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 France Condemns President Trump’s
Paris Terrorist Attack Comments
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:10 PM 05/05/2018
The French government officially condemned remarks
made by President Trump to the National Rifle
Association convention on Friday in which he suggested
the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks could have been
stopped or mitigated by “one employee or just one patron”
with a gun.
“They were brutally killed by a small group of
terrorists that had guns,” Trump told the NRA
crowd, referring to the 130 killed and hundreds
injured in a coordinated attack by Islamic
extremists.
“They took their time and gunned them down
one by one,” Trump said as he pointed his
fingers in the shape of a gun. “But if one
employee or just one patron had a gun or if one
person in this room had been there with a gun
aimed at the opposite direction, the terrorists
would have fled or been shot.”
But France begged to differ.
“France expresses its firm disapproval of
President Trump’s comments in relation to the
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attack of the 13 November 2015 in Paris and
we demand that the memory of the victims be
respected. Each country can freely decide its
own legislation on gun control. France is proud
to be a country where the purchase and
possession of fire arms are strictly regulated,”
foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der
Muhll said in a Saturday statement, according
to the UK Independent.
Former French President François Hollande also took issue
with President Trump’s “shameful” comments.
“The shameful comments and obscene antics of
Donald Trump say a lot about what he thinks
about France and her values,” Hollande said in
a statement, as reported by France24. “The
friendship between our peoples will not be
stained by this disrespect and outrageousness.
All my thoughts are for the victims of the
November 13 attacks.”
Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls tweeted,
“Indecent and incompetent. What more is there
to say?”
“Indignation and disgust after the statements
made by Donald Trump about the November 13
attacks. Solidarity with the victims… the French
are shocked. This transgression, it’s
disrespect,” tweeted former French Minister of
the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, who was in his
post when the attacks took place, according to
France24.
 Dirty Cop Mueller Is Now Questioning/Harassing
Trump Donors In Malicious And Endless Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 5, 2018, 11:18 Pm
In July 2017 conservative radio legend Rush
Limbaugh correctly described the ever
expanding Mueller Russia-Collusion
investigation as the biggest, most massive
opposition research operation ever
conducted in American politics.
Rush was right!
The scope of the special counsel’s
investigation of the Trump campaign, family,
transition team and administration remains
unlimited, despite the deputy attorney
general’s claim that it’s not a ‘fishing
expedition.’
Now this…
The Mueller special counsel is now
questioning and harassing Trump friends
and donors.
The AP reported:
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Investigators working for special counsel Robert
Mueller have interviewed one of President
Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants,
California real estate investor Tom Barrack, The
Associated Press has learned.
Barrack was interviewed as part of the federal
investigation of possible coordination between
the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016
election, according to three people familiar with
the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity
to discuss private conversations.
The specific topics covered in questions from
Mueller’s team were not immediately clear.
One of the people who spoke to AP said the
questioning focused entirely on two officials
from Trump’s campaign who have been indicted
by Mueller: Trump’s former campaign chairman,
Paul Manafort, and Manafort’s longtime deputy,
Rick Gates. Gates agreed to plead guilty to
federal conspiracy and false-statement charges
in February and began cooperating with
investigators.
This person said Barrack was interviewed
“months ago” and was asked a few questions
about Gates’ work on Trump’s inaugural
committee, which Barrack chaired, and but
there were no questions about the money
raised by that committee.
A second person with knowledge of the Barrack
interview said the questioning was broader and
did include financial matters about the
campaign, the transition and Trump’s
inauguration in January 2017.
 Rosie O’Donnell Has Been Staying
Up Late Making Illegal Donations To Democrats
Virginia Kruta
11:26 PM 05/05/2018

Rosie O’Donnell’s campaign donations to Democrats have
gone over legal limits, according to a report by the New
York Post. She gave a total of $5,400 in illegal donations
to five different candidates, as reported in Federal
Elections Commission (FEC) filings.
O’Donnell responded to inquiries from the Post via email,
claiming that her excessive donations — made through the
online liberal platform ActBlue — were completely
accidental and “nothing nefarious.”
“I was not choosing to over donate. If 2700 is
the cut off — [candidates] should refund the
money. I don’t look to see who I can donate
most to … I just donate assuming they do not
accept what is over the limit.
However, according to the Post’s report, O’Donnell’s
illegal contributions were made using four variations of
her name and five different addresses.
The candidates who received the questionable donations
were Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), Adam
Schiff (D-Calif.), Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), and Omar
Vaid (D-N.Y.).
Of the five candidates who received donations from
O’Donnell that exceeded legal limits, only one responded
to the Post’s questions. The campaign finance director for
Omar Vaid, a Staten Island congressional candidate, said
that the excess funds had been applied to the wrong
election by accident. The campaign promised to amend its
filings in order to comply with FEC guidelines.

My anxiety is quelled by donating to those

opposing Trump [and] his agenda — especially
at night — when most of these were placed.”
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Trump Lawyer Giuliani: I Wouldn’t Be Surprised If Judge
Ellis Dismisses Manafort Case For Government
Misconduct (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 12:10 Am

Former New York City mayor and President
Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani
joined Judge Jeanine Pirro to discuss the
ongoing Mueller witch hunt against
President Trump.
Rudy told Judge Jeanine he wouldn’t be surprised if Judge
Ellis dismissed Mueller’s charges against Trump campaign
manager Paul Manafort for government misconduct.
You’re not missing anything. We’re not missing
anything. We turned over the documents. And
I’m in the process of getting through about a
third of them so far.
There’s no evidence of any of the things
you’re talking about.
The only evidence there is.

The only crimes committed here have been

given by the government. Which is why the
judge, Judge Ellis, is so outraged. I wouldn’t
be surprised if he didn’t dismiss this case,

the way the case of Senator Stevens was

dismissed. Unfortunately, after the man died…
The judge also has the right to determine that
by government misconduct they have fatally
tainted this case. And I believe in my heart that
the Supreme Court will decide that.

Judge Jeanine: This investigation went from Via Judge Jeanine:

Russia collusion.

Rudy Giuliani: Gone

Judge Jeanine: To obstruction.

Rudy Giuliani: Gone.

Judge Jeanine: Now who’s chasing porn

stars? Why are we even going in this direction.
And why are we not ending this unless there is
evidence that hasn’t been unearthed?

Rudy Giuliani:
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 BREAKING… Rep. Nunes: House Intel Will Move To
Hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions In Contempt (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 8:01 Am
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH—–
On Saturday night Trump attorney and former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on with Judge Jeanine
Pirro.
Giuliani told Judge Jeanine that Attorney
General Jeff Sessions should end the
Mueller witch hunt.
On Sunday morning Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on
with FOX and Friends and dropped this bomb.
Nunes said the House Intelligence Committee will move
quickly to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt
of Congress.
This is HUGE news!
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Rep. Nunes says he will move forward with a contempt
resolution against DOJ AG Jeff Sessions for refusal to
comply with latest House subpoena.
Rep. Devin Nunes:
Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per
usual, it was ignored… So last week we sent a
subpoena. Then on Thursday we discovered
they’re not going to comply with our subpoena
on some very important information that we
need.
The only thing we can do is we have to
move quickly to hold the Attorney General
of the United States in contempt.
And that’s what I’m going to press for this week.
Via FOX and Friends:
 Indicted Russian Company ‘Concord Management’ Toying
With Mueller Team Led By Clinton Foundation Attorney
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 9:42 Am

The Mueller team later released information on the

companies and individuals indicted including information
on the activities they participated in during the 2016
Presidential election. The Mueller team accused the
Russians of

“supporting the presidential campaign of then-

candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging
Hillary Clinton.”

But this was another far left liberal lie. TGP reported that
The Mueller team is being called on their
of the events promoted by these Russians, a total of 31
bluff. They produced a list of Russians and
people attended the Trump rallies while the Hillary rallies
Russian companies in February who they
promoted by these Russians brought in 10,100 people
said impacted the US election. One of the
including big leftist Michael Moore.
companies, Concord Management, is
requesting the information Mueller used to
create the indictments. Mueller and his Last week it was time for the accused Russians to call the
Clinton Foundation attorney Jeannie Rhee Mueller team on its bluff. One Twitter account reported
never expected this! the facts related to the Concord Management case. Techno
Fog noted that the federal judge denied Mueller’s request
to delay the upcoming arraignment.
Far Left Politico reported late last week:

On Friday, Mueller’s prosecutors disclosed that

Concord’s attorneys, Eric Dubelier and Kate
Seikaly, had made a slew of discovery requests
demanding nonpublic details about the case
and the investigation. Prosecutors also asked a
judge to postpone the formal arraignment of
Concord Management set for next week.

The prosecution team sought the delay on the

grounds that it’s unclear whether Concord
Management formally accepted the court
summons related to the case. Mueller’s
prosecutors also revealed that they tried to
deliver the summonses for Concord and IRA
through the Russian government, without
success.

Corrupt Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

announced on February 16, 2017, that his counterparts in
the corrupt Mueller team had indicted 13 Russian
individuals and three Russian companies for scheme to
interfere in the US political system. Next Techno Fog tweeted that the defendants of Concord
demanded information from the Special Counsel –

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properly served.

Techno called then noted that Mueller’s team responded in

a manner that did not comply with a legal statute –

Next Techno Fog notes that the attorney on Mueller’s

team, Jeannie Rhee, represented the Clinton Foundation in
prior litigation –

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Techno Fog then noted that Concord’s legal team is not
afraid to fire shots at the Mueller team –

Finally, Techno Fog notes that the Concord team has asked
for discovery and documents from the Special Counsel and
has not even replied let alone provide the data requested –

The Concord team noted to the court that the Special

Counsel ignored Concord’s previous emails –

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 Techno Fog and all Americans want the Special Counsel to
be held to the standards that all attorneys should be held to
in the least.

The team Mueller created is so corrupt due

to even accepting jobs with Mueller with
their many conflicts of interest. They
provided data to support their Russia
political scandal that does not hold water.
Let’s hope the judge sees the same data and
results that TGP figured out months ago.

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 Former US Attorney General:
Read Jim Comey’s Book With Bottle Of Pepto-Bismol –
It’s Cringe-Inducing On Every Page (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 9:59 Am

Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey joined Obviously, Mukasey is not a fan of Mr. Comey’s.
Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this
morning. Via Sunday Morning Futures:

The former Attorney General is not impressed with fired

FBI Director James Comey.

Mukasey warned viewers to read Jim Comey’s book with a

bottle of Pepto-Bismol.

Fomer AG Mukasey:

Jim Comey is another case. I would suggest

that you read his book, I don’t want to say with
a grain of salt, but certainly with a bottle of
Pepto-Bismol… Because it is cringe-inducing
on every page.
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 IT’S TIME=> Hold AWOL AG Sessions In Contempt! His
DOJ And FBI Are Corrupt – His Mueller
Probe Is Out Of Control
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 10:20 Am

landslide. Before the election he was attacked,

but since the election the prior Obama
Administration, the Clintons, the Democratic
Party, the mainstream media, Hollywood, some
elitist Republicans and the ‘deep state’ have
tried to steal his win. This concerted attack in
large part may be because liberals in the US
don’t want President Trump to uncover their
illegal and traitorous actions when Obama was
President.

The only thing stopping President Trump now is

In November we reported that AG Sessions
must create a special counsel to investigate
the Uranium One scandal or go down in
history as the modern day Benedict Arnold.
Today a leader in Congress reported that he
is working on a contempt citation against
AG Sessions for not providing information
to Congress (again) that is being requested.
his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sessions recused himself from any
investigations into Russia allowing a corrupt
investigation into the President’s actions with
Russia and/or any other dirt the investigators
can come up with. The investigation is not
founded in US law, it’s a farce. The
investigators are biased, former Hillary and
Obama team members and supporters and
many, if not all, are involved with the Uranium
One scandal.

We reported in November –
Benedict Arnold is the name that goes down in
US history as the greatest traitor to the nation.
According to biography.com –
This morning Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on with
FOX and Friends and said the House Intelligence
Committee will move quickly to hold Attorney General
Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress.

Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich,

Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. A member of
the Sons of Liberty, Arnold rose to the rank of
general in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War. Frustrated by the lack of
recognition, he subsequently switched sides to
the British and plotted the surrender of West
Point. When his traitorous plans came to light,
Arnold escaped capture and eventually made
his way to England. He died in London on June
14, 1801.
Rep. Nunes said he will move forward with a contempt
The US today faces a time as important as the resolution against DOJ AG Jeff Sessions for refusal to
American Revolution. President Trump was comply with latest House subpoena.
voted into office by the American people last
year at this time. He won in an electoral
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Rep. Devin Nunes: Two weeks ago we sent a letter to
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per
usual, it was ignored… So last week we sent a subpoena.
Then on Thursday we discovered they’re not going to
comply with our subpoena on some very important
information that we need.
The only thing we can do is we have to
move quickly to hold the Attorney General
of the United States in contempt.
And that’s what I’m going to press for this week.
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AG Sessions is not doing his job.
Documents provided from his team to
Congress are delayed and redacted. The
Clintons and Obama go free. The FBI and
DOJ are being led by corrupt individuals and
the AG is absent.
It’s now clear that AG Sessions will not do
his job. He will not investigate Clinton and
Obama crimes while he ensures a corrupt
investigation into the President, his family
and friends, runs wild. He should be held in
contempt.
 Giuliani: Cohen Pardon
'Not On The Table'
By Mallory Shelbourne
05/06/18 10:21 AM EDT

Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that a potential pardon for
President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is
not a possibility at this point.
“Jay and I have made it clear, and
Michael’s lawyers all know that that
obviously is not on the table,” Giuliani told
ABC’s “This Week,” referring to Trump
attorney Jay Sekulow.
“That’s not a decision to be made now,
there’s no reason to pardon anybody now.”
Giuliani’s Sunday morning interview came after he ignited
a firestorm last week when he told Fox News that Trump
reimbursed Cohen for a $130,000 payment made to adult-
film actress Stormy Daniels just before the presidential
election.
.
Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team,
emphasized on ABC that the payment was made for
personal reasons to shield Trump and his family from any
embarrassment.
But the former New York City mayor also said he expects
Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, to cooperate
with prosecutors.
“No I expect that he is going to cooperate
with them. I don’t think they’ll be happy with
it because he doesn’t have any
incriminating evidence about the president
or himself,” Giuliani said.

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 Giuliani: Trump Should Not
Testify Before A Mueller Grand Jury [VIDEO]
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
10:39 AM 05/06/2018

fantasy world where everyone tells the truth,”

Giuliani said. “I’m going to walk him into a
prosecution for perjury like Martha Stewart?”

Giuliani would consider allowing the president to testify

before a grand jury if he got “the Hillary Clinton
treatment,” he said.

“The Hillary Clinton treatment is what I’m

looking for. That is no under oath, only a Q&A;
we get the questions in advance, and they write
President Donald Trump’s new personal lawyer, Rudy the report two weeks before,” Giuliani told ABC.
Giuliani, believes it would be a bad idea for the president
to testify under oath before a grand jury regarding special
Stephanopoulos asked whether the president would plead
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian
the Fifth Amendment in this case, but Giuliani said he
interference in the 2016 presidential election.
can’t rule out that possibility.
“You couldn’t put a lawyer on this show who
“How could I ever be confident of that,” Giuliani
wants to keep his law license to tell you he (the
said in regards to whether or not the president
president) should testify,” Giuliani told ABC’s
would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against
George Stephanopoulos.
self-incrimination.
“No, people do things, like lie. People lie. Could
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Comey be lying? You are damn right he could
be lying, George. We are going to walk
ourselves into a trap like that,” Giuliani told
ABC.

Stephanopoulos pressed the president’s lawyer as to why

he wouldn’t allow Trump to testify before Mueller if he
believes the president is telling the truth.

“Why wouldn’t you say, ‘Go in, talk to Robert

Mueller, tell the truth’?” Stephanopoulos asked
Giuliani.

“Because I wouldn’t be an attorney if I did that,

George. I’d be living in some kind of unreal
.

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 BREAKING: DOJ Responds To Nunes’
Threat To Hold AG Sessions In Contempt
By Cristina Laila
May 6, 2018, 10:51 Am

usual, it was ignored… So last week we sent a

subpoena. Then on Thursday we discovered
they’re not going to comply with our subpoena
on some very important information that we
need.

The only thing we can do is we have to

move quickly to hold the Attorney General
of the United States in contempt.

And that’s what I’m going to press for this week.

On Sunday morning Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on
with FOX and Friends and dropped this bomb.
Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo with breaking news the
Department of Justice is responding to Nunes right now.
Rep. Nunes says he will move forward with a contempt
resolution against DOJ AG Jeff Sessions for refusal to
comply with latest House subpoena. VIDEO:

The DOJ shot back Sunday morning.

Chairman Nunes said Sunday morning AG Sessions is

ignoring a classified letter and subsequent subpoena issued
in his latest attempt to retrieve pertinent documents.

Rep. Devin Nunes:

Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Attorney

General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per

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 House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes:
‘We Have To Move Quickly’ To Hold AG Jeff Sessions
In Contempt Of Congress
By Pam Key
6 May 2018

.@DevinNunes: We have to move quickly
to hold AG Jeff Sessions in contempt, and
that’s what I’m going to press for this week
pic.twitter.com/QsPdcrVSwq
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) May 6,
2018
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House
Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-
CA) said he would move “this week” to hold Attorney
General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress.
.
Nunes said the Justice Department is refusing to comply
with a subpoena for information on the FISA process.
He continued,
“The only thing that’s left that we can do is
we have to move quickly to hold the
attorney general of the United States in
contempt and that’s what I’m going to press
for this week.”

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 Intel Committee Lawmaker Ratcliffe: IG Report Will
Reveal Comey Leaked And Lied Repeatedly (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 10:53 Am

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) joined Maria demonstrably false statements to Congress and
Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this perhaps to investigators for the IG.
morning.
Via Sunday Morning Futures:
Rep. Ratcliffe is a former attorney and
federal terrorism prosecutor. He is a Rep. Ratcliffe says the IG report will reveal
member of the House Judiciary Committee. fired FBI Chief LIED and LEAKED
documents to the press.

Rep. Ratcliffe:

I would expect that what the Attorney General is

going to find is that former FBI Director Jim
Comey violated his employment agreement,
made multiple, unauthorized disclosures or
leaks of information, perhaps classified, but at
least FBI documents and has made
demonstrably false statements to Congress and
perhaps to investigators for the IG.

Rep. Ratcliffe says the IG report will reveal Via Sunday Morning Futures:
fired FBI Chief LIED and LEAKED
documents to the press.

Rep. Ratcliffe:

I would expect that what the Attorney General is

going to find is that former FBI Director Jim
Comey violated his employment agreement,
made multiple, unauthorized disclosures or
leaks of information, perhaps classified, but at
least FBI documents and has made

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 Joe Digenova: Trump WON’T TESTIFY
In ‘Bad Faith’ Mueller Witch Hunt (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 6, 2018, 11:33 Am

BREAKING NEWS. of bad faith,” diGenova told “Fox News

Sunday.”
Former personal attorney for Trump Joe diGenova said the
president will not testify in Mueller’s corrupt, “bad faith” “This is no longer a good faith investigation.”
investigation.
DiGenova also on Sunday argued that the Mueller
investigation has become a bad faith probe in large part
because of how federal agents treated former Trump
campaign official Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, who
was the Trump personal lawyer who negotiated a $130,00
payout to porn actress Stormy Daniels who alleges she had
a tryst with Trump.

Joe DiGenova slammed Mueller as an inferior executive in

the Justice Department who does not have the authority to
question the president of the United States over his
executive powers.

Fox News: Mueller and Rosenstein are completely out of control;

thankfully judges are starting to reel in their unfettered
Joseph diGenova, a former Trump personal power.
lawyer and U.S. attorney, said Sunday that the
president will not agree to be interviewed by President Trump should never agree to talk to Mueller or
special counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia any of his liberal hack Obama-Hillary donor lawyers.
collusion probe because it has devolved into a
“bad faith” investigation.
Just like Judge Ellis said in Manafort’s Friday hearing;
Mueller is trying to oust the President from office.
“The president will not sit down for an interview
because this investigation has reached a level
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 Chuck Todd To Avenatti:
‘Are You Trying To Win A Case Or
Take Down A President?’
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:33 AM 05/06/2018

Todd began the interview by asking Avenatti to explain

why the American people should care about his case
against the president, noting that Daniels has already told
her story during an interview with “60 Minutes.”

“What are you fighting for at this point?” Todd

asked.

Avenatti dismissed the “60 Minutes” interview, insisting

that Daniels still has more to share because they only aired
NBC’s Chuck Todd questioned Michael Avenatti about his
a portion of the three hour sit-down, and argued that the
motives with the Stormy Daniels case during a Sunday
American people should care that the president is involved
interview on “Meet the Press.”
in a “cover-up.”
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Todd got right to the heart of Avenatti’s motives with his
next question, asking,

“Are you trying to win a case or take down a

president?”

“We’re trying to win a case, and we’re trying to

present facts and evidence to the American
people. This is a search for the truth,” Avenatti
claimed, before adding that the American
people can then decide if Trump is “fit to remain
in office.”

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 Giuliani Insists ‘Case Closed’
For Trump Against Stormy Daniels
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:37 AM 05/06/2018

Trump and Stormy Daniels have met at least once and the
fact that the president denies having “sexual relations”
with Daniels.

Giuliani noted that Daniels also once denied the affair and
added that the case is now “history.”

“Let me just…because you say it’s history,”

Rudy Giuliani declared “case closed” for President Donald
Trump during a Sunday interview on “This Week” about
the president’s alleged relationship with Stormy Daniels.
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Stephanopoulos said. “When did the president
first learn that Stormy Daniels wanted money to
keep quiet about the relationship?”
“Don’t know and doesn’t matter to me,” Giuliani
retorted. “What matters to me are two things,
there are two relevant legal things, which is
what my job is.”

“Number one, it was not a campaign

contribution because it would’ve been done
anyway. This is the kind of thing that I’ve settled
for celebrities and famous people — every
lawyer that does that kind of work has,” he
continued. “Number two, even if it was
considered a campaign contribution, it was
entirely reimbursed out of personal funds, which
I don’t think we’ll even get to because the first
one’s enough.”

“Case closed for Donald Trump,” he insisted.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos tried to pin down a series

of facts during the interview, starting with the fact that
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 McCarthy Drops Nukes On Pelosi,
Claims GOP Will Keep Majority [VIDEO]
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
11:40 AM 05/06/2018

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a

media briefing after the House Republican conference on Capitol Hill
in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts |
McCarthy Claims GOP Will Keep The House

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy does not believe

Republicans will lose their majority in the House in the
November elections and called House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi’s claim she will be the next speaker

“one of the scariest things I’ve heard all week.”
“Picture it come November 9 waking up if the
Democrats controlled the House and Nancy is
giving this congratulatory speech about
becoming speaker. What we had just transpire
in the last year will all be reversed,” McCarthy
told Fox News Sunday.
Democrats will win the majority in the House in
November and she intends to run for speaker, Pelosi told
the Boston Globe on May 1.
McCarthy isn’t sold on Pelosi’s prediction, believing the
2017 GOP tax cuts, strong economic growth, low
unemployment, recent negotiations with North Korea, and
the positive ground the party is making on opioids will
give Republicans a boon in the 2018 midterms.
WATCH:
Pelosi called the 2017 tax cuts “crumbs” and called for all
members of her caucus to vote against it.
“I believe at the end of this day, Nancy Pelosi
will not be speaker and Republicans will keep
the majority. Not because we want it to happen
but because what we have achieved. You are
finding the world is becoming safer … You have
found that we are making economic strength,”
McCarthy said.
Forty-seven House Republicans are either resigning,
retiring or seeking other office in 2018. Roughly 22 House
members retire each election cycle, so to say the party is
going through a seismic shift is not a misnomer.
It has been nearly 25 years — since 1994 — that a
majority party incurred as many losses as Republicans
have in 2018. Democrats controlled the House, leading up
the to the 1994 midterms. The party had 28 members
announce retirement, and Republicans subsequently took
them to the cleaners, picking up 54 seats and outright
claiming the majority in what is now known as the
“Republican Revolution.”

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 Spike In Support For Trump
Causes Pollster To Reject Own Poll
By Neil Munro
6 May 2018

reporting the findings in the interest of

transparency, we will not be announcing
the start of a new trend until we have more
data to validate this pattern.”

A poll shows that President Donald

Trump’s approval rating has spiked
since April 27 — prompting the
Reuters/Ipsos polling team to
quarantine their data.
“Every series of polls has the occasional
outlier and in our opinion this is one,” the
pollster announced. “So, while we are
The spike shows Trump getting 50 percent support from
swing-voting independents, 80 percent support from
the GOP supporters and 20 percent support from
Democrats, with very few people declaring themselves
“not sure.”

Ipsos runs many high-quality polls, so the sudden jump is
an unexplained surprise.
The spike in apparent support leaves Trump with 57
percent support on the economy, 60 percent support on
employment and jobs, 51 percent support on immigration,
although he gets only 43 percent on the high-priority issue
of healthcare. The poll did not ask about the success of
Trump’s efforts to raise wages.

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The large percentage who report “lean towards
disapprove” on the issues is significant. It may be good
for Trump because it shows that roughly one-in-five
people in the Democratic coalition is not strongly opposed
to Trump’s policies. Similarly, the “don’t know” average
of roughly 7 percent in the second chart is much higher
than the “not sure” numbers in the first chart, which may
signal some hidden support for Trump.
Pollsters periodically get quirky results from careful
polling, so Ipsos can’t be blamed for being cautious about
this spike in apparent support for the President. The next
set of Ipsos polls will show if the spike is a new normal or
if it was just a statistical anomaly. Such outliers are
inevitable when pollsters take many polls.
According to Ipsos:
Most pronounced is President Trump’s
approval rating which currently sits at 48%
with all Americans. His number with
registered voters is essentially the same at
49%. Corresponding with Trump’s stronger
approval rating, evaluations of his job
performance across the board are stronger
this week from 57% approving of his
.
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handling of the economy to 44% approving
of the way he treats people like them. On
the generic congressional ballot, our
current poll shows a +5-point advantage for
Democrats, the smallest lead we’ve seen in
recent weeks.
The press statement explained the polling process:
These are findings from an Ipsos poll
conducted for Thomson Reuters April 27 -
May 1, 2018. For the survey, a sample of
1,548 Americans, including
556 Democrats, 579 Republicans,
163 Independents ages 18+ were
interviewed online. The precision of the
Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured
using a credibility interval. In this case, the
poll has a credibility interval of plus or
minus 2.8 percentage points for all adults,
4.7 percentage points for Democrats,
4.6 percentage points for Republicans,
8.8 percentage points for Independents.
For more information about credibility
intervals, please see the appendix.
 Kellyanne Conway Calls Out
CNN For Breathless Stormy Coverage
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:45 AM 05/06/2018

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Conway during a Sunday

morning “State of the Union” interview when the
president found out that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had
made a payment to Daniels.

Conway said she didn’t know before chiding CNN for

focusing so heavily on the allegations, apparently citing a
Media Research Center study that found the network
hosted Stormy’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, at least 59
times in less than two months.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway called out CNN for
their wall-to-wall coverage of Stormy Daniels, insisting “Respectfully, I know that CNN has invested a
that the network has “invested a lot” in the story. lot in this story and in Ms. Daniels’ attorney,”
Conway said. “He has appeared on your
network over 65 times in less than two months.
WATCH:
That is a choice that you make.”

Conway followed up her criticism by noting that the

network’s polls show that the American people are not
interested in the Stormy Daniels story in the way that they
are interested in the economy, North Korea, and other
issues.

Tapper seemed unfazed by Conway’s attack on CNN and

snapped right back to the question of the payment to
Daniels.

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 Dershowitz: ‘Motives Should
Never Form The Basis Of A Crime’
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
11:53 AM 05/06/2018

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz explained why
motives are bad indicators of obstruction of justice during
a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
WATCH:
Comey because he wouldn’t state publicly that Trump
wasn’t under investigation. Todd wondered if Giuliani’s
comments gave Mueller a stronger case for obstruction of
justice.
“Motives are complex,” Dershowitz explained.
“That’s why motives should never form the
basis of a crime. That’s why it’s wrong to
question what a president’s motives are when
the president acted within his constitutional
authority.”

“We don’t want to turn motives and analysis of

NBC anchor Chuck Todd pointed to recent comments by
Rudy Giuliani that claimed the president fired James
.
the president’s mind into criminal statutes. We
have to look at what the president did not what
his motives are because motives are always
complex,” he continued. “We see complex
motives at work.”
Dershowitz also added that he wishes the Trump legal
team would use his defense to argue against obstruction.

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 Lieberman: ‘Inappropriate’
For Kerry To Try To Save Iran Deal
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
12:11 PM 05/06/2018

A new Boston Globe report explained that Kerry, former

secretary of state, has been using contacts he developed at
the State Department to meet with foreign leaders who are
favorable to the Iran Deal. Kerry’s moves fly in the face of
official American foreign policy, as the Trump
administration has expressed desires to back out of the
deal.

During an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo,

Former Senator Joe Lieberman criticized John Kerry on
Sunday for engaging in shadow diplomacy to try to save
the Iran Deal.
WATCH:
Lieberman said Kerry is acting inappropriately by
negotiating without being in an official government
position.
“John Kerry is not negotiating on behalf of the
U.S. government — I hope everybody he’s
talking to knows that,” Lieberman said. “But, in
my opinion, what he’s doing is inappropriate
and he shouldn’t be doing it.”

Lieberman noted that Kerry is being uniquely uncouth

because former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and
Hillary Clinton haven’t gone around talking to the Iranians
or Europeans since leaving office.

“[The Trump administration] is a duly elected

administration so I hope John Kerry stops,”
Lieberman concluded.

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 Sessions Gets Mega Bad News From Nunes On Live TV…
Bet He Wishes He’d Cooperated Now
By Ben Marquis
May 6, 2018 At 12:41pm

For more than a year, the various congressional
committees looking into an assortment of allegations of
wrongdoing on the part of executive branch agencies in the
prior administration have been met with delays and a lack
of cooperation by the current administration in their
requests for pertinent documents and information.
consistent with applicable law and longstanding Executive
Branch policy, it is not in a position to provide the
information responsive to your request regarding a specific
individual.

That has compelled the congressional committees — chief

among them the House Intelligence Committee led by
California Rep. Devin Nunes — to have to resort to threats
of legal action to compel cooperation from the Department
of Justice, and even then the documents are typically
heavily redacted and nearly useless.
But Nunes revealed Sunday in a phone interview on “Fox
& Friends” that he’d had enough of the stonewalling and
threatened Attorney General Jeff Sessions with a charge of
being in contempt of Congress if immediate cooperation
with his requests didn’t ensue.
“Disclosure of responsive information to such
requests can risk severe consequences,
including potential loss of human lives, damage
to relationships with valued international
partners, compromise of ongoing criminal
investigations, and interference with intelligence
activities,” Boyd added.

“Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Attorney

General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per
usual, it was ignored,” stated Nunes. “So last
week we sent a subpoena. Then on Thursday
we discovered they’re not going to comply with
our subpoena on some very important
information that we need.”

“The only thing we can do is we have to move

quickly to hold the Attorney General of the
United States in contempt. And that’s what I’m
going to press for this week,” the congressman
added.

Though it is unclear exactly what information Nunes was

seeking that the DOJ had refused to turn over, a response
letter from the DOJ to his request dated May 3 revealed
that it pertained to an as-yet unnamed specific individual
who was considered by the DOJ to be highly valuable in But it was obvious from Nunes’ interview on Fox News
terms of a counterintelligence operation. that he was done accepting excuses from the DOJ and was
prepared to take drastic action if necessary to compel their
That letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd cooperation with his ongoing investigation into alleged
— obtained by investigative reporter Sara Carter — read, abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Courts
in part: “After careful evaluation and following and warrant procedures by the Obama administration’s
consultations with the Office of the Director of National DOJ and FBI.
Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the
White House, the Department has determined that,

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Bearing in mind the alleged FISA abuse had led to special
counsel Robert Mueller Special Counsel investigation into
alleged Russian interference and collusion with the Trump
campaign in the 2016 election, Nunes noted the remarks
from a federal judge in Virginia that heavily criticized the
scope and secrecy of that investigation.
“If you have a counterintelligence investigation
opened up on you as an American citizen, this
is done secretly with only a few people’s
knowledge. And if they go to court, they go to a
secret court to get a warrant on you like they did
with Carter Page,” Nunes said.
“So there is a very small apparatus in our
country that holds the check-and-balance
authority between Congress and the executive
branch, and when the Obama administration
decided to move forward on a with their oversight requests. Hopefully that action proves
counterintelligence investigation, in a campaign
.
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of all things, that’s how we’ve gotten to here,”
he added.
To be sure, issues of national security are a real thing and
it is understandable that the DOJ would be hesitant to
provide information to Congress that could conceivably
reveal secret information and place lives and ongoing
investigations at risk.
However, claims of “national security” can’t be used as a
blanket excuse to deny all requests from Congress as part
of their duty to provide oversight of the executive branch
and the actions of their agencies.
Nunes has made it clear that he is serious about getting to
the bottom of the alleged misdeeds his committee is
investigating, and he is willing to take serious action
against the current head of the DOJ to force compliance
unnecessary.
 COMEY IS STILL LYING! Hillary Clinton Admitted In
December She Paid For Junk Russia Dossier
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 1:01 Pm

Fired FBI Director James Comey went on

with Bret Baier on Special Report in late
April 2018 to pitch his new book and
discuss his controversial career.

During the interview Comey told Bret Baier

he still wasn’t sure who paid for the phony
Russia dossier.

Comey signed three FISA applications to authorize

wiretaps on the Trump team based on the dossier.

Comey was the FBI Director at the time… Via Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton has defended her campaign for
STUNNING. paying for the infamous Steele dossier into
Donald Trump.
The former presidential candidate told Trevor
Noah on the Daily Show that ‘of course’ there is
a difference between paying for that information
and colluding with Russia to influence the 2016
election.
Clinton said the dossier was simply ‘opposition
research’ and pointed to the fact that it was not
public knowledge during the election.

But Comey was lying again.

Hillary Clinton admitted in November 2017 that she paid
for the junk Russia dossier.
She defended her decision on The Daily Show!

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 Polls Show Americans Are Growing
Increasingly Disinterested In Mueller’s Russia Probe
Chris White - Energy Reporter
1:07 PM 05/06/2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller (R) departs after briefing members
of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion
between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in
Washington, U.S., June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts |
Americans Grow Sour On Muellers Probe
A slew of polls conducted in April show a shrinking level
of support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Recent polls from Monmouth University, Quinnipiac
University and Maris indicate Americans are souring on
the wide-ranging probe. People are starting to see
Mueller’s investigation as unfair to President Donald
Trump, two of the three also suggest.
Monmouth’s May 1 survey finds 54 percent of Americans
believe the special counsel’s pursuit should continue,
which is down from 60 percent in March and 62 percent in
July. Nearly 43 percent think the investigation should end
— up 10 points since last summer.
Support among independents for continuing the Russia
investigation has declined from 63 percent in March to 54
percent in the new poll, indicating criticisms are catching
beyond Trump’s die-hard conservative base. The results of
Monmouth’s poll, which sampled 803 adults reached
through cell phones and landlines, could raise red flags
among Democrats hoping to court independents.
The Maris poll, meanwhile, from April 10-13 found 45
percent saying the Mueller investigation was “fair” to the
president, down from a high point of 53 percent in
February. A still-smaller 30 percent said Mueller’s
investigation was “not fair.” Quinnipiac’s results are
similar in scope.
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A Quinnipiac poll released April 26 found 54 percent of
registered voters saying Mueller was conducting a fair
investigation, down from a high of 60 percent in
November 2017, while 31 percent said it was unfair. All
three polls come as Trump continues berating those he
believes are responsible for tying him to the probe.
“So disgraceful that the questions concerning
the Russian Witch Hunt were ‘leaked’ to the
media,” the president wrote in a tweet the day
Monmouth published its poll. “No questions on
Collusion. Oh, I see … you have a made up,
phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and
an investigation begun with illegally leaked
classified information. Nice!”
Monmouth’s poll also comes on the heels of an April 30
New York Times report showing a list of questions
Mueller is considering asking Trump — the bulk of which
are centered around a potential obstruction of justice case
against Trump.
Five questions relate to Michael Flynn, the former national
security adviser who was forced to resign on Feb. 13,
2017. Eighteen questions focus on James Comey, who
Trump fired as FBI director on May 9, 2017. Eight
questions center on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and 13
regard possible coordination between the Trump campaign
and Russian government. Some legal analysts think the
questions are overly broad.
Trump’s lawyers are in a worse position to prepare for an
interview with Mueller than then-President Bill Clinton’s
team was in the Whitewater investigation, according to Sol
Wisenberg, a defense lawyer who was a deputy
independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation.
“It’s totally different than when President Clinton
came into the grand jury room to talk to us,”
Wisenberg told The New York Times in a May 1
interview. “He pretty much knew everything we
knew. It was far less risky.”
He added,
“This list reinforces the notion that the president
should not go in for an interview with Mueller …
Mueller knows all kinds of things — we don’t
know exactly what he knows — and these are land mines.”
both broad and detailed questions, making real
.

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 FBI Will Not Collect Strzok-Page Text Messages On
Personal Accounts Despite Evidence “Work Related”
Matters Exchanged
By Cristina Laila
May 6, 2018, 1:35 Pm
The FBI will not collect messages
exchanged on the personal accounts of FBI
lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
despite the fact that there is evidence they
discussed “work related” matters.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said in
a letter obtained by Fox News to FBI Director Christopher
Wray,
“The work-related communications on
nongovernment systems could shed more light
on how the FBI handled the Clinton
investigation and would constitute federal
records that the FBI would be obligated to
retrieve and preserve under the Federal
Records Act.”
Despite Grassley’s valid argument and request, the FBI
refuses to hand over the messages.
Charles Thorley, the acting Assistant to the FBI Director
shot down Grassley’s request in a letter.
Fox News reported:
An FBI official says the bureau is not working to
collect messages between anti-Trump FBI
officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, despite the
request to do so from a top Republican senator
as well as evidence suggesting they
communicated about “work-related” matters on
non-FBI accounts.
But Thorley said
.
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“the FBI is not otherwise obligated to collect
and/or retain all communications between its
employees.”
“Thus, the FBI has not requested from Ms.
Page or Mr. Strzok any information from their
personal email accounts, nor as the FBI
conducted searches of non-FBI-issued
communications devices or non-FBI email
accounts associated with Mr. Strzok or Ms.
Page,” he said.
Earlier this week it was reported the Inspector General was
investigating if some of the Strzok-Page text messages
from the latest batch had been deleted after gaps were
flagged.
On Friday, Trump-hating FBI lawyer Lisa Page tendered
her resignation.
Lisa Page left the Special Counsel investigation in
September of 2017.
FBI’s chief of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page were caught exchanging anti-Trump text messages
over the summer of 2017.
In what is believed to be the most damning text exchange
between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an
“insurance policy” to keep Trump out of office.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s office…that there’s no
way [Trump] gets elected…but I’m afraid we
can’t take that risk,” Strzok text messaged to
Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring to
Andrew McCabe.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event
you die before you’re 40,” Strzok added.
Other profanity-laced text messages between Strzok and
Page showed their contempt for Donald Trump.
It is shameful the FBI continues to stonewall oversight
committees trying to conduct investigations into rampant
corruption from Obama’s agencies.
 Schiff: Conway And Sanders' Spin
On Trump Is 'Corrosive To Our Democracy'
By Luis Sanchez
05/06/18 01:39 PM EDT
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and
counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway’s efforts to
spin President Trump’s “abundant falsehoods” are
“corrosive to our democracy."
“What Kellyanne Conway and Sarah
Huckabee Sanders are doing — taking the
President’s abundant falsehoods and trying
to weave them into some alternate ‘truth’ —
is corrosive to our democracy and among
the most destructive features of this
Administration,” Schiff, a frequent critic of
the president, said in a tweet on Sunday.
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Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence
Committee, and Sanders recently exchanged jabs after
Schiff said that leaked questions from special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation show the investigation
is focused on Trump’s possible obstruction of justice.
Sanders then took a shot at Schiff by saying that the White
House tries
“never to be concerned with anything
dealing with Adam Schiff.”
Schiff then responded by asking why, if that is true, “won’t
the President agree to an interview with Bob Mueller?”
Conway, meanwhile, said Sunday that she doesn’t believe
the Trump White House has a credibility problem.
When pressed on CNN’s “State of the Union” about
Trump's falsehoods,
Conway insisted “the president doesn’t lie.”
 Second Judge Slaps Mueller Down –
Transcript Obtained Of Judge Ripping Mueller Case And
ANOTHER Judge Rejects Special Counsel Motion
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
May 6, 2018
On Friday, May 4, 2018, ANP highlighted some choice
quotes by federal judge, Judge T.S. Ellis, aimed at one of
special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors during a
hearing for a motion to dismiss by Paul Manafort, where
the judge accused the special counsel's office/DOJ of lying
to the public in their initial announcement laying out the
parameters and scope of what Mueller was allowed to
investigate. The judge also called them out on their attempt
to grab "unfettered power," and other highly critical
comments aimed towards how team Mueller has been
conducting themselves.
We have the transcript of that entire proceeding and it is
far harsher than the initial quotes that were previously
reported when those quotes are seen in context. That
transcript will be embedded towards the end of this article.
Now we see another judge has just rejected a motion to
delay made by team Mueller in what has been dubbed the
"Russian troll farm" indictments.
COURT REJECTS MUELLER'S ATTEMPT TO
DELAY 'RUSSIAN TROLL FARM' CASE
On the heels of the harsh questions and assertions from
Judge Ellis towards team Mueller, in another judge has
sided with one of the defendants in what has been dubbed
the "Russian troll farm" case, where in February it was
announced that three companies and 13 Russian citizens
had been indicted for committing federal crimes while
seeking to interfere in the United States political system,
including the 2016 Presidential election, with the DOJ
press release claiming
"The defendants allegedly conducted what
they called “information warfare against the
United States," with the stated goal of
"spread[ing] distrust towards the
candidates and the political system in
general."
Note- No American indicted by Mueller to date has been
charged with anything that fits under his original mandate
of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, so
the indictment against the Russian companies and 13
individuals was seen by many as an attempt to justify the
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millions upon millions the special counsel has spent in
taxpayer money, while the special counsel knew that
nothing could be done to the Russians because they
couldn't be forced to show up in court, they couldn't even
be arrested, and they were expected to simply ignore the
entire proceedings.
One of those companies did decide to respond, by hiring
two Washington based lawyers to represent them. Concord
Management and Consulting LLC hired Eric Dubelier and
Kate Seikaly, who demanded a number of discovery
requests by the special counsel's office, which included
information that has not been made public, to which they
have received no reply by Mueller's team.
The initial hearing is slated for Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
Team Mueller had three options at that point, they could:
1) Turn over the relevant documentation to Concord
Management and Consulting LLC as part of discovery;
2) Withdraw the charges, and;
3) Attempt to get the judge assigned the case to agree to
a motion to delay the first court hearing.
Mueller's prosecutor Jeannie Rhee, who formerly
represented a top Obama aide and the Clinton Foundation,
chose option three and asked the court to delay the
proceedings, claiming they couldn't properly deliver the
court summonses related to the case.
Via Politico:
“The [U.S.] government has attempted
service of the summonses by delivering
copies of them to the Office of the
Prosecutor General of Russia, to be
delivered to the defendants,” prosecutors
wrote. “That office, however, declined to
accept the summonses. The government
has submitted service requests to the
Russian government pursuant to a mutual
legal assistance treaty. To the
government’s knowledge, no further steps
 have been taken within Russia to
effectuate service.”
Mueller’s team sent a copy of the formal
summons to Dubelier and Seikaly and
asked them to accept it on behalf of
Concord Management, but Dubelier wrote
back on Monday saying that the
government’s attempt to serve the
summons was defective under court rules.
He did not elaborate.
While the Politico quote says "he did not elaborate," in a
filing that is embedded below, titled "DEFENDANT
CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING
LLC’S OPPOSITION SPECIAL COUNSEL’S
MOTION TO CONTINUE INITIAL APPEARANCE
AND ARRAIGNMENT," the elaboration is found, along
with some attached emails between Mr. Dubelier and
Mueller's prosecutor Rhee.
Mr. Dubelier explains in that filing that
"It is the Special Counsel’s own fault that
the summons was not properly served,"
given the manner of summons not
complying with the law, proper protocol and
DOJ regulations.
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As to the request by Mueller's team to delay the
proceedings, Mr. Dubelier asserts
"The Special Counsel is not entitled to
special rules, and is required like the
Attorney General to follow the rules of the
Court," and continues with "The Special
Counsel’s motion, filed late on a Friday
afternoon, essentially seeks to usurp the
scheduling authority of the Court by
requesting a continuance of a proceeding
scheduled in five days knowing that
Defendant is ordinarily entitled to fourteen
days to respond."
Apparently U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a
Trump appointee, agreed because she denied team
Mueller's motion to delay the first court hearing.
Also on Page 3 of the PDF embedded below, the lawyers
for Concord let it be known they would be asserting their
"speedy trial" rights under 18 U.S. Code § 3161.
Concord Management Opposition to Delay Proceedings
can be read on next page.
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It should be very interesting to see what the Mueller
prosecutor will do on Wednesday and how they plan to
continue with a case when they are reluctant to follow the
legal discovery rules, which are described by
Dictionary.Law in the following manner:
n. the entire efforts of a party to a lawsuit
and his/her/its attorneys to obtain
information before trial through demands
for production of documents, depositions of
parties and potential witnesses, written
interrogatories (questions and answers
written under oath), written requests for
admissions of fact, examination of the
scene and the petitions and motions
employed to enforce discovery rights. The
theory of broad rights of discovery is that all
parties will go to trial with as much
knowledge as possible and that neither
party should be able to keep secrets from
the other (except for constitutional
protection against self-incrimination). Often
much of the fight between the two sides in
a suit takes place during the discovery
period.
BOTTOM LINE
For those of us that have been watching Robert Mueller's
apparent fishing expedition and his ever-expanding
"powers" with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
allowing him to do whatever he wants without yanking on
his leash and keeping him within the scope of his original
mandate, it is satisfying to see two courts in the last week
putting him and his team in their place. One verbally and
one by rejecting their motion to delay, which didn't even
follow DOJ protocol.
Robert Mueller has been walking all over the FBI, DOJ,
and Congressional investigations, but it appears that the
court system is not prepared to let him walk all over them
without some harsh push back.
The entire transcript of the T.S. Ellis exchange with
Mueller attorney and Manafort Attorney, has been
released. Zero Hedge has some specific highlights offered
by a New York attorney, who breaks down
"the intense back-and-forth between
Eastern District of Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis,
a Reagan appointee, and Mueller attorney
Michael Dreeben."
Judge Jeanine Pirro has some thoughts about those intense
exchanges as well, in the video before the transcript.

It appears that Concord, by hiring lawyers to represent

them when no one actually thought the Russian firms or
individuals indicted would bother with the proceedings at
all, threw a monkey wrench into what team Mueller
thought would be a slam dunk. Easy to win when only one
side shows up to fight.

Now the Russian company has backed Mueller into a

corner, forcing them to either put up (hand over discovery)
or shut up (dismiss the case), and by attempting to get the
court to delay the initial first court hearing on a
technicality about summonses, it shows how unprepared
they are to turn over the evidence they claim to have
against Concord.

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 James Woods Schools Michelle Obama After She Shames
Women For ‘Allowing’ Donald Trump
To Become President
By Cristina Lail
May 6, 2018, 2:13 Pm

She continued,
“When the most qualified person running was a
woman, and look what we did instead, I mean
that says something about where we are.
Forget everybody else. That’s what we have to
explore, because if we as women are still
suspicious of one another, if we still have this
crazy, crazy bar for each other that we don’t
have for men. If we are still doing that today. If
we’re not comfortable with the notion that a
Twitter ignited Sunday after James Woods woman could be our president compared to …
scolded Michelle Obama again over what, then we have to have those
outrageous remarks regarding Hillary conversations with ourselves as women.”
Clinton’s election loss.
James Woods took Michelle Obama to
Yes, we are nearly halfway through 2018 and school and Twitter went crazy.
Michelle Obama is still griping about the Woods tweeted: You didn’t “let” anything happen. The
2016 election. citizens of the United States, through the power of the
When will the Democrats ever shut up about Hillary Constitution, duly elected a President of their choice. May
Clinton’s election loss? come as a shock to you, madam, but the People speak in
America. We don’t do what you “let” us do.
Americans rejected Hillary’s decades of corruption and
voted to put Donald Trump in the White House in an
electoral landslide.
Those are the facts.
On Saturday, Michelle Obama griped to an audience about
Hillary’s crushing election loss while speaking at the
United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles,
California.
Michelle Obama shamed and blamed the women in the
audience for Hillary’s election loss, asking, ‘how did we
allow this to happen?’
When will she learn that women shaming other women
isn’t effective? Hillary tried that and found out the hard
way.
Partial transcription via Breitbart:
Obama said,
”Sorry, in light of this last election, I’m
concerned about us as women and how we
think. And what is really going on. What is going
on in our heads where we let that happen, you
know?”
Twitter users piled on.
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 Stelter Declares Day 470 Of White House
‘Credibility Crisis’, Dismisses Media’s
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 6, 2018 2:24 PM EDT

pointed to claims by Bornstein that his office was “raided”

by the Trump team after the election and that Trump wrote
the letter himself.

“Trump dictated that whole letter. I didn't

write that letter. I just made it up as I went
along,” Stelter read from the statement,
failing to point out that that statement
contradicts itself or how the doctor
ridiculously said he felt like he was “raped.”

It’s well known that CNN senior media reporter Brian

Stelter is no fan of President Trump. He even goes as far as
to question’s the President’s mental stability and was
overjoyed when the rest of the media were pushing their
hot takes too. During Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he
opined about how the White House was in day 470 of what
he called a “credibility crisis.” And despite how the show
is supposed to be about the media, Stelter dismissed the
notion media was having their own crisis after their “no
good, very bad week.”

After highlighting what would be discussed to the show,
Stelter transitioned from talking about the 10 journalists
killed in Afghanistan last week to slam the administration.
“But first, back here in the U.S., enough
is enough. The lies, the deceit, the fear
mongering. Journalists increasingly are
feeling empowered to call out the Trump
White House's lies,” he boasted.
“The Trump presidency, this is what a
crisis of leadership looks and feels like.
Every week another scandal. Every
week another cover-up,” Stelter declared
as he started talking about the
embarrassing situation with Rudy Giuliani.
“This week I have to admit I chuckled at
some of the banners on screen—some
of the headlines calling this a White
House credibility crisis. I mean, that is
true. That's objectively true. It is a crisis,
but it's been true since day one.”
Stelter then turned to Trump’s former doctor, Harold
Bornstein who wrote the rather flattering letter about the
President’s health during the campaign. The CNN reporter
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A short time later, and after he brought on Carl Bernstein
to hyperventilate about a “cold civil war,” Stelter accused
Fox News of helping to defend the President from his lack
of credibility but turning it on the media.
“Later in the week, all week long,
coverage of the President's lack of
credibility, calling it a crisis, and then on
Saturday where did Fox go? You
guessed it. The media has a credibility
crisis.”
In order for Stelter to make that case, he had to pretend
that Fox’s point was made in a vacuum with only the
White House applying a force. But in reality, last week
was a miserable one for the media and its credibility.
The week began with the fallout from the horrendous
White House Correspondents Dinner that epitomized the
media’s hostile relationship with the administration.
On Monday, the media didn’t let facts get
in the way of their narrative when falsely
claiming the NRA made their convention a
 gun free zone. With Tuesday came
revelations that NBC was allegedly
pressuring 115 female reporters to sign a
letter last week backing Tom Brokaw, who
was accused of sexual misconduct. Stelter
himself aided in hurting the media’s
credibility in this instance because of his
blatant double standard.
And back to back media embarrassments on Thursday
didn’t help either. Between journalists disrupting the
National Day of Prayer service at the White House
(including shouting questions about a pornstar and loudly
talking about the pornstar during TV spots) and NBC’s
major correction about a false report they put out
claiming Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had his phones
wiretapped, it was a terrible week for the press.
So, obviously, the media was going through their own
credibility crisis, something Stelter didn’t seem to
recognize or didn’t care to. But as Stelter himself declared,
unironically,
“this shouldn't be about feelings. This
should be about facts.”
Relevant portions of the transcript below:
CNN
Reliable Sources
May 6, 2018
11:00:55 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: But first, back here in the U.S., enough is
enough. The lies, the deceit, the fear mongering. Journalists
increasingly are feeling empowered to call out the Trump White
House's lies. Because the evidence is right on tape. It made me
wonder at the end of a long week was this a lie, too?
DONALD TRUMP: I will never lie to you. I will never tell you
something I do not believe. I will never put anyone's interests
ahead of yours.
STELTER: That was from the campaign. But this now, the Trump
presidency, this is what a crisis of leadership looks and feels like.
Every week another scandal. Every week another cover-up. This
week it involved Rudy Giuliani. You see him there on Hannity. He
was talking about Stormy Daniels and the payoff and questions
about when she was really paid off and how, when did Trump
know, were laws violated? Oh, and were there other Stormy, too?
He was on ABC’s This Week just a couple of hours ago and he
didn't rule it out. This week I have to admit I chuckled at some of
the banners on screen—some of the headlines calling this a
White House credibility crisis. I mean, that is true. That's
objectively true. It is a crisis, but it's been true since day one.
Reporters are always trained to cover what's new, what's
different, what do you got, what's happening? But Trump's fibs
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and falsehoods are the opposite, they’re not new. He's been
behaving this way his whole life. Heck, Trump entered politics on
a lie about President Obama.
So what is new? I've been thinking about that, trying to figure out
what is new. I think the answer is the reporting. Reporters are
revealing Trump's lies one by one. You know, Stormy Daniels
made a cameo on SNL last night but is only a household name
thanks to reporting by The Wall Street Journal and other outlets.
The same for Dr. Harold Bornstein also parodied by SNL, that’s
the president's former doctor. NBC got ahold of him recently and
he revealed that his office was, his word, “raided” by Trump's
bodyguard and lawyer.
Borstein then told CNN his hyperbolic letter attesting to Trump's
health back in 2015 was not truthful. Quote, “Trump dictated that
whole letter. I didn't write that letter. I just made it up as I went
along.” Let's just sit with that for a minute. Trump attacked Hillary
Clinton's health during the campaign, but he made up his own
doctor's letter? Enough is enough. Yet there are people out
there, a lot of them, who the press should not be covering the
president this way who say we should not call lies lies.
(…)
STELTER: But this shouldn't be about feelings. This should be
about facts.
(…)
11:07:35 AM Eastern
STELTER: What we see instead from the Giuliani’s of the world
are a lot of projections. He’ll say it's the Democrats who are
colluding. Let me show you a few examples of this, how Trump
and his supporters respond to media critiques. The first that I
noticed was on Monday of this week, CNN was reporting Chief of
Staff John Kelly had privately called the President unhinged at
one point. Then 45 minutes later after CNN reported that, Trump
said the press is unhinged. Coincidence? I don't know. Later in
the weeks, all week long, coverage of the President's lack of
credibility, calling it a crisis, and then on Saturday where did Fox
go? You guessed it. The media has a credibility crisis. That's the
banner there on screen.
(…)
CARL BERNSTEIN: We now have seen how Donald Trump has
succeeded to a large extent understanding the country much
better perhaps than the press. By making the conduct of the
press the issue instead of his own conduct and that of the
Russians and what he and the Russians may or may not have
done in concert, that he is succeeding in making our conduct the
issue to a large extent. It appeals to his base. His base has put
the Republican Party enthralled and fear of this president and
this presidency and one of the things we ought to be covering is
whether or not the Republican Party is in such thrall that it is
willing to give the President of the United States a pass on the
question of whether or not he's acted in concert with a foreign (…)
power and undermined the interest of the United States as a
candidate. That's what this story is about underneath it all.
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 MORE BAD NEWS FOR ROSIE… O’Donnell Also
Accused Of Bribing GOP Senators In December
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 2:53 Pm

Rosie O’Donnell is accused of committing this crime at

least five times.

But this is not the first time Rosie was

caught interfering with elections.

In December 2017 Rosie O’Donnell offered

$2 million to any Republican senator who
would vote against the Trump tax cuts.

Liberal lunatic Rosie O’Donnell reportedly Conservatives at the time accused Rosie O’Donnell of
illegally exceeded campaign contribution committing a felony by bribing members of Congress.
limits to at least five Democrat candidates
according to reports this week.
The bribes didn’t work and all 50 Republican
Senators voted for once for the Trump tax
The New York Post reported on Saturday that the liberal
cuts that are hugely successful.
comedian has regularly broken Federal Election
Commission rules limiting the total any one person can
give to an individual candidate at $2,700 per election.
Filings show O’Donnell gave a combined $5,400 in
contributions over the limit to the five candidates, and used
five different New York addresses and four variations of
her name. The fact that she used different locations and
different spellings shows intent on Rosie’s part.

Conservative author and producer Dinesh

D’Souza, who was indicted and charged for
far less, called Rosie O’Donnell out for her
alleged crimes today.

D’Souza was charged by the Obama regime for using

straw donors to funnel money to a US Senate campaign in
a single felony count.

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 Former Trump Lawyer: President Won’t
Testify In ‘Bad Faith’ Mueller Probe
Virginia Kruta
2:54 PM 05/06/2018

Former Trump personal attorney Joe diGenova spoke with

Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” saying that
President Donald Trump is not likely to give the Mueller
team an interview because the FBI’s probe is

“no longer a good faith investigation.”

President Trump has indicated on several occasions that he

would like to sit down with Mueller to clear things up once
and for all, but his lawyers have advised against it. New
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested that an interview
might be possible, but that it would be limited in both
scope and time. DiGenova also brushed off statements made earlier in the
week by Giuliani, saying that they weren’t really relevant
But on Sunday, diGenova told Wallace that recent to the real issues.
developments have revealed the Mueller investigation to
be in “bad faith.”

The president will not sit down for an interview because

this investigation has reached a level of bad faith. His is no
longer a good faith investigation.

WATCH:

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 Neil Cavuto Viewers Blast Him With Brutal Comments
After His Scathing Rebuke Of ‘Liar’ Trump
Chris Enloe
May 6, 2018 3:57 Pm

“Welp…You just lost millions of Trump

supporters today with your little rant on
your president today Neil. Enjoy your low
rating!” another viewer named Bobby wrote
in.
“Neil Cavuto is an a** and a swamp
creature,” another person said.
“I was astounded, Cavuto has become a
true jerk…Today was the last time I will use
my electricity to watch your fat face,” a
Fox News host Neil Cavuto reads angry comments from viewers, viewer named Linda wrote.
which came in after he blasted President Donald Trump. (Image
source: YouTube screenshot)
“You’re the fake news never-Trumper the
president likes to warn us all about…and
you’re fat too!” a viewer named Kimmy
Fox News host Neil Cavuto stunned his viewers last week said.
when he blasted President Donald Trump for being
dishonest and repeatedly making statements that are not
How did Cavuto respond to the hate?
consistent with facts.

“So let me be clear, Mr. president, how can
you drain the swamp if you’re the one who
keeps muddying the waters?” Cavuto said.
“I guess you’re too busy draining the
swamp to ever stop and smell the stink
you’re creating. That’s your doing. That’s
your stink. Mr. president that’s your
swamp.”
The fiery monologue came as quite the surprise, especially
to Cauvto’s viewers, many of which wrote into his show
the next day to give him a vitriolic dose of his own
medicine.
He defended his comments, emphasizing that
“nothing I shared was fake, everything was
real.”
“I’m not here to provide lessons just facts,”
Cavuto said. “Just like I’ve always said
words matter, and yes tweets matter…All
I’m saying is the president should be very
careful calling anyone else being fake.”
“So, I’ll try to keep it real. So, I hope you
have a real good weekend and think twice
about very nasty names on the fat thing,”
Cavuto added. “Goodnight.”

What happened?

On his show Friday, the day after his Trump monologue,

Cavuto dedicated the final minutes of his show to read the
angry responses.

“Neil, you proved today that you’re a leftist

liberal and a moron. I will no longer listen to
your show. Ciao!” a viewer named Frank
said.

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 Slate Column, With Unemployment
Rate At 3.9 Percent: It's 'Meaningless'
By Tom Blumer
May 6, 2018 4:46 PM EDT

You had to figure that a left-leaning journalist somewhere Weissmann wants to focus on something else:
would denigrate Friday's news that the nation's seasonally
adjusted unemployment rate fell below 4 percent for the
first time since 2000.

Sure, Jordan. Let's "forget" sub-4 percent unemployment,

record-low black unemployment of 6.6. percent, and the
low Hispanic rate of 4.8 percent. Would Weissmann would
be telling us to "forget" these things if a Democrat
occupied the White House?

Weissmann's has a point about working-age participation.

But why is it a lingering problem?

Here's why:
Jordan Weissmann, in a Slate.com column beginning with
a headlined contention that "The Unemployment Rate Is
Meaningless," came through.

Weissmann's widely-shared concern is that wages aren't

rising quickly, indicating that the country isn't close
enough to full employment to create wage pressures (h/t
Instapundit):

One response to this, especially given a tweet Weissmann

cited which noted that non-managers' wages have only
increased by 2.6 percent, would be to ask: How much
impact has illegal immigration had, especially on non-
managers? Weissmann predictably didn't address the topic.
Faster wage growth typically hasn't appeared until there
has been a period of relatively strong economic growth. By
historical standards, there hasn't been strong annual growth
since the last recession ended, though there are some
recent signs that the spell might finally be breaking.
Hourly wage growth of 4 percent or more didn't occur
during the last decade until 2006, after economic growth in
2004 and 2005 averaged over 3.5 percent. Similarly, it
didn't consistently top 4 percent during the 1990s until late
1997, after the economy hit full stride in the second quarter
of 1996.
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It's not difficult to see why
"The labor market is still only about four-
fifths recovered from the recession."
It's because, after falling off a cliff during the recession,
the 25-54 participation metric was stuck at an intolerable
75 percent for over two years after it officially ended
(September 2009 through October 2011) — a level not
seen since the early 1980s, when the workforce had a far
lower percentage of women.
Early Obama administration policies during this period are
primarily to blame for this. They included a stimulus plan
which didn't stimulate anything except misery and
additional dependency; the passage of Obamacare; and
unprecedented regulatory over-reach and hostility, which
continued to the administration's bitter end.
All of this led to a shocking, unprecedented number of
Americans who were cut off from employment:
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Picky employers tragically — but rationally — preferred
to hire those who were employed elsewhere or only
recently became unemployed over the long-term
unemployed.
The graph's red-arrowed line shows what would likely
have happened if the damage the Obama administration's
policies wrought hadn't occurred. Instead of four-fifths of
the way back, the participation rate for this key working-
age group would be virtually all the way back — and wage
pressures would be significantly greater.
We should thank Jordan Weissmann for making this clear,
though inadvertently. He can now focus on his recent
favorite topic: sex redistribution.
 MIKE FLYNN Endorses Troy Downing For Montana
Senator – Slams Dem Senator Tester For Smear Campaign
On Ronny Jackson (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 6, 2018, 5:07 Pm

General Mike Flynn endorsed Republican Flynn encouraged people to vote Jon Tester out and stuck
candidate Troy Downing for U.S. Senate in up for Admiral Ronny Jackson.
Montana on Sunday.
God bless General Flynn.
Flynn also slammed the grotesque attacks
and lies on Admiral Ronny Jackson carried VIDEO:
out by the current Dem Senator of Montana,
Jon Tester.

Democrat Senator Jon Tester led the charge

last week spreading false rumors against
Trump VA pick Admiral Ronny Jackson.

General Flynn began by apologizing for not being able to Tester played point man to smear and
attend a rally for Troy Downing then threw his support slander Admiral Jackson with false
behind the Republican candidate 100%. allegations of inappropriate behavior.

“I’m here today to strongly and wholeheartedly Admiral Jackson withdrew his nomination after the false
endorse Troy Downing to be the next senator allegations were released and shared widely by the liberal
from the great state of Montana,” Flynn said. mainstream media.

Troy Downing is a pro-life, pro-borders The Secret Service later came out and said the allegations
combat vet who supports the 2nd were completely false.
Amendment Flynn explained.
President Trump called on Jon Tester to resign after
Downing is running against the despicable Democrat spreading the vicious lies against Admiral Jackson.
Senator who currently occupies the seat, Jon Tester.
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 How Buzzfeed’s ‘Data-Monster’
Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super Pacs,
Target Voters
Andrew Kerr - Investigative Reporter
8:41 PM 05/06/2018

Shortly after being hired to lead BuzzFeed’s politics and

advocacy division, Shapiro stated publicly that her job at
the viral news and entertainment site was to help political
candidates win.

 BuzzFeed created dozens of native political ads for

anti-Trump super PACs in 2016 that were “based
off mounds and piles and troves of data and
information” it had collected on its own users,
according to former BuzzFeed vice president.
 At the same time, BuzzFeed refused to work with
pro-Trump groups because to do so would be
“hazardous to our health.”
 BuzzFeed said that political ads on its website
But as it turns out, only some in the political space were
would be labeled as such, but most of the political
given the opportunity to partner with BuzzFeed’s viral
ads the website reviewed by The Daily Caller News
marketing team to create custom political ads that,
Foundation were not.
according to Shapiro, are “based off of mounds and piles
and troves of data and information that we have as far as
BuzzFeed partnered closely with multiple Democratic and how people are interacting and engaging with content.”
anti-Trump super PACs in 2016 to target its own
users with dozens of political advertisements that were not
BuzzFeed raised eyebrows in June 2016 when it
in accordance with its own policies, according to a Daily
announced it had canceled a $1.3 million advertising
Caller News Foundation investigation.
agreement with the Republican National Committee due to
disagreements with then-candidate Donald Trump’s
Former BuzzFeed Vice President Rena Shapiro, who led “offensive statements.”
the website’s native political advertising team during the
2016 election, described candidly in a pair of unearthed
Doing business with any group that supports Trump,
interviews how she partnered closely with political groups
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti said after canceling the
to create ads that harnessed the data BuzzFeed collects on
RNC ad buy, would be “hazardous to our health.”
its audience of over 650 million people to solve their
“ultimate need, which is to get elected, to get their
message out there, or to canvas people together to create “We don’t run cigarette ads because they
impact around a cause.” are hazardous to our health, and we won’t
accept Trump ads for the exact same
reason,” Peretti said.
“This is a data monster that we’re working
with here at BuzzFeed, and it’s awesome
to harness that power to everyone’s And Shapiro made clear that BuzzFeed’s work with the
advantage in the political space,” Shapiro super PACs meant the website had skin in the game trying
said in December 2016 on “Digital Politics to defeat Trump at the ballot box.
with Karen Jagoda.”

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 “What’s #politicaladsteam @BuzzFeed
team been up too?” she tweeted in August
2016. “Helping @prioritiesUSA
@emilyslist get creative to stop Trump.”
A spokesman for BuzzFeed downplayed Shapiro’s
comments, saying the website’s news and advertising
& business are “completely walled off” from one another.
The existence of that firewall, according to BuzzFeed,
should alleviate any concerns raised by its close work with
anti-Trump political groups in 2016.

“BuzzFeed News is an award-winning

international news organization, recognized
this week by the Pulitzer Prize Board for
the second consecutive year. The
BuzzFeed News editorial operation is
completely walled off from BuzzFeed’s
advertising business, like virtually any other
media organization that operates a news
division and accepts advertising–a concept
that must be foreign to the Daily Caller,”
BuzzFeed News spokesman Matt Mittenhal
told TheDCNF in a statement.

Mittenhal’s assertion that BuzzFeed’s news operation is

“completely walled off” from its advertising business
appears to be inconsistent with the website’s own editorial
standards, which clearly states that management-level
editorial employees sometimes cross over to the
advertising side to vet certain projects.

“BuzzFeed News maintains a divide between advertising

As the business side of BuzzFeed worked with anti-Trump
super PACs in a bid to help elect Democrats, BuzzFeed
News covered Trump in an aggressive manner.
In late 2015, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith gave the
go-ahead to his political reporters to call Trump a racist in
news reports.
“It is, for instance, entirely fair to call him a
mendacious racist, as the politics team and
others have reported clearly and
aggressively: he’s out there saying things
that are false, and running an overtly anti-
Muslim campaign,” Smith told BuzzFeed
News reporters.
“BuzzFeed News’s reporting is rooted in
facts, not opinion; these are facts,” Smith
said.
And shortly after Trump won the election, Smith made the
widely criticized decision to publish the salacious and
unverified “Steele dossier,” a collection of memos
commissioned by research firm Fusion GPS that alleged
ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
BuzzFeed’s firewall between its news
and ads divisions
and editorial staff, the website’s news standards and ethics
guides states.
“However, management-level editorial
employees may be asked to vet certain
sponsorships or projects. Some forms of
advertising — including video integrations
and advertisements in podcasts — may
also involve staffers’ participation in a
clearly disclosed form.”
Shapiro’s comments on “Digital Politics” further break
down the supposed separation from BuzzFeed’s news and
advertising divisions. During her March 2016 appearance
on the podcast, she detailed how the website’s advertising
business pulls data and insights from the editorial side to
more effectively target its own audience with “irresistible”
political advertisements.
“This is the data that we have. So, we
know, for example, what works on the edit
side, we can then come back and say,
‘okay, this type of concept seems to
resonate really, really well with adults over
age 45,'” Shapiro explained. “Therefore if
you know you’re going to target adults over
age 45 who live in Ohio, Florida or Nevada,
we can then create custom content to
resonate with those specific key target
audience groups.”

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 “We have the ability to understand what
these audiences are interested in and then
we can create concepts and content that
will enable a group or candidate or a
nonprofit, even, to push that concept out to
that target audience in a very interesting
dynamic way that almost makes it
irresistible,” she said.
“That’s a really powerful tool for campaigns
and issue advocacy groups and PACs to
leverage,” Shapiro said of BuzzFeed’s
capabilities.
BuzzFeed’s tools helped inform the decision-making
processes of their super PAC clients, according to one
client, former Priorities USA Executive Director Anne
Caprara.
“We have the ability to test it and to run a
program to look at it and say that it’s
reaching these voters and persuading them
in different ways. It informs the decision-
making,” Caprara, whose super PAC paid
BuzzFeed $1.5 million for ads in 2016, told
The Washington Post.
Shapiro, who left BuzzFeed in November 2017, declined to
comment when asked to clarify her tweets and the
statements she made on her two appearances on “Digital
Politics” in 2016.
A BuzzFeed representative distanced the website from
Shapiro’s comments, saying electing and defeating
politicians is not a goal of BuzzFeed.
The representative also said Shapiro was incorrect when
she said BuzzFeed leveraged data from its editorial
operations to help political groups target key audience
groups with political ads.
But even if Shapiro’s detailed comments are all untrue, it
doesn’t explain why dozens of political posts on
BuzzFeed’s website are presented in a way that appears to
be inconsistent with its own standards.
Many Political Ads On BuzzFeed’s
Website Lacked Proper Disclosure
TheDCNF was able to locate 36 political posts placed on
BuzzFeed’s website in 2016.

The posts, commissioned by political groups and created

BuzzFeed’s advertising business demonstrated in 2016 that
by BuzzFeed’s political advertising team, were designed to
by refusing to work with pro-Trump political groups it had
mimic the look and feel of BuzzFeed’s editorial content so
skin in the political game. But Smith, the website’s editor-
it could effectively blend in with the website’s news and
in-chief, insists that its news coverage of the president is
entertainment content.
rooted in the facts. He said in January that the website
would have treated a Hillary Clinton presidency the same
way they’re treating Trump’s. Native political advertisements, as they’re formally
referred to, can leave readers to doubt whether a newsroom
can effectively cover the politicians they’re receiving
But juxtaposing BuzzFeed’s critical coverage of Trump to
money to run ads for, according to the Native Advertising
that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, suggests
Institute.
otherwise.

BuzzFeed stressed when it announced it would begin

BuzzFeed’s coverage of Obama was “almost uniformly
creating native political ads that the ads would be clearly
uncritical and often sycophantic,” according to a 2016
identified as such.
analysis by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), a
left-leaning media watchdog group.
But only four out of the 36 political posts published on
BuzzFeed’s website in 2016 reviewed by TheDCNF were
FAIR analyzed 100 BuzzFeed stories on Obama published
clearly identified as political at the onset of the post.
in early 2016. Of those stories, 65 were positive and 34
were neutral in tone. Only one was critical of the Obama
administration. One of the few posts clearly identified as a political ad was
titled, “Watch Women Read Actual Quotes By Donald
Trump.” The post was clearly identified as a political
Examples of BuzzFeed News’ “power-serving coverage”
advertisement under the byline of Our Principles PAC, the
of Obama analyzed by FAIR include:
anti-Trump Republican super PAC that paid for the ad.

 The First Family Gave Us Family Goals As They

Walked Through Old Havana
 Steph Curry Being Mentored By Obama Will Give You
Squad Goals
 President Obama Killed It When He Slow-Jammed The
News With Jimmy Fallon

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Our Principles PAC BuzzFeed post identified as a Political Ad
(Credit: Screenshot/BuzzFeed.com)
This set an expectation that future political ads on
BuzzFeed’s site would also be labeled as such.
But TheDCNF located 32 super PAC ads on BuzzFeed’s
website given the label of “Brand Publisher,” the
identification the website gives to paid ads from its non-
political clients such as Wal-Mart, Verizon and Samsung.
One of these posts was an advertisement run by “More Of
This” titled, “10 Reasons To Vote Blue All The Way
Down The Ballot.”
“More Of This” identified as a “Brand Publisher” (Credit:
Screenshot/BuzzFeed.com)
It’s only at the end of the post that a disclaimer notice
identifies “More Of This” as a trademark of Priorities USA
Action, the Democratic Super PAC who paid for the
communication.
“More Of This” Disclaimer Notice (Credit:
Screenshot/BuzzFeed.com)
Obscuring from the onset that the post was paid for by a
super PAC appears to go against BuzzFeed’s initial
promise that it would clearly identify paid political posts as
such.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) requires any
political advertisements placed online for a fee to contain
a disclaimer notice identifying who paid for and who
authorized the communication.
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But 12 of the super PAC posts on BuzzFeed’s website
reviewed by TheDCNF did not contain a disclaimer notice
within their posts.
A representative for BuzzFeed told TheDCNF that these 12
posts — one from Women Vote!, four from NextGen
Climate Action Committee and seven from “More of This”
— were not actually paid ads, despite them being labeled
as paid for by a “Brand Sponsor.”
The representative stressed that the Facebook videos
embedded in these 12 posts are the ads, not the posts
themselves. BuzzFeed only gets paid when someone clicks
into and watches the Facebook video, according to the
representative.
BuzzFeed labeling these apparently free posts as paid for
by a sponsor draws a thin line between these posts staying
in accordance to and breaking FEC disclaimer rules.
One of the posts lacking a disclaimer notice, titled “A Day
In The Life In President Trump’s America,” expressly
advocates readers to cast a vote for Hillary Clinton.
“To avoid a Trump America, vote for
Hillary on November 8,” the post from
Women Vote! read.
Women Vote! identified as a “Brand Publisher” (Credit:
Screenshot/BuzzFeed.com)
If it’s true that Women Vote! did not pay BuzzFeed for this
specific communication, then there is no need for a
disclaimer notice. But if the post was placed on BuzzFeed
for a fee, it may be in violation of FEC disclaimer rules.
“As a general matter, political committee’s
communications that are placed for a fee
on another person’s website must include a
disclaimer,” Brendan Fischer, the director
of Federal Election Commission (FEC)
reform at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal
Center, told TheDNCF. “If Priorities USA
Action, NextGen Climate Action
Committee, and Women Vote ads paid
Buzzfeed for those posts, they should have
included a disclaimer.”
TheDCNF was able to locate only one BuzzFeed-created
ad in 2016 that supported a Republican candidate. The ad,
paid for by the National Republican Congressional
Committee, supported former Illinois Rep. Bob Dold, who
was among the first Republicans to come out against
Trump.
BuzzFeed’s actions appear similar to
Facebook
BuzzFeed working hand-in-hand with anti-Trump groups
to disburse political ads on its own platform appear similar
to how Facebook embedded staffers in the Trump
campaign to help the campaign better use Facebook to
target customers.
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But unlike BuzzFeed, Facebook did not discriminate
between Trump and Clinton. The only reason Facebook
didn’t embed its employees in the Clinton campaign was
because the Clinton campaign turned down Facebook
when it offered the service.
“Facebook’s defense was, ‘we offered the
same services to all candidates, it’s just
that not all candidates took advantage,'”
Fischer said.
“Here, you don’t have that defense,”
Fischer continued. “It’s clear that BuzzFeed
offered their services to some candidates
but not others.”
 “Enough Is Enough” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark
Meadows Joins Nunes – Calls For DOJ Officials To Be
Held In Contempt Of Congress
By Cristina Laila
May 6, 2018, 8:55 Pm
On Sunday morning Rep. Devin Nunes (R-
CA) went on with FOX and Friends and
dropped this bomb.
Rep. Nunes says he will move forward with a contempt
resolution against DOJ AG Jeff Sessions for refusal to
comply with latest House subpoena.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) joined
Nunes on Sunday and said
“it’s time to hold DOJ officials in contempt of
Congress.”
Mark Meadows has had enough of the stonewalling from
the Department of Justice.
Rosenstein refuses to hand over pertinent documents and
now Sessions is refusing to comply with a subpoena.
Chairman Meadows says it’s time….
Mark Meadows tweeted:
Last week Chairman @DevinNunes sent a
subpoena to the DOJ with a deadline of
Thursday. Once again, the DOJ ignored the
request and will not comply.
Same story–more obstruction. Enough is enough. It’s time
to hold DOJ officials in contempt of Congress.
The Department of Justice shot back at Nunes shortly after
he put Sessions on notice Sunday morning in a defiant
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letter once again stating they will not hand over the
documents requested.
The DOJ is using the same tired excuse that the documents
requested put our national security at risk blah blah blah.
It’s all lies.
The DOJ’s response reported by investigative
journalist Sara Carter:
“Disclosure of responsive information to such
requests can risk severe consequences,
including potential loss of human lives, damage
to relationships with valued international
partners, compromise of ongoing criminal
investigations, and interference with intelligence
activities,” stated the May, 3 letter from
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd.
“After careful evaluation and following
consultations with the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and the White House, the
Department has determined that, consistent
with applicable law and longstanding Executive
Branch policy, it is not in a position to provide
the information responsive to your request
regarding a specific individual,” the letter
states.
It’s time to hold AG Sessions, Deputy AG Rosenstein and
FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt.
 Disgraceful! Globalist Nikki Haley Breaks With Trump –
Comes Out In Favor Of Mueller Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 9:40 Pm

This is contemptible. “First of all, he has his communication

Especially considering the entire country –
the honest ones at least – knows today the
Mueller Special Counsel is a complete fairy
tale based on Democrat lies.
style,” Haley told CBS’s “Sunday Morning.”
“But you’re not hearing me defend that.”…
…On Sunday, Haley also said that the
president should not shut down special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian
meddling in the 2016 election but added that
the investigation needs to wrap up quickly “for
the good of the country.”

Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley called

for dirty cop Robert Mueller to be able to
finish his investigation.

Haley wants to make sure every Trump donor is

interviewed and harassed before Mueller calls it quits.

Haley is going to be trouble in the future.

It’s obvious.

The Hill reported:

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki

Haley said on Sunday that she won’t defend
President Trump’s “communication style.”

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 OH REALLY? Ben Rhodes Claims Alleged Dossier On
HIM Should Not Be Acceptable In A Democracy
By Greg P.
Posted At 9:41 Pm On May 6, 2018

There was a report out over the weekend that alleged the
White House hired an Israeli company last year to compile
dirt — a dossier, if you will — on former Obama staffers
involved in the Iran deal.

We have no idea whether or not this dossier story is true

— but is he really trying to tell us that compiling dirt on
one’s political enemies is now something that’s a threat to
democracy in America? Or maybe, the Trump dossier is
different than Rhodes alleged dossier:

Maybe Rhodes’ “breathless focus” means “really bad

stuff” is coming out on Obama and the Iran deal?
According to The Guardian, the targets of intel were
former Obama staffers Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl:
FWIW, the Israeli firm Black Cube, which is not
mentioned by name in the article linked to above, denied
People in the Trump camp contacted that they were hired to gather dirt on the Obama staffers.
private investigators in May last year to “get Of note, this is the same firm linked to Harvey Weinstein
dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of which is another irony lost on the former Obama staffers
Barack Obama’s top national security who were the alleged targets of the GOP dirty tricks:
advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant
to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt
to discredit the deal.

Now get this…

To Rhodes, this alleged dirty dossier is something that

should not be acceptable in a democracy:

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And this is rich coming from someone who can’t wait for
the pee-pee tape to be real:

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 FBI Refuses To Pursue Personal
Strzok-Page Texts; Grassley Goes Nuclear
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 05/06/2018 - 22:02
The FBI is refusing to pursue work-
related text messages and emails sent
on the personal devices of Peter Strzok
and Lisa Page
- the FBI "lovebirds" discovered to harbor extreme
political bias for Hillary Clinton and against Donald
Trump while actively involved in cases against each
candidate during the 2016 US election. Clinton was of
course exonerated by the FBI despite overwhelming
evidence of criminal conduct, while Trump's entire
presidency has been tainted by the spectre of
unproven Russian collusion.
Over 50,000 text messages between Strzok and Page were
discovered by the Department of Justice's internal
watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), leading
to their removal from special counsel Robert Mueller's
Russia investigation - which has since devolved into trying
to embarrass the President over allegedly paying a porn
star not to discuss consensual sex. Of note, Page tendered
her resignation on Friday.
In a Wednesday letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee,
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the FBI was not
"obligated" to collect all communications between
employees, and would not be pursuing communications
Strzok and Page sent to each other on their personal
devices.
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In response, Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-
IA) went nuclear - reminding Wray in a Friday letter cc'd
to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) that
"Although, as your letter notes, the FBI
is not "obligated" to collect all
communications between employees, it
is obligated to collect and preserve
federal records."
Grassley goes on to note that previously released text
messages between Strzok and Page
"show substantial reason to believe
government work was performed on
non-government systems during the
course of a high-profile
investigation," and that those
communications could prove vital to the
Committee's investigation.
The work-related communications on
nongovernment systems could shed more
light on how the FBI handled the Clinton
investigation and would constitute
federal records that the FBI would be
obligated to retrieve and preserve under
the Federal Records Act. -Sen. Grassley to
FBI Director Wray
The letter then provides several
examples in which Strzok and Page
explicitly referred to exchanging work-
related information over their personal
devices.
"For example, in two text messages Strzok
said to Page:"
Gmailed you two drafts of what I’m thinking of
sending Bill, would appreciate your thoughts. Second
(more recent) is updated so you can skip the first.
...
Yep. Sent something to your gmail, work-related. Think
I’m going to pull here and send to Kortan….
 "In another text message, Strzok and Page
appear to use the encrypted iMessage
application on their personal Apple devices
to discuss work-related material:"
Strzok: Want to imsg it to me, or want to
do it in person?
Page: It’s not that sensitive.
Strzok: Ok. You can imsg just for
convenience of typing, too, if you want
...
Strzok: And I have no good, awful, sh*tty
terrible (work) news. I can’t say it here,
and you can’t share with Andy (yet). I’m
upset.
Page: Can you share it on imsg?
Strzok: Yes just sent[.]8
Grassley then excoriates the FBI - comparing Strzok and
Page's use of personal devices for work purposes to Hillary
Clinton's mishandling of classified information on her
personal server - which Strzok and Page were
investigating.
"Under 18 U.S.C. § 2071, it is illegal to
willfully and unlawfully conceal, remove, or
destroy a federal record. Secretary
Clinton alienated thousands of federal
records when she used a answers and the requested documentation by the
nongovernment server and email for
official work, many of which were
deleted rather than returned to the State
Department when the Department
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requested them. Ironically, as FBI
employees tasked with investigating
Clinton’s similar conduct, Strzok and
Page appear to have used
nongovernment systems for official
work as well. This Committee has yet to
receive a satisfactory explanation as to why
the FBI apparently let Secretary Clinton off
the hook for multiple § 2071 violations. It is
disturbing that even at this late date,
and with all the litigation surrounding
Secretary Clinton’s use of a private
email server for official business, the
FBI seems similarly uninterested in
even attempting to retrieve federal
records of its own employees that
appear to have been alienated as well."
Grassley then asks three questions of Wray, noting that he
expects the response to be unclassified:
 Why has the FBI not requested from Ms. Page or
Mr. Strzok any official work-related material from
their personal devices and email accounts?
 Why has the FBI not conducted searches of non-
FBI-issued communications devices or non-FBI
email accounts associated with Mr. Strzok or Ms.
Page for official work-related material?
 The FBI’s May 3, 2018, response letter also failed to
answer questions 1-5, 8, and 11. Please provide
deadline.
Full letter starts on next page:
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 “You’re A Liar!… You Lie Through Your Teeth!” Alan
Dershowitz SLAMS #Nevertrump Hack And
Bushie Richard Painter (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 6, 2018, 10:40 Pm

was in Boston in regard to four innocent people

who spent their life and two of them dying in
prison.

Richard Painter:

That’s not true. You cannot say that about him.

That is not true professor.

Alan Dershowitz:

It is true. Look Painter is a zealot… Well, let me

Richard Painter is a lawyer and the former
talk about your reputation. Painter is trying to
chief White House ethics lawyer in the
parlay his anti-Trump zealotry into a run for the
George W. Bush Administration.
senate. He has lied repeatedly about me and
other people who are Trump supporters.
Painter is also an outspoken #NeverTrumper
and is running for senate in Minnesota AS A
Richard Painter:
DEMOCRAT!
No. You have no right to go on national
Richard Painter is also not very honest for
television and say things that are false about
an ethics lawyer.
Robert Mueller.
Painter believes there are numerous officials in the Trump
Alan Dershowitz:
administration with ties to Russia which of course is a
completely ridiculous statement of a deranged lunatic.
You said, let me finish, that I know nothing
about Israel. You condemn me for that. I have
On Saturday Richard Painter and attorney Alan
advised four presidents and advised four prime
Dershowitz went on MSNBC to discuss the latest
ministers of Israel. You lie through your teeth!
developments in the Mueller witch hunt.

The interview ended with Dershowitz handing Painter a

thorough tongue lashing on his many lies.

Alan Dershowitz:

Well, today the worst place you want to be is a

friend or business associate of Donald Trump
because prosecutors will stop at nothing to try
to flip you and use you as a witness against
him. There are two tragedies here. One the way
the White House has behaved and second is
with Mueller who has a mixed reputation when I
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 Trump Mocks Mueller And His Band Of “13 Angry
Democrats” On Their Failed Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 7:30 Am
It’s a new week and that means new
tweets from our President Donald
Trump.
On Monday morning President Trump
mocked crooked cop Robert Mueller
and his band of 13 angry Democrats
in their failed attempt to steal and
election.
President Trump: The Russia Witch Hunt is rapidly
losing credibility. House Intelligence Committee found
No Collusion, Coordination or anything else with
Russia. So now the Probe says OK, what else is there?
How about Obstruction for a made up, phony
crime.There is no O, it’s called Fighting Back.
The 13 Angry Democrats in charge of
the Russian Witch Hunt are starting to
find out that there is a Court System
in place that actually protects people
from injustice…and just wait ‘till the
Courts get to see your unrevealed
Conflicts of Interest!
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported there
are at least 15 Democrat attorneys on the Mueller
team.
There are NO REPUBLICANS on the team.
 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.
 Rober Mueller – Special Counsel Team leader.
— Best friend to fired leaker James Comey.
 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 served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the
Eastern District of Virginia.— Worked with Robert
Mueller at the WilmerHale firm.
These other Mueller attorneys have less
conspicuous political leanings:
 Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland.
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— 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.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has repeatedly
called for the Mueller investigation to be shut down as it
is unsupervised and unconstitutional.
Trump is an innocent man and he is being investigated
by almost 20 left-wing lawyers while Hillary Clinton is
freely walking around after decades of corruption and
proof of pay-to-play while she was Secretary of State.
Let that sink in.
 The New York Times Owes Trump,
Republicans A Huge Tax Cut Apology
Posted On May 7, 2018
(National Sentinel) Hypocritical: Not so long The New
York Times joined the chorus of other American Pravda
media outlets panning the tax reform plan proposed and
eventually passed by the Republican Congress and
President Donald J. Trump.
The complaints were as familiar as they were incorrect —
that the plan was primarily a “tax cut for the rich” and that
“ordinary Americans” weren’t really going to be affected
at all.
A recent editorial board Op-Ed in the Times was typical.
“Well-Heeled Investors Reap the
Republican Tax Cut Bonanza,” was the
headline of a February opinion piece
characterizing the cuts as a sop for the rich
at the expense of the poor.
“After President Trump signed the
Republican tax cut into law, companies put
out cheery announcements that they were
giving workers bonuses because of their
expected windfalls from the tax reductions,”
The Times said.
“The president and Republican lawmakers
quickly held up these news releases as
vindication for their argument that cutting
the top federal corporate tax rate to 21
percent, from 35 percent, would boost
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workers’ incomes even as it added $1.5
trillion to the debt that future generations
would have to pay off.”
First of all, we can’t remember a time during the Obama
presidency when the national debt was well on its way to
doubling from $10 trillion in 2009 to $20 trillion eight
years and two terms later, when this paper or any other
Left-wing propaganda organ cared a whit about the
national debt.
Now that Republicans are in charge, suddenly it’s a big
deal.
Secondly, the Times, like all the other Pravda publications
and networks, has never favored allowing Americans and
American companies keep more of what they earn.
Also, these same media flat-out refuse to report the truth
when it comes to income taxes: The top 40 percent of
earners in American pay 106 percent of those taxes, while
the bottom 40 percent of earners pay negative 9 percent.
But the Times’ criticism of the tax cuts and its complaints
that they mostly help “corporations” is especially
hypocritical given that the Times is a corporation and saw
a major decline in its income tax bill last quarter.
As noted by Conservative Tribune:
According to a statement from the
company, its tax liability was almost halved
in the first quarter of 2018 “primarily”
because of Trump’s tax cuts, despite
higher profits. And lo and behold, it doesn’t
appear as if they’re giving the money back
to the federal government.
“Operating profit rose to $34.1 million in the
first quarter of 2018 from $27.8 million in
the same period of 2017, principally driven
by strong digital subscription revenues,
which were partially offset by higher
operating costs and lower print advertising
 revenues,” the paper said in a statement
Thursday. Do we think the Times will be sending the Trump
administration and Republicans a thank-you note or
“Adjusted operating profit … increased
publishing an op-ed soon praising the cuts and touting how
to $55.5 million in the first quarter of 2018
much more profitable the paper has become, thanks to
compared with $50.2 million in the first
their income tax rate reduction?
quarter of 2017.”

Despite this rise in profits, the Times only “had income tax Of course not. The Times has been so
expense of $5.3 million in the first quarter of 2018 wrong and so disingenuous about taxes in
compared with $10.7 million in the first quarter of 2017.” the past we don’t expect them to break out
of their cycle of hypocrisy.
“The decrease was primarily due to a
But no matter. We wanted our readers to know the truth.
reduction in the U.S. federal corporate
income tax rate which took effect in 2018,
and a tax benefit from stock-based
compensation,” said that statement.
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 TATER: Brian Stelter Complaining There Are No Trump
Tweets To Complain About MOST CNN Thing Ever
By Sam J.
Posted At 8:03 Am On May 7, 2018

Live Pavlov’s Dogs, Brian Stelter seems distressed and

confused about when he and others in the media might get
to ‘eat’ since Trump didn’t tweet, aka ring his little bell,
this weekend so they could come running for chow.

Whatever will they talk about in the news today if they

can’t complain about something Trump tweeted?

Won’t someone PLEASE think about the media for a

change?!

Just sayin’: Brian tweeting about the president not

tweeting is SO CNN.

Imagine writing an article about a guy tweeting about the

president not tweeting.

Heh.

He needs something to complain about.

Duh.

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Real news?! What is this real news of which you speak? Trump could pass gas quietly and privately in his own
These folks wouldn’t understand how to report actual news bedroom and the media would find a way to be outraged
if it fell out of the sky, landed on their faces and started to by it.
wiggle.

Shew, right?!

Maybe.
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 Report: Trump Aides Hired Ex-Mossad Agents
To Find Dirt On Obama's Iran Deal Team
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 07, 2018
Unnamed Trump "aides" reportedly hired Black Cube, the
private intel firm composed of ex-Mossad agents which
Harvey Weinstein hired to dig up dirt on his accusers at the
recommendation of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak, to do the same to Obama's Iran deal team.
From RT:
US President Donald Trump's aides hired a
private intelligence firm to uncover
compromising info on key foreign policy
advisers to Barack Obama in a bid to
undermine the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran,
the Observer reports.
"The idea was that people acting for Trump
would discredit those who were pivotal in
selling the deal, making it easier to pull out
of it," a source told the UK newspaper,
which has published an exclusive report
based on unnamed sources.
According to documents seen by the Observer, the targets
included Ben Rhodes, a top national security adviser to
then-US President Barack Obama, and Colin Kahl, a
former deputy assistant to Obama, and VP Joe Biden's
national security adviser.
The brief was to investigate the two men's
"personal relationships, any involvement
with Iran-friendly lobbyists, and if they had
benefited personally or politically from the
peace deal."
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Additionally, the Israeli agency, also not named, would be
charged with investigating if Obama's staff revealed any
classified information as they attempted to create what
Rhodes himself called an "echo-chamber" of media and
political influencers who would whip up support for the
deal.
The report admits that
"it is not clear how much work was actually
undertaken, for how long or what became
of any material unearthed," and if this was
just one strand of attacks on the
agreement, which Trump has repeatedly
called "the worst deal ever."
The White House has not denied the veracity of the
documents, issuing a "no comment" in response to the UK
report.
I wonder which aide this could possibly be?
Ronan Farrow has more in The New Yorker:
The documents show that Black Cube
compiled detailed background profiles of
several individuals, including Rhodes and
Kahl, that featured their addresses,
information on their family members, and
even the makes of their cars. Black Cube
agents were instructed to try to find
damaging information about them,
including unsubstantiated claims that
Rhodes and Kahl had worked closely with
 Iran lobbyists and were personally enriched
through their policy work on Iran (they
denied those claims); rumors that Rhodes
was one of the Obama staffers responsible
for “unmasking” Trump transition officials
who were named in intelligence documents
(Rhodes denied the claim); and an
allegation that one of the individuals
targeted by the campaign had an affair.
The campaign is strikingly similar to an
operation that Black Cube ran on behalf of
Harvey Weinstein, which was reported in
The New Yorker last fall. One of
Weinstein’s attorneys, David Boies, hired
Black Cube to halt the publication of
sexual-misconduct allegations against
Weinstein. Black Cube operatives used
false identities to track women with
allegations, and also reporters seeking to
expose the story. In May, 2017, a former
Israel Defense Forces officer, who had
emigrated to Israel from the former
Yugoslavia, was working as an undercover
agent for Black Cube. The woman
contacted the actress Rose McGowan,
claiming to work for Reuben Capital
Partners but using the identity of a Diana
Filip. Filip’s e-mails to McGowan displayed
the same tactics as those in the e-mails
sent to Norris and Kahl, and in some cases
used almost identical language. (Filip also
wrote to me from Reuben Capital Partners,
and again used similar language.)

Though Obama's people are feigning outrage, they did the

same by working with former foreign intelligence agent
Christopher Steele of Britain's MI-6 to dig up dirt on
Trump.

The US intelligence community not only spied on Trump's

campaign team but successfully set up national security
advisor Michael Flynn. They've also managed to derail
Trump's whole presidency with the whole Russia hoax and
successfully undermined Trump's plans to normalize
relations with Russia and pull out of Syria.
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 Wait, This Wasn’t Supposed To Happen?… VP Mike
Pence Swears In Gay Ambassador Rick Grenell With His
Partner By His Side
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 9:02 Am

So this photo released last week must

have surprised the radical gay mob.
Vice President Mike Pence swore in
Rick Grenell as US Ambassador to
Germany with his longtime companion
Matt Lashey.

Far left protesters held a queer dance

party outside of Mike Pence’s home in
Washington DC on Inauguration Day.

The anti-Pence protesters chanted, “We

are here. We are queer. We will dance.”

And VP Pence didn’t toss them in jail!

Richard Grenell was the longest serving US spokesman at

Democrats have convinced gays that
Vice President Mike Pence is putting
gays in jail.
the United Nations. He was a FOX News Foreign Policy
contributor. Richard is pro-life and pro-Second
Amendment. If you have ever seen Richard on FOX News
you know he is a total conservative and very much pro-
Trump. In 2017 Grenell was nominated by President
Trump to serve as ambassador to Germany; this
appointment made Grenell the first openly gay US

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Ambassador pick for President Donald Trump and will be
the highest ranking gay ambassador in US history…

Ambassador Grenell was finally sworn

on Friday in after several attempts by
Senate Democrats to block his
appointment.
Trump tweeted the ambassador today.
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 Boom! POTUS Trump Calls Out Lovebirds Strzok And
Page — Asks Why Is Peter Strzok Still Working At FBI?
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 9:30 Am

“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely

event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok
added.

Other profanity-laced text messages between Strzok and

Page showed their contempt for Donald Trump.

Strzok and Page still had top security clearances in April

2018.

On Friday, Trump-hating FBI lawyer Lisa On Monday President Trump tweeted

Page tendered her resignation. the two lovebirds at Deep State FBI.

Lisa Page left the Special Counsel investigation in Trump asked the question most
September of 2017. Americans are wondering: Why does
Strzok still have a job?
FBI’s chief of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page were caught exchanging anti-Trump text messages
over the summer of 2017.

In what is believed to be the most damning text exchange

between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an
“insurance policy” to keep Trump out of office.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for

consideration in Andy’s office…that there’s
no way [Trump] gets elected…but I’m
afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok text
messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016
exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.
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 McCarthy: Dems Want To
‘Capture’ Congress And Impeach Trump
By Mallory Shelbourne
05/07/18 10:25 AM EDT

“All they want to do is capture this

government to try to impeach this president
or stop anything from happening, or raising
your taxes. I think the American public is
too smart for that.”

McCarthy recently received the backing of Speaker Paul

Ryan (R-Wis.) in the race for the Speaker's gavel after
Ryan retires at the end of this Congress.

But that race is contingent on Republicans maintaining

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on control of the lower chamber in the November midterm
Monday said Democrats want to “capture” Congress so elections, when Democrats will push to take back the
they can impeach President Trump. majority.

During an interview with “Fox & Friends,” McCarthy McCarthy during the Monday interview slammed
said that while he is worried Democrats are currently Democrats, suggesting their campaign platform is simply
fundraising more than Republicans, he is confident about to run against Republicans and fight the GOP “every step
his party's campaign abilities. of the way.”

“People can underestimate us. They’ve “The idea of Nancy as Speaker going
done that before. And this is the same thing forward, what are they running on?”
[House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi said McCarthy asked.
in the time before,” McCarthy told “Fox &
Friends.”
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 POTUS Trump Puts John Kerry On Notice For His
“Possibly Illegal Shadow Diplomacy” On Iran Nuclear Deal
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 10:50 Am

Conservative media exploded after it
was revealed Barack Obama’s former
Secretary of State, John Kerry has
been secretly meeting with Iranian
officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear
weapons program.
On Monday morning the President put John Kerry on
notice.
negotiating during the Obama administration, according to
a person briefed on the meetings.
John Kerry also reportedly met with French President
Emmanuel Macron in both New York City and Paris.
President Trump is set to withdraw from the pact calling it
one of the worst deals he’s ever witnessed; he faces a May
12th deadline.

Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu presented over 100,000

files that he claims Israel had obtained proving Iran lied to
the world when it said it never had a nuclear weapons
program.

U.S. Intelligence later confirmed this.

It’s outrageous that Obama and his corrupt cabal continue

to undermine President Trump’s administration at every
turn.

Monday morning President Trump put the corrupt former

The Boston Globe revealed last week John Kerry has been Secretary of State on notice.
secretly engaging in unusual and most likely illegal
shadow diplomacy with Iranian leaders in an effort to
Trump tweeted:
salvage the nuclear deal he helped craft.

The United States does not need John

He [John Kerry] sat down at the United Nations with
Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving
on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He
the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was
was the one that created this MESS in the
the second time in about two months that the two had met
first place!
to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years
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 Just Ignore Stormy Daniels, Ex-Prosecutor Advises Trump
Andrew Mccarthy Argues That The Chief Executive Is Better-Served Not To
Engage In The Back-And-Forth Over Porn Start Litigation
By Brendan Kirby
07 May 2018 At 11:25 AM
President Donald Trump should ignore the Stormy Daniels
soap opera, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy
said Monday.
McCarthy, a National Review contributor who prosecuted
high-profile terrorism cases in the 1990s, said on “The
Laura Ingraham Show” that the lawsuit Daniels filed over
a non-disclosure agreement she signed is too trivial to
worry about.
Daniels took $130,000 to keep quiet about an affair she
allegedly had with Trump a decade ago. Critics have
argued that the payment amounted to an illegal campaign
finance violation. Even if that is true, McCarthy said, it is
not a big deal. He noted that the Department of Justice
(DOJ) allowed Barack Obama to settle a $2.5 million
campaign finance violation from his 2008 bid with a fine.
Even if Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani had a good
argument in the case, he should not have gone on TV to
talk about it, McCarthy said.
“I thought from the beginning with that they
were making a mistake, because even if
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Rudy had a defensible position on the
campaign finance thing — and I really don’t
think it’s a complete defense — campaign
finance is like penny ante stuff,” he said.
Giuliani, who recently joined the president’s legal team,
raised eyebrows with conflicting explanations about the
payment to Daniels — at first seeming to confirm that it
was tied to the 2016 campaign and then insisting it was a
personal matter.
Silence would be the better course of action, McCarthy
said. He added that the same goes for the related
investigation of Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen — who
made the payment.
“The one thing that Trump was really
successful doing, I think, the last three
weeks or so … is put some distance
between the White House and what’s going
on in Manhattan with Cohen and Stormy
Daniels,” he said. “Not that that could
completely go away, but I think at least
they had put it to the side.”
McCarthy (pictured above) said the comments made by the
federal judge presiding over the criminal case of former
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — that the
Mueller team merely wants to use Manafort to get to the
president — should not be news to anyone following the
case.
“No federal prosecutor would think that he
can indict the president,” he said. “So what
this has been about since the beginning is,
can they put together a case that has ‘high
crimes and misdemeanors’ in it.”
That means, McCarthy said, that it is a political process —
not a legal one. And Trump has responded accordingly, he
said.
 “Trump probably rightly has decided that if likely would be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office
it’s a political process, he’s gonna fight it in Virginia if the judge determined that Mueller
that way,” he said. overstepped his mandate from the Justice Department.

The harsh comments by Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. “Even if he takes the case away from
Ellis III regarding Manafort’s bank fraud case represented Mueller, that doesn’t mean the case goes
an embarrassing rebuke of Mueller and his team. But away,” he said.
McCarthy noted that it is cold comfort to Manafort, who
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 HERE Is The Complete List Of Mueller’s Team Of 13
Angry Democrats: What The Conspiracy Media
Tells You, And What Is The Truth
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 11:48 Am
President Trump this morning mocked
crooked cop Robert Mueller and his
band of angry Democrats in their failed
attempt to steal and election.
However, CNN promotes the Mueller team in an undated
and interactive post online. Their description of 18 team
members would lead the casual observer to believe that
this is an experienced team full of competent individuals.
What CNN does not share is that the
investigation is unconstitutional for
many reasons with one of the reasons
being that the team is the most
conflicted group of investigators and
attorneys ever assembled for any
investigation in US history.
Below is the list from CNN with additional information
not provided by CNN in italics!
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Zainab Ahmad
An expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime,
Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US
attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined
Mueller’s team in the summer of 2017.
Role on Mueller team:
Ahmad has worked on the case of former
national security adviser Michael Flynn:
She was one of two prosecutors who
signed Flynn’s charging documents and
was also in court for Flynn’s guilty plea in
December 2017.
Notable cases:
Ahmad successfully prosecuted al-Qaeda terrorist
Najibullah Zazi, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to terrorism
charges relating to a plot to bomb the New York City
subways on the 9/11 anniversary.
In 2017, Ahmad co-led the prosecution of Muhanad
Mahmoud Al Farekh, an American citizen who was
convicted on nine counts related to an al-Qaeda plan to
attack US troops in Afghanistan.
What CNN Left Out – The Flynn case is now up in the
air since Ahmad signed the charging documents. The
judge over the case, Rudolph Contreras, was recused
from the case for still unknown reasons. He was also
a FISA Court judge who was courted for dinner with
former Mueller team members Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page. Strzok participated in the FBI’s questioning of
Flynn on January 24 before joining Mueller’s team.
The new judge overseeing the case, Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller to
provide Flynn’s attorneys with any and all information
that may have been withheld from the case. Sara
Carter reported that “Flynn pled guilty to one count of
lying to the FBI, despite testimony provided to
Congress by former FBI Director James Comey, where
he stated that the agents did not believe Flynn had
lied about his conversation with former Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.”
Greg Andres
Greg Andres is a white-collar criminal defense lawyer who
specializes in fraud and foreign bribery. He served as a
deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice
Department’s Criminal Division, and was involved in the
successful prosecution of an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. Most
recently, Andres worked as a corporate lawyer at the law
firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Role on Mueller team:
On the Mueller team, he is jointly leading
the case against former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy
Rick Gates. In October 2017, Manafort and
Gates were charged with financial crimes
unrelated to the 2016 presidential
campaign, and both have pleaded not
guilty.
Notable cases:
Andres was involved in the prosecution of Robert Allen
Stanford in an $8 billion Ponzi scheme case. Stanford was
convicted in 2012 on 13 counts, including mail fraud,
money laundering and conspiracy.
While in the US attorney’s office in Brooklyn, Andres led
a mafia investigation that convicted dozens of mob
associates. In those situations, the prosecutors attempted to
pressure witnesses into cooperation — also known as
“flipping.” Leaders of the Bonanno organized crime family
in New York even hatched a plan to kill him, though they
never carried it out, according to court documents.
What CNN Left Out – Per Daily Caller –
Reuters reported that Andres, who most recently
worked as white collar defense attorney for the New
York firm Davis Polk, will be joining
Mueller’s investigation into Russian election
interference.
A search of federal election records shows that
Andres has donated at least a total of $3700 to
federal Democratic candidates, including $2700 to
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in March 2017….
Andres, 50, also has another connection to the
Democratic Party as his wife, Ronnie Abrams, is a
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federal judge that was nominated by President
Barack Obama in 2011.
Abrams was also reportedly assigned to a case in
which a watchdog group is claiming President Trump
has violated the Constitution because his hotels do
business with foreign governments. She has since
recused herself from this case.
Rush Atkinson
Before joining Mueller’s team, trial attorney Rush
Atkinson worked for the Criminal Division Securities and
Financial Fraud Unit at the Justice Department, where he
worked under Andrew Weissmann, who is also now on
Mueller’s team. Atkinson previously worked in the Justice
Department’s National Security Division, which
specializes in counterterrorism and foreign intelligence
surveillance cases.
Role on Mueller team:
Atkinson has been involved in the
case against 13 Russian nationals and 3
Russian entities for allegedly meddling in
the 2016 election by using social media to
spread divisive political messages.
Notable cases:
Atkinson was involved with the indictment of a former
vice president of finance for Bankrate, Inc. The former
bank official was charged with wire fraud, securities fraud
and other financial crimes.
Atkinson also helped with the prosecution of a mother and
son charged with orchestrating a $16 million Medicare
fraud scheme in Miami.
What CNN Left Out – Per zerohedge Atkinson is
another biased team member having donated $200 to
Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Also, this Friday one of
the 3 indicted Russian companies, Concord
Management, that is noted above has asked for
information related to the indictment that many are
suggesting will end in the Mueller team dropping the
indictments due to lack of evidence.
Ryan Dickey
Ryan Dickey was previously an assistant US attorney in
the Eastern District of Virginia and also worked in the
Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual
Property Section. He specializes in cyber-related
prosecutions and was added to Mueller’s team in late
2017.
Role on Mueller team:
Dickey has been involved in the
case against 13 Russian nationals and 3
Russian entities for allegedly meddling in
the 2016 election by using social media to
spread divisive political messages.
Notable cases:
Dickey was involved in the sprawling case against
Megaupload, the online file sharing website that the Justice
Department described as an “international organized
criminal enterprise” that perpetrated “massive online
piracy.” Dickey helped secure a guilty plea from an
Estonian programmer involved in the case.
He was senior counsel in the case against the hacker
known as Guccifer, a Romanian national who hacked the
accounts of prominent Americans and was sentenced to
prison in 2016. (Guccifer is unrelated to Guccifer 2.0, the
online persona used by Russian intelligence operatives
during the 2016 presidential election that claimed credit
for hacking the Democratic National Committee.)
What CNN Left Out – Ask Kim Dotcom about the FBI’s
actions in the Megaupload case. His house in New
Zealand was raided in a similar fashion to the Mueller
raid on Paul Manafort. They have frozen his assets
and taken other actions similar to the bullying actions
they are using today on Trump family and friends.
Michael Dreeben
Michael Dreeben is a deputy solicitor general at the Justice
Department. He has argued more than 100 cases before the
Supreme Court throughout his extensive legal career.
Dreeben is considered to be one of Mueller’s most
significant hires because of his expertise in criminal law
and appellate advocacy.
Role on Mueller team:
In February 2018, a federal judge weighing
whether to release the Comey memos
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revealed that Dreeben had secretly
provided testimony to the court about
Mueller’s investigation
Notable cases:
Dreeben argued his first Supreme Court case in 1989
against a young lawyer named John Roberts, who would
later become chief justice. Since then, Dreeben has
appeared before the high court more than 100 times,
representing the US government in cases ranging from
privacy issues to insider trading.
Dreeben made an unrelated first Supreme Court
appearance since joining the Mueller team on detail. He
argued on behalf of the US government in a Fourth
Amendment cell phone privacy case in November 2017.
What CNN Left Out – CNN notes that Dreeben secretly
provided testimony to the court about Mueller’s
investigation. Of course everything about these guys
is secret and corrupt.
Kyle Freeny
Prior to joining the Mueller investigation, Kyle Freeny was
a Justice Department prosecutor for the Kleptocracy Asset
Recovery Initiative, which focuses on foreign corruption
and money laundering.
Role on Mueller team:
Freeny is working on the Manafort and
Gates case, appearing in court alongside
her special counsel colleagues Andrew
Weissmann and Greg Andres.
Notable cases:
Freeny was involved with the prosecution of a civil
forfeiture case against the production company behind
“The Wolf of Wall Street,” which was allegedly funded
with laundered money from the Malaysian government.
The Justice Department said the case led to the largest
single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset
Recovery Initiative.
Freeny also defended the federal government in 2014
when 26 states filed a lawsuit challenging President
Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration,
according to court filings.
What CNN Left Out – Per zerohedge, in 2012, Freeny
gave $300 to Obama. In 2008, Freeny also gave $250
to Obama, FEC records show.
Andrew Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein led the public corruption unit in the US
attorney’s office in Manhattan. He worked under former
US Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by Trump in
March after he refused to resign.
Role on Mueller team:
Goldstein, with special counsel colleagues
Jeannie Rhee and Aaron Zelinsky, was
involved in handling the case of former
Trump campaign adviser George
Papadopoulos. In October 2017, it was
revealed that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty
to lying to the FBI and was cooperating
with Mueller’s investigation.
Notable cases:
Goldstein was part of the team that secured a 2015
corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former
Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly.
(Silver’s conviction was overturned by a federal appeals
court in July 2017, which ruled that there was an issue
with the judge’s instructions to the jury.)
Goldstein also successfully prosecuted three men
associated with a New York City municipal fraud and
kickback scheme project called CityTime. The
investigation examined more than 150 bank accounts,
hundreds of thousands of documents and more than 100
witnesses, according to the Justice Department.
What CNN Left Out – According to Fox News,
“Goldstein contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s
campaigns in 2008 and 2012” He also Worked under
Trump-basher Preet Bharara in the liberal New York
southern district.
Adam Jed
Adam Jed, an appellate attorney, joined the Mueller team
on detail from the Justice Department’s Civil Division. He
received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional
Service in 2014.
Role on Mueller team:
Jed is working on the Manafort and Gates
case, though he has not appeared in court
hearings.
Notable cases:
Jed has worked on several high-profile Supreme Court
cases during the Obama administration, including United
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States v. Windsor, which overturned the Defense of
Marriage Act.
Jed also defended the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive
mandate in the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sebelius case.
The Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court in
2016, punting on the issue.
What CNN Left Out – Little Sisters of the Poor –
Enough said.
Scott Meisler
Scott Meisler was an appellate lawyer in the Justice
Department’s Criminal Division for several years before
joining the Mueller team in the summer of 2017. He
specializes in surveillance and fraud cases.
Role on Mueller team:
Meisler is working on the Manafort and
Gates case, though he has not appeared in
court hearings.
Notable cases:
In 2012, Meisler won a Justice Department Criminal
Division award for “Outstanding Contributions by a New
Employee” for winning an en banc decision from the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals in an honest-services fraud case,
according to a press release.
What CNN Left Out – Unknown but based on the rest
of the team, he undoubtedly has conflicts as well.
Robert Mueller
Earlier in his life, Mueller served as a decorated Marine in
the Vietnam War. He later spent 12 years working in US
attorney’s offices, including prominent roles leading the
offices in San Francisco and Boston.
Mueller took over as FBI director just days before the
September 11th attacks. He served until September 2013,
making him the second-longest FBI director in US history,
behind J. Edgar Hoover.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump
appointee, named Mueller special counsel in May 2017.
He authorized Mueller to investigate Russian interference
in the 2016 election, any links between Trump associates
and Russia and “any matters that arose or may arise
directly from the investigation.”
His appointment earned praise from Democrats and
Republicans, who called him a man of integrity. Trump
and many of his GOP allies have since ratcheted up
criticism of Mueller and his entire investigation.
RELATED: Robert Mueller and his pursuit of justice
What CNN Left Out – Best friend to fired leaker
James Comey. Hand delivered uranium to the
Russians per the direction of Hillary Clinton on an
airport tarmac in Europe. He was also FBI Director
when Uranium One Obama-Clinton scandal took
place.
Reuters reported –
Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who is now
leading the investigation of potential ties between
Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, was
a lawyer for Trump son-in-law and adviser Jared
Kushner right up until Mueller resigned from Wilmer
to accept his appointment as special counsel in the
Russia probe.
The two ex-Wilmer partners who have joined Mueller’s
special counsel team, Aaron Zebley and James
Quarles, were also Kushner’s lawyers. And they and
Mueller represented former Trump campaign chair
Paul Manafort, too, when they were Wilmer partners.
What the hell?
Elizabeth Prelogar
Elizabeth Prelogar joined Mueller’s team from the solicitor
general’s office, where she argued cases as an appellate
attorney. She previously clerked for Supreme Court
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. She
speaks fluent Russian and has previously studied Russian
censorship laws.
Notable cases:
Prelogar argued on behalf of the federal government in a
case that questioned whether uncounseled, misdemeanor
convictions heard in Indian tribal court could be used as
part of domestic violence cases heard in federal court. The
case was decided unanimously in favor of the United
States.
Prelogar also worked on Carpenter v. United States, a case
pending before the Supreme Court that questions whether
the government’s acquisition of cellphone records from
cellphone providers violates the individual customer’s
Fourth Amendment rights.
What CNN Left Out – –Fluent in Russian; former law
clerk to far left Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
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James Quarles
James Quarles was a young assistant special prosecutor on
the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in the mid-1970s.
He then joined the Boston-based law firm Hale and Dorr
and led its Washington office while specializing in
intellectual property litigation. That law firm merged with
an old-line DC partnership — Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
— and Quarles joined its executive committee. Mueller
also worked at that firm, known as WilmerHale, and he
brought Quarles along after he was appointed special
counsel.
Notable cases:
Quarles’ former clients as a private attorney include Apple,
the NFL and Volkswagen, for which he worked alongside
Mueller to oversee hundreds of settlements brought against
the car maker regarding its diesel emissions, according to a
federal ethics disclosure.
What CNN Left Out – See above under Mueller. Also
note that Hillary Clinton was also on Watergate
investigation.
Jeannie Rhee
Rhee, a white-collar crime specialist focusing on
government investigations, left the private firm
WilmerHale to join Mueller’s team. During the Obama
administration, she served as a deputy assistant attorney
general in the Office of Legal Counsel, which can weigh
some of the thorniest legal questions for the executive
branch.
Role on Mueller team:
Rhee has been involved in the
case against 13 Russian nationals and 3
Russian entities for allegedly meddling in
the 2016 election by using social media to
spread divisive political messages. She
also worked on George Papadopoulos’
guilty plea, for lying to the FBI.
Notable cases:
Rhee has tried over 30 cases for the Department of Justice.
During the Obama administration, she advised the White
House and attorney general on criminal law, executive
privilege and other legal matters, according to her
biography on the Council of Korean Americans website.
Rhee represented Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a
lawsuit about her private emails, and she also represented
the Clinton Foundation in a civil racketeering case that was
later dismissed.
Rhee also represented President Barack Obama’s deputy
national security adviser Ben Rhodes during the House
Benghazi Committee’s investigation into the deadly 2012
terrorist attack in Libya.
What CNN Left Out – Per zerohedge Rhee donated
$5,400 to Hillary Clinton in 2015 and 2016, according
to FEC records. The records show she gave $2,500
each to Obama for America and Obama Victory Fund
2012 in 2011. The fact that she is even on the team
after representing the Clinton Foundation is shocking!
Brian Richardson
Brian Richardson clerked for Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Breyer during the October 2016 term, before
joining Mueller’s team in July 2017. A graduate of Yale
Law School, Richardson previously worked for judges in
the US district court in Brooklyn and the 2nd US Circuit
Court of Appeals, according to Above the Law.
Role on Mueller team:
Richardson appeared in court alongside
special counsel colleagues Andrew
Weissmann, Greg Andres and Kyle Freeny
for the plea hearing of Dutch lawyer Alex
van der Zwaan in February 2018. Van der
Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to
investigators about his discussions with
former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates.
What CNN Left Out – Unknown but based on the rest
of the team and his work with Weissmann, he
undoubtedly has conflicts as well.
Brandon Van Grack
Brandon Van Grack served in the Justice Department’s
National Security Division. He prosecuted counter-
espionage cases in the department’s Counterintelligence
and Export Control Section.
Role on Mueller team:
Van Grack is one of the lawyers on
Mueller’s team that handled the Flynn
investigation and guilty plea. He is
overseeing Flynn’s case in court.
Notable cases:
Van Grack has been involved in several high-profile cyber
and counter-terrorism cases, including the prosecution of a
Kosovo hacker who gave personal information of US
service members to ISIS. The hacker, Ardit Ferizi, was
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sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to a DOJ press
release.
Van Grack also helped prosecute a US government
employee who took home classified documents that
contained national defense information. National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency employee Mohan L.
Nirala was found guilty after federal agents made a forced
entry into his home and discovered over 500 pages of
classified documents in his basement, according to a DOJ
press release.
What CNN Left Out – Led a grand jury inquiry in
Northern Virginia scrutinizing former Trump associate
Michael Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
Andrew Weissmann
Andrew Weissmann was one of Mueller’s first hires,
leaving his Justice Department role as chief of the
Criminal Division Fraud Section. The two men have
worked together for several years at the FBI – Weissman
was Mueller’s special counsel in 2005, and the bureau’s
general counsel in 2011. He’s known for his aggressive
approach to white collar cases.
Role on Mueller team:
Weissmann jointly leads the case against
Manafort and Gates.
Notable cases:
Weissmann famously led the Justice Department’s Enron
Task Force in the early 2000s, where he investigated over
30 members of the company’s upper echelon. One of
Weissmann’s more memorable tactics included charging
the spouse of Enron’s chief financial officer Andrew
Fastow. The approach led to guilty pleas from both
Fastows, and the former business leader’s cooperation in
the investigation.
Weissmann was responsible for trying more than 25 cases
and prosecuting several members of the Genovese,
Colombo and Gambino crime families in the Brooklyn US
attorney’s office, according to a DOJ press release.
Weissmann was also involved in a cooperation agreement
signed between the US government and Felix Sater in
1998, according to court filings. Sater, who did business
with President Donald Trump in the 2000s, would later
become an FBI informant who helped the government
pursue organized crime figures. His activities during the
campaign attracted the scrutiny of investigators on the
House Intelligence Committee. He testified before the
panel in December 2017.
What CNN Left Out – 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. He was at the Hillary Clinton election night
funeral and sent an email congratulating former AG
Sally Yates when she refused to obey President
Trump’s immigration order.
Thousands of Americans lost their jobs as a result of
Weissmann actions and indictment of Arthur
Andersen that were later overturned by the US
Supreme Court 9-0.
Aaron Zebley
Aaron Zebley previously served as Mueller’s chief of staff
at the FBI. Zebley also worked as the senior counselor in
the National Security Division at the Justice Department
and as a special agent in the FBI’s Counter Terrorism
Division. He joined WilmerHale shortly after Mueller and
left when Mueller was appointed special counsel.
Notable cases:
Zebley was part of the FBI team that investigated the
September 11th attacks. He was involved in the trial of al-
Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted
and sentenced to life in prison.
Zebley also played a role in tracking down terrorists
behind the twin US embassy bombings in Kenya and
Tanzania in 1998.
More recently, Zebley once represented former Clinton
aide Justin Cooper, who helped manage her private server.
What CNN Left Out – See above under Mueller.
Aaron Zelinsky
Aaron Zelinsky joined the Mueller team on detail from the
US attorney’s office in Maryland. Zelinsky served as an
assistant US attorney under Rod Rosenstein, who is now
the deputy attorney general and oversees Mueller’s
appointment.
Role on Mueller team:
Zelinsky was involved in the Papadopoulos
investigation and guilty plea.
Notable cases:
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As part of his role as a prosecutor in Maryland, Zelinsky
was involved in prosecuting cases of felon gun
ownership, health care fraud conspiracy, and food stamp
fraud and wire fraud.
In 2016, Zelinsky was recognized by the Justice
Department for excellence in prosecuting organized
criminal activity.
What CNN Left Out – Asst AG Rosenstein is as
corrupt as they get having created the Special
Counsel with multiple conflicts of interest including
long standing relationships with Mueller and Comey.
He also signed off on FISA warrants to spy on
President Trump and oversees the Mueller
investigation that was created with no crime
committed or identified and a scope enabling Mueller
to investigate anything. See link to
unconstitutionality of the investigation above…
Finally, Overall What CNN Left Out – CNN does not
mention two former members of the Mueller team,
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
Page, was 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.
She is noted as leaking to the press in the DOJ IG’s
memo on McCabe and she is reportedly a lover of
Peter Strzok. Page resigned from the FBI last week.
Strzok oversaw the Clinton email investigation and
then was lead investigator on the Trump
investigation. Numerous incriminating texts have
been revealed between Strzok and Page. He oversaw
Hillary’s testimony in the email investigation. He
never took notes, never put her under oath and never
recorded the meeting. He recommended that her
crimes not be brought to the courts.
President Trump is right. The Mueller
team is a crock of conflicted and
crooked attorneys and investigators.
They are not honest and their lack of
independence fully taint the entire
investigation. For this alone, the
investigation should be shut down.
 Unhinged Maxine Waters Rips Trump In Profane Tirade:
“Damn This President!” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 12:06 Pm

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the voice of the Democrat
Party, was back at it again this past weekend.
The unhinged California Democrat screamed, “Damn this
president!” during her speech with Los Angeles Teamsters
Local 630.
seen before. You know, some people think
his antics sometimes are funny, sometimes
cute, sometimes unusual. And to say,
‘Well, you know, he’s going to learn to
become presidential,’ That’s a lie!…
Whether it’s issues about whether or not
our government and our elected officials
are going to support the right to organize
and support the right to bargain. It has not
been Republicans. It is always Democrats.
We’ve been there for you. We’re gonna
stay there for you. And damn this
president! We’re not going to let him
destroy organized labor.”

Via American Mirror:

Auntie Maxine Waters:

“We’re almost at a constitutional crisis in

the United States of America. We’re at a
constitutional crisis because we’ve got a
president, the likes of which we’ve never

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 Carter Page Compares
Senate Intel Committee Interactions To Torture
By Jacqueline Thomsen
05/07/18 12:24 PM EDT
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is comparing
his experience with the Senate Intelligence Committee to
torture.
Page tweeted early Monday that as the Senate prepares to
question CIA director nominee Gina Haspel about her ties
to enhanced interrogation techniques, Senate Intelligence
Committee members should “consider their own Witch
Hunt tactics.”
“I would've much preferred waterboarding
to their past torture,” he added.
Page elaborated on the comparison in an email to Axios,
sending the publication a passage from the U.N.
Convention against Torture that defines torture as "severe
pain or suffering" in order to punish or obtain information.
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"Read the definition in [the U.N. Convention
against Torture] ... if you had the full details
of what they put me through you would
probably understand," Page said in the
email.
The former campaign adviser interviewed with both the
House and Senate Intelligence committees last year in their
investigations into Russia's election interference. He was
also subpoenaed for documents in the probe by both
panels.
Page was critical of the Senate committee when he
dropped off the documents last year, telling reporters the
senators had requested more "irrelevant" documents. He
described them as "all" of his business and personal
records.
Page came under scrutiny in the investigations for a trip he
took to Moscow during the 2016 campaign. He also
reportedly met with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
He also is at the center of GOP allegations of bias against
President Trump at the Department of Justice. GOP
lawmakers and Page claim that the department improperly
used information from the so-called Steele dossier, which
mentioned the former campaign adviser, to obtain
surveillance warrants on Page.
 CIA Delivers Classified Materials
To Congress On Haspel
By Katie Bo Williams
05/07/18 01:35 PM EDT
The CIA has given Congress a tranche of classified
documents related to the controversial undercover
background of Gina Haspel, President Trump's choice to
lead the spy agency.
The delivery — a single cardboard box marked "hand
carry" that was wheeled in on a dolly to a secure facility in
the Capitol basement — comes as the agency is under
fierce pressure from Democrats to declassify more
information about Haspel's involvement in its now-defunct
detention and interrogation program.
"As Acting Director Haspel promised, CIA
delivered a set of classified documents to
the Senate today so that every Senator can
review Acting Director Haspel's actual, and
outstanding record," a CIA spokesperson
said in a statement
"These documents cover the entirety of her
career, including her time in CIA’s Counter
Terrorism Center in the years after 9/11.
We encourage every Senator to take the
time to read the entire set of documents."
It's unclear how much detail the CIA has provided
lawmakers in advance of her Wednesday hearing, which is
expected to be contentious. A second box, similarly
marked, was also delivered to the Senate Intelligence
Committee's secure spaces.
Because so much of Haspel’s record is still classified —
32 of her 33 years at the agency were spent undercover —
much of the fight in Congress has revolved around what
information, if any, the CIA will make public about her
past.
As the current acting director, Haspel herself is the
declassification authority over her own record. On Friday,
.
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she reportedly offered to withdraw her nomination if it
would avoid a bruising fight for the agency over its use of
so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, which are
now widely considered torture, in the years following
the Sept. 11 attacks.
Four Democratic senators — Dianne Feinstein (Calif.),
Ron Wyden (Ore.), Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Martin
Heinrich (N.M.) — are now demanding that the director of
national intelligence, Dan Coats, intervene to declassify
the information.
"Given that Ms. Haspel, as the current
Acting Director of the CIA, is in the
conflicted position of serving as the
classification authority over potentially
derogatory information related to her own
nomination, we can think of no more
appropriate situation for you to serve as the
relevant authority," the lawmakers wrote in
a Friday letter.
Democrats have complained that the CIA is selectively
declassifying only positive information about Haspel and
suggested that continuing to keep her record under wraps
violates an Obama-era executive order prohibiting the use
of classification to “conceal violations of law, inefficiency,
or administrative error” or “prevent embarrassment to a
person, organization, or agency.”
As members of the intelligence panel, the four senators
have access to classified information that the rest of their
colleagues do not, and Wyden has hinted repeatedly that
there is much about Haspel’s background that remains
unknown.
Former intelligence officials — including critics of the
Trump administration — have praised her as a
professional, experienced officer.
 John Kerry Spox Admits He Secretly
Met With Iranian Official And Other Foreign Leaders
To Salvage Iran Nuclear Deal
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 1:36 Pm

John Kerry also reportedly met with French President

Emmanuel Macron in both New York City and Paris.

John Kerry’s spokesman responded to Trump’s tweet by

admitting Kerry is actively violating the Logan Act.

Trump tweeted: The United States does not need John

Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very
badly negotiated Iran Deal. He was the one that created
this MESS in the first place!

Fox News’ Brooke Singman posted Kerry’s spox response

Conservative media exploded after it
was revealed Barack Obama’s former
Secretary of State, John Kerry has
been secretly meeting with Iranian
officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear
weapons program.
admitting the former Secretary of State secretly met with
Iranian leader Javad Zarif and others foreign leaders to
salvage the Iran weapons deal he helped craft. (Screenshot
below)

On Monday morning the President put John Kerry on

notice.

The Boston Globe revealed last week John Kerry has been
secretly engaging in unusual and most likely illegal
shadow diplomacy with Iranian leaders in an effort to
salvage the nuclear deal he helped craft.

He [John Kerry] sat down at the United Nations with

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving
the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was
the second time in about two months that the two had met
I t’s outrageous that Obama and his corrupt cabal continue
to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years
to undermine President Trump’s administration at every
negotiating during the Obama administration, according to
turn.
a person briefed on the meetings.

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Democrat lawyer and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz
blasted John Kerry saying he’s clearly violating the Logan
Act if it was enforced.
The Logan Act reads as follows:
Logan Act when he lawfully spoke to Russian Ambassador
Kislyak about sanctions during the Trump transition.
It’s time to send in the G men and arrest John Kerry for
Logan Act violations, right Sally Yates?

Any citizen of the United States, wherever

he may be, who, without authority of
the United States, directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any
correspondence or intercourse with
any foreign government or any officer or
agent thereof, with intent to influence the
measures or conduct of any foreign
government or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or Trump tweeted Monday afternoon he will be
controversies with the United States, or to announcing his decision on the Iran deal Tuesday
defeat the measures of the United States, from the White House at 2:00 PM EST.
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to

apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or
the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may
have sustained from such government or any of its agents
or subjects.

The corrupt former acting Attorney General Sally Yates

believed then-NatSec Advisor General Flynn violated the
.

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 John Kerry’s Spokesperson Just Admitted
He Is Actively Violating The Logan Act
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
1:46 PM 05/07/2018
John Kerry is in the hot seat after new reports revealed that
former President Obama’s Secretary of State was actively
working with his Iranian counterparts to keep the Iran
Nuclear Deal in place.
The Boston Globe reported Friday that Kerry has been
secretly meeting with politicians and diplomats around the
world in an attempt to salvage the future of the Iran
nuclear deal and undermine the current administration.
According to The Globe, Kerry met with Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif multiple times over the last few
months. He also met with German President Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, French President Emmanuel Macron and
multiple members of Congress here in the United States.
REUTERS/Alex Brandon/Pool
According to Fox News political reporter Brooke Singman,
a Kerry spokesperson admitted the reports were accurate,
telling the news outlet that “Secretary Kerry stays in touch
with his former counterparts around the world,” and that
Kerry was working to make sure the tenants of the Iran
Deal “remain effective.”
The report comes as the Trump administration is under
intense scrutiny for allegations that they colluded with a
foreign power to swing the presidential election. No
evidence has yet been presented to support that claim.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz says Kerry is in clear
violation of the Logan Act.
The Logan Act states:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever
he may be, who, without authority of the
United States, directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any
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correspondence or intercourse with any
foreign government or any officer or agent
thereof, with intent to influence the
measures or conduct of any foreign
government or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or
controversies with the United States, or to
defeat the measures of the United States,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than three years, or both.
The Boston Herald has called for a full investigation into
Kerry’s actions:
If special counsel Bob Mueller is truly
interested in investigating people who are
colluding with nefarious foreign powers to
undermine U.S. interests, John Kerry
should be Target No. 1 for secretly meeting
with Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif,
and other foreign officials in recent weeks
to usurp U.S foreign policy.
It’s a role that as a private citizen, Kerry has no mandate or
authority to pursue.
President Trump attacked Kerry’s actions on Twitter,
saying Monday.
“The United States does not need John
Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy
on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He
was the one that created this MESS in the
first place!”
 Lindsey Graham To Chinese Ambassador:
Trump Is ‘Crazy’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 7, 2018, 2:02 Pm

During a speech at the Columbia Rotary Club, Senator

Lindsey Graham recalled telling the Chinese ambassador
that President Donald Trump is crazy.

“If you don’t think Trump’s crazy, then

you’re crazy,” Graham recalled telling the
ambassador at the event.

It wasn’t all bad, according to his reporting, as Graham

also reportedly called President Trump a “genius.” He has
recently said that he will be supporting him in 2020 and
signed on to a letter calling for him to receive a Nobel
Peace Prize for his work in denuclearization North Korea.

Graham also discussed the Robert Mueller investigation

According to Post and Courier Columbia Bureau Chief into the Trump campaign and said that it needs to proceed.
Andy Shain, Graham also called the president “a handful” He added that there also needs to be an investigation in the
and “volatile.” DOJ and FBI for their handling of the Hillary Clinton
email scandal.

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 Report: Buzzfeed Targeted Readers With Sponsored Anti-
Trump Political Ads Without Proper Disclosure
By Allum Bokhari
7 May 2018
BuzzFeed ran microtargeted pro-Clinton
political ads during the 2016 election
without labeling them as political ads —
despite assurances that they would do
so — according to a report by the Daily
Caller.
According to the report, BuzzFeed ran 32 “native” political
ads (ads designed to look like standard articles) on the site
in 2016, without disclosing that they were political ads.
This is despite the fact that BuzzFeed promised to add
disclosures on native political ads when they launched the
program.
But the Caller reports that only four native ads out of the
36 they analyzed from 2016 contained proper disclosures.
By failing to disclose native political ads as such,
BuzzFeed risks running afoul of Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) rules on native advertising. As the
Caller notes, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) also
mandates that online political advertisements identify who
funded and authorized them.
Sponsored BuzzFeed content from 12 anti-Trump super
PACs failed to adequately disclose their funders and
authorizers.
According to public comments from former BuzzFeed vice
president Rena Shapiro, the site used Facebook-style data
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harvesting to target users with anti-Trump messages, and
closed off their advertising to pro-Trump groups.
But as it turns out, only some in the political space were
given the opportunity to partner with BuzzFeed’s viral
marketing team to create custom political ads that,
according to Shapiro,
are “based off of mounds and piles and
troves of data and information that we have
as far as how people are interacting and
engaging with content.”
BuzzFeed raised eyebrows in June 2016 when it
announced it had canceled a $1.3 million advertising
agreement with the Republican National Committee due to
disagreements with then-candidate Donald Trump’s
“offensive statements.”
Doing business with any group that supports Trump,
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti said after canceling the
RNC ad buy, would be “hazardous to our health.”
“We don’t run cigarette ads because they
are hazardous to our health, and we won’t
accept Trump ads for the exact same
reason,” Peretti said.
And Shapiro made clear that BuzzFeed’s work with the
super PACs meant the website had skin in the game trying
to defeat Trump at the ballot box.
“What’s #politicaladsteam @BuzzFeed
team been up too?” she tweeted in August
2016. “Helping @prioritiesUSA &
@emilyslist get creative to stop Trump.”
According to the report, BuzzFeed representatives denied
that the company
“leveraged data from its editorial operations
to help political groups target key audience
groups with political ads” and claimed that
“completely walled off from BuzzFeed’s
advertising business.”
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 Former Asst. Secretary Of State:
DOJ Should Issue Cease And Desist Order To John Kerry
And Suspend His Security Clearance (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 2:24 Pm

Former Assistant Secretary of State and there are two of them right off the top.
Robert Charles joined Trish Regan on You mention the Logan Act… The second
The Intelligence Report to discuss John piece of it is Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1
Kerry’s secret policy meetings with the of the United States Constitution which
Iranian regime. says you cannot aid or comfort or adhere to
the enemy. I think there is probably no
country in the world that fits into the
definition of a sworn enemy of the United
States than Iran… The four things you
ought to do right now is the Justice
Department ought to issue a cease and
desist order and say stop doing this. He’s
been for months negotiating with the
Foreign Minister of Iran. The second thing I
think I’d do is do the same thing Sally
Yates did to Mike Flynn. I’d send a few FBI
agents over and do a debrief… The third
thing I’d do is he has a courtesy clearance
that he maintains as Secretary of State
former. I think I would suspend that
temporarily… The final thing I would do is
have the White House Cousel issue some
John Kerry’s spokesman on Monday kind of a deterrent letter saying henceforth
confirmed that Kerry was meeting and forever more we frown on the idea of
secretly with the Iranians to salvage the you going over and encouraging another
controversial nuclear deal. country to negotiate against the United
Israeli officials already have proof that States.
Iran broke the nuclear deal.
Via The Intelligence Report:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released proof last
week that Iran was moving ahead with their secret Iranian
deal.

Robert Charles:

At best it’s a gross indiscretion at worst it’s

extreme disloyalty. And it’s hard to get
inside John Kerry’s head. I’m not sure I
want to be there. He believes he’s doing
God’s work out there. This is the same guy
that opposed the Vietnam war and called it
a war crime… It does raise legal issues
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 ANOTHER GOP Lawmaker Blasts The Special Counsel
‘If Mueller Doesn’t Have Evidence Of Trump-Russia
Collusion Shut It Down Now’
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 3:11 Pm

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) blasted Robert

Mueller and his team of liberal hack
lawyers Monday morning.
Zeldin says if Mueller doesn’t have
evidence Trump colluded with the
Russians during the 2016 election then
come clean and close down the
operation NOW.

Last week Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN)

introduced a resolution to end the
Mueller witch hunt.

Provide evidence of Trump-Russia collusion or shut the

investigation down within 30 days, says GOP lawmaker
Todd Rokita.

Rep Rokita also said

“no one in government should be without

Americans are fed up with Rosenstein’s
and Mueller’s unconstitutional witch
hunt.
A crime hasn’t even been named, yet we are going on one
year of a Stalinesque show-me-the-man-and-I’ll-find-the-
crime investigation.
Rep. Zeldin tweeted:
If Mueller doesn’t have evidence that
@realDonaldTrump colluded with the
Russians to win election, why not just say
so? Those who created this Trump-Russia
collusion cloud have the duty to remove it
NOW if they still have NOTHING.
accountability” and accurately stated
Americans believe the Mueller witch hunt is
“an attempt by the Washington elite to
destroy President Trump with
innuendo, leaks, and baseless allegations
than to provide justice.”
Mueller’s wheels are falling off.
Federal Judge Ellis said the very same thing last Friday
when he called Mueller’s corrupt lawyers ‘liars’ during
Manafort’s bank fraud hearing.
Judge Ellis also said no one should have “unfettered
power” and accused Mueller’s team of hacks of using
Manafort’s case as a way to oust President Trump from
office.
It’s time to shut down Mueller and Rosenstein and
prosecute them for their attempt to overthrow a duly
elected president.

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 House Democrats Lie About
Mueller Investigation In Fundraising Emails
Peter Hasson - Reporter
4:05 PM 05/07/2018
Congressional Democrats are now lying to their supporters
about the Russia investigation in an effort to pump up their
fundraising efforts ahead of the midterm elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
(DCCC) sent out a pair of fundraising emails on Monday
that claimed if they got enough signatures, President
Donald Trump would be “forced” to interview with special
counsel Robert Mueller.
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“If we can gather 1,000,000 signatures, it
will FORCE Trump to cooperate with the
investigation once and for all,” read one
email. (That’s false.)
“We need to gather 1 MILLION signatures
for Robert Mueller to FORCE Trump to
testify,” read another email. “We’re the only
ones left who can help Robert Mueller.”
(Also false.)
“Democrats can’t claim a moral high
ground on telling the truth when their
congressional campaign arm is often lying,”
commented BuzzFeed reporter Dominic
Holden, who first pointed out the
misleading emails.
“If Democrats care so much about ‘the
truth,’ they should practice it in their
emails,” he added.
 Melania Bullied For Her Looks,
Accent After Anti-Bullying Speech
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:10 PM 05/07/2018

First Lady Melania Trump revealed her signature

campaign to combat bullying and drug use Monday
afternoon at the White House, and the internet reacted by
making fun of her accent.
The campaign, called “BE BEST,” is aimed at creating a
healthy lifestyle for students on social media and in the
classroom as well as preventing opioid abuse among
students. In her speech at the White House, Melania said:
“There are too many critical issues facing
children today so the three main pillars of
BE BEST will include well-being, social
media use, and opioid abuse. We can and
should teach children the important of
social and self-awareness, positive
relationship skills, and responsible decision
REUTERS/Leah Millis
making.”

REUTERS/Leah Millis
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REUTERS/Leah Millis

However, the anti-cyberbullying nature of the program

was completely missed by some influential commenters
online.
Verified twitter accounts of online influencers and
reporters made fun of the First Lady’s accent, even though
Melania is an immigrant who was born in Slovenia and
speaks five languages.
The First Lady’s accent was made fun of
and criticized:

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Others online attacked the Trump
children as “total assholes.”

Others used the opportunity to attack

Melania’s looks, specifically her skin
color.

A sad day for the national discourse.

Other’s photoshopped old scandalous WATCH TRUMP SIGN THE ‘BE BEST’
images of Melania with her anti-bullying PROCLAMATION:
slogan on them:
Still, others used the death of children
in school shootings to attack Melania
and the president.

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 Reporter Warns: Significant Story Coming Out About
“Trump Foe” That Will Delight The President And
Could Impact Legal Matters
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 5:49 Pm

A reporter for the Huffington Post definitely dominate the news cycle. Story
warned his Twitter followers that a huge could be out as soon as tonight.
story about one of Trump’s “foes” is
about to drop.
It will delight the president and
dominate the news cycle, Yashar Ali of
HuffPo said Monday evening.

Someone asked if it was about Rosie O’Donnell and

Yashar Ali said ‘no.’

The significant story could drop as soon as Monday night.

There are no hints as to who this “foe” may be. Political?

Personal?

Yashar Ali tweeted: Stay tuned. The Gateway Pundit will be keeping an eye on
this development.
I’m told there is a significant story coming
out about a longtime Trump foe that will no
doubt delight the President. It could easily
have an impact on legal matters, but it will
.

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 BREAKING: Trump Foe And Mueller-Linked NY
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Accused Of
Beating And Choking Women In Bed
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 6:21 Pm
A reporter for the Huffington Post
warned his Twitter followers that a huge
story about one of Trump’s “foes” is
about to drop.
It will delight the president and
dominate the news cycle, Yashar Ali of
HuffPo said Monday evening.
And here it is..New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman, who is
working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s
case has been accused of physical
abuse by four women.
Schneiderman even threatened to KILL
the women if they broke up with him!
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who
ironically was an outspoken person in the #MeToo
movement is now being accused of beating and choking
women.
Schneiderman is a longtime Trump foe.
Schneiderman led a lawsuit against Donald Trump that
was filed after Trump announced his run for president.
Schneiderman alleges Donald Trump scammed Trump
University participants out of tens of thousands of dollars.
In June of this year New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman launched an investigation of the Eric Trump
Foundation over allegations the organization funneled
money through charity golf outings which raised millions
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for St. Jude’s Children Hospital.Robert Mueller has hired
a stable of liberal attorneys and former Obama officials to
investigation Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with
Russia.
Mueller began working with the anti-
Trump New York Attorney General in
August to take down the president.
Now Schneiderman is facing his day of
reckoning.
The New Yorker Magazine reported:
Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of
his own. As his prominence as a voice
against sexual misconduct has risen, so,
too, has the distress of four women with
whom he has had romantic relationships or
encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of
having subjected them to nonconsensual
physical violence. All have been reluctant
to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the
women, Michelle Manning Barish and
Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The
New Yorker on the record, because they
feel that doing so could protect other
women. They allege that he repeatedly hit
them, often after drinking, frequently in bed
and never with their consent. Manning
Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the
abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.”
They did not report their allegations to the
police at the time, but both say that they
eventually sought medical attention after
having been slapped hard across the ear
and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam
says that Schneiderman warned her he
could have her followed and her phones
tapped, and both say that he threatened to
kill them if they broke up with him.
(Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that
he “never made any of these threats.”)
A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told
Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he also repeatedly
subjected her to nonconsensual physical violence, but she
told them that she is too frightened of him to come
forward. (TheNew Yorker has independently vetted the
accounts that they gave of her allegations.) A fourth
woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in
the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman
made an advance toward her; when she rebuffed him, he
slapped her across the face with such force that it left a
mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in
surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she
felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified, but
shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.

In a statement, Schneiderman said,

“In the privacy of intimate relationships, I

have engaged in role-playing and other
consensual sexual activity. I have not
assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in
nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would
not cross.”

One of the women who accused Schneiderman of abuse One of Schneiderman’s victims tweeted she spoke up for
says he hit her so hard on the ear that she fell back on the her daughter and for all women…
bed. She heard a gurgling sound and had blood dripping
out of her ear prompting her to go to an ear nose and throat
specialist.

One of the women who was abused by Schneiderman says

he got “absolutely plastered” almost every night.

The woman said of Schneiderman,

“[He} would almost always drink two bottles

of wine in a night, then bring a bottle of
Scotch into the bedroom. He would get
absolutely plastered five nights out of
seven.”

Read the full report by The New Yorker here.

Trump and Schneiderman have a long running feud:

Story developing…

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 The Great Hope Of The DNC To Take Down Trump Is
Charged With Beating, Slapping, Choking,
Threatening 4 Women
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 6:56 Pm

But tonight their dreams were shattered.

Eric Schneiderman was charged with

beating, slapping, choking and
threatening four different women.

Eric Schneiderman is a pig.

Via The New Yorker:

Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of

It seems like it was just yesterday that Politico Magazine his own. As his prominence as a voice
was cheering New York Attorney General Eric against sexual misconduct has risen, so,
Schneiderman as the man who would take down Donald too, has the distress of four women with
Trump. whom he has had romantic relationships or
encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of
Eric Shneiderman is celebrated on the having subjected them to nonconsensual
left. physical violence. All have been reluctant
He is was the Democrat Party’s great to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the
women, Michelle Manning Barish and
hope to take down Donald Trump.
Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The
Schneiderman is a frequent guest on far New Yorker on the record, because they
left TV. feel that doing so could protect other
women. They allege that he repeatedly hit
them, often after drinking, frequently in bed
and never with their consent. Manning
Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the
abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.”
They did not report their allegations to the
police at the time, but both say that they
eventually sought medical attention after
having been slapped hard across the ear
and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam
says that Schneiderman warned her he
could have her followed and her phones
tapped, and both say that he threatened to
The conspiracy media cheered when kill them if they broke up with him.
Schneiderman filed his 100th case (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that
against President Donald Trump. he “never made any of these threats.”)
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 Four Women Accuse New York’s
Attorney General Of Physical Abuse
Eric Schneiderman Has Raised His Profile As A Voice Against Sexual
Misconduct. Now, After Suing Harvey Weinstein,
He Faces A #Metoo Reckoning Of His Own.
By Jane Mayer And Ronan Farrow
May 7, 2018
As Eric Schneiderman used the authority of his office to assume a
major role in the #MeToo movement, the distress of four women with
whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters grew.
Illustration by Oliver Munday; Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty
(man)
Update: Three hours after the publication of
this story, Schneiderman resigned from his
position. “While these allegations are
unrelated to my professional conduct or the
operations of the office, they will effectively
prevent me from leading the office’s work
at this critical time,” he said in a statement.
“I therefore resign my office, effective at the
close of business on May 8, 2018.”
Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has long
been a liberal Democratic champion of women’s rights,
and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the
#MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New
York State’s highest-ranking law-enforcement officer,
Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to
take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey
Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the
victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. Last month,
when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint
Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sexual harassment,
Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising
“the brave women and men who spoke up
about the sexual harassment they had
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endured at the hands of powerful men.”
Without these women, he noted, “there
would not be the critical national reckoning
under way.”
Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As
his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has
risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom
he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They
accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to
nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant
to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women,
Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have
talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel
that doing so could protect other women. They allege that
he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in
bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and
Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as
“assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police
at the time, but both say that they eventually sought
medical attention after having been slapped hard across the
ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that
Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and
her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill
them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s
spokesperson said that he “never made any of these
threats.”)
A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told
Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he also repeatedly
subjected her to nonconsensual physical violence, but she
told them that she is too frightened of him to come
forward. (The New Yorker has independently vetted the
accounts that they gave of her allegations.) A fourth
woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in
the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman
made an advance toward her; when she rebuffed him, he
slapped her across the face with such force that it left a
mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in
surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she
felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified, but
shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.
In a statement, Schneiderman said,
“In the privacy of intimate relationships, I
have engaged in role-playing and other
consensual sexual activity. I have not
assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in
nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would
not cross.”
Manning Barish was romantically involved with
Schneiderman from the summer of 2013 until New Year’s
Day in 2015. Selvaratnam was with him from the summer
of 2016 until the fall of 2017. Both are articulate,
progressive Democratic feminists in their forties who live
in Manhattan. They work and socialize in different circles,
and although they have become aware of each other’s
stories, they have only a few overlapping acquaintances; to
this day, they have never spoken to each other. Over the
past year, both watched with admiration as other women
spoke out about sexual misconduct. But, as Schneiderman
used the authority of his office to assume a major role in
the #MeToo movement, their anguish and anger grew.
In February, four months after the first stories about
Weinstein broke, Schneiderman announced that his office
was filing a civil-rights suit against him. At a press
conference, he denounced Weinstein, saying,
“We have never seen anything as
despicable as what we’ve seen right here.”
On May 2nd, at the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo,
Schneiderman launched an investigation into the past
handling of criminal complaints against Weinstein by the
Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr., and the
New York City Police Department. (In 2015, Vance
declined to bring criminal charges against Weinstein,
saying that he lacked sufficient evidence—a decision
criticized by activist groups.) In a speech, Cuomo
explained that “sexual-assault complaints must be pursued
aggressively, and to the fullest extent of the law.” The
expanding investigation of the Weinstein case puts
Schneiderman at the center of one of the most significant
sexual-misconduct cases in recent history.
Schneiderman’s activism on behalf of feminist causes has
increasingly won him praise from women’s groups. On
May 1st, the New York-based National Institute for
Reproductive Health honored him as one of three
“Champions of Choice” at its annual fund-raising
luncheon. Accepting the award, Schneiderman said,
“If a woman cannot control her body, she is
not truly equal.” But, as Manning Barish
sees it, “you cannot be a champion of
women when you are hitting them and
choking them in bed, and saying to them,
‘You’re a fucking whore.’ ” She says of
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Schneiderman’s involvement in the
Weinstein investigation, “How can you put
a perpetrator in charge of the country’s
most important sexual-assault case?”
Selvaratnam describes Schneiderman as
“a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” figure, and says
that seeing him lauded as a supporter of
women has made her “feel sick,” adding,
“This is a man who has staked his entire
career, his personal narrative, on being a
champion for women publicly. But he
abuses them privately. He needs to be
called out.”
Manning Barish notes that many of her friends attended
the N.I.R.H. luncheon.
“His hypocrisy is epic,” she says. “He’s
fooled so many people.”
Manning Barish includes herself among them. She says
that she met Schneiderman in July, 2013, through mutual
friends. She had become a blogger and political activist
after opposing her younger brother’s deployment to Iraq
and working with groups such as MoveOn.org. Amicably
divorced from Chris Barish, a hospitality-industry
executive, she was a single mother with a young daughter
and socially prominent friends. Schneiderman, who was
rising in Democratic politics after being elected attorney
general, in 2010, was also divorced. His ex-wife, Jennifer
Cunningham, a lobbyist and political strategist at the firm
SKDKnickerbocker, currently serves as one of his political
consultants. They have a grown daughter.
Manning Barish says that she fell quickly for
Schneiderman and was happy to be involved with someone
who seemed to share her progressive idealism and enjoy
her feistiness. Page Six chronicled the romance, calling her
a “ravishing redhead” and noting that, at a fund-raiser, the
television producer Norman Lear had introduced her as
Schneiderman’s “bride-to-be.”
But Manning Barish began to see signs of controlling and
abusive behavior. Soon after she started dating
Schneiderman, he told her to remove a small tattoo from
her wrist; it wasn’t appropriate, he said, if she were to
become the wife of a politician. The process of having it
removed was painful and expensive. In retrospect, she
says, it was the first step in trying to control her body.
“Taking a strong woman and tearing her to
pieces is his jam,” she says.
About four weeks after they became physically involved,
she says, Schneiderman grew violent. One night, they were
in the bedroom of his Upper West Side apartment, still
clothed but getting ready for bed, and lightly baiting each
other. As she recalls it, he called her “a whore,” and she
talked back. They had both been drinking, and her
recollection of their conversation is blurry, but what
happened next remains vivid. Schneiderman, she says,
backed her up to the edge of his bed.
“All of a sudden, he just slapped me, open-
handed and with great force, across the
face, landing the blow directly onto my ear,”
Manning Barish says. “It was horrendous. It
just came out of nowhere. My ear was
ringing. I lost my balance and fell backward
onto the bed. I sprang up, but at this point
there was very little room between the bed
and him. I got up to try to shove him back,
or take a swing, and he pushed me back
down. He then used his body weight to
hold me down, and he began to choke me.
The choking was very hard. It was really
bad. I kicked. In every fibre, I felt I was
being beaten by a man.”
She finally freed herself and got back on her feet.
“I was crying and in shock,” she says. She
recalls shouting, “Are you crazy?” To her
astonishment, Schneiderman accused her
of scratching him. At one point—she can’t
remember if it was at this moment or in a
later conversation—he told her, “You know,
hitting an officer of the law is a felony.”
After the incident, Manning Barish left the apartment,
telling him that she would never come back.
“I want to make it absolutely clear,” she
says. “This was under no circumstances a
sex game gone wrong. This did not happen
while we were having sex. I was fully
dressed and remained that way. It was
completely unexpected and shocking. I did
not consent to physical assault.”
In the following days, Manning Barish confided to three
close female friends that Schneiderman had hit her. All of
them have confirmed this to The New Yorker.
“She was distraught,” one of the friends, a
high-profile media figure, says. “She was
very, very upset. This wasn’t a gentle
smack. He clocked her ear. I was
shocked.” She notes, “Michelle had
mentioned that he drank a lot, and that he
changed under the influence of alcohol, but
I’d never anticipated that he would be
violent.” The friend describes Manning
Barish as having seemed “sad” and “torn,”
because “she’d really wanted the
relationship to work.”
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The novelist Salman Rushdie, who dated Manning Barish
before Schneiderman did, and who has been her close
friend for nearly fifteen years, says that she confided in
him as well.
“She called me and told me he had hit her,”
Rushdie recalls. “She was obviously very
upset. I was horrified.” In his view,
Schneiderman’s behavior does not fall into
the kind of gray area that should remain
private. “It was clear to me that it crossed a
line,” he says. Rushdie, who describes
Manning Barish as “a very truthful person,
in my experience,” advised her to stay
away from Schneiderman.
But Manning Barish went back to him, a decision that she
regrets. After the attack, she says, Schneiderman “called
and called” her. A few days later, on a weekday afternoon,
his security detail drove him to her apartment, and he
showed up at her door with an armload of flowers and a
case of wine. She found the wine surprising, given the fact
that alcohol had fuelled his violent behavior. She recalls
saying over and over,
“You hit me! You hurt me! You should
never hit a woman!” But he didn’t want to
talk about having hit her. “The hitting was
not an issue for him,” she says.
Before long, they reconciled.
Manning Barish says that her ear bothered her for months.
It often felt painful and clogged, and she kept hearing odd
gurgling sounds. Once, blood trickled out, reaching her
collarbone. Eventually, Manning Barish sought medical
help from Dr. Gwen Korovin, an ear, nose, and throat
specialist. Manning Barish shared her medical records with
The New Yorker. They confirm that, on September 13,
2014, Korovin found and removed “dried bloody crust”
from Manning Barish’s ear. Manning Barish thought that
the slap might have caused the injury, but when Korovin
asked her what had happened she said that she might have
injured herself with a Q-tip.
“I was protecting Eric,” Manning Barish
says. “And I was ashamed. For victims,
shame plays a huge role in most of these
stories. I want people to know that.”
Korovin was asked by The New Yorker if
the injury could have been caused by a
slap. “Yes, it could be consistent with a
slap,” she said. “You could perforate an
eardrum in a lot of ways, with a Q-tip or
with a slap.”
Manning Barish and Schneiderman were together, off and
on, for nearly two years. She says that when they had sex
he often slapped her across the face without her consent,
and that she felt “emotionally battered” by cruel remarks
that he made. She says that he criticized how she looked
and dressed, and “controlled what I ate.” Manning Barish,
who is five feet seven, lost thirty pounds, falling to a
hundred and three. In a photograph from the period, she
looks emaciated; her hair, she recalls, started to fall out.
Nevertheless, he squeezed her legs and called them
“chubby.”
Manning Barish says that Schneiderman pressed her to
consume huge amounts of alcohol. She recalls,
“I would come over for dinner. An already
half-empty bottle of red wine would be on
the counter. He had had a head start. ‘Very
stressful day,’ he would say.” Sometimes, if
she didn’t drink quickly enough, she says,
he would “come to me like a baby who
wouldn’t eat its food, and hold the glass to
my lips while holding my face, and sweetly
but forcefully, like a parent, say, ‘Come on,
Mimi, drink, drink, drink,’ and essentially
force me—at times actually spilling it down
my chin and onto my chest.”
Schneiderman, she recalls,
“would almost always drink two bottles of
wine in a night, then bring a bottle of
Scotch into the bedroom. He would get
absolutely plastered five nights out of
seven.” On one occasion, she recalls, “he
literally fell on his face in my kitchen,
straight down, like a tree falling.” Another
evening, he smashed his leg against an
open drawer, cutting it so badly that “there
was blood all over the place.”
She bandaged it, but the next day she went to his office to
change the dressing, because the bleeding hadn’t stopped.
Manning Barish says that Schneiderman also took
prescription tranquillizers, and often asked her to refill a
prescription that she had for Xanax, so that he could
reserve “about half” the pills for himself. (Schneiderman’s
spokesperson said that he has “never commandeered
anyone’s medications.”)
Sometimes in bed, she recalls, he would be
“shaking me and grabbing my face” while
demanding that she repeat such things as
“I’m a little whore.” She says that he also
told her, “If you ever left me, I’d kill you.”
Evan Stark, a forensic social worker and an emeritus
professor at Rutgers, is the author of a landmark book,
“Coercive Control,” in which he argues that domestic
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abuse is just as often psychological as it is physical.
Abusive men, he writes, often “terrorize” and “control”
their partners by demeaning them, particularly about the
traits or accomplishments of which they are proudest.
Manning Barish says that Schneiderman often mocked her
political activism. When she told him of her plan to attend
an anti-gun demonstration with various political figures
and a group of parents from Sandy Hook Elementary
School, he dismissed the effort, calling the demonstrators
“losers.” He added,
“Go ahead, if it makes you feel better to do
your little political things.” When she was
using her computer, he’d sometimes say,
“Oh, look at little Mimi. So cute—she’s
working!” He told Manning Barish that,
because she had childcare, she wasn’t “a
real single mother.”
Manning Barish broke up with Schneiderman a second
time, and then got back together with him. He’d been
talking about marrying her, she says, and she somehow
convinced herself that the real problem between them was
her fear of commitment. In January, 2015, she ended the
relationship a third time, feeling degraded. After that, they
got together romantically a few more times, but since 2016
she has been in touch with him only sporadically.
Since the #MeToo movement began, Manning Barish has
been active on social-media platforms, cheering on women
who have spoken out, including those whose accusations
prompted the resignation of the Minnesota senator Al
Franken, a widely admired Democrat. Once, she made an
oblique reference to Schneiderman on social media, in
connection with a political issue. He called her and, in a
tone that she describes as “nasty,” said,
“Don’t ever write about me. You don’t want
to do that.” Manning Barish says that she
took his remarks as a threat, just as she
took seriously a comment that he’d once
made after she objected to him “yanking”
her across a street. She recalls saying to
him, “Jaywalking is against the law,” and
him responding, “I am the law.” Manning
Barish says, “If there is a sentence that
sums him up, it’s that.”
Schneiderman was elected to the New York State Senate in
1998, and served for twelve years. He wrote many laws,
including one that created specific penalties for
strangulation. He introduced the bill in 2010, after chairing
a committee that investigated domestic-violence charges
against the former state senator Hiram Monserrate, a
Democrat, who was expelled from the legislature after
having been convicted of assaulting his girlfriend. During
the hearings, the legislators learned that New York State
imposed no specific criminal penalty for choking, even
though it is a common prelude to domestic-violence
homicides. Not only did Schneiderman’s bill make life-
threatening strangulation a grave crime; it also
criminalized less serious cases involving “an intent to
impede breathing” as misdemeanors punishable by up to a
year in prison.
“I’m just sorry it took us so long in New
York State to do this,” Schneiderman
declared at the time. “I think this will save a
lot of lives.”
Jennifer Friedman, a legal expert on domestic violence,
says that she cannot square Schneiderman’s public and
private behavior. Anyone knowledgeable about intimate-
partner violence, she says, knows that choking is “a known
lethality indicator.” She adds,
“I cannot fathom that someone who drafted
the legislation on strangulation is unfamiliar
with such concepts.” She also says, “A slap
is not just a slap—it reverberates through
the rest of the relationship, making her
afraid of setting him off.” She adds, “People
aren’t usually prosecuted for it, but, in the
state of New York, slapping is assault when
it results in pain or physical injury.”
In the summer of 2016, the attorney general may have
crossed this line again. He went to a party in the
Hamptons, where he drank heavily, and invited another
guest—a woman he’d known for some time—to join him
at an after-party. An accomplished Ivy League-educated
lawyer with government experience, she had worked
closely with his office in the past, and supported him
politically. She says that she agreed to let a man in
Schneiderman’s security detail drive them to the next
destination. But, when they arrived at the house, there was
no party; it was where Schneiderman was staying. The
security officer left the property.
The lawyer and Schneiderman began making out, but he
said things that repelled her. He told the woman, a
divorced mother, that professional women with big jobs
and children had so many decisions to make that, when it
came to sex, they secretly wanted men to take charge. She
recalls him saying,
“Yeah, you act a certain way and look a
certain way, but I know that at heart you
are a dirty little slut. You want to be my
whore.” He became more sexually
aggressive, but she was repulsed by his
talk, and pulled away from him. She says
that “suddenly—at least, in my mind’s
eye—he drew back, and there was a
moment where I was, like, ‘What’s
happening?’ ” Then, she recalls, “He
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slapped me across the face hard, twice,”
adding, “I was stunned.”
Schneiderman hit her so hard, she says, that the blow left a
red handprint.
“What the fuck did you just do?” she
screamed, and started to sob. “I couldn’t
believe it,” she recalls. “For a split second, I
was scared.” She notes that, in all her
years of dating, she has never been in a
situation like the one with Schneiderman.
“He just really smacked me,” she says.
When she told him that she wanted to leave, she recalls, he
started to “freak out,” saying that he’d misjudged her.
“You’d really be surprised,” he claimed. “A
lot of women like it. They don’t always think
they like it, but then they do, and they ask
for more.” She again demanded to be
taken home. They got into his car, and it
quickly became apparent how intoxicated
he was. As he drove, weaving along back
roads, she was terrified that he’d kill not
just her but another driver. She says that
Schneiderman “broke the law at least once
that night.” (“This is untrue,”
Schneiderman’s spokesperson said.)
The next day, she told two friends, and sent them a
photograph of the mark on her face. (Both women
corroborate this.) Another photograph of the lawyer, taken
later that day at a family birthday party, shows faint raised
marks splayed on her cheek. One of the friends says of
Schneiderman, “He seemed not to know what the word
‘consent’ means.”
Given the woman’s prominence in the legal sphere,
Schneiderman’s actions had exposed him to tremendous
risk. Yet she took no official action against him.
“Now that I know it’s part of a pattern, I
think, God, I should have reported it,” she
says. “But, back then, I believed that it was
a one-time incident. And I thought, He’s a
good attorney general, he’s doing good
things. I didn’t want to jeopardize that.” She
notes that he did not hit her again, after she
protested. Nevertheless, she says of the
assault, “I knew it was wrong,” adding, “Our
top law officer, this guy with a platform for
women’s rights, just smacked away so
much of what I thought he stood for.”
Tanya Selvaratnam is the author of “The Big Lie:
Motherhood, Feminism, And The Reality Of The
Biological Clock,” which explores infertility issues; she is
also an actor and a film producer, as well as a supporter of
feminist and progressive social causes. She, too, is
divorced. In 2016, she attended the Democratic National
Convention, in Philadelphia, where Schneiderman
introduced himself to her. She says that their first
encounter felt “like kismet.” They had both gone to
Harvard: she as an undergraduate and a graduate student,
he as a law student. She was impressed when he expressed
an interest in meditation and Buddhism. They had both
studied Chinese, and, when he asked, in Mandarin, if she
spoke the language, she answered,
“Wo shuo keshi bu tai liuli”—“Yes, but not
fluently.”
They began dating, and appeared to be a happy couple.
Selvaratnam all but lived in his apartment, attending
political functions and dinners with his friends and donors,
and brainstorming with him on speeches and projects. But,
as she puts it, “it was a fairy tale that became a nightmare.”
Although Schneiderman often doted on her, he demanded
that she spend more and more time with him, and he began
physically abusing her in bed.
“The slaps started after we’d gotten to
know each other,” she recalls. “It was at
first as if he were testing me. Then it got
stronger and harder.” Selvaratnam says, “It
wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual
playacting. This was abusive, demeaning,
threatening behavior.”
When Schneiderman was violent, he often made sexual
demands.
“He was obsessed with having a
threesome, and said it was my job to find a
woman,” she says. “He said he’d have
nothing to look forward to if I didn’t, and
would hit me until I agreed.” (She had no
intention of having a threesome.) She
recalls, “Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him
Master, and he’d slap me until I did.”
Selvaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka,
has dark skin, and she recalls that “he
started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and
demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his
property.’ ”
The abuse escalated. Schneiderman not only slapped her
across the face, often four or five times, back and forth,
with his open hand; he also spat at her and choked her.
“He was cutting off my ability to breathe,”
she says. Eventually, she says, “we could
rarely have sex without him beating me.” In
her view, Schneiderman “is a misogynist
and a sexual sadist.” She says that she
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often asked him to stop hurting her, and
tried to push him away. At other times, she
gave in, rationalizing that she could tolerate
the violence if it happened only once a
week or so during sex. But “the emotional
and verbal abuse started increasing,” she
says, and “the belittling and demeaning of
me carried over into our nonsexual
encounters.” He told her to get plastic
surgery to remove scars on her torso that
had resulted from an operation to remove
cancerous tumors. He criticized her hair
and said that she should get breast
implants and buy different clothes. He
mocked some of her friends as “ditzes,”
and, when these women attended a
birthday celebration for her, he demanded
that she leave just as the cake was
arriving. “I began to feel like I was in Hell,”
she says.
Like Manning Barish, Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman
routinely drank heavily—a bottle and a half of wine, or
more. He also took sedatives, she says, and pushed her to
drink with him, saying,
“Drink your bourbon, Turnip”—his
nickname for her. In the middle of the night,
he staggered through the apartment, as if
in a trance. “I’ve never seen anyone that
messed up,” she recalls. “It was like
sleeping next to a monster.”
The next morning, she says, he’d seem fine, but often
berated her for not having kept him away from the alcohol.
His emotional state seemed to worsen after the 2016
Presidential election. He had counted on forging an
ambitious partnership with a White House led by Hillary
Clinton. Instead, the Presidency had gone to Donald
Trump. Earlier, Schneiderman’s office had sued Trump
University for civil fraud, and Trump had countersued
Schneiderman personally.
On the morning of January 19, 2017, the day before
Trump’s Inauguration, Schneiderman called Selvaratnam
from a hospital emergency room. She recalls,
“He told me that he’d been drinking the
night before he fell down. He didn’t realize
he’d cut himself, and got into bed, and
when he woke up he was in a pool of
blood.”
Selvaratnam rushed to the hospital. Schneiderman had
several stitches above his left eye; his face was puffy and
bruised. He had her send his press secretary a photograph
of the injury, and they agreed to cancel a public
appearance. In the image, which was shared with The New
Yorker, Schneiderman has a black eye and a bandage
across the left side of his forehead. Schneiderman then
called Cunningham, his ex-wife and political consultant,
and they agreed that he and Selvaratnam should tell
anyone who asked about the injury that he had fallen
“while running.” (A spokesperson for Schneiderman said,
“One morning, Mr. Schneiderman fell in the
bathroom while completely sober, hit his
head, and had to go the E.R. for stitches.
Because he was embarrassed to tell his
staff he fell in the bathroom, he told them
he fell while running.” Cunningham, in a
statement issued shortly after this story
was published online, said, “I’ve known Eric
for nearly thirty-five years as a husband,
father, and friend. These allegations are
completely inconsistent with the man I
know, who has always been someone of
the highest character, outstanding values,
and a loving father. I find it impossible to
believe these allegations are true.”)
Selvaratnam understands how incomprehensible it may
seem that she stayed in such an abusive relationship for
more than a year.
But, she says, “now I see how independent
women get stuck in one.” The physical
abuse, she notes, “happens quickly”: “He’s
drunk, and you’re naked and at your most
vulnerable. It’s so disorienting. You lose a
little of who you are.” She kept telling
herself that she could help him change,
and tried to get him to see a therapist. At
times, she blamed herself for his behavior.
“I was scared what he might do if I left him,”
she says. “He had said he would have to
kill me if we broke up, on multiple
occasions. He also told me he could have
me followed and could tap my phone.”
It’s unclear if Schneiderman was serious when he made
such remarks, but Selvaratnam says that she felt
intimidated. Jacquelyn Campbell, a professor at the Johns
Hopkins University School of Nursing, is the author of a
danger-assessment checklist that helps authorities gauge
the likelihood of homicide in domestic-violence situations.
She says,
“It’s often true that women don’t know
whether to take threats to kill seriously. But
we should always take threats seriously.
It’s categorized as a violent act, and you
can report someone to the police for it.”
Selvaratnam began to spend more time apart from
Schneiderman, and last fall she ended the relationship.
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She’d been suffering from ringing in her ears, and
sometimes had vertigo. After the breakup, she, like
Manning Barish, sought medical help from an ear, nose,
and throat specialist. The doctor could find no specific
cause for her ailments. The writer Danzy Senna, a close
friend of Selvaratnam’s, recalls,
“She was thin, fragile, and shaky.”
Selvaratnam confided to Senna about the
abuse, and Senna was so shocked that
she wrote down the details and e-mailed
the account to her husband, so that there
would be a dated copy of it should any
harm come to her friend.
Senna’s document, which she shared with The New
Yorker, is dated September 16, 2017, and says, in part,
“She told me that her boyfriend of a year,
Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General
of New York, has been choking, beating,
and threatening her for the entirety of their
relationship, and that several times he
threatened to have her killed if she ever
tried to leave him. She said he knows that
she has a lot of really damning information
about him, his alcoholism, sexual deviance,
and drug use, and she worries about her
safety.”
Senna advised Selvaratnam to retrieve her belongings from
his apartment. On November 3, 2017, she did so, with
another friend—Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer at this
magazine. As they carried her things outside, they talked
about the fact that Selvaratnam couldn’t possibly be the
only woman who had seen this side of Schneiderman.
Gonnerman asked her who else he had dated. Selvaratnam
knew of one former girlfriend—not Manning Barish—and
described where she had worked.
The next day, Gonnerman happened to run into a male
friend who had once worked with the former girlfriend.
Gonnerman asked him if he’d ever known anyone who had
dated Schneiderman. He said yes: a close friend of his had.
Without divulging anything, Gonnerman asked,
“So how did that work out?” He answered,
“He used to spit on her and slap her during
sex.”
Gonnerman told Selvaratnam about the other victim.
“She was very traumatized,” Gonnerman
recalls. “On the one hand, she was relieved
to learn it had happened before, but on the
other it was, like, ‘Why hasn’t anyone
stopped him?’ ”
Selvaratnam says,
“I wished someone had warned me. And I
wondered, Who’s next?” She notes, “I was
not planning to come forward, until I found
out there was another woman. The silence
of women before me meant that I’d
suffered, too. I felt, I will not be able to live
with myself if I hear of him doing this to
another woman years or months from
now.”
Selvaratnam reached out to the former girlfriend, and they
agreed to meet. In February, Selvaratnam recalls, they sat
outside on a bench for ninety minutes, and their stories
came flooding forth. Selvaratnam says that she was
astounded to discover how similar their experiences had
been.
Selvaratnam kept notes about her exchanges with the
former girlfriend, and she described them to The New
Yorker. According to these notes, the former girlfriend told
Selvaratnam that she had been in love with Schneiderman,
but that in bed he had routinely slapped her hard across the
ear and the face, as tears rolled down her cheeks. He also
choked her and spat at her. Not all the abuse had taken
place in a sexual context. She said that Schneiderman had
once slapped her during an argument they’d had while
getting dressed to go out. The blow left a handprint on her
back; the next day, the spot still hurt. When the former
girlfriend objected to this mistreatment, he told her that she
simply wasn’t “liberated” enough. Just as Schneiderman
had done with the other women, he had pushed her to
drink with him and to set up a threesome, and he had
belittled her work and appearance, saying in her case that
she had fat legs and needed Botox.
After the former girlfriend ended the relationship, she told
several friends about the abuse. A number of them advised
her to keep the story to herself, arguing that Schneiderman
was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose.
She described this response as heartbreaking. And when
Schneiderman heard that she had turned against him, she
said, he warned her that politics was a tough and personal
business, and that she’d better be careful. She told
Selvaratnam that she had taken this as a threat.
The former girlfriend told Selvaratnam she found it
“shameless” that Schneiderman was casting himself as a
leading supporter of the #MeToo movement. She promised
to support Selvaratnam if she spoke out, but she wasn’t
sure that she could risk joining her. The former girlfriend
told Selvaratnam she’d once been so afraid of
Schneiderman that she’d written down an extensive
account of the abuse, locked the document in a safe-
deposit box, and given keys to two friends.
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In February, the news broke that Rob Porter, a top aide in
the Trump White House, was resigning, amid allegations
that he’d abused his two ex-wives. One of the women,
Colbie Holderness, released a photograph of herself taken
after he’d allegedly given her a black eye. The image
resonated deeply among the women who had dated
Schneiderman. Manning Barish recalls,
“After Rob Porter, I was struggling about
whether to come forward. I felt guilt and
shame that I was encouraging other
women to speak out but wasn’t doing the
same. I was a hypocrite. I was in tears.”
Her friends told her that she risked becoming known
mainly for being Schneiderman’s victim, and she initially
agreed to let the matter go. But, after thinking it over, she
told them,
“If he’s done this to more than one woman,
I’m going to say something.”
After Porter’s resignation, Selvaratnam felt more
determined than ever to speak out about Schneiderman and
the broader issue of intimate-partner violence. As this story
was being reported, Manning Barish became aware that
there were other victims, and decided that she had three
choices:
“I can lie. I can be silent, which is being
complicit, and a betrayal of the other
women. Or I can tell the truth.” She
concluded, “I’m choosing No. 3.” Manning
Barish is aware of the risks faced by
women who take on powerful politicians,
and isn’t relishing the prospect of taking on
the attorney general. “It’s hard,” she says.
“It affects your life, and not in a positive
way.”
Selvaratnam says that she considered filing an ethics
complaint against Schneiderman, or bringing a civil suit,
but the various legal options she considered were always
connected to Schneiderman in some way. Meanwhile, at
least eight members of Congress had resigned, or
announced plans to retire, after being accused of sexual
misconduct. In Missouri, the legislature called a special
session to take up the impeachment of Governor Eric
Greitens, who had been accused of slapping, restraining,
and belittling a woman during an affair. Greitens has
denied the allegations, but he is facing a felony charge
stemming from the woman’s assertion that he took
compromising photographs of her, in an effort to stop her
from speaking out.
Selvaratnam, by contrast, feels caught up in circumstances
that have given her only one real choice: to go public.
 “It’s torturous for me to do this,” she says. “I
like my life.” Of this article, she says, “I
wish my name did not have to be in it,” and
notes, of Schneiderman, “I know it’s going
to be my word against his, because I don’t
have photos of bruises, and I don’t have a
.
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police report.” Schneiderman’s accusers,
she feels, are in an unusually difficult
situation. As she puts it, “What do you do if
your abuser is the top law-enforcement
official in the state?”
 NY AG Schneiderman Releases Statement- Says It Was
Just ‘Role-Playing’ When He Slapped, Beat, Choked,
Threatened 4 Women
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 7:21 Pm

Yashar Ali, a reporter for the Huffington

Post warned his Twitter followers that a
huge story about one of Trump’s “foes”
was about to drop.
And he delivered.
Media exploded after it was
revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman, who is working with
Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case has
been accused of physical abuse by four
women. Schneiderman is a longtime Trump foe.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk,
wiretap phones and KILL the women if Mueller began working with the anti-Trump New York
they broke up with him! Attorney General in August to take down the president.

The women who came forward and accused Schneiderman

of abuse offer up very detailed accounts. Many friends of
the women have confirmed they confided in them after the
abuse occurred.

One of the women who accused Schneiderman of abuse

says he hit her so hard on the ear that she fell back on the
bed. She heard a gurgling sound and had blood dripping
out of her ear prompting her to go to an ear nose and throat
specialist.

One of the women who was abused by Schneiderman says

Schneiderman immediately released a
statement on Monday evening accusing
the women of lying.
The New York Attorney General is
denying the allegations.
“In the privacy of intimate relationships I
have engaged in role-playing and other
consensual sexual activity. I have not
assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in
non-consensual sex, which is a line I would
not cross.,” Schneiderman said in a
statement.
he got “absolutely plastered” almost every night.
The woman said of Schneiderman,
“[He} would almost always drink two
bottles of wine in a night, then bring a bottle
of Scotch into the bedroom. He would get
absolutely plastered five nights out of
seven.”
The female victims specifically said they DID NOT
consent to this physical violence.

Via Fox News:

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 One of the authors of the New Yorker
article, Ronan Farrow said in a now
deleted tweet:
One of the women, a prominent attorney,
wasn’t in a relationship with Schneiderman
at all. She says he propositioned her,
began calling her a “slut” and a “whore,”
and, when she withdrew, struck her without
warning.
.
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The female attorney said Schneiderman slapped her so
hard that it left a “bright red hand print”.
One of the women, a prominent attorney, wasn’t in a
relationship with Schneiderman at all. She says he
propositioned her, began calling her a “slut” and a
“whore,” and, when she withdrew, struck her without
warning. pic.twitter.com/XgpVZVFG5s
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) May 7, 2018
 BREAKING: New York Governor Calls On Democrat AG
Schneiderman To Resign After Accusations Of
Beating-Choking Women
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 7:42 Pm

Yashar Ali, a reporter for the Huffington Post warned his

Twitter followers that a huge story about one of Trump’s
“foes” was about to drop.

And he delivered.

Media exploded after it was revealed New York Attorney

General Eric Schneiderman, who is working with Mueller
on Paul Manafort’s case has been accused of physical
Here is the governor’s statement:
abuse by four women.

Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and

KILL the women if they broke up with him!

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 LIKE A BOSS=> Trump Predicted
Downfall Of Schneiderman Back In 2013
‘Worse Than Spitzer, Weiner’
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 8:08 Pm
Media exploded after it was
revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman, who is working with
Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case has
been accused of physical abuse by four
women.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk,
wiretap phones and KILL the women if
they broke up with him!
The NY Attorney General and Trump go
way back years in New York; they do
not like each other.
More recently, Schneiderman led a lawsuit against
Donald Trump that was filed after Trump announced his
run for president. Schneiderman alleges Donald Trump
scammed Trump University participants out of tens of
thousands of dollars.
The feud between Trump and Schneiderman went to the
next level when Mueller hired him to work on the
Manafort case.
Mueller began working with the anti-
Trump New York Attorney General in
August to take down the president.
The greatest part about Schneiderman finally facing his
day of reckoning is the fact that Trump predicted his
downfall in 2013.
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Donald Trump compared Eric Schneiderman to two other
New York politicians who are sexual deviants. Eliot
Spitzer and Anthony Weiner.
In September of 2013, Trump tweeted:
Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone – next will
be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is
he a crook? Wait and see, worse than
Spitzer or Weiner
Things escalated quickly on Monday evening after the
New Yorker published the damning article on
Schneiderman.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for his
resignation and an investigation:
The New Yorker has published an article
on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman,
which reports multiple women making
serious allegations of assault. No one is
above the law, including New York’s top
legal officer. I will be asking an appropriate
New York District Attorney to commence
an immediate investigation, and proceed as
the facts merit. My personal opinion is that,
given the damning pattern of facts and
corroboration laid out in the article, I do not
believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman
to continue to serve as Attorney General,
and for the good of the office, he should
resign.
Here are a few tweets from Trump back in 2013 that shed
more light on the years long feud the two have had:
 These accusations of Schneiderman
have been swirling for years…

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 Obama Whines About Trump’s America —
‘I Worry When Our Values Are Not Being Upheld’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:38 AM 05/08/2018

Former President Barack Obama had some barely veiled

criticism for President Trump at a Monday talk in San
Diego, implying that American values “are not being
upheld.”

“I’ve been trying to be careful about not

editorializing too much. When I get worried
about our country, or the world, it is not
around a particular issue,” Obama said,
according to NTK Network.
“I worry when our values are not being
upheld,” he said. Obama added, “Our
democracy, just like any organization, can’t
work if, for example, we don’t insist on
facts. Like, facts are really useful. We
can’t make good decisions if we don’t at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton hugs U.S. President
least agree on the facts.” Barack Obama as she arrives onstage at the end of his speech on the
third night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Jim
Young TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – HT1EC7S0FJSV9
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 WOW. Ultra Liberal NY Mayor Bill De Blasio Refuses To
Comment After AG Schneiderman Accused Of Beating
And Threatening Women
By Cristina Laila
May 7, 2018, 8:53 Pm

Ultra liberal New York Mayor Bill de “Mayor de Blasio says he does not think it’s
Blasio refused to comment after appropriate to comment on the bombshell
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Eric Shneiderman story in @NewYorker.”
was accused of physical abuse by four
women.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk,
wiretap phones and KILL the women if
they broke up with him!

According to HuffPo reporter, Yashar Ali, who originally

tipped everyone off to this bombshell story, the
Schneiderman accusations have been swirling for years.

Yashar Ali tweeted:

I’m learning tonight that these accusations,

unsurprisingly, have been swirling around
Schneiderman for years. Frankly when I
New York Governor Cuomo immediately released a
got the tip about the story this morning, it
scathing statement calling for Schneiderman’s resignation.
was the first time I had heard about any
allegations against Schneiderman.
Gov Cuomo said, “no one is above the law”
and called for an investigation as well.

The New Yorker has published an article on Attorney

General Eric Schneiderman, which reports multiple
women making serious allegations of assault. No one is
above the law, including New York’s top legal officer. I
will be asking an appropriate New York District Attorney
to commence an immediate investigation, and proceed as
the facts merit. My personal opinion is that, given the
damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the
article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric
Schneiderman to continue to serve as Attorney General,
and for the good of the office, he should resign. Mayor de Blasio must know these accusations are real yet
he’s choosing not to condemn Schneiderman’s abuse of
women.
However, crickets from de Blasio.
But he’s a huge supporter of women. Check him out at the
Perhaps Schneiderman has something damning on de 2018 Women’s March in NYC:
Blasio?

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 Even Donald Trump knew Schneiderman was a sexual
deviant. It was most likely well known in high profile
circles of New York.

In 2013, Donald Trump compared Eric Schneiderman to

two other New York politicians who are sexual deviants.
Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner.

In September of 2013, Trump tweeted:

Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone – next will

be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is
he a crook? Wait and see, worse than
Spitzer or Weiner

Bill de Blasio is your typical hypocritical liberal.

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BREAKING: New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman RESIGNS After Accusations
Of Physical Abuse
By Jim Hoft
May 7, 2018, 8:54 Pm

On Monday New Yorker Magazine

revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman was accused of
physical abuse by four women.

Schneiderman is a top Trump critic and is currently

working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case.

Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and

KILL the women if they broke up with him!

Schneiderman Resigns.

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 Tucker Battles Hillary Staffer
Over Mueller’s Investigatory Tactics
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:49 PM 05/07/2018

“It’s a question, very specifically, about

whether or not officials in the Trump
campaign colluded with the Russian
government to skew the election,” Carlson
explained. “There’s no evidence of that,
there’s no suggestion that happened. This
whole thing is a crock designed to do what
impeachment is designed to do — to take
out a president.”

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson battled a former Hillary Clinton Joel Payne, a Clinton campaign staffer, complained that
campaign staffer Monday over the scope of Robert President Trump is “not cooperating” with Mueller and
Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion. continues to attack the investigation on Twitter.

WATCH: “Oh, poor Bob Mueller,” Carlson laughed.

“I’m upset about the fact that we have a
president we can’t trust in front of a grand
jury or in front of an investigative panel,
that we can’t trust that he can tell the truth
to have a straightforward conversation,”
Payne argued.
“I don’t know how many lawyers you
know…would you talk to the FBI if you
weren’t compelled to?” Carlson retorted.
“Not one of them will say yes because they
are terrified of what we were just talking
about, getting busted on a perjury charge
for misspeaking to a federal agent.”
Carlson, who also co-founded The Daily Caller, attacked
Mueller’s motives and suggested that the special counsel is
more interested in how to remove the president from office
than he is in following the facts of the case.

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 SCOOP: Trump’s EPA Will Axe
Obama’s ‘De Facto Ban On New Coal Plants’
Michael Bastasch
10:56 PM 05/07/2018
Former U.S. president Barack Obama speaks at a conference during
his first visit to France since he left the White House, Paris, France
December 2, 2017. The session, organized by an association called
"Les Napoleons" is hosted by Orange CEO Stephane Richard.
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier | EPA Will Dismantle This Obama Climate
Reg
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans on
repealing an Obama-era requirement effectively mandating
all new coal-fired power plants be outfitted with unproven
emissions technology, The Daily Caller News Foundation
has learned.
EPA will modify the New Source Performance Standards
(NSPS) for power plants as part of its effort to repeal the
Clean Power Plan (CPP) — the centerpiece of the Obama
administration’s climate agenda. EPA will drop the de
facto requirement that new coal plants install carbon
capture and storage (CCS) technology Obama
administration critics said would make it nearly impossible
to build new coal plants.
“It’s fantastic that the Trump EPA is
repealing the Obama EPA’s ban on new
coal-fired power plants,” Junkscience.com
publisher Steve Milloy told TheDCNF.
It’s not clear exactly how EPA will modify NSPS, but
dropping the CCS mandate could mean raising carbon
dioxide emissions limits for new power plants to a
threshold that allows more highly efficient plants to be
built.
In the past, coal plant operators have called for higher
emissions limits to allow the building of supercritical and
ultra supercritical units. Only one ultra supercritical coal
plant, the Turk power plant, is operating in the U.S.
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“While no new standard is really necessary
since U.S. coal plants already burn coal
cleanly and safely, kudos to the Trump
EPA for requiring only the best existing and
affordable technology,” said Milloy, who
served on President Donald Trump’s EPA
transition team.
The Obama administration finalized the NSPS in 2015,
which set limits on how much carbon dioxide new power
plants could emit. Emission rates for coal plants were set
so low new plants would have to install CCS technology.
When the EPA finalized NSPS in 2015, the coal industry
said it would effectively kill coal-fired power in the U.S.
because it mandated unproven technology. EPA and
environmentalists argued CCS was a viable technology.
“Highly efficient supercritical pulverized
coal unit with partial carbon capture and
storage” was the best way to meet
emissions limits, EPA found.
“This final standard of performance for
newly constructed fossil fuel-fired steam
generating units provides a clear and
achievable path forward for the
construction of such sources while
addressing GHG emissions and supporting
technological innovation,” EPA wrote in its
2015 regulation.
There were no operating U.S. power plants with CCS
when the Obama administration promulgated its rule. To
get around that fact, EPA relied heavily on a Canadian
government-backed project CCS called Boundary Dam.
However, Boundary Dam only retrofitted a single coal-
fired unit with CCS — not an entire power plant. The
project has captured more than 2 million metric tons of
CO2, but it’s come at a steep price of nearly $1.2 billion.
The Obama EPA also cited U.S. projects in development
to argue CCS was “technically feasible to implement at
fossil fuel-fired steam generating units.” But all of those
projects were government-funded, which GOP lawmakers
argued violated the Environmental Policy Act of 2005.
For example, Southern Company’s Kemper power plant in
Mississippi was one project EPA highlighted in its 2015
rule, but the plant suffered from massive delays and cost
overruns. Building Kemper ended up costing more than $7
billion.
On top of that, Kemper would not use its CCS equipment
and instead burn natural gas, Southern CEO Thomas
Fanning announced in 2017. Federal lawmakers are
pushing legislation to further subsidize CCS to make the
technology viable.
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“Though the Obama EPA rule would
technically have allowed coal plants that
captured and stored about 50 percent of
their CO2 emissions,” Milloy said, “that
standard was known to be financially,
physically and politically impossible to meet
for any existing or imagined coal plant.”
“The Obama standard was de facto ban on
new coal plants,” Milloy said.
 Anti-Trump AG Tried To Shut Down
EPA’s Transparency Plan Hours Before
Resigning In Disgrace
Chris White - Energy Reporter
11:13 PM 05/07/2018
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks during a
news conference to discuss the civil rights lawsuit filed against The
Weinstein Companies and Harvey Weinstein in New York, U.S.,
February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid | NY AGs
Climate Crusading Days Are Over
New York AG Eric Schneiderman promised to bring down
EPA’s transparency plan hours before a slew of domestic
abuse charges brought down the climate crusading
lawman.
Schneiderman, a Democrat and fierce opponent of
President Donald Trump’s climate agenda, planned on
targeting EPA’s transparency in science plan, the former
AG said Monday afternoon. That was before four women
accused him of abusing them during sex romps.
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“#BREAKING: I’m leading eight AGs
against Scott Pruitt’s absurd plan to have
the @EPA limit the science it uses to make
decisions about our public health and our
environment,” Schneiderman wrote in a
tweet less than four hours before his career
ended.
Four women are accusing Schneiderman of subjecting
them to nonconsensual physical violence and threatening
to kill them if they ever broke up with him, among other
abusive behavior, The New Yorker reported on Monday.
Michelle Manning Barish was in a relationship with
Schneiderman for nearly two years before he allegedly
called her a whore during a drunken stupor, slapped her
across the face and the ear, and held her down and choked
her, she said. Three other women accused the New York
lawman of similar actions.
Schneiderman has been involved in several lawsuits
targeting ExxonMobil, Trump, as well as the president’s
climate agenda. It is not yet certain what will come of the
global warming crusader’s litany of legal pursuit.
BREAKING: Manhattan DA Opens Investigation Into Eric
Schneiderman After Multiple Women
Accuse Him Of Physical Abuse
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 12:00 Am
On Monday New Yorker Magazine
revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman was accused of
physical abuse by four women.
Things moved quickly. Schneiderman stepped down
shortly after Governor Cuomo called for his resignation.
Cuomo also called for an investigation into Schneiderman
and a few hours later the Manhattan DA announced they
opened a probe into the disgraced Attorney General.
The New York Post reported:
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office
said on Monday night that they were
.
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probing Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman after explosive assault
allegations were launched against him in
a New Yorker article.
“Our office has opened an investigation into
the recently reported allegations
concerning Mr. Schneiderman,” said a
spokesman for District Attorney Cy Vance.
Oddly enough, Schneiderman had been looking into
Vance’s office, concerning how he handled sexual assault
allegations against Harvey Weinstein in 2015.
Schneiderman immediately released a
statement on Monday evening accusing
the women of lying.
The New York Attorney General is
denying the allegations.
“In the privacy of intimate relationships I
have engaged in role-playing and other
consensual sexual activity. I have not
assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in
non-consensual sex, which is a line I would
not cross.,” Schneiderman said in a
statement.
This was a huge blow to Mueller’s team
being the special counsel brought on
Schneiderman last summer as a hired
gun to take down Trump and Manafort.
 Media Reactions To Trump’s Imminent
Announcement On The Iranian Nuclear Deal
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:08 AM 05/08/2018

President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether “the Iran deal, which halted the country’s
or not to back out of former President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for
Iranian nuclear agreement in what could be the most the lifting of economic sanctions, is working
important decision of his presidency. perfectly well. It should not be breached.”

The media is generally urging Trump to stay in the deal, CNN’s Jim Sciutto pointed out that most U.S. allies
however there are some mixed opinions. oppose leaving the deal:

CNN’s Chris Cuomo said Tuesday

morning, that Trump leaving the deal would
amount to “ignoring pleas from U.S. allies.”

WATCH:

Iranian leadership has reportedly said that even if the

United States leaves the deal, they may stay in the deal as
long as sanctions do not resume.

Leaving the Iran deal could also lead to an increase in oil

Ryan Cooper, a writer at The Week, defended the deal, prices.
saying,
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 Republicans have been pushing to leave the deal, but some
in the party are urging restraint. Sen. Rand Paul said last
year,

“I think while the agreement’s not perfect,

Most Democrats are against leaving the deal. Democratic my main concern has always been
Senator Jeff Merkley tweeted Monday: compliance. But if they’re complying with it,
I think we should stay in it.”
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“You Are Hurting Your Country” President Trump Warns
John Kerry To Stay Away From Iran Negotiations
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 8:13 Am

The United States does not need John

Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy
on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He
was the one that created this MESS in the
first place!

Conservative media exploded after it

was revealed Barack Obama’s former
Secretary of State, John Kerry has
been secretly meeting with Iranian
officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear
weapons program.
On Tuesday morning President Trump doubled down and
warned John Kerry to stay away from the Iran
negotiations.

On Monday morning the President put John Kerry on

notice.

Trump tweeted:

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 ‘Morning Joe’ Tries To Flip
Schneiderman Accusation On Trump
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
9:00 AM 05/08/2018
Mika Brzezinski seemed to forget that New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman is at the center of a physical
abuse scandal involving multiple women. She and cohost
Joe Scarborough tried to turn the accusations against
Schneiderman on President Trump on “Morning Joe”
Tuesday.
WATCH:
“White House counselor Kellyanne Conway
shared her thoughts about Schneiderman
last night tweeting ‘Gotcha’ at an old tweet
in which Schneiderman wrote, ‘No one is
above the law and I’ll continue to remind
President Trump and his administration of
that fact every day,'” Brzezinski stated.
“Given that tweet, it seems that Conway
has given license to remind people that
she’s been less eager to comment on
.
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another powerful man who said on tape
that he kisses and grabs women without
consent.”
Scarborough then claimed that Democrats took the higher
ground and immediately came forward when members
from their party engaged in sexual and physical
misconduct.
MSNBC played a tape that surfaced during the 2016
presidential campaign from Access Hollywood.
Schneiderman is currently the cornerstone of a scandal in
which multiple women have accused him of physical
abuse including slapping women in the face, threatening to
kill women if they spoke up, and choking women in bed,
among other heinous actions.
The former New York Attorney General submitted his
resignation hours after an expose in The New Yorker
surfaced. In a mix of hypocritical statements and actions,
Schneiderman was at the forefront of the Harvey
Weinstein accusations, announcing a lawsuit against the
movie mogul’s company while claiming to be a #MeToo
champion.
Schneiderman has been a long-time enemy of President
Trump. He filed a lawsuit against Trump University, sued
to block Trump’s travel ban from taking affect and pledged
to defend sanctuary cities in New York.
Kellyanne Conway tweeted late Monday:
 Napolitano: AG Schneiderman Was Included
In Deep State Off-Site “Secret Society” Meetings To
Take Down Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 9:18 Am

On Monday New Yorker Magazine messages. And those text messages

revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman was accused of
physical abuse by four women.
Schneiderman is a top Trump critic and is currently
working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and
KILL the women if they broke up with him!
Schneiderman resigned on Monday
night hours after the story broke of his
abusive, racist behavior.
On Tuesday morning Judge Andrew
Napolitano revealed that AG
Schneiderman was included in the
offsite Deep State meetings to take
down President Trump.
reflect a lot of meetings outside the Justice
Department with members of the DOJ and
FBI and one state official, not federal, Eric
Schneiderman was present at a lot of those
meetings. Speculation, it was sort of their
insurance policy because Donald Trump
can pardon anyone for a federal crime but
he can’t pardon anyone for a state
prosecution. I honestly believe that the
attorney general, he’s still attorney general
until the end of the day, Schneiderman was
contemplating indicting either the people
around the president or the president
depending on the outcome of the Mueller
investigation for violation of New York State
financial laws.
Via Varney and Co.:

In January Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said after reviewing

the new text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok
he believed there may have been a “secret society” of folks
within the DOJ and FBI working against Trump.

The New York Attorney General was part of these Secret

Society meetings to take down President Trump.

Judge Napolitano:

One of the things that I read for this show…

The Peter Strzok, Lisa Page text
.

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 The Media Get Trumped:
President’s Polls Improve Despite
90% Negative Coverage
By Rich Noyes
May 8, 2018 9:18 AM EDT
The liberal media’s war against President Trump was as
fierce as ever during the first four months of 2018, but the
onslaught appears to be for naught: In the face of massive
and hostile coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump’s
overall job approval rating actually rose, from 37
percent in mid-December to roughly 43 percent at the end
of April.
The Media Research Center studied all broadcast evening
news coverage of the President from January 1 through
April 30, and found 90 percent of the evaluative comments
about Trump were negative — precisely the same hostile
tone we documented in 2017.
But unlike last year, when the RealClearPolitics average
depicted a slow but steady erosion in the President’s job
approval numbers, the public has apparently warmed to
Trump in 2018, even as the networks are as frosty as ever.
For this report, MRC analysts examined all 1,065 network
evening news stories about President Trump and top
members of his administration during the first four months
of this year. The coverage totalled a whopping 1,774
minutes, or roughly one-third of all evening news airtime.
(For comparison, in 2015 and 2016, coverage of President
Obama amounted to just ten percent of all evening news
airtime.)
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Nearly two-fifths (39%) of the TV coverage we examined
focused on Trump scandals and controversies, while 45
percent was devoted to various policy issues. The
remaining airtime was spent on controversies involving
other top Trump officials, such as EPA Administrator
Scott Pruitt, or did not involve specific topics.
The Russia “collusion” story was given by far the most
airtime — 321 minutes, or nearly one-fifth of all Trump
administration coverage. The legal battle involving porn
star Stormy Daniels, as well as allegations against the
President involving other women, ate up another 92
minutes of airtime.
Network coverage of those topics, plus a host of other
smaller controversies involving the President, was almost
entirely negative: of the 598 statements we tallied about
Trump’s personal controversies or scandals, virtually all of
them (579, or 97%) were negative.
(As always, our analysis of “spin” tracks only explicitly
positive and negative statements from reporters and non-
partisan sources; it excludes neutral statements as well as
statements from partisans such as Trump praising himself
or Democrats criticizing him.)
When it came to policy matters, the President fared
somewhat better — but only in contrast. Of the 542
opinionated statements involving a policy matter, 440
(81%) were negative, compared with 102 (19%) which
were positive.
The policy stories earning the most TV airtime in 2018
were immigration (167 minutes), the economy (117
minutes), North Korea (111 minutes), Syria (89 minutes)
and gun rights (57 minutes). The networks’ spin on
immigration, Syria and gun rights was extremely negative
(between 88% and 96% negative). And, despite the
potential of a breakthrough with North Korea, the coverage
of that topic was tilted two-to-one against the President
(68% negative vs. 32% positive).
The President’s handling of the economy was a mixed bag.
A majority of the networks’ airtime (66 minutes) was
devoted to Trump’s decision to impose tariffs and threaten
a wider trade war with nations such as China, an aspect of
economic policy which drew mostly criticism (90%
negative spin).
But the remaining airtime (51 minutes) consisted of mostly
positive coverage (73% positive) for the rest of Trump’s
economic agenda: job growth, tax reform, deregulation,
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and plans for more infrastructure spending. Yet this
coverage has amounted to less than three percent of TV’s
total coverage of the President this year.
The positive economic story is probably one reason why
the public has rewarded Trump with higher approval
ratings, despite the bad press. Another is that the public’s
trust in the media has been eroding for years, which means
that journalists are less credible critics than they might
have been years ago.
There’s no precedent for a President receiving such a
sustained level of negative press over such a long period of
time. The fact that the public has become more favorable
towards the President in this environment is the latest sign
that the media watchdog’s bite isn’t as menacing as their
bark suggests.
 Cuomo: Trump Voters Were
Just ‘Looking For Someone To Help’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
9:31 AM 05/08/2018

CNN’s Chris Cuomo gave an awkward explanation valuing how he treats other people, they
Tuesday morning of why people voted for Donald Trump might have different feelings about it.”
in the 2016 election.
“We’re putting him into the swamp. Who
are we going to put in the swamp? The
WATCH: cleanest person, the person who we
revere? No, not the right agent for our
cause,” he stated. “You need to understand
your interconnections and where your
fellow Americans are. You can’t just write
off everything that you don’t like on Twitter
as being a bot.”

Cuomo explained that a

“lot of these people are just dealing with

real hard needs in their lives that are not
unlike from anybody else’s, and they’re
looking for someone to help.”
“If Donald Trump were running for pastor, it
“That’s how they arrived at Donald Trump,”
doesn’t happy that way, but … if he were
he continued. “You may not like it, but
running for a position where they were
that’s the truth.”
valuing the morality, valuing the decency,
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 Rosie O’Donnell Could Be Facing Time Behind Bars For
Allegedly Making Illegal Campaign Donations
Stephanie Hamill
10:01 AM 05/08/2018

Trump-hating Rosie O’Donnell could be facing time what she was doing in her self-proclaimed bid to
behind bars for allegedly making illegal campaign undermine President Donald J. Trump. Right now we are
donations. hearing crickets from left on Rosie’s alleged law-breaking.

According to the New York Post, Rosie made five illegal
contributions to five different Democratic political
candidates, and now she’s playing dumb, saying she was
unaware of campaign finance laws.
That’s cute, but ignorance of the law is no excuse. Just ask
conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza. He was indicted and
charged for campaign finance violations. He spent eight
months in a community confinement center and had to pay
huge fines for far less.
The ones who dragged D’Souza’s name through the mud
apparently have nothing to say about all this. From what
we know, O’Donnell committed not one, not two, but five
campaign finance violations. The American people are
watching this case closely. Many Americans want to know
if equal justice under the law still exists.
WATCH:

O’Donnell gave almost $6,000 in contributions over the

limit to her favorite candidates. Rosie claims her excessive
donations made through an online platform were
accidental, But if this were true, why did she feel the need
to use several different addresses with variations of her
name?

Does that sound like an honest mistake to you?

While I totally disagree with her politics, values and

demeanor, I don’t think she’s dumb. She knew exactly
.

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 Scarborough Says Giuliani ‘Drinking Too Much,’ Hiring
Him Like ‘Throwing Poo Against The Wall’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:06 AM 05/08/2018

Joe Scarborough continued his personal attack on Rudy

Giuliani during MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday, These bizarre comments come just one day after
accusing him of “drinking too much” while comparing his Scarborough’s co-host Mika Brzezinski referred to
hiring to a “monkey throwing poo against the wall.” Giuliani as a “train wreck” and just four days after
Scarborough called him “Trump’s Chump” in a
Washington Post Op-Ed.
“Donald Trump said during the transition
that Rudy Giuliani was losing it, that he was
a couple of steps behind, that he was WATCH:
falling asleep five minutes into meetings,”
Scarborough said. “Everybody around
Donald Trump said [Giuliani] was drinking
too much. Donald Trump suggested as
much. That was two years ago.”
“And the fact that Donald Trump brought
this guy in two years later despite his own
reservations about him, almost two years
ago, that’s not any, it’s not 3-D chess.
That’s not even checkers,” he continued.
“That’s a monkey throwing poo against the
wall and it doesn’t usually turn out well.”
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 Report: NY AG Schneiderman
Belittled Gun Control Protesters
Kerry Picket - Reporter
10:11 PM 05/07/2018

A protestor holds a sign during a "March For Our Lives"

demonstration demanding gun control in Sacramento, California,
U.S. March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Bob Strong | Dems Dont Want To
Rile Up Gun Owners

One of the four women accusing New York Attorney

General Eric Schneiderman of physically assault said he
belittled gun control activists.

Despite Schneiderman’s liberal position on guns, one of

his accusers, ex-girlfriend Manning Barrish, told The New
Yorker that when she wanted to participate in a gun
control rally with several political activists and Sandy
Hook Elementary School parents, he scoffed at the idea,
calling the protesters “losers.”

“Go ahead, if it makes you feel better to do

your little political things.”

Barrish also said he insulted her when she worked on her

computer saying,

“Oh, look at little Mimi. So cute—

she’s working!” He told Manning Barish that
because she had childcare, she wasn’t “a
real single mother.”

Schneiderman’s marginalization of gun control activists is

contrary to a recent tweet he put out on March 14 which
included a jab at the National Rifle Association, saying
that the anti-gun March for Our Lives Protests could not be
easily ignored. Schneiderman resigned hours after the explosive
allegations surfaced Monday night in The New Yorker.
Schneiderman also published a video on March 14 of him
sitting down with students from Manhattan’s Bard High
School Early College as they all discuss gun control.

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 Judge Andrew Napolitano Predicts Paul Manafort
Will Not Turn On Trump Despite Mueller’s Bribe
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:18 AM 05/08/2018

WATCH:

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano

doesn’t think former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort will turn on President Donald Trump, despite
special counsel Bob Mueller’s efforts to bribe him.

“The government for years has been
prosecuting people just to squeeze them,
to get information out of them, to testify
against somebody who’s a bigger target,”
Napolitano said on “Fox & Friends”
Tuesday. “As reprehensible as this is,
because it’s a form of bribery, say what we
want to hear and we’ll go easy on you, it’s
a form of as I said bribery. But the courts
have accepted that and there’s no question
that’s why they’re after Paul Manafort.”
.
The government will continue to put as much pressure as
they can on Manafort but in the end, he will continue to
hold strong, Napolitano said.
“They seem to think if they can put as
much pressure on him as possible, he’ll tell
them something that they want to know
against their real target, the president of
the United States,” he added. “I honestly
don’t think Manafort will [fold].”

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 FLASHBACK… Abusive Pervert Eric Schneiderman:
Network Of Progressive AG’s Around Country
Are Core Of The Resistance
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 10:20 Am

exclusive offsite “Secret Society”

meetings to take down President Trump.
Now this…
In an interview six months ago with
“comedian” Samantha Bee Eric
Schneiderman admitted there is a
network of progressive attorneys gener

On Monday New Yorker Magazine

revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman was accused of
physical abuse by four women.
Schneiderman is a top Trump critic and is
currently working with Mueller on Paul
Manafort’s case.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk,
wiretap phones and KILL the women if they
broke up with him!
Schneiderman resigned on Monday
night hours after the story broke of his
abusive, racist behavior.
On Tuesday morning Judge Andrew
Napolitano revealed that AG
Schneiderman was included in the
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 REPORT: Pompeo Told Europeans
Trump Will Withdraw From Iran Deal Over
‘Sunset Clauses’
Will Racke - Immigration And Foreign Policy Reporter
10:45 AM 05/08/2018
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L) and U.S. Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo pose for photographs ahead of meetings at the
U.S. State Department's Harry S. Truman headquarters building
May 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Johnson is in the United States in
part to argue for the Trump Administration to continue to be a party
to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. "The wisest course would be to
improve the handcuffs rather than break them", Johnson wrote in an
editorial in the New York Times. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Images)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his European
counterparts on Friday that President Donald Trump has
rejected a potential revision to the Iran nuclear deal
because it doesn’t address the agreement’s sunset clauses,
according to a new report.
On a conference call with foreign ministers from Britain,
France and Germany, Pompeo said Trump wants to go in a
different direction than a draft understanding reached
between American negotiators and their colleagues from
those countries, reports Axios, citing multiple sources who
were briefed on the call.
As Trump administration officials have previously said,
the main sticking point in the negotiations is over the
deal’s sunset clause — a provision that eases limits on
Iran’s nuclear activities after 10 years. Because the draft
understanding does not extend the sunset dates, Trump
said it would not change his thinking about pulling out of
the Iran deal, Pompeo reportedly told the foreign ministers.
Trump is expected to publicly announce his decision on
the Iran deal on Tuesday afternoon, four days ahead of a
.
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May 12 deadline over whether to extend sanctions waivers
or resume penalties on Tehran. The president has long
characterized the 2015 accord — negotiated by the Obama
administration, Iran and five other world powers — as one
of the worst deals ever made. Top administration officials
have hinted in recent weeks that he will decide to re-
impose some sanctions lifted by the agreement, though it
remains unclear what specific penalties the White House
will resume.
Over the past two weeks, delegations from the E3
countries — Britain, France and Germany — have traveled
to Washington, in part to urge the Trump administration to
either stay in the Iran deal or give negotiators more time to
work on a draft with stronger provisions. European leaders
have said they will try to preserve the agreement with
Tehran even if Washington walks away.
Even if Trump decides to resume sanctions, the
administration will continue working closely with
European partners to firm up the deal’s restrictions on Iran,
Pompeo said last week.
“We share the same end goal to keep the
Iranians from ever having a nuclear
weapon,” he told reporters during a return
flight to Washington. “I am confident that
we will continue to have good relations with
our European partners should the
President choose to pull out of this. This
will be one issue among many of the
important, critical issues that we all work on
together.”
For its part, Tehran has rejected the possibility of
negotiating a new deal, and hardliners in the Islamic
regime say a U.S. withdrawal will relieve Iran of its
responsibilities under the current agreement.
 SHOWDOWN: Mueller Rejects Trump’s Request To
Answer Questions In Writing
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 10:56 Am
Dirty cop Robert Mueller has over 45 questions for
President Trump that have nothing to do with Russian
collusion.
Mueller wants to interview Trump as a way to get him into
a perjury trap.
The Special Counsel has even threatened to issue a
presidential subpoena.
One strategy the president and his team have is to answer
some of Mueller’s questions in a written statement rather
than Trump sitting down for an interview.
Rudy Giuliani revealed Mueller has rejected Trump’s
request to respond in writing.
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CBS reported:
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
who is now on President Trump’s legal
team, told CBS News correspondent Paula
Reid Monday that special counsel Robert
Mueller’s office has rejected proposals to
allow Mr. Trump to answer questions from
investigators in writing.
The president’s legal team has signaled
that this would be their preferred format for
a possible interview, since it helps protect
Mr. Trump from the possibility of lying or
misleading investigators, which is a
criminal offense.
Giuliani told CBS News it will take up to
three weeks for him to get fully up to speed
on the facts of the investigation and be
prepared to engage in formal negotiations
with the special counsel about the terms of
a possible interview with Mr. Trump.
This witch hunt needs to be shut down immediately.
There is no reason why President Trump needs to answer
to Mueller, an inferior executive to the president of the
United States about why he fired Comey.
 Majority Of Americans Believe Mueller’s Russia
Investigation Is Politically Motivated
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 8, 2018, 11:03 Am
A majority of Americans believe that special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in
the 2016 election is politically motivated, according to a
new poll from CBS News.
According to the survey, 53 percent of Americans believe
that the probe is politically motivated, while 44 percent
believe that the investigation is justified.
.
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Despite many believing that this is a political witch hunt,
76 percent believe that President Donald Trump should
cooperate with the investigation.
“That is a drop, however, from January,
when 84 percent of respondents said
Trump should cooperate with the
special counsel,” The Hill reports.
The drop in belief that Trump should cooperate was most
prominent with Republicans. While 73 percent believed
that the president should go along with the probe in
January, only 53 percent believe so now.
Mueller’s team has reportedly rejected an option to have
President Trump answer questions in written form, which
some in DC have speculated may be because he wants an
in person interview to set a perjury trap.
The telephone poll of 1,101 adults was conducted between
May 3-6, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
 Former Obama Official Says Iran
‘Has Shown More Credibility’ Than The White House
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
11:07 AM 05/08/2018
Thomas Countryman, a former Obama official who
worked on the Iran nuclear deal, stated that Iran has
“shown more credibility and more consistency with
international law” than the current administration Tuesday
on CNN.
“The Trump administration thinks it can
renegotiate the deal with Iran. Any chance
that can happen?” asked host Poppy
Harlow.
“The Trump administration has laid out no
plan for how credible negotiations could
take place with Iran. What they are doing,
whatever the president decides today,
would be the first of seven states that
signed the agreement to be in violation of
the agreement. It’s incredible that Iran has
shown more credibility and more
.
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consistency with international law than the
White House is showing,” said
Countryman.
“And it will have several very negative
follow-on effects. First, an unnecessary
fight with our best allies in Europe.
Secondly, the loss of visibility of inspection
capability for the international community in
Iran. Third, the possibility that Iran goes
back to exactly the behavior that we
stopped in its tracks four years ago,”
Countryman continued. “And finally, the
White House will create a crisis, not one
that you’ll see tomorrow but a slow motion
crisis that significantly increases the risk of
the U.S. making another disastrous military
intervention in the Middle East.”
“So it’s a very bad idea, and the Trump
administration has not laid out any credible
plan B to get to a renegotiation of the terms
it doesn’t like,” Countryman stated.
Iran has been accused of violating the spirit of JCPOA
(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) by conducting its
own ballistic missile tests. In a recent presentation, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed
information obtained by Israeli intelligence alleging that
Iran has been working on a nuclear program of their own.
 Don Jr SMOKES Schneiderman After His Old Tweet
Taunting President Trump Comes Back To Haunt Him
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 11:18 Am

Social media ignited Monday evening

after New Yorker Magazine revealed
New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman was accused of physical
abuse by four women.
Donald Trump Jr. found an old tweet
from Schneiderman taunting Trump
about the Russia collusion witch hunt
and broke the internet with his
response. These criminals make it too easy for us.
This is too fun. Donald Trump Jr. smoked the disgraced pervert and
former New York Attorney General late Monday night
after he resigned in a viral smackdown.
Don Jr. responds to Schneiderman’s
arrogant tweet, “You were saying???”

In contrast, President Trump’s 2013 tweet about

Eric Schneiderman, Mueller’s hired gun to take down
President Trump, may want to delete his Twitter account.
An old tweet from him taunting President Trump came
back to haunt him.
Schneiderman was brought on by Mueller in the summer
of 2017 to take down Trump. He even taunted the
president about the witch hunt from his Twitter account.
In October of 2017, Schneiderman taunted Trump and
tweeted,
“No one is above the law, and I’ll continue
to remind President Trump and his
administration of that fact everyday.”
.
Schneiderman predicted his downfall.
On Monday New Yorker Magazine
revealed New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman was accused of
physical abuse by four women.
Things moved quickly. Schneiderman stepped down
shortly after Governor Cuomo called for his resignation.
Cuomo also called for an investigation into Schneiderman
and a few hours later the Manhattan DA announced they
opened a probe into the disgraced Attorney General.
Many sources are saying this New Yorker article on
Schneiderman was just the tip of the iceberg; many more
stories will be coming out soon.
Stay tuned.

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 CNN’s April Ryan Bashes Melania:
She Isn’t ‘Culturally American’
John Wellington
11:36 AM 05/08/2018

CNN contributor April Ryan said Melania Trump is not

“culturally American” following the first lady’s
presentation of her “Be Best” initiative on Monday.

WATCH:

“She’s well aware of his cyberbullying,”

According to CNN host Erin Burnett, Melania faces a
“painful reality” in tackling the issue of cyberbullying
while her husband has a reputation for heckling people on
Twitter. Ryan concurred that this would be an issue for the
first lady.
said Ryan. “He’s considered by some, well
many I would say in different sectors, one
of the biggest bullies. He will call you out in
a moment’s notice and she stood in front of
him and basically said she wants to show
young people how it’s done and do it right
and they will pick up those habits.”

Ryan continued by claiming the first lady will face further

issues with her initiative because she is not “culturally
American” despite the fact that she has been a citizen for
over a decade.

“This is a first lady who is not culturally

American, but she is learning the ways,”
Ryan continued. “This is not just an
American issue. These are not just
American issues. These are international
issues. Cyberbullying is an international
issue. Social media is international and
also the opioid addiction issue, so it’s not
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 07: U.S. President Donald Trump holds
just here.”
up a proclamation for “National Be Best Day” afer U.S. first lady
Melania Trump spoke in the Rose Garden of the White House May 7,
2018 in Washington, DC. Melania Trump outlined her new
initiatives, known as the Be Best program, during the event. (Photo
by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
.

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 Judge Napolitano: Democrat Eric Schneiderman
Faces “A LOT OF JAIL TIME” For Beating,
Slapping, Choking Women
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 12:09 Pm

Trump was right!

It looks like Eric Schneiderman may

On Monday New Yorker Magazine
revealed New York Attorney General likely see a lot of jail time for his
Eric Schneiderman was accused of physical and mental abuse of several
physical abuse by four women. women.

Schneiderman is a top Trump critic and is currently
working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and
KILL the women if they broke up with him!
Judge Andrew Napolitano told FOX Business Network
host Neil Cavuto on Tuesday that Schneiderman is looking
at “a lot of jail time.”

Schneiderman resigned on Monday

night hours after the story broke of his
abusive, racist behavior.

In 2013 businessman Donald Trump accused

Schneiderman of being in the same league as Anthony
Weiner and Eliott Spitzer.

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 “UNMASKING ROBERT MUELLER”
GOP Lawmaker Releases 48 Page Report
Exposing Mueller’s Dirty Past
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 12:58 Pm
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently
published a 48-page report called
“Robert Mueller Unmasked” to expose
the Special Counsel’s decades of
corruption.
Rep. Gohmert lays out the case for Mueller’s firing by
exposing his corrupt past of targeting innocent people.
“Robert Mueller has a long and sordid
history of illicitly targeting innocent people
that is a stain upon the legacy of American
jurisprudence. He lacks the judgment and
credibility to lead the prosecution of
anyone,” Gohmert begins.
Gohmert covers Mueller’s shady past of
helping mobster Whitey Bulger by
eliminating mob competitors. Mueller
put people in prison for crimes they did
not commit:
Mueller was the head of the Criminal
Division as Assistant U.S. Attorney, then as
Acting U.S. Attorney. I could not find any
explanation online by Mueller as to why he
insisted on keeping the defendants in
prison that FBI agents—in the pocket of
Whitey Bulger— had framed for a murder
they did not commit. Make no mistake:
these were not honorable people he had
incarcerated. But it was part of a pattern
that eventually became quite clear that
Mueller was more concerned with
convicting and putting people
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in jail he disliked, even if they were
innocent of the charges, than he was with
ferreting out the truth.
Rep Gohmert goes into detail about
Mueller’s questionable decisions while
he was the Director of the FBI including
raids of Congressmen.
Mueller also has a pattern of abusing
‘national security letters’ which allows
the DOJ to bypass the formality of
subpoenas:
National Security Letters (NSL) are a tool
that allows the DOJ to bypass the formality
of subpoenas, applications for warrants
with affidavits in support, and instead
simply send a letter to an individual,
business or any entity they so choose to
demand that records or documents of any
kind must be produced and provided to the
sender. The letter also informs the recipient
that if the recipient reveals to anyone that
the letter was received or what it requires
to be produced, then the recipient has
committed a federal felony and will be
prosecuted. It is a rather dramatic event to
receive such a letter and realize
that this simple letter could have such
profound power and consequences.
Comey and Mueller badly botched the anthrax case back in
2001 once again trying to frame an innocent man.
Five people died and over a dozen were infected because
of Comey and Mueller’s incompetence.
Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller also bowed to Islamic
groups with ties to terrorism and scrubbed FBI training
manuals with anything to do with ‘Islamic terrorism.’
Suddenly, Islamic terrorists who had been on the FBI radar
previously for years were still able to carry out terrorist
attacks on American soil.
Mueller’s corruption goes on and on for years and here we
are now in present day where he has hired a team of
Democrat hacks to investigate another innocent man.

Read Gohmert’s full report on dirty cop Robert Mueller in

Book #32 in this series.

Rep. Louie Gohmert spoke with OANN

about his Mueller report:

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 Nets Hype Europeans ‘Desperately’
Trying To Stop Trump From Ditching Iran Deal
May 8, 2018 1:10 PM EDT
Ahead of President Trump’s decision on whether the U.S.
would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, on Tuesday,
all three network morning shows hyped how “European
allies have desperately tried” to lobby in favor of the
Obama-era agreement. Hosts and correspondents also
warned of dire consequences if America left the deal,
predicting everything from higher gas prices to Iran getting
a nuclear weapon.
“Decision day. President Trump
expected to announce today he is
withdrawing the U.S. from the
controversial Iran nuclear deal, a move
that could anger key allies and impact
how much you pay for gas,” co-host
Hoda Kotb fearfully proclaimed at the top of
NBC’s Today show. During a later report,
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Andrea Mitchell bemoaned that the
President was “Ignoring a parade of
foreign leaders pleading to save the
deal, Macron of France, Merkel of
Germany, and a last-minute appeal from
Britain’s top diplomat, Boris Johnson.”
Moments later, she highlighted their
predictions:
“The Europeans say if President Trump
slaps Iran with sanctions today, it will
start a chain reaction. Foreign
companies will back out of deals with
Iran, a major oil producer, oil prices will
surge, and Iran could restart its nuclear
program.”
By Kyle Drennen
Mitchell lamented that “the President and his new National
Security Adviser John Bolton seem more in sync with
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu” in their opposition to the
deal.
Just one week earlier, Mitchell dismissed Netanyahu’s
recent presentation revealing Israeli intelligence that Iran
was deceitful about the status of its nuclear weapons
program at the time the deal was negotiated in 2015.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, Senior White House
Correspondent Cecilia Vega declared:
“European allies have lobbied him hard,
fearful that if the U.S. pulls out it might
give Iran the incentive to leave this deal,
too, and essentially rebuild its nuclear
program.”
After reminding viewers of French President Emmanuel
Macron’s recent state visit, she added:
“The Brits made a last-ditch effort recently,
even sending someone on to Fox News to
make the case in hopes that President
Trump might hear them.”
Wrapping up the report, Vega worried that U.S.
withdrawal would upset Iran:
“Now, the President this morning appears
all but ready to pull out of this deal. And,
Robin, Iran has threatened grave
consequences for anyone who, quote,
‘betrays the deal.’”
doomsday “European allies have desperately tried
to change President Trump’s mind, but
they don’t believe it worked. One
diplomat tells CBS News the chance of this
agreement staying intact is, quote, ‘very
small,” correspondent Weijia Jiang
disappointedly told viewers on CBS This
Morning.
She later noted:
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 “European leaders have lobbied the
President in person to uphold the
accord. British Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson visited Washington on Monday,
even appearing to reach out to the
President on Fox & Friends.”
A soundbite followed of Johnson pleading with the
President:
“But you can’t do that without just throwing
the baby out with the bath water, without
scrapping the whole thing.”
Meanwhile, only NBC’s Today show made any mention of
Trump accusing former Secretary of State John Kerry
engaging in “possibly illegal” “shadow diplomacy” by
meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad
Zarif to discuss the nuclear agreement. An action that
could be interpreted as a violation of the Logan Act.
Mitchell provided just seconds to the controversy:
Now Mr. Trump slamming former Secretary
of State John Kerry for meeting with Iran’s
Foreign Minister Zarif recently, lobbying to
save the deal they negotiated in 2015. And
responding to reports of that meeting
between Kerry and Zarif, the President
tweeted yesterday, “The United States
does not need John Kerry’s possibly illegal
shadow diplomacy. He was the one that
created this mess in the first place!” A
spokesman for Kerry says, “Every
American would want every voice possible
urging Iran to remain in compliance with a
nuclear agreement that prevented a war.”
Notice that she avoided actually discussing the Logan Act
itself, despite the network previously hyping similar
allegations against former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn. On Monday, the NBC and ABC evening
newscasts skipped the topic completely, with only CBS
Evening News citing Trump’s tweet about Kerry, without
providing context.
If the President does announce his intention to withdraw
from the Iran deal on Tuesday, viewers can expect even
more hyperventilating from the liberal media.
Here is a full transcript of Mitchell’s May 8 report on
NBC’s Today show:
7:08 AM ET
HODA KOTB: Meantime, it is decision day at the White House,
will President Trump follow through on his threat to pull the U.S.
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out of the landmark Iran nuclear deal. He’ll make that
announcement later this afternoon and the world will be
watching. We have complete coverage, starting with NBC’s Chief
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Hey, Andrea,
good morning.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Good morning, Hoda. It’s been President
Trump’s number one foreign policy priority, to rip up the Iran deal
on day one. Today, on his 474th day in office, he’s expected to
reimpose sanctions on Iran, doing just that.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump to Reveal Iran Deal Decision;
World Waits on Key Announcement]
The President calls it “catastrophic,” “insane,” the worst deal ever
made. Because it expires in 2025 and does not ban Iran’s
missiles or support for terrorism.
DONALD TRUMP: It’s a bad deal.
MITCHELL: Ignoring a parade of foreign leaders pleading to save
the deal, Macron of France, Merkel of Germany, and a last-
minute appeal from Britain’s top diplomat, Boris Johnson.
Arguing the deal, negotiated under President Obama, got rid of
95% of Iran’s nuclear weapons fuel, permits U.N. inspections,
more than 400 so far. In return, Iran got relief from sanctions. The
Europeans say if President Trump slaps Iran with sanctions
today, it will start a chain reaction. Foreign companies will back
out of deals with Iran, a major oil producer, oil prices will surge,
and Iran could restart its nuclear program.
But the President and his new National Security Adviser John
Bolton seem more in sync with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Iran lied.
MITCHELL: Who a week ago unveiled hundreds of thousands of
files documenting Iran’s former nuclear research, known to the
west since 2007, but Israel argues, stunning proof of Iran’s past
deceit.
Now Mr. Trump slamming former Secretary of State John Kerry
for meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif recently, lobbying to
save the deal they negotiated in 2015. And responding to reports
of that meeting between Kerry and Zarif, the President tweeted
yesterday, “The United States does not need John Kerry’s
possibly illegal shadow diplomacy. He was the one that created
this mess in the first place!” A spokesman for Kerry says, “Every
American would want every voice possible urging Iran to remain
in compliance with a nuclear agreement that prevented a war.”
The President is scheduled to announce that decision later this
afternoon at the White House. Hoda and Savannah?
KOTB: Alright, Andrea Mitchell. Andrea, thank you.
 BREAKING: Trump Nukes Iran Deal — “This Was A
Horrible One-Sided Deal” **LIVE FEED**
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 1:24 Pm

BREAKING NEWS— PRESIDENT

TRUMP ANNOUNCES THE US HAS
EXITED THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

President Trump has decided to exit Obama’s and Kerry’s

disastrous Iran nuclear weapons deal.

President Trump made his decision to pull out of the Iran

deal a few days before the May 12th deadline.
Take that, John Kerry!
Obama’s legacy is unraveling one day at a time.
“I am announcing today the United
States will withdraw from the Iran
nuclear deal,” Trump said from the
White House on Tuesday afternoon.
Fox News reported that Trump’s announcement will start a
90-day countdown to the restoration of sanctions.
Earlier Tuesday Trump blasted former Secretary of State
John Kerry by warning him to stop meddling in the
negotiations with Iran.
The Boston Globe revealed last week John Kerry has been
secretly engaging in unusual and most likely illegal
shadow diplomacy with Iranian leaders in an effort to
salvage the nuclear deal he helped craft.
Another fail for Obama and Kerry.
Watch live feed of Trump’s remarks on Iran nuclear deal:

Once sanctions are re-imposed, the U.S. effectively would

be out of the deal.

The Atlantic has the full text of

President Trump’s speech on the
Iranian nuclear deal.

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 Read Trump's Speech
Withdrawing From The Iran Deal
On Tuesday, The President Said That The U.S. Will Pull Out
Of The Agreement And Reinstate Sanctions On Iran.
Lena Felton
2:40 PM ET
Evan Vucci / AP
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the
U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and
reinstate sanctions on the country. The agreement—which
was reached by the United States, the United Kingdom,
France, Russia, China, and Germany, along with the
European Union, in July 2015—lifted sanctions on Iran in
return for the country halting its nuclear program. Trump
has long been vocal in his opposition to the deal, calling it
a “horrible agreement,” an “embarrassment,” and, a day
before his announcement, “very badly negotiated.”
Trump’s decision to reinstate sanctions on Iran puts the
U.S. at odds with its allies, who have indicated that they
plan to stay in the deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently said that if the
U.S. exits the deal, “it will quickly see that this decision
will be a regret of historic proportions.” However, the
debate as to the best course of action is a heated one:
Some argue that the deal isn’t effective, while others say
that withdrawing risks provoking an unnecessary crisis.
Here, a full transcript of Trump’s remarks.
My fellow Americans, today I want to update the world on our
efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The
Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror. It exports
dangerous missiles, fuels conflicts across the Middle East, and
supports terrorist proxies and militias such as Hezbollah, Hamas,
the Taliban, and al-Qaeda.
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Over the years, Iran and its proxies have bombed American
embassies and military installations, murdered hundreds of
American servicemembers, and kidnapped, imprisoned, and
tortured American citizens. The Iranian regime has funded its
long reign of chaos and terror by plundering the wealth of its own
people. No action taken by the regime has been more dangerous
than its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering
them.
In 2015, the previous administration joined with other nations in a
deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program. This agreement was
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. In
theory, the so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the
United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear
bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the
Iranian regime.
In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and,
over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout. The deal lifted
crippling economic sanctions on our end in exchange for very
weak limits on the regime’s nuclear activity and no limits at all on
its other maligned behavior, including sinister activities in Syria,
Yemen, and other places all around the world. In other words, at
the point when the United States had maximum leverage, this
disastrous deal gave this regime—and it’s a regime of great
terror—many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash. A great
embarrassment to me as a citizen and to all citizens of the United
States.
A constructive deal could easily have been struck at the time, but
it wasn’t. At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a
murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear-energy
program. Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian
promise was a lie. Last week, Israel published intelligence
documents, long-concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the
Iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons.
The fact is, this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have
never, ever been made. It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace,
and it never will. In the years since the deal was reached, Iran’s
military budget has grown by almost 40 percent, while its
economy is doing very badly. After the sanctions were lifted, the
dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear-capable missiles,
support terrorism, and cause havoc throughout the Middle East
and beyond.
The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully
complies, the regime could still be on the verge of a nuclear
breakout in just a short period of time. The deal’s sunset
provisions are totally unacceptable. If I allowed this deal to stand,
there would soon be a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East.
Everyone would want their weapons ready by the time Iran had
theirs.
Making matters worse, the deal’s inspection provisions lack
adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating—
and don’t even have the unqualified right to inspect many
important locations, including military facilities. Not only does the
deal fail to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it also fails to
address the regime’s development of ballistic missiles that could
deliver nuclear warheads.
Finally, the deal does nothing to constrain Iran’s destabilizing
activities, including its support for terrorism. Since the agreement,
Iran’s bloody ambitions have grown only more brazen. In light of
these glaring flaws, I announced last October that the Iran deal
must be either renegotiated or terminated. Three months later, on
January 12, I repeated these conditions. I made clear that if the
deal could not be fixed, the United States would no longer be a
party to the agreement.
Over the past few months, we have engaged extensively with our
allies and partners around the world, including France, Germany,
and the United Kingdom. We have also consulted with our friends
from across the Middle East. We are unified in our understanding
of the threat and in our conviction that Iran must never acquire a
nuclear weapon.
After these consultations, it is clear to me that we cannot prevent
an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure
of the current agreement. The Iranian deal is defective at its core.
If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a
short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror
will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous
weapon. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States
will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to
begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime.
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We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. Any
nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also
be strongly sanctioned by the United States. America will not be
held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American
cities to be threatened with destruction and we will not allow a
regime the chance death to America to gain access to the most
deadly weapons on Earth. Today’s action sends a critical
message. The United States no longer makes empty threats.
When I make promises, I keep them. In fact, at this very moment,
Secretary Pompeo is on his way to North Korea in preparation for
my upcoming meeting with Kim Jong-Un. Plans are being made,
relationships are building, hopefully a deal will happen, and with
the help of China, South Korea, and Japan, a future of great
prosperity and security can be achieved for everyone.
As we exit the Iran deal, we will be working with our allies to find
a real, comprehensive, and lasting solution to the Iranian nuclear
threat. This will include efforts to eliminate the threat of Iran’s
ballistic-missile program, to stop its terrorist activities worldwide,
and to block its menacing activity across the Middle East. In the
meantime, powerful sanctions will go into full effect. If the regime
continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems
than it has ever had before.
Finally, I want to deliver a message to the long-suffering people
of Iran: The people of America stand with you. It has now been
almost 40 years since this dictatorship seized power and took a
proud nation hostage. Most of Iran’s 80 million citizens have
sadly never known an Iran that prospered in peace with its
neighbors and commanded the admiration of the world. But the
future of Iran belongs to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a
rich culture and an ancient land and they deserve a nation that
does justice to their dreams, honor to their history, and glory to
their god.
Iran’s leaders will naturally say that they refuse to negotiate a
new deal. They refuse and that is fine. I probably would say the
same thing if I was in their position. But the fact is they are going
to want to make a new and lasting deal, one that benefits all of
Iran and the Iranian people. When they do, I am ready, willing,
and able. Great things can happen for Iran and great things can
happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the Middle
East. There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction.
Let it end now. Thank you. God bless you.
 Stunning! Anti-Trump Liberal Media Ignores
Schneiderman’s Party Affiliation – CNN, MSNBC Use
Scandal To Trash Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 2:13 Pm

The Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Politico, Axios

and Politico all forgot to mention Schneiderman

This is a pattern – Not an isolated

incident.
On Monday far left New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman – a
Democrat – resigned after a report in the
New Yorker alleged that the #MeToo
leader had slapped, threatened and
choked several women he dated the
past several years.
The liberal media mostly ignored the
story of shocking physical and mental James Woods put it this way.
abuse by a leader of the Democrat
#Resistance movement.

In fact, CNN and MSNBC used

Schneiderman’s story to attack
president Trump.

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 ‘Someone’s ANGRY’! Iran Deal Is Officially Dead
— And The DCCC Is FLIPPING OUT
By Sarah D.
Posted At 2:49 Pm On May 8, 2018

Well, it’s official: Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of President Obama and his minions did
the Iran Deal: that all on their own.

And the DCCC has officially lost it:

“Trump and his Republicans” didn’t need to

“sabotage President Obama’s legacy.”

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 Awkward.

And as far as making

“the world a more dangerous place” is

concerned, well, DCCC, you can thank
Obama for that, too.

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 Obama Releases Statement On Junk Iranian Deal –
Says It’s Working Despite PROOF That Iran Is Cheating
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 2:51 Pm

Former President Barack Obama released a long statement

following the announcement by President Trump that he Here is the full Obama statement from
today.
was leaving the JCPOA agreement with the Iranian
regime.

President Obama said in his statement:

“The reality is clear. The JCPOA is working

– that is the view shared by our European
allies, independent experts and the current
US Secretary of State.”

Barack Obama must have missed Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech last week offering proof
that the Iranian regime is already cheating on the deal.

Prime Minister Netanyahu laid out the

proof that Iran was cheating last week.

Obama ignored all of that in his statement today.

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 BIZARRE: 'The View' Asks
If Schneiderman Sex-Abuse Scandal's A
'Tipping Point For Trump?'
By Tim Graham
May 8, 2018 2:57 PM EDT
Tuesday’s edition of The View on ABC began with a
bizarre spin. The announcer proclaimed:
“One of the president's biggest foes, New
York attorney general Eric Schneiderman,
resigns over sexual abuse allegations.
Is this a tipping point for Trump?”
Isn’t this an embarrassment for the Democrats? How is
everything “a tipping point for Trump”?
The panelists were fairly unified in their horror at The New
Yorker revelations of Schneiderman’s allegedly violent
behavior toward girlfriends, although they were more
attentive to reading Schneiderman’s statements in self-
defense than reading clips of the article.
Sunny Hostin read his defenses and said
“I almost wonder if he realized that he was
sort of under the umbrella of the #MeToo
movement, as well, you know, he’s this
huge proponent of it, yet he is abusing
women....I was kind of shocked at the
coercive nature of what he did to these
women.”
Despite an interview later in the show discussing racial
matters with actress Gabrielle Union -- who lamented
explaining to her black children
"your skin has been demonized,
criminalized, marginalized just on the
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basis of the amount of melanin that you
were born with"
-- they didn't discuss the racial allegations of
Schneiderman girlfriend Tanya Selvaratnam:
“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him
Master, and he’d slap me until I did.”
Selvaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka,
has dark skin, and she recalls that “he
started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and
demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his
property.’”
The Trump part of this conversation was naturally sparked
by Joy Behar, who brought up Schneiderman’s recent
attempts to give state and local prosecutors in New York
the ability to charge people pardoned by President Trump.
Who’s against double jeopardy?
JOY BEHAR: Isn't he in the position to basically be a
bulwark against any pardons that Trump would have made
in New York state? So that if he were to pardon Michael
Cohen or Jared Kushner, for example, they could be then
be retrialed [sic] as soon as they got rid of a particular
loophole in New York state so that the pardon wouldn not
go through. Now what’s going to happen with that?
SUNNY HOSTIN: It depends on who replaces him.
For now, state solicitor general Barbara Underwood will
temporarily hold the office.
Behar added As the segment closed, Hostin mourned,

"This is one area where it's bipartisan. We
can agree on that. I mean, it's just
men....It's Republican men, it's Democrats,
it's men." And yet, two months ago, when
Nashville major Megan Barry, a Democrat,
resigned after (consensual) adultery with a
bodyguard, Behar and Goldberg wondered
if there was a double standard punishing
women in politics.
.
“He was known as being just this incredibly
wonderful advocate,” and Goldberg
echoed, “He was an incredible advocate for
women.” Then Goldberg strangely said
“We'll see what happens. He’s out for the
moment.”

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 WOW: Bill O’Reilly Said What We’re All Thinking About
Jim Acosta During White House Briefings
By Lucian Wintrich
May 8, 2018, 3:11 Pm

During a private party honoring Richard Grenell who, after

a tumultuous confirmation process, was finally made U.S.
ambassador to Germany, Bill O’Riley was in
attendance and said out loud what we’ve all been
fantasizing about doing to Jim Acosta during those White
House briefings.

Bill O’Riley has long been supportive of Sarah Sanders

and critical of the MSM reporters who barrage her with “I would love just to get my big hands
attacks and Fake News questions. around Jim Acosta’s neck.”

During the private party, O’Riley who was a warmly Via NY POST
welcomed surprise guest gave a speech to the crowd which
included Press Secretary Sanders. Railing the MSM,
O’Riley said “heads would have rolled” if he had been in
attendance at the White House Correspondents Dinner
while Sanders was being attacked. Following that up,
O’Riley had some choice words for Jim Acosta:

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 John Kerry Furious After Trump Exits Iran Nuke Deal
‘Dragging The World Back To The Brink’
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 3:16 Pm
Former Secretary of State John Kerry
exploded on Trump after the president
exited the Iran nuke deal on Tuesday.
In a desperate move, John Kerry had
been secretly engaging in unusual and
most likely illegal shadow diplomacy
with Iranian leaders in an effort to
salvage the nuclear deal he helped craft.
John Kerry fear-mongered in a statement following
Trump’s decision to exit Iran nuke deal.
Trump is ‘dragging the world to the brink’ said the corrupt
Obama-era official.
Via The Hill:
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“Today’s announcement weakens our
security, breaks America’s word, isolates
us from our European allies, puts Israel at
greater risk, empowers Iran’s hardliners,
and reduces our global leverage to address
Tehran’s misbehavior while damaging the
ability of future administrations to make
international agreements,” Kerry said in a
statement.
“Instead of building unprecedented
nonproliferation verification measures, this
decision risks throwing them away and
dragging the world to the brink we faced a
few years ago,” he continued.
Earlier Tuesday Trump blasted former Secretary of State
John Kerry by warning him to stop meddling in the
negotiations with Iran.
Obama also lashed out at President Trump Tuesday
afternoon in a statement following Trump’s announcement
to exit Iran nuke deal.
 MSNBC Mourns Schneiderman
Resignation As ‘Big Loss’ For Dems
By Kyle Drennen
May 8, 2018 3:40 PM EDT
During a panel discussion on her 12:00 p.m. ET hour
MSNBC show on Tuesday, anchor Andrea Mitchell and
her guests feared that the resignation of New York State
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over domestic abuse
allegations would hurt ongoing legal challenges to
President Trump’s policy agenda and be a “big loss” for
the Democratic Party.
“And he’s had a very prominent role in a
number of cases, against Trump
University successfully. He was one of
the litigants, one of the chief litigants
against the Muslim ban, setting that
back,”
Mitchell observed as she fondly looked back at
Scheiderman’s career as a left-wing public official. She
then worried:
“So does this put the legal opposition to
the President, at the state level, on its
back heels?”
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Rogers fretted:
“Well, it could. It really depends on who
takes over....there are a lot of areas that
Schneiderman has been very active and
whether that continues or not will depend a
lot on who’s sitting in the chair.”
Turning to The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, who actually
co-authored the article that revealed Scheiderman’s alleged
abusive behavior toward women which led to his
resignation, Mitchell voiced concern for the fate of the
Russia investigation:
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“And Jane, he has been considered by a
lot of people, defenders of Mueller, who
are worried about him being fired as the
result of a domino effect in the Justice
Department, he’s been kind of the
insurance policy to the Manafort and
other cases.”
Despite exposing the accusations against Schneiderman,
Mayer still mourned his downfall:
He has been.
I mean, he’s been a tremendous voice
for progressive Democratic politics and
a real rising star in the Democratic
Party. So this is a big loss on that side.
There are other attorney generals – attorneys general I
guess it is – in the states. Maura Healey in Massachusetts,
who’s been another big activist. There’s a group of
Democratic attorneys general that’s been very active. So
he’s not the only one.
Mitchell followed up with hand-wringing over potential
political fallout for the Democratic Party: “And does this
ding the Democrats in general? Cuomo’s up for reelection,
he’s got a prominent woman – woman opponent, of
course, that we know about.
But does this hurt the Democrats in
general or did they move quickly
enough?”
Mayer actually argued that Scheiderman deserved “credit”
for his handling of the situation:
“I just don’t know....you have to at least
give some credit to the fact that he
stepped down right away. He realized
that this – he denied it – but at the same
time, realized he had to get out of way.”
She then laughably claimed that Democrats had the moral
high ground on the issue:
 It’s very different from how the
Republican Party has acted. They
haven’t acknowledged, in many cases, that
this is something that a politician ought to
resign over, when these kinds of
allegations are made. And so, the
Democratic Party realizes that it has to
respect, you know, allegations like this
of sexual misconduct that are made by
women against men.
Apparently Mayer forgot that Bill Clinton’s presidency
ever happened.
When even the reporter who takes down a liberal politician
laments doing so, it shows how deep in the tank the media
truly are for Democrats.
Here is a transcript of the May 8 segment:
12:35 PM ET
(...)
ANDREA MITCHELL: And he’s had a very prominent role in a
number of cases, against Trump University successfully. He was
one of the litigants, one of the chief litigants against the Muslim
ban, setting that back. So does this put the legal opposition to the
President, at the state level, on its back heels?
JENNIFER ROGERS [FMR. ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY,
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NY]: Well, it could. It really depends
on who takes over. Currently, the Solicitor General Barbara
Underwood, who is in the office, is going to be acting until the
legislature appoints someone who will be in the seat until
November, when the election is.
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So there’s been a lot of things that Schneiderman has been very
aggressive about, the civil litigation that you mentioned. And also,
he’s spoken about being willing to charge New York State
offenses against people like Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen,
who could potentially be pardoned by the President so that they
wouldn’t cooperate with the Russia investigation.
So there are a lot of areas that Schneiderman has been very
active and whether that continues or not will depend a lot on
who’s sitting in the chair.
MITCHELL: And Jane, he has been considered by a lot of
people, defenders of Mueller, who are worried about him being
fired as the result of a domino effect in the Justice Department,
he’s been kind of the insurance policy to the Manafort and other
cases.
JANE MAYER [THE NEW YORKER]: He has been. I mean, he’s
been a tremendous voice for progressive Democratic politics and
a real rising star in the Democratic Party. So this is a big loss on
that side. There are other attorney generals – attorneys general I
guess it is – in the states. Maura Healey in Massachusetts, who’s
been another big activist. There’s a group of Democratic
attorneys general that’s been very active. So he’s not the only
one.
But the question is, who’s going to replace him? And the names
that people are already beginning to talking about are Preet
Bharara and Zephyr Teachout and Kathleen Rice, are some of
them that I’ve heard that might be interested in it. And then – but
meanwhile, the assembly and the senate in Albany get to choose
someone. There’s an election in the fall though.
MITCHELL: And does this ding the Democrats in general?
Cuomo’s up for reelection, he’s got a prominent woman – woman
opponent, of course, that we know about. But does this hurt the
Democrats in general or did they move quickly enough?
MAYER: You know, I just don’t know. I mean, it’s – the thing is,
it’s – you have to at least give some credit to the fact that he
stepped down right away. He realized that this – he denied it –
but at the same time realized he had to get out of way. It’s very
different from how the Republican Party has acted. They haven’t
acknowledged, in many cases, that this is something that a
politician ought to resign over, when these kinds of allegations
are made. And so, the Democratic Party realizes that it has to
respect, you know, allegations like this of sexual misconduct that
are made by women against men.
(...)
 ABC, NBC And MSNBC FREAK
Over ‘Isolated’ U.S. ‘Not Being Trusted’
After Nuke Withdrawal
By Scott Whitlock
May 8, 2018 3:54 PM EDT

ABC, NBC and MSNBC suffered a collective freak out on sign deals, but it will not be trusted by
Tuesday in the wake of the news that the United States subsequent presidents.
would be pulling out of the Obama-era Iranian nuclear
deal. The networks chided an “isolated” U.S. that will not
be “trusted” and is undermining U.S. “commitments” as a
result.

In live coverage of Donald Trump’s speech, ABC's Terry

Moran insisted that the President had already “isolated”
America on the Paris climate accord. Moran dramatically
warned:

“With that signature, the President

withdraws the United States from this [Iran]
deal and isolates our country from its key
allies.”
Speaking for Europe, he huffed:
Apparently a Republican president reversing the actions of
a Democratic president shows just how untrustworthy
America has become.

They don't see President Trump as a deal
maker, at least with Europe, and they fear
that withdrawing the United States from the
Iran nuclear deal, he's just made the Middle
East a much more dangerous place. But
they're going to try and come up with a
plan B to try and save it.”
During the NBC live coverage, Richard Engel reiterated
this theme of the terrible ramifications to come:
“It draws a wedge between the U.S. and its
allies.”
Echoing Andrea Mitchell, Engel complained about how,
now, America is untrustworthy:

Not only does it undermine U.S.

commitments, not only does it undermine
international trust in the United States'
ability to keep its word, but everybody's
ability to keep their word because
everybody's name who is on that original
Iran contract is now having to explain why
the contract is being torn up.

Partial transcripts are below.

On MSNBC Andrea Mitchell seethed:
ABC
So no matter what the U.S. does now, they 5/8/18
have basically said to the world is that we 2:27
are not obeying an agreement that we
signed. And that the United States of
America under one administration can

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Terry, let me go back to you
right there. The President said a better deal could have been
reached three years ago. That is not the way our allies see it.
TERRY MORAN: Not at all, George. With that signature, the
President withdraws the United States from this deal and isolates
our country from its key allies. All the other signatories to this
deal. The U.K., France, Germany, the European Union, China
and Russia. They say they're going to stick with it. They want to
save the deal. They think it's been working.
The deal has forced Iran to dismantle two-thirds of its centrifuges,
give up 98 percent of its fuel, pour concrete in its most dangerous
reactor. They don't see a better deal on the table. President
Trump has work cut out for him. And he is working, having now
isolated the U.S. on this, the trade war that Europeans are very
worried about, could come forward, on the Paris climate accords.
They don't see President Trump as a deal maker, at least with
Europe, and they fear that withdrawing the United States with the
Iran nuclear deal, he's just made the Middle East a much more
dangerous place. But they're going to try and come up with a
plan B to try and save it.
MSNBC
5/8/18
2:40pm
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ANDREA MITCHELL: the problem is by reneging on the deal,
like the president said today, it's going to be the strictest form of
sanctions, which means that any European company that wants
to deal with banks and in dollars, which is the world’s
denomination, cannot do any business with Iran. And Iran said
that they were agreeing to this deal because they were going to
be welcomed back into the world, into the world economy. It will
affect oil prices because they are the third largest oil producer.
Prices will go up and prices will go up. Americans will feel this at
the pump. So no matter what the U.S. does now, they have
basically said to the world is that we are not obeying an
agreement that we signed. And that the United States of America
under one administration can sign deals, but it will not be trusted
under subsequent presidents.
NBC
5/8/18
2:29
RICHARD ENGEL: The problem was this Iran deal wasn't just
with the United States. It was with large sections of the
international community. European leaders have been coming to
beat a trail to the White House to tell the president not to do what
he just did. Because not only does it undermine U.S.
commitments, not only does it undermine international trust in the
United States' ability to keep its word, but everybody's ability to
keep their word because everybody's name who is on that
original Iran contract is now having to explain why the contract is
being torn up.
Even though U.S. Intelligence, the IAEA all say that Iran is
complying with deal. So it hurts U.S. Credibility. It hurts the
credibility of the U.S. allies. It draws a wedge between the U.S.
and its allies. It potentially causes an issue of sanctions with U.S.
allies. The way the sanctions have generally worked is the U.S.
puts sanctions on Iran, but also on those who continue to do
business with Iran.
 BREAKING: Israel Launches Air Strike Against Syrian
And Iranian Forces Close To Damascus [VIDEO]
By Lucian Wintrich
May 8, 2018, 4:13 Pm

Isreal launched an air strike against Syrian and

Iranian positions in Kisweh, an area just south of Syria’s
capital Damascus.

The strike was reportedly targeting communications bases

and came just hours after Israel announced that it had
identified Iranian military movement in Syria.

Syrian military is claiming their air defenses intercepted

two of the Israeli missiles:
Israeli reporter Amichai Stein took to Twitter to provide
footage and confirm the strike:

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Despite multiple reporters confirming the attack, the Isreali
army has refused to comment on their military actions at
this time.

There are presently no registered victims.

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EPIC MELTDOWN: CNN Panel Claims Leaving Iran Deal
Makes U.S. Less Safe, Gives Iran ‘Propaganda Win’
By Curtis Houck
May 8, 2018 4:20 PM EDT
From the moment President Trump ended his remarks
announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Deal, it was
DEFCON-1 at CNN with panelist after panelist losing
their minds over the President’s decision. One after
another, they almost universally claimed that leaving the
deal has left America less safe, jeopardized progress with
North Korea, handed Iran a “propaganda victory,” and
destroyed “international unity.”
In other words, the world’s coming to an end and the
rapture’s upon us.
CNN International Christiane Amanpour got
the first crack, sneering about the
supposed rise of interventionists and the
very sight of “John Bolton standing at
the door as you saw President Trump
exit” symbolizing “the regime change
crew” being “back in town” and
“ascended.”
Amanpour mocked the notion of the Iranian regime
collapsing anytime soon at the hands of the United States
and then pivoted to callously arguing that leaving the deal
has left America less safe (click “expand” to see more):
I think also he said things like, you know, we will not
allow American cities to be threatened. Well, that's not
Iran's missile program. That's actually North Korea's
missile program that can reach the United States. And he
said things like we are united with our allies. Well, that is
clearly not the case around this deal....It was never going
to possible at the time that they negotiated that deal and
finally, I think to the questions by the reported were hurled
at the president as he went out, how does this make
America safer? It is incredibly difficult to try to fathom
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that sitting from here....So how does pulling out of it make
you safe while you’re trying to deal with all the other thing
when you have no plan B?
She ended by arguing that, without a doubt,
Host Wolf Blitzer then teed up chief national security
correspondent Jim Sciutto (who was not labeled a former
Obama administration official) to pan the move. Sciutto
suggested that the President’s rhetoric being in the present
tense to describe the Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear
weapons means that, if true, he’s revealed new information
and that must be flushed out.
Chief political correspondent Dana Bash went next,
flaunting a text from “a senior European diplomat” that
claimed Trump’s speech was “a disaster.” Bash also
revealed that her source was upset that the U.S. and our
allies have “no leverage anymore” against the Iranians.
Most stunning was what came next in an exchange
between chief political analyst Gloria Borger and former
Iranian prisoner, Washington Post reporter, and CNN
political analyst Jason Rezaian about this move being a
resounding victory for Iran:
BORGER: Jason, I mean, can I ask you this question?
REZAIAN: Sure.
BORGER: I mean, doesn't this give Iran a propaganda win?
REZAIAN: Of course. Two points that I want to make really
quickly. One, the President mentioned Americans, hostages held
in Iran over the years and also the hostages currently being held
in North Korea. I don't see a way out for these people now. There
is no more — no more mechanism to negotiate with the Iranians.
BLITZER: You are talking about the hostages in Iran?
REZAIAN: In Iran right now.
BLITZER: Not North Korea.
REZAIAN: Not North Korea. The five Americans currently being
held in Iran and Bob Levinson, who we haven't heard about in 11
years, these people are going to get lost in the shuffle
unfortunately. Secondly, the people of Iran were supportive of
this nuclear deal when it started in 2015 because of the promise
of a better economy, better economic situation coming out from
under the weight of sanctions. If we reimpose those sanctions
right now, their situation is going to get much worse. Yesterday,
the Iranian currency hit its lowest rate against the dollar in
history. That's going to get even worse. So, I think the rhetoric
coming out of Tehran will be very strong, but I also think there will
be a lot of disappointment from the people.
The partisanship ramped up further with former Kerry
State Department aide Tony Blinken, who was beside
himself over what “a gift to the hardliners” the U.S.
decision was because
“[w]hatever leverage we had, the
President just destroyed it by blowing
up international unity.”
He continued, so click “expand” to behold Blinken’s
apocalyptic talk that, surprisingly, caused CNN political
analyst and former Meet the Press moderator David
Gregory to mock him:
It took years to put together an international coalition to
exert the kind of pressure to get Iran to the table. That, in
one false swoop, in ten minutes, is gone. There is going to
be profound disunity, not just with the Europeans, but with
the Russians, the Chinese, countries that buy oil from Iran.
That means our only solution is to go after our own allies,
to sanction them, to stop for doing business with Iran. So,
we are actually turning this into an internal battle among
the good guys instead of keeping the focus on Iran and to
the extent there is a need to put pressure on Iran for all the
bad things it's doing in the region and beyond, that’s gone
too.
As for what Gregory said, he blurted out “now, come on”
to Blinken about the U.S. not doing business with the
Europeans anymore over this deal, correctly noting that
“[t]he Europeans do lots of things that
are not on the side of the United
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States,” including “before the Iraq War
where they want to do business with
these countries and maybe a tougher
line needs to be taken with them and
maybe something else could be
constructed or maybe not.”
Former Trump campaign strategist David Urban was
fiercely supportive of the President’s decision, but he was
outnumbered and rebuked at every turn by panelists like
Blinken and Borger.
If you were watching CNN Tuesday afternoon and took
them seriously, it’s okay to come out of your doomsday
bunker. We’re going to be okay.
To see the relevant transcript from May 8's CNN
Newsroom, click “expand.”
CNN Newsroom
May 8, 2018
2:27 p.m. Eastern
CHRISTIANE AMAPOUR: Well, I was struck by John Bolton
standing at the door as you saw President Trump exit. Look, this
is the regime change crew. They’re back in town. They are
ascended and it sounds very much like that is what President
Trump is hoping for, they can squeeze and squeeze and
squeeze until the regime he described collapsed. They’ve tried it
many decades and it hasn't actually worked. I think also he said
things like, you know, we will not allow American cities to be
threatened. Well, that's not Iran's missile program. That's actually
North Korea's missile program that can reach the United States.
And he said things like we are united with our allies. Well, that is
clearly not the case around this deal. Of course, everybody would
rather see a better, bigger, and more comprehensive deal. But
the allies had ideas of trying to do add ons or the like. It was
never going to possible at the time that they negotiated that deal
and finally, I think to the questions by the reported were hurled at
the president as he went out, how does this make America safer?
It is incredibly difficult to try to fathom that sitting from here. All
those thing that he laid out about the danger of Iran, about his
regional ambitions about supporting terrorism and the like, how
does pulling out of one deal that constrains — and it does, no
matter what the President says — the deal constrains Iran's
nuclear program. So how does pulling out of it make you safe
while you’re trying to deal with all the other thing when you have
no plan B? It's very important also to remember that it was
George W. Bush, along with his regime change crew, that
decided to ditch the Clinton administration's deal with North
Korea in the early 2000s. What did that do? They pulled out of
the MPT. They kicked out the IAEA inspectors and now they are
conducting nuclear blackmail because they actually do have
nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. That is a
possibility going forward. That is what the President has opened
the door to. Now, whether Iran decides to stay in the deal,
whether Europeans can make it work but that is the worst case
scenario that, you know, it's back to military confrontation. How
else do you work this out?
WOLF BLITZER: Yeah, the President warning the Iranians if they
were to take those steps and begin that nuclear program, engage
in ballistic missiles, “they will sufficient like few nations have
suffered in the past.” He made that direct threat to the Iranians.
Jim Sciutto, you’ve been covering this for a long time as well.
Your thoughts?
JIM SCIUTTO: Well, the President of the remarkable things he
said during that ten-minute speech, he said something about
what Iran is up to regarding its nuclear program right now. He
used the present tense to say that Iran is pursuing nuclear
weapons today. To be clear, that was not included in the global
threats assessment as delivered to congress in March of this
year by the President’s appointed director of national intelligence
as per my own reporting, speaking with intelligence officials in the
last couple of days, the Israeli intelligence he reference there had
did not change the U.S. assessment. In fact, that intelligence
existed a number of weeks ago. If the President is privy to new
intelligence that contradicts the already public U.S. threat
assessment about Iran's nuclear program, then he owes the
American people an explanation as to what that information is
and, in fact, the relevant committees in Congress, the Intelligence
Committee, the Senate armed services committee need to call
back the director of national intelligence, Dan Coates and say do
you stand by what you said in March, or Secretary of State
Pompeo now on his way to North Korea, does he stand by what
he said in April? Because if that is true there is something new
that the President knows that the people and the Congress
needs to know. If not, it raises a question as to whether the
President is accurately presented what U.S. intelligence is
regarding — North — regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The
other point I would make is this, the president said that Iran will
now want to sit down at the table and negotiate a new deal. It
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makes the case for that. America's European partners who are
party to this deal, they don't believe that's the case. I met with a
senior European diplomat yesterday who said they delivered that
very same message to the President, that the pressures inside
and outside Iran are such that it's extremely unlikely that they
would. They have got domestic political pressures. The idea of
going back to the table, our European allies don't see that as a
realistic option.
DANA BASH: Can I just add to that? I just was texting with a
senior European diplomat who was watching the President's
speech to echo what Jim just said. He called it a disaster and I
said what about this notion? Could he — could this sort of, from
your perspective, crazy idea that ripping it up and starting over
may actually work? And the response was, how could it? We
have no leverage anymore? And that this was the leverage to get
to this point. Now, we have seen the so-called madmen theory at
least start to make inroads in a place like North Korea and I
thought it was very interesting and noteworthy, and obviously not
an accident that he connected Iran to North Korea because a lot
of the questioning of the President pulling out of Iran was, well,
what is the signal that North Korea is going to take from this, that
the U.S. doesn't stand by its deals, why would North Korea make
a deal with you? And he tried to turn that on its head and I also
want to say one more thing. I interviewed then-candidate Trump
the day that this deal was signed in July of 2015, about a month
after he announced and from that minute, without even knowing
the details, he said bad idea. I should be President and I should
rip it up and do it differently. He also said that the Persians are
great negotiators at the time. And he stands by that.
GLORIA BORGER: Jason, I mean, can I ask you this question?
JASON REZAIAN: Sure.
BORGER: I mean, doesn't this give Iran a propaganda win?
REZAIAN: Of course. Two points that I want to make really
quickly. One, the President mentioned Americans, hostages held
in Iran over the years and also the hostages currently being held
in North Korea. I don't see a way out for these people now. There
is no more — no more mechanism to negotiate with the Iranians.
BLITZER: You are talking about the hostages in Iran?
REZAIAN: In Iran right now.
BLITZER: Not North Korea.
REZAIAN: Not North Korea. The five Americans currently being
held in Iran and Bob Levinson, who we haven't heard about in 11
years, these people are going to get lost in the shuffle
unfortunately. Secondly, the people of Iran were supportive of
this nuclear deal when it started in 2015 because of the promise
of a better economy, better economic situation coming out from
under the weight of sanctions. If we reimpose those sanctions
right now, their situation is going to get much worse. Yesterday,
the Iranian currency hit its lowest rate against the dollar in
history. That's going to get even worse. So, I think the rhetoric
coming out of Tehran will be very strong, but I also think there will
be a lot of disappointment from the people.
TONY BLINKEN: This is a gift to the hardliners in ramble.
Whatever leverage we had, the President just destroyed it by
blowing up international unity. It took years to put together an
international coalition to exert the kind of pressure to get Iran to
the table. That, in one false swoop, in ten minutes, is gone. There
is going to be profound disunity, not just with the Europeans, but
with the Russians, the Chinese, countries that buy oil from Iran.
That means our only solution is to go after our own allies, to
sanction them, to stop for doing business with Iran. So, we are
actually turning this into an internal battle among the good guys
instead of keeping the focus on Iran and to the extent there is a
need to put pressure on Iran for all the bad things it's doing in the
region and beyond, that’s gone too.
BLITZER: Let me get David Urban into this. I just want to point.
Tony was involved in the Obama administration helping put this
deal together.
DAVID URBAN: I’ve been friends with Tony for a long time, since
the senate days. Since this deal was inked, not one thing has
been done to roll back the IRGC and their efforts around the
world; is that correct? I mean, what are the European allies —
what has anybody done to halt the proliferation of Hezbollah,
Hamas, sponsoring terrorism, acting as a proxy for Iran.
BLINKEN: That's where the bigger deal comes in.
URBAN: No, but what I’m saying is —
BLINKEN: The President had an opportunity to bring Europeans
—
URBAN: Nobody has been done anything since this deal was
signed. Since then, we waited and waited hoping and wishing
something was going to happen and it didn't happen. I think now
something will happen.
DAVID GREGORY: Can I just make a point about that? I do think
one of the challenges for the President is exactly on this point,
which is why not use what coalition you have to target the bad
actions the support for terrorism, the support for terrorism, the
destabilizing of the area? Maybe he loses an opportunity to do
that now and that is a significant challenge. On the other side of
this, if the President and his team believe there was an original
sin here and that was the deal that you were involved with
negotiating, then why not try a different course? I don't think that
we should accept as fact because there has been a big
disruption here that everybody walks away and goes home, that
the Europeans won't do business with us. Now, come on. The
Europeans do lots of things that are not on the side of the United
States. They did it before the Iraq War where they want to do
business with these countries and maybe a tougher line needs to
be taken with them and maybe something else could be
constructed or maybe not. I'm saying this is hard, and I think
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inside an establishment reaction to this saying oh, well wait a
minute here. He has broken some China here and only a disaster
follows. I don't know that that's the case or not the case, but I
think his supporters, and opponents of this deal who are not all
supporters of Donald Trump, may say maybe we can take a new
look at this and do something different.
BLINKEN: But, David, that's exactly what happens happening
and President Macron of France came and said we can do a
bigger deal and we can put more pressure on Hezbollah. We can
put more pressure on the IRGC defense force. We can put more
pressure on their missile tests. We’ll keep the nuclear deal in
place and then we will build on that was the bigger deal that
President Trump actually had a chance to leverage. That's now
gone. I think he’s blown up that promise.
URBAN: But, Tony, my simple point is why hadn't that been
happening since this deal started? Why did this just start — did
they come to that conclusion last week?
BLINKEN: So, actually, a lot of things were happening including
from us, imposing sanctions as we said from the beginning this
deal. Sanctions on Iran's other nefarious activities could and
would continue. The Obama administration imposed them.
Actually, strangely, this administration held back on imposing
them. Hard to figure out, but the bottom line is that opportunity,
which you are right, David, there was an opportunity and it was
moving in that direct. Now it would seem to be gone.
GREGORY: So, what's wrong? If we know and your reporting
bears this out that they have not violated the deal. Now, you
could believe they’re ambling toward a nuclear program but that
they have not made progress under the grip this deal. What is the
basis, aside from just being opposed to it in principle, to stopping
it in its tracks?
URBAN: I think it’s a basically, original sin, there is never any,
you know, mind meld this was a good deal to begin with, as Dana
points out, when it was inked. Look, the JCPO — JCPOA was
super controversial from the get-go. I mean, go look at — you
can pull the statements from Schumer, so many other
Democrats, this was not widely accepted as the best solution.
BORGER: So then why not fix it?
URBAN: Oh, I understand — URBAN: — the fix it, not nix a deal.

BORGER: I mean, why not —

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 After Trump’s Announcement On Exiting The Iranian
Nuke Deal — Here’s A Photo Collection
Of Obama’s Remaining Legacy…
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 4:22 Pm

On Tuesday President Donald Trump exited the US soldiers and sailors on their knees.
JCPOA — the junk Iranian nuclear deal.
According to experts and evidence by the Israeli
government Iran has already violated the agreement.
After today’s announcement we decided to put together a
list of what remains of the Obama legacy.

Beer summits.

The selfie stick.

Deceit.

Fly.

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 Ferguson.

Trans bathrooms.

Kneeling for anthem.

Michelle’s impeccable style.

Choom gang.

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 THERE IT IS! Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Just
CONFIRMED That The Iran Deal Was A SHAM
By Sarah D.
Posted At 4:32 Pm On May 8, 2018

Anyone who doesn’t look at Iran through rose-colored
glasses knew the Iran Deal was garbage from the get-go.
What’s it gonna take for the lefties melting down to realize
that?
Well, how about the leader of the Iranian Regime himself?
Rouhani spoke live on Iranian state television. He says he
will be sending Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
to countries remaining in the accord.
He says,
“I have ordered Iran’s atomic organization
that whenever it is needed, we will start
enriching uranium more than before.” He
says Iran would start this “in the next
weeks.”

Weeks, eh?

Cue “Jeopardy!” theme. Anyone? Anyone?

From the AP:

Iran’s president is saying there’s a “short

time” to negotiate with the countries
remaining in the nuclear deal, warning his
country could start enriching uranium more
than ever in the coming weeks.

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A lot of people get lollipops.

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 MAGA! CBO Reports
RECORD SURPLUS After Tax Cuts
By Brock Simmons
May 8, 2018, 5:04 Pm

CBO estimates that receipts in April 2018 totaled $515

billion—$59 billion (or 13 percent) more than those in the
same month last year. Individual income and payroll taxes
rose by $73 billion (or 20 percent), on net. Nonwithheld
payments for those taxes, largely final payments of 2017
taxes, rose by $60 billion. Withholding of individual
income and payroll taxes rose by $7 billion (or 4 percent).

Withheld taxes rose both because

wages and salaries were higher and
because April 2018 had one more
business day than April 2017.

However, those factors were partially offset because the

Tired of winning yet? All the doom and gloom over the
dreaded TRUMP TAX CUTS has proven, once again, to
be WRONG. The Congressional Budget Office has
released the numbers for April, and, as it turns out, the
federal government has collected record revenue along
with a record one-month surplus.
Part of the CBO report reads:
Estimated Surplus in April 2018:
$218 Billion
The federal government realized a
surplus of $218 billion in April 2018,
CBO estimates—$35 billion larger than
the surplus in April 2017.
.
share of wages withheld for taxes was lower, CBO
estimates, reflecting the new withholding tables issued in
January. Corporate income tax payments declined by $14
billion (or 24 percent).
The only bad news is that spending was up to $297 Billion,
which was $24 Billion more than this time last year.
According to Market Watch, this breaks the previous
surplus record set back in 2001, which was $190 Billion.
These latest numbers are $40 Billion MORE than what the
CBO had projected. In fact, these numbers prove the
original CBO estimate wrong, as they had predicted a
record deficit.

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 Flashback: Media Support For
The Iran Deal Predates Trump;
They Just Loved That Deal
By Bill D'Agostino
May 8, 2018 5:48 PM EDT
Even before President Trump’s announcement on Tuesday
that the U.S. would be backing out of the Iran nuclear deal,
the press had begun mounting an anxious defense of the
agreement. It’s no secret that the Obama-era treaty has
been a foreign policy favorite among many in the media,
and the same was true back when it was first negotiated in
2015.
On the day President Obama announced the deal to the
American people, the press were riding high. Just moments
before the President addressed the nation on July 14, 2015,
NBC’s Chris Jansing gushed:
“This is a major victory for him, there is no
doubt about that.”
Later that night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had this to
say:
We don’t know if the Iran deal is going to
work. If it does, it will be the major foreign
policy achievement, not only of this
presidency, but of this American
generation. At which point, people in the
not-too-distant future will look back at this
presidency, they’ll look back at this
President and they’ll say, "Of course they
gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course
they did.”
Two days later on July 16, longtime CBS producer Dick
Meyer penned an adoring editorial to the President,
entitled
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“Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful
nation, thank you.”
In it, Meyer made the following assessment about the deal:
What cannot be in dispute is this was a
momentous initiative, a gutsy political risk,
a diplomatic success and, potentially, a
giant step in defusing a long-ticking time
bomb.
Much to the chagrin of the press, some Republicans
continued to criticize the deal. On July 23, MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews defended the deal on his evening show,
Hardball. Perturbed by Senator Marco Rubio’s harsh
remarks about the deal that President Obama had secured,
he postulated:
You know, I wonder whether it's even legal
or diplomatically acceptable, yes or no, for
somebody running for president, who has a
shot at the presidency, basically writing
foreign policy, to undermine the current
president, who's the only president we
have.
If Republican criticism of the deal was bad, then
Democratic criticism was horrifying. On August 11 of that
same year, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski lost her
cool after Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer came out in
opposition to the deal and suggested that it be renegotiated.
While arguing with Weekly Standard editor and then-
MSNBC contributor Bill Kristol, she offered the following
assessment:
I mean, restarting talks with Iran? That’s ludicrous... you
guys know this would be calamitous for our reputation and
for the White House if all of a sudden they just said, ‘
Oh, forget it, let’s just not do it.’ That’s
crazy. Come on!
If nothing else, the media have at least been consistent on
this issue; they were for the deal in 2015, and they’re for it
today.
 Mueller Roves Again – Questions Russian Oligarch
About Payments To Michael Cohen After 2016 Election
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 5:48 Pm
Robert Mueller is still roving around and
expanding his witch hunt because no
one has the guts to put a stop to him.
According to a new report out by CNN, Mueller’s team is
questioning Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch
and chairman of asset manager Renova Group about
payments he made to Michael Cohen on a business deal
after the 2016 election.
What the hell does this have to do with Trump colluding
with the Russians to hack the DNC’s servers?
CNN notes that prosecutors have not accused Michael
Cohen of wrongdoing over the payments.
CNN reported:
The questions asked of Vekselberg
suggest that Mueller investigators have
been examining some of Cohen’s business
relationships as part of the investigation
into Russian meddling in the 2016
presidential election. Vekselberg is one of
two Russian oligarchs the FBI stopped
earlier this year after their private jets
landed in New York-area airports as part of
Mueller’s investigation.
Investigators also asked Vekselberg about
donations the head of his US affiliate made
to Trump’s inaugural fund and campaign
funds, sources said.
CNN reports that the Russian oligarch’s American cousin
was also questioned over donations made to Trump’s
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inaugural fund. Surprisingly CNN points out it is perfectly
legal for the Russian’s American cousin to donate to
Trump’s campaign being that he’s a US citizen.
We are in the twilight zone. Stop this
insanity.
CNN continues:
FBI agents asked Vekselberg about
payments his company’s American affiliate,
Columbus Nova, made to Cohen,
according to one source. The Russian was
questioned as well about $300,000 in
political donations by Andrew Intrater,
Vekselberg’s American cousin who is the
head of Columbus Nova, sources said.
Intrater was also questioned by Mueller’s
investigators, two sources told CNN. Last
month, Vekselberg was placed on the US
government’s list of sanctioned individuals,
prohibiting him from traveling to the US.
The payments occurred at the same time
Cohen was trying to build a consulting and
legal business after the election and
around the time he left the Trump
Organization. At that time, he was still
Trump’s personal lawyer. Even last month,
as Trump responded to questions about
the payment to Daniels, the President
deferred to Cohen and said, “Michael is my
attorney.”
Time is running out for Robert Mueller since he actually
hit a road block with a judge who believes in the rule of
law.
We still haven’t seen Rosenstein’s unredacted memo
detailing Mueller’s scope.
Judge Ellis, however, has ordered the DOJ to hand over
the memo within a two week time frame.
Mueller isn’t investigating ‘Russian collusion,’ he’s doing
what he’s done for decades–charge innocent men for
crimes they didn’t commit.
 Kerry Whines After Trump Pulls U.S.
Out Of ‘Horrible’ Iran Nuke Deal And
POTUS Back-Hands Him
Posted On May 9, 2018
(National Sentinel) ‘Shut Up’: Former Secretary of State
John Kerry was revealed last week to have been using
back channels and “shadow diplomacy,” meeting with
Iranian officials and others, to save his and President
Obama’s lousy nuclear “deal.”
Kerry was acting as a private citizen, of course, since he’s
not in office anymore.
Kerry’s actions very plainly were meant to undermine
President Donald J. Trump and his administration as
POTUS considered whether to keep the U.S. in the deal
ahead of a May 12 decision deadline.
On Monday Trump announced his decision to exit the
“horrible” deal as a means of better protecting America
from a rogue regime hell-bent on getting nuclear weapons.
“Today, I am announcing our strategy,
along with several major steps we are
taking to confront the Iranian regime’s
hostile actions and to ensure that Iran
never, and I mean never, acquires a
nuclear weapon,” the president said.
After the announcement, a furious Kerry claimed Trump is
“dragging us back to the brink” of nuclear conflict.
Per The Hill:
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“Today’s announcement weakens our
security, breaks America’s word, isolates
us from our European allies, puts Israel at
greater risk, empowers Iran’s hardliners,
and reduces our global leverage to address
Tehran’s misbehavior while damaging the
ability of future administrations to make
international agreements,” Kerry said in a
statement.
“Instead of building unprecedented
nonproliferation verification measures, this
decision risks throwing them away and
dragging the world to the brink we faced a
few years ago,” he continued.
This is typical globalist doublespeak. Iran is a threat to the
U.S., of course, but Trump is addressing “Tehran’s
misbehavior” by letting the regime know he’s not Obama
and Kerry and he’ll thump their heads if it comes to that.
Secondly, Kerry needs to shut his mouth. It’s pretty plain
he violated the Logan Act through his shady, backdoor
meddling. The act states, in full:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever
he may be, who, without authority of the
United States, directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any
correspondence or intercourse with any
foreign government or any officer or
agent thereof, with intent to influence
the measures or conduct of any foreign gov
ernment or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or
controversies with the United States, or
to defeat the measures of the United
States, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more
than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a
citizen to apply, himself or his agent,
to any foreign government or the agents
thereof for redress of any injury which he m
ay have sustained from such
 government or any of its agents
or subjects.

If Kerry’s lucky, he won’t be prosecuted for his meddling.

Meantime, POTUS Trump back-handed Kerry via Twitter.

“John Kerry can’t get over the fact that he

had his chance and blew it! Stay away from Yes, he is, Mr. President. Maybe you should give Sessions
negotiations John, you are hurting your a call.
country!”
.

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 White House Sources: John Kerry’s Stealth
Lobbying Backfired, Helped Kill The Iran Deal
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
6:28 PM 05/08/2018
News of former Secretary of State John Kerry’s alleged
collusion with the Iranian government played a role in
President Donald Trump’s decision to scuttle the Iran deal,
two White House sources with direct knowledge of the
president’s thinking tell The Daily Caller.
Trump announced he was pulling out of the deal Tuesday,
just a few days after news broke that Kerry had been
parlaying with Iran in an attempt to keep the deal alive.
A source inside the White House with knowledge of the
decision process tells TheDC that the Iran deal was “done”
when Trump found out about Kerry’s lobbying behind the
scenes.
“Trump was headed that way but Kerry just
took away any of the teeth of the
detractors,” the source said on background.
“[Kerry’s] bulls**t ultimately killed the deal.”
Another source inside the West Wing confirms to TheDC
that there was a frantic last-minute lobbying effort to keep
the deal in place and that the timing of the Kerry news was
“ironic.” The source specifically blames Kerry’s meddling
in the process as a key decision point in the calculus for
pulling out of the deal.
“It was by no means the reason [Trump]
decided to pull out, but it certainly
influenced the final decision,” the source
continued. “I mean, read the tweets.”
President Trump attacked Kerry’s actions on Twitter
Monday, saying,
“The United States does not need John
Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy
on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He
was the one that created this MESS in the
first place!”
Trump followed up, saying,
“John Kerry can’t get over the fact that he
had his chance and blew it! Stay away from
negotiations John, you are hurting your
country!”
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Both sources confirm that Kerry’s actions hurt the
lobbying effort by some in the West Wing to keep the deal
in place.
The decision marks another crippling blow to Barack
Obama’s legacy by the Trump administration. The Iran
deal was the cornerstone of Obama’s foreign policy.
It was revealed late last week that Team Obama was
working furiously to keep their legacy accomplishment
afloat. Kerry was revealed to be actively working with his
Iranian counterparts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal and
undermine the current administration in a report published
by The Boston Globe Friday.
According to The Globe, Kerry met with Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif multiple times over the last few
months. He also reportedly met with German President
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, French President Emmanuel
Macron and multiple members of Congress.
A Kerry spokesperson told Fox News,
“Secretary Kerry stays in touch with his
former counterparts around the world,” and
that he was working to make sure the
tenants of the Iran deal “remain effective.”
The report comes as the Trump administration is under
intense scrutiny for allegations that the president’s
campaign colluded with Russia to swing the 2016 election.
No evidence has yet been presented to support that
claim.Some legal scholars say Kerry’s actions were a clear
violation of the Logan Act.
The Logan Act states:
“Any citizen of the United States, wherever
he may be, who, without authority of the
United States, directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any
correspondence or intercourse with any
foreign government or any officer or agent
thereof, with intent to influence the
measures or conduct of any foreign
government or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or
 controversies with the United States, or to Kerry defended his stance by posting a statement on
defeat the measures of the United States, Twitter Tuesday. He complained that Trump’s decision
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned “weakens our security” and “isolates us from our European
not more than three years, or both.” allies and puts Israel at greater risk.”

The Boston Herald has called for a full investigation into

Kerry’s actions.

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 FREEDOM CAUCUS CHAIR Mark Meadows Threatens
Contempt Of Congress Charges Against Jeff Sessions
By End Of Week (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 6:36 Pm

Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
joined Lou Dobbs on Tuesday night to discuss the latest
stonewalling by the Jeff Sessions Department of Justice.
Mark Meadows told Lou either the DOJ turns over the
subpoenaed documents this week or the House Intelligence
Committee will press contempt of Congress charges
against Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
This was a remarkable interview. Meadows also said the
Sessions DOJ is no better than the Obama DOJ.
It really is past time for Jeff Sessions to step down.
we ramp up the pressure. I can tell you that we have one
real problem right now Lou. We have a Department of
Justice under this administration saying they will not give
documents to Congress that we’re entitled to
constitutionally. And we have a Department of Justice
that’s trying to write a narrative to suggest that the
American people don’t need to see it. I can tell you that
I’m not seeing a whole lot of difference between the
Trump Administration DOJ and the Obama administration
DOJ in terms of them giving documents… One of two
things will happen this week. Either we will get a contempt
citation or we’ll get the documents. I hope we get the
documents but one of two things will happen this week.

Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

Mark Meadows: I know he (Chairman Nunes) is meeting

with some of his Intel Committee Members right now as
.

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GOP Candidate Bassilian Discovers US Center For Disease
Control Diverted $3 Million To Liberal Group
For Democrat Campaigns
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 7:10 Pm

Ron Bassilian is running for California’s 37th smear the NRA and GOP. Well, here they are funding
Congressional district as a Republican in 2018. kids to go speak there.

Bassilian has been employed in the IT world mostly
working on Exchange, Microsoft’s enterprise e-mail
solution.
Recently, Ron Bassilian discovered the US Center for
Disease Control was diverting taxpayer dollars, at least $3
million, to a local liberal group to far left campaigns.
Check out their other campaigns. Black Lives Matter,
huge settlements for schools, you name it.
Now, why do I say this? Well, I was trying to look up the
donation my friend was bragging about. Turns out either I
was wrong or that wasn’t all. This organization got a $3
million check from the CDC – a government organization
– for “tackling health issues.” And there handing the
check is Karen Bass.

Can someone please explain to me what any of these

issues have to do with tackling health?…

…Let’s call this CDC grant for what it is. It’s

the heyday of Obama era politics –
funneling government money into
organizations that just go organize and
advocate for the Democratic Party.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) hands over a $3 million CDC check to
Community Coalition.
Ron Bassilian reported this earlier this week:
The Democratic Party isn’t winning in California because
their ideas are better, or they’re more compassionate than
conservatives. It’s because they monopolized the racket.

A friend of mine had a similar college life to

me, he went on to do political advocacy
and I went on to the private sector. So
imagine my pleasant surprise when we find
each other on Facebook a couple years
ago, and I found out he gets a large check
to start his Community Coalition center in
South Central Los Angeles. My memory
recalls it at $750,000.
That must be nice, I thought, getting paid to
be advocate for poor people. So I kept
tabs on this group, Community Coalition.
And the longer I kept tabs on it, the less I
liked what I saw. Ron Bassilian was a lifelong Democrat until Donald
Trump’s victory made him decide it was time for a switch.
I’ve talked about how March for our Lives was a thinly
veiled Democrat campaign – follow the money to the Ron is running for California’s 37th Congressional district
DNC, and follow the words to see they really want to as a Republican in 2018.
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 Russian Oligarch Who Allegedly Paid Michael Cohen Is
Linked To Clinton Foundation And John Podesta
By Jim Hoft
May 8, 2018, 9:06 Pm
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for
Stormy Daniels, alleged on Tuesday that
a Russian oligarch paid Trump Attorney
Michael Cohen $500,000 for “insights”
into the Trump administration.
The deposits were made in the months
following the 2016 election.
NBC News reported:
Stormy Daniels’ attorney claimed Tuesday
that President Donald Trump’s personal
lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000
from a company controlled by a Russian
oligarch, deposited into an account for a
company also used to pay off the adult film
actress.
Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, also
detailed other transactions he said were
suspicious, including deposits from drug
giant Novartis, the state-run Korea
Aerospace Industries, and AT&T — which
confirmed it paid Cohen’s company for
“insights” into the Trump administration.
If true, Avenatti’s claims, made in a dossier posted to
Twitter, could add a new dimension to the federal
investigation into Cohen.
Avenatti offered no proof for his
allegations.
It is also not clear how the porn star’s
attorney would discover the private
information.
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Now this…
The Russian oligarch is linked to Bill
Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
The Examiner reported on the Clinton ties to in 2016.
New emails show Clinton Foundation staff
pushed Hillary Clinton’s State Department
to approve a meeting between Bill Clinton
and a powerful Russian oligarch as her
agency lined up investors for a project
under his purview.
The Clintons’ relationship with Viktor
Vekselberg, the billionaire whose name
appears in the documents, has taken on
new significance amid an expanding
criminal investigation into his company.
Last week, authorities raided the offices of
Vekselberg’s firm, Renova Group, following
allegations of bribery from several of
Renova’s subsidiaries.
Vekselberg had been named head of a
partnership dubbed the “Russian Silicon
Valley” just three months before a Clinton
Foundation employee began pushing the
State Department to approve Bill Clinton’s
proposed meeting with Vekselberg and a
handful of other Russian executives.
The emails, obtained by conservative-
leaning Citizens United and provided first to
the Washington Examiner, do not reveal
 any illegal activity on the part of the State
Department, the Clintons or their
foundation.
But the records shed light on one of many
relationships that blurred the lines between
the Clinton’s political, financial and
philanthropic pursuits while Hillary Clinton
served as secretary of state.
Vekselberg’s Renova Group has
donated between $50,000 and $100,000
to the Clinton Foundation, donor
records show. Another firm associated
with Vekselberg, OC Oerlikon, donated
$25,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
And Viktor Vekselberg is also linked to John Podesta
Via the Stone Cold Truth:
Just how much money did Viktor
Vekselberg, a controversial Russian
billionaire investor with ties to the Vladimir
Putin and the Russian government, launder
through Metcombank, a Russian regional
bank owned 99.978 percent by Vekselberg,
with the money transferred via Deutsche
Bank and Trust Company Americas in New
York City, with the money ending up in a
private bank account in the Bank of
America that is operated by the Clinton
Foundation?
.
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Wikileaks emails tie John Podesta,
chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016
presidential campaign, into the money-
laundering network with the confirmation
Podesta had exercised 75,000 shares out
of 100,000 previously undisclosed stock
options he was secretly issued by Joule
Unlimited, a U.S. corporation that ties back
to Vekselberg connected Joule Global
Stichting in the Netherlands – a shady
entity identified in the Panama Papers as
an offshore money-laundering client of the
notorious Panamanian law firm Mossack
Fonseca.
As a clear indication of guilty conscience,
the Wikileaks Podesta file further
documents that Podesta made a serious
effort to keep the transaction from coming
to light as evidenced by his decision to
transfer 75,000 common shares of Joule
Unlimited to Leonidio LLC, another shady
shell corporation – this one listed in Salt
Lake City at the home apartment of the
gentlemen who registered the company.
Further research has documented that
Viktor Vekselberg arranged for two
transfers of unknown amounts to a private
Clinton Foundation account in the Bank of
America.
 Nets Freak After ‘Reneging’ Iran Deal:
Obama ‘Anguished’, U.S. Credibility Shattered
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 8, 2018 9:44 PM EDT
President Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to pull out
of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, much to the screeching of
the liberal media and world leaders. All three of the major
broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) began their
evening news broadcasts in a tailspin, appalled by the
President defying our allies, shattering our credibility as a
country, and possibly leading us into a war.
They each ran not one but two segments hyperventilating
about the pull out. And a common theme was how it was
damaging Obama’s legacy.
“America's allies had urged the
President not to do this,” anchor David
Muir announced at the start of ABC’s World
News Tonight. “They are reacting tonight,
and so is Iran already with a new threat.”
And the network’s chief White House correspondent, Jon
Karl, parroted the sentiment and kicking off his report by
saying:
“Defying our allies and keeping a
campaign promise, President Trump is
taking the United States out of the Iran
nuclear deal.”
Karl noted that Trump found that the deal fell short in
stopping Iran’s financing of terrorism, but no mention of
the $1.7 billion cash payment the Obama administration
agreed to give them. But he managed to feel sorry for
Obama since his legacy was being tarnished:
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Anguished by today's decision, former President Obama.
The Iran deal, his chief foreign policy accomplishment.
Today in a statement, he warns,
"The United States could eventually be left
with a losing choice between a nuclear-
armed Iran or another war in the Middle
East."
In their second report, ABC was worried about how
foreign countries and the Iranian people saw the U.S.
“They are dismayed and bewildered
right now,” ABC reporter Terry Moran said
about U.S. allies. “Anger and defiance,
(…) saying America's arrogant and can't
be trusted,” for the Iranian perspective.
On CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor began the
program by declaring:
“Candidate Trump promised to pull out
of it. Today, President Trump did. With
widespread implications.” “President
Trump took the most aggressive path
out of the deal,” asserted correspondent
Weijia Jiang citing the application of U.S.
sanctions.
“Mr. Trump is celebrating it as a
campaign promise fulfilled. By pulling
out of the agreement, the President
reverses one of the Obama
administration's signature foreign policy
legacies,” she continued to huff. “Today,
 the former president called withdrawal
‘A serious mistake.’”
In CBS’s second report, reporter Elizabeth Palmer was in
Tehran (a perk from being on good terms with the
government) and said that the Iranians were planning to
stay in the deal if it still benefited them, something ABC
didn’t do. She ended her report by talking about instability
in the region and incorrectly pointed the figure at Israel,
citing a recent strike on an Iranian military installation in
Syria as an example.
Meanwhile, on NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt described
Trump’s decision as the U.S. “essentially reneging” on
the agreement. Although, White House correspondent
Hallie Jackson noted:
“The President never liked that the deal
let Iran start up some activity again in
2025 and that it didn't address other bad
behavior, like Iran's ballistic missile
program.”
But Jackson still turned to President Obama and his former
CIA director, John Brennan, to rip into the move. She
reported that Obama warned the decision “risks eroding
America's credibility” and played a clip of Brennan
fretting:
“Mr. Trump has sent the signal, do not
count on the United States, you can't
believe what we say.”
This is the same CIA director whose agency hacked the
computers of U.S. Senators because they were set to
release the damning torture report.
NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel began the
network’s second segment by explaining how Iran planned
to stay in the deal for now.
But he described a “chill” among U.S.
allies in Europe because “the U.S, under
President Trump, may not be a reliable
partner anymore.”
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He also feared for what it could mean for the upcoming
negotiations with North Korea.
“They'll now want more guarantees for
any agreement they'd make. So, the
price just went up,” he speculated.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
ABC's World News Tonight
May 8, 2018
6:31:42 PM Eastern
DAVID MUIR: Good evening. And it's great to have you with us
here on a very busy Tuesday night. And we begin with President
Trump's major announcement today, being watched all over the
world. Pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal and imposing
tough new sanctions on Iran instead. The President in the
speech seen here in the U.S. and carried live in Iran, calling the
deal disastrous. America's allies had urged the President not to
do this. They are reacting tonight, and so is Iran already with a
new threat. ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan
Karl leading us off.
[Cuts to video]
JON KARL: Defying our allies and keeping a campaign promise,
President Trump is taking the United States out of the Iran
nuclear deal.
(…)
KARL: Under the Iranian nuclear deal, Iran agreed shut down its
production of weapons-grade uranium and allowed regular
inspections by the international atomic energy agency, which
says Iran has stuck by its side of the deal. But the president says
it falls short, that it doesn't prevent Iran from supporting terrorism
or building up its missile program.
(…)
KARL: Anguished by today's decision, former President Obama.
The Iran deal, his chief foreign policy accomplishment. Today in
a statement, he warns, "The United States could eventually be
left with a losing choice between a nuclear armed Iran or another
war in the Middle East." And tonight, from Iran's president, an
ominous threat -- Hassan Rouhani announcing he's ordered
Iran's scientists to prepare to start enriching uranium again if
necessary. When I recently asked the president about that
prospect, he answered with a threat of his own.
(…)
MUIR: American allies urged the President not to do this, to stay
in the deal. Our chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran live in
London tonight and our allies already responding tonight?
TERRY MORAN: That's right, David. They are dismayed and
bewildered right now. You saw the European leaders, President
Macron of France getting the red carpet treatment at the White
House, Chancellor Merkel of Germany meeting with President
Trump, trying to change his mind, because they and every other
country that signed this deal think this deal is working.
(…)
MUIR: And Terry, one more question while we have you. Viewers
will remember our trip to Iran. We witnessed the sanctions, the
crippling effect on the Iranian people before this nuclear deal was
even negotiated. It was just days before the negotiations began,
in fact. The crowds waiting for medicine, cancer treatment. We
heard President Trump today telling the Iranian people, “the
people of America stand with you,” but how is this decision being
received on the streets of Tehran tonight?
MORAN: Anger and defiance, David. They do not believe that
claim. Social media in Iran just lit up with a lot of anti-American
tweets, that's no surprise, saying America's arrogant and can't be
trusted.
(...)
CBS Evening News
May 8, 2018
6:31:26 PM Eastern
JEFF GLOR: Good evening. We're going to begin with the Iran
nuclear deal. Candidate Trump promised to pull out of it. Today,
President Trump did. With widespread implications. The
President, who calls the deal defective at its core, is reimposing
economic sanctions on Iran. In response, Iran's president
threatened to start enriching uranium again and Britain, France,
and Germany, all signatories to the deal, say they will try to
salvage it. We have reports tonight from Washington and Tehran.
First, Weijia Jiang is at the White House.
(…)
WEIJIA JIANG: President Trump took the most aggressive path
out of the deal, announcing the U.S. will reinstate the highest
level of economic sanction on Iran.
(…)
JIANG: The President declared he had definitive proof that Iran
had violated the 2015 agreement aimed at freezing the country's
nuclear ambitions, but produced no evidence. These were the
President's top military advisers last fall.
(…)
JIANG: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani insisted today it is the
U.S., not Iran, that has broken the agreement, but said he may
soon restart his country's nuclear program. France, Germany,
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and the U.K., also parties to the deal, issued a joint statement
that expressed regret and concern over the U.S. exit.
(…)
JIANG: Mr. Trump is celebrating it as a campaign promise
fulfilled. By pulling out of the agreement, the President reverses
one of the Obama administration's signature foreign policy
legacies. Today, the former president called withdrawal "A
serious mistake."
(…)
LIZ PALMER: Here in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani went on
TV almost immediately to respond. He said pulling out of the deal
had damage's America's credibility, but crucially, he said that as
far as Iran is concerned, the nuclear deal is not yet dead. Iran, he
said, will try, with the other five signatories, to make the
agreement work, minus the United States. But there's no
guarantee.
(…)
Major powers around the world tonight have called President
Trump's decision a mistake, all, except for the United Arab
Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. This is already a volatile
region, and in a reminder today, Israel fired missiles into Syria
and, according to monitoring groups, killed several Iranian
Revolutionary Guard fighters.
(…)
NBC Nightly News
May 8, 2018
7:01:41 PM Eastern
LESTER HOLT: But we begin with that big decision announced
by President Trump today, that the U.S. is essentially reneging
on the nuclear deal with Iran. The President's decision to walk
away from the pact, which was designed to inhibit Iran’s ability to
make a nuclear weapon, comes despite pressure from key
European allies that were also signatories to the deal, as well as
repeated findings by his own administration, that Iran was in
compliance with the agreement. But for Donald Trump, it's a
campaign promise made, promise kept. Albeit one with uncertain
consequences.
(…)
HALLIE JACKSON: The 2015 deal forced Iran to get rid of 95
percent of its nuclear fuel and allow outside inspections in
exchange for relief from tough international sanctions. But the
President never liked that the deal let Iran start up some activity
again in 2025 and that it didn't address other bad behavior, like
Iran's ballistic missile program.
(…)
JACKSON: Now President Obama, who negotiated the deal,
says President Trump's decision “risks eroding America's
credibility.” John Brennan was his CIA director.
JOHN BRENNAN: Mr. Trump has sent the signal, do not count
on the United States, you can't believe what we say.
JACKSON: Here at home, new sanctions might make it harder
for Iran to sell its oil. That could trigger higher prices, which may
mean you end up paying more for gas.
(…)
RICHARD ENGEL: This is Richard Engel. Instant reaction to
President Trump's announcement in Iran, where President
Hassan Rouhani came out, near midnight, to says he will stick
with the deal even without the U.S. But threatening what could
happen if the now wounded agreement crumbles entirely. If
Iranian benefits in the deal aren't provided, he said, Iran is ready
to resume industrial nuclear activity.
.
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Across Europe, there's a chill tonight that the U.S, under
President Trump, may not be a reliable partner anymore. An
unusual joint statement read, “it is with regret and concern that
we, the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom
take note of President Trump's decision.”
(…)
ENGEL: But at least two countries loved President Trump's
move, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Where last week, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic case to drop the deal,
citing intelligence that Iran made the deal in bad faith. Tonight
praising President Trump.
(…)
ENGEL: But this move today by President Trump will make North
Korea and especially its backer China very nervous. They'll now
want more guarantees for any agreement they'd make. So, the
price just went up, Lester.
(…)
 Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows Threatens To Roll-Up
Obama’s Third AG, Sessions, By Week’s End (Video)
Posted On May 9, 2018

(National Sentinel) No Change: House Freedom Caucus
Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., doesn’t see much
difference these days between President Obama’s Justice
Department and President Donald J. Trump’s DoJ.
In fact, when it comes to transparency, obstinance, and
arrogance, there isn’t any difference, Meadows said
Monday evening in an interview with Fox Business‘ Lou
Dobbs.
Congress is fed up dealing with Deep State scumbags, liars
and obfuscators, and that, apparently, includes Attorney
General Jeff Sessions.
The House Intelligence Committee has been attempting to
extract key documents vital to ongoing investigations into
Obama-era malfeasance and possible illegality.
a narrative to suggest that the American
people don’t need to see it,” he continued.
“I can tell you that I’m not seeing a whole
lot of difference between the Trump
Administration DOJ and the Obama
administration DOJ in terms of them giving
documents… One of two things will happen
this week,” Meadows said.
“Either we will get a contempt citation or
we’ll get the documents. I hope we get the
documents but one of two things will
happen this week.”
The Constitution does not call for the creation of a Justice
Department or FBI. Congress created both of those
agencies through legislation. Congress, therefore,
has oversight authority.

At virtually every step of the way, Trump’s DoJ and FBI
have thwarted — or attempted to thwart — those
investigations.
The House has even gone so far as to subpoena records it
once requested, but over the weekend Sessions arrogantly
asserted that recent requests for unredacted documents
including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s
memo outline special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigatory scope and authority somehow cannot be
granted because they’re classified — or so Sessions says.
Meadows has had enough and he’s ready to roll up the
stonewalling Jeff Sessions.
Trump, as president, has the authority to declassify
anything he wants, anytime he wants.
He should pick up the phone and instruct Sessions to bring
him the documents Congress is demanding and decide
point-blank whether they really are classified. Once he
deals with that, he should then order Sessions to personally
walk the documents over to the appropriate congressional
committees.
Then he should instruct Jeff Sessions to clean out his desk.

“I know he (Chairman Nunes) is meeting

with some of his Intel Committee Members
right now as we ramp up the pressure. I
can tell you that we have one real problem
right now Lou,” said Meadows.
“We have a Department of Justice under
this administration saying they will not give
documents to Congress that we’re entitled
to constitutionally. And we have a
Department of Justice that’s trying to write
.

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 Crooked Hillary Lectures Trump Over
Decision To Nuke Iran Deal
– Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
May 8, 2018, 9:57 Pm

Twice-failed presidential hopeful,
Crooked Hillary lectured Trump over his
decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal on
Tuesday.
As if Hillary has any room to talk. Any ‘negotiation’
Hillary has ever been a part of includes pay-to-play bribes
to her Clinton Foundation. That is how she makes her
decisions. It has nothing to do with the safety and security
of our country.
Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal is a big
mistake. It makes America less safe and
less trusted. Iran is now more dangerous.
What’s plan B? Anyone who thinks
bombing is the answer is woefully
misinformed.

Reading Hillary’s response to Trump’s decision to nuke

Obama’s failed Iran deal is a nice reminder America
dodged a MOAB when she lost the 2016 election.

Part two:

As Secretary of State, I helped negotiate

the crippling international sanctions that
brought Iran to the table. It would be much
harder a second time, now that our
credibility is shot.

Earlier Tuesday, both Obama and John Kerry were furious

with Trump after he nixed their Iran deal.

Trump is ‘dragging the world back to the brink,’ Kerry

said in a statement. Part three Crooked linked to Obama’s
statement: It will also be harder to deal
with other threats like ballistic missiles and
Late Tuesday evening, Hillary sent out a series of tweets
terrorism. Now we have no leverage and
lecturing Trump on his ‘mistake’ to exit the disastrous Iran
Iran is free to do what it wants.
nuke deal.
Read what President Obama wrote about it here:
Part one:

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And Twitter responded…

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 Matthews, Panel Go Bonkers Over Iran Deal Withdrawal;
‘Chick Hawks’ Giving ‘Moral High Ground’ To Iran
By Curtis Houck
May 8, 2018 10:20 PM EDT
Just like CNN and the major broadcast networks earlier
Tuesday after President Trump’s Iran deal speech,
MSNBC’s Hardball was beside itself over the President’s
decision to withdrawal the U.S. from the nuclear
agreement, dubbing it a victory for “chick hawks” like
John Bolton looking to draw America into war with Iran
while also “surrender[ing] the moral high ground to
Iran.”
“It's a move critics say makes us less
safe, I think so, and it could lead to war.
Remember when Trump campaigned on
no more stupid wars in the Middle East?
Well, now the neocons have his ear...So
much for the argument against stupid
wars. He is now heading towards one,
perhaps,” host Chris Matthews screeched
in a tease for an Iran segment.
Matthews returned after a commercial to lament that
“[f]or a President who came into office
decrying the dangerous war talk of the
neocon crowd, he’s doing a pretty good
job of imitating them.”
He added that “the dangers of Trump’s
decisions are clear: alienating our allies,
blowing up a deal that, by all accounts,
is working and most ominously, risking
some sort of conflict in the Middle
East.”
And after he brought in his panel, Matthews asked
MSNBC national security analyst Joe Cirincione if
Tuesday meant that America was
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“the ones who broke the deal” and
Cirincione told him that’s “absolutely” the
case.
“[W]e violated the deal and now this
gives Iran a way out. They can basically
leave the deal, without penalty...They
could restart their program in a matter
of months and this puts us back now
without our allies on our side, without
the sanctions...This puts us back on a
path to war where we were in 2011 and
2013,” Cirincione opined.
Matthews went next to former Obama State Department
official Nayyerra Haq and the two collectively lost their
minds over Bolton, just as they did when he was named
National Security Adviser.
The MSNBC host proclaimed that Bolton was “banging
the drum for war” in 2015 when the deal was announced,
“like the Bomb Iran song.” After a package of Fox News
Channel clips of Bolton advocating for attacking Iran,
Matthews mocked him as
“real bold talk by another one of these
chick hawks” with “no military
experience in his life.”
Here’s the banter between Haq and Matthews:
HAQ: Well, let's be clear, he is the brains behind the operation at
this point because President Trump himself is driven by pettiness
against Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: Right.
HAQ: He calls himself a dealmaker. There’s not a deal he hasn’t
pulled the United States out of and he hasn't struck any deals in
time of office either. You have John Bolton —
MATTHEWS: He just wants to erase Barack Obama like saying
he’s a foreigner who snuck in the country and then get rid of
ObamaCare and get rid of this.
HAQ: — right and John Bolton is the one who has an ideology
and its regime change. Regime change appeared in this speech
out of nowhere, when this really was a technical deal directed at
stopping Iran from a nuclear bomb. This was never a deal
intended or even presented as something that was supposed to
stop Iran from all of its other nefarious activities in the region.

MATTHEWS: Of course, we all knew that at the time that the

deal was about nuclear development.

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel

went last, fretting that

“sometimes, news can be both

anticipated and shocking at the same
time and I think that's what happened
now.”
He cited sources as having told him that this
“decreases trust in U.S. commitments,”
“emboldens the hardliners in Iran,”
“makes conflict in the region more likely
and it surrenders the moral high ground
to Iran, none of those positive
outcomes.”
In his conclusion,
Matthews followed suit from moments
earlier when he resurrected his
conspiracy theory that Trump wanted
former President Barack Obama erased
from “history books” as part of his
“obsession with getting rid of anything
that Barack Obama accomplished.”
Somehow, Matthews argued at the end of the show that
Trump betrayed himself as a candidate for arguing he’d
fight against what Matthews deemed “stupid wars” by
leaving the Iran Deal.
However, as CNN’s Dana Bash pointed
out, Trump had been against the Iran
Deal since it was announced in July
2015, so he didn’t actually betray
himself.
Facts are stubborn things, Chris!
The relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on May
8:
MSNBC’s Hardball
May 8, 2018
7:14 p.m. Eastern [TEASE]
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking the Deal]
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Coming up, President Trump pulls America
out of the Iran nuclear deal that we thought that this was the big
story all afternoon. It's a move critics say makes us less safe, I
think so, and it could lead to war. Remember when Trump
campaigned on no more stupid wars in the Middle East? Well,
now the neocons have his ear and that's over with. So much for
the argument against stupid wars. He is now heading towards
one, perhaps.
(....)
7:19 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: For a President who came into office decrying the
dangerous war talk of the neocon crowd, he’s doing a pretty good
job of imitating them. In his biggest foreign policy move to date,
President Trump today announced he was withdrawing the
United States from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstating
sanctions related to their nuclear program.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: This was a horrible one-sided
deal that should have never, ever been made. [SCREEN WIPE]
It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb
under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.
The Iran deal is defective at its core. [SCREEN WIPE] America
will not be held hostage to nuclear black mail. We will not allow
American cities to be threatened with destruction and we will not
allow a regime to chants “death to America” to gain access to the
most deadly weapons on Earth.
MATTHEWS: Well, the dangers of Trump’s decisions are clear:
alienating our allies, blowing up a deal that, by all accounts, is
working and most ominously, risking some sort of conflict in the
Middle East. In fact, French President Emanuel Macron told a
German magazine withdrawing from the deal would have dire
consequences. Here's Macron: “That would mean opening up
Pandora's box.” It would mean war, it would mean war. The deal
was implemented to curtail the nuclear program and for all the
President's tough talk today, he offered no evidence it wasn't
working. In fact, the IAEA, which monitors Iran’s program, said as
recently as March Iran was complying.
IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL YUKIYA AMANO: As of today, I
can state Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments.
We have had access to all the sites and locations which we
needed to visit.
MATTHEWS: Joining me now from London is NBC News chief
foreign correspondent Richard Engel. Joe Cirincione is president
of the Plow Shares Fund and an MSNBC national security
analyst and Nayerra Haq is a former State Department official in
the Obama administration. I want to start with Joe. There was no
violation claimed by the United States even Trump with his full
cry of neoconism today and crazy regime talk and the
whackiness of what he had to say, never once said Iran broke
the deal.
JOE CIRINCIONE: No.
MATTHEWS: So, obviously, they haven't.
CIRINCIONE: Right. Just last week, the State Department says
they are in compliance and the Secretary of Defense —
MATTHEWS: We are the ones that break the deal?
CIRINCIONE: — absolutely. We — we violated the deal and now
this gives Iran a way out. They can basically leave the deal,
without penalty, without consequences. They could restart their
program in a matter of months and this puts us back now without
our allies on our side, without the sanctions that we are able to
put on globally. This puts us back on a path to war where we
were in 2011 and 2013.
MATTHEWS: Exactly. Nayerra, before we got this deal, thanks to
Obama and John Kerry and the rest of them that put it together,
Zarif and all the people around the world that put it together, the
Russians, the French, everybody, who are for the deal. People
like John Bolton were out there banging the drum for war and
they were — and we got the quote. He was actually out there
saying we got to go bomb Iran. We have to bomb Iran. Like the
Bomb Iran the song. Bomb Iran, bomb Iran. Let's take a look at
him. This is John Bolton before. If you want a clue to what could
come next, look at the man who President Trump recently chose
to be his next National Security Adviser, John Bolton, has been
one of the loudest advocates of regime change and has
endorsed a military strike here. Let's watch Bolton here in action.
GRETCHEN CARLSON [on FNC’s The Real Story, 03/30/15]:
You've written an op-ed in The New York Times and here's a
headline, an eye catcher. “To stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran.” What
do you mean?
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JOHN BOLTON [on FNC’s The Real Story, 03/30/15]: Just as
Israel twice before has struck nuclear weapons programs in the
hands of hostile states. I'm afraid, given the circumstances, that's
the only real option open to us now.
JEANINE PIRRO [on Justice with Judge Jeanine, 03/28/15]: You
want to bomb them, really?
BOLTON [on Justice with Judge Jeanine, 03/28/15]: Well, I'd
rather we weren't in this position. But we have followed policies
for close to 30 years now that have left us with no other option.
[on Fox & Friends, 01/01/18] There is a lot we can do and we
should do it. Our goal should be regime change in Iran.
MATTHEWS: Okay. Regime, real bold talk by another one of
these chick hawks. I mean, big on talk, you know, no military
experience in his life. Here we go and now they're doing it again,
he said the only alternative to something, to — well, he didn't say
there was an he said the alternative was to attack Iran. Now that
there’s no deal, what’s to stop this character who’s now in the
President's ear from pushing for an attack?
NAYYERRA HAQ: Well, let's be clear, he is the brains behind the
operation at this point because President Trump himself is driven
by pettiness against Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: Right.
HAQ: He calls himself a dealmaker. There’s not a deal he hasn’t
pulled the United States out of and he hasn't struck any deals in
time of office either. You have John Bolton —
MATTHEWS: He just wants to erase Barack Obama like saying
he’s a foreigner who snuck in the country and then get rid of
ObamaCare and get rid of this.
HAQ: — right and John Bolton is the one who has an ideology
and its regime change. Regime change appeared in this speech
out of nowhere, when this really was a technical deal directed at
stopping Iran from a nuclear bomb. This was never a deal
intended or even presented as something that was supposed to
stop Iran from all of its other nefarious activities in the region.
MATTHEWS: Of course, we all knew that at the time that the
deal was about nuclear development. Anyway, President
Trump's predecessor Barack Obama has here issued a rare
statement rebuking today's announcement as misguided. Well,
that’s understated. Barack Obama wrote: “The reality is clear.
The [agreement], is working – that is a view shared by our
European allies, independent experts, and the current U.S.
Secretary of Defense....I believe that the decision to put the
[agreement] at risk without any Iranian violation of the deal is a
serious mistake. Without the [agreement], the United States
could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-
armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.” In a joint
statement, the leaders of England, France, and Germany said: “It
is with regret and concern that we...take note of President
Trump’s decision to withdraw...This agreement remains important
to our shared security.” On the other hand, leaders of Israel,
Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates all publically backed
President Trump’s decision. And now let's go to Richard Engel
on this. Richard, what do you make of this amazing — we saw
this coming. It's been coming for a long time. But here we are,
breaking in the pottery barn, we’re breaking something that we
will now have to fix.
just smacks of pettiness, getting rid of the Paris agreement,
getting rid of ObamaCare, getting rid of Obama in the history
books. Thank you, Richard Engel, Joe Cirincione, and Nayerra
Haq. Much more of you fellas when we come back as we’re
going to be talking about this, unfortunately, for a long time.
(....)

RICHARD ENGEL: Well, sometimes news can be both 7:58 p.m. Eastern
anticipated and shocking at the same time and I think that's what
happened now. People that I have been speaking to think that
there were several consequences that are going to come from
this. It decreases trust in U.S. commitments. It emboldens the
hardliners in Iran. It makes conflict in the region more likely and it
surrenders the moral high ground to Iran, none of those positive
outcomes.

MATTHEWS: Do you think it's possible that they will re — re —

resume their nuclear program?

ENGEL: It's possible. I wouldn't say that is going to be their first

action. If you heard Rouhani, the President of Iran, who was
standing by at the podium. He was ready to go with a statement.
MATTHEWS: Trump Watch, Tuesday May 8th, 2018. The big
The Trump's speech was broadcast live in Iran even though it
thing is he promised just the opposite. Donald Trump, the
was almost midnight and then it switched right into Rouhani's
candidate, railed against stupid wars. We all — even those who
statement, he said that Iran was going to stick with the deal, that
didn't vote for him — cheered that one candidate in 2016 saw the
it was a five — P5+1 deal, meaning the permanent members of
stupidity of the Iraq War. The terrible nature of this push for
the UN Security Counsel plus one, plus Germany. He said now
regime change and in every case where we didn't like the
it's just five, but we’re going to stick with the deal and we’re keep
government. We wanted someone to blow the whistle on this
ahead and our economy is strong and he added this threat. But if
American arrogance. Trump did. He railed against the Iraq War
there is no benefit for Iran and the deal effectively collapses
and the stupidity and arrogance that went with it and today, he
entirely, then we could restart our industrial nuclear program, as
moved to kill the deal with Iran that promised to be an alternative
he called it, but I think that was really a sign to the hardliners
to the hawks pushing for an American attack on that country.
because he now faces a serious problem within the country.
What do we expect now? Well, this we know. Prior to the deal
There are many people in Iran who told him and told the people,
President Obama struck with Iran, people like John Bolton were
never trust the U.S., don't do a deal with the United States, that
all out there pushing for an American attack on Iran's nuclear
they're never going to commit to this deal. They'll never honor it
sites. Now that same John Bolton is sitting in the White House
and now they will go back to Rouhani and say we are, we were
directing U.S. security policy. Does anyone not think he's hoping
correct. So if he can continue to have money coming in and have
that Trump will join him in his goal of the U.S. strike? John Bolton
some sort of deal functioning with the other signatories of this
doesn't change like Dick Cheney and those like him. He's always
deal, then I think he stays on. But if that start to wither and it
for the war option, always ready to cry bombs away knowing that
starts to fall apart and the hardliners get more and more of a
others will be the ones in the air and in the fields facing the
voice, then you’re going to see internal conflict within Iran. You’re
enemy. I think all of the people voted for Trump believing he
going to see this entire structure breaking down and I think over
would stop this endless call for war should take notice. The
time, maybe not even over a large period of time, we’re going to
President who spoke today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern was not the
see increased tensions and the risk of conflict in the Middle East.
candidate who promised so loudly and relentlessly he would stop
this endless push for stupid wars. And that is Hardball for now.
MATTHEWS: And part of this just looks like Trump's obsession
with getting rid of anything that Barack Obama accomplished. It
.

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 Tucker Battles Dem On
Left’s Obsession With Russian Collusion
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:43 PM 05/08/2018

Cicilline claimed that Democrats are hyper-focused on the

economy and that it is actually Republicans who won’t
stop talking about Russia because they are trying to hide
their alleged lack of accomplishments.

“On the one hand you’re sort of right, that it

Screen Shot Tucker Carlson and David Cicilline (Fox News: May 8,
2018)
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson burst out laughing Tuesday
when Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline
insisted his party is not pushing the Russian collusion
narrative.
does help Republicans, but this is being
driven 100 percent by the left and to say
otherwise is dishonest,” Carlson, a co-
founder of The Daily Caller, replied. “Part of
you must feel shame for saying things that
you know are not true.”
Nonetheless, Cicilline doubled down, asserting that
“[Democrats] want this investigation to be completed!’

WATCH: “You’re the one who talks about it all the

time!” Cicilline added. “I’m happy to talk
about the economic agenda of Democrats.”

Carlson couldn’t help but laugh as Cicilline continued to

argue that Republicans are actually the ones responsible
for pushing Russian collusion.

“I’m not even annoyed, I’m just amused by

how ludicrous this is,” Carlson concluded.

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 Bozell & Graham Column:
Thou Shalt Not Question Mueller
By Brent Bozell And Tim Graham
May 8, 2018 10:51 PM EDT
The television networks have flooded us with hours and
hours of coverage of the Robert Mueller probe, still
looking under every rock for some sign of Russian
collusion with the Trump campaign. But on May 5, a
federal judge harshly blasted Mueller’s tactics in court,
even going to far as to challenge the scope of his authority
in this probe.
Was this a big story for our objective press, insisting they
give us a dispassionate examination of the facts? No. NBC
and CBS gave it 30 seconds combined. ABC devoted two
minutes to it and that was that.
A new Media Research Center study shows in the first
four months of 2018, these three networks have aired 320
minutes of evening-news coverage of the Russia
investigation, and the tone for Trump was 98 percent
negative. When you’re this close to perfectly negative,
why wreck the trend?
At least the Washington Post put the judge’s bombshell
rebuke on the front page Saturday. The New York Times
buried it on the bottom of A-13, below other Trump-
scandal stories.
On the taxpayer-subsidized airwaves, PBS NewsHour
offered nothing. NPR asked one question to a reporter at
the end of an interview on Saturday morning’s Weekend
Edition. This was a story breaking on a Friday, but it didn’t
make either network’s regular “Week in Review” panel.
This was a test for the Mueller-obsessed media – and they
flunked. They are thoroughly invested in how Mueller’s
team can help them damage, or even end the Trump
presidency. They have zero interest in undermining their
white knight. Apparently they’re not alone.
''You don't really care about Mr. Manafort's
bank fraud,'' federal judge T. S. Ellis III
scolded Mueller’s team during a court
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hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. ''You really
care about getting information that Mr.
Manafort can give you that would reflect on
Mr. Trump and lead to his prosecution or
impeachment or whatever.''
He added,
''I don't see what relation this indictment
has with anything the special counsel is
authorized to investigate....'What we don't
want in this country is we don't want
anyone with unfettered power.''
It can’t get much tougher than that.
Mueller would appear to have unfettered power over the
networks, too. While they have used the Russia
investigation to bury Trump in negative evaluations, they
haven’t shown any interest in transparency for Mueller and
his supervisor, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Judge Ellis and House Republicans have demanded the
Mueller fully disclose the (so far heavily redacted)
contents of the Rosenstein instructions he was given as to
the scope of his investigation.
On January 3, when Manafort’s lawyers challenged
Mueller’s investigation as too broad, ABC gave that one
51 seconds, NBC gave it 30 seconds, and CBS gave it 13
seconds. Add it up, and so far this year, by our count, the
networks have devoted roughly four minutes to serious
allegations of Mueller’s overreach with a team of
investigators who clearly believe they have the power to
delve into anyone’s private life if it will harm the
president.
That’s sure not how these transparently liberal networks
treated Kenneth Starr when he threatened the Clinton
presidency. Back then, the Center for Media and Public
Affairs found that in the last four months of 1998, Ken
Starr’s network evening-news evaluations were 13 percent
positive, and 87 percent negative. In the same time frame,
Bill Clinton received 37 percent positive coverage -- while
he was being impeached!
Liberals pretend that criticizing or questioning Mueller
reeks of obstruction of justice, but the public isn’t buying
this nonsense. The Media Research Center has
documented that from January to April, there was another
long stretch of 90 percent negative coverage on the
evening news. Yet Trump’s approval ratings went up.
 CNN Eases Liberal Fears Of Trump
Lawsuits Ending After AG Resignation
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 8, 2018 11:20 PM EDT

before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Impeccable credentials. Very, very well
regarded,” he explained, effectively
vouching for her and reassuring people the
suits against Trump would continue.

Of course, following the resignation of New York

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) for allegations
of beating his various girlfriends over the years, a key
concern for the liberal media has been ensuring his litany
of litigation against President Trump would continue
onward.
Despite Schneiderman’s predicament, Louis touted his
It was a major point of discussion during CNN Newsroom “pretty aggressive” work in going after the President:
Tuesday afternoon as host Brianna Keilar questioned CNN
political commentator and NY1 host Errol Louis about the
The chart that you just put up shows that
future of the numerous lawsuits.
many of them are really kind of defiant of
the Trump administration reflecting Eric
“One of the biggest champions of the Schneiderman's penchant for taking on
#MeToo movement is now being powerful forces if he thought the cause was
investigated over allegations that he right.
physically abused women,” Keilar began
the segment. “He has also spearheaded “So, on questions like DACA, Trump
several legal efforts that include those University, he was front and center. The
against Trump University, for DACA, Muslim ban, the travel ban those cases
and also against the President's travel will continue, without question,” he
ban.” added.

After wondering to her guest about how odd it was for
Schneiderman to act as he did in private given his outward
persona, Keilar went right to the heart of the concerns for
liberals everywhere:
“So what happens now to the cases that
he is working on?”
Louis immediately began to try to calm the fears of CNN’s
viewers by explaining how the cases were in the “very
good hands” of Acting AG Barbara Underwood.
“Very well regarded. She was the
solicitor general. Has argued 20 cases
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Keilar’s next tone deaf concern was how the allegations
allowed for Schneiderman's critics to take shots at him.
“And Donald Trump Jr., for instance,
has been celebrating the news.
Kellyanne Conway tweeted ‘gotcha.’ It
gives a lot of ammunition to
Schneiderman's enemies, this story
does,” she complained.
Louis responded by chiding Trump Jr. and Conway, telling
them they shouldn’t get their hopes up because another
anti-Trump liberal would just fill the position.
 “The reality is, whoever inherits that
seat, if they are a liberal democratic, and
the politics all lean in that direction they
are going to continue what the last three
attorneys general have done,” he
boasted. “I mean, before Schneiderman
there was Cuomo. Before Andrew
Cuomo, there was Elliot Spitzer. All of
them have been very aggressive, hitting
these national issues.”
It’s sick and twisted that. while covering the story of a
major New York Democrat who allegedly beat his
girlfriends over the years, CNN thought it was important to
clarify what would happen to his cases targeting Trump.
The transcript is below:
CNN Newsroom
May 8, 2018
3:42:44 PM Eastern
BRIANNA KEILAR: One of the biggest champions of the #MeToo
movement is now being investigated over allegations that he
physically abused women. New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman abruptly resigned last night just a few hours after
The New Yorker published details from four women, two of them
on the record accusing Schneiderman of assault, non-
consensual violence during sex and issuing death threats again
them. Schneiderman denies the charges against him. He has
also spearheaded several legal efforts that include those against
Trump University, for DACA, and also against the President's
travel ban. Joining me now, CNN political commentator Errol
Lewis.
(…)
KEILAR: So what happens now to the cases that he is working
on?
ERROL LOUIS: Well the cases themselves will be in very good
hands actually. Barbara Underwood who is going to be running
the office. She is the acting attorney general now. Very well
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regarded. She was the solicitor general. Has argued 20 cases
before the U.S. Supreme Court. Impeccable credentials. Very,
very well regarded.
So, the cases themselves will continue. Some of them are pretty
aggressive. The chart that you just put up shows that many of
them are really kind of defiant of the Trump administration
reflecting Eric Schneiderman's penchant for taking on powerful
forces if he thought the cause was right.
So, on questions like DACA, Trump University, he was front and
center. The Muslim ban, the travel ban those cases will continue,
without question. I think the larger question though is who is
going to inherit them? And what will be the nature of their stance
not only toward the Trump administration but frankly towards
Wall Street? I mean a whole other part of Eric Schneiderman's
portfolio dealt with suing companies like Goldman Sachs. You
know, he was really front and center, very, very prominent. It's
somewhat the nature of the position. In part because state laws
cover a lot of activity on Wall Street.
KEILAR: And he was taking on Harvey Weinstein and his brother
as well in addition to Wall Street and in addition to Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump Jr., for instance, has been celebrating the
news. Kellyanne Conway tweeted “gotcha.” It gives a lot of
ammunition to Schneiderman's enemies, this story does.
LOUIS: It does. But I have to tell you -- and I wrote about this on
CNN.com. I mean, that's a passing phenomenon. The reality is --
and Donald Trump Jr. shouldn't get his hopes up about this, nor
Kellyanne Conway. The reality is, whoever inherits that seat, if
they are a liberal democratic, and the politics all lean in that
direction they are going to continue what the last three attorneys
general have done.
I mean, before Schneiderman there was Cuomo. Before Andrew
Cuomo, there was Elliot Spitzer. All of them have been very
aggressive, hitting these national issues, taking on Wall Street,
taking on powerful enemies all over the place because it is really
a very important kind of national perch. A lot of national issues,
national ambitions are hatched right there in that attorney
general's office. That's not going to stop just because we had
somebody resign under a cloud.
 Puh-LEEZE! Andrea Mitchell Helps
Obama Sound Iran Deal Alarm, FAIL Ensues
By Doug P.
Posted At 12:15 Am On May 9, 2018

On Tuesday, former President Obama said President

Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the JCPOA (Iran
deal) was a “serious mistake.” Obama also said “the
consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a
party to risks eroding America’s credibility.”

NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell seems to totally agree:

Maybe Team Obama’s arrogance was enhanced by the

absolute certainty that Hillary Clinton would win and keep
all of Obama’s legacy agenda items in place.
Michell says this as if it’s a new thing that can happen to
agreements a president decides to enter into unilaterally
without congressional consent:

So no matter what happens now, what they

have basically said to the rest of the world
is that we are not obeying an agreement
that we signed. Now the United States of
American under one administration can
sign a deal, but it may not be accepted by
future presidents.

“Live by pen & phone, die by pen & phone” seems to be a

new concept to Andrea.

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 ABC Fails To Mention AG
Accused Of Beating His Girlfriends Is A Democrat
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 9, 2018 12:43 AM EDT
It took former Democratic New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman three hours to resign Monday night
after accusations arose alleging he would violently strike
his girlfriends without their consent. But throughout ABC
World News Tonight’s two-minutes-and-21-second report
on the situation, there was not a single mention of the fact
that he was an elected Democrat. In contrast, both CBS
and NBC noted that important detail.
Over on CBS Evening News, Schneiderman’s party
affiliation was mentioned not once, not twice, but three
times.
“He was at the forefront of the #MeToo
movement. Now a top Democratic
official is accused of sexual abuse,”
anchor Jeff Glor stated during the opening
tease for the program.
Glor repeated himself while he was introducing the
segment:
“One prominent politician's career
imploded with shocking speed last
night. New York State's Democratic
attorney general went from a hero of the
#MeToo movement to a pariah within
hours.”
A short time later, reporter Jericka Duncan played a
soundbite of New Yorker magazine investigative reporter
Ronan Farrow, who broke the story, explaining why
Schneiderman’s party ID played a role:
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These are women who had nothing to gain
by coming forward, and everything to lose.
Many of them hesitated for quite some
time. Their friends and loved ones told
them don't do this, either because they
feared that there would be that retaliation
or because they just felt his work for the
Democratic Party was too good and too
important to jeopardize.
Although they only noted it once, NBC Nightly News also
felt it was necessary to point out that Schneiderman
belonged to the Democratic Party.
“His downfall, all the more mind-
boggling, because Schneiderman, a
Democrat, publicly was a champion of
women, suing Harvey Weinstein for
sexually harassing employees,” reported
Anne Thompson.
It wasn’t like ABC was pressed for time because they gave
it an entire report and had ample opportunity to note that
detail. “New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is
out of a job tonight after a New Yorker investigation
detailed allegations of violence and abuse by seven women
he'd been involved with,” announced anchor David Muir
as the segment began.
And as ABC reporter Linsey David’s report started, she
led off by bizarrely describing Schneiderman as a
“casualty.”
“New York’s highest-ranking law
enforcement officer dethroned tonight,
another casualty from the #MeToo
 movement he so vehemently
supported,” she said.
It’s very disappointing that ABC would continue to play
the typical partisan games while covering something so
disturbing. If the parties were reversed, there’s no doubt
they would have noted he was Republican several times
and ask for reaction from his colleagues.
The transcript is below:
ABC's World News Tonight
May 8, 2018
6:37:50 PM Eastern
DAVID MUIR: Next here, the major resignation that took effect
just moments ago right here in New York City. New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman is out of a job tonight after a New
Yorker investigation detailed allegations of violence and abuse by
seven women he'd been involved with. It is a stunning fall tonight
for a man who said he was a champion, an advocate for women.
Here's ABC's Linsey Davis.
[Cuts to video]
LINSEY DAVIS: New York’s highest-ranking law enforcement
officer dethroned tonight, another casualty from the #MeToo
movement he so vehemently supported. Taking legal action
against Harvey Weinstein. Making public statements like this –
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN: We must reimagine a world where
predators are exposed and held to account and survivors are
supported and empowered at every level.
DAVIS: Four women now tell New Yorker magazine that
Schneiderman is actually an abuser who physically attacked
them. Two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya
Selvaratnam, spoke on the record, alleging "he repeatedly hit
them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their
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consent." And say that "he threatened to kill them if they broke up
with him."
RONAN FARROW: These women talk about slapping, hitting,
choking. We reviewed medical records and spoke to a doctor
who said that an ear was bleeding long after the incident.
DAVIS: Just three weeks ago, Schneiderman tweeted support for
those "who spoke up about the sexual harassment they endured
at the hands of powerful men." Now Barish tells the magazine,
"You cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them
and choking them in bed," adding Schneiderman told her, "I am
the law."
ANDREW CUOMO: No one is above the law. These women
should have their day in court.
DAVIS: Schneiderman initially responded to the allegations
saying: "In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged
in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not
assaulted anyone." Then, just three hours after the article was
posted, he submitted his resignation, saying that while he
strongly contests the accusations, "They will effectively prevent
me from leading the office's work at this critical time."
[Cuts back to live]
MUIR: And Linsey Davis here with us here tonight. I know Linsey
and the team talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the writers of this
investigation at the New Yorker. And in the meantime, the
Governor said, “no one is above the law” today, and the
Manhattan DA is now investigating possible criminal charges
here?
DAVIS: That's right, David. And based on the allegations there
are several possible crimes here, including assault and
harassment. And some of these allegations would fall within the
statute of limitations.
MUIR: All right Linsey, you’ll stay on it. Thank you very much.
 ‘Why Wouldn’t We Win?’ Donald Trump Celebrates
Successful Republican Primaries
By Charlie Spiering
9 May 2018

In North Carolina, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) survived a

tough primary challenge by lobbyist Scott Dacey.

Trump specifically praised Ohio Attorney General Mike

DeWine who won the Republican primary for Governor of
Ohio over his opponent Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who was
backed by outgoing Gov. John Kasich.

“He will be a great Governor with a heavy

focus on HealthCare and Jobs,” Trump
wrote. “His Socialist opponent in November
should not do well, a big failure in last job!”

Trump signaled optimism that Republicans would do well

in the midterms.
President Donald Trump celebrated the
conclusion of several Republican
primaries across the country and looked
forward to the midterm elections.
“The Republican Party had a great night,”
Trump wrote on Twitter. “Tremendous voter
energy and excitement, and all candidates
are those who have a great chance of
winning in November.”
Republicans held primary elections in West Virginia,
Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey defeated
the establishment-favored Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) and
coal businessman Don Blankenship, signaling a big victory
for grassroots conservatives.
Outsider businessman Mike Braun won the Indiana Senate
Republican primary, defeating two Republican
congressmen currently serving in Washington, DC.
.
“The Economy is sooo strong, and with
Nancy Pelosi wanting to end the big Tax
Cuts and Raise Taxes, why wouldn’t we
win?”
The Republican Party had a great night.
Tremendous voter energy and excitement,
and all candidates are those who have a
great chance of winning in November. The
Economy is sooo strong, and with Nancy
Pelosi wanting to end the big Tax Cuts and
Raise Taxes, why wouldn’t we win?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 9, 2018
Congratulations to Mike Dewine on his big
win in the Great State of Ohio. He will be a
great Governor with a heavy focus on
HealthCare and Jobs. His Socialist
opponent in November should not do well,
a big failure in last job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 9, 2018

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 D’OH! Jim Acosta’s List Of ‘Obama Policies
Dumped By Trump’ Is A MASSIVE Resistance Backfire
By Doug P.
Posted At 12:59 Am On May 9, 2018

President Trump’s announcement that he’d be pulling the Way to go, Jim!
U.S. out of the Iran Deal the Obama administration
brokered angered Dems and a certain former president
who’s concerned about his legacy. After news hit about
Trump and the Iran Deal, CNN’s Jim Acosta served up this
scorecard:

Oh really?

LOL. Acosta can be very helpful to Trump, albeit

accidentally.

Somebody fetch the smelling salts!

Who knew!?

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 Trump: “The United States
No Longer Makes Empty Threats”
“When I Make Promises, I Keep Them.”
Steve Watson | Infowars.Com
May 9, 2018

“Plans are being made. Relationships are

building. Hopefully, a deal will happen. And
with the help of China, South Korea, and
Japan, a future of great prosperity and
security can be achieved for everyone.” the
President added.

Trump’s decision regarding Iran was met with scorn and

indignation by the Islamic Republic, with Ayatollah Seyed
Ali Khamenei stating that Iran will “stand strong” and
outlast Trump whose “corpse” will be “worm food”:

Addressing the decision to pull out of

the Iranian nuclear deal forged by
Obama, President Trump vowed
Tuesday that ‘the United States no
longer makes empty threats.’
“Today’s action sends a critical message:
the United States no longer makes empty
threats,” Trump said, adding “When I make
promises, I keep them.” Iran’s parliament, and its people burned American flags
“As we exit the Iran deal, we will be and chanted their usual tribe of “Death to America!’:
working with our allies to find a real,
comprehensive, and lasting solution to the
Iranian nuclear threat,” Trump said.
“This will include efforts to eliminate the
threat of Iran’s ballistic missile program, to
stop its terrorist activities worldwide, and to
block its menacing activity across the
Middle East.”
“In the meantime, powerful sanction also
go into full effect,” Trump said. “If the
regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it
will have bigger problems than it has ever
had before.”

The President also referred to his ongoing efforts to forge

peace between North and South Korea.

“In fact, at this very moment, Secretary

Pompeo is on his way to North Korea in
preparation for my upcoming meeting with
Kim Jong Un,” Trump said.

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 ABC News lamented that the US is now ‘isolated from its
key allies’, while MSNBC and NBC complained that the
US is now seen as ‘untrustworthy’:

The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that Trump does not

have the “mental capacity” for his job.

“Trump’s abandoning of the nuclear deal

was a diplomatic show… Iran has no
obligation to honor its commitments under
the current situation,” Ali Larijani said. “It is
obvious that Trump only understands the
language of force.”

Meanwhile, the US media freaked out about Trump

overturning Obama’s deal, with CNN declaring that
leaving the deal makes the US less safe, and provides Iran
with a ‘propaganda win’:

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 Iranian Mps Burn US Flag In Parliament,
Chant ‘Death To America’ In Protest Of POTUS Trump
Canceling Nuke Deal
By Kristinn Taylo
May 9, 2018, 1:57 Am

As they chanted, “Death to America!”, members of the

Iranian Parliament (Majlis) burned a United States flag in
Parliament Wednesday in protest of the announcement on
Tuesday by President Donald Trump that he was
withdrawing the U.S. from former President Barack
Obama’s nuclear weapons ‘prevention’ deal with Iran and
reimposing sanctions on Iran. The burning of the flag and a
symbolic copy of the deal was posted online by the Iranian
news agency IRIB News. Screen images:

Another version,
“Be careful, don’t burn down the
parliament!” � Larijani head of Iran
parliament jokes as a group of ‘enlightened’
parliamentarians burn the American flag
and scream “Death to America”

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 On April 30 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali
Khamenei posted a three part statement warning the U.S.
to leave the Middle East or it’s “feet must be cut off from
West Asia”.
“U.S.’s plan is to provoke some ignorant
govts. with little knowledge, in our own
region, to confront the Islamic Republic. If
these govt. officials gain some wisdom,
they won’t confront the Islamic Republic;
but, if they stand against Iran, they will
certainly suffer from defeat.”
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani gave a speech in response “U.S. officials agitate Saudis, creating
to Trump in which he repeatedly slammed the U.S. while discord and chaos in West Asia. Why don’t
also saying he would try to keep the nuclear deal with the you agitate the Zionists? Because they
remaining partners. want to turn Muslims against one another;
thus, avoiding the burden of an outcome
from confronting the Islamic Republic and
the powerful Iranian nation.”
“Wherever U.S. entered, it created
instability, brought misery to people; that’s
why U.S.’s feet must be cut off from West
Asia; U.S. must exit this region. The one
whose feet should be cut off is U.S., not
Islamic Republic. We are from here.
Persian Gulf, West Asia are our home.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif posted his

government’s intentions to preserve the deal,
“In response to US persistent violations &
unlawful withdrawal from the nuclear deal,
as instructed by President Rouhani, I’ll
spearhead a diplomatic effort to examine
whether remaining JCPOA participants can
ensure its full benefits for Iran. Outcome
will determine our response.”

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Video and links to President Trump’s speech on Tuesday
and supporting White House documents and briefings.
.

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 It’s In ‘Our Security Interests
To Get Out Of This Flawed Deal,” Bolton Argues
National Security Adviser Defends U.S. Withdrawal From Iran Nuclear Agreement,
Promises We Will Still Work With Allies On Related Issues
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 09 May 2018 At 6:19 AM

"weakens our security, breaks America's

word, isolates us from our European allies,
puts Israel at greater risk, empowers Iran's
hard-liners, and reduces our global
leverage to address Tehran's misbehavior,
while damaging the ability of future
administrations to make international
agreements."

President Donald Trump “did what he clearly advertised”

by withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear
agreement because “it’s in our security interests to get out
of this flawed deal,” national security adviser John Bolton
said Tuesday in an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle.”

Trump disappointed Democrats and frustrated U.S. allies

Tuesday when he withdrew the U.S. from the Obama-era
nuclear deal. He also signed an order reimposing sanctions
on Iran that had been in place prior to the deal. Despite the
backlash, Bolton argued Trump made the right move by
fulfilling one of his key campaign promises.
Bolton pushed back on Kerry's criticism, noting that the
former secretary of state's main objective
“Look, the fact is the deal has been flawed
from the beginning. I think the president
laid that case out in his statement today,” "was to get a deal. So it's not surprising
Bolton told host Laura Ingraham. “He gave John Kerry's objective today was to keep
the Europeans and others a chance to fix it. the deal. It's the wrong objective. The
It was not doable because the flaws go objective should be to prevent Iran from
right to the foundations of the deal.” getting deliverable nuclear weapons."

“So he did what he clearly advertised he
was going to do as far back as the 2016
campaign — pull the United States out of
the deal. Why? Because it’s in our security
interests to get out of this flawed deal,”
Bolton continued.
The national security adviser spent a significant portion of
the interview highlighting multiple ways in which he
believes Trump's staunchest critics got it wrong and
emphasizing the president's continued willingness to work
with allies on addressing Iran's nuclear program and
stamping out the country's support for terrorism.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry bemoaned Trump's
decision in a statement Tuesday, saying that it
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The Iran nuclear deal, in its current form,
"not only didn't accomplish that objective —
in many ways it facilitated Iran's efforts," he
argued.
"So what President Trump did by pulling
out of the deal is get back to what the real
objective should be — stopping this
dangerous regime from threatening us and
our friends around the world with nuclear
weapons," Bolton added.
Despite Trump's Tuesday decision, the U.S. still is
committed to working
 "with the Europeans and others not only on
the nuclear issue, but on Iran's ballistic
missile development, its continuing support
for terrorism, and ... military activities that
jeopardize our friends like Israel and the
Arab States in the region," he said.
But any actions the U.S. takes must
"do something effective about Iran's malign
influence in the Middle East and not paper
it over and pretend that we've actually
stopped them."
In response to Trump's critics' claims that the president
made his decision with insufficient information and a lack
of open-mindedness, Bolton said Trump reached his
decision only after sifting through a variety of viewpoints
and arguments.
"[Trump] has listened to everybody who
wanted to talk to him, up to and including
over the weekend with Prime Minister
[Theresa] May of Great Britain," he said.
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"He gave every one of them a chance to try
to fix the deal, and unfortunately they didn't
come close because the deal itself is
inherently flawed."
"Iran should not have uranium enrichment
and plutonium reprocessing capabilities.
That's what we're going to ask of North
Korea. That's what we ought to be thinking
of," Bolton said.
Trump announced the United States' withdrawal from the
Iran deal shortly after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
arrived in North Korea to continue negotiations to
denuclearize the peninsula. Although many of Trump's
critics worried that the Iran deal announcement would
thwart Pompeo's negotiations, Bolton argued otherwise.
"President Trump said this sends North
Korea a signal that we're not in these
discussions with Kim Jong-un just to have
a deal. We're in them to denuclearize North
Korea," Bolton said. "It's an indication of
how serious President Trump is."
 Donald Trump Announces Freedom
For American Citizens Detained In North Korea
By Charlie Spiering
9 May 2018

Trump also announced he would travel to Andrews Air

Force Base to personally welcome the three freed
detainees home to the United States.

“Secretary Pompeo and his ‘guests’ will be

landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 2:00
A.M. in the morning,” he wrote. “I will be
there to greet them. Very exciting!”

Trump praised Pompeo’s successful meeting with Kim,

looking forward to his upcoming summit with the North
Korean dictator.

“Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un,” he

President Donald Trump announced
Wednesday morning that Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo was returning from
North Korea after successfully
negotiating the release of three
American citizens.
“I am pleased to inform you that Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on
his way back from North Korea with the 3
wonderful gentlemen that everyone is
looking so forward to meeting,” Trump
announced on Twitter. “They seem to be in
good health.”
Kim Dong-chul of Virginia was detained in 2015,
sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of espionage
and subversion. Accounting Professor Tony Kim and
Pyongyang University Professor Kim Hak-song were
both detained in 2017.
.
wrote. “Date & Place set.”
I am pleased to inform you that Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on
his way back from North Korea with the 3
wonderful gentlemen that everyone is
looking so forward to meeting. They seem
to be in good health. Also, good meeting
with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 9, 2018
Secretary Pompeo and his “guests” will be
landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 2:00
A.M. in the morning. I will be there to greet
them. Very exciting!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
May 9, 2018

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 Here’s Trump’s Plan To Bypass Dems And Cut $15 Billion
The Chief Executive Is Turning To The Little-Used 'Rescission' Process To Begin
Rolling Back This Year's $1.3 Trillion Spending Explosion
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 09 May 2018 At 6:57 AM
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dusted off a tool that
has not been used in nearly two decades to cut spending in
a way that avoids a Democratic filibuster.
The budget mechanism, known as “rescission,” allows the
president to identify unneeded spending. Congress can
accept it with simple majorities in both houses. Crucially,
that would allow the spending cuts to be passed without
any Democratic votes.
The White House proposes cuts totaling $15.4 billion from
the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending measure that became
law last month.
“The Trump administration and Congress
must be responsible with each taxpayer
dollar that comes to Washington,” deputy
budget director Russell Vought wrote
Monday in The Wall Street Journal. “Every
member of Congress should support these
rescissions.”
The cuts would be a tiny share of the federal budget, and
even smaller considering that most of the reductions would
be eliminating unobligated funds, such as money
remaining in accounts for defunct programs.
White House officials said the rescissions would reduce
actual spending by only about $3 billion.
About $7 billion would come from the Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) but would not affect benefits to
any of the low-income families that receive them. More
than 30 programs would be cut.
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Still, taking the money off the books would prevent
Congress from redirecting money to other programs. The
proposal drew qualified praise from conservative activists
and budget hawks.
“Our federal government is set to spend
more than $300 billion in interest payments
alone this year, and those payments are
set to rise significantly in coming years as
federal spending continues to outpace
economic growth,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)
said in a statement.
Club for Growth President David McIntosh also praised
the request.
“This rescission package is an initial step in
President Trump keeping his promises to
the American people to control spending,”
he said in a statement.
Jenny Beth Martin, chairwoman of the Tea Party Patriots
Citizens Fund, called it a “good first step” in the effort to
control spending.
“This is money that cannot be spent so it
shouldn’t be spent,” she said in a
statement. “It should be returned to
taxpayers as a down payment on future
rescissions and spending cuts that the
Republican congressional leadership has
promised multiple times.”
Conservatives have been in open revolt against the
Republican-controlled Congress since lawmakers reached
a bipartisan deal in March on a $1.3 trillion spending bill,
which eliminated spending caps that had slowed spending
in previous years. The deal set up the federal government
for massive increases in defense and discretionary
domestic spending in future years.
In that context — and an overall federal budget that totals
some $4 trillion — the cuts proposed by Trump will not do
much to staunch the endless flow of red ink. But it is a
start, according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
“In a $4 trillion budget, there are bound to
be funds we simply don’t need; the
president deserves credit for trying to
identify some of these dollars,” she said in
a statement. “Congress should seriously
consider the president’s proposed
rescission package, or at least a subset of
it.”
The rescission process has not been used since Bill Clinton
was president. But before fiscal year 2001, presidents
routinely made rescission requests. According to the
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, presidents
proposed $76 billion in rescissions from 1974 through
2000 — with lawmakers accepting about $25 billion.
MacGuineas called on Congress to give the president
greater authority to cut unneeded spending.
“Meanwhile, members of both parties
should work together to identify wasteful
spending and tax breaks to cut while
pursuing the revenue and entitlement
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reforms that will be needed to truly slow the
rapidly rising and unsustainable growth of
red ink,” she stated.
Some conservatives, however, derided the move as empty
symbolism. Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-
Governance, argued that the cuts — even if approved —
hardly qualify as a big accomplishment.
“The cuts are a symbolic gesture in
recognition of the fact that conservatives in
the Republican base were upset by the
spending bill,” he said in a statement.
“They were upset at the exploding deficits.
But this is not a meaningful change. While
a symbolic change is better than no
change, it can be even more damaging if it
lulls us into inaction.”
Trump likely will get no help from Democrats.
“Everybody doesn’t spend down to the very
[last] penny, but you channel it into other
areas that are supportive of the purpose of
that money in the first place,” House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
said during an interview with Politico
Playbook. “That’s not an unusual thing.”
FLASHBACK… Trump Lectures Obama: US Hostages In
Iran Should Have Been Released Before Deal Was Made
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 8:12 Am

In January 2016 during the presidential

campaign businessman Donald Trump
lectured Barack Obama on deal-making.
Donald Trump condemned Obama for
not forcing the Iranian regime to release
US prisoners before any deal was made.

Donald Trump:

I have been mentioning this so much. And

I guarantee you the United States has been
putting so much pressure, “Please give us
our prisoners back. Please, please, On Tuesday President Trump
please!” This should have been done three announced the US prisoners in North
or four years ago before the deal was Korea are on their way back home to the
struck. Before the deal was made. And this United States with Secretary of State
was the world’s longest deal. They should Mike Pompeo.
have said we want our prisoners back. This is a major win for the United States
and President Trump.

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 ANOTHER WIN FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP:
US Prisoners In North Korea Are On
Their Way Back Home
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 8:24 Am

ANOTHER WIN FOR THE UNITED STATES AND

PRESIDENT TRUMP–

The three US prisoners held in North

Korea are on their way back to the
United States.

The prisoners will arrive at 2:00 AM.

President Trump made the announcement this morning.

In January 2016 during the presidential campaign

businessman Donald Trump lectured Barack Obama on
deal-making. Donald Trump condemned Obama for not
forcing the Iranian regime to release US prisoners before
any deal was made.

Today Trump came through with

another promise and the American
hostages are coming back home.
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 TRUMP Says US Will Not Allow Regimes That Chant
“Death To America!” To Have Nukes – Iran Responds
With “Death To America!” Chants
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 9:30 Am

America will not be held hostage to nuclear

President Trump announces US will not blackmail. We will not allow American cities
allow regimes that chant “death to to be threatened with destruction. And we
America” to have nukes. will not allow a regime that chants
“Death to America” to gain access to
Last night the Iranian regime the most deadly weapons on Earth.
responded.
In response the Iranian regime chanted “Death to
America!” and burned US flags in parliament.

Via Reddit The Donald:

On Tuesday President Trump announced the US will not

allow a regime that chants “Death to America” to gain
access to nuclear weapons.

In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum

to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian
regime. We will be instituting the highest level of
economic sanction. Any nation that helps Iran in its quest
for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by
the United States.

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 Legal Expert Gregg Jarrett: Jeff Sessions And Rod
Rosenstein Should Be Held In Contempt! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 9:37 Am

FOX News Legal Expert Gregg Jarrett

discussed yesterday why AG Jeff
Sessions and Assistant AG Rod
Rosenstein should be held in contempt.

Josh Caplan tweeted –

Gregg Jarrett on why Sessions and Rosenstein must be

held in contempt: The FBI and DOJ redacted the very
documents they kept secret in order to cover up the
corruption of James Comey and Robert Mueller.

It is clear that holding Sessions and

Rosenstein in contempt of Congress is
a good start. Then lock them up!

Here is the video –

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 Khamenei Threatens Trump In Tweet Storm:
“Mr. Trump, You Couldn’t Lift A Finger If You Tried”
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 9:47 Am
President Donald Trump announced on
Tuesday the UN will exit the Iranian
nuclear deal – the JCPOA.
President Trump then signed an
executive order to exit Obama and
Kerry’s disastrous Iran nuclear weapons
deal.
In response to Trump’s decision the
Iranian parliament burned US flags and
chanted “Death to America!”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Seyed Ali Khamenei went off on
President Trump in a tweet storm on
Wednesday night.
Ayatollah Khamenei threatened the US president:
“Mr. Trump, you couldn’t lift a finger if
you tried”
Ayatollah Khamenei:
Last night you heard the shallow
statements Trump made. There were
several lies in his speech. He threatened
the Iranian govt. and the Iranian nation,
claiming he would do one thing or another.
On behalf of Iranian nation:
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“Mr. Trump, you couldn’t lift a finger if
you tried.”
— U.S. pres.’s shallow & ludicrous behavior wasn’t
unexpected. The same behavior existed in previous US
presidents. Yet, Iranian nation is persistent while former
U.S. presidents passed away & IRI is still standing. This
man’s corpse will also be worm food while IRI stands
strong. — A few days ago Trump wrote a letter to leaders
of #PersianGulf states, which was revealed to us. He
wrote:
“I spent $7 trillion and you must do
something in return.”
The U.S. wants to own humiliated slaves. The reason for
the U.S.’s enmity towards the Islamic Republic’s
establishment is that the United States had thorough
domination over Iran, but the Islamic Revolution severed
its hands from Iran. — Nuclear energy is a necessity for
the country; according to experts, in the next few years the
country will need 20K megawatts of nuclear-generated
electricity made by nuclear plants. U.S.’s problem with
Iran is not the nuclear energy; that’s just an excuse. We
accepted the #JCPOA but animosities towards the Islamic
Republic never ended.” If we agree with them on the issue
of our presence in the region and our missiles, the U.S.’s
problem with Iran won’t be over. The U.S. will create a
new problem. — I don’t trust these three EU countries
either. If the govt. wants to make a contract, they should
ask for a guarantee, or else they will all do just as the U.S.
did. If there’s not definite guarantee, the #JCPOA cannot
continue.
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 It’s Official – AG Jeff Sessions In
California Presser Divulges He Is A Part Of The Deep State
– He Absolutely Must Go!
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 10:05 Am

question and answer period Sessions responded to a query

about Congressman’s Devin Nunez’s statements on
Sunday. Sessions responded –

The Department of Justice has written him a letter and to

responded appropriate to him. Ah. The request he’s made
is one that the intelligence communities and the
Department of Justice feels is not grant-able. We
explained that we liked, that we’d be willing to talk to him
about it before the details about which I’ve written to him
can be discussed.

On Monday the US Attorney General

Jeff Sessions held a press conference
at the San Diego border. During the
presser Sessions replied to a question
surreptitiously admitting he is part of
the Deep State. This is why Congress
wants him held in contempt.

This weekend US House representative Devin Nunes

As Sean Hannity later states in the above video, if these
dropped a bomb on FOX News as reported by Sara Carter
guys don’t do their job and stop the redacting and start
–
providing documents requested by Congress, it is time for
Sessions and Rosenstein to be held in contempt.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
revealed Sunday that Congress will hold Department of
It is now time and it has been time for many months.
Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt for
Sessions’ FBI and DOJ redact documents to cover for their
refusing to turn over classified information the committee
crimes and corruption. They created the phony and
has requested, he stated in a phone interview with Fox and
unconstitutional investigation into President Trump and
Friends.
the non-existent collusion with Russia. This is not a crime
and after many months of investigation, there is no proof
The Department of Justice also shot back on Sunday, of this non-existent crime even occurring.
releasing the letter sent to Nunes on May 3, which
addressed the classified information Nunes had requested.
Based on Sessions actions to date and
It appears from the letter Nunes had asked for information
his now more outward stance above, it
on a specific individual, not yet named and considered by
is clear he is part of the Deep State.
DOJ to be a very valuable person for a counterintelligence
Sessions must be held in contempt.
operation.
Sessions must go.

A day later on Monday, sleepy and corrupt AG Sessions

held a press conference at the US border. During a

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 Comey 'Missing' FBI Officials On
One-Year Anniversary Of His Firing
By Morgan Gstalter
05/09/18 10:54 AM EDT
Former FBI director James Comey said that he is missing
his former colleagues on Wednesday, the one-year
anniversary of his controversial firing by President Trump.
“Missing the people of the FBI today,”
Comey tweeted. “Thank you for your
commitment to truth and for all the good
you do for this country.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is currently conducting a
wide-ranging investigation into Russian interference in the
presidential campaign, including whether Trump
obstructed justice by firing Comey, who was previously in
charge of the probe.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who recently
joined the president's legal team, said last week that
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Trump fired Comey because he refused to tell Trump he
wasn’t a target in the probe.
Giuliani contradicted Trump’s recent claim that he didn’t
fire Comey over the investigation.
When Trump fired Comey last year, however, he
specifically cited the investigation as reasoning for his
decision to oust the top FBI official.
“Regardless of recommendation, I was
going to fire Comey,” Trump said during an
interview with NBC News last May,
insisting "there was no good time to do it."
“And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I
said to myself, ‘You know, this Russia thing
with Trump and Russia is a made-up
story,’" Trump said.
Trump wrote a letter to Comey, informing him of his
firing, and said that the former director had told him he
wasn’t under investigation.
“While I greatly appreciate you informing
me, on three separate occasions, that I am
not under investigation, I nevertheless
concur with the judgment of the
Department of Justice that you are not able
to lead the bureau,” Trump wrote.
Comey, who released a memoir last month, has become a
frequent critic of Trump and his administration.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders said last
month firing Comey will go down as one of
Trump’s “greatest achievements.”
 Report: Secret Source Who Aided Mueller Probe Is
Deemed Off Limits To Congress
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:00 AM 05/09/2018
House Republicans are again battling with the Justice
Department over information related to the Russia
investigation, this time over documents the intelligence
community said involves a top-secret source who has
provided information to the CIA and FBI.
The mysterious source has also gathered information that
was given to Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
election, according to The Washington Post.
WaPo reported Justice Department and intelligence
community officials issued a stark warning to the White
House on May 2 against a request from House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. Nunes had submitted
a subpoena to the Justice Department on April 24 for
records related to the Russia probe.
Justice Department and intelligence community officials
argued to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that
complying with the subpoena would reveal the identity of
a top-secret source and would undermine protocol
regarding intelligence sources, according to WaPo.
WaPo provided one small clue about the source: he or she
is American.
Kelly discussed the issue with Trump, who sided with the
intelligence officials. WaPo noted that it is unclear whether
Trump knew that information from the source has been
shared with Mueller. Trump has been heavily critical of
the Mueller probe, which he has described as a “witch
hunt.”
On Thursday, the day after the White House meeting, the
Justice Department told Nunes that the agency was
“not in a position to provide information
responsive to your request regarding a
specific individual.”
“Disclosure of responsive information to
such requests can risk severe
consequences, including potential loss of
human lives, damage to relationships with
valued international partners, compromise
of ongoing criminal investigations, and
interference with intelligence activities,”
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Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney
general of the Justice Department’s office
of legislative affairs, wrote to Nunes.
Nunes shot back in a statement to WaPo, saying that the
Justice Department is
“citing spurious national security concerns
to evade congressional oversight while
leaking information to The Washington
Post ostensibly about classified meetings.”
Nunes threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in
contempt of Congress for failing to provide the documents
on Sunday.
The standoff is not the first between Nunes and the Justice
Department. The Republican has battled the agency over
other records related to the Russia investigation, including
surveillance warrants granted to the Justice Department to
spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The FBI and Justice Department relied heavily on the
unverified Steele dossier to obtain the spy warrants,
according to documents provided to the House Intel panel.
Nunes also recently threatened to subpoena the Justice
Department for the FBI document that laid out the initial
rationale for the bureau’s counterintelligence investigation
into possible collusion. The investigation was opened on
July 31, 2016 based on information about then-Trump
campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
The Australian government reportedly passed information
to the U.S. government about a barroom conversation that
Papadopoulos had in London in May 2016 with Alexander
Downer, the former Australian High Commissioner to the
United Kingdom. Downer reportedly relayed that
Papadopoulos claimed to have learned the Russian
government had obtained stolen Hillary Clinton emails.
The Daily Caller News Foundation has reported that
Papadopoulos was introduced to Downer by Erika
Thompson, another Australian diplomat.
Two weeks before that meeting, Papadopoulos met in
London with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor and
diplomat who is suspected of being a Russian operative.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to lying to FBI
agents about the timing of his encounters with Mifsud and
with two Russian nationals. He told the special counsel’s
office that Mifsud said in that meeting that a Russian
government official told him about stolen Clinton-related
emails.
Papadopoulos had several other interesting encounters
during the campaign stretch. TheDCNF reported that in
Sept. 2016, he was approached out of the blue by Stefan
Halper, a University of Cambridge professor and former
U.S. government official.
Halper, who works closely at Cambridge with Sir Richard
Dearlove, a former MI6 chief, contacted Papadopoulos
about writing a policy paper on Israeli and Cypriot energy
issues. Halper, an American, paid Papadopoulos $3,000 for
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the paper and covered the cost of his room, board, and a
flight to London. Papadopoulos met with Halper and one
of his assistants for several days in London.
During one of their meetings, Halper asked Papadopoulos
about Russia and emails, according to sources close to
Papadopoulos’s version of the encounters.
TheDCNF also learned that Halper approached two other
Trump campaign advisers, including Carter Page. Halper
invited Page to attend a symposium at Cambridge in July
2016.
Another campaign official told TheDCNF they were
contacted by and met with Halper several days before
Halper’s initial outreach to Papadopoulos. That official,
who did not want to be identified, said they were surprised
to learn of the Papadopoulos encounter.
 MRC's Brent Bozell:
Unhinged Media 'Invested In Seeing' Trump 'Fail'
By NB Staff
May 9, 2018 11:21 AM EDT

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on away credentials,” question mark? Joining us now Media
Wednesday appeared on Fox Business to decry the Research Center President Brent Bozell. Brent, the numbers get
unrelentingly negative coverage Donald Trump has more astounding as we go on. Ninety one percent is just
endured in the first four months of 2018. According to a absolutely astonishing.
new MRC study, 90 percent of the President’s network
press has been hostile. (The same result was found through
all of 2017.) Bozell hammered:

“They simply are not going to say

anything positive about him.... They
have no vested interest in objectivity.”

Regarding CNN attacking Melania Trump as not

“culturally American,” the MRC President hit back:

“It is vindictive and it’s ugly.”

He wondered:
“These are the same people who also
lecture on a daily basis about how
conservatives are responsible for hatred?”
BRENT BOZELL: Yeah. Charles this has been going on since
2016. I think, I don't think I have ever seen anything like this. Not
just that it is almost 100 percent negative coverage, but that it
won't stop. This has been going on every single time we
measured it, month by month, quarter by quarter. I think the best
month he got was during his honeymoon when it went to 85
percent negative. I'm not kidding you there, I am not kidding you.
They are vested in seeing him fail. He has said so and the
evidence is there. Look, during this time period the first
breakthrough in the cold war with North Korea in 60 years. That
didn't generate anything. You’ve have had a strong economy.
That didn't generate anything. You’ve hd a strong jobs report as
a result of his tax cuts, that didn't generate anything. You’ve got
the overreach of Mueller. Look at a judge just two days ago
blasting that investigation.

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

Varney & Company

5/9/18
10:34

CHARLES PAYNE: Now, this: President Trump tweeting about

the negative media coverage. Quote: the fake news is working
overtime. Just reported that despite the tremendous success we
are having with the economy and all things else, 91 percent of
That garnered, believe it or not, that garnered a grand total of
the network news about me is negative quote, fake.” Why do we
combined for CBS, NBC, 30 seconds. They simply are not going
work so hard in, working with the media when it is corrupt? Take
to say anything positive about him. I say the last thing. I find it
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very interesting, and I think it would be a whole lot of fun, if he
were to follow through on that tweet and start banning these
people from covering the White House because they have no
vested interest in objectivity.
PAYNE: I have to tell you, the assaults that I have seen on Sarah
Sanders is remarkable. I want to ask you another one, before I
do, have you ever seen the media to work so hard, to find or
pontificate of potential negatives of good news? In other words, if
the economy is great, maybe it is going to spark inflation. If we do
this, maybe that will happen. What would normally be great
news, they work very hard to try to find what could be the
negative counterfactual.
BOZELL: I like you saying that, Charles, because it is so true. Go
over to CNN look at chyron at the bottom of their stories. I burst
out laughing when I see these things. Just the other day I saw
the headline said, “source” colon. It’s always source colon.
“Macron, French President, disappointed with talks with Trump.”
No kidding, Sherlock. He came here to try to talk him out of
canceling Iran deal. Of course he’s disappointed. Doesn't mean
anything went wrong. So were other people were disappointed
they couldn't move him. There is nothing wrong with that. But
somehow source, colon, there was a problem.
PAYNE: Hey, I got another one for you. Listen to what CNN’s
April Ryan said about First Lady Melania Trump.
APRIL RYAN: This is a First Lady who is not culturally American
but she is learning the ways, and this is not just an American
issue. These are not just American issues.
PAYNE: Brent, your reaction?
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BOZELL: You know, you always say put a Democrat in that
position and see what would happen. I find it curious that ABC
has been running on national news stories about Melania Trump
isn't living in the White House. The White House is laughing
about this story. Everybody, nobody on this set is going to say
that they're surprised about all a the talk about the separation of
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton over a number of years where they
don't seem to be together.
News media would never touch that story. Yet, ABC is all over a
story that somehow the First Lady is not in the White House.
PAYNE: But even on this thing culturally. The same folks that
promote open borders, that promote, supposedly promote, all the
different types of ethnicities and religions in our country, the
mosaic of America, to question her Americanism seems so
farfetched and hypocritical it is beyond the pale.
BOZELL: It is but it’s also personal. It is vindictive and it’s ugly.
Don't you find it a little bit interesting, Charles, these are the
same people who also lecture on a daily basis about how
conservatives are responsible for hatred?
PAYNE: Yeah.
PAYNE: If that isn't hatred of Donald Trump, it would extend to
his wife. Anyone who knows her will tell you she's a class act.
You may not like Donald Trump. That's fine, but to extend it to his
wife? Once upon a time we said that was off bounds.
PAYNE: Yeah, yeah. Brent Bozell, absolutely right. Always
appreciate your work.
BOZELL: Thanks for having me.
 The Morning After: How The World Reacted
To Trump's Withdrawal From The Iran Nuclear Deal
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 05/09/2018 - 11:30
One day after Trump announced he will withdraw the US
from Obama's landmark 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear
program while reinstating the "harshest of sanctions" on
the Persian Gulf country, and giving US allies 180 days to
extricate themselves from Iranian oil deals as it seeks to
economically isolate and curb oil exports from the #3
OPEC producer, this is how the world and capital markets
are reacting.
This following summary, prepared by Bloomberg, includes
reactions from governments and companies in Europe and
Asia, market impact and views from analysts.
EUROPEAN GOVT REACTIONS:
 U.K., France, Germany say they will remain parties to
Iran deal
o Trump’s envoy in Berlin stokes furor over Iran
1 day into role
o U.K.’s Johnson: Iran deals doable without
violating U.S. sanctions
 EU fights to keep Iran nuclear deal alive after Trump’s
exit
o EU vows to protect its economic investments,
interests in Iran
 Spain will defend Iran treaty with European partners,
Rajoy says
 IAEA inspectors say Iran still sticking to nuclear
commitments
 Putin warns of “fragile” world a day after Trump exits
Iran deal
o Russia deeply disappointed by U.S. pullout
from Iran deal
 EU plans to shield its companies if Trump ditches Iran
deal
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EUROPEAN COMPANY REACTIONS:
 Spain’s Cepsa will switch from Iran crude in event of
sanctions
 Poland’s Lotos says Trump decision on Iran is “neutral”
for co.
 Poland’s Orlen says its delivery terms are flexible
 Maersk CEO says fallout of Iran decision is unclear
 Serica looks at implications for North Sea Rhum field
 European cos that rushed into Iran now prepare to rush
back out
 April 19: Total CEO to stop Iran project if no U.S.
exemption
ASIAN GOVT REACTIONS:
 Trump seen facing rebellion from Iran’s biggest oil
customers
 China expresses regret over U.S. decision on Iran
 Japan to seek waiver from U.S. Sanctions on Iranian
crude
o Japan will work to maintain Iran deal: foreign
minister
 S. Korea to seek exemption from U.S. sanctions on
Iran oil
 India sees oil supply from Iran constrained after U.S.
sanctions
ASIAN COMPANY REACTIONS:
 Indian refiners say they’ll look to keep paying Iran in
euros
 Taiwan’s CPC watching crude prices closely on Iran
sanctions
 Taiwan’s Formosa can replace Iran oil with other
Mideast supply
 Fuji Oil says undecided on how to respond to U.S.- Iran
sanctions
 Japan’s Jera says Iran sanctions impact may spread to
LNG market
MARKET/PRODUCER/SUPPLY REACTIONS:
 Oil rises as Trump tells buyers to cut back on Iranian
crude
 Ship insurer group sees big impact from Iran sanctions
  Here’s how the biggest oil buyers can tackle Trump’s
Iran action
 U.S. seeks to quickly curb Iran oil after scrapping deal
 China oil futures trade volume rises to record on Iran
sanctions
 IEA says it stands ready to ensure oil market is well
supplied
 Saudi Arabia ready to “mitigate” impact of Iran
sanctions
 Dubai refiner’s supply dilemma deepened by Trump
Iran deal exit
 Kuwait to help mitigate any shortage in oil supply:
minister
 Barclays: Iran output seen unaffected in 2018 by
Trump move
 Drewry: Sanctions on Iran may create space for shale
exports
 “Disaster” for Asia if U.S. sanctions Iran condensate
 CICC: U.S. sanctions on Iran to keep Brent around
$75- $80
 OANDO: Oil price volatility to continue on U.S. Iran
deal exit
 EIG: U.S. exiting nuclear deal may remove 700K b/d of
Iran oil
 MUFG: China may keep Iran crude imports despite
U.S. sanctions

ANALYST VIEWS: REACTION FROM WITHIN IRAN:

 EA: Saudi output to rise if Iran sanction losses  Barbs, flag burning and despair: Iran reacts to U.S.
significant deal exit
 Bernstein: Oil could rise toward $90 after move on Iran  Rouhani: Iran to Prepare for Enrichment if Needed
deal After 3 Weeks
 Orient: China may be cautious in opposing U.S.-Iran  Rouhani: Iran Can Achieve Benefits of JCPOA With 5
sanctions Countries
 UBS: Iran oil exports may fall by 200k-500k b/d in next
6 months Source: Bloomberg
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 One Month After Dirty Cop Mueller Raids Michael
Cohen’s Office — Cohen’s Bank Records Are
Leaked To Porn Star’s Lawyer
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 1:07 Pm
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for
Stormy Daniels, alleged on Tuesday that
a Russian oligarch paid Trump Attorney
Michael Cohen $500,000 for “insights”
into the Trump administration.
The deposits were made in the months
following the 2016 election.
NBC News reported:
Stormy Daniels’ attorney claimed Tuesday
that President Donald Trump’s personal
lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000
from a company controlled by a Russian
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oligarch, deposited into an account for a
company also used to pay off the adult film
actress.
Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, also detailed other
transactions he said were suspicious, including deposits
from drug giant Novartis, the state-run Korea Aerospace
Industries, and AT&T — which confirmed it paid Cohen’s
company for “insights” into the Trump administration.
If true, Avenatti’s claims, made in a dossier posted to
Twitter, could add a new dimension to the federal
investigation into Cohen.
Avenatti offered no proof for his
allegations.
It is also not clear how the porn star’s
attorney obtained the private
information.
On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the
office of one of Trump’s personal
lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael
Cohen is President Trump’s personal
attorney. The Mueller mob took all of his
records and emails.
One month later — Cohen’s financial
documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.
Gee, how could this have happened?
Now, according to the Washington Post,
the Treasury Department’s inspector
general is investigating how Stormy
Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti
obtained confidential banking records
concerning a company controlled by
President Trump’s personal attorney
Michael Cohen.
 Trump Asked What Would Happen If
Iran Tried To Make A Nuke — His Answer Is Radioactive
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
1:09 PM 05/09/2018

President Trump recently made the historic decision to pull “Iran will find out.”
America out of the controversial Iran Deal enacted by his
predecessor. When pressed again by the reporter, Trump said,

The agreement was a keystone accomplishment of “I would advise Iran not to start their
President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Trump has been nuclear program. I would advise them very
deeply critical of the deal, promising multiple times on the strongly.”
campaign trail to negotiate a better deal or get the U.S. out
of the current one. “If they do,” he continued, “there will be
very severe consequence. Okay? Thank
you very much.”
Trump called the deal
WATCH:
“a horrible deal that should never, ever
have been made,”

yesterday in a speech from the White House before signing

a presidential memorandum to officially exit the U.S. from
the agreement and reinstate blistering sanctions on the
Iranian regime.

At a cabinet meeting Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump,

“What will you do if Iran starts up their

nuclear program again?”

President Trump paused for a moment and said ominously,

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 Treasury Department Opens IG Investigation
Into Leak Of Michael Cohen’s Records
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
2:06 PM 05/09/2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen
departs federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S.,
April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC15E5FABFF0
The inspector general of the Treasury Department has
launched an investigation into whether or not confidential
banking records related to a company President Donald
Trump’s personal attorney controls have been leaked.
The counsel to the inspector general, Rich Delmar, told
reporters Wednesday the office is currently “inquiring into
allegations” that Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
.
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related to the president’s attorney, Michael Cohen, and his
banking transactions were “improperly” disclosed, The
Washington Post reported.
Attorney Michael Avenatti exposed Cohen’s banking
history Tuesday when he released a report that detailed
how a Russian oligarch paid $500,000 to Cohen months
after the 2016 presidential election. Avenatti suggested the
payments “may have replenished” Cohen’s account after
he made a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels,
who claims to have had an affair with the president.
Avenatti has repeatedly asked that the Treasury release any
and all reports that show unusual banking transactions on
the part of Cohen.
The law dictates that banks must file a SAR for any
transaction considered unusual that is over $10,000. What
Avenatti made public Tuesday could have included a SAR
Cohen’s bank filed.
 Dear President Trump, Facebook
Is Already Eliminating Conservative Content
— PLEASE Don’t Give Them Any Ideas
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 2:08 Pm
On Tuesday morning President Trump
threatened the liberal mainstream media
after Media Research Center released its
latest study that found that 91% of the
national mainstream reports on the
Trump administration are negative.
President Trump tweeted this threat to
the liberal media.
Matt Drudge, the creator and editor of
the infamous Drudge Report, quickly
chimed in to warn the president of his
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“licensing” idea — which is a liberal’s
wet dream.
Matt Drudge is right.
We already have blacklisting and
censorship of conservative publishers.
It’s called Facebook.
Since the 2016 election Facebook has
been cracking down on conservative
and pro-Trump content.
Top conservative websites have seen a
stunning drop in their Facebook traffic.
This was no accident. This was the plan.
In January 2017, Facebook began making algorithm
changes to make sure conservative news was no longer so
influential. The Gateway Pundit Facebook traffic has
consistently decreased with each algorithm change.
A March 2018 study by The Outline organization found
conservative publishers were hit the hardest by Facebook
algorithm changes. The study also showed that The
Gateway Pundit was hit the hardest.
In March 2018 Western Journal also published a study that
found conservative publishers were hit the hardest by the
recent Facebook algorithm changes. The report found that
liberal publishers actually saw a 2 percent increase in
traffic. Conservative publishers lost an average of 14
percent in traffic.
Facebook official Campbell Brown, a former anchor on
NBC and CNN, told attendees at a recent technology and
publishing conference that Facebook would be censoring
news publishers based on its own internal biases. And they
did.

Top Conservative voices have been

decimated since the 2016 election.
Here is my eariler report Facebook Conservative
Blacklist with graphics)

Facebook Conservative Blacklist:

The Gateway Pundit

The Gateway Pundit – According to Harvard and Young Cons

Columbia Journalism Review The Gateway Pundit was the
4th Most Influential Conservative News Source during Youngcons.com is a leading conservative voice and has 1
2016 elections. million Facebook fans.

In 2016 Facebook accounted for 33% of website traffic. In
January 2018 Facebook traffic was cut by 54%. In March
2018 Facebook took traffic down to 3% of total website
traffic despite seeing organic traffic growth for months.
The Gateway Pundit spent $70,000 in Facebook
advertising. Today our stories hidden from our readers
and supporters on Facebook.
In 2016 Youngcons had a combined Facebook and website
traffic of 30.6 million.
Facebook has since blacklisted the site. Today
YoungCons continually changes its landing page url to
remain relevant. Facebook began blocking their stories in
late 2017.
Youngcons advertised on Facebook.

Allen B. West.com - AllenBWest was one of the most

popular conservative websites in America.
Donald Trump Facebook Page:
In June 2016 AllenBWest.com had more than 2 million
Top conservative Facebook page. followers and was ranked number 1,331 on Alexa.

Since January 2018 after the Facebook algorithm changes allenbwest.com (also went as allenwest.com):
the Donald Trump Facebook page lost 45% of its traffic.

This is the US President’s Facebook page.

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 In 2018 Chicks on the Right was decimated. The website
now gets one-third of the traffic they did in 2017.

In January 2018 AllenBWest dropped off the Alexa

ranking. Its Facebook traffic has been eliminated.
Western Journalism:

westernjournalism.com

In 2016 Newsweek reported that the site had grown from

receiving 1,000 page views a day in 2009[3] to more than
1 million during 2016.

The website was averaging around 6 million page views a

day according to Quantcast during the election. The
website traffic rivaled The New York Times traffic.
100 Percent Fed Up
Today Western Journalism is down to around 500,000 a
100percentfedup.com – Prominent conservative website day.
with 1.7 million Facebook likes.
Western Journalism was blacklisted by Facebook.
In 2016 100 Percent Fed Up had traffic of up to 30 million
page views a week. From top 1,000 US website to 68,000 in
one year!
In 2018 they lost most of their traffic and now have closer
to 2 million page views a week. Via Alexa ranking…

Conservative Tribune:

conservativetribune.com (via Similarweb.com)

In 2016 Conservative Tribune was one of the most

Chicks on the Right: trafficked websites in America with more than 40 million
page views a month. Most of its traffic came from
chicksontheright.com (?) A very popular website with 1.1 Facebook.
million Facebook likes.
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Since the 2016 election Conservative Tribune has been
shadow-banned and blacklisted.
Today Conservative Tribune is a skeleton of itself. The
site lost 75% of its traffic thanks to Facebook.
Breitbart.com – Ranked as Most Influential Conservative
News Source during 2016 election (via Harvard and
Columbia Journalism Review studies)
In February 2017 Breitbart ranked higher than the
Washington Post, Fox News, Walmart and Yelp on the
Alexa top sites ranking. The website has 3.8 million
Facebook likes.

Breitbart lost 25% of Facebook audience since January

after the algorithm changes.

Independent Journal Review

Independent Journal Review (IJR) was another massive

conservative website based on its Facebook audience.

In 2016 IJR had 32.4 million monthly unique visitors and

20 million Facebook fans.

IJR was also shadow-banned and blacklisted by Facebook.

In March 2018 The Independent Journal Review (IJR)
terminated a number of its employees to an “already
skeletal staff.” The millennial-focused conservative
website has an unclear future.
Sarahpalin.com – 4 million Facebook fans in 2017 –
Today the Sarah Palin page continually changes landing
page url to remain relevant
YouTube Conservative Blacklist:

These conservative websites -- along with many others --

have seen significant bias, bullying and demonetization of
their videos since 2016.

Natural News
Prager University
Pamela Geller
Robert Spencer
Rightside Broadcasting
Infowars
Diamond and Silk
Mark Dice

Breitbart.com

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Make Hillary New York’s New AG? You’re Kidding, Right?
The Ethically Crippled 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Is The Last Person
Who Should Be Considered To Succeed Eric Schneiderman
By Charles Ortel
Updated 09 May 2018 At 2:09 PM
No, Eric Schneiderman’s disgraced exit should not open
the door for Hillary Clinton to challenge President Donald
Trump as the next attorney general of the Empire State,
despite the trial balloons going up from loyal Clintonistas
in the media and the geriatric wing of the Democratic
Party.
Instead, the vacuum created by Schneiderman’s abrupt
departure and the fact that his predecessor as attorney
general, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did little to attack
corruption or boost the private sector, may usher in a true
contest of constructive ideas inside New York at a time
that a real New Yorker in the White House is proving that
disrupting the Establishment is desperately needed. He
may soon prove that his coattails will elect even more
Republican candidates in surprising states.
Democrats should remember that President Ronald Reagan
won New York in 1984, following a turbulent first year in
the Oval Office, and today Trump is certainly compiling a
record of accomplishments — mainly by honoring
campaign promises and defying Washington’s
conventional wisdom.
In utter contrast, Hillary was rejected in 2008 and 2016, so
luring her back into fevered White House dreams for 2020
from a demoted perch inside state government seems a
fool's errand. Besides, the substantive argument to put
Hillary in Albany is what, exactly?
The counterarguments are clear and telling. For one
thing, she certainly cannot fix New York's immense
charity fraud problems because she is one of those
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problems. The last person New York needs as its chief law
enforcement administrator is someone whose major
credential is staying scant steps ahead of the law on too
laxly enforced regulations for charities and solicitations.
Con artists, in politics and tied to charities, wrap
themselves in gaudy, high-sounding themes, barrage any
who might listen with frequent fundraising requests, and
divert millions, even billions, of dollars away from
deserving constituents or aid recipients, not to mention
state, local and national treasuries.
While most of us appreciate there are few honest
politicians, no thinking person truly believes that charity
fraud is good — diverting money from organizations that
actually help needy persons can mean you are stealing
food from the hungry, medicine from the sick, or aid from
victims of natural disasters.
Clearly, too many supposed charities have been abusing
the laws and hospitality of New York for too long — but
the chief as-yet unprosecuted culprit is the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Ongoing records' review
shows that this entity and its many offshoots solicited
funds for years while false and materially misleading
filings circulated in the public domain.
Without securing required authorizations in advance from
the IRS, Bill Clinton and others converted a Little Rock,
Arkansas, presidential records repository and research
center into an out-of-control, leaky, international slush
fund for high living in the Big Apple and elsewhere, and
for partisan activities, including political campaigns.
In New York and other places, Clinton charities operated
from unregistered offices far outside the scope of their
authorized tax-exempt purposes. And they have done so
without credibly explaining private benefits derived by
insiders, including the Clinton family and close political
associates of long standing.
So, Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton do have serious and
looming legal problems arising from reckless organization
and operation of "their" charity complex.
What New York should do is reject the Clintons and send a
clear message to charity fraudsters that they will be
punished, and punished severely, should they dare to make
this state a center for toxic, illegal activities.
Trump is restoring order. Skeptics, including diehard
Clinton loyalists, might observe the changing landscape
under Trump's leadership, despite unprecedented and
underhanded "resistance."
Yes, the Clintons miraculously gulled the mainstream
media and contributors to her last presidential campaign
about the fact of a full-scale FBI investigation — not the
mere "matter" of Loretta Lynch's obfuscation — into her
mishandling of classified information.
Documents recently made publicly available through the
FBI Vault concerning this formal inquiry targeting the
former secretary of state indicate it officially opened July
10, 2015, as shown here and here.
And yes, the Clintons also seem, somehow, to have
blunted an investigation that involved Robert Mueller,
James Comey and Rod Rosenstein into the Clinton
Foundation and their alleged public corruption.
Publicly available documents on this investigation are also
provided by the FBI Vault, show that it ran for
approximately four years, and was apparently well-
resourced, yet it failed to spot obvious charity, bank, wire,
postal, and solicitation frauds, escalating from 2001
through 2005.
That said, an IRS investigation of the Clinton Foundation
begun in July 2016 is likely maturing and cannot credibly
miss overwhelming evidence suggesting massive and
continuing, international charity frauds.
Moreover, since Jan. 4, 2018, the Department of Justice
seems to have opened a new investigation into the Clinton
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Foundation, centering upon the period when Hillary ran
the State Department and Bill and Chelsea ran the Clinton
Foundation.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
Va.) correctly wants to know whether President Barack
Obama and his appointees, such as Lynch, impeded
investigation into Clinton Foundation abuses.
Meanwhile, those who believe the Clinton Foundation and
Clinton email scandals are likely intertwined wait with
bated breath for Inspector General Michael Horowitz to
release further details concerning the scope of his inquiry
and its findings.
Is backing the Clintons prudent? With the spotlight
upon Schneiderman's alleged personal misdeeds, Cuomo
must remember that he served as attorney general from
2007 through 2010, precisely when lawyers in his Charity
Bureau failed to prosecute the many Clinton "charities"
that flouted New York laws and have only grown larger
afterwards.
Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family already have a raft
of legal trouble in New York, across the United States, and
potentially around the world.
The last thing Democrats and New York legislators should
consider is installing such a conflict-prone person (and
family) near the attorney general's office, so, in the end,
that certainly will never happen.
Meanwhile, how many disruptors for greater good are
noticing the yawning vacuum of power in New York, still
a key Electoral College state?
To be continued ...
DOJ Considering Releasing Newly Unredacted Portions Of
Rosenstein Memo To Judicial Watch –
Here’s The Redacted Version
By Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 2:15 Pm
The Department of Justice told
conservative watchdog group Judicial
Watch this week it is considering
releasing newly unredacted portions of
Rosenstein’s memo detailing Mueller’s
scope.
Rosenstein granted Mueller broad
authority in an August 2 memo MONTHS
after he appointed Mueller to special
counsel; only a heavily redacted version
has been released.
Via Judicial Watch:
In a May 4 response to a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by
Judicial Watch, the agency revealed that it
is now “processing the August 2 memo to
determine if it can release additional
portions that have not already been filed
publicly.” The Justice Department had
previously refused to acknowledge that any
such “scope” documents exist.
Judicial Watch filed its FOIA lawsuit against
the Justice Department on October 5,
2017, after the agency failed to respond to
a July 10, 2017, request (Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-
02079)). Judicial Watch is seeking:
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 A copy of the budget prepared and submitted by
Robert S. Mueller III or his staff in his capacity as
appointed “Special Counsel to oversee the previously-
confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government
efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and
related matters.” Temporal scope of this request is from
17 May 2017 to 10 July 2017.
 A copy of all guidance memoranda and
communications by which the Justice Management
Division will review the Special Counsel’s Office’s
“Statement of Expenditures” prior to or for the purpose
of making each public. Temporal scope of this request
is from 1 June 2017 to present.
 A copy of each document scoping, regulating, or
governing the Special Counsel’s Office appointed
under the leadership of Mueller III. Temporal scope of
this request is from 17 May 2017 to present.
The DOJ finally admitted to Judicial Watch that
Rosenstein’s scope memo existed after Judge Ellis lost his
temper last week on Mueller’s liberal hack lawyers over
their lies and secrecy.
Rosenstein is fiercely working to keep his scope memo
under wraps. Judge Ellis gave him two weeks to turn over
the unredacted document.
GOP lawmakers are threatening to hold Sessions and
Rosenstein in contempt if they do not turn over the memo.
Judicial Watch is also fighting Rosenstein and Mueller in
court.
Here is the redacted version of Rosenstein’s August 2nd
memo, (notice page 2 is almost completely blacked out).
Judicial Watch points out what the
Justice Department is hiding in the
redactions:
The August Rosenstein memorandum also included a
section providing Mueller a “more specific description of
your authority,” authorizing the special counsel to expand
his prosecution of former Trump advisor Paul Manafort by
investigating:

Allegations that Paul Manafort:

 Committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian

government officials with respect to the Russian
government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election
for President of the United States, in violation of United
States law;
 Committed a crime or crimes arising out of payments
he received from the Ukrainian government before and
during the tenure of President Viktor Yanukovych…

The Justice Department then redacted additional material

apparently detailing the “crime or crimes” relating to
Ukraine that Mueller was authorized to investigate.

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 Maryland Billboard Warns Liberals:
“Better Get Your Guns If You Try To Impeach Trump”
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 2:41 Pm

A new billboard in Calvert County Maryland is turning a

lot of heads.
The sign warns Democrats about their plans to overthrow
the 2016 election.
“Hey liberals Better get your guns if you
try to impeach President Trump. From
all of your deplorables in Calvert
County.”
For some odd reason local liberals are
taking offense to the sign.
They believe it is a threat.
WJLA reported:

The local owner has agreed to change

the sign.

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 Stormy’s Lawyer Accuses The Wrong
Michael Cohen Of Making Fraudulent Payments
By Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 3:51 Pm
Media erupted Tuesday after Stormy’s
lawyer Michael Avenatti released a
dossier containing a list of payments
made to Trump’s lawyer, Michael
Cohen.
It turns out that two of the ‘fraudulent’
payments made to Michael Cohen isn’t
Trump’s lawyer, rather two different
men named Michael Cohen.
It is also not clear how the porn star’s attorney obtained the
private information.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reported:
Avenatti’s report includes a section listing
“possible fraudulent and illegal financial
transactions” involving Trump’s lawyer.
One of the payments is a $4,250 wire
transfer from a Malaysian company,
Actuarial Partners, to a bank in Toronto.
The other is a $980 transfer from a Kenyan
bank to Bank Hapoalim — the largest bank
in Israel.
Zainal Kassim, a representative for
Actuarial Partners, told The Daily Caller
News Foundation Avenatti’s report is a
case of mistaken identity. He forwarded an
email the falsely accused Michael Cohen
sent to Avenatti requesting the lawyer
“correct this error forthwith and make it
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known publicly” there is no connection to
Trump’s Michael Cohen.
“You are surely aware of the fact that this is
an extremely common name and would
request that you take care before involving
innocent parries in this sordid affair,” wrote
Cohen, who told Avenatti he is an
international consultant who was paid by
Actuarial Partners for work on a project in
Tanzania.
Then it was discovered that another
man named Michael Cohen was
mistakenly caught up in the trove of
documents.
Haaretz, the Israeli news outlet, found another case of
mistaken identity in Avenatti’s report.
“Mr. Cohen received one wire transfer in
the amount of $980.00 from a Kenyan bank
from account holders Netanel Cohen and
Stav Hayun to an account in Israel at Bank
Hapoalim,” Avenatti wrote.
Haaretz caught up with Netanel Cohen, who
acknowledged having a bank account in Kenya and
transferring money to a Michael Cohen. But the Michael
Cohen in questions is his brother, Netanel told the news
outlet. And his brother is not Trump’s lawyer.
“I’ve never heard of Michael Cohen, and I
have no connection to this affair,” Netanel
told Haaretz.
The latest ‘Trump-Russia’ story pushed
by Avenatti began to fell apart
immediately.
Avenatti alleged on Tuesday that a Russian oligarch paid
Trump Attorney Michael Cohen $500,000 for “insights”
into the Trump administration.
It turns out the company, Columbus Nova is owned and
operated by an AMERICAN citizen therefore payments
made to Trump’s camp through Cohen are legal. The
payments never came from Russian oligarch Viktor
Vekselberg who is a cousin to the owner of Columbus
Nova.
On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the
office of one of Trump’s personal
lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael
Cohen is President Trump’s personal
attorney. The Mueller mob took all of his
records and emails.
One month later — Cohen’s financial
documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.
Gee, how could this have happened?
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Now, according to the Washington Post,
the Treasury Department’s inspector
general is investigating how Stormy
Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti
obtained confidential banking records
concerning a company controlled by
President Trump’s personal attorney
Michael Cohen.
Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen was also previously
accused of traveling to Prague during the 2016 election.
That fake news story fell apart after it turned out to be
another Michael Cohen who just happened to be born the
same birth year as Trump’s lawyer.
 MSNBC’s Mika Thinks Trump’s
Decisions Are Made Just To ‘Deflect’ From Scandals
Brzezinski Accused The President Of Withdrawing From The Iran Nuclear Deal To
Distract The World From Controversies Mainstream Media
Outlets Have Been Salivating Over
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 09 May 2018 At 4:05 PM
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski
accused President Donald Trump Wednesday of
withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal only “to deflect
from” the various scandals plaguing him and his
administration.
Trump frustrated Democrats and mainstream media
members Tuesday when he announced that he was
withdrawing the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan
of Action (JCPOA), which former President Barack
Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry
negotiated.
Trump, who repeatedly promised during the 2016
presidential campaign to pull the U.S. out of the accord,
told the world Tuesday,
“When I make promises, I keep them.” The
president also reimposed sanctions on Iran
Tuesday.
But the intensely anti-Trump Brzezinski bemoaned
Trump’s decision while speculating that the president only
withdrew to distract the nation and the world from other
controversies.
“Our allies are upset, for sure, at a time
when I think the president’s sanity is being
questioned globally,” Brzezinski said. “It
was a campaign promise, it does appeal
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possibly to his base. But the totality of this
president’s behavior and decisions does
lead me to question why he does anything,
and whether or not it’s to deflect from
something else.”
"I don’t think [Trump] has the moral
compass to make a decision based on our
own national security even, at this point,"
Brzezinski added.
Brzezinski seemed unable to comprehend why the
president possibly could want to withdraw from a deal that
he described Tuesday as "a great embarrassment to me as a
citizen." Trump said in a speech in March 2016 on the
campaign trail that one of his top priorities as president
would be to "dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran."
This is the same deal that national security adviser John
Bolton told Fox News' Laura Ingraham in an exclusive
interview Tuesday
"has been flawed from the beginning."
Bolton said that "it’s in our security interests
to get out of this flawed deal," noting that
Trump "clearly advertised he was going to
do [this] as far back as the 2016
campaign."
Even anti-Trump retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who
used to oppose the Iran deal, lamented that Trump
followed through on fulfilling his campaign promise
Tuesday when he told CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump
"did campaign on this, and he is following
through on it."
"I just don’t think that it’s a wise move,"
Flake said. "Oftentimes, when you get into
office, you realize that, ‘Hey, that may have
worked in the campaign,’ or that was a
good line or whatnot, but you realize it’s not
good for the country at this point."
But Brzezinski insisted that Trump only withdrew from the
deal because the move would dominate a news cycle that
had been focused previously on plumbing the depths of the
ongoing Stormy Daniels saga. The porn star alleged that
she had an affair with Trump more than 10 years ago.
Trump ultimately reimbursed Michael Cohen, one of his
personal attorneys at the time, for the $130,000 payment
Cohen made to Daniels in 2016 to keep her quiet about
allegations that Trump has denied as part of a
nondisclosure agreement.
Although Trump claimed in early April that he had no
knowledge of the payment, former New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani clarified Thursday on Fox News' "Fox &
Friends" that Trump "didn’t know the details" of the
agreement until "a couple of weeks ago."
Giuliani, now a member of Trump's legal team, told Fox
Business Network the same day that
"the president reimbursed [Cohen] out of
non-campaign contribution money, private
money, his money, and he did it over the
course of 2017."
Mainstream media outlets and pundits devoured the
controversy and feverishly reported and discussed it. And
Brzezinski seemed to resent the fact that Trump's Tuesday
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Iran deal announcement distracted outlets from
controversies like the Daniels payment.
But Brzezinski need not fear — although Wednesday's
news cycle was significantly dominated by Trump's Iran
deal withdrawal, the mainstream media networks were
obsessed with negatively covering Trump's withdrawal.
Reporters and guests on CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC and
CBS alike bemoaned that a now "isolated" U.S. cannot be
"trusted" because Trump succeeded in undermining its
"commitments."
But Bolton responded to critics Tuesday on Fox News'
"The Ingraham Angle," saying that the U.S. still is
committed to working
"with the Europeans and others not only on
the nuclear issue, but on Iran's ballistic
missile development, its continuing support
for terrorism, and ... military activities that
jeopardize our friends like Israel and the
Arab States in the region."
But Bolton warned that any actions the U.S. takes must
"do something effective about Iran's malign
influence in the Middle East and not paper
it over and pretend that we've actually
stopped them."
Sarah Sanders On Obama, Kerry, Hillary Critique Of Iran
Decision: Based On Their “Lack Of Success” They Are
“The Last People” We Take Counsel From (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 4:18 Pm

As usual the liberal mainstream three people that we would look to for
reporters were ready to pounce on advice and counsel.”
White House spokesperson Sarah Zing.
Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday.
One of the final questions was about Here’s the video.
Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary
Clinton’s critique of the Trump
Via Dar Potus Trump:
administration’s decision to exit the
Iranian nuclear deal.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders dropped a
bomb on the former administration.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

Based on each of these threes’s lack of

success, They would probably be the last

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 Sarah Sanders Goes Off On Reporter Who Asked About
Pulling The Press Credentials For ‘Fake News’
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
4:32 PM 05/09/2018

Sarah Sanders sharply confronted a reporter during
Wednesday’s White House briefing for asking about
President Trump’s threat to take away the press credentials
of the “fake news.”
“The Fake News is working overtime,”
Trump had tweeted earlier that day. “Why
do we work so hard in working with the
media when it is corrupt? Take away
credentials?”
Fast forward to the briefing, and a reporter asked if
snatching credentials is a line “you would be willing to
cross?”
Sanders responded bluntly,
“I’m standing up in front of you have right
now taking your questions.”
Sanders claimed the Trump White House was
“one of the most accessible”
administrations in U.S. history and is
“committed to a free press.” She noted that
Trump also took questions earlier in the
day and “will be in front of the press later
tonight as well.”
The reporter asked again
“How is the suggestion of taking American
journalists press credentials away
advocating for a free press in this country?”
providing information to the American
public.”
Then she took the press to task, listing a litany of fake and
misleading reports by the outlets in the room.
At the same time, the press has a responsibility to put out
accurate information.
Just yesterday The New York Times accused the Secretary
of State for being AWOL — AWOL — when he was
flying across the globe to bring three Americans home.
That is an outrageous claim.
Just earlier this week, The Washington Post accused the
First Lady of not living in the White House. That
outrageous claim was then repeated again in this room.
We are here. We are taking questions. We are doing
everything we can to provide regular and constant
information to the American people and there is a
responsibility by you guys to provide accurate information.
“We wouldn’t be here to ask those
questions without those credentials,” the
reporter countered.
“And you are,” Sanders bluntly said. “You
are clearly sitting here asking them right
now.”
WATCH:

Then Sanders exploded.

Notably irritated, Sanders repeated,

The fact that I’m standing here taking

questions. The fact that the president took
questions from your colleagues just two
hours ago demonstrates this White
House’s commitment to accessibility and to
.

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 BREAKING: DOJ Agrees To Give Chairman
Nunes Secret Rosenstein Memo Detailing Mueller’s Scope
By Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 4:40 Pm

Fox News has learned Chairman Nunes
will have access to Rosenstein’s memo
detailing Mueller’s scope.
Chairman Nunes previously threatened AG Sessions with
contempt if he didn’t hand over this pertinent document.
Nunes and Gowdy were invited to the DOJ Thursday for a
classified briefing.
Fox News producer Jake Gibson reported Chairman Nunes
and Rep Trey Gowdy were invited to the DOJ Thursday
for a classified briefing.
Rod Rosenstein, his deputy Ed O’Callahan
and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Rosenstein had been on official travel in New York but
raced back to Washington for the meeting.
A source familiar with the situation tells Fox News that
after the meeting the three held a speakerphone call with
Nunes and Gowdy and told the lawmakers the DOJ would
work with them in an effort to get them the information
they have been seeking.
The Department of Justice shot back at Nunes shortly after
he put Sessions on notice Sunday morning in a defiant
letter once again stating they will not hand over the
documents requested.
The DOJ dug in their heels over the weekend stating they
would not comply with the subpoena.
It appears after a couple of successful meetings this week
and facing threats of contempt, the DOJ has decided to
give Chairman Nunes what he has been asking for.

Fox News reported:

House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes and House Oversight
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy have
been invited to the Justice
Department Thursday for a classified
briefing about Nunes’ latest requests for
classified information related to the Russia
investigation, according to sources with
knowledge of the situation.
Fox News has learned this is a direct result
of a meeting at the White House on
Tuesday between Deputy Attorney General
Story developing…
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 CNN’s Latest Poll Should
Have Dems Sweating Over 2018 [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
4:46 PM 05/09/2018

The numbers come as media pundits and Democrats have

been predicting a “blue wave” will sweep Republicans in
the 2018 November elections.

WATCH:

Support for Democrats in the generic congressional ballot

for the 2018 elections has dropped down to a three-point
advantage over Republicans and within the margin of
error, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.

The poll shows a massive dip in support for Democrats

over the past few months. A CNN poll in February showed
that Democrats had a 16-point advantage over Republicans
and in March CNN released a poll that showed Democrats
had a six-point advantage over the GOP, CNN reported.
However, Democrats still have a large lead over
Republicans in voter enthusiasm. Fifty-three percent of
Forty-seven percent of registered voters in May said they Democrats said they are very enthusiastic to vote for their
support the Democratic candidate in their district while 44 candidate compared to 41 percent of Republicans.
percent support the Republican candidate, according to the
poll.
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS through landlines
or cellphones between May 2-5. The questions were asked
Enthusiasm among Republican voters has also increased in to a group of 1,015 random adults in the U.S. There was a
the last few months. Thirty-six percent of Republican and margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points and
Republican-leaning registered voters said in March they 3.8 points for the group of 901 registered voters.
were very enthusiastic about voting. The May poll shows
that number is up to 44 percent.
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 BREAKING: Iranian Forces Fire 20 Rockets into Israel –
Iron Dome Defense System Deployed — VIDEO
by Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 5:39 pm

BREAKING NEWS.

Iranian forces have fired over 20 rockets

at Israeli military bases.

Several of the missiles were intercepted

by the Iron Dome.

On Tuesday, President Trump announced he will be

exiting the Iran nuke deal.
Here is video from Israel just moments ago.
BREAKING VIDEO: Iran fired 20 missiles into the Golan
Heights section of Israel. Zero coverage from the
mainstream media.pic.twitter.com/dCfUEUUzDq
— #KeepAmericaGreat 🇺🇸 (@TrumpTsunami) May 9,
The Times of Israel reported: 2018
HERE IS MORE VIDEO FROM THE GOLAN
Some 20 rockets were fired at Israeli HEIGHTS—
military bases by Iranian forces in southern
Syria late Wednesday night, with some of
the incoming missiles being intercepted by
the Iron Dome defense system, the army
said, amid sky high tensions on the
northern border.
There were no reports of Israeli injuries in
the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces immediately
retaliated by targeting a Syrian regime post
across the border with artillery fire, the
army said.
Sirens blared across the Golan Heights
during the exchange. The IDF Home Front
Command instructed residents to enter and
remain in bomb shelters.

A video posted to Twitter reportedly shows missiles being

fired at Israel from Syria:

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 US Prisoners Freed From North Korea Release Statement
Thanking God, Trump, Pompeo “God Bless America, The
Greatest Nation In The World”
By Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 7:24 Pm

The three US prisoners held in North “We would like to express our deep
Korea are on their way back to the appreciation to the United States
United States. government, President Trump, Secretary
Pompeo, and the people of the United
The freed prisoners will arrive at Andrews Air Force Base States for bringing us home. We thank
outside of Washington at 2:00 AM. God, and all our families and friends who
prayed for us and for our return. God Bless
President Trump made the announcement this morning. America, the greatest nation in the world.”

In January 2016 during the presidential campaign

businessman Donald Trump lectured Barack Obama on
deal-making. Donald Trump condemned Obama for not
forcing the Iranian regime to release US prisoners before
any deal was made.

Today Trump came through with

another promise and the American
hostages are coming back home.

The freed Americans touched down in Alaska Wednesday

evening, Fox News reported.

They released a statement through the State Department

thanking God, President Trump and others then said,

“God Bless America, the greatest nation in

the world.”
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Deep State Don’t Play=> Andrew Mccarthy: Michael
Cohen’s Banking Statements Were Leaked By
Government Officials (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 7:40 Pm

Stormy Daniels’ attorney claimed Tuesday that President

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen received
$500,000 from a company controlled by a Russian
oligarch, deposited into an account for a company also
used to pay off the adult film actress.

Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, also detailed other

transactions he said were suspicious, including deposits
from drug giant Novartis, the state-run Korea Aerospace
Industries, and AT&T — which confirmed it paid Cohen’s
company for “insights” into the Trump administration.

If true, Avenatti’s claims, made in a dossier posted to

Twitter, could add a new dimension to the federal
investigation into Cohen.

Avenatti offered no proof for his

allegations.

It is also not clear how the porn star’s

Michael Avenatti, the attorney for
Stormy Daniels, alleged on Tuesday that
a Russian oligarch paid Trump Attorney
Michael Cohen $500,000 for “insights”
into the Trump administration.
The deposits were made in the months
following the 2016 election.
attorney obtained the private
information.
On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the
office of one of Trump’s personal
lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael
Cohen is President Trump’s personal
attorney. The Mueller mob took all of his
records and emails.
One month later — Cohen’s financial
documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.
Gee, how could this have happened?
TGP asked that question earlier today.
Earlier today the Treasury Department’s
inspector general announced it was
investigating whether confidential
banking information related to President
Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen
was leaked.
Of course, they were.

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 Wednesday night Andrew McCarthy told
Tucker Carlson that Michael Cohen’s
bank statements were leaked by
government officials.

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 Deep State Stooge John McCain Defends Turning Junk
Russia Dossier Over To Comey:
“Duty Demanded I Do It”
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 7:55 Pm
In January 2017 Senator John McCain
admitted on FOX News Channel that he
was the one who turned the bogus
Trump-Russia dossier over to the FBI.
McCain made the comments during an interview with
Brian Kilmeade.
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In his latest book Senator John McCain
(R-AR) argued that he turned over the
ridiculous dossier to James Comey
because “duty demanded it.”
Boy did Deep State pick the right stooge
to do their bidding!
Of course, the deep state already was
using the fake dossier to spy on Trump.
The Daily Beast reported:
“I agreed to receive a copy of what is now
referred to as ‘the dossier,’” McCain writes
in the upcoming book, titled The Restless
Wave, referencing information compiled by
former British intelligence officer
Christopher Steele. “I reviewed its
contents. The allegations were disturbing,
but I had no idea which if any were true. I
could not independently verify any of it, and
so I did what any American who cares
about our nation’s security should have
done.”
 Retired FBI Agent Says Impending IG Report On FBI’s
‘7th Floor’ Under Comey Is “Worse Than Expected”
By Cristina Laila
May 9, 2018, 8:22 Pm
The Office of Inspector General is very
close to completing a comprehensive
report on how the FBI and DOJ handled
Hillary Clinton’s email investigation.
According to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
IG Horowitz will have his report completed in the next
couple weeks.
Retired FBI agent and CNN analyst James Gagliano says
sources are saying “it’s worse than expected.”
The Inspector General released a scathing report on former
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in mid-April.
The report by the Office of Inspector General criticized
McCabe for “lack of candor” regarding his disclosure to
Wall Street Journal reporters before the 2016 election.
McCabe lied at least three times under oath, he lied to the
Inspector General and lied to James Comey.
As a result of these investigations and reports, Andrew
McCabe has been criminally referred to the Justice
Department twice.
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Sources tell TIME Magazine, Comey faces a punishing
report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Inspector General Horowitz opened a separate
investigation into James Comey on April 20th over
classified information stemming from his memo leaks.
On Wednesday, James Gagliano, a
retired FBI agent who left the bureau in
2015 said buckle up because the IG
report will be very damning. In fact, his
sources are saying “it’s worse than
expected.”
James Gagliano tweeted: Sources with knowledge of the
impending DOJ Inspector General Report confirm that it
will be a fairly damning indictment of FBI’s seventh floor
during the Comey era.
“It’s worse than expected,” seems to be the
consistent theme …
Unfortunately without an active Attorney
General, none of the criminal referrals
sent to the DOJ will result in
indictments.
 The ‘Russian Collusion’ Trial Is On,
And Mueller May Be The First Casualty
Richard Pollock - Reporter
9:25 PM 05/09/2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lawyers for Russian company
Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, formally
entered a “not guilty” plea in federal court Monday in a
case special counsel Robert Mueller probably never
thought would happen.
Mueller, weathering significant criticism that his Russian
collusion case was thin, unveiled a grandiose indictment
Feb. 16 against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian
companies. The 13 Russians in question were charged with
waging “information warfare” in the United States,
interfering with the 2016 presidential election,
and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Mueller generated headlines with the February indictment,
safe in the knowledge the 13 Russians were beyond U.S.
jurisdiction. Therefore, there would be no trial — only
sensational Russian collusion accusations.
Mueller may now have to try the case, and Concord’s
lawyers have put the special counsel on notice. The
Russian company’s lawyers intend to invoke “discovery”
to obtain U.S. intelligence about what they knew of
Russian activities.
“I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie,
for sure,” former federal prosecutor Andrew
C. McCarthy told The Daily Caller News
Foundation after the court proceeding.
“He thought it could make this association
(of Russian collusion) and it would never
be challenged in court,” McCarthy, also a
National Review contributing editor, said.
Concord retained the services of two attorneys at mega law
firm Reed Smith, and the company is demanding a speedy
trial. The lawyers indicated they were going to exercise
.
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Concord’s rights under discovery to examine all of
Mueller’s “evidence” of the conspiracy.
In starting Wednesday’s trial, Eric A. Dubelier, a Reed
Smith law partner, entered a “not guilty” plea in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia. He also
repeated his client’s interest for a “speedy trial.”
McCarthy called Mueller’s entire indictment an “unforced
error.”
“One thing you never want to do is to indict
in a case that you’re not prepared to try,”
McCarthy said.
Mueller tried to delay Wednesday’s hearing and floated a
claim Concord had not been properly served notice.
“Until the Court has an opportunity to
determine if Concord was properly served,
it would be inadvisable to conduct an initial
appearance and arraignment at which
important rights will be communicated and
a plea entertained,” Mueller’s lawyers filed
in federal court.
But Concord opposed the motion.
“The Special Counsel is not entitled to
special rules and is required like the
Attorney General to follow the rules of the
Court,” Dubelier stated in his response to
Mueller.
U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich agreed with
Concord and rejected Mueller’s request for a delay in the
trial without comment, which led to Wednesday’s
arraignment.
Concord wants a “speedy trial” as provided by federal law,
the company’s lawyers also repeated Wednesday. The case
will resume July 9.
It is the second legal headache for Mueller in two weeks.
Last week, federal Judge T.S. Ellis, III, a Reagan
appointee, threatened to throw out the special counsel’s
indictment of Paul Manafort since the charges against
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager did
not relate to any charges of Russian collusion. Instead, the
charges were tied to banking activities that went as far
back as 2005 — more than a decade before Trump
announced his intention to run for president.
 McCain Opposes Haspel’s Confirmation
Virginia Kruta
9:33 PM 05/09/2018

Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain doesn’t believe values we aspire to live up to and promote
Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to head the Central in the world.”
Intelligence Agency, should be confirmed by the Senate.
Haspel faced tough questions about her role in supervising
McCain’s office released a statement on Wednesday enhanced interrogations during her hearing, and faces
calling Haspel “a patriot” — but also said that the Senate vocal opposition from a number of prominent Democrats.
should vote against her confirmation because of her
connection to enhanced interrogation techniques employed
in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

McCain argued that Haspel had failed during a lengthy

confirmation hearing to address concerns related to
enhanced interrogation.

“Like many Americans, I understand the

urgency that drove the decision to resort to
so-called enhanced interrogation methods
after our country was attacked. I know that
those who used enhanced interrogation
methods and those who approved them
wanted to protect Americans from harm. I
appreciate their dilemma and the strain of
their duty. But as I have argued many
times, the methods we employ to keep our
nation safe must be as right and just as the
.
However, a few Democrats — such as Sen. Joe Manchin
— may be willing to reach across the aisle for her
confirmation.
McCain, who is at home in Arizona recovering from
surgery and treatment for cancer, will not be casting a vote
on Haspel. He did, however, vote to confirm previous CIA
directors Mike Pompeo, John Brennan, David Petraeus,
and Michael Hayden.

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 Sanders On Media Coverage
Of Pompeo In North Korea: ‘I Think It’s Shameful’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
10:10 PM 05/09/2018

the same number of questions today about

Michael Cohen that I got about North
Korea. I think that is sad and
another reminder that shows us just
how out of touch the media is with the rest
of America and I think that is a perfect
example of just how clueless sometimes
the media can be.”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a
reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington,
U.S., March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1310905840
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on
Wednesday called out the media’s shameful coverage of
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s travel to North Korea.
Fox News host Martha MaCallum asked Sanders her
thoughts on the media’s coverage of Pompeo while he was
in North Korea, citing a New York Times headline that
read, “At A Key Moment, Trump’s Top Diplomat Is
Again Thousands of Miles Away.”
Sanders then touched on the fact that Pompeo was
“thousands of miles away negotiating the
details of the meeting between the
president and Kim Jong Un as well
as bringing three brave Americans back
home to the United States.”
The White House press secretary mentioned that
Wednesday is a “big night” because of the return of the
Americans imprisoned in North Korea, and that Pompeo
was simply

“I think it’s shameful with the media “away from the United States in order to
sometimes does,” Sanders stated. “I got help make it happen.”
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 Michael Cohen Takes Aim At Porn Star’s Attorney For
Illegal Leak Of His Bank Records
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 10:38 Pm

On Wednesday Michael Cohen’s

attorneys took aim at Michael Avenatti
for publishing Cohen’s bank records.

Trump Attorney Michael Cohen filed

charges on Wednesday against porn
star attorney Michael Avenatti for illegal
leak of his bank records.

This comes after Avenatti published

Michael Cohen’s bank records.

On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the office of one of

Trump’s personal lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael Cohen is
President Trump’s personal attorney. The Mueller mob
took all of his records and emails.

One month later — Cohen’s financial

documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.

Gee, how could this have happened?

TGP asked that question earlier today.

The Treasury Department’s inspector

general announced it was investigating
whether confidential banking
information related to President
Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen
was leaked.
Of course, they were leaked!

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 about an alleged affair with Trump years
ago.
Among the claims Cohen says are
incorrect: A wire transfer he supposedly
received, sent to an account in Toronto,
was actually received by a Canadian
citizen named Michael Cohen for foreign
aid work the Canadian Cohen did in
Tanzania. Meanwhile, a wire transfer from
a Kenyan bank from one Netanel Cohen
went to Netanel’s brother Michael Cohen of
Israel, Cohen’s attorneys say.

Cohen also denies cashing a check in Palm Beach, Florida,

from Singapore-based KCS Outsourcing and denies any
knowledge about the company. Similarly, he says he
knows nothing about wire transfers from Hungary, and
says he couldn’t have possibly made wire transfers from a
Taiwanese bank account to a Bank of America account
because he’s never been to Taiwan and has never had an
account with B of A.

MORE…. Cohen is asking Avenatti to

explain to the court how he came across
Cohen’s bank records.

Court News reported:

Cohen says attorney Michael Avenatti has

no business being in possession of
personal bank records, let alone publishing
them for public consumption.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba
Wood, who is overseeing proceedings in a
federal criminal probe of Cohen, Cohen’s
attorneys from the firm McDermott Will &
Emery said the report Avenatti published
Tuesday contains incorrect statements that
have nothing to do with Daniels’
defamation lawsuit against Cohen relating
to $130,000 he paid to keep her quiet

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 WATCH: CNN Analyst Tells
Trump To 'Shut Up And Take Your Medicine'
Byryan Saavedra @Realsaavedra
May 9, 2018

Karem, clearly triggered by the president's comments, and

sidestepping the issue of the numerous false reports CNN
has published on Trump, responded: "Take your lumps
On Wednesday, CNN political analyst Brian Karem
like a man, I mean for heaven’s sake every president faces
attacked President Donald Trump for his tweet criticizing
this," he said.
the media for its overwhelmingly negative coverage of his
administration, saying that the president needs to "shut up
and take your medicine." "Shut up and take your medicine," he
added. "Act like a man, for heaven’s sake,
every president takes criticism."
Karem's sharp comment came in response to a tweet from
Trump slamming the "fake news" for its one-sided
coverage of him. WATCH:

"The Fake News is working overtime,"

Trump wrote. "Just reported that, despite
the tremendous success we are having
with the economy & all things else, 91% of
the Network News about me is negative
(Fake). Why do we work so hard in working
with the media when it is corrupt? Take
away credentials?"

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 Small Business Owner Calls On Porn Star’s “Hotshot
Lawyer” To Pay Up On The $160,179 He Owes Him
By Jim Hoft
May 9, 2018, 11:23 Pm

Michael Avenatti better be cashing in on

the porn star’s 15 minutes of fame.

He also owes the IRS $5 million.

David J. Morris is the CEO of Dillanos

Coffee Roasters in Tacoma,
Washington.

Morris strusted Michael Avenatti to provide his business

with a service.
Avenatti, who is porn star Stormy Daniels’ attorney,
reniged on the agreement.

Now that Michael Avenatti is gaining

100% of the US liberal media’s attention
David Morris posted a tweet calling on
the porn star’s lawyer to pay up.

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 Giant Boobs Trump Newsworthiness
As Media Dances With The (Porn) Stars
Charles J. Glasser, Jr., Esq. - Attorney, Journalist And Adjunct Professor
Of Media Ethics And Law At New York University
3:14 AM 05/10/2018
The domestic news cycle might be described as “All
Trump, All the Time.” Cable networks, national
newspapers and the blogosphere are saturated with reports
and opinions based on every breath, twitch or tweet made
by President Trump. Although the president does have his
defenders, by and large this Wall of Noise — which started
on Day One of this presidency — thrums with the
drumbeat of imminent disaster, “bombshell” after
“bombshell” that turn out to be duds, and a daily deluge of
new facts, statements, revelations and actions that the
#Resistance media chorus (I’m looking at you, Marty
Baron) cheer as proof that “we’ve got him now!”
Of course, the Wall of Noise that is the coverage of
President Trump does sometimes touch upon serious
issues: trade relations, immigration, potential war in the
Middle East or Asia and a skyrocketing deficit. But let’s
not kid ourselves. In the “we’ve got him now” mode du
jour, surely the most important and significant threat to
both his presidency and the survival of our Republic comes
down to one thing: Giant boobs.
Boobs and bombshells
One of the most cited “bombshells” of last week’s news
cycle was the filing of a defamation suit against President
Trump by porn star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie
Clifford) in the Southern District of New York. One media
observer noted that Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti has
appeared in more than 59 on-air interviews in the last two
months. That’s more than North Korean “Supreme
Leader” Kim Jong-un, French President Macron, or Mike
Pompeo, the new U.S. Secretary of State. Face it: those
subjects and stories lack the zest and click bait quality of
giant boobs. In my view, news editors are confusing the
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public interest with what is merely of interest to the public.
Like traffic accidents and viral videos of cute kittens, giant
boobs and their paid-for deployment will always get the
lion’s share of attention.
I suppose at this point I should make clear that I am not
“boob-shaming” anybody, and that people’s physical
characteristics are not rationally related to self-worth or
moral standing. That said, even the most fervent feminist
or beta-male could not deny that Ms. Daniels’ career is
inextricably entwined with her body. Meh, whatev.
By now everyone is aware of the allegations that President
Trump, through his attorney Michael Cohen paid Ms.
Daniels $130,000 as either “hush money” or for sexual
companionship. She provided the press with a sketch of a
“mysterious man” who allegedly threatened her, and
accuses him of acting on Trump’s behalf. Trump
responded by turning his .50 cal. Twitter gun on Ms.
Daniels, saying that:
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent
man. A total con job, playing the Fake
News Media for Fools (but they know it!).”
(The tweet is still online). In response, Ms. Daniels claims
that the statement has irreparably damaged her reputation
and seeks financial compensation. What a shocker. (Not).
What the pundits miss: a thought experiment
Every columnist and television talking head whoever went
near a constitutional law class has been opining on the
merits of Ms. Daniels’ case. Correctly, they’ve raised a
number of legal doctrines with which the media law
community concurs (despite its visceral hatred for Trump)
reasoning that the case is a loser from the start. Daniels is
what the law calls a “limited-purpose public figure” and
Daniels must prove that Trump knew his statement was
false, and also bears the burden of proving falsity. In
addition, Trump can avail himself of defenses such as
opinion bearing the indicia of “figurative or hyperbolic
language.” Those are all perfectly legitimate defenses and
they or some variant thereof will most likely result in a
dismissal. Ironically, maybe even hypocritically, those are
some of the same defenses that the president has railed
against in his quest to “open up libel laws.”
But the only doctrine that really breaks through the Wall of
Noise is whether Ms. Daniels had a reputation to protect in
the first place. In other words, is Ms. Daniels — by dint of
being a porn star — a libel-proof plaintiff?
How bad to you have to be?
In his seminal book “Libel, Slander, and Related
Problems”, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge and
preeminent media law expert Robert Sack notes that “some
courts have held that there are persons so notorious that
they have no reputation on which to base a defamation
lawsuit. Their suits are necessarily frivolous. They are said
to be ‘libel-proof’.”
So how notorious do you have to be? The answer is pretty
damn notorious. The most famous libel-proof plaintiff may
be James Earl Ray, the confessed assassin of Dr. Martin
Luther King. Not a lot of redeeming qualities there. A
proven history of bad acts can also render a plaintiff “libel-
proof.” Robert Cardillo brought a libel claim against a
book publisher for his appearance in a book about the
mafia. Apparently, to be libel proof you have to be a really
bad guy. In Cardillo’s case the judge held that the plaintiff
was libel-proof because he was serving 21 years in prison
having been sentenced for assorted federal felonies,
including convictions for stolen securities, bail-jumping in
three different states, conspiracy, and interstate
transportation of stolen securities. Not exactly the guy you
want to take home to meet Mom.
It’s worth noting that other courts have said that
“While the doctrine is most often applied to
plaintiffs with criminal convictions, it is not
limited to plaintiffs with criminal records.”
In an infamous feud between pornographers Bob Guccione
and Larry Flynt, Guccione sued Flynt for having accused
him of marital infidelity. Partially because the allegations
were substantially true, (the guy did get around) the court
found that Guccione was “libel-proof” for the purposes of
that case.
At the same time, then-D.C. Court of Appeals Judge
Antonin Scalia held in one famous case that even when the
plaintiff has performed a bad act, one’s reputation is a not
a monolith:
“The law, however, proceeds upon the
optimistic premise that there is a little bit of
good in all of us — or perhaps upon the
pessimistic assumption that no matter how
bad someone is, he can always be worse.
It is shameful that Benedict Arnold was a
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traitor; but he was not a shoplifter to boot,
and one should not have been able to
make that charge while knowing its falsity
with impunity.”
Here’s a fun trick: Google the phrase “junk bond king”
and the first thing you’ll see is a photograph of Michael
Milken. As in Justice Scalia’s Benedict Arnold example,
Milken isn’t really libel-proof: You can lawfully accuse
him of untrustworthiness in financial matters but would
face an army of parachuting lawyers if you accused him of
selling drugs.
Porn stars are people too
Donald Trump did not say that Stormy Daniels regularly
has sex with people for money. For one thing, that’s true,
which is an absolute defense to any libel claim. Some of
Trump’s defenders in social media have raised the
question of whether Ms. Daniels has a reputation to be
damaged in the first place and base this question on
blurring the distinction between a porn star and a
prostitute.
First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza has
considerable experience in the adult film industry and has
represented several well-known porn stars in various
matters.
“Pornography is not prostitution,” Randazza
says, explaining that “adult video actors are
being paid to perform, but not being paid to
provide sexual gratification to their sex
partner.”
Randazza, who has written extensively on the subject,
notes that the sex act in adult videos are part and parcel of
creative expression and is constitutionally protected:
“the gentle tug job of the First Amendment
brings us to a happy ending,” quipped
Randazza. Some courts have agreed,
holding that “traditional interpretations of
the word “prostitute” narrow the literal
definition to exempt pornography.”
Nonetheless, involvement in pornography carries a social
stigma that may — even if unfairly — indicate Daniels
still has no real reputation to protect. No matter how
sympathetic one may be to porn stars or even “sex
workers,” the fact is that reputation (and defamatory
meaning) is reflective of the values of local society. Being
called gay in San Francisco? No big deal. Being called gay
in rural Mississippi? You might have a problem. Randazza
has seen anti-porn stigma at work against a number of his
clients. Adult video actors often have their career used
against them in custody cases, and since the institution of
President Obama’s “Operation Chokepoint” program,
insurance companies and financial institutions have
randomly and without notice closed bank accounts of
many in the adult film industry.
“Truth be told,” says Randazza, “a lot of the
porn stars I’ve met are really good parents
and nice people. If I was asked who I
trusted more, a porn star or a Goldman
Sachs investment banker, I’d go with the
porn star every time.”
Notably, amusing evidence that society considers being a
porn star a shameful thing comes not from tightly-wound
Baptist preachers or the Paleolithic knuckle draggers who
make up Trump Nation. No, it was Stormy Daniels’ own
lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who upon first taking the case
made clear to CNN that he was holding his nose while
considering representing a porn star:
“I knew that she was an adult film star and I
haven’t represented any adult film stars.
That’s just not what I do,” explained
Avenatti. “I mean, I’ve had a real legal
career with real cases of significant
magnitude and I’ve got a reputation that
I’ve built over the years. And I was
skeptical about lending that reputation to
somebody in the industry, quite honestly
[…] I met her, and she blew every
conception that I had, misconception that I
had, out of the water.”
(You may now insert your own jokes about blowing a
conception out of the water.)
The libel-proof defendant?
Since this is all a thought experiment anyway, let’s take
this issue to the next step. The #Resistance media has
thrown everything at the president to see what would stick.
(And to be fair, who knows? Someday some of it might.)
But notably, two talking points popular with progressives
may actually undercut Ms. Daniels’ case.
To begin with, in the never-ending crusade to nullify the
2016 election, the Wall of Noise promulgated thousands of
column-inches questioning the president’s mental state.
For a while, every utterance, every tweet, every sideways
glance by Trump was framed up to support invocation of
the 25th Amendment: the man is clearly insane and a
danger to himself and society. No, strike that, a danger to
the entire planet. He wants to kill us all.
In addition, a more recent parlor game among news
organizations is the “everything he says is a lie” trope.
This goes well beyond the views of a vulgar comedienne
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making fun of Sarah Sanders at Nerdprom. A popular
trend now in “news” is to quantify the number of times the
president has made false statements, and The New York
Times runs a popular and frequently updated feature called
“The 459 People, Places and Things
Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A
Complete List.”
Between the 25th Amendment “evidence” and the
“everything he says is a lie” meme, the message is that we
should not take anything President Trump says seriously.
(I, for one, take nothing any politician says seriously).
This is not unlike the prejudice that many people exhibit
towards news organizations with which they disagree. I
know people who would refuse to believe that the sun rises
in the east if it were broadcast on Fox News. I know
people who similarly denude The Washington Post of any
credibility whatsoever, no matter how provably true the
article is. Now everybody is The National Enquirer to
somebody.
Anecdotally, I know one media lawyer well connected to
the Clinton camp who suffers such an obsession with
President Trump that he posts several links on social media
every day to articles questioning Trump’s sanity, and
feverishly encourages comments supporting the twin
notions that:
1) the president is crazy; and
2) the president is not to be taken seriously. Of course, no
matter how politely framed, any dissent on his page is
either dismissed as “trolling,” disregarded as being pro-
Trump, or just deleted.
Apparently The Oxford Dictionary is wrong: liberal no
longer means
“Willing to respect or accept behavior or
opinions different from one’s own; open to
new ideas.”
The #Resistance club needn’t worry that they are
theoretically sabotaging Ms. Daniels’ case because it is
highly unlikely that Trump’s defense will actually be
“I’m insane and you shouldn’t take anything
I say seriously.”
That doesn’t mean that the #Resistance club has no
worries: When they insist on making intellectually
dishonest or internally inconsistent arguments in the sole
pursuit of political ends, it is they — at least outside of
Manhattan and Malibu — who will not be taken seriously.
 History! President Trump Welcomes Home Three
American Captives From North Korean Prison Camps
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 7:33 Am

Last night early in the morning

President Trump, his beautiful wife, the
Vice President and his wife along with
new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
welcomed home three Americans that
were let free from North Korea. It was
history in the making!

At a little past 3am Eastern time President Trump

welcomed home three Americans held hostage in North
Korea. It is the beginning of what is hoped to be concrete
and demonstrable moves that will end towards Korea
becoming nuclear free.

In January the media went wild after the President tweeted

that his nuclear button was bigger than North Korea’s –

Last night the President showed he was in charge and the

whole world noticed. My good friend from Korea emailed
me over night –

Hi Joe
I told you yesterday that the three
Americans may be freed, and this actually
took place. It is getting more interesting…
let us see how these things develop and
what Donald Trump will bring to the world!!

Thank God Hillary Clinton and her

liberal elites are not managing the world
like prior President Obama! #MAGA

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 NYT Initially Buries Release
Of Prisoners, Touts It On Thursday
By Clay Waters
May 10, 2018 7:38 AM EDT
New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris apparently has
no nose for news -- at least not for the kind that may make
President Trump look like an effective leader. His
Wednesday story, “On Big Day, Top Diplomat Is Halfway
Around the World, Raising Questions,” buried the lead in
truly embarrassing fashion while mocking the supposedly
AWOL Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The paper
realized the mistake on Thursday.
Incredibly, the news of Mike Pompeo supervising the then-
imminent release of three Americans being held in North
Korea was relegated to paragraph 11 of a 17 graph story,
in an “oh by the way” fashion. Yet it led the paper’s front
page the next day!
Harris treated Pompeo’s “unannounced visit” to North
Korea as a puzzling blunder.
When President Trump made the surprise announcement in
March that he would soon meet with the North Korean
leader, Kim Jong-un, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson
was thousands of miles away, an absence interpreted as a
sign of Mr. Tillerson’s irrelevance.
Mr. Trump soon replaced Mr. Tillerson with Mike
Pompeo, who has promised to bring back the State
Department’s “swagger” and import. But on Tuesday,
when Mr. Trump made what could be the most significant
diplomatic announcement of his presidency -- that he
would exit the Iran nuclear agreement -- his chief diplomat
was again thousands of miles away, this time on an
unannounced visit to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, to
lay further groundwork for a summit meeting between Mr.
Kim and Mr. Trump.
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The absence of Mr. Pompeo and other top State
Department officials left perplexed European diplomats
privately complaining that they were having trouble
getting answers from Washington, and created an
uncertainty about what was next that spanned the Atlantic
Ocean.
Senior State Department officials were momentarily
speechless on Tuesday when asked why Mr. Pompeo did
not delay his trip by a day to be in Washington during Mr.
Trump’s Iran deal announcement. Mr. Pompeo left for
Pyongyang on Monday night.
The criticism of Pompeo would have been weak enough,
even if Harris had no inkling that the hostage release was
on the agenda – but Harris did know! He dropped it
casually two-thirds into the story:
Also, according to a senior aide to
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in,
Mr. Pompeo was expected to leave
Pyongyang with three Americans now
imprisoned in North Korea and return to
the United States with them. All of them
are Korean-Americans and all have the
surname Kim, although they are not
related.
Oh, is that all? It led the paper the next day, but made
paragraph 11 in a Page 10 story the day before.
President Trump tweeted about the paper’s embarrassing
failure to see news right in front of it.
The Times had a vastly different and more appropriate take
on the prisoner release when it actually happened, putting
it in the lead story slot in Thursday’s edition,
recognizing its potential deep effect on international
relations, while retaining their trademark cynicism to all
things Trump. Harris was listed as one of four contributing
reporters to the story but didn’t get a byline, which was
probably for the best.
The release of three American prisoners cleared away a
last obstacle on Wednesday to a landmark nuclear summit
meeting between President Trump and North Korea’s
leader, Kim Jong-un.
North Korea freed the prisoners, all Americans of Korean
descent, even as the two countries finalized details for a
meeting between their leaders. The move was North
Korea’s most tangible gesture aimed at improving relations
with the United States since Mr. Trump took office.
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Mr. Trump exulted over the release and publicly
entertained talk that he could even win a Nobel Peace
Prize for his diplomacy. He was so eager to associate
himself with the freed prisoners that he decided to
personally travel to Joint Base Andrews outside
Washington in the middle of the night to welcome them
back to the United States, something other presidents have
not typically done in similar circumstances.
 Trump DHS Secretary Schools
Democrat Senator On Immigration: “It’s A Law…”
(VIDEO)
By Mike Lachance
May 10, 2018, 7:45 Am

Murray then suggested that Nielsen’s

opposition to illegal immigration is part of
her political philosophy rather than her duty
to follow the nation’s laws.
“I know what your philosophy is,” Murray
said, cutting her off.
“It’s not a philosophy, it’s a law Congress
passed,” Nielsen said exasperatedly. “So
those people need to come to the ports if
they want to seek asylum.”

Watch the video:

Trump’s DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen recently gave an

education to Democrat senator Patty Murray. They were
talking about illegal immigration and Murray was pushing
for more ‘humane’ treatment for people who are arrested
for illegally crossing into the country.

Nielsen said that they treat people humanely but reminded

Murray that some people who are picked up have
committed other crimes and need to be held. She also
reminded Murray that crossing the border illegally is a
crime.

Here’s a transcript via the Daily Caller:
“I just want to say again — if you cross in
between the ports of entry…” Nielsen
started.
.
What is it about this subject that Democrats can’t seem to
grasp? We are a nation of laws and we have borders. When
people come in by sneaking across the border they have
broken the law. It’s just that simple.

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 Ted Cruz On N. Korea Prisoner Release:
Trump Ended Obama Policy Of
'Weakness And Appeasement'
By Fox News Insider
May 10, 7:51am

policy of weakness and appeasement,"

Cruz said.
"The problem is weakness and
appeasement doesn't work, especially with
dictators like Kim Jong Un," Cruz said.
"President Trump has come in with a
strong American foreign policy, getting
back to peace through strength. And I think
we're seeing the results of it with three
Americans coming home."

Sen. Ted Cruz said President Trump should be

commended following the release of three American
prisoners by North Korea.

Trump -- along with first lady Melania Trump and Vice

President Mike Pence -- met Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak
Song and Tony Kim when they arrived at Andrews Air
Force Base in Maryland early Thursday.

Trump publicly thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong

Un for releasing the prisoners, and said it is a sign of
easing tensions as the two get set to meet on
denuclearization in a forthcoming summit.

On "Fox & Friends" on Thursday, Cruz (R-Texas) said

the release of the prisoners is a "major victory" that is the
result of Trump's aggressive posture toward Kim's regime.
"We saw for eight years under Barack
Obama a foreign policy that was really a
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 John McCain Trashes Gina Haspel For Endorsing
“Torture” Of Islamist Terrorists – Forgets He Voted For
Brennan Who Has Same “Torture” Record
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 8:17 Am

Senator John McCain later released a

statement condemning Haspel after the
hearing.

CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel testified before the

Senate on Wednesday on her qualifications to lead the
CIA. But Larry O’Connor, the host of the
Larry O’Connor Show on WMALDC,
During questioning Haspel was grilled on her previous reminded the senior Arizona senator
participation in the waterboarding “torture” of Islamist that he voted for John Brennan — who
mass killers. had the same “torture” record as
Haspel.
The CIA reportedly waterboarded a handful of top
terrorists after the 9-11 attacks and was able to obtain
information that broke up several attacks and led the US to
Bin Laden.

Democrats and squish Republicans believe this was

immoral and a stain on US history.

Haspel refused to apologize for the interrogation methods

during questioning.
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 McCain Defends Decision
To Give Steele Dossier To The FBI
Mike Brest
8:44 AM 05/10/2018

Senator John McCain wrote in his upcoming memoir that

he does not regret providing the FBI with the Steele
dossier.

McCain said he gave the dossier to then FBI-head James

Comey, back in late 2016.

The Arizonian senator discusses and defends his decision

to share the information in his new book, “The Restless
Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and
Other Appreciations,” which is scheduled to come out
The Steele dossier has been at the center of controversy for
May 22.
the Trump administration as it alleged Russian meddling in
the 2016 election, which led to the appointment of a
According to The Guardian, who got an advanced copy of special counsel, Robert Mueller.
the book, McCain said,
President Trump has repeatedly dismissed the rumors in
“I did what duty demanded I do. I
the dossier calling it, and the resulting fallout from it, as a
discharged that obligation and I would do it
“witch hunt” and a “hoax.”
again. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to
hell.”
One of the controversial aspects of the document is how it
was funded. The Democratic National Committee and
democratic nominee Hillary Clinton partially paid the
document to be commissioned.

The research initially began as just opposition research but

spiraled into what it’s become now.
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 Giuliani’s Law Firm Undercuts
His Statements As They Part Ways
By Michael S. Schmidt And Maggie Haberman
May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s personal lawyer,
Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm,
Greenberg Traurig, the firm announced on Thursday, then
promptly undercut his recent statements defending the
president.
Mr. Giuliani had taken a leave of absence last month from
the firm, one of the nation’s largest, to represent Mr.
Trump. But the firm said in a statement that he no longer
worked there.
Firm partners had chafed over Mr. Giuliani’s public
comments about payments that another of Mr. Trump’s
lawyers, Michael D. Cohen, made to secure the silence of a
pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with
Mr. Trump. The president has denied her allegations.
Mr. Giuliani suggested that such payments were common
at his firm, even without the knowledge of the clients.
“That was money that was paid by his
lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law
firm funds,” he said on Fox News. He
added, “Michael would take care of things
like this like I take care of this with my
clients.”
The New York Times asked Greenberg Traurig about those
remarks early this week. Shortly after Mr. Giuliani’s
resignation was announced, the firm responded.
“We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with
respect to what was intended by his
remarks,” said a spokeswoman, Jill Perry.
“Speaking for ourselves, we would not
condone payments of the nature alleged to
have been made or otherwise without the
knowledge and direction of a client.”
Mr. Trump has publicly denied knowing about the
payments as they were made. Mr. Giuliani said the
president reimbursed Mr. Cohen for them, an arrangement
he said was routine. Mr. Giuliani had to walk back many
of his comments.
Mr. Giuliani laughed when read the statement from the
firm.
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“First of all, I don’t think they really
understand what I said,” he said. He said
he was referring to a non-disclosure
agreement that Mr. Cohen had negotiated.
“That’s a very common part of a
settlement,” he said. “In fact, any lawyer
would negotiated that for a client.”
“You’ve gotta realize the firm is 2,000
lawyers,” he added, “some of them big
supporters of the president, some of them
enemies of the president.”
In the statement, Greenberg Traurig said that Mr. Giuliani
had resigned effective Wednesday.
“After recognizing that this work is all
consuming and is lasting longer than
initially anticipated, Rudy has determined it
is best for him to resign,” said the firm’s
chairman, Richard A. Rosenbaum.
Mr. Giuliani said in the statement that it “is in everyone’s
best interest that I make it a permanent resignation” so he
can focus on the special counsel’s investigation.
Lawyers at Greenberg Traurig are sensitive about their
public image. In 2005, one of its lobbyists, Jack Abramoff,
was implicated at the center of a wide-ranging corruption
scandal that shook Washington.
Firm members bristled in 2016 when Mr. Giuliani played
an aggressive, pit-bull-style surrogate role on Mr. Trump’s
behalf during the presidential campaign. After Mr.
Trump’s inauguration, when it became clear that Mr.
Giuliani would not get the job he wanted — secretary of
state — he kept a relatively low profile at the request of his
colleagues.
But Mr. Giuliani has enjoyed the public-relations work he
has been doing for Mr. Trump, according to three people
who have spoken with him. Much like his client, Mr.
Giuliani, a former New York mayor, prefers being
untethered, they said.
And despite Mr. Trump’s grousing about Mr. Giuliani’s
gaffes, the president has also told people that Mr. Giuliani
is putting out information that the president wants to be
part of the public conversation, particularly about the
special counsel inquiry.
What’s more, Mr. Trump’s team functions better as a
collection of free agents as opposed to major names tied to
a big firm, which imposes strong restrictions, according to
one person familiar with the situation.
One person close to Mr. Giuliani said that his serving in
the administration in some role eventually was a
possibility and had been the subject of informal
conversations he had with the president.
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Many of the country’s top law firms have resisted the
prospect of their lawyers representing the president. As
Mr. Trump tried to rebuild his legal team this spring, firms
told their top lawyers that if they wanted to represent the
president, they would have to resign.
The firms were concerned about Mr. Trump’s
longstanding history of ignoring his lawyers’ advice and
apparent failure to pay his bills, and backlash from
employees who did not want to work for a firm that was
representing Mr. Trump.
 White House Stands With Israel,
SLAMS Iran After Missile Attacks
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:58 AM 05/10/2018

“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

(IRGC) bears full responsibility for the
consequences of its reckless actions, and
we call on the IRGC and its militant
proxies, including Hizballah, to take no
further provocative steps.”

Israel confirmed in a Thursday statement that it conducted

numerous airstrikes in Syria against Iranian missile targets.
Israel has made it clear to Iran that it will now allow it to
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders turn Syria into a base in which it can develop strategic
castigated Iran Thursday after the regime’s Revolutionary threats to its own country.
Guard Corps fired missiles into Israel from Syria.
The airstrikes drew several Iranian missile attacks on the
“The United States condemns the Iranian Syrian-Israeli border, with Israeli missile defense systems
regime’s provocative rocket attacks from intercepting some of the projectiles.
Syria against Israeli citizens, and we
strongly support Israel’s right to act in self-
defense,” she wrote in a statement.
“The Iranian regime’s deployment into
Syria of offensive rocket and missile
systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable
and highly dangerous development for the
entire Middle East.”
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 Pence On Mueller Investigation:
‘It’s Time To Wrap It Up’ [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
9:21 AM 05/10/2018

Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday morning he

believes it’s time for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to WATCH:
end his long ongoing investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Pence told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he thinks Mueller

has spent enough time on the investigation and reiterated
that President Donald Trump’s administration has fully
complied with Mueller’s requests, providing him with over
1 million documents.

“What I think is that it’s been about a year

since this investigation began,” Pence said
in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
“Our administration has provided over a “I would very respectfully encourage the
million documents, we’ve fully cooperated special counsel and his team to bring their
in it and in the interest of the country, I work to completion,” Pence continued.
think it’s time to wrap it up.”
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 Hallie Jackson: Trump Greeting
Hostages Was A ‘Staged Production’
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:33 AM 05/10/2018

“You had floodlights lighting up this 30 x

MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson praised President Donald Trump
on Thursday for securing the release of three hostages held
by North Korea, but she also seemed to knock him for
making it a “staged production” of their arrival in
Washington, DC.
50-foot American flag, hanging in between
two ladder trucks, as the plane carrying
these men rolled in,” she continued. “This
moment when the president and first lady
holding hands went up the stairs, spending
six minutes in private conversation and
then unexpectedly, because we didn’t think
that was going to happen, unexpectedly
coming over with these men and taking a
number of questions from reporters.”
WATCH:

Jackson called the release a “special moment” and a

“moment of intense anticipation,” but noted that it was
“carefully choreographed.”

“Donald Trump is a former reality show

producer,” Jackson asserted. “This was a
staged production meant for television;
meant for the cameras, meant to be shown
and seen here in this country and around
the world.”
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 CNN’s Chris Cuomo Eats Crow,
Calls Hostage Release A ‘High Point’
In Trump’s Presidency [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:40 AM 05/10/2018

WATCH:

CNN host Chris Cuomo said the release of three American

hostages from North Korea is a “high point” in President
Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House.

“We begin with breaking news of a good

kind,” Cuomo said on “New Day” Thursday.
“President Trump welcoming home three
Americans. Look at this. A hero’s welcome
for the men freed by North Korea — after
more than a year in captivity. The president
and the first lady emerging from the plane
that came in the middle of the night with the
former prisoners. It was just before dawn.”
“Their release marks a high point in Mr.
Trump’s turbulent presidency,” he added.
Cuomo’s comments came less than two weeks after he said
Trump might be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for
his efforts in North and South Korea.
Trump welcomed Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and
Kim Sang Duk (Tony Kim) into the U.S. after they arrived
at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington just before 3
a.m. Thursday. The president boarded the plane to
congratulate the men and came out, holding their hands up
in triumph.

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 Mad Maxine: Trump’s Exit From Iran Deal Means
Impeachment Is The Only Answer
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 9:56 Am
Sorry, Auntie Maxine.
It doesn’t work that way.
Democrat party mouthpiece Rep.
Maxine Waters called again for
President Trump’s impeachment
following his exit from the Iranian
nuclear deal.
Maxine Waters tweeted out her latest
call for impeachment on Wednesday.
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For the record, signing an executive
order to exit from a shoddy nuclear deal
is not means for impeachment.
Iranian Fars News reported on Auntie Maxine.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Rep. Maxine Waters
stressed that impeaching US President
Donald Trump is the “only option” for
Democrats in the wake of his decision to
exit the Iran nuclear deal.
Waters said in a tweet on Wednesday that
the Republican President “thinks he knows
better” than all the negotiators and major
American allies — the UK, France and
Germany — who negotiated the deal with
Iran under former President Barack
Obama.
“Trump, further isolating the United States,
thinks he knows better than our negotiators
and all of our global allies who agreed to
the Iran deal,” Waters tweeted, adding that
“how long do we have to suffer his gigantic
ego and narcissistic behavior?
Impeachment is the only answer”.
The US President came under fire from
both his political opponents and fellow
Republicans for pulling Washington out of
the Iran nuclear deal, with lawmakers
arguing the move will embolden Tehran
and make the United States less secure.
 Mike Pence Slams Jon Karl
For Questioning ‘Smiling’ Photo With Kim Jong Un
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:08 AM 05/10/2018

Pompeo met with the North Korean leader on Wednesday

and secured the release of three American hostages. The
pair took several photos of them shaking hands and
smiling.

“Those photographs — the two of them are

Screen Shot Mike Pence and Jon Karl (ABC: May 10, 2018)
Vice President Mike Pence took a shot at ABC’s Jon Karl
after he questioned why Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
was taking photos smiling with Kim Jong Un.
WATCH:
Pence nodded in agreement, but replied,
all smiles, it’s almost — I mean, it’s
remarkable,” Karl said. “Big enthusiastic
handshake like they’re old friends. How is
that possible?”
“I mean, you yourself described Kim Jong
Un as one of the most brutal dictators on
the planet.”

“what you’re seeing is diplomacy.”

“Diplomacy that has followed the United
States of America speaking truth that we’ll
no longer tolerate the path North Korea’s
been on with regard to nuclear missiles,”
VPOTUS continued. “What’s different today
is the United States has offered no
concessions, nothing in exchange, and yet
we do see… signs that this may be
different. And it’s all a result of President
Trump’s leadership.”
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 Gina Haspel Has The Most Insane
CIA Resume Of All Time [VIDEO]
Anders Hagstrom - Justice Reporter
10:16 AM 05/10/2018
Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to become the director
of the CIA, faced a grilling from the Senate Intelligence Committee
Wednesday, answering questions regarding her views of torture and
her vision for the agency.(Screenshot/YouTube/DCNF)
Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to become
the director of the CIA, faced a grilling from the Senate
Intelligence Committee Wednesday, answering questions
regarding her views of torture and her vision for the
agency.
The 33-year CIA veteran fended off aggressive
questioning from Democrats as well as Republican Sen.
Rand Paul of Kentucky, criticizing her for taking part in
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legal, but now-banned, interrogation practices under
former President George W. Bush. Haspel joined an
enhanced interrogation program in the early 2000s, a year
after the program gained approval from the administration.
Her detractors all point to the same alleged misdeed: the
waterboarding of a chief Al-Qaida officer in the Persian
Gulf. The officer was the mastermind behind the attacks
on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, which killed 17 Americans and
wounded 39 more.
Despite her familiarity with waterboarding, Haspel
testified Wednesday that she supported the ban on the
practice and would not attempt to revive any similar
interrogations practices as director.
During her 33-year career, Haspel has served in Africa,
Europe, and Russia, picking up five languages along the
way. She’s also served as a CIA station chief four times
and has served as the agency’s deputy director since 2016.
If confirmed, Haspel will be the first female CIA director
in history.
 Secretary Of State Pompeo Is
Front Page News In Nuclear North Korea
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
10:22 AM 05/10/2018

assumption as secretary of state.” Pompeo delivered a

personal message from Trump, to which he responded with
gratitude, KCNA reported.

During the meeting, Kim made his first on-the-record

The secretary of state made the front page of the North
Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper Thursday, something
that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.
acknowledgement of the upcoming leadership summit,
stating that “the coming DPRK-U.S. summit would be a
historic meeting for the excellent first step toward
promotion of the positive situation development in the
Korean peninsula and building of a good future.”
Kim also agreed to release the three American prisoners,
who arrived home Thursday morning.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made his second trip to

North Korea Wednesday to lay the groundwork for
President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un, as well as secure the release of three
American prisoners. The front page of the Rodong Sinmun
featured an image of Pompeo shaking hands with the
North Korean leader, who hopes to meet the secretary
again in the future.

Speaking on the tarmac after welcoming the released

prisoners home, Trump thanked Kim Jong Un for freeing
them and expressed optimism about his planned meeting
with the North Korean leader.

“We’re starting off on a new footing,” he

During Pompeo’s 90-minute meeting with Kim
Wednesday, the North Korean leader, according to a
feature story leading the website for the state-run Korean
Central News Agency, “warmly greeted Mike Pompeo and
sincerely congratulated him on his recent official
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said before dawn Thursday, “I think this will
be a very big success. It’s never been
taken this far, there’s never been a
relationship like this. Some great things can
happen, and that’s what we hope.”
There are still a lot of unknowns going forward and a lot of
water under the bridge, but interactions with North Korea
have thus far been positive, potentially paving the way for
peace.

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 Scarborough Grills Angus King
Over Opposition To Haspel
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:37 AM 05/10/2018

Scarborough noted that King, an Independent from Maine,

and a number of Democrats asked many questions that
would be better saved for a close session.
“But, you also though – there’s also a lot of
information that you could have gotten if
the cameras were turned off and people
were taken out of the room,” Scarborough
asserted.
“I mean, it’s just like Diane Feinstein asked
a question that she knew she could not
MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough grilled Sen. Angus King answer in a public committee hearing, and
over his opposition to CIA director nominee Gina Haspel also knew that if the room were cleared
during a Thursday morning interview. and the cameras were turned off, you all
could get the information,” he continued
WATCH: with some underlying anger. “Was this just
a sideshow for your base?”
“No, no, no,” King insisted, claiming that
Haspel also didn’t answer his questions
during the closed hearing.

Elsewhere in King’s interview, MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle

crushed him by asking why he wouldn’t vote for Haspel if
he believed her to be qualified for the position.

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 Trump: Five Most Wanted ISIS Leaders Captured
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:39 AM 05/10/2018

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the five

most wanted members of the Islamic State terror group
have been captured.

“Five most wanted leaders of ISIS just

captured,” POTUS stated.

The three Americans formerly held hostage in North Korea gesture

According to Fox News, the ISIS leaders were captured in
a joint-sting operation conducted by American, Iraqi and
Turkish forces.
WATCH:
next to U.S.President Donald Trump, upon their arrival at Joint Base
Andrews, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg –
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Some in the media, including CNN’s Chris Cuomo, called
the moment the highlight of Trump’s presidency, a sharp
break from their usual White House coverage.

Other media personalities, however, criticized POTUS for

turning the somber event into a publicity stunt.

Trump’s comments came just hours after he celebrated the

release of three American hostages — formerly held by
North Korea — upon their arrival at Andrews Air Force
Base.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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 Jimmy Carter Says Withdrawal From Iranian
Nuke Agreement Is “Worst Mistake” –
Forgets He Was Behind Khomeini
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 10:47 Am

Former President Jimmy Carter called

President Donald Trump pulling the U.S.
out of the Iran nuclear deal a “serious
mistake.”
Carter said the decision, “May be the
worst mistake Trump has made so far.”
Cartr joined CNN to discuss the
decision on Thursday.

Of course, Jimmy Carter is forgetting

about his decision to abandon the Shah
of Iran and open the country to the
Khomeinists.

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Iran Before And After Jimmy Carter

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 ‘Morning Joe’ Ignores Hostage Release
To Talk Baseball And Then Bashes Trump Anyway
[VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:49 AM 05/10/2018

WATCH:

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” crew opened Thursday’s show

chatting about baseball, and still found time to bash
President Donald Trump after the release of three
American hostages from North Korea.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski tried to open with the hostage
release, but host Joe Scarborough quickly pivoted to the
Yankees/Red Sox game instead.
“Joe, you tweeted last night, ‘Bloodthirsty
tyrants get no credit for kidnapping
Americans, using them as bait and
releasing them for cheap headlines,'”
Brzezinski said. “‘North Korea is a terrorist
state. That has lied to the United States for
decades.’ And of course we know that 22-
year-old Otto Warmbier … was sent home
in June of last year and then later died
because he was in such bad shape. Joe,
you tweeted that late last night.”
“Yeah I tweeted that late last night. I won’t
tell you what I was doing,” Scarborough
replied. “Let’s just say our bullpen did not
perform in the eighth and ninth inning as it
should have performed. But I don’t want to
talk about it. Congratulations, Willie. No it
was a great game last night Willie. A
couple of great games and last night, Red
Sox, it was back and forth affair. Red Sox,
6-5, until what, the eighth inning and then
the Yankees just stepped on the gas.”
.
When Scarborough finally stopped talking baseball, he
criticized Trump for making “diplomatic mistakes” and
painted him as overly enthusiastic in his dealings with
North Korea.
“It just leads me again to worry, what we
were saying yesterday. As you know, one
of my chief complaints during the Iran deal
was that America seemed to be over-eager
for a deal and we didn’t get the terms that I
personally thought at the time we could
have gotten. It seems like we’re doing the
same thing with Donald Trump,” he said.
“He rushes into West Wing offices when
he’s not supposed to be in meetings,
saying hey, let’s get together and have a
summit. None of the groundwork’s been
laid.”
“This seems like he’s making the classic,
classic diplomatic mistake of thinking that
he can charm his way into a win, on the
diplomatic stage,” Scarborough
concluded.

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 Trump Announces Date
And Place Of His Summit With Kim Jong Un
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
10:52 AM 05/10/2018
President Donald Trump revealed the specific details of his
summit with Kim Jong Un Thursday.
“The highly anticipated meeting between
Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in
Singapore on June 12th,” the president
tweeted. “We will both try to make it a very
special moment for World Peace!”
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The announcement follows the release of three American
prisoners from North Korea, in what the White House calls
a “gesture of goodwill.” After welcoming the three men
home, Trump told the press that the U.S. and North Korea
are “starting off on a new footing.”
“I think this will be a very big success. It’s
never been taken this far, there’s never
been a relationship like this. Some great
things can happen, and that’s what we
hope,” he added.
Trump will be the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a
North Korean leader.
 Judge Napolitano Thinks
Bob Mueller’s Tactics Amount To ‘Bribery’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:58 AM 05/10/2018

Fox news senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano

said special counsel Bob Mueller’s tactics of squeezing
witnesses for information amounts to “bribery,” Thursday
on “Fox & Friends.”
“I have argued that prosecuting somebody
like they did to [former national security
adviser] Mike Flynn, squeezing him,
reducing his jail exposure so he’ll say what
you want him to say is a form of bribery.
I’ve been arguing that for years,”
Napolitano said.
Napolitano said he is in the minority in the legal field and
said the courts have deemed Mueller’s tactics to be
perfectly legal, despite the ethical implications.
“I am in the distinct minority in the legal and
judicial community,” Napolitano concluded.
“The courts have said this is fine. If defense
counsel gave a witness so much as a
lollipop, the lawyer and the witness would
be indicted for bribery.”

WATCH:

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 Trump Gets In Dig At
The New York Times As He Welcomes Hostages Home
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
11:04 AM 05/10/2018

Trump mentioned the report in his remarks.

“I think our secretary of state, despite the

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks upon the return of US
detainees Tony Kim (front L), Kim Hak-song (R) and Kim Dong-chul
(3rd R) after they were released by North Korea, at Joint Base
Andrews in Maryland on May 10, 2018. (Photo: SAUL
LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
While welcoming three American hostages who had been
held in North Korea, President Donald Trump managed to
get in a dig at the New York Times.
fact that the New York Times said he was
missing — he was in North Korea — but I
think our secretary of state has done a
fantastic job,” Trump said.
“Mike, did you know that you were
missing? They couldn’t find you,” the
president said, turning to Pompeo. “They
couldn’t find you. They couldn’t find him.
They couldn’t find him because he was in
North Korea.”
WATCH:

Trump spoke briefly to reporters on the tarmac, calling it a

“great honor” to welcome the hostages home. The remarks
were positive and lighthearted except for a moment when a
reporter asked about the new secretary of state, Mike
Pompeo.

The Times ran a story Tuesday with the headline, “At a

Key Moment, Trumps Top Diplomat Is Again Thousands
of Miles Away,” before it was revealed that he was
negotiating the release of the hostages.
Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Tony Kim, who had
been held for a least a year, were released in the lead-up to
the historic meeting planned between North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un and Trump planned in the coming weeks.

They were welcomed by Trump, first lady Melania Trump

and Vice President Mike Pence in a 3 a.m. arrival at Joint
Base Andrews in Maryland.

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SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

The three men are reportedly healthy and are being

released to their families after being debriefed by officials.
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 Whiny CNN Frets Over Trump
Getting Credit for Freed Prisoners, Mentions Mueller
By Scott Whitlock and Curtis Houck
May 10, 2018 11:08 AM EDT

What should be the focus of coverage when three United At 2:56 AM ET, CNN brought on Philip Yun, who was an
States prisoners are freed from North Korea? If you’re the adviser for Bill Clinton, to whine about Trump being there
journalists at CNN overnight, you make sure to mention to greet the returning American prisoners:
the Robert Mueller investigation, Stormy Daniels and to
worry about Donald Trump getting credit for these “Well, this is Donald Trump as a... TV
Americans returning. moment for him. If nothing else, he knows
how to get publicity, how to a bleed a lot of
At 2:26 AM ET, in the early hours of Thursday, CNN’s drama.”
cameras were waiting for Trump and Kim Dong-chul,
Tony Kim and Kim Hak-song to arrive at Andrews Air
Force Base. Journalist John Vause deemed this the time to
speculate on scandals:

“Donald Trump believes that this success

in the foreign policy field might be enough,
you know, to distract attention away from
the Robert Mueller investigation into
Russia, the criminal investigation of his
own personal attorney, you know, the
Stormy Daniels affair.”

Later, Vause and Zeleny returned to worry about the credit

the President might get for these Americans coming
home:

Senior White house Correspondent Jeff Zeleny reminded:

“The Mueller investigation is indeed

alive and well.” Was anyone not aware of
this? Zeleny added: “But the White House
officials and supporters of the President
actually hope he can focus on something
substantive like the release of these three
Americans.”
JOHN VAUSE: Jeff, what's interesting is in the past like
when Donald Trump went to Las Vegas after the, you
know, mass shooting there. He met with the first
responders, the medical workers.

(In 2009, Zeleny’s idea of a hardball to Barack Obama was ...

to ask him what “enchanted” the Democrat about being
president.) How soon will it be before we see images these turned
around and, you know, put out on social media by the

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President or some kind of, you know, a campaign
message?
ZELENY: I expect before the sun rises you
will see something like that without
question. I mean, that is just the fact of life
in the social media times certainly this
President, you know, certainly aware of the
images. I expect his campaign to mention it
and he certainly will share this message.
To be sure, CNN journalists did cite the return of the
prisoners as “good news” and a moment of celebration.
But there was a signifigant amount of time devoted to
whining about optics, credit and even discussions of
Mueller and Stormy Daniels.
At 6:08 AM ET, CNN International journalist Will Ripley
chided about Donald Trump “exploiting” the prisoners:
To see the men put on camera after the
isolation they endured, especially Kim. He
spent day in, day out in a labor camp,
carrying heavy rocks, being fed meals that
had bugs in them, according to other
people that have been held in north Korean
labor camps and described the conditions.
To go from that isolation for two and a half
years to you are face-to-face with Donald
Trump and you do have dozens of
photographers taking your picture,
I do worry that they were being
exploited a bit.
Oddly, in CNN host Brian Stelter’s evening e-mail on
Wednesday, the journalist complained:
“But it's disheartening to see how even this
story has been placed on the pro/anti-
Trump axis. Trump fans on social media
are already lambasting the news media for
not covering the homecoming enough, and
for not giving Trump enough credit.”
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Perhaps Stelter should have watched his own network’s
late night coverage.
A partial transcript is below.
CNN breaking news
5/10/18
2:26:44 a.m.
3 minutes and 8 seconds
VAUSE: Jeff Zeleny, to you, obviously, you know, it's 2:26 in the
morning. The president is there. He knows that this is a feel-good
moment and there is some reporting out there that maybe, you
know, Donald Trump believes that this success in the foreign
policy field might be enough, you know, to distract attention away
from the Robert Mueller investigation into Russia, the criminal
investigation of his own personal attorney, you know, the Stormy
Daniels affair. What sort of thinking there in the White House?
What have you heard?
ZELENY: There is no question that all of these weighty matter
here is are indeed giving the President something to focus on
and as we were just watching, the secretary of state's plane
landing, I can see it just going in the distance there. So
extraordinary to point out that he is the brand-new Secretary of
State. Mike Pompeo just confirmed less than two weeks ago, and
already he is returning home from his second trip to see Kim
Jong-un. That is significant in every respect. The President
pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal this week so significant.
But the headlines here in the United States still have been about
the Russia controversy, largely because the President fuels that
himself. Largely because of all of these developments of course
with his long-time lawyer and fixer. You know, the Mueller
investigation is indeed alive and well.
But the White House officials and supporters of the President
actually hope he can focus on something substantive like the
release of these three Americans, and indeed this diplomacy
here. It is something that could actually lift the President. It is
something that could certainly help him here at home, but so
significant it's a split screen presidency, no question about it, but
this here, in the early morning hours of Washington, is something
very real and something he clearly wants to be involved in. He
knows optics, as we've been saying and that explains the flag
behind me here, and it explains why he is here. John?
SESAY: Jeff Zeleny, we appreciate it again. Just to bring up —
ZELENY: And —
SESAY: Go ahead, Jeff.
ZELENY: No and I was also just going to say I think the next
three weeks are going to be a key moment in this presidency.
Yes, there are developments in the Mueller investigation. Every
hour it seems, every day it seems. But what happens with the
historic summit could shape this president's legacy and
presidency and he has been saying that he is certainly willing to
walk away from a meeting. But he is very keen on having this
happen. So some White House officials I speak to hope he’s not
too eager to make a deal here. It is something that has never
been involved with anything like this. It’s extraordinary to think
that, you know, for all the hot rhetoric that he was engaging in.
Perhaps that was strategy, perhaps not. But this is a historic
three weeks to come here before the meeting in Singapore likely
in June.
2:50:55 a.m.
1 minute and 28 seconds
VAUSE: So, Philip, this is unusual for a U.S. president to turn up
at 2:30 a.m., it’s now 2:50 there at Joint Base Andrews to greet
these detainees. You know, firsthand, moments after they touch
down. Back home. So just explain the unusual nature to this and
your thoughts on, you know, why Donald Trump is doing this and
how it's break from tradition.
YUN: Well, this is Donald Trump as a TV — TV moment for him.
If nothing else he knows how to get publicity, how to a bleed a lot
of drama. He's the lead up to this has been teasers through
Twitter. So, this is very consistent with what he does and as was
said earlier this is pretty unusual. I mean, we’ve had former
presidents come back with former, you know, former detainees
as well. Clinton did. We had former CIA head of intelligence
Clapper bring back some people as well. None of this fanfare at
all. It's usually much more low key. This is unusual, but, you
know, that’s President Trump. He's done everything differently
and this is the way it's happening. My only concern is that it
builds up way too much sort of expectation in certain ways as to
what's possible and that's something we have to guard against.
This does not mean we're to get a deal. It’s going take a little
while.
(....)
2:56:29 a.m.
40 seconds
ZELENY: And boy, I can tell you the crowd that is greeting them
are photographers quite frankly dozens or at least a couple
dozen photographers with their cameras trained towards this shot
with the flag blind it. This is what the President and the white
House want. This shot they believe is a, you know, if not the first
chapter, perhaps the second chapter in what they hope will be
real diplomacy with North Korea. But significant Melania Trump
came with the President this evening. She doesn't always travel
with him and do things with him. But this is a moment that
certainly her grace and touch is certainly appreciated and
necessary.
(....)
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2:58:12 a.m.
1 minute and 12 seconds
VAUSE: You know, Jeff, what's interesting is in the past like
when Donald Trump went to Las Vegas after the, you know,
mass shooting there. He met with the first responders, the
medical workers.
ZELENY: Right.
VAUSE: And that video was turned into a campaign sort of a
video which they put on social media. We saw something similar
when he went to, you know, Texas during the hurricanes there.
How soon will it be before we see images these turned around
and, you know, put out on social media by the President or some
kind of, you know, a campaign message?
ZELENY: I — I expect before the sun rises you will see
something like that without question. I mean, that is just the fact
of life in the social media times certainly this President, you
know, certainly aware of the images. I expect his campaign to
mention it and he certainly will share this message. The question,
I think, in a deeper way, is, you know, what happens when that
meeting takes place with Kim Jong un. Is he going to be able to
negotiate, you know, something lasting? You know, the Iran
nuclear deal which was dismantled this week was, you know,
years in the making. This is at the very beginning road of this. But
it clearly is something that this President wants to do.
3:16:51 a.m.
2 minutes and 4 seconds
SESAY: It is notable and we should let it pass that as the
President welcomed the three Americans back home, in those
remarks he hit two familiar notes. One would be to reference
ratings and say this is going to break the record for ratings at
3:00 a.m. We know the President is fond of talking about ratings
and secondly to hit out at The New York Times.
ZELENY: Yes. I mean, that was classic president Trump could
not have gotten through a moment even one as symbolic and
weighty as this without talking about the ratings. You can see,
you know, the glimmer in his eye and saw all the TV cameras
had come for him at 3:00 in the morning here in Washington. And
he made a joke as you said that it was the best ratings for any
show at 3:00 a.m. Eastern time in Washington. But also he did
take a shot, as you said, at The New York Times. He's been
doing this for several days, specifically about Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo.
He was referencing a criticism that was in the editorial pages
earlier, but I think, setting that aside, the President clearly was
enjoying this moment. He was also saying, you know, this is a
special night. Congratulations for being in your country. So, you
know, fraught with symbolism, certainly weighted with symbolism.
The President is headed back to the White House, getting sleep
perhaps before he begins the day Thursday. But boy, the real
work actually begins on diplomacy now as they work toward
setting up the final details of the meeting. It will be announced
officially in the coming days and certainly he will be meeting with
Secretary of State to debrief him and again make a strategy for
that face-to-face meeting with Kim Jong-un. That will be the
biggest diplomatic presidential moment that Trump has faced and
it will take some planning and preparation.
(....)
3:23:07 a.m.
1 minute and 49 seconds
VAUSE: Everybody has the hope that these talks succeed, but I
guess one of the concerns is that, you know, made for TV
moments like this one with the President turning up at 2:00 in the
morning at Joint Base Andrews to greet these three detainees as
they arrive home seems to be hyping the situation and building
up a lot of expectations ahead of these talks between Donald
Trump and Kim Jong un and that's where there could be some
problems.
KENNETH CHOI: Well, you know, the President Trump is clearly
understanding how the media operates and I think, you know,
.
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3:00 in the morning he's talking about the ratings. Yes, it’s
somebody who’s understanding, you know, the TV thing. And I
think he's raising all the hypes because he's got some confidence
in getting things done. I just want to raise this up, Kim Jong-un, I
think, two days ago met President Xi of China. And I hope they
do not make any miscalculation because, you know, the North
Koreans obviously meeting the President Xi from China because
they want some sort of an insurance. And if President Xi from
China, you know, does ease the sanctions issues.
Let’s say open the back door to dealings of trades or whatever
going into North Korea. That will be a mistake because President
Trump is clearly mentioning there will be no ease of sanction until
North Korea actually steps into the right direction and start
denuclearization process. So I hope that President Trump,
President Xi, and maybe Prime Minister Abe and maybe
President Moon they are all on the same page talking about the
denuclearization process and I hope the North Korean leader
also gets on this board, on our side. And make sure that they're
on the same page about how the denuclearization process
should take place.
 POTUS Trump Celebrates After
Five ‘Most Wanted’ ISIS Leaders Captured
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 11:43 Am

President Trump celebrated the capture
of the five ‘most wanted’ leaders of ISIS
Friday morning, including top aide
to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The ISIS leaders were lured into a trap
by Iraqi agents with a cell phone app.
Trump tweeted:
Following Eithawi’s capture, Iraqi and
American intelligence agents were able to
uncover bank accounts used by the group
and also secret communication codes he
used, Hashimi said.
President Trump celebrated from his
Twitter account.
Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just
captured!

Screen image via New York Times

The Daily Mail reported: President Trump promised to obliterate ISIS and he has
delivered.
A security advisor to Iraq’s government
said hours earlier that Iraqi agents were A couple months into Trump’s presidency, our military
holding a top aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr dropped a MOAB on a network of ISIS tunnels in
al-Baghdadi, and used an app on his Nangarhar Province where a Green Beret had been killed
mobile phone to lure four commanders the previous weekend.
from the group into a trap. The 21,000 pound MOAB or “Mother Of All Bombs” is
Iraqi agents used the Telegram messaging the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal.
app on Eithawi’s mobile phone to lure other ISIS has been reduced to a fraction of what it was under
Islamic State commanders to cross the Obama because Trump is actually letting our military do
border from Syria into Iraq, where they what they do best-kill the enemy.
were captured. Those held include Saddam
Jamal, a Syrian who served as the group’s More on this developing story from Fox News:
governor of Syria’s eastern Euphrates
region.
Hashimi described Eithawi and Jamal as
the two most senior Islamic State figures
ever to be captured alive. The capture of all
five was announced on Iraqi state TV on
Wednesday.
Hashimi said the operation was carried out
in cooperation with U.S. forces, part of an
American-led coalition fighting against
Islamic State on both sides of the Iraqi-
Syrian border.
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 As ABC & CBS Focus On Foreign Policy,
NBC Presses Pence On Mueller
By Kyle Drennen
May 10, 2018 12:19 PM EDT
When Vice President Mike Pence sat down for interviews
with all three broadcast networks early Thursday morning,
just moments after greeting three American detainees who
had arrived back in the U.S. after being released from
North Korea, he was logically peppered with questions
about the Korean peace process. However, unlike her ABC
and CBS colleagues, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell only asked a
couple questions on the topic before moving on to grill
Pence about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation.
After noting that Pence thought the prisoner release “could
signal real breakthroughs to come” with North Korea and
asking what he thought “made the difference” in
diplomatic relations with the rogue regime, Mitchell
quickly turned to criticism of President Trump:
“Why did the President call him [Kim Jong-
un] honorable some weeks ago? Is the
President praising him too much and
raising expectations too high?...This is still
a dictator, sir, who’s – he’s enslaved
millions of his own people.”
The network’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent then
abandoned discussion of foreign policy altogether as she
turned to the media’s favorite topic – the Russia
investigation.
“Bob Mueller. You knew him. He must
have briefed you when you were a
member of Congress. He’s a Marine,
he’s a life-long Republican. Do you think
he can be trusted? Do you think he’s a
bad guy?,” she pressed.
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As Pence responded that
“Our administration has been fully
cooperating with the Special Counsel,”
Mitchell interrupted:
“Do you think his investigation is a
hoax?”
The reporter continued her interrogation by asking about
allegations leveled against the President’s personal
attorney Michael Cohen by Michael Avenatti, the attorney
for porn star Stormy Daniels:
“You now have the President’s lawyer
getting millions of dollars from
companies that he says he can get
access, including one company that had
a Russian connection. Is that draining
the swamp?”
Following the taped exchange, Mitchell briefly reminded
viewers why she sat down with Pence in the first place:
“Officials say that the return of the
American prisoners, which, of course, is
the story of the day, clears a major hurdle
for the upcoming summit.”
Mitchell’s insistence on bringing up Mueller and Daniels
echoed CNN’s live coverage of the detainees arriving at
Andrews Air Force Base in Washington D.C. overnight,
when correspondent Jeff Zelany assured:
“The Mueller investigation is indeed alive
and well.”
Unlike Mitchell, ABC’s Jon Karl began his interview with
Pence, aired on Thursday’s Good Morning America, by
actually asking about the welfare of the three American
citizens who had just survived North Korean
imprisonment:
You were out there with those prisoners just as they set
foot on American soil again. How are they? I mean, how
were they treated? ...One of those three prisoners had spent
three years in hard labor in North Korea. What’s your
sense of how he’s doing and then to come out to this
scene?
The remainder of the conversation focused on the peace
process and the President’s upcoming summit with Kim
Jong-un.
On CBS This Morning, Face the Nation moderator
Margaret Brennan also began her sit-down with Pence by
wondering:
“What condition are these prisoners in?”
Moments later, she even asked about the Vice President
talking with family of Otto Warmbier, the American
college student who imprisoned in North Korea before
being returned to the U.S. in a coma and later dying.
While Brennan focused largely on the Korean peace
process, at the end of the discussion, she took time to grill
Pence on the President’s decision to withdraw the U.S.
from the Iran nuclear deal:
BRENNAN: There are also other families suffering. In Iran, at
least four American prisoners are still being held there.
PENCE: Yes, that’s right.
BRENNAN: One of their family members was at the White House
yesterday. Is the Trump administration open to a prisoner swap?
PENCE: I believe we are always interested in opportunities to
bring Americans home, but –
BRENNAN: And that means talking to Iran right now about doing
that?
PENCE: Well, I think we sent a pretty strong message to Iran this
week when the President made the decision to withdraw from the
Iran nuclear deal.
BRENNAN: And that’s why the families are worried, that their
family members may be held hostage now to this diplomacy
that’s been torn up.
PENCE: We felt it was important to withdraw from this deeply
flawed Iran nuclear deal, but now we’re engaging on –
BRENNAN: But nothing on the prisoners?
Connecting the issue to North Korea, she fretted: “And you don’t
think that hurts your diplomacy with North Korea?”
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While Karl and Brennan took the time to show concern for the
health of the detainees and then kept the focus on foreign policy,
Mitchell was in too much of a hurry to hammer the Vice President
on the Mueller investigation.
Here is a transcript of Mitchell’s questions to Pence during the
May 10 segment on the Today show:
7:06 AM ET
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: And as we just saw, the Vice President,
Mike Pence, was also there overnight [greeting released
detainees from North Korea]. And he sat down with NBC’s Chief
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Andrea, good
morning to you.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Good morning, Savannah. The
administration clearly hoping to capitalize on what they see as a
major diplomatic success. The homecoming that the Vice
President says could signal real breakthroughs to come.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Vice President Pence Speaks Out;
Talks North Korea, Detainees & Mueller]
(...)
MITCHELL: Well, even since the Olympics, when you were there,
it was so tense. And what do you think made the difference?
(...)
MITCHELL: Why did the President call him [Kim Jong-un]
honorable some weeks ago? Is the President praising him too
much and raising expectations too high?
(...)
MITCHELL: This is still a dictator, sir, who’s – he’s enslaved
millions of his own people.
(...)
MITCHELL: Bob Mueller. You knew him. He must have briefed
you when you were a member of Congress. He’s a Marine, he’s
a life-long Republican. Do you think he can be trusted? Do you
think he’s a bad guy?
MIKE PENCE: Our administration has been fully cooperating with
the Special Counsel.
MITCHELL: Do you think his investigation is a hoax?
(...)
MITCHELL: You now have the President’s lawyer getting millions
of dollars from companies that he says he can get access,
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including one company that had a Russian connection. Is that
draining the swamp?
(...)
MITCHELL: Officials say that the return of the American
prisoners, which, of course, is the story of the day, clears a major
hurdle for the upcoming summit. And the biggest challenge now,
though, is to see if Kim Jong-un is really ready to deliver on his
promise to denuclearize. Savannah and Hoda?
GUTHRIE: That would be a biggie. Andrea, thank you very much.
 JUDICIAL WATCH: Newly Released Emails Show FBI
Advised Comey To Consult With Mueller
Before June 2017 Testimony
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 12:37 Pm
Conservative watchdog group Judicial
Watch obtained new emails that show
the FBI advised James Comey to
consult with Mueller’s team prior to his
June 2017 testimony.
According to previous news reports, James Comey’s
testimony was ‘closely coordinated’ with Mueller.
Via Judicial Watch:
An email chain dated May 18 and 19, 2017,
with the subject line “Future testimony”
shows then-FBI Chief of Staff James
Rybicki, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe and Assistant Director Gregory
Brower, Comey and others discussing
Comey’s upcoming testimony.
An email from a redacted sender,
apparently Comey, to Rybicki dated May
19 at 11:49 am reads:
Jim
I just got off a call with Senators Burr and
Warner. They would like to have a hearing
next Wednesday at which I testify, first in
open session and then in closed, if
necessary. I asked them not to announce it
until I check with FBI/DOJ to see if you
want to discuss anything before they do
that. I told them I had asked for guidance
on any institutional prerogatives and for the
opportunity to review any documents FBI
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has produced that relate to me. I told them
I would communicate with them by the end
of the day to either ask them to hold
announcing the Wednesday hearing or go
ahead.
Many thanks.
Jim
On May 19 at 2:10 pm, Rybicki writes
back:
Director: We just met to discuss the
requests outlined in the two emails below.
Before responding the General Counsel
has asked me to confirm that you have
discussed with the attorneys representing
you, and that you are comfortable
discussing these issues with us rather than
communicating through your counsel.
On May 19 at 3:02 pm, a redacted sender, likely Comey,
responds to Rybicki:
“Yes and yes.”
Also in this chain, on May 19 at 4:11 pm,
Rybicki writes to McCabe, FBI Deputy
Director David L. Bowdich, former FBI
General Counsel James A. Baker,
Brower, Elizabeth Beers and other
redacted names:
Please see a DRAFT response to Director Comey (below).
I will hold pending further direction….
Director:
In response to your emails below we
have consulted with executive
management here, including the
General Counsel, and recommend the
following:
1. That your counsel convey any acceptance or
declinations to invitations to testify directly to the
Committees.
 2. That your counsel consult with Special Counsel Mueller
to determine the timing of any such testimony and,
3. The Office of General Counsel stands ready to discuss
with you in consultation with the Department of Justice
and the Special Counsel, institutional privileges or
prerogatives that may be presented by any such
testimony.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton

had this to say about the newly released
emails showing Mueller-Comey
collusion:
“These documents show that James
Comey, who was fired by the president,
nevertheless had easy, friendly access to
the FBI as he prepped his infamous anti-
Trump testimony to the Senate. This
collusion led to Comey’s attacking
President Trump and misusing FBI records
as part of a vendetta against the president.”

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 NBC's Hallie Jackson Whines: Hostage Release
'Choreographed' And 'Staged Production'
By Tom Blumer
May 10, 2018 12:52 PM EDT
Thursday morning, Hallie Jackson, NBC's White House
correspondent, acted as if President Donald Trump had just
invented political choreography, and that no previous
presidential administration or politician has ever engaged
in it. Jackson spent an inordinate amount of time
describing the President's greeting of the three U.S.
hostages released by North Korea as a "staged production"
presented by a "former reality show producer."
Jackson's presentation fit the bitter tone at
MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday, as described in a
separate NewsBusters post by Bill D'Agostino. His post,
and what follows in this one, support a belief that no
positive news involving Trump can be broadcast on the
peacock network without raising negative points, no matter
how artificial.
The negativity Jackson tried to create out of a positive
event came off as more contrived and "choreographed"
than the alleged horror she described:
Transcript:
HALLIE JACKSON, NBC NEWS: We have
been witness to what has been a
remarkable several hours here at Joint
Base Andrews. The President is back at
the White House. The detainees, the
returnees now, are at Walter Reed Medical
Center.
But this is something that we’ll be talking
about for a while. It was a moment of
intense anticipation. You had — it also
(was) very carefully choreographed
right? The Vice President landed, the
President, Secretary of State Mike
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Pompeo, and then that plane carrying
these three American citizens.
What was sort of striking in the moment —
and you’ve talked already about the
geopolitical implications of this, what this
means for the summit moving forward
between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un
— But what was striking, was that this was,
listen, Donald Trump is a former reality
show producer. This was a staged
production meant for television, meant for
the cameras, meant to be shown and seen
here in this country and around the world.
You had floodlights lighting up this 30 X
50-foot American flag, hanging in
between two ladder trucks, as the plane
carrying these men rolled in. This
moment when the President and First Lady
holding hands went up the stairs, spending
six minutes in private conversation.
And then unexpectedly, because we didn’t
think that was going to happen,
unexpectedly coming over with these men,
and taking a number of questions from
reporters who had gathered around in front
yelling questions, including about where
the summit is. The President wouldn’t say.
Including about whether he’s spoken with
President Kim Jong Un. The President
wouldn’t say.
So an "unexpected" thing occurred when Trump came over
and took questions. Maybe it wasn't all as "choreographed"
as Jackson claimed.
Chronicling examples of genuinely cynical political
choreography — Trump's greeting of released hostages
certainly doesn't fit into that category — would fill a
library. The size of that library would barely shrink if one
excluded instances where the press commented on or
criticized it.
It's also worth noting that the press never made an issue of
how President Barack Obama rarely spoke without the
assistance of a teleprompter — a form of choreography
previous presidents and Trump used and have used,
respectively, with far less frequency.
Additionally, there are plenty of instances of political
choreography which have involved active press
participation — from planted debate questions, to
preventing opposing views from appearing at supposedly
wide-open forums, to using visual tricks to exaggerate the
perceived size of demonstrations and protests relating to
causes they support (while using those same tricks to
downplay those they don't).
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And of course, the press "choreographs" its print and
broadcast output through a process known as editing —
and if done honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. In
other words, "choreography" as Jackson used the term is
part of modern media life. The NBC reporter came off as
complaining that someone her network doesn't like appears
to have done it well.
Some Things Never Change… #Nevertrumper Ben Shapiro
Argues The Future Of Republican Party Is Anti-Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 1:11 Pm
Ben Shapiro has an article posted in The Weekly Standard
(a GOP elitist magazine that was staunchly anti-Trump)
this month.
The article titled: “How Conservatives Can Win Back
Young Americans” is the latest hit piece against President
Donald Trump.
Shapiro argues that Trump supporters
are like the man jumping off the Empire
State Building.
Older conservatives, clutching the Trump presidency like a
security blanket, sound less like steady advocates for calm
and more like the man questioned about how things are
going just after jumping off the top of the Empire State
Building: “So far, so good.”
Shapiro argues that marijuana decriminalization and same
sex marriage are issues young conservatives tend to
support. These are also issues that President Trump did not
spend much time on, unlike the ‘purist’ Republicans a Ben
Shapiro would support.
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President Trump is the most pro-gay
Republican in a generation and the
administration just swore in Richard
Grenell as ambassador to Germany.
Then Ben goes off on a tirade against Trump that could
have been written by a “intellectual” in The New York
Times.
Young conservatives, however, are more likely to see
Trump as an obstacle to progress. Yes, they acknowledge
that he’s pushed some great policies. Sure, they’re happy
to praise him when he’s right, and they’re amused when he
attacks members of the media over their obvious bias. But
they see him mainly as a club the left can wield against the
right in perpetuity—a political monster living under the
bed that Democrats can dredge up every time
conservatives seem to be making headway. They cite his
egregious response to the Charlottesville alt-right march
and subsequent terror attack and his willingness to wink
and nod at the alt-right during the campaign; they point to
his nasty comments regarding women, as well as his
penchant for bedding porn stars; they cringe at his reported
comments about immigrants and balk at his nearly endless
list of prevarications.
Finally Ben Shapiro calls on all
conservatives to trash Trump openly
like he has for the past three years.
First, and most pressingly, with regard to President Trump
this means condemning bad behavior. Conservatives
should celebrate every victory for their policies earned by
President Trump; they should praise him to the skies for
them. Conservatives should laugh along with Trump when
he correctly attacks phony media coverage. But they
should not humor him over his personal failings, proclaim
him a David-like figure in the absence of David-like
holiness, or shrug off his various imbecilities and vile
utterances simply because they like his policies. Young
Americans aren’t judging Trump. They’ve already judged
him. They’re judging you and determining whether or not
they can ever vote for the same candidates you endorse
based on whether or not they admire your character. That
doesn’t mean Trump can’t win re-election or win over
young people. But that requires him to change his
character, and it requires us to call on him to do so.
 Ben Shapiro was against Trump in the
primary. He lied about Trump’s
campaign manager Corey Lewindowski
in the hope of ruining the man’s life and
to take down Trump. He regularly
attacks trump in his appearances on TV
and his recordings.
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Ben Shapiro hasn’t changed. Even after
all of President Trump’s amazing
successes, Ben is still the first person
to point out his faults.
Maybe the Republican party should
reject the Ben Shapiro-types and
embrace winners for a change — like
Donald Trump?
It’s OK to be a winner, Ben.
 2.2 Million Fewer People
On Food Stamps Under Donald Trump
By Katherine Rodriguez
10 May 2018
More than 2.2 million people have
discontinued their participation in food
stamps during President Trump’s first full
year in office, according to the latest U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) data on
food stamp enrollment.
The latest USDA data shows that since Trump’s first full
month in office in February 2017—when food stamp
enrollment was at 42,289,366— participation in the
program decreased by 2,257,235 to 40,032,131.
The continued decline in enrollment during Trump’s first
full year is on pace with the steady decline in
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
participation since 2013.
Before then, participation in the federal welfare
program swelled to 47.6 million—the highest amount it
has ever been since former President Lyndon
.
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Johnson authorized the creation of the food stamp program
in 1964. Taxpayers spent $79.8 million on SNAP when
enrollment reached its peak in 2013.
After 2013, enrollment in SNAP declined as
states passed laws requiring food stamp recipients to work,
volunteer, attend school, or take part in job training for a
set number of hours a week to receive food stamps.
The improving economy also contributed to the continuing
decline in food stamp usage.
Although the decline in enrollment is on pace with current
trends, the Trump administration has announced several
initiatives that might drive down enrollment even further
over the next year.
Trump announced he would make it a priority of his
administration to keep SNAP program costs down at the
state and federal levels as a way to reform the nation’s
food stamp program.
The USDA hired an “integrity officer” in March to prevent
fraud in the country’s SNAP program and announced in
February the rollout of its “Harvest Box” program to give
food stamp recipients a box of food as part of their
monthly benefits package.
The agency also released a plan in January that would
implement work requirements for food stamp recipients
nationwide.
 REPORT: Comey Was Advised
By FBI To Talk To Mueller
Before Senate Testimony
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
1:37 PM 05/10/2018

A new report indicates that fired FBI director James
Comey was advised by members of the FBI to talk to
special counsel Robert Mueller before testifying to
Congress last year.
Judicial Watch reports that even after Comey was fired,
the FBI was working to help craft his testimony.
In one email exchange, then-FBI chief of staff James
Rybicki wrote to Andrew McCabe and other FBI officials
with a drafted response to Comey, who had been
communicating with FBI officials even in the weeks after
his firing.
There are three recommendations for Comey listed in the
email, one of which recommends that
“counsel consult with Special Counsel
Mueller to determine the timing of any such
testimony.”

Judicial Watch screenshot

This email was sent on May 19th, 10 days after Comey Comey later went on to testify to the Senate Intelligence
was dismissed from his position as FBI director. Committee in June. He used the platform to call President
Trump a liar.

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 Stormy’s Lawyer Denies He’s Being Funded
By Left-Wing Political Interests “Utter Bullsh*T”
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 1:52 Pm
Michael Avenatti denies he’s being According to an April 30th tweet by Avenatti, he’s being
funded by left-wing political interests, or funded by donations to Crowdjustice and a small up front
any political interests or PACS for that fee by porn star Stormy Daniels.
matter. He says those claims are “utter
bullsh*t.” Avenatti tweeted:

So who’s paying Stormy Daniels’ Be clear: the only source of outside funds
lawyer? for the legal fight we are waging is the
http://crowdjustice.org site and Ms. Daniels’
personal funds. No PACs, no political party,
no special interests, no fat cat donors. The
haters need to come up with a new
conspiracy theory. #basta

The Daily Caller’s Peter Hasson spoke to Avenatti and

asked him who is paying for his legal battle against
President Trump.
Avenatti told the Daily Caller that while Stormy is no
longer paying him, she paid him a small fee up front.
Avenatti grew frustrated with the questions and said he’s
answered this repeatedly on his Twitter feed.
“Ms. Daniels paid a de minimis amount —
plus the CrowdJustice, period,” Avenatti
The porn star’s lawyer told The Daily Caller that said. To date, the crowdfunding effort has
conspiracy theories swirling around that he’s being paid by raised over $425,000.
left-wing fat cat donors is “utter bullsh*t”:
Stormy even tweeted she’s not paying Avenatti’s fees.
“I’ll add this: any suggestion or claim that
somehow this is being funded by the Left or
Avenatti isn’t exactly cash flush. The porn star’s lawyer
funded by some PAC or funded by left-wing
seems to be embroiled in many different financial
political interests or funded by any other
problems.
political interests is complete and utter
bullshit, and you can quote me on that,” the
lawyer continued. “It’s nothing more than a David J. Morris, the CEO of Dillanos
distraction meant to distract away from the Coffee Roasters in Tacoma, Washington
issues of the case for which people on the tweeted Avenatti owes him over
Right have no answer for.” $160,000 from a business deal gone
sideways.

He also owes the IRS $5 million dollars.

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 Invisible Economy: No. 1 Issue For Voters
Gets Just 18 Stories In A Month
By Julia A. Seymour
May 10, 2018 1:58 PM EDT

relatable stories for their viewers. They just haven’t been

doing it very often, in spite of plenty of news to work with
in the month of April and beginning of May. The March
and April jobs reports both came out during that span, as
did a GDP report and a consumer confidence update.

The first of those jobs reports was ignored by all three

The media treating the economy like a good-news/bad-
news story. The good news is the economy is going well
and unemployment is down to just 3.9 percent — the best
since 2000. The bad news is ABC, CBS and NBC evening
news programs don’t want to talk about it.
ABC's World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and
NBC Nightly News continued to supply minimal reporting
of economic issues between April 1, and May 5, 2018. Out
of 105 news programs (35 nights and a show on each of
the three networks) there were just 18 stories about the
U.S. economy — or in less than one-fifth of the
broadcasts, according to a Nexis search.
network shows, while the April report was too surprising
to ignore. The evening news programs also ignored the
first estimate of first-quarter gross domestic product (the
measure of how fast the economy is growing) as well as a
consumer confidence rebound to “lofty” levels. The night
of the GDP report ABC aired a sit-down interview with
several Avengers cast members, while NBC cooed at
length over the naming of the latest British royal baby.
Good news included the unemployment rate decline to 3.9
percent, the lowest since 2000. The jobless rate for African
Americans also dropped to the lowest level ever recorded
by the BLS. With just fifteen seconds, World News
Tonight breezed through the stats of the April jobs report
on May 4. That night, ABC spent more than six times that
on Star Wars Day. NBC Nightly News did a much better
job that same night by sending a reporter to Hamilton,
Ohio, a city using incentives to attract young workers in
the current competitive economy.

That’s shocking, given the importance of economic issues

At least eight of the evening news shows’ 18 economic
to voters.
stories during that time were negative ones mostly focused
on “brutal” stock market drops and “growing fears of a
A Morning Consult poll conducted from Feb. 1, 2018, to new trade war” and its impact on farmers, tech and
April 30, 2018, found that economic issues still beat out manufacturers. Those stories aired on April 2, 4 and 6.
other matters as the top concern of American voters.
Economics beat out security issues, health care, senior’s
On April 2, ABC's World News Tonight reported on stocks
issues, education, women’s issues and energy in that poll
“taking a nose dive” due to President Donald Trump’s
and they found it remained the top policy issue in all 12
tweets against tech-behemoth Amazon and new Chinese
competitive Senate races.
tariffs. The CBS Evening News also reported on that
“severe” Wall Street sell-off.
While the word economy may sound abstract, economic
issues are intensely personal. After all, it matters to people
Methodology: MRC Business searched Nexis for
if they can find the type of work they want, if they can
"economy" or "economic" in stories from the evening
earn enough to pay their bills, save and spend as they want
news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC between April 1,
to, or what is going with housing prices in their town or
2018, and May 5, 2018. Then the results were analyzed to
city.
find stories about or referencing the national economy or
talking about an economic matter (such as a retirement
When they choose to, the media use their storytelling savings) relevant on a national level.
abilities to translate economic statistics and concepts into
.
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 EXCLUSIVE: ‘Utter Bulls***’ —
Avenatti Denies ‘Political Interests’ Are Paying Him
Peter Hasson - Reporter
2:04 PM 05/10/2018
Michael Avenatti, porn star Stormy Daniels’s attorney,
denied on Thursday that any “political interests” are
funding his legal battles against President Donald Trump.
“I’ve answered this repeatedly on my
Twitter feed; I would encourage you to go
back and look at exactly what I’ve said on
Twitter, related to who is paying my bill. We
have been very clear about this,” Avenatti
told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a
phone interview. “There’s no question
about my position; we’ve stated it
repeatedly on Twitter. Go back and look at
what we’ve stated. Nothing has changed.”
“I’ll add this: any suggestion or claim that
somehow this is being funded by the Left or
funded by some PAC or funded by left-wing
political interests or funded by any other
political interests is complete and utter
bullshit, and you can quote me on that,” the
lawyer continued. “It’s nothing more than a
distraction meant to distract away from the
issues of the case for which people on the
Right have no answer for.”
Avenatti repeatedly pointed to an April 30 tweet in which
he said,
“The only source of outside funds for the
legal fight we are waging is the
[CrowdJustice] site and Ms. Daniels’
personal funds. No PACs, no political party,
.
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no special interests, no fat cat donors. The
haters need to come up with a new
conspiracy theory.”
TheDCNF asked Avenatti about his funding source after
The Hill ran a Thursday column that claimed
“Avenatti needs to come forward with
exactly who is financing his operation, who
his sources were for detailed banking
information, and whether he really is an
attorney solely representing Stormy
Daniels or just using her as cover to wage
a political operation.”
The only sources of funding for his legal battle against
Trump are a small payment Daniels gave him up front,
plus money raised on a crowdfunding site,
CrowdJustice, Avenatti indicated to TheDCNF.
“Ms. Daniels paid a de minimis amount —
plus the CrowdJustice, period,” Avenatti
said. To date, the crowdfunding effort has
raised over $425,000.
“Ms. Daniels paid a de minimis amount.
She’s no longer paying me, which is
consistent with her tweet — people are
making a big deal out of this tweet, which is
more bullshit — and then the
CrowdJustice.org,” he added in response
to a follow-up question. “Who’s paying
Michael Cohen’s bills? Who’s paying
Donald Trump’s bills? Who’s paying those
bills? Do we know?”
“So it’s exclusively those two sources
[CrowdJustice and Daniels], right?”
TheDCNF asked.
“I’ve answered this question repeatedly,”
Avenatti answered. “Go back and look at
my tweet.”
 ‘Circus’ Host McKinnon Puts Brakes
On ‘Blue Wave’ For Dems In Midterms
By Kyle Drennen
May 10, 2018 2:56 PM EDT
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on
Thursday, political strategist and co-host of Showtime’s
The Circus, Mark McKinnon, warned anchor Andrea
Mitchell against buying into Democratic Party predictions
of a “blue wave” in November’s midterm elections,
explaining that
“a lot of good things are happening for
Donald Trump right now.”
Talking about President Trump and Vice President Mike
Pence greeting American detainees freed from North
Korea at Andrews Air Force overnight, McKinnon hailed
the Korean peace process:
“Well, this may be their best moment yet
of the presidency, right? I mean, sure
they wanted to be out there. And this is
a huge development in what could be
his signature achievement, peace in the
peninsula.”
Later in the discussion, he looked ahead to the midterms
and observed:
“I think that if you think about it
hypothetically, as I do as a strategist, and
say, listen, if you’re a Republican
running in a year in which you have the
lowest unemployment in a couple of
decades, highest consumer confidence
in a couple of decades, peace breaking
out in the Korean peninsula, that’s a
pretty good peace and prosperity
message to run on.”
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McKinnon cautioned liberals:
“So, everybody’s getting really excited
about the blue wave, just take a –
hesitate here a moment because we’re
still six months out and a lot of good
things are happening for Donald Trump
right now.”
While promoting his political documentary series earlier in
the segment, a clip played of McKinnon’s fellow Circus
host John Heilemann grilling Republican Iowa Senator
Joni Ernst about the Stormy Daniels scandal:
“So Mayor Giuliani went on television last
night and said that the President did, in
fact, pay the porn star $130,000 and the
President basically lied two weeks ago. So
what do you think about that?”
Ernst replied:
“I guess I can't comment because I don't
know the timeline and I’m not really
following Stormy Daniels.” Heilemann was
dumbfounded: “Really?” The lawmaker
confirmed: “No.” The journalist proclaimed:
“You’re the only American who’s not.” Ernst
shot back: “Yeah, and thank God I’m not,
because I’m actually focused on my job,
which is in the Senate.”
Heilemann then proceeded to demand Iowa voters react to
the controversy. One person after another dismissed the
topic as irrelevant. Following the clip, an amazed Mitchell
noted:
“They believe it, they don’t care.”
McKinnon explained:
Yeah, so I mean, we’re obsessed with it
because there’s obviously legal, political
implications in the short term, maybe in the
long term, but out in America, this is baked
in. I mean, people really don’t care about it.
If you’re for Trump, you just don’t see it as
 relevant. If you’re against him, you think it’s
a big deal. But it’s baked in and it’s not
persuading anybody one way or the other.
Mitchell wondered:
“And Iowa is still Trump country?”
McKinnon declared: “Oh, yeah, no question
about it. It’s solid Trump country, especially
out there where Joni Ernst was, out in the
rural parts of Iowa.”
Here is a transcript of the May 10 exchange:
12:52 PM ET
(...)
ANDREA MITCHELL: Joining me now, Mark McKinnon, former
policy adviser and media consultant to President George W.
Bush and John McCain. These days, co-host of The Circus on
Showtime on Sunday nights. You gotta listen to those ratings.
MARK MCKINNON: You’re such a rock star, you’ve been up at
this all night, you’re like a teenager, still going strong.
MITCHELL: A teenager might not be as tired as I am. But, I
mean, he was out there, the Vice President was out there. I
mean, maybe they napped during the day, I’m not sure they did.
MCKINNON: Well, this may be their best moment yet of the
presidency, right? I mean, sure they wanted to be out there. And
this is a huge development in what could be his signature
achievement, peace in the peninsula. So the title of our show this
next week is War and Peace. War on the domestic legal front
and peace breaking out on the peninsula.
MITCHELL: You’re right on it. In fact, we’ve got a clip. Let’s
watch.
JOHN HEILEMMAN: So Mayor Giuliani went on television last
night and said that the President did, in fact, pay the porn star
$130,000 and the President basically lied two weeks ago. So
what do you think about that?
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SEN. JONI ERNST [R-IA]: I guess I can't comment because I
don't know the timeline and I’m not really following Stormy
Daniels.
HEILEMANN: Really?
ERNST: No.
HEILEMANN: You’re the only American who’s not.
ERNST: Yeah, and thank God I’m not, because I’m actually
focused on my job, which is in the Senate.
HEILEMANN: Okay, fair enough.
ERNST: So thank you.
HEILEMANN: Do you think the President had an affair with
Stormy Daniels, that porn star?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN [IOWA VOTER]: Don’t care.
HEILEMANN: Don’t care?
MAN: Don’t care.
HEILEMANN: Doesn’t matter?
Do you believe Stormy Daniels had an affair with Donald Trump?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN [IOWA VOTER]: Oh, yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN B [IOWA VOTER]: Honestly, it’s a personal
matter of his. Unless you were there, it’s hard to tell if it actually
did happen or not.
MITCHELL: They believe it, they don’t care. I mean, that’s –
MCKINNON: Yeah, so I mean, we’re obsessed with it because
there’s obviously legal, political implications in the short term,
maybe in the long term, but out in America, this is baked in. I
mean, people really don’t care about it. If you’re for Trump, you
just don’t see it as relevant. If you’re against him, you think it’s a
big deal. But it’s baked in and it’s not persuading anybody one
way or the other.
MITCHELL: In other words, it’s discounted.
MCKINNON: Discounted.
MITCHELL: They saw Access Hollywood and that didn’t matter.
MCKINNON: Yeah. This is not a surprise, this is not a surprise to
voters at all.
MITCHELL: And Iowa is still Trump country?
MCKINNON: Oh, yeah, no question about it. It’s solid Trump
country, especially out there where Joni Ernst was, out in the
rural parts of Iowa. And you know, I think that if you think about it
hypothetically, as I do as a strategist, and say, listen, if you’re a
Republican running in a year in which you have the lowest
unemployment in a couple of decades, highest consumer
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confidence in a couple of decades, peace breaking out in the
Korean peninsula, that’s a pretty good peace and prosperity
message to run on. So, everybody’s getting really excited about
the blue wave, just take a – hesitate here a moment because
we’re still six months out and a lot of good things are happening
for Donald Trump right now.
(...)
 Did That Dirtbag Obama Authorize
The FBI To Put A SPY In The Trump Campaign?
Posted On May 10, 2018
(National Sentinel) So Much Corruption: The massive
Deep State scandal involving the never-ending
investigations into President Donald J. Trump and his
associates should never have been launched in the first
place.
And while most readers are well aware of that, there is
new information substantiating claims that this was all a
set-up from the get-go.
As we reported on Thursday, House Republicans are
continuing to battle a stonewalling Justice Department
over attempts to get top DoJ officials to release
information on a single person whom Intelligence
Committee chairman Devin Nunes believes could answer
some key questions regarding Robert Mueller’s probe.
The Daily Caller added:
House Republicans are again battling with the
Justice Department over information related to
the Russia investigation, this time over
documents the intelligence community said
involves a top-secret source who has provided
information to the CIA and FBI.
The mysterious source has also gathered
information that was given to Special Counsel
Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016
election, according to The Washington Post.
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WaPo said that the source is an American, meaning any
unmasking would not damage a legitimate foreign asset or
foreign government.
AG Jeff Sessions and other officials at his DoJ have
argued that revealing this source would nevertheless
compromise national security. So, as we noted yesterday,
Bob Mueller can know the source. And Sessions can know
the source. And the WaPo can know details about the
source (and, frankly, probably knows who the source is as
well by now)
But the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,
who has the highest security clearance, can’t know?
Why is that?
The Wall Street Journal may have provided the
answer.
An editorial by the paper in Friday editions suggests that
the leak of info to the WaPo was meant to stop a subpoena
Nunes issued for information pertaining to the source.
Also, the editorial suggests that the Obama DoJ likely
placed a spy in the Trump campaign in what would amount
to something right out of Josef Stalin’s political playbook
(if he would have used one).
WSJ notes:
The story’s bias is that Mr. Nunes—you know, a
nasty House Republican—is threatening to
compromise national security. Yet the article
itself discloses details that suggest the Post
already knows who this “top secret” source is.
For example, the source is a “U.S. citizen,” has
been an informant for both “the CIA and FBI,”
and has provided information that was given to
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
The story also says intelligence officials fear
that outing the source could “damage
relationships with other countries,” suggesting
the source has worked overseas. And the story
says the “role of the intelligence source” could
further provoke Republicans who have accused
 Justice and the FBI of engaging in “misuse of
their surveillance power”— hinting that the
government may have used the source to
snoop on the Trump campaign.
More:
Last summer Mr. Nunes subpoenaed
information related to the FBI’s monitoring of
the Trump campaign. Justice and the FBI
resisted that request for months, and now we
learn that even when they did cooperate they
withheld critical parts of the story. Their
warnings now about risks to a source and to
intelligence relationships must be measured
against their prior warnings that turned out
to be false. The leak and spin to the Post
confirm that Mr. Nunes is asking questions
that deserve to be answered.
this “collusion” investigation has known all along that it’s
a hoax, a scam designed to do nothing more than
undermine our duly-elected president.
Which means that Mueller’s entire investigation was based
on a big, fat lie. And it ought to be terminated like, right
now.
Either that or — despite knowing the “Russia dossier” was
BS political opposition research — Obama and his merry
band of criminals really did believe Trump and Russia
‘colluded.’
Whatever the case, this would represent a new low in
American politics that, frankly, should result in some jail
time for someone or several someones.
If only Jeff Sessions wasn’t part of the cover-up.

So if that dirtbag Obama and his hench-woman, Loretta

Lynch, authorized a spy was to be inserted within the
Trump campaign, that means then everyone involved in
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 Brzezinski: Trump 'Doesn't Have A Moral Compass,' 'The
President's Sanity Is Being Questioned Globally'
By Ryan Foley
May 10, 2018 2:58 PM EDT
On the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the
panel went into full-on panic and hysteria mode as a result
of President Trump deciding to pull out of the Iran nuclear
deal. Co-host Mika Brzezinski alleged that President
Trump "doesn't have a moral compass" and said that "the
President’s sanity is being questioned globally.” She also
implied that President Trump pulled out of the Iran deal to
“deflect” from the Stormy Daniels saga.
The panel, consisting of Former US Ambassador to NATO
Nicholas Burns, BBC World News America host Katty
Kay, and Council of Foreign Relations President Richard
Haass, unanimously disagreed with the President’s
decision to leave the deal.
Burns asserted that “[w]e’re certainly worse off outside the
deal than inside the deal,” adding that the Revolutionary
Guard, a group of hardliners in Iran, will argue that “Iran
should come out of the deal and restart its nuclear program
so this is not a good day for the United States.”
Brzezinski agreed adding: “Our allies are upset, for sure, at
a time when I think the President’s sanity is being
questioned globally.” She acknowledged that the
President promised during the campaign that he would
leave the deal but attributed his decision to pull out to
sinister motives:
But the totality of this President’s behavior
and decisions does lead me to question
why he does anything and whether or not
it’s to deflect from something else. I don’t
think he has the moral compass to make a
decision based on our own national
security, even at this point.
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Kay then pointed out that high-ranking Trump
officials told British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that
the primary reason for pulling out of the deal was to keep a
campaign promise.
Burns then lamented the fact that the President has also
pulled out of the Paris climate change agreement and the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying “there’s a pattern here.”
Burns suggested that the President has not acted in the
United States’ best interest:
“American interests dictate putting Iran in a
straitjacket on the nuclear issue and we’ve
given up that interest.”
After Haas argued that the National Security Council has
no coherent strategy,
Scarborough proclaimed that “the entire
chessboard of the Middle East” was “being
thrown up in the air with the Embassy in
Israel being moved to Jerusalem.” He then
asked Burns if he could “remember a time
where so many things were coming at an
American President, even one with a fully
functioning National Security Council.”
Burns contrasted President Trump with former President
George H.W. Bush, whom he worked for. He described
Bush as someone “who wasn’t guilty of hubris, who
actually studied these issues.” He then implied that the
only reason President Trump made his decision was to
dismantle a piece of President Obama’s legacy without
knowing anything about the deal:
“He doesn’t study. He probably doesn’t
even know what’s in President Obama’s
Iran deal. He just knows that Obama’s
name was on it.”
The media will continue to peddle the narrative of
President Trump as an erratic, impulsive isolationist
nativist who has no idea what he is doing. The media
shows no sign of changing their tune even after it looks
like President Trump may find himself on the verge of an
accomplishment previous Presidents could only dream of:
denuclearizing the rogue regime of North Korea.
Morning Joe happily between the United States and their European allies, in
the long-term, as you’re suggesting, that’s not a viable option for
05/09/18 hardliners in Iran. They’re going to have to, it seem to me, start
those centrifuges again.
06:18 AM
BURNS: Well it’s going to be a battle, Katty, no question about it,
inside the Iranian government. And right now, the hardliners are
NICHOLAS BURNS: The President had a challenge yesterday.
in the ascendency because they’ll make the argument that
He had to convince the American people we’re going to be better
Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif were taken in by the United
off outside the deal than inside the deal. He didn’t make that case
States and the United States has not kept its word. So I think
and you see the reaction this morning from Europe. The
you’ve got to watch that but you know there’s a pattern here. The
Europeans are worried about secondary American sanctions. So
President pulled us out of the climate change agreement with no
already, the new United States ambassador to Germany, Ric
alternative. He pulled us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, no
Grenell, has publicly warned German companies, they need to
alternative. He’s now pulled us out of Iraq. There is no Plan B
begin withdrawing their business operations in Iran. That’s not
from the Trump administration. So we’re left weaker, Iran is left
going to happen, the Europeans are going to fight the United
stronger and you know, to argue that somehow Iranian actions in
States against on this issue of U.S. sanctions against European
the Middle East are the reason for this deal, we can oppose Iran
countries so we’ve got estranged allies. We don’t have a plan to
in the Middle East through our relationships with Israel and Saudi
put Iran back into a straitjacket. The president has torn down the
Arabia, but American interests dictate putting Iran in a straitjacket
deal, at least American participation in it, but he’s not told us how
on the nuclear issue and we’ve given up that interest.
he's going to constrain Iran’s nuclear program. So he didn't make
a convincing case yesterday. We’re certainly worse off outside
the deal than inside the deal. And the Iranians will have to decide JOE SCARBOROUGH: So Richard Haas, right now, many would
what they’re going to do. You saw this announcement by suggest, many would believe looking at this situation in Iran, that
Rouhani, the President this morning, that they’re going to stay in they are already economically in a straitjacket. They’re going to
for now. But the hardliners in Iran, the Revolutionary Guard will be facing even tougher sanctions from the United States. They
make the argument, Iran should come out of the deal and restart have of course, and have had off and on since 2009, political
its nuclear program so this is not a good day for the United unrest. And Donald Trump seems to be giving the Iranians the
States. same choice that he’s giving the North Koreans, at least from his
point of view. You can have a nuclear program or you can have a
thriving economy. But the United States of America is going to do
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: No. And Katty Kay, I’ll second that and go to
everything in its power to stop you from having both. And if that
you and you can take it to Nick or Richard but this does draw us
means we have to squeeze our allies across Europe and the
more into, this does draw us more into the Middle East. Our allies
world, we will do that. But a nuclear Iran is not an option. Do you
are upset, for sure, at a time when I think the President’s sanity is
want to live peacefully with us? Or do you want to develop a
being questioned globally. It was a campaign promise, it does
nuclear weapon? That seems to be his calculus, what’s wrong
appeal possibly to his base. But the totality of this President’s
with that?
behavior and decisions does lead me to question why he does
anything and whether or not it’s to deflect from something else. I
don’t think he has the moral compass to make a decision based RICHARD HAASS: Well, it’s wrong on two ends, Joe, the two
on our own national security, even at this point. fundamental arguments.
One is the nuclear agreement that we had, at least until
yesterday, constrained Iran for the foreseeable future, at a
KATTY KAY: It’s interesting, Mika, when Boris Johnson, the
minimum for another decade and quite possibly longer. Second
British Foreign Secretary was here this weekend he met with
of all, Iran’s economy, I hate to be one to be the harbinger of bad
Mike Pence, he met with Mike Pompeo, he met with John Bolton.
news for some, is not on the brink. Economic growth is at greater
He asked all three of them, “What is going to happen the day
than four percent. Oil output is far higher than it was before the
after you rip up the Iran deal and you pull out of it?” He couldn’t
sanctions a half dozen or so years ago. Yes, inflation is running
get an answer. The other question he asked them is “how is the
somewhat high. But the idea that Iran is on the brink and if only
world worse off than it would be with this deal?” And he couldn't
we squeezed them, this is going to force fundamental changes in
get an answer with that either. The only answer that he ever got
policy or even in the dreams of some, regime change, is simply
was this was a campaign promise, it was something that he
not, is, is not going to happen. Plus, the principle way to pressure
promised he was going to do and it’s a very bad deal. If there
Iran is going to be through the countries that deal with it. That
was a plan B here, if it was clear that America had decided, the
means a trade war with Europe, I thought we already had enough
White House had decided to rip up this deal and had a plan of
of that. Plus who is the biggest importers of Iranian oil? One of
action, that would be one thing but I was speaking to Israeli
them happens to be India. That’s one of the countries the United
officials yesterday. And it was very clear that even they think now
States is trying to build a strategic partnership. The other one is
the ball is in Iran’s court. Well that’s a precarious position for us
China. Last I checked, we’ve already got quite a few things going
to be in, when this is now effectively up to Iran to decide what
on with China, including dealing with North Korea. What this, this
happens going forward. And I think, Nick, I’m not sure what you
is why you have a National Security Council. The whole idea is to
would think about this, but while there may be a short-term
take the various pieces and put them together, and come up with
impetus for the Iranians to sit there and watch divisions quite
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a coherent strategy giving everything that’s going on locally, and
giving everything that’s going on, on all the, if you will, the chess
board pieces around the world. And I see none of that being
done here.
SCARBOROUGH: Ambassador Burns, let me ask you about all
the incoming that a National Security Adviser with a fully formed
National Security Team would be dealing with right now if it were
functional. And it is not. You have of course, the Iran deal being
torn up. You have the Secretary of State right now, in North
Korea, talking about an upcoming summit. You talked about a
cosmic gamble, yet another nuclear deal with North Korea. And
then you have the entire chessboard of the Middle East being
thrown up in the air with the embassy in Israel being moved to
Jerusalem. Can you remember a time where so many things
were coming at an American President, even one with a fully
functioning National Security Council?
.
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BURNS: Well I remember a time when Richard and I both served
on the President George H.W. Bush’s NSC staff back at the end
of the Cold War and he had his hands full with multiple
challenges but he had a National Security Adviser who was
trusted and credible in Washington. And we had a Secretary of
State who was one of the great American diplomats, James A.
Baker III. And the President who was fully engaged, who had a
sense of strategy, a sense of our own limits, as well as our
powers. Who wasn't guilty of hubris, who actually studied these
issues. So we got through the end of the cold war because of the
brilliant leadership of President George H.W. Bush, and a, and a
well-functioning NSC staff and a great Secretary of State. We
don't have that right now in President Trump. He doesn't study.
He probably doesn’t even know what’s in President Obama’s Iran
deal. He just knows that Obama’s name was on it. And it’s not
clear right now if that team has coalesced, Jim Mattis, Mike
Pompeo, John Bolton, I think it’s, it’s a team of factions and it
doesn’t seem that they agree on some of the major strands of
this policy either towards Iran or North Korea.
 DEVELOPING: Nunes, Gowdy Had “Productive
Discussion” With DOJ Officials
Amid Russia Probe Standoff
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 3:34 Pm
House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes and
House Oversight Committee Chairman
Trey Gowdy met with Rosenstein and
other officials Thursday in a classified
briefing amid a standoff over pertinent
‘Mueller-Russia’ documents being
withheld by the swamp.
Facing contempt charges, Justice
Department officials agreed to sit down
with Nunes and Gowdy to come to a
resolution.
Fox News reported:
Fox News has learned Nunes and Gowdy
met with Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and his deputy Ed O’Callahan,
as well as representatives from the FBI and
the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence.
Things have been tense in recent weeks
between Nunes and the Justice
.
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Department, with Nunes at one point
threatening to hold Attorney General Jeff
Sessions in contempt.
The meeting appeared to be an effort on
the part of the Justice Department to come
to a resolution.
“We had a productive discussion today with
officials from the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, Department of
Justice, and FBI in which we raised
questions related to information requested
from the Intelligence Community,” Nunes
and Gowdy said in a statement. “The
officials committed to holding further
discussions of these matters, and we look
forward to continuing our dialogue next
week to satisfy the committee’s request.”
Ranking Minority member of the House Intel Committee
Adam Schiff (D-CA) is also meeting with DOJ officials
Thursday.
It looks like we have to wait another week to see if Nunes
is able to receive Rosenstein’s unredacted memo detailing
Mueller’s scope.
As of right now, only a heavily redacted version of the
memo has been released to the public.
The redactions hide Mueller’s more specific description of
authority granted to him by Rosenstein.
Thank God for Chairman Nunes’ relentless fight against
the Deep State.
 Special Counsel Mueller Just Stepped
On His ‘Johnson’ Over ‘Russian Collusion’ HOAX
Posted On May 10, 2018
(National Sentinel) Collapse: The beginning of the end of
special counsel Robert Mueller’s BS “Trump-Russia
collusion” case has begun, and it’s going to be a thing of
sweetness to behold.
You may recall that in February, Mueller — to great
fanfare and much media hype — indicted 13 Russian
nationals and three Russian firms for waging “information
warfare” against the U.S., interfering in the 2016
presidential election, and conspiracy to defraud the United
States.
The charges magically appeared as Mueller was beginning
to face a growing storm of criticism that his collusion case
was as thin as budget chicken soup.
But he got a ton of headlines when he announced his
indictments. And he believed he could get away with the
showmanship while keeping alive the hoax that Team
Trump and Moscow got together to “steal the election”
from the worst candidate the Democrats have ever fielded,
serial criminal Hillary Clinton.
That’s because he leveled his charges safe in the belief that
the 13 Russians were well outside U.S. jurisdiction. So
there’d never be a trial — only more sensational collusion
headlines and accusations.
Boy, did Mueller step on his “Johnson” over this one.
Because now it looks like there will be a trial after all,
forcing Mueller to not only defend his allegations but also
subject his inquiry to the discovery process.
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As reported by The Daily Caller:
Lawyers for Russian company Concord
Management and Consulting, LLC, formally
entered a “not guilty” plea in federal court
Monday in a case special counsel Robert
Mueller probably never thought would happen.
…
Mueller may now have to try the case, and
Concord’s lawyers have put the special counsel
on notice. The Russian company’s
lawyers intend to invoke “discovery” to obtain
U.S. intelligence about what they knew of
Russian activities.
“I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie, for
sure,” former federal prosecutor Andrew C.
McCarthy told The Daily Caller News
Foundation after the court proceeding.
“He thought it could make this association (of
Russian collusion) and it would never be
challenged in court,” McCarthy, a former federal
prosecutor who is also a National Review
contributing editor, said.
The DC noted further:
Concord retained the services of two attorneys
at mega law firm Reed Smith, and the
company is demanding a speedy trial. The
lawyers indicated they were going to exercise
Concord’s rights under discovery to examine all
of Mueller’s “evidence” of the conspiracy.
In starting Wednesday’s trial, Eric A. Dubelier, a
Reed Smith law partner, entered a “not guilty”
plea in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia. He also repeated his client’s interest
for a “speedy trial.”
McCarthy called Mueller’s indictment an “unforced error,”
adding that no prosecutor should ever bring charges in a
case they are not prepared to defend.
For his part, Mueller attempted to convince the court to
delay the trial. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich
agreed with Concord’s attorneys and swatted Mueller’s
request aside.
Concord has requested a “speedy trial,” as called for by the
Constitution and federal statutes.
There never was any “collusion,” and the allegations
contained in the so-called “Russian dossier” were just as
phony. Now, as this trial ramps up, Mueller’s going to
have to reveal what he has (and doesn’t have) to the
defense in terms of evidence.
And this house of cards will come tumbling down.

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 Company Indicted In Mueller’s
Junk Russian Bot Case Comes Out Swinging In Court
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 4:30 Pm
Robert Mueller rolled out an indictment
of 13 Russians and 3 companies in his
fake Russian bot case in February as a
way to justify his salary and witch hunt.
He didn’t expect to actually fight any of
the Russians in court.
Indicted Russian company, Concord
Management and Consulting wants to
play ball and blasted Mueller in court
this week telling the Magistrate Judge,
“the government has indicted the
proverbial ham sandwich.”
Robert Mueller was thrown off when Concord
Management and Consulting showed up to court wanting
to fight the Special Counsel last week.
Concord is seeking all of Mueller’s
evidence of the so-called conspiracy as
a part of their discovery rights.
The Daily Caller reported:
Mueller may now have to try the case, and
Concord’s lawyers have put the special
counsel on notice. The Russian company’s
lawyers intend to invoke “discovery” to
obtain U.S. intelligence about what they
knew of Russian activities.
“I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie,
for sure,” former federal prosecutor Andrew
.
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C. McCarthy told The Daily Caller News
Foundation after the court proceeding.
Late last Friday, Mueller requested a delay in the case and
the Trump-appointed judge promptly smacked him down.
The indicted Russian company pleaded
not guilty Wednesday and also revealed
Mueller has access to their confidential
files.
Fox News reported:
Defense Attorney Eric Dubelier was in
court to represent Concord Management
and Consulting, one of three companies
indicted by Mueller in February. Dubelier
entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of
“Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
of America.”
“The government has indicted the
proverbial Ham sandwich,” Dubelier told
Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey.
On Wednesday, there were no lawyers in court for the
other two companies, nor were any of the Russian
individuals present.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Dubelier complained that
the special counsel
“has access to all of our confidential files,”
calling that development “disturbing.”
The case is scheduled to presume in early July.
Mueller and his team of liberal hack lawyers have taken a
couple of big blows recently.
The Special Counsel is now having to try a case he is not
prepared to fight on top of the fact that his case against
Manafort is falling apart.
The judge handling Mueller’s bank fraud case against Paul
Manafort lost his temper last week and accused the Special
Counsel’s team of using the case to oust Trump from
office.
Nunes and Gowdy are also a week away from obtaining
Rosenstein’s memo detailing Mueller’s scope.
 Both Trump And Obama Got American Hostages Released
– With One Glaring Difference
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:10 PM 05/10/2018

Three Americans held hostage in North Korean prisons

have returned home after intense pressure and strategic
diplomacy by the Trump administration.
The move is a sweeping win for the muscular foreign
policy prescriptions of the Trump administration.
It has long been U.S. policy to not negotiate with terrorists
or put a price on the heads of Americans held by hostile
foreign powers. Obama, however, flouted this norm,
opting on multiple occasions to make preconditions and
payments to foreign actors in exchange for American lives.

One of the most well-known instances was Sgt. Bowe

The hostages spent at least a year in captivity in North
Korea but were released without preconditions in the lead-
up to a historic summit between President Trump and Kim
Jong-un in Singapore on June 12.
The good-faith release of the American citizens by a
hostile world power marked a stark pivot from the
diplomatic wanderings of Trump’s predecessor.
Bergdhal.
Bergdahl deserted his Army post in Afghanistan in 2009.
He was captured by the Taliban and held hostage
for nearly five years. Multiple American servicemen
searching for him. Ultimately, the Obama administration
agreed to trade five high-value Taliban lieutenants,
currently imprisoned at Guantanamo, for Bergdahl. The
controversial swap took place and Bergdahl returned home
to an immediate court marshal.

President Barack Obama makes a statement about the release of Sgt.

Bowe Bergdahl as his parents, Jani Bergdahl and Bob Bergdahl listen
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May 31, 2014 in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington,
D.C. (Photo by J.H. Owen-Pool/Getty Images)
He was ultimately dishonorably discharged and fined for
desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He could
have faced the death penalty. President Trump called the
decision a “complete and total disgrace to our Country and
to our Military.”
The Obama administration also secretly airlifted $400
million in cash on wooden pallets in the back of an
unmarked cargo plane to Iran 2016.
The release of four jailed Americans in Tehran coincided
with the payment. The Wall Street Journal reported at the
time that the massive payment was a used as leverage for
the release of the hostages, according to multiple
government officials.
The Daily Caller reported at the time:
“The mechanics of the exchange all but
confirm accusations that the $400 million in
cash was a ransom payment. Saeed
Abedini, a former Iranian hostage told The
Wall Street Journal, Iranian intelligence
officials told him his plane could not take off
until the movements of a second plane
were confirmed. The second plane is like
the U.S. cargo plane carrying $400 million
in cash.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
General Reza Naghdi further confirmed the
ransom story in January, telling Iranian
state media
“Taking this much money back was in
return for the release of the American
spies.”
It also came on the heels of the approval of the Iran
nuclear deal. Congressional Republicans railed against the
payments at the time. Senator Marco Rubio said at the
time, “The U.S. government should not be in the business
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of negotiating with terrorists and paying ransom money in
exchange for the release of American hostages.”
Photo by Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty
Images
Tom Cotton echoed the sentiment, saying the Obama
administration was paying a “ransom to the ayatollahs for
U.S. hostages” and that the move “put a price on the head
of Americans.”
The acts by the previous administration should surprise no
one familiar with the Obama administration’s geopolitical
worldview.
President Obama openly embraced a “lead from behind”
approach to diplomatic relations. Obama embarked on
what some called an “American Apology Tour” almost
immediately upon entering office, establishing as policy
that America would have a diminished presence in the
world community. His administration dealt with foreign
powers with an often inconsequential hand — opting for
global consensus instead of direct, muscular American
intervention.
The release of American hostages Kim Dong-Chul, Kim
Hak-Song and Tony Kim were not part of any
preconditions, treaty or multilateral deal. They were not
traded like chess pieces in some 11-dimensional
diplomatic calculus. Pallets of cash were not rolled off an
aircraft in Pyongyang and into the hands of a murderous
dictatorship in exchange for their American lives.
Captured, dangerous terrorist leaders were not freed on the
behalf of these American hostages.
These men were freed from a position of American
strength.
The full-throated global hammering of the North Koreans
by the Trump administration, mixed with the blistering
American-led sanctions imposed upon them, had begun to
take effect. America, it seems, as the reigning world
economic and military superpower, can wield a muscular
position over hostile powers without firing a shot.
The unique, strategic position of America to non-violently
bend its enemies into capitulation was lost on the Obama
administration.
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Says Kim Jong Un Was ‘Masterful’ And
‘Duped Trump’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
5:23 PM 05/10/2018

The former CIA director stated that Trump had gone from
calling Kim Jong Un

“rocket man and a sick puppy to honorable

and nice.”

Brennan continued to say that Un was “masterful” and that

he believes he “quite frankly duped Mr. Trump.”
Former Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John
Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Three Americans held as prisoners from North Korea
Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. returned to the United States early Thursday morning
Brennan is discussing the extent of Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election and possible ties to the campaign of President
following a meeting between Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong
Donald Trump. Alex Wong/Getty Images. Un to formalize logistics for an upcoming summit between
the North Korean dictator and Trump.
Former CIA Director John Brennan went all-out on the
relationship between Kim Jong Un and President Trump WATCH:
on MSNBC Thursday, saying Kim was crafty and “duped”
Trump into believing him.

“I think he has very smartly and very

masterfully…” Brennan began.
“Un?” asked Nicole Wallace.
“Kim Jong Un, escalated and saber-rattled
so that he cold then switch and appear
much more accommodating and present a
more peaceful face,” Brennan pressed.

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 Avenatti Exposed: Stormy's Lawyer May Face
Disbarrment, Legal Action As Past Catches Up
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/10/2018 - 17:25

Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti has show "Grey's Anatomy." Dempsey sued
some explaining to do... Avenatti in August 2013 to break off the
partnership.

Since then, Tully's has significantly struggled. More than

45 lawsuits have been filed against the chain's parent
company, which Avenatti says he no longer owns.

In 2017, the company owed roughly $5

million in unpaid taxes to the Internal
Revenue Service. And, in March, the coffee
chain abruptly closed all locations. -Business
Insider

After appearing on CNN 59 times to claim the moral high

ground over President Trump's alleged decade-old affair
with Daniels, skeletons in Avenatti's closet are now
beginning to pour out.

Questions have emerged over who's funding

Avenatti, how he was privy to Trump attorney
Michael Cohen's bank records - and how
exactly did he obtain banking transactions
for two men also named Michael Cohen,
who he wrongly accused in a seven-page
"dossier" released this week.

Other questions have come to light over

a bankrupt coffee chain Avenatti left in
smoldering ashes with $5 million in unpaid
taxes to the IRS, an alleged $160,000 owed
for unpaid coffee, and over 45 lawsuits filed
in connection with the failed venture.

Bitter coffee deal

As outlined in a legal complaint seeking Avenatti's

disbarment, the balding provocateur "bought a company
out of bankruptcy and then used it for a "pump and dump" According to Dempsey, Avenatti was supposed to bankroll
the deal through his company, Global Baristas, but didn't
scheme to deprive federal and state taxing authorities of
millions of dollars," which left over $5 million in unpaid have the funds - instead borrowing $2 million at an
taxes to the IRS. "exorbitant" 15% to close on the transaction. The actor
sued to get out of the partnership after he claimed
Avenatti purchased Tully's out of
bankruptcy in 2013, in partnership with actor "Avenatti concealed the Loan and the
Patrick Dempsey, who is best known for his Security Agreement from Dempsey."
role as Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in the TV
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Since 2013, 46 cases have been filed against Global
Baristas US LLC and its parent company, Global Baristas
LLC in Washington's King County Superior Court.

One of the companies left in Avenatti's wake is Dillanos

Coffee Roasters, which CEO David Morris says is owed
over $160,000 for beans.

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 MSNBC Analyst: Trump Bringing Home American
Prisoners From North Korea Is ‘All About Him’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
5:45 PM 05/10/2018
MSNBC commentator Steve Schmidt claimed Thursday
that Trump’s role in securing three American prisoners’
release from North Korea was “all about him.”
“He has a complete incapacity for human
empathy,” Schmidt said in a completely
serious tone.
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Schmidt insisted that Trump bring home
the American prisoners in North Korea “is
about Donald Trump. It’s about the ratings.”
The former Republican strategist insisted that Trump
“works for the American people” and that he swore an
oath to do so, but that Trump “doesn’t seem capable” of
understanding that oath.
The American prisoners returned home after weeks of
speculation on whether or not they would be released from
North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to
North Korea Tuesday to plan an upcoming summit
between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Pompeo
returned with the three Americans early Thursday morning
in D.C.
Fake News CNN Suggests Trump Using Freed Prisoners To
Distract From Stormy Daniels, Russia Witch Hunt
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 5:56 Pm

Fake News CNN suggested President Trump

is using the freed prisoners to distract from
Stormy Daniels and Robert Mueller.

Disgraceful.

Last night early in the morning President Trump, his

beautiful wife, the Vice President and his wife along with
new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed home
three Americans that were let free from North Korea. It
was history in the making!

At a little past 3am Eastern time President Trump

Very fake news CNN just can’t say anything positive welcomed home three Americans held hostage in North
about President Trump. Korea. It is the beginning of what is hoped to be concrete
and demonstrable moves that will end towards Korea
CNN spent time talking about Stormy, Robert Mueller, the becoming nuclear free.
Russian investigation and Michael Cohen as the freed
prisoners were about to land at Andrews Air Force base
outside of Washington.

This is just shameful.

“This success in the foreign policy field might be

enough to distract attention away from the
Robert Mueller investigation into Russia; the
criminal investigation into his own personal
attorney…” CNN said as Trump was about to
make history greeting freed prisoners.

And President Trump didn’t have to send North Korea

pallets of cash or free terrorists in exchange for the three
American hostages.

VIDEO:

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 Giuliani Departs From Manhattan
Law Firm To Focus On Trump
Terry Haynes
5:57 PM 05/10/2018
Rudy Giuliani is splitting from his Manhattan law firm in
order to focus on his new position as part of President
Donald Trump’s legal team.
Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team in April, originally
intending to take an unpaid leave of absence from
Greenberg Traurig.
However, in a joint statement released Thursday, the firm
said the parting will be permanent, due to White House
demand which is
“all consuming and is lasting longer than
initially anticipated.”
Similarly, Giuliani explained,
“In light of the pressing demands of the
Mueller investigation, I believe it is in
everyone’s best interest that I make it a
permanent resignation. This way, my sole
concentration can be on this critically
important matter for our country.”
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Some have speculated the departure is due to more than
just the Mueller probe. Amid questions of campaign
finance regulations and former Trump attorney Michael
Cohen’s alleged payment of $130,0000 to Stormy Daniels,
Giuliani told Sean Hannity in a May 2nd Fox News
interview,
“That was money that was paid by his
lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law
firm funds. … Michael would take care of
things like this like I take care of this with
my clients.”
In response to Giulaini’s claim, Greenberg Traurig
spokeswoman Jill Perry said to The New York Times,
“We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with
respect to what was intended by his
remarks. … Speaking for ourselves, we
would not condone payments of the nature
alleged to have been made or otherwise
without the knowledge and direction of a
client.”
 John Rizzo Fact-Checks Sen. Feinstein
On CIA Nominee’s Background
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
6:22 PM 05/10/2018

Former CIA chief legal officer John Rizzo fact checked interrogation program in the counterterrorism center of the
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on MSNBC CIA based off of a corrected statement by Rizzo.
Thursday after she made an incorrect claim about Gina
Haspel’s CIA background. Rizzo said,

WATCH: “this was one sentence in a 330-page book

I put out four years ago,” and that Haspe,
“before becoming Jose Rodriguez’ chief of
staff, quote, ran the interrogation program.”

He then re-iterated the correction.

“In retrospect, I overstated her role. She

didn’t run the program. So that’s why I was
happy to correct the record.”

Rizzo went on to say that he was unsure of the details of

Haspel’s involvement in any black site programs.

During a Senate hearing on Haspel’s nomination for CIA

director, Feinstein incorrectly claimed that Haspel ran an
.

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 Don Jr. Takes A Swipe At Obama In Viral Tweet After
Five ‘Most Wanted’ ISIS Leaders Captured
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 6:27 Pm
President Trump celebrated the capture of
the five ‘most wanted’ leaders of ISIS Friday
morning, including top aide to Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi.
The ISIS leaders were lured into a trap by
Iraqi agents with a cell phone app.
President Trump promised to obliterate ISIS and he has
delivered.
A couple months into Trump’s presidency, our military
dropped a MOAB on a network of ISIS tunnels in
Nangarhar Province where a Green Beret had been killed
the previous weekend.
The 21,000 pound MOAB or “Mother Of All Bombs” is
the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal.
ISIS has been reduced to a fraction of what it was under
Obama because Trump is actually letting our military do
what they do best-kill the enemy.
President Trump fired off a celebratory
tweet:
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Obama released countless Islamic terrorists
from Gitmo during his presidency; hundreds
returned to the battle field to commit jihad.
Here is a partial list of Gitmo detainees who have returned
to terror:
 Gitmo Detainees Re-Arrested in Russia
 Former Gitmo Prisoner Arrested for Terrorism in
Moscow
 Three Former Gitmo Detainees Held in Morocco
 Former Gitmo Inmate Involved in Russian Terror
Attack on Nalchik
 Former Gitmo Detainee Re-Arrested in Pakistan
 Seven Percent of Gitmo Detainees Return to
Battlefield.
 Former Club Gitmo Detainee Carries Out Suicide
Mission in Iraq
 Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror
 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee Becomes
Al-Qaeda Chief
 2 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Appear in
Al-Qaeda Movie
 11 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Back On
Saudi Most Wanted List
 American Teenager Murdered By Former Gitmo
Detainee
 Breaking: Taliban’s Top Officer in Southern
Afghanistan Is Former Gitmo Detainee
 Former Gitmo Detainee Leads Fight Against US
Troops
 Another Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee
Killed in Shootout
 Former Gitmo Detainee Now Al Qaeda
“Spiritual Leader”
 Former Gitmo Detainees Lead Yemeni Al-
Qaeda Group Linked to Detroit Bomber
 Former Gitmo Detainee Leads Insurgency in
Southern Afghanistan
 Thanks Barack… Another Gitmo Detainee
Returns to the Fold
 25 Former Gitmo Detainees From Saudi Arabia
Return to Life of Terror
  ONE WEEK AFTER PARIS TERROR ATTACKS
– Obama Releases Five More Gitmo Detainees
 Former Gitmo Terrorist Arrested in Uganda;
Suspect in Prosecutor’s Shooting Death
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 Two more Gitmo detainees arrested in terror
raid in Belgium
 Former Gitmo Detainee Now an Al-Qaeda
Leader in Yemen
 Stormy Daniels Attorney Accuses
Giuliani Of Getting Fired From His Law Firm
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
6:47 PM 05/10/2018

Avenatti then took a hit at Giuliani leaving his former law

firm.

“But I would like to comment on Mr.

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti accused Rudy
Giuliani of getting “fired” from his law firm Thursday on
CNN.
“Are you willing to fully cooperate with the
treasury department’s inspector general?”
asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
Giuliani’s firing today — and that’s what it
is, let’s be clear, it’s not a resignation, that’s
trying to put lipstick on a pig,” he said.
“I’m familiar with Greenberg Traurig,”
saying that the firm “took exception to what
Mr. Giuliani said because it’s so outside the
norm of how attorneys practice.”
“They forced him out of the firm so maybe
he has enough time now, maybe he’ll come
on with me and we can have an
educated discussion about the facts
this case as opposed to a bunch of name
call,” he continued.

Avenatti has recently come under fire for potentially

“We are willing to cooperate with that investigation, we
receiving money from opposing political interests to
will and we have nothing to hide,” answered Avenatti.
President Trump.

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 Trump Transition Team Urges
POTUS To Hold Line On Fuel Efficiency Ruling
Chris White - Energy Reporter
6:55 PM 05/10/2018

energy production has rendered moot any

need to dramatically ratchet up the
industry’s fuel mileage requirements, he
noted.
“My fellow signatories and I thank the
president for taking on the mandate and
encourage him to face down California’s
Democratic political machine,” Ebell
explained. “As we have said
California announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump before, decisions about what kinds of cars
administration after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt promised in people drive should be made [by]
April to review a set of Obama-era efficiency rules the auto industry
considers too burdensome. (Photo: (Sam72/Shutterstock)
consumers, not by bureaucrats making
(Sam72/Shutterstock) | Trump Feeling The Heat Over CAFE backroom deals.”
Standard
Ybarra and Pyle headed the president’s Department of
Three members of President Donald Trump’s transition Transportation and Energy Department teams,
team urged the White House Thursday to stay the course respectively. All three analysts wrote a letter asking Trump
on a ruling rolling back fuel efficiency standards crafted to not waver on his initial decision.
during Obama’s administration.
The plan would also target California’s ability to set its
Analysts Shirley Ybarra, Myron Ebell, and Thomas Pyle own vehicle efficiency standards. California’s high
are encouraging Trump to stay the course on reforms to the standards have forced automakers to build more fuel-
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE). Activists and efficient vehicles, which ultimately effects national
the auto industry have criticized Trump for his move to efficiency standards. (RELATED: REPORT: Trump
ding former President Barack Obama’s efficiency Prepares To Scrap Obama-Era Fuel Efficiency Rules)
standards.
Obama aimed to raise the average fuel economy of
“The CAFE mandate is a vestige of a automobiles to more than 50 miles per gallon within 10
bygone era of perceived scarcity,” Ebell, years. California got permissions from the Obama
who represented Trump’s EPA transition administration to issue its own, higher emissions standards.
team, said in a press statement. Modern
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 POTUS Trump Takes A Shot At Obama At Indiana Rally
“Obama Paid $1.8 Billion For Hostages” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 7:16 Pm

VIDEO:

President Trump held a campaign rally in Elkhart, Indiana

Thursday; Vice President Mike Pence was also there.
Trump blasted Obama for paying $1.8 billion for hostages.
Three Americans returned home early this morning after
being held hostage in North Korea and we didn’t have to
send pallets of cash to get them freed.
Trump supporters attending the Indiana rally booed as
Trump brought up Obama spending billions of dollars on
hostages.
“Obama paid $1.8 billion for hostages,” Trump
said to boos.
Last night early in the morning President Trump, his
beautiful wife, the Vice President and his wife along with
new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed home
three Americans that were let free from North Korea. It
was history in the making!
At a little past 3am Eastern time President Trump
welcomed home three Americans held hostage in North
Korea. It is the beginning of what is hoped to be concrete
and demonstrable moves that will end towards Korea
becoming nuclear free.

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 Trump: Obama Paid 1.8 Billion
For Hostages, I Gave Up Nothing
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:16 PM 05/10/2018

“They came out for nothing,” he bragged.

Trump referenced Obama’s authorization of a cash transfer

to Iran of $400 million at the exact same time that
American hostages were released. Obama administration
officials disputed the ransom narrative at the time,
claiming the payment was part of a series of scheduled
payments and happened to coincide with the hostage
release.

President Donald Trump lambasted former President Obama originally credited “strong American diplomacy”
Barack Obama’s handling of the return of American and touted his deal with Iran for making the negotiations
hostages from Iran at a Thursday rally. possible.

The former American hostages of North Korea included

Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-Duk. Chul
was a Christian missionary engaged in work in North
Korea when he was arrested in October 2015 for allegedly
stealing state secrets. Trump announced their release on
Twitter Wednesday morning.

“Obama, President Obama…Paid $1.8

billion for hostages,” Trump declared to the
Indiana crowd. He then referenced his own
administration’s convincing of North Korean
dictator Kim Jong Un to release 3 American
hostages for nothing in return.
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 Tucker Carlson: Democratic Party Has Doubled Down On
EVERY SINGLE Behavior That Got Trump Elected
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 8:33 Pm

Tucker Carlson: Democratic Party Has
Doubled Down on EVERY SINGLE
Behavior That Got Trump Elected–
A new CNN poll released earlier this week found that
Democrats now hold only a 3 point advantage over
Republicans if the elections were held today. Democrats
held a 16 point advantage in February. Today it’s down to
three points.
America. And Democrats are not. In fact in
the last year-and-a-half the Democratic
Party has doubled-down on every single
behavior that got Trump elected in the first
place. They routinely vilify tens of millions
of Americans based on how they look.
They prefer illegal immigrants to US
citizens and at this point they don’t even
hide that preference. They’re open about it.
In schools and sports and the military they
denounce the idea of a biological
differences between men and women.
That’s something that every culture from
ancient Egypt til about 20 minutes ago
understood perfectly well because it’s
demonstrable. They don’t recognize it
anymore… Whatever else he’s done
Trump has driven the Democratic Party off
the deep end.

Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

Tucker Carlson believes the problem is

that Democrats are doubling-down on
every bizarre behavior that got Trump
elected.

Tucker Carlson:

So here’s a political rule of thumb, if the

creepy porn lawyer is “the savior of the
republic” in your view, you’re probably not
trying too hard to appeal to Middle
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 Trump Steps Up, Puts His Hand On His Heart, And Drops
A Line That Makes The Entire Room Howl
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:37 PM 05/10/2018

President Trump gave a strong defense of the American
flag and the national anthem during a campaign rally in
Indiana Thursday.
“We proudly stand, because we love that
sound, we stand for our national anthem at
all times!”
WATCH:
that a strong nation must have strong
borders. We have pride in our history and
respect for our great American flag,” Trump
said.
The auditorium then broke out into cheers and a chant of
“USA! USA!”
Trump walked away from the podium for a few moments,
then stepped back up and dropped a line that made the
entire room howl.

Trump said,

“And we put our large, beautiful hands on

our hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance!”
“And we proudly stand, all the time we
stand, because we love that sound, we
stand for our national anthem at all times,”
the president said.

“Never believe that your Second

Amendment is not under siege. We believe
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 Man Holds Up A Sign That Says ‘CNN Is Fake News’ For
Trump — His Reaction Makes Crowd Go Wild
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
9:07 PM 05/10/2018

President Trump gave a rousing campaign speech in Trump pointed at the man, shouted something inaudible
Indiana Thursday night. and pumped his fists.

The speech touched on the many accomplishments of the

first year and a half of the Trump administration and hit
Democrats hard for obstruction. Trump touted the recent
hostage releases from North Korea and the GOP tax cuts.

The campaign speech was a preview of things to come, as

Trump unveiled his 2020 stump speech and slogan,

“Keep America Great.”

“We will breathe new hope into our
community,” the president said. “We will
do it all with American hands, American grit
and American pride. Loyal citizens like you
help to build this country and together we
are taking back our great and beautiful
country, returning power to everyday
American people.”

The packed arena reached a fever pitch when Trump

brought up some regular targets:

Obama, Pelosi and “The Swamp.”

However, after the speech had concluded, a Trump

supporter was waiting with a sign with a message to
another one of the president’s favorite targets: CNN.

A man held a “CNN IS VERY FAKE NEWS” sign high

above his head as Trump walked offstage.

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 Joe Digenova Breaks Down Why Junk
Russian Bot Case Is Bad News For Mueller (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 10, 2018, 9:15 Pm
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova
spoke with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson
Thursday evening about Mueller’s
decision to roll out an indictment of
Russians without being prepared to go
to trial.
Mueller’s PR stunt is backfiring and it’s
glorious.
Tucker Carlson asked DiGenova,
“Why would this be bad to go to trial?”
“Well because they’re not ready for it. They
indicted a case prematurely against people
they thought would never show up from
Russia and then one of the Russian
companies hired lawyers and sent them to
court to say ‘we’re here and we wanna
plead not guilty and we want a lot of
discovery on your criminal case against
us,” DiGenova said.
After Mueller asked for a delay in the case, a Trump-
appointed judge smacked him down and forced the case to
proceed this week.
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Tucker Carlson asked,
“You’re saying he indicted people without
being ready to prove they were guilty?
DiGenova said Mueller is abusing the grand jury process
then blasted Rosenstein for authorizing the special counsel.
Joe DiGenova continued to hammer Mueller,
“They did it for one reason only. Mueller
needed something Russian–like dressing
on a salad to make his investigation look
good so he indicted 13 people and
corporations in another country that he
though would never show up and BINGO
one shows up and says ‘PROVE IT
MOTHER.’
Indicted Russian company, Concord
Management and Consulting wants to
play ball and blasted Mueller in court
this week telling the Magistrate Judge,
“the government has indicted the
proverbial ham sandwich.”
Concord is seeking all of Mueller’s
evidence of the so-called conspiracy as
a part of their discovery rights.
The indicted Russian company pleaded
not guilty Wednesday and also revealed
Mueller has access to their confidential
files.
The case is scheduled to presume in early July.
Mueller has a history of botching cases and charging
innocent people; he should be fired and investigated by a
special counsel.
 Sen. Blumenthal Calls Pence’s
Comments On Mueller Probe ‘Truly Chilling’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
9:23 PM 05/10/2018
Sen. Blumenthal MSNBC Screenshot
Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal called
Vice President Mike Pence’s statement to “wrap up” the
Mueller probe “truly chilling” Thursday on MSNBC’s The
Beat with Ari Melber.
“First of all, that statement by Vice
President Pence is truly chilling, it is
ominous,” stated Blumenthal. “Not only as
to the Special Counsel Robert Mueller but
also as to Rod Rosenstein.”
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“I have begun to think back to the deputy
attorney general who controls the
magnitude and scope and timing of this
investigation is as dire as it is to Bob
Muller,” Blumenthal continued.
Blumenthal then said that these comments indicate that
Pence is
“one with the president — he is joined at
the hip in feeling this investigation must be
shut down.”
The Connecticut senator persisted in his point that the
president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,
“is in big trouble, deep trouble, and that
means big and deepening trouble for
Trump.”
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 Trump Says ‘They’re Saying Merry Christmas Again’ —
The Audience Explodes In Applause
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:31 PM 05/10/2018

President Trump declared victory in the War on Christmas
Thursday.
Trump said at an Indiana rally that since he became
president, more people are saying “Merry Christmas!”
WATCH:
ELKHART, IN – MAY 10: President Donald Trump speaks to
supporters at a campaign rally on May 10, 2018 in Elkhart, Indiana.
The crowd filled the 7,500-person-capacity gymnasium. (Photo by
Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Supporters cheer as US President Donald Trump speaks during a

“And remember the last time I did this,” rally in Elkhart, Indiana on May 10, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB /
AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump said. “This started two and a half
years ago when I just started.”
Trump then said,
“People were not saying ‘Merry Christmas’
anymore. The big store chains weren’t
saying ‘Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.’
They weren’t doing it. They weren’t saying
‘Merry Christmas.’ Now they’re saying
Merry Christmas again.”
When Trump was running for president in 2016, he
repeatedly said that if he became president, Americans
would be saying “Merry Christmas” again.
His rally drew a packed house of supporters Thursday.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Elkhart,
Indiana, May 10, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit
should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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 AMAZING VIDEO=> MASSIVE CROWD
Stands And Waits Outside Packed Venue To
Hear President Trump Speak
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 9:48 Pm

THOUSANDS Of Hoosiers turned out

tonight in Elkhart, Indiana for President
Trump’s 7 PM rally.
Local reporter Taylor Popierlarz took
video of the line to see President Trump
— AT 3 PM!

This was 4 HOURS before the rally.

The line went on for about a mile!

Here is a view of the crowd outside the venue tonight

while President Trump spoke.

And then when they opened the venue

— HUNDREDS of Trump supporters
stood outside after they filled up the
gymnasium for the rally.
They waited outside to hear the
president.
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 ‘Hate-Trump Media’
Can’t Handle All The Winning
Stephanie Hamill
10:08 PM 05/10/2018
President Donald J. Trump welcomed home three newly-
freed Americans that were being held hostage in North
Korea Thursday. It’s a great Day for America! Are you
tired of winning yet?
Kim Dong-chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak-song were all
greeted by President Trump and first lady Melania Trump
at Andrews Air Force Base early Thursday morning.
The detainees were released ahead of the highly
anticipated meeting between President Trump and the
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un, which is set for June.
Watch:
If this isn’t the the art of the deal, I don’t know what is.
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President Trump brought home three American hostages
and released zero terrorists in exchange. Compare that to
when former President Barack Obama traded five Gitmo
terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
Trump also didn’t have to hand over hundreds of millions
of dollars in exchange for hostages, which is what the
Obama administration did with Iran.
Obama said the money was owed to the Iranians for a
decade-old weapons payment settlement but as soon as
that plane load of cash was delivered to Iran, the American
hostages were released. America doesn’t pay for hostages
— this move set a dangerous precedent.
So you would think the mainstream media would give
president Trump a little credit for his strong leadership on
this issue. But no, they’re too busy talking about porn stars
and peddling the Russian collusion narrative.
President Trump has done more than
Obama did in eight years, and he’s just
getting started. The return of Americans
from North Korea will be added to his
list of accomplishments.
Credit should be given where it’s due.
 Beautiful! Here Is The Note The Liberated North Korean
Prisoners Gave Mike Pence When They Landed In Us
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 10:16 Pm

On Thursday morning the three freed North Korean
prisoners returned home to the United States.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted
the men when they arrived back on US soil.
After the men departed the plane they waved to the
cheering crowd.
Many Americans were wondering what
the former prisoners gave to Mike
Pompeo.
Now we know.
It was a note with Psalm 126: 1-3
When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion…

Then they came down the stairs and

handed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
and VP Mike Pence a note.

Here is the video.

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 Poll: Majority Of Republicans
Say FBI Is Framing Trump
By Morgan Gstalter
05/10/18 10:49 Am Edt
A majority of Republicans said President Trump is being
framed by the FBI and the Department of Justice,
according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov
released Wednesday.
When asked if Trump is being framed, 61 percent of
Republicans said he is. Seventeen percent said he is not
and 21 percent said they are not sure.
The number is dramatically different among Democrats,
with only 7 percent believing Trump is facing a biased FBI
that is framing him. The majority of Democrats — 78
percent — said he is not being framed.
One-fourth of independents said he is being framed,
compared to the 39 percent who said he is not.
In total, only 29 percent of American adults polled said
Trump is being set up by the law enforcement agencies,
compared to 45 percent who said he is not being framed.
The remaining 26 percent said they were not sure.
Trump has in recent months leveled heavy criticism at the
FBI and the Justice Department regarding the investigation
into possible Russian interference during the 2016
presidential election.
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He frequently refers to the probe as a “witch hunt” and
accuses leadership at the agencies of being corrupt.
During an appearance on the “Fox & Friends” morning
show last month, Trump threatened to intervene at the
Justice Department.
"Because of the fact that they have this
witch hunt going on, with people in the
Justice Department that shouldn't be there
— they have a witch hunt against the
president of the United States going on,"
Trump said.
"You look at the corruption at the top of the
FBI — it's a disgrace," Trump said. "And
our Justice Department, which I try and
stay away from, but at some point I won't."
A separate poll from CBS News on Tuesday found that a
majority of Americans say special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference is
politically motivated.
The poll surveyed 1,500 adults online who were randomly
selected from YouGov’s opt-in internet panel using sample
matching. The margin of error is plus or minus 3
percentage points.
 Trump On Pelosi’s ‘Raising Taxes’
Comment: ‘Is That Good Politics?’
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
11:02 PM 05/10/2018
President Trump reminded the crowd at an Indiana rally
Thursday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said
this week she wanted to raise taxes.
WATCH:
Trump stated that
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“the strides we have been making have
never, ever been made like this before,” but
warned that these strides “can also
disappear if you put fools and if you put the
wrong people in.”
“Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she wants to
end the tax cuts and raise your taxes. I
said, ‘Tell me, is that like good politics?'”
The president stated that he didn’t “think
her party was too happy,” and said, “that’s
her thought, that’s what they want to do.
They want to raise your taxes, end your tax
cuts.”
“They want to have open borders where
everyone flies into our country,” Trump
stated.
 EXCLUSIVE: White House Says
Sarah Sanders Never Called Michelle Wolf
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
11:04 AM 05/10/2018
Michelle Wolf claimed on “Late Night with Seth
Meyers” Wednesday that Sarah Sanders called her to say
she enjoyed the comedienne’s performance at the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner last month.
The White House says otherwise.
WATCH:
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Wolf claimed that Sanders told her she loved the jokes. It
was unclear if Wolf herself was joking or being serious
when she said this.
“Everyone loved it, even — actually Sarah
Huckabee Sanders called me and she was
like, ‘I loved it so much, I got every joke.'”
The White House told the Daily Caller Thursday that
Sanders never called Wolf.
It’s not clear why Wolf made the claim, other than to
perhaps make a joke about Sanders’ alleged “lying.”
At the dinner, Wolf roasted Sanders for dishonesty and
being like an “Uncle Tom,” for “white women who
disappoint other white women.”
Sanders responded to the jokes in a “Fox & Friends”
appearance last week, saying,
“I think that evening says a whole lot more
about her than it does about me.”
 PAY DIRT! House Discovers FBI Had SPY Inside Trump
Campaign — While Obama DOJ Wiretapped
Campaign, Transition Calls
By Jim Hoft
May 10, 2018, 11:09 Pm
PAY DIRT!
Now we know why the Deep State has
been working so hard to take down
President Trump and the republic.
OBAMA DEEP STATE HAD A SPY
INSIDE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!
Barack Obama, arguably the worst
president in US history, was wiretapping
and listening in on all of the Trump
campaign and transition team calls.
And now we know his Deep State
minions had a spy inside the Trump
campaign!
This is all starting to make sense now.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed
law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr.
Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret
intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA,
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who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved
in the Russia collusion probe. When
government agencies refer to sources, they
mean people who appear to be average
citizens but use their profession or contacts
to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take
this to mean that the FBI secretly had a
person on the payroll who used his or her
non-FBI credentials to interact in some
capacity with the Trump campaign.
This would amount to spying, and it is
hugely disconcerting. It would also be a
major escalation from the electronic
surveillance we already knew about, which
was bad enough. Obama political
appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump
campaign officials to monitor their
conversations, while the FBI played dirty
with its surveillance warrant against Carter
Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court that its supporting
information came from the Hillary Clinton
campaign. Now we find it may have also
been rolling out human intelligence, John
Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump
campaign.
Which would lead to another big question
for the FBI: When? The bureau has been
doggedly sticking with its story that a tip in
July 2016 about the drunken ramblings of
George Papadopoulos launched its
counterintelligence probe. Still, the players
in this affair—the FBI, former Director Jim
Comey, the Steele dossier authors—have
been suspiciously vague on the key
moments leading up to that launch date.
When precisely was the Steele dossier
delivered to the FBI? When precisely did
the Papadopoulos information come in?
And to the point, when precisely was this
human source operating? Because if it was
prior to that infamous Papadopoulos tip,
then the FBI isn’t being straight. It would
mean the bureau was spying on the Trump
campaign prior to that moment. And that in
 turn would mean that the FBI had been
spurred to act on the basis of something
other than a junior campaign aide’s loose
lips.
We also know that among the Justice
Department’s stated reasons for not
complying with the Nunes subpoena was
its worry that to do so might damage
international relationships. This suggests
the “source” may be overseas, have ties to
foreign intelligence, or both.
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 John Kelly: Trump ‘Somewhat
Embarrassed’ About Russia Probe
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:15 PM 05/10/2018
President Donald Trump is “somewhat embarrassed” about
the Russia investigation, White House Chief of Staff John
Kelly said in a candid new interview.
Speaking to NPR, Kelly was asked whether the Russia
probe has cast a cloud over Trump’s administration.
“It may not be a cloud, but certainly the
President is, you know, somewhat
embarrassed, frankly,” said Kelly, a retired
Marine general.
“When world leaders come in, it’s kind of
like, you know, [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi
Netanyahu is here, and he, who’s under
investigation himself; and it’s like, you
.
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know, you walk in and you know the first
couple of minutes of every conversation
might revolve around that kind of thing.”
The Russia investigation, with Special Counsel Robert
Mueller leading the charge, has led to two plea deals and
several indictments against Trump campaign associates.
But so far, the investigation has not availed the public
release of any evidence of Trump’s involvement in a
collusion conspiracy. The Republican has mostly been
defiant about the investigation, calling it a “witch hunt”
ginned up by his political opponents.
Kelly did say he doubts whether the Russia investigation
will find any evidence of collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russian government.
“Something that has gone on this long
without any real meat on the bone, it
suggests to me that there is nothing there,
relative to our President,” Kelly said when
asked whether he agrees with Trump that
the Russia investigation is a “witch hunt.”
 Nuclear Opponents Give Us
Two Choices: Suicide Or Surrender
Peter Huessy - Director Of Strategic Deterrent Studies, Mitchell Institute On Aerospace Studies
11:37 PM 05/10/2018
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry and Tom
Collina of the Arms Control Association, now want to kill
another US nuclear weapon. This time it’s the option of
having low-yield nuclear warheads on our D-5 sea-
launched ballistic missiles. Unfortunately, Perry and
Collina, in their rush to downsize our nuclear arsenal on
the way toward their adopted goal of zero nuclear
weapons, miss the entire point of the newly proposed low-
yield nuclear variant.
First, they appear to have no problem with low yield
weapons, as the USA according to their own essay has
1000 low yield weapons in our arsenal which they think do
the needed deterrent job just fine. So that cannot be the
problem.
Second, the issue that Perry and Collina miss is quite
simple: the gap in American deterrent capability is that
Russia feels it can threaten to use low yield theater nuclear
weapons in a conventional conflict in order to coercive or
pressure the United States and its allies to stand down in a
fight. In short, Moscow wants to brandish or use nuclear
weapons to get the United States to surrender. We need to
deter that. And obviously the Russians are not now
deterred from making such threats.
Third, what bothers Perry and Collina is the use of nuclear
weapons by the United States, even though we would be
retaliating against Russian nuclear first use. They claim it
is not possible to use only a few nuclear weapons. In fact,
they claim that any use of nuclear weapons by the United
States–even in retaliation to the INITIAL use of nuclear
weapons by Russia– will immediately escalate into all-out
war or Armageddon.
So, they are saying if Russia does carry out its multiple
threats to use nuclear weapons in a conventional conflict,
and be the first to do so, the United States would have only
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two moral options: fight a nuclear war being waged against
us with conventional weapons and commit national suicide
or alternatively surrender.
Fourth, General Chilton spoke recently about the folly of
the US discarding using nuclear weapons in response to
our being attacked with nuclear weapons, and use instead
conventional forces. For example, if Russia used just a 20
kiloton nuclear weapons against NATO forces protecting,
say, one of the Baltic countries, to match that firepower we
would have to sortie 8000 B52s carrying 80,000
conventional gravity bombs, simultaneously. And we
would have to do this magically with less than 100 aircraft.
Fifth, just as Perry and Collina have repeatedly called for
the elimination of the GBSD land based modernization
program and the cruise missile for the new bomber, their
opposition to giving our current submarine launched D-5
missile a low yield bomb capability is consistent with their
wrong-headed thinking once again being buttressed by a
an obsessive push to kill some element—any element–of
our nuclear deterrent modernization program, even those
elements such as the GBSD and LRSO supported by every
administration since 1958.
Sixth, Perry and Collina fail to ask how long it takes for
the United States to get its low-yield theater nuclear
capability to the conflict in order to prevent any further
aggression.
The current conventional US NATO deployed airplane
using B-61 gravity bombs has to penetrate Russian air
defenses plus get to the conflict in a timely basis to be able
to deter the Russian threat or actual use of nuclear
weapons against our regional allies.
Seventh, the problem is that today, the president has no
good timely capability to retaliate with low yield weapons.
Adjusting the yield on our D-5 submarine-based missiles
would give the US an added and flexible capability to give
the president some better options including getting to the
conflict on time.
Eighth, and of utmost importance, as Strategic Command
head General Hyten has explained, the Russians
announced this “escalate to win” nuclear strategy in 2000,
long before the United States put forward its own nuclear
modernization effort. According to Russian expert Mark
Schneider, Russia has threatened to use low-yield nuclear
weapons 16 times in just the past few years.
Perry and Collina apparently think the Russian red reset
button in 2009 actually worked to make friends out of the
Russians. In fact, the reset button didn’t work and now
Russia believes it can get away with using nuclear
weapons against the United States—again more ominously
in that they would use such nuclear weapons first.
Ninth, Perry and Collina claim our existing low yield
capability is all we need. However, that is not true given
the new Russian strategy of using nuclear weapons first in
a conventional conflict. Our current low yield weapons
that could counter Russian nuclear recklessness would
have to be launched either from the continental United
States—taking many hours to get to their targets—or from
Europe, and would involve B-52 and F-15 aircraft that will
not have the necessary advanced stealth capability to fly
through heavily defended Russian airspace.
Tenth, years ago, in fact in 1983, Dr. Perry was a member
of the Scowcroft Commission that recommended that the
Reagan nuclear modernization plan be approved and fully
implemented. In 2009, he was co-chair of the
Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the
United States, with Dr. James Schlesinger, a former
Secretary of Defense, and Director of the CIA. He signed
the report and its recommendation that the US nuclear
arsenal be fully modernized, including a new land-based
missile, a new cruise missile and low yield characteristics.
Eleven, since that 2009 report, Russia and China have been
building nuclear weapons like sausages while the USA
doesn’t produce its first new bomber until 2027, its first
new ICBM in 2028, and its first new submarine in 2031.
But by 2021, the Russians say their nuclear forces will be
70% modernized. What then is Dr. Perry and Mr. Collina
not able to see? The threat today is worse than in 2009 and
.
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comparable to 1983. In a new development, China has
become a major nuclear armed adversary of the United
States. And Russian air defenses are improving and are
compelling the US to build a new B-21 “Raider” bomber
to have the stealth capability to penetrate the air defenses
of the bad guys.
Twelve, former top Democrat defense experts and officials
such as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Brad Roberts, former Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy Jim Miller, former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense John Harvey, and former Assistant
Secretary of State Frank Rose, have all told me personally
they endorse the low yield option proposed by the new
2018 nuclear posture review. These officials understand
deterrence and have embraced the administration’s nuclear
posture review in a welcome bipartisan show of support
for America’s security.
In summary, we need the low-yield nuclear deterrent the
Administration seeks to secure from Congress because its:
(1) necessary to meet new Russian threats,
(2) fills a niche which current American nuclear deterrent
over time may not;
(3) increases the nuclear threshold over which nuclear
weapons might be used; and
(4) deters potential reckless Russian strategy from being
carried out.
Peter Huessy has spent the past 38 years consulting with
consecutive presidential administrations, the U.S. Air
Force and the Nuclear Aerospace industry about foreign
nuclear threats, arms control, proliferation and strategic
deterrence. He is now the director of strategic deterrent
studies at the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force
Association, Since 2012, he has been a guest lecturer at
the US Naval Academy on U.S. nuclear deterrent history.
 Israeli Organization Unveils New Trump Coin In
Expression Of ‘Gratitude’
By Cillian Zeal
May 11, 2018 At 7:40am

Few presidents have been quite so friendly to Israel as

President Donald Trump. Now, the man who initiated the
move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is getting a coin in
his honor from a major Israeli organization.

Trump will be featured alongside King Cyrus on the coin

from the Mikdash Educational Center, which describes
itself as “dedicated to rekindling the flame of the Mikdash
(an ancient temple) in the hearts of the entire Jewish
population through formal and experiential education.”

King Cyrus was the ruler who let the Jewish people return
to Jerusalem after they were exiled in Babylon.

“The biblical verses on the coin declare the

proclamation of Cyrus, king of Persia, and
the word of the Lord,” the website of the
Mikdash Educational Center reads.
“And He — Hashem, the Lord of the World
— charged me to build Him a house in
Jerusalem,” the passage continues.
“This declaration took place exactly 70
years after the people of Israel were sent in
to exile. The prophet Jeremiah ‘promised
While the original plan had been for the embassy to move
that with the passing of seventy years, “I
to Jerusalem at the end of 2019, Vice President Mike
will bring you back to your place.'”
Pence announced during his trip to Israel that the process
“The coin expresses our joy and gratitude would be sped up to coincide with the nation’s 70th
that the American embassy will be anniversary.
transferred to Jerusalem in honor of Israel’s
independence day,” it continues. The announcement from Pence came as a bit of a surprise.
“It is the fulfillment of the Trump declaration The New York Times reported in January that while Israeli
recognizing the centrality of Jerusalem as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the embassy
the capital of the state of Israel.” would be moved

While the coin can’t be used as currency, it likely will be a “in the course of the year,” Trump
collector’s item for some — and will be available for a responded by saying that “(w)e’re not really
minimum donation of $50 to the organization. looking into that.”

The coins are made from pewter and plated with a third of
an ounce of silver. There are only 1,000 being made, so get
yours now if you’re so inclined. There’s also a gold-plated
version for $70 if you’re a gold bug, although those are
even rarer with 700 being made.
According to NPR, the new embassy will be housed inside
an existing consular building inside the city until the end
of 2019. The move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is to take
place this coming Monday.
It’s a momentous occasion — one that Trump promised
from the early days of his campaign. It was one of those

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promises that nobody thought Trump would do anything Now, it’s happening. And if you’re a numismatist and a
with once he was elected; the common train of thought Trump fan, it’s the perfect event to celebrate with a special
was that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, against coin.
Palestinian claims on the city, was a bridge too far for even
Trump to consider.
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“Trump Make Israel Great” Signs Pop Up In Jerusalem
Week Before US Embassy Opening
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 8:04 Am

Although several presidents promised

to move the US embassy to Jerusalem
only President Trump kept his word.

US journalist Laura Loomer is traveling

in Israel one week before the US
Embassy opens in Jerusalem next
Monday.
The city streets are draped with US and
Israeli flags and “Make Israel Great
Again” banners.

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Fantastic!

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 Wall Street Journal: Suspected
FBI Mole Planted In Trump Campaign
By Cillian Zeal
May 11, 2018 At 8:08am
We know quite a bit about how the FBI watched the
Trump campaign, including going to a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court no less than twice to get a warrant on a
minor Trump apparatchik. But does it go deeper?
The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel thinks it very
well could. In a piece published Thursday titled “About
That FBI ‘Source,'” Strassel postulates that information
on an FBI source that the Department of Justice was just
forced to reveal to the House Intelligence Committee may
be evidence of an FBI mole inside the 2016 Trump
presidential campaign.
“The Department of Justice lost its latest
battle with Congress Thursday when it
allowed House Intelligence Committee
members to view classified documents
about a top-secret intelligence source that
was part of the FBI’s investigation of the
Trump campaign,” Strassel wrote. “Even
without official confirmation of that source’s
name, the news so far holds some stunning
implications.”
Strassel noted that the DOJ and FBI
“outright hid critical information from a
congressional investigation.”
She pointed to Speaker Paul Ryan’s press conference after
the material was released Thursday, in which he
“bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes’s request for details on this
secret source was ‘wholly appropriate,’
‘completely within the scope’ of the
committee’s long-running FBI investigation,
and ‘something that probably should have
been answered a while ago.'”
“Translation: The department knew full well
it should have turned this material over to
congressional investigators last year, but
instead deliberately concealed it,” she
wrote.
“The bureau already has some explaining
to do. Thanks to the Washington Post’s
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unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we
know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a ‘top
secret intelligence source’ of the FBI and
CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was
involved in the Russia collusion probe,” she
continued.
“When government agencies refer to
sources, they mean people who appear to
be average citizens but use their profession
or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we
might take this to mean that the FBI
secretly had a person on the payroll who
used his or her non-FBI credentials to
interact in some capacity with the Trump
campaign.
“This would amount to spying, and it is
hugely disconcerting,” she continued. “It
would also be a major escalation from the
electronic surveillance we already knew
about, which was bad enough.”
“Obama political appointees rampantly
‘unmasked’ Trump campaign officials to
monitor their conversations, while the FBI
played dirty with its surveillance warrant
against Carter Page, failing to tell the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that
its supporting information came from the
Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it
may have also been rolling out human
intelligence, John Le Carré style, to
infiltrate the Trump campaign.”
Of course, there was no confirmation of that on Thursday,
but the wording of the statement does lend itself to that
kind of interpretation — that this is information which
would reflect extremely poorly on the Obama-era FBI and
how it handled the Trump campaign.
There’s also evidence that this may not be the case;
as Strassel noted,
“among the Justice Department’s stated
reasons for not complying with the Nunes
subpoena was its worry that to do so might
damage international relationships. This
 suggests the ‘source’ may be overseas,
have ties to foreign intelligence, or both.”
“I believe I know the name of the informant,
but my intelligence sources did not provide
it to me and refuse to confirm it,” Strassel
concluded.
“It would therefore be irresponsible to
publish it. But what is clear is that we’ve
barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s
2016 behavior, and the country will never
get the straight story until President Trump
moves to declassify everything possible.
It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.”
I don’t have Strassel’s sources, so I’m not one to judge.
However, the fact that she believes with some confidence
that she knows the name of the informant and was still
willing to write this piece seems awfully notable,
particularly given how hard the FBI and DOJ tried to keep
this information out of the hands of the House Intelligence
Committee.
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What’s particularly striking about Strassel’s article is that
it highlights just how little we know about the kind of
surveillance the FBI conducted on Trump and those
around him. We know that it’s already landed two
convictions, although both of those were fairly minor and
nobody in Trump’s inner circle has been touched by
indictment, save a campaign manager he didn’t even seem
to particularly like and whose tenure in that role was just
slightly longer than William Henry Harrison’s term as
president.
In short, the FBI’s intelligence actions during the 2016
election haven’t been particularly effective and we still
can’t be sure we know the entire story. If it goes as deep as
a mole in the Trump campaign, it’s yet another sign that
law enforcement and intelligence were weaponized by the
Obama administration for political reasons. If this is true, it
also demonstrates that the metastasis of the Trump/Russia
investigation spread far further than any of us could have
suspected.
 His Is Why President Trump Was Correct To 'Nuke' Iran
Nuclear Deal - The Islamic Principal Of Taqiyyah Justifies
Jihadists Deceiving 'Infidels' In Global Jihad
By Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
May 11, 2018
On Monday, April 30, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, publicly unveiled 100,000 secret Iranian
documents, pilfered by Mossad, proving the Joint
Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) is diplomatic
cover for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and should be
abandoned.
Clare Lopez’s excellent study "Why Trump Must Not Re-
Certify Iranian JCPOA Compliance" (Center for Security
Policy, August 2017) makes a comprehensive technical-
legal case Iran is violating JCPOA.
Critics of JCPOA are not surprised by Iran’s cheating on
the nuclear deal.
Iran is doubly disposed to cheat on JCPOA as a totalitarian
state and as a matter of religious obligation. The Islamic
principle of "taqiyyah" justifies deceiving infidels to gain
advantage in the global jihad.
For example, a military textbook Passive Defense by the
Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Martyr Lt. General
Sayad Shirazi Center for Education and Research, Tehran:
2010) all but declares Iran’s intention to lie and cheat in
order to get nuclear weapons.
“Passive Defense” claims Iran has
practiced military deception for 32
centuries, "The use of deception in war is
as ancient as armed conflict itself . . . With
the Greek occupation of Troy . . . the first
recorded war in history took place, and the
famous story of the Trojan horse also
happens to be the first recorded example of
deception in war. Numerous such
examples may be found in the 3,200 years
of the country’s military history."
Even the title of the Iranian Army military textbook
"Passive Defense" is deceptive, as it defines "passive
defense” as acquisition of "nuclear capability" that could
guarantee “complete destruction of the opponent."
"Passive Defense" advocates adopting Russia’s
revolutionary military strategy of "Sixth Generation
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Warfare" that would achieve a quick and decisive victory
by attacking the U.S. technological Achilles Heel — the
national electric grid and electronic systems that support
critical infrastructures — by a variety of means, but
especially nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack:
"As a result of not having the other
destructive effects that nuclear weapons
possess, among them the loss of human
life, weapons derived from electromagnetic
pulses have attracted attention with regard
to their use in future wars. The superficiality
of secondary damage sustained, as well as
the avoidance of unnecessary human
casualties, serves as motivation to
transform this technology into an advanced
and useful weapon in modern warfare."
"Passive Defense" describes at length, and with adulation,
the history of Russian cheating on nuclear arms control
treaties. One can almost hear Iran’s laughing Russian
mentors, regaling their Iranian hosts, perhaps in a
conference room at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor, with
stories about how Moscow successfully cheated on treaties
and concealed their nuclear strength from the stupid
Americans.
According to Iran’s military textbook "Passive Defense":
 "In 1968, the Russians established a
special program called maskirovka to
coordinate their deceit and trickery program
in the Army Chief Command and managing
and implementing the satellite deception
program . . . Ogarkov followed the deceit
program studiously…Some of the methods
and techniques of satellite deceit . . .
include . . . Creation of artificial and
deceptive roads and missile stations."
 "The Russians dug large coastal tunnels in order to
hide over twenty nuclear submarines from the eyes of
Western satellites."
  "Submarine . . . covers were used to camouflage Delta and a warning to those who do not want to
class submarines in order to throw the West off with be deceived."
regard to the real numbers in terms of submarines and
ballistic missiles in their arsenal." Exactly.

 "In 1970, one of Russia’s…satellites took images of a The views and opinions expressed in
special operation, which showed off their ability to hide this article are those of the author and
their SS-16 missiles and SS-20 from detection. do not necessarily reflect those of ANP.
Russian authorities explained the purpose of this action
was to . . . make any necessary corrections . . . with the This story was originally published
intent to deceive the enemy." here. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive
director of the Task Force on National
 "It was discovered in 1984 that Russia had completed and Homeland Security. He served in
construction on four large tunnels, each of which could the Congressional EMP Commission,
hide the largest submarine. The tunnels were dug the Congressional Strategic Posture
along the coast and at sea level, and were capable of Commission, the House Armed Services
hiding the monstrous Typhoon submarine, which was Committee, and the CIA. He is author of
557 feet long." "Blackout Wars."

 "Deceit Strategy Command tried to mislead America’s

Central Intelligence Agency about the preciseness of
the ICBM and SS-19 missiles by creating explosion
trenches…brought about by the collision [impact] of
warheads and digging false explosive openings
[craters] in the ground in locations farther away from
the target. . . . in order to mislead American experts
and analysts in their evaluation of the precision of SS-
19 missiles, so they would think the missiles were not
very precise."

 "The Russians tried to hide two other kinds of missiles;

SS-24 with ten warheads and SS-25, which had been
significantly hidden from satellites due to aggressive
camouflage and the capability to place its launch pad
on rails and hiding it in . . . tunnels and night tests."

Still think Iran is not cheating on the JCPOA?

If so, then Iran’s masters of deceit know us better than we

know ourselves. According to their military textbook
"Passive Defense":

"The key point here is that deception can

be more effective when used on the basis
of the opponents’ known theories. The
German philosopher Goethe is famous for
saying, 'We are never deceived, we
deceive ourselves.' This statement is more
than a philosophical truth. We can call it a
guide to designing and planning deception
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 That ‘Blue Wave’ Democrats
Have Been Bragging About Has Vanished
Posted On May 11, 2018
(National Sentinel) Election 2018: For months Democrats
and their propaganda machine also known as the American
Pravda media have been touting an approaching “blue
wave” in the 2018 midterm elections that will sweep
Republicans from power and serve as a prelude to the
demise of President Donald J. Trump in 2020.
But as always the case the things Democrats say differ
greatly from reality.
According to the most recent polling data from none other
than CNN, a.k.a. the Stormy Daniels Network, Democrats
have tanked in generic polling over a month’s time.
These numbers come in as Trump continues to win — on
the national and international fronts — and as America
continues to reassert itself economically, diplomatically,
and geopolitically.
As reported by Conservative Tribune:
Aptly headlined, “CNN Poll: Democrats
2018 advantage is nearly gone,” the story
points out that the alleged Democrat
advantage among voters surveyed has
shrunk from 16 points to 3 points. Since
that’s within the margin of error, it’s a
statistical tie.
In a country as divided as politically divided
as the United States, that’s not a bad place
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for an incumbent party to be with six
months to go and a tailwind of good news
going for it.
In an interview on CNN Wednesday, David
Chalian, the network’s political director,
explained how polling trends are pushing in
the GOP’s favor after looking bleak in the
heart of winter.
“Go back to February, it was a 16-point
Democratic edge,” Chalian said. “In March
it was a 6-point Democratic edge. And what
you see now is just a 3-point edge for
Democrats. It’s within the margin of error.
That’s the first time it’s been that close this
entire cycle. So that is going to be good
news for Republicans.”
Wow. That had to hurt coming from a network vice
president and rip-roaring anti-Trumpist.
Other recent polling data also suggest that the “blue wave”
narrative is a massive mirage. In Ohio on Tuesday, for
instance, some 147,000 more Republicans showed up to
vote in that state’s primaries than Democrats.
This, after being told for months that Democrats are
jazzed, energized, and cant’ wait to get to the polls to vote.
There’s still lots of time between now and November, for
sure. But one thing ought to be clear: It doesn’t look like
the Democrats are going to blow through Republicans on
their way to a super-majority in Congress.
In fact, given the real mood of the country and Trump’s
rising approval ratings, it wouldn’t surprise us if the party
in power increases its lead this year, bucking the trend of
losing seats during a midterm.
Think about it. Nothing about this president and his
presidency is ‘normal.’
All of it has been ‘outside the box.’ And he’s the one
who’s winning.
 Huckabee: Avenatti Slip Up
Implicates FBI In Illegal Anti-Trump Activity
By Cillian Zeal
May 11, 2018 At 8:46am
Every time I see Michael Avenatti on TV, I keep on
wondering whether he’s Jacoby or Meyers.
Given the big leagues that he’s playing in, Avenatti is a
veritable ambulance chaser — and it shows. Aside from
personal attacks on the president, he seems woefully
unprepared as a litigator. While Stormy Daniels ought to
be grateful that the media loves him, she still needs to face
the fact that this isn’t the kind of lawyer you want to go to
court with. That’s doubly true when the collected legal
forces of the president are sitting at the other side of the
courtroom.
Mike Huckabee isn’t impressed, either. In an opinion piece
posted to his website, the former governor of Arkansas and
father of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee
Sanders asked an important question about Avenatti’s
latest information regarding payments made to President
Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen:
Namely, where did he get the information?
Huckabee also pointed out that Avenatti made a critical
mistake by identifying payments made to another lawyer
with a similar name.
“I’m not going to delve too deeply into the
current media feeding frenzy over alleged
payments made by various foreign
companies to President Trump’s attorney,
Michael Cohen, other than to remind some
of the hysterical reporters that Cohen has
other clients besides Trump and it is not
illegal for private attorneys in America to do
business with foreign companies,”
Huckabee wrote.
“To me, the most interesting news thus far
stems from a dumb mistake made by porn
star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and CNN’s
latest full-time on-air personality, Michael
Avenatti,” he continued. “He released a list
of companies that allegedly made
payments to Cohen, but it turned out two of
the payments were to a different Michael
Cogen, who apparently did perfectly
legitimate work for the companies.”
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“But that caused inquiring minds to want to
know: how did the New York Times and a
porn star’s lawyer obtain copies of a private
citizen’s private banking records that were
seized by federal agents who are
supposedly entrusted with insuring their
privacy?”
Huckabee had a theory — and it was a profoundly
dispiriting one.
“This attempt to smear Cohen
boomeranged by spurring the Treasury
Department’s Inspector General to open an
investigation into whether someone in the
FBI illegally leaked Cohen’s private data to
the media and the attorney,” Huckabee
continued.
“If so, then it should answer all those
questions about whether the agency can
be trusted to keep any seized, protected
attorney-client privilege communications
private (answer: ‘NO!’) The next question
should be whether, when the feds seized
all those records from Michael Cohen, were
they at the address of the right Michael
Cohen?”
That may be a funny thought at the end, but the rest of it
should give any American pause. If someone at the FBI is
leaking information about Cohen for political reasons, that
just reinforces the worst preconceptions that conservatives
might have.
That’s not the only problem with the information Avenatti
leaked. As Mark Penn at The Hill noted, it raises issues
about who exactly is paying for the lawyer, especially
since Daniels has confirmed it isn’t her.
Penn said that the
“release of a ‘report’ by Avenatti also raises
the question of where and how did he get
this detailed financial information because
he didn’t find it on Google.”
 “This is the kind of information that would
have been known only by the Treasury
Department, his banks or by prosecutors,
raising some serious questions about what
kind of operation Avenatti is running,” Penn
wrote. “Is there a team of people digging
this up? Are they paying off sources? Is
Fusion GPS involved? Are there political
donors behind making this campaign work?
He can’t be both an attorney and then
participate as an officer of the court in
trafficking illegally obtained information.”
“Avenatti has been given a free, unfettered
media perch on TV to spread his stuff
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without the networks forcing him to meet
any disclosure requirements, saying that he
is Daniels’s attorney when someone else
entirely is paying for this operation is not
true disclosure that allows the viewer to
evaluate the source and potential conflicts,”
he added.
There is a lot that’s strange about Avenatti, and it isn’t just
confined to his ramblings on CNN. It’s time we got some
real answers about who’s paying him and where his
information is coming from.
 Exclusive: Hagee Says Trump, Like Truman, Earned
‘Political Immortality’ By Moving Embassy To Jerusalem
By Joel B. Pollak
11 May 2018
JERUSALEM, Israel — Pastor John
Hagee, founder and national director of
Christians United for Israel (CUFI), told
Breitbart News in an exclusive interview
Friday that President Donald Trump had
earned “political immortality” by moving
the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
“I told him that the moment that you do
that, I believe that you will step into political
immortality. Because you are having the
courage to do what other presidents did not
have the courage do to.”
He added that he believed the transfer of the U.S. embassy
to Jerusalem Monday would cement the bond between the
U.S. and Israel.
“For decades America has referred to
Israel as ‘our dearest friend in the Middle
East.’ But we never put our embassy there,
when in fact our embassy was located in
the capital cities of other nations that were
run by tyrants and dictators.
“President Trump has demonstrated
courage under fire and has pronounced
Jerusalem the capital of Israel, which
shatters the delusion of the Palestinians
that they should own it. And it’s sending a
signal to the other nations of the world that
we really do support the state of Israel. We
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are treating them equally now with the
other nations of the world. They are not
receiving preferential treatment. This is
only what’s fair.”
Hagee explained the importance of Jerusalem to Christians
in particular.
“Christians believe that Jerusalem will be
the capital city in the Eternal Kingdom,
ruled by Jesus Christ,” he said. (Religious
sources tell Breitbart News that this belief
is a tenant of dispensational theology,
which is one of several branches of
Evangelical Christianity.)
“The U.S. embassy moving to Jerusalem is
a very clear indicator of the verse in the
book of Deuteronomy (28:13) where God
promises: ‘I will make you the head and not
the tail.’
“Jerusalem is the epicenter of Christianity.
Jerusalem is where Abraham placed Isaac
on the altar on the Temple Mount in this
city. Jerusalem is where Jeremiah and
Isaiah penned the principles of
righteousness that became the moral
foundations of our civilization. … Jerusalem
is the city of God.”
He added:
“Outside the city of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ
was crucified, resurrected from the dead,
and when he returns the second time, is
going to put his foot on the Mount of Olives
in the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the
future of the world. Not Washington; not
Rome; not Paris, France; not Berlin —
Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the shoreline of
eternity.”
“Jerusalem is the city of God,” he added.
Hagee also emphasized that CUFI’s mission was to protect
Jews as well as the Jewish state.
“We would like for the people of America to
know that … we have 4.1 million members
 dedicated to the destruction of antisemitism Iran, when we withdrew from this deal,
in all of its forms. Antisemitism is exploding America and the world are safer.”
in Europe, its exploding in the colleges and
He also addressed liberal criticism of the president’s
universities of America, and antisemitism is
decision.
not a Jewish problem — it’s everybody’s
problem. “Liberals in America are saying, ‘Why
shouldn’t Iran be allowed to have nuclear
“Antisemitism, in the Christian sense, is a
weapons?’ In the past, America and Russia
sin. And as a sin, it damns the soul. So we
had massive amounts of nuclear power,
are absolutely committed to the destruction
but we had mutually assured destruction …
of antisemitism.”
and a passionate desire to live.
Hagee noted that he had visited the Golan Heights this
“But Iran has a theology that glorifies
week, just hours after Iranian forces fired missiles at Israeli
death,” he added, “and it only pays off
territory for the first time.
when you are killing someone that is
“I stood on the very spot at the northern conceded an infidel.”
Israel border looking into Syria, where
Asked whether he agrees with a comparison between
those 20 missiles came. Four of those
President Trump and King Cyrus of Persia, whose decision
missiles were shot down by the Iron Dome,
to allow the Jews to return to build Jerusalem is described
and the remainder did absolutely no
in the Bible, Pastor Hagee agreed, but emphasized a more
damage to any citizen in the State of Israel.
important, and modern, analogy.
“The Israeli air force executed an
“Cyrus is the one that made it possible for
absolutely masterful operation last night …
the Jewish people to return to Israel. I think
in destroying Iranian bases that would most
there is a very clear comparison between
certainly be the superstructure of the
Cyrus and President Trump.
military that they would put into use against
Israel.” “I think there is a brighter comparison
between Harry Truman and President
He praised President Trump for leaving the Iran nuclear
Trump. President Truman recognized Israel
deal, describing Iran as “the head of the snake” in the
as a state 11 minutes after Ben-Gurion
Middle East.
read the [declaration of independence] in
“What President Trump has done in the arts center in Tel Aviv.
extracting the United States of America
“Harry Truman’s closest friends and his
from the nuclear deal has been a
political advisers said do not so this …
tremendous benefit and blessing to the
Harry Truman ignored the advice of even
State of Israel and the Jewish people,” he
[Secretary of State] George Marshall, who
said.
had enormous international standing, to
He also emphasized that Americans were safer because of recognize the state of Israel. And Harry
Trump’s decision. Truman is loved in the State of Israel for
doing that.”
Barack Obama put into the hands of a terrorist state — the
leading terrorist state in the world — billions of dollars He said he told President Trump that “your name will be
through which Iran would pay for advanced weaponry to remembered 1000 years from that day, like Truman, as two
use against Israel and against the United States of presidents who did what others did not dare to do. Because
America. An inter-continental ballistic missile is not of the raw courage required to do so.”
needed to blow up Jerusalem. It is needed to blow up New
Hagee praised the work of CUFI and its members in
York.
educating leaders and lawmakers about the importance of
“That is why America is safer. It has even the Jerusalem embassy.
been carried in the American media that
“CUFI is the largest pro-Israel organization
Iran has its intelligence people, terrorists,
in the world, period,” he declared. “What
all in America, plotting and planning for the
God has allowed us to accomplish has
way to attack and destroy our nation. This
never been done in the history of
should concern us. This is why, when
Christianity.”
[Trump] took the money out of the hands of
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 Let The Purge Begin=> Dirty Cop Rod Rosenstein Knows
His Days In Government Are Numbered
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 9:06 Am

at anything he wanted to look at. These provisions are

Dirty Cop Rod Rosenstein knows his
days at the Department of Justice are
numbered.
Rosenstein is a dead man walking – and
being fired may be the least of his
worries.
against the law and are now for the courts to settle.
In addition to the above suit, Robert Barnes wrote at Law
and Crimes that Mueller’s actions not related to the 2016
campaign are outside the scope of Jeff Sessions recusal as
AG and therefore unconstitutional.
In April Mueller and Rosenstein
presented to the courts a rebuttal for
Manafort’s latest action – they
presented a previously undisclosed
memo to a federal court in Washington
supposedly addressing Manafort’s
argument. The problem is it doesn’t.

The memo is dated August 2, 2017 and is from Rosenstein

to Mueller supposedly directing Mueller to look into
Manafort actions with a Russian operative perhaps before
2016. This however is clearly outside the scope of
Sessions’ recusal as argued by Manafort and doesn’t even
address Manafort’s argument that these actions are not for
Mueller to take or Rosenstein to order but are Sessions
actions alone as AG.

Last Friday a federal judge agreed with

In April The Gateway Pundit reported
Paul Manafort that the Mueller witch
that the US is now in a constitutional
hunt was out of control and out of
crisis due to the unconstitutional and
bounds.
corrupt Mueller investigation kept in
place by corrupt FBI and DOJ
Leadership.

Mueller’s illegal Trump-Russia investigation continues to

take corrupt and unconstitutional actions while criminal
activities in Obama’s FBI, DOJ and State Department are
ignored. If there is justice, America will soon have a real
investigation looking into the Obama and Clinton criminal
acts while in office. And on Thursday news broke that the
Obama Department of Justice had a spy
Paul Manafort first made arguments in a suit with Robert inside the Trump Campaign.
Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions as Head of the
DOJ, related to illegalities in the way that Rosenstein set Rosenstein will be lucky if he is only
up the Mueller special counsel. Rosenstein’s special fired.
counsel order was not based on a crime and
unconstitutionally stated that Mueller could basically look He needs to be behind bars.
.
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 Former Dem Congressman
Has ‘Given Up On America’
After THIRD Criminal Conviction
Posted On May 11, 2018
(National Sentinel) Rule of No Law: Every successful
country and civil society operates under the rule of law,
and while it’s become obvious that under the Obama
administration there were two sets of laws — one for
‘them’ and one for the rest of us — for the most part our
system works.
But if you’re a former Democratic congressman from
Chicago, enforcing laws after you willingly and knowingly
broke them is “racist.”
And it’s a reason for you to “give up” on your country.
As reported by Fox News, former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds,
who served only two years (1993-1995) before his first
conviction for sleeping with a 16-year-old-campaign
worker, has just been sentenced again to six months in
prison for failing to pay taxes on more than $400,000 he
received for consulting work.
At his sentencing, Reynolds was also dressed down by
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, who told Reynolds
he remembers thinking to himself that the former
congressman held great promise once upon a time.
“It’s a tragedy that you squandered the
opportunities you had and the type of
person you could have become,”
Gettleman said of the Harvard grad.
In 1995 Reynolds was succeeded by Jessie Jackson Jr.,
who also spent time in prison.
Fox News noted further:
Acting as his own attorney, Reynolds
argued it was unfair to give too much
weight to his prior convictions, from the
1990s, in calculating a sentence for his
conviction at a bench trial last year on four
misdemeanor counts of not filing tax
returns.
Prosecutors say the undeclared income
was money made consulting for Chicago
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businessmen in Zimbabwe, the Chicago
Sun-Times reported.
In 1995, Reynolds was convicted of
statutory rape for having sex with a 16-
year-old campaign worker. Later, he was
convicted of concealing debts and diverting
money meant for voter registration drives
into his election campaign.
“The question is, How long does a person
have to pay for mistakes?” Reynolds asked
about the older crimes.
Besides attending Harvard, Reynolds also served in the
U.S. military and raised three kids.
But that doesn’t give him — or anyone else — license to
break the law.
Reynolds, who has already served about two months
behind bars, argued that he shouldn’t have to spend any
more time in prison, that the right sentence should be
probation.
So he wants to be the lawbreaker, the defendant, and the
judge.
“To put me in jail serves what purpose?” he
asked the judge. “To teach me a lesson?
… I’ve been taught about this racist society
… every day of my life.”
Prosecutor Georgia Alexakis had asked for at least two
years behind bars, citing what she described as Reynolds’
decades-long pattern of flouting the law. The maximum
sentence he could have received was four years.
“There are aspects of the defendant’s life
that are … laudatory,” she said. “But the
good doesn’t outweigh the bad.”
He got six months.
Outside the courtroom, Reynolds — who will report to
prison soon — was asked by reporters what he’ll do once
he’s free again.
“I’m going home to Africa,” he said. “I’ve
given up on America because how long do
African-Americans put up with this
nonsense?”
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Being required to obey the law, which
includes paying taxes on earned
income, isn’t “nonsense.”
But hey, if lawlessness is your thing, there are plenty of
African nations where lawlessness exists, so you’ll have
your pick.
 Mark Levin: Mueller’s
‘Purpose Is To Remove The President’
By Jeff Poor
11 May 2018
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,”
conservative talker Mark Levin explained why special
counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is not as it was formally
designated, which was to investigate Russian interference
in the 2016 presidential election. Instead, Levin argued it
was to remove President Donald Trump from Congress
through means other than impeachment.
Levin argued that was the motivation behind Mueller’s
effort to get him to appear before a grand jury.
“The attorney general and deputy attorney
general really have to answer some
fundamental questions about this
investigation. Mr. Mueller wants to
interview the president, and he wants to
interview him under the most onerous
circumstance,” Levin said. “What is the
purpose of an interview like that based on
.
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those 49 general areas? His purpose is to
indict the president. Now, what’s the
purpose of indicting the president, and to
try the president find him guilty? What’s the
purpose of the conviction? It’s to remove
the president of the United States from
office. That’s the bottom line. No president
has ever been indicted while in office. Not
one. No president has ever been forced
before a federal grand jury, not one.”
“No president has ever been removed from
office by the United States Senate in a two-
thirds vote of the Senate,” he added. “Not
one. Mueller’s purpose, his purpose is to
remove the president. That means one
man, that means one man, one jury would
usurp the power — the entire constitutional
power of Congress, the power to remove a
president.”
 COMPLETE LIST Of The Results
Of The Incredible Trump Economy=> The Biggest Story
Not Being Told Today
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 9:23 Am
President Trump has now been in office
a year and a quarter and the economic
results of his efforts are astounding! In
every economic measurement,
President Trump’s economy is on fire
and moving in the right direction.
The main stream media (MSM) and Democrat Party
continue to smear the current President with the fake
Russia collusion narrative. But they are being more
dishonest in not sharing the truth about President Trump’s
many economic accomplishments.
US Stock Markets
In President Trump’s first year and a
quarter since the election and since his
inauguration the US Stock Markets
reached record highs and millions of
Americans are benefiting in their
retirement savings accounts.
Since President Trump’s election the DOW daily closing
stock market average has risen as much as 44%. (On
November 9th the DOW closed at 18,332 – in January the
DOW reached heights of over 26,500.).
On February 28th, 2017,
President Trump matched President
Reagan’s 1987 record for the most
continuous closing high trading days when
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the DOW reached a new high for its 12th
day in a row!
Under President Trump the DOW set the
record for the fastest 500 point increase
between major milestones when it
reached 26,000 on January 17th. It only
took 6 days to increase 500 points from
25,500. As a matter of fact, since
President Trump’s election the DOW
has set records for the fastest 500, 1000,
2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 and 7000
point increases in the DOW’s history!
2017 was the best year ever for the
DOW. It increased more points than ever
in its history (4,956) and it reached more
all-time highs (71) than any year in
history!
Every US stock index has reached all-
time highs during the Trump
Presidency.
The Russell 2000 is currently only 7 points from the
highest levels ever (1,603 on May 10, 2018 and record is
1,610 in January 2018).
Corporate Earnings
We are experiencing the best quarterly results increase
from one year to the next in US history. Marketwatch
reported in early May that the first quarter’s earnings are
the best in a quarter century –
According to Thomson Reuters
I/B/E/S, of the 343 companies, or about
70%, of S&P 500 members that have
reported earnings to date, 79.9% have
reported earnings per share that were
above analysts’ expectations, putting
the season on track for the highest
earnings beat rate on record, going
back to 1994.
So far, the first-quarter growth rate for EPS is 22%,
compared with consensus earnings growth of 16.3% as of
April 12, according to Lindsey Bell, investment strategist
at CFRA. That outperformance is underpinned by some of
the most highly valued companies, including JPMorgan
Chase & Co. JPM, -0.50% Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.44%
Facebook Inc. FB, -0.32% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -
0.36%
But this is less than half of President Obama’s increase in the US debt in his first year and a quarter ($2.3
Trillion or 21.8%).
US GDP at an all-time high. Also, the debt to GDP rate is
declining. When Obama took over the Presidency in 2008
the US debt to GDP ratio was 68% but after eight years the
ratio increased to 105%. In his first year in 2017 President
Trump decreased the ratio to 103.7%. This means that
under President Trump the GDP is growing faster than the
debt.
This was the most the debt to GDP ratio
decreased in any President’s first year
in 50 years.
The US had a surplus in April which was the greatest one
month surplus in the country’s history. The Washington
Times reported –
The federal government took in a record tax haul in April
en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the
Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy
left Americans with more money in their paychecks — and
this more to pay to Uncle Sam.
All told the government collected $515 billion and spent
$297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion.
That swamped the previous monthly record of $190
billion, set in 2001.
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Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance
of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts’
consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7
percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.
US Debt
As of May 1st, 2018, President Trump
has increased the US Debt since his
inauguration by $1.1 Trillion or 5.5%.
CBO analysts were surprised by the surplus, which was
some $40 billion more than they’d guessed at less than a
month ago.
Analysts said they’ll have a better idea of what’s behind
the surge as more information rolls in, but for now said it
looks like individual taxpayers are paying more because
they have higher incomes.
Jobs
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
President Trump has added nearly 3
million jobs since January of 2017 (2.793
million). President Obama on the other
hand lost nearly 5 million jobs in his first
year and a quarter in office for an 8 million
job difference!
President Obama was so bad at creating jobs that by the
end of his second term he said that jobs were not coming
back.
Unemployment
 Also according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics President Trump decreased
unemployment to its current level of
3.9%. The unemployment rate in January
2017 was 4.8%.
President Obama on the other hand
again moved in the opposite direction.
In his first year and a quarter as President the US
unemployment rate increased from 7.8% in January 2009
to 9.9% as of April 2010. The unemployment rate during
this time reached as high as 10%.
Jobless claims are at a 49 year low. On May 10, 2018
Marketwatch reported –
The number of people who applied for U.S. unemployment
benefits in early May stood at 211,000 for the second
straight week, keeping initial jobless claims near a 49-year
low.
Unemployment is at a near 20 year low at 3.9%. Rueters
reported –
The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent, a low
not seen since the dot-com bubble.
Food Stamps
Food stamps decreased significantly as reported by
Breitbart from 42 million down to 40 million during
President Trump’s time in office.
More than 2.2 million people have discontinued their
participation in food stamps during President Trump’s first
full year in office, according to the latest U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) data on food stamp enrollment.
.
400
Decrease in Regulations
One of the first things that President Trump did in office
was to reduce the number or burdensome regulations put in
place during the Obama era. In January President Trump
signed his 2 for 1 executive order mandating that for every
new regulation, two regulations needed to be revoked.
Even far left Politico noted that significant federal
regulations since Trump’s inauguration have slowed to an
almost total halt.
Regulations cost Americans and American companies
money to implement and maintain. Reducing or halting
regulations allows companies to spend their money on
more prudent money making areas.
All This and More –
 ISIS destroyed
 Largest tax cut ever
 US energy independent
 Approval rating over 50%
 Conservative Judge in Supreme Court
 Three American captives freed from North Korea
 Korean Peace treaty
And on and on and on…..To date the US is very blessed to
have the current President – Donald Trump – in office.
In Summary
Overall based on the above data it is
clear that President Trump is doing a
solid, if not excellent job. The
mainstream liberal media won’t report
this, but when looking at the economy,
President Trump the billionaire
businessman has set the economy on
fire.
 Mueller Is A Tool Of The Deep State, As His Sordid
Prosecutorial Past PROVES
By JD Heyes
Posted On May 11, 2018
(National Sentinel) Corrupt: By now it should be patently
obvious to anyone who retains even a modicum of fairness
in this highly charged, highly-partisan political
environment in which we find ourselves these days that
special counsel Robert Mueller isn’t interested in finding
“Trump-Russia collusion.”
After nearly a year’s worth of investigating — a probe that
followed a counterterrorism operation launched in the
summer of 2016 against the Trump campaign by the
Obama administration and at least three congressional
investigations — Mueller hasn’t found any evidence of
collusion.
In fact, the House Intelligence Committee has come up
with a report from majority Republicans that the panel has
not found one shred of evidence indicating collusion or
any other illegal campaign activities involving Russia or
any foreign government. The Democrats on the panel
claim there is proof but they haven’t produced any (and
they would have by now).
So what is Mueller actually investigating at the moment?
Why does he keep indicting minor campaign figures and
one former Trump administration official (Michael Flynn)
for process crimes and other alleged illegal activities from
more than 10 years ago?
How broad was the mandate, exactly, that Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller and his
team when he named the former FBI director to be special
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counsel — on a set-up initiated by another former FBI
director, James Comey?
We don’t yet have answers to these questions, but one
thing we do know is this: Mueller, who is hailed and feted
by the D.C. Swamp to be a man of indisputable integrity,
instead has a history of being little more than a dirty cop.
History of prosecutorial abuse
This story begins years ago when Mueller was first an
assistant U.S. attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in
Boston.
Throughout the 1980s, Mueller wrote letters to the state’s
parole and pardons board opposing clemency for four men
— Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis
Greco, who were convicted for a 1965 mob-related
murder.
But it turns out they were innocent. And it turns out that
Mueller knew they were innocent.
Some rogue FBI agents, John Connolly and John Morris,
both of whom were “handlers” for mob figure-turned-FBI
informant Whitey Bulger, attempted to intimidate a local
parole board member, Mike Albano — who later became
mayor of Springfield, Mass. — into dropping his sympathy
for the four men and any inkling of voting to grant them
clemency.
“They told me that if I wanted to stay in
public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy
like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They
intimidated me.’’
Both agents, of course, would have had to have been
answerable to the U.S. attorney in Boston at the time,
which was, as previously stated, Bob Mueller.
There’s more. After Albano became mayor in 1995 he
found that the FBI had begun investigating his
administration for ‘corruption.’ After taking down several
people associated with his government, he became
convinced that “the FBI wasn’t interested in public
integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because
he dared to defy them,” the Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen
writes.
Sound familiar?
Sen. Ted Stevens
Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was, at the time, the
longest-serving GOP senator who had an impeccable
reputation among those who knew him. But shortly before
the 2008 election he was indicted by the FBI — led at the
time by Director Robert Mueller — based on falsified
records and testimony from some very well rewarded
“cooperating” witnesses.
In short order, it was reported that the government had
concealed exculpatory evidence from Stevens’ defense
team. As such, an independent investigation was ordered
by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, which
discovered that the prosecution was “permeated by the
systemic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence,
which would have independently corroborated Senator
Stevens’ defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged
the testimony and credibility of the government’s key
witness.”
A just-released report by U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-
Texas, titled, “Robert Mueller: Unmasked,” recounted
the injustice.
The ‘stink’ was that Stevens, whom retired Army general
and Secretary of State Colin Powell described as “a trusted
individual” whom people “could rely on,” did not pay full
price for improvements to his Alaskan cabin. The charges
were leveled 100 days out from a closely contested
election; he was convicted just eight days before voters
went to the polls, which tipped the scale to his Democratic
opponent.
But in fact, as reports noted at the time, Gohmert’s report
states, Stevens actually overpaid for those improvements
by about 20 percent. Nevertheless, after relying on false
records and that ‘rewarded’ witness, the prosecution
convinced jurors to find him guilty.
States Gohmert’s report:
After a report substantiated massive
improprieties by the FBI and DOJ in the
investigation and prosecution of Senator
Stevens, the result was ultimately a
complete dismissal of the conviction.
At the time there was no direct evidence
that Director Mueller was aware of the
tactics of concealing exculpatory evidence
that would have exonerated Stevens, and
the creation of evidence that convicted him
in 2008.
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However, Mueller is culpable because, as director, he
allowed the FBI agent who essentially manufactured the
case against Stevens to remain on board (to this day),
while allowing an agent who blew the whistle on the
corrupt case to be punished.
“Obviously, the FBI Director wanted his FBI
agents to understand that honesty would
be punished if it revealed wrongdoing
within Mueller’s organization,” said
Gohmert’s report.
Uranium One
In March, Gohmert told a monthly meeting of
conservatives that he believes Mueller’s never-ending
‘Russian collusion’ investigation is designed, in part, to
cover up a real scandal: Uranium One.
“I think Mueller should be fired,” Gohmert, a
former state judge, said during the monthly
“Conversation with Conservatives”
meeting. “He should never have been
appointed and he should never have
accepted. He should be fired.”
To that end, as The National Sentinel reported in January,
Mueller’s FBI had been investigating a scheme since 2008
that involved bribery, kickbacks, and money laundering
with a Russian nuclear industry official, Vadim Mikerin,
who was acting in order to secure a business advantage
with TENEX, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned nuclear
firm Rosatom, which bought Uranium One.
Now-fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had been
assigned to oversee the ongoing investigation, which was
never revealed to the Committee on Foreign Investments
in the United States — the body that approves sales of U.S.
firms with possible strategic implications to foreign
companies. Had the committee known, it would have
never approved the Uranium One sale.
Eventually, four individuals were prosecuted but then
given a plea bargain after the Uranium One sale was
approved; the prosecuting Justice Department attorneys
were current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and
Andrew Weissman, a Democrat supporter now on
Mueller’s special counsel team.
Additional reporting noted that the Obama DoJ never
called the deal’s secret informant, William D. Campbell,
when it was time to charge former Russian uranium
industry official Mikerinn.
“I’ve never heard of such a case unless the
victim is dead. I’ve never heard of
prosecutors making a major case and not
talking to the victim before you made it,
especially when he was available to them
through the FBI,” Alan Dershowitz told The
Hill.
 Rush Limbaugh: Wapo Knows “Secret Source” Obama
Deep State Spy Inside The The Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 10:13 Am
Last night we found out why the Deep
State has been working so hard to take
down President Trump and the republic.
THE OBAMA DEEP STATE HAD A SPY
INSIDE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!
Barack Obama was wiretapping and
listening in on all of the Trump
campaign and transition team calls.
And on Thursday we found out his Deep
State minions had a spy inside the
Trump campaign!
Featured image – Roper Report
This is all starting to make sense now.
Kim Strassel at The Wall Street Journal reported on this
explosive development last night:
Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed
law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr.
Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret
intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA,
who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved
in the Russia collusion probe. When
government agencies refer to sources, they
mean people who appear to be average
citizens but use their profession or contacts
to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take
this to mean that the FBI secretly had a
person on the payroll who used his or her
non-FBI credentials to interact in some
capacity with the Trump campaign.
This would amount to spying, and it is hugely
disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the
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electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was
bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly
“unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their
conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its
surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting
information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now
we find it may have also been rolling out human
intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump
campaign.
Rush Limbaugh spoke about this
“secret source” yesterday on his show.
The dirty Deep State doesn’t want
Republican members of Congress to
know the identity of the Obama spy
inside the Trump campaign.
Rush Limbaugh argues that the hacks at the Washington
Post know who it is.
From the Rush Limbaugh Show:
Now we move to the Kimberly… Well, I
think it’s Kimberly Strassel wrote it. It’s the
Wall Street Journal editorial that runs
today. “The latest intel leak is designed to
block a House subpoena. Late Tuesday the
Washington Post published a story with the
headline ‘Secret intelligence source who
aided Mueller probe is at center of latest
clash between Nunes and Justice
Department.’
“The story [in the Post] reports that House
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
recently sent a classified letter and
subpoena to the Justice Department
demanding information about a ‘top secret
intelligence source.’” Now, the editorial at
the Journal says, “The story’s bias is that
Mr. Nunes — you know, a nasty House
Republican,” a really rascally Republican,
“is threatening to compromise national
security,” by trying to find out who this
informant is. “Yet the article itself discloses
details that suggest the Post already knows
who this ‘top secret’ source is.
 “For example, the source is a ‘U.S. citizen,’ campaign.” There it is. So it’s a pretty safe
has been an informant for both ‘the CIA bet that the FBI planted an informant in the
and FBI,’ and has provided information that Trump campaign. Nunes wants to know
was given to” Mueller. So the Journal who it is; the DOJ says, “No way, Jose!”
editorial claims the Post already knows
The Washington Post probably does know
who this source is — and if they do, why
who it is. They will not inform. Trump could
can’t Nunes? Well, Nunes learning end this today by declassifying all of this.
somehow would violate national security.
But he doesn’t. Why doesn’t he? We’ve
“The story also says intelligence officials
explored that on previous occasions, and
fear that outing the source could ‘damage I’ll go through it again if you want. But the
relationships with other countries.’” Well,
point is this, these people — Mueller, the
only if the source is a foreign citizen, but
FBI, The DOJ, Strzok, Page, Comey,
we know now the source isn’t.
McCabe — it is absolutely incredible but it
The source is a U.S. citizen, so outing the may well be that they believed this!
source would not damage relationships
Even after learning that the Steele dossier
with other countries unless this source has
is phony baloney as anything else they
also been involved in screwing other could have written, they really believed it.
countries. But it suggests that the source
So they had an informant in the Trump
has worked overseas. If they’re gonna
campaign who was there to catch and to
claim that a U.S. citizen cannot be outed
discover and to witness Trump’s collusion
here because it might damage
with the Russians. If they had an informant
relationships other countries, it means he in that campaign who was supposed to find
has worked overseas. Suggests it, anyway.
the collusion and they still don’t have it? I
“And the story says the ‘role of the mean, look at what we’re learning. They
intelligence source’ could further provoke had an informant in the campaign, and they
Republicans who have accused Justice still don’t have any evidence!
and the FBI of engaging in ‘misuse of their
Then what the hell is this investigation
surveillance power,’” and, here we go,
doing even being alive at this point?
“hinting that the government may have
used the source to snoop on the Trump
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 Trump Knew About Eric Schneiderman Allegations Made
By 3 Other Women, Alleged Victims’ Attorney Claims
By Greg Price
On 5/11/18 At 12:19 PM
President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael
Cohen both knew of three women who accused former
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of
sexually inappropriate behavior back in 2013, according to
a letter sent by an attorney representing the women.
The filing made by attorney Peter Gleason to U.S.
Southern District Court Judge Kimba Wood Friday stated
that he told a journalist about the women and the reporter
suggested he speak with Donald Trump about the matter in
2013.
Gleason also asserted that he later received a call from
Cohen that he believed confirmed Trump had heard about
the allegations made against Schneiderman.
Trump had predicted Schneiderman’s demise in a tweet
sent in September 2013, stating that he would be gone after
the falls of fellow New York officials Anthony Weiner and
Eliot Spitzer due to sex scandals.
“Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone - next will
be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is
he a crook? Wait and see, worse than
Spitzer or Weiner,” Trump tweeted.
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Gleason made the filing, a request for a protective order, to
Wood to protect two of the alleged victims’ identities after
Cohen’s office, residence and hotel room were raided by
federal officials last month.
Newsweek sent Gleason a list of questions but did not
receive an immediate response.
Cohen, along with Trump’s attorneys, had previously
argued that they should be able to review the materials
seized in the raid to determine if anything was covered by
attorney-client privilege between Trump and Cohen.
An attorney representing Cohen did not immediately
respond to Newsweek's request for comment.
A lawyer who argued for Trump on the attorney-client
privilege matter also did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Judge Wood appointed a special master last month to
review documents and records seized by federal officials
before federal prosecutors over a period of four weeks.
The three Schneiderman accusers revealed by Gleason
appeared to be separate from the four women who made
similar accusations against Schneiderman in a report by
The New Yorker published earlier this week. He was
accused of sexual violence, including threatening and
slapping the women, allegedly referring to one as his
“brown slave” and telling her to call him “master.”
 Unhinged Maxine Waters Has Breakdown
On House Floor Over, Begins Screaming Over “Make
American Great” Slogan [VIDEO]
By Lucian Wintrich
May 11, 2018, 12:21 Pm

understand … that’s the attitude that’s

been given toward women time and time
again.”

Maxine Waters took a much-needed break from

screaming “Damn this president!” in California, calling for
Trump’s impeachment over the failed Iran nuclear deal,
and telling Kanye West to stop talking “out of turn”, to
scream on the House floor over Rep. Mike Kelly use of the
MAGA slogan.

What triggered her into an insane homeless-person-on-the-

street worthy tirade this time? Well it came
when Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly had to audacity to
claim,

“We are trying to make sure we are

making America great every day in
every way and the best way to do that is to
stop stalking about discrimination and start
talking about the nation.”
Kelly continued, turning his attention to the always irate
Rep Waters,
“We’re coming together as a people, in
spite of what you say.”
Well, that was all too much for “Antie Maxine” to
handle and she immediately went into one of her race-
baiting tirades:
“Mr. Kelly, please do not leave. Because I
want you to know that I am more offended
as an African American woman than you
will ever be. And this business about
making America great again, it is your
president that’s dividing this country! And
don’t talk to me about the fact that we don’t
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More Via the American Mirror:
Kelly attempted to chime in, but Waters refused to yield
for a response. McClintock reminded Waters to direct her
remarks to him, and she ignored the request a second time.
“I respect the chair, but don’t stop me in the
middle when you didn’t stop him in the
middle, and so I shall continue,” Waters
said, turning back to Kelly. “Don’t you dare
talk to me like that and think that somehow
women don’t understand what goes on on
the floor of automobile dealers.”
McClintock again requested that Waters respect the rules,
which sent the 79-year-old politician into a tirade about
Trump.
“I don’t appreciate that you did not interrupt
him when he was making those outrageous
remarks about him knowing more about
discrimination than I know about
discrimination,” Waters shouted. “I resent
 that and I resent the remark about making
America great again.
“He’s down here making a speech for this
dishonorable president of the United States
of America. Having said that, I reserve the
balance of my time. And no, I do not yield,
not one second to you,” she yelled at Kelly.
She added an echo for dramatic effect.
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“Not one second,” she shouted. “Not one
second to you.”
The hearing centered on Obama-era anti-discrimination
regulations for auto lenders, which Republicans and some
Democrats voted to reverse. The measure, which was
previously approved by the Senate, is now awaiting
Trump’s signature, The Hill reports.
 DEVELOPING: Brennan With Strzok And John Kerry
Worked To Set Up Russian Espionage Traps For
Minor Players In Trump Camp
By Cristina Laila
May 11, 2018, 12:36 Pm

A major new front is developing after non-FBI credentials to interact in some

the House discovered the FBI had a spy capacity with the Trump campaign.
planted inside of the Trump campaign Everybody wants to know who this plant
on top of the illegal wiretaps.
was and who he was funneling
information to inside various
government agencies.

Investigative reporter for The New York Post, Paul Sperry

says in the summer of 2016, former CIA Director John
Brennan, through his FBI liaison, Peter Strzok, with the
help of former Secretary of State John Kerry were trying to
set Russian espionage traps for minor players in the Trump
camp.

Sperry tweeted: DEVELOPING: A major

Barack Obama, arguably the worst
president in US history, was wiretapping
and listening in on all of the Trump
campaign and transition team calls.
And now we know his Deep State
minions had a spy inside the Trump
campaign!
Kimberly Strassel lit DC ablaze on Thursday after she
dropped a bombshell in a Wall Street Journal article titled,
“About That FBI Source.”
new front is opening in the political
espionage scandal. In summer 2016,
Brennan with his FBI liaison Strzok,
along with help from Kerry @ State,
were trying to set Russian espionage
traps for minor players in the Trump
campaign through cultivated intel
assets

Strassel, citing WaPo’s story using ‘unnamed law-

enforcement leakers’ says Nunes’ request dealing with a
“top secret intelligence source” may very well mean the
FBI had a plant inside the Trump camp:

Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed Paul Sperry also pointed out this interesting piece of
law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. information:
Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret
intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA,
who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved
in the Russia collusion probe. When
government agencies refer to sources, they
mean people who appear to be average
citizens but use their profession or contacts
to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take
this to mean that the FBI secretly had a
person on the payroll who used his or her

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Since it was removed, here are the screenshots:
Here’s what we know about John
Kerry’s involvement with Hillary’s phony
Russia dossier so far:
Byron York of the Washington Examiner previously
reported that the Obama State Department was being
probed as to whether or not they had a hand in the dossier.
York notes Steele was viewed inside the Obama State
Department as a valuable source for intelligence on all
things Russia. Obama State officials made a habit of
disseminating reports the former British spy authored for
private clients around the Department:
According to a March report by
investigative reporter, Sara Carter, John
Kerry was officially under investigation
by the House Intel Committee for his
“possible role” in the Steele dossier.
Sara Carter reported:
The House Select Committee on
Intelligence is now investigating former
Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s possible
role into the unverified dossier paid for by
the Democratic National Committee and
Hillary Clinton Campaign, this reporter has
learned. The dossier, assembled by a
former British spy, laid the foundation for
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the FBI’s investigation into alleged
collusion between President Trump and
Russia and was the essential piece of
evidence used by the FBI to get a warrant
to spy on a former volunteer for the Trump
campaign.
Chairman Nunes is also
investigating whether former CIA
Director John Brennan perjured himself
in a public testimony about the dossier.
Paul Sperry reported via Real Clear Investigations:
In his May 2017 testimony before the
intelligence panel, Brennan emphatically
denied the dossier factored into the
intelligence community’s publicly released
conclusion last year that Russia meddled in
the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances
of victory.”
Brennan also swore that he did not know
who commissioned the anti-Trump
research document, even though senior
national security and counterintelligence
officials at the Justice Department and FBI
knew the previous year that the dossier
was funded by the Hillary Clinton
campaign.
Peter Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team after anti-
Trump text messages were discovered by the Inspector
General.
Strzok also teamed up with McCabe to ambush General
Flynn in a surprise FBI interview which led to his firing;
Flynn then pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
Rumors are flying and a few names are being thrown
around about who this possible FBI plant may be, but once
it’s revealed, all hell is going to break loose. This is a
HUGE development.
No wonder why Rosenstein is fiercely working to keep
documents from the House Intel Committee and House
Oversight Committee.
Story developing…
 David Brooks Expresses Grudging New Respect For
Trump's Foreign Policy Accomplishments
By P.J. Gladnick
May 11, 2018 12:54 PM EDT
David Brooks! You can now expect your invitations to
trendy Manhattan and Georgetown parties to not so
mysteriously dry up. Your crime? Despite being one of the
most prominent Never Trumpers out there, you actually
(GASP!) dared to praise President Donald Trump's foreign
policy. Such a Thought Crime must be punished with a
public shunning.
Yes, despite his previous record as an Antifa Ninja Play
Warrior of The Resistance which began on the heels of the
2016 election, Brooks has come around to grudging
support for Trump's foreign policy in his May 10 New
York Times column, Donald Trump’s Lizard
Wisdom [emphasis mine]:
We’re all educated by our peers, and, over the years, a
good portion of Donald Trump’s peers have been
thugs. Operating in the New York construction world
meant dealing with S&A Concrete, co-owned by “Fat
Tony” Salerno of the Genovese crime family, and John
Cody, the notorious head of Teamsters Local 282, who
was convicted on racketeering and tax evasion charges.
The next few paragraphs continued with this theme of
Trump as coming from a "thug" background. Think of
them as necessary caveats before his big shocking reveal
[again, emphasis mine]:
And yet I can’t help but wonder if that
kind of background has provided a
decent education for dealing with the
sort of hopped-up mobsters running
parts of the world today. There is
growing reason to believe that Donald
Trump understands the thug mind a
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whole lot better than the people who
attended our prestigious Foreign
Service academies.
The first piece of evidence is North Korea. When Trump
was trading crude, back-alley swipes with “Little Rocket
Man,” Kim Jong-un, about whose nuclear button was
bigger, it sounded as if we were heading for a nuclear
holocaust led by a pair of overgrown prepubescents.
In fact, Trump’s bellicosity seems to
have worked.
It’s impossible to know how things will pan out, but the
situation with North Korea today is a lot better than it was
six months ago. Hostages are being released, talks are
being held. There seems to be a chance for progress unfelt
in years.
Maybe Trump intuited something about
the sorts of people who run the North
Korean regime that others missed.
Oh, no! David will definitely have to explain himself when
he's cornered at his next dinner party in the Swamp:
The second piece of evidence is our trade talks with China.
Over the past few decades, the Western diplomatic
community made a big bet: If we all behaved decently
toward Chinese leaders, then they’d naturally come to
embrace liberal economic and cultural values and we could
all eventually share a pinot at the University Club.
The bet went wrong. Today’s Chinese elites are polite and
coolheaded, but their economic, political and military
behavior remains pure thug. Beijing throws its economic
weight around with abandon, punishing foreign firms like
Mercedes-Benz that don’t toe its line, cutting off
Philippine trade over dubious geographic disputes, closing
off its own economy to foreign investment and stealing
hundreds of billions of dollars in American intellectual
property each year.
The president has pushed back harder
on the Chinese and has netted some
results. After some Trump swagger, Xi
Jinping promised to “significantly
 lower” Chinese tariffs on imported
vehicles.
David Brooks, welcome to your new lavatory office at The
New York Times:
The third piece of evidence is Iran. I have doubts about the
Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the
nuke agreement. But I do know that the argument that
many of the Obama people relied on as predicate for the
deal is wrong. They argued that, deep down, the Iranian
leaders are worldly sophisticates who, if we just gave them
the welcome mat, would want to join our community of
nations.
This is the vanity of the educated class
going back for centuries. Since we’re
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obviously so superior, everybody else
secretly wants to be like us. It’s wrong.
Thugs gotta thug. Religious fanatics
gotta fanaticize.
And finally the necessary disclaimer that is doomed to fail
in getting Brooks back into the good graces of liberals:
Please don’t take this as an
endorsement of the Trump foreign
policy.
I’d feel a lot better if Trump showed some awareness of
the complexity of the systems he’s disrupting, and the
possibly cataclysmic unintended consequences. But there
is some lizard wisdom here. The world is a lot more like
the Atlantic City real estate market than the G.R.E.s.
 Trump Releases Blueprint To
‘Bring Soaring Drug Prices Back Down To Earth’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 11, 2018, 2:33 Pm

Secretary Azar to begin moving forward on

reforms that will bring soaring drug prices
back down to Earth.”

President Donald Trump released his blueprint for

lowering the costs of medications in the United States on
Friday.

The administration said they will immediately begin

working to “bring soaring drug prices back down to earth.”

A statement from the White House said that excessively

high drug prices, foreign freeloading, and a system rigged
to reward list price increases, are burdening the American
people.

To combat this, steps that the Department of Health and

Human Services (HHS) will begin taking include ending
the gaming of regulatory and patent processes by drug
makers to unfairly protect monopolies, advancing
biosimilars and generics to boost price competition,
evaluating the inclusion of prices in drug makers’ ads to
enhance price competition and streamlining and
accelerating the approval process for over-the-counter
drugs.

The Administration will additionally publish a comparison

of drug prices in the United States with those in other
OECD countries, to examine freeloading.
Trump also announced that he will be working to end the
“Everyone involved in the broken system — “Pharmacist Gag Rule” which “punishes” pharmacists
the drug makers, insurance companies, for advising patients on ways to save money.
distributors, pharmacy benefit managers,
and many others — contribute to the “This is a total rip off, and we are ending it,”
problem,” Trump said on Friday. Trump said.
“Government has also been part of the
problem because previous leaders turned a
blind eye to this incredible abuse. But
under this administration, we are putting
American patients first. … I’ve instructed
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 LAW PROFESSOR GLENN REYNOLDS:
The Spying On Trump Is Worse Than We Even Imagine!
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 2:54 Pm
Last night we found out why the Deep
State has been working so hard to take
down President Trump and the republic.
THE OBAMA DEEP STATE HAD A SPY
INSIDE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!
Barack Obama was wiretapping and
listening in on all of the Trump
campaign and transition team calls.
And on Thursday we found out his Deep
State minions had a spy inside the
Trump campaign!
This is all starting to make sense now.
Kim Strassel at The Wall Street Journal reported on this
explosive development last night:
Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed
law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr.
Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret
intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA,
who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved
in the Russia collusion probe. When
government agencies refer to sources, they
mean people who appear to be average
citizens but use their profession or contacts
to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take
this to mean that the FBI secretly had a
person on the payroll who used his or her
non-FBI credentials to interact in some
capacity with the Trump campaign.
This would amount to spying, and it is
hugely disconcerting. It would also be a
major escalation from the electronic
surveillance we already knew about, which
was bad enough. Obama political
appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump
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campaign officials to monitor their
conversations, while the FBI played dirty
with its surveillance warrant against Carter
Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court that its supporting
information came from the Hillary Clinton
campaign. Now we find it may have also
been rolling out human intelligence, John
Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump
campaign.
Law professr Glenn Reynolds posted
his thoughts on the latest
developments.
Glenn pointed out months ago that the
spying on Trump was worse than we
can even imagine.
I don’t think the FBI is being straight. I’m speculating, of
course, but I think it’s going to turn out that they were
spying on Trump from surprisingly early on, and that they
didn’t expect him to win, and that when he did win, the
Russian “collusion” thing was hyped up as a smokescreen.
Flashback, March 2017:
“Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is
worse than we even imagine, and once it
was clear Hillary had lost and it would
inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia
collusion talking point was created as a
distraction.”
Plus:
“But if they thought Hillary was sure to win,
why bother spying on Trump? A sinister
reason: To prosecute him — for something,
anything they could discover — after he
lost, so as to properly cow Hillary’s
opposition. That might be true, but on the
other hand, LBJ spied on Goldwater when
his win was assured, and Nixon did the
same vs. McGovern. Why would
unthreatened incumbents spy on
opponents they expect to lose? Maybe they
do it for the same reason a dog licks
himself: Because he can.”
Still just a hypothesis, but one that seems increasingly
likely to be true. And if it is, the sinister reason also seems
more likely to be true.
 BREAKING: Grassley Demands 302’s
From Wray And Rosenstein On Flynn Testimony —
Proving Possible Deceit By Deep State
By Cristina Laila
May 11, 2018, 4:02 Pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to FBI
Director Christopher Wray and Deputy
AG Rod Rosenstein Friday stating
Comey testified the FBI didn’t think
General Flynn lied.
Grassley is demanding the FBI and DOJ
produce the transcript of Flynn’s
intercepted calls with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak and the 302’s by
May 25th.
302’s are reports FBI agents take to
summarize an interview with a subject.
The newly unredacted portion of the House Intel report
revealed Comey testified to House Intel members the FBI
agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any deception.
The report also revealed the illegal leak of Flynn’s phone
call with Kislyak is what allowed the FBI/DOJ to keep a
counterintel operation open on General Flynn.
Chairman Grassley is now demanding answers from the
FBI and DOJ.
Grassley’s letter states:
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein
and Director Wray:
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On February 15, 2017, this Committee requested on a
bipartisan basis a copy of the transcript of the widely
reported call between Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and the
Russian ambassador and the FBI report summarizing
the intercepted calls. The Justice Department
declined to provide any of that information, and
instead then-FBI Director Comey provided a
wide-ranging briefing to us on March 15, 2017 that
touched on the Flynn issues.
Like the Flynn interview itself, that briefing was not
transcribed. Also like the Flynn interview, there are
notes taken by a career, non-partisan law
enforcement officer who was present. The agent was
on detail to the Committee staff at the time.
According to that agent’s
contemporaneous notes, Director
Comey specifically told us during that
briefing that the FBI agents who
interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn,
“saw nothing that led them to believe
[hewas] lying.”
Our own Committee staff’s notes indicate that Mr.
Comey said the “agents saw no change in his
demeanor or tone that would say he was being
untruthful.”
Contrary to his public statements during
his current book tour denying any
memory of those comments, then-
Director Comey led us to believe during
that briefing that the agents
whointerviewed Flynn did not believe he
intentionally lied about his conversation
with theAmbassador and that the
Justice Department was unlikely to
prosecute him for false statements
made in that interview.
In the months since then, the Special Counsel
obtained a guilty plea from Lt. General Flynn for that
precise alleged conduct.
The Department has withheld the Flynn-related
documents since our initial bipartisan request last
year, citing an ongoing criminal investigation. With
Flynn’s plea, the investigation appears concluded.
Additionally, while we are aware that the Special
Counsel’s office has moved to delay Lt. General On page 2 of Grassley’s letter he demands the
Flynn’s sentencing on several occasions, we presume transcripts of General Flynn’s intercepted phone
that all related records already have been provided to calls with Kislyak and the 302’s memorializing
the defense pursuant to Judge Sullivan’s February 16, their interview with Flynn.
2018 order requiring production of all potentially
exculpatory material. Thus, although the case Grassley concludes in his letter:
is not yet adjudicated, the Committee’s oversight
interest in the underlying documents requested
In addition, please make Special Agent Joe Pientka
more than a year ago now outweighs any legitimate
available for a transcribed interview with Committee
executive branch interest in withholding it.
staff no later than one week following the production
So too does the Committee’s interest in learning the
of the requested documents.
FBI agents’ actual assessments of their
interview of Lt. Gen. Flynn, particularly given the
apparent contradiction between what thenDirectory Screenshot of Grassley’s letter are on next page.
Comey told us in March 2017 and what he now
claims.

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 Stormy’s Creepy Lawyer Threatens Trump, Giuliani –
Leaks Cohen Bank Records: “Keep Attacking
Me Mr. Giuliani, Please!”
By Cristina Laila
May 11, 2018, 6:26 Pm

Stormy Daniels’ sleazy lawyer, Michael

Avenatti put President Trump and his
personal lawyer Michael Cohen on notice
Friday.

“Come clean or wait to be outed.”

Avenatti then leaked information about

Michael Cohen’s 2017-2018 payments to
Demeter Direct Inc. in Los Angeles from his
Essential Consultants LLC accounts.
Avenatti then leaked some more of
Cohen’s bank info after Giuliani called
him a “pimp.”

Michael Avenatti Twitter avatar

Michael Avenatti taunted Trump and Cohen
Friday in a tweet claiming ‘there is more
evidence’ relating to Cohen’s dealings and
Trump’s knowledge.
Avenatti tweeted:
Let this serve as formal notice – there is
significantly more evidence and facts to come
relating to Mr. Cohen’s dealings and Mr.
Trump’s knowledge and involvement. You can
come clean now or wait to be outed. Your
choice. We have only just begun…#Basta
On April 9, 2018 FBI agents raided the office of one of
Trump’s personal lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Michael Cohen is
President Trump’s personal attorney. The Mueller mob
took all of his records and emails.
One month later — Cohen’s financial
documents are leaked to the porn star’s
shady attorney.
Gee, how could this have happened?
The Treasury Department’s inspector general announced it
was investigating whether confidential banking
information related to President Trump’s personal lawyer
Michael Cohen was leaked.

Of course, they were leaked!

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On Wednesday Michael Cohen’s attorneys took aim at We also need to know who is funding this hired gun.
Michael Avenatti for publishing Cohen’s bank records. Avenatti says the claims he’s being funded by left-wing
political interests is “utter bullsh*t.”

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OUTRAGE GROWS! MSNBC Advertisers Targeted After
Unhinged Host Promotes Strangling Sarah Huckabee
Sanders — CALL TODAY!
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 7:05 pm

On Friday, MSNBC host Nicole Wallace

suggested White House Press Secretary
Sarah Sanders should be choked at the
podium in the White House Press Room!

MSNBC is now advocating violence against

women.

PATRIOTIC AMERICANS ARE RIGHTFULLY

OUTRAGED!

Author and activist Mike Cernovich is

pushing readers to contact MSNBC’s top
advertisers and ask them if they promote
violence against women.

Here is a list of MSNBC advertisers.

On Friday, Sarah Sanders was asked about a disparaging
comment made by a Trump aide about Senator John
McCain’s health.

Cristina posted on this earlier today—

Sanders refused to answer the question. This prompted
MSNBC host Nicole Wallace, who was an advisor to
McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, to talk about
strangling her.

“How do you resist the temptation to run up and

wring her neck? Why can’t she just say if a
staffer said that, we’re going to get to the
bottom of it and she’ll be fired?” Again here is the list of MSNBC advertisers
who are supporting this content.
This is MSNBC.

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 SEKULOW: Deep State Admitted To Having 16 MORE
PAGES Of Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Docs That It
Will Be Forced To Turn Over By Month End
By Cristina Laila
May 11, 2018, 8:20 Pm

meeting with former President Clinton on a

An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow
celebrated another victory against the Deep
State in federal court.
After twice-denying their existence, the
Deep State admitted to Sekulow in court it
has magically found more Clinton-Lynch
tarmac meeting docs and will be forced to
turn them over to the ACLJ by the end of
this month.
These Clinton-Lynch tarmac documents were located after
a THIRD ‘search’.
tarmac in Arizona just days before it publicly
exonerated Hillary Clinton.
Specifically, the FBI reported that it has located
an additional 16 pages and 2 text messages.
The FBI informed the court that it will produce
these documents to the ACLJ on or by May 31,
2018.
Jay Sekulow tweeted: After twice denying their existence,
the #DeepState just admitted in federal court is has found
new documents on the #Clinton-Lynch meeting that it will
be forced to turn over to the @ACLJ by the end of the
month. The wins keep adding up – thanks to you.

Via the American Center for Law and Justice:

After twice denying their existence – first lying

to the ACLJ, and then once caught, claiming it
had turned over all documents to the ACLJ –
the FBI Deep State has just admitted in federal
court that is has found new documents – 16
pages and 2 text messages – that it will be
forced to turn over to the ACLJ by the end of
the month.

In recently filed court documents, the FBI finally

admitted – on its supposedly third search
Here are the two Stzok-Page text messages
attempt – that it has located another batch of
about the Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting
documents responsive to the ACLJ’s Freedom
recently uncovered by the ACLJ:
of Information Act (FOIA) request for
information relating to former Attorney General
Lynch’s suspiciously timed and highly secretive
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Now, the FBI has just produced the two text messages to
the ACLJ – texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and now
former FBI agent Lisa Page.
The texts dated June 30, 2016, three days after the tarmac
meeting, state:
“All the airport tarmac articles finally burst
out. Took a little bit. Not a big deal, just
ASTOUNDINGLY bad optic.”
“Omg he is spinning about the tarmac
meeting, viewed in conjunction with the
{REDACTED} Wants to meet at 4, have us
bring lists of what we would do in an
ordinary circumstance (easy, refer to PC)
and in this circumstance (easy, refer to 7th
floor)….”
.
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The “he” referenced in the second text, based on the
context of already released text messages, is likely Bill
Priestap, assistant director of the FBI’s
Counterintelligence Division. The “7th floor” is a clear
reference to the upper echelon of FBI management – then-
Director Comey and his top advisors and lieutenants. The
texts paint an even clearer picture of just how high up the
FBI chain the Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting was. They
knew it was bad and were in full crisis management mode.
Yet, it also shows how the mainstream media buried the
story waiting several days to really cover it at all. In the
end, we know it was the 7th floor – and Director Comey
himself – who decided what the FBI would do – publicly
exonerating Clinton just days latter – something that was
anything but “ordinary.”
 Former Secret Service Agent: I Believe There Was
MORE THAN ONE Deep State Source
Inside Trump Campaign (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 8:25 Pm

Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino
joined Tucker Carlson on Friday to discuss
the stunning revelation the the Obama DOJ
had a spy working inside the opposition
candidate’s campaign.
There are now reports that a spy was
working inside the Trump campaign and
reporting back to the Obama DOJ.
The Deep State FBI and DOJ deliberately hid
this information from Congress.
not it though. Keep in mind, just a couple weeks
ago Devin Nunes on this network in an
interview with Maria Bartiromo had another
bombshell. That there was no official foreign
intelligence, through official channels passed
into the United States… I have my suspicions
about who this asset is as do many others by
the way. This is going to be explosive though
when this name comes out. Because the list of
suspects is very short. And there are some very
suspicious people who are connected to people
within our intelligence community now…

And the Sessions DOJ is still trying to keep this I believe there is more than one source for
the FBI.
information from Congress and the American people.
The DOJ told Congress people “will die” if they release
this information. Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

On Friday Dan Bongino said there was likely

more than one spy inside the Trump
campaign.

Dan Bongino:

A human intelligence asset may have been

inserted in your political rivals campaign? How
this isn’t front page news on every newspaper
across the globe is stunning. But Tucker that’s
.

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 Rep. John Ratcliffe: I’ll Be Surprised If Inspector General
Does Not Find Misconduct By James Comey (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 11, 2018, 9:34 Pm

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
joined guest host Jason Chaffetz Friday night on Hannity.
Both of the Republican guests were former
prosecutors before joining Congress.
Rep. Ratcliffe:
Well I think the best answer to that Jason will
come with the release of the inspector general
report. We all anticipate that that will happen
shortly. We also know that the Inspector
General Michael Horowitz is someone who has
proven himself to be a fair umpire. Someone
who calls balls and strikes fairly and when
appropriate will make criminal referral of the
Deputy FBI Director. I will tell you, not having
seen the report,

I will be surprised if the Inspector General

does not find misconduct by former director
Comey.

I think he will find that he violated his

employment agreement, made unauthorized
Rep. Ratcliffe told Jason Chaffetz he would be surprised if
disclosures of FBI documents. And whether
the Inspector General did not find transgressions by fire
those are classified or not, those are improper
FBI Chief James Comey.
leaks. And I think he will find that he made
demonstrably false statements that I think have
Rep. Ratcliffe: been highlighted by some of the congressional
transcripts.
It’s ironic to me that he (Comey) is the one who
created the allegation of obstruction of justice Via Hannity:
against Donald Trump and now he’s the same
person who has effectively torpedoed the ability
of the Special Counsel to ever prove
obstruction. The 15 pages of secret memos
never mention obstruction of justice a single
time. And, in fact, one of the memos does
exactly the opposite…

Jason Chaffetz:

Well, does he have any legal jeopardy himself,

Director Comey?

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 Disaster For DEMS: Optimism Hits
An 11-Year HIGH Under Trump, Republicans
Posted On May 12, 2018
(National Sentinel) Red Wave: Democrats and the Deep
State have done their best to get rid of President Donald J.
Trump, but despite giving him their best shots, he’s
counter-punched his way through the onslaught.
And Americans have noticed. They are rallying around
their feisty, unconventional president in larger numbers.
A recent poll from none other than CNN found that
Democrats’ generic polling advantage has tanked (if it was
ever really that large to begin with) by 16 points in just a
few months:
The Democrats’ advantage in the generic ballot
dipped from 16 points in February to six points
in March to just three points now. The party’s
advantage has waned among enthusiastic
voters as Republican enthusiasm has grown (in
March, 36% of Republican and Republican-
leaning registered voters said they were very
enthusiastic about voting…
The same poll went onto say that Democrats are far more
enthusiastic about voting in November than Republicans.
But last week’s primaries proved that to be erroneous, as
evidenced in Ohio, where 147,000-plus more Republicans
showed up to the polls than Democrats.
Blue wave? More like a blue trickle.
And now, yet another CNN poll has found that optimism
regarding the country’s direction is soaring, hitting an 11-
year high of 57 percent.
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As Breitbart News reported, that’s the highest overall
optimism level since January 2007. And here’s a bonus: 40
percent of Democrats are optimistic, an increase of 15
points from April.
Just 40 percent of Americans think things are going badly.
“Also of note is that CNN polled a random
sample of adults,” Breitbart News reported.
“Polls that screen for registered or likely voters
generally produce a more favorable result for
Trump. This poll is a good example. While
Trump’s job approval rating sits at 41 percent
with all adults, when CNN’s polling firm (SSRS)
screened for registered voters, the president’s
job approval rating jumped to 44 percent.”
That nearly six in 10 Americans believe the country is
heading the right direction is a very good sign both for
Trump and Republicans generally as we head into the 2018
midterms.
As further noted by Breitbart’s John Nolte:
What we are seeing with Trump’s job approval
number appears to be the exact opposite of
what we saw with former President Barack
Obama. While Americans were much less
satisfied with the direction of the country under
Obama (pessimism climbed steadily throughout
his first term), his approval ratings always
seemed to defy gravity. This, I think, had to do
with the establishment media’s constant
cheerleading for Obama, as well as the 44th
president’s demeanor.
It is the exact opposite with Trump. While the
president is presiding over a country filled with
growing optimism, the Russian collusion hoax
hangs over his head and the media continue to
cover Stormy Daniels as though an alleged 12-
year-old roll in the hay with a porn star is
Watergate. Americans are also still not used to
Trump being Trump. His refusal to roll over in
the face of 24/7 media bias, which is what
presidents are supposed to do, most especially
Republican presidents, remains a shock to the
 system. All of the above has probably kept A good rule of thumb is that whatever Democrats and their
Trump’s job approval rating artificially low. Pravda media saying about their chances in upcoming
elections you can bet the reality is just the opposite.

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 Internet Sleuths Uncover Obama’s Probable Top Secret
Spy And Paid Informant Inside Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 7:47 Am
Internet sleuths have done it again. The
work of two individuals on the Internet
appears to indicate that they have
determined who the FBI spy was on the
Trump campaign.
Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a
piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan
Halper as a potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign.
(Note that some believe that Obama may have had more
than one spy on the Trump campaign).
Carlson determined that George
Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign
worker for the Trump campaign, appears to
have been targeted by three individuals with
ties to British and/or U.S. Intelligence:
Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and
Stefan Halper.
Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an
organization named the Centre for International Energy
and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos
was a nobody and the Centre sketchy at best. Mifsud
vanished in early November 2017, shortly after
Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His
whereabouts are still unknown.
Carlson notes:
Although the common story is that Mifsud is a
Russian Agent, many ties seem to lead [him]
back to UK Intelligence. Julian Assange put out
a Twitter Thread noting the connection between
Mifsud and UK Intelligence.”
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Alexander Downer is the Australian individual who
apparently overheard Papadopooulos talk about Trump and
Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to the story and their
eventual spy program on Trump. This story has been
refuted for months.
Carlson writes –
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been
portrayed as a chance encounter in a bar. That
does not appear to be the case….Downer has
direct ties to UK Intelligence firm Hakluyt where
he served on the Advisory Board from 2008-
2014.
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer
chance encounter Peter Strzok was in London
per texts released by the FBI.
“Strzok texts suggest he was in London on
August 3, 2016.” The corrupt FBI’s
investigation into Trump officially started a
few days earlier.
But, the most intriguing individual noted by Carlson is
Halper. Carlson concludes his post with the following –
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit him. A
young man, suddenly thrust into a position beyond his
experience, Papadopoulos made for an easy intelligence
target.
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed
Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the
London symposium.
It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the
identity of a “top secret intelligence source” that was part
of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation.
I think there’s a decent chance
that source is Stefan Halper.
Halper had contact with both Papadopulos and Carter
Page. Halper has connections to UK Intelligence and US
Intelligence. Halper met with Carter Page just days after
Page’s Moscow trip.
A second Internet sleuth ties Halper to the Obama team of
crooks. Overnight, Jacob Wohl on Twitter identified
Federal Records that reveal that the Obama Administration
paid Stefan Halper $282,295 to apparently spy on the
Trump campaign –
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Wohl also tweeted that Halper was the same person who
invited George Papadopolous to London, where he just so
happened to sit down next to that infamous Australian
“Diplomat” (who also worked with the Clinton
Foundation) and Halper also lured Carter Page into
compromising situations involving “Russians”.
** Conservative Treehouse also pegged
Halper as the spy inside the Trump
campaign.
Based on the work of Carlson and Wohl, it
sure looks like Stefan Halper is the Obama
Administration and Clinton campaign’s spy
on the Trump campaign.
President Nixon resigned after his team was
caught spying on the Democrats at their
Watergate Headquarters during the 1972
campaign.
The Obama team and the Clinton campaign
spied on the Trump Administration and used
the entire government apparatus, including
the FBI, the DOJ and others, to do so.
This is clearly 100 times worse
than Watergate! Drain the swamp!
 WHAT A DISGRACE! Special Counsel Mueller Charged
Russian Company Not In Existence At Time Of Charge!
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 8:08 Am

Benghazi Committee’s investigation into the deadly 2012

terrorist attack in Libya.

During the hearing, the judge asked the attorney

representing Concord Management if he was also
representing Concord Catering. The attorney for Concord
Management explained that he is not because the
indictment contains the ‘proverbial ham sandwich’, as
noted earlier this week at TGP.

What was not yet available until last night was the
transcript of the hearing.

The reason the Concord Management

Lawyer: Mueller indicted “the proverbial
ham sandwich.”
This week, on Wednesday May 9th, a
hearing took place between the corrupt
Mueller team and one of the Russian
Companies they indicted for interfering with
the 2016 US election, Concord
Management. Concord Management and a
sister company Concord Catering were
charged by Mueller for defrauding the
government.
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial ham
sandwich’ was because one of the
entities indicted by the Mueller
team, Concord Catering, was not in
existence at the time the crimes
were alleged to have taken place.
The Judge brings up Concord Catering, saying the gov’t
alleges an association with Concord Mgmt.
Attorney for Concord Mgmt:

The Mueller crooks and far left hacks were The gov’t has “indicted the proverbial ham
embarrassed again! sandwich.”

A week ago Friday at a hearing on this same case, “That company didn’t exist as a legal entity
Mueller’s team asked for the case to be delayed. The during the time period alleged by the gov’t.”
judge politely declined and the initial hearing on the case
was held on Wednesday. Mueller’s team is represented pic.twitter.com/XiRG2OMa4M
by former Clinton Foundation attorney, Jeannie Rhee.
CNN applauded Rhee for being on the Mueller team while
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 12, 2018
ignoring her and the entire team’s conflicts of interest –
Here is a copy of the transcript noted in the tweet above –
Rhee represented Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit about her private
emails, and she also represented the Clinton
Foundation in a civil racketeering case that
was later dismissed.

Rhee also represented President Barack Obama’s deputy

national security adviser Ben Rhodes during the House

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 The Mueller team is a disaster. It’s
investigation is unconstitutional. It’s team
has more conflicts than any case in US
history. It’s cases are crap! Shut it down!

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 MUST-SEE VIDEO=> PRESIDENT TRUMP Versus
IRANIAN MULLAHS — MAKE THIS GO VIRAL!
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 10:51 Am

Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand posted an Earlier this week President Trump withdrew from the
epic video today on President Trump versus the Iranian sham Iranian nuclear deal. President Trump knew the deal
mullahs. with the Iranian mullahs was not working.

Banafsheh told The Gateway Pundit the

video was made by an Iranian who wishes to
remain anonymous — for obvious reasons.

Video via Banafsheh Zand:

The video was sent to Banafsheh on

Saturday and depicts President Trump
handing the mullahs and fellow extremists a
serious beatdown.

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 Dem Senator Comes Out In Support Of
CIA Nominee Gina Haspel In Major Win For Trump
By Benjamin Arie
May 12, 2018 At 11:21am
President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next
director of the CIA has hit several roadblocks on her way
to confirmation… but she just received support from a
surprising voice.
Career intelligence expert Gina Haspel is poised to become
the first female CIA chief in history. However, two
Republicans — Senators Rand Paul and John McCain —
have declared that they will not vote to confirm her.
Paul is known for his strong libertarian views, and often
disagrees with others in the GOP when it comes to
international issues. McCain is perhaps the most well-
known name in Congress, but is a vocal critic of Trump
and very moderate.
After McCain raised objections to the CIA’s past use of
enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding
against terrorists, he came out against Haspel. That could
have derailed her confirmation completely… but a
Democrat senator has now sided with Trump’s nominee.
On Saturday, Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana announced
that he will break from liberals in his party and back
Haspel.
According to The Hill, the Democrat explained that he
thought the nominee “has learned from the past, and that
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the CIA under her leadership can help our country confront
serious international threats and challenges.”
Another Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,
has also indicated that he will back Haspel. With two
Democrats now supporting her, the nominee has a good
chance of being confirmed, though nothing is set in stone.
In a written statement, Donnelly spoke positively about
Haspel’s experience. He also cited her “intellect, steady
temperament, vast knowledge of threats we face, and
dedication to our country are undeniable” as factors in his
decision.
“I have found Gina Haspel to be a person of
great character,” the Indiana lawmaker stated.
“Over her 3 year career as a CIA operations
officer, she has worked3 in some of the most
dangerous corners of our world, and I have the
utmost respect for the sacrifices she has made
for our country,” he said.
Haspel has been endorsed by many respected names,
including current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Three
former CIA directors have backed her, and they
themselves are well regarded on both sides of the political
aisle.
 JOHN KERRY Continues
Shadow Diplomacy — Pictured Leaving Meeting
With Iranian Officials In Paris …
Update: NOT John’s 1st Secret Mtg In Paris
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 12:14 Pm

Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State,

John Kerry has been secretly meeting with
Iranian officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear
weapons program.

After the news broke last week Rep. Devin

Nunes (R-CA) the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee called on G-men to
arrest John Kerry for his treasonous acts.

Kerry was working against the Trump

administration to salvage the Iranian nuclear
deal.
Earlier this week President Trump withdrew from the
sham Iranian nuclear deal. President Trump knew the deal
with the Iranian mullahs was not working.
An onlooker snapped this photo as Kerry
left the restaurant.
Jason Osborne, a former Senior Advisor to President
Donald Trump’s campaign, posted this tweet earlier today:

Several leading officials have called on the Sessions DOJ
to prosecuted John Kerry for violations against the Logan
Act.
John Kerry does not seem to be fazed with the
threats.
So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in
Paris w/3 Iranians. A friend was sitting next to
their table and heard JK blasting
@realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5
person security detail and left in diplomatic
vehicles. Is he FARA registered? @seanhannity
@TuckerCarlson

Now this… Iranian activist Banafsheh Zand says it’s

time to indict the traitor.
On Saturday former Obama Secretary of
State was seen dining with several Iranian
regime officials.

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 UPDATE: This was not Kerry’s first secret meeting in
Paris. He met with the North Vietnamese in Paris on his
honeymoon during the Vietnam War.

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 Mueller Investigates American Citizens
Who Legally Donated To Trump’s Inauguration
By Cristina Laila
May 12, 2018, 1:51 Pm
Robert Mueller is now investigating
American citizens who legally donated to
Trump’s inaugural fund because they have
‘foreign connections.’
What the hell does this have to do with Trump’s so-called
collusion with Russia to hack the DNC’s servers?
Since dirty cop Robert Mueller has nothing on President
Trump he continues to rove around unchecked,
investigating anyone and anything.
Mueller is now harassing American citizens who legally
donated to Trump’s inauguration.
ABC reported:
According to a source who has sat with the
Mueller team for interviews in recent weeks, the
special counsel is examining donors who have
either business or personal connections in
Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates
and Qatar. Several donors with those ties
contributed large sums to the non-profit
fundraising entity – gifts that topped out at $1
million dollars, according to public records.
Special counsel investigators have also asked
witnesses about specific inauguration donors,
including American businessmen Leonard
Blavatnik, and Andrew Intrater, according to
sources familiar with the Mueller sessions.
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Neither has been accused of any
wrongdoing.
Blavatnik is a billionaire with dual U.S. and
British citizenship who has extensive business
ties in Russia. Blavatnik gave $1 million to the
inaugural fund through his company, Access
Industries, according to FEC records.
Companies are prohibited from giving donations
to political candidates, however, donations to
inaugural committees are not considered
donations to candidates.
Intrater, an American relative and business
associate of Russian billionaire Viktor
Vekselberg, runs a U.S. company with deep ties
to Vekselberg’s Russia-based global
conglomerate, Renova Group. Renova was
recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury
Department.
Intrater serves as the CEO of Columbus Nova,
an investment company based in New York.
FEC records show Intrater made a $250,000
donation to the Trump inauguration committee
in early January 2017.
Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein are a disgrace to this
country. Both need to be fired and investigated for their
years of corruption and involvement in the Uranium One
scandal.
Mueller has a history of charging innocent men for crimes
they didn’t commit, botching cases and using raids to
intimidate Americans.
Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined
$375,000 for accepting over $1.8 million in
donations with erroneous contribution dates,
Politico previously reported. We know Obama
took in way more than $1.8 million in foreign
mysterious donations; this is just what was
‘reported.’
President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was
fined $375,000 by the Federal Election
Commission for campaign reporting violations
 — one of the largest fees ever levied against
a presidential campaign, POLITICO has
learned.
The fine — laid out in detail in FEC documents
that have yet to be made public — arose
from an audit of the campaign, which was
published in April. POLITICO obtained a copy of
the conciliation agreement detailing the fine,
which was sent to Sean Cairncross, the chief
lawyer for the Republican National Committee,
one of the groups that filed complaints about
the campaign’s FEC reporting from 2008.
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The document outlined other violations, such as
erroneous contribution dates on some
campaign reports. The Obama campaign was
also late returning some contributions that
exceeded the legal limit.
So why wasn’t there a special counsel witch
hunt into Obama?
Mueller investigating Americans who donated to Trump’s
inauguration is outrageous because donations to an
inaugural fund are not considered campaign donations.
 SARA CARTER: Identity Of The Second FBI Agent Who
Ambushed General Flynn Revealed ‘He Knows What
McCabe’s Role Was In All Of It’
By Cristina Laila
May 12, 2018, 3:35 Pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) sent a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein Friday stating Comey testified
the FBI didn’t think General Flynn lied.
Grassley also revealed Joe Pientka was the second FBI
agent who joined Peter Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in an
ambush style interview to take down General Flynn.
Grassley is demanding the FBI and DOJ
produce the transcript of Flynn’s intercepted
calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak and
the 302’s by May 25th.
302’s are reports FBI agents take to
summarize an interview with a subject.
The newly unredacted portion of the House Intel
report revealed Comey testified to House Intel members
the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any
deception.
The report also revealed the illegal leak of Flynn’s phone
call with Kislyak is what allowed the FBI/DOJ to keep a
counterintel operation open on General Flynn.
Chairman Grassley is now demanding answers from the
FBI and DOJ.
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In the last paragraph of Grassley’s letter, he requests
Special Agent Joe Pientka be available for a transcribed
interview with Committee staff:
Accordingly, no later than May 25, 2018, please provide:
1. The information requested in our February 15, 2017
letter, including the transcripts of the reportedly
intercepted calls and any FBI reports summarizing
them; and
2. The FBI agents’ 302s memorializing their interview of
Flynn and 1A supporting docs, including the agents’
notes.
In addition, please make Special Agent Joe Pientka
available for a transcribed interview with Committee staff
no later than one week following the production of the
requested documents. If you have any questions about this
request please don’t hesitate to contact Patrick
Davis of my staff at (202) 224-5225. Thanks for your
prompt attention to this important issue.
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter says
according to numerous law enforcement
sources, neither Strzok or Pientka believed
Flynn was lying during their interview with
him, as reported.
Special Agent Joe Pientka and another
“non-partisan” law enforcement officer who
was present in the Flynn interview can
reveal McCabe’s role in all of it, says Sara
Carter’s sources:
Grassley requested that FBI Special Agent Joe
Pientka, who was with Strzok during his White
House interview on Jan. 24, 2017, be made
available “for a transcribed interview with
Committee staff no later than one week
following the production of the requested
documents.”
“There’s a lot these agents can reveal about
that day and what (former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew) McCabe’s role was in all of it,” said a
 U.S. official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to
speak on the matter. “McCabe was apparently
trying to find a reason, any reason, to make it
look like Flynn was lying. But the truth of the
matter is – no one thought he lied, not even the
agent that hated Trump.”
Crooked Comey continues to contradict his testimony as
he travels around on his book tour.
James Comey has told Bret Baier, George Stephanopoulos
and Chuck Todd conflicting statements about General
Flynn’s interview with FBI agents.
Notice how carefully weasel Comey talks in media blitzes
‘not to my recollection’ or ‘I don’t remember intending to
say that.’
Byron York reported:
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Comey has been asked about the matter in
some of the publicity interviews he has given for
his new book, A Higher Loyalty. In those
interviews, Comey has denied telling lawmakers
that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not
believe Flynn had lied.
“No,” Comey told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “I don’t
know what — maybe someone misunderstood
something I said. I didn’t believe that and didn’t
say that.”
“Not true,” Comey told NBC’s Chuck Todd.
“I don’t know where that’s coming from,” Comey
told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “That —
unless I’m — I said something that people
misunderstood, I don’t remember even
intending to say that. So my recollection is I
never said that to anybody.”
 MSNBC's Dickey Blames Trump
For Giving Israel 'License To Kill' Iranians
By Brad Wilmouth
May 12, 2018 3:46 PM EDT
Appearing as a guest on MSNBC Live on Saturday
morning, MSNBC contributor and Daily Beast world news
editor Christopher Dickey blamed the recent exchange of
fire between Israel and Iran on Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu believing that he has been given a
"license to kill" by Trump pulling out of the Iran deal. Not
mentioned was that it was the Iranian military that fired
first from Syria and provoked the Israeli counterattack.
At 7:14 a.m. Eastern, correspondent Matt Bradley filed a
report on the Palestinian Arabs protesting on the border
with Israel and planning to escalate in response to the U.S.
embassy being relocated to Jerusalem. He then then noted
the military exchange between Israel and Iranian troops
without mentioning who fired first.
Host Dara Brown brought aboard Dickey and began by
posing:
"Is this escalation a direct result of
President Trump killing the Iran deal?"
Dickey began by noting the embassy move:
"Well, I think it's all kind of related. I mean,
the things that Matt was talking about -- the
moving the embassy, all of that -- was -- is
certainly a huge element as far as the
Palestinians are concerned. That's created
an uptick in tension in the region."
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He then complained about Trump -- unlike President
Barack Obama -- not doing more to "reign in" Netanyahu,
and suggesting that Trump and Netanyahu were to blame
for Israelis defending themselves against Iranian attack:
But, in terms of Iran and attacking Iran or Iranian troops
and units in Syria -- I think, yes, absolutely. I think that
Netanyahu feels that he's gotten the green light -- almost a
license to kill -- from Trump because before under Obama
there was a lot of tension -- a lot of effort to reign in
Netanyahu. Now, there's no effort to reign in Netanyahu,
and he's basically being told, "If you want to go after Iran,
especially Iran in Syria, feel free to do it.
A bit later, Brown brought up a photograph of the Iranian
supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, holding and
reading the anti-Trump book Fire and Fury, and asked
her guest what message the Iranian government was trying
to send.
Dickey argued that the Ayatollah was trying to send a
message to Europeans that Trump is a "lunatic" and an
"irrational player" -- which, although Dickey attributed the
thinking to the Iranians, sounds very much in line with
what Dickey himself would likely give as his own opinion
considering his history of lambasting President Trump.
Here's Dickey:
That Trump is a lunatic and that if you want
to have rational policy -- the message is
essentially to Europe -- if you want to have
rational policy, you need to work with us,
not against us. Trump has taken a deal that
was a solid deal and thrown it out the
window with the apparent fantasy that he
can make a bigger deal -- a better deal -- a
surer deal -- a safer deal because, after all,
he's all about The Art of the Deal.
Essentially, by holding up Fire and Fury, the Iranians are
making the point that he is an irrational player, not a
rational one, and, as a result, no one should trust him.
 Journalists Outraged Over Trump
Were Silent About Obama Threatening Press Freedoms
By Jeffrey Lord
May 12, 2018 4:00 PM EDT
Oh the humanity! The horror!
President Trump this week tweeted this:
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes wrote this on
NewsBusters on May 8:
The liberal media’s war against President
Trump was as fierce as ever during the first four
months of 2018, but the onslaught appears to
be for naught: In the face of massive and hostile
coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump’s
overall job approval rating actually rose, from 37
percent in mid-December to roughly 43 percent
at the end of April.
The Media Research Center studied all broadcast evening
news coverage of the President from January 1 through
April 30, and found 90 percent of the evaluative comments
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about Trump were negative — precisely the same hostile
tone we documented in 2017.
From the spineless White House Correspondents’
Association came this gift-wrapped hypocrisy:
“Some may excuse the president’s
inflammatory rhetoric about the media, but just
because the president does not like news
coverage does not make it fake. A free press
must be able to report on the good, the bad, the
momentous and the mundane, without fear or
favor. And a president preventing a free and
independent press from covering the workings
of our republic would be an unconscionable
assault on the First Amendment.”
This, mind you, from the self-same group to which I sent
the following inquiry before their recent dinner that made
much of celebrating the First Amendment. To Margaret
Talev, this year’s WHCA president, I wrote:
“This year there have been boycotts to force
Laura Ingraham off of her Fox show and
another attempting the same with Sean
Hannity. Kevin Williamson, as you know, left
National Review to accept an invitation from
The Atlantic, where he was fired after two days
for controversial tweets from an earlier time.
When he pointed out to editor Jeffrey Goldberg
that the late Atlantic contributor Christopher
Hitchens was noted for controversial writings
the response was: ‘Yes. But Hitchens was in
the family. You are not.’
With all of that in mind, I note you have said of President
Trump that
“he will actively encourage members of the
executive branch to attend and join us as we
celebrate the First Amendment.”
My question:
In celebrating the First Amendment, will anyone
speaking at this year’s dinner be defending the
free press/free speech rights of Laura, Sean,
and Kevin? If not, why not?”
And the response from Ms. Talev? Complete and total
silence. When the dinner rolled around there was not a
peep about the assault on the First Amendment rights of
Hannity, Ingraham and Williamson. (And full disclosure, I
write columns at Hannity.com) Say again…not…a…peep.
A check last year on this subject with Rush Limbaugh and
I was told they had never bothered to stand up for him
either when he was under assault from liberals wanting to
get him off the air.
Now? Mere words from a president using his own First
Amendment rights and suddenly WHCA leaps into what
passes for action from them. They castigate the President -
really! - for “inflammatory rhetoric” - but are silent as
liberal media was busy castigating Trump as another
Hitler, an authoritarian and more. Hey…no inflammatory
rhetoric there!
Let’s recall a few things here about a president who
actually did serious damage to press freedom. As the
WHCA dinner loomed in 2017 (and yes, I was there for
that one) The Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams took
note of all the faux outrage by various media outlets that
President Trump was stiffing the dinner for a rally in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event is decorated with
lavish media parties strewn throughout the weekend of the
Saturday night event, not to mention on Saturday itself.
But in 2017 with Trump in the White House and taking
repeated shots at the “Fake News media”? With unerring
accuracy, Adams wrote:
“Though Time, People, The New Yorker and
Bloomberg are coy about what drove them to
cancel their parties, Vanity Fair's editor in chief,
Graydon Carter, came right out and said it was
Trump.
It's a strong reaction to a president who, in spite of all his
anti-media tough talk, hasn't actually done anything like
what his predecessor did to curb press freedoms.
The Trump administration hasn't, for example, subpoenaed
reporters in an effort to get them to reveal their sources.
Nor has it secretly collected reporters' phone records. Nor
set new records for denying Freedom of Information Act
requests.
These distinctions go to Obama, whose two terms in office
included several real infringements on the press.
In February 2011, for example, federal investigators were
revealed to have spied on the New York Times' James
Risen. They were attempting to determine whether he was
the recipient of leaked CIA information. Investigators went
through Risen's credit reports and his personal bank
records, and they obtained information about his phone
calls and travel, according to a motion filed in a federal
court.
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In April of that year, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and
Bloomberg hosted WHCA parties as if nothing had
happened."
Note well that James Risen called Obama the
“greatest enemy of press freedom in a
generation.”
He wrote an op-ed in The New York Times headlined:
"If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank
Obama.”
Hmmm.
So what do we have here? The Correspondents’
Association has its knickers in a knot because of things
Trump has said - which is to say they are not pleased that
he has used his own First Amendment rights to express his
displeasure with the media. But boycott a WHCA dinner
featuring President Obama when the Obama
administration is busy using the Department of Justice to
jail reporters, eavesdrop on reporters, threaten reporters
and “secretly collect” information about reporters?
Hey…party on! And didn’t Mrs. Obama look stunning
tonight!
To borrow from an old movie, that old Paul Newman
classic Cool Hand Luke,
“What we've got here is failure to
communicate.”
So let’s make this as plain as possible.
Giving a left-wing President of the United States
a pass when he is busy trying to jail, snoop on
and otherwise actually assault the First
Amendment is disgraceful. Being stone cold
silent on the First Amendment assaults on a
Hannity, Ingraham, Williamson and a list of
conservative media figures from various
members of the American Left while pretending
support for a free press is inexcusable.
All of which, in turn, makes utterly laughable the business
of flying into a tizzy when that President’s successor
merely verbally chastises the media for, as the Media
Research Center vividly demonstrated, a mind-blowing
and quite deliberate bias. What is really going on here is
that the liberal media effectively gives a nod to those who
would “pull the credentials” of the conservative media.
Worse, when the mob forms for a Rush Limbaugh or a
Lou Dobbs or other conservative media figure the silence
of liberal media is effectively a nod to the idea that
somehow those in conservative media are illegitimate.
And, as it were, therefore not only should conservative
media have their “credentials pulled” they have no right to
have those credentials in the first place. And when that
fails? Sic liberal media investigative reporters on their
private lives - something that would raise holy you-know-
what if done in reverse.
Over at The Washington Post, media journalist Erik
Wemple praised the Correspondents’ Association reaction
to Trump’s latest statement by praising the group for,
incredibly, getting “a spine.” Apparently a limp noodle
passes for a spine in Dr. Wemple’s view. Wemple closed
out his column by saying:
“As ever, the President’s ongoing effort to
poison American journalism among his
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followers is far more lethal than anything he
could do with White House press passes.”
It would be respectfully suggested here that American
journalism has determinedly been swallowing its own
journalistic arsenic - liberal elitism - for decades. Now so
self-poisoned - the word that comes to mind is addicted -
the liberal media that shoots up by trashing Trump and
refusing to stand up for conservative media is stunned to
find themselves viewed in more untrustworthy terms than
Lucy promising Charlie Brown that this time, really,
honest, she will hold the football.
The real bottom line is that the liberal media
pulled the credentials of their own credibility
a long, very long, time ago.
 This Cartoon About Trump & Iran Deal Is Getting
Shredded (But The Resistance & Ayatollah Will LOVE It)
By Doug P.
Posted At 4:44 Pm On May 12, 2018

President Trump announcing that he’d be pulling the U.S. and that displeasure obviously extends to at least one of
out of the Iran Deal has left many liberals angry that one of the nation’s liberal political cartoonists, who summed it up
Obama’s signature “legacies” was being done away with, this way:

Well that’s, um, one way to look at it.

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We know a couple of former Obama administration
officials who might appreciate being gifted a couple
framed copies of that cartoon.

The Ayatollah will appreciate the positive PR coming from

the U.S.

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 Peace President Trump: North Korea Announced They
Will Dismantle Nuclear Test Site This Month
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 5:42 Pm

Meanwhile in fake news land…

They’re bitching about President Trump taking a day off.

Jack Posobiec has the best response.

Tired of winning.

President Trump announced on Saturday

the North Korean regime was dismantling its
nuclear test sites one month before the
official peace talks with the US president.

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 “Sad That This Continues To Be Spread” – Devin Nunes
HURLS KILL SHOT At #Fakenews Axios List Of ‘Facts’
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 6:03 Pm

Axios released a list of “known” left-wing

“facts” today that incriminate Trump in the
Russia-collusion fairy tale.

Here’s the first item:

* We know Paul Manafort, former Trump

campaign chair, has been indicted on 32
counts, including conspiracy and money
laundering. We know he made millions off
shady Russians and changed the Republican
platform to the benefit of Russia.

This is the kind of garbage being pushed by fake news

outlets pretending to be non-partisan publishers.

Byron York pointed out that this was complete nonsense.

For the record… Axios secured funding from the same
venture capital firm integral in the launch of the
Huffington Post and Buzzfeed.

That’s when Rep. Devein Nunes (R-CA) threw down the

kill shot.

“Sad that this continues to be spread by

media…”

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 OH BOY! Iranian Regime Threatens To Release Names Of
Western Officials Who Took Bribes To Pass Nuke Deal
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 7:37 Pm

Earlier this week President Trump withdrew

from the sham Iranian nuclear deal.
President Trump knew the deal with the
Iranian mullahs was not working.

This was despite former Secretary of State John Kerry

working against the Trump administration to salvage the
weak deal with the Iranian regime.

On Saturday John Kerry was spotted at a

meeting with Iranian officials in Paris, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari (Press TV)
France.

This could get good.

Of course, the Iranian regime is very upset

with President Trump’s decision.

Now this…

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari

warned Western officials this week that if they do not put
pressure on the Trump administration the Iranian regime
will leak the names of all Western officials who were
bribed to pass the weak deal.

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 The Deep State Mob Targets Nunes
By Julie Kelly
May 12th, 2018
In an absurd tweet on Wednesday, Lawfare’s executive
director suggested that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) should
be replaced as chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee:
That wasn’t even the most moronic tweet in Susan
Hennessey’s arsenal. She went on to warn how “the
intelligence oversight system is based on trust. Without
trust it is irretrievably broken. The [Intelligence
Community] and [Department of Justice] don’t trust Nunes
and he cannot perform his job functions.” Get that? The
Intelligence Community and the Justice department—
which have proven to be as political and devious as a
Chicago ward boss—are the white hats and Nunes is the
black hat.
That is not ignorance on Hennessey’s part:
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It’s calculated deception.
Fortunately, it’s unlikely that House Speaker Paul Ryan
(R-Wis.) will heed an unreasonable demand from a
political partisan tied to the left-leaning Brookings
Institution. But it does unveil the latest tactic of the Left
(and some on the Right) to discredit and ultimately oust
Nunes, the only Republican on Capitol Hill who appears to
have his act together when it comes to exposing the
players behind the Trump-Russia election collusion
scheme.
The Deep State Mob is continuing to squeeze the
California congressman after he again threatened to
impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for
ignoring congressional subpoenas and withholding crucial
documents from Congressional investigators. Nunes has
minced no words about how the Justice Department and
FBI have been “stonewalling” his committee’s
investigation for months. And as Nunes inches closer to
revealing the stinking core of what is potentially the
biggest political corruption scandal in U.S. history, the
Deep State Mob is trying to close in on him first.
Nunes and other House Republicans want to find out
exactly how and why the FBI’s counterintelligence
operation into possible collusion between the Trump
campaign and the Russian government began in the
summer of 2016, and what intelligence sources either
aided or instigated that probe. The latest showdown,
according to the Washington Post, is because Nunes has
issued a subpoena demanding that the Justice Department
provide information about an unnamed individual
referenced in a classified letter to Attorney General Jeff
Sessions last month.
While there are few details about the individual in
question, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel
intimates that the person could have been a mole inside the
Trump campaign:
We know Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret
intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S.
citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion
probe. We might take this to mean that the FBI secretly
had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI
credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump
campaign.
Strassel, who has been carefully covering this scandal, has
a hunch of who the source is but couldn’t confirm it.
The Justice Department is fighting Nunes’s request on the
basis that any disclosure would
“risk severe consequences, including potential
loss of human lives, damage to relationship with
valued international partners, compromise of
ongoing criminal investigations and interference
with intelligence activities.”
While Justice officials met with Nunes and committee
member Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) late Thursday, they did not
allow them to see the information in question. Nunes
indicated that he would continue to press the department to
fulfill his request.
Now Nunes’s foes are portraying him as a rogue actor—
perhaps even a traitor—who is willing to see intelligence
assets killed in order to carry water for President Trump.
CNN national security analyst Asha Rangappa echoed the
Justice Department’s warning that Nunes is risking lives to
achieve political ends.
In a one-two punch, Hennessey’s boss upped the attacks
on Nunes during a discussion with former FBI Director
James Comey on Friday. Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare’s
editor and close Comey pal, rhetorically asked Comey,
“what’s Devin Nunes gonna be able to tell his
grandchildren? It’s a serious question. He is
affirmatively acting in a fashion that some of us
judged, you know, Edward Snowden very
harshly for behaving in a fashion that puts at
risk intelligence sources and methods when
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being told so by the senior levels of the Justice
Department.”
(Others have tried to get the “Nunes-Is-Literal-Snowden”
trope going before. We’ll see if it finally takes off next
week.)
Comey, the consigliere of the Deep State Mob, anguished
to his buddy about the lost values of the Republican Party:
“This is my hope for the Republicans as a
whole, that they realize that only a fool would
trade the institutions and the values that
actually unite us for the policy gains they think
they’re getting from a president who is eroding
and attacking those values.”
Sounds like some sour grapes from the guy who lost his
battle against Nunes to keep his memos secret.
Fellow fired prosecutor Preet Bharara joined Comey in
mocking Nunes this week. After a bogus story surfaced
that Nunes doesn’t read the intelligence information he
receives, the former head of the DOJ’s Southern District of
New York (yes, the same office assigned with
investigating Trump lawyer Michael Cohen) tweeted this:
But it’s not just the Deep State Mob on the Left that is
after Nunes:
Their soulmates in the smoldering political ash
heap that is the neoconservative movement are
speaking out, too. In an egregiously flawed
assist in Commentary, Noah Rothman gives aid
and comfort to the Deep State Mob, incredibly
by making Nunes the bad guy. Rothman
accuses Nunes of causing the trust breakdown
in the House Intelligence committee, the same
committee whose ranking member is the
despicable leaker Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Rothman smugly claims that “there is no
impartial assessment of his tenure as House
Intelligence Committee chair in which he comes
off as a competent steward of American
national security or capable of the
dispassionate oversight of the institutions that
safeguard U.S. interests at home and abroad.”
Rothman suggests that even Trump doesn’t trust Nunes
and that’s why the president (for now) has acquiesced to
the Justice Department’s stonewalling on the source
subpoena. He wrongly claims that Nunes recused himself
from the investigation early on, then calls Nunes an
“obstacle in the way of truth” who should be removed.
Any close observer of the unfolding story of how the
disaster of the Obama Justice Department exploited our
most trusted federal agencies to hatch the Trump-Russia
.
scheme is either on the floor laughing or smashing things
at Rothman’s absurd accusation.
The Deep State Mob wants to destroy anything and anyone
associated with Trump, particularly those who are brave
enough to incur their wrath to get to the truth on behalf of
the American people.
Nunes isn’t a traitor: He’s a hero.

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 Victor Orban And Hungary Block EU Motion
To Condemn Trump For Moving Embassy To Jerusalem
By Jim Hoft
May 12, 2018, 10:37 Pm
Hungaray, the Czech Republic and Romania
foiled an attempt by the EU to condemn
President Trump’s decision to move the US
Embassy to Jerusalem.
The European leaders were hoping to send a
strong message to Trump.
Meanwhile, attacks on Jewish citizens
continue to climb as the continent imports
more and more third world migrants.
Breitbart.com reported:
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, supported by the
Czech Republic and Romania, blocked an
EU motion condemning President Donald
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Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy
in Israel to Jerusalem, according to Israeli
news anchor Barak Ravid.
Israeli officials and European diplomats told the Channel
10 News journalist that the three countries — part of the
Visegrad group of conservative, pro-sovereignty countries
within the European Union — blocked the joint statement
led by Emmanuel Macron’s France, which was supposed
to “embarrass and isolate” the Trump administration
internationally.
Rashid said the defeated statement outlined a common
European Union position on Israel and Palestine
containing the following three points, according to Axios:
1. Jerusalem should be the capital of both states — Israel
and the future state of Palestine.
2. The final status of Jerusalem should be negotiated and
only determined through negotiations between the
parties.
3. The member states of the EU will not follow the U.S.
and will not move their embassies to Jerusalem.
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the
European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
was said to have been embarrassed by the failure, with
diplomats complaining to Rashid that the bloc’s leadership
was finding it harder to direct member-states.
 CBS Skips Reporting Its Own Bad Poll
For Mueller...So Fox News Hosts Report It
By Tim Graham
May 12, 2018 11:17 PM EDT
On Tuesday morning at 7 am, CBSNews.com reported a
new poll result about Robert Mueller:
"A year into the special counsel investigation
into Russian involvement in the 2016 elections,
a slight majority of Americans thinks the
investigation is politically motivated. Fifty-three
percent say so, while 44 percent think the
investigation is justified."
A majority of Americans think the Mueller probe is
political, and not justified? CBS paid for the poll, but
failed to report it on television. Guess where you could
find that result on television? On Fox News on Tuesday
night. Sean Hannity had it:
SEAN HANNITY: According to a brand-new
CBS News poll, more Americans now think,
rightly so, Robert Mueller's witch-hunt is, in
fact, politically motivated. Now, this comes as
the mainstream, destroy Trump media
continues to do Mueller's bidding.
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Now, according to NewsBusters, get this, CBS, NBC spent
a combined 30 seconds on the recent beat-down last Friday
of the special counsel investigation from a federal judge.
And meanwhile, President Trump's poll numbers, they're
rising. This despite a NewsBusters study showing that
network news broadcasts in this country featured negative
stories about the president 90 percent of the time. Wow.
Tucker Carlson also reported it:
TUCKER CARLSON: Well, a new poll from
CBS finds that the majority of Americans, 53
percent, now view special counsel Robert
Mueller's Russia investigation as a
politically motivated operation.
And you can see why they might conclude that. The
Democratic Party seems to be agreeing with that
interpretation and adding to it. Recent fund- raising emails
from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
have lied about the investigation itself. They have claimed
that if the party can collect 1 million signatures, it will
somehow force President Trump to give testimony to
Mueller's investigators because that's how it works.
Among Republicans and independents, Mueller is losing.
CBS did report a poll on Tuesday morning. But it was a
CNN poll:
NORAH O`DONNELL: A new poll finds First
Lady Melania Trump has a 57 percent approval
rating, that`s up ten points since January. Mrs.
Trump formally unveiled her Be Best campaign
yesterday, promising to work on critical issues
facing children. Julianna Goldman is at the
White House where the first lady's
announcement came with some controversy.
 Corrupt Obama Appointed Deep State Judge
Amy Berman Jackson Should Be Removed Or Impeached
For Actions Against Paul Manafort
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 8:30 Am
Every Obama appointed judge is a far left
radical who puts their own distorted
interpretation of reality ahead of the US
Constitution. In this respect, US District
Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a case
study.
Her actions with Paul Manafort alone are
cause for her to be removed or impeached.
TGP reported two months ago that Obama appointed
liberal activist Judge, Amy Berman Jackson, was assigned
to the most important court case in US history. Judge
Jackson has a horrible far left record on the bench. In
2013 Judge Jackson rejected arguments from the Catholic
Church that Obamacare’s requirements that employers
provide cost free coverage to contraceptive services is
contrary to their religious beliefs and violated their
religious and free speech freedoms. This was overturned
by the Supreme Court.
In 2017 Judge Jackson dismissed the wrongful death suit
against Hillary Clinton filed by two of the families who
lost loved ones in Benghazi. The families argued that
Clinton had done little to help their sons and then lied to
cover it up.
Then on January 19th of this year, a Paul Manafort’s case
was reassigned to Judge Jackson on January 19 th, a few
weeks after being filed.
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It is unknown why she was assigned to this
case or by whom.
What is clear is that with her atrocious and slanted record
to date, the Deep State and the Mueller team certainly
wanted Judge Jackson overseeing the Manafort case and
this is supported by her record to date.
On January 3rdwe reported that Paul
Manafort filed a suit against the “Deep
State” DOJ (Jeff Sessions), Assistant AG
Rod Rosenstein and Corrupt Investigator
Robert Mueller that would possibly shut
down Mueller’s corrupt investigation!
We reported for months on the many criminal and corrupt
actions taken by numerous parties related to the Mueller
investigation. Mueller never should have taken on the job
in the first place due to numerous conflicts. He is best
friends with fired leaker and former FBI Director James
Comey. He met with Comey shortly before Comey
testified with Congress and stratigized with him. For this
alone he should have recused himself. The team Mueller
built to attack President Trump and have him removed is
all Deep State liberal attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s
record in the past is scattered with actions that let the
Clintons off scot-free on numerous occasions when they
should have been put in jail.
We now know that the FBI had an
investigation into the Clintons and moneys
they received from Russia in return for
giving Russia 20% of all US uranium.
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 handing Russia
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We also
know that Rosenstein and Mueller were the
ones who allowed the Uranium One deal to
go forward. This was the real Russia
collusion story involving the US
government.
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his
entire team should have resigned after this.
But perhaps one of the most damning
aspects of the Mueller investigation is that it
is not legal. The corrupt Mueller
investigation is tasked with finding a crime
that does not exist in the law. It is a legal
impossibility. Mueller is being asked to do
something that is manifestly unattainable.
FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett explained this in
an article last year that the entire Mueller investigation is
lawless. Jarrett argued that:
… George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single charge of
making a false statement to the FBI. He was not charged
with so-called “collusion” because no such crime exists in
American statutory law, except in anti-trust matters. It
has no application to elections and political campaigns.
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media
would ever understand that. They have never managed to
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely
because it does not exist in the criminal codes.
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary:
It is against the law for the Clinton campaign
and the Democratic National Committee to
funnel millions of dollars to a British spy
and to Russian sources in order to obtain
the infamous and discredited Trump
“dossier.”
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC
30101) prohibits foreign nationals and
governments from giving or receiving money in
U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the filing of
false or misleading campaign reports to hide the
true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121).
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This is what Clinton and the DNC appear to
have done.
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign
finance laws with impunity.
But that’s not all.
Damning new evidence appears to show
that Clinton used her office as Secretary of
State to confer benefits to Russia in
exchange for millions of dollars in donations
to her foundation and cash to her husband.
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records,
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
Hillary presided over a governing body which
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
uranium supply to Russia.
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
concluded with the following –
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue
in court that the appointment of Mueller was
illegal. The criminal charges [against Manafort
and Papadopoulos] change all that. The two
defendants will be able to argue before a judge
that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein violated the special
counsel law.
As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
to investigate
“any links and/or coordination between the
Russian government and individuals associated
with the campaign of President Donald Trump.”
It fails to identify any specific crimes, likely because none
are applicable.
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finding a crime that does not exist in the
law. It is a legal impossibility. He is being
asked to do something that is manifestly
unattainable.
Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and
Rosenstein because what they are doing is
not supported by US Law.
Manafort’s case also argued in paragraph 33 of its filing
that the special counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein
gave crooked and criminal Mueller powers that are not
permitted by law. Mueller was given the latitude to
investigate whatever he wanted to and that is not permitted
by the law. Manafort’s filing paragraph 33 stated –
But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports to
grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation.” That grant of authority is not
authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations. It is not a
“specific factual statement of the matter to be
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28 C.F.R.
§ 600.4(a).
Manafort’s case was solid but the judge was
Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge Jackson. On
April 27, 2018, Judge Jackson dismissed
Manafort’s plea.
It is very clear that Manafort’s argument was valid. There
is no crime in US law for collusion and Rosenstein’s order
allowing Mueller to look at whatever he wants was
challenged in another Manafort case that Mueller filed
against him in Virginia.
Judge T.S. Ellis blasted prosecutors, saying
he believes Robert Mueller is effectively
using the Paul Manafort case to provide
material that would lead to Trump’s
“prosecution or impeachment”. He also
condemned the investigation for having no
barriers.
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Judge Jackson actually expressed concerns about Manafort
being indicted in two different courts. Far left liberal
Politico even reported in February –
… the judge also expressed some concern
about “overlap” between the Washington case
and the Virginia one, although she said
ultimately the burden of two successive trials is
likely to fall most heavily on the defense.
“It seems the government is setting itself up to
put on the same evidence twice in different
courtrooms,” Jackson said. “There’s a risk of
inconsistent [rulings] on the motions and
evidentiary rulings and jury findings.”
Ultimately, though, Jackson said she didn’t view the
parallel cases as a big problem. “The burden is at its least
on the courts. We can handle two trials,” she said.
Prosecutor Greg Andres stressed that Mueller’s team gave
Manafort the option to face a single case in Washington on
all the charges, but Manafort declined to waive his right to
have the tax charges brought in Virginia, which is where
he lived when he filed the tax returns at issue.
Manafort was smart in moving his case out
from under Judge Jackson to Virginia. It
looks like this move and having his case in
front of a judge not appointed by corrupt
Obama was a great move.
Judge Jackson is not only wrong in her judgements, she is
also overly abusive to Manafort. She scolded Manafort and
his team for a statement his spokesman issued maintaining
his innocence and said the comments appeared to run afoul
of the order she issued in November limiting public
statements about the case by lawyers involved and by the
defendants. Of course she says nothing about the many
leaks from the corrupt Mueller team.
In a final note, Judge Jackson set the court date for
Manafort’s case that she oversees for mid-September, right
before the mid-term elections. Clearly she is trying to
have this publicized and negatively impact Republican
chances in the election. What a piece of rotten work!
Obama’s Liberal Judge Jackson is a real
piece of work. Let’s hope and pray for the
sake of the Union that Judge Ellis puts her
in her place for allowing the Mueller
investigation to go on with no real oversite
or scope and shuts the whole damn corrupt
mess down.
 John Kelly's Scathing Criticism Of
'Vicious' Press On NPR Left On
The Cutting-Room Floor
By Tim Graham
May 13, 2018 9:06 AM EDT
White House chief of staff John Kelly surprised the liberal
media by granting an interview to National Public Radio,
something Donald Trump hasn't done in his brief political
career. Kelly talked to John Burnett, who knew Kelly as a
press briefer when he was embedded with the troops in
southern Iraq. In this interview, Kelly was scathing about
the press, and guess what? Those comments didn't make
the story, which aired on Friday's Morning Edition.
Take this passage from the partial NPR transcript:
JOHN BURNETT: So what's harder —
commanding Marines in a combat zone in Iraq
or bringing order to the Trump White House?
JOHN KELLY: Working in the White House is
the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, bar
none.
BURNETT: Talk about that.
KELLY: Well, first, with all due respect to people
like yourselves, I was not ready for the press
that covers a White House. All of my time, and
you remember it a little bit, I think, we were
pretty good to you guys. We had a good team
effort going in the field. When I was working in
the Pentagon at a higher level, senior level the
Pentagon press corps were really good to work
with. I mean they, they seldom wrote or did the
story you wanted to read, naturally, but they
were really professional in trying to get the
accurate aspect of every story. It wasn't
personal. It was pretty professional. And I still
call some of them ... good acquaintances.
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This is vastly different. This is — it's
personal, it's vicious. ...
I did my first off the record [interview] —
that was immediately violated.
But after about six weeks in a job one of the
reporters said to me, "Look you were our worst
nightmare. This place was a clown show before
you showed up. We didn't think this president
would last a year [or] 18 months. Now that
you're here, there's order to the place. The
leaks all but went away. So, sorry but you got to
go." So here I am, sitting, still here.
BURNETT: With your background valuing chain
of command and military discipline, do you feel
like you've brought some discipline and integrity
to this inner circle?
They overstate that, press covers that a lot.
Again, I don't mean to be too hard on the press
but they — I know everything. Right?
And so when I read the press accounts of
what's going on here, I say, "gee, how could
they have gotten that that wrong?" So I think
the press, and maybe it's because only
certain people talk and those people maybe
leak or are sources — and maybe those
people aren't as honorable as they should
be. But when I read what they write, I think
to myself they may have had some low-level
source and that's — and to write a story like
that — whatever "that" is for a major
newspaper like the Post or the Times — to
base it on almost rumor strikes me as being
a little bit — not the way to do business.
Why does this part get buried? Can't the "Democracy Dies
in Darkness" braggarts try to offer a self-defense when
they're called vicious and unprofessional? Is offering a
source anonymity sometimes used because the actual
source is not impressive? The media don't want you to see
how they make their slanted sausage.
 The Michael Avenatti Files: Court Documents Show Porn
Star Lawyer Reported $8 Million Windfall In Feb.
When He Took On Stormy
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 9:18 Pm

The Michael Avenatti Files — How did a

bankrupt attorney come across $8 But who is Michael Avenatti?
million after picking up porn star client
Stormy Daniels? Last week Avenatti leaked bank records from Trump
attorney Michael Cohen less than a month after the FBI
Porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti is a
raided Cohen’s office and home.
huge hit with the Democrat-media
complex.
Avenatti was on all the cable and news programs touting
his great find on Cohen’s wealth.
The attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels has held 108
interviews on cable news outlets MSNBC and CNN since
March 7th. But what about Michael Avenatti?

As attorney Robert Barnes has discovered Michael

Avenatti has a very disturbing and possibly criminal past.

Avenatti is deeply in debt — Not just

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

On Thursday May 10th Michael Avenatti released a

Avenatti is a huge hit with the liberal
elites who are unabashedly determined
to take down President Trump.
statement saying all fees and and expenses of his case with
porn star Stormy Daniels “have either been funded by our
client, Ms. Stephanie Clifford, or by donations from our
crowdjustice.com page.

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 But is this a true statement? Is all of
Michael Avenatti’s income from Stormy
Daniels coming from a crowdsource
page?

Or is this just another Avenatti lie?

In December 2017 court documents
Michael Avenatti declared only
$412,000 in total assets.
This form by Avenatti was filed with the
bankruptcy court.
Michael Avenatti Income and Assets Statement – Public
Court Record December 2017 by Jim Hoft on Scribd can
be seen below at end of article.
As attorney Robert Barnes reported
earlier today in January 2018 Michael
Avenatti got an unidentified source of
income that allowed him to pay:
 $4.85 Million to his law firm employees he defrauded
 Close to $2 Million in back taxes for payroll taxes on his
law firm
 Nearly another $1 million to other creditors
Robert Barnes provided The Gateway
Pundit with the February court
document.
Avenatti mysteriously came across
at least $8 million to pay off his
debts.
Highlighted sections by attorney Robert Barnes.
Michael Avenatti Settlement Documents to Court filed in
February 2018 by Jim Hoft on Scribd can be seen in
Appendix of Book #34[next book]
So Michael Avenatti reported an $8 million windfall in
February after he picked up Stormy Daniels as a client?

This occured at the same time he picked Avenatti hit the jackpot!
up a new client — Stormy Daniels.
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 Sen. Grassley Now DEMANDING All Info On Gen. Flynn
From DOJ, FBI: 2ND FBI Agent Says Also
That Flynn DIDN’T Lie
Posted On May 13, 2018
(National Sentinel) Deep State: The real-life House of
Cards is started to tumble in the nation’s capital as the
Swamp creatures continue to slither away from the light of
scrutiny.
Fed up with stonewalling by the Justice Department and
FBI, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles
Grassley has demanded that the agencies comply with
requests made over a year ago for all documents related to
their investigation of President Donald J. Trump’s first
national security advisor, former Army Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the
FBI…for some reason.
It’s confusing as to why Flynn pleaded when all the
evidence indicates he never lied to anyone.
What’s also becoming evident is that certain people inside
DoJ wanted him charged with something, as he quickly
became the first of many people associated with the
president to be targeted by the Deep State for no reason
other than The Establishment a) didn’t expect Trump to
win; and b) doesn’t want him in the White House.
Grassley’s demands, which were laid out in a letter last
week according to investigative journalist Sara A. Carter,
“reveals, for the first time, the name of the second FBI
agent who interviewed Flynn at the Whtie House
regarding his conversation” with the former Russian
ambassador to the U.S., she wrote.
The Iowa Republican
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sent the letter to Rosenstein and FBI Director
Christopher Wray Friday requesting a slew of
documentation pertaining to Flynn’s case. He
noted that on Feb. 15, 2017, a bipartisan group
of members from his committee had requested
a copy of the intercepted classified phone
transcript between Flynn and former Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and due to an
ongoing investigation the DOJ and FBI denied
the committee’s request. Flynn was fired by
President Trump in February 2017 for
apparently not being forthright with Vice
President Mike Pence about his conversation
with Kislyak.
In Friday’s letter, Carter noted, Grassley stated that at the
time the committee requested the documentation on Flynn,
“the Justice Department declined to provide any
of that information, and instead, then-FBI
Director (James) Comey provided a wide-
ranging briefing to us on March 15, 2017, that
touched on the Flynn issues.”
“The Department has withheld the Flynn-related
documents since our initial bipartisan request
last year, citing an ongoing criminal
investigation,” Grassley stated. “With Flynn’s
plea, the investigation appears concluded.”
So, where are the documents? Why haven’t the DoJ and
FBI complied yet?
Grassley no longer cares what the answers are to those
questions. He simply wants the documents, and he’s given
the DoJ and FBI until May 25 to comply.
Carter notes that the committee has also requested that
transcripts of the reportedly intercepted calls between
Flynn and Kislyak “and any FBI reports summarizing
them” be included in the request.
“Part of the request includes the FBI agents’
302s, which are the interview summaries with
Flynn and supporting documentation, including
 the agents’ notes from the date they interviewed
Flynn,” she wrote.
It’s already been reported that one of the agents who
ambushed Flynn at the White House in January 2017,
shortly after Trump was inaugurated, was embattled top
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
According to Grassley’s letter, the second agent who was
in on the interview is FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka. The
chairman is requesting that he also be made available
“for a transcribed interview with the Committee
staff no later than one week following the
production of the requested documents.”
The committee also had a “non-partisan law enforcement
officer who was present” during the interview with Flynn,
Grassley revealed in the letter.
“The agent was on detail to the Committee staff
at the time,” Grassley wrote. “According to that
agent’s contemporaneous notes, Director
Comey specifically told us during that briefing
that the FBI agents who interviewed Lt. General
Michael Flynn, ‘saw nothing that led them to
believe [he was] lying.’ Our own Committee
staff’s notes indicate that Mr. Comey said the
‘agents saw no change in his demeanor or tone
that would say he was being untruthful.'”
Carter reported that no federal law enforcement sources
she has spoken to over the past year believed that Flynn
was lying.
“There’s a lot these agents can reveal about
that day and what (former FBI Deputy Director
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Andrew) McCabe’s role was in all of it,” one
U.S. official told her recently. “McCabe was
apparently trying to find a reason, any reason,
to make it look like Flynn was lying. But the
truth of the matter is – no one thought he lied,
not even the agent that hated Trump.”
As Comey has been traveling around the country
promoting his new book, he was asked about his statement
noting that neither of the agents who interviewed Flynn
thought he was being dishonest. Comey now says that no,
he never told the committee that.
A newly redacted version of the House Intelligence
Committee’s Russia report released earlier this month
revealed just the opposite.
Somebody is lying, but it doesn’t appear to be Lt. Gen.
Flynn.
“Contrary to his public statements during his
current book tour denying any memory of those
comments, then-Director Comey led us to
believe during that briefing that the agents who
interviewed Flynn did not believe he
intentionally lied about his conversation with the
Ambassador and that the Justice Department
was unlikely to prosecute him for false
statements made in that interview,” Grassley
added.
So why did he plea? Some believe he did so to avoid
lengthy court costs, but he’s endured those anyway — to
the point of having to sell his home.
We may soon find out.
 Mueller’s House of Cards Is Falling=>
Michael Flynn’s Brother Says New Information Was
Hidden From Brother, Changes Everything
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 9:48 am

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley

(R-IA) sent a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein Friday stating Comey testified
the FBI didn’t think General Flynn lied.

Grassley also revealed Joe Pientka was the second FBI

agent who joined Peter Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in an
ambush style interview to take down General Flynn.

Grassley is demanding the FBI and DOJ

produce the transcript of Flynn’s intercepted Joseph Flynn: “I will remind everyone that he plead
calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak and guilty prior to all of this information came out…. different
the Mike Flynn interview 302’s by May 25th. situation entirely now.”

302’s are reports FBI agents take to

summarize an interview with a subject.

The newly unredacted portion of the House Intel

report revealed Comey testified to House Intel members
the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any
deception.

On Saturday Nick Short tweeted out investigative

journalist Sara Carter’s report on the latest revelations that
Michael Flynn did not lie during interview with FBI
agents.
This changes everything for Dirty Cop
Joseph Flynn, Michael Flynn’s brother, then Robert Mueller.
tweeted out this bombshell in response to
Nick Short’s tweet. His house of cards is collapsing.

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 ABC Condemns Jerusalem Embassy Move,
‘Killing Any Prospect Of Peace’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 13, 2018 10:23 AM EDT

The two anchors sought the insight of foreign

correspondent Ian Pannell,

who previously blamed the U.S. and Israel for

destabilizing the region after Israel defended
itself from Iranian rocket attacks. “Jerusalem is
a major flashpoint issue with both sides laying
claim to parts or even all of it. So while almost
every other country in the world tried to stay on
the fence and keep its embassies in Tel-Aviv,”
he explained.

It has been 70 years since the Jewish people were allowed
to return to their homeland of Israel after World War II,
and on Monday the United States will be moving its
embassy to their capital city, Jerusalem. And during
ABC’s Good Morning America on Sunday, they
proclaimed the Trump administration was “killing any
prospect of peace” in the region with the embassy move.
Their naysaying came as the President was set to sit down
with North Korea for historic peace talks and
denuclearization.
“America is now seen by many across this
region to be siding firmly with Israel, killing
any prospect of peace,” he said, appearing to
assert that America’s support of Israel was a
problem.
Pannell than seemed to attribute any future unrest or
violence on Monday to the presence of Jewish members of
the Trump family in Israel for the event:

“Overseas this morning, we now have

growing concern about President Trump
fulfilling a controversial campaign promise,”
declared fill-in anchor Adrienne Bankert as they
shifted to the topic. “Tomorrow in Israel, the
U.S. will officially move the embassy from
Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, a city that both
Israelis and Palestinian view as their capital.
This will be seen as a provocative move
across the Middle East,” added co-anchor
Dan Harris.

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PHOTOS EMERGE Of Iranian Officials Who Met Secretly
With John Kerry In Paris On Saturday — One Is Identified
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 10:35 Am

On Saturday former Obama Secretary of

State was seen dining with several Iranian
regime officials.

Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State,

John Kerry has been secretly meeting with
Iranian officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear
weapons program.

An onlooker snapped this photo as Kerry

left the restaurant.

Jason Osborne, a former Senior Advisor to President

Donald Trump’s campaign, posted this tweet earlier today:

So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in Paris w/3

After the news broke last week Rep. Devin
Nunes (R-CA) the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee called on G-men to
arrest John Kerry for his treasonous acts.
Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard
JK blasting @realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5
person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he
FARA registered? @seanhannity @TuckerCarlson

Kerry was working against the Trump

administration to salvage the Iranian nuclear
deal.

Last week President Trump withdrew from the sham

Iranian nuclear deal. President Trump knew the deal with
the Iranian mullahs was not working.

Several leading officials have called on the

Sessions DOJ to prosecute John Kerry for
violations against the Logan Act.

John Kerry is obviously not fazed by the threats.

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 One of the officials was already identified —
Kamal Kharazi.

This was not Kerry’s first secret meeting in Paris. He met

with the North Vietnamese in Paris on his honeymoon
during the Vietnam War.

Now this…

Photos emerged today of the Iranian

officials who met with John Kerry on
Saturday.

Via Jack Posobiec:

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Rep Darrell Issa: FBI And DOJ Are “Lying Through Their
Teeth” To Congress And Lied To Spy On Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 11:37 Am

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) joined Maria Bartiromo on but lied to get the warrants, lied to a
Sunday Morning Futures on Mother’s Day. federal judge under the FISA act.

Issa and Bartiromo discussed the latest
shocking developments in the Obama
Deep State targeting and spying on the
Trump campaign.
So this is one of the challenges. Make no bones about it. A
FISA warrant is in fact a license to spy. Now the question
is did you lie, cheat or steal in order to do that and very
clearly with the information presented behind closed doors
to the federal judge the fact is they did mislead the judge to
get a warrant multiple ability to spy and now we’re asked
to believe that you can trust the very people, not the
management for a moment, but the very people who know
this and are covering it up.

Via Sunday Morning Futures:

Maria Bartiromo: Do you believe you are getting honest

answers from the FBI and DOJ?

Rep. Darrell Issa: No, I think they’re

lying though their teeth… It is very clear
that we are being asked to trust the
Department of Justice who we know did in
fact use a law that allows them to spy
.

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 Top Democrat Tells Party Members To Stop Bashing
Trump – Get Into “12-Step Program” If You Have To
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 12:20 Pm
A voice of reason in an otherwise
unhinged and irate mob.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown urged the Democrat mob to quit
bashing President Trump if they want to
win in November.
Brown even admitted President Trump’s economic and
foreign policy successes are impressive and popular.
Brown even urged unhinged liberals to seek help with a
12-step program if they have to.
Hah!
Via The San Francisco Chronicle:
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It’s time for the Democrats to stop bashing President
Trump.
It’s not going to be easy, given his policies and
personality. It might even mean checking into a 12-step
program. But setting a winning agenda is like maneuvering
an aircraft carrier. It takes time to change course. And if
they want to be on target for the November midterm
elections, the Democrats need to start changing course
now.
Like it or not, a significant number of
Americans are actually happy these
days. They are making money. They feel
safe, and they agree with with the
president’s protectionist trade policies,
his call for more American jobs, even
his immigration stance.
The jobs growth reports, the North
Korea summit and the steady economy
are beating out the Stormy Daniels
scandal and the Robert Mueller
investigation in Middle America, hands
down.
Rather than stoking the base by attacking Trump,
Democrats need to come up with a platform that addresses
the average voters’ hopes and concerns. Not just the needs
of underdogs or whatever cause happens to be the media
flavor of the week.
 ABC Panel Rips Trump For Ripping
Up Iran Deal, Claim War On The Way
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 13, 2018 1:25 PM EDT

and Iraq, it’s almost the exact same

language,” he opined. “We’ve been to this
rodeo before. It cost us thousands of lives
and trillions of dollars. And it feels like we're
going to the same place again.” “Nuclear
weapons. Inspectors out,” fill-in host
Martha Raddatz said in agreement.

Raddatz turned to New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser,

who bemoaned how the Trump administration put the U.S.
in a position to get scolded by Europe.

Despite all the good news for America this week, like the
freeing of American hostages and the low unemployment
rate AND the capture ISIS leaders, the ABC panel on
Sunday’s This Week was huffing about President Trump
ending the Iran nuclear deal. The bitter panelists were up
in arms and were making predictions of just more war on
the horizon. One even claimed the Trump administration
was setting us up for the Iraq War 2.0.
As they were beginning to get into their Iran deal
discussion, ABC’s faux Republican and pretend holy man
Matthew Dowd hammered America for pulling out of the
deal.
“I do agree with one thing, though,
which is the idea that Europe is now
going to stand up to us and have some
kind of unified response,” she claimed.
She even huffed about Bolton dismissing the critique from
German magazine Der Spiegel as “silly.”
“It's not silly because this is what our
allies now believe. And, they know that
very well in the White House.”

“It does show. I mean, who would have

guessed that the first one to violate that
treaty would be us and not Iran. I mean,
we were the first one in violation of this
treaty,” he declared.

Dowd didn’t have a clue about what he was saying

because the Iran deal was not a treaty. It was never ratified
by the Senate and in terms of our government, it was a
unilateral move by the Obama administration made in
secret. The administration even lied to the American
people about being in negotiations in the first place, and Glasser went on to almost parrot Dowd and proclaimed
then tried to hide that fact when Fox News called them out there was a greater chance for another war in the Middle
on it. East:

He then seemed to suggest that National Security Adviser
John Bolton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu were trying to get America into another Iraq
war situation.
“I couldn't help but think we were a Back to
The Future movie … You substitute Iran
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Arguably, the focus of his foreign policy, as Matt said, is
to move into a period of confrontation with Iran in the
broader Middle East. And I think that’s what makes people
so nervous. Rather than a new deal, it's much likelier there
will be a new war in the Middle East.
When she was finished, NPR host Joshua Johnson
complained about how Trump wasn’t treating Iran and
North Korea the same way, as if they were totally
analogues to each other:
The Iran deal included some kind of verification, but that
that deal is deal and this deal moving forward. There were
economic sanctions involved to bring Iran into the world’s
economy, that’s the same thing we’re offering to North
Korea. But we’re dealing with—they don’t feel congruent.
He then took a shot at Israel, saying that North and South
Korea were talking about peace but one was getting Israel
on board.
“Particularly if America's foreign policy
continues to be so transactional. Were
you treat this party one way, and
another party in another way, and make
campaign promises, and personal aims
or views,” he whined.
It’s ridiculous to complain about counties being treated
differently when the situation with each is vastly different.
And this pontificating about an upcoming war in the
Middle East is from the same media that warned of an
upcoming nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
The transcript is below:
ABC
This Week
May 13, 2018
9:46 21 AM Eastern
(…)
MATTHEW DOWD: It does show. It does show. I mean, who
would have guessed that the first one to violate that treaty would
be us and not Iran. I mean, we were the first one in violation of
this treaty. And I think, as I listened to John Bolton earlier, I
couldn't help but think we were a Back to The Future movie.
When the tag team of Benjamin Netanyahu and John Bolton in
2003 was pushing almost the exact same language. You
substitute Iran and Iraq, it’s almost the exact same language.
MARTHA RADDATZ [as Dowd was talking]: Nuclear weapons.
Inspectors out.
DOWD: We’ve been to this rodeo before. It cost us thousands of
lives and trillions of dollars. And it feels like we're going to the
same place again.
.
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RADDATZ: So Susan, I want to take this to you, though. When
we’ve gone through the North Korea discussions over the past
year, everyone was panicked: He shouldn't do this, he shouldn’t
say that. It brought them to the table. Is there a chance that this
is a good thing? And they could renegotiate a better deal?
SUSAN GLASSER: I think it’s very unlikely the Iranians are going
to be coming to the table anytime soon. I do agree with one thing,
though, which is the idea that Europe is now going to stand up to
us and have some kind of unified response. Very unlikely. It was
a very interesting moment in your interview with Ambassador
Bolton, when you read him this very tough editorial from a
leading German publication and he said, it's silly. It's not silly
because this is what our allies now believe. And, they know that
very well in the White House.
In fact, I reported that Ambassador Bolton told a national security
adviser to one of the three European nations weeks ago, before
any of this. He said, “The President is going to get rid of this Iran
nuclear deal. It's likely. I would have done it myself months ago.”
On all of this hue and cry as if it was a surprising decision. I think
Ambassador Bolton is absolutely correct, that people that who
really looked at the situation understood that Trump was going to
do this. Arguably, the focus of his foreign policy, as Matt said, is
to move into a period of confrontation with Iran in the broader
Middle East. And I think that’s what makes people so nervous.
Rather than a new deal, it's much likelier there will be a new war
in the Middle East.
RADDATZ: And the message to North Korea in all of this with the
Iran deal?
JOSHUA JOHNSON: It's kind of a confusing message. You look
that the way these two different nuclear matters are being
handled. You know, Kim Jong-un is offering some kind of
verification of their nuclear program. The Iran deal included some
kind of verification, but that that deal is deal and this deal moving
forward. There were economic sanctions involved to bring Iran
into the world’s economy, that’s the same thing we’re offering to
North Korea. But we’re dealing with—they don’t feel congruent.
Also, you have two parties, North and South Korea, who have
already begun talking, and already trying to make peace. You
don't anybody talk to Israel right now trying to make peace. So,
I'm not sure whether there is a consistent strategy. That's might
be partly the reason why this editorial in Der Spiegel was so
strident, because you will have Europe speaking with one voice.
You will have Europe saying, “we need to go to the table and do
this together.” Particularly if America's foreign policy continues to
be so transactional. Were you treat this party one way, and
another party in another way, and make campaign promises, and
personal aims or views. The lack of consistency, potentially,
could be a problem down the road. And I think Europe sees that.
(…)
 Former NYC Police Commissioner: Purpose Of Mueller
Forcing Mike Flynn Into A Plea Deal Was To Avoid
Discovery Of Corruption And Lies
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 3:52 Pm

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck

Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to FBI
Director Christopher Wray and Deputy
AG Rod Rosenstein Friday stating
Comey testified the FBI didn’t think
General Flynn lied.

Grassley also revealed Joe Pientka was the second FBI

agent who joined Peter Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in an
ambush style interview to take down General Flynn. Joseph Flynn, Michael Flynn’s brother,
then tweeted out this bombshell in
response to Nick Short’s tweet.
Grassley is demanding the FBI and DOJ
produce the transcript of Flynn’s
intercepted calls with Russian Joseph Flynn:
Ambassador Kislyak and the Mike Flynn
interview 302’s by May 25th. “I will remind everyone that he plead guilty
prior to all of this information came out….
302’s are reports FBI agents take to
different situation entirely now.”
summarize an interview with a subject.

The newly unredacted portion of the House Intel

report revealed Comey testified to House Intel members
the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any
deception.

On Saturday Nick Short tweeted out investigative

journalist Sara Carter’s report on the latest revelations that
Michael Flynn did not lie during interview with FBI
agents.

MORE—

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 Now former New York City Police
Commissioner Bernard Kerik is
weighing in.
Kerik believes Mueller was pressing
Michael Flynn to take a plea deal so the
Special Counsel would not be caught in
their lies and corruption.

But now those lies are coming out into

the open!

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 NY Times Again Tries And Fails
To Discredit Rep. Devin Nunes' Oversight
Of Russia Probe
By Clay Waters
May 13, 2018 4:03 PM EDT
The New York Times’ attacks on the chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes,
continued in Sunday’s news section, under the byline of
Nicholas Fandos and Katie Benner:
“Wielding Threats, Nunes Attacks Justice
Dept.” The text box featured typical liberal
media weasel wording: “Some see an effort
to weaponize documents and undermine
the Russia inquiry.” When the Times claims
“some see,” one can safely substitute the
phrase “Liberal Times reporters see.”
The Times and the left are furious at Nunes’ muddying the
soothing narrative of Russia-Trump “collusion” in
Campaign 2016 and insisting on oversight. The paper last
tried to go after Nunes, with laughable results, in the form
of 5,000 words in the April 29 edition of the paper’s
Sunday magazine to paint Nunes as conspiratorial – a hack
job expertly fileted by Mollie Hemingway.)
Fandos and Benner wrote on Sunday:
Since Republicans on the House
Intelligence Committee declared that they
had found no evidence of coordination
between Russia’s election interference and
the Trump campaign, its chairman has
decisively turned the panel’s attention from
investigation to investigators.
The chairman, Representative Devin
Nunes of California, has issued
increasingly bold demands for access to
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some of the Justice Department’s most
sensitive case files. He has courted a
series of escalating confrontations over
access to materials that are usually off
limits to Congress under department policy.
And when those efforts failed, he
threatened top law enforcement officials --
mostly Republicans appointed by Mr.
Trump.
In the latest episode, splashed across
cable news this past week, Mr. Nunes
demanded more documents and related
materials for his investigation into
allegations of surveillance abuse by federal
law enforcement officials. His claim pitted
him against not just the Justice
Department, but also officials in the F.B.I.,
the intelligence community and the White
House, who warned that disclosure could
endanger a longtime source who is aiding
the special counsel’s investigation.
As Mr. Nunes sees it, the cycle of
confrontation is part of a legitimate effort by
him and other House Republicans to
conduct oversight of obstinate law
enforcement officials.
But increasingly, top officials at the
Justice Department have privately
expressed concern that the lawmakers
are simply mining government secrets
for information they can weaponize
against those investigating the
president, including the special counsel,
Robert S. Mueller III.
The Times used a sympathetic source – Nunes’ Democratic
counterpart on the intelligence committee.
Democrats believe the pattern is clear: Mr.
Nunes is abusing his authority to
undermine the Russia investigation.
“The goal is not the information,” said
Representative Adam B. Schiff of
California, the top Democrat on the
committee. “The goal is the fight. And the
 ultimate objective is to undermine the
Justice Department, undermine Bob
Mueller and give the president a pretext to
fire people.”
....
But Mr. Nunes’s handling of his secretive
memo, released in early February, has
been a source of lasting ill will....
Yet Mr. Trump seized on its findings to
declare that he had been vindicated. And
now, department officials said they were
fearful that Mr. Nunes and his allies were
seeking a repeat performance. More
troubling, the officials said, is that Mr.
.
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Nunes’s actions suggest that he is more
interested in courting conflict than
understanding the case.
On a related note, intelligence journalist Scott Shane
swiped at a fellow Times reporter in the Sunday Review
section, “When Spies Hack Journalism,” saying Hillary-
beat reporter Amy Chozick’s pathetic mea culpa for
actually reporting unflattering news about Hillary Clinton
was not “fully satisfying,” because Russia wasn’t fair and
balanced about leaking information from the Trump
campaign as well -- an odd standard.
It’s a standard the paper and Shane himself blithely ignore
when a Republican administration is the target.
 MICHAEL SAVAGE: Did Giuliani Work Behind The
Scenes To Take Down Schneiderman As
A Message To Mueller?
By Cristina Laila
May 13, 2018, 4:15 Pm
Conservative radio host and best selling
author, Dr. Michael Savage asked his
audience this week, “How did
Schneiderman fall so fast?”
Why did former New York AG Eric Schneiderman get
taken down now after his abuse of women was known to
many for several years? Why now?
Michael Savage has many theories about Schneiderman’s
fall at lightning speed:
Who got Schneiderman to fall so fast?
It’s not that he fell, it’s the rate at which
he fell. It happened in one day. One
article in The New Yorker and he was
gone by the evening.
Was it the Trump team? Was it Weinstein’s team? Was it
Cuomo’s team or was it well let us say another team?
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
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I think that the Schneiderman fall is a
direct threat against Mueller
incidentally. Don’t assume he’s above
the law. Don’t assume he has no
skeletons in his closet; everybody does.
Reportedly, Schneiderman was also working with special
counsel Robert Mueller in his pursuit of Trump campaign
associates tangential to his original mandate to find
Russian collusion. And many Democrats are worried that
Trump might pardon some of his former allies, many of
whom are from New York such as his former lawyer.
So they put their faith in none other than
Schneiderman who they hoped would
cut Trump associates down on the state
law which is not covered by presidential
pardons.
We could assume when I asked the
question who got this man to fall so fast
we could say it could be the Trump team
which means it could be Giuliani.
Giuliani could be playing the drunk on
television meanwhile behind the scenes
he was cutting down one of the internal
enemies; that’s a possibility.
It could be Weinstein’s people with lots of money, lots of
power, lots of favors. In the Democrat circles, they all date
the same women, they all go to the same charity events,
they all buy art from the same art dealers, they all launder
their crimes under the guise of liberalism.
Schneiderman fell hard last week. Within hours of the New
Yorker Magazine publishing its article on his abuse of
several women, the AG resigned and the Manhattan DA
opened an investigation.
Giuliani is well connected in New York and
Schneiderman’s downfall happened shortly after he came
on board as a part of Trump’s legal team.
Was Giuliani sending a message to
Mueller?
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 QAnon on How Ending Iran Peace Deal
Thwarts Deep State Plans for Nuclear False Flag Attack
Written by Dr. Michael Salla
May 13, 2018

The military intelligence group that comprises QAnon

continues to make extraordinary revelations about behind
the scenes efforts to displace and remove U.S. officials that
make up or have been compromised by the Deep State.
Most recently, QAnon has been focusing on why President
Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the July 14, 2015 Iran
nuclear deal is a positive development, and how this is
connected to Trump helping free North Korea from Deep
State control. In brief, QAnon had emphasized how Deep State officials
involved in the Uranium One deal with Russia, had
On the Iran issue, QAnon has made many posts that arranged for some of the uranium to be secretly shipped to
suggest the Iran deal was a cover for Iran to secretly northern Syria. Then, it would end up at an Iranian nuclear
develop a nuclear weapons program in northern Syria, with facility initially built there with permission by the Assad
funding being facilitated by the Deep State working regime. For a detailed discussion of the above QAnon post
through a multilateral international peace framework. see my previous article.

QAnon has previously described how the Deep State’s
puppet masters – Rothschilds, House of Saud, and George
Soros – use the enormous funds at their disposal, to
manipulate national elites, organizations and even nation
states.
Apparently, Senator John McCain’s visit(s) to Syria were a
cover for some of this Russia destined uranium to be
secretly handed over to Syrian opposition figures that
would supply it to rogue operators linked to the Iranian
nuclear program.

The Deep State plan was to secretly assist Iran in building
nuclear weapons using uranium that could be linked to
Russia, and subsequently used in a false flag attack on U.S.
territory.
QAnon released photos showing McCain with Syrian
opposition forces associated with the Islamic State, and
suggested that McCain’s visit was a cover for delivering
something that would help the Deep State agenda –
allegedly uranium from the batch sold to Russia.

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QAnon was suggesting that McCain, Syrian opposition
groups and the Iranian nuclear program in northern Syria
were all controlled or manipulated by the Deep State. The
ultimate goal was to use the nuclear weapons produced by
the Iranian facility in one or more false flag attacks, which
would lead to retaliatory U.S. military strikes against
Syria, Iran and/or Russia that would culminate in a Third
World War.
What gives this scenario plausibility is that the Deep State
has long wanted to fulfill biblical prophecy by laying
waste to Damascus in a future apocalyptic showdown
between major world powers. The following appears in the
Book of Isaiah:
indicating both Russia and the Assad regime were briefed
in advance about the real purpose of the strikes.
Consequently, by pulling out of the Iran deal, QAnon is
telling us that the covert funding system set up for the
secret Iranian nuclear program backed by the Deep State
has come to an end.
This is where QAnon claims that Trump’s administration,
which is fully backed by the U.S. military, is methodically
freeing multiple nations from Deep State control.

1A prophecy against Damascus: “See,

Damascus will no longer be a city but will
become a heap of ruins. [17:1]

The first reference to this Deep State plan was a series of

posts by an alleged “Illuminati” insider using the name
“Hidden Hand” back in October 2008.

In posts on the Above Top Secret Forum, he pointed to a
secret plan to destroy the cities of Damascus and San
Francisco by 2010. Former Forbes Magazine editor,
Benjamin Fulford, was told the same thing three years later
by his insider contacts in Japan. Fulford did not give a
timetable suggesting that the plan was still in development.
This Deep State plan to use the secret Iranian nuclear
facility in a false flag attack was thwarted by the Trump
administration’s missile attacks on multiple Syrian military
facilities on April 14. An alleged chemical weapons attack
in the Douma suburb of Damascus was used as the pretext
for the Trump Administration authorizing the attack
against the secret Iranian nuclear facility.
Russia stood down its advanced anti-missile defenses to
allow the U.S. missile attack to achieve its objective,
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Abbreviations: SA – Saudi Arabia, NK – North Korea
Paradoxically, by pulling out of a peace deal with Iran, this
makes it possible for Deep State influence to be ended,
thereby making a genuine peace with Iran possible. Such a
peace deal could only occur after Iran is freed from Deep
State manipulation and/or control.
According to QAnon, this was made possible when
President Trump ended U.S. participation in the Iran deal
on May 8.
What makes the above scenario plausible is the case of
North Korea, which is now on the verge of a
comprehensive peace deal that will transform the Korean
peninsula. QAnon has revealed how North Korea was
similarly freed from Deep State influence over a secret
nuclear weapons program.
The key elements for this Deep State influence over North
Korea was that Deep State officials had facilitated the
export of North Korea’s ballistic missile technology to
international buyers. QAnon highlighted a video showing
how the former speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, had indeed referred to this
secret missile export program as means of North Korea
funding itself.
She recalled in an interview what she was told when she
visited North Korea as part of a previously undisclosed
Congressional delegation:
When we went to Pyongyang, and we talked about
missiles, we talked about MIAs and POWs, we talked
about home, we talked about a number of subjects. But
about the missiles, because the development of missiles
was a national security issue of concern… They said,
‘Look, we just make these to sell. You want
to buy them? We’ll sell them to you.’
QAnon asserted that this video admission was a big error
and had enormous significance regarding what the Deep
State was really doing in North Korea:
Essentially, North Korea was being manipulated by the
Deep State to export ballistic missile technology, which
could be equipped with nuclear warheads, to the
international arms market. QAnon was revealing that the
Deep State was actually assisting them in such an endeavor
through slush funds provided by the puppet masters:
Rothschilds, Saudis and Soros.
The Deep State had aided North Korea in quickly
developing its ballistic missile program despite
international sanctions. This helps explain why North
Korea’s missile program developed so rapidly despite
severe funding limitations – the Puppet masters were
secretly funding it all!
What ended the Deep State’s influence over North Korea
was the failed ballistic nuclear missile attack against
Hawaii on January 13, 2018. The Deep State deployed a
ballistic missile capable submarine that is part of a Dark
Fleet controlled by the CIA, to launch a nuclear false flag
attack against Hawaii.
The ballistic nuclear missile was launched from just off the
coast of North Korea in order to frame it as the culprit.
However, the Deep State plan failed when a U.S. Air Force
run secret space program intercepted the nuclear missile
using its global surveillance network and orbital based
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weapons platforms. I have discussed this at length in
previous articles (see here and here) and explained why the
US Air Force has broken away from the Deep State.
Importantly, the Trump administration did not authorize a
retaliatory strike against North Korea when initial reports
pointed to it as responsible for the attempted nuclear strike,
and pressure was exerted on him to immediately retaliate.
When Kim Jung Un realized that he had been betrayed and
the Deep State had attempted to make him the fall guy for
the failed ballistic missile strike, he abruptly changed his
policies and immediately began cooperating with the
Trump Administration and South Korea.
QAnon is essentially saying that something similar will
happen as Deep State assets in Syria are exoposed and
neutralized, thereby ending the secret Iranian nuclear
program there, which was always intended to frame
Iran/Syria as the culprit for a nuclear false flag attack
against the U.S. or its major regional ally, Israel.
In order to fully gauge the significance of QAnon’s claims
regarding Trump ending the Iran nuclear agreement, we
need to consider recent claims by Alex Jones and Dr.
Jerome Corsi that QAnon is Deep State disinformation.
Corsi in particular says that while the initial military
intelligence group that began posting in late October 2017
was genuine and was linked to President Trump, it had
been recently compromised. The evidence provided by
Jones and Corsi for this stunning turn-around is very
sketchy and dubious at best.
QAnon responded to Jones and Corsi’s criticisms by
endorsing a highly detailed critique which raises many
troubling questions about how Jones and Corsi have
approached the QAnon information from the outset.
My own insider sources affirm that QAnon continues to be
the real deal and that there has been no change to his/their
status on the 8chan posting boards. This suggests that
QAnon’s information continues to be accurate disclosures
by military intelligence figures associated with the Trump
administration, and QAnon’s coded and cryptic
information tells us much about Deep State operations
around the world.
In sum, while Donald Trump’s ending of the Iran peace
deal is causing many to be anxious about the increased
likelihood over a looming nuclear confrontation, it may be
that we will witness something similar occurring to what
recently happened with North Korea.
Paradoxically, ending a flawed peace deal facilitated by
the Deep State secretly planning to use the deal to
orchestrate a nuclear false flag attack that would implicate
Syria, Iran and Russia, may well create the opportunity for
a genuine international peace deal with Iran. More
importantly, Trumps action will free Iran of Deep State
influence through its covert funding of rogue Iranian
operations in Syria and elsewhere.
 24 Hours Before US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem City
Soccer Team Renames Itself After President Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 4:35 Pm

24 hours before the official opening of

the US embassy in Jerusalem the city’s
soccer team officially renamed the
squad “Beitar Trump Jerusalem” after
President Donald Trump.

Via Jake Tapper:

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 CNN’s Amanpour: Trump Is A
‘Grave And Existential Threat’ To The Press
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 13, 2018 4:54 PM EDT
CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter kicked off
Sunday’s Reliable Sources by complaining about a tweet
President put out last week citing a Media Research
Center study, which found 90 percent of evening network
coverage of the President was negative. Of course, CNN
took issue with the facts and put together a lineup of media
figures to beat up on the President for criticizing them.
Among the group was CNN Chief International
correspondent Christiane Amanpour, who wasted no time
in lashing out at President Trump and denouncing his
favorable attitude towards Fox News.
“I have been talking about this ever
since the President was elected, even
before he was inaugurated, I made a big
speech at the Committee to Protect
Journalism in November of 2016,
warning American journalists that there
was now a grave and existential threat
to their work,”
Amanpour declared after Stelter asked her about how the
President’s comment on pulling press credentials was
heard around the world.
Amanpour admitted that she didn’t really think President
Trump would reject anybody’s press credentials, but that
didn’t stop her from fantasizing about how the media
would rise up if it were to happen:
Hopefully, because the United States has a
constitutionally protected journalism, and a
constitutionally protected press, by the First
Amendment, that the press will keep its
spine and refuse to bend over to these
kinds of threats … If they do, I expect the
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press to fight back, in no uncertain term.
Or, to gather forces outside and continue to
be able to report in a very, very strong,
unbiased, facts, not fiction kind of way for
as long as it takes.
She then praised how the Trump administration had
spurred a “huge rise in necessary activism,” and not just
from average citizens but from the supposedly impartial
and objective press.
“You know, everybody was getting a
little lazy, everyone was taking
everything for granted, particularly in
the United … The press have come out,”
she boasted. “Everybody is coming out
to defend their profession and their
right to exist under the Constitution and
the laws of the United States.”
Six minutes later, and Amanpour was back at it again.
Stelter asked her about how the American withdrawal from
the Iran deal and the freed American hostages were
reported abroad, but she wanted to talk about Trump’s
relationship with Fox News.
“Well, you know, in many different places,
in different ways,” she said brushing aside
the topic. “I really think what April said
both about Fox and also about, you
know, pulling credentials in the past and
banning certain people from rallies is
really important.” She recalled how Trump
had banned some news outlets from his
campaign rallies and lamented how the
 press didn’t “all rise up and stand with
those members.”
Of course, the more applicable analogy would be Obama
trying to kick Fox News out of the press pool, which other
networks did come together to stop. But Amanpour was
out to smear Fox News as well, calling them the
President’s “echo chamber.” Ironic, since most of CNN
live in theirs.
Amanpour’s warning against Trump and Fox News
involved the possibility of them getting the U.S. into
another Iraq War situation.
“If you remember, all the way back to the
George W. Bush administration, they just
really sort of mostly talked to Fox. Fox, I
called ‘the foot soldiers’ of the George W.
Bush administration. Leading and helping
and beating the drums to a war in Iraq,”
she bloviated. “So that's the danger of just
keeping your interviews in one sort of line.”
While she did, in fact, once call Fox News Bush’s foot
soldiers, her retelling on Sunday was a revision on history
she had already revised. Back on June 18, 2007, she did
say the foot soldiers comment but she also falsely claimed
the whole media was toeing the Bush administration line:
“I think the press was muzzled, and I
think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry
to say, but certainly television and,
perhaps, to a certain extent, my station
was intimidated by the administration
and its foot soldiers at Fox News.”
And no Reliable Sources segment would be complete
without equating the President of the United States to a
tyrannical despot, so according to Amanpour:
So when the president of the United States
of America, you know, says these kinds of
things, other leaders are empowered,
whether they're quasi-democratic,
authoritarian, dictatorial, they're all
498
empowered to beat up against the press.
And that's really dangerous around the
world.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
CNN
Reliable Sources
May 13, 2018
11:03:31 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: Christiane, when the U.S. president threatens
to take away media credentials, how is that heard all around the
world? What does that mean?
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: You know, Brian, I have been talking
about this ever since the President was elected, even before he
was inaugurated, I made a big speech at the Committee to
Protect Journalism in November of 2016, warning American
journalists that there was now a grave and existential threat to
their work. Hopefully, because the United States has a
constitutionally protected journalism, and a constitutionally
protected press, by the First Amendment, that the press will keep
its spine and refuse to bend over to these kinds of threats, or
whether they're jokes or whatever. I don't think this administration
is going to take away journalists' credentials. If they do, I expect
the press to fight back, in no uncertain term. Or, to gather forces
outside and continue to be able to report in a very, very strong,
unbiased, facts, not fiction kind of way for as long as it takes.
But I think one of the great things of the Trump administration is
how it has caused a huge rise in necessary activism. You know,
everybody was getting a little lazy, everyone was taking
everything for granted, particularly in the United States. And I
think women of have come out, you know, black people have
come out. The press have come out. Everybody is coming out to
defend their profession and their right to exist under the
constitution and the laws of the United States.
(…)
11:09: 33 AM Eastern
STELTER: Christiane, if the President was giving interviews, we
would be asking about Iran and North Korea. I wonder, from your
perch in London how the past week has been covered by the
global press. You know, we've heard a lot about the withdrawal
from the Iran deal and the arrival of those three Americans from
North Korea. How is it playing around the world?
AMANPOUR: Well, you know, in many different places, in
different ways. I really think what April said both about Fox and
also about, you know, pulling credentials in the past and banning
certain people from rallies is really important. Because on the
one hand, I think it should be one for all and all for one. If one of
our members is targeted, we should all rise up and stand with
those members. That's what gives us strength. That's what not
happened during the campaign and should have happened when
various news organizations were banned from rallies. Everybody
should have gotten together and said, we're all in this together.”
Secondly, about just giving interviews to the -- you know, to the
channels of choice. All I can say about that is, it becomes an
echo chamber as April was saying, and this is not just an
academic exercise. If you remember, all the way back to the
George W. Bush administration, they just really sort of mostly
talked to Fox. Fox I called “the foot soldiers” of the George W.
Bush administration. Leading and helping and beating the drums
to a war in Iraq, which was based on specious and false
intelligence and a manipulation of intelligence and basic lies. As
you know, and we're reaping the very, very bad windfall from that
still. So that's the danger of just keeping your interviews in one
sort of line.
.
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But around the world, I mean, look, we have, for instance, in
London, this weekend, the president of Turkey, a U.S. ally.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming here. This is one of the key
abusers of the press in his own country. I mean, taking them to
court, you know, putting them in prison. I mean, just the worst. If
you look at all the journalist groups, and their sort of list of free
and unfree press, just the worst. So when the president of the
United States of America, you know, says these kinds of things,
other leaders are empowered, whether they're quasi-democratic,
authoritarian, dictatorial, they're all empowered to beat up against
the press. And that's really dangerous around the world.
(…)
 John Kerry Allegedly Held Meetings With Top Iranians In
Paris This Weekend — SECOND Iranian Official
Identified …Update: Kerry Spox Says No Mtg
By Jim Hoft
May 13, 2018, 6:19 Pm

Barack Obama’s former Secretary of

State, John Kerry has been secretly
meeting with Iranian officials to salvage
Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

An onlooker snapped this photo as

After the news broke last week Rep.
Devin Nunes (R-CA) the chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee called on
G-men to arrest John Kerry for his
treasonous acts.
Kerry was working against the Trump
administration to salvage the Iranian
nuclear deal.
Last week President Trump withdrew from the sham
Iranian nuclear deal. President Trump knew the deal with
the Iranian mullahs was not working.
Kerry left the restaurant.
Jason Osborne, a former Senior Advisor to President
Donald Trump’s campaign, posted this tweet earlier today:
So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in Paris w/3
Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard
JK blasting @realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5
person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he
FARA registered? @seanhannity @TuckerCarlson

Several leading officials have called on

the Sessions DOJ to prosecute John
Kerry for violations against the Logan
Act.

John Kerry is obviously not fazed by the threats.

On Saturday former Obama Secretary of

State was seen dining with several This was not Kerry’s first secret meeting in Paris. He met
Iranian regime officials. with the North Vietnamese in Paris on his honeymoon
during the Vietnam War.

Now this…

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 Photos emerged today of the Iranian His name is Abolghassem Delfi. And he
officials who met with John Kerry on is the current Ambassador to France!
Saturday.

Via Jack Posobiec:

John Kerry was meeting with the Iranian

ambassador to France and the Iranian
regime’s former foreign minister!

Via Hanif Jazayeri:

One of the officials was identified this

morning — Kamal Kharazi.

Kamal Kharazi has been a top Iranian official since the

1979 revolution that took down the Shah.

UPDATE: Anti-Trump reporter Laura Rozen says a

spokesman for Kerry said there was no such meeting —
despite the photos.

And hours later the second Iranian

official was identified.

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 On CBS, Time's Vick Pushes
Spin Against Israel On Jerusalem
By Brad Wilmouth
May 13, 2018 8:08 PM EDT
Appearing as a guest on CBS This Morning Saturday, Time
magazine editor at large Karl Vick painted the Israeli
government as being to blame because a two-state solution
has never been attained during Mahmoud Abbas's tenure
as Palestinian Authority president.
Not mentioned was Abbas's history of refusing to hold
talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
his rejection of a two-state plan in 2008 by then-Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which would have included
East Jerusalem as the Arab state's capital.
CBS co-host Jericka Duncan began the segment with a
discussion of the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem, and asked why it is so "contentious" to
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Although the movement for a two-state solution always
assumed that the western part of Jerusalem would remain
Israel's capital, Vick suggested that President Donald
Trump had made such a plan impossible by relocating the
embassy:
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Jerusalem has been a disputed city for most of its
existence, but the dispute now is between Israel and the
Palestinian people. And if you're going to have a two-state
solution -- both states have to have a capital -- the whole
idea was always that they would share Jerusalem. Trump is
saying it belongs to Israel.
A bit later, Duncan brought up Abbas and recalled that
"The Palestinian president, Mahmoud
Abbas, called the relocation a slap in the
face, even saying that Washington could
no longer be considered an honest broker."
Vick responded by repeating without question the
Palestinian Arab spin blaming Israel for a two-state
agreement not being reached:
The idea was always that the U.S. could be the broker --
could take the interests of the Palestinians and balance
them against the interests of Israel -- the idea being that
both sides could trust. And this is what Abbas is saying, is
like -- and he was put in place, in some ways, by the
Americans, not a militant man, always a peacemaker. And
he was never able to deliver because Israel wouldn't
negotiate in good faith, according to the Palestinians.
Not mentioned was that supposed "peacemaker" Abbas
and other Palestinian Authority officials have a history of
praising terrorists after attacks against Israeli citizens.
 With Avenatti In The Spotlight,
His Own Questionable Past Emerges
Peter Hasson & Joe Simonson
10:18 PM 05/13/2018

“Michael Avenatti owned Tully’s coffee.

They were a large chain of coffee shops.
We are a wholesale roaster. We supplied
his coffee. The $160,000 represented only
a few weeks worth of beans. We cut him off
when he wouldn’t pay, he had to close,”
Morris explained in a subsequent tweet.

Michael Avenatti, lawyer for adult film actress Stephanie Clifford,

also known as Stormy Daniels, speaks to media outside federal court
in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April
16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Many of the developments surrounding Stormy Daniels’

lawsuit against President Donald Trump have focused on
the business dealings of attorney Michael Cohen, but an
investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation
reveals that Daniels’ counsel, Michael Avenatti, has his Screenshot/Twitter
own questionable history.
The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday
Avenatti’s past is littered with lawsuits, jilted business interviewed Avenatti over the phone on several topics
partners and bankruptcy filings. People who have worked including Morris’s accusations, which Avenatti denied.
with the lawyer described him to TheDCNF as ruthless,
greedy and unbothered by ethical questions.
“I don’t owe Dillanos coffee anything. I
personally don’t owe them anything,” he
Dillanos Coffee CEO David Morris claimed last Tuesday said. “So that’s nonsense.”
that Avenatti never paid him for over $160,000 worth of
coffee that Dillanos supplied to Avenatti’s company.
But just three hours later, Morris announced that he had
deleted his original tweet after working out “an
“So @StormyDaniels hot shot lawyer arrangement” with Avenatti.
Michael owes my small company
@Dillanos $160,179 for coffee,” Morris
wrote on Twitter. “He talks a big talk about
integrity. We trusted him.”

Screenshot/Twitter

A spokesperson for Dillanos told TheDCNF that Dillanos’

new agreement was with Avenatti personally but declined
to disclose any details of the arrangement. Avenatti
declined to comment on the reported agreement.

Screenshot/Twitter
Avenatti first purchased Tully’s in 2013 after going into
business with actor Patrick Dempsey. The pair purchased
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the coffee chain through a parent company, Global
Baristas LLC, closing the deal on June 30, 2013. Dempsey
sued Avenatti just 10 weeks later.
“My decision to become a member and
manager of Global Baristas was based, in
part, on Michael Avenatti’s representation
that he would provide both the capital to
fund the entire Tully’s acquisition and
sufficient working capital to allow Global
Baristas to operate the Tully’s Coffee
stores once the acquisition was
completed,” Dempsey said in an August
20, 2013, affidavit.
“Michael Avenatti never notified me that he
intended to have or caused Global Baristas
to borrow $2,000,000 for working capital,
nor did he notify me that he planned to
have or caused the company to pledge
substantially all, if not all, of its assets to
secure any loan,” Dempsey charged.
Avenatti denied the accusations but agreed
to a settlement just three days later.
“He honestly believes he can get up and
say or do anything he wants and there’s no
repercussions — largely there’s not,” said
one individual who has worked with
Avenatti in the past.
“I know this guy; he doesn’t care about
anybody but himself. He loves the
attention. It’s his whole lifestyle.”
An individual who worked with Avenatti pointed to his
work in a number of high-profile cases like going up
against Jim Carrey and Paris Hilton as examples of his
strategy of garnering as much attention as possible.
In the case of Carrey, Avenatti represented a family
claiming the actor was responsible for his girlfriend’s drug
overdose and subsequent death. That suit was eventually
dropped without Avenatti’s client collecting any damages.
The setback mirrors another in 2012, where a $41 million
verdict he won against accounting firm KPMG was
reversed and the consequences of the losses are reflected in
his stints at a growing list of various firms.

Avenatti no longer owns Global Baristas LLC, and said he

Yet Avenatti hasn’t limited his career to law. Outside of
divested from the company in 2017, but he remains Tully’s
experimenting in artisanal coffee, he’s also dabbled in
general counsel.
professional car racing.

David Nold, a Seattle attorney representing several Tully’s

This strategy, according to those who know him, helps
vendors, filed a complaint against Avenatti with the
Avenatti project an image of success, even if his ventures
California State Bar on March 26, accusing him of fraud.
like Eagan O’Malley & Avenatti, LLP — which eventually
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017 — aren’t
“In essence, he bought a company out of successful.
bankruptcy and then used it for a ‘pump
and dump’ scheme to deprive federal and
Two other lawyers associated with that firm have cut off
state taxing authorities of millions of
business dealings with Avenatti, who now appears to be a
dollars,” Nold claimed.
solo practitioner.

Those who have worked with Avenatti describe an

individual obsessed with fame and willing to use unethical
methods to win a case.
.

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 Issa Accuses Justice Dept. Officials
Of ‘Lying Through Their Teeth’
Former House Oversight Committee Chairman Accuses DOJ Of Political
Motives In Noncompliance With Lawmakers' Subpoenas
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 14 May 2018 At 6:30 AM

Carter Page, and the beginning of the probe into

allegations of Trump-Russia collusion to defeat
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the present chairman of the

House Oversight Committee, and House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-
Calif.) met with top intelligence community officials last
week to discuss their quest for subpoenaed documents
after DOJ ignored the two chairmen's letters, sent last
month.

Department of Justice officials are "It is very, very, very much a tradition at
Department of Justice to come in, tell
Congress what they need to hear, lie to
“lying through their teeth” while “slow-
them if necessary, and then hope they
walking” congressional document requests
don't get caught on their watch," Issa
until after the 2018 midterm elections, “in
warned.
the hopes that the Democrats will take over
the House or the Senate,” Rep. Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.) claimed on Fox News’ “Sunday
Morning Futures.”

Issa, former chairman and still a member of the House

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
rebuked DOJ and FBI officials for refusing to cooperate
fully and in a timely manner with lawmakers’ repeated
requests and subpoenas for documents.

“The reality is [that the documents] are

being slow-walked until after the election, in
the hopes that the Democrats will take over
the House or the Senate, and then the
investigations will be covered up,” Issa
warned. “No question in my mind that this
would be something that would just go
away if we lose the gavel.”
Out of 1.2 million documents requested, Issa said that the
DOJ and FBI have turned over only 9,000 of them. Issa
noted that “the best ones come last,” too.
Among other topics, congressional investigators are
seeking documents regarding the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) applications to spy on at least one
of President Donald Trump's former campaign advisers,
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When asked if he believed the intelligence officials were
telling the truth and giving honest answers to Gowdy and
Nunes, Issa replied,
"No I don't. I believe they are lying
through their teeth."
"If they want to get to the truth, that's what
they do, is they make all the documents
available unredacted, give our investigators
who have clearances the opportunity to sift
through," Issa said.
But the DOJ and FBI have a terrible track record of
responding to requests for documents and subpoenas, Issa
said, noting that it often takes inspectors general
investigations, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
litigation, and federal judges to force them to comply. But
lawmakers "still don't have the whole truth" when it comes
to key issues in the Benghazi and "Fast and Furious"
scandals.
"I think the important thing is it is very clear
that we are being asked to trust the
Department of Justice, who we know did in
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fact use a law that allows them to spy, but
lied to get the warrants, lied to a federal
judge under the FISA Act," Issa said,
referring to the Page surveillance warrant
requests.
"And now we're asked to believe that you
can trust the very people ... who know this
and are covering it up?" Issa continued.
"We as the oversight, if you will, of that
branch cannot and should not trust them.
We should demand the transparency that
we're entitled to."
 “Promises Made. Promises Kept.” Israeli Crowd ROARS
For President Trump On US Embassy Day (VIDEO-PICS)
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 7:14 Am

The Jerusalem Post on US Embassy Day (Via Reddit The Donald)

The massive crowd in Israel ROARED

for President Donald Trump!

Trump signs are everywhere.

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 THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP ON
WALLS IN JERUSALEM…

Trump is making history.

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 Shameful! ZERO DEMOCRATS
Attend US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 8:07 Am

The people of Israel are celebrating.

But not Democrats.
US Democrats were a no-show on this
historic day.

Not a single Democrat decided to attend

this historic event.

Via Breitbart:

It’s a HISTORIC DAY in Israel and Jerusalem — The US
Embassy is opening in Jerusalem.
First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Trump
advisor Jared Trump are attending the historic event.
Jared is expected to speak at the opening ceremony today.
Four U.S. Senators addressed members of
the press at the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem on Monday morning, hours
before the official relocation of the U.S.
embassy — and all four were
Republicans… Sen. Graham said that no
one, Republican or Democrat, had been
specifically invited to the ceremony — they
simply chose to come or they did not.

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VIDEO: President Trump’s Historic Statement To People
Of Israel On US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 8:39 Am

President Donald Trump spoke to the

people of Israel on Monday via a video
feed at the new US Embassy in
Jerusalem.
Here is President Trump’s historic
speech.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

thanked the US president for his
courageous leadership.

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 ISRAELIS Give Jared Kushner A STANDING OVATION
At Mention Of Trump Leaving “Dangerous, Flawed, One-
Sided Iran Deal” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 8:57 Am

White House adviser Jared Kushner delivered remarks

Monday at the US Embassy grand opening in Jerusalem.

The crowd roared when Jared Kushner mentioned

President Trump’s withdrawal from the “dangerous,
flawed, and one-sided Iran deal.”

Israelis know they have a friend in President Donald

Trump.

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Lindsey Graham: If You Got A Problem With US Embassy
In Jerusalem “Take It Up With God” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 14, 2018, 10:06 Am

On Monday the United States under the leadership of
President Donald J. Trump opened its new Embassy in
Jerusalem, Israel.
After the historic ceremony Senator Lindsey Graham
dropped the best line ever…
“If you got a problem with Jerusalem
being the capital of Israel, take it up with
God.”

White House adviser Jared Kushner and First Daughter

Ivanka Trump attended the historic ceremony.

Several Republican lawmakers attended the opening.

Zero Democrats attended the event.
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