released the film online in
order to show how quickly and easily conspiracy theories
can go viral on the Internet. Given the role of Breitbart
News and Infowars in the Trump campaign, it was logical
that Huchon would make his latest film a kind of follow-
up to “Conspi Hunter”.
The film begins with a visit to an artist named Scott
Lobaido, who lives on Staten Island—the only borough in
New York that favored Trump. Lobaido might be better
described as an illustrator since most of his work is just
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one cut above the velveteen portraits of JFK or Elvis
Presley that used to adorn some households in years past.
This is a painting displayed prominently on the home page
of his website.
The foul-mouthed Lobaido told his mild-mannered French
interlocutor that the mainstream media was out to destroy
Trump and that he could only rely on Fox News to get the
real story. But his main source of “the truth” is the
Internet. After spending 8 hours painting American flags
or portraits of Donald Trump striking heroic poses, he sits
down at his computer and goes to Twitter, Facebook or
websites like Infowars to learn about the dangers that
Muslims and Mexican immigrants pose to the republic.
Much of what he takes as the gospel truth has about as
much validity as “Conspi Hunter”.
He probably has relied on Paul Horner’s news stories on
occasion, who is the next subject Huchon sits down to
interview. Horner’s interest was less in promoting Donald
Trump than it was in making money. Since he understood
that his fake stories were more likely to get the attention of
a Scott Lobaido than a Louis Proyect, he found it useful to
“expose” Hillary Clinton. Carrying ads on his click-bait
articles ensured that he was able to pay his rent and enjoy
the good life.
Some research done after watching “Trumping
Democracy” revealed that Horner died of an accidental
drug overdose on September 18, 2017—no doubt paid for
by the proceeds of his fake stories. Totally cynical about
his profession, he revealed himself to the NY Times as
someone totally unlike those who helped make him
prosper:
Mr. Horner’s fraudulent articles could be found on
Facebook, various news domains that he created, and in
years past, on the fake news website National Report.
Even his byline was fake. He often went by the name
Jimmy Rustling, as he did on this story, in which he
claimed protesters were getting paid $3,500 to disrupt
Trump rallies.
That article, which was tweeted out by Mr. Trump’s
campaign manager, now has a taunting disclaimer at the
top that says the story isn’t real: “I personally went to two
Donald Trump rallies and I can say with 100% certainty
that NONE of the protesters were getting paid,” the
statement says. “This story I wrote is mocking all of you
sheep who think protesters are getting paid.”
Next Huchon trains his eye on Robert Mercer, who is truly
the éminence grise responsible for our woes today. In
some ways, Mercer is the modern counterpart of Howard
Hughes, another reclusive tycoon who used his wealth to
reshape American politics. Instead of the airplane, it was
IBM computers that helped Mercer become a billionaire.
As a natural language pioneer at Big Blue, Mercer helped
to lay the groundwork for artificial intelligence and
ironically for the president who was the epitome of real
stupidity.
His mastery of complex logarithms recommended him to
Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that sought ways
to make money by putting investing on a scientific basis. It
didn’t work very well for Long Term Capital Management
and let’s cross our fingers that it will work even more
poorly for Renaissance Technologies. While the USA is
like a patient on life support, the bankruptcy of this piggy
bank for pigs might give it another five minutes before the
plug is pulled.
With the technology he developed at the hedge fund, the
firm prospered and so did he. His billions have helped him
to carry out the same kind of libertarian rightwing crusade
as the Koch brothers, but with much more of a Christian,
right-populist twist. (It should be added that the populism
was mostly cosmetic.) Mercer never spent a penny on chi-
chi institutions like the Lincoln Center or the Museum of
Natural History as do the Kochs. He was exclusively a big
backer of propaganda machines like the Heritage
Foundation and Breitbart News that he rescued from
bankruptcy. Mercer and his lout of a daughter Rebekah
developed a close relationship with Steve Bannon, who
was funded by the Mercers when he served as Trump’s
campaign manager.
Mercer’s first choice was Ted Cruz rather than Donald
Trump. When Trump threw Cruz and all the other primary
campaign competitors out of the ring as if it were a
professional wrestling survival match, it wasn’t hard for
the Mercers to get on the Trump bandwagon—even though
it might be said that it was really Trump who got on their
bandwagon.
The Mercers and their hired gun Bannon understood at the
outset that Clinton, as awful as she was, was not nearly as
awful as Trump. She was likely to win the popular vote as
she did by nearly 2.9 million. They calculated that they
had to focus on the electoral vote, an undemocratic
measure that the founding fathers viewed as essential to
keeping the rabble in line.
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It was close ties between the British racist Nigel Farage
and his American counterpart Steve Bannon that helped
them to develop a winning strategy. When Britons voted
for Brexit, a campaign with nativist implications that
Farage helped to formulate, Bannon and the Mercers
realized that what worked in England might work here.
Farage tipped them off that a firm called Strategic
Communications Laboratories (SCL) provided key
demographic data that helped the Brexit campaigners
secure a victory.
SCL developed Psyops that could be used to the advantage
of election campaigns and ultimately to the military. The
methodology involved developing a profile of potential
voters inspired by the OCEAN personality test, which
drew from publicly available databased to identify how
people rated on the basis of Openness to experience,
Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and
Neuroticism. Integrating publicly available databases and
information drawn from Facebook and Twitter, the
American offshoot of SCL named Cambridge Analytics
that is owned by Mercer identified key voters who scored
high on Neuroticism and voted Democrat in the last
election in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. The Trump
campaign then paid for ads that targeted this base heavily
with social media ads in October and November that
would last for only a brief period, thus leaving no obvious
electronic trail.
While it is obviously impossible to prove that the ads made
the difference in swinging these states to Trump’s
advantage, it is certainly more plausible than blaming the
Russian ads with which Rachel Maddow is obsessed,
especially since the Trump campaign shelled out 150
million dollars, while the Russian ads did not exceed
$150,000.
The real question is not whether the ads made the
difference. It is instead what kind of society we are living
in, where Psyops begin to be used routinely. That in
combination with the Citizens United Supreme Court
ruling that gave corporations the right to buy elections
makes the word democracy sound hollow.
When Psyops-type Facebook ads can swing elections, you
have to consider the Internet—or at least the social media
part of it—as a mixed blessing. Despite its obvious value
in spreading news about protests in countries where the
newspapers are government-controlled, it can also be
exploited for propaganda advantages by the very same
types of regimes—Syria being a prime example.
Oddly enough, there is an inverse relationship between
technological advances and the ability of people to
exercise their democratic rights. In 1986, I read a book
titled “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman that
made the case that television has been responsible for
dumbing down the political culture. It is too bad that
Postman, who died in 2003, never updated it to take the
Internet into account. He was troubled by how television
presidential debates had begun to become not much more
edifying than those ridiculous five-minute food fights
between Tucker Carlson and some leftist foolish enough to
accept an invitation to “debate” him.
While most people nowadays are worried that Trump will
impose a totalitarian regime of the type that Orwell warned
about in “1984”, we should not rule out the possibility—or
even the probability—that we are facing much more of a
dystopia that resembles Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New
World”, where everybody had the freedom to do what they
wanted except the right to change the system. Here’s how
Postman contrasted the two British authors in the forward
to his classic:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to
ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read
one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
information. Huxley feared those who would give us so
.
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much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.
Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of
irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive
culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture,
preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy
porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley
remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil
libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to
oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost
infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added,
people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New
World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short,
Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell,
was right.
It is also about the possibility that Donald Trump’s
presidency is the realization of Huxley’s dystopian vision.
 Meghan McCain: ‘Never Felt More Conservative,
Defensive Of Trump Base’ Than Before ‘View’
By Kristine Marsh
January 5, 2018 4:34 PM EST
In a hostile, lengthy exchange on ABC’s The View Friday,
co-host Meghan McCain admitted frustration at being the
sole Republican host on the show. Trying to explain to co-
host Joy Behar that Trump supporters “don’t care” about
the Michael Wolff book, or other controversies the media
hypes about the White House, McCain gushed,
“I have never felt more conservative and
more defensive of the middle of the
country than I have before I started
working on this show.”
The segment started by talking about the news of the day,
the salacious book about Trump’s White House by
Michael Wolff, released today to much media hype.
Amidst talking about how bad the claims in the book were
for Trump, McCain argued that the good news of the
administration is overshadowed by these scandals and
leaks.
“There is actually positive news coming
out. The Dow surpassed 25,000 points
for the first time yesterday.
Unemployment rates, falling to 6.8%.
Companies are announcing the addition
of new jobs,” she argued.
“Is he responsible for that though?”
fellow co-host Sunny Hostin asked
skeptically.
“Presidents always get to take
responsibility. I think the Dow, yeah
because I think it is an indicator of Wall
Street's enthusiasm about Trump,” McCain
answered quickly.
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She criticized the administration for not being good at
positive spin and letting the media run with the Wolff
book:
“If you had people that were good at this,
you would be putting this out in the news.
But instead, we're probably going to talk
about Michael Wolff's book for the next
three weeks,” she grumbled.
Guest co-host Ana Navarro agreed, blaming President
Trump tweeting about the book as the reason for it’s hype:
One of the reasons we're talking about
Michael Wolff is because President Trump
is tweeting about Michael Wolff and
because his lawyer is sending cease and
desist letters to Michael Wolff and his
publishers. They've really turned it into a
media balloon. If they had shrugged their
shoulders and said, ah, meh, whatever...
The panel then gossipped about how Trump had memory
problems, according to the book Behar vehemently argued
that this was proof Trump had “short term memory loss” to
which Hostin added that it was a sign of Alzheimer’s.
“Do any of us have a medical degree?”
McCain gushed. “We're not doctors.
There's a lot of bigger problems and
proverbial proof about things that are going
on and diagnosing our president’s mental
health is--” she argued, before being cut off
by Behar.
“We're not diagnosing!” Behar defended
herself. “A psychiatrist did this!” she added.
“We're not doctors. We're talk show
hosts,” McCain stated bluntly.
But Hostin agreed with Behar.
“I don't think it's a stretch to -- when you
know the fact that his father had
Alzheimer's for six years and then
died...there is an increased risk for getting
 Alzheimer’s if your father has it,” she
stated.
After commercial break, the panel kept discussing the
book and its impact. McCain downplayed its effect on
anyone who supported Trump:
MCCAIN: The question is does his base
care?
Does his base care about all of us getting up in a tizzy.
Rightfully so. This is a very salacious, juicy book. Do his
supporters care? I was at home in Arizona, I know you
don't like to hear this and be reminded that he has a
dedicated base--
BEHAR: Why do you say we don’t want to hear it? I’d love to
hear it.
MCCAIN: Ok great. I was in Cottonwood,
Arizona, going to Walmart. Stopped at
the gas station. There was a guy in a
Make America Great Again hat. Go to
that Walmart, Make America Great Again
hats. A year out and his supporters--
BEHAR: That's 30% of the population
MCCAIN: He has a very dedicated base. Their base was enough
to get him elected the first time. Will it be enough to get him
elected a second time?
I’m just trying to explain to you that he
has a base of dedicated supporters and
things that we, in the media care about, I
don't know if necessarily the average
person who sees the Dow up, who sees
the unemployment rates at all-time low,
if they care in the same way
HOSTIN: I give Americans more credit than that, Meghan. I think
people are watching. I think people are reading. I think people
are very concerned that he's playing chicken with Kim Jong-Un. I
think people are concerned about their children.
MCCAIN: We're talking about his base, aren't we?
HOSTIN: His base is only 30% of the population. What about the
other 70% of the population that are watching and listening?
They do care about that.
Behar added to Hostin’s argument that the country shouldn’t care
what Trump’s base thinks.
“Why do you feel comfortable with the
minority dictating to the majority about
what should happen in the country?”
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Behar charged McCain, to audience applause.
“I'm trying to constantly explain it,” McCain answered with
frustration. “I think when you say things like, oh, I give the
American people more credit.
That means that everyone who voted for
Trump, you're basically saying, oh, I
give them no credit. These people who
voted for Trump, because your values
are not my values.
You're not in the majority or whatever and--” she ranted before
Hostin interrupted.
“If you voted for Trump and you're not
concerned, I am concerned about that!” the
liberal host gushed.
McCain explained she was a “Never
Trumper” but after the election, she “chose”
to try to understand Trump’s base:
“I choose to try to understand his base
and why they're so angry. And why
they're still sticking with him. He has the
same approval rate on election day that he
does now,” she replied.
But Behar put up a figurative middle finger to Trump supporters,
gushing that Democrats should “forget those people:”
“The note for the Democrats is forget
those people. You're never going to get
them. Just concentrate on the 70% and
get those people to the polls and save
the country,” she stated bluntly.
Navarro then urged minorities and women to get out in vote in
local elections and “make a difference,” by rejecting candidates
like Roy Moore. McCain confronted the self-described
Republican, saying she didn’t exactly sound like a Republican
anymore. Navarro admitted she didn’t mind voting for Democrats:
MCCAIN to NAVARRO: Does that mean
you prefer democratic candidates now?
 Just because I’m not a Trumper, doesn't defensive of the middle of the country
mean I'm a Democrat. than I have started working on this
show.
NAVARRO: To Donald Trump? I would
prefer a potted plant to Donald Trump. I
would prefer a mannequin. Surprisingly Behar didn’t deny the show had an overwhelming
liberal bias.
MCCAIN: I am talking about Senate
elections
“Of course. We're on the other side. Of
NAVARRO: Well yes. If I have to choose course you're going to react to that,
between a pedophile or Doug Jones right?” she quipped.
whose a Democrat, I'll take the
Democrat. Those are the choices we “I don't mean that in negative way. I have a
had. whole new understanding of what it
feels like to sort of be lectured to about
our values,” McCain added.
After Behar accused McCain’s party of “no longer the party of
Ronald Reagan and Eisenhower,” McCain gushed that working
on The View made her more sympathetic to middle America and Co-host Paula Faris added that McCain was voicing the part of
Trump’s base: America that “feels marginalized,” before the conversation trailed
off to another segment.
I have never felt more defensive of
Trump's base. I have never felt more
conservative. And I’ve never felt more
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 The Wolff Book Proves It:
Our Journalists Stink
By Andrew Klavan
January 5, 2018
The self-destruction of Steve Bannon is a terrific story but
not an important story. That is, for those of us who love
politics for its Shakespearean revelation of character on the
grand stage, it's an amazing farewell-to-all-my-greatness
moment. But if you are concerned about the threats to
liberty at home and abroad, the prosperity of our fellow
Americans and allies, and the positive developments —
like fresh space exploration — that might emerge from a
new American century, well, Steve don't matter much. Or
at all.
But Bannon's fall, and the scandal-mongering book that
helped it along — Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside
the Trump White House — do underscore one thing of
real importance: our mainstream journalists are genuinely
awful. They will sell any narrative they can to keep from
selling the one that seems increasingly likely to be true:
Trump is smarter than they are and doing a better job than
the last two presidents combined.
Consider this "bombshell" from the book. Bannon thinks
Don Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer
was "treasonous," and that "the chance that Don Jr. did not
walk these jumos up to his father's office on the twenty-
fifth floor is zero." It's a fascinating comment, because it
indicates that Bannon so miscalculated his power and
political acumen that he thought he could knock down the
central pillar of his prestige — Trump's friendship — and
survive with his career intact. But it has no factual or
evidentiary weight. Bannon wasn't at the meeting and
didn't even join the campaign until August 2016. So he's
just another guy with an opinion — and a guy whose
opinions tend to be overblown and melodramatic at that.
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Now listen to how Chuck Todd reported it on MSNBC in a
tone I can only describe as one of prissy self-
righteousness:
"Welcome to a five alarm dumpster fire for
the White House or shall we call it
Bannon’s rebellion? The Russia
investigation has been blown open in
dramatic fashion. Not by the ‘fake news
media,’ not by the ‘deep state Justice
Department,’ but by Steve Bannon!"
Stephanie Ruhle and political reporter Mark
Murray also opined that Bannon's remarks
gave the Russia investigation "legitimacy."
Why? Bannon wasn't there. He wasn't part of the campaign
at the time. He has an opinion. So do I. How does any of
this "blow open" anything besides Bannon's piehole?
All of what I've seen of Fire and Fury so far seems more
sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.
Donald Trump was so ignorant he didn't know who John
Boehner was, Wolff writes. It took me a fifteen-second
Google search to prove that wasn't true. Trump had spoken
about Boehner frequently. He played golf with the guy! It's
an important anecdote meant to tell us something about the
president of the United States and it's utterly false. What
kind of writer — what kind of publisher — doesn't check
that stuff?
Or consider this description from Wolff's self-promotion
piece for Hollywood Reporter:
"Everybody was painfully aware of the
increasing pace of [Trump's] repetitions. It
used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd
repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-
expression, the same three stories — now
it was within 10 minutes."
We know this isn't true. As recently as October, we saw
Trump speak for 45 minutes off-the-cuff under press
questioning. Over Christmas, he talked to the New York
Times. He's clearly all there. A big, outlandish character,
no question, but no more outlandish than he was in the
1980s. Why should Wolff's assertion get any sort of
attention at all?
The nation's journalists cover this obvious nonsense
because otherwise, they'd have to enter what to them is
uncharted territory: the truth.
If there's anything substantial in Wolff's tales of chaos in
the early Trump White House, it shows nothing more than
this: Those of us who thought the political neophyte
Trump was unprepared to take office in January were
correct, and Trump's response — that he would learn in
office and appoint the "best people" to help him — was
equally correct.
But that would mean that Trump is practically smarter and
more adept than the journalists who hate him and those
journalists will accept any narrative other than that
.
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one. The White House is running more smoothly? Well,
that's John Kelly's doing, not Trump's. ISIS is defeated?
Well, that's Matthis's work, not Trump's. Great judicial
appointments? Well, that's the Federalist Society. Tax
cuts? That's Ryan and McConnell. Regulatory rollbacks?
Well, that's all those guys running the agencies. Trump is
so busy tweeting and watching the Gorilla Channel, he just
hasn't had time to get in the way, that's all.
We are watching our mainstream news media implode.
They don't just jump on any fake news that might make
Trump look bad for the few moments before they're forced
to retract it. They're now actually reporting their fantasies
— fantasies in which Trump doesn't keep making them
look like the idiots they are.
 Establishment Media Now Laughably Claiming That
Trump Cannot READ In Latest Pathetic
Attack On The President
Alex Thomas
January 5th, 2018

that for all practical purposes, he was no more

than semi-literate.’” Scarborough stated as he
read from the text.

“For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he

was an “idiot.” For Gary Cohn, he was “dumb
as” blank [on screen: “s**t”]. For H.R. McMaster
he was a ‘dope.’” the host continued.

Another day, another pathetic attack on Donald Trump,

this time with the laughable claim that the president may
not actually be able to read.

That’s right, Trump derangement syndrome has “reached

its peak” and has even increased with the release of a so
far uncorroborated book by anti-Trump author Michael
Wolff that claims that almost every person who comes into
contact with the president believes him to be a moron.

Scarborough then launched into what can only be

Keep in mind that this comes at the same time that the
described as straight up disinformation coming from a man
media and leftists throughout the country are also trying to
that openly hates the president and has shown his
claim that Trump is mentally unstable.
willingness to do whatever it takes to hurt him.
Infowars reports:
He doesn’t read. He didn’t read. I remember
one time in a, uh, let’s just say a tense, uh, uh,
The latest talking media point, in addition to the uh, meeting with Donald Trump, I actually after,
notion that the President is mentally unstable, is I think it was the, uh, right after the first debate,
that Trump is probably also illiterate. I said, uh — and of course we disagreed on his
performance. I thought it was horrible. He
The point was raised, predictably, on MSNBC’s thought it was the greatest debate performance
Morning Joe, with Joe Scarborough declaring ever.
“[Trump] doesn’t read. He didn’t read. […]
[T]here has been a question of whether this guy I said: Donald, let me ask you a question. Do
can read, whether he does read.” you read? Do you read? And he just stared
back at me and made Mika a little nervous, uh,
Scarborough noted that Wolff’s book contends for me to be insulting this guy. I go: Do you
that “senior staffers at the White House have read? If somebody — and, um, this is verbate. If
low opinions of the President’s intelligence.” somebody wrote you a one-page memo, and,
and, and wrote a one-page memo for every
“There are many creative words. Quote: ‘Trump issue, could you read it?
didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was
print, it might as well not exist. Some believed
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 And he lifted up his Bible, his childhood Bible.
He goes: Of course I read. Uh, that was the
wrong book for him to hold up to say he read it.
But, there, there has been a question of
whether this guy can read, whether he does
read.
Uh, and inside the White House, again, we’ve
all heard these complaints. He refuses to read
.
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anything. He gets bored, uh, after about fifteen
seconds of even people talking to him.
Make no mistake folks this is hardcore fake news and
reeks of absolute desperation by an establishment that has
gone ALL OUT to take out the president and has so far
failed miserably, with the American people continuing to
support him despite this full-scale disinformation
operation.
 ‘World Wide Leader In Leftist Disinformation’:
ESPN Now Pushing Discredited Russian Collusion Story
In Attack On Houston Astros For Accepting
White House Invitation
Alex Thomas
January 5th, 2018

do with where you fall on the political spectrum,

left or right.”

“I say what I say because what has gone on in

this administration is abnormal and should not
be normalized.”

Over the last couple of years the once unbeatable sports

network ESPN has gone full-scale liberal, firing various
commentators who didn’t tow the new company line while
allowing those that do work for the company to spread
leftist disinformation masquerading as legitimate sports
analysis.

Now, in a new low for the network, ESPN has aired a rant
by commentator Max Kellerman that specifically brought Kellerman then specifically brought up the Russian
up the widely discredited Russian collusion probe while collusion probe while noting that Trump’s former national
pretending that it didn’t have anything to do with being a security had already been arrested for lying to the FBI.
liberal or conservative. Kellerman seemingly purposefully left out key facts
surrounding the Flynn investigation while totally ignoring
the high-level Clinton supporters in the FBI who targeted
In other words, according to the obvious implications put
him in the first place.
forth by Kellerman, good people are against Donald
Trump and bad people support him.
“There is an investigation on-going into the
Trump administration, and collusion with a
Kellerman’s leftist talking points came in response to a
hostile foreign power that involves our national
decision by the Houston Astros to accept an invitation to
election,” Kellerman continued, again sounding
the White House after the team won their first ever World
almost exactly like a Democrat in Congress or
Series in late 2017.
any one of the various cable news anchors who
attack Trump on a daily basis.
Asked what it means that the Astos had accepted the
invitation, Kellerman claimed that the team would be on
“It has never happened in my lifetime. All the
the wrong side of history before spewing the same leftist
President’s men seem to be implicated.”
disinformation about the president that is heard throughout
the liberal mainstream media.
Kellerman concluded,
“It says they are making a grave error and are
on the wrong side of history,” he noted. “I want “It has to do with equal protection under the law,
to be very clear about this: This has nothing to and constitutionality, and being a patriotic

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 American citizen. You do not normalize this ignoring key facts about the deep states ongoing war
behavior with White House visits.” against Donald Trump.

So there you have it. ESPN has officially stopped being a Its no wonder that the network is bleeding subscribers at a
sports network and is now nothing more than another startling rate with new competitor FS1 seemingly in line to
leftist propaganda outlet pushing discredited lies while take over as the actual leader of TV sports coverage.

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 It’s A CULT! Vanity Fair Forced To Apologize For
Mocking Hillary Clinton, Demonstrating Yet
Again How Obedience Is Mandatory
By Ethan Huff
Saturday, January 06, 2018
A massive feminist triggering has prompted the fashion
magazine Vanity Fair to issue a groveling public apology
over a relatively tame humor video it published online
poking fun at failed Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton.
The “controversial” video, entitled, “6 New Year’s
Resolutions for Hillary Clinton,” suggested that Clinton
get over the election already and take up some new
hobbies. Some of the video’s recommendations include
working on a sequel to her book, for instance, as well as
knitting and getting outside and hiking more.
The video further joked about how Clinton should stop her
phone from automatically stating that she was forming an
exploratory committee, as well as consider teaching a
course on how to alternate nostril breathing.
Compared to the oftentimes R-rated attacks of the
mainstream media against President Trump, Vanity Fair‘s
treatment of Clinton was barely G-rated, and would
probably work well in a Disney film. But because she’s a
woman and a liberal, hordes of entitled, thin-skinned
snowflakes were quick to condemn the magazine.
Some of these snowflakes were celebrities, including
mouthy feminist actress Patricia Arquette. In a furious
response relayed by CBS News, Arquette screeched the
social media equivalent of a wild banshee:
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“HeySTOP (sic) TELLING WOMEN WHAT
THE [expletive] THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN
DO. Get over your mommy issues.”
Classy.
Fellow feminist loudmouth and Hillary Clinton apologist
Shauna DeBono had a similar “Reeeeee!” moment on
Twitter, accusing Vanity Fair of being “sexist” for its
criticisms of Clinton.
“Quick tip: don’t tell one of the most
accomplished women in the world to take up
knitting.”
President Trump blasts Vanity Fair for
capitulating to feminist fanaticism
In typical liberal media form, the editors of Vanity Fair
were quick to cave to this onslaught of toxic feminism.
Rather than issue a message of “suck it up, buttercup” – or
better yet, no response at all to the mindless insanity – the
magazine issued an apology.
“It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it
missed the mark,” reads the official statement
issued by Vanity Fair.
As he’s notorious for doing, President Trump was also
quick to take on the bullies who so easily whined and cried
their way into the obviously coerced apology. He tweeted
his own message to the magazine stating:
“Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs,
is bending over backwards in apologizing for
the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna
Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of
St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside
herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!”
While Anna Wintour is actually the editor of Vogue, she
does run Conde Nast, which is the parent company of
Vanity Fair. In essence, the President made it clear that the
magazine and its editors were foolish to cave on such a
pathetic attack by leftist snowflakes still desperately trying
to push political correctness in the post-Trump era.
Newsflash:
Your days are over.
“… it’s obvious that no such apology would
have been forthcoming regarding any material
directed at Trump,” commented conservative
pundit Ben Shapiro about the whole thing,
noting that the magazine has published similar
mocking videos of a much more biting tone
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against President Trump and his administration,
without apology.
“See if you can train the muscles in your mouth
to say, ‘The President was lying, Jim. He’s a
liar!” one of the editors of that video is heard
quipping.
Another makes the suggesting that Huckabee Sanders take
up instragamming baked goods instead of being the White
House Press Secretary.
Did Vanity Fair apologize for this? Not a chance.
The Leftist Mainstream Media Is Now DEFENDING North
Korea, Calling For The President Of The United States
To Be BANNED From Twitter
Alex Thomas
January 6th, 2018

else that was interpreted as a threat to North

Korea.

The New York Times also reported on the calls to censor

the president over threatening a nation that literally wants
to destroy the entire country. Notice how the reporter is
openly worried that nothing Trump says will ever get him
banned.

Is there any situation that would cause Twitter

to suspend or ban President Trump?

In yet another example of the insanity that is the new Given Friday’s announcement, it seems highly
liberal orthodoxy in the age of Trump, multiple unlikely that President Trump will ever lose
mainstream news outlets, as well as numerous left-wing access to his account while he still holds office.
activists, are now publicly calling for Twitter to ban
President Trump from their platform for threatening North
In the past, Twitter has insisted that there are
Korea.
no exceptions to its rules and that all individuals
using the platform must adhere to them, or risk
You read that correctly. American media outlets are not disciplinary action or permanent suspension.
only defending North Korea, they are actually claiming
that threatening the rogue nuclear nation constitutes
But the company refused to entertain
“hateful speech” that must be censored.
hypothetical scenarios about suspending high-
profile accounts, including that of Mr. Trump.
Articles in the Washington Post, the New York Times,
Slate Magazine, and the Globe and Mail have all called for
Make no mistake, the legacy media simply cannot stand
censoring the president in the last week, ostensibly because
that their enemy (Trump) can speak to their other enemy
of his threats against North Korea but in reality because
(the American people) without his words being filtered
the legacy media absolutely despises the fact that the
through them.
president can speak to the American people without going
through the establishment gatekeepers first.
Canada’s second largest newspaper, The Globe and
Mail, also called for the president to be banned:
The Washington Posts article isn’t even labeled an opinion
piece, instead the paper called their public call for
censoring the democratically elected president an The menacing presence of U.S. President
‘Analysis”: Donald Trump has once again darkened our
doorways, creating even graver concern that
the fate of the world lay in the hands of an
Why has Twitter not taken action against
unbalanced, paranoid control freak. On
Trump’s tweets — or banned his account for
Tuesday, the President took to his favourite
violating its policies on hateful content and/or
social media platform, Twitter, to taunt North
violent threats?
Korean leader Kim Jong Un, over whose
nuclear arsenal was the biggest and most
In September, you might remember, Twitter effective.
defended its decision to keep Trump’s account
intact when the president tweeted something
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 This was in response to Kim Jong’s statement
on Monday that the U.S. was within range of a
strike and that a nuclear button was always on
his desk.

[…]

Of course, we don’t know if Mr. Trump will

succeed in taking us over a cliff after mocking
someone as unstable as Kim Jong once too
often, unleashing a firestorm of pain and
unimaginable loss in the process. If it does
happen, however, there will be blood on the
hands of many people, and many institutions
that stood by silently while the President laid the
groundwork for chaos and destruction.

Among those who will have plenty to answer for

are the powers that be at Twitter, which has
allowed Mr. Trump to use the social media
platform as his own bully pulpit from which he
has harassed, threatened and used fear to
silence voices of opposition in violation of the
company’s own code of conduct rules.

Additionally, multiple liberal activists have actually

targeted Twitters CEO Jack Dorsey for refusing to stop the
President of The Untied States from posting on his
platform.

As Slate reported,

“Protesters gathered outside Twitter

headquarters this week to project a message
onto the building: “jack is #complicit.” In a
Facebook post, the group Resistance SF
wrote that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was
violating “the rules of his own company” and
“endanger[ing] the world.”

As I noted above, this is the height of liberal insanity in the

age of Trump. Liberals will apparently stop at NOTHING
to hurt the president and now do not even want him to be
able to use one of the largest social media websites on the
planet.
For their part, Twitter has amazingly decided to not bow to
the hard-left, making note in a statement Friday that they
would not be banning any world leaders and that military
threats do not constitute the type of threats that can get you
kicked off their website.
.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter or
removing their controversial Tweets would hide
important information people should be able to
see and debate,” the statement reads. “It would
also not silence that leader, but it would
certainly hamper necessary discussion around
their words and actions.”
One can only imagine what the next line of attack against
the president will be but when you consider that his
enemies have called him mentally ill, claimed he cannot
read, and that he should be banned from Twitter, it is safe
to assume it will be extremely Orwellian.

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 The Big REVEAL: House Panel
FINALLY Gets Fusion GPS’s Financial Records
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 6, 2018
Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier, had been
fighting in court to stop the House Intelligence Committee
from getting ahold of the records
(National Sentinel) Trump Dossier: The opposition
research firm that produced the infamous “dossier” on
President Donald J. Trump during his campaign has been
forced to turn over bank records to a House panel
investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016
election.
Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier, had been
fighting in court to stop the House Intelligence Committee
from getting ahold of the records. The House panel
subpoenaed them months ago.
But on Friday a U.S. district judge ordered the documents
delivered to the Intelligence Committee, ending a dramatic
court battle that began after the panel began seeking them
in October.
Judge Richard Leon on Thursday ruled against Fusion
GPS, which had asked for a restraining order preventing its
.
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financial institution, TD Bank, from being forced to hand
over dozens of documents.
Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, rejected the request
and ordered the records turned over.
As reported by The Daily Caller:
At issue were records of 70 financial
transactions between some of its clients, two
media companies and several journalists and
researchers it has paid over the past two years.
The court fight appeared to have ended in late
October after Perkins Coie, the law firm that
represented the Clinton campaign and DNC,
outed itself as the client that hired Fusion GPS
to produce the dossier.
Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele to
author the dossier, which claimed that Russia was
colluding with the Trump campaign against Democrat
Hillary Clinton. It also made a number of salacious claims
about Trump as well.
None of the dossier’s most important claims have been
verified.
Republicans have also been attempting to find out if the
dossier was used by the Obama-era FBI to launched a
counterintelligence investigation against Trump and his
campaign, which included electronic surveillance.
Why Bill And Hillary Clinton’s LONG History Of Escaping
Justice Is About To Come To An END
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 06, 2018
If you are old enough to remember when Bill Clinton was
president and wife Hillary was first lady, you remember
well the various and sundry scandals that engulfed them
throughout their two terms in the White House.
Bill Clinton was impeached and his law license revoked
for a time after he lied to Congress over his affair with
Monica Lewinsky. As for Hillary, she never had to answer
for anything, though she didn’t get much accomplished,
either.
The Clintons haven’t ‘cleaned up’ their act since leaving
the White House. Using their foundation as a cash cow, the
Clintons are believed to have ‘sold’ influence and access in
the years since, using Hillary’s various positions as a U.S.
senator, secretary of state, and Democratic presidential
contender widely expected to handily defeat the most
unlikely of all challengers, now-President Donald J.
Trump.
For decades the Clintons have escaped justice, but one
expert thinks that streak of luck is about to run out,
primarily because they are fresh out of “allies” in powerful
places.
Writing in Lifezette, Charles Ortel, a retired investment
banker-turned-fraud investigator, says that while the
Clintons “got a free pass” for years, having been
‘investigated’ by the IRS, Department of Justice, the FBI,
and multiple state authorities “seeded with persons loyal to
either the Clintons” or former President Obama, that is no
longer the case. (Related: If the Trump administration
DOESN’T indict Hillary Clinton, James Comey, then
the rule of law in America is DEAD.)
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Now,
“it appears key authorities may finally be turning
strict attention toward answering tough
questions about public filings of Clinton
‘charities’ inside and outside the United States,”
he wrote. “When these powerful organizations
engage motivated minds, they will wish to
concentrate on a few areas that have long gone
begging for attention.”
Ortel is no doubt referring to Friday reports noting that the
Trump Justice Department has opened a new “pay for
play” investigation in the Clinton Foundation during
Hillary’s time as secretary of state.
Republicans and Clinton critics have long believed that she
and husband Bill solicited donations from foreign donors
who believed they would receive quid pro quo special
treatment once they were both back in the White House.
This business of investigating the Clintons and their
foundation dates back to the George W. Bush presidency.
In 2001 and 2005, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller — he
who has since been named as ‘special counsel’ to
investigate [bogus] Trump-Russia “collusion” allegations
— and then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey — he
who helped sabotage the Trump presidency by helping to
get Mueller appointed — “could not seem to find obvious
and escalating frauds,” Ortel noted.
That was despite the fact that a supposed presidential
library complex in Little Rock, Ark., where the Clintons
hail from, was fighting an international battle against
HIV/AIDS “from unregistered offices in New York and
Massachusetts without ever obtaining requiring audits of
worldwide activities,” Ortel wrote.
More major investigations followed, including one in
December 2009 which was launched by the French
government to examine UNITAID, a multilateral
international organization principally financed by Paris
that sent in excess of $650 million to Clinton Foundation-
tied groups that were also supposedly battling HIV/AIDS.
Despite what Ortel cites as obvious violations of various
tax and other related laws, nothing was ever ‘found’ and,
thus, no charges ever filed. And what’s more, Ortel notes,
relevant documentation that is supposed to be publicly
available on the website of the foundation — isn’t.
As for the ‘pay-for-play’ probe, The Hill reported,
“the probe is examining whether the Clintons
promised or performed any policy favors in
.
return for largesse to their charitable efforts or
whether donors made commitments of
donations in hopes of securing government
outcomes.”
Long-time Clinton watchers like Ortel see one domino
after another falling, as longstanding Clinton corruption is
further — and finally — exposed.

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 Scott Adams: Trump's 'Very Stable Genius'
Tweet Was 'Absolutely Genius'
By Debra Heine
January 6, 2018
President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Dilbert creator Scott Adams explained in a Periscope video
Saturday that President Trump's latest string of tweets was
an example of his absolute genius. He said the president
had been backed into a corner by the left's framing of him
as "crazy and stupid." The least persuasive thing a person
can do to fight such attacks, according to Adams, is to
protest that he's not crazy and stupid -- because the only
words people will remember are "crazy and stupid."
So what does the president do to avoid being branded by
the left as crazy and stupid?
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"The mainstream media doesn't understand
what they just saw!" Adams declared.
He noted that people were going to call the president a
"dangerous narcissist" for calling himself a genius in a
tweet -- and that was okay because the tweets are "just
wonderful."
Adams acknowledged that he is not an expert in most
fields, but as the creator of a successful comic strip, he said
he does know a little something about "writing short,
funny sentences that get their point across."
In addition to "throwing out a lot of chum" into
the news cycle, which Adams says the
president does quite well, his tweet makes you
"think past the sale of genius by saying he's a
very stable one."
"In my opinion -- as an expert in this narrow
field of writing short, effective sentences -- this,
my friends, is genius," he declared. "What
you're seeing is absolutely genius."
Adams, who is also a trained hypnotist, pointed out that
every anti-Trump critic in the world is now going to
sarcastically mock him after everything he says and does
as a
"very stable genius."
Adams added that he himself will get mocked for calling
Trump a genius.
"Well, the Dilbert guy says he's a genius so it
must be true!" he goofed, applying a fake
 goatee to his chin for effect. "Or they'll say,
'well, the guy who writes Garfield thinks he's a
genius. I'm convinced!'"
The cartoonist pointed out that Trump also gave himself a
"forever name" in his last tweet, although "very stable
genius" may be a bit of a mouthful. He suggested that the
president use POTUS VSG from now on.
"a bunch of intellectuals who have not yet
figured out that the gap between their
intelligence and the president's is a pretty big
gap, but not in the direction they hope it is, if
you know what I mean."

"You have to admit, that's a keeper," he said.

Adams addressed Trump's use of the word "like" in the

second tweet, saying that "one of the geniuses of the
president's communication style is that he matches the
style of the people he's talking to."

"Here he is being so folksy and casual that it

just jumps out at you how casual it is," he said,
arguing that the president knows that the word
didn't really belong in the sentence.

"It simply doesn't belong there -- which is why it

belongs there," he explained, laughing. "It
belongs there because you can't take your eyes
away from it. It binds him to the people."

Adams said,

"he tricks out his tweets with these little tics that
are actually really good. Because it's hard to
look at this and think that he's an elite."

Adams surmised that the president was attempting to put

distance between himself (a regular guy) and the
mainstream media who are

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 Getting PAID: White House Says More Than 1 MILLION
Americans Got Bonuses Following Passage
Of HISTORIC Trump/GOP Tax Cut
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 6, 2018
The number of American companies that have paid out
bonuses to employees has topped 100
(National Sentinel) Payday: The White House said in a
statement on Friday that the number of American workers
who unexpectedly received end-of-year bonuses from their
companies following passage last month of historic tax cut
legislation has topped 1 million.
“More than one million hardworking Americans
have already received a ‘Trump Bonus’ or
‘Trump Pay Raise’ as a result of the historic tax
reform package that President Donald J. Trump
signed into law just before Christmas,” the
statement began.
“President Trump said from the beginning that
lowering tax rates, simplifying the complicated
tax code, and making our companies more
competitive would be the fuel that propels our
economy to new heights,” the statement
continued.
“The preliminary results show that the President
is right, and American workers and families are
the big winners. And this is only the beginning,”
the statement continued. “The President
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remains focused on empowering Americans to
build more prosperous lives for themselves and
brighter futures for their children.”
Republicans in the House and Senate rallied nearly in
unison to support the tax cuts.
The number of American companies that have paid out
bonuses to employees has topped 100, officials said.
“Small businesses from across the country are
sending me news of their tax-cut bonuses,
wage hikes, and charitable donations. Many of
these were only announced internally. There is
a broad and deep tsunami building,” John
Kartch of Americans for Tax Reform told the
Washington Examiner.
His organization is currently tracking the companies who
have surprised their workers with the extra funds.
ATR’s President Grover Norquist said the bonuses were
nullifying Democrats’ attacks on the tax cut package.
“Every announcement of another company
raising wages, hiring, paying bonuses, investing
in America is another nail in the coffin of the
Democrat attacks on the Republican tax cut.
This drip, drip, drip is added to the daily reports
on stock market gains, the bigger checks in pay
envelopes and the jump in your 401K and IRA,”
he said.
Democrats and their supporters in the media have been
voicing concerns that the tax cuts will cause them to lose
support among key constituents such as Millennials in the
2018 elections and beyond.
 DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison Advocates Left-Wing
Terrorism To Stop Trump, Touts Antifa Handbook That
Promotes Extremist Tactics
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 06, 2018

supporters throughout the 2016 election as akin to

domestic terrorism.

In another day and time, Rep. Keith Ellison would never

have been elected to Congress. In fact, the Minnesota
Democrat very likely would have found himself the
subject of an FBI investigation and, in short order an
inhabitant of a federal jail cell, for advocating the things he
advocates.

Like domestic terrorists and domestic terrorism. In another

day and time, the Justice Department and a vast majority
of Americans would have correctly described Ellison’s
advocacy as treasonous.

In recent days this darling of “progressives” (which is just

another name for Marxists) and deputy chairperson of the
Democratic Party, took a selfie while holding a book he
claims will “strike fear into the heart” of President Donald
J. Trump.

The book? “ANTIFA: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” by

Mark Bray. It seeks to not only defend but normalize the
violence committed by members of the Alt-Left
organization.

“At @MoonPalaceBooks and I just found the

book that strike [sic] fear in the heart of
@realDonaldTrump,” Ellison wrote.
Frankly, that sounds like a threat, given that “Antifa” has
been designated a domestic terrorist organization by the
New Jersey Department of Homeland Security. In fact, the
federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI
designated the group’s violent actions directed at Trump
As Politico reported in September, DHS and FBI
“confidential documents” called members of Antifa
“domestic terrorists.”
What makes them particularly offensive is that they
pretend like Trump supporters and conservatives, in
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their violence against them is justified. How’s that for a
built-in excuse for being, well, a terrorist?
And isn’t that the same logic that actual
terrorists use? Why yes…yes it is.
(Related: CHAOS ALERT: Dem leader calls for
deploying UN troops on the streets of America.)
What’s more, the threat is real, as The Gateway Pundit
reports:
“From rioting and causing over $500,000 in
property damage to the area surrounding
University of California at Berkeley to prevent
Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking to bashing a
stranger over the head with a bike lock for the
crime of supporting our president, members of
Antifa have become increasingly willing to use
violence for political aims since the election.”
As for Bray, he’s spreading his ‘revolutionary message’ to
American youth, via pop culture. In an interview with Teen
Vogue in October, Bray said,
“Antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary
politics that aspires toward creating a better
world.”
Creating a better world? How? By inventing boogymen
and then violently suppressing them?
Bray is allegedly a historian, so he should know that very
tactic has been used before, during the 20th century, to
deadly effect.
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Adolph Hitler turned the Jews into ‘boogymen’
then used the made-up ‘threat’ to murder six
million of them.
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin created all kinds
of boogymen he claimed were out to topple his
regime; he killed 20 million of his own people.
In all, Soviet communism, which idiots like Bray
and Ellison idolize, killed upwards of 62
million people, 55 million of which were
citizens.
Bray also went on to defend the violence, arson, looting,
and generalized chaos and destruction members of the
domestic terror group have caused as they attacked Trump
supporters last year and have attempted to shut down all
Right-leaning, conservative speakers on college campuses,
mainly.
Bray said,
“these kinds of events often serve as points of
recruitment for far-right groups and help to
embolden and mobilize students and
community members who carry out their
violence later on.”
How anyone like Bray can say something like that with a
straight face is beyond me;
using and justifying violence to shut down
political speech and debate is the very
definition of a fascist/Nazi movement.
 The Left Wants To Talk About
Mental Health. Let's Start With Theirs
By Megan Fox
January 6, 2018

The new mantra against Donald Trump is that he's And don't forget screaming at robots on vacation.
"mentally unstable!" "unfit!" "like a child" and "losing his
mind." That's rich coming from the community that
brought us giant vagina costumes as a form of protest.

These are the people who are so sane they want us to These very same people also believed that President
believe they can declare other people insane without Trump watches a cobbled-together TV station called the
medical degrees or any kind of expertise. Not only do they Gorilla Channel for 17 hours a day.
think dressing up as genitalia is a delightful and totally
normal thing to do on a Saturday, they also think beating
up statues is a worthwhile endeavor.

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But if you were concerned about their mental capacity
after that, wait until you see this! There's an entire
movement dedicated to shunning feminine hygiene and
bio-hazard protocols. This is the "party of science,"
remember.

Then there's the screaming helplessly at the sky when

elections don't go their way. Yep. That's normal.
Are we really supposed to take these people's concerns
about sanity seriously? When they aren't bleeding on
commuter trains, they're committing crimes against
themselves and blaming you for a hate crime to score
political points. That's not psychotic at all. These are
the people passing judgment on the president.

We're all very lucky we have these people to alert us to

mental illness. They should know. If you missed President
Trump (Very Stable Genius) responding to these charges
of mental incompetence, let me fix that. This might be my
favorite tweet storm ever.

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If you haven't seen Dilbert creator Scott Adams' Periscope
broadcast about Trump's trap (that everyone fell for), don't
miss it. It's mighty comical that the people who declare the
president is a mental midget can't even refrain from taking
obvious troll bait. Are these really the people we are
supposed to think are sane and fully functioning? Really?
Try harder.
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 Pompeo Battles Wallace Over ‘Fire And Fury’
— I Will Not ‘Dignify’ The Question, ‘Trump
Is Completely Capable’
By Pam Key
7 Jan 2018

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” CIA made about how we all think about the
Director Mike Pompeo battled host Chris Wallace over president are just ridiculous. They are frankly
allegations in Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury.” beneath the conversation this morning.”

When asked about President Donald Trump’s mental Wallace asked,

fitness Pompeo said,
“What would you say about a world leader who
”Those statements are just absurd, Chris. I refers to himself as a very stable genius?”
mean just pure fantasy. My personal
experience, I was with the president yesterday Pompeo responded,
at Camp David. I’m with him almost every day.
We talk about some of the most serious matters
“Chris, I’m not going to dignify that question with
facing America and the world, complex issues.
a response. This is a man who is leading the
The president is engaged. He understands the United States of America engages with the
complexity. He asks really difficult questions of
intelligence community in ways that are
our team at CIA so we can provide him the sophisticated. He deals with the most complex
information he needs to make good, informed issues and has handled them in a way that I
policy decisions. I’ve watched him do that. I
have great admiration and respect for. We are
watched him take the information that the keeping America safe, and President Trump is
intelligence community delivers and translate
completely capable of working alongside of us
that into policies that are of enormous benefit to
and leading us in that effort.”
America. Statements like the one Mr. Wolf
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 Suspected Leaker Adam Schiff Calls POTUS
Trump A “Seriously Flawed Human Being” (VIDEO)
January 7, 2018 By Cristina Laila
Sunday, January 7, 2018

to express that publicly in Congress,” Schiff

Suspected leaker and high ranking member
of the House Intel Committee Adam Schiff
(D-CA) called President Trump a “seriously
flawed human being” on CNN Sunday.
Adam Schiff actually quoted Michael Wolff’s
new book full of lies, ‘Fire and Fury’ as his
source. Let that sink in.
The Russian collusion hoax is unraveling at
lightning speed so the new war cry coming
from the left is ‘President Trump is mentally
unfit to lead’.
continued.
“The question for us though is, you know,
plainly we have a seriously flawed human being
in the Oval Office. Will those flaws permeate the
whole of government?” Schiff asked.
Adam Schiff is desperate to discredit president Trump
because he knows his own corruption is being exposed.
He continued to complain about the DOJ reopening the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server.
Mueller’s wheels are falling off. Everyone knows it. The
Dems are panicking now because one by one the corrupt
liberal hacks are being exposed.

All eyes are on Adam Schiff as the person who

leaked parts of Don Jr’s interview to the House Intel
Committee to CNN.

Schiff has been in full meltdown mode since three House

Republicans called for an inquiry into House Intelligence
Committee Russia investigation leaks.

VIDEO:

“I don’t think anyone is particularly surprised by

what has been revealed in the Wolff book in
terms of the questions that people working
closest to the President about his capacity to do
the job,” Schiff said.

“I don’t think there is anyone in Congress

frankly from either party who does not at least
concur privately with those observations and
concerns. Certainly very few people are willing
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 Dershowitz: Dems’ Attempts To Have Trump Removed
Over ‘Mental Unfitness’ Like SOVIETS,
CHICOMS (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 7, 2018

Critics of the Democrat-led effort claim it is just the latest “He’s going to unravel, and we are seeing the
attempt to negate the November 2016 election results signs.”

Lee’s and Democrats’ efforts are dangerous in and of

themselves, argued Dershowitz, who said their tactic
smacks of authoritarian regimes.

“It’s very dangerous… That’s what they did in

Russia,” he said. “That’s what they did in China.
That’s what they did in apartheid South Africa.

“How dare liberals, people on the Left, try to

(National Sentinel) Authoritarians: Famed constitutional
law professor Alan Dershowitz on Sunday criticized
efforts by Democrats and some mainstream psychologists
to cast President Donald J. Trump as being mentally unfit.
During an interview with Fox News‘ “Fox & Friends”
program, Dershowitz lashed out at the effort to paint
Trump as unstable so as to lay the groundwork for a future
impeachment.
undo democracy by accusing a president of
being mentally ill without any basis. The 25th
amendment doesn’t apply,” he continued.
“Everybody knew who Donald Trump was when
they elected him… he hasn’t changed in office
and this idea of diagnosing him instead of
opposing him politically poses an enormous
danger to our democracy,” he said.

As reported by The Gateway Pundit, Critics of the Democrat-led effort claim it is just the latest
attempt to negate the November 2016 election results after
“Democrat members of Congress are plotting failing to do so with allegations of Russian collusion and
with a group of psychiatrists led by Dr. Bandy X. election fraud.
Lee to conduct a medical coup to
remove…Trump from office, according to
interviews given this week by Lee.”

The site noted further:

Lee, who claims Trump’s presidency could be

“the end of humankind”, has already decided
Trump should be removed from office. A ‘go
team’ of medical professionals is being
assembled to swoop in and forcibly remove
Trump to evaluate his fitness for office,
according to Lee.

In meetings with Democrats and one Republican last

month, Lee argued,

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 Trump Announces He Will Be Presenting “Fake News
Awards” To The Most “Corrupt & Biased”
Mainstream Media Losers
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018
There is a huge college national championship football
President Trump will be presenting ‘Fake News game airing Monday evening so President Trump decided
Awards’ to the most corrupt and biased to push the ‘Fake News Awards’ back to Wednesday,
mainstream media losers on Wednesday. January 17th instead.

On Sunday, President Trump excitedly tweeted, “The Fake

News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of
the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on
Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming
Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards
is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!”

Best. President. Ever.

President Trump was originally going to give out the

‘Fake News Awards’ Monday evening.

On January 2nd, Trump tweeted,

“I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST We can’t wait for the ‘Fake News Awards’!
& CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR
on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover
Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various
categories from the Fake News Media. Stay
tuned!”

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 Michael Wolff Claims His ‘Fire and Fury’
Will ‘End This Presidency’
By Joel B. Pollak
7 Jan 2018
Michael Wolff, author of the bestselling Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House, told the BBC on Saturday
that his book will “end this presidency” and force
President Donald Trump out of office.
“The story that I’ve told seems to present this
presidency in such a way that it says he can’t
do his job, the emperor has no clothes. And
suddenly, everywhere, people are going ‘Oh my
God, it’s true, he has no clothes.’ That’s the
background to the perception and the
understanding that will finally end this — that
will end this presidency,” Wolff said.
Wolff’s comments to the BBC reinforce what he told
NBC’s Today show on Friday morning, when he said that
his book shows that Trump “cannot do this job.”
He told the BBC that his sources had concluded,
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“No, this man can’t function in this job as
president. He may have been elected president,
but that does not turn him into president.”
Wolff added:
“I think he’s intellectually incapable of being
President of the United States.”
He also described the president as “ineffectual,” incapable
of passing legislation, implementing policy, or producing
regulations.
The book echoes arguments made by Democrats and
NeverTrump Republicans that the president could, or
should, be removed under the 25th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution (emphasis added):
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the
principal officers of the executive departments or of such
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to
the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives their written declaration that
the President is unable to discharge the powers and
duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately
assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting
President.
President Trump fired back on Saturday, tweeting that he
was a “very stable genius.”
Trump tried, in vain, to block publication of the book on
Thursday, as his lawyers sent cease-and-desist letters to
Wolff and his publisher ahead of an accelerated release
date on Friday. That action only propelled sales higher, as
bookstores quickly sold out of print copies.
 Fake Non-Fiction Writer Michael Wolff Howls:
New Book Will ‘Finally Bring Down’ Trump Presidency
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 7, 2018

“It’s clear to anyone who knows me that those seems to present this presidency in such a way
aren’t my words” that it says he can’t do his job,” he said.

“The emperor has no clothes. Suddenly

everywhere people are going: ‘Oh my God, it’s
true, he has no clothes.’ That’s the background
to the perception and the understanding that will
finally end this – that will end this presidency,”
Wolff added.

Towards the end of the interview, Wolff was

asked if he thought Trump being in the Whit
House was dangerous. “Yeah, it’s not ideal that
(National Sentinel) Unbelievable: The embattled author of
he’s in the White House,” Wolff said.
a new book set for release about the Trump administration
that has already drawn fire for inaccuracies claims his
tome is a death knell for President Donald J. Trump. Critics have openly questioned the veracity of many
aspects of Wolff’ book, starting with the president, who
has said he never gave Wolff any access — a claim Wolff
In an interview with BBC Radio on Saturday to discuss his
has yet to refute.
dubiously-sourced book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump White House,” Wolff said “the story” he tells
“will finally spell the end” of the Trump presidency.

Wolff’s response came after he was asked about the

effectiveness of the book on its own and whether he
believed it would help the ongoing Russian collusion
investigation, since that seemed to be a better avenue for
sending the president packing.

“Now, all of this is fascinating, it’s an insight, it’s

gossip some of it, it may not be enough to stop
him from being president. Whereas, the
allegations about Russia may be,” the
interviewer asked. “Do you believe that anything
in the book will actually change the chances of
the allegations of collusion with Russia being
found to be true and therefore leading to the
impeachment of the president?”
Wolff insinuated that his tome will convince people that
Trump’s mentally unfit for the office.
“You know, I think one of the interesting effects
of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-
no-clothes effect. That the story that I have told
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“I authorized Zero access to White House
(actually turned him down many times) for
author of phony book! I never spoke to him for
book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and
sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past
and watch what happens to him and Sloppy
Steve!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.
Also, Wolff himself has admitted he cannot verify
everything he wrote, which, to many, throws all of what he
wrote into doubt.
In an author’s note in his book, Wolff said several of his
sources were flatly lying to him, while others said things
that were contradictory in nature.
Many of those were nonetheless included, however. Wolff
wrote that he and the publisher are including
them, “allowing the reader to judge” whether the sources’
claims are true.
In other instances, Wolff said he used his instincts as a
journalist to relay “a version of events I believe to be true.”
“Many of the accounts of what has happened in
the Trump White House are in conflict with one
another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly
untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with
the truth, if not with reality itself, are an
elemental thread of the book,” he wrote.
“Sometimes I have let the players offer their
versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge
them. In other instances I have, through a
consistency in the accounts and through
sources I have come to trust, settled on a
version of events I believe to be true,” he
continued.
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Other sources have come out and said unequivocally that
Wolff had misquoted them. One of them is longtime
Trump confidant and real estate developer Thomas
Barrack, who told Maggie Habberman at The New York
Times his quote disparaging Trump as an “idiot” is “totally
false.”
“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once, says he
never said the quote attributed to him to Wolffe
or anyone. ‘Totally false,’ Barrack said by phone
just now. Tom Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to
anyone who knows me that those aren’t my
words and inconsistent with anything I’ve ever
said.’ He says Wolffe never ran that quote by
him to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
Haberman.
Also former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who the
book said warned Trump that he may be under surveillance
from British spies, issued a statement saying the claim is
“categorically absurd” and “simply untrue.”
Nancy Pelosi Comes Unglued After Stephen Miller Crushes
Jake Tapper – Calls Miller a “White Supremacist”
Who “Must Be Removed”
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018

Brilliant White House advisor Stephen Miller absolutely

annihilated CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday morning in a
debate about Michael Wolff’s book ‘Fire and Fury’.

It got so bad Tapper cut off the segment and went to

commercials.

Trump supporters responded to team Pelosi’s attack.

Since liberals can’t debate facts, they resort to labeling

Trump and his allies as white supremacists and Nazis.
On Sunday, Nancy Pelosi immediately attacked Stephen
Miller, calling him a “white supremacist” who deserves to
be fired.

Nancy Pelosi’s political team tweeted,

“The bigoted world view that Bannon pushed

remains at the WH. White supremacists still
have the ear of Trump and are shaping national
policy through their hate-filled lenses. Yes, that
means Stephen Miller who must be removed.”

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 Steve Bannon Issues Statement: My Support Is
‘Unwavering’ For Trump And His Agenda
By Kristina Wong
7 Jan 2018
Stephen K. Bannon, executive chair of Breitbart News and former
White House chief strategist, issued the following statement on
Sunday:
“Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has
been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that
has helped turn our country around.
“My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda
— as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the
pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from
Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama. President Trump
was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated
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the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a
global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and
remain ready to stand in the breach for this president’s efforts to
make America great again.
“My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came
from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a
destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to
my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our
focus was the defeat of ‘the evil empire’ and to making films
about Reagan’s war against the Soviets and Hillary Clinton’s
involvement in selling uranium to them.
“My comments were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned
campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how
the Russians operate. He should have known they are
duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those
comments were not aimed at Don Jr.
“Everything I have to say about the ridiculous nature of the
Russian ‘collusion’ investigation I said on my 60 Minutes
interview. There was no collusion and the investigation is a witch
hunt.
“I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting
regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president’s
historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency.”
 CNN Crank Jake Tapper Gets ROASTED On Twitter
After Stephen Miller Takes Him To School
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018

Brilliant White House advisor Stephen Miller absolutely

annihilated CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday morning in a
debate about Michael Wolff’s book ‘Fire and Fury’.

It got so bad Tapper cut off the segment and went to

commercials.

Even President Trump was impressed with the

thumping.

President Trump tweeted, “Jake Tapper of Fake News The rest of Twitter piled on Jake Tapper and it was
CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen glorious.
Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and
unfairness of this CNN flunky!”

Stephen Miller was trending at the top on Twitter with

over 240,000 tweets.

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 Wikileaks Publishes Michael Wolff's
Entire Sold Out Trump Book As A PDF
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:31

Considering that Wikileaks made its name by leaking

confidential and/or hard to find documents and
information, and also considering the reversal in the
Trump administration vis-a-vis Julian Assange, whom it
first lauded only to threaten with incarceration in recent
months, it is perhaps not surprising that moments ago the
official Wikileaks twitter account published Michael
Wolff's controversial - and largely sold out - book, "Fire
and Fury" in pdf format.

Since, somewhat ironically, WikiLeaks picked a google

drive to host the leaked pdf, it will unlikely remain
available for an extended period, as it would mean
substantial lost revenue for book published Henry Holt and
Company. So for those who wish to read what all the
hoople is about - for free - they are advised to do so sooner
rather than later.

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 BUSTED! Liberal CNN Hack
Ana Navarro Caught Editing Photo To
Trash POTUS Trump
By Jim Hoft
January 7, 2018
The original photo was discovered and
contains a woman.
Navarro edited out the woman in the photo to
attack Trump.
WOW!

CNN Anti-Trump Hack is BUSTED!

Liberal CNN Hack Ana Navarro Caught
Editing Photo to Trash POTUS Trump
And Ana Navarro is reportedly the
REPUBLICAN contributor at CNN!
On Sunday morning Ana Navarro – a Hillary Clinton
supporter – ripped President Trump and Republicans in a
racist and sexist tweet.
The only person Navarro cropped out was
Navarro attacked the “orangey” hues of President Trump the woman.
and accused him of only meeting with “10 old straight
white men” at Camp David. Via Red State Watching and Alter Yeshiva:
&

But then this happened…

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 Donald Trump Mocks ‘Hateful’
Jake Tapper Of ‘Fake News CNN’
By Charlie Spiering
7 Jan 2018

During the interview, an increasingly condescending

Tapper battled Miller over his network’s coverage of
President Trump and accused him of “wasting his viewers
time.”

President Donald Trump ridiculed CNN’s

Jake Tapper on Twitter on Sunday, after a
condescending interview with White House
senior advisor Stephen Miller.

“Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got

destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of
the Trump Administration,” Trump wrote on
Twitter. “Watch the hatred and unfairness of this
CNN flunky!”

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 NBC Claims New FBI Probe Into Clinton
Foundation Is ‘Fake News,’ A ‘Political Sideshow’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 7, 2018 9:57 AM EST

calling for perhaps a criminal

investigation into the author of the
dossier,” Todd continued. “Just adding
that fuzziness to the investigation in
Russia is something that the White
House PR-wise is very happy about.”

Towards the end of their political coverage during Sunday

Today, NBC fill-in host Morgan Radford questioned Meet
The Press moderator Chuck Todd about the veracity of a
new investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which came
to light last week. But in doing so, she conflated it with
GOP senators asking the FBI for a criminal investigation
in Christopher Steele, the British agent who worked with
But in reality, the latest investigation into the Clinton
Russian agents to get dirt of President Trump on behalf of
Foundation was anything but fake news. According to
Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, and claimed it was all
reports, the investigation had been going on for months
“fake news.”
and was investigating whether the foundation was a part of
a pay-to-play scheme in conjunction with Hillary Clinton’s
With the false on-screen headline: "Republicans Take State Department.
Aim At Clinton," Radford questioned Todd about
the seriousness of the investigation.
“The officials, who spoke only on condition
of anonymity, said the probe is examining
“So, break something else down for us, whether the Clintons promised or
this real versus fake news. We've performed any policy favors in return for
learned this week about developing largesse to their charitable efforts or
investigations into the Clinton whether donors made commitments of
Foundation and the author of that donations in hopes of securing government
controversial dossier, but is this a real outcomes,” a report from The Hill noted.
investigation or is that just a political
sideshow?” The Hill also reported that the FBI was
looking into the foundation’s tax-exempt
assets to make sure any weren’t converted
Todd agreed that everything was a “political sideshow,”
into “personal or political use and whether
as he conflated Clinton Foundation investigation with the
the foundation complied with applicable tax
Steele investigation. It was shocking that Todd would
laws…”
accuse an FBI investigation of being conducted for
political means because the liberal media have spent a lot
of time denouncing Trump for what they claim was the The long history of the Clinton Foundation’s shady dealing
erosion America’s confidence in its legal institutions. was also noted by The Hill.

“I mean, here you have Republican “For years, news media from The New
senators, including one, Lindsey York Times to The Daily Caller have
Graham, who's been a big critic of this reported countless stories on donations to
president when it comes to Russia, the Clinton Foundation or speech fees that
closely fell around the time of favorable
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 decisions by Clinton's State Department,” NBC
they recalled. Sunday Today
January 7, 2018
So, clearly, the investigation into the Clinton Foundation 8:09:20 AM Eastern
was anything but “fake news” as NBC would have their
viewers believe. As for the senators requesting for the FBI (…)
to investigate Steele, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley
(Iowa) told the press that he wouldn’t have backed the MORGAN RADFORD: So, break something else down for us,
referral unless there was “credible evidence.” this real versus fake news. We've learned this week about
developing investigations into the Clinton Foundation and the
Transcript below: author of that controversial dossier, but is this a real investigation
or is that just a political sideshow?

CHUCK TODD: Well, it looks like it perhaps could be a political

sideshow. But look, if you're the White House, you're very happy
about this development. I mean, here you have Republican
senators, including one, Lindsey Graham, who's been a big critic
of this president when it comes to Russia, calling for perhaps a
criminal investigation into the author of the dossier. Just adding
that fuzziness to the investigation in Russia is something that the
White House PR-wise is very happy about.

RADFORD: All right, Chuck Todd joining us live this morning.

Chuck, thank you so much.
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 Upcoming OIG Report Likely To Trigger Second Special
Counsel; Comey, Lynch And Clinton In Crosshairs
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:22

While most of the MSM fixated last week on whether or Moreover, the man heading up the OIG
not President Trump eats McDonald's in bed while investigation, Michael Horowitz, fought the
watching Gorilla TV, a flurry of investigative bombshells Obama Administration to regain
involving Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and investigative powers which were restricted
conduct by the FBI's top brass during the 2016 election by former Attorney General Eric Holder
splashed across the headlines. As a quick review: during the Fast and Furious scandal.

 The DOJ is "taking a fresh look" into the Hillary As you will read below,
Clinton email 'matter'
 The FBI has launched a new investigation into this highly anticipated report is likely to be
the Clinton Foundation the day after the Clinton's the legal impetus behind a second Special
Chappaqua property catches fire Counsel –
 Former FBI Director James Comey's full Clinton memo
was released, revealing felony evidence of changes as detailed by an independent researcher from New York
which "decriminalized" Hillary Clinton's behavior. Oh, who goes by the Twitter
and every one of the memos he leaked to his handle "TrumpSoldier" (@DaveNYviii). His reporting,
Cornell professor buddy was classified, per a sworn conveyed below, is a deep dig into the
statement by the FBI's "chief FOIA officer" in a sworn OIG's ongoing investigation, how Congress and the OIG
declaration obtained by Judicial Watch. have worked in tandem to pave the way for a Special
 The House Intelligence Committee will be granted Counsel, and how Michael Horowitz went to war with
access to "all remaining investigative documents," the Obama Administration to restore the OIG's
unredacted, along with all witnesses sought per powers.
a deal reached between Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and Nunes Who is Michael Horowitz?
 Opposition research firm Fusion GPS was forced to
hand over banking records detailing various clients
and their intermediary law firms, including the Clinton
Campaign and a Russian money launderer whose
lawyer was none other than Natalia Veselnitskaya of
Trump Tower meeting fame

Most of these wheels which appear to be in motion are the

result of corresponding groundwork laid on Capitol Hill
you may not be aware of,

including what might be the most important

document in the entire process,

Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

expected in a little over a week.
Horowitz was appointed head of the Office of the
On January 15, the DOJ's internal watchdog - the Office
Inspector General (OIG) in April, 2012 - after the Obama
of the Inspector General (OIG), is expected to present their
administration hobbled the OIG's investigative powers in
findings to Congressional investigators regarding a wide
2011 during the "Fast and Furious" scandal. The changes
variety of alleged bias and malfeasance by the FBI, the
forced the various Inspectors General for all government
Clinton campaign, and the Obama Administration -
agencies to request information while conducting
both during and after the 2016 election.
investigations, as opposed to the authority to demand it.
This allowed Holder (and other agency heads) to bog down
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OIG requests in bureaucratic red tape, and in some cases,
deny them outright.
What did Horowitz do? As one twitter
commentators puts it, he went to war...
In March of 2015, Horowitz's office prepared a report for
Congress titled Open and Unimplemented IG
Recommendations. It laid the Obama Admin bare before
Congress - illustrating among other things how
the administration was wasting tens-of-billions of dollars
by ignoring the recommendations made by the OIG.
After several attempts by congress to restore the OIG's
investigative powers, Rep. Jason Chaffetz successfully
introduced H.R.6450 - the Inspector General
Empowerment Act of 2016 - signed by a defeated lame
duck President Obama into law on December 16th, 2016,
cementing an alliance between Horrowitz
and both houses of Congress.
See here for a complete overview of the OIG's new and
restored powers. And while the public won't get to see
classified details of the OIG report, Mr. Horowitz is also
big on public disclosure:
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Horowitz's efforts to roll back Eric Holder's restrictions on
the OIG sealed the working relationship between Congress
and the Inspector General's ofice, and they most certainly
appear to be on the same page. Moreover, brand new
FBI Director Christopher Wray seems to be on the same
page as well. Click here and keep scrolling for that and
more insight into what's going on behind the scenes.
Here's a preview:
Which brings us back to the OIG report
expected by Congress a week from Monday.
On January 12 of last year, Inspector Horowitz announced
an OIG investigation based on "requests from numerous
Chairmen and Ranking Members of Congressional
oversight committees, various organizations (such as
Judicial Watch?), and members of the public."
The initial focus ranged from the FBI's handling of the
Clinton email investigation, to whether or not Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe should have been recused from
the investigation (ostensibly over $700,000 his wife's
campaign took from Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe
around the time of the email investigation), to potential
collusion with the Clinton campaign and the timing of
various FOIA releases.
 Courtesy @DaveNYviii

On July 27, 2017 the House Judiciary

Committee called on the DOJ to appoint a
Special Counsel, detailing their concerns in
14 questions pertaining to "actions taken by
previously public figures like Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James
Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton."

The questions range from Loretta Lynch

directing Mr. Comey to mislead the
American people on the nature of the Clinton
investigation, Secretary Clinton's mishandling of
classified information and the (mis)handling of
her email investigation by the FBI, the DOJ's
failure to empanel a grand jury to investigate
Clinton, and questions about the Clinton
Foundation, Uranium One, and whether the
FBI relied on the "Trump-Russia" dossier
created by Fusion GPS.

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 And now, the OIG report can tie all of this
together –

as it will solidify requests by Congressional committees,

while also satisfying a legal requirement for the
Department of Justice to impartially appoint a Special
Counsel.

As illustrated below by TrumpSoldier, the report will go

from the Office of the Inspector General to both
investigative committees of Congress, along with Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, and is expected on January 15.

On September 26, 2017, The House Judiciary

Committee repeated their call to the DOJ for a
special counsel, pointing out that former FBI
Director James Comey lied to
Congress when he said that he decided not to
recommend criminal charges against Hillary DOJ Flowchart, Courtesy TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii)
Clinton until after she was interviewed, when in
fact Comey had drafted her
exoneration before said interview.

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Once congress has reviewed the OIG report,
the House and Senate Judiciary Committees
will use it to supplement their
investigations,
Meanwhile, recent events appear to
correspond with bullet points in both the
original OIG investigation letter and the
7/27/2017 letter forwarded to the Inspector
General:

which will result in hearings with the end goal of

requesting or demanding a Special Counsel investigation.
The DOJ can appoint a Special Counsel at any point, or
wait for Congress to demand one. If a request for a Special
Counsel is ignored, Congress can pass legislation to force
an the appointment.

And while the DOJ could act on the OIG report and
investigate / prosecute themselves without a Special
Counsel, it is highly unlikely that Congress would stand
for that given the subjects of the investigation.

The OIG report could be in the hands of the DOJ as soon

as January 8 for review, however it is unclear whether
their response will be included in the copy of the report
issued to Congressional investigators on January 15.
Their comments are key. As TrumpSoldier points out in
his analysis, the DOJ can take various actions regarding

"Policy, personnel, procedures, and re-

opening of investigations. In short, just
about everything (Immunity agreements can
also be rescinded)."

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 With the wheels set in motion last week seemingly
align with Congressional requests and the OIG mandate,
and the upcoming OIG report likely to serve as a
foundational opinion, the DOJ will finally be empowered
to move forward with an impartially appointed Special
Counsel with a mandate to investigate whether or not we
should "lock her up" (along with members of her motley
crew). Maybe that's why Sessions has been sitting on his
hands?

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 Trump Aide Stephen Miller Rips Wolff Book As
‘Grotesque Work Of Fiction’
By Pam Key
7 Jan 2018

Miller said,

“The book is best understood as a work of very

poorly written fiction.”

Miller said,

“The tragic thing about this book, and there are

many things about it that are unfortunate, but
the portrayal of the president in the book is
so contrary to reality, to the experience of those
who work with him, to my own
experience having spent the last two years with
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” White him.”
House adviser Stephen Miller said Michael
Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury” was a “grotesque Miller said Wolff was a
work of fiction” and a “pile of trash.”
“garbage author of a garbage book.”
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 WH Press Sec: Dems Warned Of
Economic ‘Armageddon,’ ‘Total Opposite’ Happened
Dems Still Won’t Acknowledge Economic Boom Under Trump
Infowars.Com - January 7, 2018

economy,” Clinton had said at a rally in

Columbus, Ohio.

Leftist journalist Kurt Eichenwald made a similar

prediction, saying he sold all his stocks to prepare for
Trump’s presidency.

White House Press Secretary Sarah

Huckabee Sanders took to social media
Sunday to tout President Trump’s economic
achievements in his first year in office and
remind Democrats their predictions were
dead wrong.

“Nancy Pelosi warned of economic

‘Armageddon’ under President Trump, which of
course means the total opposite has taken
place: President Trump’s policies are inspiring
an economic lift-off,” Sanders tweeted.

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban also predicted “with

100% certainty” that Trump would crash the economy.

“I can say with 100 percent certainty that there

is a really good chance we could see a huge,
huge correction,” Cuban told CNN. “That
uncertainty potentially as the president of the
United States — that’s the last thing Wall Street
Many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Mark
wants to hear.”
Cuban, predicted Trump would crash the economy after he
was elected in 2016.
The Washington Post’s David Kessler also warned that
Obama was handing Trump a recovering economy that
“Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the
would tank once he took office.
button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our
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 This failure to understand Trump’s pro-growth policies
make Democrats appear tone-deaf and disconnected from
the American people when all they focus on is White
House gossip, identity politics, and phony “Russia
collusion.”

That’s why Democrats will likely regret not supporting the

tax cuts bill which will bring much-needed tax relief to the
majority of Americans.

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 Democrats’ Desperate Ploy To Unseat President Trump
Over “Mental Health” False Diagnosis Will Push
America To Bloody Civil War
By: Mike Adams
Sunday, January 07, 2018
On the heels of the new book “Fire and Fury” by Michael
Wolff — which has already been largely discredited as a
work of fiction — unhinged Democrats are now pushing
to unseat President Trump by claiming he’s “mentally
unfit for office.” This dangerous, deranged ploy is the
latest desperate attempt by Democrats who first tried to
eliminate Trump by weaponizing the surveillance state to
illegally spy on Trump’s campaign team, then attempted to
block the Electoral College from confirming Trump’s
election victory, then tried to block Trump’s inauguration,
and now are drumming up a “mental health” excuse in an
attempt to depose a democratically-elected President they
deeply hate.
This tactic, of course, mirrors the strategies of the old
Soviet Union and Chinese communists who used “mental
health” as an excuse to justify the mass murder of political
opponents and educated citizens who opposed their
political regimes. “It’s very dangerous… That’s what they
did in Russia. That’s what they did in China. That’s what
they did in apartheid South Africa. How dare liberals,
people on the left, try to undo democracy by accusing a
president of being mentally ill without any basis,” warned
Alan Dershowitz, a well-known left-leaning attorney and
legal consultant.
“There’s only one thing worse than trying to
criminalize political differences,” Dershowitz
went on to explain, “and that’s trying to
‘psychiatrize’ them. These psychiatrists now,
who are trying to diagnose without ever having
met the man, that’s what they did in Russia…
locked [them] up in mental hospitals.”
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This Soviet tactic rooted in totalitarianism and junk
“mental health” science doesn’t seem to bother Democrats,
of course, who are themselves teetering on the edge of
runaway insanity due to their unbounded hatred and mass
paranoia.
The deranged, deluded Left has become the
real danger to America
The greater truth in all this is that the Left, in attempting to
overthrow the results of an election whose outcome they
don’t like, has proven itself to be rooted in a totalitarian
philosophy of intolerance and hatred. Thanks to the
unbridled hatred of the Left, the minute any candidate runs
for office as a Republican, that candidate is immediately
branded a racist, sexist, islamophobe and bigot, even if
such characterizations were never even dreamed of prior to
that person’s political engagement.
The Left is now so full of hatred, rage and intolerance that
left-wing journalists at the Huffington Post now openly
call to “kill all white men.” White people are now so
routinely demonized that merely being born with white
skin is justification for leftists to berate you, smear you,
demean you and call for you to be literally killed. Through
this intense drumbeat of daily hatred and rage, the Left is
setting up America for an actual ethnic cleansing of all
Whites, warns Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan
advisor. The toppling of white historical statues was only
the beginning… what comes next is door-to-door
executions of people for being White, all based on the
Left’s radicalized definitions of “equality” and “social
justice” and “fairness.”
Yes, to the Left, murder of Whites is now fully justified.
Even farmers’ markets are now being attacked and derided
by the Left as racist activities attended by too many
Whites. Demonstrating the height of insanity that now
seems commonplace among deranged Leftists, a Drexel
University professor openly espoused “white genocide” for
Christmas, effectively urging his readers to consider the
mass murder of White people solely based on the color of
their skin.
In a run-up to this push for nationwide anti-White
genocide, the Left has even resorted to destroying
language by demanding that university books be “burned”
if they contain certain trigger words that deranged Leftists
cannot tolerate. Some college professors are claiming that
mathematics is racist because the history of math is full of
too many White people. Other college instructors also
claim that philosophy is racist because many philosophers
are also “White.” A left-wing Muslim professor in a
California university says that violence against Whites is
“morally required”, and the University of Delaware now
requires all new students to attend a course that declares
“all whites are racist.”
The “War on Whites” is now fully operational, thanks to
the derision, violence and intense hatred of the Left, which
now openly judges people explicitly by the color of their
skin.
To the deranged Left, all conservatives are
racist and mentally ill by default
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This demented, deranged hatred, racism and intolerance is
not practiced by President Trump; it’s practiced daily by
the insane Left in America, which has already crossed the
tipping point of unbridled delusion.
To Leftists, you see, all conservatives are, by
definition, mentally ill, which means no
conservative is ever fit for office.
These same Leftists can never recognize their own mass
mental illness for the simple reason that it’s shared by all
the people around them. So their insanity seems
“normalized” as long as they’re at a radicalized California
university campus, for example, or being spoon-fed a daily
dose of lies and delusions by Rachel Maddow or Steven
Colbert.
The extreme intolerance of the Left is so
ingrained in their own mental programming that
they see anyone different from them as
being insane and dangerous.
They can’t stand Trump because he’s coarse, blunt and
even satirical. To the Left, the style in which something is
done or said is far more important than substance. That’s
why they could listen to Obama openly lie to them about
“if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” while
praising him as a genius saint, even when they were being
lied to the entire time.
It didn’t matter to Democrats that Obama and Hillary
Clinton committed serious acts of treason against America
— including Operation Fast and Furious, running a money
laundering operation to fund Iran’s nuclear weapons, or
ordering Border Patrol to stand down while America was
invaded by illegal immigrants — because they carried out
these acts with a style and sophisticated style that the Left
finds acceptable. To Leftists, you see, style is all that
matters, not substance. When Trump operates with a style
the Left doesn’t like, they designate him as “insane.”
Yet to real America, we find Trump’s tweets
hilarious and rather clever, for the most part.
 The dangerous realm of quack science
psychiatry and its weaponization by the
deranged Left
What’s especially dangerous in all this, however, is the
Left’s attempted weaponization of psychiatry, a quack
science, loosey-goosey realm of gobbledygook that’s
already the laughing stock of the hard sciences.
Psychiatrists specialize in diagnosing people with “mental
disorders” that don’t exist. The entire made-up disease of
ADHD, for example, is nothing but a fictional construct of
psychiatry. There is no measurable diagnosis of ADHD
that’s rooted in neurology, biology, physiology or science.
A few years ago, psychiatrists celebrated the finding that
children with ADHD had stunted brain growth, but it turns
out to have been caused by the ADHD drugs themselves,
not the “disease” of ADHD (which doesn’t even exist and
is a total fabrication of the industry of psychiatry).
For the record, psychiatry also says that Oppositional
Defiance Disorder is a mental illness. This “disease,”
dubbed O.D.D., is “diagnosed” by disagreeing with your
psychiatrist. Thus, the very act of saying that you do not
have a mental illness is sufficient for psychiatrists to
diagnose you with a mental illness. Catch-22, right?
Democrats play the same Catch-22 game by essentially
claiming that anyone who doesn’t fully agree with the
tenants of liberalism — open borders, boundless welfare, a
totalitarian state, worshiping Islam, having no voter ID
laws, etc. — is mentally unsound.
In other words, the Left believes that only
Leftists are sane.
Everyone else must be removed from power, they claim,
because they see the world differently and that makes them
mentally unfit.
Psychiatry is so isolated from reality that the World Health
Organization now says playing video games is a mental
disorder, but encouraging your children to have their
genitalia surgically maimed for life as part of their
“transgender” coming out is not a mental disorder, the
W.H.O. is set to announce this year. Furthering the
twisted, junk science agenda of modern psychiatry, Google
recently partnered with a drug company front group to hit
users with a mental illness “self-diagnosis tool” that would
funnel gullible users into psychiatrists’ offices to demand
mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Yes, Google is part of
the mental health “psychiatry” drug cartel racket. Is
anyone surprised?
Now, the quack science world of psychiatry is being
weaponized to try to remove a sitting President from
office. Notably, this tactic is only being invoked after all
other attempts to eliminate Trump have failed (or even
backfired). The Russia collusion hoax turned out to be a
complete work of fiction dreamed up by the fake news
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media. The Electoral College effort by deranged left-wing
Hollywood movie stars also turned out to be a dud. The
recent “Fire and Fury” book by Michael Wolff turns out to
be largely fiction, and lunatic Leftists are rapidly running
out of options, accelerating them to a point of sheer
desperation. So they’ve turned to the weaponization of
psychiatry as a truly last-ditch, desperate effort to unseat a
president they deeply despise, even though he was duly
elected by the American people via the same democratic
process that previously brought Obama to power.
But psychiatry is rooted in such quackery that
any person can be deemed “mentally unfit”
by a sufficiently motivated group of
psychiatrists.
Psychiatry has no objective science behind it. There aren’t
any brain scans, blood tests or lab findings that “prove”
mental states. Everything about psychiatry is mere opinion,
and those opinions are of course heavily distorted because
they’re based on human psychiatrists who cannot, by
definition, be objective observers of human behavior.
Even worse, all these psychiatrists currently
declaring President Trump to be “mentally unfit”
have never even met with President Trump.
This “remote diagnosis” approach to observing Trump on
TV and then declaring him to be unstable is, itself, rooted
in sheer delusion and the complete abandonment of
medical ethics. Any psychiatrist declaring anyone to be
clinically and mentally unfit without having first met with
them in a therapeutic setting and conversed with them for
several hours is practicing dangerous quackery (and should
be stripped of their medical license). Yet this quackery is
apparently good enough for Democrats, who need no
actual science, real facts or real evidence to hold Trump in
contempt.
To Leftists, their hatred is enough all by itself. Just the fact
that everybody hates Trump on the Left should be enough,
they believe, to demand his resignation. But at the same
time, all the actual evidence pointing to Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch and James Comey as actual
traitors who committed serious felony crimes is
systematically ignored. That’s because the Left has no
need for real facts, real evidence or real science. (Climate
change, anyone?)
Pushing America toward violent civil war
Left-wingers in America should be careful what they hope
for, of course, because if they do manage to unseat
President Trump from office, that will be the trigger event
for what I have long called “Second Amendment
activation” across America.
Imagine a million armed patriots marching on Washington
D.C. and finally arresting half the U.S. Senate, Robert
Mueller, James Comey, Loretta Lynch and anyone else
they can locate. Imagine real justice (via public trials)
finally being served in this nation as members of the deep
state are held to account for their treason and criminal acts
which have repeatedly sought to overthrow the rule of law.
Also imagine every communist, terrorist or Antifa
sympathizer (such as DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison)
currently serving in the U.S. Senate and House being
arrested, outed and held for public trial. That’s one
scenario that could unfold if the Left tries to depose
President Trump via its insane “mental health” tactic. There is an actual left-wing communist plot
in Washington D.C. to overthrow America
Such a move would, of course, set off a nationwide civil and install a totalitarian left-wing regime
war. Imagine the chaos in the streets if the Left succeeds in
their demented political coup in Washington, stripping  The Left is lawless.
Trump of his power while simultaneously giving the finger
 It is deranged.
to the tens of millions of voters who put Trump into office.
 The Left now believes that “the ends justify the means,”
If the violent Left were to succeed in removing a sitting
which is why they have sacrificed all credibility in
President from office due to a fictitious, bogus reason
mainstream journalism in a desperate attempt to
rooted in the quack science of “psychiatry,” the tens of
unseat Trump and seize control of the White House.
millions of Second Amendment followers across America
— whom this country’s Founding Fathers directed to act as  The Left will try anything — including junk science
the nation’s “immune system” against tyranny — will psychiatry — to unseat the President who was elected
realize there is no option remaining other than to fight by the American people.
to defend America. Elections, you see, are the non-violent
way to decide who runs a nation. But the Left, we now As the editor of this website, I am not yet calling for a
know, despises election outcomes they don’t win. And Second Amendment activation across America. But should
they attempt to de-legitimize them in every way the Left kidnap President Trump and lock him in a mental
imaginable, effectively nullifying the very idea that they institution as part of an illegal attempt to overthrow this
respect elections at all. The only elections the Left nation,
respects, it turns out, are the elections they win. All other
elections must be overthrown, according to Leftist I would at that point issue an urgent call for
ideology. all citizens to immediately defend this nation
against the attempted communist coup
Should the Left succeed in throwing out the results of the under way.
2016 presidential election, all the restraint currently
practiced by armed Americans will likely be lifted. Let us hope it doesn’t come to that, but if the deranged
Left keeps pushing us toward civil war, that’s exactly what
It will become apparent to gun-owning patriots they will eventually get for the simple reason that there is
that their country is now being stolen from no circumstance under which mainstream America is
them, and they must take up arms to defend going to allow their President to be deposed by a band of
America, its Constitution and the rule of law. insane, deranged, left-wing lunatics who despise
everything America stands for.
That’s my prediction of what may happen, although I hope
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 Official US Army Account
"Likes" Trump-Mocking Tweet
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 14:55

Following President Trump's tirade yesterday, the
twitterati took to their smartphones to mock the man in
The Oval Office. One such 'celebrity' was actress Mindy
Kaling who laughed "hahahahahaha" adding a meme of
her apparent "smartness."
"As soon as it was brought to our attention,
it was immediately corrected."
Additionally, as The Hill notes,
controversial tweets from companies,
lawmakers and even branches of the
government have gained viral attention over
the last year.

McDonald's last March said its corporate Twitter

account had been hacked after a tweet went out mocking
Trump.

The National Park Service also went viral for retweeting

two unflattering posts about the crowd size at Trump's
inauguration in early 2017. Those retweets were
investigated to determine whether the account had been
hacked.

While not particularly damning or comedic, the tweet was

more notable for who 'liked' and/or retweeted it.

The U.S. Army's official Twitter account "liked" the

tweet on Saturday from actress Mindy Kaling apparently
mocking President Trump's claim that he's "like, really
smart."

"An operator of the Army’s official Twitter

account inadvertently 'liked' a tweet whose
content would not be endorsed by the
Department of the Army," an Army
spokesperson told The Hill.

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 Van Jones: It Would Be ‘Global Emergency’ If
50% Of People Around Any Other President
Thought He Was Unstable [VIDEO]
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:29 PM 01/07/2018
CNN commentator Van Jones said Sunday that it would be
a “global emergency” if 50 percent of people around any
other president thought he was unstable, alluding to
questions about President Trump’s mental health.
WATCH:
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Jones, appearing on, “State of the Union With Jake
Tapper” said,
“Can I say something about the unfitness
question though? Because, listen, it’s not 100%.
But in any other situation, if 50 percent of the
people around a president were concerned that
he was not fit to do the job, that would be a
global emergency. I think sometimes we just
adapt to the absurdity here.”
He added,
“The fact that anybody close to the president
has those concerns, there’s now a movement
among psychiatrists and other people to figure
out how do we intervene here, what can we
possibly do, because we could be looking back
saying the warning signs were there and we did
not do enough.”
 White House Aide Miller
Booted From CNN Tapper Interview
By Rick Moran
January 7, 2018

stories about immigrant communities under

siege from MS-13. He tapped into a reality that
is happening in this country that is not covered
on this network. And I know you think I’m
interrupting you, but I think the american people
deserve to have two or three minutes of the
truth.”

Tapper also asked about President Trump’s tweets

declaring that he is a “very stable genius.”
White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, speaks in the Brady
Press Briefing room of the White House on August 2, 2017 in He asked,
Washington, D.C. (Photo by Oliver Contreras) *** Please Use Credit
from Credit Field ***(Sipa via AP Images)
“Do you think tweets like that help or hurt the
cause that the president is stable and up for the
White House aide Stephen Miller appeared on CNN's job?”
"State of the Union" with Jake Tapper and fireworks flew
from the get-ego. Miller responded,

For 12 1/2 minutes, Tapper and Miller engaged in single “Not only do I think they help it, but I think in the
combat with Tapper trying to get Miller to answer toxic environment you’ve created here in CNN
questions about the book Fire and Fury while Miller and cable news, which is a crisis of legitimacy
excoriated CNN for its hateful, biased coverage of the for your network, and we saw it, of course, with
president. the extremely fake news that you reported
about the Don Jr. and Wikileaks story. That was
The Daily Caller: a huge embarrassment for your network. Just
like the huge embarrassment you had when you
got the Comey testimony wrong.”
After Tapper asked about Steve Bannon’s
involvement in the Trump campaign and
Ouch.
presidency, Miller said,

Tapper appeared to be flustered at times, constantly

“I think that what the point is that his role has
interrupting Miller and becoming visibly angry when
been greatly exaggerated, whereas the
Miller refused to play his "gotchya" game.
president hasn’t gotten the due that he
deserves for the movement he put together to
tap into the kinds of people whose life concerns Finally, Tapper sent Miller off with a rather unprofessional
don’t get a lot of attention on CNN. Not a lot of dismissal:
hours of coverage on this TV talking about the
working class construction workers who have Later, Tapper accused Miller of “not answering
lost their jobs to foreign labor.” the questions.”

He continued, Miller responded,

“There is not a lot of coverage on this TV about

the people getting slaughtered in sanctuary
cities. You don’t do a lot of human interest
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 “You have 24 hours a day of anti-Trump
material and you’re not going to give three
minutes for the American people…”
Finally, Tapper cut off Miller, saying,
“I get it. There’s one viewer you care about right
now and you’re being obsequious and you’re
being a factotum in order to please him, okay? I
think I wasted enough of my viewers’ time.”
wanted to get all the salacious, damaging snippets from the
book on the record.
For his part, Miller did his job. His attacks on CNN tried to
deflect attention from the damaging statements Tapper was
throwing out by tainting the source. CNN is a ripe target
for Trump's base and Miller didn't disappoint.

Reporters are supposed to ask questions to elicit

information from their guests. Tapper didn't care much
what Miller had to say. His goal was not to elicit
information but to attack. His "questions" weren't
questions as much as they were talking points on the book
he wanted the viewers to hear. He didn't expect Miller to
confirm anything that Steve Bannon had to say. He just

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 Pompeo Rejects Notion
Of ‘Deep State’ At CIA
By Olivia Beavers
01/07/18 12:44 Pm Est

America. They're patriots of the truest and

highest order," Pompeo responded.

The former lawmaker's remarks come after President

Trump claimed last week that there is a deep state at the
Justice Department working against him and his
administration, while protecting individuals tied to Hillary
Clinton.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Sunday rejected

the possibility of a "deep state" existing at the CIA,
defending his agents as "patriots of the truest and highest
order."

When host John Dickerson asked the CIA chief on CBS

News's "Face the Nation" whether there is a group of
employees at his agency seeking to undermine the Trump
administration, Pompeo responded,
"No sir."
Former officials including James Clapper criticized the
remark, with the former director of national
intelligence calling it “reprehensible.”

"Has there ever been one?" Dickerson asked. Trump has repeatedly claimed that there is a "deep state"
throughout the government working against him.
"Sir, I've only been there for a little while. I can’t
believe that it's ever been there. These are
professionals who sacrifice so much to serve
.

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 Conservative Demolishes Former Hillary Clinton Staffer
On CNN Over Clinton Foundation [VIDEO]
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
7:43 PM 01/06/2018
Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings brought the
facts to CNN commentator and former Clinton campaign
staffer Patti Solis Doyle over an investigation into the
Clinton Foundation Saturday.
WATCH:
Doyle, a former manager of Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign, said in response to the news that the Justice
Department is investigating the Clinton Foundation,
“I think this is as clear as it appears to be, and
that is President Trump and Republicans in
Congress are trying to deflect from the current
Russia probe by saying, but look, ‘Hillary is the
one who used a private e-mail server and, look,
Hillary is the one.’ So, I think it’s very clear.
President Trump has been livid with AG
Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia
investigation. He has let him know that. He has
let the entire country know that. He has been
tweeting that the FBI needs to investigate
Secretary Clinton.”
She continued,
“He has been doing a coordinated campaign
with Fox News and Republicans in Congress,
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and I believe that Jeff Sessions, in an effort to
save his own job has now complied with the
President’s wishes. We have been through a
vigorous FBI investigation of Secretary Clinton’s
e-mails. The FBI also looked into the Clinton
Foundation and found that there was not
enough ‘there there’ to pursue any kind of
investigation. And now, lo and behold, because
the president has been tweeting about it, they
are now taking it up.”
(RELATED: Hillary Clinton Tells WaPo That Trump
Is ‘A Little Obsessed’ With Her)
Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings responded,
“Yeah, well, that’s a great story but it doesn’t
match up with the facts. I mean, here are the
facts. Number one, this investigation of the
Clinton Foundation started under the Obama
administration and according to the reporting
today, it was never closed. Number two, the
Clinton Foundation, we know from reporting,
routinely did not disclose major donors, such as
massive contributions from the Algerian
government. Number three, we know that when
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, she was
routinely asked to take meetings with Clinton
Foundation donors.”
He added,
“Honestly, this sounds like something worth
looking into to me. I don’t know what’s going to
come of it and I’m not going to sit here and say
something definitely happened that was illegal,
but when you look at the facts as they exist, it
sounds like it ought to be looked into and I’m
glad the FBI is continuing something they
started under the Obama administration.”
 Washington Post Reporter Slaps
Down Wolff's False Claim About Him
By P.J. Gladnick
January 7, 2018 3:23 PM EST

Even many reporters from liberal publications are
questioning the veracity of Michael Wolff's book of
gossip, Fire and Fury. The latest such person who reveals
just how laughable the vetting process of Wolff's book was
is Mark Berman, a reporter at the Washington Post. Wolff
placed Berman among others attending a breakfast at the
Four Seasons restaurant with Ivanka Trump. It turns out
that Berman was most definitely not there and he had a
very good reason for not attending as he revealed to anchor
Fredricka Whitfield on CNN Newsroom on Saturday.
And I was confused because as I told my
colleague not only was I not at this
breakfast but I was never at the Four
Seasons in DC.
WHITFIELD: Okay and then you read the excerpt or it
was brought to your attention. What was your initial
reaction?
BERMAN: I was a little befuddled, I'm not going to lie.
We spent a few minutes in the newsroom trying to figure
out who it could have been. We debated well it could have
been another reporter named Mark from the Post, we have
another one. We weren't sure for a little while. After I
tweeted a screen shot of this section of the book listing me,
Alex Burns from the New York Times, he suggested that
maybe it was Mike Berman, a lobbyist, a very well-known
lobbyist in D.C. And I e-mailed him and he confirmed he
was there that day.

And here is Mark Berman's tweet with the screen shot of

Wolff's erroneous section:

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: Michael Wolff is under fire

himself after several errors have been pointed out from a
variety of people, from the White House on down, in his
book. One of them namely the appearance of The
Washington Post reporter Mark Berman.

Well, his name appeared in this book as

being somebody at a breakfast at the
Four Seasons in Washington, D.C. Well,
now that Washington Post reporter is
actually saying he wasn’t there at the
Four Seasons and why is he in that book
anyway?

Mark Berman is with us now, a Washington Post national

reporter. So, Mark, the context in which you understand
your name came up in this Fire and Fury is what?

MARK BERMAN: A colleague actually told me about it

yesterday, a colleague e-mailed me to see if I was aware
that I was mentioned in the book and then to ask if I had
any notes about this breakfast at the Four Season I was
mentioned as attending.

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Now back to Berman's interview revealing yet more errors
in Wollf's book.
WHITFIELD: Interesting, and then one of
the other things you knew kind of
eliminated the possibility that it was you
was because do I understand that you
had someone who was born that day,
like your child, so maybe you couldn’t
have been there?
BERMAN: That also came to my attention. There was a
Politico story that was actually written about that breakfast
a few days later and the Politico story mentioned a number
of the people who were there. It mentioned Ivanka, it
mentioned representative Pelosi and so I looked at the date
of that and I thought that’s weird,
the Friday before that would have been
the very same morning that my second
daughter was born. So I don’t think I
was at the Four Seasons that day.
Yeah, so Mark Berman had a pretty good reason to
remember the day Wolff incorrectly placed him at a Four
Seasons breakfast.
Finally some commentary from Berman on Wolff's
horrible vetting process:
WHITFIELD: We’re laughing about it now
but it is kind of serious because particularly
in our business of journalism and Michael
Wolff also professes to be a journalist and
writer and author of a book, accuracy and
detail is so important. You double, triple,
quadruple check things. And when you’re
talking about quoting somebody or placing
someone in a place, we all as journalists go
through great lengths to make sure that
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what is about to be printed is right. You
have editors and everybody else who look
at the copy, too. So what is your instinct tell
you about this kind of error in a book that’s
getting this kind of attention and how that
potentially impacts everything else that you
might read in the book?
BERMAN: Well, I mean, obviously it
speaks to the fact that at least some
things apparently got through this
process without being vetted fully. You
know, once I tweeted a screen shot of this
one paragraph of the book, other people
pointed out there were two other errors in
the same paragraph. Wilbur Ross is
mentioned as being the nominee to lead
the Labor Department. He was actually
nominated and is now the head of the
Commerce Department. And Hilary Rosen
is mentioned and her name is misspelled.
A couple of these little errors, they raise
questions about the level of fact checking
and editing. At the same time, I have not
read the full book and I do not cover the
white House but a number of political
reporters and people who do and who have
said there are parts of the book that ring
and parts that ring false.
So three errors just in one of the Wolff's
analyzed paragraphs. How many more
must there be? Mix a few facts with a lot of
fiction and you have a book designed to
temporarily fulfill the desperate cravings of
anti-Trump liberals resulting in high sales to
those emotionally needy folks. In such a
business plan facts are just a sideshow so
why bother with the effort of intensive
vetting since it might remove the juiciest
gossip from the book and hurt sales.
Ka-CHING!
 Nikki Haley Defends Trump's
Mental Stability By Pointing To First Year
Accomplishments
By Kyle Feldscher
Jan 7, 2018, 10:53 AM

“Was he unstable when we finally put North

Korea on notice? Was he unstable when she
said we need to look at Iran because this is
becoming a dangerous situation? Was he
unstable with the jobs or the economy or the
stock market? We need to be realistic with the
fact that, every person — regardless of race,
religion, or party — who loves the country,
should support this president. It’s that
important.”

Nikki Haley questioned critics who believe President

The Trump administration is dealing with the fallout from
Trump is mentally unstable because he’s been able to
Fire and Fury this week, as many members of the
accomplish passing tax reform and ordered a military
administration took to the Sunday shows to defend
strike on Syria.
Trump’s mental aptitude.

Haley said on ABC’s “This Week” those critics who say On CNN, White House aide Stephen Miller said Trump is
Trump is mentally unstable, such as those who spoke with
actually a genius, just as he tweeted on Saturday.
the author of the White House tell-all book Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House, by pointing to their
silence when Trump made progress on some goals during “It reads like an angry, vindictive person
the first year of his presidency. spouting off to a highly discredible author. The
book is best understood as a work of very
poorly written fiction. And I also will say that the
“As much as everyone wants to talk about author is a garbage author of a garbage book,”
stability, was he unstable when he passed tax Miller said.
reform? Was he unstable when we finally hit
back at Syria and said no more chemical
weapons?” she said.

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 Tapper Cuts Off Bizarre Shouting
Match Interview With Trump Adviser:
‘I’ve Wasted Enough Of My Viewers’ Time’
Trump Tweets Approval: Tapper 'Got Destroyed'
BY: David Rutz
January 7, 2018 9:42 Am

"I'm sure he's watching and he's happy you said

that."

"You can be as condescending as you want. It's

part of your MO," Miller said.

CNN host Jake Tapper cut off a bizarre and fiery interview
Sunday with White House adviser Stephen Miller about
President Donald Trump's mental acuity, CNN's coverage
of the administration and the truthfulness of Michael
Wolff's explosive new book.
Tapper replied he had no idea why Miller was going hard
It was clear from the outset Miller was there to do battle after CNN, and the two men repeatedly spoke over one
for the president. another.

Miller quickly lit into Fire and Fury: Inside Trump's White
House and blasted former White House strategist Steve
Bannon, saying his critical comments about the
administration in Wolff's book were "grotesque."
"The book is best understood as a work of very
poorly written fiction," Miller said, going on to
call Wolff a "garbage author."
The book's characterization of Trump as a petulant child,
Miller said, was false and vindictive, and he made a point
of calling Trump a "political genius."
Miller also blasted CNN's coverage of the book, saying it
gave the network "joy to stick the knife in."
When Miller again lavishly praised Trump as a genius and
successful businessman, Tapper quipped that
Miller said CNN did "24 hours of negative anti-
Trump hysterical coverage" that led to false
reporting.
"I think the viewers right now can ascertain who
is being hysterical," Tapper said.
At one point, Tapper told Miller to "settle down."
The host tried to shift the conversation back to Bannon and
Trump's recent claim that his role in the campaign and
administration had been overstated. Tapper pointed to his
influence on various key issues like immigration, but
Miller stood firm.
Once Tapper asked Miller about Trump's recent tweets
calling himself a "very stable genius," Miller again pivoted
to blasting CNN and the "toxic environment" it had created
with its hostile coverage.

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Tapper seemed to lose patience as Miller blasted the "Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN
"extremely fake news" put out by CNN. flunky!" he wrote.

"Stephen, I get it. There's one viewer that you

care about right now, and you're being
obsequious … in order to please him," Tapper
said. "I think I've wasted enough of my viewers'
time."

He went to the next segment, and another terrific Sunday

show interview was in the books.

UPDATE, 10:17 A.M.: It went over well with Trump,

who tweeted later that morning that Tapper "got
destroyed" by his aide.
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 Bannon Apologizes
For Anti-Trump Comments In Wolff Book
‘Fire And Fury’ Book Had Prompted President Trump
To Denounce Bannon
Axios
January 7, 2018
Image Credits: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Battered by the backlash from Michael
Wolff’s book, Steve Bannon is trying to
make amends with the Trump family,
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providing a statement to Axios that
expresses “regret” to President Trump and
praises his son, Donald Trump Jr.
– “Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a
good man. He has been relentless in his
advocacy for his father and the agenda that has
helped turn our country around.”
– “My support is also unwavering for the
president and his agenda — as I have shown
daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the
pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and
appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to
Arizona and Alabama.”
 CNN’s Stelter Glorifies Media For Finally Drawing
Attention Trump’s Mental Problems
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 7, 2018 4:57 PM EST
CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter got his long-awaited
wish granted last week the liberal media en mass started
openly questioned President Trump’s mental acuity
followed the release of Fire and Fury, the dubiously
sourced anti-Trump book that was light on facts but loaded
with gossip. Despite how his show was called “Reliable
Sources,” Stelter spent his entire Sunday show glorifying
the book and praising those calling the President’s mental
stability into question.
“The tip-toeing is over! The whispers are
turning into shouts! President Trump's
fitness for office is now the top story in the
country. Reporters and some lawmakers are
openly talking about the President's mental
stability, his health, his competency,” Stelter
bombastically declared at the start of his show.
Stelter lauded how Trump’s mental health went from a
fringe smear that he and other hyper-partisans peddled to a
“global story.” He highlighted how a UK paper owned by
Rupert Murdock and a German paper were running
headlines such as:
“Is Donald Trump Still Sane?” “But many
Americans are worried and journalists need
to cover that,” he opined.
“Let's be honest here, it's not just the book
that is forcing this fitness issue to the
forefront,” Stelter chided. “When a president
of the United States threatens North Korea
by invoking the size of his nuclear button, it
is fair to ask about his fitness.”
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But where was the questioning of mental fitness when
President Obama warned North Korea that the U.S. could
utterly destroy the regime? It would send the wrong
impression if the U.S. didn’t respond to Kim Jung Un’s
flamboyant rhetoric.
In a head tuning moment, Stelter talked about
how “journalists are not judges or doctors.”
He argued what was needed now was “not
more speculating or guessing or rumor
mongering but real reporting of what’s
going on.”
While it is true that Stelter was being a massive hypocrite
there, seeing as he had spent numerous months on his
show pushing such partisan smears, it was meant to
forward the process to remove Trump from office. He’s
basically saying that, for him and others on the far-left,
their claims were no longer just speculation but an
indisputable fact that needed to be treated as such.
To add to his argument, Stelter brought on
“Carl Bernstein, a CNN political analyst, who
has been –I would say-- leading these
conversations, leading these questions
about the President's fitness.” “You and I
have talked about this in recent months,” he
added.
“We're in a real constitutional crisis in an
unprecedented place where we as a country
and where we as journalists have never
been before,” Bernstein bloviated. “We as a
country and where we as journalists have
never been before in which a huge part of
the citizenry of our country and the
 leadership of the country in Congress,
privately and in public, openly questioned
the fitness and stability of the president of
the United States.”
Bernstein was perplexed by the mystery of how
“journalists” like himself should go about reporting on the
President’s insanity. The CNN analyst had a sudden and
miraculous respect for the reporters at Fox News and
claimed they were the only ones who really had a chance
to get the truth out. What made their praise even more
vexing was that Stelter and Bernstein have spent a lot of
airtime denouncing Fox News reporters for being
propagandists for Trump.
The pontificating Bernstein wanted Fox News to send an
army of reporters to Capitol Hill to badger Congressional
Republicans about the President’s mental health.
“It is incumbent upon them as leaders and
us at journalists to force the question with
them: What do you really think about the
president of the United States and his
fitness to serve and his stability and how do
we deal with this? Are we in a constitutional
crisis, Speaker Ryan, Leader McConnell,’” he
argued.
According to Bernstein we were in such strange and trying
time that a new kind reporting had to be invented:
“We are not advocates here. We are not
psychiatrists. We are reporters and now we
have to almost invent a new kind of
reporting to cover a new kind of story and
reporters best in place to do that are some
great reporters over at Fox News.”
Whatever kind of reporting Bernstein claimed needed to be
invented doesn’t sound like one based on facts, logic, and
reason but one based on speculation, hyperbole, and
political vendettas.
Relevant portions of the transcript below:
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CNN
Reliable Sources
January 7, 2018
11:00:07 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: But let's begin with the top story this weekend.
The tip-toeing is over. The whispers are
turning into shouts. President Trump's
fitness for office is now the top story in the
country. Reporters and some lawmakers are
openly talking about the President's mental
stability, his health, his competency.
Now partly, that is because of this new Michael Wolff book.
[Holds up book] You know, Wolff claims that White House aides
are united in the belief that Trump is incapable of being
president. He backs this up several different ways. Including by
quoting Steve Bannon, saying things like: "Trump has lost it" and
"He's lost his stuff."
This is now a global story. One of Rupert
Murdoch's papers in the UK went with the
headline: “Trump's Mental Health
Questioned by a Top Aide.” And the
translation of the German headline in the
middle asks: “Is Donald Trump Still Sane?”
Trump's answer, of course, via Twitter is that two of his greatest
assets are his “mental stability and being, like, really smart.” I
kind of got the sense that Murdoch's New York Post was making
fun of him this morning. The headline says, "Don't worry,
America."
But many Americans are worried and
journalists need to cover that.
Let's be honest here, it's not just the book
that is forcing this fitness issue to the
forefront. When a president of the United
States threatens North Korea by invoking
the size of his nuclear button, it is fair to ask
about his fitness. If a leader of another
country were to do the same thing, I think
many commentators, many reporters will
conclude that he is not well. This past year
 has been full of reasons to question his
fitness.
President Trump promotes conspiracy theories. He shares racist
videos on social media. He live-tweets Fox News shows that
mislead him while he derives real reporting as fake news. He
calls for the prosecution of political opponents. He insults people
for fun. He says so many flat-out false things that journalists can
barely keep up. The Washington Post counts nearly 2,000 false
or misleading statements since Election Day.
But -- and here is the but –
- journalists are not judges or doctors. This
is not a court or a hospital. What this
moment needs from reporters is more
reporting. Not more speculating or guessing
or rumor mongering but real reporting of
what’s going on.
(…)
We're going to get deep into that in this hour but let's begin with
the one, the only,
Carl Bernstein, a CNN political analyst, who
has been –I would say-- leading these
conversations, leading these questions
about the President's fitness Carl, you and I
have talked about this in recent months.
Has something changed in your view this week?
CARL BERNSTEIN: Yes. We're in a real
constitutional crisis in an unprecedented
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place where we as a country and where we
as journalists have never been before in
which a huge part of the citizenry of our
country and the leadership of the country in
Congress, privately and in public, openly
questioned the fitness and stability of the
president of the United States. So it raises a
great question: How do we report on this
reality?
Meanwhile, abroad, leaders are questioning the fitness of the
president of the United States and whether or not the country is
in good hands. This is a reporting challenge unlike any other.
(…)
BERNSTEIN: It is incumbent upon them as
leaders and us at journalists to force the
question with them: What do you really think
about the president of the United States and
his fitness to serve and his stability and how
do we deal with this? Are we in a
constitutional crisis, Speaker Ryan, Leader
McConnell?
These are unprecedented questions in terms of how we pose
them, what we do as reporters.
We are not advocates here. We are not
psychiatrists. We are reporters and now we
have to almost invent a new kind of
reporting to cover a new kind of story and
reporters best in place to do that are some
great reporters over at Fox News.
(…)
 Voters Drafted A Reluctant Trump
Because They Hated Hillary That Much
By Ted Rall
January 8, 2018
I’ve been saying, for over a year, that Donald Trump is a
dog who caught a car: he wanted to run for president, not
be president.
Looks like my theory is confirmed.
“Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night,
when the unexpected trend — Trump might
actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr.
told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he
calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost.
Melania was in tears — and not of joy,”
writes Michael Wolff in an excerpt from his
book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump
White House. There was, in the space of
little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s
not unamused observation, a befuddled
Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump
and then into a horrified Trump.”
Clearly, Trump has pivoted.
The celebrity real estate magnate has stopped worrying.
Long forgotten are his reluctant move to D.C., his fantasies
of governing from his brass-trimmed Manhattan aerie. He
has learned to love love love the bully pulpit. The
presidency even comes with the ultimate Christmas gift for
the megalomaniacal narcissist in your life: the power of
life and death over humans, animals and plants!
Wolff’s revelation by way of Steve Bannon is worth
reflecting upon for two reasons.
First is another first.
Trump may be America’s first certifiably insane president.
He is probably the most ignorant — and we’ve had some
doozies. He is certainly the first without any political or
high-level military experience whatsoever. What we now
know is at least as remarkable as those bulletpoints: Trump
is effectively the first president drafted into the position.
Vice presidents have been elevated to the Oval Office
unexpectedly. But the possibility of winding up behind the
big desk was always on their minds. They were political
creatures.
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If Wolff and Bannon are to be believed — and so far, there
is no reason not to — Trump didn’t want the job. His team
wanted him to lose. “Once he lost, Trump would be both
insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary,” Wolff
writes. “His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would
be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become
the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne
Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who
had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become
president, could return to inconspicuously lunching.
Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was
winning.”
Wanting to lose explains Trump’s refusal to contribute to
his own run. It explains his barebones campaign, with its
weird lack of field offices, his sleepy national HQ and his
cheapskate approach to TV ads. The dude ran for president
yet refused to spend the night in a hotel room.
As Hillary Clinton might ask: What happened?
The voters insisted upon Trump.
It’s difficult for Democrats to hear, but it’s true.
Republicans voted for Trump because Republican voters
always vote Republican. But it was the swing voters who
put him over the top. They voted for Trump despite his
crazy rhetoric, his violent rallies and his incoherent
promises. They were determined to howl their ballotbox
cris de coeur. After decades of NAFTA and outsourcing
and Rust Beltification and H1-B visas for foreigners while
American tech workers can’t find work, they demanded to
be heard. They did that by voting for Trump.
Trump isn’t merely devoted to his base. He is beholden to
them. They put him in the White House even though he
didn’t want to go.
The second takeaway here is that Hillary was an even
worse candidate than her biggest detractors (cough cough)
believed. Ruminate on this: she lost to a man who tried to
lose.
A man with no experience.
With no campaign.
A nut.
You may be asking yourself here, why keep bashing
Hillary? Why not leave her alone and move on?
Because Clinton won’t leave us alone. Because
Clintonism, centrism, Third Wayism, DLCism are still
running the Democratic Party. Because her corporate
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neoliberal BS was discredited at the polls yet the party
bosses and Dem-aligned media outlets keep shoving it
down voters’ throats. Because progressivism and socialism
are more popular but can’t get any air until a big sharp
stake is driven through the undead heart of soulless
centrism once and for all (I’m looking at you, Tim Kaine
and Kamala Harris.)
So think on that a while. Hillary Clinton was so sucky that
she lost to the suckiest, stupidest, losingest candidate
anyone ever dreamed of.
 Bannon Releases FULL STATEMENT After ‘Fire And
Fury’ Debacle: Defends DON Jr.; FULLY Backs Trump
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 8, 2018

“Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a

good man”

(National Sentinel) MIA Mea Culpa: Breitbart News

chief and former presidential political strategist Steve
Bannon on Sunday issued a full statement of support for
President Donald J. Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.,
following massive fall-out over comments he allegedly
made to author Michael Wolff for his new book.

Bannon had come under fire from the president and his son
over comments he allegedly made to Wolff for his new
book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

Several critics have questioned the veracity of Wolff’s

accounts after he himself said in an author’s note contained
within the book that he could not verify everything he
wrote.

That said, observers note that Bannon’s mea culpa

suggests his comments were accurate.

Among other things, Wolff quoted former top Trump

political strategist Steve Bannon as saying that Donald
Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump
Tower in June 2016 as being treasonous.

He also predicted that special counsel Robert Mueller’s

ongoing investigation is focusing on “money laundering”

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involving former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Don
Jr., and Kushner.
“This was a smart move for Steve
Bannon,” The Gateway Pundit noted.
“Everyone knew the comments in ‘Fire and
Fury’ were taken out of context. And
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everyone knows Donald Trump Jr. is a
patriot.
“The statement was clear, not too soft and
keeps Steve Bannon in place as a top
voice for the #MAGA movement,” the site
noted further.
 Rush Limbaugh's Memo To The Media:
Trump Is Not The Dangerous Nut
By Tim Graham
January 8, 2018 6:37 AM EST

On his Friday show, Rush Limbaugh responded to the
brouhaha over Michael Wolff’s over-the-top book
claiming everyone who works for President Trump knows
he’s mentally unfit for office. Limbaugh said the American
people ought to compare Trump to Barack Obama and ask
which president truly seemed insane in what he was doing
in office.
And if they’re not smart in the way these people think
they’re smart, then of course we get what we’re getting
today. This is absurd, folks! Michael Wolff’s book:
Everybody who knows Donald Trump thinks that he is
unfit, 100 percent think Donald Trump is a moron and
describe him as a child, 100 percent of the people around
Trump say he’s lost his mind?

Limbaugh suggested the Washington-New York And this from an author who admits he’s not sure
intelligentsia just cannot grasp someone who doesn’t everything in his book is true and who admits that he said
observe their norms, can’t imagine that Trump is whatever he had to say to get his story, which he admits is
demonstrating any smarts: not all true.

I have long held, ladies and gentlemen,

we need to redefine “smart” in this
country. Because there are a lot of
stupid people who do a lot of dangerous
and dumb things. And they are
considered the smartest people in the
world. Example number one is Hillary
Clinton. Example number two is Barack
Hussein Obama.

Everyone knows how the liberal media seem almost

required to exclaim with goosebumps that the Clintons and
RUSH LIMBAUGH: more than at any time in the last
Obamas are some of the smartest, most compassionate
three years it is abundantly clear and over-the-top evident
Americans who have ever lived. (See Chris Matthews or
that very few people inside Washington, in the
Joy Reid.) Limbaugh cited Obama's urgent pandering to
establishment, inside the Beltway in American politics
Iran to add to his "legacy" of "peacemaking," which
have the slightest idea who Donald Trump is. It has never
sounds more like givingy our enemy everything he needs
been more obvious that they are incapable, even if they
to destroy you:
wanted to understand Donald Trump, I don’t think it’s
possible. I don’t think the kind of people we are talking
about have the ability to understand someone so unlike
them.

Now we start talking about, “Well, this president’s is

insane. Uh, this president is unfit! Uh, uh, this president is
dangerous. He shouldn’t be around buttons that lead to
weapons and bombs. Uh, uh, this president, 25th
Amendment.” They haven’t the slightest clue who he is.
You know, I’ve always had a saying. The guy who thinks
he’s smarter than his wife has no idea how truly smart she
is….
LIMBAUGH: Let me give you a side-by-side, A-B
It’s the same applicable thing here. These people are
comparison to give you an idea what I mean. One
simply incapable of thinking anybody could possibly be president breaks laws to get billions of dollars flown
as smart as they are. illegally, pallets of cash into the hands of the people who
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run the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, Iran,
and they export it. And this president does everything he
can to get them hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.
This same country to whom we gave this cash is
committed to creating a nuclear arsenal delivered by
ICBMs, all of which are known to be under development,
because this president enabled them to move forward on
their research.
The other president is working to stop all of this. The other
president is working to unwind this insane deal and do
what he can to prevent this state sponsor of terrorism from
getting nuclear weapons. Now, who’s the smart one and
who’s the dumb one?
Is what Barack Hussein Obama did
smart? No! It’s stupid! It’s dangerous,
and it’s idiotic.
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And the people around Obama should have been petrified
when he was doing this. The only problem is they all think
alike. They all act alike, and they all believe alike.
They’re so stupid and shortsighted they
think the United States of America is the
problem.
It’s unfair that the United States has such an advantage.
It’s only fair that the Iranians get nuclear weapons.
Nobody told us we couldn’t have them. Who are we to say
they can’t? That’s stupid! But the guy trying to prevent
that from happening is now said to be insane and unfit for
office.
[HT: Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics]
 Trey Gowdy RIPS Suspected LEAKER Adam Schiff Over
Outrageous Claim Of Trump-Russia Collusion (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 8, 2018
“You can’t have confidence” in the findings
of the ongoing House Intelligence
Committee “investigation when the ranking
Democrat prejudges it”
(National Sentinel) Hot Under The Collar: On Sunday,
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., tore into House Intelligence
Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,
during an appearance on Fox News, heavily criticizing the
process of the committee’s ongoing probe into suspected
“collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Gowdy said that
Schiff, who is also under suspicion for leaking details of
the committee’s proceedings, has made several
unsubstantiated claims regarding the collusion narrative in
order to help his bid for the U.S. Senate.
“How long is this going to go on? Because
we still haven’t had any evidence of any
collusion,” Bartiromo said.
“When is it appropriate for [special counsel]
Bob Mueller to come out and say, yes,
definitively there’s no collusion here, but
what I have uncovered is collusion at the
top of the FBI between FBI leadership and
Hillary Clinton?” she pressed.
At that, Gowdy ripped Schiff.
“Well Maria some of my Democratic
colleagues, namely Adam Schiff, said he
had evidence, more than circumstantial
evidence of collusion, before the
investigation even began so keep that in
mind,” Gowdy said.
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“The ranking Democrat on the House Intel
Committee (Schiff) had evidence of
collusion before we interviewed our very
first witness!” Gowdy continued.
“Almost 60 Democrats voted to move
forward with impeachment. Already!”
Gowdy said incredulously.
“Before Bob Mueller’s released a single
finding, before the House Intelligence or
Senate Intelligence Committees have
released a single, solitary finding, almost
60 House Democrats think the president
ought to be removed from office and Adam
Schiff says he has evidence of collusion,”
Gowdy said as Maria Bartiromo shook her
head.
Gowdy went on, pointing out that there are still several
witnesses who need to be interviewed to which Bartiromo
replied,
“That is infuriating”.
“Well, it’s only infuriating if you have high
expectations,” Gowdy replied.
The South Carolina Republican then hit Schiff for
grandstanding ahead of an expected bid for Sen. Dianne
Feinstein amid rumors she may not run for reelection.
Schiff has continued to claim that there is evidence of
collusion between President Donald J. Trump’s 2016
campaign and the Russian government, but so far no
evidence has been produced to support the allegation
despite more than a year’s worth of investigating by the
FBI, Justice Department, and several congressional
committees.
When he has been pressured to cite the evidence, Schiff
falls back on allegations that have already been vetted
publicly, critics note.
“You can’t have confidence” in the findings
of the ongoing House Intelligence
Committee “investigation when the ranking
Democrat prejudges it before we’ve
 interviewed your very first witness,” an
exasperated Gowdy said, in reference to
Schiff.

Here is the exchange between Bartiromo and Gowdy:

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 Nolte: Jake Tapper’s Mask Slips
As He Hurls Childish Insults At Stephen Miller
By John Nolte
8 Jan 2018
This time it was not his increasing
estrangement from the truth that turned
CNN’s Jake Tapper into a Sunday
morning laughingstock, it was the fact
that he behaved like a 13-year-old girl
who did not get enough sleep. His
absurdly unprofessional interview with
White House senior adviser Stephen
Miler was filled with enough childish
insults to fill the Dear Diary of any surly
teenager.
In an effort to deflect from his adolescent behavior, the
left-wing Tapper retweeted Glenn Greenwald defending
the fact that Tapper kept interrupting Miller…
“For those angry at @JakeTapper for
cutting off Stephen Miller … watch his
aggressive interview today of the always
slippery @RepAdamSchiff,” Greenwald
said, adding, “He treats everyone
equally[.]”
For those angry at @JakeTapper for
cutting off Stephen Miller (who was
incredibly obnoxious & refused to abide by
basic protocol of letting others talk), watch
his aggressive interview today of the
always slippery @RepAdamSchiff. He
treats everyone equally
https://t.co/nf4ZfKiY1N
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
January 7, 2018
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With all due respect to Greenwald (an openly left-wing
journalist I do respect), that is simply untrue.
To begin with, no one is angry about Tapper interrupting
Miller. We expect that from journalists. Politicians arrive
on TV to push their message. Partisan anchors invite them
on to demand answers on specific questions. This has been
true since the invention of TV. Interruptions are expected
and the least of Tapper’s problems.
Let me begin by asking everyone to accept Greenwald’s
challenge. Please do compare Tapper’s interview with
Schiff here to his interview with Miller here.
I’ll wait.
To begin with, Tapper is nowhere near as aggressive with
Schiff as he was with Miller. Also, Tapper begins his
interview with Schiff by offering the Democrat a lay-up
question about Trump’s “stable genius” comment.
Tapper’s first question to Miller was to ask if President
Trump colluded with Russians at Trump Tower.
Secondly, by volunteering his own opinion that Trump
does indeed “cast a dark cloud” over the decision, Tapper
goes so far as to reaffirm Schiff’s criticism of the FBI re-
opening investigations against Hillary Clinton. Democrats
sure got it good.
Nevertheless, Tapper does press Schiff on a couple of
awkward questions. It must also be acknowledged that
Schiff is not at all combative — but has no real need to be
when interview by someone on the same side — whereas
Miller swung into the studio on a vine gripping a knife
between his teeth — God bless him.
But even if you grant Greenwald all of his points, there is
one very clear difference between Tapper’s Schiff
interview and the Miller interview, and that is Tapper’s
relentless stream of hostile, deeply personal, objectively
unprofessional insults — behavior that would not only
result in a third-grader banging erasers after school (is my
age showing?), but is way outside the norms of what we
expect from those who pose as objective journalists.
Here is a sampling of Tapper’s unrelenting cheap shots Obviously angry and over-matched, even as Miller was
against Miller: talking, Tapper abruptly ended the interview with…

…”I’m sure [Trump’s] watching and he’s
happy that you said that.”
…”I think the viewers right now can
ascertain who’s hysterical.”
…”because it’s my show and I don’t want to
do that.”
…”Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, settle
down, settle down, settle down.”
As Miller continued to get the best of him, Tapper
retreated to where he frequently retreats when rattled:
“I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’
time.”
While Ann Coulter is correct that it was actually Tapper
who was playing to an audience of one — his Svengali Jeff
Zucker — hats off to Miller, who brilliantly pressured
Tapper to a point where the mask slipped more than just a
little.
As we saw on Election Night, when the pressure is on,
Tapper reveals his true left-wing self, and it is never pretty:

Spreading disinformation, which came in

the form of this poorly worded-cheap piece
of Very Jake News…
“The president has an approval rating in
the 30s, I don’t know what “magical” you’re
talking about.”

That is empirically untrue. Every recent poll has Trump at

40 percent or higher, as does the Real Clear Politics poll of
polls.

Then the Tapper meltdown occurred…

…”Stephen, I get it. You have one viewer

you care about right now [Trump] and
you’re being obsequious right now
[garbled] in order to please him.”…
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 The Russia Thing
By Andrew Day
January 8, 2018
In a recent interview, journalist Luke Harding failed to
substantiate the central thesis – indeed, the title – of his
bestselling book, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty
Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.
That Putin “helped Trump win” is prima facie plausible,
but what is the empirical evidence? Aaron Maté subjected
Harding’s lurid argument – that the Kremlin began
cultivating Trump decades ago in order to “hack” an
election – to incisive scrutiny.
The result, as Harding’s reddening cheeks
revealed, was embarrassing.
It would be unfair to single Harding out for asserting
without much evidence that Russia catapulted a Putin
stooge into the White House. Maté is, in fact, an outlier for
maintaining a healthy skepticism about this story (a
“collusion rejectionist,” in Harding’s phrase). Indeed, the
specter of collusion has been so consuming a journalistic
obsession it has distracted from the GOP’s assaults on the
environment, the working poor, and global peace.
The Democratic Party too has become captivated by the
fantasy that collusion will someday be not only proven but
somehow sufficient to oust the President from the Oval
Office. It is not obvious how this Russian cloud –
increasingly black, but persistently insubstantial – might
produce enough rain to wash the Trump era away, nor
whether President Pence is a ray of sunshine worth hoping
for. Journalists, Democrats, and concerned Americans
would be prudent to reconsider not only the evidence, but
the politics of such wishful thinking.
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Try, if you can, to enter into the perspective of an ordinary
Michigander who voted for Trump, but is persuadable that
he should not do so again. Voters of this sort are relatively
rare – but decisive. Joe Michigan likely worries deeply
about ballooning health care costs and stagnant wages, but
very little about Vladimir Putin. Joe is understandably
unlikely to be convinced that foreign agents clandestinely
caused him to vote for Trump. Nevertheless, suppose he is
open to the collusion narrative, and that a latent patriotism
gives him pause when he ponders it. Though sporadically
attentive to politics, he can plainly sense that the
Democrats and media hold Trump in palpable disdain, that
they are confidently issuing disturbing accusations against
the President, and that they expect this story will finally –
and gloriously – bring down our Twitter Tyrant.
Now consider this: What if Robert Mueller’s ongoing
investigation concludes that Trump was not directly
implicated in misconduct? What if Mueller announces that
collusion never occurred? What will Joe from Michigan –
and millions like him – think then?
If that is how things play out, Trump will not only appear
vindicated, but victorious over partisan opponents and
“Fake News.” It will inflate his brand as a populist
strongman defying liberal elites who do not respect the
will of Red America. Many will view him as a fearless
leader weathering a tempest conjured by “globalist” forces
to sink him and his movement.
He will seem what he desperately wishes to be: a winner.
His ego and reelection chances will swell. Blindsided
Democrats will be left directionless. The news industry’s
credibility will collapse, perhaps irreversibly. And should
Trump commit impeachable offenses later, it will be
profoundly challenging to persuade conservatives and
moderates that this time the case against him is real.
It is not merely strategically ill-advised – it is politically
harrowing – for Democrats to put all their eggs in one
Russian basket. Fortunately, there are many better baskets
to choose from.
Donald Trump is deeply unpopular. Congressional
Republicans are even more widely loathed. On important
issues – taxation, entitlements, the minimum wage, climate
change – progressive policies are vastly more popular than
conservative ones. The GOP is utterly dominant at all
levels of politics, but in many ways it is weak. If the
Democratic Party is remotely competent, it should be able
to take power easily in this environment. But competence
requires keeping it together under pressure.
In 2016, the Democrats lost to the guy from The
Apprentice. To the extent that the collusion narrative
displaces blame for that embarrassment to a foreign
adversary, it also inhibits the left’s ability to correct past
mistakes and seize present opportunities. Fortunately, the
.
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resistance need not make its political fortunes dependent
on the findings of an unpredictable investigation, nor on
the claims of hyperventilating reporters.
We must wait to see what Mueller’s team comes up with.
In the meantime, Democrats should present a bold,
progressive vision to the American people that addresses
the working class’s material concerns and offers an
optimistic alternative to the GOP’s dark politics.
 Trump: ‘I Hope’ Gary Cohn Will Stay In My
Administration ‘For A Long Time’
By Charlie Spiering
8 Jan 2018

Trump called him up to the podium during a press

conference in Camp David.

“Come here, Gary. Come here. Are you

happy, Gary?” Trump asked as Cohn
stepped up in front of the cameras. “He’s
just passed a very big bill. I think he’s pretty
happy.”

Cohn said he was happy, but he did not confirm he would

stay.

“Yes, I’m happy,” he replied. “How’s that?”

On Friday, Cohn indicated that he would stay but did not

President Donald Trump urged former say how long.
Goldman Sachs COO and senior White
House economic adviser Gary Cohn to
stay in the White House, despite a “I’m here today, and I’m here next week,”
complicated relationship with the he told CNBC.
president.
In December, Cohn told Axios reporter Mike Allen that he
“Gary, hopefully, will be staying for a long was staying in the administration to help Trump’s
time,” Trump said when reporters asked if
infrastructure agenda.
Cohn would remain.
“I’m staying,” he said shortly in an
Trump joked to the press that if Cohn left, he would be
interview. “The last year of my life has
happy.
probably been the most fascinating that I’ve
ever had.”
“Now, if he leaves, I’m going to say I’m very
happy that he left, okay?”
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 ABC Legal Analyst: Ousting Trump
Through 25th Amendment A ‘Liberal Pipe Dream’
By Kristine Marsh
January 8, 2018 12:14 PM EST
Despite agenda-driven journalists like Michael Wolff
gushing to CBS This Morning that President Trump could
be ousted out of office through the 25th Amendment, not
everyone in the liberal media is buying it.
ABC’s legal analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams
dismissed the latest strategy liberals were arguing as a
legal way to get Trump out of office.
On Monday's Good Morning America, Abrams told co-
host George Stephanopoulos that the 25th Amendment was
nothing but a “liberal pipe dream”:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Of all
these questions about the president's
mental capacity Dan, and Michael Wolff,
the author said yesterday that some of
these aides even talk about invoking the
25th Amendment but that's pretty far-
fetched.
DAN ABRAMS: Let’s be clear. As a legal
matter, the 25th Amendment is a liberal
pipe dream.
And for two reasons. Number one, the amendment was
enacted post-John Kennedy being shot and the fear was
this could be a president who is in a coma, what are we
going to do?
Some are going to say this is the same,
okay, as a procedural matter it's harder
than impeachment.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Right, you have to get a majority
of the cabinet first and then two-thirds--
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ABRAMS: First you have to get the vice president and
then you have to get the majority of the cabinet. If the
president then objects to that you have to get two-thirds of
the House and Senate.
With impeachment you only need the
majority of the House so if the president
is going to be kicked out of office based
on a constitutional principle, it's going
to be impeachment. It's not going to be
the 25th Amendment.
Despite this, Wolff and other liberal journalists are still
suggesting this is a truly legitimate strategy for getting
what they want.
On CBS This Morning, Wolff told co-host Norah
O’Donnell that there were White House staffers gossipping
that Trump’s actions were suggesting the need to invoke
the 25th Amendment:
WOLFF: [T]he people in the White House
are like everyone else in the country.
What’s going to happen here? We don’t
know from day to day. This is for them, as
for everyone, an extraordinary experience,
and I think that they certainly question
what's going to happen here, like
everybody else. There are many moments
in which the 25th Amendment has come
up, the 25th Amendment which gives the
cabinet the ability to remove the President.
And they don't say --- they don’t say the
cabinet is going to remove the president,
but they do say things like, “This is a little
25th Amendment-y here.”
That comment was replayed over-and-over again on the
cable news shows Monday. Even print publications were
trying to hype their newly found theory. Today, faux
Republican and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin
.
snarked that the Amendment was now “up” in popularity,
while Politico hailed the “liberal pipe dream” as the latest
“obsession” in Washington.

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 Sorry Democrats=> At Least 18 Presidents Suffered From
Mental Disorders And Were Not Removed From Office
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 8, 2018

But Democrats and DC elites don’t like

Now that the Russian witch hunt has him so they want him impeached.
fallen flat Democrats and DC elites are
hopeful that Congress will remove They are hoping to use the 25th Amendment to get
President Trump on insanity charges. POTUS Trump tossed from office.
President Trump is a self-made real
estate billionaire. He successfully There’s only one problem.
defeated a stacked field of 16
Republican candidates in the 2016 Several former presidents had mental health issues and
primary. Then he went on and routed were not removed from office.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and the liberal
mainstream media in the general John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt
election. suffered from bipolar disorder.
President Lincoln suffered from serious
Since entering the White House the stock market is up by bouts of depression.
7000 points, ISIS is defeated in Syria-Iraq, manufacturing And Barack Obama negotiated with the
is coming back to American and millions of Americans are Iranian mullahs!
back to work and off of Obama food stamps.

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 Sorry Democrats.
You can’t impeach President Trump for
mean tweets or a dishonest book by a
liberal author.
Isn’t it time to join the #MAGA
movement?

Via Andrew Bostom:

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 Wolff: 100% Of The People Closest To Trump
Think There’s ‘Something Fundamentally Wrong’
With Him That ‘Scares Them’
By Ian Hanchett
8 Jan 2018

what the president’s capable of and believe they have a

responsibility to the country to stay in.

Wolff said,

“Everybody in this White House, and I keep

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,”
“Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff stated that
everyone closest to President Trump believes there is
“something fundamentally wrong” with the president and
they stay in the White House because they are “scared” of
.
saying this, 100%, because it is 100% of
the people closest to the president, to
Donald Trump. believe that there is
something wrong here, something
fundamentally wrong, something that
scares them. As a matter of fact, they went
from — if there was — if there is any
reason they stay in the White House now,
it’s because they are scared. They believe
they have a responsibility to the American
people.”

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 Former Secret Service Agent: Trump Dossier
May Be The ‘Insurance Policy’ To Cover Up Illegal Spying
On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 8, 2018

team is a who’s who of Hillary and

Obama cronies. There must be more to
it.

Former Secret Service Agent, Dan Bonjino, was on Fox

and Friends Sunday and he offered the most reasonable
explanation for what Strzok was referring to as his
‘insurance policy’.

Bonjino stated –

Fox News asked in a report “Why did I think America needs to prepare itself for
Strzok need an insurance policy against the idea that this entire thing was a sting
Trump?” According to one expert we against the Trump team the entire time and
may soon find out that the insurance that the dossier was just cover for it.”
policy was the dossier that was needed
to cover up illegally spying on Trump
should Hillary not win the election.

Peter Strzok, the criminal and crooked FBI Agent is still

employed by the FBI in its Human Resources Department.

Strzok was the lead investigator on the criminal Mueller

investigation into the alleged Trump – Russia connection.
After a year of work by the crooked Mueller team there is
no connection between Russia and Trump. However, text
messages were found between Strzok and his girlfriend in
the DOJ where he texted,

“In case Trump wins, we need an The DNC, Obama, the Clintons, Obama’s
insurance policy against him”. FBI and DOJ, the Mueller Investigation
are all corrupt and criminal
Reportedly because of his bias, Mueller removed Strzok organizations.
from the investigation.
Let’s hope that good people in our
But Mueller never reported this to government stand up and bring these
Congress for months, and his entire criminals to justice.
.

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 Fire And Fury Is A Last Gasp
Of The Dying Anti-Trump Movement
Latest Attack From The Left Is Another Failure
Jon Bowne | Infowars.Com
January 8, 2018

Alex delves into the latest fraud to come from the left, Michael Wolff’s attempt to pull the wool over the public’s eyes
with questionable source material and a character assassination of President Trump.

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 Insanity! Michael Wolff Claims
I 'Have No Political Agenda’
By Scott Whitlock
January 8, 2018 8:30 AM EST

Liberal journalist Michael Wolff, the man who has
bragged that his new book will “finally bring down” the
Trump presidency, on Monday absurdly insisted that he
has “no political agenda.” To which CBS This Morning
co-host Norah O’Donnell responded,
“will finally end this – that will end this
presidency” and that, “It’s not ideal that
[Trump] is in the White House.” This is in
addition to touting calls that the President is
“a moron.”

“Fair enough. Fair enough.” But, hey, no agenda, right?

This came seconds after Wolff mocked Trump as stupid: A transcript is below:

“I can reliably say Donald Trump has never

read a work of fiction.” He then claimed,
“But the important point I want to make is
this book is not about my impression of the
President. I came into this with no
agenda. I continue to have no political
agenda.”

CBS This Morning

1/8/18

7:10am ET

NORAH O’DONNELL: Michael Wolff, the author of Fire and Fury:

Inside the Trump White House is with us this morning. Good
To her credit, O’Donnell eventually pointed out: morning, Michael.

“But you have written it's worse than
anybody thought, that he's mentally
unstable, that he's an idiot.”
Wolff disassembled and spun, saying:
I didn't say -- I did not say he's mentally
unstable. I would not be qualified to do this.
I would say I have merely described and
mostly not my impressions, the
impressions of other people of the people
he deals with on a daily basis.
Wolff really just needs to pick a narrative and stick with it.
He bragged to NPR that his book would
MICHAEL WOLFF: Good morning. Thank you for having me.
O’DONNELL: A lot has happened since details of your book
came out.
WOLFF: To say the least.
O’DONNELL: The President came out ---
To say the least. The President in
response has felt the need to describe
himself as a stable genius. Based on
your reporting, are there people in the
White House talking about trying to
remove him from office?

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WOLFF: They are not talking about trying to remove him from WOLFF: Right. She was a fashion P.R. person and then she was
office. They are wondering what’s going to --- The people in the second to the campaign and she became very close to the
White House are like everyone else in the country. What’s going candidate and then very close to the President of the United
to happen here? We don’t know from day to day. This is for them, States. And now for all intent and purposes, she is the
as for everyone, an extraordinary experience, and I think that President's most senior adviser.
they certainly question what's going to happen here, like
everybody else. There are many moments in which the 25th O’DONNELL: Did you speak with any members of the
Amendment has come up, the 25th Amendment which gives the President's cabinet about this book?
cabinet the ability to remove the President. And they don't say ---
they don’t say the cabinet is going to remove the president, but
WOLFF: Did not.
they do say things like, “This is a little 25th Amendment-y here.”
O’DONNELL: You did not.
O’DONNELL: Well, it's interesting.
Because you say that Bannon was
going around the White House saying WOLFF: I did not.
there was a 33 percent chance the
President would be impeached, a 33% O’DONNELL: And did you speak with the vice president?
chance that he would resign under
threat of the 25th Amendment. Correct? WOLFF: I did not.
WOLFF: Correct. And a 33 and a third
chance he would limp to the finish line, O’DONNELL: When was the last time you spoke with the
but a zero percent chance he would President about this book.
have another term.

JEFF GLOR: President Trump said yesterday the book is a fake

book. He said you're totally discredited as an author. Is
everything in the book true?

WOLFF: Everything in the book is true.

GLOR: And your response to that?

WOLFF: I'm waiting for a nickname.

GLOR: You don't have one yet.

WOLFF: I seem to --- Where's my nickname?
BIANNA GOLODRYGA: He did call it a work of fiction. Steven
Miller continued that narrative over the weekend.
WOLFF: I can reliably say Donald Trump
has never read a work of fiction.
GOLODRYGA: One person that appears on every page of this
book is Hope Hicks. In terms of what she saw and what she was
aware of, and participated in, how big of an impact would she
have in the Mueller investigation if she did, in fact, cooperate with
him and how worried should the President be?
WOLFF: I think huge. Hope is at the center of the administration.
I mean, she’s really one of the curious figures. She begins as
something as an intern or a very low level person in the
campaign.
O’DONNELL: She actually worked for Ivanka Trump beforehand.
That’s what --- She was Ivanka Trump ---
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WOLFF: You know, as I said all along here, and the White House
seems very focused on this, I spent about three hours talking to
the President over the course of the campaign, the transition, and
in the White House.
But the important point I want to make
is this book is not about my impression
of the President. I came into this with no
agenda. I continued to have no political
agenda.
O’DONNELL: Fair enough, fair enough.
It reads like a narrative. Like, as you say, you were a semi-
permanent spot, like a fly on the wall. It also reads like your main
source is Steve Bannon. Would that be correct to say that?
WOLFF: It would be not correct. He's a very large source here,
but there are many, many ---
O’DONNELL: But you have written it's
worse than anybody thought, that he's
mentally unstable, that he's an idiot.
 WOLFF: I didn't say --- I did not say he's
mentally unstable. I would not be
qualified to do this. I would say I have
merely described and mostly not my
impressions, the impressions of other
people of the people he deals with on a
daily basis.
O’DONNELL: But the President denies he ever spoke with you
for this book at all.
WOLFF: I think he probably had no idea he was speaking to me
for this book. When I would meet the President in the White
House, we would chat as though we were friends, and that was
what --
Trump was February 2017. That's just
barely 100 days into his presidency. Did
you interview him after that date?
WOLFF: Let's separate this out. I interviewed him at that point.
After that, we would --- we would ---we would speak --- I'm sure
he didn't think they were interviews, and in all fairness, he might
say, “I was not being interviewed.”
O’DONNELL: How much do you think things have changed since
John Kelly became chief of staff?
WOLFF: I think --- they've obviously changed a lot.
GOLODRYGA: Bannon's gone.

O’DONNELL: That's not an interview to greet someone and say

WOLFF: Bannon's gone, Priebus is gone, Spicer's gone.
hello.
O’DONNELL: Most of your sources.
GOLODRYGA: You say three hours. You spent three hours.
WOLFF: So the core of the White House of that first --- the first
WOLFF: Through the course --- first, I have sat down with the
six months, the core of that staff is gone. So a lot has -- a lot has
President for extended periods of interviews, but there are other
changed given the staffing of the White house. The thing that has
periods in which --- and that's essentially what he's saying.
not changed, of course, is Donald Trump.
They're trying to parse this, “Oh, I didn't know I was speaking to
him when I saw him in the White House.”
O’DONNELL: Michael Wolff, we're out of time, thank you so
much for joining us.
O’DONNELL: Just to clarify, the White
House says the last time they have a
record of you meeting with President
.

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 Democrats Respond To Trump Tower Fire
– Disappointed President Trump Wasn’t Killed (Tweets)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Monday, January 8, 2018

Following a fire on the roof of Trump Tower in New York Many stated that they hoped people would get out, but that
City on Monday morning, Democrats responded exactly as their homes and belongings would burn to the ground —
you would expect them to — by expressing essentially because they don’t like their landlord.
disappointment that our president isn’t dead.

Trump tower is on fire,too bad that pig isn’t

burning there
— Rita (@sippingIemonade) January 8,
2018
Two people, a firefighter and an engineer, An unsurprisingly large amount of liberals shared their
sustained minor injuries while fighting the dismay that our president was not in the building at the
blaze. time.
Burn baby burn! #Trump Tower
pic.twitter.com/vEPqONGNUG
— DavidB (@DavidB86318017) January 8,
2018
Burn down to the ground RT @thehill:
JUST IN: Fire breaks out at Trump Tower
https://t.co/UvfXb0Vymy
pic.twitter.com/ALybMmpAkp
— Jets_1-15 (@raf_knicks101) January 8,
2018
The tower is home to residential apartments, shops and
businesses — most of which are unrelated to the
administration. Still, that did not stop petulant leftists from
celebrating the dangerous incident, and wishing that it had
been worse.

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 The fire was contained by 7:30 a.m. and did not enter the
interior of the building — thanks to the quick response
from over 126 firefighters who arrived at the scene.

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 Trump To Counterattack Deep State In 2018
Infowars.Com’s Dr. Corsi Is Working With
8chan Moderators On Qanon Posts
Infowars.Com
January 8, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chief Washington
correspondent for Infowars.com, Dr.
Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., began playing a
more central role over the weekend
working directly with the moderators
managing the internet bulletin board
8chan, The Storm, on which QAnon has
been posting.
“I am convinced QAnon is an intelligence
source closely coordinating with President
Trump to develop a counterattack to the
Deep State forces that are planning to
remove President Trump from office,” Dr.
Corsi explained.
“I am planning to continue working with the
QAnon group,” Corsi continued, “reporting
on a regular basis with Alex Jones, David
.
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Knight of Infowars.com news, and Owen
Shroyer of the War Room.”
Dr. Corsi’s involvement with the QAnon moderators has
developed over a series of “DECODE” essays that Dr.
Corsi began writing to explain QAnon posts to the general
public. The first being a QAnon post #151134 on Dec. 22,
2017, in which QAnon discussed the crumbling of the
Russian collusion narrative against President Trump.
Dr. Corsi’s DECODE also detailed QAnon’s role in
developing counterintelligence that suggests the Russian
collusion narrative was developed to derail Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign, or to be the basis of his
removal from office should he get elected; by CIA
Director John Brennan, and funded by Eric Schmidt of
Google fame.
Over the weekend, Dr. Corsi posted on Scribd.com his
“DECODE” of a series of messages QAnon posted on
8chan “The Storm,” messages that included a photograph
of President Trump’s pen resting on the conference table at
Camp David taken as the meetings were in progress.
One of the key players in the QAnon phenomenon, Tracy
Beanz @tracybeanz conducted a 45 minute YouTube video
interviewing Dr. Corsi over his increasing role working
directly with the QAnon moderators.
 Harvard Professor Compares Trump Mental Fitness
Questions To Communist Russia Tactics [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media Reporter
12:16 PM 01/08/2018

have to confine him against his will under a

kind of commitment law,” Dershowitz said.

WATCH:

Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz warned the media

against using psychiatry to undercut or remove President
Donald Trump and compared their efforts to tactics used
by Communist Russia and China, on “Fox and Friends”
Monday.

“It’s very dangerous,” Dershowitz said. “I’ve

railed against the criminalization of political
“Imagine how dangerous that would be,” he
difference. It’s getting worse. The
added. “Psychiatrists are notoriously bad at
psychiatrizaton of political difference is
predicting violence.”
much more dangerous. It’s what they did in
Russia, it’s what they did in China, it’s what
they did in apartheid South Africa. If you Dershowitz encouraged those who don’t like a like a
don’t like a candidate first lock him up. If particular candidate to simply vote for someone else,
you can’t lock him up, commit him to a instead of trying locking them away in an asylum.
mental hospital.”
“I didn’t like what I saw necessarily so I did
Dershowitz referenced Yale University Professor Bandy what you do In a democracy. You vote for
Lee and said she is calling for the forcible confinement of the candidate you prefer,” Dershowitz
Trump, if he shows signs of mental incompetence. concluded. “You don’t lock them up. You
don’t put them in mental hospitals if you
don’t agree with them. That’s so dangerous
“There’s this professor at Yale Bandy Lee
to democracy.”
who has been leading the campaign,
saying the president is dangerous. He has
access to the nuclear trigger. We may even
.

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 NBC's Chuck Todd: Wolff’s Book
‘Reinforces’ Anti-Trump Narrative From ‘Entire Media’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 8, 2018 11:30 PM EST

stuff.” The 25th Amendment allows for the

cabinet and the vice president to remove a
president from office if they believe he is
not fit to serve. “This is alarming in every
way … So the 25th Amendment is a
concept that is alive every day in the
White House,” he asserted.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC’s Chuck Todd sat down

with journalist Michael Wolff to discuss and promote his
dubiously sourced anti-Trump gossip book Fire and Fury.
During the interview, the NBC host seemed to let it slip
that the “entire media” was pushing an anti-Trump
narrative and claimed that the book confirmed their
accusations.

“You thought that the media was too
one-sided or that was the impression
you were giving. I have to say, when you
read this book, you almost seem to
reinforce the entire media narrative you
were criticizing,” Todd said after reading
something Wolff wrote in 2017 that was
critical of the media’s unfair coverage of
Trump.
“You know, I think that in the beginning, the
media took this point of view without having
had this experience,” Wolff explained. “You
know, I went into this, a decent part of the
country went into this, his entire staff went
into this thinking maybe this can work.” But
according to him, their wishful thinking was
for naught. “Okay, that’s not the story. He
is not going to succeed. This is worse
than everybody thought,” he declared in
a serious tone.
“It’s that bad. I mean, it's an
extraordinary moment in time. And the
last several days focused on my book I
think are proof of this,” Wolff claimed. “I
think not an exaggeration and not
unreasonable. It's not unreasonable to
say this is 25th Amendment kind of
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Despite his loaded comments, Wolff continued to maintain
that he
“went into this with absolutely no
agenda whatsoever. I have no particular
politics when it comes to Donald Trump.
This is really all about human nature.”
During his interview, Todd neglected to grill Wolff about
an inflammatory comment he made on BBC Radio on
Saturday where Wolff claimed his book would
“finally end … this presidency.”
Yet Todd did go to that BBC interview for inspiration for
another question regarding when Trump’s administration
would inevitably fall apart.
“One final question. You said something
in a BBC interview: that you thought
this presidency was going to hit a wall.
What did that mean? Hit a wall by 2020
or before then,” Todd wondered.
Wolff didn’t know when the administration would hit the
wall but he asserted that it was the ultimate train wreck
everyone was looking out for:
Um, I think - I don’t know when the train is going to Here’s something you wrote in 2017, in January, so: "To the
finally hit the wall. I think the entire narrative of this media, it is a given that Trump is largely out of control and that
presidency and this candidacy and then presidency has the people around him are struggling at all times to save him
been it’s going to hit a wall. And the thing that keeps from himself--and largely failing. This view persists … despite
everybody’s attention absolutely riveted - this global Trump's victory flattening almost every media assumption about
attention - is that the train keeps going, but the wall is still his supposed haplessness and lack of strategy."
there. I mean one of the things, I think, about this book and
why it’s hit such a chord and become this cultural moment And you were just- you thought that the
is it’s given everybody this focused opportunity to say, media was too one-sided or that was the
“Holy crap.” impression you were giving. I have to
say, when you read this book, you
And Wolff claims he doesn’t have a political agenda. almost seem to reinforce the entire
Yeah, sure. media narrative you were criticizing.
WOLFF: You know, I think that in the
Relevant portions of the transcript below: beginning, the media took this point of
view without having had this
experience. You know, I went into this, a
decent part of the country went into
this, his entire staff went into this
thinking maybe this can work.

It’s different, even peculiar, but who knows what can happen
here. And that was exactly my, my frame of reference. I would
have been delighted to have written a contrarian account here.
Donald Trump, this unexpected president, is actually going to
succeed.

OK, that’s not the story. He is not going

NBC to succeed. This is worse than
Meet the Press everybody thought.
January 7, 2018
10:36:02 AM Eastern

(…)

CHUCK TODD: All right. Let me just start with this. You talk
about “fly on the wall” access. Explain to me what that was like.
Walk me through how you were a fly on the wall in the West
Wing.

MICHAEL WOLFF: You know, I literally kind of knocked on the

door and said, “Can I come in?” and they said “Okay.” And I
came in. I sat on the couch and that’s the point of view that I’ve
written this book from. I mean, in the real intention of this book, is (…)
to have readers sit with me on the couch and watch what’s going
on in the West Wing. WOLFF: It’s that bad. I mean, it's an
extraordinary moment in time. And the
I went into this with absolutely no last several days focused on my book I
agenda whatsoever. I have no particular think are proof of this. This is what
politics when it comes to Donald Trump. happened here, what's going on here. This
This is really all about human nature. is, you know, I think not an exaggeration
and not unreasonable. It's not
(…) unreasonable to say this is 25th
Amendment kind of stuff.
TODD: You were pretty tough on the
coverage of Donald Trump early in 2017. TODD: Did anybody say that in the West Wing to you?

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 WOLFF: All the time.
TODD: 25th Amendment? They would bring up the 25th
Amendment?
WOLFF: Yes, actually, they would say,
sort of in the mid-period, “We’re not at a
25th Amendment level yet.” Or they
would-
TODD: That’s alarming.
WOLFF: This is alarming in every way.
And then this went on, “Okay, this is a
little 25th Amendment.” So the 25th
Amendment is a concept that is alive
every day in the White House.
(…)
(…)
.
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TODD: One final question. You said
something in a BBC interview: that you
thought this presidency was going to hit
a wall. What did that mean? Hit a wall by
2020 or before then?
WOLFF: Um, I think - I don’t know when
the train is going to finally hit the wall. I
think the entire narrative of this
presidency and this candidacy and then
presidency has been it’s going to hit a
wall. And the thing that keeps
everybody’s attention absolutely riveted
- this global attention - is that the train
keeps going, but the wall is still there. I
mean one of the things, I think, about
this book and why it’s hit such a chord
and become this cultural moment is it’s
given everybody this focused
opportunity to say, “Holy crap.”
 How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became The US
Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
Eric Zuesse
January 8, 2018
It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington
Post competed against each other to be the chief
propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to
the US federal government — the 100 top “federal
contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon
contractors — mainly these are weapons-manufacturing
firms, such as the biggest, Lockheed Martin. The federal
government is a large part of these firms’ essential market;
so, invasions by the US against other countries require lots
of their goods and services; and, also, America’s foreign
allies additionally buy these weapons; and, right now, US
President Trump is demanding that they increase their
‘defense’ budgets to buy more of them. Wars produce
corporate profits if (like in the United States) the military
suppliers are private corporations instead of government-
owned (socialized). Selling wars is crucial to such firms’
bottom lines. And, since there is no law against owning a
‘defense’ contractor and owning or donating to newsmedia
(especially newsmedia such as the Times and Post, which
publish lots of international news and so can encourage
lots of invasions), a sensible business strategy for investors
in ‘defense’ stocks is to also own or donate to some
international-‘news’ media, in order to generate additional
business for the arms-maker or other ‘defense’ firm. Not
only does this business-plan relate to such newspapers as
the NYT and WP, but they’ll be the focus here, because
they are the most important of America’s international-
news media.
Serious periodicals, such as The New Republic, The
Atlantic, and Mother Jones, have also been steady
propagandists for ‘defense’ companies, but magazines
don’t reverberate through the rest of the mass-media to the
extent that the serious national (NYC & DC) newspapers
do. TV and radio pick up on, and transmit, their news (and
even CNN and others rely upon them more than these
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newspapers rely upon the broadcast media); and, in
America, a lion’s share of the national political news, and
especially of international news, is originated in the New
York Times and Washington Post. This megaphone-effect
forms the public’s opinions about whether we should
invade or not. The owners of those two powerful
newspapers, via their boards of directors and appointed
editorial boards, make the key decisions regarding hiring,
firing, promotions, and demotions, which determine news-
slants from their employees (both from the reporters and
especially from the editors who select what stories to
publish and whether on page-one or inside the paper), and
this power that these owners have, reverberates immensely
(especially in regards to international relations) and thus
largely shapes the results in the national polls (sampling
the public, who view the world through the newsmedia);
and, thus, every US President and every member of
Congress becomes heavily impacted by that ‘news’, that
‘world’ the voting public see. And this coloring of the
‘news’ especially concerns international-news reporting,
and the opinions that Americans have of foreign countries
— such as of Iran.
Back in 2002, when the US Government was lying through
its teeth about what it knew for certain and didn’t know
about “Saddam’s Weapons Of Mass Destruction
(WMD),” the New York Times (NYT) was then the leading
neoconservative (i.e., pro-imperialistic, pro-invasion, pro
military-industrial-complex or “MIC”) propaganda-organ,
stenographically transmitting to the public this
Government’s provably false allegations, and
the Washington Post (WP) was only #2 in this regard. But
that order has now switched, and now the WP is even
worse.
The latest MIC-promoted top story-line concerns the
protests in Iran — a country the US long controlled via
America’s agent, the brutal Shah, by and after a 1953 CIA
coup there, and which country thus very reasonably loathes
and fears the US Government. What caused these protests,
and what they mean, are much in the news; and, the news-
reporting and editorials and op-eds in the NYT have been
significantly more honest and varied than in the WP.
Here’s a sampling of that:
As of the time of this writing (January 5th), there has not
yet been an editorial from the NYT regarding the protests
in Iran. (Similarly, many other newspapers, such as
Britain’s Guardian, haven’t yet ventured official editorial
opinions regarding this matter.) However, one opinion-
piece that has been published regarding it, has become an
especially prominent target of attack by the more overtly
pro-MIC propagandists: the NYT’s “How Can Trump
Help Iran’s Protesters? Be Quiet.” It’s by “a senior
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an
assistant secretary of state and White House coordinator
for the Middle East during the Obama administration.”
That writer closes by saying:
“If Mr. Trump blows up the [Iran nuclear]
deal and reimposes sanctions, he will not
be doing the opposition a favor but instead
giving Iranians a reason to rally to — rather
than work against — the government they
might otherwise despise. The protests
taking place in Iran today are perhaps a
sign that, in the long run, the Iranian people
want to be accepted as free, responsible
members of the international community
and that in time they might demand and
achieve real change. The best way for Mr.
Trump to help test that proposition and
increase the chance of its success is to do
nothing.”
That’s a rare example of an anti-MIC (military-sales-
suppressing) opinion-piece in a major American ‘news’
medium.
Less ‘controversial’ (more clearly mainstream) than that
has been another NYT opinion-piece, “The Worst Thing
for Iran’s Protesters? US Silence.” It’s by “a former
Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency,
… a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies.” The FDD is an Israeli front US think-tank,
funded by many MIC-invested billionaires in both
countries. The author concludes:
“The Trump administration can do better
[than did the Obama Administration]. The
president’s tweets in support of the
protesters were a good start. Washington
should also let loose a tsunami of sanctions
against the Revolutionary Guards, the
linchpin of Iran’s dictatorship. Policy-wise,
that would be a good place to start.
Contrary to received wisdom, the absolute
worst thing that the United States can do
for the Iranian people is to stay silent and
do nothing.”
Another NYT op-ed is “Why Iran Is Protesting” and it’s
by “an Iranian novelist and journalist.”
He concludes that in Iran, “something has
fundamentally changed: The unquestioning
support of the rural people they relied on
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against the discontent of the metropolitan
elite is no more. Now everyone seems
unhappy.”
That too is mainstream — it implies that the people of Iran
have a bad Government, which should be removed.
The closest thing yet to being a NYT editorial on the
subject of these protests is a column by the Times’s Roger
Cohen, “Trump Is Right, This Time, About Iran.” It
closes by advising the Administration:
“It should not, whatever happens, impose
new sanctions: They only benefit the
Revolutionary Guards. And it should learn,
finally, that Iran is not, as Steve Bannon
told Joshua Green, ‘like the fifth century —
completely primeval’ — but rather a
sophisticated society of deep culture full of
unrealized promise better served by
engagement than estrangement.”
That is a remarkably sympathetic (to the Iranian people)
statement, but it nonetheless argues the exact opposite:
“Trump Is Right, This Time, About Iran.”
Its conclusion is the opposite of its title, but the main part
of the article’s text is irrelevant to both the title and the
conclusion. People such as this become columnists at top
‘news’ media.
Those are the relevant opinions selected by the owner of
the NYT for publication. They’re pro-MIC, but not
fanatically so.
The WP published on January 1st their editorial on the
subject,
“The Post’s View: The West should
support the protesters in Iran.”
It’s like Roger Cohen’s column in the NYT. It closes:
“Mr. Trump should avoid acts that would
undercut the protests and empower the
regime’s hard-liners. Foremost among
these would be a renunciation of the 2015
nuclear accord. That would divide the
United States from European governments
when they should be coordinating their
response to the uprising, and it would give
the regime an external threat against which
to rally. Reform of the nuclear accord can
wait. Now is the time for Mr. Trump to focus
on supporting the people of Iran.”
Both Roger Cohen and the WP favor “supporting the
people of Iran” while opposing and hoping for an
overthrow of the President who was chosen by those
people in the 2017 Iranian Presidential election, which was
at least as democratic as was America’s 2016 US
Presidential election. The Iranian polls right before the 19
May 2017 Presidential election showed the top three
candidates as being Rouhani 35%, Raisi 18%, and
Ghalibaf 2%. (20% “Won’t say.”) Ghalibaf and some of
the other and even smaller candidates withdrew just days
before the election. The final election result was Rouhani
57.14%, Raisi 38.28%. Raisi campaigned on a platform
emphasizing that “Preventing the mixing of men and
women in the office environment means that men and
women can serve the people better” and
advocating “Islamization of universities, revision of the
Internet and censorship of Western culture.” Probably
many of the recent protesters had voted for him. Perhaps if
Iran becomes ruled by a “regime” instead of by an at least
marginally democratic Government, then they’ll get a
President like Raisi, after the US coup — which would be
America’s second one in Iran. But, instead, Iranians chose
Rouhani — and the U.S Government and its media call it a
“regime” and say that the US Government wants to
“support the people of Iran” by overthrowing the
Government that Iranians voted for and support — support
more than Americans support ours. (But whereas
America’s CIA stirs protest-groups to overthrow Iran’s
leaders, Iran has no equivalent operating in America, to
overthrow our aristocracy’s choice of our leader.)
On January 3rd, the WP issued an opinion-piece by US
V.P. Mike Pence, whose views are much closer to Raisi’s
than to Rouhani’s. It was titled, “This Time, We Will Not
Be Silent On Iran.”
Another opinion-piece from the WP was the far-right
Israeli Natan Sharansky’s “The West Should Stop
Dithering And Show Its Support For The Protesters In
Iran”, which attacked the Times’s “How Can Trump
Help Iran’s Protesters? Be Quiet.” Sharansky said:
“As an opinion piece in the New York
Times recently put it, the best way for the
US government to help the Iranian
protesters is to ‘Keep quiet and do nothing.’
Fortunately, President Trump and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have
already shown themselves unwilling to
follow this advice.”
Yet another opinion-piece that the WP’s editors selected
for publication on this topic was “Europe’s best chance on
Iran could soon evaporate.” It criticized the Iran nuclear
deal, and urged the Trump Administration to work with the
EU “to sculpt a bipartisan policy that can save us from the
next crisis, which is quickly coming our way.” This string
of clichés ignored the fact that the only two actual
available options for the US are to commit to the deal or
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else to depart from the deal; because Iran won’t leave it
unless the US does, but it might leave it if the US does.
And then, everything would be worse than it was
previously. For the US to leave it while some of its allies
don’t, would turn those allies to opposing the US
Government and supporting Iran’s Government. And for
the US to ‘renegotiate’ it would be impossible. Any
European Government that would join with the US in
order to attempt to force Iran to renegotiate it, would
become embarrassed amongst its EU colleagues, and
amongst its public. And yet, still, Iran would promptly
resume its prior nuclear program, not renegotiate. To force
Iran isn’t going to be so easy as such commentators
presume it will. The article didn’t say how anything that it
proposed to be achieved, could be achieved. It was simply
trash.
Another WP opinion-piece was “The protesters in Iran
need real help from Washington” and it was written by a
top official of a think thank, WINEP, about which, as one
knowledgeable person has said, “WINEP was to be
AIPAC’s cutout. It was funded by AIPAC donors, staffed
by AIPAC employees, and located one door away, down
the hall, from AIPAC Headquarters (no more. It has its
own digs). It would also hire all kinds of people not
identified with Israel as a cover.” None of this information
was revealed by WP about the piece’s author. It can only
be called blatant Israeli propaganda, surreptitiously fed to
readers as if it weren’t.
The WP columnist David Ignatius bannered “Trump is
right to tell Iran the world is watching.” He closed by
saying, about the “surprise explosion” of these protests:
“Khamenei will want to crush it. The best gift the United
States can give the Iranian people is a digital lifeline, so
humanity can witness their brave struggle and encourage
them to prevail.” The US regime already gave the Iranian
people its ‘best gift’ in 1953 when it destroyed their
democracy and instituted a 26-year-long dictatorship —
and, Iranians can see through the US propaganda-media’s
hypocrisies, even if the US public have been too deceived
by those media, for too long, to be able to see through
those lies.
So, the WP has become even more neoconservative (i.e,
more in favor of invading countries that haven’t invaded
us) now than it was back in 2002 when it cheered on
George W. Bush’s lies about Iraq, after 9/11. How did this
change happen?
In 2013, Jeff Bezos and Donald Graham met at the
Bilderberg conference, and two months later, Bezos
agreed to buy the Washington Post from Graham. Less
than a year after that, Bezos’s Amazon won the CIA-NSA
cloud computing contract, vital to the US military. Bezos’s
most profitable operation has been that military contract —
it is allegedly responsible for changing Amazon from a
money-losing to a profit-making corporation. The money-
losing Washington Post already had been, under Graham
and before, a longstanding supporter of US armed
invasions, which now require lots of cloud computing (and
not only of the types of weaponry that Lockheed Martin,
Boeing, Raytheon, etc., supply). For example: the WP was
gung-ho for regime-change in Iraq in 2002, as well as,
more recently, for bombing Libya, Syria, and the bombing
in Ukraine’s civil war after the coup. The main topic at the
next year’s, 2014, meeting of the Bilderberg group was the
war in Ukraine, but other wars were also on the agenda,
such as Syria, and so were President Obama’s ’trade’
treaties: TPP, TTIP, and TISA. Luminaries present at that
year’s secret discussions were Timothy Geithner, Eric
Schmidt, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Charles
Murray, etc., and Europeans such as Christine Lagarde and
Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Perhaps some sales were made
there, too.
Meanwhile, the NYT became the most-frequently-cited
mis-reporter of such things as “Saddam’s WMD” during
the years after the 2003 invasion on the basis of lies; and
its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., was forced
quietly to fire his close friend and star White House
stenographer (oops, ‘reporter’ — and she was even a
Pulitzer-winning one!), Judith Miller, on account of the
fraud-based Iraq War that she had so prominently and
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exceptionally helped to promote in her ‘news’-stories.
Probably, Sulzberger’s successor, Arthur G. Sulzberger, is
happy that when on 14 December 2017 his father handed
the corporation’s controls over to him (effective on
January 1st), the NYT’s position as the nation’s #1 PR-
agent for US invasions has now been taken over by Jeff
Bezos’s WP. But, of course, Sulzberger’s profits don’t
depend nearly as much on America’s MIC as Bezos’s do.
The WP’s business plan is even more dependent upon war-
promotion than the rest of America’s major ‘news’media’s
are. However, if, say, a firm such as General Dynamics
were to buy out the Sulzbergers, then perhaps
the NYT would become #1 in the neoconservative league,
once again. But, even when a major ‘news’medium, such
as Mother Jones, isn’t owned (like the WP now is) by
someone who also largely owns (via Amazon) a major
military contractor, it still promotes invasions, and
has deep connections to America’s Deep State. You can
count on the fingers of a fingerless hand the number of
major American newsmedia — online, print, or broadcast
— that are not neoconservative. There are none — right,
left, or center. Today’s ‘respectable’ American purveyors
of alleged news have some ideological diversity, but all
exist within the framework of being neoliberal and
neoconservative.
 Brent Bozell: Media Spin
Trump As Crazy ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Figure
By NB Staff
January 8, 2018 2:02 PM EST
Brent Bozell appeared of Fox Business, Monday, to slam
journalists who are fawning over the new Michael Wolff
book. The Media Research Center President accused
reporters of totally ignoring the books’s blatant falsehoods,
saying,
“They hate Donald Trump so much that
they're even saying, ‘Well, if it is only 50
percent true that is good enough for us.’”
Host Neil Cavuto asked Bozell about similarities between
how the media covered Ronald Reagan and how they are
handling Donald Trump. The MRC President responded:
“Ronald Reagan was Dr. Strangelove with
his foreign policy. They're seeing Donald
Trump as Dr. Strangelove. That Ronald
Reagan was idiot. Donald Trump was an
idiot.”
A transcript of Bozell’s appearance can be found below:
Cavuto: Coast to Coast
1/8/18
12:11
NEIL CAVUTO: This has happened before. I want to bring Brent
Bozell into the mix. Because there is a little bit of history. There is
a little precedent to this. Brent, very good to see you. Happy New
Year. We remember with Ronald Reagan he was dismissed as
just in over his head actor who was suddenly thrust into the most
.
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important office in the land, neglecting to mention he was also a
two-term governor of California. We, I even went back in time.
The only one here who probably was there to report on it, was
you, Abraham Lincoln. Ill will expressed toward him he wasn't up
to the job. Now I'm not comparing either of these gentlemen to
the present occupant of Oval Office, with the one big difference
being they were dismissed out the gate. What do you think?
BRENT BOZELL: Yeah. You might not want to compare the two
but you can compare the media coverage of the two.
CAVUTO: Right.
BOZELL: It is pretty much the same thing. You know, Ronald
Reagan was Dr. Strangelove with his foreign policy. They're
seeing Donald Trump as Dr. Strangelove. That Ronald Reagan
was idiot. Donald Trump was an idiot. Interesting thing here —
Bill Buckley once called Ronald Reagan the smartest president
in history because Ronald Reagan knew how to go over the head
of the media and communicate directly with the public. Donald
Trump has done that. Nobody can argue that. Donald Trump has
done that as well. Third one is well then he has got to be senile.
Both have been attacked this way. So yeah, similarities really are
there. And President Trump was right to bring it up.
...
CAVUTO: Brent, the fact of the matter, is, the left is seizing on
this as maybe the latest ammunition it needs to get rid of him. I
don't know if it will get any better than some other attempts to
seize on every development, every Russian potential tie to say,
“This is is it. This is it. This is it.” And it’s never it. What do you
think?
BOZELL: Two points. I want to go back to the last discussion
which is true. Like I said, don't compare the two men. However,
listen and to the speech that Donald Trump gave in Warsaw last
year. It is as good as anything Ronald Reagan ever said.
CAVUTO: Very good point.
BOZELL: That said, if you look at the new rules today, they hate
Donald Trump so much that they're even saying “Well, if it is only
50 percent true that is good enough for us.”
 Authors Of Pro-Trump Children’s Book Blast Media
Matters: ‘Thanks For Selling Our Book For Us!’
‘Hysterical Liberal Crybabies Are God’s Gift To Conservative Marketing’
Adan Salazar | Infowars.Com
January 8, 2018

liberal crybabies are God’s gift to

Conservative marketing,” Team Thump
wrote on Friday.

On Thursday a Media Matters article claimed, “Alex Jones

is hawking pro-Trump children’s book that indoctrinates
them to white nationalism,” regarding an Infowars
interview with Thump co-author Brett R. Smith.

The authors behind the pro-Trump

children’s book, Thump, rebuked Media
Matters after the leftist media outlet
alleged the book promoted White
Supremacy.

In an “open thank you letter,” the Thump team showed

gratitude to Media Matters for helping book sales.

“Thank you very much for celebratig the

new year by writing about Thump: The First
Bundred Days! Like President Donald Thump illustrator, Timothy Lim, who is of Chinese and
Trump, Team Thump knows that hysterical Filipino descent, responded to Media Matters with a photo
of himself asking if he “looked” like a White Nationalist.

Read Team Thump’s open thank you letter below:

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 Excited Katy Tur To Wolff:
‘Congratulations On The President Hating' The Book!
By Scott Whitlock
January 8, 2018 4:13 PM EST
MSNBC’s Katy Tur on Monday cheered left-wing author
Michael Wolff and his new book. In a chummy, one-
liberal-to-another sort of way, Tur gushed,
“Michael Wolff, it is a fascinating book.
Fire and Fury.... Congratulations on the
book, and congratulations on the
President hating it.”
In a lighting round of questions, the MSNBC host asked if
Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic
bigot. Tur got affirmative answers for all but one of the
questions. (The answer on hating Jews amounted to what
could be called close enough:
KATY TUR: Do you think he's sexist?
WOLFF: I mean, I — that's — yes.
TUR: Do you think he's racist?
WOLFF: Yes. Um, Yes.
TUR: Xenophobic?
WOLFF: I do. Xenophobic — what does
that mean? He’s — yeah.
TUR: Afraid of the other.
WOLFF: Yeah.
TUR: Anti-Semitic?
WOLFF: You know, I had this specific
discussion with Steve Bannon, who thought
not. — yes, maybe he's a racist. Maybe
he’s a —
TUR: A lot of people accuse Bannon --
WOLFF: — maybe he’s a racist. He didn't
think he was an anti-Semite, but, you know,
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I don't know. I think that he — he thinks
about — I think he's aware of who is
Jewish in a way that might give — that
feels creepy.
Now, keep those answers in mind as you remember that
Wolff is telling other outlets that he has “no political
agenda.” In another interview, the author patted himself on
the back for a book that “will finally end... this
presidency.” Make up your mind, Mr. Wolff.
A partial transcript is below:
MSNBC Live with Katy Tur
01/08/18
2:31
KATY TUR: Tom Barrack is saying that he's misquoted. Katie
Walsh is saying she's misquoted. Are they all lying?
MICHAEL WOLFF: They are all lying. I mean, they're in a
situation where — in a situation now where Donald Trump has
come to think that this book is a mortal threat. I don't know if it is
or it isn’t. But he certainly feels that way, and he's making
demands on everybody. I know, I hear through the grapevine,
you know, that Katie Walsh's job is at issue now, and — which I
— I regret and even then, she's not really saying that I misquoted
her. She's saying that she was quoting something like she was
quoting Steve Bannon who said he's a child. Everybody says
he's a child, in fact. So we're having — people are scrambling
and they are panicked, which I absolutely understand. Nobody
saw this book coming, nobody saw that it would be as big as it
seems to be and everybody is a deer caught in the headlights.

KATY TUR: You have tapes. Are you going to release the
tapes?
WOLFF: No, I'm going to do — you know, I have what every
journalist has. I work like every journalist. I have tapes. I have
notes.
TUR: But if people are questioning it, why not produce the
evidence? And here’s what it is —
WOLF: Because — because that's not what — what — journ —
I'm not in your business. My evidence is the book. Read the
book. If it makes sense to you, if it strikes a cord, if it rings true, it
is true.
TUR: Here's the thing about the book and I read it, I —, a lot of
the stuff did read as — felt — did feel true, there were a lot of
factual errors as well. We're living in a time with this President
where everybody's very —
WOLFF: But, let’s go. Factual errors, I — you know, you get
pinned on this, because everybody’s looking to —
TUR: But here's the thing about factual errors and I wrote a book
about Donald Trump --
WOLFF: Mark Berman mixed up with Mark Berman.
TUR: CNN was not the one that released the dossier.
WOLFF: That is absolutely, completely untrue.
TUR: Buzzfeed released it.
WOLFF: No, no!
TUR: CNN reported on it, but did no release it.
WOLFF: CNN — CNN — was first on that story.
TUR: They reported on it. They didn’t release it.
WOLFF: Okay, we’re talking about —
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TUR: Okay, that’s my point.
WOLFF: But that’s my point. That’s the level we’re talking at
here.
TUR: I understand that, but as somebody who wrote a book
before Donald Trump I was really cautious that every single fact
in there was correct, I didn't want anybody to say, “Your book
isn't true because look at this tiny little thing.” Did you have a fact
checker go through it?
WOLFF: Yes, I absolutely. I actually had three fact checkers.
TUR: Why open yourself up, is my question?
WOLFF: As I say, the so-called errors that you're talking about
are the kind of minuscule errors you're going to find in any book,
even yours. I'm up to a particular kind of scrutiny because I’m
threatening the president of the United States. And, you know,
bring it on is what I say.
TUR: I understand that, and I appreciate that, and this book is
very compelling, and there's a lot of it that reads true, that feels
true. But we are living in a time right now, where everyone is so
anxious about this president, about what he's going to do next.
Why not make it abundantly clear where you heard stories,
where your attribution is in order to people to feel some comfort?
WOLFF: Because, first thing, if you read the book, I think it is
abundantly clear. And you just have to --
TUR: Well, there are —
WOLFF: You just have to read the book, when an author writes a
book, that's a very —
TUR: It's a huge thing.
WOLFF: It's a significant thing. Here’s the evidence. It's the book,
read the book.
TUR: I agree, and you should read the book. 100 percent.
WOLFF: This idea that, so -- let's go, and address the idea of
tapes. I have everything that I do has been — has been — has
been specifically closely sourced. That's what we do, we take
notes. Would you show — you're a reporter, would you open
your notes to the world? That’s — It's called work product. And
that turns into a book. If I were in the television business — and
that's what we do, cameras, audio. That's one thing, I'm a writer.
I'm literally a writer. This is an incredibly — this is a written story.
I've told a story. And it just read it. If you think it's — if you don't
think it's true, which 35 percent of the country is not going to think
it's true. Donald Trump 35 percent, they're not going to buy this.
(....)
2:38:26 p.m. TUR: Afraid of the other.
1 minute and 24 seconds
WOLFF: Yeah.
TUR: What is this relationship with women?
TUR: Anti-Semitic?
WOLFF: It’s — Donald Trump's relationship with women?
WOLFF: You know, I had this specific discussion with Steve
TUR: How does he feel about women? Bannon, who thought not. — yes, maybe he's a racist. Maybe
he’s a —
WOLFF: You know, I mean, I think we — I mean, I from the
evidence, we can probably deduce how he feels about women — TUR: A lot of people accuse Bannon --
he feels probably — treats them and thinks of them as
transactional a way as he thinks about everything. WOLFF: — maybe he’s a racist. He didn't think he was an anti-
Semite, but, you know, I don't know. I think that he — he thinks
TUR: Do you think — ‘cause I want to get through a couple other about — I think he's aware of who is Jewish in a way that might
ones — I want to get through a couple other ones, do you think give — that feels creepy.
he's sexist?
(....)
WOLFF: I mean, I — that's — yes.
2:40:55 p.m.
TUR: Do you think he's racist? 14 seconds

WOLFF: Yes. Um, Yes. TUR: Michael Wolff, it is a fascinating book. Fire and Fury. As
you can see. I did read it. Congratulations on the book, and
TUR: Xenophobic? congratulations on the president hating it.

WOLFF: I do. Xenophobic — what does that mean? He’s — WOLFF: Thank you.
yeah.
TUR: Appreciate your time, sir.

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 Chris Christie Says He 'Absolutely'
Would Be President if Trump Hadn't Run
By Tyler O'Neil
January 8, 2018
(L.E.MORMILE / Shutterstock.com)
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will step down later
this month and be replaced by Democrat Phil Murphy. He
leaves office with extremely low popularity, and with yet
another scandal brewing. Even so, the governor said he
would "absolutely" be president if Donald Trump had not
run for the office in 2016.
"I absolutely believe if Trump had not gotten into the race
I think we would have won," Christie said.
This may seem particularly rich coming from Christie, a
candidate who took a mere 5 percent of the votes in Iowa
and 7 percent of the votes in New Hampshire. Christie had
zero delegates at the Republican National Convention, and
received even fewer votes than Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) —
even though Paul withdrew from the race before Christie
did!
Even so, the New Jersey governor suggested he would
have won had Trump not entered the race.
Christie described the presidential race as "incredibly
exciting" and "at times very discouraging" in an interview
with NJ.com.
"(The) stakes are exciting. The issues you're talking about
are exciting," the governor said. "And ultimately
frustrating at times because the reaction I would get from
people and Mary Pat got this from going door to door, you
know, they'd say, 'Oh gosh, you're Governor Christie's
wife? We love him. He's so smart. He's so direct, he's so
blunt. We love him. We're voting for Trump. But we love
your husband. He's amazing.'"
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Christie suggested this support shift was the norm.
"It's incredibly frustrating to think to yourself, 'Wow, if
this guy were not in the race, we'd win this thing,'" Christie
said, referencing internal polling from the campaign. "And
I absolutely believe if Trump had not gotten into the race I
think we would have won."
Polling did not necessarily confirm Christie's impression,
however. New Hampshire voters identified neurosurgeon
Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Donald
Trump as their second choices.
It is impossible to say exactly how the race would have
played out without Trump in it, but it is far more likely that
second-place finisher Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), or third-
place winner Ohio Governor John Kasich, or even the
fourth-place finisher Rubio would have taken the prize
than it is that Christie would have.
Furthermore, Christie's governorship has been plagued
with scandal. In addition to the notorious "Bridgegate," his
administration has faced no fewer than 15 scandals — and
that was in 2014! He even vetoed a bill to outlaw underage
marriages...
The Intercept reported Monday that Christie's Department
of Corrections has banned a controversial book, The New
Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness, in the state's prisons — particularly a
population the book was intended to reach, according to
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The book is controversial for a reason, but by reportedly
choosing to ban the book in prisons, Christie's
administration has only drawn attention to the book, which
is likely to sell more widely due to this alleged act of
censorship.
“Michelle Alexander’s book chronicles how people of
color are not just locked in, but locked out of civic life, and
New Jersey has exiled them even further by banning this
text specifically for them,” Amol Sinha, ACLU of New
Jersey’s executive director, said in a statement. The ACLU
of New Jersey said it received multiple complaints from
inmates and family members about the book being banned. If Christie wanted to prove he should be president, he isn't
An Open Public Records Act request discovered the book exactly going about it very well.
had been banned "as a matter of policy."

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 Wikileaks: John Podesta Was Briefed On "Gross
Negligence" Before FBI Removed Phrase
From Clinton Exoneration
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 18:55
Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, John Podesta, received an
email from an advisor which brought up the phrase "gross
negligence" in regards to the FBI's email investigation
before the FBI agent in charge of the probe removed the
phrase from her exoneration statement, according to
WikiLeaks.
Podesta Emails #45924 (WikiLeaks)
In a March 2016 email from former Bill Clinton Chief of
Staff Tina Flournoy to Clinton campaign
chairman Podesta's Gmail account, Flournoy included
links to two articles concerning the FBI email
investigation; one from the Washington Post which
minimized Clinton's actions, and a legal analysis
from retired D.C. attorney Paul Mirengoff in which he
suggests Clinton was "grossly negligent or worse" and
may be in serious hot water. (h/t Mike)
Screen capture, powerlineblog.com
From Mirengoff in Powerline Blog:
First, let’s again examine the statutory
language:
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"Whoever, being entrusted with or having
lawful possession or control of any
document. . .relating to the national
defense, (1) through gross negligence
permits the same to be removed from its
proper place of custody or delivered to
anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost,
stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2)
having knowledge that the same has been
illegally removed from its proper place of
custody or delivered to anyone in violation
of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or
destroyed, and fails to make prompt report
of such loss, theft, abstraction, or
destruction to his superior officer, Shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than ten years, or both."
The only other question I perceive that stands in the way of
Clinton having violated Section 793(f) is whether it was
through gross negligence that she permitted the
information relating to the national defense to to be
removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to
someone who shouldn’t have gotten it.
It was not ordinary negligence that caused Clinton to
permit highly sensitive information to be removed from its
proper place and onto Clinton’s private email servers.
This strikes me as gross negligence at a
minimum.
Clinton herself had warned others about the prospect of
private email accounts being hacked.
Nor was it ordinary negligence to deliver highly sensitive
information to someone lacking a security clearance (in
this case, an inveterate gossip).
Such imprudence, again, seems grossly
negligent or worse. -Powerline Blog
While Mirengoff's assessment was that Hillary Clinton
engaged in grossly negligent behavior, Tina Flournoy did
not agree - citing the Washington Post article minimizing
Clinton's actions:
"The argument here would be that
Clinton engaged in such “gross
negligence” by transferring information
she knew or should have known was
classified from its “proper place” onto her
private server, or by sharing it with
someone not authorized to receive it. Yet,
as the Supreme Court has said, “gross
negligence” is a “nebulous” term.
Especially in the criminal context, it would
seem to require conduct more like
throwing classified materials into a
Dumpster than putting them on a private
server that presumably had security
protections." -Tina Flournoy to John
Podesta (WikiLeaks)
Perhaps Podesta decided to run this past
Hillary Clinton's friends at the
FBI, as counterintelligence agent Peter
Strzok - who headed up the Clinton
email investigation - then removed the
phrase "gross negligence"
from Clinton's exoneration statement.
To summarize, former Bill Clinton Chief of
Staff Tina Flournoy sent John Podesta an
email to his Gmail account on March 9,
2016 - with a Washington Post article
containing a link to an opinion by a retired
D.C. attorney who thinks Clinton committed
Gross Negligence. Former FBI Director
James Comey's original draft from May
2, contained the phrase, and at some
point over the next eight weeks, Peter
Strzok - the man who headed up the
investigation, removed it - materially
changing the legal significance of
Clinton's actions, effectively
"decriminalizing" her behavior when Comey
gave his speech on July 5, 2016.

One wonders if the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

has reviewed this tidbit of information as part of their
upcoming report about to be submitted to the Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and Congressional investigators -
which in all likelihood, assuming their findings are in
alignment with recent bombshells, will be the basis for the
appointment for a second special counsel and much, much
more.
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 Wolff Admits Trump Book Was Rushed,
Blames Any ‘Inaccuracies’ On Sources
By Chris Reeves
January 8, 2018 4:25 PM EST
On Monday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and
Mika Brzezinski were both back in-studio to talk to
Michael Wolff about his new anti-Trump book Fire and
Fury. In a wide-ranging 25-minute interview, Wolff went
after his critics at the New York Times and Washington
Post,
repeatedly called the President’s mental
health into question, and even insisted that
“100%” of Trump’s “closest” advisors in
the White House think that there is
“something fundamentally wrong,
something that scares them” about the
President.
Instead of actively challenging Wolff to provide answers
about problems with his reporting (both past and present),
Scarborough and Brzezinski acted as Wolff’s biggest
apologists, constantly defending his book and making
arguments on its behalf.
In one of the more interesting bits from Wolff’s
appearance on the MSNBC morning show, he did make
some frank admissions to Joe and Mika about how his
book may have “inaccuracies.” However, rather than admit
to them openly,
Wolff was more concerned with making
excuses for why there might be errors or
untruths and showed no interest in
tempering his ultimate conclusion that
Trump is not “mentally fit” to be
president.
Brzezinski opened this small segment by asking Wolff:
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“So, we were talking before the break
about, um, some inaccuracies in the
book, like -- but not comple-, like -- were
you, first of all, in a rush to get this to
print for a lot of reasons?”
Wolff replied in the affirmative:
“Well, yeah. I mean, this book was
reported and written in less than a year.
So, you know, this is -- remember, this history is moving
pretty fast.”
Brzezinski then went on to detail one incident from the
book that she believed Wolff had described incorrectly, but
before Wolff could directly respond to Mika’s point,
Scarborough jumped in to defend Wolff’s honor and
integrity:
BRZEZINSKI: So your, um, your, uh, kind
of, critics here will, will have some
material to work with. There's
misspellings.
I know, for example—I'll just speak to the part where we
are characterized in it—and, um, there was a scene where
Ivanka wanted to talk to Donald about women. And he
kept saying: What? What? What?
And then you say in the book that
Ivanka shouted at him. It was actually
me.
I said: Donald, women! And I had to make an hourglass to
show him women. That was the only way he could
understand the word “woman.” And -- so, th-,
there's inaccuracies like that, that I, I
guess: Do you worry that your critics-?
WOLFF: [interrupting] Whi-, which point? I'm not, not
even sure. Which, which, which point was that?
BRZEZINSKI: That was in the, at the lunch at the White
House.
WOLFF: At, at, at the lunch.
SCARBOROUGH: But, but, you know, the,
the, but, but, the bigger point is, those-.
BRZEZINSKI: Your critics run with that.
SCARBOROUGH: The, to the critics, yeah.
They run with these little specific things,
but getting, getting a part of a story
wrong here or getting something else
[unintelligible].
Before Scarborough could finish his thought, Wolff
jumped in and started to distance himself from his book’s
claims by pushing more responsibility towards his sources:
WOLFF: [interrupting] And some-, and
sometimes, you know, you know, you're
dependent on your sources there,-
BRZEZINSKI: Right.
WOLFF: -and sometimes your sources,-
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: -now, I don't wanna say who my source was in
that particular-
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: -thing, except that [trails off].
SCARBOROUGH: But sometimes the
sources get it, yeah,-
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: -a little off.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, it's, uh, yeah, um.
BRZEZINSKI: But the spirit of it is
completely true.
WOLFF: [interrupting] You know, you
know, there’s a lot -- so, so a lot of this
stuff, I was not -- and I don't represent
myself as, as being there.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
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WOLFF: You know, you have to -- you're,
you’re, you’re dependent on, on the
people who were there, on their
memories. You have to sort their
agenda. Um, it's a, it’s a fairly
complicated undertaking, which, you
know, I mean, that’s the job, and-.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, and, and again, just
again, to explain this sort of book and then let's, let’s move
forward. But, Bob Woodward's been doing it for years
where you talk to, you know, 200 people that work in a
White House or around a White House, and everybody’s
trying to spin Woodward and everybody’s trying to spin
the version of events.
And you do get though a bigger picture
of what's going on there.
“This is the Trump I know,”
Brzezinski emphatically added, once again repeating
Morning Joe’s message that Wolff’s book simply “rings
true” and thus should be believed in spite of committing
basic factual errors.
And Scarborough did want to know what the larger truth
of Wolff’s book was, asking him:
“And what is the big picture that comes
out of Fire and Fury? What's, what’s the
big idea?”
Wolff replied:
I mean, I think, I think the big idea is that,
that these people -- you know, all White
Houses are, are fraught places, um, but,
but they're, they’re a, they’re a, they’re a
whole. People who work for presidents,
support a president, um, they're on his
side. They're on his team. Um, they may
not like the other people in the White
House, but it's a, it’s a relatively coherent
view at the end of the day.
(...)
Everybody in this White House, and I
keep saying this, 100%, because it is
100%, of the people closest to the
president, to, to the, to Donald Trump,
believe that there is something wrong
here, something, something
fundamentally wrong, something that
scares them. As a matter of fact, they
went from -- if, if there was, if there was
any reason they stay in the White House
 now, it's because they are scared. They
believe they have a responsibility to the
American people.
No wonder people are having trouble
believing Wolff’s claim today from CBS
This Morning that he has “no political
agenda.”
To learn more about the interview, consult the following
transcripts of selected segments from it:
7:36 AM EST
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well so, we've been s-, we’ve been
saying on the show daily, and it's not just about Donald Trump.
As I said earlier, the, the morning, um, we'd always have the
most senior Democratic senators say of Barack Obama in 2009,
2010—he doesn't know what he's doing. But of course, they’d
never say that on the record. Well, he -- for the past year, we've
had people around Donald Trump, even during the campaign,
saying he's not mentally fit to be president. Now that, I mean --
and there is such a reluctance, and I'm not, certainly not
knocking The Washington Post. They're actually being
conservative, with a small “c.” I've written twice in my column a, a
quote about one of people [sic] closest to Donald Trump during
the campaign saying he's got early stage of dementia. He
repeats the same stories over and over again. His father had it.
And it's getting worse. And not a single person who works for him
doesn't know he has early signs of dementia. Now, of course,
they didn't think he was gonna win. But twice, The Washington
Post hasn’t -- would not let me put that in my column, which
again, I salute them for having a high bar. But we are at this
moment, and it's-.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Aren't we?
SCARBOROUGH: And, and until your book came out, this was
something we were not allowed to speak about.
MICHAEL WOLFF: Now, it is, it’s, the, o-, okay. So the we, it's
understanding the we. We're still in the s-, in the same structure.
Remember, we began this whole, uh, this -- when, when Trump
was elected president, what the media say: We don't wanna
normalize this guy. Well, in fact, they did normalize him, and they
normalized these, this, um, you know, this, uh, this, these hand
grenade stories every day so you forgot what happened the next
day. And they also normalized the entire structure of, of, of, of
how you report on the president, which is that you can't say, you
can’t say what you know or all that you know, because you have
to go back the next day. So I'm the only one—not the only one—I
am in the position of being the guy who didn't have to say, didn’t
say anything.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: Kept my mouth shut for, for, um, the better part of a
year,-
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MIKE BARNICLE: And listen-.
WOLFF: -and, and listen, I was just the black hole, just listening
to everything.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: And then I could say it ‘cause I'm not going back.
SCARBOROUGH: B-, b-, by the way, i-, i-, which, which is
important to say. If you're Maggie Haberman at the Times, who
has a,-
BRZEZINSKI: [softly] Not too bad.
SCARBOROUGH: -who,-
WOLFF: Who does a great job,-
SCARBOROUGH: -who does a great job,-
WOLFF: -an absolutely great job, but she has to go back.
SCARBOROUGH: -but her life, like, what makes her a great
reporter is—she’s got to balance two competing interests. She's
gotta tell the truth about the Trump White House, but she's gotta
go back the next day. Bob Costa—the same thing at The
Washington Post. He’s gotta tell the truth about the White House,
but he’s gotta go back the next day.
WOLFF: No, and that’s, this -- you know, I'm getting some
incoming from the daily journalists who, who, who cover this,-
BRZEZINSKI: [agreeing] M-hm.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: -because they see this in a daily journalism context
instead of seeing this as a, as, as a book. A book is an entirely
different thing. I am telling a story. I am pulling this together. I’m
trying to,-
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
WOLFF: -I’m trying to put,-
BRZEZINSKI: [unintelligible] a little more.
WOLFF: -put the reader right where I was on the couch in the
West Wing.
SCARBOROUGH: [interrupting] I, I, I do wanna say though, one
thing and then go to break, Mika.
BRZEZINSKI: M-hm.
SCARBOROUGH: The, the, the, the, the crit-, the, the criticism of SCARBOROUGH: But, but, you know, the, the, but, but, the
Michael's book, though, is that he doesn't get everything exactly bigger point is, those-.
right. That's what happens when you’re interview [sic] a thousand
different people and everybody comes from their own version. BRZEZINSKI: Your critics run with that.
There are things that people said to you about us and our
show—not accurate! But, I certainly know when I read it, read it, I
SCARBOROUGH: The, to the critics, yeah. They run with these
know which person you were talking to in the White House. So, it
little specific things, but getting, getting a part of a story wrong
is, it’s a completely -- it’s, it’s not a front page story for The New
here or getting something else [unintelligible].
York Times-
[Mika and Wolff jump in at same time]
BRZEZINSKI: We’ll talk-.
BRZEZINSKI: But saying it’s important.
SCARBOROUGH: -or The Washington Post. It's a, a, a much
bigger picture.
WOLFF: [interrupting] And some-, and sometimes, you know,
you know, you're dependent on your sources there,-
BRZEZINSKI: We'll talk about whether that will arm his critics,
uh, in Michael Wolff's, uh, to Mich-, Michael Wolff’s book when
we come back. BRZEZINSKI: Right.

(...) WOLFF: -and sometimes your sources,-

7:44 AM SCARBOROUGH: Right.

BRZEZINSKI: No, I have a question. Now you stand by. You just, WOLFF: -now, I don't wanna say who my source was in that
you just back off, okay? So, we were talking before the break particular-
about, [laughing] um, some inaccuracies in the book, like -- but
not comple-, like -- were you, first of all, in a rush to get this to BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
print for a lot of reasons?
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: Well, yeah. I mean, this book was reported and written
in less than a year. WOLFF: -thing, except that [trails off].

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, okay. So-. SCARBOROUGH: But sometimes the sources get it, yeah,-

WOLFF: So, you know, this is -- remember, this history is moving BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
pretty fast.
SCARBOROUGH: -a little off.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
BRZEZINSKI: So your, um, your, uh, kind of, critics here will, will
have some material to work with. There's misspellings. I know, SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, it's, uh, yeah, um.
for example—I'll just speak to the part where we are
characterized in it—and, um, there was a scene where Ivanka
BRZEZINSKI: But the spirit of it is completely true.
wanted to talk to Donald about women. And he kept saying:
What? What? What? And then you say in the book that Ivanka
shouted at him. It was actually me. I said: Donald, women! And I WOLFF: [interrupting] You know, you know, there’s a lot -- so, so
had to make an hourglass to show him women. That was the a lot of this stuff, I was not -- and I don't represent myself as, as
only way he could understand the word “woman.” And -- so, th-, being there.
there's inaccuracies like that, that I, I guess: Do you worry that
your critics-? SCARBOROUGH: Right.

WOLFF: [interrupting] Whi-, which point? I'm not, not even sure. WOLFF: You know, you have to -- you're, you’re, you’re
Which, which, which point was that? dependent on, on the people who were there, on their memories.
You have to sort their agenda. Um, it's a, it’s a fairly complicated
BRZEZINSKI: That was in the, at the lunch at the White House. undertaking, which, you know, I mean, that’s the job, and-.

WOLFF: At, at, at the lunch. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.

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SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, and, and again, just again, to
explain this sort of book and then let's, let’s move forward. But,
Bob Woodward's been doing it for years where you talk to, you
know, 200 people that work in a White House or around a White
House, and everybody’s trying to spin Woodward and
everybody’s trying to spin the version of events. And you do get
though a bigger picture of what's going on there.
BRZEZINSKI: This is the Trump I know.
SCARBOROUGH: And what is the big picture that comes out of
Fire and Fury? What's, what’s the big idea?
WOLFF: I mean, I think, I think the big idea is that, that these
people -- you know, all White Houses are, are fraught places,
um, but, but they're, they’re a, they’re a, they’re a whole. People
who work for presidents, support a president, um, they're on his
side. They're on his team. Um, they may not like the other people
in the White House, but it's a, it’s a relatively coherent view at the
end of the day.
SCARBOROUGH: For the most part, people that worked for
Barack Obama loved Barack Obama.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, there is that.
SCARBOROUGH: People that worked for George W. Bush, you
can still talk to them today-
BRZEZINSKI: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: -and at times, they will start tearing up talking
about what a good man he was. 41—the same thing.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my gosh.
SCARBOROUGH: Bill Clinton—the same thing.
WOLFF: Totally.
BRZEZINSKI: Carter.
SCARBOROUGH: Completely opposite here -- to Carter of
course.
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WOLFF: Completely, completely opposite. Everybody in this
White House, and I keep saying this, 100%, because it is 100%,
of the people closest to the president, to, to the, to Donald
Trump, believe that there is something wrong here, something,
something fundamentally wrong, something that scares them. As
a matter of fact, they went from -- if, if there was, if there was any
reason they stay in the White House now, it's because they are
scared. They believe they have a responsibility to the American
people.
(...)
7:50 AM
MIKE BARNICLE: So, you use the word, uh, a few moments ago,
few minutes ago, “unnerving” in terms of the composition of the
White House and what's going on. And, if you read the book, the
narrative within the book, there are many things that, I think we
can agree, a lot of people have heard anecdotally prior to the
publication. Uh, there's a lot of stuff in there that’s brand new and
highly troubling to read. The White House staff itself, the support
staff, important people in terms of who they support, the
President of the United States. I came away with the impression
that a number of them, maybe all of them, behave, in an odd
way, like hostages, like inmates, like people, you know, trying to
be released, trying to get away, but they can't get away.
WOLFF: You know, one of the, the, the eerie things -- so, I'm
sitting on that, on that couch, and, you know, there's sort of, you
know, them -- the appointments come up, and somebody's
assistant will come out and, and, and get you to bring you back,
and you're, you know, you’re -- I mean, I know all of these
assistants at this point, and the-, and you would say: How’s it
going? And they would never, ever respond. It was kind of like—
oh, okay.
BRZEZINSKI: Ugh! That’s awful.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell ya, I’ll tell ya, it's, it’s that-
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my god!
SCARBOROUGH: -Mika and I both, when we were reading the
book for the first time, and we saw that it was poor Hope Hicks’s
job to go in and summarize what we said for three hours. And we
both just sat there, s-, and it was just, we’re like: Oh my god.
Poor, poor woman. The worst job in the world.
BRZEZINSKI: I would just quit though.
WOLFF: And she was always in this kind of frenzy of, you know,
what do I say? How do I do this?
SCARBOROUGH: [softly] Yeah.
WOLFF: Who do I talk to? How -- you know, I mean, that's,-
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: Why not?

WOLFF: -‘cause, you know, remember, her job is to stand be-, y- [long pause]
, you know -- I mean, this, this book -- Donald Trump, as we've
seen, is not happy with this book. But he doesn't know the, the, WOLFF: You can’t-.
the -- most of what's in it, he doesn't know, because it hasn't
been on television yet. And-.
BARNICLE: Read the book.

SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: Yeah, I mean, it's, the, it’s essentially what the s-, the
story of the book is. But, but in, in, in brief, because -- you wanna
BRZEZINSKI: He doesn't read. know? Because he's only interested in -- not only is he only
interested in just himself, he's just interested in his immediate
WOLFF: And he doesn't read- gratification in this moment. There is nothing beyond that.

SCARBOROUGH: The post [unintelligible]. SCARBOROUGH: So, temperamentally aside, is he mentally fit
to be President of the United States-
WOLFF: -and nobody has told him because nobody wants to tell
him. WOLFF: You know, I-.

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, the post-literate, uh, president. SCARBOROUGH: -based on everything that you've heard from
people who work with him day in and day out?
(...)
BRZEZINSKI: [starts talking over Joe] So, you feel like -- you
7:55 AM know when you’re talking to someone, and you’re like: I’m
concerned about this person. I think this person is mentally ill. Do
you have concerns?
SCARBOROUGH: Last question: Is Donald Trump fit to be
president-
WOLFF: I -- every time you speak to him, you think: This is a
wingnut. I mean, this is -- there is something really a-, a-,
WOLFF: No.
alarming in ways that you cannot even begin to describe. It's like
you’re riveted to the seat.
SCARBOROUGH: -from everything you've seen?
(...)
WOLFF: No.
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 Liberals 'Red Pilled' By President Trump Blaming Their
Own Descent Into Madness Upon Him As Massive 'Soft
Coup' Effort Picks Up With Talk Of Using 25th
Amendment To Remove Him From Office
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 8, 2018

One look at the current top political 'leaders' on the left

finds among them completely brain-dead Nancy Pelosi,
'mad max' Maxine Waters, cowboy-hat wearing
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, absolute mess Sheila
Jackson Lee and even the Florida Congresswoman and
former DNC head Deborah Wasserman Schultz who back
in 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump called 'crazy and
neurotic'. And one can never forget, Hillary Clinton herself
is still in the news.

Is Hillary Clinton herself 'the root of all crazy' we're seeing

from the left?

With the never-Trumper's 'Russia narrative' now having

completely fallen apart in their desperate, never-ending
attempts to get President Donald Trump out of office, we
shouldn't be the least bit surprised that they're now trying a
different set of tactics as we read in this new story from
Gateway Pundit. Reporting that Democrats in Congress are
now joining psychiatrists and the mainstream media in a
last-ditch 'coup' attempt to get President Trump removed
from office via the 25th Amendment of the US
Constitution, we take a look within this story at all of the
signs that have emerged since November 8th of 2016 that
prove it's actually liberals who have 'gone off the deep end'
as President Trump 'red pills' America.
And while as we see in this Gateway Pundit story,
While the US Congress might think that they hold some psychiatrists are calling President Trump's supporters 'a
kind of sacred, moral high ground to go after and take cult like following', the total breakdown we've been
down the President and overthrow the will of the American witnessing on the left that began last November and has
people, as this December 4th through 11th Gallup poll continued to this day proves to us who is really a 'cult' and
indicates, Congress only holds a 17% approval rating with who are really losing their minds. Much more below but
Americans as 78% disapprove of the work that they've first, from the Gateway Pundit story:
been doing.
Democrat members of Congress are plotting with
Meanwhile, as this recent poll over at Rasmussen Reports a group of psychiatrists led by Dr. Bandy X. Lee to
finds, 44% of Americans now support the job that conduct a medical coup to remove President
President Trump is doing with a 54% disapproval rating, Donald Trump from office, according to interviews
showing that nearly 3 times as many Americans approve of given this week by Lee.
the job that Trump is doing compared to the US Congress
which is attempting to run him out of office. Lee, who claims Trump’s presidency could be “the
end of humankind”, has already decided Trump
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 should be removed from office. A ‘go team’ of
medical professionals is being assembled to
swoop in and forcibly remove Trump to evaluate
his fitness for office, according to Lee.
Lee, a Yale University psychiatry professor, has
been waging a Maoist style campaign for the past
year to get Trump removed from office for alleged
psychiatric reasons. As part of her campaign, Lee
released a collection of essays in book form last
October titled, “THE DANGEROUS CASE OF
DONALD TRUMP; 27 Psychiatrists and Mental
Health Experts Assess a President”
An excerpt of the description of the book by
publisher, St. Martin’s Press:
…In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD
TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists,
psychologists, and other mental health experts
argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and
civic “duty to warn” America supersedes
professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s
symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to
find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.
…His madness is catching, too. From the trauma
people have experienced under the Trump
administration to the cult-like characteristics of
his followers, he has created unprecedented
mental health consequences across our nation
and beyond.
It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.”
As we reported on ANP all the way back in January of
2017, soon after President Trump took office,
'Trump derangement syndrome' began
striking liberals all across America.
Characterized by the often hysterical
reaction and belligerent behavior of people,
directed towards anything related to
President Donald Trump, as pertaining to
his presidency,
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we've seen such irrational and unhinged behavior ever
since coming from the left. And any talk of the 25th
Amendment should be treated exactly like it is, as a very
real 'soft coup' attempt to take down America's sitting
president.
With the mainstream media here in America largely
responsible for the mental breakdown which we've been
witnessing after spending decades pushing pro-globalist,
pro-Clinton propaganda and lies, lies which most on the
left have believed because they're coming to us from the
MSM, and still believe to this day, what we've been
witnessing from liberals across America is a normal
reaction from those who've long been indoctrinated.
For millions of Americans, 'taking the red pill' voluntarily
began what some have described as a most difficult
journey as much of what we were taught to believe while
growing up turned out to be complete and utter falsehood.
Yet to see millions of Americans being forced to take the
red pill, many who obviously still aren't ready for it, helps
to explain the left's still unfolding madness.
What we've witnessed from President Trump during his
first year in office has been a 'red pilling' of the entire
nation and as we've seen in story after story, millions of
Americans are completely unwilling to give up their old
worldviews, globalism first, to embrace this new reality
that we've been delivered into with 'America-1st' the new
agenda.
Why are so many Democrats and the mainstream media so
completely obsessed with President Trump? As the
National Review reported back on December 18th of 2017,
the case of Washington Post reporter Jennifer Rubin is a
perfect example of what happens when a journalist or
politician becomes completely obsessed with President
Trump. People actually change their own opinions and
beliefs if they somehow aligned with those held by
President Trump. Crazy? From the National Review story.:
Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post’s ostensibly
conservative blogger. Rubin is not the only
example of this president’s remarkable talent for
corrupting his detractors as well as his devotees,
but she is perhaps the best one. Since Donald
Trump burst onto the political scene, Rubin has
become precisely what she dislikes in others: a
monomaniac and a bore, whose visceral dislike of
her opponents has prompted her to drop the keys
to her conscience into a well. Since the summer of
2015, the many acolytes of “MAGA!” have agreed
to subordinate their true views to whatever
expediency is required to sustain Donald Trump’s
ego. Out has gone their judgement, and in has
come their fealty; where once there were thriving
minds, now there are just frayed red hats. During
the same period, Jennifer Rubin has done much
the same thing. If Trump likes something, Rubin
doesn’t. If he does something, she opposes it. If
his agenda flits into alignment with hers—as
anyone’s is wont to do from time to time—she
either ignores it, or finds a way to downplay it. The
result is farcical and sad; a comprehensive and
self-inflicted airbrushing of the mind. How, I have
long wondered, could Trump’s unprincipled
acolytes do what they do and still sleep at night?
How can Jen Rubin?
If Trump is indeed a tyrant, he is a tyrant of the
mind. And how potent is the control he exerts over
Rubin’s. So sharp and so sudden are her reversals
as to make effective parody impossible. When
President Obama agreed to the Paris Climate
Accord, Rubin left her readers under no illusions
as to the scale of her disapproval. The deal, she
proposed, was “ephemeral,” “a piece of paper,” “a
group wish,” a “nonsense” that would achieve
“nothing.” That the U.S. had been made a party to
a covenant so “devoid of substance,” she added,
illustrated the “fantasy world” in which the Obama
administration lived, and was reflective of
Obama’s preference for “phony
accomplishments,” his tendency to distract, and
his base’s craven willingness to eat up any “bill of
goods” they were served. At least it did until
President Trump took America out of it, at which
point adhering to the position she had theretofore
held became a “senseless act,” a “political act,”
“a dog whistle to the far right,” and “a snub to
‘elites’” that had been calibrated to please the
“climate-change denial, right-wing base that
revels in scientific illiteracy” (a base that
presumably enjoyed Rubin’s blog until January
20th, 2017). To abandon the “ephemeral” “piece of
paper,” Rubin submitted, would “materially
damage our credibility and our persuasiveness”
and represent conduct unbecoming of “the leader
of the free world.” One is left wondering how,
exactly, any president is supposed to please her.
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With President Trump approaching his one year
anniversary in office, as we've reported in one story after
another on ANP over the last year, liberals have been
melting down in one scene after another, from 'screaming
helplessly at the sky' to scheduling massive protests over a
mere Capitol Hill rumor to calling Christmas 'racist' and a
white supremacist holiday.
And then we have antifa, the so-called antifascists who've
proven themselves to be fascists by attempting to shut
down the peaceful speech of conservatives simply because
they don't agree with what they say. As Fox News reported
back in September of 2017, antifa themselves have 'red
pilled' many liberals, sick of being associated with a bunch
of hoodlums. Yet just recently, the Deputy head of the
DNC, Keith Ellison, promoted antifa! More 'proof of
crazy'? From the Fox News story:
The mainstream media failed to see the rise of
Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking
another grassroots movement that may soon be of
equal significance— the growing number of
liberals “taking the red pill.” People of all ages and
ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing
“red pill moments”—personal awakenings that
have caused them to reject leftist narratives
imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers,
and the news and entertainment media.
You might say that those who take the red pill
have been “triggered.” But instead of seeking out
“safe spaces,” they’re doing the opposite, posting
monologues throwing off the shackles of political
correctness.
Their videos can feature the kind of
subversiveness that was once a hallmark of the
left—before the movement lost its sense of humor.
With huge changes still ahead in 2018, the first 'full year'
of Trump, as he continues to unveil his 'America 1st
Agenda', likely triggering countless more liberal heads into
exploding in a mass, vacuous sucking sound as he
becomes more and more comfortable in the role of being
president, we expect 2018 to bring even more liberals
falling off the deep end with more failed attempts to bring
down President Trump and America.

A perfect recent example of the insanity we're witnessing

on the left comes to us in the book from Michael Wolff
that has gone viral and as we hear in the 1st video below
from Wolff himself, the 25th Amendment is discussed in
the White House every day. Yet, as even Wolff himself
has admitted, even he doesn't know what parts of the book
he wrote are true and which are false. Yet think about how
many millions of Americans will believe his lies!

The 2nd video below should be a must listen for anybody

thinking that removing President Trump from office via
the 25th Amendment is a real possibility. Attorney Alan
Dershowitz tells Fox News the mere thought of doing such
a thing is insane and those who are doing so are quite
literally playing with fire.

In the 3rd video below featuring Roger Stone with

Infowars he tells us about the deep state's '25th
Amendment plan' to take down President Trump while the
final video below is a compilation of the mainstream
media in America suffering from 'Trump derangement
syndrome', helping to show why the left has suffered a
massive breakdown in 2017 with 2018 surely bringing
more of the same.

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 Is Trump Crazy, or Just a Jerk?
By Jim Treacher
January 8, 2018
President Donald Trump reacts to the song as he arrives at a rally at
the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
All around the world in 2018, people of all races, creeds,
and gender identities are asking one burning question: Is
President Donald Trump crazy or what?
Is he out of his ever-lovin' mind? He's gotta be insane in
the membrane, right? Loco in the coconut? A few floors
short of a tower?
For some, the answer is a resounding “No.” Trump is
crazy like a fox, his biggest fans will tell you. Everything
he does is part of his master plan. He keeps owning the libs
by telling them how great he is and how stupid his haters
are, and in response, those liars in the fake news media
keep making fools of themselves as they try to prove him
wrong. He loves to tweak the elites, the ones who think of
themselves as our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters.
They were shattered by Hillary Clinton's loss, and they'll
grasp at any straw they think will hurt the guy who beat
her.
So Trump just keeps throwing out straws. For example,
early Saturday morning he tweeted the following in
reaction to Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury (all
capitalization and punctuation in the original):
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense
study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American
public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News
Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan
playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.
Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have
been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked
Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as
everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY
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successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of
the United States (on my first try). I think that would
qualify as not smart, but genius... and a very stable genius
at that!
Trump baits the trap, everybody with a journalism degree
leaps into it headfirst, and the citizens of MAGA Land
cheer at the exasperation and misery of their hated foes.
Anything that makes the bad guys unhappy is good. Spite
and schadenfreude rule the day. As one of the 20th
century's most influential political thinkers once wrote:
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
Then there are those who find this appallingly undignified.
If you believe that the president of the United States is a
man* whose job is to solve all your problems, to be
America's Dad**, this is terrifying. You're mortified, just
as all children are mortified by their embarrassing parents.
Trump isn't behaving the way other presidents have
behaved, he isn't behaving the way you would behave if
you were in the Oval Office, so he must be nuts.
Then there's Door Number 3:
Trump isn't crazy, he's just a jerk. Jerks say
a lot of crazy things, because they're jerks.
They call people rude names, and say
things that are provably untrue, and
complain about anything and everything
that bruises their egos. They do these
things not because they're out of touch with
reality, but because they just don't care
about it. Reality is boring. Who needs it?
Trump's behavior is beneath the dignity of the office, but
maybe that's not such a bad thing. Maybe the office
shouldn't have been so dignified for all these centuries.
Maybe we've exalted the presidency too highly. Maybe
this Trump/media knife-fight is a good thing, in the long
run.
Maybe!
Trump proves that winning an election doesn't make
anybody a better person, and the media's reaction proves
that losing an election doesn't erase our memory of how
they behaved when they were the ones in power. As the
two sides try to destroy each other, they remind the rest of
us just how small and flawed they really are.
I'm not a fan of either tribe in this war. They both need to
be taken down a peg or two or 200. Let them fight.
None of it will matter anyway, once this reality-TV
nightmare is replaced by The President Oprah Show.
(And if anything I've just said made you
angry, please consider this: If Barack
Obama had ever come right out and said,
.
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“I'm a very stable genius,” I would've
mocked the hell out of him. I would've
marveled at his narcissistic delusions, and
listed all the empirical evidence proving him
wrong. Now it's supposed to be different
because the Republicans have their own
version of Obama? Nope. Sorry I'm not
more sorry, folks.)
*Or, one day, a woman.
**Or, one day, America's Mom.
 The Same Communist “Mainstream Media”
Now Pushing “Trump Is Crazy” Lie HID For A
Year The Fact That Hillary Paid For
Bogus “Russia Dossier”
By JD Heyes
Monday, January 08, 2018

If you needed yet another reason to Ace investigative journalist and Hoover Institute media
despise the so-called “mainstream fellow Paul Sperry tweeted the truth over the weekend,
media,” this story should qualify. outing the “mainstream” media as the frauds they are.

For more than a year, the insane Left — led by the “BREAKING NEWS: DC press corps
Democratic Party, which is fundamentally no different suppressed for full year the fact that Clinton
than the communist parties of China and the former Soviet campaign paid for the anti-Trump Russia
Union — have pushed the never-proven, widely debunked dossier.
narrative that the campaign of President Donald J. Trump
“Journalists knew Clinton behind dossier as
“colluded” with the Russians to “steal the election” from
early as September 2016 & kept mum,
Hillary Clinton.
reporting dossier’s allegations as if they
were legitimate intelligence!”
The media gleefully picked up this fake allegation and in
fact, allowed themselves to be used as patsies, breathlessly
publishing no shortage of fake news stories based on
“unnamed sources” that were lying all along.

Even today in some media circles you can still hear Alt-
Left pundits claim that the collusion ‘is there’ — the
evidence just hasn’t been found yet.

The continued lack of evidence month after month,

however, has now led the Alt-Left to concoct a new theory:
And,
Trump is crazy, say all these psychiatrists
(none of whom have ever examined the “BREAKING: ex-Trump campaign adviser
president and who clearly have political says prominent Washington journalists told
motivations for their claims). him DURING CAMPAIGN (early as Sept
But the same media that is now giving this 2016) they KNEW Hillary Clinton was
latest conspiracy failed for an entire year to behind the anti-Trump dossier, and yet they
report the truth about the “Russia dossier” SAT ON that critical information for a FULL
— namely, that it was bought and paid for YEAR & acted as if dossier was legit intel.”
by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and then
‘dressed up’ as legitimate intelligence.
They all knew — and not one of them
reported it.

(Related: NY Times in full COVER-UP mode to help

DEMS save their ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ narrative
as House closes in on FBI’s improper use of ‘dossier’.)

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 Immediately after the Post published its story, other
mainstream media journalists piped up and claimed that
yes, they knew all about Clinton’s involvement,

but for various reasons decided against

publishing the facts.
Rather, they let the fake narrative play out
so that it would hamper Trump during his
entire first year in office. You know, ‘for the
good of the country.’

The New York Times was aware of the truth as well.

It wasn’t until October — just about the time Democrats Apparently when the paper’s reporter, Kenneth Vogel,
and the mainstream media were figuring out that the questioned Clinton’s campaign lawyer, Marc Elias, he
“Trump-Russia collusion” lie wasn’t going to produce the pushed back “vigorously” and insisted his source was
desired result (lead to Trump’s impeachment) — that the wrong.
Washington Post finally published the truth:
(Questions : When did that ever stop the
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Post and the Times from publishing fake
Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained news about Trump and his administration?
Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct And when did the mainstream media ever
the research. bother ask the Trump administration first
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author before publishing?)
Christopher Steele, a former British These people are helping
intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and
the U.S. intelligence community, according forces of evil destroy our
to those people, who spoke on the country by keeping us
condition of anonymity. irreconcilably divided. They
are enemies of freedom, not
guarantors of it.
.

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 Joe Scarborough Complains Washington Post
Won't Publish His Trump Dementia Claim
By Tim Graham
January 9, 2018 6:15 AM EST
The standards of evidence at liberal cable-news channels
are not high. With Donald Trump, gossip and unproven
rumors from anonymous sources will suffice. During an
interview with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff on
Monday, MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough
complained that he has twice tried to include unproven
references to President Trump being in an early stage of
dementia in his columns for the Washington Post, but both
times the editors told him to remove those references.
“There is such a reluctance, and I'm not,
certainly not knocking The Washington
Post. They're actually being conservative
with a small C. I’ve written twice in my
column a quote about one of [the] people
closest to Donald Trump during the
campaign saying he’s got early stage of
dementia. He repeats the same stories
over and over again, his father had it and
it's getting worse, and not a single person
that works for him doesn’t know he has
early signs of dementia. Now of course,
they didn't think he was gonna win."
So Scarborough protested again:
"But twice The Washington Post would not
let me put that in my column, which again, I
salute them for having a high bar. But we
are at this moment, and until your book
.
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came out, this was something we were not
allowed to speak about.”
Note the clumsy Morning Joe dance:
I think the Post is way too cautious, but I
salute them! Thank you for publishing my
Trump rants, you cautious cowards!
MSNBC doesn't have any of that caution. On November
30, Joe "reported" just like Wolff to his morning audience
that
"people close to him during the campaign
told me had early stages of dementia."
He wasn't that bold on May 2, but just
hinted "I'm not saying that Donald Trump
has dementia, but my mother has
dementia. She lives in the moment. She
forgets what she said a day ago, a week
ago. We can't have presidents that
do that. And I'm not saying that he
has dementia. I will leave that to
his physician to figure that out.”
Scarborough's latest Washington Post column lauds Wolff
for identifying Trump as unfit:
"Michael Wolff's tantalizing takedown of
President Trump's White House is so tightly
packed with tales of political convulsion
and personal betrayal that official
Washington will be buzzing off its sugar
high for weeks. But after the shock of
Wolff's account of Trump's willful ignorance
and intellectual incoherence fades,
Americans will be left with the inescapable
conclusion that the president is not capable
of fulfilling his duties as commander in
chief."
 They ADMIT It! Leaked Memo Shows DEMS Want DACA
‘Dreamers’ For ‘Future Electoral Success’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018

“If Democrats don’t try to do everything in said was unconstitutionally implemented. After Trump
their power to defend Dreamers, that will rescinded Obama’s order in September, several Democrat-
jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in run states filed suit against the administration, demanding
2018 and beyond” DACA be replaced.

After rescinding the order, Trump called on Congress to

come up with a legislative fix for the Dreamers facing
deportation.

Thus far, the House has put forth a bipartisan DACA

compromise bill that also claims to address concerns over
chain migration. But it’s unclear it could pass.

The CAP Action memo says protecting DACA is not only

(National Sentinel) Transformation: A memo circulated
a “moral imperative” for Democrats, it also key to getting
by the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund
votes.
on Monday noted that illegal aliens brought to the U.S. at a
young age —
“The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a
moral imperative, it is also a critical
the so-called “Dreamers” — are a “critical
component of the Democratic Party’s future
component of the Democratic Party’s future
electoral success,” reads Palmieri’s memo,
electoral success.”
according to The Daily Caller.

The memo, co-written by former Clinton communications “If Democrats don’t try to do everything in
director Jennifer Palmieri, was distributed to allies who are their power to defend Dreamers, that will
calling on congressional Democrats to jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in
2018 and beyond,” the memo continues.
“In short, the next few weeks will tell us a
“refuse to offer any votes for Republican
lot about the Democratic Party and its long-
spending bills that do not offer a fix for
term electoral prospects.”
Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to
deport them.”
Several conservative pundits and lawmakers have warned
that if Republicans cave on the DACA issue and vote for
Last fall President Donald J. Trump moved to end the
amnesty, it will put their congressional majority in danger
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy
and could also lead to Trump’s defeat in 2020.
which was implemented by President Obama via executive
order, to prevent illegals brought to the U.S. as children by
their parents from being deported. They have also warned that Democrats want to save
DACA for the very reason the memo states: Future voters.
A number of states threatened to sue the Trump
administration if it did not end the program, which they
.

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 REVEALED: Newly Revealed Texts From FBI Agent
Strzok, Lawyer Page, Show MORE Anti-Trump Bias;
Congress Probes Pair For Possible News LEAKS
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Republican investigators say the messages suggest that the
pair had media contacts
(National Sentinel) Unprofessional: Newly revealed text
messages sent by FBI counterintelligence agent Peter
Strzok show even more bias against President Donald J.
Trump than previously reported.
As noted by The Hill‘s John Solomon, Strzok and his
mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, the two shared a National
Public Radio article on the opening of Trump’s new hotel
in Washington and could “barely contain their disdain,”
the report noted.
“That’s one place I hope I never stay in,”
Page wrote.
Strzok replied. “Agreed. I hope it fails
horribly.”
After one of the presidential debates, Strzok also had an
observation about then-Fox anchor and current NBC
anchor Megyn Kelly.
“Vaguely satisfying to see Megyn Kelly
(who had Botox and looks HORRIBLE)
utterly going after Trump,” he texted, as
Solomon reported.
In addition, the new texts and other information that has
been turned over to Congress has sparked an additional
probe into whether Strzok and Page illegally leaked
classified information to several media outlets.
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GOP-led committees in the House and Senate are poring
over messages that appear to indicate Strzok and Page had
advance knowledge of a Wall Street Journal report close to
election day and plotted how they would feign stumbling
upon it so they could share it with colleagues.
“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so
can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct.
24, 2016.
“WSJ? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted
back, using the initials of the famed
financial newspaper. “Should I ‘find’ it and
tell the team?”
The messages, reviewed by The Hill, also reveal how the
two allegedly plotted how to make it appear as though they
innocently stumbled upon the article, such as in a Google
News alert.
“I can get it like I do every other article that
hits any Google News alerts, seriously,”
Strzok wrote, noting further he didn’t want
his team hearing about the article “from
someone else.”
Strzok had a key role early on in the Russia meddling
probe and was a part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s
team until last summer, when initial anti-Trump texts
between him and Page were discovered.
But now Congress wants to know whether the pair is
responsible for a series of damaging leaks against Trump
and his administration.
“The Hill reviewed nearly three dozen
texts in which the two agents discussed
articles, tried to track down information
about a specific New York Times reporter
or opined about leaked information in
stories that they fretted were ‘super
specific,'” the news site noted.
Republican investigators say the messages suggest that the
pair had media contacts but they don’t necessarily prove
they leaked information.
Also, Solomon reported:
Separately, the House Intelligence
Committee says it has obtained information
that Mueller’s current deputy in the Russia
probe, respected Justice Department
financial fraud prosecutor Andrew
.
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Weissman, had contact with the news
media last April, shortly before Mueller was
named special prosecutor, according to a
letter the committee has sent the
department.
In a deal with current FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, Justice officials
have promised to provide the Intelligence
Committee with information on the
Weismann contacts later this week.
 Investigators Examining Whether FBI Officials Peter
Strzok And Lisa Page Improperly Leaked To Media
By Kristina Wong
9 Jan 2018
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FNC
House and Senate committees are
investigating whether FBI agents who
led the Russia investigation improperly
leaked to news media, according to a
report.
In text messages reviewed by The Hill, FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa
Page exchanged a series of texts shortly before Election
Day 2016, that suggests they knew in advance about a
Wall Street Journal article, and discussed how to pretend
finding it and sharing with colleagues.
“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so
can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct.
24, 2016, according to the report.
“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted
back. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”
“I can get it like I do every other article that
hits any Google News alerts, seriously,”
Strzok texted, adding he did not want his
team hearing about the article “from
someone else.”
The text messages were first uncovered by the Justice
Department inspector general, who is investigating
whether the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation
and the bureau’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump
campaign with political bias.
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Strzok played a key role in those investigations, and served
on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team before the text
messages were found and he was kicked off in the
summer.
Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair,
had also served on the special counsel team, but had left
before the text messages were discovered. Investigators
also found that the two had discussed in FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe’s office an “insurance plan” to
thwart Trump’s election.
The Hill also reviewed nearly three dozen texts where the
two discussed articles, tried to track down information
about a specific New York Times reporter, or opined about
leaked information in stories they fretted were “super
specific.”
It’s not clear whether then-FBI Director James Comey
authorized the leaks, although he arranged some of his
own, by creating memos of his conversations with
President Trump and leaking them to a friend to give to the
news media after he left the FBI for the purpose of
prompting a special counsel.
House intelligence committee investigators are also
looking into a contact with news media by DOJ senior
official Andrew Weissman in April, shortly before the
special counsel was convened. Weissman is currently
Mueller’s deputy, and had attended Hillary Clinton’s
election party, and praised former acting Attorney General
Sally Yates for refusing to implement Trump’s travel ban.
In another string of text messages five days before the
election, Page alerted Strzok to a Washington Post story
about a timeline in the Clinton email investigation, and
references a conversation she had with FBI chief of staff
James Rybicki about the article.
“Sorry, Rybicki called. Time line article in
the post (sic) is super specific and not
good. Doesn’t make sense because I didn’t
have specific information to give.”
A few days earlier, Strzok had texted Page about another
article, suggesting it was anti-FBI.
 “Yep, the whole tone is anti-Bu. Just a tiny
bit from us,” he texted.
Page texted she had seen the article, and that it
“makes me feel WAY less bad about
throwing him under the bus to the
forthcoming CF article.”
They also discussed tracking down New York Times
reporter Matt Apuzzo’s address and spouse’s job. Apuzzo
had reported on numerous developments in the Russia
case.
“We got a list of kids with their parents’
names. How many Matt Apuzzo’s (sic)
could there be in DC,” Page texted Strzok.
“Showed J a picture, he said he thinks he
has seen a guy who kinda looks like that,
but always really schlubby. I said that
sounds like every reporter I have ever
seen.”
It’s not clear who “J” is.
A minute later, Page added:
“Found what I think might be their address,
too.”
Strzok responded,
Page texted she found information on Apuzzo’s wife:
“Found address looking for her. Lawyer.”
Strzok also warned Page against using the work phone to
track down information on the reporter.
“I wouldn’t search on your work phone …
no idea what that might trigger.”
“Oops. Too late,” she responded.
They also texted about the opening of Trump’s new hotel
in Washington.
“That’s one place I hope I never stay in,”
Page texted.
Strzok texted back:
“Agreed. I hope it fails horribly.”
They also said an article about FBI agents unhappy about
the outcome of the Clinton case was “stupid,” called Fox
anchor Chris Wallace a “turd,” and talked about then-FOX
News anchor Megyn Kelly after one of the presidential
debates.
“Vaguely satisfying to see Megyn Kelly
(who had Botox and looks HORRIBLE)
utterly going after Trump,” he said.

“He’s TOTALLY schlubby. Don’t you

remember?”
.

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 CLASSLESS: Georgia Dems Promote ‘F**K Trump’
Projection On Atlanta Stadium As Prez Attends College
Football National Championship
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018

Another day, another example of why Democrats are in the Critics of the projection pointed out on Twitter that the
minority display was another example of why Democrats are in the
minority in Congress and throughout most state
legislatures and governorships.

(NationalSentinel) Profane: Georgia Democrats sponsored

a crude message aimed at denigrating President Donald J.
Trump as he attended Monday night’s college football
National Championship game at Atlanta’s Mercedes Benz
stadium.

Outside the venue, the Dekalb County Democrats

projected the words “F**k Trump” onto the stadium.

As reported by USA Today, the group also tweeted,

“Welcome to Atlanta where the players play

and where the Democratic Socialists have
an awesome projector like every day.
(You’re not welcome in District 5 or
anywhere else in ATL you orange fascist.”

In actuality, the Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of

America claimed credit for the projection.

But, as the tweet indicates, the Dekalb County Democrats

approvingly promoted the vile message.

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 Guess Who CNN Just Promoted To
‘Chief White House Correspondent’
By Greg P.
Posted At 9:33 Am On January 9, 2018

Well, it looks like CNN’s Jim Acosta just got a promotion:

OH, COME ON!

Here’s the memo from CNN:

That puts it mildly. As for how the administration will

react…

…yeah, not really.

CNN made other moves as well:

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 Trump Attends College Football Championship; Crowd
ROARS When Prez STANDS For National Anthem (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018

Trump waved to the crowd a number of times before Reports noted that some of the 71,000 fans jeered at the
taking his place near the middle of the field president, but those were drowned out by the cheers.

Watch (per Michael Sheridan/Twitter):

(National Sentinel) Presidential: President Donald J.

Trump attended Monday night’s college National
Championship game between the Alabama Crimson Tide
and the Georgia Bulldogs.

As the president entered the field accompanied by ROTC

students from both universities, the crowd erupted in
cheers at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz stadium, the home of
NFL’s Atlanta Falcons.

Trump waved to the crowd a number of times before

taking his place near the middle of the field before the Zac
Brown Band sang the National Anthem, standing with his
hand over his heart as the band sang.
.
Alabama won its fifth national title under head coach Nick
Saban with a 26-23 overtime win. In all, Saban has won
six national titles; he won with LSU in 2003, before taking
over the head coaching duties at the Crimson Tide in the
2007-2008 season.

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 Author Michael Wolff NOW SAYS
He Didn’t Interview ANY TRUMP CABINET MEMBERS
For Trump-Bashing Book (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Wolff responded, “I did not.”

Author Michael Wolff admitted Monday
that he did not interview Vice President
Mike Pence or any Cabinet members,
though some of the more incendiary
claims in his book “Fire and Fury” are
credited to Cabinet members.
You did not?” O’Donnell repeated.
“I did not,” Wolff confirmed.
She then asked Wolff if he ever interviewed
Vice President Mike Pence.
“I did not,” Wolff said again.
O’Donnell also noted Trump denied having
ever been interviewed by Wolff.
“The president denies he ever spoke to you
for the book, at all,” O’Donnell said.

WOW!

Wolff spoke with CBS on Tuesday morning.

Infowars posted the transcript:

Host Norah O’Donnell asked Wolf, “Did you

speak to any members of the president’s
Cabinet for this book?”
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 ANOTHER Admission: Anti-Trump Author Michael Wolff
Says He Didn’t Interview ANY Cabinet Officials For His
Scandal-Ridden Tome (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Several people quoted by Wolff have already denied
making the comments
(National Sentinel) Unsubstantiated: The author of an
anti-Trump book set for release said during an interview
Tuesday he did not interview any members of the
president’s Cabinet, casting fresh doubts about the book’s
overall truthfulness.
In an interview with CBS‘ “This Morning” program,
Wolff was asked by host Norah O’Donnell,
“Did you speak to any members of the
president’s Cabinet for this book?”
“I did not,” Wolff responded.
“You did not?” O’Donnell repeated.
“I did not,” Wolff confirmed.
She then asked Wolff if he ever spoke to Vice President
Mike Pence for his tome.
Again, he responded, “I did not.”
O’Donnell then noted that President Trump has also
publicly tweeted that he never granted “access” to Wolff or
spoke to him during his time researching the book.
“The president denies he ever spoke to you
for the book, at all,” O’Donnell said.
“I probably think he had no idea he was
speaking to me for this book,” Wolff said.
“When I would meet the president in the
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White House we would chat as though we
were friends.”
“But that’s not an interview, to greet
someone and say, ‘Hello,’” O’Donnell
pointed out. “That’s not a journalistic
exercise.”
The author then struggled to explain away O’Donnell’s
point, insisting that he did sit down with Trump for three
hours during his months in the White House, even though
Wolff was “sure he [Trump] didn’t think they were
interviews.”
In his book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White
House,” Wolff includes several quotes from multiple
Cabinet secretaries, including National Security Adviser
H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
“For (Treasury Secretary) Steve Mnuchin
and (former Trump White House chief of
staff) Reince Priebus, the president was an
‘idiot.’ For (former Goldman Sachs exec)
Gary Cohn, he was ‘dumb as sh-t.’ For
(National Security Adviser) H.R. McMaster
he was a ‘dope.’ The list went on,” Wolff
wrote.
Last week, reports said that in an author’s note included in
the book, Wolff admitted there was much he could not
verify, which initially cast suspicion and doubt on the
book’s veracity.
He said several of his sources were flatly lying to him,
while others said things that were contradictory in nature.
Many of those were nonetheless included in his book.
Wolff said in his author’s note that he and the publisher are
including them, “allowing the reader to judge” whether the
sources’ claims are true.
In other instances, Wolff said he used his instincts as a
journalist to relay
“a version of events I believe to be Several people quoted by Wolff have already denied
true.” making the comments.
“Many of the accounts of what has
happened in the Trump White House are in Watch:
conflict with one another; many, in
Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These
conflicts, and that looseness with the truth,
if not with reality itself, are an elemental
thread of the book,” he wrote.
“Sometimes I have let the players offer
their versions, in turn allowing the reader to
judge them. In other instances I have,
through a consistency in the accounts and
through sources I have come to trust,
settled on a version of events I believe to
be true,” he continued.
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 Former FBI Asst. Director: No Question Clinton
Foundation Is “Criminal Conspiracy” – “It’s Just A Giant
Slush Fund” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Former FBI assistant Director James K. to shame from the standpoint it operated. I
Kallstrom went on Varney and Co. to mean, its just a giant slushfund. You
discuss the continued witch hunt know…get a bunch of Gulfstream fives, fly
against President Donald Trump. around the world, and buy wedding gowns,
pay for weddings. I mean the tiny little
Kallstrom also went on to call the amount of money that goes to charity, and I
Clinton Foundation a “criminal even question if those are charities. It’s
conspiracy” and “giant slush fund.” preposterous why the IRS has not come
down upon them earlier is beyond me. But
there’s no question that it is beyond a
criminal conspiracy and all those other
things… the uncovering of names, the
Uranium One thing, and all this other stuff.

Via Varney and Co.:

James Kallstrom: There’s no question the

Clinton Foundation… is a criminal
conspiracy. I mean I investigated the RICO
Statute for years, and the FBI. I mean this
puts our investigations of organized crime
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 BOOM! Hillary Campaign Chair Podesta
Was Tipped Off On “Gross Negligence” Phrase BEFORE
IT WAS REMOVED From Comey Statement!
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, John

Podesta, received an email from an
advisor on March 9, 2016, which
brought up the phrase “gross
negligence” in regards to the FBI’s
email investigation on Hillary Clinton.

The email was sent to John Podesta on March 9th — via

Wikileaks:

This was before the FBI agent in charge Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-
of the probe removed the phrase from Mail System
her exoneration statement, according to
WikiLeaks.
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.
FBI Director James Comey released his statement on the
Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the
Clinton email investigation on July 5, 2016, four months
FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a
later.
personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary
of State.
Washington, D.C.
FBI National Press Office After a tremendous amount of work over the last year,
(202) 324-3691 the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the
July 5, 2016 case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive
decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three
things: what we did; what we found; and what we are
Statement by FBI Director James B.
recommending to the Department of Justice.
Comey on the Investigation of Secretary

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This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple
ways. First, I am going to include more detail about
our process than I ordinarily would, because I think
the American people deserve those details in a case
of intense public interest. Second, I have not
coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way
with the Department of Justice or any other part of the
government. They do not know what I am about to
say.
I want to start by thanking the FBI employees who did
remarkable work in this case. Once you have a better
sense of how much we have done, you will
understand why I am so grateful and proud of their
efforts.
So, first, what we have done:
The investigation began as a referral from the
Intelligence Community Inspector General in
connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal
e-mail server during her time as Secretary of State.
The referral focused on whether classified information
was transmitted on that personal system.
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence
classified information was improperly stored or
transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a
federal statute making it a felony to mishandle
classified information either intentionally or in a
grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a
misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified
information from appropriate systems or storage
facilities.
Consistent with our counterintelligence
responsibilities, we have also investigated to
determine whether there is evidence of computer
intrusion in connection with the personal e-mail server
by any foreign power, or other hostile actors.
I have so far used the singular term, “e-mail server,” in
describing the referral that began our investigation. It
turns out to have been more complicated than that.
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and
administrators of those servers during her four years
at the State Department, and used numerous mobile
devices to view and send e-mail on that personal
domain. As new servers and equipment were
employed, older servers were taken out of service,
stored, and decommissioned in various ways. Piecing
all of that back together—to gain as full an
understanding as possible of the ways in which
personal e-mail was used for government work—has
been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands
of hours of effort.
For example, when one of Secretary Clinton’s original
personal servers was decommissioned in 2013, the e-
mail software was removed. Doing that didn’t remove
the e-mail content, but it was like removing the frame
from a huge finished jigsaw puzzle and dumping the
pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of e-
mail fragments end up unsorted in the server’s
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unused—or “slack”—space. We searched through all
of it to see what was there, and what parts of the
puzzle could be put back together.
FBI investigators have also read all of the
approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by Secretary
Clinton to the State Department in December 2014.
Where an e-mail was assessed as possibly containing
classified information, the FBI referred the e-mail to
any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner”
of information in the e-mail, so that agency could
make a determination as to whether the e-mail
contained classified information at the time it was sent
or received, or whether there was reason to classify
the e-mail now, even if its content was not classified at
the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes
referred to as “up-classifying”).
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the
State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains
have been determined by the owning agency to
contain classified information at the time they were
sent or received. Eight of those chains contained
information that was Top Secret at the time they were
sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the
time; and eight contained Confidential information,
which is the lowest level of classification. Separate
from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-
classified” to make them Confidential; the information
in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails
were sent.
The FBI also discovered several thousand work-
related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000
that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in
2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of
ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we
found traces of them on devices that supported or
were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others
we found by reviewing the archived government e-
mail accounts of people who had been government
employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton,
including high-ranking officials at other agencies,
people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally
correspond.
This helped us recover work-related e-mails that were
not among the 30,000 produced to State. Still others
we recovered from the laborious review of the millions
of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of
the server decommissioned in 2013.
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that
were not among those produced to State, agencies
have concluded that three of those were classified at
the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret
level and two at the Confidential level. There were no
additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of
those we found have since been “up-classified.”
I should add here that we found no evidence that any
of the additional work-related e-mails were
intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our
assessment is that, like many e-mail users, Secretary
Clinton periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were
purged from the system when devices were changed.
Because she was not using a government account—
or even a commercial account like Gmail—there was
no archiving at all of her e-mails, so it is not surprising
that we discovered e-mails that were not on Secretary
Clinton’s system in 2014, when she produced the
30,000 e-mails to the State Department.
It could also be that some of the additional work-
related e-mails we recovered were among those
deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers
when they reviewed and sorted her e-mails for
production in 2014.
The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in
2014 did not individually read the content of all of her
e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead,
they relied on header information and used search
terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the
reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining
on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is
highly likely their search terms missed some work-
related e-mails, and that we later found them, for
example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the
slack space of a server.
It is also likely that there are other work-related e-
mails that they did not produce to State and that we
did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone
because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to
State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a
way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
We have conducted interviews and done technical
examination to attempt to understand how that sorting
was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have
complete visibility because we are not able to fully
reconstruct the electronic record of that sorting, we
believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us
reasonable confidence there was no intentional
misconduct in connection with that sorting effort.
And, of course, in addition to our technical work, we
interviewed many people, from those involved in
setting up and maintaining the various iterations of
Secretary Clinton’s personal server, to staff members
with whom she corresponded on e-mail, to those
involved in the e-mail production to State, and finally,
Secretary Clinton herself.
Last, we have done extensive work to understand
what indications there might be of compromise by
hostile actors in connection with the personal e-mail
operation.
That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what
we found:
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary
Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws
governing the handling of classified information, there
is evidence that they were extremely careless in their
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handling of very sensitive, highly classified
information.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters
that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access
Program level when they were sent and received.
These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending
e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails
from others about the same matters. There is
evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable
person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the
position of those government employees with whom
she was corresponding about these matters, should
have known that an unclassified system was no place
for that conversation. In addition to this highly
sensitive information, we also found information that
was properly classified as Secret by the U.S.
Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed
on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-
mails).
None of these e-mails should have been on any kind
of unclassified system, but their presence is especially
concerning because all of these e-mails were housed
on unclassified personal servers not even supported
by full-time security staff, like those found at
Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—
or even with a commercial service like Gmail.
Separately, it is important to say something about the
marking of classified information. Only a very small
number of the e-mails containing classified information
bore markings indicating the presence of classified
information. But even if information is not marked
“classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or
should know that the subject matter is classified are
still obligated to protect it.
While not the focus of our investigation, we also
developed evidence that the security culture of the
State Department in general, and with respect to use
of unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was
generally lacking in the kind of care for classified
information found elsewhere in the government.
With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile
actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary
Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.
But, given the nature of the system and of the actors
potentially involved, we assess that we would be
unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess
that hostile actors gained access to the private
commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom
Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her
personal account. We also assess that Secretary
Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both
known by a large number of people and readily
apparent. She also used her personal e-mail
extensively while outside the United States, including
sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the
territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that
combination of factors, we assess it is possible that
 hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s
personal e-mail account.
So that’s what we found. Finally, with respect to our
recommendation to the Department of Justice:
In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions
about whether charges are appropriate based on
evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we
don’t normally make public our recommendations to
the prosecutors, we frequently make
recommendations and engage in productive
conversations with prosecutors about what resolution
may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case,
given the importance of the matter, I think unusual
transparency is in order.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of
the statutes regarding the handling of classified
information, our judgment is that no reasonable
prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors
necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing
charges. There are obvious considerations, like the
strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.
Responsible decisions also consider the context of a
person’s actions, and how similar situations have
been handled in the past.
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling
or removal of classified information, we cannot find a
case that would support bringing criminal charges on
these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some
combination of: clearly intentional and willful
mishandling of classified information; or vast
quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to
support an inference of intentional misconduct; or
.
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indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts
to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar
circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity
would face no consequences. To the contrary, those
individuals are often subject to security or
administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are
deciding now.
As a result, although the Department of Justice makes
final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing
to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in
this case.
I know there will be intense public debate in the wake
of this recommendation, as there was throughout this
investigation. What I can assure the American people
is that this investigation was done competently,
honestly, and independently. No outside influence of
any kind was brought to bear.
I know there were many opinions expressed by people
who were not part of the investigation—including
people in government—but none of that mattered to
us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all
uninformed by insight into our investigation, because
we did the investigation the right way. Only facts
matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely
apolitical and professional way. I couldn’t be prouder
to be part of this organization.
James Comey changed the wording from “grossly
negligent” to “extremely careless” in his final
statement.
 David Brooks: Anti-Trump Movement Is Getting
'Dumber,' Becoming A 'Smug Fairy Tale'
By Tyler O'Neil
January 9, 2018
President Donald Trump applauds members of the audience before
speaking at the Heritage Foundation's annual President's Club
meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo
Martinez Monsivais)
David Brooks issued a timely rebuke to the anti-Trump
movement in Tuesday's edition of The New York Times.
He argued that Michael Wolff's pot-stirring book, Fire and
Fury: Inside the Trump White House, represented a decline
into "lowbrow" argument — based more on anger than
truth.
"The anti-Trump movement, of which I'm a
proud member, seems to be getting
dumber," Brooks confessed. "It seems to
be settling into a smug, fairy tale version of
reality that filters out discordant
information."
The Times columnist explained that
"more anti-Trumpers seem to be telling
themselves a 'Madness of King George'
narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman
surrounded by sycophants who are
morally, intellectually and psychologically
inferior to people like us."
To his credit, Brooks attacked this smug mentality.
"I’d like to think it’s possible to be fervently
anti-Trump while also not reducing
everything to a fairy tale," he wrote.
The columnist lamented the anti-Trump
movement's "insularity" — few of them
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actually know or listen to those who
support Trump — and its "lowbrowism."
Brooks could not curb his own smugness in explaining
lowbrowism, however. He pointed to Fox News, Sean
Hannity, and Dinesh D'Souza as examples of it.
He defined the phenomenon as "a style of
communication that doesn't make you think
more; it makes you think and notice less."
Lowbrowism "offers a steady diet of
affirmation, focuses on simple topics that
require little background information, and
gets viewers addicted to daily doses of
righteous contempt and delicious
vindication."
Has Brooks read any of D'Souza's books? They may
vindicate the goodness of America and Christianity, but
they certainly make readers think.
In any case, Brooks admitted that anti-Trump lowbrowism
dominates "late-night TV," and "burst into full bloom with
the Wolff book."
"Wolff doesn’t pretend to adhere to normal
journalistic standards. He happily admits
that he’s just tossing out rumors that are
too good to check. As Charlie Warzel wrote
on BuzzFeed, 'For Wolff’s book, the truth
seems almost a secondary concern to what
really matters: engagement,'" Brooks
wrote.
He argued that opposing lowbrowism may be more
important than opposing Trump.
"This isn’t just a struggle over a president.
It’s a struggle over what rules we’re going
to play by after Trump. Are we all going to
descend permanently into the Trump
standard of acceptable behavior?" Brooks
asked.
He wondered whether Americans can
 "restore the distinction between excellence
and mediocrity, truth and a lie."
The descent into unthinking partisanship did not begin
with Donald Trump, however. Brooks —
who wrote an "I Miss Obama" puff piece
during the 2016 election — seems to have
forgotten just how easily the Obama
scandals were dismissed by the press
when the Ideologue in Chief declared,
"Nothing to see here." Obama may not
have been "lowbrow," but he certainly was
no perfect truth-teller.
Also, is Brooks about to admit that the Russia
investigation might not end with a Trump treason
impeachment? That might be the most fanciful fairy tale
the Left is telling itself right now, and they seem utterly
convinced.
Even so, this op-ed is a step in the right direction.
Brooks noted that "there are two White
Houses. There’s the Potemkin White
House, which we tend to focus on: Trump
berserk in front of the TV, the lawyers
working the Russian investigation and the
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press operation. Then there is the Invisible
White House that you never hear about,
which is getting more effective at managing
around the distracted boss."
Self-described anti-Trump writers like Brooks seem unable
to realize that many of Trump's policy victories likely did
come from the president (SHOCKER!).
Brooks did admit that "people who go into
the White House to have a meeting with
President Trump usually leave pleasantly
surprised. They find that Trump is not the
raving madman they expected from his
tweetstorms or the media coverage."
Hmmmm. It's almost as if Donald Trump is not crazy.
The Times columnist admitted
"this is not an administration full of people
itching to invoke the 25th Amendment."
Brooks remains anti-Trump, and it seems he may still be
biased in favor of Barack Obama. Even so, this op-ed is an
important wake-up call to the Left. Trump opponents need
to dial back the rhetoric, understand what the president's
supporters think, and re-examine their premises. Brooks
has begun this journey, and he should not stop there.
 Will The 'Impossible' Soon Come True? While Upcoming
OIG Report Shows Comey, Lynch And Clinton In
Crosshairs, A Nuclear Holocaust In America Would
Quickly End All Investigations
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 9, 2018
While much of America was talking about Michael Wolff's long been concerned that if close to being indicted for
new (and largely 'fake') book 'Fire and Fury', the 25th treason, 'enemies of America within' would attempt to pull
Amendment and a desperate attempt at removing President off the 'false flag of all false flags' to complete their long-
Trump from office and NBC's tweet Sunday showing worked-for goals of taking down America. From Din.:
they'll be supporting Oprah Winfrey for president in 2020,
a new story over at Zero Hedge might help to explain why A nuclear holocaust would put an end to
the likes of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and George many things.... The on-going
Soros haven't been recently heard from on Twitter with investigations into the treasonous acts
'medical boots' seemingly now all the rage with the committed by the enemies of humanity,
globalists. discovery of the 21 trillion dollars no
one can account for, the Pedophile
Quite appropriately titled "Upcoming Oig Report Likely investigations, etc, and the resurgence
To Trigger Second Special Counsel; Comey, Lynch of the once great U.S.A.
And Clinton In Crosshairs", their story helps to explain
why Americans fed up with government and 'deep state If we get nuked, EMPed, or have a
corruption' in Washington DC and America might one day massive biological or chemical attack
see what many of us have long believed impossible on U.S. soil it will be the creatures that
coming true. are so often in the news for their
criminal activities that will be
And while we still won't be holding our breaths waiting for responsible. And it will be our fault for
the traitors within the deep state or the Clinton crime not taking out these traitors years
family to fall, an already raucous start to to 2018 will sooner.
likely see more fireworks ahead, and possibly soon after
the January 15th release of a report by the DOJ's Inspector
General as Susan Duclos reported back on December 18th
of 2017 in this ANP story, "Explosive Revelations' By
DOJ Inspector General May Force A FBI Hillary
Clinton Investigation Reboot".

And before you discount the possibility of there ever being

a fair and impartial investigation into what many of us
have felt would be swept away into the dustbin's of history,
we should look at just WHO is leading this investigation at
the OIG. As ZH reports, after being neutered by Eric
Holder, Inspector General Michael Horowitz went to war
with the Obama Administration to restore the OIG's
powers. For the sake of all that is good, Horowitz has won
that battle. What will now come of it? First of all, let's take a look at what could turn into some
great news for truth seekers from this Zero Hedge story:
We'll also take a look below at a story recently put out by
'Trump soldier' as well as share a continuing word of The DOJ is "taking a fresh look" into the
caution via a recent comment by ANP reader Din who left Hillary Clinton email 'matter'.
the excellent following observation on this story. ANP has
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 The FBI has launched a new
investigation into the Clinton
Foundation the day after the Clinton's
Chappaqua property catches fire.
Former FBI Director James Comey's full
Clinton memo was released, revealing
felony evidence of changes which
"decriminalized" Hillary Clinton's
behavior. Oh, and every one of the
memos he leaked to his Cornell
professor buddy was classified, per a
sworn statement by the FBI's "chief
FOIA officer" in a sworn declaration
obtained by Judicial Watch.
In this January 7th story written by 'Trump Soldier' over at
American Digital News he reports that a war that began
long before President Trump got into office that pitted the
DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz and a few
members of Congress against the Barack Obama
administration. While Eric Holder had effectively neutered
the Office of the Internal General's investigative powers
soon after the fast and furious gun running scandal broke,
things have changed. From Trump Soldier.:
In Horowitz War vs. The Obama Admin
he allied himself with Congress. This is
the continuation of that war. This is the
mop up operation and he is once again
working with Congress towards that
end. That end is reached by a special
counsel and there are two paths to get
there.
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The House Intelligence Committee will
be granted access to "all remaining
investigative documents," unredacted,
along with all witnesses sought per a
deal reached between Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and Nunes.
Opposition research firm Fusion GPS
was forced to hand over banking
records detailing various clients and
their intermediary law firms, including
the Clinton Campaign and a Russian
money launderer whose lawyer was
none other than Natalia Veselnitskaya of
Trump Tower meeting fame are we now.
Both paths go through the DoJ. They
can appoint one on their own or be
forced to by Congress. The evidence
will simply be too overwhelming to do
otherwise. It will look like the IG and
Congress vs. the DoJ but make no
mistake about it the DoJ/FBI good guys
are in on it. The Initial Scope Bullet
Points Comey, Kadzik, FOIA, and the
Hillary Clinton email investigation.
This report will be the highlight of
Horowitz career as well as that of
everyone in his organization. It will be
the most significant report to ever come
out of the Inspectors General. He will
give the HJC and the DoJ what they
need to appoint a Special Counsel. It is
inevitable. What was Michael Horowitz
doing prior to January 2017? From
 2011-2016 he was engaged in a
protracted war with the Holder DoJ and
Obama Admin. A war he finally won in
November 2016.
For those that are paranoid about the
DoJ/FBI leadership and want to view
them as an adversary that is fine. IT
WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE. Even if
they were opposed to cleaning up
With that last paragraph being music to our ears, and
before anyone goes and screams a new investigation into
Hillary emails or corruption proves we're witnessing
'partisan politics' once again, we'd be wise to remember
that Horowitz was appointed by Barack Obama back on
April 16th of 2012. And where has the 'Democrative deep
state' elite suddenly gone on twitter?
Let's take a look at what's happening there.
As Susan Duclos pointed out in this ANP story back on
January 3rd, for some reason, the likes of Bill and Hillary,
James Comey, John Podesta and George Soros have been
strangely quiet on twitter recently. As of the writing of this
story, Hillary Clinton's last tweets were on January 2nd, a
week ago now, her account used to tweet nearly every day.
While James Comey's last tweet came on January 3rd, he
too used to tweet once every few days and while Bill
Clinton finally issued another tweet on Monday after more
than a week of absence, he hinted at journalists being
imprisoned and a free press being critical to a free society
in this tweet: A free press is critical to a free society—the
detention of journalists anywhere is unacceptable. The
Reuters journalists being held in Myanmar should be
released immediately. What about Julian Assange, Bill?
And remember that during the reign of Barack Obama here
in America, according to reporters without borders, the
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(which they are not) they are between a
rock (IG) and a hard place (Congress)
and will comply. Lastly, for amusement
pay attention to the targets of the
investigations and their surrogates in
both the media and Congress. They will
attack, distort, distract, and flail about in
panic. Do not worry about them. They
are powerless and along for the ride.
ALL OF THEM.
ranking of the US press freedom index dropped to 41st in
the world in 2016 - as we've reported before on ANP,
anything less than #1 and we're moving towards tyranny.
While John Podesta hasn't been seen on twitter since
December 17th, he generally only tweeted about once
every few weeks anyways though George Soros absence
since November 26th is strange because he used to tweet
quite regularly.
And while none of these absences are proof that something
huge is going down, the 'rules of the game' may finally be
enforced with President Trump in office, IG Horowitz
unchained and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton now on
the sideline, watching events unfolding like the rest of us
rather than pulling the most crucial strings as we hear in
each of the videos below.
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 Russiagate Turns On Its Originators
By Paul Craig Roberts,
January 09, 2018

Russiagate originated in a conspiracy between the What we do know is that the FBI used what it knew to be a
military/security complex, the Clinton-controlled fake dossier to go to the FISA court for a warrant to spy on
Democratic National Committee, and the Trump.
liberal/progressive/left. The goal of the military/security
complex is to protect its out-sized budget and power by As a consequence both Comey and the FBI, special
preventing President Trump from normalizing relations prosecutor Mueller, and Christopher Steele are in hot
with Russia. Hillary and the DNC want to explain away water. The Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary
their election loss by blaming a Trump/Putin conspiracy to Committee, Senator Grassley, has instructed the US
steal the election. The liberal/progressive/left want Trump Attorney General to launch a criminal investigation of
driven from office. Steele for false statements to FBI counterintelligence
officials.
As the presstitutes are aligned with the
military/security complex, Hillary and the https://www.rt.com/usa/415105-senate-doj-steele-criminal/
DNC, and the liberal/progressive/left, the
Russiagate orchestration is a powerful
You can see where this leads as former FBI director
conspiracy against the president of the
Comey is a participant in the Russiagate attack on
United States and the “deplorables” who President Trump. To protect himself Steele will have to rat
elected him. Nevertheless, the Russiagate
on who put him up to it. If President Trump had any sense,
Conspiracy has fallen apart and has now
he would put Steele under protective custody, as his life is
been turned against its originators.
clearly in danger. If the CIA and the FBI don’t get him, the
Clintons surely will.
Despite the determination of the CIA and FBI to get
Trump, these powerful and unaccountable police state
Trump’s easy election shook the Republican Establishment
agencies have been unable to present any evidence of the
as well as it upset the Democrats and the military/security
Trump/Putin conspiracy against Hillary. As William
complex. The Republican Establishment hates losing
Binney, the former high level National Security Agency
control. Initially the Republican Establishment aligned
official who devised the spy program has stated, if there
with Trump’s enemies, but now understands that Trump’s
was any evidence of a Trump/Putin conspiracy to steal the
demise means their demise.
US presidential election, the NSA would most certainly
have it.
Consequently, all of a sudden in Washington facts count.
Not all facts, just those relating to the Steele dossier. Be
So where is the evidence? Why after one
sure you listen closely and carefully to these two videos of
year and a half and a special prosecutor
US Representative Jim Jordan’s destruction of US Deputy
whose assignment is to get Trump has no
Attorney General Rosenstein for sitting on his ass while a
evidence whatsoever been found of the
totally corrupt FBI attempted to destroy the elected
Trump/Putin conspiracy? The obvious
president of the United States. Keep in mind that
answer is that no such conspiracy ever
Rosenstein is a member of the Trump administration. Why
existed. The only conspiracy is the one
does the President of the United States employ people out
against Trump.
to destroy him?

This has now become completely apparent. Russiagate

originated in a fake “Trump dossier” invented by
Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 intelligence
officer. It is not yet clear whether it was the DNC, the CIA,
or the FBI who paid Steele for the fake dossier. Perhaps he
sold it to all three.
Here are the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=lgtkJkgdw
NM&app=desktop
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/boom-rep-jim-jordan-
goes-nuclear-rod-rosenstein-trump-hating-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-
video/

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Here are 18 questions asked by US Rep. Jim Jordan:
1) Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, author of the
dossier?
2) Was the dossier the basis for securing FISA warrants
to spy on Americans? And why won’t the FBI show
Congress the FISA application?
3) When did the FBI get the complete dossier and who
gave it to them? Dossier author Christopher Steele?
Fusion GPS? Clinton campaign/DNC? Sen. McCain’s
staffer?
4) Did the FBI validate and corroborate the dossier?
5) Did Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, or Bruce Orr work on the
FISA application?
6) Why and how often did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet
with dossier author Christopher Steele during the 2016
campaign?
7) Why did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet with Fusion GPS
founder Glenn Simpson after the election? To get their
story straight after their candidate Clinton lost? Or to
double down and plan how they were going to go after
President-elect Trump?
8) When and how did the FBI learn that DOJ lawyer Bruce
Orr’s wife, Nellie Orr, worked for Fusion GPS? And
what exactly was Nellie Orr’s role in putting together
the dossier?
9) Why did the FBI release text messages between Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page? Normally, ongoing investigation
is reason not to make such information public.
10) And why did FBI release only 375/10,000+ texts? Were
they the best? Worst? Or part of a broader strategy to
focus attention away from something else? And when
can Americans see the other 96% of texts
11) Why did Lisa Page leave Mueller probe two weeks
before Peter Strzok? This was two weeks before FBI
and Special Counsel even knew about the texts.
12) Why did the intelligence community wait two months
after the election to brief President-elect Trump on the
dossier (January 6, 2017)? Why was James Comey
selected to do the briefing?
13) Was the briefing done to “legitimize” the dossier? And
who leaked the fact that the briefing was about the
dossier?
14) The New York Times reported last week that George
Papadopoulos’ loose lips were a catalyst for launching
the Russia investigation. Was President-elect Trump
briefed on this?
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15) Why did Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson meet
with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya before and
after her meeting with Donald Trump Jr.?
16) Why was FBI General Counsel Jim Baker reassigned
two weeks ago? Was he the source for the first story
on the dossier by David Corn on October 31, 2016? Or
was it someone else at the FBI?
17) Why won’t the FBI give Congress the documents it’s
requesting?
18) And why would Senator Schumer, leader of the
Democrat party, publicly warn President-elect Trump
on Jan. 3, 2017 that when you mess with the
“intelligence community, they have six ways from
Sunday at getting back at you?”
Insouciant trusting gullible Americans who “believe in our
government” have no comprehension how totally corrupt
“their” government is. It is the most corrupt in the world.
The corruption in Washington is really unbelievable. You
have to experience it to know it, and those who experience
it are part of it and will not tell.
The orchestration “Russiagate” proves
that the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI are so
corrupt and unaccountable that they
comprise the greatest threat to the
American people in the entire history of
America.
The only solution is to break these agencies into a
thousand splinters, as President John F. Kennedy intended,
and rebuild them from scratch with total transparency. No
more protecting their vast crimes under the cloak of
“national security.” No classification of any so-called
intelligence unless it can pass a unanimous vote of
Congress and the ACLU.
The orchestration of Russiagate is proof
that the alleged “national security
agencies” are an anti-American force
detrimental to our survival as a free
people. The criminals in the FBI, CIA,
and DNC must be investigated, indicted,
prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned
or freedom in America is forever dead.
If President Trump fails in this task, he will have failed
America. Everyone of us will be the victims.
 Feinstein Unilaterally Posts Full Testimony
Of Fusion GPS Founder, Grassley Furious
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 14:31
Just four days after two GOP Senators asked the DOJ to
launch a criminal probe of Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6
British spy who was the author of the Trump dossier, and
which according to many served as the basis for the
Russian collusion probe, on Tuesday afternoon Senator
Dianne Feinstein circumvented her Republican colleagues
on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday and
unilaterally released the full 312-page transcript of the
committee's closed-door interview with Glenn Simpson, a
former journalist and co-founder of Fusion GPS, which
commissioned the controversial Donald Trump's dossier
about alleged connections with Russians.
Glenn Simpson on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2017
The unexpected release, which came after a tense back-
and-forth between Republicans and Democrats over what
to do with the transcript of Simpson’s interview, follows
Fusion GPS' demand last week that the full transcript be
released, sparking a fight with Judiciary Chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) over who was standing in the way of
the document being released. The Senate Judiciary
Committee interviewed Simpson on August 22, 2017 as
part of its investigation into Russia's election interference.
That confrontation heated up last week after Simpson and
his Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch penned an op-ed
in The New York Times calling on the three congressional
committees who have interviewed Fusion GPS employees
to release transcripts of the interviews. Grassley, the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, balked at the
idea, saying that the transcript needed to remain
confidential while the panel is interviewing other
witnesses.
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Curiously, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat
on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has also
interviewed members of Fusion GPS, also appeared to
back Grassley’s rationale last week. He said that he would
like Fusion partners to appear for public testimony.
In a statement, Feinstein said that she released Simpson’s
testimony after conferring with her fellow committee
Democrats.
“The American people deserve the
opportunity to see what he said and judge
for themselves. The innuendo and
misinformation circulating about the
transcript are part of a deeply troubling
effort to undermine the investigation into
potential collusion and obstruction of
justice. The only way to set the record
straight is to make the transcript public.”
Needless to say, Grassley was furious after Feinstein's
publication, stating that it is
"totally confounding that Senator
Feinstein would unilaterally release a
transcript of a witness interview in the
middle of an ongoing investigation"
and that
"Her action undermines the integrity of the
committee’s oversight work and
jeopardizes its ability to secure candid
voluntary testimony relating to the
independent recollections of future
witnesses."
Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Judiciary Chairman Chuck
Grassley, blasted Feinstein’s decision to release the
transcript unilaterally, saying it could reduce the prospects
for other witnesses, such as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, to agree to meet with the panel.
“Her action undermines the integrity of the
committee’s oversight work and
jeopardizes its ability to secure candid
voluntary testimony relating to the
 independent recollections of future
witnesses,” Foy said in an emailed
statement.

There are some snarkier takes on the Fusion GPS demand

to have the transcript released: as Sean Davis of the
Federalist notes,

"At the demand of Fusion GPS,

@SenFeinstein put Fusion GPS's
testimony on her website. In the interest of
transparency. While redacting the names of
Fusion's partners. Amazing."
As Davis also adds,

"It's almost like Fusion GPS was more

interested in aligning future DOJ witness
testimony with its own claims than it was
with actual transparency."

As for Simpson, he has emerged as the central figure in the

probes into Russian election interference after his firm

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helped assemble a controversial dossier tying President
Trump to Russia. Former British spy Christopher Steele
compiled the document, which includes unverified
allegations against Trump and his links to Moscow.
As Bloomberg adds, Republicans and Democrats tangled
in recent weeks over the origins of the dossier, which was
funded in part by Trump’s political opponents,
and how the FBI and other agencies
may have used the dossier in their
investigations.
“The innuendo and misinformation
circulating about the transcript are part of a
deeply troubling effort to undermine the
investigation into potential collusion and
obstruction of justice," Feinstein said in a
statement. “The only way to set the record
straight is to make the transcript public.”
The full transcript details Glenn Simpson's August 22
interview. It shows that Simpson told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that the author of the dossier,
former British spy Christopher Steele,
decided to approach the FBI in July
2016 to brief the bureau on his findings
about Trump.
"He thought from his perspective there was
an issue -- a security issue about whether a
presidential candidate was being
blackmailed,” Simpson said. He added that
when Steele met with an FBI official in
September, the official told Steele the
bureau "had other intelligence about this
matter from an internal Trump campaign
source."
The marathon conversation between Simpson and
lawmakers touched on delicate territory while leaving
tantalizing details hanging, including the identity of a
person inside the Trump circle who Simpson says provided
information to U.S. investigators. Simpson, a former
journalist who co-founded Fusion GPS, denied strongly in
the interview that the dossier was phony.
“We can argue about what’s prudent
and what’s not, but it’s not a
fabrication,” he said.
Simpson also told the committee that he became
increasingly concerned about potential Trump connections
to Russia during the summer of 2016.
“To me this was like, you know, you’re
driving to work and you see something
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happen and you call 911, right,” Simpson
said.
Over that period, he said,
“the situation with the hacking of the
Democrats and the efforts by the Russians
to influence the election and the possibility
the Trump Organization was, in fact, doing
things to curry favor with the Russians
became more and more serious, as
external developments occurred.”
Asked what he meant, Simpson pointed to Carter Page, a
Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who showed up in
Moscow to give a speech; unexplained changes to the
Republican Party platform ahead of the GOP convention;
and that Trump
“continues to say mysterious things about
what a great guy Putin is.”
Simpson said he had asked Steele at one point during the
summer of 2016 if he’d ever heard back from the FBI
following that initial July meeting
“because it was obvious there was a crime
in progress.” Simpson said the crime he
was referring to was “espionage -- they
were hacking into the computers of
Democrats and think tanks.”
***
As is widely known, Fusion was initially hired by
conservative website, Washington Free Beacon, during the
Republican primaries to dig up dirt on Trump.
Later in the 2016 presidential campaign,
Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton and
the Democratic National Committee paid
Fusion GPS through a law firm for some
of the research that resulted in the
dossier.
But as Bloomberg notes, in the August interview,
Simpson and his lawyer, asked
repeatedly who commissioned research
into the presidential candidate, declined
to name them.
Simpson also demurred when asked to provide specifics
about people who provided information to Steele. The ex-
intelligence official was adept at gleaning information
about Russia, where disinformation is a known pitfall,
Simpson said.
 When Simpson was asked to detail
steps Steele took to verify his sources’
credibility, his lawyer cut in to stop the
line of questioning.

The 35-page report drew on information from Russian

contacts and concluded that Russia had been “cultivating,
supporting and assisting” Trump for at least five years and
fed his campaign “valuable intelligence” about Clinton.

Trump has derided the findings, as recently as Dec. 26

when he wrote on Twitter:

“‘Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC

funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of
this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER
OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI
TAINTED.’ And they used this Crooked
Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for
going after the Trump Campaign!”

***

Finally, and speaking of transparency, see if you can spot

it in the examples below:

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 As noted above, according to the transcript, Steele said that
he approached the FBI because he believed there were
issue involving national security:

Steele also said he went to the FBI, worried that Trump

was being blackmailed

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 ... With Steele later suggesting that the FBI had a source
inside the Trump organization.

Ironically, Steele said he stopped dealing with FBI just

before 2016 election, worried FBI "was being
manipulated" by 'Trump people.'

Full transcript will follow in next book. It is 315 pages!

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 Steve Bannon Is
Stepping Down From Breitbart
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 16:14
Just days after President Trump snubbed an olive branch
offered by his former chief strategist and putative "alter-
ego", the New York Times is reporting that Steve Bannon -
the "alt-right" icon and former Trump campaign manager -
is stepping down from his position as executive chairman
of Breitbart News.
Trump blasted Bannon in a public statement last week,
saying the former senior White House official and - briefly
- member of the National Security Council - "lost his
mind" after Trump fired him. Bannon and the president
had an abrupt falling out last week after excerpts from
Michael Wolff's controversial book "Fire And Fury" - his
account of the first year of the Trump administration -
revealed Bannon making several embarrassing on-the-
record statements. In one, he said Don. Jr.'s decision to
organize the Russia meeting was "treasonous", and that
President Trump definitely knew about the meeting. In
another, he reportedly told Wolff that the possibility of
removing Trump via the 25th amendment is discussed
daily in the West Wing.
Breitbart published a terse statement about Bannon's
departure on its website. It was stocked with several
wooden platitudes from CEO Larry Solov:
Stephen K. Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News
Network, where he served as Executive Chairman since
2012.
Bannon and Breitbart will work together on a smooth and
orderly transition.
Bannon said,
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“I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has
accomplished in so short a period of time in
building out a world-class news platform.”
According to Breitbart CEO Larry Solov,
“Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and
we will always be grateful for his
contributions, and what he has helped us to
accomplish.”
Incidentally, the top-rated comment under that article is:
Steve is a great guy but he dug his own
grave ....what else can I say.
According to the Times, Bannon's departure was forced by
Robert Mercer, a one-time patron who distanced himself
from Bannon and abruptly retracted his financial backing
(including dropping payment for Bannon's security detail)
because of a detail in Wolff's book whereby Bannon told
friends that the Mercers would back him if he decided to
challenge President Trump in 2020.
Trump has reportedly been making calls, asking all of his
friends and political allies to turn their backs on Bannon.
For his part, Bannon took to Breitbart radio earlier this
week to publicly affirm his support for the president. Even
though the two men publicly feuded this year following his
firing - most notably over Bannon's early support for
former Republican senate candidate Roy Moore - Bannon
has persistently proclaimed in public that Americans
should "thank God" that Trump is president.
For Bannon, it was too little too late.
And the front page of Breitbart right now:
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 Tucker Carlson To Trump On DACA Remarks:
‘What Was The Point Of Running For President?’
By Jeff Poor
9 Jan 2018
Tuesday during a monologue on his Fox News Channel
show, host Tucker Carlson criticized President Donald
Trump for what seemed to be a different approach to how
to handle immigration in a meeting that aired to the public
with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders on the
issue.
Carlson questioned that approach, which was apparently
much softer on the issue than what he had run on during
the 2016 presidential campaign.
Partial transcript as follows:
In 2016, Donald Trump ran on the premise
that America’s borders ought to be real.
That the repeated amnesties of the past
have betrayed voters and that this country
deserves immigration policy that looks out
.
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for American interests rather than those of
foreign countries. Almost nobody in
Washington agreed with him at the time.
Almost nobody in Washington agrees with
him now.
Congress is full of people from both parties
who believe that the point of our
immigration policy is to provide cheap labor
to their donors and to atone for America’s
imaginary sins against the world. They
couldn’t care less about immigration’s
effect on you or your family. Yet, these are
the same people the president now says he
trusts to write the immigration bills — the
one he will sign no matter what it says. So,
what was the point of running for
president?
You will remember the president also ran
on his skills as a negotiator and he clearly
has skills as a negotiator. Where were they
today? The president signaled he’d be
happy to legalize hundreds of thousands of
illegal immigrants now and that at some
point in the future tackle all that other stuff
like making sure they can’t bring millions of
their relatives from the Third World along
with them. That’s not much of a
negotiation.
 Twenty-Year-Old Video Shows How Bill Clinton LIED
About North Korea, But Donald Trump Was Right
By Jayson Veley
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
In a social media post published late last month, President
Donald Trump reminded the entire world that he has been
warning of the North Korean nuclear threat for nearly
twenty years now.
The tweet came in the form of a video, which starts out
with a clip of then-President Bill Clinton announcing a
1994 deal with the North Korean regime that was meant to
halt their nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid
from the United States. “This is a good deal for the United
States,” Clinton says in the clip. “North Korea will freeze
and then dismantle its nuclear program.” The former
president added that South Korea and other allies of the
U.S. would be better protected because of the deal, and
that “the entire world will be safer” as the world’s arsenal
of nuclear weapons is decreased.
Next is a clip of Donald Trump from 18 years ago, where
he says during an interview on Meet the Press, “The
biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation.
And we have a country out there, North Korea, which is
sort of whacko… and they are going out and they are
developing nuclear weapons.” Trump then posed the
following question regarding taking military action against
North Korea: “Do you want to do it in five years when
they have warheads all over the place, every one of them
pointing to New York City, to Washington… ?” He
concludes by stating that it’s “better to do it now” rather
than to wait for the North Korean regime to grow stronger.
If you fast-forward to today, then it becomes obvious that
the warning Trump issued in that interview on Meet the
Press was almost prophetic. We haven’t dealt with North
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Korea properly, and as a result, the regime now has
nuclear missiles that they can use against the United States
and our allies.
Just weeks ago, on December 29, the Los Angeles Times
published a story with the headline, “2017 Was the Year
when North Korea Became a Threat to the U.S.
Mainland.” In it, columnist Matt Stiles explains that the
psychopathic leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, started
off 2017 by announcing his intentions of developing an
intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable of reaching
the United States, and that as the year unfolded, it became
obvious that Kim stuck to his resolution.
As the Los Angeles Times points out, in the year 2017,
Kim Jong-Un overcame several technological hurdles and
was ultimately able to test launch at least 17 ballistic
missiles, while simultaneously exchanging rhetoric and
provocative remarks with the President of the United
States, Donald Trump.
Two of the regime’s most successful missile tests came in
the second half of 2017. The first, which occurred on July
4, was North Korea’s first launch of an intercontinental
ballistic missile, which flew over 1,700 miles into space
for roughly 40 minutes before landing in the waters east of
the peninsula. (Related: There are growing fears of World
War III as North Korea tests an ICBM that can “hit
anywhere in the world.”)
Then, towards the end of November, the North Koreans
launched its most powerful ICBM to date, which had the
ability to reach Washington D.C. The regime attached a
heavy warhead to the missile to replicate a nuclear device,
which was seen by many Americans as a sign that the
North wouldn’t hesitate to drop a nuclear weapon on the
mainland. (Related: North Korea can now kill off 90
percent of the population with a single warhead.)
If people didn’t listen to Donald Trump 18 years ago, then
perhaps now, with North Korea developing ballistic
missiles capable of reaching the United States, they will
start to do just that. Indeed, when it comes to Kim Jong-Un
and his regime, military action is starting to become not
just a possibility, but a necessity.
 Matthews Touts Wolff’s ‘Blocks Of Reality’;
Falsely Claims Bannon ‘Created’ Breitbart
By Curtis Houck
January 9, 2018 8:31 PM EST
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff stopped by Tuesday’s
Hardball for his latest interview and he used the chance to
lament with host Chris Matthews that it’s “a tragedy” that
Steve Bannon has been ousted from Breitbart but Donald
Trump hasn’t been removed from the presidency.
Right off the bat, Matthews pushed some fake news in
wondering what Wolff made about the Bannon news,
asserting that
“Bannon is gone from Breitbart,” which
is a “thing he created.”
Unless Matthews has been living under a rock in the
Potomac, Breitbart has its name because it was founded by
the late Andrew Breitbart.
A basic Google search would tell you that,
but perhaps we should cut Chris some
slack since he might have something else
on his mind.
Wolff rolled with the question anyway, responding that
“I'm thinking that the — that the real
villain of the book who is Donald Trump
is still ensconced in the White House.
So it's a — it’s a little bit of a tragedy
here.”
Matthews asked “for whom” this is “a
tragedy” and Wolff responded that it’s “a
tragedy” “for the American people” that
Bannon is gone while Trump stays in office.
Again, this is a guy who claimed that
he “has no political agenda.”
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Behind this, in being the most interesting part in the
interview, was Matthews’s praise for the controversial and
error-laden book by a man he deemed a modern-day Joe
McGinniss, claiming that he
“love[s] the facts in your book because
it is a non-fiction book with a lot of
facts.”
“We can argue around the edges, but
the facts are like giant blocks of reality,”
Matthews foolishly claimed.
Also during the segment, the MSNBC host
blasted Trump for “trying to create a
Potemkin village” in the form of the
bipartisan immigration meeting “to offset
the portrait” spun in Wolff’s book. Wolff
agreed, stating that it was “the weirdest
thing I've ever seen.”
Later, after he insinuated that Trump was like a Twilight
Zone character with special powers who could
“kill anybody he wanted to” if he wasn’t
sufficiently praised, Matthews turned to
“the cold, scary part of your book” about
Trump’s mental well-being.
Matthews wondered if Trump was able to
“show reasonable judgment, coolness
under pressure, and recognition of
consequences by the people around
him,” to which Wolff not surprisingly
replied was not possible.
To cap off the lovefest, Matthews responded to Wolff’s
point about how Bannon and Reince Priebus became
surprising allies in the White House by resurrecting his
quip about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump being the
U.S. equivalent of Saddam Hussein’s murderous sons:
“I guess when you're dealing with Uday
and Qusay every day, you do find
common purposes.”
Here’s the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
January 9:
MSNBC’s Hardball
January 9, 2018
7:02 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Michael, what do you think when you watch
this today with the announcement that Trum [sic] — that Bannon
is gone from Breitbart? His post, the thing he created?
MICHAEL WOLFF: I'm thinking that the — that the real villain of
the book who is Donald Trump is still ensconced in the White
House. So it's a — it’s a little bit of a tragedy here.
MATTHEWS: For whom?
WOLF: For —
MATTHEWS: For the country?
WOLFF: For the American people, yes.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the President's performance
today. Out of nowhere, a press spray that usually lasts in the
seconds, where they let the cameras in, he makes some burping
sounds to the press, and they're gone. This time, I thought, to
make up for the portrayal you have given of him — given of him
in the book, and maybe a very accurate one, he tried to show a
very different picture of an equanimity — of a calm, collected,
reasonable, open to the negotiations, perfect being out there, just
for the cameras. Do you think he's trying to create a Potemkin
village to offset the portrait you wrote in the book?
WOLFF: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean — there could — what else
could there be here? I mean, remember, just the other day, he
was just assuring us that he was — he was sane and stable, so
this is — this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
(....)
MATTHEWS: It reminds me of that Twilight episode, way back in
the 60s, where there’s this kid with auto-kinetic powers.
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Ferocious kid with no mental or emotional development, who can
kill anybody he wanted to, destroy their lives terrifically, and
everybody just pandered to him, pacified him. It’s like there’s an
eight-year-old in that West Wing, and everybody around him is
scared to death he’ll do something really destructive if they don’t
please him that moment. Did you see that Twilight episode back
then? Cause that’s what it reminds me of.
WOLFF: I certainly did. We're of a similar generation, but I think
it's a little different than that.
(....)
MATTHEWS: And now we come to the cold, scary part of your
book. The fitness question. It seems to me, and I thought about
this no — just a couple of moments, I think it's what most people
would come to mind if they're thinking about, what does a
president have to be....Does Trump have the ability to show
reasonable judgment, coolness under pressure, and recognition
of consequences by the people around him?
WOLFF: He — I think that's a — that's a — a fine and perfect list
and on each point, he does not have that attribute.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about the thing that — I love the facts in
your book because it is a non-fiction book with a lot of facts. We
can argue around the edges, but the facts are like giant blocks of
reality.
(....)
MATTHEWS: By the way, you remind me of the great reporter,
Joe McGinniss, who really started this behind-the-lines kind of
reporting with Jeffrey MacDonald, before that with the Nixon
people and selling of the press, where he went in there and had
an indefinite role, nobody knew who he was, but somehow he got
clearance, and somehow, thanks to Roger Ailes and other
people, he told the whole story of how Nixon put together that
phoney baloney campaign in '68.
(....)
 MATTHEWS: I saw that.

WOLFF: I think that they became quite good friends, because

they understood. They understood this was a — this was an
entirely anomalymous [sic] situation that they had found
themselves in and it was coming apart.

MATTHEWS: I guess when you're dealing with Uday and Qusay

every day, you do find common purposes.

WOLFF: But gradually, it was actually Priebus and — Reince

Priebus and Steve Bannon had an enormous amount of — they
were polarized, let's say in the early months of the administration
and they actually came together.
.

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 Fusion GPS Lawyer :
"Somebody's Already Been Killed"
Because Of Trump Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 15:51
CNN and Buzzfeed were widely criticized by politicians
and pundits on both the right and left one year ago when
they recklessly published the infamous “Trump dossier”,
which contained a multitude of unverified and dubious
claims about President Trump. Buzzfeed in particular is
still grappling with a lawsuit filed by Aleksej Gubarev, a
Russian technology executive who claims he was libeled
by the dossier, even though Buzzfeed redacted his name,
and the names of his companies.
But a report in the Hill on Tuesday revealed that not only
was the publication of the dossier potentially slanderous –
it may also have been deadly.
Testimony from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s
closed-door meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee,
which took place last August, revealed that Simpson’s
legal team is aware that “somebody’s already been killed”
because of the dossier’s publication.
A lawyer for Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion
GPS, told congressional investigators that “somebody’s
already been killed” as a result of the publication of the
controversial dossier tying President Trump to Russia.
In closed-door testimony with the Senate Judiciary
Committee last year, Simpson was asked by investigators
if Fusion GPS took steps to “assess the credibility” of
sources used by former British intelligence officer
Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier.
“Yes, but I’m not going to get into
sourcing information,” Simpson replied.
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Simpson then declined to answer a follow-up question.
When asked why he was declining to answer, his attorney,
Joshua Levy, said Simpson "wants to be very careful to
protect his sources."
"Somebody’s already been killed as a
result of the publication of this dossier,
and no harm should come to anybody
related to this honest work," Levy added.
Simpson had previously declined to answer another
question posed by the committee’s investigators, citing
"security."
It was not immediately clear who Levy was referring to,
although according to the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross,
"it's been theorized that this is ex-KGB guy
Oleg Erovkinin, who was chief of staff to
Igor Sechin. But he was killed under
suspicious circumstances on Dec. 26,
2016, before the dossier was published."
As the Hill further adds, some of the allegations in the
dossier have been shown to be false, while others have
either been supported by public evidence or remain
unproven. It’s widely believed that the document was
central to the FBI’s decision to launch what eventually
morphed into the probe being led by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller.
Earlier on Tuesday, in an unexpectedly move, California
Sen. Dianne Feinstein unilaterally published the full 312-
page transcript of Simpson’s testimony to the fury of
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley,
who accused her of interfering with the committee’s
investigation. But the timing is also curious:
Four days ago, two Republican senators
asked the DOJ to open a criminal
investigation into former MI6 agent
Christopher Steele. Steele was famously
.
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hired by Fusion to compile the dossier
after Fusion GPS was retained.
Perhaps that request should be widened to include the
editors at Buzzfeed and CNN who were responsible for the
document’s publication?
 Scarborough Admits: No 'Objective
Evidence' That Trump Mentally Unfit
By Chris Reeves
January 9, 2018 4:27 PM EST

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and this was the rub–but when I decide I am
Mika Brzezinski once again tried to peddle the notion that back in form, I'll take it back. That's the
President Trump is mentally ill and thus unfit to be question. What if a president shouldn't
President of the United States. be the judge of that case?

However, in contrast to previous broadcasts, after running [end clip]

a prepared segment calling for mandatory mental health
evaluations for presidents and presidential candidates, Joe MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Right. That was historian Jon
and Mika got pushback from guest panelist Jeff Meacham on our show yesterday speaking about the
Greenfield, who argued that foundations of the 25th Amendment, which formalized the
process of presidential succession during a health crisis.
“attempting to assess an emotional or
mental state of a president” is The discussion left us wondering: Is it
potentially “very dicey” because “the time to ask more of our potential
psychologists who might be doing that commanders-in-chiefs [sic] to put into
study” could be “bringing their own law what they tell us about their health?
political values into it.”
[playing prepared segment]
In a stunning admission that contradicted Scarborough’s
numerous past attempts to paint Trump as sociopathic,
homicidally insane, and suffering from predementia, Joe
responded to Greenfield’s arguments by conceding that in
regards to these sorts of claims about Trump’s mental
instability:

“You have to have [...] objective

evidence, the sort of objective evidence
that we do not have and most likely will
not have.”

The prepared segment calling for a new presidential

mental health evaluation law that led to Scarborough’s
frank confession used past examples of presidents [Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
concealing physical and mental health conditions from the
American public to suggest that Trump might be doing the DONALD TRUMP: We need stamina.
same thing today:
[transition]
[clip from Morning Joe’s January 8, 2018 broadcast]
BRZEZINSKI: After fitness to serve became a closing argument
JON MEACHAM: President Eisenhower, in his campaign.
uh, remember, had a heart attack in 1955
and a stroke in 1957. And Eisenhower, who [Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
tended to always put the, uh, national
interest ahead of his own, sat down and TRUMP: She can't make it fifteen feet to her car.
wrote a letter to Richard Nixon, his vice
president, saying: Here's what we're gonna
do. Uh, if I'm incapacitated for a period of [transition]
time, you step in. Uh, but when–and this,
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BRZEZINSKI: Donald Trump will go to Walter Reed for a physical BRZEZINSKI: And diet of fast food were raised during the
evaluation on Friday. campaign.

[Trump speech from October 1, 2016] [clip from CNN, February 2016]

TRUMP: Give me a break. TRUMP: Kentucky Fried Chicken–not the worst thing in the
world.
[transition]
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: Amid new concern over the President's
stability. BRZEZINSKI: And besides some additional details, the candidate
only provided a letter with his doctor's bizarre claims.
[Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
[clip from Morning Joe’s December 15, 2015 broadcast]
TRUMP: She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy.
BRZEZINSKI: [...] unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual
[transition] ever elected [...]

BRZEZINSKI: After a shocking week with tweets about [transition]

nuclear war.
BRZEZINSKI: Which even the doctor would distance himself
[clip from Morning Joe’s January 3, 2018 broadcast] from.

KATTY KAY: Comparing the size of his nuclear button with the [clip from NBC News August 26, 2016 report]
dictator of North Korea.
NBC: Is that the way that you write most of your medical letters?
[transition]
DR. HAROLD BORNSTEIN: No, but for Mr. Trump, I wrote that
BRZEZINSKI: His mental abilities. letter that one [...]

[clip from Morning Joe’s January 8, 2018 broadcast] [transition]

BRZEZINSKI: Genius, a very stable genius at that.
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: And devastating claims denied by the White
House.
[clip from Morning Joe’s January 4, 2018 broadcast]
KASIE HUNT: Trump failed to recognize a succession of old
friends.
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: President Trump's age.
[clip from Dr. Oz Show’s September 15, 2016 broadcast]
MEHMET OZ: At age 70, you will be the oldest person to ever
enter the Oval Office.
BRZEZINSKI: Recent presidents and candidates have released
certain health records, but, like tax returns, there is no law
formally mandating disclosure. Presidents from FDR to JFK
to Reagan have told the public only what they wanted them
to know about their health. And with Democrats who will be in
their early to late 70s if they run in three years...
[clip from MTP Daily’s December 27, 2016 broadcast]
PETER ALEXANDER: Harry Reid referred to [...] the potential
Democratic 2020 presidential field as an old folk's home.
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: Now may be the time to formally establish what
we should know about the health of our president and
presidential candidates.
[repeating Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
TRUMP: She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy.

[transition] [end of prepared segment]

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Scarborough then introduced Greenfield and USA Today GREENFIELD: Right.
Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page onto the show, and
Greenfield made his argument for being more judicious about SCARBOROUGH: -and as you go to mental with Donald Trump,-
applying mental illness labels to the President. Scarborough
appeared to concede most of Greenfield’s points as the
GREENFIELD: But-.
segment progressed:
SCARBOROUGH: -this is something, as somebody said
SCARBOROUGH: So, we didn't know so much about John
yesterday: You better have national consensus,-
Kennedy's health when Kennedy was president. We didn't know
Ronald Reagan's battles, uh, in the later, latter part of his
presidency. Should we? Should we have a, a, a yearly GREENFIELD: And you-.
checkup,-
SCARBOROUGH: -an overwhelming majority of Americans.
BRZEZINSKI: [sarcasm] That’s very tough.
GREENFIELD: And at some -- one psychologist wrote that he's
SCARBOROUGH: -medical checkup? perfectly prepared, from a distance, to look at Trump and say:
This guy is a narcissist times a hundred. That doesn't necessarily
mean mental illness. Uh, and I'm, I’m one of those people
JEFF GREENFIELD: You get into a real problem when you
who’s very reluctant as a, you know, non-practi-, liberal arts
distinguish between physical and mental problems.
major-

BRZEZINSKI: [softly] Yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: Right.

GREENFIELD: When -- most of the in-, most of the Democratic

GREENFIELD: -to assess psychologically. I think -- I'm
party insiders knew in 1944 that FDR was not gonna live out a
perfectly prepared as a journalist to look at what he says and
fourth term. That's why the Vice President's deal was so hard.
say: He's a fabulist. He makes stuff up.
And you go back to Grover Cleveland, who had emergency, uh,
cancer surgery. Public was kept in the dark. Woodrow Wilson’s
stroke. My concern is–when you move from that area to an SCARBOROUGH: Right.
attempting to assess an emotional or mental state of a
president, you get into very dicey areas. You worry about GREENFIELD: He doesn't know much. Narcissism, you know --
whether or not the, the psychologists who might be doing my 8 year-old grandson can figure that one out. I, I just worry
that study are bringing their own political values into it. about how this is supposed to happen.

BRZEZINSKI: M-hm. Seemingly submitting to Greenfield’s arguments, Scarborough

finally made his admission: “You have to have–Susan Page, it
SCARBOROUGH: Right. seems to me–objective evidence, the sort of objective
evidence that we do not have and most likely will not have.”
GREENFIELD: I mean, is it crazy to believe certain political
views? They still are in the shadow of the 1964 magazine The morning co-host then shifted the conversation to Page, who
when Barry Goldwater- ended up making her own case that, in the end, “the ultimate
check on a president is the one with voters. Voters get to look
at a candidate, uh, in stressful circumstances, in debates, giving,
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
doing events during the campaign, and make a judgment about
whether this is someone they trust mentally, physically, politically,
GREENFIELD: -was deemed mentally unfit by a group of to be their leader. That's really been the ultimate check in
psychiatrists who never saw him. American politics.”

SCARBOROUGH: I was just gonna, I was-.

GREENFIELD: [Goldwater] Sued for libel and won.

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: I was just going to bring up the Goldwater

rule. There is a reason why the Goldrod-, water rule still stays
with us, because when you go from physical to mental, as you
say,-

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On Friday, Scarborough used his show to promote Michael
Wolff’s book Fire and Fury as one where “every page really
rings true.” Yesterday, Joe and Mika interviewed Wolff and once
again promoted his book as one whose “spirit” was
“completely true.” During their interview, Wolff said that the “big
picture” of his book was the notion that “[e]verybody in this
White House, and I keep saying this, 100% [...] of the people
closest [...] to Donald Trump, believe that there is [...]
something fundamentally wrong [with him], something that
scares them.”
.
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Last November, in a widely reported episode, Scarborough
claimed that he had sources “close to” the President who said
that candidate Trump showed symptoms of the “early stages of
dementia.” The next day, Scarborough used his claim of Trump
having predementia to promote military insubordination towards
the President among the leadership of U.S. nuclear defense
forces.
If Scarborough does not believe that he has objective evidence to
back up these kinds of assertions, why have he and his show’s
other co-hosts and guests repeatedly called Trump’s sanity into
question?
 Tucker Carlson To Trump: ‘Not Allowed
To Blow’ DACA, Overhaul Of ENTIRE
Immigration System
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
“Amnesty for DACA recipients is the only
leverage the White House has”
(National Sentinel) Immigration Reformed: On his
Tuesday evening program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson
took President Donald Trump to task for appearing to
agree to an immigration bill that would allow DACA
recipients a clear path to citizenship, in exchange for
nothing from Democrats who are pushing for that very
thing.
“Congress is full of people from both
parties who believe that the point of our
immigration policy is to provide cheap labor
to their donors and to atone for America’s
imaginary sins against the world,” Carlson
said.
“They couldn’t care less about
immigration’s effect on you or your family–
these are the same people the president
now says he trusts to write the immigration
bill, the one he will sign no matter what it
says. So what was the point of running for
president?”
Continuing, the Fox News host noted,
“You will remember the president also ran
on his skills as a negotiator, and he clearly
has skills as a negotiator. But where were
they today?
“The president signaled he’d be happy to
legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal
immigrants now and that at some point in
the future tackle all that other stuff like
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making sure they can’t bring millions
of their relatives from the third world along
with them. That’s not much of
a negotiation,” he said.
“Amnesty for DACA recipients is the only
leverage the White House has. Once the
president agrees to let them jump to the
head of the line, ahead of millions of other
people hoping to come here legally,
the negotiation is over,” Carlson added. “At
that point, why would Democrats agree to
anything? Ending chain migration,
the diversity lottery, supporting a merit
based system that might actually help
America? No chance.”
The hosted noted further,
“The Democrats’ goal is to import more
Democratic voters, and by any
means necessary. Once they retake the
Congress and the presidency, and if Trump
betrays his base on immigration–
that’ll definitely happen–it is over.
“Say goodbye to borders, they are done.
Keep in mind that the top Democrat in the
house recently thanked illegal aliens for
sneaking into this country. That’s how
Democrats feel and they’re not
pretending anymore,” he said.
Carlson then used a baseball analogy to describe what it
means to be a supporter of the president.
“Being a Trump voter isn’t always easy, it’s
like rooting for the underdog in baseball,
the old Chicago Cubs. On one level there is
pride, the pride that comes from doing
something that fashionable people consider
insane, and that’s a good feeling.
“But there’s also some disappointment
along the way and honestly, there is
some embarrassment,” he continued. “But
you silently bear it because you know that
 when they finally win the World Series it will
be worth everything you went through.
Every sarcastic dig from your brother-in-law
at Thanksgiving will seem small by
comparison. In the Trump presidency, the
World Series is this immigration bill.
“It’s the big payoff, the whole point of
the exercise, and they’re not allowed
to blow it,” he concluded.

Watch:

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 Fusion GPS Admits They Used John McCain
To Pass Anti-Trump Dossier To Obama-Era Intel Agencies
By Aaron Klein
10 Jan 2018
EILAT, Israel — The founders of the
controversial opposition research firm
Fusion GPS admitted that they helped
the researcher hired to compile the
infamous, largely discredited 35-page
dossier on President Donald Trump to
share the document with Sen. John
McCain.
The goal of providing the dossier to McCain, the Fusion
GPS founders explained, was to pass the information
contained in the questionable document to the U.S.
intelligence community under the Obama administration.
The disclosure raises questions about whether McCain
knew that the information he delivered to the intelligence
community was actually an opposition document
reportedly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee.
McCain’s office did not reply yesterday to a Breitbart
News request for comment on the matter.
Last December, it was revealed that it was McCain who
notoriously passed the controversial dossier documents
produced by the Washington opposition research firm
Fusion GPS to then FBI Director James Comey, whose
agency reportedly utilized the dossier as a basis for its
probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.
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Writing in a New York Times oped last Tuesday, Fusion
GPS founders Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritch relate
that they helped McCain share their anti-Trump dossier
with the intelligence community via an “emissary.”
“After the election, Mr. Steele decided to
share his intelligence with Senator John
McCain via an emissary,” the Fusion GPS
founders related. “We helped him do that.
The goal was to alert the United States
national security community to an attack on
our country by a hostile foreign power.”
It was not clear from their statement whether McCain
knew Fusion GPS was behind the dossier. Fusion GPS
paid former intelligence agent Christopher Steele to do the
purported research for the document. Steele
later conceded in court documents that part of his work
still needed to be verified.
Breitbart News sent the following questions to McCain’s
office but did not receive a reply before press time:
“Given that Fusion GPS is openly an
opposition research firm, did Sen. McCain
know that he was sharing political
opposition research on Trump with the intel
community? Did he know the dossier was
partially funded by the DNC and Hillary
Clinton’s campaign?”
In October, the Washington Post reported that in April
2016, attorney Marc E. Elias and his law firm, Perkins
Coie retained Fusion GPS to conduct the questionable
anti-Trump work on behalf of both the Clinton campaign
and the DNC. Through Perkins Coie, Clinton’s campaign
and the DNC continued to fund Fusion GPS until October
2016, days before Election Day, the Post reported.
On January 10, CNN was first to report, based on leaked
information, that the contents of the dossier were presented
during classified briefings one week earlier to then-
president Obama and president-elect Trump.
Just after CNN’s January 10 report on the classified
briefings about the dossier, BuzzFeed published its full
unverified contents.
In October, McCain denied providing the dossier to
BuzzFeed and said that he only gave the material to the
FBI.
“I gave it to no one except for the director
of the FBI. I don’t know why you’re digging
this up now,” McCain told the Daily Caller
during what the news website described as
a testy exchange.
While the Fusion GPS oped sheds some light on the
manner in which McCain obtained the dossier, the Fusion
founders did not name the “emissary” who delivered the
document to McCain.
A January 11 statement from McCain attempted to explain
why he provided the documents to the FBI but did not
mention how he came to possess the dossier or whether he
knew who funded it.
“Upon examination of the contents, and
unable to make a judgment about their
accuracy, I delivered the information to the
director of the FBI,” McCain said at the
time. “That has been the extent of my
contact with the FBI or any other
government agency regarding this issue.”
Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to
Moscow, said McCain first consulted him about the claims
inside the dossier at a security conference in Canada
shortly after last November’s presidential election.
Wood stated that McCain had obtained the documents
from the senator’s own sources.
“I told him I was aware of what was in the
report but I had not read it myself, that it
might be true, it might be untrue. I had no
means of judging really,” Wood further told
BBC Radio 4 in January.
Last Month, Wood related that he served as a “go-
between” to inform McCain about the dossier contents.
“My mission was essentially to be a go-
between and a messenger, to tell the
senator and assistants that such a dossier
existed,” Wood told Fox News.
In March, Vanity Fair raised questions about the alleged
involvement of David J. Kramer, a former State
Department official, in helping to obtain the dossier
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directly from Steele. The issue was also raised in a lawsuit
filed against Steele by one of the individuals named in the
dossier.
The dossier contains wild and unproven claims that the
Russians had information regarding Trump and sordid
sexual acts, including the widely mocked claim that Trump
hired prostitutes and had them urinate on a hotel room
bed. It also claimed there was an exchange of information
between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the
Russian government.
Those allegations remain unsubstantiated following
numerous public hearings. Indeed, former CIA Director
John Brennan made clear in testimony last May that after
viewing all of the evidence that was available to him on
the Russia probe he is not aware of any collusion between
Russia and members of Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign.
Dossier was reportedly basis for Obama administration
moves
According to the BBC, the dossier served as a “roadmap”
for the FBI’s investigation into claims of coordination
between Moscow and members of Trump’s presidential
campaign during the Obama administration.
In April, CNN reported that the dossier served as part of
the FBI’s justification for seeking the FISA court’s
reported approval to clandestinely monitor the
communications of Carter Page, the American oil industry
investor who was tangentially and briefly associated with
Trump’s presidential campaign.
Senior Republican members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee have reportedly requested that the FBI and
Department of Justice turn over applications for any
warrants to monitor the communications of U.S. citizens
associated with the investigation into alleged Russia
interference in the 2016 presidential election.
In testimony last May, former FBI Director James
Comey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his
agency’s ties to the dossier.
In further testimony to the U.S. Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, Comey admitted he pushed back against a
request from President Donald Trump to possibly
investigate the origins of “salacious material” that the
agency possessed in the course of its investigation into
alleged Russian interference.
Dossier discredited
Major questions have been raised as to the veracity of the
dossier, large sections of which have been discredited.
Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier, which misspelled
the name of a Russian diplomat, claimed that Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with
Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.
That charge unraveled after Cohen revealed he had never
traveled to Prague, calling the story “totally fake, totally
inaccurate.” The Atlantic confirmed Cohen’s whereabouts
in New York and California during the period the dossier
claimed that Cohen was in Prague. Cohen reportedly
produced his passport showing he had not traveled to
Prague.
In testimony in May, the FBI’s Comey confirmed that the
basis for the intelligence community’s assessment that
Russia allegedly wanted Trump in office was not because
the billionaire was, as Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) claimed
during a hearing, “ensnared in” Russia’s “web of
patronage” – just as the dossier alleged. Instead, the FBI
chief provided two primary reasons for Russia’s alleged
favoring of Trump over Clinton during the 2016
presidential race.
One reason, according to Comey, was that Putin “hated”
Clinton and would have favored any Republican opponent.
The second reason, Comey explained, was that Putin made
an assessment that it would be easier to make a deal with a
businessman than someone from the political class.
Comey’s statements are a far cry from the
conspiracies fueled by the dossier alleging Putin held
blackmail information on Trump.
Citing current and former government officials, the New
Yorker reported the dossier prompted skepticism among
intelligence community members, with the publication
quoting one member saying it was a “nutty” piece of
evidence to submit to a U.S. president.
Steele’s work has been questioned by former acting CIA
Director Michael Morell, who currently works at the
Hillary Clinton-tied Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
NBC News reported on Morell’s questions about Steele’s
credibility:
Morell, who was in line to become CIA
director if Clinton won, said he had seen no
evidence that Trump associates
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cooperated with Russians. He also raised
questions about the dossier written by a
former British intelligence officer, which
alleged a conspiracy between the Trump
campaign and Russia. …
Morell pointed out that former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on
March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a conspiracy
when he left office January 20.
“That’s a pretty strong statement by
General Clapper,” Morell said.
Regarding Steele’s dossier, Morell stated,
“Unless you know the sources, and unless
you know how a particular source acquired
a particular piece of information, you can’t
judge the information — you just can’t.”
Morell charged the dossier
“doesn’t take you anywhere, I don’t think.”
“I had two questions when I first read it.
One was, how did Chris talk to these
sources? I have subsequently learned that
he used intermediaries.”
Morell continued:
And then I asked myself, why did these
guys provide this information, what was
their motivation? And I subsequently
learned that he paid them. That the
intermediaries paid the sources and the
intermediaries got the money from Chris.
And that kind of worries me a little bit
because if you’re paying somebody,
particularly former FSB [Russian
intelligence] officers, they are going to tell
you truth and innuendo and rumor, and
they’re going to call you up and say, “Hey,
let’s have another meeting, I have more
information for you,” because they want to
get paid some more.
I think you’ve got to take all that into consideration when
you consider the dossier.
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Declassify ALL Docs Related To
The BOGUS Trump-Russia ‘Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
“The American people have the right to
know”
(National Sentinel) Full Disclosure: A leading Republican
has sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
demanding that all documents the House Intelligence
Committee has related to the discredited “Trump-Russia
dossier” be declassified and released to the public.
“The American people deserve answers;
the American people have the right to
know,” Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida wrote.
Previously, DeSantis, who has been demanding more
disclosure over regarding the dossier, also wants the House
to release all documents related to Obama-era FISA court
requests related to spying on the Trump campaign.
DeSantis’ request is pursuant to Rule X of the House rules.
“The bureaucracies at FBI and DOJ have
refused to answer basic questions about
the origins of the Russian
counterintelligence investigation or provide
a full accounting of how the government
utilized the Steele dossier,” the lawmaker
tweeted.
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According to a tweeted picture of his letter, DeSantis
wrote to Ryan,
“The American people deserve answers.
I’m requesting Speaker Ryan ask, pursuant
to House rules, Chairman Nunes to
declassify any documents his committee
may have related to the Steele dossier.”
Rep. Devin Nunes is chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, which has been investigating the origins of the
dossier and whether it was improperly used to justify a
counterintelligence surveillance warrant from the FISA
court to spy on the Trump campaign.
“The American people have the right to
know whether government agents such as
Peter Strzok inappropriately intervened in
the 2016 presidential election against then-
candidate Donald J. Trump,” he wrote.
“On January 3, 2018, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes announced that his
committee will receive all documents it
sought from the Department of Justice
related to the FBI’s counterintelligence
investigation.
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 White House "Outraged" After
Judge Blocks Trump's DACA Decision
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/10/2018 - 08:46

Update 2: Trump lashed out at the ninth circuit Wednesday
morning after yet another judge temporarily blocked his
decision to throw out DACA protections for some 690,000
people who were brought to the US as children.
It just shows everyone how broken and
unfair our Court System is when the
opposing side in a case (such as DACA)
always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost
always wins before being reversed by
higher courts.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 10, 2018
Judges from the ninth circuit - most notably a set of federal
judges from Hawaii - have issued injunctions blocking
every iteration of Trump's travel ban.
***
Update: White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has
responded:
The Trump administration announced in September it
would rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or
DACA, a decision that was challenged in multiple federal
courts by a variety of Democratic state attorneys general,
organizations and individuals, as Reuters reported.
This time, the administration's antagonist is US District
Judge William Alsup, who ruled the program must remain
in place while the litigation is resolved. The ruling could
complicate negotiations between Trump and congressional
leaders over immigration reform.
The White House responded Thursday morning, saying the
ruling was "outrageous."
“We find this decision to be outrageous,
especially in light of the President’s
successful bipartisan meeting with House
and Senate members at the White House
on the same day. An issue of this
magnitude must go through the normal
legislative process."

“We find this decision to be outrageous,

especially in light of the President’s
successful bipartisan meeting with House
and Senate members at the White House
on the same day,”
“An issue of this magnitude must go
through the normal legislative process”
“President Trump is committed to the rule
of law, and will work with members of both
parties to reach a permanent solution that
corrects the unconstitutional actions taken
by the last administration” Per the Washington Post, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
announced the decision to terminate the program on Sept.
* * * 5 and said no renewal applications would be accepted after
Oct. 5. Under the administration’s plan, permits that
A federal judge has once again foiled President Donald expired after March 5 cannot be renewed.
Trump's efforts to limit both legal and illegal immigration:
Late Tuesday night, a US judge in San Francisco issued a According to WaPo, nearly 690,000 people who were
temporary injunction against the president's decision to end brought to the US as children will continue to be covered
a program shielding young people brought to the US by DACA as long as they were previously registered
illegally by their parents from deportation. before Sessions made his September announcement.

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 A spokesman for the Department of Justice
said the ruling "doesn't change...its
position".
"Today’s order doesn’t change the
Department of Justice’s position on the
facts," said the department’s spokesman
Devin M. O’Malley. The department "will
continue to vigorously defend this position,"
he said.
However, so-called Dreamers who haven't already
registered for protected status no longer can: Alsup ruled
that the federal government did not need to process new
applications from people who had never before received
protection under the program. However, the judge ordered
the government to continue processing renewal
applications from people who had previously been
covered.
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“DACA gave them a more tolerable set of
choices, including joining the mainstream
workforce,” Alsup wrote. “Now, absent an
injunction, they will slide back to the pre-
DACA era and associated hardship.”
And as the Wall Street Journal reminds us, a different
federal judge in San Francisco in November issued a
permanent, nationwide injection barring the administration
from withholding some federal grant money from so-called
sanctuary cites, which don’t cooperate with immigration
authorities.
Democrats are pushing to enshrine DACA protections into
law as part of an immigration deal with the White House.
This ruling presumably gives them more time to reach
such a deal.
 Sued AGAIN! Trump Attorney Files Defamation Claim
Against Alt-Left Buzzfeed For Publishing
BOGUS Anti-Trump Dossier
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018

The dossier has become the subject of congressional Cohen was in the United States at the time he was alleged
scrutiny as well to have been in Prague. In fact, Cohen says has never been
to the Czech Republic.

(National Sentinel) Character Assassination: An attorney

for President Donald J. Trump filed a defamation lawsuit
against liberal-leaning news site Buzzfeed for publishing
the so-called “Trump dossier,” which was filled with pages
of unsubstantiated allegations.

“Enough is enough of the #fake

#RussianDossier. Just filed a defamation
action against @BuzzFeedNews for
publishing the lie filled document on
@POTUS @realDonaldTrump and me!”
said Trump attorney Michael Cohen on
Twitter.

The dossier, which was paid for by the Hillary Clinton

campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was
commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS. It
was written by former British spy Christopher Steele.
In it, Steele claimed that Cohen traveled to Prague, Czech
Republic, to meet with Russian agents as part of
“collusion” efforts on behalf of the Trump campaign.
In April, Cohen told The Washington Times he was
considering filing suit against Buzzfeed. He also said at the
time he was considering legal action against Steele as well.
The dossier circulated in establishment media circles
throughout the summer and fall of 2016, but it was never

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published by any news outlets because the claims made in
the 35-page document could not be substantiated.
In January, shortly before Trump was inaugurated,
Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith decided to publish the entire
document anyway, with the caveat that none of it had been
substantiated. At the time, he said Americans could decide
for themselves if its contents were true.
Many people named in the dossier had no idea they were
being accused of anything until it was published, the
Times noted.
Buzzfeed was sued in February 2017 by a Russian-owned
firm named in the dossier.
The lawsuits were brought by XBT Holdings, a Cyprus-
based company owned by Russian tech magnate Aleksej
Gubarev.
“Lawyers for his firm filed complaints Friday
in London against the former spy and his
company, and against BuzzFeed and its
editor in chief, Ben Smith, in Broward
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County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, where XBT’s subsidiary Webzilla is
headquartered,” McClatchy Papers
reported at the time.
The dossier has become the subject of congressional
scrutiny as well. Some Republicans believe it was used
improperly to obtain a FISA court warrant so that the
Obama administration could justify spying on the Trump
campaign.
Three Russians who were named in the dossier have also
filed suit against Fusion GPS.
Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan filed suit in
October in U.S. District Court in Washington, claiming
that their reputations were unfairly sullied by claims made
in the dossier.
“The plaintiffs are among the backers of
Alfa Bank, a financial institution that the
dossier accuses of involvement in Russian
efforts to influence the 2016 U.S.
presidential election,” noted Politico.
 OUTRAGE: Federal Judge Claims
The RIGHT To Block Trump From Ending DACA
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
Opponents of the ruling disagreed, saying that regardless
of how DACA recipients got into the country they are still
here illegally
(National Sentinel) Judicial Activism: A federal judge has
issued a temporary order barring President Donald J.
Trump from ending a policy enacted by President Obama
that shields illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as minors
from being deported.
The policy known as Deferred Action on Childhood
Arrivals, or DACA, was initiated via executive order by
Obama in June 2012. At the time it was heavily criticized
by Republicans and a number of state attorneys general as
an unconstitutional move by the Executive Branch to
unilaterally change immigration law.
The policy was rescinded by Trump in September. At the
time, he gave Congress six months to come up with a
legislative fix. Lawmakers are currently working on that
legislation.
But several Democrat-run states sued the administration
over its lifting of DACA, and on Tuesday, U.S. District
Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, part of the oft-
overturned Ninth Circuit, blocked the order.
In his order, Alsup, who was appointed by President Bill
Clinton, ruled the program must remain in place while the
litigation is resolved.
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Justice Department officials vowed to appeal.
“Today’s order doesn’t change the
Department of Justice’s position on the
facts,” said the department’s spokesman
Devin M. O’Malley. The department “will
continue to vigorously defend this position,”
he said, as reported by Reuters.
In his ruling Alsup said the government would not be
required to process new DACA applications but would be
barred for now from moving to deport the more than
700,000 DACA recipients currently covered by the Obama
policy. And he ordered the administration to continue
processing renewal applications from current DACA
recipients.
“DACA gave them a more tolerable set of
choices, including joining the mainstream
workforce,” Alsup wrote. “Now, absent an
injunction, they will slide back to the pre-
DACA era and associated hardship.”
He added that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in
arguing that the Trump administration’s decision to end
the program was arbitrary.
Opponents of the ruling disagreed, saying that regardless
of how DACA recipients got into the country — most
were brought in by parents when they were young after
sneaking across the U.S. border — they are still here
illegally. And they argued that Obama never had the
authority to issue the executive order shielding them from
deportation in the first place.
Others predicted that Alsup’s ruling will be short-lived.
Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, which supports
tougher immigration laws, dismissed the significance of
the court’s action, calling it “an aberration that surely will
not be allowed to stand as it is appealed.”
 Project Veritas Video Claims Twitter
Would Give Trump’s Private Messages To DOJ
By Allum Bokhari
10 Jan 2018

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has

released a new video exposing Twitter’s BREAKING: Sr Network Security Engineer
willingness to breach its users’ privacy. Reveals Twitter Ready to Give Trump's
Or rather, one user in particular: Private DMs to DOJ — WATCH FULL:
President Trump.
https://t.co/Pqe70vH8Re
pic.twitter.com/aYKmMR61Ep
The undercover journalism outlet, famed for its exposés
revealing bias in the mainstream media, has now turned its — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII)
attention to the tech companies that have come to dominate January 10, 2018
access to information in the modern world.
Project Veritas has released a list of alternative
In the video, Twitter senior network engineer Clay Haynes information channels to monitor in the event of censorship.
says the company would be happy to hand over the
president’s private messages to the Justice Department if In case of emergency:
asked.
https://t.co/5M9ileWf11https://t.co/p0vMmP
Haynes also claimed that the company has access to “every ZprShttps://t.co/jAoUHvc4iohttps://t.co/WA
single person’s account, every single direct message, RrsryXu6https://t.co/N6NbNi5GNb
deleted direct messages, deleted tweets.” Haynes told — Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas)
Project Veritas’ journalist that he could tell, “exactly who January 10, 2018
logged in from where, [with] what username and
password, when they changed their password.” It suggests
Twitter employees can read users’ private messages, even
after deleting them.

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 Deep State’s ‘Plan B’ To Remove Trump
In Full Force: Lawmaker Introduces ‘Stable Genius Act’
Mac Slavo
January 10th, 2018

Unfortunately, this is right out of the deep state’s playbook

and Trump’s tweet eluded to that.
The deep state’s plan to oust president Donald Trump is
well underway and has been since it became clear that According to New American, the Deep
Mueller’s “Russian meddling” investigation was going to State’s “Plan A,” is the imploding
yield nothing. The “Stable Genius Act” introduced by a “investigation” into alleged “Russian
Pennsylvania lawmaker is one more step toward Trump’s collusion” by Special Counsel Robert
removal. Mueller, said Stone. If and when that fails,
which Stone suggested was likely and
soon, the establishment would move to
Representative Brendan Boyle has introduced a new bill
“Plan B.” In essence, Plan B would involve
requiring presidential candidates to undergo full medical
trying to get a majority of Trump’s cabinet
exams and release the results to the public. Boyle’s “Stable
to declare him unfit for office. This would
Genius Act” comes almost a week after President Donald
allow Trump to be removed under the U.S.
Trump responded to claims made in a new book, which
Constitution’s 25th Amendment.
raises questions about the President’s mental stability.
This scheme is also going to most likely
fail, Stone said. Last but not least,
though, Stone warned of “Plan C,”
which is killing the president. –
SHTFPlan

The deep state is not going to give up easily and all signs
are pointing to Roger Stone being correct. Roger Stone
isn’t the first person to see Trump as a target of the deep
state. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has said he feels
that the deep state isn’t afraid to nuke a city in the United
States in order to kill Trump and blame North Korea for
the result.

Boyle’s plan, however, is to simply rile up the masses.

Hysteria is needed for “Plan B” to be effective.

“Today, I introduced the Standardizing

Testing and Accountability Before Large
Elections Giving Electors Necessary
Information for Unobstructed Selection Act
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 to ensure that Presidential candidates are
fit to lead,” Boyle tweeted.

“So we’ll see an uptick in all of this

‘Trump is mentally imbalanced, Trump
is insane, Trump must be removed,’”
Stone warned. “Now you have to
examine the extent to which they can
whip up that hysteria as a backdrop
because, without that hysteria, such a
political move on the president will fail.”
And once Plan B fails, the globalists will
move on to Plan C, which is simply an
assassination. -SHTFPlan

Are we watching Roger Stone’s assessment play out like a

bad movie? It certainly feels that way…

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